Splash!
The surging liquid quickly spread through the passage, gradually engulfing the blood and mutated flesh on the floor. The Warp plague in the air began to dissipate rapidly. The terrified Iron Hands warriors were swallowed by the torrent and submerged in the bloody filth.
The warriors forcibly tore off their Gellerpox-corroded Power Armour and threw it to the floor. Much of the exposed machinery of their Bionic Bodies had also developed strange patches of rust.
Yet these Iron Hands warriors, their bodies now exposed, seemed to be suffering agonizing torment as they brutally ripped the Bionic Limbs they had once revered from their bodies.
Small spurts of blood, no longer bright red, sprayed from the points where metal joined flesh.
Some warriors even sliced open their bodies with sharp pieces of metal, exposing their bionic internal organs and leaving themselves on the verge of death. Yet their remaining biological limbs never stopped moving.
It was as though their flesh were rejecting these foreign mechanical structures.
Iax simply could not understand why these warriors had modified themselves to such an extent.
The most extreme case was a warrior with only his head, chest, and one arm remaining. Almost everything else was mechanical, and several mechanical organs were visible inside his torn-open chest cavity.
In truth, the liquid flooding the warehouse was nothing exotic.
It was tons of highly concentrated Panacea.
This medicine could cure every disease and suppress every virus.
The Men of Iron's reasoning was straightforward: plagues were microorganisms, so the Panacea could serve as a disinfectant. Simply rinsing everything with it would clearly bring the corruption under control.
The Iron Hands warriors' Power Armour and Bionic Limbs had all been corroded by Gellerpox. Their armour had lost its seals, allowing the virus to invade the biological nutrient solution