Chapter 7

They chose the channel on the left, which seemed smaller and inclined downward.

While the surrounding surface is still black, the strange words have now turned into striking silver, emitting a faint light when the lamp passes by.

Soshyang found that his breath began to form fog in front of his eyepiece, which is not a good phenomenon. It shows that there may be a problem with his oxygen circulation system. The world engine is an environment where only space dead can survive, without oxygen and water.

"Meet the enemy."

Suddenly, Aksai in front stopped, and everyone in the team quickly set up a battle formation.

Soshyang looked forward over Axel's shoulder as he guarded around, while a rustling noise rising from the edge of his hearing was approaching.

"Stop firing."

Okam's voice sounded on the communication channel.

"Everybody don't move."

Soshyang obeyed his arrangement, and so did the other team members, so they immediately saw the noise.

At that moment, the sosh admitted that they were indeed stunned.

Countless groups of mechanical insects drill out of the darkness and pass around them. They move like liquid mercury, and the light of the lamp is reflected on the exoskeleton of tens of thousands of types of beetles.

They quickly flooded the surrounding passages, as if moving tides covered the walls, roofs and floors.

The first to come into contact with them was Aksai, then soshyang, and then the people behind.

They separate and then gather together, occupying every inch of space around them. The friction when they pass is like a fine whisper.

Just from the appearance, no matter what they are, at least they are not organic. Each is smaller than the thumb of the star soldiers, but they are completely made of metal materials.

As the tide sweeps through the passage, each beetle perfectly mirrors the coordinated actions of its neighbors.

In just half a minute, the waves turned into streams, and the peak of the strange tide of insects passed, turning a blind eye to the motionless star soldiers.

In the process of the rustling sound gradually weakening, the insect tide also disappeared in the darkness behind the team.

Seeing millions of clicking little metal legs passing in front of him, Axel finally exhaled his breath.

"What are they?"

Axel asked.

When soshyang remained silent, he turned to Okam, who shook his head.

"It's a kind of blasphemous intelligence. These aliens are used as maintenance workers. Once they are frightened, they will attack. Trust me, you don't want to know how they look crazy."

"Keep moving and be careful."

They walked lower, but the tunnels along were no longer unified, and many sarcophagus were scattered on the wall.

About twenty minutes later, they began to fall. Then soshyang noticed something strange in the communication channel. The explosion of static electricity filled his ears.

And more importantly, some data of power a began to fail - they seemed to get stuck at the moment they reached the surface of the world engine, and other team members reported the same thing.

Soshyan didn't expect any answer. He knew it wouldn't happen.

Soon, the passage reached the end. In front of them was a hall and two passages leading to the far end. The marks on the wall became larger and silver relief, and the roof arched like an array of black spines.

"Did the bird divination instrument mark this place? Okam."

"Yes."

The veteran looked down at the bird divination instrument.

"It seems that the left hand here leads to a larger hall in the back."

"Good, keep compact."

They quickly moved to a larger space. Although there were signs of war, there were no bodies, whether starfighter or alien.

In the middle of the empty hall, there is only a huge base, and clusters of thick wires are coiled around it like a python to connect it to some kind of silver statue on the top.

At first glance, soshyang felt like some kind of giant, metal spider, or an enlarged version of a miniature creature they had encountered earlier.

Its shoulders are equipped with artificial crystal clusters, which emit a faint light when swept by the light column of illumination.

"Stay away from it."

Okam warned that the team members quickly occupied the position around the hall and aimed their weapons at the base and the statue on it.

"It is dormant."

The veteran added, as if that explained everything.

"Let's move on."

"An enemy is approaching from the rear!"

Suddenly, Nader, who was at the rear of the team, gave a warning. All the star soldiers turned around at the same time with an incredible coordination, raised their blaster guns and covered the arch they had passed through.

Then they heard a noise, a sound of footsteps.

It sounds like the sound of a Star Warrior walking by, the heavy clatter of metal against metal, but the footsteps are limping and scattered.

As the light column illuminates the dark channel, a moving flicker appears, like a white skin.

"What's that --"

Axel wanted to speak, but the words soon got stuck in his throat.

At the same time, the figure limping towards the hall showed its appearance at the edge of the arch.

It is a tall humanoid creature, but it has a serious hunchback. It seems to be made of metal, but it is a little different.

Because it wore human skin with blood like a cloak, and long strips of meat coiled around its shoulders and shrugged behind it. The scarlet blood soaked most of the silver exoskeleton, and its red booty was still dripping blood, as was the evil claw of its hands.

What is even more creepy is that a face hangs on its skull like a nightmare mask, and two green eyes burn in the empty eyes.

But it didn't get the booty at no cost. Looking at the broken right foot and the wound all over, we can see how the dead fought back. Maybe it was very flexible, but now it's just a target.

"Shoot! Destroy it!"

The footsteps of the alien were soon drowned by the thunder of the bomb gun. The moment the creature dragged into the hall was shrouded in a frenzy of anger.

With the sound of a hammer hitting the anvil, the bomb hit its metal body, tearing the wet skin and the active metal under it.

The skeleton like terrorist creature disintegrated rapidly under such a fierce attack. While the metal flew away, the circuit emitted sparks and smoke.

It stopped moving on and off, kneeling on one knee and convulsing because the system was damaged.

Then a bomb hit the side of its skull and exploded, exposing part of the damaged connector.

Finally, it collapsed, and the blood still formed a pool around the human skin peeled off by the victim.

"Die, monster."

Soshyang approached and shot him in the head with one last shot, blowing it into a spark.

"What's that?"

Putting down his gun, soshyang stared at the debris on the ground. He recognized the broken face, which belonged to a soldier of the fourth company.

"A curse may be the reason why these space dead have become so crazy."

Okam came up and took a look. His tone revealed a kind of fatigue.

"Curse?"

"I also heard that there is a plague like curse among these aliens, which will make them look like this. Maybe the owner of the tomb became crazy because he was aware of the spread of the curse..."

"Whatever the reason, they are aliens and have to die."

After that, soshyang suddenly noticed the change of bird divination instrument.

"New signal?"