As long as you die, you are invincible, but in 40K

It makes people feel comfortable and attached, but not addictive.

Yolanda made such a judgment in her suddenly disrupted thoughts. She stretched her arm towards Zhang Ge unconsciously, but soon realized that she should not disturb him because of her lingering on that feeling.

Shaking her head, she turned her attention back to her work.

On the other side, after listening to Zhang Ge's account of what happened, Amelia pondered for a moment and replied:

"I didn't notice her, but since she only showed up after we left, it's likely she wasn't sure she could escape our combined attack after coming out of hiding."

Zhang Ge thought about it and realized that the sandworm did not see the elf girl until a long time after they left. She should not have been so close before that, but was just observing from a distance, so Amelia and the others did not notice her.

"But it is indeed a hidden danger. When I return, I will apply to increase your security forces."

Zhang Ge's eyes twitched slightly when he heard this, and he responded seriously:

"There's no such thing as a thousand-day defense against thieves. No need to add more. This way she'll dare to attack. And as long as she attacks, we'll have a chance to stop her completely. That's the only way to solve the problem. We'll increase our defenses. Won't she call for reinforcements? We should find a chance to finish her off while she's conceited that she can handle me alone."

Amelia did not deny this statement and nodded to show that she understood.

It’s better to say that she always has the attitude of “I have my say, but if you object, then I’ll listen to you.”

After the brief discussion, Yolanda quickly completed the sketch, and when she showed it to Zhang Ge, it gave Zhang Ge a little shock to the Mechanicus.

The extremely accurate drawing scaled down onto paper is just the foundation of the foundation. The densely packed parameters, annotations, perspectives and various engineering structures that can be perceived by the naked eye are dazzling.

In comparison, calling something that is simply a shape drawn and outlined with lines garbage is an understatement.

He said honestly:

"I don't understand. You just need to tell me what I'm responsible for."

Yolanda nodded without surprise, pointed at the sandworm below, and said:

"Have him clear a flat and compacted construction site between the sand dunes, then lie down straight inside and wait for the construction to be completed."

It is indeed concise and easy to understand.

"That's all?"

"Um..."

She thought for a while and said:

"If possible, dispatch some trustworthy personnel to guard the perimeter. The sandworms are making such a commotion that they might attract something. These servitors don't have weapon systems, and if they disrupt the construction process, it will severely slow down progress."

Zhang Ge nodded.

Amelia took Yolanda out of the sandworm and each went to arrange what they needed to do, while Zhang Ge once again placed his hand on the hilt of the sword inserted in the top of the worm.

Slowly driving the sandworm, overlooking the sand dunes being crushed easily below, an inexplicable pleasure of playing with a small decompression toy arises spontaneously. Just like an excavator, this absolute violence of roughly flattening everything is really addictive.

Following Yolanda's instructions and guidance, Zhang Ge urged his new friend to flatten a large circle with a radius of four to five hundred meters, and finally let it stop in the center.

When he lay flat on his back, his 500-meter-long body was fully displayed in front of everyone. If you looked closer, this huge body could even occupy the entire front half of the field of vision, like a huge ochre-colored hill stretching to both sides.

"While machines more magnificent than this are not uncommon, to have this on a living organism... is truly astonishing."

Even Yolanda couldn't help but sigh like this.

Zhang Ge shrugged.

It's really amazing. It was even more amazing when we were chased by this thing on the back of the car before. It's a pity you weren't in the car at that time.

After sighing, construction began quickly. Various structures appeared around the sandworm at a speed visible to the naked eye, and gradually covered the giant body.

But before long, the "some things" that Yolanda described appeared as expected.

Zhang Ge, who was standing on the sand dune nearby and keeping watch, was a little bored. He saw something moving in the distance, creating dust, but judging from the direction, it was not his side.

Amelia was not around at this time. She took Heloise with her to gather the nuns and a group of veterans from the 1st Mechanized Infantry Regiment. Judging from the previous round trip time, it would take some time for them to arrive here.

In other words, the current combat force can barely be counted as four.

Now it's dangerous.

When Zhang Ge thought about the fact that his biggest obstacle was no longer around him and that an unknown force was attacking from afar, he felt the anticipation of dying at any time that he had when he first came here surge into his heart again, sweeping away the decadence that he had originally let go of.

He held the bolter in his hand and said to Yolanda via comms:

"Something is approaching. You continue working, I'll go over and take a look."

She was obviously busy, and after a while she finally managed to answer with a simple word:

"clear."

Great, now there are only three of us left.

After summoning Isis and Dominica, Zhang Ge and his group began to walk across the undulating desert.

As I gradually approached the location where the dust was rising, I heard vibrations caused by something unknown - it didn't seem mechanical - mixed with indistinguishable language and roars.

ps: I can recommend it again this Friday. I don’t know how many collections I can get this time. It would be great if it can break 50,000. I can get more rice, hehe.

Chapter 135: Sailing on the Sand

Since their forward speed was not very fast, Zhang Ge moved to a reconnaissance position roughly to the side of their forward direction based on the direction of the sound, and hid behind the sand dunes there.

When the rolling sand and dust approached, Zhang Ge could only stick his head out to observe because he didn't bring any special equipment such as a periscope.

He saw what those sounds that seemed like they were mechanical but didn't sound like they were coming from.

Hundreds of...walkers?

Zhang Ge looked at it for a while and described it in his mind.

Those things were big and small, ranging in length from two or three meters to seven or eight meters. They were bone white all over and looked like they were made mainly from the bones of some creatures.

These bones are pieced together to form a variety of simple polygons and further combined to form a walker with no skin but only a skeleton, which relies on multiple legs on the sides and bottom to move.

Its power source does not seem to rely on conventional power, but rather uses wind power, which is why Zhang Ge did not hear the sound of the engine.

The roar of the engine was replaced by the sound of the wind blowing past.

Several huge sails like the sails of ancient ships extended from the top of those walkers, which were used to collect the abnormally strong winds in the desert, and then use the wind power to drive the mechanical structure stuffed in their skeleton body, and their multiple legs around the body were also driven accordingly.

On these walkers are some humans wearing simple white robes. A medium-sized walker can carry a lot of supplies and more than a dozen people at the same time. These hundreds of walkers can accommodate more than a thousand people.

What is this, a desert tribe?

Zhang Ge was a little confused.

But this is not too important. Considering that some planets have a colonization history of tens of thousands of years, it is not surprising that some special social and technological forms have emerged in some special landforms.

The key is what is their purpose?

They don't look like they are ready for battle, so I hope this trip is in vain.

Zhang Ge thought about it while searching for the leader of the group.

Soon after, an extremely large walker, more than ten meters long, was locked in the center of his sight.

A machine of this size seemed unable to be driven solely by wind power, so more than twenty mutants were tied to the front of it to pull the car on the ground.

It is certainly not advisable to directly expose yourself in front of them and ask their boss what he is here for, but if you can find a way to get on top of that thing that looks like a leader machine and talk to their leader directly, he will probably appear a lot friendlier.

With this thought in mind, Zhang Ge observed further and found that the large walker was surrounded by several smaller models equipped with yellow-robed soldiers, who seemed to be the imperial guards of their tribe.

Apart from this, there are basically no other specialized security forces... Considering the scarcity of food and water in the desert, it is already good to be able to support dozens of full-time soldiers, and this situation is normal.

However, although the overall defense was not tight, it was still almost impossible for Zhang Ge and his team to approach the leader machine quietly in such a vast desert.

Think for a moment.

It is definitely too late to wait for Amelia's reinforcements now, so we can only find another way.

If you use unconventional tactics, you have to take some risks, right?

Zhang Ge carefully checked his logic and found that there were no mistakes. He called the other two and said:

"They don't look like cultists or bandits. I need to get past them, get to the largest thing in the center, and talk directly to their leader."

Looking at the two people who were observing the walkers and looked a little worried after hearing this, Zhang Ge waved his hand to signal them to stop talking and continued to explain:

"This will make them realize our capabilities. Perhaps we can negotiate or force them to back down. At worst, we can take hostages to buy time. It's certainly dangerous, so I'll go, and you'll cover me."

These two people were even less indecisive than Amelia. After Zhang Ge finished speaking, seeing that they had no objection, he briefly explained the plan.

There was no need for tactics in such an open area. Their task was only to wait for Zhang Ge to rush over and be discovered and attacked by the enemy, then shoot and break the ropes used to bind the mutants to create chaos, and then provide cover fire.

As for the rest, it all depends on Zhang Ge's physical fitness and the opponent's marksmanship.

He emerged from the top of the hill, slid down, and felt the hot sand around him wrapping around his lower body. After reaching the bottom, he bypassed the surrounding sand dunes and ran quickly along the relatively flat gap.

As I was running, I realized something was wrong.

Where's the attack? You're just going to watch me run?

The running speed gradually slowed down until it reached the outer line of walkers and turned into walking.

Zhang Ge looked at the tribesmen around him who were curiously looking at him from the top of the fuselage with some confusion. For a moment, he couldn't figure out what they were doing.

But this situation did not last long. A small walker lowered from the leader machine had already run in front of Zhang Ge.

This little thing was a little over two meters tall, with two yellow-robed imperial guards hanging on both sides, and sitting on top were a man who looked like a chief and an old man who looked like a priest.

After seeing Zhang Ge clearly, the small walker quickly retracted its sails and stopped. The two people on it jumped directly from the fuselage and walked briskly towards him.

Seeing the old priest running faster than the chief, he put on a smile, squeezing all the wrinkles together, and said:

"Heavenly being, what is the reason for coming here?"

Heavenly being?

The other party quickly noticed the confusion on Zhang Ge's face. The priest walked over with a smile and handed over a crumpled booklet.

Of course Zhang Ge didn't take it. He first took out the cross pendant to confirm its safety, then took a step back and asked the other party to turn the pages one by one for him to see.

The priest did not refuse.

The content was beyond Zhang Ge's expectations.

This format, this introduction, this layout.

Isn't this a travel brochure?

As mentioned above, this tribe believes that the never-ending sandstorm in the center of the desert is the god - although they use the word "Emperor", but considering that they probably wouldn't be alive today if they didn't say so, Zhang Ge thinks it's more appropriate to understand it as the god - the manifestation of his will in the human world.

At the same time, they also believe that sandworms are agents of God, and that these giant worms, so huge that they do not resemble mortal creatures, were born in the center of sandstorms.

Entire tribes of these people essentially survive on the legacy of dead sandworms.

If you only look at these, it's normal. The key is the part that comes after that.

It was later written that in the past few hundred years, this tribe has also been responsible for providing rescue for ships that crashed around the desert where they are active, and also receiving those "celestial beings" who descended from the sky and came to visit the tribe.

These "celestial beings" would give them some flat metal objects that they could use to travel to the huge metal mountains in exchange for the resources needed by the tribe.

I thought they were natives of the planet, but they turned out to be part-time cheap rescue teams and tourism projects from the surrounding areas. No wonder the priests spoke the common language so fluently and were able to maintain a group of more than a thousand people in the boundless desert.

It looked like they were attracted here by the noise of the fleet crashing to the ground earlier? But if that was the case, why were they heading straight for the sandworms?

Zhang Ge asked:

"So where are you heading now, and what's your purpose?"

Hearing this question, the priest's expression became serious and he replied:

"We heard the sandworm's vibrations, heard its call... But this isn't a good thing right now. With such a large movement, the green tide, which delights in hunting sandworms, will follow. We must quickly lead the sandworm away to prevent it from drowning in the tide."

P.S. I went back home and fell asleep at 10:00 am, so the update is a little late.

Chapter 136: The Ancient Covenant and the Orcs

Hearing this, Zhang Ge replied:

"Then it might be difficult for you to take the sandworm away."

The chief and the priest who approached did not speak, waiting for Zhang Ge's second half of the sentence.