The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

Chapter 1075 Chapter 110: Recombination machine

Who exactly is controlling the knights of Prometheus?Dr. Halsey certainly didn't have a clue about the question, and she didn't even know why it was popping up at this moment.But she is keenly aware that this is very important to understand the current situation, clarify the attack route and guide the success of the mission.

She looked at the spirit behind her and asked:

"Let's see the evidence first, shall we?"

Back Ling nodded, and he placed three daggers that looked exquisite in workmanship and had a unique crystal structure on the hilt on the table like seven cents of money.In the battle just now, Halsey once saw him use this melee weapon to engage in fierce close combat with the Prometheus knight, every knife pierced the opponent's eyes and killed the enemy with one move.Prometheus knights who are dealt with this way will simply fall to the ground and turn off the lights (they have lights all over their bodies), instead of glowing golden orange when their bodies are broken.

"This is the medical equipment in our hands, the name is Nekt Blade." Behind the spirit explained, "It is a psionic equipment, designed for first aid on the battlefield, and was born in the confrontation between the Mackenzie civilization and the Dark Worm. On the battlefield. By piercing the blade through the eye sockets into the head, the consciousness of the victim can be drawn out and stored in the storage device of the handle, and then a new body can be created by using techniques such as cloning to store the consciousness Consciousness is imported, so that this person can be brought back to life. Those who are seriously injured on the battlefield and cannot be treated immediately, and those who are infected by the dark worm virus and have no cure but still maintain consciousness can use it to save their lives. "

Can this kind of thing be done? !

The people around were startled.In the past few decades, human beings have been receiving all kinds of spiritual shocks, precision jump engines, plasma torpedoes, powerful shields, and Star Alliance equipment that have opened human eyes and suffered a lot in wars, but at least This is still something that can be understood.Afterwards, the forerunner's individual teleportation in the ring, the wide-area AOE activated by the halo, and the folded Dyson sphere in the inner space of the planet have reached the level of incomprehensibility.

And now, a short sword used to store consciousness... This is another way to make people wonder.

Hearing this, the Master Chief felt a slight pain in his heart... If there was such a device, then Sam could return to everyone, instead of being unable to return to the universe because the armor was penetrated and could only be trapped. Died in a Covenant battleship.In this regard, Dr. Halsey thinks more, a knife that can be used to store consciousness is not just a medical device—even if it was originally designed as a medical device...

He is taking the Prometheus knight captive with the Nector blade.The souls of the three Prometheus knights captured by him are in the three inconspicuous short swords in front of him.

"Is this... mass-produced equipment that everyone can equip?"

"No, this is not mass-produced equipment." On the sidelines, Oregana shook her head, "With our technology, there is no way to replicate them. Traditionally, this glorious weapon is assigned to the lieutenants of their high commanders. If something happens during the mission, it is the duty of the lieutenants and guards to ensure the return of the commander's soul. We only have the gift of twenty , fifteen of them are kept strictly as a token of friendship, and the remaining five will be used in missions—to save people.”

"...Even if the opponent is a Prometheus knight?"

Cortana's projection paced around the three short swords on the table with a teasing expression.In her opinion, using this to pierce an enemy's head on the battlefield has nothing to do with saving lives.

The projection equipment used by the AI ​​on Tartarus' ship is different from the UNSC's projection table, but integrated into the holographic projection system, so the range in which the AI ​​can move has become particularly large.Most people think that this is not bad for the AI, because no matter how much you shake the AI's body, it will not move in the system, but the AI ​​itself doesn't think so-for example, Ai-chan often runs back and forth on the table, and was chasing the leader of the army before. cat, it seemed to put her in a particularly good mood.

"I think so. To capture the Prometheus knights is to save them in my opinion." Behind Ling replied, he leaned forward with a serious expression on his face, "It depends on what we found on the 03 ring before Let's start talking."

"what?"

Ring No. 03 was discovered by the Phoenix-class dreadnought Jackdaw to which Tartaros belonged a few days ago, and immediately contacted its guide, 859 Gravity Bell.With the help of this Forerunner AI, Tartarus quickly secured the Recombiner and the Recombiner Forge.

"Recombiner. We found this super weapon on the 03 ring belt. With the help of the 859 gravity clock, we know the function of this super weapon."

Back Ling turned on the projection equipment, and a strange machine appeared in the air immediately.

Judging from the scale next to it, the size of this device is about the same as a skyscraper, so it will not be easy to carry it.In appearance, this thing looks like an enlarged landing capsule, but a piece of the front part has been dug out, revealing the forerunner-style energy pipeline inside and the circular launch port located on the centerline of the device.Seen from the bottom up, the restructuring machine looks like a cyclops squatting on the ground, and the launch port looks like eyes, condescending to all living beings.

"That's it. This is a device made by the forerunners based on 'neurophysics', which conforms to the characteristics of our 'large psychic equipment'." But what exactly is 'neurophysics'? People made it clear that "it can be carried on a starship and aimed at a target - such as a city - to launch. The individual carbon-based intelligent organisms hit by the ray will be reduced to ashes in the process of extreme pain, but they Thoughts and consciousness are exported and stored in digital form. The Forerunners can choose to store these files to drive their battle machines, or to use them for interrogation."

Speaking of this, Ling Ling commented with a disgusted expression:

"Ghost knows how they made this hell thing."

"You mean, inside those robots are..."

"That's right. When the mechanical body is destroyed, the internal consciousness will not disappear. Instead, it will return to the base and be revived with a new blank body. It is very efficient. But..." He paused and moved A Nector blade was inserted into the reading device next to the console. "This is the consciousness of the Prometheus knight captured in the battle. Take a look."

The reader beeped slightly, the light turned from red to green, and the projection device cast a grotesque image.

That thing is like a cloud of fog, constantly bending, twisting, spinning, elusive, and humming like noise.Halsey watched carefully, frowning, her habits as a scientist making her want to analyze something from this indescribable mass - she stared for a few seconds, and then the intense dizziness broke out in a terrible way. The momentum came, and the feeling was like hitting the head with a hammer.

Halsey was horrified. In this pain, the indescribable fog seemed to rush into his brain, and things that he couldn't understand immediately became clear.

It was a face, a wailing human face.She could see that the brown face was painted with the kind of oil paint that seemed to be used by primitive hunting peoples—it was undoubtedly a human being, with fear in its eyes, and then it screamed and decomposed—first the outermost layer of skin changed Turned into powder, then soft tissue, eyeball, and finally the hollowed out skeleton, these powders began to rotate on the spot, going left and right for a while, and reconstituted the human face in a few seconds as if rewinding, and then proceeded to the next step wheel cycle.

The face appeared in the mist, disappeared into the mist, reappeared, and moved around as if sliding, its wailing and disintegrating sounds mingling in a buzzing noise.She felt the arm of the 'person' stretched out from the smoke, as if trying to grab herself, which made her let out an exclamation...

At this moment, a series of popping noises suddenly occurred between the dagger and the reader, as if the wires were short-circuited, and arcs and sparks jumped out like pyrotechnics.Back Ling clicked his tongue, and pulled out the Nector blade from the inside. The projection flickered a few times, and the mist stopped moving as if the pause button had been pressed. It can be seen that the inside is disintegrating in half, and half of the face has turned into a human face of a skeleton.

"God..." Halsey breathed heavily, she felt as if she had just been submerged in water.That momentary suffocating feeling is definitely not a hallucination "What's going on?"

Although it is not clear what happened, the pain of the other party is obvious.This is not just a simple thing like a memory... After having the concept of warp space and psionic energy, Halsey felt that he could guess what was in front of him.

Her limbs are cold.

What Oregana said next confirmed her guess:

"Because of some problems in the process of consciousness transcoding, most of the personality and memory were destroyed... All that was left was the pain at the moment of death, and then this pain was led to the killing intent." She started from behind After taking over the Nector Blade and playing with it, every time his fingers touched the crystal-like storage at the back, he could feel a thick, tar-like hatred and anger that was as cold as steel. "They have almost no thinking ability, but fighting Strong consciousness, coupled with a set of powerful weapons and equipment and its own semi-immortality, it has become a powerful army that can fight against the Flood."

In the beginning, Fran once speculated whether the destruction of personality and memory was intentional 'abandonment', because if the ancient humans kept their original personality, it might affect the efficiency of combat.But the Scythe of War doesn't think so - because the first batch of soldiers who were reorganized into mechanical warriors were direct troops that the missionary himself had commanded for thousands of years. It is meaningless to discard the personalities and memories of these warriors. This kind of practice will make any commander feel heartbroken.

The only thing that can explain this situation is that the pioneers really lacked sufficient technology in this area, and they had no way to keep the consciousness of the reorganized people intact.It can digitize any creature without specific evolution, but the digitized creature will only become a mindless killing machine in the end.

Oregana put the Nector Blade back on the table, intending to show the three digitized consciousnesses to Protos's Kalai technician later.Protoss has a profound attainment in the technology of consciousness digitization, although it is consciousness replication rather than consciousness extraction.But after thinking about it, the consciousness replicas created by the Protoss in the Purifier Project can reach 99.3% similarity to the original body, and this replica can be mass-produced, and the engineers have specially built one for them. The data network modeled on Kara, the Purifiers can connect to different bodies through this network...

Emmmm......

The pioneers who wiped out their minds and carried out consciousness harvesting created possibly the largest and fastest-growing cursed legion in history, which indirectly led to missionaries being secretly plotted and sealed by their wives; directly copying consciousness without changing it, and then not changing it Protos, who gave these 'artificial intelligence' human rights, finally created an 'iron man rebellion' that almost overturned the entire protoss society...

After extracting the consciousness and stuffing it into the robot, this technology is definitely a red technology. If the technology and thinking are not ready and start a large-scale adjustment, no matter which side is missing, the car will overturn. (cover face)

Thinking of this, Oregana continued to explain:

"This army was established during the war between the Forerunners and the Flood. Soldiers with mechanical bodies will not be infected by the Flood. Except for the Prometheus Knights, the direct descendants of the missionaries, the internal records of the reorganization machine show that This weapon was once fired at the settlements of the ancients, and he captured the souls of the ancients to drive his undead army."

The image log information extracted from the recombiner’s equipment began to be broadcast on the screen——the angle of view of the screen is very high, and a very old-looking settlement is located obliquely below. It is close to the river, and the scale is not large, with low fences And the walls, the thatched houses are unevenly located among them.Humans with brown skin, wearing animal skins and rough knitting are coming out of the house, looking up at the camera in panic.

Immediately afterwards, an orange beam of light lit up below, and this beam of light shot straight at the settlement, and its range gradually expanded.The people who were illuminated turned into ashes almost before they had time to react. The people next to them either knelt down to pray or started to run away. They dropped the things in their hands and stumbled towards the outside of the city, jumped into the river, or ran to the side. The woods tried to hide from the destructive light that fell from the sky.

But it was of no use.

The light easily caught up with them and devoured them, like a whale taking a big gulp of water and devouring swarms of krill in the sea.Whether it is a warrior carrying a spear, a woman carrying a child in a basket, or even the child in the basket, all are treated equally under this light.Clothes were scattered on the floor, jugs fell from between broken arms and shattered into pieces, panniers fell to the floor, and the ashes of the children were dumped on the floor, leaving only a small handful.

In this quietness, the breeze gently brushed, wrinkling the water surface and bringing ashes all over the sky.

The entire recording contains no human voices whatsoever.Whether it is screaming or begging for mercy, it cannot be heard in the distant sky.For those people, when the time of destruction comes, there is no army of locusts coming out of unfathomable caverns, no grand and tragic battle of gods, no laments of angels playing horns, only the light of destruction and equipment falling from the sky The hum of operation.

And after they died, there was no god to condemn them, no heaven or hell, their consciousness was torn apart and frozen at that moment—from then on, they would fight for the god who destroyed them, even Death is not allowed either, fighting until the end of the world.

Cortana showed an expression as if she saw something disgusting:

"The guy who uses this kind of thing still says that human beings are stubborn, aggressive and barbaric?" Her tone was full of sarcasm. "That missionary obviously doesn't know what self-knowledge is. But I found a problem."

"Looks like you understand."

Cortana was not the only one who understood, the Master Chief showed a thoughtful expression:

"The missionaries created these soldiers, but it is definitely not the missionaries who control these undead warriors. Then he should hope that we will come to him as soon as possible to unlock his seal. If we are all wiped out, then who will kill us?" Let it out?" At this point, he showed a clear expression, "I understand."

"It's not the missionaries themselves who control these soldiers. They're just following an instruction from 10 years ago until today. Because there's no one commanding them, and the internal AI looks like this, so their actions are so slow and stupid. Cortana took up the conversation, "And the missionary is not completely out of control... It is possible that during these 10 years, he has regained some authority. For example, sending a signal to let the dominant Prometheus The Sri Lankan troops suddenly let go of their prey and retreated."

"If that's the case, he should be racking his brains to figure out how to contact us by now."

As soon as Cortana finished speaking, the observer turned his head:

"Sensor signal detected! In area A5547784! 0.8AU away from here!" He said loudly, "The signal code is very similar to our communication code! But there is very large noise, which cannot be identified."

It is almost the same seduction method as in the original game. In the original game of "Light ○", the missionary used this method to lure the Master Chief to his own grave, and disguised the lock of the cell as a communication station. The Master Chief thought that This signal transmitter can be used to contact Infinity, press up with both hands - and the missionary will return to the world.

"See, the call came right away. Call for reinforcements, and set off immediately!"

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Chapter 1076 Chapter 111: Right at your door

Requiem is almost defenseless.

At first, Billie Hailing, the head of the Wrath Corps, didn't believe this. After all, there had just been a fairly intense encounter. According to the normal situation, the defenders should have been prepared long ago.When she received the request for reinforcements, she thought that her warship would be intercepted by heavy firepower or sent to jump gangs when it broke in.

On this basis, Billie Hailing's battle plan is, first of all, the ship rushes inward, deploys space beacons along the way, uses a large number of space beacon connections to calculate the exact coordinates of the internal folding space, and tries to Eliminate all errors, and complete the breakthrough and beacon erection before the ship is sunk.After everything was prepared, everyone took a shower and drove another ship from the Titan in the rear to deliver directly to the target point that had been calculated.The space environment of Requiem is very complicated, but the environment model has been constructed, and it is not a dream to perform coordinate calculations.

And as long as the coordinate calculation is completed, the Final Yan World can open the door to any place, whether it is in the fire, in the water, in the grass, in the forest, or even in the girl's skirt—but it is impossible to tell the Final Yan World I see, otherwise this lady is not like Lieutenant Colonel Richard Mardukas who only talks about it, she will really put people in the fortress-class Thor torpedo and launch it to give people 'replenishment of brains' .

It's terrible. (nod)

Therefore, Billie Hailing did not choose to attack the cruiser, but picked a Hell Angel-class battleship with strong armor, thick firepower, ferocious firepower and heavy hull from the reserve team on standby outside, and blasted it with the main gun when necessary. The gate, or crash into the closed partition.The entire ship was in a state of extreme mental tension, the guns were loaded, the cannons were charged, the shields and the internal force field stabilization system were all turned on to the maximum, and even the type of bathing agent was selected.

As a result, it drove all the way in, and no one stopped it at all.Captured by the gravitational field, the battleship slid forward along the channel just like the Nautilus drilled through the undersea tunnel, and stopped steadily at the place where the strike cruiser had stopped before, reuniting without harming a single soldier.

The two ships were sailing side by side at a low altitude of forty kilometers above the ground, and the comparison of the two ships' sizes seemed a bit unexpected and funny.

[The angry group has arrived! 】Billie Hailing saluted Oregana in the communication channel【The command is handed over to the legion commander! 】

"Thank you for your hard work. The battle plan will be sent later." Oregana also saluted. "What happened? You have an unforgiving expression on your face?"

【Uh... just... like the kind of egg that you think is about to explode when you put it in the microwave, and you're ready to be fried, but you find that the egg doesn't feel fried at all. 】

"……what?"

Although I understood what she meant, but I heard an inexplicable metaphor...

After the handover was complete, the wounded were transferred to better protected battleships.During this process, Back Ling asked at the command meeting:

"The troops of the Wrath Corps can help us resist the Prometheus Knights. But what should we do with the Didact?"

As a guy who had a box before crossing, Back Ling had a good aura, so he was very impressed with the role of missionary.The reason is very simple. If you can press the Master Chief to fight in close combat, the effect is roughly equal to that of the Sergeant fighting a white soldier. As long as the missionary is willing, the Master Chief's feet will not be able to touch the ground... As long as you stretch out your hand like this, the Master Chief will Lifted in mid-air as if locked by the force of the force, unable to move.

However, this is just a control skill. According to the usual practice, all kinds of force chokeholds in different forms and principles can't pinch people to death, they can only make people hang in mid-air.

This is a ruthless character with unfathomable strength, and Ling Ling does not have the confidence to beat him in a head-on conflict.

"The activity of the subspace in this place is not high enough. We can't summon a large group of subspace demons here. And I'm sure he must have a way to fight against the subspace demons." After all, we have met before, according to 343 Taiga According to Spark, the original "Chaos Messenger" was quite chaotic. It is impossible for missionaries not to think about how to defend against that kind of guy. ?"

After absorbing part of Radam's technology and controlling a part of the Radam tree, Tartarus has the ability to manufacture clones into Tiegarman's body, but not only the output is very low, but also the transformation is very harmful to the spirit. The impact of the attack is very large, and its key brain structures are not fully compatible with the implants used for consciousness transmission. For safety reasons, this technology will not be used for other clone fighters.

Even Oregana herself doesn't like to use it very much. After the first few attempts, she realized that there are more stable and mature models of clones that enhance combat power, and the output of Tiejiaman is a bit 'excessive' to be honest. .Most of the time when you need to fight by yourself, you don’t need a naval gun-level antimatter cannon. The Demon God’s Flame for anti-vehicle is enough, but when you need naval gun-level firepower...why not just use the naval gun directly? ?

Although it is handsome and powerful, it is too expensive and the output is overflowing...then it is not so easy to use.

But if you are facing a missionary, maybe this equipment is necessary.

"If necessary." She shrugged. "Ah Ling, how did the chief think tank imprison him in the first place? Couldn't he be knocked out with a cosmic hard-light washboard?"

"What is the cosmic hard light washboard?"

"After adding the word universe to something, it will become very powerful, and then because it is a pioneer, I add hard light meow."

"Don't be too influenced by Mrs. Yasaka..." Behind Ling waved his hands broadly, "The pioneers didn't need a washboard for domestic violence, and the missionary's wife, the head of the think tank, used a binary rifle to subdue the missionary."

"Binary rifle?"

"It's the weapon used by Prometheus soldiers. It blows Jenny's child's head away with a single shot from two or three kilometers away."

"what……"