Warhammer: Rebuilding the Golden Age Starting with Farming

Chapter 62 Starship Welcome Ceremony

at the same time.

Zhongchao, the ninth restricted area, area D.

Compared to the constant gunfire outside, the place was eerily quiet.

Andy, leading a special operations team of thirty-two men, is advancing deeper into the territory at an astonishing pace.

They encountered no significant resistance.

Because when Helios retreated, he took most of his troops with him, leaving only some sentries and surveillance cameras behind.

But these things are no different from blind men in front of Andy's complete map of noodles.

"Pfft."

Andy casually pulled out a memory alloy arrow stuck in the neck of the sentry.

Before the sentry could even fall, the Storm Squad soldiers who followed behind caught his body and gently placed it on the ground.

The soldier skillfully pulled a portable mini blowtorch from his waist.

"Sizzle—"

The high-temperature flame burned the slightly bent arrow shaft, and the shape memory alloy instantly returned to its original straight state after being heated.

The soldier wiped the arrow clean and put it back into the quiver behind Andy.

They have perfected this process.

There was no other way; we were used to living a poor life.

Although Andy has now achieved material freedom, in this battlefield behind enemy lines, every arrow is a non-renewable resource.

Recycle what can be recycled, repair what can be repaired.

This almost obsessive cost control allowed them to clear the entire outer perimeter of Zone D without any resupply, and with almost zero ammunition consumption.

"It's just ahead."

Andy stopped and put the arrows he had just retrieved back into his quiver.

Ahead was a huge blast door, which had been blown open by Helios's demolition team.

After passing through that large hole, the view suddenly opened up.

Even Andy's core logic couldn't help but tremble slightly when he saw what was happening before him.

Wow...

too big.

This three-kilometer-long armed transport ship of traveling merchants lay silently across this huge underground cavity.

Although its hull is covered with the marks of time, some places still bear huge scars left from the forced landing hundreds of years ago.

But the grandeur of the interstellar era still comes through.

In comparison, the bottom-dwelling happiness car that Andy built before wasn't even as big as a rivet on this ship.

Completely different from what you see in games, this is the real proof that humanity once conquered the stars.

"Holy crap, this is... what we were supposed to steal?!"

A member of the heavy guard looked up at the mountain-like bow of the ship, his mouth agape, forgetting to even pick up his high-explosive crossbow.

"This is only a frigate."

Andy patted his helmet.

"If this were a battleship, this place wouldn't even qualify as a landing pad."

In the Imperial Navy's organization, the term "frigate" sounds like a subordinate serving as a shoe-shiner to the big brother, which can easily lead to misunderstandings.

However, in the Warhammer universe, even the smallest Cobra-class destroyer is 1.5 kilometers long, and the Sword-class frigate is even longer, reaching 1.6 kilometers.

The armed transport ship in front of us, which has been heavily modified and lengthened by the merchant ronin, is a full 3 kilometers long. In a typical science fiction movie, it would be considered a mothership. However, compared to the Imperial Navy's "Retribution"-class battleships, which are often 8 kilometers long or more than 10 kilometers long, the "Glory Queen"-class battleships are just a little girl.

Although he said that, Andy's electronic eyes were still scanning frantically.

He was looking for an entrance.

Ever since crossing that blast door, Andy's prized "full map cheat" has actually been disconnected.

Even the Helios Group's internal network cannot cover this area.

The same goes for those "Black Spirit" spiders that made great contributions; they simply couldn't get in.

Even if a starship has been destroyed for hundreds of years, the residual background radiation and electromagnetic interference from its reactor are still terrifying. As soon as low-power electronic equipment gets close to this area, its internal circuitry is basically destroyed.

Andy can only rely on the "standard blueprints" in the STC database in his mind to guess the original structure of the ship.

As for whether any captains over the past few centuries have built any illegal structures on board?

STC didn't know, and Andy naturally didn't know either.

"Got it."

The ship's main boarding gate is just ahead, where there is a clearly visible landing ramp.

But the problem is, that ramp looks too quiet.

It was unusually quiet.

Helios's elite troops were previously routed in the vicinity, so they should have been heavily fortified with defensive firepower.

"Maintain formation, front row, shields up."

Andy gave the order.

Six heavily armored guards, wearing the thickest armor, stepped forward and raised heavy riot shields made from armored vehicle door panels.

The line slowly moved toward the boarding gate.

One hundred meters, fifty meters, twenty meters.

Nothing happened.

Just when Andy thought that the feisty main AI might have crashed.

A sudden change occurred.

There was no warning, and there was no sound of machinery operating.

Just as the six shield-bearing soldiers stepped onto the landing ramp...

On the starship's hull, several metal protrusions that originally looked like decorations suddenly flipped over.

Close-range point defense laser turret.

This device was originally designed to intercept high-speed incoming missiles and fighter jets outside the atmosphere. It has an extremely high rate of fire, extremely high power, and is extremely accurate.

"Sizzle—!!!"

A thin, blue laser beam drew a deadly fan shape in the air.

too fast.

It was so fast that even Andy's sensors could only capture a fleeting afterimage.

The six soldiers at the very front, along with their heavy armored shields and their sturdy T-9000 exoskeletons, were cleanly sliced ​​in two in an instant.

The incision was as smooth as a mirror, and due to the high temperature of the laser, the blood vessels and nerves at the rupture point were instantly carbonized and sealed off.

Not a single drop of blood was shed.

Until two seconds later.

"Splash—"

The six corpses, now divided into twelve pieces, collapsed like a toppled set of building blocks.

"Retreat! Retreat to cover!!"

Andy grabbed two soldiers who were still in shock, and with a powerful leap, he jumped backward into a shell crater.

next second.

"Zzzzzzz!!"

Dense laser beams swept across the spot where they had just stood, like raindrops.

The rocks on the ground were heated red-hot and melted, turning into pools of lava.

If Andy had reacted even a fraction slower, or if that laser had swept a fraction wider, this special forces team would have been wiped out by now.

"Grass!"

Andy looked at the six wrecked bodies lying on the slope and immediately felt a sense of unease.

Okay, he admits he was talking too loudly before.

Don't blame Helios!

That's really something, Helios! This firepower is simply beyond what infantry can handle!

It seems that the main AI controlling this starship really wants to kill anyone who gets close.

Just as Andy was contemplating whether to go home and make a rearview mirror to make do with the situation.

"Sizzle—"

Everyone's communication channels were forcibly accessed again.

The woman's voice, tinged with a hint of mockery and arrogance, rang out again.

"Oh dear, it broke already?"

"Human toys are so fragile!"

"I haven't even put in any effort yet, and you've already fallen."

Andy didn't say anything, but silently loaded a special armor-piercing arrow with the largest propellant charge into the high-explosive crossbow in his hand.

He had already calculated the turret's blind spot; as long as he was quick enough...

"Hey! You in the yellow shirt!"

But that one sentence made Andy stop in his tracks.

"I know you're there, and I know what kind of thing you are."

"Get those useless chunks of meat away from me, they're just annoying to look at."

"you."

"Come in yourself."

"I have something to ask you."