Warhammer 40 A New Hope
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If it weren't for the plot killing in the end, it is estimated that the Master Chief would have no ability and opportunity to defeat this Forerunner who had been sleeping for 100,000 years but was still powerful.
"If possible, we'd better find the Librarian's consciousness backup first and get the key from her. Then I should be able to open the door directly to the location where the True Missionary is imprisoned. In other words, we can save the step of looking for someone."
"Under our guidance, the UNSC is currently conducting limited exploration of Requiem. They have no idea what we want to do."
"It was the Master Chief and Cortana who accidentally opened the cage that held the True Didact. Now that possibility has disappeared, if nothing unexpected happens, we should have enough time to find a way to gain control of the Shield World."
"With this scale and this level of technology, I really don't believe that any random AI can control it, so..."
"I'm going to go big."
561. Khorne is fighting against Tzeentch
There is a gap between reality and known games, novels, etc. This has been repeatedly confirmed in previous explorations into other worlds.
Given the size of Requiem, as the base of the entire Forerunner Prometheus Legion, the Forerunner Shield World, and the cage of the True Missionaries, these points added together mean that the planet's defenses in all aspects will not be easily breached.
This is indeed the case. In the original plot, Cortana also showed on Requiem that she had no understanding of various emergencies and was helpless in the defense of the Requiem system many times. This is enough to prove the importance of Requiem and the strictness of its defense facilities.
From this point of view, even if Zhang Yi and his team used the strongest AI they could currently use, Xiao Wei from the Hope, and the recently recruited Neil doll to try to crack the control of Requiem, it would still take a huge amount of time. Moreover, if they accidentally captured the imprisoned True Missionary, the other party could make all their previous efforts go to waste with just a wave of his hand.
So Zhang Yi decided to take a big, destructive and dangerous option - use Tzeentch's power to quickly invade and control the entire Requiem.
It has been demonstrated before in the 2077 world that the Tzeentch mark on Zhang Yi's left arm has the ability to directly penetrate various electronic devices to achieve a situation similar to a hacker intrusion.
But before that, there was the residual consciousness of the four gods in the Four Gods Seal, which was at risk. Among them, Tzeentch was the most restless, and he was always looking for an opportunity to do something big.
And now, through a long period of hard work, Zhang Yi has made the Four Gods slightly more neutral and no longer so extreme, and his control over their power has also improved significantly (comparatively speaking).
As a subspace god who can influence at least half of the Milky Way, Tzeentch's power is undoubtedly strong. Even though Zhang Yi only has a seed in his hand now, he can still influence a mechanical existence the size of a celestial body with the help of the power of several other gods.
After weighing the pros and cons, Zhang Yi, under the watchful eyes of at least three Primarchs, came to a building on Requiem that had been occupied and controlled by the troops, where a large number of members of the Ecclesiarchy and the Mechanicus had been preparing for a long time.
"Although I know my father has agreed to your attempt, I still want to ask." Vulkan looked at Zhang Yi who was being blessed and purified by the members of the state religion and said, "Are you sure you want to do this?"
"Unless I chop off this hand right now with the possibility of my soul being damaged, I will have to face this problem sooner or later." Zhang Yi shrugged. "Also, what does Magrusli's enthusiastic performance mean? Are you expecting me to fail?"
"I am not, I am not, don't talk nonsense."
"You're just about to have 'Fail soon, and then I'll scold you along with me next time' written all over your face..."
"That's your illusion."
After some preparation and psychological construction, Zhang Yi took off the gloves symbolizing the first layer of seal under the gaze of the three primarchs, and a soft golden light emanated from Zhang Yi's left arm.
"Well... at least they didn't quarrel right away."
Then a Mechanicus shook the incense burner in his hand and presented a thick data cable.
"...I'm going to put such a thick thing directly on my hand?"
In response to Zhang Yi's question, the robot priest considerately recommended to him several data cables with different interfaces - it seems that now you have to plug them in to use it.
"MD... Don't the pioneers use Wi-Fi?"
Looking at the data cable with a sharp interface in his hand, Zhang Yi took a deep breath, and then inserted it directly into the mark representing Tzeentch.
"Hiss! Damn it!"
There was a stinging sensation, but no blood flowed out. Instead, a visible golden light flowed out of the connected computer along the data cable.
"For now, no problem." Zhang Yi responded while feeling the condition of his left arm. "It's still under control."
A large amount of data was flowing on the connected computer screen, fully demonstrating the power of a subspace god, but he soon encountered the first problem - the computing power of the hardware was insufficient.
First of all, Zhang Yi cannot and will not give up his brain. Not to mention Zhang Yi's physical condition, lending his brain to Tzeentch would be as stupid as Xiao Ma believing in Tzeentch and making a psychic call to his father.
Now, it is no longer possible to increase computing power with just his left arm. This situation would not occur in a place with a subspace (the omnipotent subspace), but Zhang Yi does not dare to play like this in a place with a subspace. He now needs to use other methods to continue.
The mark representing Nurgle lit up, and unlike the previous times when it had generated a hard stratum corneum or bone layer to defend against attacks, this time a large number of nerve clusters grew out of the left arm, followed by something like brain tissue.
The mark of Slaanesh lit up, a bright pink spot covering the still-proliferating brain tissue, and the invasion that had slowed down due to hardware problems accelerated again.
"Are you still you, brother?" Vulkan asked Zhang Yi.
"No problem so far, I'm still me." Zhang Yi replied. "I wouldn't have thought about the invasion, but judging from the fragments and what I have explored, there is no accident."
"The Children of the Stars and I (mainly the Children of the Stars) monitor the overall situation; Tzeentch completely reconstructs the underlying program and overwrites the original operating system; Nurgle generates a brain to provide hardware support; Slaanesh further increases the hardware load and computing power..."
"Khorne... he is fighting Tzeentch."
"So, your method really works?" Magnus asked. "No accidents?"
"Not yet." Zhang Yi gestured to the member of the state religion to give him a cushion, then sat down on the ground and answered. "After the complete invasion and reconstruction, it will not be so easy for the True Missionary to regain control. At that time, he will have to spend a lot of time and energy to restore the code program that he was familiar with."
"That 'blue soft-bodied creature' you mentioned didn't cause any damage?" Magnus asked with some hopelessness.
"...Do you want to hear the sound of Tzeentch being beaten by Khorne?"
At this moment, the invasion suddenly ended, and the computer screen of the Forerunner went out instantly. This sudden situation made everyone nervous.
Visible to the naked eye, the brain, which served as biological hardware, began to rot and wither, and soon nothing was left. Except for the mark of Tzeentch which was still glowing, the marks of the other evil gods fell silent.
"What happened?"
"I'm fine." Zhang Yi said. "This area was physically isolated and abandoned by Requiem, and the invasion was interrupted."
"So, we have to repeat this process one place at a time?" Sanguinius said.
"If we can find the main control center, then it won't be necessary, but the main control center of Requiem should be the True Missionary, so..."
"Please ask them to find a thinner data cable. It hurts to plug it in..."
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Over the next period of time, Zhang Yi and others began to run around the entire Requiem Star, finding different control hubs, and then letting Zhang Yi invade and control it.
Requiem's system obviously realized this, and a large number of Prometheus mechanical soldiers began to appear, and more defensive weapons were also activated.
This also made it increasingly difficult for Zhang Yi and his team to take action.
As the former rulers of this world's Milky Way, they drove their own creators, the Pioneers, out of the galaxy, and defeated the ancient humans' Forerunner creations. Even without a Forerunner commander to command them, these mechanical beings still showed quite good organization and tactical skills.
It can be said that this was one of the rare evenly matched and extremely difficult battles that the Human Empire had fought in such a long time. Groups of Prometheus mechanical soldiers tried to stop the Human Empire's troops at all costs, and large areas of fixed defense facilities blocked the Human Empire's attack with their powerful firepower and terrain advantages.
Unlike the incomplete ring world in the ring world, what the human empire needs to face is a fortress world with relatively complete defense measures, a large number of garrisons, and technological strength that is even stronger than that of an alien civilization.
In the air, a Thunderhawk gunship was almost vaporized by the attack of Requiem's heavy particle accelerator; on the ground, the mechanical soldiers of the Prometheus Legion, which were capable of short-distance phase transfer and had even stronger firepower, annihilated team after team of Astra Militarum.
A Prometheus Knight, armed with an incineration cannon, destroyed a Leman Rust tank. They once again blocked the attack of the Human Empire, and the charred bodies of the Astra Militarum were scattered all over the ground.
Just as they were reorganizing their defenses and preparing to face the next wave of enemies, a different Thunderhawk gunship appeared in the air, and the nearest Forerunner heavy particle accelerator opened fire immediately.
Just before being hit, the Thunderhawk gunboat suddenly dimmed, and the powerful beam of light submerged it without causing any damage to it.
As soon as the light beam dissipated, the heavy railgun on top of the Thunderhawk gunship began to glow, and accompanied by a flash of blue electric light, the spherical heavy particle accelerator cannon was destroyed.
Seeing this, the Prometheus mechanical soldiers on the ground did not just stand there and watch. They immediately launched an attack on the Thunderhawk gunship in the air, but all the attacks were blocked by its thick energy shield. The gunship then changed direction and aimed at the enemy on the ground, firing with heavy bombs on both sides and plasma cannons under the belly.
The fire suppression from the air forced the Prometheus mechanical soldiers on the ground to temporarily take shelter, and at this time, an entire [Blood Angel] assault team attacked from the Thunderhawk gunship.
The assault team's charge caught the Prometheus mechanical soldiers who were here off guard, but they still roared and drew out the light blades in their hands to fight back, and the rotating chainsaw swords collided with the light blades.
The Space Marines that had undergone eighteen transformation surgeries were equal in strength to the Prometheus Legion, one of the elite Forerunners. In close combat, neither side could immediately gain an advantage.
However, in terms of numbers, the Prometheus mechanical soldiers stationed here had an advantage, and soon they had the momentum to gradually suppress the [Blood Angel] assault team in front of them.
At this time, Sanguinius, holding a flaming power halberd, arrived at the battlefield on another Thunderhawk gunship.
Due to their size far exceeding that of normal Space Marines, Sanguinius was immediately attacked, but they did not know what consequences their actions would bring.
"By the Blood of Sanguinius!"
After a roar, the Blood Angel Space Marine, who was originally on par with the Prometheus Knight in front of him and was even somewhat suppressed, suddenly pressed the enemy in front of him, knocked the opponent back several steps with a heavy punch, and then inserted the high-speed rotating chainsaw sword in his hand into its head.
Buzz--!
The chainsaw sword rotated at high speed, bringing out a large amount of data flow. Within seconds, the Prometheus Knight in front of him was killed and turned into light fragments all over the sky.
"So why did you mess with him..." Zhang Yi muttered on the Thunderhawk gunship, watching the [Blood Angel] Space Marine who suddenly exploded and beat the enemy in front of him.
"What a sin..."
562. Necrons Enter the Game
A large number of missiles poured out from an Offensive-class cruiser (which was downgraded), covering the Prometheus Legion on the surface with absolute numbers and firepower, and then were shot down by the heavy firepower turrets on the ground.
But the goal had been achieved, as large numbers of Krieg Death Corps soldiers launched a charge before the bombing stopped.
The Krieg cavalry riding on the meat-eating Krieg warhorses appeared first. Despite sporadic attacks, they rushed towards the Prometheus mechanical soldiers in front of them without slowing down.
Such a primitive way of fighting made the battle-hardened Prometheus mechanical soldiers stunned for a moment. For a moment, they didn't know whether to avoid the cavalry's cluster charge or stand still and continue shooting.
When the first Prometheus Knight was blown into a pile of light by the Krieg cavalry armed with melta spears, they realized that these enemies who seemed to use primitive fighting methods should not be underestimated.
But it was already a little too late. The Prometheus mechanical soldiers at the front had been overwhelmed by the charging Krieg cavalry, and this cavalry unit was still advancing.
The Prometheus mechanical warriors stationed here were at a disadvantage in the charge against the machine-like Krieg Death Corps, even though the enemy's heavy firepower had not yet entered the battlefield.
The Emperor's Poison Blade Super Heavy Tank, equipped with multiple layers of energy shields, slowly entered the scene. The sound of heavy machine guns opening fire rang out. A remaining fixed turret was turning, but the next moment it was destroyed by a single shot from the Poison Blade's main gun. The behemoth continued to advance.
After several hours of fighting, the Forerunner facility here was captured and occupied by a Krieg Death Korps without the support of Space Marines. After the message was sent, a Mechanicus Skitarii arrived shortly afterwards and began to try to enter the facility.
On the other side...
"Um...how long will it take..."
Zhang Yi, who was invading and controlling a part of Anquiem Star on a daily basis, sat on the ground bored, waiting for the invasion to be completed.
Then as expected, after the invasion reached a certain level, the entire Requiem system in this area was once again physically disconnected.
"Damn, it's been so long and it's not even 10% of the total." Zhang Yi complained. "When will this be..."
"At the current speed, it may take several years." Zero said, looking at the light screen in front of him. "If we also consider the increasing number of Prometheus Legion soldiers awakening and the large number of Requiem defense facilities that have not been activated, it may take even longer."
"If the true missionary you mentioned wakes up because of this, the situation will be even worse and will take more time."
"I do know where that guy is, but most of the Prometheus Legion is out of our control right now. If we go over there, we'll probably get beaten up."
"According to you, after the Librarian imprisoned the True Preacher, he tampered with the programs of the Prometheus Legion soldiers, allowing them to protect him while preventing anyone from waking him up."
"Yes, so our invasion will definitely bring a group of Prometheus mechanical soldiers to his side, and then they will most likely be controlled by him after he wakes up."
"How about using your [Mirror Space] to isolate him?"
"You've seen the situation on Requiem. It's not like the pioneers of space technology haven't been involved. I don't think my current mastery of the spell Mirror Space can completely isolate him for a long time."
"What if we physically isolate him further?"
As Ling spoke, he waved his hand and a virtual topographic map of Requiem appeared in front of everyone.
"The reconnaissance and battles during this period have allowed us to basically determine where the True Missionary is imprisoned. We can try to shut down all the systems in the nearest areas to prevent him from getting support quickly after waking up. Then, with your [Mirror Space] spell, we should be able to create a long period of time where he is alone."
"That's what I said, but..."
Zhang Yi also walked to the virtual topographic map at this time, stretched out his finger and swiped upwards, and the entire terrain began to shrink until it showed the area currently occupied by Zhang Yi. These areas were still a long distance away from the target area.
"If we want to do what you said, we need to break through a long section of the enemy's defense line before we can implement this plan." Zhang Yi crossed his arms and said, "Now the Prometheus Legion has begun to wake up on a large scale, which is not easy."
"But there is a solution." Zhang Yi said, touching his chin. "It's time to call out our old friend."
. . . . . .
Requiem
As was the case with Ring 04, UNSC forces were restricted to one area for research and stationing, and were not allowed to explore other areas occupied by the Human Empire.
Of course, they can also explore the unoccupied areas, but they have to deal with the enemies themselves. Now, because of the attack of the Human Empire, the guards of the entire Requiem have been mobilized. This is like attracting a horde of zombies in a zombie game, which has a huge impact on the UNSC's independent exploration.
You know, there are not many UNSC fleets that have reached Requiem, and they do not have the strength of the Human Empire to confront the Forerunner's Prometheus Legion on a large scale.
More importantly, the Human Empire knows more about this Forerunner creation. They know what is important, what they need to do, and what they need to seize, while the UNSC is still in the aimless exploration stage.
Therefore, after a period of discussion, the UNSC forces on Requiem decided to "appropriately" help the human empire and thereby obtain more intelligence.
Spartan Blue Team led by the Master Chief and a small UNSC Marine unit entered the Imperial controlled zone and offered to support them.
"Unexpectedly, so fast?" The Chief looked at the regional support mission assigned to them, a little confused. "It's like they knew exactly what we would do."
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