Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 176 Confession Bureau
“Sometimes I just don’t understand you.”

The special team had already exceeded the purpose of this trip, so they headed out of the guild building.

When entering the elevator, Oulina suddenly spoke to Qin Xia.

"What don't you understand?" Qin Xia raised his hand and pressed the button, asking as the elevator door slowly closed.

Qin Xia seemed nonchalant about Oulina's question and did not listen carefully, his eyes fixed on the elevator floor.

The blood of the people who were previously killed by Quadrant with laser grenades seeped into the elevator. Qin Xia noticed this and used his psychic power to "drive away" the blood.

"You obviously know more than any of us."

Olena spoke slowly.

"You know some things are harmful, but you are particularly interested in those harmful things."

“You explore them, collect them, monopolize them.”

"What exactly drives you to do this kind of thing?"

Hearing these words, the quadrant clinging to the top of the elevator instantly became interested. He held the silver vine that wrapped Ellie in his arms, and his head and cervical vertebrae extended from his torso and wrapped around the silver vine, observing the person who was speaking and the person being questioned like a camera.

The monk from the Mechanicus had wanted to ask this question a long time ago, but because he was afraid that Qin Xia would do something that would lead him down the path of crime, he never dared to ask, never dared to.

Therefore, after Oulina asked the question, the quadrant focused on Qin Xia again.

Qin Xia looked up at the floor number display bar above the elevator door, still looking nonchalant: "As far as AI is concerned, I think our species still needs the assistance of AI to some extent, because I have seen what an interstellar empire that relies solely on human brains and paper for management looks like."

Brown, who was listening in, gave a thumbs up: "Thumbs up for you, man."

"It's not just about AI." Olena pressed. "You know I'm not just asking about AI."

Faced with the questioning, Qin Xia became serious and rubbed his chin with his right hand - this was an action he would subconsciously make when he was thinking very seriously.

Qin Xia felt that perhaps because of the spiritual powers of the Orina sisters, one of them would occasionally ask questions that made him think deeply.

In response to the question asked by Oulina, Qin Xia thought deeply and then answered.

"For humanity, but not exclusively for humanity... That's my motivation for doing these things."

"I have told you that I possess special psychic powers that protect me from the malevolence of the Warp. I will not die randomly like Caesar."

"There is knowledge about the Warp that is useful and necessary, but also dangerous, and only someone like me can master it."

"Some knowledge is dangerous just by its existence, such as the knowledge that any fool who gets a book and recites a spell can bring creatures of the warp into reality. Only I can identify this knowledge and destroy it to prevent it from endangering our entire race."

“Maybe it sounds like I’m arrogant when I say this, but I am special, and that’s an objective fact.”

"For the sake of humanity, this is part of the reason, and the other part is that I just like knowledge. Maybe it's path dependence. You should all know some of my past, such as how I used knowledge to change my destiny."

Having said this, Qin Xia lowered his head, stopped talking, and fell into deep thought.

Qin Xia thought:

I am well aware that the pursuit of knowledge in the Warhammer universe and knowledge itself are both extremely dangerous.

Objective analysis.

In this universe, human souls reside in the physical body, but the souls will create projections in the subspace. Human thoughts will act in the subspace, and the only difference is the size of the influence.

Because of this, human behavior can attract the attention and intrusion of malicious entities in the Warp, which is called Chaos Corruption.

So it is true that “ignorance is bliss” in this universe.

Before risking my life to dive deep into the Warp for the first time, I was wary of knowledge, and even deliberately stopped myself from thinking too much or learning too much in most cases so as not to attract the attention of some bad guys. Otherwise, with my personality, I would have learned all the psychic spells long ago before being transformed into a Grey Knight.

It was also because I discovered that I had no soul projection during my first deep dive into the subspace that I felt at ease pursuing knowledge.

After thinking about it, Qin Xia opened his mouth, hesitated for a moment, and then said as if to confess: "I have great pursuits in this regard, but I definitely have selfish desires, no doubt."

"I didn't mean to ask so deeply, but..." Orina closed her eyes and recalled what she had learned about the Empire through various channels. "It's just that I feel that what we are doing may bring about destruction, whether it comes from the man called the Emperor, or from the cruel method set up by the Emperor to deal with those holding the Taboo."

After her elder sister finished speaking, her younger sister Ouliya placed her hand on Qin Xia's arm and said seriously, "My sister just meant that we shouldn't invite destruction because of these things. We should... be more careful."

"That's why I didn't let the think tank participate in our search for the 'taboo'." Qin Xia said with a smile, "If anything were to come to light, I have plenty of ways to keep us safe. All the responsibility can be put on me, rather than the entire 12th Legion."

Olya also smiled and nodded silently.

Qin Xia had just discussed a very serious matter with the two sisters.

Brown listened to the whole thing. He was so serious that he couldn't say anything. He just used his brain as a stone man and a synthetic man to think about what Qin Xia said, and felt pessimistic about whether the human race could be revived.

As for the quadrants…

When he noticed that no one was talking in the elevator, Quadrant restarted the hearing device: "I turned off the hearing device after I realized that you were talking about confidential topics. If you don't believe me, you can ask Brown to check my body operation log."

"There's no need, you're not an outsider." Qin Xia shook his head.

"When did I become one of us?" the Quadrant asked. "I became a sinner after I followed you to obtain information about the abomination intelligence. Forgive me, Om Messiah."

Qin Xia turned around and looked at the quadrant: "You didn't stop us when we were getting the AI ​​information. You didn't refuse when I asked you to join this team. You didn't refuse when I brought you here to do this."

"..." Quadrant was silent for a moment, then gave his usual bland answer, "Because I'm afraid that if I disobey you, you'll kill me." "You're worrying too much. I think you're one of us because I know you'll never be able to return to Mars. You're an exile." Qin Xia stopped looking at Quadrant, "What kind of Mechanicus can be brought in as a recorder?"

The quadrant was completely silent.

What Qin Xia was talking about was not the conjectures of people outside the Mechanicus about the future of the Mechanicus monks.

Even as a person who was born and raised on Mars, Quadrant knew his fate better than Qin Xia - it was undoubtedly exile.

"Besides, don't pretend to be a fool." Qin Xia added, "You know why you chose to join my team."

Brown immediately responded: "Qin Xia is right. You do know what you want, Quadrant. We are not kidnapping you. If Qin Xia didn't take you with him, you would have tried every means to follow him. You have a lot of secrets, such as the fact that your true self is not in front of us, which you think is still a secret."

After hearing what the stone man said, Quadrant had a blank expression on his face and showed no reaction.

Of course, quadrants can't have expressions or reactions, at least not in this body.

And on the Resolute, in the Quadrant Room, a room with a laboratory that Angron had specially arranged as a courtesy to the Narrator, there was something soaking in a jar of nutrient solution.

This thing looks like a quarter of the brain, and this quarter has a large number of artificial nerves implanted in it to carry the personality and self-cognition that seem meaningless to the Quadrant Mentor... these are the parts that belong to human nature and biology.

This piece of brain is connected to an eyeball, and some biological tissue remains in the lower half of the brain.

After hearing what Brown said, the eyeball in the jar trembled, shocked by what Brown said.

The quadrant was moving by remotely controlling the body, but he didn't understand when Brown noticed it...

No, Quadrant thinks this is reasonable, because Brown is obviously not a human being. It has implanted ancient neural devices to expand data transmission flow and memory. It is not surprising that such a being can know that it does not really exist in this body.

"I really did it on impulse."

Quadrant said frankly.

"I discovered you after I entered the 12th Legion. I contacted you on purpose. I also needed the 'forbidden item' to achieve my goal, but the only thing I concealed was that my real body was not in this body."

"Primarch Guide, it is true that I fear you, and it is also true that I long for you to help me. My job is just to record the past, and what I have told you in the Eldar ship is true."

"..."

Qin Xia turned his back to Quadrant and raised his hand, signaling Quadrant not to say anything more.

But the quadrant does not think that it does not need to continue explaining, because after calculation, it believes that the probability of misunderstanding is very high in the current conversation situation.

"Angron can actually sense what you are thinking." Qin Xia said slowly, "Olia came to see me that day and saw you walking out of the room with Brown and me. We were talking about you joining us."

"And before I took the initiative to find you, Angron mentioned your situation to me. He had already explained it to me on your behalf."

"Quadrant, since I'm taking you with me, I trust you."

After hearing this, Quadrant's head shook up and down.

Brown looked at the quadrant and said, "You don't need to keep those biological tissues. Your neural implant technology is amazing. This body is enough to carry your humanity and thoughts. You can even say that your soul can reside in this body. This is why the original can sense your emotions and thoughts."

Quadrant's head turned to Brown. "This mechanical body is disposable in my opinion, even though I spent a long time shaping it. In my opinion, the biological carrier of humanity is as important as humanity itself."

Brown looked at the quadrant and nodded silently, his eyes showing that he could not agree, but he understood.

In the eyes of this stone man, natural man would have such thoughts that are difficult for him to understand, but this is also the reason why natural man can transform from a forest ape into the creator of their stone man and iron man.

"Guide."

Quadrant spoke again.

"I have spoken of my life aboard the Eldar ship, but I have not spoken of the reasons why I retained my biological tissue."

"My mentor once brought me to his laboratory. He asked me a question, just one question, a very simple question. If I answered it wrong, a biological tissue would be removed from me."

"The question is: do you choose to inherit my legacy, or do you choose to carry on with your meaningless and blasphemous persistence."

"I answered that I insisted, and then my heart was removed and my mentor personally replaced it with a mechanical device."

The quadrant's appendages point toward the heart.

The heart is located in the "chassis", protected by a shell of adamantium.

"Until it started cutting away at my brain tissue until only the tiny bit I had left was left, and I gave the correct answer."

At this point, the quadrant paused.

This is a confession, an explanation, but also a request for help.

Quadrant hopes that Qin Xia can help him protect the few biological tissues he has left. Perhaps he doesn't need this guide to use his powerful psychic power to defend the biological tissues, but at least he shouldn't tell others what's in the jar.

"What's your mentor's name?" Qin Xia asked.

The Quadrant answered immediately.

His answer was as cold and calm as usual, but Qin Xia could almost imagine how the little bit of remaining biological tissue soaked in the jar trembled when Quadrant said that name.

"Kelbor Har."

(End of this chapter)