Chapter 754 197 Mutual Fantasy

Chapter 754 197. Mutual fantasy

"Is your friend okay?"

In the quiet and comfortable room, light quietly fell from the gaps in the ceiling and shone on the two titans. Their gray-blue skin showed a special light and shadow.

The Fire Caste warrior asked the Water Caste diplomat Po'Nivaan with concern, and Poon'Nivaan shook his head silently.

"I think the self-destruction of the mechanical sage put a lot of psychological pressure on him - but more crises are still lurking underwater, and I think he is a little shaken."

Yingyang said something, then turned his face apologetically,

"I'm sorry for putting such psychological pressure on your friend. I should have searched the prisoner more carefully."

Po'Nivaan was silent for a moment, and then it touched its smooth forehead with its three fingers. There was no hair there, and a thin sniffing slit extended downward from the center of the forehead.

"I'm not blaming you, maybe I'm just blaming myself. I really shouldn't have let this poor human warrior witness all this, even though it was of his own free will."

Shadowyang shrugged, the Fire Clan was trying their best to express their emotions,

"Stay with him more,"

it says,

"I also have soldiers from the Empire of Man in my core, and I often fight against the behemoth of the Empire - the beast of the Empire of Man is too cruel and huge, and it usually leaves unimaginable scars on its people."

Po'Nivaan propped his forehead up with his hand.

"Most of them are fanatical, at least in the early days."

"Yes,"

Yingyang nodded. Soldiers of the Human Empire usually showed a kind of fanaticism to the point of ignorance. For Tau, this idea was difficult to understand.

The faith of the Human Empire supports them, making them willing to believe that they are willing to accept suffering for a specific person, or forcibly inflict suffering on innocent aliens for the sake of their "Emperor" or "Pluto", leaving a heart Another vibrant planet fell into the quagmire of destruction.

"But your work is very effective, Shui."

Shadow Sun immediately added the next sentence. It looked at Po'Nivaan, who smiled and made a gesture, which meant humility.

"For the greater good endures forever,"

Po'Nivaan smiled and said,

"After experiencing warmth and hope, these suffering people will understand that the higher good is their true destination. Everyone is for me, and I am for everyone. A small part of the human race is not a stubborn person. After accepting Titanium's help, they will know who their true friends are."

As of now, the Tau Empire has a huge number of human subjects - if detailed statistics are calculated, this number may reach a jaw-dropping number.

This phenomenon is extremely rare. After all, human beings have civilized the galaxy with their extreme racism. It is unimaginable and almost impossible to surrender to alien races on a large scale.

But the Tau Empire has a large number of human subjects, and these blue-skinned aliens often do this -

They will send out trading ships composed of water castes and soldiers, and persistently exchange their convenient, convenient and cheap creations or food for the least valuable local things, such as bricks and soil.

At first, humans will attack them and take away the supplies brought by the titanium, but then some humans will find that attacking this small titanium is extremely boring. If they do not attack them, the titanium trading ships will still arrive next time. and gave them this ship's supplies almost free of charge.

So humans will try to trade with the Tau.

Once they started trading, the door was already opened. The eloquent Water Clan knew how to win the favor of the local humans, and the technological creations they brought did save the local people.

So, as time goes by, and when the time is right, a Water Caste carrying a cooperation covenant will come to visit the supreme leader of human civilization. This will initially be an extremely ordinary contract, but slowly, the Titanium will Its replacement was replaced by a more unbreakable covenant.

Of course, if someone asks, what if humans had resolutely resisted the merchant ships sent by the Tau from the very beginning?

Quite simply, before starting trade, the Tau will station an army near this human settlement.

If the humans don't accept trade, then the Tau send in their armies.

"For the Greater Good."

After hearing Po'Nivaan's words, Shadow Yang also followed suit, and then the Fire Clan added what it was confused about,

"This time our prisoner is a mechanical magus."

it says,

"I originally wanted to call a human being with a similar background to persuade him, but after I collected all our data, I found that there is no such person among the human beings."

"But I have met them during combat. They are crazier than ordinary Imperial soldiers. From what I understand, it seems that the Mechanical Sages are a religious faction independent of the Empire, and they are a branch of the Empire that is responsible for scientific research."

"Just like the Tu clan."

Po'Nivaan responded, "But the Earth caste are not as crazy as they are."

"yes,"

Yingyang looked away, remembering some of his unpleasant memories on the battlefield.

In the blasphemous creation controlled by the Mechanical Magos of the Human Empire, it once witnessed a human who was transformed beyond recognition by the Mechanical Magos screaming - the human's brain was half-exposed, and electrodes were directly inserted into it.

"They... they're scary, weird."

Shadow Yang said as it began to pace in the room,

"Some of mankind's technological creations are difficult for the Earth caste to understand. I once talked with a scholar of the Earth caste on intelligence analysis. He was very surprised why humans insist on using their own species, or taking them from their bodies. Cells serve as computing power hubs - based on our understanding of the Empire's other technologies, they should be able to develop drones, or more intelligent creations."

Po'Nivaan turned its head and looked at Shadow Sun,

"So what's your final conclusion?"

Yingyang suddenly stopped in its tracks, and her face became a little funny. It seemed that it was difficult to imagine what it was going to say next, but the logic in it was actually very reasonable.

"We ended up thinking it was a human quirk."

Yingyang said,

"Maybe it's the hobby of the Mechanical Magos. The brutal humans are keen on torturing their civilians - although it was a bit derelict, I later tried to understand the beliefs of the Mechanical Magos."

"That's not the Emperor they usually call him."

Shadow Sun turned its head, half of its face was hidden in the shadow,

"...but Hades... Hades."

Yingyang chewed this weird word in his mouth. He had reason to believe that this "god" was more cruel because the mechanical sages under him were more difficult to understand and ruthless.

"It's probably another existence they made up."

Po'Nivaan made a disappointed gesture.

"One god is not enough. They need another god to entrust their cruel and cowardly thoughts."

Yingyang was a little hesitant,

"But I always felt like something was wrong."

"No,"

Po'Nivaan comforted the Fire Caste in time,

"It is possible for the same race to worship different gods. Among the dozens of races that have joined the Titanium, some of them believed in several gods before meeting the Titanium."

"It is not uncommon for widely differing entities within a race to worship gods that belong exclusively to similar groups."

"Similar groups, just like the Water Clan, the Earth Clan, the Fire Clan, and the Air Clan."

Po'Nivaan said calmly,

"But we are different from them. Even though there are considerable differences between us, all the people of Tau believe in the higher good under the leadership of Ether - this is where we are advanced and civilized. We know how to Tolerance is like water.”

"Instead of brutally eradicating dissidents and burning individuals who are not the same."

"The Greater Good..."

Shadow Yang said thoughtfully, thinking of the cruelty of those mechanical sages to his own kind, he couldn't help but realize again the greatness of the Greater Good. It was the Greater Good that allowed Titanium to revitalize and allowed different clans to hold hands with each other. , towards the sea of ​​stars.

"For the greater good."*2

They both couldn't help but say this at the same time, and then the two titans looked at each other and smiled, and the atmosphere became more relaxed.

"This is why I insisted on keeping the mechanical sage."

Yingyang turned his hand and explained,

"There are no mechanical sages among all our human subjects. One is because there are too few such individuals in various human settlements. Most of the mechanical sages we have seen came with the empire to attack us. expeditionary force."

"The second reason is because of their beliefs," Yingyang's face looked a little strange. It was still a little afraid of Pluto.

Because according to the information found by Yingyang, Titanium was a little surprised to find that the traces and descriptions of Pluto were not as vague as those of the Emperor. In the personal belongings accompanying the Mechanical Sage, the traces of Pluto were even clear to the days and months of the year. Where did the sun fall in minutes and seconds, and what did it do.

It even found a black fragment that emitted a certain aura among the relics of the great sage. Although Yingyang had also seen holy objects that exuded golden light carried by human living saints, the Mechanicus did not This rather rustic-looking black fragment actually made Titanium wary.

These signs show... it's like... it's like Hades really exists.

But it is obvious that Pluto is a god created by the human empire, and he cannot exist——

The perfect image described by the Mechanicum, omniscient and omnipotent, sometimes compassionate and sometimes ruthless, cannot exist at all. There will be no intelligent creature in this universe more perfect than the ether.

"They often shout the names of their gods and then commit suicide - they are as cruel to themselves as they are to their fellow kinsmen who are transformed into slaves."

"Maybe we can understand it this way,"

Po'Nivaan said softly,

"The god they worshiped, Hades, regarded them as slaves, so they treated themselves as such, and imitated the god's actions, treating their own kind like this -

Such behavior often occurs among ignorant and uncivilized savage races, so there is no need to worry. "

Yingyang laughed,

"Thank you for your help. I don't know much about Shui's work, but I want to say something else - didn't I just mention that those sages are keen to use their own kind as a hub for computing power?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

Po'Nivaan looked at Yingyang,

"The ship we captured, that is, the ship led by the self-destructing sage, did not have many devices on it that used the flesh and blood of the same race as computing power - the computing power of the entire ship was concentrated in a Nirvana main system. "

"The Tu clan has scanned it and believes that it contains a small amount of flesh and blood, most of the unknown materials, and some of the mysterious power - which the barbarian wizards are keen to use."

"It's weird."

Po'Nivaan said, and Yingyang's eyes also showed that the titanium thought so too.

"This ship...is very different."

Yingyang said uneasily,

"The painting on it is also the Mechanical Sage emblem that we have never seen before, and the technology used on it is also more intelligent. Along with the various devices including Nirvana, our Earth caste is confused."

This showed another possibility for Yingyang, that is, the empire mobilized troops from further away to deal with them. They had different high-tech devices and larger scale than the mechanical sages they faced before. Yingyang remembered What the sages call "the forged world."

According to the descriptions of those robots, the mechanical sages live concentratedly on an entire planet, unlike in the Tau tribe's human habitat, where there are only a few, serving the nobles, or in human settlements. Walking around peddling goods.

In short, the two titans have not realized that they are too remote here, so remote that the mechanical mages are too lazy to come here.

Before the return of the primarchs, the White Scars and the Dark Crows were not the legions favored by the sages, so the sages accompanying them all came from small and medium-sized forging worlds that had good relations with the two legions.

"Maybe they are forces in relatively remote parts of the empire."

Po'Nivaan explained,

"Compared to us, the empire's navigation is also extremely unstable. They were probably thrown here randomly. This is a small probability event."

Yingyang was silent for a while, and finally nodded,

"Maybe it was an accident."

it says,

"But thank you for the help your friend Mayiga gave us."

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"The estimated arrival rate of the starting force is 86.3491%. There are currently 137 missing ships, including 0 Legion battleships, 3 heavy cruisers... 1 Mechanicum Punisher-class battleship, Mechanicus Lunar-class cruiser..."

Hades frowned. Because he was immersed in work all day long, his appearance became a little sloppy.

Hades held the report sheet in one hand and held the special pencil he used for writing and drawing in his ear.

"One battleship was still lost,"

He frowned and said, subconsciously picked up the pen and started spinning it,

[This is already a very high success rate. 】

Faenus, who stepped across Hades' desk and was lying on the floor frantically signing documents on papers all over the floor, said,

[I originally expected the loss rate to be higher. 】

Faenus replied coldly. In his opinion, Hades' move seemed a bit showy and nit-picking.

In his opinion, such a high success rate was the most perfect outcome achieved with the physical attack of Hades and the buffs from the Mechanicus faith.

"The main force is still on the way, and I estimate there will be attrition after arriving at the destination."

Hades paused, then held up the piece of paper again, like a stingy tailor counting threads.

"Why did you lose just one battleship...?"

All large ships have separate specific programs written by Hades himself, and he tries to calculate them himself. Each round of calibration data is calculated at least a hundred times——

It should be noted that the ship's operating code changes in real time with the stars and path, which means that the data calculated by Pluto will be even larger, so huge that it is unimaginable.

Logically speaking, the channel will indeed be lost due to randomness, but Hades is like a bastard who got 149.5 points on the math test. He must get the last 0.5 points.

He hopes that non-war attrition will be reduced to a minimum - even preferably 0, because this means that the empire behind them provides them with the best environment possible.

After all, every large ship is the hard work of the empire. If it were not impossible to calculate, Hades would like to calculate the coordinates of every crew member of the expeditionary force.

[You have other matters. 】

Fernus reminded Hades, and Hades also realized that he should do something else. He put the thin piece of paper on the pile of papers next to his desk, but he was still mumbling,

"After all, it's fate... I think I saw the sage who led the team on the day Jin welcomed me back. Is he at the end of the team?"

[Maybe they just yawed,]

Fernus said calmly,

[Have you forgotten that last time the deviated Space Marine Chapter landed in the wrong place and directly wiped out all the aliens there, and then established imperial rule? 】

"Haha, that's true."

Hades smiled, forgetting that the empire was full of martial virtue, he picked up the next document,

"Those sages are probably going to mess with others, hoping they can catch up with the expedition against Titanium."