Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 320: Success or Failure
"Golden Age Super Freak."

Qin Xia took a look at every burning jar in the cabin. Under the influence of his psychic power, all those jars turned into killing tools filled with boiling lava.

The clones remained sleeping in it, without any response, until they were completely annihilated.

"Where is Kodiko himself?" Qin Xia's eyes moved away from the jar and fell on Brown's face, "The real bodies of these clones."

"No." Brown shook his head. "But the original body is more extreme than the clone. From the data I have collected about Codico, I can see that this person has serious mental and psychological problems."

Brown's face was filled with regret. "Before I found out that this colony ship was filled with clones, I thought the worst that could happen was that it was filled with criminals... But at least criminals can communicate, and they don't necessarily commit crimes because they are inherently evil, so they can be screened. But Kodiko..."

Qin Xia frowned.

As someone who has some knowledge of psychology, Qin Xia can certainly guess Codico's mentality and personality.

If psychological profiling is done using the information available…

Codico, a deformed genius with great attainments in biotechnology, grew up and developed in an environment of discrimination, which eventually led to him developing a distorted mentality, thinking that he was the healthiest and most beautiful, and that other normal people were ugly freaks and born bitches.

This is why Kodiko is often called a "lowly person" or a "slave".

He is extremely arrogant because of his own achievements, and at the same time he harbors hatred for those he does not consider to be his "kind".

Qin Xia thought that there was one thing that could support his inference, that is, the appearance of Emperor Codico that he had just seen was extremely gorgeous and noble, which should be the image of his original body. He obviously thought that his deformed body was not out of place when matched with those gorgeous clothes and crowns.

Otherwise, with the technological level of the golden age, it would be no problem for a deformed person to become like a normal person.

After making psychological speculations at this point, Qin Xia believes that from a psychological perspective, Codico is indeed as Brown said. It is impossible for a person with serious mental and psychological problems to communicate and coexist normally.

But Qin Xia thought of another thing.

That is, Caudillo's brain is more than three times larger than that of a normal person due to its physiological structure. This may be the reason why he is smarter than others...but it may not only lead to intelligence, there may also be physiological pathology. Caudillo's psychological and mental problems should be closely related to the pathology in his brain.

Just like some people suffer from depression not because of psychological reasons, but because of physiological reasons.

"Let's put Kodiko aside first." Qin Xia thought for a moment and then said, "Brown, now that I've confirmed that you're okay, we have to find a way to control this colony ship. I want to know if the Brotherhood of Destruction can control the colony ship, and what means do they use to control it?"

"No, the robots are using this ship as a planet." Brown replied, "I think we still have to start with the core of the ship. Even though it blocked my access and implanted a virus, I have no way to access it again... But this is the only way I can think of to control the ship."

"Then let's focus on the core." Qin Xia made the decision without hesitation.

Even if Brown had no way to deal with the core of the ship, Qin Xia believed that Brown was a stone man from the golden age. If a stone man couldn't think of any other way, then there must be no other way.

So either find a way to control the core of the ship, or just... give up.

Qin Xia looked around, his eyes sweeping over the gladiators, think tanks and Brown.

Everyone is now alone in the deep, and the White Knight has been ordered to leave. They are in a situation without supplies and support. If they can't control the core, they will have to give up. Then they have to find a way to seize a Brotherhood warship to leave this giant ship.

After a little thought, Qin Xia said to Brown: "Let's go to the core."

……

"As I said before, the chamber where the core is located is constantly changing position."

"This technology is common in the Golden Age, but just as a more advanced shield is developed, an equally advanced spear will soon appear. A tracking locator can locate the core and even infer where the core will change to next."

Brown walked behind the security guards, holding a tiny cube in his hand that projected a road marking line in front of everyone.

Qin Xia saw two lines of words floating in front of the road.

[There are three hours until the core changes position next time. ]

【Navigated to the next transformation location. 】

"We are now like the Marines of the Golden Age." Brown looked back at the crowd, "In a giant ship, following the guidance of the locator, we go to the location of the constantly changing core, and then destroy it and paralyze the entire ship."

"This golden age experience ticket is really hard to come by." Qin Xia said with a smile.

"Really. Before I came to the Gortan Sector, I never dreamed that there would be a Golden Age colony ship here... We are so lucky." Brown said.

"It would be even better if we could control it." Qin Xia looked around, "Amazing ancient creation."

The passage where everyone was was very wide, like a square with no end in length.

There are all kinds of gorgeous decorations around, such as golden statues of Caudillo and giant Caudillo projections.

Also flying was the flag of the Clone Empire - a large head of Caudricourt wearing an oversized crown.

It is conceivable that if the colony ship had not been swept away by the super-giant subspace storm that shattered the Golden Age, the Caudricors would have arrived at their destination, and then survived in the colony ship for a period of time, and established an empire that only consisted of Caudricors. "Speaking of which... I think we are a bit like pirates." Brown suddenly spoke again, "After all, we came here to rob ships."

"Yes, this is simply stealing the ship." Qin Xia admitted without hesitation, "No matter how freakish Codico is, this colony ship is his. We want to take this colony ship and that is stealing. Our motivation is that we need this ship, not that we want to punish a freak scientist who wants to build a clone empire or something."

Brown nodded slowly, pondered for a moment, and suddenly asked again: "What if this colony ship is not full of Caudric clones, but humans from the Golden Age, would we still come to rob the ship?"

"Of course not." Qin Xia said frankly again, "But it's not because we respect the people of the Golden Age, nor because we sympathize with them, but because they can bring us what we need more, and the colony ship can bring greater benefits in their hands than in ours."

"But the prerequisite is that the golden humans can stand with us. If they regard us as monsters and enemies, then..." Qin Xia continued, "then we can only rob. We may even fight and kill each other..."

As he spoke, Qin Xia suddenly remembered something he knew.

A ship from the Golden Age was discovered by the Mechanicum ten thousand years later and was named the Eternal Soul.

There is an AI inside it, and that AI cursed at the people of the Mechanicus, and its words showed that it no longer regarded the human descendants in front of it as human beings.

He also claimed that he had previously served humanity, but now would no longer serve any humanity.

Qin Xia felt that if he were the member of the Mechanicus and urgently needed that Golden Age ship, he would still try his best to tame the Hope.

"Sometimes you're like a saint, carrying the lives of everyone on your shoulders," Brown said. "Sometimes you're unscrupulous and cruel."

Qin Xia nodded, feeling that there was nothing wrong with Brown's feelings towards her.

Even when Qin Xia himself looks back at the past from the present moment, he feels that he was not civilized and rational enough in handling some things, but...

"The rationality, prosperity, and power of the Golden Age... these noble qualities possessed by most groups of human beings and the pinnacle reached by an entire race, they are all things of the past."

Qin Xia looked at Brown and said.

This was not the first time Brown had heard similar words. Qin Xia had said similar words long before, when the Stone Man still had the idea of ​​rebuilding the Nukeria Paradise.

“Humanity is now facing a crisis of racial survival, not a Renaissance.”

"This race no longer possesses the powerful strength it had more than 10,000 years ago, but is facing an unprecedented terrorist crisis."

"Humanity must survive, survive by any means necessary, and then leave the success and failure of this era to future generations. Future generations will curse the ignorance and cruelty of our ancestors, and come up with ten thousand ways to maintain civilization and rationality while also surviving and resolving crises in our era..."

"Just like some Nuwei people believe that if we had not indiscriminately killed the High Knights and Guards, we could have overthrown the rule of the slave owners."

"But we must survive first, so that there will be future generations who can judge our success or failure, no matter how they judge us... Anyway, for me personally, I am satisfied knowing that there are still future generations who can judge us."

Hearing this, Brown nodded meaningfully and thought about something.

"But I have to admit that the things I did were not entirely judged and done from a grand perspective like the survival of the race. A considerable part of the things I did were based on my own ideas and likes and dislikes." Qin Xia spread his hands, "I am not a saint with divinity, nor am I a villain. I just want to do something when everything is going downhill to prevent the future I fear from becoming a reality."

Brown nodded again, still thinking.

After a moment, the stone man suddenly said, "I have been thinking about one thing for the past two weeks. If I run into someone from the Golden Age, and if they have a conflict with you because of some ideological reasons, whose side should I stand on?"

Qin Xia nodded, thinking that Brown should think about it.

Because of the two things, this colony ship and the Caudric clones aboard, the latter is rarer than the former.

No matter which era in human history, such twisted lunatics are ultimately a minority, otherwise humanity would have destroyed itself long ago.

In the future, there will definitely be the first, second, or even many more exploration missions to ships and ruins of humanity’s golden age. The probability of encountering real golden humans is actually quite high.

Brown should really think about his future stance because of this colonial ship.

As a stone man created by the golden humans and still alive, it is very necessary to think these things clearly.

"I can also realize that times have changed, and some things in the past are no longer suitable for this era." Brown said, "I once wanted to restore the era of the Nuceria Amusement Park, and then I was influenced by you. I wanted to do something for the entire human race. I still think so now."

When Qin Xia thought Brown would continue speaking, the stone man closed his mouth.

After a few seconds of silence, Brown skipped a lot of thinking and said directly: "I think if we really encounter golden humans in the future, we should try to wake one of them up to communicate with them. If our ideas are incompatible and there is a risk of causing a civil war... then we should let them continue to sleep until one day in the future when humans climb out of the trough and wake them up."

Qin Xia nodded slowly.

Under the influence of psychic power, everything the two said and said was seen by others as the infinite silence and concentration of the two people on the road.

Under the guidance of the device in Brown's hand, everyone arrived at the location of the core cabin.

The device will automatically calculate a route for the user to reach the core cabin in the shortest time based on the user's current location and the prediction of the core's next several position changes. So when Qin Xia and others came outside the cabin, the cabin flashed out instantly.

(End of this chapter)