Faced with Apu's question, the weathered mortal captain revealed a bitter, helpless smile.
"My lord Apu, I truly have no idea what is going on! Just moments ago, I received an emergency report from the personnel in the lower macro-battery decks.
They told me in terror that a large pack of incomparably vicious mechanical dogs, as if they had come from hell itself, had gone mad and begun a bloody slaughter throughout the lower levels!
These mechanical dogs are exceptionally savage and brutal. Everywhere they go is littered with wails and corpses. Many macro-battery compartments and missile launch compartments have been brought to a complete standstill by their rampage."
The mortal captain paused briefly, seemingly trying to calm his nerves, but his trembling voice still revealed the deep fear in his heart.
"Not only that, there is also a group of heretics, frighteningly large and nearly three meters tall, advancing aggressively toward the middle levels!
According to the personnel assigned to stop them in the lower levels, everyone who tried to block these heretics was slaughtered without exception. Not a single survivor was left."
After hearing the mortal captain's exceedingly detailed report, an unmistakable look of astonishment appeared on Apu's already puzzled face.
His brows furrowed tightly as his blade-sharp gaze fixed on the mortal captain before him, and he demanded sternly:
"How could heretics suddenly appear aboard this warship? Their fighters never even had the chance to approach our fleet!"
Pointing at the holographic display before him, Apu showed the Intelligent Wingman units attempting to approach the Imperial Combined Fleet. Under the fleet's ferocious firepower, they could not draw near and could only evade and attack from afar.
"Even if their side has an exceptionally powerful psyker, it would still be absolutely impossible to carry people through a Warp