Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 315 The Afterglow of the Past
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The White Knight sailed in the warp for several days. When it jumped out of the warp, the entire ship had already sounded the alarm in advance, and all sailors and armed personnel rushed to their respective combat positions to prepare for battle.

The Librarians were given a special mission, which was to use psionic powers to hide the White Knight from visual or various scanning methods.

The stone man who usually stayed in the analysis room was now standing in the torpedo launch cabin on the starboard side of the ship, looking through the launch cabin to the outside world.

The huge industrial ship is right in front of us.

About one light second away.

"Our scanning methods cannot detect the situation inside the industrial ship, and even psychic divination cannot see it."

"Either there are anti-psionic devices on the industrial ship, or there are soulless people."

"After you go in, find out what is blocking the psychic energy, and then destroy it. After that, the backup will arrive, and we will kill everyone together in the industrial ship."

Qin Xia's voice was transmitted into the communication device built into Brown's head.

After listening to the plan, Brown nodded: "It's a suitable plan...but I hope you can give me a more macro goal...I'm a little nervous. If you give me a very clear goal, I will concentrate on executing it, which will be more efficient."

The stone man always needs a goal, or an order.

"The macro goal is to do everything possible to help me take down the industrial ship. I need that thing, we need that thing." Qin Xia said.

Brown nodded.

Qin Xia, who was on the command deck, heard the naval officers report again that the detection device could not detect the interior of the industrial ship, and his psychic vision was also unable to see the situation inside the industrial ship.

So Qin Xia signaled everyone to stop investigating and save their energy.

"Synthetics can feel nervous?" Olya's voice came from the communication. "I read about synths when I was a child, and I imagined what they were like. And... you are more like a human than I thought."

"Why do you have such high-end hardware?" Quadrant asked immediately, "You can fight and feel nervous, but you once told me that you are just a service stone man of Nukelia Entertainment Company. Why do they make you so high-end?"

"I want to ask this question, too." Qin Xia interrupted, and then ordered the captain, "Stop sailing in three seconds and wait for the report from the investigators."

High-end, this word is always used to evaluate a product.

Brown feels honored and is certainly happy that his product is considered high-end.

Then Brown also thought about the reason why he was so high-end: "Because the people who made me didn't consider the technical difficulty or whether those technologies were suitable for a service-type stone man."

“My creators considered the cost.”

"It was most convenient, quick and cost-effective to produce a standard model of stone man using the stone man accessories and production equipment they had at the time."

"If they just want to create a waiter with only service capabilities, then they have to acquire old production equipment and technical blueprints from hundreds of years ago to create a stone man with fewer functions and higher end."

"It's a cost issue. The cost of money, not the cost of technology."

"..."

Quadrant asked again: "It doesn't make sense that a synthetic human is given negative emotions such as fear and tension."

"My creator needs me to be able to feel fear and tension, to cry and scream," Brown said calmly. "This function, which can be solved by software upgrade, is necessary in Nukeria Park, otherwise tourists will complain to the company that the toys in the park do not meet their needs."

Quadrant wanted to ask more about the golden age, but Qin Xia stopped him.

"Brown, I have a higher priority order and request for you." Qin Xia looked at the industrial ship in front of him, "Survive. As long as you are alive, there is still a way. We are not at our wits' end in dealing with the industrial ship."

"receive."

Brown felt the vibration in the torpedo compartment.

Then there was a feeling of weightlessness, and a scientific research torpedo was launched from the torpedo compartment.

This type of torpedo is for civilian use. Some scientifically minded worlds in the human empire are encouraged by the Emperor to explore and conduct scientific research, so there will be scientists to explore places where humans have not set foot.

The purpose of scientific research torpedoes is to deploy satellites that monitor the planet's atmospheric environment into low-Earth orbit.

Some people would use this torpedo as an extremely secretive ship boarding operation.

The torpedo moved in the void extremely stealthily, without any light. The special coating on it reflected the surrounding ambient light, as if it were invisible.

As the torpedo was getting farther and farther away from the White Knight and was about to leave the secret communication channel established by Qin Xia, Brown suddenly thought of something.

"Quadrant. I took your recording device, and you will see how I perform after the battle."

"I am the afterglow of the most glorious era of the human race."

The hissing sound reached Brown's ears.

The torpedo was approaching the bottom of the industrial ship.

The research torpedo opened and disintegrated into tiny pieces of space junk.

Brown floated in the void, glanced at the industrial ship armor that blocked out the sun above his head, then opened his mouth with his head downward, and gas spurted out of his mouth, pushing his body upward, and finally his entire body attached to the armor.

"This part has to be deleted." Brown helplessly remotely connected to the recording chip belonging to the quadrant in his brain, and then deleted the part that made him appear less powerful.

There was nothing he could do.

Psychic energy cannot penetrate into industrial ships, and subspace teleportation technology cannot be used.

After deleting it, Brown quickly spliced ​​the images from the recording device together, and then used the computing power provided by the Butcher's Nail to modify the images to make the recording look more coherent.

After doing all this, Brown moved his mind, started recording again, and then looked up at the armor behind him.

The stone man's body seeped into the armor like liquid.

At the microscopic level, Brown turned into matter that was smaller than atoms, and then penetrated into the armor, shuttled between atoms, and finally gathered together. In a corner at the bottom of the industrial ship, Brown's body gathered into a human shape like liquid. When his visual system recovered, he saw that he was surrounded by robots standing there in a daze.

These Brotherhood of Destruction robots look more advanced than those seen on Sarum.

The tall mechanical bodies are covered with weapons, and occasionally you can see evidence that they were living people before being transformed into machines - a little bit of biological tissue hanging on certain parts or squeezing out from the gaps between certain parts.

They have no self-awareness, they are just controlled by the implanted program, and they are stunned because the person controlling them is observing them. Brown realized this and started to act.

The stone man flashed past each robot at an extremely fast speed, and then the robots' heads fell to the ground.

Alarms blared and footsteps were heard in all directions.

Brown was discovered the moment he entered the ship, so he did not plan to sneak in secretly, but instead prepared to complete the mission in a more direct and quick way.

A team of patrol robots appeared in front of him. Brown rushed forward without slowing down at all, making their heads fly up as he passed by them.

If someone slows down this scene, they will find that Brown's arm has turned into a blade, and the single-molecule structure of the blade allows it to easily cut through the armor of the robots' vital parts.

Because the creators of these robots, perhaps a high-ranking member of the Brotherhood of Destruction, have the obsession of "stuffing core components into the brain", so cutting off their heads can paralyze them.

"Where are you?"

Brown is looking for someone who has "observed" him.

While destroying any enemies or defensive devices he encountered along the way, he calculated and cracked the signals that controlled the robots.

The stone man quickly achieved his goal. His eyes connected to the camera in a secret room somewhere on the ship and he saw a huge robot about five meters tall.

"warlord".

This is the name of this huge robot in the Brotherhood of Destruction's database of lesser robots.

Warlords are not machines without their own will, they are high-ranking members of the Brotherhood of Destruction and have control over lower-level robots.

The Brotherhood of Destruction has more than one warlord; the organization itself is a collection of many warlords.

Brown could only read this information, and if he wanted to know more, he had to kill a warlord and read his information database.

This goal can also be achieved through remote means.

Brown killed several robots that wanted to shoot at him with his backhand, while his eyes were still observing the warlord with the help of the camera. At the same time, he began to crack the system firewall built into the warlord's transformation device.

With the help of the Butcher's Nail, a component originally used to implant the stone man's brain to increase computing power, Brown cracked the firewall in an instant. However, cracking is always a step slower, and the system used by the other party is not ordinary. After detecting the intrusion and concluding that it is "absolutely impossible to defend" based on the amount of intrusion data, the firewall actively cut off the connection between the warlord and all other devices and shut down the signals sent outward.

Brown no longer attempted a remote invasion and rushed towards a wall, then merged into the wall again and flowed towards the secret room where the warlord was.

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the other side.

The warlord looked around vigilantly, his hands in power gloves ready for punching, not daring to relax at all.

Because he knew that the intruder who suddenly appeared and was discovered by the patrol team's 24-hour, all-round patrol program would pass through the wall.

As the warlord expected, Brown emerged from the wall behind him and was discovered by a microscopic observation device located behind his head.

The moment Brown drew his sword, the warlord, who had been prepared, attacked at the same time with the help of modified parts all over his body, rotating his upper body 180 degrees and punching Brown with both fists.

Then, as the warlord looked in disbelief, Brown's hands, which had turned from knives back into palms, caught the fist, motionless.

When the warlord grabbed Brown's shoulders with both hands and prepared to lift him up, Brown remained motionless.

The warlord realized that Brown was too heavy to move, and immediately distanced himself from him.

Brown approached the warlord, and at the moment when the arm transformed into a knife was about to pierce the warlord, a shock wave and EMP, an attack against mechanical life, were released from the warlord's body.

The stone man's attack suddenly stopped, his whole body paused for a moment, and then suddenly turned into a pool of particles, but soon reunited and returned to human form.

"EMP is working on you..." The warlord sent a communication signal, "I thought you were so high-end."

The two sides fought again.

Brown pounced on the warlord, and then was grabbed by the neck by the warlord's subconscious counterattack and thrown away, like an adult throwing away a chicken.

After a dull thud, Brown hit the wall and then stopped moving, just standing there.

In the blink of an eye, the warlord rushed in front of him, and when he was about to punch and release the attack again, his body suddenly froze.

Another Brown appeared behind the warlord, and his arms turned into knives and pierced through the warlord's last core component.

The warlord suddenly realized why the invader in front of him could not be shaken off and why he was easily thrown away.

It just fell apart after being hit by an EMP... Not because the EMP worked on it, but because it pretended to work and separated part of itself.

That's why it's much lighter.

The separated part is hidden, and at the most critical moment, the enemy is killed in one blow before the EMP shock is actively released.

"What's the point of making such a big change?"

"The lucky cat from ten thousand years ago is more advanced than you."

Brown, who was standing in front of the warlord, quickly swung out his right hand, caught the warlord's head rolling off his neck with his left hand, and then walked towards the control console.

Brown, who was behind the warlord, pulled hard, and his arms were pulled out of the warlord's body, merging with his body as he walked towards the control console.

The intact Brown came to the console, placed his hands on his head and the console, and read the information using two methods at the same time.

(End of this chapter)