Warhammer: Don't Call Me the God of All Machines

Chapter 102 Anti-Psychic Research

With the cooperation of many parties, the jointly developed Star-type power armor not only adopts a modular design, but is also more diverse than the previous old version.

It can be appropriately adjusted according to a variety of tactical environments, enabling it to meet the vast majority of battlefield environments.

According to the feedback from the battlefield data, these new types of power armor are roughly divided into the most balanced Star Type I, the Star Type II that emphasizes defense and heavy firepower, the Star Type III that emphasizes flexibility and penetration, and the Star Type IV that is equipped with an additional power backpack and has the ability to respond quickly within the atmosphere.

In the simulated battle of the intelligent computer, the tactical troops composed of the new model of Star-type power armor were able to achieve a combat loss ratio of 1:1.2 with the troops of the first-generation adamantium armor or strong interaction force armor.

This is already a very terrifying improvement. You have to know that the first generation of Extreme Marines who were equipped with adamantium armor fought head-on against the World Eaters and Word Bearers in Amatra, and achieved a terrifying battle-loss ratio of one to more than ten.

The rapid replacement of equipment also enabled Guilliman to speed up the innovation of his military theory. Roche knew that the Lord of the Ultramarines had always hoped to compile a holy book that could adapt to most war environments.

Guilliman would often discuss the lessons of war with Roche via holographic communication, or when he would go to the Great Library of Macragge to read historical documents.

According to a recent conversation, Guilliman seems to be trying to divide his troops more finely, reorganizing them from the original relatively rough chapter companies into a more adaptable mixed model.

"The equipment update rate of the auxiliary forces in the 56.79 worlds of Ultramar has reached 1.5%. The vast majority of important worlds have completed all updates, and the remaining ones will also be completed in an estimated Terran years."

There were heavy footsteps in Roche's laboratory, and the regular sound of pistons and gears heralded the arrival of a technical priest.

Buckle Dylan held his technological scepter and walked into the laboratory leisurely.

The long disinfection corridor purified the germs and microorganisms that he might be carrying. After triple identity verification, the technical priest came to Luo Xi.

Luo Xi raised his eyes slightly, and his eyelids twitched slightly for a moment. This old guy was about to move his hometown to Mustafar. Now there were oil men everywhere on this planet.

By the time you see one oilman, the entire planet is already full of oilmen.

These tech-priests, clad in Martian red robes, reminded Roche of a tenacious creature from the distant past called cockroaches.

"Praise the Gear, Father Roshi, our anti-psychic research is finally making some progress."

Dylan brought good news as soon as he opened his mouth, although the ups and downs of his voice and the fluctuations of emotions could not be heard in his electronic voice.

"Has there been any progress in collecting the Untouchables?" Luo Xi controlled the intelligent brain and cast a set of power armor suitable for the body of a mortal in the laboratory.

"Yes, the collection teams we sent out found 51 untouchables on 223 planets, 87 of them were male and the remaining 136 were female."

After hearing these data, Luo Xi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Ever since he witnessed a large number of demons appearing in the real world in Nuceria, he has shifted a considerable amount of his focus to the research of anti-psychic energy.

The armor he made had almost reached a critical value in terms of resistance to physical attacks, energy attacks and other damage. Unless he continued to make breakthroughs in materials science and used stronger materials to cast power armor, he could only make modifications to the edges and corners.

But the biggest problem at the moment is the counterattack against demons. Most of the Ultramarines who died in the Battle of Nuceria were killed by demons. Those abominations from the warp have attack modes that can penetrate armor.

And according to the feedback reports from the Extreme Marines, the vast majority of warriors clearly felt strong mental interference and soul corruption when fighting against demons.

Although these corruptions were not obvious to the Astartes with iron wills, many corruptions were clearly evident when the large number of mortal auxiliary troops were carrying out corpse recovery work.

If a warrior's heart is not firm enough, or there are obvious psychological loopholes, there is a great probability that he will be corrupted by the power of the warp.

Warp corruption is a psychic phenomenon, and if the spread of psychic power can be limited on the battlefield, then there will be a new and huge advantage against demons.

"Has the Mechanicus made any progress in its research on the Untouchables?" Roche finished the new work in his hand, which was a power armor specially customized for the Untouchables.

"The Untouchables have always been the subject of research by some biological sages, but unfortunately, our understanding of this special kind of soulless beings is still limited to the surface." Sage Dylan inserted a data pad into the reader.

The data in the data board was immediately uploaded to the central intelligent computer, and detailed information of the uncontactable people who were found appeared in front of Luo Xi.

"A biological sage once attempted to cultivate the Untouchable through cloning, but no matter how consistent the conditions, the clones ultimately failed to exhibit the same traits as the originals." "Perhaps our cloning technology is not perfect, or perhaps the essence of the Soulless is not in their flesh and blood."

“This is an extremely rare mutation in the human gene pool. No one knows where it came from, but it is certain that it is almost impossible for soulless people to obtain it through artificial means.

They exist without souls, and are no different from other humans except for their soullessness."

Soulless people will naturally release a soulless attitude, and this special attitude makes them completely isolated from psychic energy and almost unaffected by it. But at the same time, the "black hole" state of the soul makes people around them instinctively have reactions such as headaches and physical disgust.

This also makes it extremely difficult for the Untouchables, who are already extremely rare and can only be born through miraculous mutations caused by population reproduction, to grow up.

Many times, even their parents would regard their Untouchable offspring as freaks, and the vast majority of Untouchables did not even survive infancy.

“When our collection teams found them in the hives of various planets, almost all of the Soulless were living at the bottom of society, and even at the bottom of the hives there were few groups that would accept them,” said Sage Dylan.

"Some of the untouchables can only wander in the wilderness, surviving by picking up unwanted garbage from the hives, while even more soulless people can only find a corner at the bottom of the hives to live in, relying on the mortals' disgust for them to survive."

Luo Xi quickly went through the information of the soulless people, and he was soon attracted by a special record.

He manipulated his fingers to call up the record, and the target's information was presented in front of him in the form of a holographic projection.

"This male Untouchable named Dulles Valentine was found on a fringe planet of the Five Hundred Worlds. When we found him, he had already assembled a gang of Untouchables in a local hive world."

The technical priest recounted this interesting experience.

"Dulles himself is an untouchable. He has lived at the bottom of the Hive World since he was a child. By chance, he saved a gang leader who was attacked by psychic mutants. Since then, he has been accepted by the gang. When we found him, he had already climbed to the position of gang leader."

"Dulles searched for untouchables like himself in the hive world and other spheres of influence, and raised them to adulthood. This time alone, we found 13 untouchables, which is the largest harvest since the operation began."

Luo Xi savored in amazement the life experience of the Untouchable who had taken the gang script. This guy actually began to flexibly utilize the characteristics of the Untouchable.

When gangs fought over resources, he and other untouchables went out together, using their soulless stance to directly destroy most of their opponents' combat effectiveness.

When mortals get close to the Untouchables, they will involuntarily experience headaches and physical disgust, and the degree of this feeling varies.

The weak untouchables may give people the feeling of an unbearable stench, which cannot be avoided even by gas masks, but this is not enough to make the enemy lose their combat effectiveness.

Powerful soulless beings can even drain the souls of humans within a certain range. They are truly like walking black holes. Not only psychics, but even mortals find it difficult to survive when seeing them.

When the dozen or so Untouchables assembled by Dulles went out together, their combined Soulless stance was comparable to that of a powerful Soulless, which was why they were able to win repeatedly in gang fights.

"Bring him here. I want to talk to him. He is the godfather of the Soulless Gang. He is really interesting."

The technical priest immediately ordered his men to bring over the untouchable named Dulles. He changed into a sterile suit and wore a special bracelet of the Mechanicus on his wrist, which could be used for precise positioning and identity confirmation.

Of course, when necessary, this bracelet will also become a tool for the Mechanicus to recover test subjects. The high-voltage current and toxins it releases are enough to kill even the thick-skinned Ogryns one by one.

Luo Xi looked up, and what he saw was a middle-aged man who looked a little haggard.

He had a greasy backcombed hair, with rough stubble from lack of trimming, and his eyes seemed a little dull from lack of rest and being in an unfamiliar environment.

A very ordinary middle-aged man.

Of course, when Luo Xi felt it carefully, he sensed an instinctive discomfort. This was not an emotional feeling of nausea, but came from instinctive resistance and disgust.

As he took a few steps toward Dulles, the feeling intensified. His stomach started to churn and his head started to feel a little dizzy.

(End of this chapter)