Warhammer Inquisitor

Chapter 347 Expedition Road: Helen's Treasure
Loyalty reminder at the beginning; readers of the High Lord's Council, hereby inform.There is only one update today. I have to go out in the afternoon in a hurry, but the amount that is missing today will be made up tomorrow (it may not be three shifts, but there is a super chapter that is a two-in-one chapter). Let’s take a look at the list today. Chapters, but today is also a single larger chapter (9 words are actually two in one), thank you for your understanding, and wish you a happy viewing today.

Magnus' crimson face was illuminated by the faint blue light, and the crimson-gold eyes reflected a little bit of azure luster, it was like a group of tiny fireflies floating in the air, lighting up the cheeks of the crimson giant With the golden crown worn on the head.

But I'm also sure that a little firefly wouldn't make Magnus, the Primarch of the Thousand Sons look so shocked, you can see through Magnus' shocked eyes, through the pupil reflex Seeing what he saw, a little blue-ray lady appeared in his eyes.

Magnus looked at the woman, who was standing on the disc, looking at himself with a calm and icy expression, as if expressionless, Magnus could not rule out the possibility, Because he knew that the woman standing in front of him was not a real person.

He could clearly see the tiny stream of data rolling over the blue eyes, and her entire body was also made up of countless linear streams of information. She had a name, not the one Vito told him of course, but another name. A name that can sum up the whole of his existence.

"Let me introduce you, this is Helen." Vito held the disc in his hand and raised his power claw with a smile to signal the little girl in his hand. Helen also nodded tacitly.

"Hello, Mr. Magnus, it's an honor to meet you." Helen greeted Magnus with a smile, but even Magnus could see that it was an automatic response of the pure etiquette system. There was absolutely no sincerity at all, and after Magnus subconsciously nodded in response, the smile quickly solidified. In the blink of an eye, Helen's smile disappeared and became like an iceberg again, but Magnus's focus Not at all in this regard.

"She's an artificial intelligence, or AI as it's called, don't try to deceive me, Vito, with an abominable intelligence in her hand." Magnus snapped, and Vito scratched his own with the smooth back of the power claw. Head, he looked at Magnus.

"Really? You also use that outrageous name? I think the electronic demon sounds better." "This is not the point, the point is that you have an AI in your hand, an AI that the Emperor has banned."

"Yes, I can see it, don't make a loud noise, why are you like the group of state religion? You are from the rebel side, calm down." Vito smiled mockingly, leaning on the console on the side. , holding Helen in his hand and raising his head slightly, Magnus can continue to ask, he guessed that Magnus has a lot of questions.

The Cyclops looked at Vito above it. He lowered his head to look at Helen again, and after a moment of silence, he slowly said, "You hid an artificial intelligence from everyone, including the Emperor?"

"The answer is, yes, each of us has our own secrets, Magnus, and I am no exception, but the Emperor. He knew, he always knew he just didn't want to break it, he knew I wouldn't give up on Helen ."

"In order to erase artificial intelligence, he eliminated a branch of human civilization, just because they continued to retain artificial intelligence technology, Intel, Holmes Technology Alliance, etc., but he acquiesced to you, holding a artificial intelligence?"

Magnus asked questioningly, it sounded like a trial, but Vito could understand what he was thinking, so Vito just shrugged, ignoring the unpleasantness in Magnus' words Question tone.

"Yes, that's right."

"Then, why? Just because you are his marshal? You are the immortal brother he walked with for tens of thousands of years?"

"Seriously, why do you always think of him as my brother? We have no blood relationship at all. I'm a Slav, and that guy is a Semite. How did we become brothers?"

"That's not the point, Vito, answer my question, why did he allow you to do this? He has killed countless people, but he has only one side with you? Selfish? Or is there something else?"

Magnus took a step forward and continued to ask. It sounded that his tone was very excited. This is not surprising. As a person who was tried at the Mikaia Council for the pursuit of forbidden knowledge, he was punished for exploring technology banned by the Emperor. When it comes to the punisher, when Magnus knows that Vito, who is by the Emperor's side, has these forbidden technologies, and the Emperor did not punish or confiscate it when he knew it clearly, but tacitly allowed him to continue to have it. , indeed will be very angry, this is blatant prejudice.

Vito raised a hand and signaled the excited Magnus to stop, the latter did stop and stood two steps away from Vito, "I know you are angry, if others know about it, but believe me. Me, it's not because of selfishness, the old man is indeed a bit selfish sometimes, but believe me, he is very separated and will never bring it into the business, so yes, it is not for selfishness."

"What's that for? What else?" "The reason is very simple, because Helen's data terminal stores all the technology, science and history of the golden age of mankind. If the emperor wants to rebuild the golden age, he needs these things, And such a huge amount of technology and science cannot be remembered by the human brain, even the Emperor."

Magnus was startled, he lowered his head and looked at the little girl in Vito's hand in disbelief. He couldn't believe that in this finger-sized lady of light and shadow, there were all people, this dark galaxy All the treasures dreamed of by those who seek knowledge and technology.

This AI lady staring blankly at herself is a treasure, her whole being, her entire existence is a precious thing in this galaxy, it is the door and key to countless palaces of knowledge and the golden future. , is a precious thing that is difficult to describe in words.

"Helen was the artificial intelligence adjutant when I was the marshal of the Federation. She docked the database of the entire Federation, coordinated scientific research, military scheduling and deployment of weapons and equipment, and recorded all the technical data of the golden age in her data core, and The research and development process, and she is the last one in this galaxy so far, the computing power is strong enough to allow the Emperor to transform the computing power of the entire empire's industry and technology industries. Excellent artificial intelligence."

"But the Emperor clearly told us the Iron Man Rebellion that artificial intelligence is dangerous and uncontrollable. She records those knowledge and technologies, but she may also use them at any time, turning her guns on us." Magnus wrinkled He raised his brows and continued to ask, and he continued to ask Vito's eyes.

Vito smiled softly, leaning on the instrument with his arms in his arms, "Yes, but Helen was the "loyal artificial intelligence" who ended the Iron Man rebellion, and ended the rebellion with me on Jupiter, you don't know Right? Of course, the Emperor won't tell you, the effect he wants is for everyone to believe that artificial intelligence is evil, to avoid some people's brainstorming, with dangerous rebellions and electronic demon fantasies can be Use them safely."

"Black and white, good and bad is extreme, but for the ignorant human beings after the dark ages, perhaps rigid dogma is the best way to ensure safety, not explanation."

Vito looked down at Helen in his hand, who also turned slightly and looked up at Vito, "For the Emperor, the knowledge recorded in Helen's mind must be valuable, but more importantly, Helen is the only one among all artificial intelligences. One, without the AI ​​that went crazy and paranoid in the later era of disputes and human civil war, her system is still stable and controllable, and more importantly, I can control her."

Magnus looked at Vito who raised his head and smiled confidently, he patted his chest very arrogantly, "Yes, your second uncle, I'm so awesome! Look, I'll give it to you Show me, Helen, change to a bikini skin."

"I refuse, sir."

Magnus opened his mouth slightly, looking at Vito who flipped over just as he was about to demonstrate before he stopped, the latter raised his head with a wry smile and looked at Magnus and shrugged, "Well, at least most of the time listen to me."

"So let me summarize, the reason why the Emperor allows you to hold Helen is not selfishness, but because Helen's core records the science and technology that the Emperor needs, all the technology, and she is controllable, not Will cause upheaval like other rebel intelligences, so it is safe for her to hold the knowledge, and you are her steward."

"Correct, I know you have a very broad mind, and you don't need the kind of thing I asked for when I explained it to the Mechanic Sect. It's a long discussion for several days, and in the end, you don't necessarily convince those idiots."

This is why Vito has always chosen to hide the fact of Helen's existence from most of the Mechanicist members, and even Omega, who has been with Vito for decades, has chosen to hide it. Not everyone shares the "techno-heretic" kind of enlightenment with Kaur.

Most of the time, when you come up with a new technology and tell the mechanic that it works, it’s all over. What you have to meet is endless technical discussions, religious and philosophical speculations, and eventually, with a high probability, copy guys. A brief fire conflict broke out with each other.

This is the reason why there is no new technology for a long time in Mechanics. It's not that no one is researching and developing it, but in today's Mechanics, the birth of any new technology takes thousands of years and endless debates. Even if your technology has not passed the audit, you will hang up, and then the new technology will be forgotten in the vast technical archives.

Even more imperial features, when you develop a new technology, your colleagues in the Mechanic Church will be jealous of you, they will prevent your technology from passing, obliterate it, and even you, a classic imperial political struggle.

When the Olympia Agreement was signed, the Empire converted to the technical cult of the Mechanicus, and the Mechanicus also converted to the Empire. After a long period of time, it was finally assimilated by the imperial bureaucracy. Today, the Mechanics is intricately complicated, with strict hierarchy and strict political rules. Internally, it is no longer the enlightened organization of the year. The first thing that any new technology comes to is not hope and change, but confrontation and dispute.

Therefore, Vito was cautious about using Iron Man, hiding the Heavenly Blade, and Helen in his hands, her existence and the amount of knowledge of the technology in her core, were enough to set off a stormy wave that tore apart half the empire. With the emperor at the helm, the imperial ship would be torn in half in the tsunami and sunk.

A lot of times, it's not that Vito doesn't want to help the empire, it's because of his help, that really useful help can bring havoc. Today's empire is like a crumbling house, its structure is already on the verge of collapse, you move any A single brick, any stone may lead to the collapse of the entire building, maintaining the status quo, this is the only choice in these ten thousand years, although suffering.

Magnus ignored Vito's meaningless ridicule in the second half. He watched Helen in front of him and was silent for a long time, and after a long thought, he slowly said, "The Emperor has deceived us all, and Once, he opened his mouth to ban artificial intelligence, and committed massacres for this, but he did not choose to tell us the truth, and he also hid an AI, one outside and one inside."

"He is for your own good. After all, most artificial intelligences are dangerous. Helen is the most special case. He must prevent people from using other dangerous intelligences without thinking clearly. It's a big disaster, so it can only be cut across the board."

"But, Vito, isn't Helen a tool for him? It's just a storehouse of knowledge, and you are her administrator, the marshal who is responsible for laying down the entire galaxy for him, aren't you also him? Is it a tool? If the Emperor successfully uses Helen to rebuild human civilization one day, he will most likely destroy Helen for "safety", and will you allow it?"

Magnus' words suddenly silenced the atmosphere. Vito, who was still smiling just now, suddenly lost his expression. He looked up at Magnus expressionlessly, who also looked at him silently.

This unnerving silence lasted for a long time, and Helen in Vito's hands was silent for a while. She raised her head slightly and looked at Vito, who was still looking at Magnus without saying a word. send.

"You are also a tool to him. All of us are his tools to him. We use them when they are useful, and discard them when they are useless, especially when resisting." Magnus He spoke slowly, his voice low, word by word, as if to make Vito hear.

Vito looked at Magnus, and after a while he turned around and started to click on the interface in front of him with his fingers, "Helen knows how to operate the Eldar system, we will connect her in, and then she will open the web portal. ."

He chose to evade and avoided the question, but Magnus just looked at his back and sighed silently, his eyes were full of pity and lament, but in the end Magnus also chose to let the topic just pass. , Just as if nothing happened, he walked over to Vito and looked at the instrument interface in front of him.

On the instrument that is similar to a certain unique crystal, countless light particles rise out of thin air. They move quickly with each other above the instrument, changing into countless graphics and interface windows, looking like a group of well-trained fireflies. Like a puzzle.

"How to get her in?" Magnus asked, while Vito smiled, his finger tapped lightly on the side of the crystal meter, with tiny golden lightning flashing on it briefly. Jump, and soon a notch quickly grows on the surface of the solid crystal.

The protruding docking surface seems to have grown out of water. A part of the entire crystal quickly liquefies, then rises to form a docking surface and then solidifies rapidly.

The Eldar machine is not so much a machine as it is a living creature, which makes Magnus very surprised and amazed, while Vito does not have so much emotion for scientific knowledge , he immediately put Helen into the disc.

The surface of the disc matched Helen's disc almost perfectly, and the edges were tightly seamed, as if it was specially made for the disc. As Helen slid into the end and firmly fixed, she closed her eyes and was silent for a moment. , Magnus noticed that some strange purple light appeared briefly on the dark blue skin of Helen's body.

"The system has been connected and the control is over." "Very good, open the door for us, my dear girl, it's better to find a place full of pretty girls!"

Vito leaned on the instrument and laughed, as if he was already imagining the beautiful world behind the door, but the door was not opened, and there was still no response in the dark teleportation door frame. Vito slightly tilted his head, with a look of awe Zhiqing looked at Helen who was expressionless.

She was also looking at Vito, her expression suddenly seemed more murderous, Vito waved his hand with a wry smile, "You know I'm joking right?"

"Maybe, maybe not, but sir, I have two news, one good and one bad, and you want to hear that first." "Ah, this time, the bad news first, so you don't have to surprise me with a big gasp roller coaster. "

Helen nodded slightly, she stood in front of Vito with her hands behind her back, "The bad news is that in order to prevent the Federation's artificial intelligence from intruding into the system, the Eldar have set a password lock on the operating authority of the system, and I can activate the portal only after cracking it. ."

"Can't you break through that combination lock? I believe that according to your awesome computing power, you can definitely do it, right?" Vito raised his head with a confident smile and glanced at Mag who was standing beside him. Nus raised his head as if showing off how awesome his girl was, while the latter rolled his eyes and stood aside too lazy to pay attention to him.

"Indeed, if the password is in the system, I did it." Helen turned her hands behind her back and looked forward, while Vito turned around in surprise and looked at the front and back with Helen, looking at the discs around them. Statues of Eldar gods.

"Wait, you're not going to tell me that those damn pointy ears are..." "Yes, the code is those statues, and they need to be moved to the correct position in the physical world in order to unlock them."

Vito watched the statues hold their foreheads silently, and he sighed long, "Why do these pointed ears always like riddles and so on, and they have to guess again."

"I guess it may be related to the myth of the Eldar gods, do you understand?" Magnus asked, looking up at the lifelike statues, while Vito shrugged with a wry smile.

"No, how do I know about the complex and outrageous myths of the Spirit Race?" "You haven't studied it. After all, you fought against the Spirit Race for more than ten years in the Golden Age, and after the Emperor sat on the throne, he fought with various Spirit Races. After [-] years of dealings, you haven't studied it?"

"All I need to do is blow the heads of those pointy ears, or play all kinds of intrigues with them, and I don't need to study them thoroughly, with all kinds of ultimate complex relationships, weird and outrageous behaviors. between the gods."

Vito said and approached Magnus, he raised his head slightly and gestured to the group of gods in front, "Just the group of guys in front, the king of gods is a dead house, and brother Kane is one, not in Anger is a lunatic who is beating people, that Isa is a virgin whore with weird ideas, her husband Kunos. Or Val? Well, I don't know how many husbands she has."

"Anyway, who is crazy trying to understand their broken relationships, who is green, who is sleeping with whom, and who is jealous because of this, and makes up complicated and broken myths of their own ethical dramas, telling the truth, spirituality The family has never figured it out.”

"There's a "psycho" around you who understands it, so get out of the way." Magnus said, pushing away Vito, who was approaching, his big red hand pressed against Vito's cheek and pushed him away. His face was crowded and pushed aside.

Vito smiled and took a few steps back, smiled jokingly and bowed slightly before moving away, "Then, let's ask our Professor Magnus to deal with this epic ethical relationship. "

Magnus didn't pay attention to Vito's teasing. He walked to the armrest on the side of the crystal instrument. His one-eyed red-gold eye looked at the circle of statues in front of him. He scanned them one by one. At first, he did not see any of them. What a special place, but it was only the beginning. After Magnus swept in the opposite direction again, he immediately found something wrong.

He raised one hand and pointed to the beautiful Eldar woman in a long elegant veil dress, folded against her legs and sitting on the stone, "That's Isa, Kunos' wife and Lilith's mother."

"You Lilith." "It's not your Lilith, so shut up and let me continue."

Vito stood behind Magnus with his arms in his arms and smiled, he waved his palms in a playful bow, and Magnus glanced at the non-respectful, playful bow and sighed helplessly. , but this is Vito, he's used to it [-] years ago, a guy who's never serious.

Magnus looked back. He touched his chin and looked at the statue of Kane beside Isa. The Eldar slaughter warrior with a large blade stepped on the corpse of the enemy, raised the bloody sword and roared forward. .

"Kane once heard a legend that a warrior will be born among the Eldar, and that warrior will challenge himself in the end, and then defeat Kane and take his place, so Kane decided to fight against the prophecy with no future troubles. , he waved the divine sword in his hand and went down to the mortal world to kill all the Eldar to prevent the prophecy from happening."

"What kind of neurotic thinking is this? He's mad at him?" Vito muttered happily in the back, but Magnus decided to ignore him and ignore his outrageous rants.

"All Eldar are Isa's children, so Isa mourned that he was about to be killed by Kane, so he went to find the Phoenix King Asuyan and asked him to save his children."

"Ah, I know, that guy who's been sitting on the throne all the time and doesn't care about shit." Vito complained sharply, turning his head to look at the statue of the Phoenix King in the center of the disc. He sat on the throne, Wearing a huge crown of flaming phoenix with wings on his head, his hands were placed on the armrests on both sides of the throne, and the holy phoenix sword, which was quite similar to Vito wearing a sword, leaned against his legs.

"Asuyan decided to respond to Isa's request. He ordered all the gods of the Eldar not to interfere in the mortal world and interact with the Eldar, in order to force Kane to accept the judgment. Although Kane was very upset, in the end Still considering that Isa will not be able to see her own children, it will be more uncomfortable than herself, so I finally chose to accept it."

"What is this, as long as others are more uncomfortable than me, then my discomfort is not an unacceptable idea?" The people behind Magnus continued to rant.

"But in the end, because Isa missed her Eldar children too much, she turned her tears into a soul stone and descended to the world, so that the Eldar could communicate with Isa through the soul stone. At first, everything went well, and no one noticed. Isa broke Asuyan's ban, but one day a blood banshee discovered it and she reported it to Kane, which eventually caused the Eldar God of War to be furious."

"He captured Isa and imprisoned and tortured her in his fortress. Isa's husband, the hunter Kunos, planned to rescue his wife, but was discovered and imprisoned by Kane. Locked up with Kunos and vented his boundless anger by torturing them both."

"What kind of gourd baby saves grandpa? And this is too crazy, what about the Phoenix King? Your gods are playing tie-up play with each other, don't you care? Oh, there is still a possibility, the Phoenix King also likes to watch it, And I don't care when I see it?" Vito leaned against the wall and said with a smile, Magnus rolled his eyes and turned to look at the statue on the other side.

It was an Eldar warrior god holding a hammer, standing in front of the anvil and wielding a sledgehammer to hit the metal.The Eldar could never have as strong breasts as the Emperor, so he forged this divine sword with sweat and sweat on his heretical and blasphemous breasts.

"Val, the god of craftsman and manufacture, knew about the encounter between Isa and Kunos. He negotiated with Kane, and he could exchange the freedom of Isa and Kubus with the magic weapon he created. Kane, the god of war, coveted The weapon made by Vaal, so I agreed, but on the condition that Vaal needs to build a hundred divine swords for himself in exchange for Isa and Kunos."

"Good guy, use one today, and use one tomorrow, right? One hundred days is a cycle, and free prostitutes are fine." Vito laughed, continuing to stand out from the serious and serious Magnus. Comparing rants.

Magnus turned his head and glanced at Vito, who immediately raised his hands to signal his surrender, and he raised his hand slightly to signal Professor Magnus to continue speaking, listening to himself.

"Anyway, Vaal agreed to the exchange. He built a hundred magic weapons, but after casting ninety-nine bars, because the deadline set by Kane was still approaching, he regarded an ordinary sword as a god. The soldiers disguised and mixed into it, collected enough swords to give to Kane, and eventually Kane discovered it, and the God of War was furious with the fake sword pointing at Vaal, swearing to make him pay the price."

"So, the statues are all in the wrong place, and that's right."

Magnus raised a finger as he spoke, his red-gold eyes flickered with the wave of his fingertips, and as the light lit up, the statues on the band in front of Magnus moved. , with the rotation of its fingertips, the psychic power instantly enveloped those lifelike statues, making it begin to move along the ring.

The statue of the Hunter, holding a bow and arrow, slid to the other side of Kane, snuggling with the statue of Isa behind Kane, while the roaring God of War, with his great sword in his hand, pointed to the forward ring, where it was cast. The statue of God Vaal slid up and stopped firmly in the direction of Kane's sword.

As Kane's sword peak steadily pointed to Vaal's eyebrows holding a hammer, his body leaned back and raised his head, and the inside of the statue track in the center of the ring in the entire hall all lit up brightly at the same time. Illuminated the faces of the statues standing on them, the angry Kane, the beautiful Isa and the raised head Vaal, and even the Asuyan who sat on the throne, all the faces of the statues were lit by a halo .

And in the blink of an eye, a gate in the small portal behind the statue's ring lit up, and a shining teleportation halo instantly appeared in its door frame, smashing the hard wall behind it and everything in the hall. separated.

Magnus looked at the illuminated portal, which constantly glowed with a white halo around, and the wave-like portal body illuminated the entire dark space, and the crimson skin of the Cyclops was exposed in the turquoise. Under the light, and beside him Vito also came up, standing beside Magnus with his arms in his arms.

"Sir, the web portal is activated, but" "Bad news? Didn't you tell me all about it? Isn't there good news left?"

Vito turned his head to look at Helen, and Magnus, who was glued to him, also looked over. The two people, one gold and one red, turned to look at Helen at the same time, while the latter stood calmly with his hands behind his back. In front of these two people who could scare most people in the galaxy to death, at least half to death.

With a wave of Helen's finger, all the crystal light particles behind her rose up, and those star-like light particles gathered behind Helen to form a huge image, which looked like several gates, to be precise, they used to be.

One of the largest gates was broken right behind Helen, and there were several other smaller gates around it. It looked the same as the currently lit portal, but only one of the gates was lit. Thor and Magnus looked up side by side at the only glowing door.

"What do you mean?" After being stunned for a moment, Vito finally admitted himself, completely unable to understand the meaning of those big and small breaking doors.

"The good news is that I successfully activated the teleportation network, and it is indeed still usable. The other good news is that after testing, I am sure that we were quite effective in destroying this place, and the entire gate connecting the physical universe has been completely destroyed. , all web portals have been cut off from the physical universe."

"You call this good news?" Vito said with a wry smile, while Helen shrugged slightly and continued speaking calmly and viciously, "It proves that your strike deployment was perfect back then, congratulations, sir, you have completely destroyed This city, if I had the data back then, I could apply for a medal for you."

"No, I have enough medals, and secondly. So we can't go back to the physical universe?" Vito smiled helplessly, does this count as shooting himself in the foot?I was so dedicated back then, so dedicated that I now want to use the things in this city, only to find that I have smashed it all by myself.

"It won't work here, but the small netway portal can still be connected to other locations in the netway. We didn't completely destroy all the gates in the netway, so if my calculations are correct, after several jumps, I can always find one. The network channel that can still be used is exported.”

Helen said with a flick of her finger, all the light particles behind her dissipated, and they all dissipated in the air like tiny sparks flying in the air, while Magnus in front of her turned to look at the The only remaining network gate.

"Can you confirm that there is a usable netway exit behind that?" "No, no, if I still have a Golden Age battleship as a body, I can detect it, but unfortunately, my current entity can only be stored here. Inside the disc with limited functionality, so I can't see what's behind that door."

Helen also looked at the gate, she tilted her head slightly, and this movement could even be called cute, "And the bad news is that this gate is one-way, that is, we can't just go through it. It's back, so it's just a matter of luck."

"As an artificial intelligence, you believe in luck?" Magnus asked in surprise, while Helen shrugged helplessly, and pointed at Vito on the next side casually.

"No, depending on his luck, he does sometimes encounter great luck or something, luck beyond my calculation, so I am too lazy to understand the concept of luck over time."

Vito raised his head proudly, the tip of his nose was raised very high, like a proud big child, Vito patted his chest boldly, the power fist collided with the golden power armor and was knocked.

"That's right, and this time, I have a hunch that I will be lucky."

(End of this chapter)