Traveling through time, I'm making pancakes in Warhammer

Chapter 439 A Moment of Hesitation

ten minutes later.

"Master, the target team will pass by in two minutes."

Under Howard's instructions, Christina hung upside down on the ceiling, waiting for the target to walk into the ambush circle.

Two minutes later, the target arrived as expected. They didn't notice Christina hanging on the ceiling and walked straight over.

When the last person passed by, Christina jumped down silently, swung her mop power sword in the air, and the enemy was torn into pieces before she could react.

After easily taking care of the target, Howard and Constance came out of their hiding place. Howard stepped on a head that rolled in front of him, then bent down and took off a night vision goggles from the face of the head.

This was exactly what he wanted. The enemies that Christina had eliminated earlier were not equipped with this thing.

Logically speaking, this kind of thing that uses thermal radiation to form images should have discovered the ambushing Howard and the other two, but Om Messiah had already erased the images of the three people from the lens.

Howard gave the night vision goggles to Christina. The little maid looked at it over and over for a long time and finally found a logo on it.

"This is the mark of the Helvetic family," Christina said. "It's the thief!"

Howard couldn't make a conclusion about this, because if he were in the position of the thief, he would not be stupid enough to use his own equipment to attack his own merchant ships and leave others with an handle... In fact, it might not be the case, because if someone came to investigate this matter in the future and saw these things, they would think the same way, so it might not be a bad idea to do the opposite.

But Christina had obviously already determined that there was a thief in the house, so she said to Howard:

"Sir, I beg you to spare the enemy leader's life for the last time. I want to personally interrogate the names of those termites from him."

Howard: "As best as I can."

Later, with the assistance of Om Messiah, Howard and his two companions avoided the large patrol and search forces, eliminated the scattered enemies they encountered on the road, and headed towards the overall control.

During this period, they also met some survivors on the merchant ship. When these survivors learned that Howard was planning to defeat the invaders, they all chose to join Howard's team.

Therefore, before Howard approached the control room, the number of his team had expanded to more than 20 people, and these people were armed by collecting enemy equipment on the road.

But night vision isn't enough.

Before entering the control room, Howard assigned tasks to these survivors. He asked them to form teams of three, with two teams hiding behind bunkers on the left and right, guarding the road leading to the control room to prevent anyone from escaping from the control room or blocking outside reinforcements to the control room.

Finally, Howard gave Constance a laser gun he had picked up:

"You, protect everyone."

"Finally, someone said something sensible." Constance muttered softly.

Howard heard it, and Constance knew that Howard heard it. Howard also knew that Constance knew that he heard it, but he still pretended not to hear it. After deploying the rest of the personnel, he and Christina got into the ventilation duct marked by Om Messiah.

After some effort, Howard and Christina climbed to the top of the control room. Through the mesh fence, Howard observed the environment below.

The layout of the control room is similar to that of the Crimson Sword. It has been occupied by the enemy at this time. According to the traces around it, there was an exchange of fire and resistance here when the enemy invaded, but the resistance of the original crew of the merchant ship failed.

Howard's eyes were focused on the two corpses under the main control platform... Their clothes were more gorgeous than those of other corpses and captives. Even though they were dead, they still wore white berets on their heads. One of the corpses even had a compass logo on his beret.

If nothing unexpected happens, these two people will be the captain and first mate of this merchant ship.

This further proves that these people are not ordinary pirates seeking wealth or insiders, because in general robberies, the captain is usually killed last, but this group of invaders killed the captain and the first mate first.

So what are the remaining captives?

Howard looked back at the men being held at gunpoint.

Most of those people were civil servants such as clerks and recorders. Under the threat of the invaders' guns, they were still working. They retrieved files and documents from the system, as if they were looking for something.

After confirming the situation of the prisoners, Howard began to observe the distribution of the enemy. The guy on the command platform who was wearing power armor and did not participate in the work and did not point a gun at others should be the leader of this group of invaders. He was also the one Christina said to keep alive for interrogation. Most of the other invaders were working to monitor the prisoners, and a small number were standing guard around. The choice of their sentry points was very particular, and their firepower could just cover all areas of the control room.

At this time, the leader below had an argument with the people around him. The leader pushed the subordinate who was reporting to him to the ground, and then fired another shot. However, this shot only hit the floor next to the subordinate, and the subordinate was so scared that he got up and quickly ran away.

If nothing unexpected happens, this subordinate will run into the pirates' ambush after running away, and the only outcome will be death.

But judging from their performance, no matter what their purpose was in launching this attack, the current result would not be too good for them.

"Sir..." After looking at it for a long time, Christina lowered her voice and asked, "What should we do?"

Howard put on night vision goggles, and Christina also put on night vision goggles when she saw him.

Howard whispered, "Om Messiah."

"Bang!"

The exit of the control room was suddenly blocked, and the sunshades of the portholes on both sides and in front fell down at the same time, and the control room was completely closed.

Just when the enemy was still confused about the situation, the lights in the control room were turned off. Not only the normal lighting, but even the emergency lights and electronic screens were extinguished at the same time. In an instant, it was pitch dark in the control room.

Howard, wearing night vision goggles, could still see clearly in the dark. Because the distance was very close, he could even clearly see Christina's expression.

Howard made a gesture to Christina, and Christina immediately understood. She used the mop power sword to cut open the pipe and chopped off the head of a sentry with a knife from the sky.

Suddenly, gunshots rang out in the control room, but Howard began to crawl backwards, then climbed down the ladder, and finally kicked open the ventilation duct on the wall of the control room and entered the battlefield.

After all, the place where he climbed just now was more than ten meters above the ground. Christina was a super maid and she could jump down directly, but Howard didn't want to take the risk, even with the protection of Isa's power.

After kicking open the ventilation duct, a sentry stood in front of him. This sentry was also wearing night vision goggles, but under the influence of Om Messiah, he could not see the images of Howard and Christina, but Howard could see his.

However, the sound of Howard kicking open the ventilation duct still startled the sentry's already tense nerves. He immediately turned towards the source of the sound and pulled the trigger.

The bullet was not fired, as it should be.

While the other party was confused, Howard walked up to him, knocked him to the ground, and took away his gun.

After getting the sentry's rifle, Howard was about to pull the trigger, but he was also stunned.

Because he could see very clearly through the night vision goggles, when his gun was taken away, the sentry did not continue to resist or run away, but squatted down with his head in his hands, trembling.

Howard hesitated for a very brief moment, then turned the gun and shot him in the foot, taking away his ability to move, and then followed up with the butt of the gun hitting him in the chin, knocking him unconscious.