Chapter 2903 () Boiling Blood

As one of the most powerful battleships in the history of the Terra Empire, the 'Vengeful Spirit' must be huge in scale!

As a Glory Queen-class battleship, although it is not the largest, its length still reaches more than 20 kilometers, and its width and height are at least several tens or even ten kilometers, and this is why it has'

On the outside it looks like a solid, rustic piece of iron - the real origin of that nickname.

Due to its huge hull, it, like other large battleships, has many layers of decks for different functions and area divisions.

Those decks may include, but are not limited to, the flight deck, the macro gun deck, the upper battle deck where the Astartes live, the combat command deck, the Mechanicus equipment deck, the sailor deck, and there may be several or even dozens of layers of coolies and coolies.

The living deck where slaves lived.

In addition, there are deck areas dedicated to engines, torpedoes, shells and power engines with different functions, etc.

Anyway!

Because it is an 'ancient iron ingot' with a length of more than 20 kilometers and a width and height of at least several thousand meters. Therefore, the size of each of its decks is almost more than 20 kilometers long and several kilometers high.

The width is more than one hundred square kilometers. Therefore, with the huge hull and exaggerated living area, each layer of the ship is equivalent to the size of a small city. It is naturally composed of different functional decks of that layer.

A huge and internally recyclable ecosystem.

As a result, the number of humans or non-humans living in this huge internal cycle of ecology is likely to reach a huge, terrifying number of at least millions, and the exact number is unknown even on ships.

None of the managers themselves have accurate figures.

Therefore, this is the reason why these ships were able to sail in the subspace and the physical universe for a long time and continue to fight during the Great Crusade, and the reason why the Great Crusade continued for more than two hundred years.

However, just like a huge city will always have some dark corners, the Vengeful Spirit is certainly no exception!

In the depths of the deep and dark deck of the battleship that has been abandoned for many years, it seems to have been permanently swallowed by the shadow of time and turned into a lawless land. Therefore, the wandering soulless wanderers are hiding in

All kinds of parasitic monsters in the dark, as well as various criminals, killers and even cultists who escaped from the upper deck, etc., they all like to gather in that place.

Dim lights, decay and moisture, terrible rust, excessive radiation, and the faint screams, howls and roars that come from time to time are always the main theme there, and make the place already terrible and terrible.

The environment became increasingly scary.

Originally, at least one or two hundred years ago, not long after it was abandoned due to severe environmental deterioration, both the Astartes Space Marines and the Imperial soldiers in charge of security would often raid the place and would hide in the place.

The maggots and pests there were killed, driven away and cleaned up.

However, as time went by, the management of the battleship discovered that even after cleaning it several times, new 'maggots' would still fall below and take hold. Then, the more than twenty kilometers long

Each cleanup of a kilometer-wide complex area requires a huge amount of manpower, material resources and energy. They felt that the cost was too high and not cost-effective, so they simply asked the imperial soldiers to guard or closed the entrances and exits and ignored them.

In their view, even if they are cleaned, new 'maggots' and 'bacteria' will breed anyway, so it is better to simply block the entrances and exits, and then let the 'maggots' and 'bacteria' remain as long as they do not cause major harm.

It keeps fending for itself again and again!

That approach seems to be a good choice?

So, after letting it go for decades and carefully observing it, I found that the harm is really not that big of a deal. The consequences of not cleaning and cleaning are the same, and the key is that I can save a lot of manpower, material resources and energy.

Finally, the management, who thought the results were quite good, simply let it go completely.

It’s right if you think about it carefully!

After all, in the eyes of the Astartes officers or some managers who are responsible for managing the internal security of the ship, the lifespan of those dirty 'maggots' and 'bacteria' is short and limited. Since they are cleaned up

They will breed again after a while, and if they are not cleaned up, they will die quickly in the harsh environment after a while, so it is better not to clean them up at all!

And the key point is: if they don’t clean it up, as managers, they can at least save a lot of unnecessary trouble?

then!

At a certain point in time, after decades of observation and demonstration, the management attitude and basic tone for the bottom abandoned deck was set at a certain point in time.

Normally, apart from sending imperial soldiers to guard and close key entrances and exits, isolating that deck, and then sending out men to patrol and assess the disaster level regularly on a yearly basis, they do other things.

Then don’t care about it!

Even though they discovered that there were actually a lot of cracks and some new secret passages leading to the lowest abandoned deck, they still turned a blind eye unless their guns took the initiative to hit them.

That way they would reluctantly send people to clean it up and re-seal it, and if it wasn't discovered, they would just pretend they didn't know.

Perhaps, in the thinking of some management, it is better to leave the passage for the 'maggots' and 'bacteria' to enter the bottom deck and let them fend for themselves than to stay on other floors managed by them.

Is it more cost-effective to cause trouble on deck and consume their energy and test their administrative skills?

Therefore, gradually, under the deliberate laissez-faire of the managers, the abandoned bottom deck, which was like an underground world, full of decay, moisture, darkness, various cosmic parasites, beasts, and even various harmful gases, naturally and slowly became

It has become a gathering and corrupt paradise for criminals, killers, exiles and even cultists who are not tolerated by the battleship management.

Normally, no one would go to that place easily, even the lowest-level miserable crew members, laborers, slaves, and even ordinary imperial soldiers responsible for patrols would not easily set foot in that area unless necessary.

However……

What no one expected was that in the depths of an abandoned bottom deck filled with decay, moisture, darkness, all kinds of cosmic parasites, radiation and even all kinds of harmful gases, a place forgotten and abandoned by the empire.

The despised corner quietly breeds an unyielding fire.

I don’t know since when, a group of people calling themselves ‘rebels’ gathered there and built it into their gathering place, safe haven and armed stronghold.

Isn’t this?

"..."

At this time, I had just met with the two Astartes Space Marines from the 10th Company of the 'Sons of Horus' and beat them up, so that those two guys finally knew what respect and strength were.

The woman was silently walking step by step through this desolate, dark and decaying area.

Snap!

Snap! Snap!

Snap!

The air here is filled with the unique smell of rust, mold and some kind of harmful gas, and almost every few steps she takes on the soft and damp deck will be accompanied by one or two subtle rust cracking sounds, as if they are from a battleship.

The deck is so overwhelmed that it will collapse at any time?

But fortunately, it just sounds scary. If the preparation was really going to be rusted through, I'm afraid the priests and slaves of the Mechanicus would have come to repair it long ago.

On both sides of the passage she was walking, she didn't know who had used radioactive paint to paint hideous symbols and graffiti on the walls of the similarly rusted steel passage, and the dim green color it radiated was almost eternal.

The eternal light adds some rare and deadly light sources to this abandoned world.

Through the mottled pale green light that barely illuminated the surroundings, the woman could clearly see the rusted and abandoned pipes and various wiring exposed on the surrounding steel walls.

"..."

But she didn't look much, and just continued to walk forward on her own.

Snap! Snap!

Snap!

In this way, after walking through the 'radiation' area that was fatal to living things and no one or creature would be stupid enough to approach it, and walking for another ten minutes, the woman finally arrived successfully.

Another dark and deep area ahead that is dim and has almost no light.

"..."

Then, she expertly unscrewed a heavy steel door that was also rusted, walked into a passage with a dim safety radiation lamp, and then swerved for hundreds of meters in the dilapidated and complicated passage.

, and finally came to a huge hatch that was guarded by two guards armed with bolt guns.

"who?"

"ah!"

"leader!"

"Are you back?"

When they saw the woman arriving, the two young men, although their bodies looked full of filth, had a light in their eyes, and their mental outlook was very different from the laborers, slaves and even the crew in the residential area above.

He was startled, and then he immediately saluted and greeted the woman.

"..."

Nodding, the woman didn't say anything more, she just walked in without saying a word after the other party entered the password to open the door.

soon!

Although the one inside still looks a bit crude, compared to the areas outside, it is already like a 'paradise'. It is not only brightly lit, but also has fresh air, and a huge cabin with various filtration systems and life-support devices.

caught her eye.

Looking around, bright energy lamps are embedded around the huge cabin as big as an indoor football field and on metal pillars. Those lamps are well maintained, and only a few of them may be wired.

The question is flickering, making the light somewhat more vivid in this huge cabin.

Like the two people outside, in the separated compartments here, the men and women, old and young, are all in good spirits, and they have weapons on or around them, such as those

Old-fashioned individual kinetic energy weapons, various models and even hand-made bolt guns, the more advanced Cary Bluff V-1 laser rifle, and a variety of lightweight chain saw weapons and kinetic energy weapons, etc.

At this time, those men and women were sitting together in twos and threes, repairing their crude weapons, exchanging words in low voices, or greeting women from a distance, and occasionally in the open space in the distance.

There were also some children running and laughing among them.

And the joyful laughter finally brought a touch of unnoticeable warmth to this abandoned bottom deck that was still a little too cold and damp, and the woman couldn't help but step forward a little more firmly.
To be continued...