Retreat

"Commander!" Inside Hengtian Base, the communications officer relayed the latest orders from the White House bigwigs.

"Fuck!" Upon seeing the order, the Commander cursed and slammed it onto the command table.

"Clear the base immediately! Transfer all personnel and equipment that can be moved to a safe zone! We're going to be hit by a nuclear bomb!!"

"Yes sir!"

After seeing the base bustling with activity, the Commander couldn't help but stand by the window and look down, muttering to himself, "At least these congressmen have some conscience."

He finished adjusting his hat, took out his corn cob pipe, identical to his idol Five-Star General MacArthur's, lit it in a flashy manner, then opened the door, stood at the top of the stairs, put on his sunglasses with another flourish, glanced around, and then descended the stairs to board the waiting aircraft.

If Five-Star General MacArthur were to see this scene, he would surely point and exclaim, "This kid is just like me!"

The Blood Angels were fast, not just in their running speed, but also in their learning speed.

By consuming parts that contained memories from their previous lives, they gained some of the memories and learned skills of the bodies they now inhabited.

Driving, for instance!

However, given the Astartes' physique and the Power Armour they wore, fitting them into a car as small as a little idiot's was quite difficult.

So, the Tech-Sergeant quickly dismantled the entire front frame of several trucks and removed anything obstructing them.

They didn't even leave the seats!

After all, it was just an ordinary gasoline vehicle; even if the fuel tank exploded from a bullet, it wouldn't kill them. What was there to fear?

And so, six trucks in total rumbled onto the road.

But their tires, unable to bear the immense weight, began to protest.

Considering the Astartes' overall weight, the Tech-Sergeant had removed the brakes, leaving only the accelerator.

One step on it, and they went all out!

Due to the Astartes' weight, the vehicles only slowly accelerated after a few minutes!

Since they were previously near the city center, they hadn't taken cars even if there were any. Those cars were all stopped, causing severe traffic jams.

So, as they approached the outskirts and saw that the number of vehicles on the road was few enough for a large truck to pass through.

All the Blood Angels, under Quan Tiehua's suggestion, had the Tech-Sergeants modify ten trucks or lorries within minutes.

They traveled unhindered!

In just over ten minutes, they passed through a tunnel and entered the Oudomo Mountains.

The roofs of most of the trucks had been sawed off, otherwise, with the Astartes' weight and the space they occupied, a single truck couldn't carry many.

All the Astartes were silent, watching the rapidly passing scenery and the verdant mountains in the distance.

It could be said that from their birth until before they came to this world, almost no one had ever seen such beautiful scenery.

Even if some Astartes' original bodies were from Imperial nobility, in that hive city environment, apart from sunlight and slightly yellowish or greenish clouds, the rest was basically an endless jungle of steel.

Of course, there were some garden worlds, but the scenery of those garden worlds still couldn't compare to the beauty of Earth they were witnessing now!

After all, in a broad sense, they were also Earthlings.

"This world is so beautiful! If it could become our Chapter's homeworld, it would be a great fortune." An Astartes wanted to remove his helmet to feel the air, to experience this beauty. But he didn't, as the danger had not yet passed. So his voice echoed with regret over the comms.

Quan Tiehua looked at the familiar scenery he hadn't seen in over a decade and sighed, "It is indeed beautiful, but I believe we will have such planets as our homeworlds in the future. And many of them. Without the Imperium sending its bugs to destroy and exploit these planets, they will belong entirely to our Chapter!"

No one replied. Although they yearned for it in their hearts, saying it out loud would seem disloyal to the Imperium!

"Something's wrong up ahead!"

The lead truck suddenly issued a warning. Those who were still admiring the view, upon hearing the sound, jumped out of the vehicles regardless of whether they could stop.

The Astartes in the driver's seat directly swerved, crashing the vehicle into the nearby mountainside.

After the vehicle stopped from the impact, he pushed aside the deformed supports and got out. "There's something going on ahead." Saying this, the brother removed his helmet, closed his eyes, and sniffed carefully. "The aura ahead is very wrong. It's somewhat similar to the aura of those two monsters in the city, but also somewhat different!"

"Let's not take the main road. We'll go over the mountain to check it out." Quan Tiehua looked around, then finally at the mountainside.

After all, taking the main road would easily expose them. What about going over the mountain? Besides, satellite positioning might not be able to see through the trees to locate them. More importantly, their Power Armour also had certain stealth functions.

In the mountainous area at this moment, within a huge valley, surrounded by trees. However, on a steep mountainside with obvious signs of artificial construction.

And at this moment, on a clearing nearly the size of a football field on that mountainside, the leaves had long been swept clean, and the soil had long disappeared, revealing a large door covered by camouflage netting underneath.

The door, covered by camouflage netting, had already been opened, but the netting remained in place.

"This is it. It looks like they're transporting something?"

As he spoke, a corner of the camouflage netting was suddenly lifted, and an Astartes, armed to the teeth, emerged and began observing the surroundings.

After a few minutes, he pressed the communicator near his ear and said something into the earpiece.

A few more minutes passed, and a roaring sound was heard.

Then, one after another, fully enclosed large trucks began to emerge from the dark tunnel behind the gate.

"What's in the trucks?"

"I feel like it's a humanoid object, but there's a strong smell of blood and some mechanical odor. It feels like these mortals have used the flesh and blood of those two monsters in the city and the machinery fighting the monsters to create some kind of biological weapon!"

Quan Tiehua was stunned, then immediately thought of the Obsidian Fury mech that appeared in Pacific Rim: Uprising.

The villain's mech, its cockpit entirely controlled by a brain cultivated from monster genes. To him, back then, it was the epitome of cool.

Could it be that the Shao Corporation back then had people from these little idiots holding shares? But he immediately thought of the final scene in Pacific Rim: Uprising, where those nano-swarm-like things appeared within the Shao Corporation's base in the little idiots' capital.

These little idiots had always been researching all sorts of biotechnology. Once the monsters arrived, their biotechnology likely advanced by leaps and bounds.

It's estimated that these little idiots might have made contact with the Precursors on the other side of the wormhole. But it's also possible it was an indirect connection; after all, the little idiots' desire to dominate the world isn't a new development.

To all my esteemed readers, I'm adding another chapter today.