Chapter 378 Exploration and Discovery

While sending puppets to conduct a carpet search of the entire base, Duanmu Huai was bored and began to look around.

Judging from the structure here, this seems to be a very old Mechanicus stronghold. At least many of its structures and decorations indicate that it may have originated from the earliest days of the Human Empire, but... This also means that there may be some unknown secrets hidden in it.

Well, this is all nonsense. Almost every Mechanicus stronghold looks like this.

In fact, in the game, what players can't stand the most is the behavior of the Mechanicus. They think that if the religious flavor of the Mechanicus is not so strong, maybe the technological development of the Human Empire will be improved by several levels, and it will not end up like that.

The reason is very simple.

Although the Mechanicus looks like a scientific research organization on the surface, it is a religious organization in the final analysis. They fanatically believe in the God of All Machines and believe that knowledge is a manifestation of holiness. All creatures or cultural relics with knowledge are also sacred because of knowledge. Beings with more knowledge will naturally be worshipped.

It seems to be fine, but it is very painful to bring it into the religious attributes of the Mechanicus.

The main thing is this sentence - knowledge is a manifestation of holiness. The more knowledge you have, the more you will be worshipped.

Under this doctrine, the Mechanicus does not have any knowledge exchange and sharing at all. Of course, if it is some useless or general knowledge, it is fine, but those really advanced things are hidden. Because according to the doctrine of the Mechanicus, I have obtained these advanced knowledge, I am closer to the God of All Machines than others. If I tell them, then other people will also get the same amount of knowledge, and they will be closer to the God of All Machines.

Therefore, many good things of the Mechanicus are hidden by themselves and not told to anyone. However, as we all know, once knowledge is not popularized, disseminated and communicated, then... it is basically equivalent to closed-door development, and what can be achieved is what it is.

And once the forge world or Mechanicus base that hides the secret is broken, it means that the entire research results and knowledge system are completely lost and scrapped.

It can be seen from this that religion harms people...

Of course, the human empire is already finished, and there is no point in clearing up the Mechanicus now. However, for players, any place related to the Mechanicus will make them excited--after all, there may be some kind of black technology holy relic buried inside.

For Duanmu Huai, he would like to have the Book of All Machines in it, so that he can enter a well-off society at a run, but unfortunately, the possibility is not great. After all, no player in the game has dug out the STC of the Book of All Machines. Of course, it doesn't matter if you think about it...After all, everyone has the power of YY, and the Inquisitor is no exception. Hahahahahaha...

"Huh?"

Just when Duanmu Huai was imagining that he had obtained the Book of All Machines and swept across the entire galaxy, the report from the puppets made him come back to his senses immediately.

According to the reaction 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 take a look."

Duanmu Huai held the war hammer tightly and strode inside.

As the puppets found out, the entire base was in a mess, with traces of fighting everywhere. It was obvious that there had been fighting and attacks here, and most of the things had been destroyed. However, there seemed to be something wrong with the bodies.

"Hmm... Really strange."

Duanmu Huai squatted down and looked at the body of a motor oiler at his feet. This motor oiler, like most motor oilers, had transformed his body beyond recognition, with metal prostheses everywhere. It looked more like an alien mechanical bug than a human. If the Tribunal had not determined that the symbol of pure humans was the skull, then these things would probably have been treated as aliens long ago.

Forget it, let's not talk about this.

Judging from the bodies, the death of these motor oilers was very strange. They just fell to the ground without even picking up weapons. In other words, rather than being attacked, it was more like a sudden disaster, as if some irresistible factor swept the entire base in an instant, and then these motor oilers died directly on the spot without any preparation.

Subspace storm? But if there is a subspace storm, the entire base will explode on the spot?

Or is it some kind of virus? It's impossible. After all, this research institute is at the foot of the mountain. If there is a virus leak, the outside will have become a dead place.

Forget it, just go and see. These oilers have all kinds of strange ways to commit suicide. Duanmu Huai can't imagine what they did.

In fact, it is true.

"What did these oilers do..."

Looking at the scene in front of him, Duanmu Huai was also stunned. He is now in a huge room at the deepest part of this base. In this room, there is a huge water tank that looks like the kind used in an oceanarium. At present, this water tank has already exploded. Judging from the instruments and the bodies of the oilers that were shaken away, this should be the first crime scene.

However...how did the water tank explode?

"Huh?"

At this moment, Duanmu Huai suddenly felt a line of sight coming from the void, and he quickly turned his head to look where the line of sight was. There was nothing there, but the next moment, with a scream of "Ouch!", a figure of a blond girl appeared quietly from it, trembling and curled up into a ball, staring at Duanmu Huai uneasily.

Seeing this scene, Ogis tilted her head curiously.

"ghost?"

"perhaps."

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

"Excuse me... are you the Lord Inquisitor?"

"oh?"

Duanmu Huai's eyes flashed when he heard the blonde girl's question.

"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 have any malicious intent, he slowly spoke.

"I am...Experimental Subject No. 28912..."

"Experimental subject?"

Hearing this introduction, Duanmu Huai frowned.

"I'm sorry, can you tell me exactly what happened here?"

"Ah, okay......"

The ghost girl nodded, and then began to tell her story - to Duanmu Huai's surprise, this girl was actually from the Empire (yes, the Empire of Humanity), and she was also a psyker. However, her psychic abilities were not very strong, and after she was discovered to possess psychic powers, the girl was brought to this base. At that time, the girl didn't know what the oil guys here were doing. She only knew that they seemed to be conducting experiments, and she was the experimental subject.

Then she died.

Well, the experiment failed and he died.

Nothing more than normal.

However, I don’t know whether it was due to the experiment or a problem with the girl’s psychic abilities. She did not completely die. Her soul was bound in this space. The girl herself didn’t know what was going on, so she had to stay here and observe the actions of these oil guys. Experiment, and then she slowly discovered what these people were doing.

"They... seem to have found a special STC. This device can fuse the psychic energy of the subspace with living organisms to produce perfect psychic creatures... Although I can't hear most of what they said. Understand, but they seem to want to...create another emperor..."

"hehe."

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai's expression did not change and he laughed.

As expected of a motor oil guy, it was completely beyond his expectations, he really dared to think about anything.

Of course, it is understandable that the oil man would have this idea. Judging from the time the girl told, 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, there are similar differences even within the Inquisition.

For example, there are two factions in the Inquisition. One is dedicated to resurrecting the Emperor, and the other wants to find a new body so that the Emperor's soul can be reincarnated and reincarnate to manage the Empire.

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

After all, when you say possession, you are possessed, and when you say reincarnation, you are reincarnated. How can you guarantee that the possessed person 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's not surprising that there are similar factions within the Mechanicus.

And according to the previous records of Imperial Truth, the Emperor... seems to be really man-made?

Then the experiment kept failing.

"Then what happened in the end?"

"Um……………"

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

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

"oh……………"

Duanmuhuai now knew where the sink came from.

"Then what?"

"...There seemed to be an explosion during the experiment, and then...everyone died."

The normal operation of the Mechanicum is no surprise.

As for that STC... I guess it's finished.

"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 Duanmuhuai hadn't arrived, she might not have woken up.

"As expected of the master."

Whether Ogis's words were a compliment or a criticism... Duanmu Huai didn't even bother to care.

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

"Huh? That..."

Hearing Duanmu Huai's inquiry, the ghost girl was stunned for a moment, then lowered her head with a reddish complexion.

"After being stared at by you, Lord Inquisitor, looking into your eyes made my heart beat faster and I had a very strange feeling..."

"Um……………?"

look into my eyes? Heartbeat?

Could it be that…………

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

"... Mr. Judge, why did you take out the rope?"

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

"……………Why???"