However, in the process of gradually deepening into the depths of the fortress, he gradually realized that something was wrong.
It seemed that he was not completely left with nothing. At least, Zhang Ge himself had not seen any traces of fighting on the road he was deeply advancing on for a long distance - this also likely meant that no one had been here before, which also meant that there might be enemies hidden somewhere.
As for why no one had been here? Of course, it couldn't be that the Dark Angels missed the place. Zhang Ge estimated that it was very likely because of some kind of defense mechanism in the fortress, such as automatically running holographic projections, which could divert the stronger and weaker enemies, so that the defenders could defeat them one by one. Of course, it was also possible that Zhang Ge accidentally stumbled into somewhere, so he entered the Fallen Angels' secret passage.
But this happy mood did not last long. When he went down to the door of a hidden chamber, Zhang Ge found traces of fighting again, and there were quite a few, which looked extremely fierce.
No, that's not right.
Zhang Ge, who was about to be greatly disappointed, soon realized something was wrong. A lot of Boltgun casings were left here, and the various bullet marks did not correspond to the new Space Marine Boltgun... There was even a bloody smell?
Although the Auspex still couldn't scan anything, judging from the freshness of the blood, there were, if not living wounded, at least a lot of recently dead bodies inside.
When entering the secret chamber, the scene seen also matched his previous guess.
That's right, it was an infighting between Fallen Angels. Seven or eight bodies of non-Primaris Space Marines were lying randomly in various parts of this secret chamber. After further observation, although it was impossible to distinguish their specific camps, judging from the positions, bullet mark directions, and body orientation, they should be roughly divided into two factions.
What kind of contradiction is so great that it will intensify to the point of infighting at this juncture?
More terrible than death... is probably the divergence on whether to choose to pledge to Chaos? There are still many Fallen Angels who firmly believe that they cannot pledge to Chaos.
In the process of further inspection, in addition to confirming that those corpses were all dead, Zhang Ge also unexpectedly found a secret chamber door hidden as part of the wall.
Of course, it was not that he ran into the switch by luck or anything, but that he walked around the wall with the Auspex, and found that its detection range could barely scan the empty space behind the thick hidden door.
It was also thanks to the fact that the Auspex in Zhang Ge's hand seemed to have higher power. This hidden door should have a shielding design for the Auspex. The Auspex built into the Power Armor of Zhang Ge's close guards, and even Amilia, failed to detect the hidden passage behind the door.
As for how to open the door without a switch?
Ta-da, Amilia's Universal Key to the rescue.
Ordinary Ceramite could certainly not stop her sword. An irregular gap more than two meters high - considering the thickness of this hidden door, it would be more appropriate to say it was an irregular passage - was quickly opened in the swings of the sword one after another.
Beyond the gap was a deep tunnel leading to who knows where.
Lack of light, hidden space, unknown information about the road ahead, extremely high danger of the enemy...
All kinds of factors were reminding Zhang Ge of the danger level of this place. If this were in a game, the boss's special background music should already be playing.
However, if it wasn't dangerous, what would he be doing here?
The greater the risk, the greater the reward. Others might consider the cost-effectiveness between the risk and the reward, but Zhang Ge was completely here for the risk itself, of course, the wilder the better within a reasonable range.
Now it was rare to run into a small secret of the Dark Angels. Although from their attitude, in theory, he could call for Space Marine support first, but from the perspective of another kind of insurance, it would probably be okay not to call - the danger ahead might not be as dangerous as the Dark Angels who might temporarily change their minds.
In this case, Zhang Ge could naturally only reluctantly go deep alone first... If there was no danger, then there would be no hurry to call the Dark Angels.
Based on previous experience, he vaguely felt that if he encountered any difficulties and then called for support, the support would very likely descend from the sky at the most critical moment, not at all like the police in movies who arrive late.
With these kinds of thoughts, Zhang Ge led the team to continue deeper into this secret passage. However, what made him feel slightly bad was that it seemed that the conflict outside was continuing all the way inside.
Along the way, in addition to seeing several piles of Auto-Turret ruins, he also saw three or four more corpses of Fallen Angels.
Finally, when he reached another room connected to the end of the secret passage, what entered Zhang Ge's sight was an extremely large instrument... no, it was not direct enough to say it was just an instrument.
It should be said that it was a huge castle composed of various lines, energy pipes, gears, and metal structures.
However, after approaching further, Zhang Ge realized that he had still estimated too conservatively.
When he came to the metal corridor that surrounded it for a week and looked down, he found that the part above was only the tip of the iceberg. More structures went directly into the ground, bottomless.
From the scale, this Metallic Monolith itself was even larger than Vigil Keep above... or rather, is this the real so-called "Vigil Keep"?
Temporarily setting aside its own characteristics, what attracted Zhang Ge's attention were the two Fallen Angels distributed in similar positions.
One was located in a place similar to a control console, with a lot of wounds on his body, but judging from the half of his head that was missing, the truly fatal ones should be several Boltgun rounds that drilled into the weak point of the helmet.
The other was lying diagonally by the railing not far behind the former, seemingly seriously injured. Even with the self-healing ability of Space Marines, he was only maintaining his current state, not allowing the injuries to worsen further, and could not do more.
However, judging from the gaze cast by the other party, he should not only still be alive, but also retain a certain degree of consciousness... Considering the injuries, should I say, as expected of a Space Marine?
Taking Amilia, Zhang Ge walked in front of the other party. After forcibly taking off the weapon he was still tightly holding, Zhang Ge asked:
"Who are you?"
"Heh, mortal, is that how you treat your savior?"
"What do you mean?"
This Fallen Angel should have wanted to raise his finger to point at the corpse on the console, but unfortunately his physical condition did not support it. He could only signal with his eyes, and then continued: "He, lost his due sanity and all honor, and planned to use the planet under his feet as coordinates to start that instrument... If he succeeds, a small black hole will quickly swallow the entire planet, and hundreds of billions of innocent people will be buried with him. However, that did not happen - I am still slightly better skilled."
Tight, the hand holding the gun handle by Zhang Ge was tight.
"You kid..."
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