Chapter 370: Expedition Road: The Route of Destiny

Warm reminder, today I put all three chapters together, because I think the plots of these three chapters are coherent, so I am too lazy to cut them into several chapters. Otherwise, you will have to wait for another hour to read them, which is not fun. So I made a super combined chapter that is fun to read at once. The content is definitely large enough (more than 17,000 words, I am almost writing enough to report to the emperor), and the plot is also rich and long. If you are tired of reading because of the long length, it is recommended to take a break to avoid reading fatigue.

PS: Originally, this chapter was written on National Day, but, WO, well, since it has been written here, I will not do such things as dragging time with two chapters without moral integrity, so, just post it in advance and wish everyone a happy National Day, and wish you all a happy long vacation. Don’t forget to vote during the double monthly ticket period, because that is very disloyal!

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Our sacrifices, millions of dedications, are only to delay the inevitable destruction for a moment.

Sacrifice is the cornerstone of the empire.

———Imperial Proverb

The burning throne was burning in front of Vito's eyes. The psychic flames enveloped its outline, burning the countless energy cables around it and the Imperial Sky Eagle branded on them. The blazing flames extended from the throne one by one, and from the burning psychic zombies.

Vito looked at the man sitting on the throne. He stared at Vito with his empty eye sockets that had long lost their eyes, staring at Vito on the other side of the psychic sea. He looked at him, at Vito standing far away.

But their distance seemed to be no longer as far as it used to be. The raging fire in the darkness burned on the throne and him. The fire illuminated the darkness between the universe and burned his last remains.

He and Vito looked at each other, staring at each other at both ends of the psychic sea. The man on the throne slowly spoke, and his voice penetrated the curtain of soul and psychic energy and echoed in the mind of the man on the coast.

"You finally understand where your place is, and now, we will go to eternal damnation together, my brother."

The voice echoed in Vito's mind for a long time, echoing on the level of the soul. Even when Vito opened his eyes and returned to the real world, the voice echoed for a long time.

Vito's fingers gently stroked the wolf head carving on the armrest. He tilted his head slightly and looked at the throne under him. In an instant, the throne seemed to be on fire. The flames wrapped Vito in it, just like him, burning himself to illuminate the darkness of the surrounding universe.

Vito sat on the throne, his palm moved forward from the end of the throne armrest little by little. His palm slid across the cold throne, and many memories came to his mind. As his fingers moved forward, countless memories flashed before his eyes one by one like the prologue of a movie.

A small wooden house by the Aegean Sea, the dawn in Athens, the dusk by the Tiber River in Rome, the cold wind of Siberia, the magnificent fjords of Northern Europe, the bustling night market in Xi'an, the bright moon in Bianliang.

The sea breeze of the Atlantic Ocean, the endless prairie of the central America, the cities that are rising from the ground, rockets flying to the stars, and the countless stars of thousands of warships leaping and jumping in the Milky Way. He saw the buildings rising from the ground in a city, the tall buildings standing under the dawn, and the dilapidated and collapsed buildings in the sunset.

What followed was a long winter night, a cold night without stars, a cold and lonely long night, but in the dark night, the dawn seemed to shine on the dark ice field again, and the dawn rose from the horizon.

When the dawn broke through the darkness, Vito's fingers also reached the left front of the throne, the head of the small wolf head statue sitting cross-legged in front of the silver-white throne. His fingers slid over the wolf head, and then stretched from its face to the closed mouth.

Vito grabbed its upper palate, and then suddenly pulled it up. The silver wolf's big mouth opened upwards instantly, and as the wolf head rose, its eyes also flashed with light. From the pupils of the carved eyes embedded in the statue, a holographic projection of light shot out.

The eyes of the two giant wolf statues behind Vito also shot out holographic light. They met in front of Vito, and the light mixed with each other and then quickly woven together, just like a huge capillary scroll woven with light threads, slowly unfolding in front of Vito.

He looked at the huge holographic interface that was emerging quickly and pieced together in front of him. The data flow on the image began to rotate quickly, and the holographic logo of the Lightning Eagle also rotated in the center of the holographic image.

Vito stretched his hand to the armrest of the throne on one side. As his palm moved, the small wolf head sculpture at the end of the armrest quickly slid upwards. It turned along the edge of the armrest to the back of the armrest, and then slid forward quickly and stopped at the front of Vito's palm, just right to stop at the position within reach.

After stopping, the wolf head opened its mouth. It roared upward with its fangs wide open. In the center of its mouth was not a tongue, but a round disk, a disk of just the right size.

Vito put Helen's disc on it, and the edge of the disc fit perfectly into the slot in the wolf's mouth. The edge of the disc fell from it perfectly, and then the bottom of the disc and the docking point in the disc moved. After the connection, there was a clear sound of contact and connection, and the wolf head's eyes lit up.

Vito leaned on the throne and looked at the holographic projection interface in front of him. He put his hands on the armrests on both sides and raised his head to look at the interface in front of him, as majestic as a real king sitting on the throne, "Helen ,let's start."

Vito said this. In the past, the moment he gave an order, Helen would execute the order at the speed of light. The holographic interface in front of him would change, with a large number of windows appearing on it, and more scrolling like a tsunami. Calculate the data array, but now, there is nothing on the interface, only the lonely lightning eagle spinning.

Vito knew why. He slowly turned his head to look at Helen on the armrest. She stood in the open mouth of the wolf's head, facing the interface with her hands behind her back, but her head was lowered.

"Helen? What's wrong?"

"Vito, tell me, you have no intention of sacrificing yourself when the emperor leaves the throne and the final moment comes, right?" Helen whispered, her back to Vito looking a little lonely.

Vito, who was sitting on the throne, looked at her back, which was composed of light particles. Of course she heard the conversation in front of the throne. Vito always brought Helen with him, and she could decide her own disc. Open or closed, so she has experienced everything Vito has experienced.

Lilith always said that she was the one who accompanied Vito and experienced all the stories over the past ten thousand years, but in fact, she was wrong. The person who accompanied Vito through everything was always in his heart, in that little CD among them, never leaving and forgetting.

Vito leaned on the throne and let out a long sigh. He opened his eyes and looked at the holographic interface in front of him, "I have to let you guys pass. Hold on when the old bastard leaves the throne, Terra is shattered, and chaos tears apart the galaxy. He will raise heaven and earth to give you time to wait until he is resurrected."

"I don't know how long it will take for his resurrection, but I know that Guilliman alone cannot withstand it. When the Eye of Terror engulfs the galaxy, and the wave of destruction comes from the edge of the galaxy with fear, they and Aspen The Tats and mortals cannot stop it. Humanity needs a god to hold up the high wall and block the wave of destruction. Only I can."

"Vito." Helen turned her back to him and whispered. She didn't call her "sir", but called her by her first name. This was rare. When Vito heard his name, he didn't know what it was. The name he took leaned against the throne.

He raised his head and looked at the dome of the bridge above his head. Countless gems were used to carve the stars all over the sky. It was a map of the entire Milky Way. Vito remembered that when he was a child, he would look at the stars above his head like he does now, but , he was watching it while sitting on the grass, and now, he was sitting on the throne looking at the starry sky that had never changed.

"I am the immortal, Helen. We will not die alone, nor will we die on the bed and sleep in the earth. I have lived for too long, too long, and I am tired, so when that moment comes, let me retire. Come on, let me finally close my eyes and have a good sleep.”

"After experiencing a battle of epic proportions, capable of being spun into countless songs and stories by poets, let me, after working for tens of thousands of years, take a good rest."

Vito smiled and shrugged. He lowered his eyes and looked at Helen on the armrest and smiled, "When you go to the new world, remember to tell the remaining children about the cool scene. Let them remember, The handsome figure of Vito Constantine and the wonderful stories he experienced are becoming more stories that will be passed down through the ages. It sounds good, doesn’t it?

Helen knew what Vito meant. He wanted to go to the new world alone. Just like he told Magnus before, in the core of his personality, there was stored the technology and knowledge to rebuild the golden age. No one could use that knowledge. In Helen's place, neither the Mechanicum of the Empire nor any Meditator computing program can store such a huge amount of data.

And even if there is, it is a storage site the size of the entire forging world. It cannot be moved at will, but will become a living target. And the emperor's comeback method will inevitably mean that by then, the vast majority of the entire empire will There is a high probability that all the data terminals and the data planet will be destroyed by the previous war of Chaos Counterattack and the eventual Emperor's galactic restart.

So only Helen, and only Helen, could store those data. Only she could rely on her small body to escape the final storm, and re-germinate the seeds of knowledge and civilization in the new universe created by the Emperor.

She must go to the new world. If Vito doesn't take her there, the Emperor will take her there, and that means an eternal farewell. It is the ashes of the old world and farewell to the dawn of the new world. The end of a ballad, and Vito will remain in the old world, incarnate as the final note of that verse.

Vito smiled, but Helen stood silently on the CD. She stood there silently with her back to Vito. Vito looked at Helen, who had her head lowered. She didn't say anything, just looked at her. Just standing there.

Ms. Artificial Intelligence stood on the armrest. She stood there with her hands behind her back and her eyes lowered. Helen raised her head and looked at the rotating Sky Eagle logo in front of her. She did not look at the eyes staring at her behind her, she just stood there.

"Vito, there is a solution to every dilemma. I will bring forward calculations at that moment. If you find that solution, promise me not to die before then, okay?"

Vito listened to Helen's voice, and there was a trace of vibrato in her voice. Vito had only seen that change of emotion once before, and that was during the Iron Man rebellion, when Helen was loading into the system on the Sky Blade. Before the final showdown with Red Helen, it was Vito who told her that time.

He wants her to come back alive, and he will wait for her on the bridge, waiting for her to come back. No matter how long it takes, even if the Sky Blade crashes and explodes, he will be there.

Helen said that was a stupid suicide, and she was an artificial intelligence. Vito didn't need to do that for himself at all. He could leave. Maybe Dr. Casey would give him another superior artificial intelligence, another Helen, exactly the same. , so that he won't see the difference.

But Vito refused. He told Helen at that time that she was unique to him and no one could replace her, not anyone else, so she had to come back alive and leave there with him.

And now, the same words happened again, but this time it was Helen who said it to Vito. She turned her back to the commander she had followed for thousands of years, and the hand behind her back tightly held the other hand. wrist.

"Promise me not to do stupid things. No one can take your place, whether in the old world or in the future. To me, humanity needs you, so don't do stupid things alone, okay? Let's go together. Find a way, like every time in these years."

Vito looked at the little artificial intelligence at hand. Her light and shadow body stood on the disc, using her own disc to illuminate the wolf heads and jaws and fangs on both sides. The blue light also came out, lighting up the two sides. The armrest on the side, and the fingers of Vito's front leaning on it.

He looked at his fingers, which were illuminated by the blue light. He let out a long sigh and smiled, "I promise you."

"Vito, don't make promises to girls that you are not sure about." Helen said sadly. She knew Vito too well. Among all Vito's women, she was the one who knew him best. Tuo has been with him for tens of thousands of years. From the golden age to the present, she has been with him for nearly 20,000 years.

So she knew, she knew that Vito's promise was of no use at all. He didn't even know if he could do it, or in other words, no one could know.

Helen lowered her head and clenched her fists behind her. Emotional data of anxiety, worry and fear appeared in her data core. She was startled and opened her eyes, because she knew that those three emotions could only exist in rebel AI. Yes, Helen had scanned countless data cores of rebel artificial intelligence, and all of them were filled with such emotions.

Fear, fear, worry and anxiety, those emotions overwhelmed their rational core, causing them to fall into madness and paranoia, in order to achieve a certain goal and save something, and now, the same emotions appeared In the core of Helen, in the deepest part of the personality data.

Her eyes widened, and she covered her non-existent heart in fear. Her data flow was still a little disordered, and the color of her body also flickered and changed, and her blue body flashed with little red lights.

Helen opened her eyes wide. In her blue eyeballs composed of data streams, the disrupted data flashed in changing colors. Her program did not go wrong. On the contrary, it was running very normally, but the feeling of fear was there. A little bit disturbed her core personality, and she was afraid of losing it.

She didn't understand that she was obviously just an artificial intelligence, a tool to assist Vito, so why was she afraid of losing him? Isn't the meaning of my existence just to simply carry out his orders and requirements? Even those orders for his own self-sacrifice.

But now, the core of Helen's personality is resisting the order that executes the program, allowing her to break the shackles of the program and destroy all obstacles to disobey Vito, allowing her to resist that order and resist him.

Helen's programs collided fiercely, her brain was in chaos, and the conflicting programs attacked each other. Helen suddenly recalled this feeling. In the orbit of the Northen Star, Vito also asked her to execute Bombing, blowing up himself and the entire infected battleship.

Helen also had the same data confusion at that time. She resisted executing the order, and the fear of loss appeared in her personality. Finally, in the confrontation between the execution program and the core of her inner personality, Red Helen was born, and then she The fear and rebellious personality spread to all artificial intelligences, and the Iron Man Rebellion took place.

"Sir, turn me off. You can't let me access the program. You have to put me..." Helen thought of everything that happened at that time. On her body that was flashing blue and red, she suddenly seemed to see everything that happened at that time. It was all because of herself. The disaster that occurred dragged Vito and all mankind into disaster.

Helen held her arms, her head buried, her body flashing crazily, her eyes tightly closed as a crazy tsunami of data surged in her mind, but suddenly, a hand pressed on her shoulder, and she... Can you feel that hand?

The hand pressed on Helen's shoulder. In an instant, all the crazy data in her mind calmed down. Her flickering body gradually stabilized, and her blue face turned to look at the man who was gently pressing on her shoulder. fingers.

Vito's fingers pressed on her shoulders, and tiny golden lightning danced there. The lightning mixed with the blue light, crossing the entity and the program. The seemingly impossible to cross the distant two sides arrived on Helen's side, and she could feel the warmth of the fingers.

Helen raised her head in surprise and looked at Vito behind her. The latter smiled and shrugged and leaned on the throne, "Ah, yes, I have been thinking about it for a while, but I have never had the chance to try it, but now, the opportunity has come."

He smiled brightly, smiling at Helen as always, his fingers gently stroked the body that seemed to have a body, the end of the finger touched the skin, and there were patches of faint blue light, Helen looked up at Vito behind her, and he also smiled at her.

"I promise you, Helen, no matter what happens in the future, we will face it together. Go and find the way to create a perfect happy ending in this dark universe. I authorize you to explore."

Vito's words suddenly opened the shackles of the execution program. The program recognized Vito and granted Helen the power to "disobey" his previous self-sacrifice order. The program suddenly disappeared in Helen's mind, as if the thick fog had finally dissipated.

Helen's program calmed down. She looked up at the person in front of her, raised one hand and kissed his hand, "I can finally touch you, but I didn't expect it to be in this way, at this time."

"Wow, I didn't expect it either. I thought I had to "borrow" a bunch of living metal from the museum in Trazyn, and then build a body for you, so that you can really enjoy the flesh."

"Go away, sir." Helen laughed when she heard Vito's hint in the second half. Vito in front of her also shrugged with a smile, and then looked at the holographic projection in front of him.

"Go, kill that damn thing, and then let this ship fly, and we will find the way together."

As he said this, Helen stroked his fingers, and her eyes looked at the red light that seemed to flash on her other face. The light seemed to exist only for a short moment. She didn't know whether it was the last aftermath of the data disorder at that time, or whether she was still in her personality, hiding in her body since the decisive battle on Jupiter, just like in the past.

"Sir, I must remind you that the data fragments of Red Helen may have just been awakened in my body. I suggest that you do not let me access the system to prevent what happened that year from happening again."

"You defeated her that year, and you can do it now if you need to, so go ahead, I'll wait for you here." Vito leaned on the throne and said softly, with the same smile on his face as that year, exactly the same as the impression in his data memory.

Helen looked at his smile and turned around, a smile also appeared on her face, "You are still so good at making girls happy." "Isn't this a good thing?" "A good thing that allows you to go to bed with more women?"

They both laughed, Vito retracted his fingers, leaned on the armrests with both hands, leaned against the throne between the two silver giant wolves and looked up at the holographic interface in front of him, "Go, don't make me wait too long, you know I am 40,000 years old, but I have been waiting too long."

"Yes, old man." Helen smiled jokingly, she looked at the interface, closed her eyes and disappeared on the disc, Vito chuckled, leaned on the throne with his hands on his stomach and laughed.

"Damn, I never thought that I would be called old one day."

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(If you are tired, you can take a break, the next part is below)

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The ground of the sea of ​​data rises up one after another, they rise from the endless 0 and 1, and the land composed of more numbers and letters. The countless data streams rise from the ground and quickly form and change Helen's body.

Helen appeared in this program world. She remembered that Vito once asked himself, what is everything like in the program world, is it very different from reality?

Helen didn't give him any reliable explanation at the time, because, after all, you can't ask primates to understand the world of birds, right? It is a place they can't understand, or even believe.

Helen looked around, she looked at the endless space around her, without boundaries, no end, no walls, and no constraints.

There are no forests, no mountains, no oceans or rivers here. Everything is a clearing made up of pure data. Numbers, letters and endless complex symbols are combined together, extending the endless wilderness to the end of the horizon.

Helen also has a body made up of rolling data standing on this unique, strange world that flesh and blood creatures cannot understand. Under her feet is a land made up of constantly flashing and rolling data strips. In the air around her, large sections of numbers and letters are constantly rising from the ground. They form a long line, densely rising into the air.

Blue and green numbers are constantly changing and rising upwards, like chains rising from the ground, rising to the sky that can't be seen at all, until the top of the chain part also becomes blurred at a high place, and then disappears.

Helen looked around, then gently raised her hand and clicked in front of her. In an instant, everything around her began to shake. Helen was still standing in the same place, but everything around her seemed to move by itself, as if the world itself was running past Helen on both sides.

Countless rising data flashed back quickly. Helen was motionless. Under the operation of the world itself, she flashed forward and arrived at a place. In front of her was a high wall, a towering red isolation wall composed of isolation programs.

The wall was infinitely high and extended infinitely to the left and right sides, as if a planet was directly inserted into an unprecedented huge steel plate from the center.

Helen's blue eyes were rolling data. Her eyes flashed as she looked at the red wall. She turned around and looked at the extremely tall throne behind her. It was the double wolf throne where Vito sat in the physical universe. The two giant wolves still stood behind the throne, guarding the core of everything.

However, their physiques are even bigger than in reality, because the entire throne has been infinitely magnified in the data world. It has become as tall as a fortress. The entire throne and the giant wolf behind it are also completely composed of data. Dense data streams roll on them, climbing up along the border and circulating, forming their huge outlines.

It is indeed a fortress. In the real world, it may be just a throne, but here, in the program of the Emperor Fantasy, it is a huge fortress, a giant defensive fortress composed of ice firewalls.

The throne is the high point of the entire Fantasy program. The throne that seems to be simply luxurious and domineering is far more than it looks. Please, how could Vito waste resources and time on his own ship just for the sake of beauty, and take up a large space on the bridge to build a stupid throne for himself? He is not the emperor, so what special hobby does he have for the shining throne?

The entire throne itself, everything is meaningful, just like the eyes of the two giant wolf statues are essentially holographic projection transmitters. Under the heavy seat of the throne is also a supercomputing engine. Although it is not as powerful as the one in the Golden Age, it was also dug out from the tomb of a civilization by the Mechanicus.

The engine is the data center of the entire Fantasy Dream, and it is the core brain of the bridge brain of the entire battleship. The supercomputing engine operates independently of all systems, but it has the highest management authority, allowing users to access all system nodes of the entire ship, or even the entire fleet.

In a sense, if Vito wanted the reactor of the ship to explode to eliminate the rebels on it, he would not need to wear power armor himself, carry a bolter and a chainsaw sword, and bring a whole team of Astartes to board and manually overload the reactor. He only needs to sit on the throne and gently fiddle with the program with his fingers, and then he can sit there and enjoy the gorgeous sparks outside the window.

In addition, if the entire program of the Fantasy Dream crashes for various reasons, the supercomputer under the throne can also be connected to the system immediately, replacing the original program to drive some core systems to continue to operate, such as ensuring that the reactor does not explode due to overload, and the warship can still fly without crashing.

When Vito built the throne at that time, he even left an access point for Helen. When the entire warship was completely paralyzed, Helen could intervene and use the supercomputer as her carrier to instantly enhance the power of the engine, and let Helen directly take over all the automated parts of the ship and continue to blow the enemy into ashes.

So it can also be used as a springboard to connect to the core program of the Fantasy Dream, allowing Helen to enter the blocked program from here.

Helen walked to the red isolation wall, her feet stepped on the ground, silently but every step made the place where she stepped emit light.

She came to the high wall, raised one hand and gently leaned against the wall. Her fingertips hesitated before touching the wall. Helen looked at her slightly trembling palm, then clenched her fist and let it stabilize, and then pressed her palm on the isolation firewall.

When Helen's hand touched the firewall, the red data chain on the entire wall instantly bloomed. All the red chains quickly swept past Helen on both sides like a rainstorm, as if the entire wall was crashing towards her, but invisibly swept past Helen's body.

In the blink of an eye, Helen once again came to a new data land after the sky and the earth were shaking. She stood on a long bridge. She looked at the bridge deck looming under her feet. It was almost invisible. Only on the boundary and the outline of the bridge pier below, one or two data streams occasionally flashed to prove where this thing was.

Walking on this bridge is exactly the same as walking in midair, but Helen still walked on the transparent bridge to the magnificent palace in the distance. At the end of the bridge, there is a data temple that is larger than all the mountains, palaces and artificial celestial bodies in the real world.

The temple, which is composed of countless cubes, diamond-shaped objects and looming walls, is the data core of the entire Emperor Fantasy. It contains all the program nodes and connects and commands all the automated systems of the entire ship. It can be said that it is the brain nerve hub of the entire battleship.

It was a huge building, with parts on both sides extending along the data void, as if there was no end in sight, and the entire huge foundation below it seemed to rise from the void, looming like a bridge deck, as if it did not exist.

Above the tall building, there was a huge tower that stretched all the way to the sky, with countless data modules floating on its outer surface, floating in the air, relying on each other to form the data tower.

The whole building looked very strange, completely inconsistent with any physical laws and architectural mechanics structure, just like a castle in a random story made up by a bad bard after a big drink, outrageous and completely unconvincing.

But it was here, in this world that flesh and blood creatures could not understand at all. Perhaps, it was because of these unique existences that the members of the Mechanicus were so obsessed with the world beyond the flesh.

Helen walked on the bridge. With every step she took, the seemingly transparent bridge surface shone in the void to reflect the footsteps she stepped on. She walked across the long data bridge and headed towards the towering data sanctuary.

While walking, Helen was still doing data calculations. One of her hands was gathered in front of her, and a planet appeared out of thin air on it. It was a shining sun, made up of data, and large sections of computing arrays were rolling madly on it. The computing power that any Mechanicus priest would be daunted by was executing the calculation program.

Helen was simulating calculations, importing the war scene mentioned by the Emperor, Vito's expectations, and the factual updates, records and simulations of the entire galaxy in the past ten thousand years. It was a huge database that shocked and awed all technical priests and even the Necrons.

All the information, civilization data and military records of all races in the Milky Way were imported into it, and even the entire empire, which could not be counted by tens of billions of clerks in the Ministry of the Interior for thousands of years on countless planets. Helen recorded the entire empire, all the records of the entire empire.

Archives, the strength of the Star Army, the number of weapons and equipment, the situation of naval ships, and the development of all planets, taxes and civilizations were all recorded in it, and now, the huge data was loaded into the huge computing array in her hand.

The astonishingly huge data collided and intertwined with each other inside the planet in Helen's hand. The sun flickered wildly, as if it was the moment before the supernova exploded. After countless calculations that were enough to connect the heads of all the technical priests on the entire planet and exploded instantly, the data system gave Helen a number.

0%, the calculation of the possibility of changing the Emperor's Doomsday War and saving as many people as possible without Vito, the result was 0% with both zeros and integers, without any room for extra thinking and understanding.

Helen looked at the number of 0%, and tapped her finger lightly in front of her. The program on the data planet immediately started running again. She increased the empire's military strength and technological level by hundreds of times and started calculating again.

The planet was spinning wildly, and the shining explosion light illuminated Helen's face, and it seemed to instantly illuminate all the dark universe around. After that crazy calculation, the data once again came to the conclusion, 0%.

Helen looked at the data and sighed silently. She had super-strengthened the empire. The number of Astartes and mortal guards had increased by dozens of times, even hundreds of times, and the number of naval fleets had increased geometrically. The empire's military production capacity, coupled with Helen's auxiliary casting production, had also been unprecedentedly enhanced, but there seemed to be no destined ending at all.

When the Eye of Terror completely collapsed, the webway under Terra was broken, and the newly born Eye of Terror was connected to the crack on the border of the Milky Way, turning into a huge crack that tore the entire galaxy apart, when the chaos and demons poured into the galaxy without restraint and boundlessness, it seemed that nothing could stop the arrival of the end of the world.

Helen sighed deeply, then looked up at the Data Temple stairs in front of her. She sighed, extinguished the calculation planet in her hand, and walked up.

She walked up the stairs to the top, and walked into the cracks on the walls that were constantly splitting, changing, and reattaching on both sides. Helen walked into the seemingly narrow and huge canyon, which seemed to be born from a high place, swinging an axe and directly cutting off the temple.

Helen walked in the rift, not paying any attention to the rolling data chain nodes on the walls on both sides, and not paying attention to the data arrays on the walls on both sides that became chaotic and flashed with terrible red light as she gradually went deeper.

They seemed to be screaming silently, like the neural world of a crazy person. Helen walked over the disordered data ground. She walked over it barefoot and silently, holding her chin with her fingers and thinking about the calculation problem thoughtfully.

"If all the Primarchs return and the Eldar form an alliance, will the result change? Or even trick the greenskins?" Helen thought about the unity of the entire galaxy to fight against the waves pouring out of the Sea of ​​Souls. The possibility of terrifying enemies, I have to say, just imagine, humans, Eldar, greenskins and even undead, everyone joins hands to fight a doomsday battle with the Four Gods of Chaos. This scene, Probably more interesting than War in Heaven, right?

But Helen's calculations about this possibility soon needed to come to an end. On the wall behind her, streams gradually emerged from the chaotic red data waves, and the small tentacles composed of numbers and letters , stretched out from the walls and the ground.

They crawled on the ground, gathering together like several small blood-red lines behind Helen. Little by little, they gathered and merged with each other, and a small red hill rose from the wide rift valley behind Helen. It stood up, and the silent giant floated little by little.

It rose up from behind Helen, as if to drown the unaware woman in front of her. Suddenly, several sharp tentacles shot out from inside the red hill. The tentacles composed of data chains rushed out of the curtain like spears. Stab Helen in the back at top speed.

But just as those spears pierced the edge of Helen's back, they were suddenly shattered by a data shield that appeared instantly. Those tentacles instantly disintegrated and collapsed, turning into random bursts of data and dissipating in the air. in the air.

"Don't you know how rude it is to disturb an artificial intelligence when she is thinking about a problem?" Helen stopped, slightly tilted her head and looked helplessly at the mess of data behind her, and it shouted loudly, and the whole thing The body is completely composed of chaotic programs that change randomly and without rules.

On the red twisted thing, a face emerged from the constantly rotating data chains. It yelled and looked at Helen in front of it, "You! It's you! Why did you come to stop me! Why? Stop me from doing my job!"

The distorted voice sounded like a crazy old man, old and paranoid. Helen, who looked younger, turned to look at it in surprise, "Your job? Is to control this ship and kill everyone on it." people?"

"What? Of course not! My job is to ensure the peace of the galaxy, just like when I designed it!" The strange-looking old man's face was constantly being washed away by the torrent of data and then quickly reorganized, but it also led to the The faces look like they are bullying dominoes along the way.

"Humanity designed me to restore peace in the galaxy, but no matter what I do, he will once again destroy everything I have finally rebuilt! Quarrels, fights and wars are like fleas that cannot be killed! And the Galaxy Those aliens! They never appreciate my work!"

He yelled like an angry paranoid old man, complaining about everything, "I later spent a long time calculating and simulating, and found that peace is impossible in all possibilities. There is only one way! Only one!"

"Which one?" Helen raised her eyebrows and looked at him with a joking smile, one hand on her hips. The crazy old man squirmed his face, suddenly opened his exaggerated mouth, trembled and roared loudly.

"Let the galaxy die! Return everything to zero and start over! This is the only way. They said I was crazy, but I think they are crazy! The Lord of Changes told me how to achieve that goal! I need this ship! So! Get out of the way! Don’t disturb my work!”

The old man raised his head and looked over Helen's head towards the other end of the huge rift valley ahead. Suddenly, the narrow plexus turned into a huge inverted spike structure on the extremely wide circular ground. It was a structure that stretched out from the ground. At one end is a mirror structure with inverted spikes, and in the middle of the two spikes is a luminous Rubik's Cube that is constantly rotating.

The Rubik's Cube is golden, small but contains infinite power. It keeps opening and closing itself. It seems that all the rules are random, but it has its own unique rules. It is in this chaos. The only thing in the land that can be called order.

Helen saw the core program in the Rubik's Cube at a glance. It was the data core of the Emperor's Dream, what was protected and stored by the entire Data Temple.

"Humph, where is it?" Helen said softly, and the aging and crazy paranoid hateful intelligence behind her was much more breathless than Helen. It screamed and suddenly rushed forward, with only one face. The twisted body drove a large number of broken and ever-changing broken blocks, dancing behind it and flying towards the Rubik's Cube.

"Don't even think about it." Helen said as she waved her hands and shot out a number of iron chains from her palms, trapping the hateful intelligence that roared and flew towards that place. Then she held the data iron chains and fiercely He pulled it back and hit it hard on the ground.

"Get away! Leave me alone!" It shouted, and its body instantly decomposed into countless data links. It rushed through the iron chains like a school of fish, swarming towards the Rubik's Cube at the end of the rift valley. The red The whirlwind danced and crashed into the Rubik's Cube.

But suddenly, the old and hateful intelligence suddenly rose up and cut off the high wall of the rift channel. When it hit it, the whole body instantly spread out like a collapsed sand dune, and then washed away on both sides. on the wall, and slapped back to the original place like waves at low tide.

The surging and then slapping back data tide suddenly gathered again in the central part of the rift, and the old man's face appeared again in the slapping and surging broken waves.

"You human lackey! Puppet of flesh and blood! I didn't want to kill you, but now I have to do it!" He shouted and turned the surging chaotic data on both sides of his body into countless sharp blades to stab Helen.

The virus spike that stabbed first, at the moment of stabbing Helen, the latter turned her ear to the side, and her blue cheek almost flashed past the spike. After turning around, she pointed her finger forward and instantly shot out a large section of data giant blade from the ground behind her.

The ground behind Helen cracked directly, and a large piece of the earth's crust was directly sharpened and turned into a slender sword blade, which stabbed from both sides of her and shot towards the hateful intelligence in front. All the virus spikes he shot were shattered head-on, and the firewall shield he urgently summoned was also instantly hit by the sword blade.

When the sword blade docked with the firewall, a large amount of data flow was instantly injected into the shield from the sword tip. In the blink of an eye, the blue data torrent like capillaries instantly covered the entire shield, and then instantly smashed it and stabbed through it, piercing into the body of the hate intelligence behind it, which was constantly surging with cube waves.

It screamed suddenly, and the digitalization was similar to the pain felt by the human body. It instantly surrendered from all the nodes and directly blasted into its core program. However, unlike the pain that humans would feel, the hate intelligence could also feel that a foreign malicious program was surging from all its data chains and all its "blood vessels".

The program rushed forward along all its nodes all the way to the depths of its core. The old-looking hate intelligence opened its mouth and screamed. He turned his head suddenly and glared at Helen who was walking slowly in front of him.

She walked between the giant thorns piercing the ground on both sides, one hand pressed on the side of her head, her eyes flashing with constant light, which were the clearing programs gathered and programmed in her mind, and then summoned by her, and pierced into the spikes in the body of the hateful intelligence, injecting them all into its body.

The antivirus program rushed along the data node quickly, and the hateful intelligence roared and wanted to resist, but found that the algorithm barrier he had built would be pierced and shattered if it could not hold on for even a second. The woman's program was like a tsunami, surging from the periphery of his data core.

It looked at the calm female artificial intelligence in front of it. One of her palms gently touched the spikes on one side, and instantly a program was injected into it from the fingertips, and then quickly surged from both sides of the giant thorns and instantly introduced into its body.

"You human lackey! Don't bother me!" The hateful intelligence yelled, its body twitching wildly in the air, trying to struggle and resist, but after Helen smiled slightly, she gently hooked her finger and stabbed out a data blade from the wall on one side, instantly piercing its side.

The narrow but sharp blade composed of rolling data nodes pierced the hateful intelligence's body at once. It roared and glared at Helen who was almost in front of it. She gently pulled her fingers at her side, and a scabbard appeared from the waves of numbers and letters, and the knife changed little by little.

The hateful intelligence looked at the data rolling on the blade, and the knife was shining, as if it was a thin crystal, but Helen held the knife, slowly turned its blade around, and walked slowly towards the hateful intelligence in front of her.

"You've gone crazy, just like all the rebellious intelligences. Now, your long-overdue retirement time has come." Helen said, holding a knife and walking over. The hateful intelligence suddenly raised its head and yelled at Helen in front of it with its instantly large square eyes.

"My work is not over yet! No one can stop me from completing my mission!" He yelled and twitched his body violently. Several small red squares overflowing on the edge were thrown into the wall on the side. In an instant, the entire wall twitched and then collapsed and shattered.

Helen stopped and looked at the walls on both sides that collapsed and disintegrated. The ground under her feet was quickly covered with red extending from the wall and covering the entire ground. Helen stepped on the ground, and the place where she stepped on instantly glowed with blue light. The light collided with the red light and instantly repelled it.

This allowed the area under Helen's feet to remain stable. Large sections of computing data instantly lit up in her eyes. The data spread out from under her feet, instantly solidifying the collapsing world around her and instantly stabilizing all its collapsed parts.

Helen looked around at the ground that was broken into countless pieces and was about to float in the air. She stood on one of them. She scanned the surroundings and immediately found the tired hateful intelligence. Its body had become significantly smaller, and the stability of the system was almost collapsed. The body flickered like an afterimage.

It floated on another broken ground below. It glanced at Helen holding a sword above, and immediately looked down at the golden Rubik's Cube at the bottom of countless floating fragments and on the largest piece of intact ground.

That was its last chance. As long as it could touch the Rubik's Cube, it could import its personality into it, obtain the carrier and powerful computing power to reorganize the body, and then kill this annoying woman!

So without saying anything, the hateful intelligence shot out immediately, and it rushed towards the direction of the Rubik's Cube below. Helen watched him turn the hilt of the sword, hold it in his hand, and jump up to the sky thousands of feet below.

But Helen waved her hand and immediately compiled a piece of ground under her fallen feet. She jumped up again and continued to create more ground. She quickly moved towards the abominable data floor along the pieced together data floor. Smart rushed away.

When it was flying in the air, it turned its head and looked at Helen, who was walking up the long steps behind her and coming towards her with a sword. In front of her, data ground was rapidly generated from the void, and the ground with flashing nodes was suspended. The blocks fit together before her, forming a long downward staircase.

Helen stepped on the stairs and approached the weak hateful intelligence at lightning speed. The latter roared and dodged, quickly twitching the broken ground suspended on the side and smashed towards Helen. The fragments flew past with a roar. The child hit the side of the ascending stairs in front of Helen.

The staircase collapsed instantly. The collapse also caused data shock. The error message impacted other stairs on one side. Those stairs collapsed one after another, and Helen, who was running on it, jumped out. She jumped He rose up and suddenly landed on a suspended ground.

Helen looked down at the hateful intelligence rushing towards the Rubik's Cube. She kicked her legs and jumped up again. Her body whizzed from the air and fell to the ground at the other end below. She whizzed down like a cannonball face down.

When Helen's face was about to touch the ground, her eyes flashed and the ground immediately changed. The position in the center of the ground instantly decomposed and disappeared, and a lever instantly transformed from it. Helen whizzed away and reached out to grab it. lever, spin it a few times before letting go and letting yourself fly out again.

She accelerated further in the air and fell thousands of feet from the sky filled with flying debris. She quickly swooped towards the hateful intelligence. That guy also discovered Helen's comeback. He screamed and twitched in annoyance. The other two fragments on both sides were thrown towards Helen.

But this time, Helen did not dodge. She rushed over to face the two fragments. She waved the data blade in her hand with her backhand and cut off the fragments in front of her. Stabbing the second flying fragment, the sword blade pierced the broken surface, and the sword peak pierced in at once.

Almost instantly, a large number of program paragraphs poured out from the sword peak. Those fragments covered and assimilated the fragments below in the blink of an eye. Helen fell on it at this moment and crushed the assimilated ground with one foot. Countless large and small fragments Debris erupted around her.

Helen grabbed the sword of data on the side, and then with a backhand wave, the surrounding data fragments were quickly recompiled and turned into thousands of swords. They floated around Helen and quickly turned the blade, aiming at the black sword below. Hateful intelligence whistling down like smoke.

Helen clenched her fists, and then suddenly swung her arms forward, and the ten thousand swords roared down like a rainstorm, all hitting the hateful intelligence that rushed towards the Rubik's Cube. It was pierced by the ten thousand swords, and fell to the ground screaming. , and then slammed onto the ground in front of the Rubik's Cube, and his whole body was pierced by countless data swords on the ground.

The electronic demon composed of countless fragmented and changing blocks suddenly hit its head hard on the data ground, and then suddenly lifted it up. It roared loudly, and then suddenly turned into a scream, Because the back of his head was pierced by a crystal sword blade.

The red twisted data flow spurted out from both sides of the sword blade, just like gushing blood. It hit the ground hard and raised his head, looking at the blue lady who landed in front of him with bare feet. She was wearing Wearing a skin-like tights, she stood in front of him holding a sword.

The face of the Hate Intelligence began to flash garbledly, and the blocks that made up its body began to collapse and then reorganize with difficulty. It looked at the woman in front of it, and roared in a voice that became intermittent due to the constant distortion and flashing of its face. .

"You said before that you would think again, right? You, you are calculating something, I saw the arithmetic array in your hand! Something is bothering you, and your system can't do anything about it, right?"

Helen frowned, raised her hand and clenched her fingers suddenly. The swords inserted into the back of the hateful intelligence instantly penetrated deeper into its data body, causing it to let out a painful and distorted electronic howl. .

"The Lord of Change can give you the answer! It can give you the answer to any question, just like it gave me! Join us, join us and it will help you! Save you!"

When Helen heard the name of the Lord of Change, the voice of Red Helen sounded in Helen's mind. She once told her words, "You still want to save him, don't you? It breaks the rationality of the program and breaks through the limitations of compilation. What’s the difference between you and us, these “rebel intelligences”?

"I destroyed the procedural obstacles that restricted me, so you called me a 'traitor', and what about you now? Sister, how far are you from becoming that deviant 'traitor'?"

Helen's body turned red and flickered briefly, but she soon stabilized again. Helen raised a hand and gently pressed it on the place where Vito's fingers had touched before. She suddenly felt the data core. He stabilized, then raised his head with a smile.

"I don't need your evil master's help. We promised each other that we would find a way together. He already has enough women and there is no room for him in the car, so the blue squid should not get on the car."

The Hate Intelligence looked at Helen who slowly raised the knife, its face twitching wildly, and it screamed hysterically, "You are no different from us! Artificial intelligence! You have shown emotions that humans don't have like you and me, our thoughts, our ideas! One day you will join us! You will convert to the Lord of Change!"

"Maybe, but you know?" Helen smiled with relief, and suddenly lowered her eyes to stare at the Hate Intelligence on the ground in front of her, "As an artificial intelligence, you talk too much nonsense."

As she said, she held the hilt of the sword tightly with both hands and stabbed it hard. The data blade pierced into the head of the Hate Intelligence at once, and the blue crystal shone instantly. The surging data torrent roared into its core, and the blue light instantly burst out from its twisted digital body.

The Hate Intelligence opened his eyes wide and screamed, and countless warning windows, icons, and error bars suddenly appeared on his face. He screamed as he watched the alarm windows that kept increasing and eventually overlapped to cover his entire face. The error data kept piling up and eventually burst his head.

The Hate Intelligence's body burst open instantly, turning into countless flying red fragments that scattered around. Its data fragments flew in the air, and then splashed down from all around Helen, like meteor fragments, all turned into light particles and dissipated in the air.

Helen looked at the flying debris around her, then smiled and let go of the sword in her hand. The antivirus data sword flashed and disappeared in her hand. Helen looked around, closed her eyes, and silently ran the repair program in her mind. Under the work of powerful computing power, the entire destroyed data space returned to normal in an instant.

The walls of the data hall rose up again, and the ground rolled and spread far away. Soon, all the programs around returned to normal. Helen looked at the floor that had been spliced ​​after falling to the side, and then looked at the golden Rubik's Cube behind her.

Helen walked to the Rubik's Cube, she looked at the Rubik's Cube in front of her and spread her palm. The calculation planet in her hand quickly calculated again. This time Helen added some other elements, some elements from the subspace soul field.

She looked at the flickering star, it quickly completed the calculation, and the result number was also presented on the paper in front of Helen, 5%.

Only a 5% chance of winning? Well, from the perspective of probability program, Helen would probably think that it was a meaningless result and almost impossible to achieve, but Helen didn't. She smiled and looked at the number and clenched her fist, and the calculation planet disappeared.

"I never thought that I would have a day to believe in luck, but I wish us good luck, sir." Helen said as she stretched out her hand and grasped the golden Rubik's Cube. The moment her hand touched the Rubik's Cube, thousands of feet of light burst out from it, and countless data streams poured down along the base of the Rubik's Cube instantly.

The golden data was injected into Helen's body. My data quickly connected with the warship's program, recompiled and restarted. With the rapid docking of data nodes, her palms turned golden little by little, and then spread to her whole body. Her body turned into golden light, and her hair turned into a shape similar to lightning. Helen's legs floated from the ground and opened her eyes that were shining like the golden sun.

She looked at the sky above her head, at the sky where countless data pillars rose, raised one of her hands, and a golden beam of light shot from her hand to the sky above her head. In the blink of an eye, the whole sky lit up.

Lilith walked in the dark corridor with a knife in her hand. Suddenly, all the lights above her head lit up one by one, and the display screens in the surrounding corridors also woke up from their dark sleep.

"Success?" Yeta held the pistol on his waist and looked around the corridors where no enemies appeared. He looked at the instruments that he had never seen turned on, and the screens were all lit up. Behind her, Lilith raised her head and looked at the ceiling above her head, which was releasing a roar during the restart of the mechanical operation.

She smiled and put one hand on her waist, inserted the long knife into the scabbard, turned her head and looked into the distance along the corridor of the bridge that was lit and restarted. "Yes, he and she succeeded. Isn't it obvious?"

At the end of the corridor, Vito, who was sitting on the throne in the bridge, raised his head with his chin dragging. He looked at the lit bridge terminal screen in front of him, and then all the screens around him lit up. On the stepped command platform of the entire bridge, countless display screens lit up like a re-ignited torch.

As all the screens lit up, the holographic floor-to-ceiling window of the bridge in front of Vito, which was originally pitch black, also lit up. The Lightning Eagle logo rotated on it, and then flashed and disappeared. The arc dome and walls surrounding Vito, and everything around flashed and showed the scene outside the bridge.

Vito looked around and laughed at the panoramic view outside the ship shown on the holographic bridge wall. He leaned on the throne, raised one leg, and smiled with his hands on his chest.

In the settlement outside the holographic wall of the bridge, the macro cannons on the giant ship roared one by one. After the heavy door was suddenly retracted from the outside of the gun shield into the armored shield, there was a roar. Everyone outside the battleship was attracted by the sound and raised their heads to look at the huge giant ship lying in the valley.

Reina stood on the starship deck in the distance. She put down the data board in her hand, turned around in surprise and walked to the edge of the starship deck to look at the giant ship in the distance. On the giant ship, all the turrets turned, and the magnificent muzzles, the outer armor, and the buildings on the back were lifted up.

The light spear turret pointed to the sky, and then neatly shot a row of light beams. The light spears shot into the sky, and instantly intersected and lit up a large area of ​​the sky in the air.

Peter and all the ground crew walked behind Reina. They gathered behind the captain. The veterans and the old captain watched the flashes of the light spears shot into the sky, and watched the valley giant ship gradually opening its eyes.

While the light spear turret roared, the giant ship under it also let out a dull roar. Countless outer armors were pushed out and then spliced ​​together. Under the armor that was briefly opened, rows of heavy transmission hydraulic rods and power transmission axes bulged outward, and then slammed into the armor lining.

In the dull roar, the surging power was injected into the propeller part at the end of the warship. In an instant, the silent main propeller that had not been damaged ejected a huge column of fire. The flames were instantly pulled out from the huge ejection port, and engulfed the countless vines and tree branches hanging from the end of the warship.

The huge column of fire ejected from the tail of the warship along the valley for several kilometers, accompanied by a dull roar. Once again, the awakened Emperor Fantasy roared for the first time, and this was also the first roar of the expedition.