Travel to Warhammer 40K with Grey Wind

Thus, Russell successfully snatched the life-shaping queen named "Coronia" from the control of the hive will.

In the cavity of the biological mothership in the real universe, the nanomachines incarnated by Gray Wind have already dug out the lower body of the Queen Worm that was deeply rooted in the mothership.

It wasn't hard work, but Gray Wind was on edge the whole time because he had to dig while worrying about Russell's safety. As a result, nothing had happened until now, and he began to feel that he was worrying too much.

Then it saw the Life-Shaping Worm, which had been lying motionless and at its mercy, open all six of its eyes, emitting a faint glow in the darkness.

Grey Wind reacted immediately and activated all weapons to prepare for battle, but Russell stopped him immediately:

"Don't attack, Gray Wind. Coronie is under my control."

"Huh?" Gray Wind dazedly locked the sensor on the big bug that the marshal called Coroniai.

But I saw its six eyes drooping, and the six limbs on its upper body also drooped humbly, and its ferocious mouth uttered a hoarse voice that seemed to come from hell:

Owner. "

"Huh? Who are you calling master?" Huifeng was even more confused.

"You're calling me." Russell said, and walked forward slowly under Gray Wind's nervous gaze, and came in front of the Queen of Life-Shaping Insects - Coroniai.

He raised one hand, and in the palm of his hand lay a finger-sized crystal with illusory mist flowing inside.

"Eat it," said Russell.

"Yes, master..." Coroniel lowered his head obediently, opened his mouthparts, and a long sticky tongue dripping with digestive fluid stretched out from his throat. Carefully, under the aiming of many energy arc generators, it stretched in front of Russell, rolled up the crystal in his palm with the tip of its tongue, and swallowed it into its stomach.

This is a fragment of the Zelo Soulstone, which serves as the medium for Russell's awakening psychic powers, and it is conceptually connected to the void in the warp.

When Coroniae swallowed the fragment and committed himself to nothingness, an unequal soul connection was established between the man and the insect.

This life-shaping queen, who was once dominated by the will of the hive, became Russell's slave.

Well, it's time to go.

Although Russell claimed that he had completely controlled the Queen Koroni Ai, Grey Wind remained extremely vigilant. The nanomachines carefully installed the Life-Shaping Queen at the tail of the battleship and left the wreckage of the biological mothership along the tunnel dug when they came.

On the way back to the Grey Goo mothership dragging the Queen of Worms, Grey Wind kept asking Russell whether the complete control he talked about was reliable and whether there were any risks. He looked mysterious and kept muttering all the way to the hangar of the Grey Goo mothership.

Even when carrying Coronia into the warehouse where the Thorin cysts were imprisoned, the Gray Gu mothership's weapon system was always locked on the life-shaping queen worm that originally belonged to Tyranids, ensuring that if anything went wrong it could be blasted into pieces as quickly as possible.

But until the end, nothing that Gray Wind worried about happened.

Along the way, Coronie was as obedient as a tamed lamb, allowing Russell to move her around without any resistance. She didn't even dare to cry out in pain when she accidentally hit her head on the door frame.

It was not until they passed through the gate and walked into the largest warehouse inside the Gray Goo mothership, and the Thorin Protozoa Queen, who was trapped in mid-air by countless stance generators, appeared before their eyes, that Coroniai, who had been behaving docilely and tamely, suddenly became excited.

"Master, Master, I'm so hungry... I want to eat, eat it... Master, I'm so hungry, I'm so hungry... Master."

Coronia's almost hysterical madness almost caused Gray Wind's energy arc generator to misfire. Its voice trembled and entered Russell's mind, full of desire and pleading.

Chapter 52 Nano Bombing

Unlike the nervous Gray Wind, Russell knew from the beginning to the end that he had absolute control over Coronie at the conceptual level, so he remained calm.

Gray Wind will get used to it slowly, right?

In short, although he was still on guard, Grey Wind followed Russell's instructions and turned off the force field generator behind the imprisoned worm and the gravity simulation in the cabin, allowing the big meat worm curled up into a ball to float in the warehouse.

As soon as the restraints on Queen Thorin were released, Coroniai impatiently used his psychic power to make his huge and hideous body float up and flew all the way to the head of Queen Thorin.

It grows tens of thousands of tiny tentacles from the carapace of its lower body, piercing the head of the Thorin protozoan, drilling deep into the brain, and then spreading and growing into the body, greedily absorbing the body fluids and genes of the Thorin protozoan.

The Solin protozoa in deep hibernation had no resistance to this invasion. Gradually, Coronia's tentacles had "planted" themselves into the body of the Solin protozoa queen like a potted plant.

The thin red tentacles twisted and grew and spread to every corner of the Thorin queen's body, claiming sovereignty over every DNA molecule. The upper body of the Coronie completely replaced the head of the Thorin protozoan, and eventually the two merged into a long, bloated flesh worm, with the Coronie as the dominant one.

Russell looked up at this horrifying and curious swallowing or parasitism process, while thinking about another question:

Will the swarm of insects bred by these two queens in the future be called Tyranids or Thorin Chrysogens?

——The answer is Coronie.

Through the soul connection with Coroniai, Russell learned that after devouring the genetic sequence of the Thorin protozoa, it had learned to shape many new lives that did not belong to this universe, such as the "artificial protozoa-worker bees" that can build biological space bases, the "colonial ships-infectors" that can infect planets, and the "Broodmother" biological mothership that can mass-produce adult insects according to existing genetic templates without the need for the expensive "life-shaping queen".

Today, Coronia is fully capable of transforming a vibrant and habitable world into a giant insect nest on a planetary scale. The hatching planets under its control can continuously supply Russell with powerful insect swarm forces.

But before that, it takes time.

Following Russell's orders, Grey Wind reconstructed the armor on one side of the Grey Goo mothership and placed the newly fused Queen back into the wreckage of the Tyranid biological mothership floating in the orbit of Planet 2.

Next, Coronia will use the wreckage of the biological mothership as raw materials to breed industrial protozoa and infected people, as well as a large number of industrial units, and begin the process of transforming the planet.

After releasing the insects, the interior of the Gray Gu mothership seemed empty, but Gray Wind quickly reconstructed the hull again. At this time, there was no need to maintain the huge cavity inside the hull. The slightly bloated hull lines of Gray Wind became graceful and slender again, and the scale structure on the surface of the hull flashed silver light in the orbit of Planet No. 2.

"Let's start moving forward with the next step of planning," Russell said.

"learn!"

The Gray Goo mothership took Russell away from Planet No. 2 where Coronia was dropped, and headed towards the pulsar in the center of the galaxy, eventually stopping over Planet No. 1, the innermost planet in the galaxy.

Unlike Planet 2, which is surrounded by a beautiful star ring, Planet 1 is the smallest of the three planets in the system and is closest to the pulsar.

The huge amount of pulse signals it is subjected to every moment makes Planet 1 completely unsuitable for any form of organic life to settle here. This is why Russell placed Coronia on Planet 2, which is farther away from the core of the galaxy.

But just because it is not suitable for organic life does not mean that Russell is completely helpless against it.

The Gray Goo mothership opened its energy shield to resist the violent electromagnetic pulses in the environment and firmly anchored itself in the synchronous orbit of Planet No. 1. Then, tens of thousands of hatches were densely packed open on the belly of the mothership, and a swarm of Gray Goo carrier-based aircraft poured out, rushing towards the low-Earth orbit of Planet No. 1 like an iron-gray tsunami, as if to submerge the entire planet in this nanostorm.

The "nano bombing" has begun.

"This planet is disturbed by the pulsar, and in order to maintain the stability of my self-consciousness, I cannot exert my full strength. The efficiency of converting it into a 'nano planet' will be relatively slow..." On the mothership, Gray Wind softly reported the progress of the nano bombing to Russell.

"Can you finish the homework before the Galaxy Star CD ends?" Russell asked.

"No problem at all. There will be a small margin." Gray Wind gave an affirmative answer: "But after infecting this planet, the nanorobots that assimilate the planet will lose direct connection with my main consciousness. If time goes on, there may be a slight risk of losing control... I will set their highest administrator authority to you, Marshal. Is that okay?"

"You arrange it." Russell did not object.

Nanobombing, or nanoplague, refers to the unlimited self-replication and indiscriminate assimilation of a large number of nanorobots after they lose control.

Long before the birth of the consciousness "Grey Wind", the out-of-control ancient nanorobots that turned into Grey Gu Storm destroyed their own creators and bombed almost every habitable planet in the L-Cluster into a nanoplanet.

Such a planet that has been highly assimilated by out-of-control nanorobots is not suitable for any form of life, but if they are controlled... then it would be a different matter.

Under fully controlled conditions, the highly plastic nano-planet could even have powerful industrial production efficiency and finishing capabilities that even the most advanced urban planets could not match. However, this assimilation process required too much energy and time from Gray Wind.

In the next few years, until the ten-year CD of Galaxy Star is completed, the main body of the Gray Goo mothership will be left here to concentrate on the nano-bombing of Planet No. 1.

Even after the bombing was completed, it had no time to rest, because at that time the CD of the Galaxy Star would have been turned on, and it needed to extract the alloy from the Galaxy Star strictly according to the time calculated by Russell for the construction of the L-gate.

Russell's plan was to have Grey Wind manufacture the various components of the L-Gate here, and then transport them back to Faya for assembly, so as to avoid the construction process being spied on by the Empire.

In fact, his decision was completely unnecessary.

The construction data of the L-Gate did not come from the technology tree of the Human Federation, but was directly stored in the main consciousness of Grey Wind's creator, the "Gate Builder". This complex engineering technology from the pioneer civilization was very difficult to decipher due to the differences in civilizations. However, Russell still felt it was not safe enough and asked Grey Wind to use the "Heavenly Secret Engineering" to encrypt it twice, completely depriving it of the last possibility of reverse engineering.

If the technical information that Russell had handed over to the Mechanical Engineering Society before, which had been localized and compiled to be easy to understand and absorb, was "white technology", then the original encryption technology that Grey Wind was going to use to build the main gate was completely incomprehensible "black technology".

The main gate of the L-Star Gate is so important that we cannot be too cautious.

It can be said that Russell's planning scheme was quite excellent. He made rational use of every period of time and resources and planned all the things to be done in an orderly manner. The assembly of the L-gate even happened to catch up with the completion of the "Guide" statue on the side of the State Religion, thus maximizing efficiency and timing.

There was almost nothing wrong with this perfect plan, except for one small flaw...

For nearly the next ten years, Gray Wind will need to be 007 continuously.

Chapter 53 Critical Base

Although Gray Wind, as a micro-mechanical collective consciousness, does not actually feel tired, it still wants to tease the Marshal for not treating it as a human being and treating it like a machine, and its raised eyebrows drooped again.

"Once the work here is completed and the first L-Stargate is open, I will accompany you to leave Faya and go to the Espenes Star Region." Russell consoled him, "It's boring to stay in this corner all the time."

"Great!" Grey Wind suddenly became happy. After listening to Russell tell so many stories about the Human Empire, he had long wanted to see with his own eyes what this ancient regime spanning the galaxy looked like.

Gray Wind is looking forward to this.

Looking at its joyful little appearance, Russell hesitated whether he should tell Grey Wind that he left Faya in order to do other work... and that the Human Empire was actually not that good.

On the other hand, he felt that he should change his bad habit of using English to the extreme whenever it was useful.

After arranging the rest of the work, Grey Wind split off another small warship from the Grey Goo mothership and escorted the two passengers back to Faya.

One of them is Russell and the other is Bao.

Before leaving, Russell named this unnamed star system consisting of a pulsar and three planets:

"Critical Base"

"Marshal, what does critical base mean?"

"Literally, a base that descended into this world." Russell stood on the bow of the Gray Goo mothership, looking up at the complex and dazzling Milky Way in the distance.

This is the 39th millennium of darkness. The human empire still does not know what the Great Devourer is, and the Necrons are also in deep sleep, but Russell has already begun to prepare for the end.

In fact, the first conflict between humans and the Tyranids, known as the "First Tyrannic War", should have occurred in the middle and late 41st millennium, which is less than years from now.

Even the name "Tyranids" was given by the Empire at that time based on the planet Tyranids where the traces of the Great Devourer were first discovered. It does not exist now.

As far as Russell knew, the Martyrs led by Miraak vaguely called the Zerg fleets that emerged from the darkness "Alien Swarms", the same name as other Zerg aliens they had exterminated before.

And because there was no direct confrontation, in the absence of information they even linked the shielding effect of the shadow of the hive mind on the warp with the warp storm, inexplicably making the evil god take the blame for the Great Devourer.

Later it was suggested that this alien swarm may have mastered advanced technology for shielding subspace navigation and communications.

Highlight that there is no intelligence and everything is guesswork.

Perhaps, long before the Empire first discovered the Zerg on Terran, the tentacles of the Great Devourer had already extended to the Far Eastern frontier of the Human Empire, quietly devouring one unattended marginal world after another without anyone knowing.

For example, take Farah. Such a planet, whether dead or alive, will not attract any attention from the outside world.

Russell's thoughts were scattered. He had longer-term ideas for the Critical Base Galaxy. More than a thousand years was enough time to make any long-term plans and preparations.

Before the End Era arrives, he still has a lot to do...

Thinking of this, the battleship under Russell's feet started the jump engine, and then the bent space distorted the colorful galaxy in front of him.

When Russell left the Critical Base and returned to Faya, the combat nuns who had been responsible for protecting or monitoring him in the past few days were kneeling in the church to be punished.

The girls were stripped of their power armor and tops, and tied with bloodstained thorn chains. They knelt naked and shamefully before the statue of the Emperor, accepting the whipping from the nuns' court officers. Their already scarred backs were covered in bloodstains.

After the ritual flogging, there are many lynchings within the Battle Sisters. If nothing unexpected happens, these girls will probably end up becoming bare-chested Sisters of Penance, delivering both welfare and violence to the enemy on the battlefield.

"They were punished because they were caught sleeping outside the office before."