Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

A note of loyalty at the beginning; dear readers of the Council of High Lords, this is to be notified. There is only one update today. I have something urgent to do in the afternoon and I have to go out, but the missing amount today will be made up tomorrow (maybe not the third update, but one chapter is a two-in-one super large chapter). Let’s take a look at the single chapter for now. Chapter, but today is also a single update of a very large chapter (9,000 words is actually two in one). Thank you for your understanding. I wish you all a happy reading today.

Magnus's red face was illuminated by the faint blue light, and his red-gold eyes reflected the blue light. It was like a group of tiny fireflies floating in the air, lighting up the red giant's cheeks. and the golden crown worn on the head.

But I am also certain that a little firefly would not make Magnus, the Primarch of the Thousand Sons, show such a shocked expression. You can see it through the reflection of the pupils in Magnus's shocked eyes. Seeing what he saw, a small lady of blue light appeared over his eyes.

Magnus looked at the woman. She stood on the disc and looked at him with a calm and cold expression, expressionless as if she had no emotion. Magnus could not rule out this possibility. Because he knew that the woman standing in front of him was not a real person.

He could clearly see the small data flow rolling on the blue eyes. Her entire body was also composed of countless linear information flows. She had a name, of course not the name Vito told him, but another name. A name that can sum up his entire existence.

"Let me introduce you, this is Helen." Vito held the CD in his hand and raised his power claw with a smile to signal the little girl in his hand. Helen nodded in agreement.

"Hello, Mr. Magnus, it's an honor to meet you." Helen greeted Magnus with a smile, but even Magnus himself could see that it was an automatic response of the purely etiquette system. There was no trace of sincerity at all, and after Magnus subconsciously nodded in response, the smile quickly solidified. In the blink of an eye, Helen's smile disappeared and turned into an iceberg again, but Magnus's focus was Not at all in this regard.

"She is artificial intelligence, or AI. Don't try to deceive me Vito. You are holding a hateful intelligence in your hand." Magnus shouted sharply, while Vito scratched his own with the smooth back of the power claw. Head, he looked at Magnus.

"Really? You also use that outrageous name? I think Electronic Demon sounds better." "That's not the point. The point is that you are holding an AI in your hand, an AI that is expressly prohibited by the Emperor."

"Yes, I can see that. No need to yell. Why are you like those people from the National Church? You are from the rebel side. Calm down." Vito smiled mockingly and leaned on the console on the side. , holding Helen in his hand and raising his head slightly to indicate that Magnus could continue to ask. He guessed that Magnus had a lot of questions.

The Cyclops looked at Vito above, and then he lowered his head and looked at Helen. After a moment of silence, he slowly said, "Have you secretly hidden an artificial intelligence from everyone, including the Emperor?"

"The answer is, yes, we all have our own secrets, Magnus, and I am no exception, but the Emperor. He knows, he has always known, he just doesn't want to reveal it. He knows that I will not give up on Helen. ”

"In order to erase artificial intelligence, he destroyed every branch of human civilization, just because they continued to retain artificial intelligence technology, Intra, Holmes Technology Alliance, etc., but he acquiesced to you and held a Artificial Intelligence?”

Magnus asked questioningly, sounding like a trial, but Vito could understand his thoughts, so Vito just shrugged and didn't pay attention to the uncomfortable words in Magnus' words. Questioning tone.

"Yes, that's right."

"Then, why? Just because you are his marshal? Are you his eternal brother who has walked together for tens of thousands of years?"

"Seriously, why do you always think of him as my brother? We have no blood relationship at all. I am a Slav and that guy is a Semitic. How can we become brothers?"

"That's not the point, Vito, answer my question, why did he allow you to do this? He killed countless people, but he only spared you? Selfishly? Or did he have other motives?"

Magnus took a step forward and continued to ask. His tone sounded very excited. This is not surprising. As a person who was tried at the Micaea Conference in pursuit of forbidden knowledge, he was punished for exploring technology banned by the Emperor. When it came time to punish the person, when Magnus knew that Vito beside the Emperor had mastered these forbidden technologies, and the Emperor did not punish or confiscate him with clear knowledge, but acquiesced in allowing him to continue to possess them. , will indeed be very angry, this is naked prejudice.

Vito raised a hand to signal the excited Magnus to stop, and the latter indeed stopped and stood two steps away from Vito, "I know you are angry, and others will be the same if they know, but I believe I’m not saying it out of selfishness. Nao Immortal is indeed a little selfish sometimes, but believe me, he is very separate and will never bring it into his career, so yes, it’s not out of selfishness.”

"What is that for? Is there another purpose?" "The reason is simple, because Helen's data terminal stores all the technology, science and history of the Golden Age of mankind. If the Emperor wants to rebuild the Golden Age, he will need these things. And such huge technology and science cannot be remembered by the human brain, not even the emperor."

Magnus was startled. He lowered his head and looked at the little girl in Vito's hand in disbelief. He couldn't believe that there were all people inside this lady of light and shadow as big as a finger. In this dark galaxy, All the treasures dreamed of by all those who pursue knowledge and technology.

This lady of artificial intelligence who stares at her expressionlessly is a treasure. Her whole person, her entire existence is a precious thing in this galaxy. It is the door and key to countless palaces of knowledge and the golden future. What is contained in her body , is a precious thing that is difficult to describe in words.

"Helen was the artificial intelligence adjutant when I was the federal marshal. She connected with the entire federal database, coordinated scientific research, military dispatch, and weapons and equipment. She recorded all the technical data of the Golden Age in her data core, and also There is a research and development process, and she is also, so far, the last superior artificial intelligence in the galaxy with enough computing power to allow the Emperor to transform the computing power of the entire empire's industry and technology industry."

"But the Emperor clearly told us about the Iron Man Rebellion. Artificial intelligence is dangerous and uncontrollable. She records those knowledge and technologies, but she may also use them at any time to turn her guns and point them at us." Magnus frowned. He frowned and continued to ask, staring into Vito's eyes and continuing to ask.

Vito chuckled softly, leaning on the instrument with his arms folded, "Yes, but Helen is the "loyal artificial intelligence" that ended the Iron Man rebellion back then. She ended the rebellion with me on Jupiter. You don't know Right? Of course, the Emperor won't tell you. The effect he wants is for everyone to firmly believe that artificial intelligence is evil, so as to prevent some people from having dangerous rebellions and electronic demon fantasies. Use them safely."

"Although black and white, good and bad are extreme, for ignorant humans after the Dark Ages, perhaps rigid and dogmatic dogma is the best way to ensure safety, rather than explanations."

Vito looked down at Helen in his hand, who also turned slightly and looked up at Vito, "For the emperor, the knowledge recorded in Helen's mind must be valuable, but more importantly, Helen is the most valuable person among all artificial intelligences. The only AI that did not go crazy and paranoid in the later era of strife and human civil war, her system is still stable and controllable, and more importantly, I can control her."

Magnus looked at Vito who raised his head with a confident smile. He patted his chest and looked very arrogant, "Yes, your second uncle is so awesome! Look at it, I will give it to you. Demonstrate, Helen, change your bikini skin.”

"I refuse, sir."

Magnus opened his mouth slightly and looked at Vito, who overturned just as he was about to demonstrate, hesitated to speak. The latter raised his head and looked at Magnus with a wry smile and shrugged, "Well, at least most of the time. Listen to me."

"So let me summarize, the reason why the Emperor allows you to hold Helen is not selfish, but because Helen's core contains the science and technology that the Emperor needs, all the technologies, and she is controllable. Like other rebellious intelligences, this knowledge is safe, and you are her steward."

"Correct, I know you have a very flexible mind. You don't need the kind of explanation I asked for to the Mechanicus. It will last for several days and you may not be able to convince those idiot motor oil guys in the end."

This is why Vito has always chosen to hide the fact of Helen's existence from most members of the Mechanicus. Even Omega, who has been with Vito for decades and has an extremely strong relationship, chooses to hide it, but Not everyone shares Kaul's "techno-heretic" attitude.

Most of the time, when you bring out a new technology and tell the Mechanicus that it works, then use it and that's it. What you have to deal with is endless technical discussions, religious and philosophical speculations and ultimately, a high probability of copycats. A brief exchange of fire broke out.

This is the reason why there has been no new technology in the Mechanicus for a long time. It is not simply that no one is researching and developing it, but in today’s Mechanicus, the birth of any new technology requires thousands of years of endless debate. With wrangling, even if your technology has not passed the review, you will die, and then the new technology will be forgotten in the vast technical files.

What is even more characteristic of the Empire is that after you develop a new technology, your colleagues within the Mechanicus will be jealous of you. They will prevent your technology from passing, obliterate the technology, and even you, a classic imperial-style political struggle.

When the Accords of Olympia were signed, the Empire converted to the technical worship of the Mechanicus, and the Mechanicus also converted to the Empire. After a long period of time, it was finally assimilated by the imperial bureaucracy. Today, the Mechanicus is complex, hierarchical, and has strict political rules. Internally, it is no longer the enlightened organization it once was. The first thing that comes with any new technology is not hope and change, but confrontation and disputes.

Therefore, Vito was cautious about using Iron Man and hid the Sky Blade. Helen in his hands, her existence and the amount of knowledge of technology at its core were enough to set off a storm that tore half of the empire apart. Without the empire, With the Emperor at the helm, the Empire's ship would have been torn in half by the tsunami and sunk.

Many times, it's not that Vito doesn't want to help the empire, but because his help, those truly useful help will bring disaster. Today's empire is like a crumbling house. Its structure is already on the verge of collapse. If you move any A brick or any stone may cause the entire building to collapse. Maintaining the status quo is the only choice in these ten thousand years, although it is painful.

Magnus ignored Vito's meaningless teasing in the second half. He looked at Helen in front of him and was silent for a long time. After a long period of thinking, he slowly spoke, "The Emperor deceived us all, and again Once, he kept talking about banning artificial intelligence and went on a killing spree, but he did not choose to tell us the truth. He also hid an AI himself, showing one thing on the outside but another on the inside."

"He is doing it for your own good. After all, most artificial intelligence is dangerous, and Helen is the most special case. He must prevent someone from using other dangerous intelligence without thinking clearly and inserting them into the system to cause It’s a big disaster, so we can only cut it off with one blow.”

"But, Vito, isn't Helen just a tool to him? It's just a storage that holds knowledge, and you are her administrator, the marshal responsible for conquering the entire galaxy for him. Aren't you also his? A tool? If the Emperor succeeds in using Helen to rebuild human civilization one day, he will most likely destroy Helen for "safety", and will you allow it?"

Magnus' words suddenly silenced the atmosphere. Vito, who had been smiling just now, suddenly lost his expression. He looked up at Magnus expressionlessly, who also looked at him silently. .

This uncomfortable silence lasted for a while, and Helen in Vito's hands was also silent for a while. She slightly raised her head and looked at Vito aside, who was still looking at each other with Magnus. Not sent.

"You are also a tool to him. All of us are just tools to him. Use them when they are useful, and discard them when they are useless, especially when you resist." Magnus He said slowly, his voice was low, and he spoke every word, as if he wanted Vito to hear him clearly.

Vito looked at Magnus. After a moment, he turned around and started clicking on the interface in front of him with his fingers. "Helen knows how to operate the Eldar system. We will connect her to it, and then she will open the Webway portal." ”

He chose to avoid and avoid the question, but Magnus just looked at his back and sighed silently, his eyes full of pity and lamentation, but in the end Magnus also chose to let the topic go by. , just as if nothing happened, he walked to Vito's side and looked at the instrument interface in front of him.

On the instrument that resembles a unique crystal, countless light particles rise out of thin air. They move rapidly with each other above the instrument, changing into countless graphics and interface windows. It looks like a group of well-trained fireflies. Like a puzzle.

"How to get her in?" Magnus asked, and Vito smiled. His fingers clicked lightly on the side of the crystal meter, accompanied by a brief golden lightning flash on it. Jumping, a groove quickly grew on the surface of the solid crystal.

The protruding docking disk seemed to grow out of the water. Part of the entire crystal quickly liquefied, then rose up to form the docking disk and then solidified rapidly.

The machine of the Eldar is more like a living creature than a machine. This makes Magnus very surprised and admired, while Vito does not have so much emotion for scientific knowledge. , he immediately put Helen into the disc.

The disk matched Helen's disc almost perfectly, and the gaps on the edges were tight, as if it was specially made for that disc. As Helen inserted the end of it and fixed it firmly, she closed her eyes and was silent for a moment. , Magnus noticed that some strange purple light briefly appeared on the blue skin of Helen's body.

"The system has been connected and the control is complete." "Very good, open the door for us, my dear girl, it is best to find a place full of beautiful girls!"

Vito leaned on the instrument and laughed, seeming to be imagining the wonderful world behind the door. However, the door did not open, and there was still no reaction in the dark teleportation frame. Vito slightly turned his head, with a look of awe. He looked at the expressionless Helen.

She was also looking at Vito, and her expression suddenly seemed more murderous. Vito smiled wryly and waved his hand, "You know I'm joking, right?"

"Maybe, maybe not, but sir, I have two pieces of news, one good and one bad. You want to hear the one first." "Ah, let's hear the bad news first this time, so that you don't have to surprise me with a big gasping roller coaster. "

Helen nodded slightly and stood in front of Vito with her hands behind her back. "The bad news is that in order to prevent the federation's artificial intelligence from invading the system, the Eldar set a password lock on the system's operating permissions. Only after cracking it can I activate the portal. ”

"Can't you break that code lock? I believe that with your awesome computing power, you can definitely do it, right?" Vito put his hands on his hips, raised his head with a confident smile, and glanced at Mag who was standing beside him. Nusi showed off how awesome his girl was by holding her head high, while the latter rolled her eyes and stood aside, not bothering to talk to him.

"Indeed, if the password is in the system, I can indeed do it." Helen put her hands behind her back and turned to look forward. Vito turned around in surprise. He and Helen looked in front of each other, looking at the disks around them. Statues of Eldar deities on.

"Wait, you're not going to tell me that those damn pointed ears are..." "Yes, the password is those statues, and you need to move them to the correct position in the physical world in order to unlock them."

Vito looked at the statues and held their foreheads speechlessly. He let out a long sigh, "Why do these people with pointy ears always like riddles? They have to guess riddles again."

"I guess it may be related to the myths of the Eldar gods, do you know?" Magnus raised his head and glanced at the lifelike statues and asked, while Vito on the side smiled bitterly and shrugged slightly.

"No, how do I know those complicated and outrageous myths of the Eldar?" "You haven't studied it. After all, you have been fighting wars with the Eldar for more than ten years in your golden age. After the emperor sat on the throne, he fought with all the Eldar. After more than 10,000 years of dealing with each other, you haven’t studied it yet?”

"What I need to do is just blow the heads of those people with pointy ears, or play various conspiracies with them. I don't need to study them thoroughly, with all kinds of extremely complicated relationships, and weird and outrageous behaviors. A problem between gods.”

Vito said as he approached Magnus. He raised his head slightly and gestured to the group of gods in front of him, "As for the group of guys in front, the God King is a bastard, and brother Kane is... Angry is a lunatic who attacks people. That Isa is a bitch with weird ideas. Her husband, Kunos? Or Val? Well, I don’t know how many husbands she has.”

"Anyway, who is crazy enough to try to figure out their messy relationships, who cheated with whom, who slept with whom, and who was jealous because of it, and the complicated myths of their own ethical dramas, to tell the truth, spirituality The clan themselves have never figured it out.”

"Then there is a "psycho" next to you who understands, so get out of the way." Magnus said, pushing away Vito who was approaching, his big red hand pressed against Vito's cheek, pushing him His face was squeezed and pushed to the side.

Vito smiled and took a few steps back. He smiled jokingly and bowed slightly before moving away, "Then, please invite our Professor Magnus to handle this epic ethical relationship. "

Magnus didn't pay attention to Vito's teasing. He walked behind the armrest on the side of the crystal instrument. His one-eyed red-gold eye looked at the circle of statues in front of him. He scanned them one by one. At first, he did not see any of them. Something special, but it was only at the beginning. After another reverse sweep, Magnus immediately discovered something was wrong.

He raised a hand and pointed to the side of the beautiful Eldar woman wearing an elegant gauze dress and sitting on the stone with her legs folded. "That is Isa, the wife of Kunos and the mother of Lilith."

"You Lilith." "Not your Lilith, so shut up and let me continue."

Vito stood behind Magnus with his arms folded and smiled. He waved his palms jokingly and bowed. Magnus glanced at the bow that was completely disrespectful and playful and sighed helplessly. , but this is Vito, he has been accustomed to it ten thousand years ago, a guy who is never serious.

Magnus looked back. He touched his chin and looked at the statue of Kane next to Isa. The Eldar killing warrior holding a wide sword stepped on the enemy's corpse, raised the bloody sword high and roared forward. .

"Kane once heard a legend. It is said that a warrior will be born among the Eldar. In the end, that warrior will challenge him, then defeat Kane and take his place. So in order to fight against the prophecy, Kane decided to eliminate future troubles. , he waved the divine sword in his hand and went down to the mortal world, intending to kill all the spirits to prevent the prophecy from happening. "

"What kind of psychotic thinking is this? Is he out of his mind?" Vito complained happily from behind, but Magnus decided to ignore him and avoid paying attention to his outrageous complaints.

"All Eldar are the children of Isha, so Isha was sad that he was about to be killed by Kane, so he went to the Phoenix King Asuyan and asked him to save his children."

"Ah, I know, that guy who keeps sitting on the throne and showing off and not caring about anything." Vito complained sharply, turning his head to look at the statue of the Phoenix King in the center of the disk. He was sitting on the throne. Wearing a huge winged fire phoenix crown, his hands are placed on the armrests on both sides of the throne, and the Phoenix Holy Sword, which is quite similar to the sword worn by Vito, leans on his legs.

"Asuyan decided to respond to Isha's request. He ordered all the Eldar gods not to come down to the mortal world to interfere or interact with the Eldar. In this way, Kane was forced to accept the sentence. Although Kane was very unhappy, in the end Still considering that Isha would be even more uncomfortable being unable to see her children, she finally chose to accept it.”

"What is this idea? As long as others are suffering more than me, then my discomfort is not unacceptable?" The person behind Magnus continued to complain.

"But in the end, Isa missed her Eldar children too much, so she turned her tears into soul stones and descended to the human world, so that the Eldar could communicate with Isa through the soul stones. At first, everything went well, and no one found out that Isa had broken Asuyan's ban, but one day a blood banshee discovered this and reported it to Cain, which eventually caused the Eldar war god to be furious."

"He captured Isa and imprisoned her in his fortress to torture her. Isa's husband, the hunting god Kunos, planned to rescue his wife, but was discovered and imprisoned by Cain. He locked Isa and Kunos together and vented his boundless anger by torturing the couple."

"What kind of gourd baby saving grandpa is this? And this is too crazy. What about the Phoenix King? The gods under your command are playing bondage play with each other, and you don't care? Oh, or is there a possibility that the Phoenix King also likes to watch it, and he is enjoying it and doesn't care?" Vito leaned against the wall and said with a smile on his face. Magnus rolled his eyes and turned his head to look at the statue on the other side.

That was a strong Eldar god holding a hammer, standing in front of an anvil and swinging the hammer to hit the metal. He was naked from the waist up, and he would fight with the Emperor, no! The Eldar could never have strong chest muscles like the Emperor, so he sweated profusely while forging this sword with his heretical and blasphemous chest muscles naked.

"Vaul, the god of craftsmen and manufacturing, knew about the experience of Isa and Kurnos, and he negotiated with Cain, saying that he could use the magic weapons he forged to exchange for the freedom of Isa and Kubus. Cain, the god of war, coveted the weapons forged by Val, so he agreed, but the condition was that Val needed to forge 100 swords for himself in exchange for Isa and Kurnos."

"Good guy, use one today and one tomorrow, right? A cycle of 100 days, free technology is okay." Vito laughed and continued to complain in sharp contrast to the serious and serious Magnus.

Magnus turned his head and stared at Vito, who immediately raised his hands to surrender. He raised his hands slightly to signal Professor Magnus to continue, and he was listening.

"In short, Val agreed to the exchange conditions. He forged a hundred magic weapons, but after casting ninety-nine, because it was still close to the deadline set by Kane, he disguised an ordinary sword as a magic weapon and mixed it in. He collected a hundred swords and gave them to Kane. In the end, Kane naturally discovered it. The God of War was furious and pointed the fake sword at Val, vowing to make him pay the price."

"So, the position of the statues is wrong, this is the right way."

Magnus raised a finger and his red-gold eyes flickered with the waving of his fingertips. As the light lit up, the statues on the ring in front of Magnus moved. As his fingertips turned, the psychic power instantly enveloped those lifelike statues, causing them to move along the ring.

The hunting god statue holding a bow and arrow slid to the other side of Kane with a rumble. He cuddled up with the Isha statue behind Kane, while the roaring war god pointed the great sword in his hand at the ring belt in front, where the statue of the god of casting Val slid up and stopped steadily in the direction of Kane's sword.

As Kane's sword tip pointed steadily at Val's brow, who was holding a hammer and leaning back with his head raised, the inner side of the statue track in the center of the ring belt of the entire hall all lit up brightly at the same time. The shining light belt illuminated the faces of the statues standing on it, the angry Kane, the beautiful Isha, Val with his head raised, and even Asuyan sitting on the throne. All the faces of the statues were illuminated by the halo.

And in the blink of an eye, a large door in the small teleportation portal behind the statue ring belt lit up, and the shining teleportation halo instantly appeared in its door frame, separating the hard wall behind it from everything in the hall.

Magnus looked at the portal that was lit up. The white halo continued to spread around. The portal body, like waves, illuminated the entire dim space. The red skin of the Cyclops was exposed to the green light, and Vito came up beside him. He stood beside Magnus with his arms folded.

"Sir, the webway portal has been activated, but" "Bad news? Didn't you tell me everything? Isn't there still good news?"

Vito turned his head to look at Helen, and Magnus, who was stuck with him, also looked over. The two people, one gold and one red, turned to look at Helen at the same time, while the latter stood calmly in front of these two people who could scare most people in the galaxy to death, or at least scare them half to death.

Helen waved her fingers, and all the crystal light particles behind her rose up. The star-like light particles gathered behind Helen to form a huge image, which looked like several gates, or to be more precise, they used to be.

A huge gate was broken behind Helen, and there were several other smaller gates around it, which looked the same as the portal that was lit now, but only one of them was lit. Vito and Magnus looked up at the only glowing gate side by side.

"What does that mean?" Vito was stunned for a moment, and finally admitted that he didn't understand what those big and small broken gates meant.

"The good news is that I successfully activated the teleportation network, and it can still be used. Another good news is that after testing, I confirmed that our destruction here was quite effective. The entire gate connecting to the physical universe has been completely destroyed, and all the webway portals have been cut off from the physical universe."

"You call this good news?" Vito said with a wry smile, while Helen shrugged slightly and continued calmly and venomously, "It proves that your strike deployment back then was perfect. Congratulations, sir, you completely destroyed This city, if I had the data back then, I could apply for a medal for you.”

"No, I have enough medals. Secondly, so we can't go back to the physical universe?" Vito smiled helplessly. Did he shoot himself in the foot? I was so dedicated back then. I was so dedicated that now I want to use the things in this city, but I find that I have ruined them all.

"It doesn't work here, but the small Webway portal can still be connected to other locations in the Webway. We didn't completely destroy all the gates in the Webway back then, so if my calculations are correct, after several jumps, we can always find one You can also use the network exit.”

As Helen spoke, she waved her finger lightly, and all the light particles behind her dissipated. They all dissipated in the air like tiny sparks flying in the sky, while Magnus in front of her turned to look at the The only remaining webway gate.

"Can you confirm that there is a usable webway exit behind that?" "No, no, if I still have a Golden Age battleship as my body, I can detect it, but unfortunately, my current entity can only be stored here. A disc with limited functionality, so I can’t see what’s behind that door.”

Helen also looked at the gate. She tilted her head slightly. This action could even be called cute. "And the bad news is that this gate is one-way, which means we can't pass through it." I’m back, so I can only try my luck.”

"As an artificial intelligence, do you believe in luck?" Magnus asked in surprise, while Helen shrugged helplessly. She pointed at Vito casually with her hand.

"No, it depends on his luck. Sometimes he does get lucky. Luck is beyond the scope of my calculation, so over time I have become too lazy to understand the concept of luck."

Vito raised his head proudly, with the tip of his nose raised high, like a proud big boy. Vito patted his chest generously, and the power fist collided with the golden power armor, making a clanging sound.

"Yes, and this time, I have a hunch that I will get lucky again."