Li Qinwu continued onward, soon entering the main structure of the Secondary Hive City.
Though this was only a Secondary Hive City, it had already been developed. Its construction had clearly followed the standards of a large Hive City meant to house one billion people.
Its main body rose over two thousand meters high, while the Lower Hive extended deep underground, together forming this colossal Hive City.
Li Qinwu entered the Hive City directly through a ventilation duct built during the Imperium of Man's era.
Originally, Li Qinwu had thought that once he entered the Hive City controlled by the T'au, he would encounter all sorts of messy electronic detection systems, making infiltration extremely difficult.
But he had overthought it. The complexity of a human Hive City was something even humans themselves could not fully understand, let alone Xenos who had only occupied the nest for fifty years.
The T'au valued science, reason, and efficiency.
Humans valued stability, mysticism, and sheer scale.
For the T'au, entering a human Hive City was like asking a programmer to fix the spaghetti code of an online game. It was enough to make their heads explode.
That made things easier for Li Qinwu. With the ventilation system maps he had obtained through the Adeptus Mechanicus's internal network, he moved about with ease.
Li Qinwu hid within the Hive City for two full days, consuming all his energy drinks before finally reaching the outskirts of a factory deep inside the Hive City.
He lay atop a ventilation duct, looking down at the factory ahead.
It was a factory guarded by elite T'au infantry in combat armor. Large numbers of drone-like War Bees flew patrols around it, while numerous automated turrets occasionally swept scarlet laser beams across the area to keep watch.
Now this was more