From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man - Chapter 388

c378 “Divine Comedy”

After nearly a thousand years of corruption and erosion, Jerusalem has completely fallen.

Where is “normal” here?

The ground, buildings, and even the sky.

Everything has turned into a hideous appearance.

Either it is wrapped in living tumors and grows dense tentacles, or it is covered with fangs, bone spurs, and eyes that make people suffer from intensive phobia.

The thick clouds in the sky also have a large number of tentacles, bone spurs, and irregularly shaped, constantly twitching eyes.

If ordinary people witness such a scene, their consciousness and reason will be severely impacted.

As long as ordinary people look at those strange-looking and weird “magic eyes”, they will instantly become servants of hell and fall into the illusion of self-satisfaction and self-indulgence.

It seems that only the dark believers with strong will and who carry out the original intention of “dark pilgrimage” can successfully cross the gate of hell and meet the lords and demons of each layer of hell, and then obtain the “official recognition” of hell, and have qualitative changes and extremely powerful power.

However.

Clang-clang-clang–! ! !

Ri~swoosh-swoosh–!

However, after the two Thunderhawk gunboats landed on the corrupted surface and opened the nose and the hatches on both sides, Captain Galan Clovis, Champion Aldaimo and forty company guards rushed out of the cabin while suppressing the surrounding fallen knights and hell creatures with firepower.

The two Thunderhawk gunboats that completed the transportation and “unloading” tasks also used 2.0cal caliber rotary bolt machine guns, ground-to-ground metal hydrogen missiles and 140mm caliber plasma main guns to provide firepower assistance to Galan and others who were walking fast when the hatches were closed and lifted off again.

The fallen knights and hell creatures living and inhabiting here obviously did not expect that in addition to the paladins, there would actually be “humans” who dared to break in here.

In a short period of time, they were unable to organize an effective counterattack and blockade.

And Galan, Aldemo and the company guards were neither ordinary people nor dark cultists who wanted to make a pilgrimage to hell.

The gene seeds derived from the Emperor and the Primarch made them resistant to the warp to a considerable extent, not to mention the extremely strenuous hell plane that could only wreak havoc on a mere earth.

The extremely chaotic and corrupt scene in front of them was not enough to distort and affect the will of Galan and others.

At most, they would feel that everything here was disgusting and physically uncomfortable.

As for Serin who followed Galan closely?

As an artificial intelligence without a soul, how could she be affected by such a corrupt scene.

Serin held a high-powered plasma pistol, but she did not fire with Galan and others. Instead, she used her electronic eyes to “crazily” scan and photograph everything on the scene.

Maybe there are things worth studying.

However, judging from the scan and preliminary analysis, although the scene outside the gate of hell looks quite horrifying, it is essentially not much different from the surroundings of the bloody wall.

It is only the “miasma” and corrupt power from hell, after a long period of influence and erosion, that have created a “human forbidden area” that is enough to distort the will of ordinary people.

The fallen knights who tried to attack and block their group, as well as the huge hell creatures, living buildings with tentacle spurs, etc., are only much stronger than the guys on the other side of the bloody wall.

This is why only the paladin dares to go deep into this place and go into hell alone.

Not to mention the ordinary elite soldiers, even the knights of the Knights and the nuns of the church who have experienced major battles and are veterans cannot resist the erosion and obstruction of hell.

They can’t get close to the extremely high temperature of the gate of hell.

Galan and the others, under the influence of gene seeds and multiple transformation surgeries, as well as their experience in interstellar-level wars since their youth, were able to easily resist the erosion and corruption of the “Trench Crusade” hell.

Soon.

With the help of their large-caliber weapons and the fire support of two Thunderhawk gunboats, they successfully arrived at the gate of hell, which looked extremely spectacular and gorgeous, but full of filth and evil.

On both sides of the gate were piled up living buildings composed of countless human corpses, and in the center of the gate, there was a raging fire.

And the extremely high temperature air waves, even standing far away, even wearing power armor and combat uniforms, can feel the corruption and death from hell.

“.”

Following Galan, Serin first scanned the gate of hell and the surrounding buildings with her electronic eyes.

Its various reactions and brief data all showed that the gate of hell in front of everyone was a “portal” with self-awareness and thoughts.

And the gate of hell also gave Serin a feeling, that is, that consciousness and thought, similar to her

artificial intelligence?

“Ms. Serin.”

At this time, Galan, who had led the company guards and the company champion to eliminate all threats around, looked at the gate of hell, then turned to look at Serin who had fallen silent, and asked:

“Since you have volunteered to serve as our consultant, then may I ask, if we directly step into the gate of hell burning with blazing fire in front of us, can we directly go to the hell plane?

Or, after we step into that gate of hell, will our entire army be wiped out?”

“That gate of hell has a similar existence to me. It may follow the established procedures to detect whether the people who cross the gate of hell are qualified to go to the hell plane.”

Serlin paused and continued to explain to the dark angels, saying:

“And this gate of hell should be some kind of advanced biotechnology, and it has many similarities with the pure flower cultivated by His Majesty through his pure spiritual energy.

But overall, the power contained in the pure flower is much stronger than the gate of hell in front of us.

If a pure flower is planted here, it will not take long to completely assimilate the so-called gate of hell until it is transformed into an imperial asset.”

Gallan frowned slightly under the “pure flower” helmet.

Although he asked the people who raided the gate of hell to carry sufficient ammunition and equipment so that they could “kill a lot” in the hell plane, he did not consider the pure flower, a “divine artifact” cultivated by the emperor.

? ? ! !

But then, Galan under the helmet showed a surprised look.

Because after Serin explained to them, she also took out a “peony” that looked like crystal and emitted a light golden light from the metal storage box on her side.

Then, Serin half-crouched on the ground and planted the pure flower that looked like a crystal peony on the surface covered with pustules and blood tumors.

And after the pure flower took root on the surface, the pustules, blood tumors and other filthy things covering the surface immediately began to wither and decay.

“Ms. Serin is really prepared for a rainy day and prepared the pure flower in advance.” Galan sighed.

But after seeing that the speed of the pure flower’s purification of the surroundings was really slow, he continued to ask:

“By the time the pure flower assimilated the gate of hell, the main force had already killed through many lines of defense of the hell army, so is there a faster way.”

“The pure flower is just a prop I use to experiment and collect data, not the key to this operation.” Serin stood up and raised her hand to interrupt Galan’s question.

Compared with the surrounding Astartes, this intelligent AI, who looked thin and small, walked towards the Gate of Hell.

At the same time, she also adjusted her special combat suit to a mode that could resist extremely high temperatures, and said:

“The quasi-artificial intelligence thinking of the Gate of Hell can distinguish and detect whether the crosser has the strength and qualifications to go to the Hell plane.

You are not afraid of heaven or earth, and you are the descendants of the Human Emperor and the Primarch. According to my analysis and speculation, theoretically you should be able to complete the crossing without injury.”

Speaking, Serin turned her head to look at Galan, whose height increased to 2.8 meters after wearing the Hades Terminator, and asked back:

“So, what are you waiting for? Aren’t you anxious to get the first credit?”

“Let’s go.”

Faced with Serin’s provocation, Galan did not feel angry at all. He gave a brief order to everyone and walked forward quickly.

And Galan surpassed Serin and became the first dark angel to take the initiative to step into the blazing fire and cross the Gate of Hell.

“Warning. Warning. The wearer is detected in an extreme environment.

Warning”

When Galan’s helmet screen was occupied by the flames, a female warning sound with a metallic texture came to his ears.

The Hades Terminator he wore also began to automatically adjust the energy shield and the nanosuit with a fluid metal layer to resist the erosion of extremely high temperatures.

But the real difficulty is not the high temperature flames, but the “shock” that hits the soul directly.

In addition to the warning sound effects, Galan’s ears were actually mixed with whispers?

For example, “Oh great warrior, surrender to me, you will gain supreme glory”,

“Fight for Asmodeus, you will taste the ultimate “delicious” in the world. Hehe” and so on.

However, these whispers are purely “ineffective corruption” to him.

Galan’s psychic potential is not good, which leads to his low resistance to supernatural attacks.

Commonly known as “low magic resistance”.

But Galan’s will, or the company guards and company champions who came here with him, all have extremely strong wills.

After all, they are all “natives” of the “Doom (movie)” universe.

When they were children, they faced the fallen who magnified their evil side due to the 24th pair of chromosomes, and they were able to maintain their bottom line and original intention.

“Just” the temptation of the hell plane, it’s nothing.

Galan ignored the whispers in his ear and continued to move forward based on his feelings.

The helmet screen showed that it had been 11.1 minutes, or 666 seconds, since he crossed the gate of hell, and his eyes suddenly became “quiet”.

There was no hell flames covering his whole body, but only the dead silence and dim jungle.

Roar.

Ah.

At the same time, he could also vaguely hear some kind of giant beast roaring in the distance through his hearing that was far superior to that of ordinary people and the assistance of the Hades-type Terminator.

Boom, boom!

Soon, Galan heard the sound of magnetic boots stepping on the soil behind him.

The slightly reduced radar on the helmet screen also showed that all the company guards and company champions, as well as Serin, had successfully crossed the gate of hell and arrived in a forest that seemed to be in the hell plane.

He looked around.

After confirming that there was no potential threat, Galan turned his head to Serin again, seeking confirmation:

“Ms. Serin, if I’m not mistaken, this should be the dark forest in the first and third hells, symbolizing sin, right?”

“That’s right.” Serin nodded slightly and gave an affirmative answer, and continued:

“According to the information provided by the Intelligence Department, this is indeed the entrance to the hell plane. If you want to go to the real first level of hell, you need to cross the Agron River, which is called the “River of Sorrow”.”

The core members of the Intelligence Department knew part of the “setting” of “Trench Crusaders” through Sui Yang, so they recommended those in charge of the “One Three” universe to read Dante’s “Divine Comedy: Inferno”.

As the commander of the 1st company, Galan, even if he is not good at calculations, will be familiar with any data and information that is beneficial to the unified war.

So without Serin’s prompting, Garland recognized that this was the entrance to hell——

Dark forest.

Immediately afterwards.

Jialan continued to step forward and ordered: “Everyone, please pay attention. There may be three or more supernatural beasts in the dark forest. Be prepared to respond to the enemy at any time.”

“.”

All the Dark Angels replied silently.

Then, Galan, Serin and other “people” moved forward based on their first impressions.

There is no distinction between east, west, north and south here, and their respective navigation systems are also in a state of confusion. Therefore, Garland has no choice but to rely on years of combat intuition and Selin’s scanning analysis to move forward in a general direction.

I don’t know how much time passed.

Everyone came to the depths of the dense forest where they could barely see their fingers.

Except for the soulless Serin, all the Dark Angels could clearly sense the looming “discomfort” and “exhaustion”.

People who break into the dark forest, after a long journey and are in a state of physical and mental exhaustion, can easily get completely lost here and become “lonely ghosts”.

While moving forward, they saw disembodied souls wandering in the forest.

Among them are knights and nuns who betray God and heaven, and there are also cultists who are ordinary humans.

However, the strangeness of the dark forest had minimal impact on Jialan and the others.

Everyone continued to move forward.

When the helmet screen showed that 11.1 hours had passed since they arrived in the dark forest, that is, 666 minutes later, they finally arrived at the edge of the dark forest.

They didn’t pay attention to the time displayed on the screen. They took it for granted that the flow rate of time here was different from that in the physical universe.

Otherwise, Athena, the Gray Knights and the Greek minor gods would have crossed the gate of hell long ago and also arrived in the dark forest.

Wow. Wow~!

At this time, they also saw a turbid river with no end in sight under the gray “sky”.

According to the “Divine Comedy”, the turbid river in front of them is the “River of Sorrow” in which nothing, not even feathers, can float except for the ferry boat from hell –

Agron River.

Moreover, as soon as they reached the shore, they saw a “boatman” who was at least three meters tall driving a “ferry boat” towards the shore.