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Chapter 28: Target, Hive City

After washing the car with holy water, some slippery liquid remaining on the car body flowed down the gaps. Due to the lack of light and heat to evaporate, in order to prevent the water from accumulating deeper, Zhang Ge had to carefully wipe these narrow gaps himself.

He felt something was wrong before he had been applying it for long. Why did it smell better the more he applied it?

But when he took out his plasma pistol and looked around, he didn't find anything unusual.

After hesitating for a while, Zhang Ge drove the car into the building where many vehicles were parked. After locking all the doors to prevent any real enemy attacks, in the dark and slightly crowded environment among the vehicles, he used the light of plasma to use wax seals to stick passages of holy prayers on various parts of the car body.

When the last one was pasted, and he took out the ink and feather pen that were said to be mixed with the blood and ashes of pure people, a friction sound was heard.

Zhang Ge looked towards the source of the sound and found that the four tires of the vehicle rotated left and right for a while, making the sound by rubbing against the ground.

Do you want me to write this on the wheel?

However, he doesn't mind where it is written, as long as Uncle Jihun is happy.

While Zhang Ge was muttering to himself, "Is the writing here deep enough?" and "Do you want to be written here?" and other words to take care of the machine soul's emotions, he wrote all four wheels of the vehicle with various scriptures.

It should be that it had been in a noble's house before and was protected too well. Recently, it has been driving in harsh terrain. Now it has received a rare maintenance. The machine spirit looks particularly happy. Every time Zhang Ge draws a stroke, the body of the car will tremble slightly.

After the work was completed, Zhang Ge stood up with satisfaction and looked around the car body. He saw the holy water that had not completely slid off the body and was dripping from the black characters from time to time, and he also saw the various seals arranged neatly.

What? I'm quite good at making paper.

After admiring his masterpiece, he got back into the driver's seat.

Sure enough, this time it was very different. If the previous feeling was that of a good student who seemed to want to express himself actively but whose knowledge and skills were a little awkward, then now, he was a class representative who knew which blackboard to wipe with just one glance.

After driving into the church grounds again, the continuous high-level combat and alertness made the fatigue come over them at this rare moment of leisure.

Zhang Ge forced himself to go to the two walls and close the city gates, then returned to the car, took out the ration bag, tore it open, and wrote a paragraph on the silver-white part inside. The general meaning was as follows:

Don't ask me where you two want to go after you finish your business. I'm going to sleep first.

After Zhang Ge finished writing, he put it on the driver's seat, then lay down in the back seat and began to let sleepiness blur his consciousness.

In his dream, he dreamed of the Emperor, and dreamed that he used a psychic call to severely reprimand two nuns, asking them why they were wasting their time on a soldier, and then he was cruelly abandoned in the wilderness and overwhelmed by the Chaos army that was chasing him.

...What's wrong?

In his blurred consciousness, Zhang Ge didn't know whether he had said these three words or not. He only felt the sunlight filling his eyelids, trying to get into his pupils, and something that was constantly shaking him.

After a while, as his spirits gathered, Zhang Ge finally realized that he had woken up. He reached out and slapped away the thing that kept shaking him, and spoke with a little confusion:

"Ah, ah? What's wrong?"

He felt a little annoyed, after all, his beautiful dream was interrupted at the critical moment, but Zhang Ge still opened his heavy eyelids.

What he saw most was Amelia, who stretched out her body and shook him awake with her hand, and the second thing was the...junk surrounding the car outside the window?

Zhang Ge rubbed his eyes and moved closer to the car window.

The person sitting on it was a human, and at first glance he thought it was an Ork orc.

Amelia's voice of explanation followed:

"We are heading towards the nearest hive, where there are most likely organized troops gathered, but now... a group of bandits has surrounded us."

Zhang Ge was a little confused. Is this even a problem?

"Why not just kill them all?"

"Yes, it is possible, but the vehicle will likely be damaged. They have anti-tank weapons, and we are still some distance away from our destination."

After pushing Amelia's shoulders to let her sit back, Zhang Ge squeezed through the gap and turned his head to look at the dashboard. When he saw the numbers displayed on it, he smiled and said:

"Cooking, just practice more."

After he finished speaking, Zhang Ge reached out and patted Dominica's head - she was also wearing force feedback armor, so she probably wouldn't feel it if he patted other parts of her body - and then made way for her, motioning her to go to the back row.

Soon, the two exchanged positions.

In the driver's seat, Zhang Ge said concisely:

"full speed."

As soon as he finished speaking, the instrument pointer reached the highest value in a very short time, just like a mercury thermometer placed in boiling water.

But the speed of this car was far from being limited by the upper limit of the instrument. Amidst the sudden and clear sound of the engine, the four wheels spun, making the car body shoot out like an arrow, and at the same time, the dust thrown backwards by the friction increased several times.

The sudden increase in speed made the bandits unable to react for a while, and in this short period of time, Zhang Ge had driven the vehicle and rammed the front of a modified truck that was responsible for intercepting it.

At such a high speed, the heavy light armored vehicle collided with its side and rear, causing the entire vehicle body to become unbalanced. After a twisting path, the front of the truck became unbalanced and rolled over. Countless parts burst out of the vehicle body and eventually overturned to the ground.

Just as the truck head was overturned and Zhang Ge was pulling to the side to avoid it, an anti-tank rocket just flew out from the launcher of the bandits behind. The rocket that was originally intended to hit Zhang Ge and his group's car naturally extended its path after the former dodged and hit the truck head hard.

There was an explosion, sparks flew, and the rocket added fuel to the fire of the already incomplete vehicle body.

But when he angrily loaded the second rocket, he found that the car, which was moving at an alarming speed, had already left the effective attack range. Without the tracking function, continuing to shoot would only waste a rocket.

Glancing sideways at the gradually shrinking bandit garbage truck in the rearview mirror, Zhang Ge casually asked:

"Which nest are we going to?"

"The population of the Akaolan Hive is around 600 million."

Six hundred million people, crowded into the same city. Just hearing these few words, one can imagine what kind of hell it would be like.

Not to mention during the war when Chaos invades, even in normal times it would surely bring Zhang Ge endless surprises.

Sure enough, to realize your dreams, you cannot rely on the hands of others, you can only work hard on your own.

Zhang Ge felt that his future was as bright as the sunshine at the moment, and even the speed of the vehicle seemed to be a little faster.

"After a distance, we will enter the Hive City's industrial waste gas pollution area. The light is low, so remember to reduce your speed."

"oh oh."

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Chapter 29: Clarity in the Suburbs

Shortly after that statement, the vehicle entered the polluted area that divided light and dark like a border.

Industrial waste gas pollution zone, this is a toxic area formed by the industrial waste gas emissions of the hive city. The lighter part of the waste gas rises upward, gathers together and even blocks out most of the sunlight, while the heavier part settles to the ground and penetrates into the lungs of anyone who tries to breathe unprotected in this environment.

After traveling in this environment for a while, something so grand that it didn't seem like a human creation, but more like a wonder created by the power of nature, appeared in the distance.

It is shaped like a mountain, so high that its top cannot be seen, and it connects heaven and earth.

Because it is so huge, it even blurs the boundaries of distance, making it difficult to tell its distance by size. The moment it appears in the eyes as a huge black shadow with a vaguely discernible outline in a low-light environment, it is like a huge black wall standing in front of you.

This is the "hive city".

A hive is a general term for giant cities. Some of them may be located in remote colonies, and the smaller ones may only have a million people, but generally speaking, on a normal imperial planet, the population of a hive can reach hundreds of millions or even tens of billions. The largest of them have towers that are large enough to touch the atmosphere.

As for the part that can be called a hive planet, the smaller ones are home to thousands of such hives, while the larger ones are simply entire planets occupied by ceramic steel jungles.

From population to industrial products, it is this wonder that provides the empire with an endless supply of blood. Its shape, which is clearly visible even in low-Earth orbit, is the pillar that supports the empire, a dying giant, and never falls.

"It seems the war has not yet spread to the Akkalan Hive."

Amelia said this while looking at the huge structure in the distance. She glanced at Zhang Ge who was trying to see something but failed. She opened the sight that was originally used to aim the heavy bomb.

In the optical imaging of observation, one can finally see tiny black dots pouring into the hive at high speed from all directions.

These are generally the inland ships of the nobles, transport teams or merchant caravans, and there are also some giant transport planes.

If you look closely, you will find smaller bright spots with even faster speeds. These are the nozzle lights of fighter jets or personal aircraft.

The fact that they could enter the hive at such a fast speed showed one thing - the hive's void shield had not yet been opened, otherwise the void shield that intercepted high-energy and high-speed objects would not be able to distinguish between them and artillery shells.

This of course means that the war is far from spreading to the Akaolan Hive City. At least for now, it is still a safe gathering point.

However, judging from the abnormally high frequency of fighter jets flying in, it was clear that Zhang Ge and his group were not the only ones who realized this.

Of course, these are not things Zhang Ge needs to worry about for the time being. It is better to say that the more dangerous it is, the better.

After finally entering the suburbs of the hive city, the vehicle had to drive more slowly because it was filled with garbage from inside the hive city, or simply a large number of ruins left over from an unknown era, and it was easy to bump into them if you were not careful.

Suddenly, after passing another corner made of abandoned ceramic steel buildings, a roadblock made up of various garbage came into Zhang Ge's sight.

There were two watchtowers built on both sides of the roadblock, but their crooked appearance made people wonder whether the watchtowers would collapse in the next second.

There are two guards in front of the roadblock.

The two men, dressed in dirty gray-white robes and wearing filters on their heads, held automatic rifles in one hand and made a stop gesture with the other.

It is not surprising that there are people in the suburbs, but it is a bit surprising that these people have uniforms and filters to use. After all, most people in the suburbs will not live to see the day when the toxic air kills them, so there is no question of any awareness of protection.

"Do you know what they are?"

This time it was Zhang Ge's turn not to know what was on the other side, so he asked Amelia.

However, after carefully examining the patterns on their clothing, Amelia could only hesitantly come to this conclusion:

"Hmm... seems to be some kind of branch of the state religion?"

The scope of the term "branch of the state religion" is actually not much narrower than that of the term "organization". Those who dared to openly declare themselves as a heretic would have died long ago. Many chaos cults also disguised themselves as branches of the state religion in the early days.

At this time, Dominica, who was sitting in the back seat, poked her head out and said timidly:

"It seems to be called... The Order of the Dawn?"

To be on the safe side, Zhang Ge stopped the car as they indicated. In the absence of intelligence, and not knowing whether the other party had set traps such as mines, or whether they would take out the cannons of the dark technology age from the rubbish, rushing through the obstacles was undoubtedly not the top priority in the logic of action.

Looking at the two guards walking towards them after parking the car, Zhang Ge asked Dominica:

"How did you know?"

"The other nuns in preparation talked about it before going to bed. They met while on a mission with Sister Gotta. I heard it, so I remember it."

A bedtime story, right?

Zhang Ge thought about it and decided that some rumors were better than being completely in the dark, so he continued to ask:

"Tell me what you know."

"Um......"

Dominica frowned slightly and thought for a moment before saying:

"They seem to believe that the universe is a small black ball surrounded by a large ball of light. They believe that one day a god will emerge from the large ball of light and break the barrier between the two, allowing everyone to enjoy endless light and heat. I don't know how many people there are, but they are widely distributed."

"That means nothing is explained."

"sorry!"

As he spoke, one guard had already come to the window, while the other was guarding the front side of the car. Although he didn't seem to have raised his gun, a closer look revealed that he had his finger on the trigger, ready to shoot at the car window at any time.

The guard who came to the window knocked on the one-way bulletproof window that was opaque to the inside, and said in a voice that was muffled by the double barrier of the filter and the window:

"Pass."

Zhang Ge rolled down the car window a little.

A Captain-ranked Astra Militarum soldier wearing carapace armor, seemingly sporting a plasma pistol on his waist.

A battle nun wearing power armor, like a little giant, holding a giant sword emitting milky white light in both hands.

There was also a grenade launcher sticking out from the slightly lowered rear window, with its black muzzle pointing at him.

"What pass?"

"Uh, no, it's okay. Go ahead, the Order welcomes you."

Listening to the other party's voice, which seemed to be particularly clear because the car window was open and there was no obstruction, Zhang Ge couldn't help but feel a little emotional in his heart.

It seems that not all the people in the suburbs are bad people. Isn't this quite friendly?

P.S. Who's rolling around? Who's tugging at your pants for tickets? That's right, it's me!

Chapter 30: The Dawn Cult

ps: I reposted it and fixed a mistake in it