Travel to Warhammer 40K with Grey Wind

"The Machine Spirit of this capital ship is slaughtering its own crew again?"

Russell was about to bring these unusual ships closer to see what was going on, but at this moment, Khorne suddenly attacked. The power He bestowed on Skarbrand suddenly increased, and the delicate balance above the flesh and blood canopy was broken. The bloodthirsty demon with rapidly increasing strength was ready to move.

Russell withdrew his curious gaze, moved the massive void, and suppressed the restless Blood God again - as time passed, the mass of the Guixu void became larger and larger, and it became more and more difficult for Russell to control it.

This reminded him of a shooting game he played many years ago. If the server is in the domestic server, he can point the muzzle of his gun to hit wherever he wants. Foreign servers with huge delays will appear and you can throw out the mouse. There was a spark, and as a result, the moving speed of the target was not as fast as the enemy walking... This is the situation.

The Void Return Hole is the loophole left by the etheric phase engine piercing the world. Its nature is extremely powerful, perhaps too powerful.

Tzeentch, the Lord of Change, once warned Russell that if the void continues to expand, the entire universe will be destroyed. This is not alarmist.

Facing an extremely high delay, Russell struggled to suppress Khorne. Then, the four mechanized warships of the Iron Hands drifted out of the Sea of ​​Souls and returned to the real universe through the subspace rift in the center of the Gallil star cluster.

At the same time, Gray Wind received a warning from Russell: "There are four Human Empire warships floating in your direction. Don't relax your vigilance. There are abnormalities in those warships. The machine spirits of the warships are massacring their own crews."

"Okay, I understand." Gray Feng gently responded to Russell's reminder and turned the tachyon sensor in the direction of the subspace rift.

The rampaging machine soul of the battleship massacres the crew. This is a dangerous signal. As far as Gray Wind knows, there are generally two possibilities for this situation:

1. There are cultists in the ship, or the ship itself is attacked by Chaos, and the subspace evil energy contaminates the ship, resulting in the corruption of the machine soul.

2. The waste code virus from the Dark Age of Technology, one of the causes of the Iron Man Rebellion, invaded the control system. The Meditator infected by the virus went berserk and became a hateful intelligence.

For a long time after their marriage, Gray Wind liked to be around Russell and ask him to tell her stories, so she knew a lot about all kinds of information about the Human Empire:

These four ships all sailed out of the storm-raging subspace, and were highly likely to be contaminated by Chaos.

But considering the fact that the Iron Hands are unique in the Human Empire... This chapter cooperates closely with the Mechanicus in private, secretly making many little secrets that violate the Crimson Protocol, and is widely used in the Iron Hands' mechanized warships. Artificial intelligence is also called AI management. The probability of their ships being infected with the Golden Age waste code virus is indeed much higher than that of other imperial ships.

In order to deal with Chaos contamination, Gray Wind transferred some personnel from the troops fighting the insect wave and asked them to carry enough anti-subspace facilities to the warships close to the Iron Hands.

There were still a few Iron Hands Space Marines alive in the largest of the four battleships. If they were rescued, perhaps they could learn the truth from them. For this reason, Grey Wind decided to have this small fleet send a landing force to conduct a short-distance boarding rescue of the ship.

Gray Wind was not very prepared to deal with the waste code virus. In fact, there was no preparation at all, because the human technology in this universe was different in basic structure from the Order of Truth that used the star technology tree.

Just as the virus software developed by human hackers in ancient times based on the iOS system cannot infect others, the Scrap Code virus that triggered the Iron Man Rebellion in the Golden Age cannot infect the mechanical creations of the Order of Truth. This is determined by the underlying logic. These are two completely different operating systems and operating logics that are incompatible with each other.

Compatibility itself is the most impenetrable firewall, and even Gray Wind cannot strengthen it on this basis.

But it turns out that in this hopeless bastard universe, the more things are considered impossible, they tend to happen.

When the armed forces of the Human Federation wearing heavy mobile armor broke into the cabin of the Emperor-class battleship, the first thing they saw was the energy cables and alarm facilities flashing eye-catching red lights. The autonomous weapon array in the cabin was tirelessly chasing the Iron Hands warriors who were fleeing like rats, but it did not aim its guns at the Human Federation armed forces that had invaded the ship.

Because the moment they broke into the cabin, the mobile armor on their bodies lit up with a dazzling red light.

On the operating interface, deep red unknown codes flashed rapidly. Following a wailing bass alarm, sets of mobile armor cut off the built-in life support system, and one driver after another died in the armor that protected them.

Chapter 413 Lord of the Soul Furnace

[The command is abnormal, electromagnetic signal shielding is activated, all equipment is forced to disconnect from the network, and the No. 02 purification protocol is being prepared for operation]

Information about the boarding force's equipment anomalies was immediately transmitted back to the mother ship, Breaking Edge. The ship's master control AI also responded immediately. While all the equipment on the ship was forcibly disconnected from the network, the ship's autonomous weapon array was authorized to start up. Phase disruption cannons running at full power turned in unison, preparing to destroy the Iron Hands' Emperor-class battleship and the landing force that had boarded the ship.

All judgments and responses were completed in less than 0.2 seconds after receiving the information. It only took a few seconds from the armor of the landing force to be infected to the phase disintegration cannon array to be charged. Such a rapid response even for the Emperor's Imperial Guard. It may not be possible, but in the current environment, the usual calmness and efficiency of the Truth Society AI are of no use.

The order to disconnect the network was not implemented because the jamming facilities used to deploy the electromagnetic shielding field were covered with sickly red spots.

The cleanup protocol was not successfully launched, because the phase fragmentation cannons that were ready to fire were already pointed at the battleship itself under the influence of the virus waste code that was crawling like a colony of ants.

The number removal protocol failed to run, and the waste code virus continues to proliferate.

[Our ship has lost the possibility of being saved and is executing the self-destruction procedure]

The master control AI of the Breaking Array Spike did not send back any warning information to Grey Wind, because it could not determine whether the waste code virus would use the information it transmitted as a medium to expand the infection. While the virus had not yet spread to the master control room, the shipboard AI silently ran the self-destruct protocol.

In silence, the structure of the dark matter reactor of the Breaking Array's sharp edge was disrupted. There was no dazzling explosion, no brilliant fireworks. The 17-kilometer-long cruiser's hull disappeared into thin air in the unobservable dark matter annihilation reaction, taking with it thousands of crew members on board.

"The sharp tip of the formation-breaking weapon destroyed itself..." Huifeng looked at the inconspicuous dark spot in the distant void and instantly understood the seriousness of the situation.

Although the ship-borne AI of Breaking the Array did not send back any information to Gray Wind before it self-destructed, the act of not sending back information was itself a warning message. This was only done to curb the spread of pollution and to stop the spread of the virus. Special move.

"The Marshal is here, and the possibility of the formation-breaking vanguard being forced to self-destruct by subspace contamination is very slim, so... is it a waste code virus?"

Facing this terrifying possibility, Gray Wind shuddered: "Has the waste code virus in this universe evolved to the point where it can infect our technological creations? Or is it that someone has developed a new virus specifically for us?"

If it is the latter, it would be even more terrifying. Even the Necrons, who are the pinnacle of materialism in the universe, would have difficulty cracking the encryption of the Secret Engineering of the Order of Truth, let alone developing targeted virus codes. The difficulty is simply Unbelievable.

"Is it the Prime Minister's fault again? Why does the Prime Minister have to have a hand in everything?"

"No, the technology tree of the stars is not a product of this universe. It is not an area where the original power can interfere. There are other reasons..."

Gray Feng couldn't figure out what happened specifically for a while. In the confusing situation, she made a decision after careful consideration in less than a second:

"All ships are to prepare to fold immediately. All combat units are to abandon all previous gains as quickly as possible and evacuate the Gallil star cluster immediately!"

After the order was issued, Grey Wind immediately controlled the biological mothership Mother of Punishment to start the Tuchucha engine, tearing the curtain, and took the nearest naval fleet directly into the Sea of ​​Souls and escaped.

"What's going on? We paid a lot of money and finally dismembered the giant ether insect, but then we were suddenly informed that we had to evacuate?"

"The ground forces suppressed by the Zerg tide are still waiting for our orbital support in a bitter battle. We are running away just after gaining the advantage in the naval battle. Aren't we really becoming the kind of navy masters that the army calls us who have never done any housework?"

"Stop complaining and run away. Since the leader has given the order, he must have deep meaning..."

When the war has just gained an advantage, ordering the frontline soldiers to give up the results and retreat is a very challenging thing in any era, but the members of the Order of Truth have long been accustomed to the moodiness of the star bombers, and most of them Although humans were repulsed by this endless evacuation order, their emotions were limited to grumbling. Their bodies still adjusted their tactics very efficiently, evacuating people, and making physical jumps to the nearest location.

The light of the jump engine lit up bit by bit, and the naval fleet of the Human Federation quickly evacuated the Gallil star cluster, leaving behind only a raging swarm of insects and planet-sized swollen tumors orbiting along the star. The battle situation in Oregon was completely out of control.

The mechanics were still driving their steel-mottled Cybertrons under the canopies of the giant flesh trees, using their firepower to the best of their ability to resist the onslaught of the endless swarm of insects. The orbital support they were waiting for would no longer arrive.

They became abandoned children. The retreat of the large army was too hasty and not everyone had time to be taken into consideration.

After the Oregon Galaxy battlefield was evacuated, four virus-infected Iron Hands mechanical warships drifted to this scarred galaxy while paddling in the shallow subspace.

Russell glanced at the iron battleship that floated into the orbit of Oregon in the sky: "Emperor-class battleship...Battleships are extremely precious and rare ships in the Empire. Several battleships including the Barkhor Emperor-class battleship should belong to the Iron Hands and are part of the main fleet."

So the question is, who is so brave and capable of infecting the main fleet of a startup regiment with the waste code virus?

According to the military books and battles that Russell read, the Waste Code Virus did not cause too much trouble after the Iron Man Rebellion. The Emperor established the Crimson Agreement and strictly guarded against artificial intelligence. He even used artificial intelligence to load and unload cannons on battleships. Loaded by loyal human hands, the Imperium of Man rejects heretical automation.

In this case, even if the waste code virus spreads again, the damage it can cause to the empire will be extremely limited.

Therefore, in major battles, the waste code virus often appears as a means for Chaos to deal with the human empire. The Word Bearers will spread the waste code virus to paralyze the void shield of the target planet so that they can plunder and preach. The Iron Warriors are good at attacking difficulties. The sealed waste code virus is used as one of the means to paralyze the enemy's defense system.

Even the Primarch of the Iron Warriors, Perturabo, had a secret agreement with Vashtor, the 'Lord of the Soul Forge' - Vashtor was a lesser god of the Warp who belonged to the concepts of technology, innovation, and munitions.

Chapter 414 Perturabo

"The armed forces sent by Grey Wind to board and rescue the remnants of the Iron Hands were also infected by the virus, and a 'Breakthrough' class battlecruiser was forced to self-destruct.

Russell's expression became serious as he stepped on the red earth of Khorne. "The Waste Code Virus has evolved to some extent. The virus code that could only infect the machines of this universe can now invade our system. The probability of wild code naturally mutating to this result is extremely low. This is a weapon developed specifically for us by a sinister guy who has never shown his face."

Who is this guy?

Russell guessed it was Vashtor, or Tzeentch, or maybe some extremely radical Dark Mechanicus group?

While Russell was thinking, four infected warships had drifted above the orbit of the huge tumor, and suspicious subspace disturbances were emitted from the Emperor-class battleship in the center.

Russell, who was far away in the High Heavens, could not see clearly the situation inside the battleship, but the human landing force that had just boarded the ship was able to rely on the perception of the psychics and Eldar banshees in the team to judge that the source of the strange disturbance came from deep in the belly of the Emperor-class battleship, where the warp engine was installed.

——The boarding force sent by Grey Wind to rescue the remnants of the Iron Hands was not completely wiped out. In the first wave of infection by the Scrap Code virus, the mechanics wearing a full set of mobile armor were the first to die, while the Eldar Banshees who were in wraithbone armor and did not carry any auxiliary AI were not affected by the Scrap Code virus.

The banshees quickly destroyed all autonomous machines and processors of any nature in the team at the same time as the mechanics died, physically eliminating the vectors further infected by the virus, a small number of human psykers and melta weapons with purely mechanical structures. survived.

——Due to the huge lethality of melta weapons, the melta weapons produced by the Military Industry of the Order of Truth are not equipped with functions such as AI-assisted aiming. Even the triggers are locked by physical means. This kind of weapon is inherited from the era of World War I. The ancient safety mechanism is called 'insurance'. Since ancient humans created the first breech-loading firearm on earth, physical insurance has always been a safety protection method trusted by mankind.

Our loyal and reliable ancient insurance plugs far surpass those backward and uncontrollable dangerous electronic AIs. Under the virus infection, the melt launchers with physical insurance have become the only weapons that survivors can rely on.

While on the run from the shipborne artillery infected by the Waste Code Virus, the human soldiers hid in the cabins with their individual melta launchers, counterattacked at the right time, and swore in their hearts: If they could get out alive, they must publicize the fidelity and reliability of the melta to everyone in the federal army, and that the automatic overheating warning of the auxiliary AI of the plasma weapon was a piece of shit!

If you are a man, use hot melt!

"The subspace disturbance coming from the engine room is getting stronger, but the psychic spectrum it emits is very chaotic. This is not the spectrum generated by the normal operation of the subspace engine of the imperial ship, but something else." The psychic 'La' in the team closed his eyes and said: "The subspace engine of this ship has been modified with pollution and blasphemy, and the machine soul has been completely corrupted."

The soldier crouching next to La held a gun in both hands, extended the nozzle of the melter out of the bunker, and sprayed a hot subatomic stream to the rear without taking aim at all.

This is an ancient shooting technique inherited from the ancient Terran earth era. It is called the sacred 'African pressure gun', which can effectively reduce the probability of being hit when shooting.

While Africa pressed the gun, the soldier said impatiently: "Stop talking nonsense. Anyone with eyes can see that this ship is contaminated by chaos. What we need to know is what the ship's subspace engine has been modified into." , and how to escape.”

Since all parts of their bodies with computing and data storage capabilities have been destroyed, they have now lost even the structural scans of the battleship, and can only wander around the cabin like headless flies to avoid the pursuit of the fallen machine spirits. .

"It's an ultra-long-distance subspace positioning and transmission device. Its principle is similar to the 'Tuchucha' engine carried by the Mother of Punishment. It is a poor imitation made by someone based on the technology of the Ancient Saints." La said softly: "But even if it is a replica, it is enough to open a large portal similar to the webway gate in the body of this battleship and directly teleport a large number of troops here."

While they were talking, a rapid beeping sound suddenly came from the bunker next to them: a large circuit integrator. Everyone had to move their positions immediately. During the transfer, several more people died from the indiscriminate bombardment of ship-based artillery fire.

The remaining soldiers did not know that the main force had already evacuated. They hoped that if they continued to fight tenaciously, they would get support from the mothership. This was the biggest motivation for them to persist until now.

The remaining few hundred boarding remnants fled all the way in the cabin, dragging their heavy armor with paralyzed systems through one deadly corridor after another. In the process, there was no blessing from the gods and no help from any external forces. The only thing they could rely on was the hot melt spray guns in their hands and their own indomitable will. The new youth of the Human Federation had long been accustomed to believing in themselves in adversity, rather than worshiping the emperor.

During their escape, they encountered the last few surviving Iron Hands Space Marines in the battleship.

There are only 2.5 Iron Hands warriors who have survived, because one of them is already paralyzed. The waste code virus has infected the prosthetic body and cogitator processor installed on him. Ferrus Manus's fierce heir is dismantling himself with bare hands. These dangerous prosthetics left him with only about half of his body.

From the mouths of the survivors of the Iron Hands, the remnants of the Jump Gang learned the full story of what happened to them:

The Iron Hands killed a giant creature called the Poison Saint many years ago. The creature's body contained highly toxic radiation. The Iron Hands and the Mechanicus sealed it in Medusa's giant stasis force. Isolated storage in the field.

After Nurgle's death, the remaining followers of Nurgle gathered together and formed an extremist organization called the 'Plague Apostles'.

The Plague Apostles twice attacked the Iron Hands' home planet of Medusa, intending to snatch the sealed body of the Poison Saint. However, both attacks were repulsed by the Iron Hands' powerful firepower and impregnable defenses.

But in the third attack, the Plague Apostles received the help of the traitorous legion 'Iron Warriors'. The original body Perturabo appeared on the battlefield in person and launched a large-scale invasion of Medusa.

The Iron Hand swore to the skull of Ferrus Manus that he would defend his home planet from the impact of Chaos and defend the glory of the Gene Father from being tarnished by the shameful traitor, but no matter how good Medusa's defense system was, Perfect, no matter how abundant the firepower is, the opponent they face is still a Primarch.

A god of war created by the emperor of mankind himself.

Perturabo commanded his troops to defeat the Iron Hands' defense. He spread the waste code virus in Medusa's orbit. The originally sturdy and reliable mechanical creation collapsed in the face of the evolved new virus. Ferrus Manus His hometown turned into a sea of ​​fire.

"We failed to preserve the glory of our genetic father, and we failed to protect our home planet..." The Iron Hands veteran 'Jotun', who only had half of his body left, was extremely frustrated.

While the survivors of the Iron Hands were telling the remnants of the boarding force about what happened to their home planet, in the engine room of the Emperor-class battleship, the warp engine corrupted by unknown energy continued to run, and a fake and beggar's version of the 'Webway Gate' was opened.

Perturabo and his Iron Warriors emerged.

The Plague Apostle who believed in the Beloved Father knelt down and followed the Primarch, flatteringly saying: "Thanks to the Primarch's majestic talent and strategy, we were able to obtain one of the many artifacts needed to resurrect the Beloved Father."

"Now that the 'Poisonous Saint's Throat' has been obtained, as long as we obtain the Root of Infinity, we have obtained 3 of the 2 materials needed to cast a body for our loving father. I hope you will work harder..."

Perturabo, wearing heavy armor, disdained the flattery of the Plague Apostle. He strode out of the warp gate and the iron hooves of the Iron Warrior stepped into the orbit of Oregon, which had turned into a twisted tumor.