Travel to Warhammer 40K with Gray Wind

Actually...

The information Gray Wind sent back surprised Russell.

Because according to the information he has, if you think about it according to conventional thinking, there is no need to think too much. Most likely, the investigation team of the Tribunal has really found some clues in the Flare Galaxy. The Unforgiven who want to cover up the truth about the existence of the Fallen Angels will He had no choice but to silence him.

But Russell knew that there were only 39 Space Marines, including himself, who followed Milak to capture the Fallen Angels. However, the investigation team sent by the Inquisition included a highly respected and veteran Inquisitor: the Blood Lion. .

The Inquisitor is a high-risk profession. Basically, the longer he is in office, the stronger the Inquisitor is.

This power comes from many aspects, such as strong personal combat effectiveness, profound knowledge, lofty prestige, intricate and deep connections...

The Blood Lion is a powerful inquisitor who has served for more than five hundred years and has the ability to bypass the Ministry of Military Affairs and directly mobilize a large number of naval fleets equipped with Extermination Order weapons. In terms of connections and prestige, Bernadita couldn't even match his fingers. The only thing she was stronger than the Blood Lion was her personal force.

Putting aside the question of whether the less than 40 Space Marines led by Milak were capable of annihilating the investigation team led by the Blood Lion, even if it was true as Gray Wind said, the entire investigation team, including the Blood Lion, were really killed in the flare. Among...

Killing such a respected judge, did Milak never think about the crazy revenge he would suffer in the future once the matter was exposed?

Although the Inquisition is in disarray internally, externally, this organization's desire for revenge and ability are hopelessly powerful. No Inquisitor will allow the authority of the Inquisition to be compromised.

However, judging from the fact that the destroyer that Miraak drove away was intercepted, it may not be the Unforgiven of the Fire of Repentance who destroyed the Inquisitor, but maybe some other force, such as the Fallen Angels.

After thinking about it, Russell couldn't figure out the reason, so he chose to give up.

"The Inquisition is very vindictive and should be preparing to mobilize more forces to find out the truth... But this is none of my business."

Russell shook his head, left the awakened counter-entropy and time weapon ring theory in the outpost, and turned around to leave. The power development of the Order of Truth has just gotten on the right track, so how could he be interested in intervening in the internal affairs of the Human Empire?

"Grey Wind, we are going to the Lost Dreams Star Cluster later. In addition, you no longer need to separate sub-processes and spend energy on daily maintenance of the quantum slingshot and other equipment in the critical base."

"Huh?" Gray Feng was confused: "What's wrong?"

"I will hand over the control of these devices to Anti-Entropy. This means that you can relax and take a rest, Gray Wind."

Because there was no one he could fully trust, Russell gave Gray Wind too many tasks. Although as a powerful Gestalt will, it was fully capable of handling these tasks with ease, Russell himself was always thinking about what It's time to give Gray Wind a break.

But when it comes to leisure, it's far from that. Russell actually still has a lot of things to do, including integrating the technology tree, advancing scientific research projects, designing new battleships and weapons, collecting resources to build more giant structures... These tasks all require people to do them.

Even in another universe, the fourth natural disaster still lacks people. Although there are many people in the hive, they cannot be used directly.

Because chaos is everywhere, he cannot imprison himself in this corner forever just to help a planet isolate the pollution of chaos.

What's the difference between that and squatting on the toilet?

Under Gray Feng's suspicious questioning, Russell told it the information about reverse entropy in detail, without hiding anything. And after learning that the marshal had written the order to be loyal to him into the source code of the ancient AI, even as sophisticated and severe as Gray Wind could no longer find any fault with Russell's decision-making.

Gray Wind, who is the matrix consciousness himself, understands better than any organic life how loyal the loyalty written into the source code will be.

The current anti-entropy is even more loyal than that.

Thinking of this, Gray Wind felt a little irritable, but it still immediately handed over control of all the equipment in the critical base without any delay. Russell also granted control of the celestial-level nanorobot cluster on the nanoplanet. Inverse entropy.

The computing power of counter-entropy is very powerful, and it can also absorb new knowledge and continuously iterate itself to become more powerful. It only takes a short period of adaptation to be able to do it all.

Back on the gray goo mothership, Russell felt some disappointment revealed by Gray Wind, so he smiled and said: "Don't be downcast, didn't you tell me before? Compared with staying at home and working as a logistics manager, 豼I prefer to travel among the stars, explore the unknown, and see all kinds of new things.”

After handing over all logistical matters to Counter-Entropy, the blazing endless sea of ​​stars was already a vast ocean for the freed Gray Wind.

"That's true..." Gray Wind whispered: "But I hope even more that you can stay in my body while roaming in the galaxy."

As long as Russell is still within its range of perception, it will feel at ease, which has become a habit.

"I will always be with you, as long as you keep wishing it so."

Russell gently and deftly uncovered the topic, and then gave instructions to Anti-Entropy, who had just taken over all the equipment at the critical base: "Prepare to activate the quantum slingshot, I need to go to the Lost Dreams Star Group."

The Gray Goo mothership turned and headed towards the quantum slingshot, which was preparing to charge and launch, and asked: "Marshal, what are we doing there?"

"Go and take a look at the work progress of Koroniai." Russell said: "The importance of the work it is doing is still very high, and it should be able to slightly alleviate the problem of insufficient manpower... Also, Koroniai not long ago Just told me that its swarm found several interesting things in the depths of the craftworld."

As he spoke, the electromagnetic pulses scattered around him through the quantum slingshot became thinner, and the huge energy accumulated in the cage lit up the dark night sky. The blazing white light flooded the Gray Gu mothership's body like a tide, transforming it into a quantum state.

Then, the light was annihilated, and the thin electromagnetic pulse spread again in the galaxy. Everything before was fleeting, as if nothing had happened.

After ejecting the gray goo mothership towards the induction beacon in the Lost Dream Nebula, reverse entropy reset the quantum slingshot to standby mode.

Its consciousness spreads in the galaxy, and every optical, electromagnetic, or thermal sensor becomes an extension of its senses. Counter-entropy opens countless pairs of eyes and looks at this strange galaxy.

"...Humanity..." Anti-Entropy muttered to himself.

In the critical base, Planet 2, which was completely transformed into an incubation planet, was covered with a scarlet carpet of fungi. It was just as usual, except that it had lost the control of the life-shaping insect queen. The Zerg life forms in the planetary shield were all in a semi-dormant state.

The current Koroniai body is still wrapped in the star core of the incubation planet, and its main consciousness has been transferred to the nerve center of the insect hive biological mothership.

The dead craft world of Fodlan no longer has power, and the insect swarm surrounds its body with floating tentacles, drifting aimlessly in the void.

However, when the gray goo mothership searched for the psychic beacon sent by Koroniai and was ejected near the craft world, Gray Wind's sensors were surprised to find that Koroniai had been eating Fodola's body for so long. However, the swarm of insects did not increase in size due to the massive amount of biomass replenishment. Instead, the size of the fleet became increasingly scarce. Transport worms with bulging bellies were constantly coming from the surrounding galaxies full of biomass solution, flying to Craftworld.

It's as if the ark world is not supporting the swarm, but the swarm is supporting the ark world in turn.

"What's going on?" Gray Feng was a little confused.

When you get closer, you can see more things clearly - a considerable part of the spiritual bone structures that have long since disintegrated in the Arkworld have been repaired completely at some point, and the main keels are still intact, supporting the entire world ship. No further collapse.

"After devouring enough Eldar Bonesingers, Koroniai initially mastered the technique of using his own spiritual energy to shape spiritual bones."

Russell explained: “It is trying to repair and assimilate the spiritual bone structure of this craft world ship, transform it into a new hive world mothership, and let its own consciousness take over it to become the new world soul. "

Wraithbone is not a conventional material, but a subspace crystal that relies on psychic manipulation. It is light, tough, and versatile. It can be shaped into any shape according to the wishes of the bone singer, as small as the personal body of the Howling Banshee. The corset, as large as the thick keel that supports the entire craftworld, is made of wraith bone.

In addition, this metaphysical material can also be used to communicate in subspace, store spiritual energy... and even shield against subspace invasion.

For Koroniai, it was a great deal to be able to create building materials with such excellent performance using only psychic shaping without consuming biomass, and she liked it very much. The Great Devourer happens to be able to devour and seize the genes of other races by eating them alive, absorb the advantages, and use them to optimize its own genetic sequence.

This kind of evolutionary ability has the feeling of a web game that "starts with a Kun, and evolution depends entirely on swallowing".

After approaching, the insect swarm warships floating around the Arkworld consciously made room for the gray goo mothership so that it could dock on top of this huge warship. Gray Wind separated a sub-process to control the humanoid structure, followed Russell to leave the mothership and came to the ark world of Fordola.

The originally elegant and beautiful Arkworld changed its previous style after being infected and assimilated by the insect swarm, and became dark and ferocious. The engineered protozoa all over the world are carrying out their own projects in an orderly manner, and scarlet mycelium is rooted in the neat and tidy environment. On top of the spiritual bone structure, the main body of the world is gradually covered by the chitin structure.

The brainworms and psychic node creatures controlled by Koroniai wander around the craft world like ghosts, using psychic energy to repair and shape the broken spiritual bone structure, and chant Koroniai with the faint voice of the soul. The songs Ai learned from the Eldar were melodious and sad. Even though he couldn't understand the language, Russell could still feel the full emotions contained in the songs.

"It's like the set of a doomsday movie." Russell looked around briefly, then activated the teleportation spell, shook off the mess at his feet, and teleported himself and Gray Wind to the location of the beacon sent by Coroniai, the Ark World. Core.

"I am overjoyed at your arrival, my lord..."

As soon as the teleportation spell ended, a refreshing and sweet fragrance that made people restless came to his face together with Koroniai's soft and delicate voice.

Russell raised his eyes, and there was a vast blue-purple sky above his head. The ground beneath his feet was endless. The ground was covered with a soft carpet, as if he would sink if he took one wrong step.

This is the core world of Fodlan's Ark.

A towering tree shaped from spiritual bones and flesh grows in the center of this world. It is literally towering. Its crown is connected to the sky, and its roots run through the earth. Koroniai is waiting for its owner under the tree.

Russell narrowed his eyes slightly, and his spiritual energy could sense that this tree had souls and lives, and... many souls, and many lives.

Countless umbilical cord-like filamentous organic structures hang down from the tree crown, like a jungle of flesh and blood, with pink, "bud"-like things connected underneath. In the boundless silence, you can even hear the sounds of countless buds. The weak heartbeat bred in the chamber, and the numerous "umbilical cords" filled with viscous liquid of questionable composition, continuously injected into the bract, nourishing the new life being bred inside.

That is the origin of the countless life activities that Russell sensed.

It is worth mentioning that although the number of buds is large, they are still too few compared to the size of this towering tree. Approaching one of them, Russell quickly understood the reason: on each flesh and blood bud, there are Connected with two familiar symmetrical glands, he had seen such glands before - in the secret room where the Blood Lion tortured the Eldar captives.

The number does not match, and the connection between the bracts and the umbilical cord also has traces of acquired growth. It can be seen that these bracts and glands do not grow from the tree of flesh and blood itself, but are picked from other places and then connected. Got here.

Taking a deep breath of the intoxicating sweet-scented air, Russell could roughly understand what Koroniai was up to here.

Gray Wind followed Russell and calmly passed through the dense umbilical cord hanging down like a woman's long hair. There was no reaction. It was not an organic life and had no concepts of family affection and ethics. Even such a bizarre scene was ordinary to it. Nothing surprising.

One person and one machine passed through the jungle of flesh and blood, came to the tree, and saw Koroniai waiting here.

The carrier of Koroniai's consciousness here is not the image of a female insect like its own body, but a female humanoid creature about 2.1 meters tall. The body is plump, the curves are smooth and graceful, and the face is as beautiful as a flower without any flaws. Look, It looks like a statue of a goddess carefully carved by the most talented artist with the greatest efforts.

"Can you wear some clothes?" Russell asked. "Although it may not make sense, I still hope you can wear some fabric."