Warhammer Inquisitor Chapter 409

  Chapter 409 Expedition Road: Mechanical Priest

Fires flickered in the dark and huge deep well, bright flames sprayed in the dark and silent wide longitudinal tunnel, and the splashed sparks flew to the surroundings, lighting up the surrounding area shrouded in darkness in the flickering halo. The rock wall illuminates the concave and convex gaps surrounding it layer by layer.

Hong Suo fell towards the bottom, his bare silver steel arm grasped the rope, and the hard iron rope woven by thousands of steel wires rubbed violently between his palms, where did the dazzling sparks come from? It spewed out between the fingers, lighting up the dark space around.

The entire surrounding rock wall is full of crumbled sawtooth traces, and those deep marks that meander and climb on the surrounding rocks extend round and round, like a coiled mountain on both sides. In the stepped corridor, the texture perfectly matches the edge of the drill bit of the huge drilling machine that is docked on the ground at the end below.

Hong Suo looked down at the huge machine below. The huge shield machine had returned to its horizontal position. It was quietly parked on the ground, and a large number of machine servants with tools were moving around on both sides. Some of them held Industrial melt guns, or holding small drill tools, etc., bright searchlights are erected on both sides of the excavation site, just like the underground after leaving the mine.

  The industrious workers here are working hard, they are digging tunnels tirelessly, after all, the machine servant can't speak, can't think and feel tired, can't he? They're the perfect labor force, especially here, in this bottomless subterranean depths, and who else has digging clanking here?

Holding a melta gun in his hand, the servitor sprayed a high-temperature flame on the rock wall beside him. The wall was melted by the high temperature and turned into a bright stream of fire. The flame flowed down and spread on the ground little by little. Then, the firelight also illuminated another servitor holding a drill.

Pale lights hit behind them, working between the surrounding rock walls, expanding the excavation site below, and in the clanging underground environment, the lights of the lights were also turned on when they stood On the mechanical priest behind him.

The priest in a dark red robe stood in front of the tall fuselage of the shield machine, rolling his eyes on the ground, looking at the machine servants who were repeating mechanical movements around them. They didn't complain, talk, or even breathe. Repeating simple actions over and over again, and in that action, the space here is also rapidly expanding.

He stood here alone, and Father Haimo walked alone beside the shield machine, just as Hong Suo would not let any of his men avoid him to get the ancient ancient artifact, neither would Father Haimo Allow the priests of the Mechanicism, except himself, to step into this temple of technology he has just discovered.

Everything here shocked Haimo. When the shield machine drilled through the hard granite, he stood in front of this magnificent tunnel. The mechanized, non-existent heart beat violently under the chest.

Haimer's mechanical eyes turned around, scanning the surrounding caves on his field of vision, and then turned his head to look at the huge cave sitting there, to be precise, it was a gate, which he could not analyze at all. The huge gate is composed and constructed with scanned metal.

Behind it is a deep corridor leading to a certain location. Haimo doesn't know what the end is, but he can be sure that there is something powerful there, because on the interface of his vision, the energy scanning The map can almost be called an explosive reflection of the energy radiation in it.

At the end of the tunnel, Haimo discovered a powerful energy body, the same level of energy strength Haimo had only seen in the Necrons, ancient and mysterious, and more deadly Star God fragments, Haimo It has been heard that only one ancient fragment of the Star God is needed to blow up the entire galaxy.

And now, on the scanning interface in front of Haimer's eyes, he is witnessing a picture of the same powerful energy, the ever-changing radiating body is constantly moving irregularly on his graphics window, as if it has life, a living energy of.

   "What an amazing place. There are too many technologies and mysteries here. If more excavations and research can be done here, this will provide more assistance to the journey of knowledge."

The priest walked to the door of the gate, and his eyes scanned the unique silver-gray steel-like surface. In fact, the priest didn't know what material it was. He could only name it "silver-gray alloy" through similar observations and comparisons. "He stored the name in his database for subsequent research and analysis.

The surface of this metal is almost completely sealed, all the molecules are locked together, there is no gap at all, the high-density metal that the priest used to be undead, as the priest of the Dark Mechanicus, Haimo is fortunate to be able to touch and study Those products of technology that are considered dangerous by the empire include the technology of the undead.

Haimer was not a member of the Mechanicus in the era of the Great Crusade. He was an ordinary person who was born on Mars in the later empire. Later, he wanted to survive and seek knowledge. The former may be a little more. On the planet, people have only two choices.

Either become a short-lived low-nest worker, live under the factory gas that has been circulated countless times, work in the bottomless underground for a lifetime, and finally die in obscurity, or the corpse is transformed into those hideous creatures. Servants, or made into corpse starch, supplied to others.

  Or you can become a technical priest, join the sect under the God of Mechanism, convert to Mechanicism to gain asylum, transform your body to survive in that harmful environment, and have a longer lifespan and better food and living environment.

  Most people don't really have a choice, do they? Almost everyone wants to be a tech-priest, all the children of Mars, but only a handful of them are qualified to pass the rigorous test of the Mechanicum, and Hammer is one of the lucky ones .

He has already forgotten how long ago it was. He has long forgotten the red planet, the steel factory on it and the never-ending sound of forging. The only thing he remembers is exploration and seeking knowledge. A journey of seeking knowledge and technology in the galaxy.

In the past, Haimo was just an ordinary child who converted to the God of Myriad Opportunities in order to survive, but perhaps it was the will of Omi Messiah, who soon showed a strong talent and a natural keen insight into knowledge. This allowed Haimer to climb steadily in the Mechanic Cult, and finally became the chief of the Exploration Fleet under the command of the priest.

When Haimo embarked on the road of seeking knowledge, he showed an infinite thirst for knowledge, no matter what kind of knowledge it is, even those taboo technologies that are regarded as heresy, Haimo believes that knowledge Neither is good or bad, the only difference is who takes advantage of it.

Although Haimo doesn't remember the specific life in the low nest, the hunger and physical pain never leave no matter how many iterations of data and memory have been carried out. Haimo wants to change that suffering life, just like the ohm messiah As the Emperor expected, use technology to benefit mankind.

But with such a great dream, Haimo ran into obstacles everywhere. He soon discovered that the officials of the empire and the ruling nobles of the planet didn't care about the lives of the common people at all. Even if there was a little possibility of changing society, they would It regards it as a scourge, and resolutely rejects it on the grounds of shaking the country.

They would rather watch tens of millions of ordinary people in the empire struggle through life than extend a hand to help them, because that would be of no benefit, and they would rather spend that time fighting for ridiculous power, as if what they had was still Not the same.

And what makes Haimo feel even more desperate is his own colleagues. The members of the Mechanicum don't care about all this at all. They are even more than the officials of the empire. They only care about technology and being able to help themselves The techniques used allow them to climb the technological legacy of the pyramid of ranks within the Mechanicum.

   "The Mechanicum has betrayed the Ohm Messiah."

These are Haimo's last words before leaving the empire and the Mechanicus. He left the corrupted sect and empire. Haimo once swore that he would use the power of technology to change the empire. To do that, no matter who helps him, as long as the result can still serve the well-being of all mankind and overthrow that decadent country, then Haimer will follow.

And Chaos provided him with this opportunity. In the Dark Mechanicus, Haimer can study more technologies, including many technologies from alien races, which technologies can benefit the people of the empire, more favorable medical technologies, Agriculture and construction technology and so on.

But all of this was previously banned by the empire as "dangerous alien technology". How ridiculous and absurd it is, it is precisely because of this that the kingdom that was once built on reason and truth will become a kingdom in just a thousand years. As such, Hammer was almost certain that the Emperor and the Ohm-Messiah would condemn them as well.

  So for Haimer, he is not betraying. The real traitors are those people in the empire, the group of traitors who claim to be loyal, but always disobey and betray all the principles of the empire when it was established.

Therefore, when Hong Suo offered him an invitation, promising that the technology he was looking for would bring about a complete change to all mankind, Haimo agreed to his invitation and came here to help Hong Suo find the ancient technology. And now, he is standing in front of those technologies.

He has studied the polymer technology of the undead, as well as similar technologies of several other alien races, but they are completely incomparable with the metal in front of him. The metal gate and the structure behind it are completely locked. All the molecules are gone, there is not even a resonance, when you knock on its surface, there is not even a little vibration on it.

Its structure is locked by some unknown radiant energy body rich in a special energy form. The priest believes that it is a unique kind of psionic energy, and only experts can explain the complete randomness of this energy. The priest has observed thousands of them. Tens of thousands of times, but no repeatable pattern was found at all. Every time the energy is quantized is random, but the results are completely consistent.

   This made the priest feel extremely curious, he is eager to study everything here, and stay here for a while, a few months? It may be a few years, or longer to study these unknown ancient technologies.

The priest hopes that he can further unearth the technological mysteries here by studying these technological artifacts, but now, he must notify his employer, so the priest's alarm clock turned on the communication channel, "Lord Hong Suo, I have completed Digging, waiting for your arrival."

"Very good, priest." Hong Suo's voice echoed in his ears, but not from the communicator, but from behind him. The priest turned around and looked at the falling behind him under the huge impact. Hong Suo, he fell heavily behind the priest, his tall body slowly stood up with his battle ax in hand.

   "My lord, I am very glad that you can come here. I have discovered a large number of scientific and technological products here, but none of them have been included. I request to conduct more research here, so as to facilitate more knowledge and exploration."

"Very good priest, I agree with your request, but it is precisely because of this that you must also defend your technological heritage with your own hands, buy me time, and let me go to obtain the technological relic that changes everything, someone is behind Can you stop him in hot pursuit?"

Hong Suo raised his head and looked up. Of course, he didn't expect Haimo to block Vito. Unless the four gods came out in person, no one could block the attack of the Supreme Marshal himself. It was no different from death, so Hong Suo Only then decisively chose to run.

He doesn't have any blessings from the four gods. It's okay to kill ordinary space fighters with the battle ax in his hand, but it can't be used to kill gods. He will definitely die if he confronts the marshal head-on. If he doesn't stop, he will be dropped in seconds. What he needs now is time, the time to run away after getting the artifact, and Haimo should at least be able to hold him back for a while so that he can reach the shrine.

   "Naturally, Lord Hong Suo, I will defend this valuable knowledge and gain precious time for you. In the name of Om Messiah, we will change the world together."

   "Of course, priest, of course, good luck to you now, when you face him, you will need good luck."

   After Hon Suo finished speaking, he turned and ran towards the gate at the side. Haimer turned around and looked around, his mechanical eyes scanning everything around him, just like a hunter inspecting his own hunting ground.

  He didn't know what he was talking about in Hong Suo's mouth, but the priest believed that it should be the Astartes. Combining the recent situation with the dozens of endings he had calculated, the probability was as high as 88.12%.

Haimo is sure that his analysis is correct, and he has already prepared for the Astartes. His army of servants is all equipped with weapons, and he himself has the weapons designed for the Astartes equipment.

   But how to put it, I think he probably wasn't prepared to deal with a guy who was "bigger" than the Astartes, something that his own old club, Hong Suo, would have to run away when he saw it.

Haimo stood in front of the shield machine. He suddenly detected a huge object approaching rapidly. The priest raised his mechanical eye and looked up. Then he caught the figure falling from the sky on the scanning interface. There are sparks all the way above.

The priest stared at him, and he could still be sure that it was an Astartes through the system's careful tracing. He confirmed this no matter from the physique or the shape of the armor. The priest stared at the thing that fell from the sky, and he hit Not far from the priest, the moment it fell, it trampled to death two machine servants.

The two unlucky diggers raised their heads and looked at the source of the noise above, and then they were crushed by the noise. The huge giant crushed them into splattered flesh and blood, which were still connected A line of pipes and electrodes and things like that.

The shattered body of the servant fell to the ground, and the electrodes on the remaining piece of cerebral cortex jumped out weak electric arcs. The priest raised his head and looked at the Astartes who stood up slowly in front of him. He was wearing a golden War armor, and a huge power claw mounted on the other hand.

The priest quickly scanned his whole body, but he did not find any recognizable logo of the battle group, and his armor model was never included in the priest's database. He could not match any power armor map of the battle group. This Astartes, like everything here, was completely unknown to the Priest.

"I, can't identify you, Brother Astartes." "It's not unexpected, but can I talk about my question later? Did you come here just now? Did you come here just now? There is a silver, shiny The guy with the arm ran over?"

"I think the person you're talking about is Lord Honso." "Ah, yes, it looks like you've seen him, can you tell me where he's going? I've got something to do with him, so if you don't mind ,so I"

Vito stood up and said with a smile. He raised his head and looked towards the only tunnel ahead. Then, he saw a melta gun protruding from the cannon behind the priest, and dozens of other guns around. Fusion and plasma, heavy lasguns.

"Hey, your way of welcoming guests is so warm." Vito jokingly said, he looked up at the priest in front of him, and shrugged his shoulders upwards, "Could it be the same as in a fairy tale here? What gifts do I need to offer, or Sacrifice or something, and then you will let me go?"

"Let me guess, do you want a bouquet of rare flowers, or a glittering crystal slipper?" Vito said happily, wagging his fingers, and then he heard the sound of the second gun being loaded, It was a handful of plasma, protruding from under the priest's robe, aiming at Vito's head with a flickering light.

   "What I want, you surrender, you, can't pass, betrayer."

"A traitor? As a member of the Dark Mechanicum, you call me a traitor. Isn't that a little bit of an upside-down?" Vito asked with a smile, but obviously, the muzzle of the loaded gun behind Haimo showed that he did not have any conflicts with Vito. The meaning of wrangling.

"You are the traitors, a group of traitors who have betrayed the original will of the Emperor and the Om Messiah." Haimo said, raising all the weapons behind him, and dozens of guns shot out from between the mechanical arms behind him. He lifted it up and pointed at Vito's head.

  The latter looked at him in silence for a moment, Vito squinted slightly at the priest in front of him, and slid his fingers lightly to the bolter behind his waist, "Are you the mechanical priest of the Great Crusade?"

"No, no, I was born after that." Haimo replied coldly, there was no emotion in the synthesized voice, and Vito looked surprised. He was not from the era of the Great Crusade, but he knew the current empire

Vito watched him silent for a while, and then the finger that was about to touch the trigger stopped, and he tapped the **** of the gun lightly, frowning and staring at him, "Surrender, priest, I will give you this chance, I don't want to kill you, join us and together we will transform this empire."

   "Negative, false promises and lies, I have heard too much, now, you, must be eliminated."

   "For the future of mankind"

  (end of this chapter)

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