Warhammer Inquisitor

"let's start."

In the secret experiment of Macragge's arctic "Olympia", Bell sat on the bench in the conference room, and the two Ultramarine pharmacists who accompanied him on both sides of him also sat down. In the not-so-big conference room, the height almost reaches the ceiling.

In the conference room, mortal scientific researchers are standing on both sides. They have their own seats, but no one sits down without authorization. They are waiting for permission and instructions. Although they claim to be geniuses and leaders among human beings, but Against the Astartes, and especially the Ultramarines, their knowledge and daring count for nothing.

"Of order, all three adults, please sit down." Chief scientist Triolio gestured to the people around him, and activated the projection wall behind them as they sat down, and soon a picture appeared on the wall.

"Dear adults, our experiment has made new progress. After adopting sub-dimensional sound waves to irradiate the obelisk for a long time, the original bottleneck research has made a breakthrough discovery."

"Very good, Master Robert Guilliman has sent an inquiry, asking when the results will be available." The pharmacist brother sitting on the left side of Bell asked. collide together.

"Yes, my lords, we have been delayed for a long time, but please don't worry, Lord Guilliman, we have made a breakthrough." The chief scientist said back.

"Then show us your progress." Bell raised his hand to signal, he adjusted his sitting posture and leaned back on the chair, the chief scientist nodded slightly, and after pressing on the projection screen behind him, he quickly Soon there was a picture, composed of numbers, letters, and dense data arcs.

In the eyes of ordinary people, those data are just some random, illogical and weird dots and characters, but in the eyes of the three Astartes present, it has a clear meaning.

"That obelisk is full of life?" asked the pharmacist sitting on Bell's right hand. There were five oath papers on his shoulders, which meant that he was a noble and famous veteran with outstanding military exploits. He is indeed the oldest of the three present, as can be seen from the service nail on his head.

Bell has always been curious about why Guilliman let himself lead the team instead of him, a famous veteran. A veteran, he knows the importance of following orders.

These days, Bell has respected him as much as possible, and always let him read the experimental reports he got as soon as possible, and let him express his opinions, such as at this moment.

"Yes, Lord Trissos." The chief scientist Triolio nodded, and he pointed to a map behind him, "We scanned through the biological readings at first, but found nothing. The stele looks like a lifeless carbon-based An object, in common parlance, is like a stone."

"But later, the origin was an accident that should have been dangerous. A junior researcher accidentally got some spores on his body while cleaning the test area of ​​the stele, and then took them out of the laboratory. He then went to the plant test area. There, on that day, preparations were being made for experiments on the modification of living organisms using subsonic waves."

"Warp space power." The Ultramarine pharmacist on the left folded his arms and muttered frowningly. Bell glanced at him and planned to see how the chief scientist, Triolio, would answer this dangerous question.

The chief scientist didn't panic. If it was an ordinary person, facing Astarte's angry and serious question about such a dangerous question, he would have been so frightened that he lost control of his bowels and bladders, knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, but he didn't, he was just very calm, And look at the three Astartes seriously.

"Yes, my lord, subspace radiation, we use it to physically study the power of subspace, the degree of influence on living organisms, and whether artificial adjustments can be made. This is a dangerous experiment, but it is quite useful. From this, we can More precise genetic identification of the demihuman race, rather than finding one or two mutations and killing them all as usual."

"For the planets that were originally exposed to the subspace environment, such as the outer planets in the current plague war, this experiment can also help to identify and investigate more accurately, without having to waste resources and inhumane large-scale cleanups. We It might even reveal how to cure warp infections from it."

"Can it be done?" It was Bell's turn to ask this time, to cure the subspace infection? This is the first time he has heard of it. He used to think that once hatched by the subspace, it would be irreversible, but if this experiment is successful, how much help it can bring to the empire.

"Yes, we have made some progress in this regard. We have conducted mutation and anti-mutation experiments on animals and plants. The results are now clear. If Lord Guilliman approves, we will start human experiments as soon as possible."

The chief scientist nodded in response, his face was still very flat, neither proud nor overly proud, just the most basic quality of a scientist, "Can we return to the current problem? Dear adults."

"Please, Chief Scientist Triolio." Bell cast a questioning look at the veteran on the side, and after the latter nodded in agreement, Bell said.

"As I said before, the rash researcher brought the fungus into the plant test area, where they conducted a sub-subsonic irradiation experiment. The experiment is currently harmless to the human body, so they directly entered the test area and recorded it at close range. With the observation of the changes in plants, we have made amazing progress, and the fungi on his body have undergone amazing changes under the irradiation of sub-infrasonic waves, and they began to grow, completely violating the growth of the principle of mass conservation."

Bell frowned, as if aware of Bell's suspicion, Triolio turned his head and smiled at Bell, "Please rest assured, my lord, the experiment is not in danger, the fungus has stopped growing after part of it, we are currently The reason is not clear, but it should be related to the intensity of subsonic radiation."

"Well, go ahead, Chief Scientist Triolio."

"As you wish, in short, the fungi in the plant test area have suddenly changed, and they... have wisdom." Chief scientist Triolio said in surprise, and the happy expression on his face was indescribable.

"Wisdom? How to say?" asked the Ultramarines veteran.

"They showed the ability to communicate. At first, it was just some illogical clauses. The fungi arranged themselves into the form of words through organic arrangements. Later, we determined that they were trying to communicate with us."

The chief scientist turned around and swiped the screen, and several photographs appeared on it, capturing the sentences presented by the fungus. On the research suit, they arranged some kind of original sentences.

"Their ability to express is still very lacking. Through experiments, it is determined that they have some basic intelligence, which is almost the same as that of pet cats and dogs. They can interact with people and give simple feedback. According to follow-up research, we found that they can communicate with the experimental Personnel are in constant communication, and the speed and quality of response have improved significantly.”

In the next few photos, the language structure of the fungi has improved a lot. They began to use short sentences and even some rhetorical techniques. In the last photo, they even used complete sentences.

In the photo, the scientists asked what they were, and the fungal spores responded with a poem, "I am nothing, born in the mist, and passed away in the mist, rebirth and destruction, this is a question."

"What does that mean?" asked the young pharmacist on the left.

"We don't know yet. Adults, linguists and rhetoricians are studying, but this does not hinder follow-up research. After further contact, the intelligence of fungi has improved significantly, and it is now close to the level of human children, even , they began to try to organize the form."

"form?"

"Yes, my lord, they have tried to gather themselves together to form an organism to communicate with us better, but they all failed. The initial suspicion is that they are not enough in number. For safety reasons, we did not irradiate them later, but Transferred to a safe area for experimentation."

"at present."

The chief scientist continued to explain, and Bell frowned. He kept staring at the original photo, the first experiment in the plant laboratory, "Wait, have you cleaned up the plant laboratory? Burn all the plants there Bury."

"No, no sir. As I said before, the plants there have important research value." The chief scientist turned around and replied.

Bell's eyes widened, "So, you didn't clean it up, let the creatures from Nurgle enter a closed space, and then conducted more irradiation experiments there."

"What's the matter? Brother." The veteran asked, Bell looked at him and frowned, "As I said before, the growth of the fungi may be related to the subspace irradiation, and their bodies have been moved to other places, but if their Some parts stayed? It has been proved that they have intelligence, and one of the instincts of intelligent creatures is"

"Breeding." The veteran said with a frown, and then suddenly there was a knock on the door in the corridor, and the three Astartes turned their heads to look at the same time, and then there were screams and gunshots.

"What's going on?" The chief scientist picked up the walkie-talkie and asked, and there were dense gunshots and shouts, "This is the plant area, damn it, those things, what are they? Never mind, they Trying to hiss."

"I am nothing, born in the mist, and passed away in the mist, rebirth and destruction, this is a question."

That ancient voice, speaking through the intercom with thousands of mouths, sang the poem.

Bell stood up in an instant, and the two battle brothers behind him also stood up at the same time, raised their weapons, pulled the bolt and loaded the bullets, and they looked at the door of the conference room where footsteps gradually came.

"Alert."

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"Captain Cole, we have received an unknown communication."

In the Infinite Frontier, Anna leaned on the instrument below and said, Cole poked his head out from above and looked down, and with him was Father Mathieu who had been with him all these days.

They had just jumped out of the warp, thank the Emperor, maybe the priest's prayers worked, and they arrived safely in Macragge when something went wrong on the way to Geller's stand, and are now in orbit over Antarctica.

"Signal? From Hera Fortress?"

"No, it's Antarctica, an unknown facility there, there is no file in the system." Anna tapped the keyboard in front of her, and various images flew in front of her, "They sent an emergency signal, claiming that the facility has been attacked, requesting support."

"Whose attack?"

"I didn't say it clearly, but the language was quite confusing and panicked. The astropaths also received a similar signal. They sent it in astrolanguage and radio wave communication at the same time. At present, it seems that we are the only ones who have received it."

Cole and the priest exchanged glances, then raised their eyes to look at the ice field in Antarctica, the white land covered the whole land, "warn Hera, there is trouble."