Accompanied by crackling sounds, the monstrous creature charged forward while generating bio-plasma orbs.
The Planetary Defense Force soldiers who couldn't dodge in time on the path weren't turned to charcoal by the brilliant electric orbs.
They were purely crushed by the beast's barbaric ramming until their bodies were like a pile of mud.
Then, facing a tank of comparable size blocking its path, after firing the bio-plasma orb and freeing up its claws, it easily pierced through this heavy tank's armor, then spread and pulled its claws outward, tearing the tank in half and flinging it away.
Bang—
A melta round hit one half of the tank that was flying toward Ejie.
Bang bang—
Several more bullets struck the monstrous creature—the Screamer-Killer—but didn't slow its charge.
This thing sacrificed two scythe-like claws to block the melta rounds from damaging its body.
In the blink of an eye, this thing felt close enough to touch.
At the same time, it emitted that piercing sound again, its mouth cavity charging up as a plasma beam was about to be released.
From this shrieking sound, Ejie seemed to sense the creature's mockery, confident he was finished.
His current state was that he had jumped to avoid the bio-plasma orbs just thrown over and was currently airborne.
The Screamer-Killer's charge speed was enough to impact him before he could touch the ground, making him explode like a swatted mosquito.
Unless those two melta rounds he'd just fired killed it, he couldn't avoid the impact.
Unfortunately, it had withstood those two shots at the cost of two claws.
At the current distance, if his melta rounds hit it directly while it was charging plasma energy, it could kill it without being killed by the massive body's inertial force, and he should be able to survive.
However, without the body impact hitting him, the melta rounds hitting it while charging bio-plasma would cause it to explode, forming an even larger bio-plasma orb hitting him.
Then he would be completely annihilated.
That is to say, he would either be crushed to death or turned to ash by bio-plasma.
"Sorry."
He suddenly said this, and speaking these words took one second.
One second was enough for the Screamer-Killer to impact him, yet Ejie landed safely.
Then a heat wave that made his skin feel like it would sizzle swept over.
The Screamer-Killer that should have hit him had its body consumed by massive flashes erupting from the ground beneath it, directly vaporized—this was a melta mine he had placed there.
This device was essentially fifty melta rounds wired in parallel, then exploding like a cluster bomb, with the overlapping subatomic agitation zones covering an area sufficient to completely engulf the Screamer-Killer's massive form.
Besides mines, there were also grenade types—cluster grenades that released ten times the power of the melta grenades he'd originally brought to A2's world.
Hmm?
Ejie frowned. The ammunition A2 had transmitted to his internal space was almost depleted again.
Of course, he could still have A2 transmit more, with Ejie providing the energy coins.
Currently, he had 13 coins in his account.
Yes, from returning until now streaming, he'd earned 14 total.
That meant Ejie could exchange for at least thirteen more waves of ammunition supply.
However, the current fierce assault consumed too quickly. At this consumption rate, the energy coins would probably be exhausted within an hour.
Of course, he could also accelerate the "Cross-World Invitation" again and escape once more.
But this was useless, because it would only give him 100 more hours of rest. When he returned, it would still be the same time point, the same encirclement.
Unless, within those 100 hours, he could obtain armaments sufficient to escape this situation.
Currently among the dimensional group friends, only A2's world could provide weapons. But even working frantically for 100 hours to reproduce and upgrade that transformable power armor wouldn't improve the situation dramatically.
However, maybe he really could escape this situation. Fleeing the battlefield was definitely impossible, but reaching his ship's location might be possible.
In such a battlefield, wouldn't his ship be discovered?
This was in Tyranid territory—shouldn't it be visible?
It should be neither visible nor touchable, since that was an advanced ship developed by humanity's Golden Age.
But now he didn't plan to have A2 transmit another one. Because he'd discovered the Astartes' current advance route completely overlapped with his destination.
So, returning to one issue: his too-frequent use of melta mines and grenades was very problematic, right?
Didn't others suspect where he got them from?
But currently the Astartes weren't concerned with how he'd "accidentally found" them, claiming they were "just buried here" or "accidentally hidden ammunition from previous battles here that he'd coincidentally discovered."
The Astartes knew he was lying, and he knew the Astartes knew he was lying, but now wasn't the time to investigate this.
As long as he could continue "accidentally discovering" ammunition to strengthen the squad, they'd temporarily turn a blind eye.
"Rauls, found another case of melta grenades here."
As he handed them over, several light beams tore through the darkness nearby, killing two Lictors.
The beam attacks came from the Dreadnought's laser cannon barrels. Looking at the barrels that showed no signs of rest, they were red beyond reason and seemed ready to overload and explode at any moment.
"..."
Rauls, ordered by the captain to somewhat look after this kid, could only remain speechless.
This time what he'd produced looked so new, nothing like being buried in the ground. Could he disguise it a bit?
But he had to admit, these things worked better than the melta grenades they'd brought.
Honestly, it was lucky they encountered Salamanders. If other guys had come, this fellow's strangeness would definitely get him in trouble.
It was also somewhat incredible—for some unknown reason, he felt an inexplicable closeness to him, as if he were also a member of the Salamanders.
As if the other party also had Salamander gene-seed.
Thinking of their mission, Rauls also considered one possibility about him: could he be the target of their delivery mission?
Their arrival on this planet wasn't actually in response to a distress call.
They were originally on a delivery mission and had coincidentally arrived as this planet fell into crisis.
So after reaching their destination and completing the mission, they would also rendezvous with another Astartes squad to attack the hive together.
Suddenly, the captain's voice came through the channel, making Rauls' face change.
"Exterminatus? Is the Imperium planning to abandon this planet?"
Hearing Rauls' shocked words, Ejie's expression also became grave.
No way—the worst-case scenario was still coming!
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