Warhammer Inquisitor Chapter 278

Darkness, pure darkness engulfed everything, no time, no space, no sense of touch, only the darkness in front of him, he couldn't feel anything, sound, taste and body senses all seemed to disappear, there was only one situation One sinks into this darkness where all things are silent, and that is death.

   But he wasn't dead, he knew it, because gradually he could feel his body, his arms and legs and wriggling nose all back under the neural control of his brain.

   There was also a voice, the voice appeared in his mind, it was the voice coming from his auditory nerve, it seemed far away in the sky, and it seemed close at hand, it was a person calling himself.

   "Sir? Sir, can you hear me? I think he's waking up, right?" said the girl. "Yes, according to the neuro-reader, his cranial nerves have been reset. I think he's about to wake up."

  He was answered by a mixed voice composed of mechanical and electronic sounds, that unnatural voice came out of some bad sounding device, like a bad band ensemble.

"But why is he still like this? Are you sure?" "Well, maybe I can test it." The mechanical voice said and gradually moved closer, and he could hear the mechanical sound of movement, which was the simultaneous movement of several mechanical torsos and hydraulic devices Harsh sound.

The sound of mechanical movement approached from far away, and the pungent smell of brass metal and chrome metal hit the face, probably because the olfactory nerve had just been awakened, so the sensitivity to the gas was extraordinarily high. In human terms, it is The metallic smell on the guy smelled worse than ever.

   "Vito? Can you hear me? I can't check your restart status like other Mechanicus priests. Are you on?"

"I smelled your fuel as soon as I woke up, so move your body away for me, Cole." He said, and gradually, the light also appeared, and the pitch-black darkness split from the center, and a A pale beam of light illuminated his vision, and everything gradually became clear in that blurred light.

Vito was lying on an operating chair, his eyes unconsciously checked the surrounding situation. This is an operating room, to be precise, it should be a laboratory, with scalpels, cutting saws and fixed forceps all around. It was placed on the operating table, and the operating table over there had obviously just undergone some dissection, and the white cleaning cloth was still stained with dry blood.

And that dissecting success is probably there, a lot of culture jars are stored on the surrounding shelves, one by one formalin jars soaked in human, or who knows what anatomical organs, hands, eyes, nose and ears , looks like a scene from a horror movie.

"Damn Kaul, why does your laboratory always look like a scene from a horror movie?" Vito complained, turning his head to look at the huge Mechanicus Sage beside him, he turned around and used one of his mechanical tentacles to lift himself from the table. Grab a reagent.

  The green potion was stretched out in front of Kaur by the mechanical arm. His blue mechanical eyes turned to look at the potion. After nodding in satisfaction, he turned around and squirmed a few mechanical iron feet under the red robe to the side of the surgical couch.

"Maybe you forgot, Vito, I am also a biological sage in addition to the ruling sage. I think most of the biological sages are similar to my laboratory." Kaul said a few mechanical sages under his arm The arms stretched out at the same time, and the ends of those thin mechanical arms all had welding nozzles, and they flexibly reached the inside of the mechanical arm on Vito's right side and started welding. …

  Small sparks sprayed under Vito's armpits along with the welding flames, but the sparks were temperatureless, so even if they splashed on Vito's body, he wouldn't feel pain.

"You mean your labs are like the basement of the Slaanesh killer?" Vito said with a wry smile, and Kaur was not distracted by the witticism, he inserted the green potion into the side of Vito's mechanical arm In the interface of the medicine bottle, as the mouth of the medicine bottle was inserted and turned gently, the green liquid was pressed into the arm.

"If I'm a Slaanesh killer, I'm also a killer who can repair your mechanical arm for you." Kaul said, scanning Vito's right arm with his eyes, and his tiny mechanical tentacles sprayed on it. The flame, the electromagnetic filament repeatedly shocks each crystal surface.

  Vito looked at his right arm. He tried to move his arm, and the powerful mechanical fingers began to bend and move. He nodded slightly, then sighed and rubbed his forehead with his left hand.

"I had a dream, a very long, very long dream." "That's the effect of the Nasomic element, that chemical reagent can block your nerve response, so that when I adjust the arm contact nerve, I don't It will make you doubt life painfully."

  Cauer spoke word by word, his eyes were still on Vito's mechanical arm, and the electric fire light from his countless arms illuminated the only human face under his robe.

"However, that reagent sometimes causes the deep nerves of the subject's brain to react. After the body's perception and consciousness are shielded, it maintains the movement and activity of the brain, avoiding irreversible damage caused by the death of the brain nerves after the unresponsiveness. The electrical signal response is called a dream by your flesh and blood."

"Why do you oil guys like words that normal people can't understand, pretending to be forceful, and I know it's a dream." Vito rubbed his temples as he spoke, and looked at Helen beside him from the corner of his eye. , the latter was also standing on the small disc and looking at himself with his hands behind his back.

  He was still the same as he remembered, with a blue halo body and beautiful short hair. Vito looked at her and smiled and put down his left arm, "I've slept for so long, do you miss me?"

Helen looked at Vito expressionlessly, and an electronic clock appeared in front of her with a wave of her finger, and the floating numbers jumped in front of Helen, "No matter how long your dream is, sir, in fact, you only slept for six months. Only hours."

"It's only been six hours? Then why do I feel like my dream is so long, as if I've been asleep for several days?" Vito asked in confusion, while Kaur beside him spoke, "In deep sleep, you will feel that the dream The time is so long that it almost replaces the real time, but it is just an illusion that your brain confuses you."

   "Flesh and blood brains are always easily confused by false hallucinations and are very unreliable. I suggest that you mechanize your brain as soon as possible. If you are ready to do it now, I have several."

"Fuck, I still want to keep my brain and my other fleshy places. I don't want to become an electronic Cthulhu. It's enough trouble to turn this arm into iron." Vito waved his hand , Pushing away a mechanical arm extended by Kaul, the tiny slices spinning on it roared in Vito's ear, making him numb all over. …

"Flesh and flesh have limits, Vito, but the steel body bestowed by the God of Machines does not. Our evolution is far faster than that of flesh and blood, and we will not be tortured by the pain of flesh and blood." Kaur said, the work at hand also Without stopping, Vito gave him a blank look.

   "You sound like a missionary, Kaur, like those state religion guys, yelling that conversion is good and good, but you don't mention the possible cost."

To be honest, although the mechanical arm looks cool, it is not the case at all. You have to find an oil guy to maintain your nerves every once in a while, just like Vito. I also fiddled with the mechanical arm, and the result was.

You will be given an injection, then fall into a drowsy sleep, have a weird dream, and then wake up with a half-dead pain in your head and arms. Although it is said to relieve pain and block pain nerves, believe me, That stuff doesn't make you feel good, and if you want a full body transformation, you've got to figure out how much pain you like all over your body.

Of course, in theory, you can also replace the brain or more nerve parts of the body with mechanical ones, so that the problem can be solved, and you won't feel pain every time you maintain it, but there is another small problem In any link of the whole body transformation, you may die suddenly due to the rejection reaction between machines, or between machines and organs.

  Wow, for this problem, there is no way, you can only pray that the Emperor or Omnissia are not so eager to call you, go to accompany them.

"I think this is something you should figure out before you choose Mechanics, instead of me telling you." Kaur said, his face was illuminated by electric sparks, and Vito cut He waved his hand, but what he said was correct. Most of the followers of the Mechanicus in the empire chose to join the Mechanicus in order to escape the bad living environment, or to be desperate.

   Please, for knowledge, truth and infinite pursuit? Make it clear, this is an empire, and idealism is too much of a luxury for imperial people.

Vito took a deep breath, he leaned on the operating chair, he always dreamed of past memories, and every adjustment of the mechanical arm would cast a long memory, most of the time he would forget the dream when he woke up Seeing something, those things in the dream will become blurred and broken, looking more like a scrambled video tape.

   But this time, Vito vaguely remembered something, he looked down at Helen, and looked at the blue Helen beside him, who also looked at Vito in confusion.

   "Sir? What's the matter?" Helen asked puzzledly, while Vito waved his hands and sighed, "It's nothing, Helen, it's nothing, I just dreamed about something."

Vito looked at Helen recalling the memories in his mind, those not very pleasant memories, Vito had many memories that he didn't want to remember, you see, of course living a long time can increase experience, experience and strength, but your memory It will also record the mistakes, regrets and contradictions in the long years.

Vito has contradictions, the old **** also said this to himself, in fact, Vito often knows that there are some things that cannot be done, some things can be understood if he makes a decision, but he can't do it. He is often bound by those memories, those are his good memories. …

So sometimes, Vito also thinks, the old chaos has been hiding from the world for thousands of years, maybe, there is nothing wrong, if you want to be truly rational and without hesitation, and not be troubled by good memories, then it is best The best way is not to have those memories, and that also means that you will obliterate the most important thing about yourself as a human being, your feelings.

   "You dreamed about me, right?" Helen asked calmly, Vito froze for a moment and shook his head slightly, "No, I just dreamed something about my arm, which has nothing to do with you."

"Sir." "Really, Helen, you know, when I fought with Khorne's incarnation on the Nordson planet, that **** chopped off my hand, and I blinded one of his eyes, That's it, that's all.”

  Helen lowered her head in silence. Her expressionless face did not reveal any hesitation or thought. It did look as if nothing had happened, but she knew it was not true.

   "It's interesting, it seems that your dreams have a certain degree of prescience, Vito." Kaul finished his work as he said, he adjusted the final connection between the mechanical arm and the motor nerve, and then, it was the last step.

Kaul's slender and curved mechanical arm interface was inserted into the round hole on the side of Vito's arm. With the insertion of the interface, Vito's arm was quickly covered by the bionic skin that spread downward, and the mechanical arm's The steel surface instantly turned into the appearance of a normal person.

  Kauer pulled out the tentacle-like interface from Vito's arm. With the separation of the slot, the skin instantly covered the last exposed position of Vito's arm. Now, the entire arm has returned to its original state.

"What do you mean? Prophecy? Then I want to predict when I can open a harem, retire happily with a group of beautiful girls, and then tell that old Chaos to get the **** out of me, I'm quitting." Vito laughed Then he moved his arm, and his mechanical arm moved like an arm.

   "Well, although in theory, I can quit now, after all, the big blueberry is back." "Are you serious?"

   Kaul said on the side, he got up and turned to another operating table and began to pack the surgical tools on it.

Vito sighed regretfully, and the sigh came from the bottom of his heart, "I want to too, but I can't, can I rely on Guilliman to fix the broken situation of the empire once I leave? Well, at least when I put I won't be able to retire until the other Primarchs are found."

  Vito sighed and rubbed his neck, while Kaur responded to him with that weird voice, the pained laughter of a Mechanicus sage, oh, that laughter almost made the hairs stand on end.

"Fuck, Kaul, your laughter is still so scary, why don't you go to the interrogation department for a part-time job? You are scarier than the interrogator of the trial court, in every sense." Vito said, poking his head out and looking at The various scalpels that were packed up were seriously evaluated.

"Well, I think your mechanical priest Omega may be more suitable. He understands the habits and regulations of the court better, and I'm sure he must have helped you in the trial, right?" Kaul asked, and Vito said Shrugged.

"Ah, Omega did help, but it wasn't the kind that used knives and guns and needed to cut off a few fingers or limbs, ah, I don't know if he would like it, but every time he helped When I read those guys' memories and burned their heads, he didn't seem to have much discomfort."  …

Vito was taken aback, raised his head and looked around, he looked at the entire laboratory, this was once one of Omega's several laboratories, and it was also the place where he and Bell dissected and studied alien aliens, ah although Vito remembered that once, they dissected a green-skinned boss, trying to study how that guy changed from a green-skinned boy to a three-meter-tall hunk.

That experiment was not a success, but when they finally cleaned the laboratory, the spores in the green skin's blood floated to the lower deck through the exhaust pipe, and then the four of them, Vito and Olaf, were on the lower deck The deck and the freshmen of the Greenskins played for an entire season.

"Where is Omega? Although I know that Helen will appear here, then Omega is definitely not here, but what about that guy? His research on biology is also very good, don't you want him to help you?" Vito asked. Er turned his head to look at Vito and rolled his eyes.

"No, he did help me, after he anesthetized you he opened up the nerves in your arm and performed minimally invasive surgery, in fact, the young man performed most of the operation, I just did the arm at the end It's just the installation and nerve connection.”

"Ah, I knew it was Omega who adjusted it for me in the past few years. Isn't that young man very skilled?" Vito said with a chuckle. He stood up from the surgical couch and stretched his arms and legs. , Speaking of it, every time I wake up after deep anesthesia, I have a feeling of being reborn after death, but it would be great if my head didn't hurt so much.

Kaul walked to the cabinet on the side, and he put a lot of medicine and surgical supplies in it, and the slender mechanical arm clearly placed each item in place, "Indeed, the young priest's knowledge is amazing, I It is believed that after he left Mars and joined your account, he learned and understood more things, some of which... were even difficult for our other colleagues to accept."

"Well, technological heretics, but I think you must have some conversations with him. You two must be the most heretics in the Mechanicus apart from the guys from HuangquanⅧ." Vito twisted the arm on the other side of the mechanical arm, That arm is as flexible as his own arm. As I said before, Omega's nerve adjustment is very good, even far surpassing many Mechanicus priests who are older and more experienced.

   "Well, it is true. We have a lot to talk about. He is an excellent young man. I am considering including him in my research team. I believe he will have a different idea and understanding of the original casting project."

  Cauer said, while Vito stuck out his tongue and made a grimace, "Good guy, how long have you been on the boat? You started poaching me."

Both of them laughed, although Kaul's laughter was still so weird, Kaul looked at Helen who was beside Vito and slightly raised his head under the hood, "Since you trust him so much, why don't you introduce Helen to him?" What? I believe Helen can analyze it for him and create more research ideas, just like you introduced her to me back then."

"Without Helen, the original casting plan may not be able to be implemented now. We have seriously lost and lost those ancient dark age technologies that created the Primarch plan. Without Helen's help, I may never be able to complete my project. Mission and mission." Kaur said and nodded sincerely to Helen, who also nodded slightly in response. …

"I did think about it, but not all members of the Mechanicus have lived as long as you, and have seen and thought through many things. After all, Omega is only a young man, not yet three hundred years old, so, Helen's existence may be too early for him."

Vito laughed again as he spoke. He crossed his hips and turned to look at Helen, "Besides, I don't want him to take my girl. With his and Bell's knowledge fanaticism, they will know Helen It's going to have to be 'borrowed' by them for a while, and I don't intend to do that."

  Vito looked at Helen, who sighed silently, but at the moment when Vito and Kaur, who was more insensitive to human emotions and didn't understand, didn't notice, Helen's indifferent mouth smiled slightly.

"As you wish, sir." Helen said softly, and Vito picked up Helen's CD with a smile. He looked at the finger **** his palm, and then turned to look at Cole, "By the way, what about Omega?" I've never seen him do half of the operation, and then he disappeared, but he always has a sense of responsibility, even if he is bombarded by bombs, he will finish what he is doing before leaving.”

"I think everything has a priority. For us Mechanicus, we will analyze, sort and come up with the best solution, so when Captain Cole calls it to go to the bridge to help, I think Omega will Hand over your operation to me."

"The bridge? Cole? What happened while I was asleep? Damn! It's not like we collided with some of Abaddon's fleet." Vito exclaimed, but Cole shook his head, he Of course he knew that Vito was joking, and he wasn't stupid, didn't he look like he was in a war? And there was a fight, Cole estimated that a bucket of water had come up to wake him up, and then gave him a chainsaw sword, telling him to get up and fight quickly.

Then Vito would have to fight Chaos like a pirate with a sword in one hand, but apparently he didn't, so yes, the answer is clear, but not quite, and now, Coul will give him Answer.

"As I said before, your dream may have some foresight. We are indeed docking at the side of a planet called Northen. Our ship encountered a fleet of Rogue Traders from the Empire here. Their Adeptus Mechanicus is dead, and their ship is badly damaged in the warp, and they ask us to help them."

"So, Omega was sent to be the mechanic?" Vito raised his eyebrows and asked, and Kaur loosened his huge mechanical shoulders, "Well, it seems that everyone has a job, I guess Ke Er also handed me over, right? He will definitely not let me sleep in idling."

As Vito said, he took off his jacket from the chair on one side, and he put it on, finally covering his naked upper body. Kaur nodded, and kept Vito's Phoenix Sword with his mechanical arm, And the bolt holster was handed over.

   "That's right, Captain Cole has clearly requested that if you wake up, go to the bridge and look for him immediately. I guess I need your help?"

"Well, the Rogue Trader Fleet, Warp Storm and other issues, well, I think so, he is probably really waiting for me." Vito said, taking the weapon belt from Kaul, and he will He hung it on his body and winked at Helen, "Honey, although you are very beautiful, I can guarantee this with my 40,000 years of life experience, any man will be fascinated by you, but, ah, look, An AI on the bridge might be somewhat out of place."

   "Sir. Your experience makes me think"

   "Awesome?" Vito raised his nose, looking radiant.

   "Disgusting." Helen sneered and gave a short answer.

  After she finished speaking, she disappeared on the disc, and Vito put it in his arms with a smile. He snapped his fingers at Kaul and walked towards the exit of the laboratory.

Kaur watched Vito go out from behind the automatic door, his mechanical eyes turned to look at the re-closed door, Kaur stretched out a hand from under the red robe in silence, it was a big gun full of A vial filled with blood, which he had drawn from the sleeping Vito.

   A line of data slid across his mechanical eyes, a line of document samples called the Primarch Project, which was the original plan written by Dr. Astarte, which was given to him by Guilliman 10,000 years ago.

  Kauer looked at Navito's blood, his mechanical eyes turned left and right to stare at the blood, "Let's see what kind of work can be created by fusing the blood and genes of two human gods together."

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