From Warhammer to Hyperdimensional Harem

This planet seemed to have completely exhausted its water resources.

Actually, there was still some water remaining on the surface, occupying about seven percent of the entire surface.

Although this seemed like so little, it was still very visible from space as a huge water pit.

This water pit occupying seven percent of the surface was incredibly polluted, as if all the industrial wastewater from the entire planet's factories had converged here.

This wastewater seemed so contaminated that even purification systems couldn't handle it—probably even an Astartes would be unable to withstand falling into it.

Correction—they definitely couldn't withstand it. The question was just how long they could last, how long they could endure in this planet's largest toxic pool.

Rumble rumble rumble...!

Continuous thunderous sounds, and the ground was trembling, as if the entire earth's veins were groaning.

Actually, this was the commotion produced by enormous sewage pipes beyond comprehension that were discharging wastewater.

There wasn't just one such pipe—eight of them extended outward with this huge water pit as the center.

It could be said that from this planet's geosynchronous orbit, one could see with the naked eye these eight sewage pipes that looked like the planet's blood vessels exposed on the surface.

Just like human arterial blood vessels with countless small capillaries connected, these eight sewage pipes extending inland also had countless smaller pipes connecting to them, gathering wastewater into the main pipes and discharging it into that dead sea.

Currently, four of them seemed to have malfunctioned and stopped discharging wastewater.

"Has this one been destroyed too?"

A stationed worker at a pipeline station at the sea entrance frowned as he looked at the red warning on the system before him.

Now, the one he was guarding had also developed problems and stopped discharging.

So right in front of him, the wastewater that had been like a super waterfall had nearly stopped flowing.

The screen also indicated approximately where the problem occurred—the pipe had ruptured there, wastewater was spreading, and would further contaminate the ground.

As the person in charge here, he immediately gathered the personnel from this station, preparing to take repair tools and go fix it.

"Repair?"

"Are you sure it's repair? And not a death mission?"

Some personnel were obviously very resistant to his order.

After all, the cause of the pipeline problems could be destruction by Tyranids, or daemons.

Yes, daemons.

The personnel who had gone to handle other stopped sewage pipes had almost all not returned, with no news.

But this was "almost"—some lucky people had survived, saying they encountered daemons, which some people didn't believe. Because they had never heard that daemons existed in this universe, thinking this person was overly frightened and mistook bugs for daemons.

After all, bugs with their alien forms could be called daemons without problem.

However, as the station chief, he knew daemons really existed. It was just that without reaching a certain level and having broader worldly contact, one wouldn't know.

This was also intelligence the Empire wouldn't fully publicize.

This seemed quite bad, because once encountering daemons, uninformed people wouldn't know how to face and handle them, leading to tragic consequences.

But as station chief, he could understand the Empire's approach.

Because publicizing information about daemons would actually lead to more troublesome situations.

Not believing in daemons' existence made one less likely to attract daemons.

If daemons truly existed, the more humans cared about daemons, the easier it was to attract their arrival.

"Going or not?"

As station chief, he spoke very calmly to the few people who had objections, putting great pressure on them until they could only nod.

The station chief also knew that going this time, there was a high probability of not returning.

After all, they had no weapons, and if Tyranids really existed in the area needing repair, they would certainly die.

Of course, the same was true if daemons were present.

However, if he could only choose between the two, the station chief would rather encounter bugs than daemons.

Even knowing they might die going there, this was the duty the Empire had given him.

Since he hadn't received other orders and his current command was still to monitor the sewage pipeline operation, he had to execute this mission.

As for how intense the current war with the bugs or daemons was, he really wanted to know. But that wasn't his mission—he shouldn't be distracted by such concerns.

After everyone had gathered their tools, they started up the engineering vehicle and began driving out of the work station. When passing over the sewage outlet platform, they could see the shoreline less than ten meters away, with the dead sea five hundred meters below.

Logically, with such large sewage discharge, continuous day and night without stopping, the water level should rise and expand.

But the water level almost never rose, and was gradually declining. The reason was water seeping through the ground.

Then, the planet's factories would extract water that had been filtered through this earth filter for reuse.

The factories themselves hadn't built purification equipment, believing that processing wastewater through this earth filter was more efficient.

Actually, it came down to the fact that establishing purification systems required considerable expense.

It was said that there had once been purification equipment, and the planet hadn't been so terrible then. Unfortunately, at some unknown point it had become like this—developed without regard for consequences into an industrial planet.

Phew—

After exhaling, came another inhalation.

Although wearing gas masks, when inhaling, it still felt like the polluted air from outside was seeping in, and that smell was truly more nauseating than excrement.

Almost no one coming here for the first time could avoid vomiting for a period.

Looking once more at that dead-still sea, the sewage discharge contained many impurities, causing massive amounts of toxic sludge to exist on the seabed—poisonous paste that would corrode a hand stuck into it down to blackened bone within ten seconds.

For humans, the flesh not in contact would also spread the deadly poison throughout the body, quite miserably.

"What's that?"

Someone in the team suddenly pointed at the sky.

The station chief looked up at the gray, hazy sky and saw a point of light approaching.

A meteorite?

No, it should be some wreckage falling.

Wait, that was an attack!

That was a missile!

Within one breath, it plunged straight into the center of the dead sea.

No explosion—like a stone sinking into the sea, very quiet, so quiet that the station chief felt inexplicably panicked.

His pupils dilated as he saw light appearing where it had fallen, light spreading in one breath, but not quite reaching this shore.

Through equipment, he learned this light occupied about half the dead sea.

Hmm?

What was happening? The dead sea was churning, boiling, the water level was dropping rapidly, and large amounts of vapor were appearing.

When the station chief understood what was happening, his vision had nearly gone blind.

The sea was being evaporated, and its high temperature had affected him too—his eyeballs were about to be cooked.

Oh, and his body was about the same.

In the Tom and Jerry cartoon, Tom and Jerry were always fighting and loving each other.

They often sent those spherical bombs, lighting the fuse, almost burning to the black spherical shell surface, emitting stronger light and heat, almost ready to explode, then stuffing it to the other party who couldn't throw it back in time, creating a comical explosion scene.

Currently, the situation before Ejie was similar to this.

The bomb was the planet, and the fuse's endpoint was that dead sea.

But this scene wasn't funny at all!

This world was heading toward its end!

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