Traveling through time, I'm making pancakes in Warhammer

Chapter 188 Tracking

Continuing to advance for dozens of kilometers along the orcs' corpses, Gloria saw the second thing that needed attention.

It was a giant orc catapult that had overturned and collapsed. The catapult was dyed green by the blood of the orcs, and many fragments of orc corpses remained in the cracks.

The iron sheet on one side of the catapult showed signs of having been impacted. Judging from the dents, the object that hit it should have been between three and a half and four meters high, and the object was very hard. All these signs supported Gloria's previous analysis.

It seems that the mysterious Astartes once boarded this orc catapult, but what was his purpose in doing so?

With such doubts in mind, Gloria controlled the anti-gravity motorcycle to rise to the top of the orc catapult.

The top of the orc catapult was also stained green by the orcs' blood, but there was an area in the center of the catapult that was not stained with blood. It should be that the Astartes stayed here to fight against the orcs.

After circling the catapult, which was still ten meters high even after collapsing, two or three times, Gloria still couldn't find any more clues, so she shifted her attention away from the scrapped orc machine and continued to track the Astartes.

Soon Gloria discovered a new trace, which was the impact dent caused by Drago jumping off the catapult. Following this impact dent, Gloria continued to keep up with Drago's pace.

Gloria soon understood the mysterious Astartes' purpose in getting on the orcish catapult, because she noticed that after jumping off, the Astartes' attitude towards the orcs who tried to stop him changed. It seemed that the Astartes was advancing with the goal of killing as many orcs as possible, so most of the orc corpses left along the way bore the scars of being killed by sharp weapons.

After the Astartes jumped down, the number of cut wounds on the orc's body decreased significantly, while the number of marks left by blunt impacts suddenly increased.

This Astartes changed his attitude towards the Orcs, why?

After much thought, Gloria could only come up with one explanation: that is, with a wider field of vision on the catapult, the Astartes had discovered a new target that was more valuable than the orcs.

After thinking this through, Gloria quickened her pace.

Through one unexpected clue after another, she now has a vague guess in her mind.

Gloria vaguely felt that perhaps the orc green tide that made the entire planet and the surrounding star fields feel like they were facing a great threat might not be the most important thing in this area. What was really important and crucial was what happened between this mysterious Astartes and other non-orc groups that appeared in this area.

At present, Gloria herself could not confirm this guess, but she was sure of one thing: something extraordinary had happened here.

In order to prove his own guess and further convince the high-ranking defenders of the planet after the proof, "analysis" alone is not enough, "evidence" is also needed.

After driving forward for dozens of kilometers along the corpses of orcs who died abnormally, Gloria stopped.

Her combat system detected that there had been an explosion.

Although the combat system detected countless explosion reactions along the way, this explosion reaction was the most special.

After analysis, it was concluded that the explosion reactions detected previously were all from orc weapons. These green-skinned monsters would stuff all kinds of strange things, such as nails, poison, feces, and even live toads and insects, into guns and cannons and fire them. Although these shells could still cause incredible damage, the traces left by the explosion were still fundamentally different from those left by conventional explosives.

This time, the combat system detected nitrate residues left by the explosion of normally mixed explosives.

At this moment, a light blue line three fingers wide appeared in the air on the display screen of Gloria's combat helmet. This was the ballistic trajectory given by the system after analysis. The two ends of the ballistic trajectory were connected to the launch point and the final explosion point of the artillery shell respectively.

This trajectory was constantly flickering and becoming more and more transparent. The combat sister's combat system had a time limit for tracing the trajectory of the bullet. If she had arrived half an hour later, the nitrate remaining in the air and sand would have completely dissipated or decomposed, and she would not have been able to discover this trajectory.

Gloria first went to the launch point of the shell to check, and soon she found the target: a shell casing buried under layers of orc bodies.

Gloria stopped her motorcycle, pulled out her power weapon, cut open the orc corpse that was pressing on the bullet casing, and then reached her hand directly into the cut hole. After groping for a while, she finally found what she wanted at the bottom of the pile of sticky and smelly corpses.

A fist-sized white bullet shell.

After spectral analysis, it was found that the main component of this bullet shell was silver.

The first piece of evidence was found, and Gloria put away the silver bullet casing still stained with orc blood.

Then Gloria came to the end of the shell's trajectory, where the shell finally exploded, and immediately Gloria found fragments scattered on the ground.

Although Gloria saw countless scattered fragments of orc equipment along the way, the fragments she found now were obviously not from the orcs.

Because these fragments were polished to a smooth and shiny finish, even if their broken edges were blackened by flames and explosions, they were still smooth enough to be used as mirrors.

If the shell casing had come from the mysterious Astartes she had been tracking, then these fragments must have come from the target the Astartes had found on the catapult.

Gloria put away the largest fragment and reconstructed the situation in her mind: this mysterious Astartes appeared on the orcs' marching path for some unknown reason, and then she began to slaughter the orcs. In the process, she found a target more valuable than the orcs, so she tracked and caught up with the enemy and fired artillery shells at them.

Then, this Astartes should come into conflict with this new non-orc goal.

Gloria continued to track, and what she saw next quickly confirmed her thoughts. The dismembered orc corpses appeared again, and they were even more disorganized. It was not difficult to see that the Astartes was fighting multiple enemies at the same time, but it was obvious that the Astartes was at a disadvantage, because apart from the orc corpses, Gloria did not find any corpses or tissue fragments from other creatures.

Because although Drago killed some elves, when the elves exiled Drago and retreated, they took away the bodies of each of their companions, so Gloria couldn't find the elves' bodies.

Howard lay on the rear wheel cover and watched the nun busying around here, feeling it was a little funny. In fact, the nun could have asked him directly, he knew everything.

Of course he wouldn't tell the nun the truth.

Just as Howard was thinking this, the motorcycle suddenly swung violently, then began to stall and roll, and Howard and the nun in the seat were thrown out together.