Chapter 20

Because of the messages he received, his rationality based on steel and mechanical codes was bit by bit deprived of him by the fear of 'possible death' spread by the remnants of his body - now, it is difficult for him to confirm that his own logic Are the thoughts lingering in the chip calculated based on battlefield data, or are they answers based on the fear feedback in one's own flesh and blood?

"Blood and flesh are bitter and weak!!!"

Just when Father Ayres was ordering his skitarii and servitors in an unorganized manner due to confusion in the calculation program of the logic chip in his brain, Commissar Sister's Iron Hands Astartes had already killed him. In front of the team, roaring bombs and melt were given as gifts to the technical heretic priest who had smoke on his head - in just the blink of an eye, these 'gifts' completely destroyed the area where Father Els' subordinates were. Devour!

"boom----"

"Zizi——————"

"Crackling!!!"

Accompanied by the sound of various ammunition exploding and the sound of metal and flesh being destroyed, in just ten seconds, most of Father Els's men were destroyed. Even Father Els himself, who was hiding behind the bunker, was affected by stray bullets. , the two appendages were blown up without a trace along with the bunker - and this further affected Father Els' thinking ability - when Father Els finally used the information about him that recoiled into his mind When the destroyed data stream under his command was sorting out his thinking circuit, the champion veteran in the political commissar sister's team had already charged in front of him.

"Rare..."

The huge sense of oppression brought pure terror. In an instant, Father Els, whose mind was swallowed up by 'sensibility' again, just wanted to beg for mercy, but the weapon of the Iron Hands champion shut his mouth forever. As this technological heretic priest, who was considered a small command node, was removed, the counterattacks of the servitors and skitarii in the surrounding area suddenly lost their order and were completely annihilated by the Astartes with ease.

Together with their master, Qiqi turned into a mixture of oil, metal fragments, and some organic matter.

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"Sister Political Commissar, look at you, you are playing gang-banging, pushing and pushing, and you are decapitating me - is this ridiculous? Did you agree to continue to advance the operation?"

Since it was not his Imperial Fist chess piece and White Bean Sprout chess piece's turn to be dispatched in a short period of time, Liang Feifan, who was a little bored, squatted next to the political commissar sister, admiring his friend's micro-manipulation skills and pointing from time to time. After hearing Liang Feifan's complaints, the political commissar sister, who was ordering her chess pieces not to go deep into the interior of the Balaton Space Station No. 1 and to continue looking for more command nodes in the outer ring, raised her eyebrows.

"I also want to have a few confrontations with these black machine oil guys? The problem is, you have also seen how many times the morale of the black machine oil guys who are fighting against me has dropped? To be honest, I have never seen it on the table. When I arrived at the Oil Guy's house, his morale collapsed and he became such a virtuous person - especially just now, the Mechanic Priest's bunker was blown up by me, and his body was scratched by me. As a result, he didn't run away and stood there waiting to die. I won't let my champion Go up and kill it and wait for the New Year?”

"...Don't mention it, the morale of these guys is indeed not normal - from a realistic point of view, the oil man said that the morale should be quite stable, how come they were so dispersed by your Iron Hands?"

Because there is nothing that requires much operation in a short period of time, I am also frowning at the eggs that are watching the battle between the Iron Hand and the Oil Guy - as an old Oil Guy and the Hammer Guy, I probably benchmark the Black Oil Guy's combat effectiveness against his own chess pieces. At first, Egg felt that although the Commissar Sister’s Iron Hand Group would definitely be able to gain a foothold after joining the gang, it might not be able to achieve better results. It would be OK if it could serve as a constant source of ridicule, but now... .

Egg believes that if the battle continues at this pace, Commissar Sister's Astartes will have no problem penetrating the outer ring area of ​​Balaton Space Station No. 1 before the God's Chosen team reaches the central area!

"Maybe it's because they became black machine oil guys, so there is something wrong with the logic circuit. You know, in the background setting of Warhammer and in the novels, the number of times that black machine oil guys create things that have counterproductive effects is not just once or twice. ——But this matter won’t have much impact on us anyway, so don’t think too much about it——Divine Choice! The situation here is very good, Sister Political Commissar, how is your infiltration going? "

"It's been a smooth journey, but Commissar sister, please be careful. Based on what I and the Astartes of the Wolf Group observed on the road, there is a high probability that the thing you are fighting with now is a bunch of cannon fodder to waste time - —There is a lot of heavy firepower in this space station. If they join the battle, the defense of your Astartes troops will definitely not be able to withstand it!"

"Don't worry, my Iron Hands can definitely hold on until you and the Wolf Group reach the main control center. You know, I have brought a lot of 'good things' to my Iron Hands chess pieces. If these black machine oil guys If some big guys really come to play with me, then I can’t help but ask for it.”

The political commissar sister responded to the divine choice with a tone of "Ah, I am eager to have fun", and at the same time issued a battle order to the Iron Hand chessmen who had encountered a new enemy. The Iron Hands who received the order instantly dispersed and lined up to jump. They helped the city wall formed by shields, and then all raised their weapons, locked on the bunker at the end of the road and the enemy behind the bunker, and pulled the trigger.

The death storm composed of melt and explosive bombs blew through the Balaton-1 space station again.

31. To Balaton

War—Raven Raid

A large piece of metal plate engraved with blasphemous runes of unknown meaning.

From time to time, strange equipment flashed with lightning that was obviously from the supernatural realm.

Even if it just flowed in the pipe, it could make people feel uncomfortable.

And strange mechanical servants whose bodies had obviously mutated, and combat weapons of different appearances and sizes equipped with weapons that were obviously not similar to heretical weapons.

All of this was captured by the Space Wolves Astartes led by the Raven Guard Champion Veteran Chess Piece who descended as the God-chosen One. Although the owner of the Balaton No. 1 Space Station chose to lead his guards to the outer ring area to command the battle at close range because he was worried that the internal communication system of the space station had been contaminated by waste code from unknown sources, this did not mean that the Balaton Central Area had become an undefended place. In fact, one of the important reasons why Qi Qilong dared to make the choice of leaving the central area and going to the outer ring was that he had considerable confidence in the self-discipline defense system of the core area of ​​the upgraded Balaton No. 1 Space Station. He was very sure that the products of these forbidden technologies could easily tear apart the blind invaders - if there were any - and turn them into nutrients for his space station.

However, in front of the descending body of the chosen one, all of Qi Qilong's assumptions were invalid - in the flow of shadows, the strange servitors or other things standing guard at key positions were "gently" destroyed without triggering alarms and then quietly shut down. Under the tearing of the fleeting power claws, the energy lines of the heretical equipment used as roadblocks or other things were easily cut off and then "welded" just right to look like nothing was wrong at first glance. When the Dark Raven appeared and flew over a certain area, it meant that the blasphemous creations in that area would be cleared within fifteen seconds - whether it was flesh and blood or machinery.

".....The howling winds in the coldest season of Fenris are not as deadly as him. The most lurking beasts in Fenris are not as elegant as him. Among the descendants of Corax I have seen, he is the one who best fits the figure of the Raven King."

Watching the Chosen who led the team use the same effort as eating, he easily processed a bunch of things that they thought might be a bit troublesome along the way and turned them into useless garbage. The reverence of the Gali Wolf for the mysterious champion veteran of the Raven Guard who had not told them his real name so far soared to a higher level - and beside him, the eyes behind the helmet of Dur Howling Fang were shining. This relatively young warrior among the Astartes made up his mind that after the Morton Hess system returned to the embrace of the Empire, assuming that the veteran was willing, he must learn the infiltration skills from the veteran - not to learn the abilities of the Raven Guard based on their original bodies, but to learn how to accurately lock the route to be solved by the invasion, where it is, and how to deal with the best technology!

Of course, if the men of the Wolf Group really knew how the Chosen One did all this, they probably wouldn't think so...

"Left, right - OK, this is the line - Solved, done -"

The Chosen One, who had no idea that the men of the Wolf Group were about to see him go up to the sky, stretched out his hand and tapped it gently in front of him. He used the power of this chess piece of the Raven Guard champion veteran as his descending body, and the fool operation panel of the descender provided by the Emperor to quickly confirm the effectiveness of each line behind the metal plate that he had pried open. After finding the most important line inside, the Chosen One immediately short-circuited it, causing all the autonomous weapons along the way to go offline.

Moreover, after completing this short-circuit operation, the Chosen One also pulled another line over according to the prompt and connected it to the main line to delay the time when the alarm sounded - his movements were so precise that the alarm lights and alarms hanging on the wall were still "silent" after he completed the operation.

After solving the problem of the autonomous weapons in the corridor ahead, the Chosen One scanned the map to make sure there was nothing to pay extra attention to. He then used the ability of "Shadow Incarnation" after his hand "slid" in front of his eyes. Then, he followed an area with extremely dense shadows due to the light, and passed through the corridor that was paralyzed by him and was about 500 meters long without causing any disturbance. He touched the end of the corridor and saw two machines standing next to a huge door. On both sides of this heavy door, there were machines with extraordinary shapes on each side that were constantly scanning to guard against any possible invasion...

Ka Ba, seconds.

"Be alert, I feel an unreal atmosphere behind this door. It is very likely that some dirty and evil rituals are being carried out behind it."

After reminding the Wolf Group Astartes who followed him into the hall, there might be something bad behind the door, and let them prepare for battle. Having determined that the two gatekeepers that he had clawed one by one could not be "resurrected", the Chosen One walked to the gate guarded by the two things, raised his left hand, and pried open an area that was "marked" in his vision, revealing the control circuit hidden behind it.

"Hmm... It should be like this, maybe it's easier to use this method?"

After thinking about how to crack this thing, the Chosen One stretched out his right hand, extended a cable from the power armor, and connected it to an interface in the control circuit - slightly connected to the

The waste code "contributed" by the Oil Guy chess piece and the Paigu chess piece wandering around in the space station contacted each other emotionally, and then called out to Silence and Egg, asking them to help him - soon, the door opened. With a harsh friction sound, it slowly opened.

but......

As the door slowly opened, the hellish scene behind the door was completely presented in front of the Astartes. At the same time, a burst of shrill voices from thousands of people was mixed, which was completely beyond the reach of mortals. The sound wave that was endured rolled out from behind the door and hit the Astartes blankly. The sound was so bad that Durr's Howling Teeth could not help but clench his teeth!

"!!!"

Under the control of a group of things with who knows how many 'human' characteristics are left, countless living people - or people who can only be regarded as barely alive were tied to various torture instruments and were driven crazy Tortured, their blood and wailings 'reverberated' throughout the hall, stirring up circles of subspace ripples that normal people could not see - in the eyes of the God of Choice, these subspace ripples were very clearly guided. Then, it extended to a row of things engraved with Chaos Eight-Pointed Stars placed in the hall - there was no need to ask other hammer guys, the God of Choice had already figured out what was being created in this hall.

"These hateful technological heretics are trying to please the subspace with the emotional fluctuations caused by the pain and torture of human beings, in order to channel the power of supernatural beings from the subspace, so that the desecrated machines can be converted into A hybrid creation related to the evil existence in the subspace - it seems that our stealth invasion mission will have to add a little branch... No matter what, we cannot allow this kind of thing to appear in the mortal world. "

After whispering in the communicator to the men of the Wolf Group about what terrible things happened here, the God of Choice suddenly activated his power claws, fully activated the power of the jetpack behind him, and turned it into a shadow of death. He pounced on the few technical heretics closest to him who had not yet had time to figure out the situation because the door opened inexplicably - shadows passed by and their bodies decomposed!

"Brothers of the Wolf Group! Follow me to annihilate these technological heretics! Destroy those contaminated machine souls! We cannot let their rituals succeed! For the sake of the great...for the Emperor!!"

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"???"

The moment God's Chosen and the men of the Wolf Group moved towards the technical heretics in the hall. Qiqilong, who was leading his troops towards the outer ring area, suddenly stopped, raised his right main mechanical limb, and looked at the emerging one embedded in it with a look of confusion. A gem with mysterious symbols, the logical circuits in his brain are flowing crazily - the communication mechanism of this latest alarm gem he developed is attached to the subspace, and it is an attempt by Qi Qilong to use new knowledge. However, because Qi Qilong discovered in previous experiments that this gem has a small probability of "false alarm", the technical heretic is not sure whether its current alarm is really causing any problems that need to be reported to the police? Or is it just a mistake?

‘Analysis – Decoding – Reduction – The core laboratory was attacked? How can it be? "

Using the coded signals stored in his brain, Qiqilong soon deciphered the message conveyed by the runes on the gems - and this answer almost overloaded one of Qiqilong's thinking circuits - Core Laboratory That is the most heavily guarded place in the central area of ​​the Balaton 1 space station. The intensity of security around it is second only to the main control room of the space station - no, it may have surpassed the main control room now. Maybe, why is it there? Was it invaded without any warning? Moreover, when something like this happened, only one new technology alerted me, and other defense systems showed that everything was normal. Could it be that the main systems of the entire space station have been replaced with useless codes?

"boom--------!!!"

However, Qi Qilong didn't have much time to think. Before he could find a reasonable way to confirm the authenticity of the news, an oversized red box popped up in front of his eyes just right - confirming the red box. After reading the information contained in the box, Qi Qilong immediately put the silent invasion of the 'Core Laboratory', which was logically calculated to have a probability of less than 0.01, into the 'process later' category, concentrating on Continue towards the outer ring.

After all, according to the latest news, if it stops going to the outer ring area to regroup its troops, those dogs of the pseudo-emperor will probably penetrate the entire outer ring area!

32. Battle against Balaton--Fantastic reasoning of technical heresy

The corridor was blown into pieces, and it might be easier to rebuild than repair the corridor.

It was burned into a big pile, and at a glance it was obvious that there was no need to rescue the line.

Various pieces of biomass and special metals are scattered on the ground. It may be difficult to stuff them into the recycling bin for reprocessing.

It was obviously a large hole that was deliberately bombarded without considering the difficulty of maintenance, just to walk in a straight line.

When Qiqilong finally arrived at the outer ring area and asked his escort to manually open the blockade door that could not accurately identify him due to the spread of waste codes, the terrible scene that greeted his image capture system, and He got off the line that was still in operation in the outer ring.

The downloaded images and sounds almost caused the processing system of this technical heretic to overheat directly-

The outer ring area of ​​the Balaton I space station can be said to have been destroyed, completely destroyed! Even if he wiped out all the invasion forces of the empire now, the current situation of the Balaton I space station, which has lost at least 20% of its performance, cannot be compensated! From the parameter point of view, the comprehensive performance of the Balaton II space station, as the "companion space station" of Balaton I, is only about 15% lower than that of the Balaton I space station. In other words, if he fails to get anything valuable in this battle, then...

Just wait for the identity of the No. 1 and No. 2 space stations to be swapped! Now the Balaton world does not have so much idle productivity to repair the outer ring of its own space station!

"All troops in the outer ring, immediately concentrate in the XXX-XXX area, and avoid exchanging fire with the enemy as much as possible. Repeat, all troops in the outer ring, immediately concentrate in the XXX-XXX area, and avoid exchanging fire with the enemy as much as possible."

Thinking of this terrible possibility, Qi Qilong, who did not want to become the 'stationmaster of Balaton II Space Station', immediately forced his thinking circuit and chip to cool down. While trying to gather the remaining soldiers in the outer ring area to play a role in the next battle, he desperately analyzed the various intelligence he had to determine what the goal of this imperial force that jumped over was - but after a series of data flows and precise calculations, Qi Qilong found that he had obtained an inexplicable high-probability conclusion.

- These running dogs of the pseudo-emperor who jumped over came to destroy the outer ring! They did not point their military force to a deeper place at all!

'.......? ’

With this conclusion as a basis, Qi Qilong, who felt that something was not right, immediately "proposed" the message that he thought was "most likely a false alarm" not long ago, which was only sent by his new technology, and combined it with the conclusion that "the pseudo-emperor's dog simply wanted to destroy the outer ring". Almost two seconds later, Qi Qilong's chip output a secondary conclusion that surprised him extremely-

If this inference and intelligence are true, then it means that the enemies advancing all the way in the outer ring are all baits, and there is another force that has infiltrated the space station without his knowledge! If there is such a force and it has indeed successfully infiltrated without attracting any attention from him, and is still attacking the laboratory in the central area?

That means that a bunch of systems in the Balaton No. 1 space station, especially the alarm system, are not 100%, but 95% have been "disabled"! And if this situation occurs, my chances of winning this battle are estimated to be very tragic!

"The winning rate is calculated. The probability of victory in the operation is zero. The backup plan is being calculated. The success rate of the backup plan is zero. The data calculation is completed."

As a large amount of data is input, the chip in Qi Qilong's brain directly outputs the final answer. If these situations are linked, his winning rate in this operation is zero, and there is no need to fight at all. By the way, there is no need to escape, because there is no way to escape.

"........"

Qi Qilong, who did not think that his future would inevitably lead to a zero-winning road, directly launched the remaining flesh and blood emotion module, ignoring the probability of this possibility, and packed the answers generated by this series of reasoning into the recycling bin. Then, he reasoned again from the beginning on these intelligence.

"Calculation is completed, and the results are starting to be output-"

This time, under the premise of removing the answer with the highest probability, Qi Qilong came up with the answer that 'the invaders of the empire did not have the new structural diagram of the Balaton-1 space station, so the battle area has always been located in the outer ring'. Based on this answer, the technical heretic quickly calculated a new winning rate and a combat strategy to improve the winning rate - the victory was very high, very good, Qi Qilong felt that his circuit had finally "cooled down" a little.

"Reason again, start the operation--"

After getting this answer, Qi Qilong spent another half a minute to make various estimates, calculating various possibilities except the route with zero winning rate, and then came up with tactical plans to deal with these situations one by one. After tossing for almost three minutes, he finally felt that the matter was foolproof after coming up with more than ten possibilities and corresponding treatment methods.

"All troops, start the action, advance plan, A!"

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"Ask, how long will it take you to deal with this space station? My airdrop capsules are already thirsty."

On the Queen of Glory, Liang Feifan was bored while arranging his bean sprouts to continue monitoring the subspace fluctuations of Balaton and Udal in the space orbit, while asking the Hammers about the combat time related to the battle of Balaton No. 1 Space Station - after watching the Iron Hand chess piece of the political commissar sister wandering in the outer ring of Balaton No. 1 Space Station for so long, he was already itching to do something big.

"It shouldn't be long. From the map, the head of the traitor in this space station is already moving towards me. If nothing unexpected happens, he will enter the ambush circle of my Iron Hand Group in half an hour."

After confirming that Qi Qilong appeared in the outer ring area, he ordered his own

His iron hand chess pieces stopped their continuous advance and destruction of the outer ring area, and ordered them to squat in an area with good terrain to collect local materials, create various traps, bunkers and baits, and wait for the political commissar sister who had taken the bait to calmly answer.

"I've already secured his laboratory here, and I'm currently on my way to the control center - Egg, Silence, for the sake of safety, once I'm in place and start the operation, immediately support me with the waste code!"

Following the voice of the political commissar, the voice of God's Chosen also sounded in the bridge - by the way, he also asked for a wave of foreign aid to reduce the difficulty of the task.

"No problem. Ninety-nine percent of the data in this space station have been replaced by us with waste codes. When you get to the central control array, call one of us and we will give you the operating authority immediately."

"Okay - let's talk later. I will take these wolf gang brothers to take a shortcut and try to get the permission of the space station within half an hour - follow me and jump over here!"

Thirty-three. Battle against Balaton—The Landing of the Skyhammer

Roaring flames.

Continuous explosions.

A white halo created by plasma surges.

The melting weapon makes the sizzling sound of metal dissolving and vaporizing, and the sound of these metals solidifying again.

And in the low rumbling sound, the gravitational field created by the special particle flow was dragged into the abyss of super-heavy hell and crushed itself to pieces, the mechanical echo.

This is all that Qiqilon's current visual system can capture. These are the sounds that are now filling Qiqilon's auditory module - about a minute ago, a series of new intelligence was obtained from the residual channels in the outer ring area. He was also very sure that at least three small areas in front of him were very safe - and now?

He stepped into a carefully designed trap! He didn't get even a little bit of news from the outer ring channels that there were enemies here! In order to cope with this terrible emergency, the leader of the technical heresy of the first space station has overloaded his thinking chip!

"First formation, second formation, overload shield, move to the head of the team. Other teams, reorganize into C formation. Light firepower covers the coordinate area and fire freely. Heavy firepower locks the coordinate area and continues to suppress it. Retreat in an orderly manner."

The ultimate overload brought about the ultimate processing speed. In an instant, Qi Qilong integrated a large amount of data and used them to 'get a glimpse' of the battlefield. Combined with the various action plans he had deduced before, he calculated the current situation. The optimal solution - with the transmission of the telegraph signal, Chikiron's remaining troops stabilized their feet under the orders of their masters, raised their weapons, and counterattacked the continuous bombardment of the Iron Hands Astartes. , while retreating in an orderly manner towards the door they came from - in the calculation just now, Qi Qilong had calculated that as long as he withdraws more than 60% of his troops from this place where they cannot be deployed, then he will You can easily complete the counterattack against these Astartes who dare to reveal their coordinates by surrounding the dogs of these pseudo-emperors. After all, even if the outer ring area is in shambles, even if there are a lot of useless codes in the space station, the Balaton-1 Space Station is his home base after all! These dogs of the false emperor can only use this trick to seize a little advantage in their own hands!

However.....

"Woo--Woo--"

"Rumble, rumble————"

A shrill alarm suddenly resounded through the entire hall, and several thick adamantine doors that served as emergency blocking valves also fell rapidly amidst the alarm sound. With a muffled sound, the area was completely blocked, and Qiqilong's The retreat plan also fell through.

"Probability zero, answer, probability zero. Activate the Omega Protocol."

Logically impossible things happened again and again. Even if Chikiron didn't want to face the possibility, he completely understood his situation. Looking at the Iron Hands Astartes who had stood up from the bunker without concealment, This technological heretic desperately burned his last bit of perceptual thinking circuit - and at the same time, burned his own memory circuit, completely turning himself into a ruthless war command center. When his pupils were completely red When it was filled with light, the first command of the 'reborn' Qiqilong was also transmitted to the processors of all the Mechanicus units that were still connected to him.

"—Everyone, restrictions lifted."

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"...I have to admit that the output of these black engine oil guys is really fierce after overloading - do they have to drag the enemy's back more even if they die?"

After the dust of the battle settled, the political commissar sister looked at the status quo of the chess pieces that fell on the plate in her hand. More than half of them were killed and all the remaining chess pieces were injured. There was a hint of subtlety in her tone - he had previously guessed that according to the engine oil in the space station, The performance of the Lao Za soldiers is that they are equipped with multi-tube melta weapons and gravity weapons. They have the first move advantage, geographical advantage, and intelligence advantage. They also use waste codes to invade the Iron Hands gang and control all the space station equipment near the combat area. When the squad and the main force of these black machine oil guys are fighting, as long as the black machine oil guys are restricted by the terrain and cannot deploy the firepower of the troops, they can achieve a good victory, but the reality...

Faced with the ruthless counterattack of the Black Machine Greaser's troops, whose entire team was overloaded with self-destruction, regardless of the cost, the political commissar's gang-hopping troops were victorious, but not very brilliant.

"After all, the Warhammer worldview is a

The bigger forces have the skill of dying together, and the oil guys are experts at overloading various weapons and equipment. If they are black, they will only have no lower limit - speaking of which, what are my Tyranid troops doing now? Just wandering around in the universe? "

Currently, the most idle among the Hammers, Abathur, who could only direct his Tyranids to go shopping in the asteroid belt, shrugged his shoulders.

"Let's hang out for now. If you're really bored, go stalk the hive world and replace Liang Feifan's bean sprouts - his bean sprouts can enter the Forge World as allies."

The political commissar thought for a while and gave Abathur a suggestion.

"That's okay - Douya, as an 'ally', should indeed make some bigger moves. Liang Feifan, can I do it for you?"