Infinite Stream Metaverse

Chapter 421 Eightfold Way
"The way of the Ohm Messiah makes human beings hesitant to seek knowledge. Only by embracing the ether and chaos can we know the technologies that the primitive people of Mars can hardly see in their dreams."

——A dark sage of the Eightfold Path.

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Fu Qinghai came to the so-called "interrogation room".

This room is hidden deep, buried deep in the many pipes and forges of the Gerath space station, the road is winding and narrow, surrounded by ancient cooling wells and vents.Fu Qinghai led the soldiers through, and found that there were chiseled signs with eight arrows in a ring everywhere on the walls and inside the pipes.

Chaos octagon.

Fu Qinghai frowned.

The four gods of chaos have their own symbols, and the eight-pointed star of chaos is usually used to express the belief that "chaos has no division".

The Word Bearers, the Iron Warriors, and the Dark Mechanicus all believe in Indiscriminate Chaos, that is, they don't believe in a specific evil god, but believe in the chaos as a whole in a broad definition.

Just get close to that room.

I heard the laughter of "Jie Jie Jie" coming from inside:
"You can't help me, bat, stop these useless attempts, I am also a master interrogator, and there are countless technical priests who have confided everything in my hands. Your means are meaningless to me. Makes me feel good."

Fu Qinghai walked into the hatch and took a look.

It was a gloomy and messy room, with light shining into the room from the panels installed on the ceiling. The walls were decorated with star maps, data sheets and drawing boards, and there were many scientific research instruments that Fu Qinghai knew.But among them was a three-foot-tall black glass pendulum that he did not recognize, an eerie, greasy, creepy thing.

To his disappointment, there were no mouth balls, shackles, blindfolds, whips, low-temperature candles, or even anything that looked like a toy... oh, not a torture device.

Not like an interrogation room.

More like a laboratory.

Kalamanda, Satfaran, and No. 56 led a group of space fighters to surround an extremely ugly black machine oil guy.The face of this technical priest looks like a mass of rotten meat wrapped in pipes and cables, with four large and small eyes and a mouth with three sharp teeth hanging on his face like a tumor that has melted and fallen off. It is turning and opening and closing.

All eyes were fixed on Fu Qinghai.

The three mouths "smiled" with a gap:
"Haha, it's finally here, Qingshan Khan."

Fu Qinghai raised his eyebrows and looked at the three subordinates.

Number 56 shook his head slightly.

Said they never revealed any names.

"You're surprised, aren't you?"

The black machine oil guy said with a smile.

All the mechanical transformation devices on his body have been dismantled, scattered into a place of tattered metal parts, and the priest of dark technology with one-third of his body disappeared was placed on a chair. Although he was imprisoned, there was nothing in his tone Fear, as if it was not he who was captured.

"You know me?"

Fu Qinghai narrowed his eyes and asked back.

"I've never seen you, and I don't know you."

The black machine oil guy pointed to the instrument and said:

"It was it that told me of your imminent arrival, a very unique Chapter Master Astartes."

"Oh, where am I unique?"

Fu Qinghai became even more curious when he heard this.

The black machine oil guy said with deep meaning:

"An ordinary Astartes battle group leader, the first moment he saw me, he should have killed me with a single shot instead of having a conversation with me. Aren't you unique?"

It makes sense... Fu Qinghai thought to himself looking at the twisted and profane appearance of the oil guy.

"I smell the stench of the Warp."

No. 56 whispered:

"It's inside that black device."

Kalamanda and Satfaran, both awakened to psychic gifts, nodded in agreement with statement 56.

"In the ventilation duct under this room, I found the bodies of many loyal technical priests. The death conditions were extremely tragic. They should have suffered some kind of torture during their lifetime."

Kalamanda leaned over and whispered.

Fu Qinghai glanced at him.

Thought the words "tormented" could come out of your Kalamanda mouth?It's rare.

"I have to remind you."

The black machine oil guy interjected and said:

"It's not 'many', but eight, a total of eight martian corpses. This number is very strict, and it doesn't matter if there is one more or one less. Do you understand?"

"Technological heresy?"

Fu Qinghai looked at the oil guy and asked.

"No, I don't like that title. It's what the idiots on Mars and Terra call me. They are the heretics. I'm not a heretic. I'm a vortex technician."

"Vortex technician?"

Fu Qinghai has heard of biological sages, super rational beings, and masters of the forge, but he has never heard of the title "Vortex Technician", which sounds very dark to Mechanicus.

"That's right, Vortex Technician. Subspace, Supreme Sky, Ether Realm, Immaterial World... Different races have different names, and these terms all refer to one thing. Yes, that new world that science and logic can't name, It is so alluring, and the infinite knowledge and great wisdom contained in it are so generous, the trickle of data and the tide of logic are sent into the memory of those who are thirsty for knowledge with every fluctuation of the power supply of Geller's force field Middle. With just a slight nod of the head, the mysteries of the heavens are already under my control. And what I need to pay is just some insignificant price."

The black machine oil guy pointed to his face.

Disgusting mutation of flesh and blood.

"Again, we're not 'heretics', I'm a vortex technician. We don't want to start a rebellion, and we don't care who rules the galaxy, we just want to study the Warp quietly, and Mars and Terra don't allow it, So we're forced to take up arms and defend our homeland, that's all."

The black machine oil guy said seriously.

Tech-priests who specialize in the Warp.

They call themselves "Vortex Technicians".

I see.Fu Qinghai understood.

Seeing his strong desire to confide, Fu Qinghai couldn't help wanting to have a chat with him, so he took the initiative to ask:
"So why do you know my name?"

"Because of that thing, I call it the 'Divinator'."

The black machine oil guy pointed to the device on the table.

Fu Qinghai looked at the weird device.

From the appearance point of view, the so-called "divination instrument" is a circular instrument with an iron pendulum in the middle, covered with black glass, with various seemingly meaningless mechanical devices inside, and distorted runes on the outside Carve.

"The pendulum of the divination instrument is extremely sensitive to the energy of the subspace, and it will swing with the ripples of the subspace. With a ceremony, it can indicate the direction of the future. This ceremony requires the sacrifice of eight human lives, accompanied by strict rules and regulations. The eight guided participants, let the blood splatter on the instrument, and pray to the gods... If all goes well, at the climax of the ceremony, the augur allows the user to ask eight questions, which are answered one by one as the pendulum moves .”

The black machine oil guy talked eloquently.

You really need to sacrifice, and you still say you are not a heretic?
After hearing this, Fu Qinghai felt that it was indeed evil and heretical.

The easiest way to judge whether a machine is a demon engine or a destruction engine is to see if it cannibalize people. If this machine needs to eat people (whether body or soul) to operate, it must be a demon engine.

A demonic engine in the narrower sense refers to a machine bound to a Chaos Demon, like an enchanted warrior.In a broad sense, the demon engine or the destruction engine refers to all "human-eating machines".According to this definition, in a sense, the Astronomican Torch, the Golden Throne, and the black colored glaze are also a type of destruction engine.

Insert a digression: The world's first demon engine is said to have been invented by the emperor's trumpet.

"I asked eight questions, exploring the unknown mysteries, asking about my future, and asking whether there is hope for the Geras space station. The augur told me that there is a chapter master named 'Green Mountain Khan' who will Come here...hehe."

The black machine oil guy smiled without saying a word.

Hearing what he said, Kalamanda and Satfaran were a little nervous, and immediately aimed their weapons at the device, waiting for the Khan to give an order to completely destroy it.

"I wouldn't do this if I were you guys."

The black machine oil guy said calmly:

"That's unwise, unless you want to open a rift into the Warp at Geras station."

"And did it anticipate this?"

After solving the doubts, Fu Qinggai pulled out the plasma pistol, pointed it at the oil guy's head, and asked.

"Of course, of course..."

The black machine oil guy smiled and said:

"Once the doubts in your heart are resolved, once you are convinced that I am no longer useful, you will immediately kill me, completely kill me, the kind that will be wiped out without leaving a trace. These divination instruments have told me, and I have already expected."

The black machine oil guy pointed to the table and said:

"It's my humble work, and I dare not claim to be comprehensive. You can read it in your spare time, just to pass the boring time. I have a hunch that we will meet again, Qingshan Khan, you are an interesting person. People, hee hee... that's all, I'm done, you can shoot."

Fu Qinghai turned his head to look.

On the table was a thick-covered book.

The cover reads: "Rites and Psalms."

The following line of fine print, author: Proteus.

"Proteus?"

Fu Qinghai asked.

"Yes, my name."

The black machine oil guy nodded in acknowledgment.

It sounds a bit familiar.

Fu Qinghai nodded, and then pulled the trigger.

The blue beam flashed, and the black machine oil guy's extremely ugly deformed head disappeared in the plasma beam.Without Fu Qinghai's instructions, Saterfaran quickly took out the melta weapon, and quickly burned the corpse together with the decayed clothes and metal parts.

as he himself said.

Disappeared without leaving a trace.

"Search here thoroughly, and take away all valuable things, including the heresy device."

Fu Qinghai pointed to the divination instrument and said.

"Yes, Khan."

The subordinates started to move.

Fu Qinghai picked up the book on the table, but instead of flipping through it, he put it into a white suitcase.

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Geras space station, core of the forge.

Now that the battle has progressed, the space fighters that spread from the breach to all directions, after sweeping and clearing the surrounding area, gradually gathered towards one place.

"Tom tom tom tom... crackling!"

Explosive bombs flew horizontally, and electric arcs staggered.

"Damn... retreat! retreat!"

The bloodthirsty technical sergeant cursed angrily.

Another wave of attacks was repulsed.

The intelligent control mechs have strong firepower and excellent defense, and they are not afraid of death. They are not the crispy things of the Skitarii vanguards and cathar rangers. The bloodthirsty attack was once again frustrated and could not retreat Passage rest.

"We need heavy fire support!"

A battle brother gritted his teeth and said:
"Wait for the plasma or heavy blaster to come."

"Listen to me, brothers."

The tech sergeant said:
"According to my observation and analysis, although the bipedal intelligent control machine has strong firepower, its body turning ability is limited. We are more flexible than it, and we can kill them after getting close. In this way, we will have another wave of fire cover, and then I and Mandel, Edwin, and Victor rushed in front of them..."

The words are not over yet.

The technical sergeant suddenly saw a group of space warriors wearing black gold power armor and holding strange weapons, quietly moving into the passageway diagonally below him.

"Why are they so quiet?"

The tech sergeant thought to himself.

Taking a closer look, the breathing valve of the helmet is not beak-shaped, so it is not the MK6 raven-type power armor specially designed for Raven Guard and stealth combat, but why is their power armor so quiet, with almost no extra noise?
As the person in charge of the equipment in the battle group, the technical sergeant is particularly sensitive to these details-as we all know, the power armor is very noisy, the sound of the servo motor running, the sound of the two nozzles emitting waste heat and exhaust, and the occasional collision of armor plates In short, in most cases, it is difficult for space warriors to cover their tracks while moving quickly.

But they are so quiet.

"It's weird..."

The tech sergeant muttered to himself.

Both groups of Space Marines saw each other's presence, but did not communicate much-because the communication channel had been hijacked by the oil guys.And they don't seem to intend to communicate much either.Standing on a high place in the building, the technical sergeant saw that this group of black gold space fighters made a few simple signs, and then rushed towards the intelligent control mech.

Is this up?How reckless!
"Be careful……"

The words just yelled out.

Only a burst of intensive gunfire was heard.

Then there was a rumbling explosion.

The team of Space Marines disappeared down the passage.

Shouldn't they be dead so soon?

Techmarine thought.

That's too stupid.

"Follow me over there to have a look."

said the tech sergeant.

The bloodthirsty people got up and left the corner, and came to the passage where they had just fought, only to find in horror that the space warrior in the black-gold armor had long since disappeared, and there were only broken parts left in the passage. The control machine soldiers have turned into a few piles of smoking tattered ruins.

"By the throne, how did they do it?"

A battle brother said in surprise.

"Their weapons."

The tech sergeant frowned and whispered.

"What weapon is that, Ayu?"

Someone next to him asked.

"I do not know."

The technical sergeant shook his head and said:
"I've never seen that weapon."

One looks like some kind of bolt gun, but why is the gun body so long and the barrel so big?

One looks like a grenade launcher, but what is that row of round black bombs?

As the various battle groups gathered in this area, the powerful combat effectiveness of the Iron Buddha battle group undoubtedly aroused the surprise and even admiration of other battle groups.

They use a special type of bolter.

Compared with the short and thin traditional bolt guns, the bolt guns used by the Iron Buddha Corps have a longer body, a larger and thicker barrel, and there are three protrusions around the barrel. When shooting, it is often accompanied by a strange discharge from the chamber. The sound was like a piercing scream.

It is obviously the caliber of an ordinary bomb.

The power is comparable to a heavy bomb.

They use a strange grenade.

A bomb the size of a melon, plus a simple hydraulic slide rail ejection device, can burst out with astonishing power, and each bomb can explode a cloud of mushrooms, and they are equipped with weapons of this level. a team!

That's right, it's not the battle group level, not the company level, but the heavy firepower at the team level, is it so extravagant?
The standard weapons for individual soldiers of the Iron Buddha Chapter are pulse bolters and fat launchers.The former has extremely strong penetrating power, longer range and stable trajectory.Although the latter has a short range, its power is extremely impressive - the key lies in its low cost, if one is cheap, the energy will be full if it is cheap, and the firepower will be covered if it is cheap.

In the radiation universe, the technology of atomic energy is a bad street technology. A widower and a bachelor can make a small nuclear bomb by rubbing his own hands at home.On the eve of the outbreak of the nuclear war, almost every household in the country of Magnesium had a car with a small controllable nuclear fusion reactor as the engine. Others connected villages with electricity, water, roads and networks, and nuclear connections in the radiation universe.

It is true that nuclear energy has entered tens of millions of households.

One word to describe the fat launcher.

It is "cheap explosion".

The Astartes Chapters of course also have dedicated heavy firepower squads, called "Destroyer" squads, who usually use plasma cannons and melta guns as company-level heavy firepower.

However, both weapons have some disadvantages. The plasma cannon has a long cooling time, and the melta gun has a short range, and both are directed energy weapons. .

It should be noted that Heavy Bolters are not a standard force configuration for Destroyer squads, as Heavy Bolters have too much recoil and can only be used by Terminators.

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The Flesh Tearers and the Iron Buddha fought together to break through the last defensive circle of an orbital station.

"call……"

Nasir Amit breathed a sigh of relief.

The Chapter Master of the Flesh Tearer is wearing an Unyielding Terminator, with a pair of chainsaw gloves in both hands-a combination of a chainsaw sword and a power fist. There is no blood on the serrated teeth, only speckled black machine oil, from him Killed intelligent control machine soldier.

Nasir turned his head to look at Joestar, and looked up and down at the blue mountain heavy armor on his body. He had never seen this type of Terminator before, so he asked:
"Is this a set of Seiko Tactical Dreadnought Armor?"

"It can be counted."

Joe Star nodded:

"This is the Terminator personally built by our chapter leader, who is a Mars-certified casting master."

There is no lack of pride in the tone.

A regiment of the White Scars, with a Master Forge as Chapter Master, rare... Nasir Amit thought.

Generally speaking, a technical sergeant cannot become a high-ranking officer, not to mention a chapter commander, and a company commander is difficult, because the brothers of the chapter are not sure whether he is more inclined to the Mechanicus or the Adeptus Astartes-except for the Iron Man. Hands and Iron Warriors, the technical sergeants of these two legions have a high status, but their casting masters have other names——

Iron Father and War Blacksmith.

"What is this doing?"

Nasir Amit suddenly saw an Iron Buddha warrior checking his Pulse Bolter—a weapon whose name he had just learned.He patted the barrel of the gun, complained angrily, raised his hand and took off a square box in the gun case, then twisted and unscrewed the barrel, and stuffed the square box and the thick barrel into the weapon pouch on his waist.

"The power is not enough."

Joe Star glanced at it and explained casually.

The structure of the pulse bolter is very complicated. In addition to the drum magazine, a battery needs to be added as the energy source of the electromagnetic coil, which is the square box.

The great power of electromagnetic weapons comes at a price. The rail rifle developed by the earth clan of the Tau Empire uses up a pack of batteries in three shots, and the battery needs to be replaced every three shots. The pulse bolter is not much better. One drum drains one battery.Slann took this situation into consideration at the beginning of the design, so it adopted a modular design. Just remove the battery and the electromagnetic coil barrel, and the pulse bolter will become a normal bolter, which can still be used normally emission.

"It's interesting..."

Nasir Amit commented indifferently.

What I thought in my heart was: Sanguinius, why don't our technical sergeants of the Blood Angels have such abilities?

The technical sergeants of the Blood Angels once developed a special explosive bomb——Blood Fragment Bomb, which uses a bolt-shaped built-in warhead and has a strong armor-breaking ability. It is exclusively used by the Blood Angels and their subgroups. Of course there are also the Meat Fighters.But I am afraid of comparison in everything. Compared with the new type of bolt rifle, the new type of bolt seems not so... fragrant.

In addition to firearms, the Iron Buddha battle group.

Their power armor is also weird.

Nasir Amit saw with his own eyes that a soldier of the Iron Stupa was hit from the side by a large-caliber assault gun. The leader of the Flesh Tearers thought that the soldier should be dead, but he did not expect that the other party was just a broken and damaged power pack. Excluding the precision mechanical structure inside, the servo motor and the small nuclear fusion reactor, the human body is still intact.

At that time Nasir Amit thought to himself:

The power pack has been damaged, even if no one is injured, they can only withdraw from the battle.80.00% of the combat power of the space fighter comes from the power armor. The ratio of the power provided by the electronic muscle fibers and the self-reinforcing muscles is about nine to one. There is no power pack to provide energy to drive the electronic muscle fiber bundles and servo motors. Unless the power armor is taken off, otherwise Space Marines have difficulty moving.

Nasir Amit thought he had experienced the Great Expedition and the Great Rebellion, and he was well-informed and experienced in many battles, but immediately, a scene that he will never forget appeared:

No technical sergeant came to repair it. The space warrior's power backpack and the precision mechanical parts inside started to repair and heal automatically. Those scorched and broken parts were still emitting sparks and electric arcs one second, and seemed to be in the next second. After coming alive, the metal began to "liquefy" and began to wriggle by itself, and soon formed a new mechanical structure... Then, the space warrior patted his butt and stood up.

Keep fighting like a normal person.

By the Emperor, what kind of miracle is this?
Nasir Amit was stunned.

If seen by the technical priest.

Don't you shout "The God of Myriad Opportunities Appears"?
Joestar also knew that the living metal of the Necrons was more shocking than the pulse bolter and the fat launcher, but faced with Nasir Amit's constant questioning.

He can only explain it this way:

"Our Chapter Master is a master forge..."

fuck you.

Nasir Amit thought.

You have said this sentence a thousand times.

When I have never seen a foundry master?
Forging masters are rare, but in the Legion Age, there were still four or five in an Iron Hands Legion. They were all the most beloved sons of Fenus Manus, but they had never developed such a powerful power armor.

It can return blood and heal itself.

The MK4 ultimate power armor and most of the power armor are made of ceramic-steel-plastic-steel composite armor, while the MK8 chaos-type power armor is made of ceramic-steel plastic-steel titanium alloy triple composite armor. Nasir did not pay attention to this detail.

……

The battle is still fierce.

Since Qiao Shida didn't want to say more.

Nasir couldn't get to the bottom of it either.

The two warbands continued to fight side by side.

until they come to a fork in the road.

Nasir said:

"I think we should go to the left, Captain Joestar."

Joe Star said:

"We're going to the right, Commander Amit."

Originally, it was just a simple divergence of roads, and each went his own way, but thinking of this road, Qiao Shida always had a sense of alienation in his politeness.

Nasir Amit suddenly narrowed his eyes:

"Captain Joestar, I get the feeling that you...are not willing to fight with the Flesh Tearers?"

Although Lao Qiao is reckless and brave, he is not a fool.

Calmly replied:

"No, Captain Amit."

What I thought was:

You blood angels are such a shitty thing, but who doesn't know about all the space fighters from the Legion era?

Black Rage is a genetic disease that only occurred after the death of Sanguinius. Because there were not enough blood angel gene seeds after the war, it was impossible to make up the number of the mother group, and there was no way to expand the child group, so the father's gene was cloned, and then This genetic disease is produced.

Most people don't know Black Fury exists.

But blood thirst, many legions have heard of it.

On the battlefields that the Blood Angels have been to, mummified corpses that have been sucked dry of blood often appear inexplicably, both enemy and friendly.Joe Star felt that the Flesh Tearer hadn't fallen ill yet, it was only because the Geras space station was a forged world, and the oil guys were full of machinery without flesh and blood, and the Flesh Tearer hadn't been stimulated yet, so the blood thirst hadn't occurred yet.

But I don't want to fight with them either.

"Ok."

At last.

Nasir took a deep look at Joestar.

Then lead the team to leave from the left channel.

……

Space fighters from five different battle groups surrounded the core forge city of Jerras Space Station. The two powerful intelligent control mechs.

Death-type intelligent control machine soldier.

Fortress-type intelligent control machine soldier.

In the battle of space hulks, Fu Qinghai once encountered Domita-type intelligent control mechs, which were developed on the basis of Fortstar-type intelligent control mechas. The six intelligent control mechas fought to the limit A company of soldiers ran away with their heads in their hands.

Now, not only have we met the Domita-type smart-controlled mecha, which is the basic Fort star-type smart-controlled mech, but we have also encountered the death-type smart-controlled mecha, which is larger than the Domita-type and Fort-star type!
Two kinds of intelligent control mechs defeated the offensive of the interstellar warriors. Facing these robots that are more than ten meters high, each battle group had to dispatch their ancient relics——

Dreadnought armor!

At this time, each battle group finally discovered that they had something that the Iron Buddha battle group did not have.

The Iron Buddha Chapter has no Dreadnoughts.

Fu Qinghai didn't feel ashamed.

It is true that the Iron Buddha Chapter does not have an iron coffin, but so far there has not been a space warrior who needs to be sent to a dreadnought due to serious injuries. This is a medical achievement.

From technology not observed by other chapters.

Extremis virus.

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　One chapter counts as two chapters

　
(End of this chapter)