Warhammer Inquisitor

The hot red light of the welding beam hit the armor plate, the mechanical arm behind the mechanical priest was operating with a crisp creaking sound, his mechanical prosthetic eyes locked on the huge engine in front of him, and the servo skull floating beside him The scanning beam is also repeatedly swept on the engine, and the structural parameters are fed back to the priest in real time.

His blue mechanical eyes spun clockwise twice, the coaxial focusing ring creaked, the priest concentrated his energy on the engine assembly in front of him, and the ancient Mechanicum requiem chanted in his mouth.

His mechanical arm put the data board on the engine instrument, and with the sparks of the minimally invasive welding chip, the prayers to calm the manic machine soul were chanted and sang in an orderly manner, like the flood of thousands of data in his mind In that way, there is not even a single error in the extremely complicated syllables and poems.

Every qualified Mechanician priest can do this, they can sing the complicated Mechanician hymns and melodies at the same time, without a choir, without any accompaniment and assistance, their already mechanized voices and electronic lungs can Playing alone is not inferior to the chants of the chorus, ranging from accompaniment, melody to verse.

As the poetry sang, the micron-level crystal pins of the CNC chip were connected one by one, and the minimally invasive welding points were closed one by one, and the entire engine control system was installed.

The priest turned his head slightly, and the servo skull beside him also flew to the other side. The scanning light quickly completed the engine scan. After getting the data to support his calculation, the priest was ready to start the next step.

But when his mechanical arm was just approaching the exposed fiber-grade data pipeline, when he just started to sing the soothing hymn, another burst of humming interrupted him, and the priest looked up at the engine's head in surprise. On the opposite side, he saw the man humming as he walked between a group of Mechanicus priests.

Vito was walking and dancing in the aisle, humming a song. He walked briskly, and his upper body danced along with the melody of the lyrics. Walking over, singing the cheerful melody, walking between the machines and the hanging mechanical arms.

This area is the comprehensive area for R\u0026D, scientific research and maintenance on the Infinite Frontier. Simply put, this is the site of the ship's mechanical education. In the repair shop or something, help the marines and the battleship maintenance team repair some important parts and so on.

Generally speaking, every member of the Mechanicus has his own journey of seeking knowledge. Even if their main responsibilities on the ship are maintenance workers and engineers, everyone still has their own research projects, and they are different, biology, mechanics What to learn with weapons, etc., according to each person's research direction is different.

And like most Mechanicus believers, they hate other people, that is, non-Mechanicus members who go to their "House of Knowledge" to hang around, but it is obvious that Vito is not on this unwelcome list, or at least they Can tolerate this guy singing, to be precise, walk over while singing and dancing.

Vito hummed and walked to the wide research workshops on both sides, and the end of the central narrow corridor. He passed between the clanging maintenance area and the engineering area, and came here. in front of the door.

Vito hummed and put his palm on the scanning interface on one side, and as a green light swept across, the indicator light above the gate lit up, "Number i-0001, Grand Inquisitor Vito Constantine Authorization passed."

The door slid open to both sides as Vito hummed. He turned around and walked through the door. He walked through the laboratory while humming and dancing. Looking at him, the two Mechanicus sages looked at Vito walking by like a fool.

Vito briskly walked to a workbench. He picked up a wrench from the table, turned it twice in his hand, and pointed at the two, two irons? I don't know, can the members of Mechanicus be called by people? I mean, there's probably not much meat left on them, right?

But well, Vito obviously didn't care about this issue that could cause a debate between the State Church and the Mechanicus for decades, and he asked another question meaningfully.

"Have you eaten?"

Omega looked at Vito, his mechanical eyes turned, and the short-lived data flow on the curved glass window was interrupted. He stood there silent for a long time, as if he was thinking about how to answer this question.

"That's your problem? Or, is it a problem?"

"I think so, so have you guys eaten? Yeah, I know you oil guys don't eat like we do, but...you gotta put something in your stomachs."

Vito said, pointing at Omega's belly with a wrench and shaking it twice, as if he was really thinking about this question, "Seriously, what do you eat? Gasoline? Is there a difference in taste between 39th gasoline and 51st gasoline? ?”

"No, we don't drink gasoline. If you are really asking this question, we drink a special energy liquid, which contains the fuel part for the operation of the mechanical part, and there is also the rest, which has not been transformed into the flesh and blood organs to absorb Nutrients for digestion."

As Omega said, he grabbed a jar from the side table with his mechanical arm. The oil-drum-like jar was grabbed by the flexible robotic arm and picked up. His robotic arm sent the oil barrel to Vito. The visitor took the oil barrel and looked at it in surprise, raised his eyes to look at Omega and pointed to it.

"Is this the thing?" "That's right, it's the energy fluid inside."

After Vito approached the oil barrel and sniffed it, his expression immediately twitched. He threw the oil barrel on the side table and rubbed his neck. He was silent for a moment with a strange expression on his face, "Wow .Your taste is really unique."

Speaking of Vito took out the reagent given by Bell from his arms, he shook the thing, and Omega's mechanical eyes immediately locked on the thing, and his scanning circle slid several times to the right.

"This is?" "Some kind of unknown alien creature that Bell and the others found on the bottom deck can speak human language, is intelligent and can imitate human appearance, although it is still ugly to death."

As Vito said, he waved the potion in the air twice, and the slice of flesh in it turned upside down, "Bell said he couldn't analyze it, so you can deal with it and see what the hell it is."

After Vito finished speaking, Omega's mechanical arm stretched out from behind him. His long and slender mechanical arm deftly reversed and stretched out like a big steel snake, and the triangular mechanical claw at the end grabbed Vito's hand. The reagent on it was quickly grabbed by Omega as Vito let go.

"You said they were intelligent?" "That's right, they can talk, and they imitate them perfectly, and they also know how to make the most basic weapons and confuse the enemy, so yes, they have intelligence, although I don't think it is very high. "

Vito shrugged his shoulders as he spoke, while Omega's mechanical eyes looked at the thing carefully, and the scanning data quickly rolled up on the mechanical eyes. He watched the biological slice walk to an instrument not far away.

"Your description is really interesting. Let's see if they are satisfactory." Omega said, inserting the reagent containing biological slices into the hole on the side of the instrument. The indicator lights of the series lit up, and all the data interfaces started ticking.

One of Omega's mechanical arms dexterously rotated the triangular claw, and the claw was as dexterous as a windmill under the rotation of the end of his wrist. He raised the claw, and then inserted it into the data interface on the surface of the instrument.

Omega's eyeballs began to scroll the data flow, and the dense data quickly scrolled along with the calculation array on the instrument interface, and Omega's mechanical fingers quickly clicked on the touch screen, following the icons one by one in his Fingers danced, and the other mechanical arms behind him also worked on the surrounding instruments.

Vito watched those dexterous mechanical arms clicking on the keyboards of the surrounding instruments. With the tapping of the mechanical keyboards, the instruments in front of Omega also projected a three-dimensional image, which was composed of several data modules and computing arrays. Vito can say it with confidence.

He can not understand.

Seriously, who can understand this shit except the Mechanicum? There is nothing on it except a bunch of scrolling data and letters with unclear meanings. I can't even make up a part that can spell an adult language. No one can understand it except these oil guys.

"What were you guys talking about before? Before I came in." Vito walked up to Kaur and asked in a low voice. His eyes looked at Vito, and then he raised his eyes to look at Omega, who was rapidly operating many calculation arrays ahead.

"The research topic of gene seeds of space fighters is really interesting, you know? Omega is also studying the knowledge of gene seeds, and the progress is amazing."

"Gene seeds? I really don't know." Vito said, crossing his arms and looking at Omega in front of him. Vito watched him narrow his eyes slightly. He tried to understand how much Omega was hiding from himself. , "sensitive" research topic, but obviously it's useless, he doesn't know what else he's working on.

And if I guessed correctly, Omega, like most mechanical priests, did not disclose his research to anyone. Only he himself knows what the dangerous content of his research is.

"His genetic research on space warriors is excellent, and I have benefited a lot from his conjectures and hypotheses. He is indeed an excellent priest with a bright future." In Kaul's comments, his appreciation was undisguised. It was obvious that he liked the young man very much.

"How? Did you tell him the original casting plan?" Vito asked, looking at Omega, while Kaur shook his head slightly.

"No, not yet, but I am indeed considering recruiting him, if you allow." Kaul looked at Vito as he said, as if asking for his permission, which made Vito laugh out of nowhere, he laughed He walked forward and walked to Kaul's side to look at the complicated calculation interface.

"So have you researched anything? The kind that can be translated into human language."

"It is indeed possible. My analysis shows that these aliens are mixed with human genetic characteristics. After comparative tests, I can be sure that they are hybrid creatures of humans and aliens."

"Hybrid creatures? Like the Tyranids?"

Vito asked in surprise, Omega clicked on the data node in front of him, and with his click, the holographic interface in front of him also instantly switched to Tyrann's data interface, and the data was compared with the current alien on the bottom deck, Moreover, Omega has indeed been optimized, and now Vito can understand the meaning of the data.

His eyes kept jumping and comparing the two columns of data, and he quickly came to the conclusion, "Are these creatures not as smart as the Tyranids, right? And the ability to evolve thinking is also weaker."

"Correct, the intelligence of a single creature of the Tyranid swarm is limited, but it can be connected with the will of the hive through node creatures and tyrants, and the intelligence can be greatly improved through centralized thinking calculations similar to parallel connections, so ordinary war beasts can also use Sophisticated tactics to become a true beast of intelligence.”

"And even the hybrids of gene stealers are significantly more intelligent than the new alien we discovered. I think this alien belongs to a low-end parasitic species. They infect a certain original individual , mutating its genes to become the host of the alien, and then spreading the population by interbreeding with humans or other creatures, the purpose of which is purely the instinct of primitive creatures."

"Wait, you mean, these monsters are carriers of some kind of virus? What's inside their bodies is the body of these monsters?" Vito asked in surprise, while Omega nodded slightly.

He tapped the screen with his finger, and soon a wriggling tiny creature appeared on the holographic projection, "Your judgment is very accurate, these creatures are just carriers, used for the proliferation and movement of these cellular creatures. The real core is these fungal cells."

"They will infect the host's genes, and then they will be fused into the gene tree of the creature, and then they can control the host's gene spread within the population. They do have some basic survival instincts, such as memory and thinking through the host's brain, Learn and apply some knowledge of this species."

"Then this kind of thing is quite strong, not far behind Tyron." Vito said with his hands in his arms, while Omega shook his head, pointing to the data that appeared in front of him.

"But the intelligence of this kind of creature is as you said, very limited. Their learning process is extremely slow, and they rely more on instinctive reflexes. Like the evolution of primitive creatures, they only learned the basics after many generations of reproduction. language, and the appearance of the simulated host population."

"If I'm not wrong, they should have multiplied in the lower deck of the Rogue Trader's merchant ship for many generations. This is a small part of the population, and they landed on our ship under the instinct of genetic proliferation, trying to reproduce and infect. There should be more aliens on the merchant ship."

Vito snorted softly, "As expected, there are always many such dangerous things on the bottom of those merchant ships."

Speaking of which, Vito looked at Omega on the side, and pointed to the holographic projection in front of him, "Can you solve the threat of this creature? Although their learning speed is slow, if left alone, it will be a huge threat if time is enough , especially when they hop onto a planet with a loose local government, and nobody cares about them.”

Omega nodded, his fingers quickly jumped up on the interface, and a new data array immediately appeared in front of him, "I can develop a virus-killing virus, make genetic missiles through their genetic characteristics, and interrupt and To kill these alien fungi and their hosts, simply release the virus in the biosphere."

"Good job. Let's test it on our ship after it's built. If it works, tell the Ultramar sector government to let them kill it in the merchant fleet." Vito said, patting Omi Jia's shoulder, the latter nodded silently.

Vito looked at Omega and smiled, he patted him on the shoulder again, turned around and leaned on the analytical instrument with his hands folded and looked at Kaul, "The Great Sage wants to invite you to join the research project, Kaul, tell me he."

Omega stopped what he was doing in surprise. He turned around and looked at Kaul who was walking behind him. He was very big and moved like a wriggling giant steel octopus. Several of his mechanical tentacles were in the red robe. He moved up and down, supporting Kaur to walk in front of the two of them.

The great sage looked down at Omega in front of him. The mechanical eyes under his red robe swiveled and looked at the priest in front of him. His finger holding the priest's scepter slightly raised, and the mechanical arm of the other hand came out from under the robe. Lifted up.

"As the marshal said, Father Omega, your knowledge and insights into genetic knowledge are impressive. You have just once again demonstrated your knowledge and talent. Even other biological priests can't do it like this. In a short period of time, you have completed the analysis and response to the development of weapons, and your success is astonishing."

"Thank you for your compliment, great sage." Omega replied with a modest nod. Kaur also nodded in approval. His other hand also held the sage's scepter. He looked at Omega in front of him. Turning the mechanical eye.

"Your humility is also admirable, so I would like to formally invite you to join the "Original Cast Project" to participate in the experiments, improvements and follow-up research of the new generation of space fighters."

After Omega was stunned for a moment, he showed the shock of a normal person in an instant. He fell silent and proceeded. A large piece of data rolled over the mechanical eyeballs. After a little surprise, he quickly recovered the calmness of the Mechanic Church. , and conducted a centralized calculation and analysis on that invitation.

After a while, Omega raised his head and nodded to Kaul, he humbly bowed slightly to the great sage, "I am flattered by your invitation, great sage, but I am a priest ordered by Marshal Vito Constantine , I must seek permission from the marshal before accepting your invitation."

Vito leaned to the side and laughed, he patted Omega on the shoulder, "Your words are really touching and gratifying, Octopus."

"You, allow it?" Omega said and got up and looked at Vito, who put his arms around his arms and looked at Kaur with a smile, and then turned his head to look at Omega beside him.

"Of course I agree. The Primal Casting Project is not only a rare opportunity to seek knowledge, but also a plan that is crucial to the entire empire. Any assistance that can effectively promote the Primal Casting Project must not be missed."

"So yes, Omega, with my permission, go and go to Mars with Caul, and get out the Primaris Space Marines. This will not only help the Empire, but also help me a lot. You have an unprecedented opportunity to learn, I I also got a vital force, a win-win situation, why not do it?"

Vito pressed Omega's shoulder and said with a smile, the latter nodded gratefully, "Thank you, Marshal, thank you for giving me this opportunity, and I also assure you that if you encounter any difficulties in the future, if you need me For your help, I will go through fire and water for you."

"I'm very grateful, Omega, thank you." Vito said with a smile, he turned his head to look at Kaul just as he was about to say something, the communicator on his wrist rang, Vito stared at the thing for a moment, then clicked Turn on the communicator.

As the communicator was turned on, Cole's bust appeared on the projection immediately, and he looked at Vito, "Vito, there is a ship approaching us, the other party asked to board the ship, and asked to meet you by name. "

"In the subspace? Meet me?" Vito raised his eyebrows in surprise, while Cole nodded, "Yes, it's very suspicious. What should we do? Shoot and sink them?"

Vito fell silent, his mind suddenly recalled what Slaanesh said, an old friend coming back to see you?

Vito stroked his chin in silence for a moment, then raised his head to look at Cole and nodded, "Let them board the ship, inform Colonel York, and bring his boys and guys to the deck to stand by in case of accident."

"Also, inform Eisenstein that the three of them will also come up, we will need the presence of space soldiers." "Understood, I will be on standby at the bridge."

Cole disappeared on the holographic image after saying that, Vito smiled at the disappearing image, he looked at Cole and shrugged.

"Wow, it looks like the recruitment ceremony has to be postponed a bit, we have guests."

"What kind of guests? Enemies and friends." Omega asked in surprise, while Vito smiled mysteriously, stood up and walked towards the door of the research room.

"Who knows? Not all of my old friends are 'friends'."