When he stepped out of the elevator, Duanmu Huai found that the situation was somewhat different from what he had imagined.
In Duanmu Huai's imagination, the Lower Hive Sector should have been in complete chaos by now, with rioters and guard soldiers firing at each other and making a total mess of things.
But reality was different. After Duanmu Huai stepped out of the elevator, he found that the noisy sounds of battle had already disappeared. It wasn't because the fighting had ended, but because the thick rock walls had blocked out the noise. As for the reason, all he had to do was look at the scene before him.
This was a gold mine.
Standing on the platform, Duanmu Huai looked down and saw an utterly ordinary mine shaft. The Servitors were operating tools and excavating the tunnels. It seemed no different from what the Mechanicus Sect usually did. However, doing this beneath a Hive City was somewhat surprising. Duanmu Huai turned around and glanced at the elevator buried in the rock wall behind him.
"Looks like we came down pretty deep."
"Yes, my lord. According to the instrument readings, we are currently approximately three thousand eight hundred meters underground."
"What part of the Hive City is this?"
"There is no record of it. This area does not appear on the official maps."
The Servo-skull controlled by Rumiere searched through the records before giving its answer.
"This is an undeveloped area."
"Heh heh heh. It looks pretty well-developed to me."
Duanmu Huai let out a cold laugh. The mine before him clearly wasn't newly developed; it had obviously been in operation for quite some time. He had no idea what those Tech-Priests were doing down here, but no matter how he looked at it, it certainly didn't seem like