On the way back, the intensity of the resistance encountered was significantly reduced, and the group returned to the location where they had encountered the Daemonette in short order.
The daemon corpses here had already been completely burned away, but the two veterans were nowhere to be seen.
To prevent ambushes, Zhang Ge gestured for the team to spread out, and Amilia searched deeper.
She found the two without much effort.
The bullet holes in two cover positions were dense, and from the direction, they seemed to have come from all around, not from the group's initial shooting.
Moreover, there were traces of Melta Detonation on the inner side of both positions, with fragments of Flak Armour Ceramite and charred flesh scattered slightly further away.
It was not difficult to imagine what had happened here during the time the group was away, with a large number of enemies still present in the surrounding area.
But at least they had completed their orders, and had held out to the point where they had to self-detonate with Melta Bombs, so the enemy must have paid a considerable price for it.
While resting here again, Zhang Ge and several veterans, along with the Cherub, individually inspected the pieces of flesh, collecting those belonging to their comrades into two small bottles.
Soon, the team set off again.
Behind this room was the location of the break. When they returned to this point, the Valkyrie was still hovering between the two sections of wreckage.
There were more corpses visible outside the gap, and the wreckage of several Armoured Vehicles was burning. It seemed that the outer enemies had not given up trying to continue attacking here until recently.
As for why they weren't continuing now?
That had to be asked of the cause of this scorching air.
Even inside the break, one could clearly feel the scorching light streams that occasionally lit up the surrounding environment above, followed by a loud explosion.
Not to mention cultists, even an Astra Militarum Regiment would have to carefully consider whether charging up here would be of any practical value.
After everyone came out again, the Valkyrie approached.
Zhang Ge pointed to the opposite side, and the other party shook the gun barrel under the fuselage up and down to indicate understanding.
Its fuselage turned, the tail hatch opened, and everyone was able to enter the cabin. Then, it flew a short distance, crossed the break, and turned again, leaving the hatch door against the floor at the corresponding height on the other side of the break.
The scene here was much the same as on the other side. If there was a difference, it was probably the presence of some Booby Traps hidden in various places.
It seemed that the ship's defense force was divided into two parts: the first half, near the source of the corruption, was mainly defended by daemons, while the second half was a relatively elite cultist defense force.
These Booby Traps naturally didn't cause any trouble. To prevent anything from being missed, Amilia simply walked ahead with her Rosarius activated, clearing the way.
However, the explosions also attracted many cultists, but unlike before, the enemy soon realized that Zhang Ge's squad had reached the point where attrition warfare was meaningless.
In the relatively narrow terrain inside the ship, where it was impossible to deploy enough troops at once, for an elite squad, the difference between a harassment by a ten-man squad once and ten times was only that the latter had ninety more dead.
So, they quickly contracted their forces and stopped wasting manpower on suicide missions.
The corridors became unusually quiet, with only the sound of the group's footsteps as they advanced inward, until, after advancing about two hundred meters, the scanning results on the Auspex showed a large hall ahead.
If they wanted to go further, they would have to pass through here no matter which path they took, and if they were to pass through here... the dense life signs gathered inside indicated the predicament they were about to face.
At a glance, there were at least several hundred of them, and the number was still increasing.
If you included daemons and the like, which were difficult to detect, the number was probably closer to a thousand.
Looking at this result, Zhang Ge pondered for a moment, weighed the possibility of breaking through, and sadly found it to be almost zero.
In other words, as soon as they left the door in front of them, they would likely be considered to be deliberately seeking death.
But how could he be willing to let such a dangerous place go?
The others did not disturb Zhang Ge, who seemed to be thinking of a good plan, but quietly guarded the surroundings until he solemnly gathered everyone.
Zhang Ge briefly explained his grand plan.
This plan... couldn't be said to be very exquisite, but it could be said to be extremely crude.
A moment later, the squad confirmed that the surrounding entrances were all in a safe state, and then divided into one or two people for each door.
One by one, the doors slowly opened, revealing an entire well-prepared defensive position.
Since several levels led to the hall, the overall shape was a cylindrical shape connecting the highest and lowest levels, with a circle of ring-shaped platforms extending from the inner edge of the cylinder, with stairs connecting the platforms to each other.
The enemy had deployed a large number of fortifications and light and heavy firepower on each level of the opposite platform, and even several Armoured Vehicles were parked on the edges.
At the moment the door opened, even before the squad could counterattack, a rain-like barrage of fire poured down, with countless bolter rounds and lasers slamming between the door seams, and even the door itself was beaten with a continuous metallic sound.
This suppression fire was not the type that would weaken after one wave, but rather another round of fire would immediately rotate in at the end of one round, dividing the entire force into two groups and alternating while reloading, ensuring that there would be no gaps in the suppression.
Obviously, there was a commander on the other side with considerable organizational skills.
When they realized that the squad was not breaking through immediately, the enemy further weakened the suppressing fire.
But this did not mean that they were careless, but rather that the fire groups were further subdivided, and more people were now responsible for vigilance, and any abnormality would undoubtedly attract their fatal strike.
This was why Zhang Ge had previously felt that the success rate of breaking through was almost zero.
As long as the other side wasn't completely stupid, then with enough numbers, they could completely use brute force to overcome skill.
No matter how clever they were, they were pulled to the same level in this situation, and could only either wait for heavy equipment or fill it with lives.
Tactical skill had lost its meaning, after all, no matter how experienced one was, one could not use experience to block lasers. Facing this density of fire, there was no room for individual tactics to be used.
However... although experience could not block lasers, a Rosarius could.
At several entrances, smoke grenades were thrown uniformly, and gray-white smoke immediately poured out, blocking the door seams.
Seeing this situation, the enemy's fire projection suddenly became denser, and the bullets were even tearing through the smoke quickly, causing it to dissipate rapidly.
This was much the same as Zhang Ge had expected.
Organizational skills were one thing, but the quality of the soldiers was another.
Due to the smoke screen thrown by the smoke grenades, most of the firepower was subconsciously concentrated on the lower half of the obscured door seams.
And just then, a shadow suddenly appeared and flew out extremely quickly from the upper half of the door seam.
It was Amilia, holding Zhang Ge.
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