Warhammer Inquisitor Chapter 347

  Chapter 347 Expedition Road: Helen's Treasure

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Magnus's crimson face was illuminated by the faint blue light, and his red-gold eyes reflected a little bit of azure 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 top of the head.

But I'm also sure that a tiny firefly wouldn't have made Magnus, the Primarch of the Thousand Sons, look so stunned that you could tell by the pupillary reflex on Magnus' stunned eyes Seeing what he saw, a small lady of blue light appeared over his eyes.

Magnus looked at the woman, who was standing on the disc, looking at himself with a calm and icy expression, expressionless as if without any 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 tiny streams of data rolling on the blue eyes. Her entire body was also composed of countless linear streams of information. She had a name, of course not the one Vito told him, but another name. One, a name that can summarize the entire existence of him.

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

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

"She's an artificial intelligence, or AI as it's called, don't try to trick me, Vito, you have an abominable intelligence in your hand." Magnus snapped, and Vito scratched his chin with the smooth back of the Power Claw. Head, he looked at Magnus.

   "Really? You also use that outrageous name? I think the electronic demon sounds better." "This is not the point. The point is that you have an AI in your hand, an AI that the Emperor expressly prohibits."

"Yes, I can tell, don't shout loudly, why are you like the people of the state religion? You are from the rebel side, calm down." Vito laughed mockingly, and he leaned on the console beside him , held Helen in his hands and raised his head slightly to indicate that Magnus could continue to ask questions. He guessed that Magnus had a lot of questions.

  The Cyclops looked at Vito up there, and he looked down at Helen again. After a little silence, he slowly opened his mouth, "Did you hide an artificial intelligence from everyone, including the Emperor?"

"The answer is, that's right, each of us has our own secrets, Magnus, and I'm no exception, but the Emperor...he knows, he always knew but he didn't want to reveal it, he knows I won't give up on Helen .”

"In order to erase artificial intelligence, he wiped out a branch of human civilization, just because they continued to retain artificial intelligence technology, Intellei, Holmes Technology Alliance, etc., but he acquiesced in you, holding a artificial intelligence?"

Magnus asked questioningly, it sounded like a trial, but Vito could understand his thoughts, so Vito just shrugged, not paying attention to the uncomfortable words in Magnus's words Questioning tone.

"Yes, that's right."

   "Then, why? Just because you are his marshal? You are his eternal brother who has gone through tens of thousands of years with him?"

   "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 Semite. How did 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? Selfishness? Or do you have other plans?"

Magnus took a step forward and continued to ask. It sounded like his tone was very excited. This is not surprising. The person who was tried at the Mikaia Conference as a pursuit of forbidden knowledge was sentenced for exploring technology banned by the Emperor. When it came to punishing people, when Magnus knew that Vito beside the Emperor had mastered these prohibited technologies, and the Emperor did not punish or confiscate them when he knew it clearly, 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 did stop and stood two steps away from Vito, "I know you are very angry, and it would be the same if others knew, but believe me Me, it's not because of selfishness, that old man does have selfishness sometimes, but believe me, he is very separate and will never bring it into his career, so, yes, it's not for selfishness."

"What is that for? Another picture?" "The reason is very 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 needs these things, And such a huge technology and science cannot be remembered by the human brain, 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 everyone existed in this lady of light and shadow the size of a finger. All the treasures coveted by those who pursue knowledge and technology in the world.

This artificial intelligence lady staring at her blankly is a treasure. Her whole being, her entire existence is a precious thing in this galaxy. It is the door and key to countless palaces of knowledge and golden futures. , is a precious thing that cannot be described in words.

"Helen was the artificial intelligence adjutant when I was a federal marshal. She connected to the database of the entire federation, coordinated scientific research, military dispatching, and weaponry deployment. She recorded all the technical data of the golden age in her data core, and The research and development process, and she is also the last one in this galaxy so far, the computing power is strong enough to allow the emperor to transform the computing power of the entire empire's industrial and technological industries. "

"But the Emperor clearly told us the Iron Man Rebellion that artificial intelligence is dangerous and uncontrollable. She has recorded those knowledge and technologies, but she may use them at any time and turn her guns on us." Magnus wrinkled Frowning and continuing to ask, he stared into Vito's eyes and continued to ask.

Vito smiled softly, leaning on the instrument with his arms folded, "Yes, but Helen is the "loyal artificial intelligence" who ended the Iron Man rebellion back then, and 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 AI is evil, so that some people don't open their minds and have dangerous fantasies of rebellion and electronic demons Use them safely."

  "Although black and white, good and bad are extreme, but for ignorant human beings after the Dark Ages, perhaps rigid and dogmatic dogmas are the best way to ensure safety, not explanations."

Vito looked down at Helen in his hand, and the latter also slightly turned around and looked up at Vito, "For the Emperor, the knowledge recorded in Helen's mind must be valuable, but more importantly, Helen is the only one among all artificial intelligences. An AI that did not go crazy and paranoid in the subsequent era of disputes and the 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 and smiled confidently. He patted his chest with an arrogant look, "Yes, your second uncle and I are so awesome! Look, I will give you Demonstrate, Helen, change to a bikini swimsuit skin."

   "I decline, sir."

Magnus opened his mouth slightly, watching Vito, who just wanted to demonstrate and overturned the car, hesitated to speak, and the latter looked up at Magnus with a wry smile and shrugged, "Well, at least most of the time He listened to me."

"So let me sum it up, the reason why the Emperor allows you to hold Helen is not selfishness, but because Helen's core records the science and technology that the Emperor needs, all the technologies, and she is controllable, not Will cause unrest like other Rebel Intelligences, so she is safe in this knowledge, and you are her steward."

   "Correct, I knew that your brain is very flexible, and you don't need the kind I asked for when I explained it to the Mechanician. It will take several days to talk about it, and you may not be able to convince those idiots in the end."

This is why Vito has always chosen to conceal 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, has chosen to conceal it, but Not everyone shares Kaul's "technocratic" kind of enlightened attitude.

Most of the time, when you take out a new technology, tell the machine to teach it to work, and you're done with it, what you have to meet is endless technical discussions, religious and philosophical speculation, and the final high probability, copy guys A brief firefight broke out with each other.

This is the reason why the Mechanicus has no new technology for a long time. It is not simply that no one is researching and developing, but in today's Mechanicus, the birth of any new technology needs thousands of years and endless debates. 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.

   It is even more characteristic of the empire. When you develop a new technology, your colleagues within the Mechanicum will be jealous of you. They will prevent your technology from passing, obliterate the technology, and even you, a classic imperial political struggle.

When the Olympia Agreement was signed, the Empire converted to the cult of the Mechanicus, and the Mechanicus also converted to the Empire. After a long time, it was finally assimilated by the bureaucratic system of the Empire. Now it is intricate, hierarchical and politically strict. Internally, it is no longer the enlightened organization of the past. The first thing that comes out of any new technology is not hope and change, but confrontation and disputes.

Therefore, Vito was cautious about using the Iron Man, hiding the Heavenly Blade, and Helen in his hands, her existence and the amount of knowledge of the technology at its core were enough to set off a turbulent wave that would tear apart half of the empire. With the emperor at the helm, the ship of the empire would have been torn in half by the tsunami and just sank.

In many cases, it's not that Vito doesn't want to help the empire, but because of his help, those really useful help will bring disaster. Today's empire is like a crumbling house, its structure is already on the verge of collapse. A single brick, any single stone may cause the entire building to collapse, maintaining the status quo, this is the only choice despite the pain in these ten thousand years.

Magnus ignored Vito's meaningless ridicule in the second half. He looked at Helen in front of him and was silent for a long time. After a long thought, he slowly opened his mouth, "The Emperor deceived us all, Once, he kept his mouth shut to ban artificial intelligence, and he committed mass murder for it, but he chose not to tell us the truth, and he himself hid an AI, one outside and one inside."

"He is for your own good. After all, most artificial intelligences are dangerous. Helen is the most special case. He must prevent people from using other dangerous intelligences without thinking clearly. After connecting them into the system, they will become dangerous. It's a catastrophe, so we can only do it across the board.”

"But, Vito, isn't Helen a tool for him? It's just a storage of knowledge, and you are her administrator, responsible for him to lay down the marshal of the entire galaxy, aren't you also his A tool? If the Emperor succeeds in using Helen to rebuild human civilization one day, there is a high probability that he will destroy Helen for "safety", and will you allow it?"

   Magnus' words suddenly silenced the atmosphere. Vito, who was still smiling just now, suddenly disappeared. He looked up at Magnus expressionlessly, and the latter also looked at him silently.

This disturbing silence lasted for a while, and Helen in Vito's hand was also silent for a while, she slightly raised her head to look at Vito, who was still looking at Magnus, not saying a word. send.

"You are also a tool to him, and all of us are just his tools to him. We use it when it is useful, and discard it when it is useless, especially when we resist." Magnus He spoke slowly, his voice was low, and he spoke word by word, as if to let Vito hear clearly.

Vito looked at Magnus, and after a while he turned around and began to click on the interface in front of him with his fingers, "Helen knows how to operate the Eldar system, we connect her in, and then she will open the webway portal .”

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

On the instrument similar to some kind of unique crystal, countless light particles rose out of nowhere, and they moved quickly over the instrument, changing countless graphics and interface windows, which looked like a group of well-trained fireflies. Like a puzzle.

"How do you get her in?" Magnus asked, and Vito smiled, and his finger tapped lightly on the side of the crystal instrument, accompanied by a brief moment of tiny golden lightning bolts. Jumping, a notch quickly grew on the surface of the solid crystal.

  The protruding **** joint surface seems to grow from the water, a part of the entire crystal crystal liquefies rapidly, then rises to form the **** joint disc and then solidifies rapidly.

The machine of the Eldar is not so much a machine as it is more like a living creature, which surprised and admired Magnus, while Vito did not have so much emotion for scientific knowledge , he immediately put Helen into the disk.

The surface of the disc matched Helen's disc almost perfectly, and the gaps at the edges were tightly seamed, as if it was specially made for that disc. As Helen slipped into the end and firmly fixed it, she closed her eyes and remained silent for a moment. , Magnus noticed some strange purple light briefly appearing on the faint blue skin of Helen's body.

   "The system has been connected, and the control is complete." "Very well, 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, as if he was imagining the beautiful world behind the door, but the door was not opened, and there was still no response in the dark portal frame, Vito turned his head slightly, with a look of awe He looked at the expressionless Helen with affection.

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

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

Helen nodded slightly, and she 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 intruding into the system, the Eldar set up a password lock on the operating authority of the system. Only after I cracked it can I activate the portal. .”

"Can't you break through the combination lock? I believe that with your awesome computing power, you can definitely do it, right?" Vito raised his head with his hands on his hips, smiling confidently, and glanced at Mag who was standing beside him. Nu Si showed off how awesome his girl was and raised her head, while the latter rolled her eyes and stood aside and didn't bother to talk to him.

"Indeed, if the password is in the system, I can do it." Helen put her hands behind her back and turned to look forward, while Vito turned around in surprise. Statues of Eldar gods on the

   "Wait, you didn't mean to tell me that those **** pointy ears are there again." "That's right, the password is those statues, which need to be moved to the correct position in the physical world so that they can be unlocked."

  Vito looked at the statues holding their foreheads speechlessly, and he sighed a long time, "Why do these sharp ears always like riddles and so on, and we have to guess riddles again."

   "I guess, it may be related to the myth of the Eldar gods, do you understand?" Magnus asked, looking up at the lifelike statues, while Vito shrugged with a wry smile.

"No, how do I know about those complicated and outrageous myths of the Eldar?" "You haven't studied it. Anyway, you also fought against the Eldar for more than ten years in the Golden Age. After the Emperor sat on the throne, he fought against all kinds of Eldar. After more than 10,000 years of communication, have you not studied it?"

"All I need to do is blow the heads of that group of sharp ears, or play all kinds of conspiracies and tricks with them, and I don't need to study through their group, all kinds of extremely complicated relationships, and weird and outrageous behaviors A question between gods."

As Vito spoke, he approached Magnus, and he raised his head slightly to signal the group of gods in front, "As far as the group of guys in front are concerned, the God King is a dead house, and brother Kane is a dead man, isn't it? Getting angry is a psychopath who is killing people, that Isa is a crazy **** with weird ideas, her husband Kunos, or Val? Well, I don't know how many husbands she has.”

"In short, whoever is crazy will try to understand their messy relationship, who cheated whom, who slept with whom, and then who is jealous because of this, and the complicated and broken myths of their respective ethical dramas, to be honest, spiritual The clan themselves never figured it out."

"Then there is a "crazy" next to you who understands it, so get out of the way." Magnus said, pushing away Vito who was approaching, and put his big red hand on Vito's cheek, pulling him away. His face was huddled and pushed aside.

Vito took a few steps back with a smile, smiled jokingly and gave a slight bow before getting out of the way, "Then, let's invite our Professor Magnus to deal with this epic-level 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 eyes looked at the circle of statues in front of him, he swept them one by one, and at first he really didn't see any of them What a special place, but it was only the beginning, after another reverse sweep, Magnus immediately discovered something was wrong.

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

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

Vito stood behind Magnus with his hands in his arms and smiled. He waved his palms playfully and bowed in salute. Magnus glanced at the no-respect, playful bow and sighed helplessly. , but this is Vito, he's used 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 beside Isa. The Eldar warrior with a wide blade stomped on the enemy's corpse, raised the **** sword and roared forward. .

"Kane once heard a legend that a warrior would be born among the Eldar. In the end, the warrior would challenge himself and take his place after defeating Kane. Therefore, in order to fight against the prophecy, Kane decided to avoid future troubles. , he waved the divine sword in his hand and went down to the mortal world, intending to kill all the Eldar to prevent the prophecy from happening."

   "What kind of crazy thinking is this? Is he out of his mind?" Vito happily complained from behind, but Magnus decided to ignore him, so as not to pay attention to his outrageous complaints.

  "All the 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 has been sitting on the throne and making a fuss, and doesn't care about the shit." Vito complained sharply, turning his head to look at the statue of the Phoenix King in the center of the disc. He was sitting on the throne, Wearing a huge crown of spreading fire and phoenix wings, his hands are placed on the armrests on both sides of the throne, and the holy phoenix sword, which is quite similar to the blade worn by Vito, leans against his legs.

"Asuyan decided to respond to Isha's request. He ordered all the gods of the spirit race not to come down to the mortal world to interfere and interact with the spirit race, so as to force Kane to accept the judgment. Although Kane was very upset, in the end I still considered that Isa would not be able to meet her children, and would be more uncomfortable than herself, so I finally chose to accept it."

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

"But in the end, because Isa missed her spirit children too much, she turned her tears into a soul stone and descended to the world, so that the spirits could communicate with Isa through the soul stone. At first everything went well, and no one noticed. Isa broke Asuyan's ban, but one day a blood banshee found out about it and she reported it to Kane, eventually causing the Eldar **** of war to fly into a rage."

"He captured Isa, imprisoned him in his fortress and tortured her, and Isa's husband Kunos, the hunting god, planned to go to rescue his wife, but was discovered and imprisoned by Kane. He took Isa Locked up with Kunos, venting his boundless anger by torturing the couple."

"What kind of gourd baby is this saving grandpa? And this is too insane, what about the Phoenix King? The gods under you are playing **** play with each other, don't you care about it? Oh, is there a possibility that the Phoenix King also likes to watch it? And you didn't care about it when you were enjoying it?" Vito leaned against the wall and said with a smile on his face, and Magnus turned his head to look at the statue on the other side after a blank look.

   That is a strong Eldar **** holding a hammer and standing in front of an anvil wielding a sledgehammer to strike metal. He is naked to the waist, and will fight the Emperor, no! The Eldar could never have the muscular chest muscles of the Emperor, so he sweated profusely forging this divine sword with his heretical and profane chest muscles.

"Val, the **** of craftsman and manufacturing, learned of the encounter between Isa and Kunos. He made a negotiation with Kane that he could exchange the freedom of Isa and Kubus with the magic soldiers he created. Kane, the God of War, coveted The weapon cast by Val, so I agreed, but the condition is that Val needs to create a hundred swords for himself, in exchange for Isa and Kunos."

"Good guy, use one today and another tomorrow, right? One hundred days is a cycle, free prostitution skills are fine." Vito laughed, and continued to contrast with the serious and serious Magnus Comparing the complaints.

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

"In short, Val agreed to the terms of exchange. He forged a hundred magic weapons, but after casting ninety-nine bars, because it was still approaching the deadline set by Kane, he used an ordinary sword as a magic weapon. After pretending to be a soldier, they mixed in, collected a hundred swords and handed them to Kane, and finally Kane found out, and the God of War pointed the fake sword at Val in a rage, vowing to make him pay the price."

   "So, the positions of the statues are all wrong, so that's right."

Magnus raised a finger as he spoke, his red-golden eyes flickered with the movement of the fingertips, and the statues on the belt in front of Magnus moved as the light shone. , with the rotation of his fingertips, spiritual energy instantly enveloped those lifelike statues, causing them to start moving along the rings.

The statue of the Hunting God holding a bow and arrow slid to the other side of Kane, and he snuggled up with the statue of Isa behind Kane, while the roaring God of War held the big sword in his hand and pointed to the ring belt ahead, where he cast The statue of the **** Val slid up and stopped firmly in the direction Kane pointed.

As Kane's sword peak steadily pointed at Val holding the hammer, leaning back and raising his head, the inner side of the statue track in the center of the ring belt of the entire hall was all lit up with bright light at the same time, the shining light belt It illuminates the faces of the statues standing on it, the angry Kane, the beautiful Isa and Val with his head held high, even the Asuyan sitting on the throne, all the faces of the statues are lit by the halo .

And in the blink of an eye that followed, one of the small portals behind the statue's ring lit up, and a shining teleportation halo instantly appeared inside the door frame, separating the hard wall behind it from everything in the hall. separated.

Magnus looked at the illuminated portal. The white halo continuously flooded the surroundings, and the wave-like portal body illuminated the entire dark space. The red skin of the Cyclops was exposed in the turquoise Under the light, Vito also came up beside him, and he stood beside Magnus with his arms folded.

   "Sir, the webway portal is activated, but" "Bad news? Haven't you said it all? Isn't there good news left?"

Vito turned his head to look at Helen, and Magnus, who was stuck with him, also looked over. One gold and one red turned to look at Helen at the same time, while the latter stood calmly with his hands behind his back. In the presence of these two men who would scare most people in the galaxy to death, at least half to death.

  With a wave of Helen's finger, all the crystal light particles behind her rose up, and those star-like light particles converged behind Helen to form a huge image, which looked like several gates, to be precise, they used to be.

One of the largest gates was broken right behind Helen, surrounded by several other smaller gates, which looked the same as the currently lit portal, but only one of them was lit. Thor and Magnus looked up at the only glowing door side by side.

   "What do you mean?" After being stunned for a moment, Vito finally admitted to himself, completely unable to understand the meaning of those large and small broken doors.

"The good news is that I successfully activated the teleportation network channel, and it can indeed be used. The other good news is that after testing, I am sure that our destruction here was quite effective. The entire gate connecting the physical universe has been completely destroyed. , all 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 the This city, if I had the data back then, I could apply for a medal for you."

   "No, I have enough medals, and secondly. So we can't go back to the physical universe?" Vito smiled helplessly, is he shooting himself in the foot? Back then, I was so dedicated to my work, so dedicated that now I want to use the things in this city, but I find that I have smashed them all.

"Not here, but small webway portals 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, I can always find a A webway exit that can still be used."

As Helen said, with a light wave of her finger, all the light particles behind her dissipated. They all dissipated into the air like tiny sparks flying in the air, while Magnus in front of her turned his head to look at that The only remaining webway gate.

"Can you confirm that there is an available 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 in this On disc with limited functionality, so I can't see what's behind that door."

Helen also looked at the gate, and she tilted her head slightly, which could even be called cute, "And the bad news is that this gate is one-way, that is, as long as we pass through, we can't go through it." I'm back, so I'll just have to try my luck."

   "As an artificial intelligence, do you believe in luck?" Magnus asked in surprise, while Helen shrugged helplessly, and she casually pointed to Vito next to her.

   "No, it depends on his luck. Sometimes he does encounter big luck or something, luck beyond my calculation range, so I don't bother to understand the concept of luck over time."

  Vito raised his head proudly, his nose raised high, like a proud big boy, Vito patted his chest boldly, and the power fist collided with the golden power armor and was knocked loudly.

   "That's right, and this time, I have a hunch that I'll be lucky."

  (end of this chapter)

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