Traveling through time, I'm making pancakes in Warhammer

Chapter 235 Sneezing

Howard shrank his head slightly. He didn't want to be seen by these orcs. Although it has been customary for orcs not to look up, if one or two of them suddenly had the urge to look up, wouldn't he be exposed?

Mei did not make any evasive move. Howard knew that the Eldar were masters at hiding their bodies. It was said that they could hide a small team in a palm-sized shadow, and as long as no one directly entered the shadow, no one would notice anything unusual even if they walked within one meter of the hiding place.

This was the situation when Howard first encountered this group of Eldar. The Eldar's four or five-meter-high spaceships could hide in the shadows of the sand dunes and were not discovered by the Orcs marching nearby. If Drago had not been a well-known and powerful figure in this universe, an ordinary Space Marine might have been able to slip away right under his nose.

The same was true of Mei at this moment. She stood still and became extremely inconspicuous, as if she had become part of the background. Howard was able to cut out her outline from the background because he was staring at this guy from beginning to end.

Being able to deceive Howard's eyes shows that the technology used by this bean sprout to hide itself is not from psychic power.

Then, Howard tried to look away, let his pupils zoom, and then looked at Mei's position. If he hadn't known in advance that there was a bean sprout here, Howard asked himself if he would never be able to recognize Mei. Now Mei was like a colorful viper hidden in the dead leaves.

The visual confusion caused Howard to misjudge the distance. Because Mei was now on the same layer as the background, Howard mistakenly thought that the bean sprout was very far away from him. He stretched out his hand, and as a result, it seemed that his fingers were reaching for the dark clouds at the end of the sky, but in fact, they poked Mei's cheek.

Howard immediately withdrew his finger and looked away, pretending nothing had happened.

Mei turned her eyes and looked at Howard. Once she moved, her disguise became ineffective. Her outline gradually became clear in Howard's eyes, and her figure emerged from the background layer. Soon she completely removed her disguise, then took a few steps back and hid in the usual way.

"Are these orcs suddenly so active because there's another fight somewhere?" Howard was the first to ask the question.

"It has nothing to do with you." Mei answered simply and straightforwardly.

It was a really unpleasant answer, but it also indirectly proved that what Mei did before was indeed to coax Gloria to rest, otherwise she would not have said that they wanted to find out the reason for the orcs' unusual movements, and now she would say that it had nothing to do with her.

"Will it harm your interests if you tell me?" Howard asked.

Mei was slightly taken aback, then said, "No."

"Why don't you tell me about it? I have nothing to do right now anyway."

Mei hesitated. This kind of persistent way of chatting was the first time she had seen it. In fact, she didn't have much experience chatting with humans. Her age was unimaginable for humans, but it was still very young for the elves. During these years, she had been learning and honing her skills. During this period, she hardly spoke. Even if she communicated, she only used the shortest sentences. She didn't know how to chat, let alone talk nonsense.

As for why May was able to cooperate with Howard's performance to appease the Battle Sister... at that time, even the Battle Sister could see that Howard was acting. If she still couldn't see it, then wouldn't her emotional intelligence be inferior to that of the Battle Sister?

"They are not designed to fight."

Just as Mei hesitated, the Battle Sister, who had just finished tending to her wounds, came over. She observed the group of orcs through the telescope on her helmet and said in a low voice, "The weapons they carry are far less than what they would normally carry in combat. If they were truly prepared to fight, they wouldn't have brought so little."

Then Gloria looked at the Eldar again and asked, "From what you said before, it seems you know more than us?"

"squeak--"

But just as Gloria finished her question, the conversation was interrupted by a sound of metal rubbing that made Howard's teeth ache.

The two people and the elf on the freight elevator froze in an instant, looking for the source of the sound.

"Squeak-"

The unsettling sound rang out again, and at the same time, a corner of the freight elevator sank slightly. Howard could clearly feel the strange vibration coming from the soles of his feet.

The situation was now very clear. This freight elevator had been in disrepair for a long time and was now bearing the weight of the three of them. The steel beams, which had long been severely corroded, could no longer maintain their stability.

"Not good." Gloria whispered, then drew her gun. She raised the gun because she judged that the freight elevator was about to fall. She was not too worried about whether they could survive this incident, but she knew that after the elevator fell, the orcs on the ground would definitely discover them, and a battle would be inevitable, so it was a good idea to draw the gun in advance.

"Bang!"

The elevator suddenly sank down again, and the supporting steel beams broke completely. Seeing this, Gloria grabbed the steel cable still fixed outside the crane with the hand that was not holding the gun, and grabbed Howard with the hand holding the gun to prevent this mortal from falling.

But at this time, Mei frowned. She had carefully considered choosing this place as a resting point. She was not one of those novice Eldar with no practical experience. She had analyzed the carrying capacity and aging of this elevator. Even if ten more armored Glorias were placed on it, the elevator should be able to remain stable. However, the current development exceeded her expectations.

However, Mei quickly woke up from her thoughts and began to consider more urgent issues. Ethereal psychic light lit up at her fingertips, and subtle arcs of electricity surrounded her. The iron sheets, steel beams, and even the edges of Gloria's armor of the elevator were covered with a layer of white frost.

Mei then pointed a finger, radiating psychic energy, at the freight elevator. Instantly, the temperature, already sub-zero due to the psychic energy, plummeted even further. Frost flowers clinging to the elevator's metal sheets grew rapidly, quickly transforming into a solid layer of ice. Simultaneously, out of Howard's sight, the cracks in the broken steel beam were filled and reinforced with new ice, halting further damage. Furthermore, the ridges formed by the extreme cold continued to spread downward, freezing the broken parts.

The entire process, from the moment the steel beam broke to when Mei used her psychic power to reinforce it, took only three seconds. In order to freeze the falling parts, several twenty-meter-long ice cones had grown upside down at the bottom of the elevator. Fortunately, at least for now, the crisis had been temporarily resolved.

Howard first breathed a sigh of relief, then shuddered violently. In order to freeze the falling elevator, the surrounding temperature was actually reduced to minus fifty degrees Celsius. In such a low temperature, the water evaporating from Howard's body surface was frozen before it could escape. At this time, his hair and eyebrows were all covered with ice crystals. Not only that, because he was embraced by Gloria, his skin was now stuck to Gloria's armor.

Although he couldn't die because of Isa's power, it was still really uncomfortable.

"We can't stay here any longer, we have to leave," said Mei.

"Oh...oh..." Howard agreed intermittently. The reason for his intermittent agreement was that the sudden low temperature made his nose itchy.

No! God! Please! No!!!

Howard screamed in his heart, but it was no use.

"Ah!"

Finally, he sneezed. Although the sound of the sneeze was very small due to his restraint, his body still trembled.

And it was because of this small tremor that an ice spike hanging upside down at the bottom of the elevator broke and fell straight to the ground.