Travel to Warhammer 40K with Gray Wind

"Is it an insect?"

Gray Wind couldn't understand Russell's vague answer at all. This was not his fault, because the human federation that Gray Wind served had a darker face and did not start the Obsolete Insect event chain.

Normally, Gray Feng would have to pester the marshal to explain the matter clearly, but now there is a more urgent matter to decide: the Gray Goo mothership is falling towards a new gravitational singularity. If the jump engine is not activated in time to escape from here, according to the current situation If the trend continues, they will be swallowed up together with the miniature Milky Way.

The starlight in the Lost Dream Nebula has completely disappeared, and what you can see is a vast and endless dark sky.

The cosmic dust that has been pulled into a fiber network by gravity is gathering here. The dust threads surrounding it from all directions are like a tightening web, trying to completely wrap the Gray Gu Mothership in it, and the entire Lost Dream. The nebula is bundled into a dense cocoon.

In the center of this cocoon that is about to be woven, there floats quietly a cylindrical sealed box that is only half the height of Russell even if it is erected. Countless dense starlights are quietly circulating inside the box. In this small The boxes form a miniature version of the Milky Way.

Scientists from the warring party C once used an untouchable and uninterferable subspace field to completely block the miniature galaxy. However, for unknown reasons, this "field" was damaged. The galaxies sucked out from the gap spread out in this universe, forming a Lost Dreams Constellation.

Now, the miniature galaxy has been returned to a complete, unbroken state by time.

"The whole process takes about 3 minutes and 44 seconds to move from here to the coordinates of the miniature galaxy and complete the recovery."

In order to save communication time as much as possible, Gray Wind directly sent information to Russell's brain in the form of brain waves: "But all the interstellar dust in the entire Lost Dream Nebula is gathering towards us, and the speed is incredibly fast. If we want to complete the recovery of the miniature, If we start the jump engine again after reaching the Milky Way, we may not be able to complete the jump before being completely enveloped in dust!"

While seeking Russell's opinion, Gray Wind had already maximized the thruster power and rushed towards the miniature galaxy at extreme speed. The jump engine located in the core of the hull had also been warmed up.

Whatever Russell's orders were, they were carried out immediately.

Russell's answer was: "Recover the miniature galaxy and stay there."

"What? You, Marshal, I don't understand, what does this mean?" Gray Wind couldn't understand Russell's order at all:

"Do you think that interstellar dust is something insignificant? Marshal! The mass of the entire Lost Dream Nebula is converging towards one point! This stellar hatchery was originally expected to hatch at least thousands of stars. Now there are thousands The mass of stars is rushing towards us together!"

"With such a huge mass gathered in one place, the huge gravitational force that far exceeds the critical point cannot be balanced and offset by the explosion caused by the nuclear fusion reaction. The Lost Dream Nebula will skip the star stage and directly collapse into a black hole!"

Gray Wind anxiously explained to Russell how critical the current situation was. It was even ready to give up on recovering the miniature galaxy and directly knock out the marshal and take him away by force.

Even the entire galaxy is far less important in Gray Wind's heart than one ten thousandth of Russell's life safety.

However, even though Gray Feng was so anxious that he almost cried, Russell could not see the slightest seriousness on his body. With a life-or-death attitude, he hugged Gray Feng's shoulder with one hand. He bent over and patted its head with a smile.

"Little Hui, don't be angry." Russell sighed and said, "I know you are anxious now, but it is useless to be anxious - being favored by 'him' does not mean that you can really leave if you want to. "

It was just that Gray Feng, who was so angry that Russell couldn't laugh or cry, couldn't listen to what he said at this time. While the humanoid structure sat on Russell's lap and let him knead his face, the body of the gray goo mothership directly started the jump that had already been warmed up. engine.

When the buzzing engine tears apart the real dimension of the universe, physical distance is no longer a constraint.

Russell noticed that the engine was starting, but he did not express an opinion. He just gently hugged Hui Feng, who was sulking and ignoring him, thinking about how to coax him from now on... Could it be that he should ask for help when he was right? Did it admit it was a mistake?

If you only talk about feelings and not reason, what is the difference between this and coaxing your girlfriend?

Russell felt that Gray Wind should not be an unreasonable person, even though it was not a human being.

Along with the continuous hum of the engine, the angry expression on Gray Feng's face was soon replaced by a look of astonishment.

"How come... the dimension cannot be torn apart..." Gray Feng turned his head at a loss and looked at Russell with two tearful eyes: "The engine is obviously running normally, but why, why does every time there is a little sign of tearing in the dimension? Recover immediately, Marshal, I, we..."

We can't leave...

Russell patted Gray Feng on the shoulder happily: "As I said before, recycle the miniature galaxy."

"Okay..." Gray Feng didn't refute again this time.

In the dark deep sky, endless interstellar dust gathered rapidly. The Gray Gu mothership sailed to the coordinates of the cylindrical sealed box before it was completely bound by the "cocoon", and then dispatched a carrier-based aircraft to bring it back to the hangar. among.

Legacy: Miniature Galaxy. Recycling completed.

Gray Feng really wanted to ask Russell what happened here, but there was not enough time. The detection range of the sensor had been completely blocked by dense dust.

The moment the "cocoon" took shape - something strange happened.

For a moment, Gray Feng felt that the entire world around him had disappeared, and even his own body no longer existed.

It was a feeling that was difficult to describe, and the fleeting process was also very short. Gray Feng had no way of judging what just happened, but one person reacted to it: Ke Luo, who had been standing next to Russell. Niai.

With a plop, the plump female body, which was more than two meters tall, fell forward without any warning. She fell face down in front of Russell and Gray Feng, twitching like a short-circuited machine.

"What... is going on? Why did Koroniai suddenly..." Gray Feng felt even more confused.

It subconsciously locked all the sensors in the cabin on Russell, fearing that he would suddenly collapse like Koroniai. Fortunately, nothing happened to Russell.

Immediately afterwards, two robotic arms reconstructed on site picked up Koroniai who collapsed on the ground. After a simple test on its trembling body, Gray Feng reported the results:

"The vital signs of this body are very stable, even more active than before, and pheromones are secreted in large quantities. But the bioelectrical activity of its brain is very... disordered, and there is absolutely no thing that can be called 'consciousness'."

Why does this happen to Koroniai?

"We have never seen this state before." Russell stood up, looked at the slightly trembling human body lying on the mechanical arm, and said:

"Do you remember, Gray Wind? When the Hive Fleet carried out the final siege against the Eldar in Fordola's Ark, the Eldar used some special soul-killing weapons. They inadvertently partially blocked the spiritual communication between the insect swarms. Able to use the mental field, the few Zerg individuals who have been isolated from the collective will are in this state now..."

The only difference is that the out-of-control fighting Zerg will fall into a state of unconscious rage, slashing at the enemy regardless of friend or foe.

The body that Koroniai created to please his master was not dangerous, and it just collapsed on the ground after being disconnected from the Hive Mind.

Gray Wind tried to turn on the detection equipment and searched for the location of the hive world of Fodlan in the darkness—Coroniai's body was hidden there.

But the disconnect proved to be short-lived.

The convulsions and tremors of the humanoid body that collapsed in the palm of the robotic arm suddenly stopped. With the recovery of consciousness, the bioelectrical activity in the brain became orderly again.

"You're back? Koroniai, what happened just now? You -" Before Russell could finish his questioning, Koroniai was thrown to the ground after he woke up.

The eruption speed of the Eldar body made Russell unable to react for a moment, but Gray Wind did.

When Koroniai pounced on Russell, Gray Wind immediately launched an attack on him. It stabbed both hands into Koroniai's body. One hand broke his ribs and pinched his heart. It was inserted into the cranial cavity at the back of the brain and the brainstem was broken off.

In the blink of an eye, the body was dead, with such efficiency that even Gray Wind was a little surprised.

Because with the reaction speed of the Eldar body, Koroniai could dodge these two attacks, but it didn't.

It burst into tears and threw itself on Russell, letting the gray wind kill him. When he was dying with his heart crushed and his brain stem broken, Koroniai choked and said: "Master, where have you been? I have always been there. Looking for you...I..."

"Me? I've always been here." Russell was also a little confused, but soon he understood.

Pushing Koroniai's body aside, Russell took off his coat that was stained with blood and brains, and said, "I probably know what happened just now... Gray Wind, calibrate the clock."

clock?

"Okay, synchronizing with the anti-entropy host. The current time is - 966.M39.09/10."

It is now September 10, year 966 of the 39th millennium.

"It has been 3.14 years since we recovered the miniature Galaxy."

At this moment, Gray Feng finally understood what Russell meant before, that after being favored by "him", he could no longer leave on his own.

"After receiving the psychic communication signal, the Fordola hive world ship is approaching us. Its biological assimilation progress has improved compared to before, and the improvement is consistent with the passage of three years."

"The mothership's conventional propulsion engines are unable to travel at sublight speeds. We are in a huge gravity well. There is a giant celestial body nearby, but conventional sensors cannot detect it...it is a black hole."

Throwing the blood-stained coat on Koroniai's body, Russell walked to the center of the cabin. The holographic stereoscopic star map of the Whirlpool Nebula changed rapidly, and a new celestial model was constructed based on the detection results just now:

-A massive black hole.

"The Lost Dream Nebula has disappeared. There is no detectable form of matter within the surrounding thousands of light-years. The black hole has swallowed everything except us." Gray Feng let out a long sigh of relief.

While it was glad that the encounter was safe, it finally had time to ask: "Marshal, what exactly happened here?"

"Why did the Lost Dream Nebula skip the life cycle of a star and collapse directly into a black hole? Why did we jump from 3 years ago to now?"

"I don't know either." Russell shrugged: "The only thing I can be sure of is that the existence that caused all of this is called the 'Latent Time Worm', or in other words, the Worm of Time."

"The Hidden Time Snake..." Gray Feng nodded thoughtfully.

Since it was in the black hole's event horizon and unable to escape at sublight speed, the Gray Goo mothership tried to make a second jump.

This time it went smoothly. Although the operation of the engine was very difficult due to the gravity of the black hole, Gray Wind still tried his best to tear open the solid dimensional barrier and jumped to the coordinates agreed with Koroniai.

The hive world is there waiting for its master.

For unknown reasons, when Russell and Gray Wind were passively jumping in time, Koroniai was not involved. The body left in the Gray Goo mothership was also disconnected from the main body. From its perspective, the master and the Gray Wind disappeared for three years without any reason.

Maybe it will know what happened in the past three years?

In order to maximize the efficiency of information exchange, after rendezvousing with the Hive World Ship, Russell directly began soul communication with Koroniai and read its memories of the past three years.

From the perspective of the hive world ship where Koroniai's body is located, the Gray Gu mothership recovered the repaired miniature galaxy and then disappeared out of thin air. Its connection with the humanoid body accompanying Russell was also interrupted.

The same as Gray Wind's calculation results, after the Gray Gu mothership disappeared, the Lost Dream Nebula quickly gathered into a cocoon under the pull of the gravitational singularity, and the mass of thousands of stars skipped the reaction stage and directly collapsed into a black hole.

It was as if an invisible insect had bored a hole in the boundless starlight on the far eastern frontier.

The hive world ship with its warp engine turned on escaped the collapse and successfully survived outside the black hole's event horizon.

For three years, Koroniai has been wandering in this deep space looking for traces of Russell. With the help of the link between the essence of subspace and across time and space, it can sense that its master is here.

After roughly reading Koroniai's memory, Russell's doubts still remained unsolved:

Why did the Worm of Time cause a big collapse in the Lost Dream Nebula to create a black hole, and why did it throw us three years in the future?

Although the Human Federation has not seen the Worm of Time, as a high-dimensional overlooker, Russell has communicated with the Worm of Time from the perspective of the United Nations of Earth.

As far as he knew, the actions and will of the Time Insect seemed strange and unpredictable, but there was logic behind it.

At the end of the "Event Horizon Signal" event chain, the Time Worm destroyed the home galaxy of the "United Nations of Earth" controlled by Russell.

The Worm of Time extinguished the sun and turned it into a black hole, turning the planets in the solar system into dead planets.

But destruction is accompanied by rebirth. When the Worm of Time extinguished the solar system, it also modified the biological genetic sequence of human civilization so that humans can adapt to this dead environment.

Because from the perspective of the Worm of Time, time is meaningless, stars go out, the universe heats up, and human civilization will become extinct, all in the next moment.

The Worm of Time has an incomprehensible love for human civilization. It extinguished the stars in the solar system in advance and modified the lowest genetic sequence of human beings so that the children it loves can adapt to the heat death universe and avoid The danger of extinction will continue forever.

This is the extreme love of the Time Worm.

"If every move of the Hidden Time Snake is due to his deep love for me, then is this time jump also helping me to avoid some kind of fatal danger that I will encounter in the future?"