Stars for the good Warhammer

Chapter 38 Sand City

"I don't know what the hell you're talking about."

Taking advantage of Mina's daze, Otto instinctively took a step back and took the initiative to widen the distance between the two.

"I also do not understand"

"Because theoretically this is simply impossible."

But the girl just stood there with her arms folded in confusion, as if talking to herself.

"The almost flawless human bloodline, only the Emperor himself can"

Realizing that she had said the wrong thing, Mina couldn't help but bite her lower lip and thought for a moment. When she raised her eyelashes again and stared at Otto, her clear eyes were already flashing with hostility.

"You must be playing some trick!"

It was almost pure human genes. Because everything happened so suddenly, it was only then that Otto, who had just woken up from a dream, realized what the other party was talking about.

As a political system with serious racial hysteria, the Human Empire attaches great importance to blood. In the eyes of most Imperial people, especially the followers of the state religion, those demi-humans with certain physical mutations are undoubtedly inferior.

As for those green-skinned people with four arms and purple skin who think about things all day long, or the extra-slender alien bean sprouts, they are existences that should be guarded against or even completely eradicated.

For example, a certain blue-skinned Avatar who often talked about the Greater Good naively tried to make friendly contact with the Empire, and the Empire responded by turning them into handbags and sending an entire fleet. pay a visit to.

However, what is interesting is that although they put blood and self-identification of human identity first, in fact, today’s Imperial people have long lost what they call purity. Over the past tens of thousands of years, due to technological advancement, The misused genetic modification technology, coupled with the corrosive impact of subspace.

Although there have been no obvious changes in appearance, their biological genes have long been very different from those of their ancestors who were born on the earth. Therefore, from a genetic perspective alone, today's Imperial people have actually evolved into a new generation. of human subspecies.

If a true pure-blood person appeared now, to be honest, no one knows what impact this would have.

As for Mina's words, Otto naturally didn't believe it. After all, this body was just inherited from the original owner, and the Otto in front was a native of the Empire who lived in the contemporary era. .

You can't lose your soul, and you also need to replace the blood in your body.

"The subspace will corrupt genes, but have you ever heard that the subspace can make people purer?"

If this is the case, then the Eye of Terror is probably not going to become a holy place of the state religion.

But Otto couldn't say these words. He was afraid that the moment he spoke, his throat would be bitten by the agents of the Inquisition who burst out in front of him.

"What's more, don't forget, if the genetic identification cannot match, then how can the defense system in this palace and the machine soul of the Gale Sword obey my orders."

After hearing this, Otto noticed that the hostility in Mina's eyes had obviously faded a lot, and was replaced by a wavering emotion. Obviously, this explanation was not unreasonable.

"Detectable results"

Seeing that the other party was getting entangled, Otto also lost interest in continuing to communicate.

"What else can you do? There's something wrong with your testing equipment. It's that simple."

At this moment, the hurried footsteps and shouts of the guards came from outside the door. It was obvious that the guards were looking for him.

Taking advantage of Mina's self-doubt, Otto immediately opened the door of the storage room and quickly left this dangerous woman.

However, although he appeared to be indifferent, Mina's words had actually been deeply imprinted in Otto's mind.

Standing in the corridor, Otto called out the floating panel again and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

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It was approaching dusk.

Under Otto's order, a newly formed investigation team set off from Fieren in three Valkyrie fighter jets, speeding towards the silver-gray desert.

The light of the setting sun splashes on the silver gravel, and from a distance it looks like a swaying golden wheat wave, making it particularly dazzling.

"We are here, Lord Otto."

As the pilot's voice came from the communicator, the research base belonging to the Gray Sand Family officially appeared in front of everyone.

Gazing at the scenery outside the window, as the commander of this operation, Otto personally joined in this special operation.

Even though it was very dangerous, in order to verify a certain conjecture in his heart and to satisfy his unbearable desire for discovery, he finally made this risky decision.

Soon, when the Valkyrie landed in the open space of the research base, Otto led his bodyguards out of the cabin.

What appeared in front of me was, rather than a research base, it would be more appropriate to call it an open-air excavation site. The site was surrounded by metal walls and contained various construction and engineering machinery with different functions. Everything is available.

In the past hundreds of years, the Gray Sand Family, whose members are mostly scholars, has been cooperating with Ota's Mechanicus to jointly study this gray wasteland composed of nanobugs.

Until the gear boys who had gained nothing had left, those stubborn guys never chose to give up until an accident happened.

And as mentioned in the report, until the team carrying heavy weapons was assembled, not even a single living person appeared on the scene.

Located on the platform near the apron, Otto bent down and picked up a laser rifle that had fallen on the ground. The energy battery in the gun box was half used, and there were several traces of laser burns on the surrounding walls.

Looking at the layer of light gray gravel on the ground, Otto couldn't help but wonder, where did the owner of this gun go?

At this moment, a guard came to make a report and asked if the first batch of teams should be sent to the surrounding buildings to start investigating, but Otto had not yet spoken.

boom

Along with the ground shaking slightly, a strange roar came from the ground. It seemed to be a sign of an earthquake?

But before everyone could react, the giant excavation site supported by a metal platform began to shake more violently in the next second. As the ground shook, Otto was surprised to find that the surrounding buildings , those giant construction machines with gear emblems cast on them, and the steel city walls surrounding the site actually decomposed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Including the laser rifle in Otto's hand, it turned into a pool of gray gravel in the blink of an eye and remained in his hand. Only then did he suddenly realize that everything here, including the entire excavation site, was Each item and every vehicle is actually composed of those nano-bug swarms! And now they are rapidly losing their original shape!

Oops

"Get on the plane and get out of here!"

However, shortly after Otto gave the order, the moment he lifted his feet, he felt that his feet suddenly lost the center of gravity. It was only then that Otto discovered that the metal platform he was standing on had turned into gray at some point. Sea of ​​quicksand.

In the horrified eyes of the soldiers, a large number of tentacles composed of nano-bug swarms quickly wrapped around Otto's body, dragging him into the extremely active gray sand sea in just an instant.

Then, the shaking stopped and the whole city returned to calm again.

It was as if nothing had ever happened.