Chapter 377 Discovery

  While sending puppet to conduct a blanket search of the entire base, Duanmu Huai started to look around the situation while he was idle and bored.

   Judging from the structure here, it seems that this should be a very old Mechanicus stronghold. At least many of its structures and decorations indicate that it probably originated in the earliest days of the human empire, however... this also means that there may be some unknown secret hidden in it.

   Well, this is bullshit, almost every Mechanicus stronghold looks like this.

In fact, in the game, what players dislike the most is the behavior of the Mechanicus. They think that if the Mechanicus’ religious taste is not so strong, maybe the technological development of the human empire will be improved by several levels. Rather than end up in such an end.

  The reason is quite simple.

   Although the Mechanicus appears to be a scientific and technological research organization on the surface, it is actually a religious organization in the final analysis. They fanatically believe in the God of Myriad Mechanisms, and believe that knowledge is a manifestation of divinity, and all creatures or cultural relics with knowledge are also sacred because of knowledge-the existence with more knowledge will naturally be worshiped.

   It seems that there is no problem, but it is very painful to bring it into the religious attributes of Mechanicus.

  It is mainly this sentence—knowledge is a sacred expression, and the existence with more knowledge will be worshiped.

Under this kind of teaching, there is no exchange and sharing of knowledge in the Mechanicus. Of course, if it is some useless or general knowledge, that’s all. But those really sophisticated things, they are hidden. Tuck it in. Because according to the teachings of the Mechanicus, I have obtained these high-precision knowledge, and I am closer to the God of Myriad Machines than others. It's like getting closer to the God of Myriad Machines.

  So, many good things of Mechanicus are hidden by themselves, and they don't tell anyone. However, as we all know, once knowledge is not popularized, disseminated and communicated, then... basically it is tantamount to building a car behind closed doors, and what can be produced is what it can be.

  And once the secret casting world or Mechanicus stronghold is broken, it means that the entire research results and knowledge system will be completely lost and scrapped.

   It can be seen that religion is harmful...

Of course, the human empire is finished, and it doesn’t make sense to liquidate the Mechanicus now, but for players, any place that has something to do with the Mechanicus will make them excited—after all, if it’s not good enough, there will be Some kind of black technology sacred object is buried.

  For Duanmuhuai, he wished that there was a book of myriad opportunities in it, so that he could enter a well-off society by running, but unfortunately, the possibility is unlikely. After all, no player in the game has unearthed the STC of the Book of Myriad Machines. Of course, it doesn’t matter if you think about it... After all, everyone has the power of YY, and the judge is no exception hahahahaha...

"Um?"

   Just when Duanmuhuai imagined that he had obtained the Book of Myriad Opportunities and swept across the entire galaxy, the report from the puppet brought him back to his senses immediately.

  According to the reactions of the puppets, there is nothing in this base?

   No threats, no traps?

   Is it really an empty shell that has been abandoned long ago?

   "Go in and have a look."

  Duanmu Huai clenched his warhammer and strode inside.

  As the result of the investigation by the dolls, the entire base is in a mess, and traces of battles can be seen everywhere. It is obvious that there have been battles and attacks here, and most of the things have basically been destroyed. However, there seems to be something wrong with the condition of these corpses.

   "Hmmm... that's weird."

Duan Muhuai squatted down and stared at the corpse of a machine oil guy at his feet. Like most machine oil guys, this machine oil guy has transformed his body beyond recognition. There are metal prosthetics everywhere, which looks like alien machinery. Insects are more like humans. If the Inquisition Court had not decided that the symbol of pure human beings was the skull, then these things might have been treated as aliens long ago.

   Forget it, let’s not talk about this.

   Judging from the corpses, these engine oil guys died in a strange way. They just fell on the ground without even picking up weapons. In other words, rather than encountering an attack, it was more like encountering a sudden disaster, as if some irresistible factor swept across the entire stronghold in an instant, and then these oil guys were unprepared. He fell dead on the spot.

   Subspace storm? But in the case of a subspace storm, the entire stronghold must not explode directly on the spot?

   Or some kind of virus? Impossible, after all, the research institute is at the foot of the mountain, if the virus really leaked, the outside would have turned into a dead place long ago.

   Forget it, just go and have a look. These engine oil guys have all sorts of strange ways of killing themselves. Duanmuhuai can't imagine what they did.

   In fact it is.

   "This group of engine oil guys, what did they do..."

  Looking at the scene in front of him, Duanmu Huai was also dumbfounded. Right now he is in a huge room in the deepest part of the stronghold, and there is a huge tank in this room, which looks like the kind of giant tank that the aquarium would use. Right now, the sink has already burst open. Judging from the blown away instruments and the body of the engine oil guy, this should be the scene of the first crime.

  However... how did the sink explode?

"Um?"

   At this moment, Duanmu Huai suddenly felt a sight coming from the void, and he hurriedly turned his head to look at the place where the sight was. I saw nothing there, but the next moment, accompanied by a scream of "Hey!", I saw the figure of a blond girl quietly appearing from it, shivering and curling up into a ball, staring at Duanmu Huai anxiously.

   Seeing this scene, Augis tilted her head curiously.

   "Ghost?"

"perhaps."

  Duanmu Huai nodded. After all, the other party was floating in the air and his body was translucent. Since he was not a human being, he was probably a ghost. And at this moment, the blond girl stared at the rose knot on Duanmuhuai's chest, hesitated for a moment, and then whispered.

   "Excuse me... are you the judge?"

"oh?"

  Hearing the blonde girl's question, Duanmu Huai's eyes flashed.

"Who are you?"

   Duanmuhuai stared at the girl ghost, and asked. Although the latter was a little scared, seeing that Duanmuhuai didn't seem to be malicious, he opened his mouth slowly.

   "I am... Experiment No. 28912..."

   "Experimental subject?"

  Hearing this introduction, Duanmu Huai frowned.

   "Excuse me, can you tell me exactly what happened here?"

   "Ah, ok..."

The ghost girl nodded, and then began to tell her own story—to Duanmuhuai's surprise, this girl was actually an imperial person (yes, the empire of the human empire), and she was also a psychic, but Her psychic ability is not very strong, and after being found to possess psychic ability, the girl was brought to this base. The girl at that time didn't know what the oil guys here were doing, she only knew that they seemed to be doing experiments, and she was an experiment subject.

   And then she died.

   Well, the experiment failed, and then died.

   Nothing could be more normal.

However, I don't know if it's because of the experiment or the problem of the girl's psychic power itself. She didn't die completely, her soul was bound in this space. Experiment, and then she slowly discovered what these people were doing.

"They... seem to have found a special STC, a device that can fuse the psionic energy of the warp with the living body, thus producing a perfect psionic creature... Although I don't understand most of what they said, But they seem to want to... make another Emperor..."

"hehe."

  Hearing this, Duanmu Huai's face remained unchanged, and he laughed.

   As expected of an engine oil guy, he didn't surprise me at all, he really dared to think about anything.

  Of course, it’s understandable that the engine oil guy has such thoughts. Judging from the time told by the girl, she should have lived in the middle and late period of the empire when the emperor was sitting on the toilet. There were indeed many factions studying this issue at that time. In fact, even within the Tribunal, there are similar differences.

  For example, there are two factions in the court of justice, one is dedicated to reviving the emperor, and the other wants to find a brand new body, so that the emperor's soul can be possessed and reincarnated to manage the empire again.

  Of course, the former was very difficult, and the latter was rejected by many judges at the time.

  After all, if you say possessing a body, you are possessing a body, and if you say reincarnating, you are reincarnating. How can you guarantee that the person possessing a body is the emperor and not some other monster? There is only one emperor in the human empire. If something goes wrong, we don't know who to turn to to solve it!

  So it is not surprising that there are similar factions in the Mechanicus.

   And according to the records before the truth of the empire, the emperor... seems to be really man-made?

   Then the experiment kept failing.

   "Then what happened in the end?"

"Um………"

  Hearing Duanmuhuai's question, the ghost girl frowned and recalled for a moment.

   "Those people said...it seems to be a problem with the size, and they couldn't bear too much subspace energy, so they found a very big whale..."

"oh………"

   Duanmu Huai now knew how the sink came about.

"Then what?"

  “……It seems that there was an explosion during the experiment, and then…everyone died.”

   The normal operation of the Mechanicus is no surprise.

  As for that STC...it's probably over.

   "So what are you going to do now?"

"I have no idea……"

   Facing Duanmuhuai's inquiry, the ghost girl shook her head blankly. She has been sleeping here since then. If it wasn't for Duanmuhuai's arrival, she probably wouldn't wake up.

   "You really deserve to be the master."

  Whether Augis' words are praise or derogation... Duanmuhuai didn't even bother to care about it.

   "Speaking of which, why did you suddenly appear?"

   "Huh? That..."

  Hearing Duanmuhuai's question, the ghost girl froze for a moment, then lowered her head with a reddish face.

   "After being watched by you, Lord Judge, looking into your eyes made my heart beat faster, and I have a very strange feeling..."

"Um………?"

look into my eyes? Heartbeat?

Could it be that……

  Thinking of this, Duanmuhuai thought for a moment, then stretched out his hand silently.

   "...My lord judge, what are you doing with the rope?"

   "I said, are you interested in being my familiar?"

"………Why???"

  (end of this chapter)