Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 482 06.0481: "The Secret of the White-haired, Red-eyed Machine Soul Girl"

"Enemy impact time, last 30 seconds! Speed ​​16 knots!"

"My ship's speed is 13 knots!"

"Hurry, hurry, hurry... Epic, I know you can do it!" The power department officer looked at the car clock face in a cold sweat, the numbers on it kept jumping up.

Soon, the speed increased from 13 knots to 14 knots.

But the enemy was still two quarters ahead, and fortunately the estimated collision time on the screen changed from 30 seconds to 48 seconds.

This is a process in which both sides compete in acceleration. Normally, the small ships of the navy of each race will be slightly faster than the larger ships of the same type.

However, in order to avoid torpedoes, the other party had been sailing at full speed. After receiving the desperate collision order, it immediately turned and rushed towards the Epic at the highest speed.

Compared with the Epic after the high-energy turn, this is undoubtedly an unfair race. She needs to accelerate from zero and compete with the opponent who has already completed the speed increase.

"Fin control team, push the rudder down and lower the altitude!" After a long time, Horatio, whose body was already soaked with sweat, gave another order.

When the captain spoke, the people who had been watching him in silence for a long time finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Faced with the risk report, after giving the command to accelerate in a straight line, he just sat there without saying a word, his stern face showing no reaction at all.

Horatio's sudden "sluggishness" just now made Farida and Louise concerned about his condition - he had been commanding the battle at his post for too long, and this unusual detail made them worry that he might have encountered some kind of accident.

According to previous statistics from the Imperial Navy, sudden cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, heart attack, or losing oneself in communication with the machine spirit are all possible situations.

But now he finally said something, which made everyone feel at ease.

The operating team that received the order guided the Epic downwards, trying to use flexible maneuvers to escape to the plane below before the enemy ship collided with it.

In the machine soul world, Horatio led the white-haired, red-eyed girl in front of him and walked slowly down.

"As you command, Captain," she replied quietly.

"Take your time, follow my lead," he said.

"Increase the speed to 15 knots, almost there!" The voice of external reporting came, so soft that it seemed to come from the depths of a thick fog, and it made the machine soul change from its previous calmness to uneasy, its eyelashes trembling, and its slender hands shaking.

"Hold on, you've done well, you've worked hard, the God of Machines will see through and approve of you." Horatio did not respond, but instead focused on comforting the Machine Spirit in front of him.

The surface of her body, which was as white as fresh snow, oozed some liquid like human sweat.

It can be seen that controlling the entire ship at the same time is not an easy task for a new machine soul.

Horatio saw this and felt a little surprised, as he had not yet gained a deep understanding of this knowledge.

Maybe next time I should ask Lati more, learn more about these strange creations of the God of All Machines from the technical priests, and explore more advanced and deeper training for them.

"Power increased to 16 knots! Our ship is at the same speed as the ramming enemy ship! They can't catch up with us!"

"It's time to create distance. Archie, give the command to the command helmsman and head for the gas cloud. There, we will reduce speed to cruising speed, return to stealth mode, and then slow down further until the shadow field is opened."

"Yes, Captain. Turn left! Head into the gas cloud ahead."

"Turn left! Head towards the gas cloud ahead--!" The warrant officer helmsman, who had served on the Indefatigable, recited the first mate's orders in his signature drawl.

The figure of the machine soul-like person in front of Horatio gradually solidified, and the outline became clear and obvious.

With the continuous infusion of mental strength, the machine soul was stabilized.

This is a good sign, meaning that the probability of a new machine soul being broken and unable to communicate due to stress or other reasons is greatly reduced. Among the warships whose mutinies the Empire could trace back to, some of them were indeed caused by design problems.

These flawed warships were prone to corruption during their first warp voyage after leaving the orbital dock, and the spreading darkness eventually eroded their unstable machine souls.

The entire ship was then completely transformed into a Chaos Monster, and then the crew members of various key departments were corroded one by one. The dark power even corroded the captain along the neural plug, and finally caused both the people and the ship to completely join the Chaos army.

Even if there are no obvious signs of corruption, a ship's machine soul facing high pressure and component damage is prone to problems, especially those of new warships that are not yet mature.

The Epic Machine Soul had stabilized, which meant that there was nothing wrong with her design, it was just the captain's previous lack of patience in her training.

If the first captain is a patient and skilled naval officer like Horatio, there is a great possibility that this battleship will serve the empire conscientiously for thousands of years in its service until it sinks in battle in the void.

For them, there will never be a day of retirement, and storage is the only rest.

She was lucky, she met Horatio Cochrane, the blood heir of Speyer, a legend of a rising star.

She will complement him and together they will start a legendary journey.

"The distance has increased! We are entering the gas cloud."

On the bridge, the exhausted people used up their remaining energy and cheered for escaping from danger.

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They threw their hats into the air and jumped for joy with bags under their eyes that were swollen from more than thirty hours of use.

"Thank you for your hard work, Epic." Horatio raised the corner of his lips and said to the blurry girl with white hair, red eyes and a golden and white light.
"You did a great job. That's it. You've just started serving the Empire, so it's inevitable that you're a little rusty. I'm your captain, and I'll teach you everything you need to fight for the Empire."

The white-haired girl nodded ignorantly and obediently.

Horatio touched her head, but this action also made the cold-faced girl with red hair and red skirt next to her frown and turn her face away in dissatisfaction.

Well, although he didn’t know why the machine soul in front of him turned into the appearance of a young girl, perhaps this was a simulation made by the advanced machine soul after it accessed his consciousness through the neural plug in order to facilitate communication?

Horatio thought that if he wanted to communicate with the other party, the best part would be to become a member of the same tribe as the other party. This would allow the other party to let down some of their guard, reduce the difficulty of acceptance, and improve the efficiency of communication.

Since the machine soul has actively transformed into a human, it means that the machine soul actually has self-awareness.

This kind of self-awareness is not artificial intelligence, but a "soul" in the academic sense that is generated by wetware and the cognition of the public. This soul can communicate and think freely, and has understood many truths.

interesting.

Unfortunately, he heard that only those extremely ancient consecrated objects that have gone through thousands of years, or large and ancient super-mechanical structures such as knights, Titans, and battleships, could possess machine souls that are as intelligent as living people.

Moreover, the machine soul relies on objective and real matter. Once the ship is damaged, the machine soul will be injured like a human, and will go crazy due to the damage, be corrupted by chaos, or even be killed. Therefore, it needs to be carefully guarded.

Horatio did not yet know where the Epic's wetware cores were scattered, only that these structures were located in secret and secure locations. These were the secrets of the Mechanicus and they tried to protect them.

No one, not even crew members, is allowed to get close. Only those chosen by the God of All Machines, the Mechanical Priests, can get close to perform maintenance.

That is the secret of secrets, the most sensitive mystery of Om Messiah.

That was also the only territory in his kingdom that he, as the captain and king of this warship, could not govern.

If he wanted to find and view these, he had to obtain permission from the ship's chief technical priest, that is, Lati-EB2A1.

But this secret was so fascinating that he really wanted to learn more about it, although he was not sure whether Lati would share such a profound secret with him.

[But speaking of it, is the Machine Soul really that obedient? And why can this Iron Hand allow me to enter the Machine Soul world?]
[There can’t be a fragment of the Void Dragon Star God in the Iron Hand.]
[Haha, how is that possible? This is ridiculous.]
Horatio thought about it for a moment, then immediately turned his attention back to the overall situation.

(End of this chapter)