The Void Shield at the Zelas station is extinguished.

The black oilers found that the light shield above their heads slammed away, followed by golden pillars of light, connecting the dark void and the surrounding street buildings, the light of the blinding mechanical prosthetic eye illuminated everything around them, and the roads and houses melted in the light.

The light spear was followed by a macro cannon shell.

Explosions, tears, fragments, impacts......

The entire space city was like a moldy onion, peeling off layer by layer, revealing a rotten and corrupt black core, and the shell of the Jelas station was reduced to scattered fragments in the void, glittering in the light of the stars.

No matter how strong the Zhikong Legion is, it can't withstand the naval guns.

This casting world eventually became history.

Even if it is rebuilt one day.

It will also be difficult to regain the technology and production capacity that once existed.

The forge and crucible caused a chain explosion that set the laboratory, the production line, and the foundry on fire, and in such a devastating explosion that no one would notice that a small piece was missing from the black core of the moldy onion.

……

The Mechanicus ship is salvaging the wreckage of the city.

Several Astarte warbands are celebrating their victory.

After a short and simple celebration feast, the whole team will return to the world of Atal Median's foundry.

Fu Qinghai declined the banquet invitations of several battle group leaders, hurriedly took the Thunder Eagle gunboat, came to the boarding deck of an imperial transport ship, and immediately found the Iron Floating Slaughter Terminator who was standing here on standby, and asked:

"Where's Jostar?"

"In the transport compartment, Khan."

"Take me there."

"Okay."

……

In the huge cabin of the Imperial transport.

Fu Qinghai found Qiao Shida.

"How's it going, old Joe?"

The commander of the first company turned around, raised his hand and pointed to the huge "mechanical building" next to him, which was about the height and size of a dozen containers stacked together, and said:

"That's it, Khan."

"What is the STC?"

Fu Qinghai looked up at the trophy and asked casually. Although he didn't expect Josda to know.

Unexpectedly, Qiao Shida said:

"Vulture-type intelligent control soldiers."

"Oh? How do you know? ”

Fu Qinghai's eyes lit up.

"All the technical sergeants of the regiment were involved in the dismantling and transportation of the STC, and here is only a small part, and there are some components and structures in another transport ship."

Josda explains:

"When we invaded this foundry, they were still producing a steady stream of intelligent control soldiers, which were the kind of intelligent control soldiers like mechanical flies. There were actually other STCs in the entire foundry, but either they were heavily guarded and my tactical team couldn't attack them, or they were too close to the battleship bombing position, and we didn't get close for fear of accidentally hurting us. So in the end, I had to pack and take this STC away. ”

Of course, there is another reason that Qiao Shida did not say: he found that the commander of the war group was particularly interested in this intelligent control machine, and when he could not take all the STCs, he gave priority to the STC that produced "large mechanical flies".

"Good, good."

Fu Qinghai nodded with satisfaction.

It's just amazing!

Jostar's choice was very correct.

The STC of the Vulture Intelligent Control Soldier is the best harvest, and the other STCs are not necessarily the STCs that the Mechanicus Cult and the Human Empire do not have. For example, the STC of the Riemann Ruth tank, which is found in many casting worlds, and the STC of laser guns and blasters, which are found in many industrial worlds, cannot be considered rare, let alone unique.

But the Vulture is a smart controller.

Except for the Dark Mechanics Cult Casting World in the Eye of Fear, which still has reservations, and it is very likely to be a poisonous furnace occupied by Nurgle, all other loyal casting worlds are unable to produce this special model of intelligent control mech.

It is too early to form an intelligent control corps, after all, it is impossible for an intelligent control corps to have only one intelligent control machine.

But with this STC, the Phaeton Casting World will be able to produce intelligent control machines and achieve a breakthrough from scratch.

Blackstone Fortress has spindle bees.

The Nurgle Demon Army has a plague bee.

The Titanium Empire has more than twenty different types of bees.

We Space Marines must have that too!

And the intelligent control machine is not the same as the Titan, in the past history, there has never been a precedent for a Space Soldier to drive a Titan, all Titan piloting crews belong to the Titan Order, but there is a precedent for the deployment of intelligent control soldiers in Space Marine equipment, and it is a very special example.

During the Battle of Farr, a group of Imperial Fists successfully jumped to help Iron Warriors' legion flagship, the Iron Blood, and almost injured Perturabo, which caused Perturabo to be very angry, he felt that his original body guards were a group of useless waste, he disbanded the original original body guards, and then personally created an intelligent control machine as the original body guards.

It is the famous "Iron Ring Soldier".

In other legions, the original body guards are all composed of the most beloved and trusted heirs of the gene protogens, and the use of intelligent control soldiers instead of space marines to act as the original body guards is something that only Boss Pi can do.

After all, the intelligent control machine soldiers are not Titans, and even if the Iron Floating Slaughter War Group is openly equipped with the Vulture-type intelligent control machine soldiers, it will not cause much criticism. Maybe the other warbands will think this group is a little strange - we have to be careful to buy a Thunderhawk gunboat, and you still have spare money to go to the Mechanics to buy intelligent control soldiers, there is too much money to spend?

"Yes, I've earned it this time."

The head of the battle group Xi Zizi concluded.

Aoyama Khan didn't care who broke through the enemy's defenses first, who killed the most enemies, and who killed the enemy's leader in this battle, the tangible benefits he wanted had already been obtained from this STC.

Although, the first to break through the enemy's defenses was the Iron Float Slaughter Clan, and the one who killed the most enemies was also the Iron Float Slaughter Clan, if it weren't for the casting core of the Jelas Space Station being submerged in the ship's cannon fire, otherwise, according to the combat effectiveness of the Iron Float, the first to kill the enemy leader, with a high probability, was still the Iron Float Slaughter Clan.

But Fu Qinghai really didn't care.

It's all in vain.

……

Suzheng, Captain's Office.

The attendant Lin Yu was taking notes.

Post-battle summary of the Battle of the Djelas Space Station:

Number of casualties in the warband: nine.

Details: One Iron Float Terminator (infiltration operation), five Space Marines (fighting against the Intelligence Control Legion), and three mortal crew members (space naval battles).

Breakdown of seized materials:

The STC of the Vulture-type intelligent control machine.

Heretical book "Rituals and Psalms".

There are a number of unknown Dark Mechanic creations.

……

There are a number of unknown Dark Mechanic creations.

In an empty cabin, Fu Qinghai looked at the pile of strange mechanical creations in front of him, although it had been confirmed that there was no spiritual aura left, but for the sake of prudence, the battle group still set aside a cabin for these items.

"Go and ask Sid Nora to come over."

Fu Qinghai commanded.

"Okay, Khan."

The men took the order and left.

Soon, a middle-aged female inquisitor with a cloak and a hood over her power armor came to this cabin.

"Khan."

Sid Nora said hello:

"Congratulations on a great victory."

Fu Qinghai bowed slightly, pointing to the mechanical objects on the table, a breastplate-like object, a long cone-shaped rod, an intricate crystal device, and the thick book "Rituals and Chants" with a leather cover.

"This is our capture in this battle. You're a veteran demonic expert of the Order of the Hammer, so I'd like to ask you to identify these things, Lady Sid Nora. ”

Fu Qinghai said politely.

Sid Nora raised an eyebrow when he heard this.

These things are obviously the heretical technological creations of the Dark Mechanic Cult, and sure enough, as the rumors say, several Astarte warbands didn't take the Mechanicus Cult seriously at all?

Sid Nora, as the Grand Inquisitor of the Order of the Holy Hammer, is actually no lower than the Marshal of the Imperial Guard and the Dominating Sage, and is also one of the three high-ranking figures in the Steel Belt War Zone, but it is neither her task nor her specialty to direct operations, her main mission is to investigate the suspected psionic events in the Iron Calamity campaign.

After the battle at the Derath station, she also heard rumors that the Cult of the Mechanica's envoy, Basaro Mu, had some disagreements with several Astarte warbands, and the two sides had a very unpleasant quarrel.

But she didn't expect that when she heard this rumor, she turned her head and saw a bunch of heretical technological creations in the battleship cabin of the Iron Floating Massacre Wargroup—they had no intention of handing them over to the Mechanicus Cult at all.

Having said that, the conflict between the Space Marines and the Cult of the Mechanical God is none of her business, and as a radical inquisitor, Sid Nora naturally couldn't hold back this curiosity, so she first picked up the leather book, opened the cover and started reading.

As soon as Sid Nora opened the leather cover, Fu Qinghai stared closely at her movements, and found that neither she nor the book had any abnormalities, so he quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

In the Warhammer 40K universe, books are a dangerous thing, especially if they were obtained in the hands of the Black Oil Guys, and Tzeentch demons love to use the knowledge in books to spread the beliefs of Chaos. Perhaps it was because Sid Nora was a great inquisitor with unfathomable spiritual attainments that he dared to look through this book so directly, but Fu Qinghai didn't dare.

seemed to sense Fu Qinghai's vigilance.

Sid Nora looked up and smiled:

"There's nothing in this book, I'm pretty sure, it's just an ordinary parchment book, but the cover is tanned in multiple layers of human skin, and that's it."

"Yes, ma'am, please continue."

Fu Qinghai nodded and raised his hand.

Sid Nora flipped through the book as she turned her head to look at the pile of mechanical artifacts on the table.

Half an hour later.

"I see."

Sid Nora closed the book and said in a deep voice.

"So what are these?"

Fu Qinghai then asked.

"This book of Rituals and Chants gives a detailed introduction to this group of dark heretical technologists, who call themselves the 'Vortex Technicians' sect, and the forbidden technological creations they have created through uncontrolled research in the subspace."

Sid Nora explains:

"In particular, it details how the divination instrument was used through a complex and evil sacrificial ritual, and the picture painted by the device was used to indicate the direction of the future."

Sid Noe stretched his finger towards an object:

"This is the umbra, and in the Rites and Chants, it is recorded that the commoners of some sectors believe in the existence of ghosts, believing that they have been haunting the dead place, bound by revenge and unfulfilled wishes, although the vast majority of technocrats scoff at this claim. However, after research, the vortex technician discovered that ghosts are real and can still have some influence on the physical world, and the umbra speculum was born. ”

The umbra is a complex crystalline device, with layers of circuits arranged outwards like petals, and although it is the size of a single hand, it weighs much more than it looks.

"According to Protes, the umbra speculum is very power-intensive, and when the device is turned on, with the click of energy, the crazy illusion formed by the psionic particles and the soul of the deceased in human form will be revealed, and a vortex technician with a normal mind usually uses this instrument with the help of servant slaves or subspace compartments, and tries to avoid direct contact."

"The souls that emerge from the umbra speculum are not what they were, they are just empty shells of the soul, filling their inner body with the ripples and malice of subspace, screaming at the other side of the mirror, creating illusions, or trying to occupy the living."

Sid Nora retells the book.

Fu Qinghai only heard one key message:

With the help of a umbra, anyone can see ghosts.

It's a pretty useful device.

In terms of the reincarnation world, usually only people with spiritual qualities, the so-called yin and yang eyes, can see ghosts, for example, Zhang Yuning is a spiritual nature, and she can naturally see ghosts. But this kind of physique is too rare after all, and for the technical priest, is it possible that the yin and yang eye oil guy is qualified to study ghosts? Definitely not. In addition, many technocrats did not have the naked eye at all, and they wanted to study this phenomenon, so they made umbra speculums.

The supernatural nature of science belongs to yes.

Fu Qinghai noticed that an unfamiliar term appeared in Sid Nora's retelling.

"Subspace compartment, what's that?"

"This is it."

Sid Nora pointed to the "breastplate".

"The subspace compartment is essentially a combination of the Zero Point Launcher and the Ponderor system, which is used to inlay the armor for isolation and protection. The technological heretics who initially descended into chaos did not begin with the deception, and they understood the importance of protecting themselves from the corruption of the subspace. ”

"After a long process of ritual and forging, a circular circuit was created that could be used to isolate the subspace energy, and a special machine soul slept in it, and when it sensed the subspace energy, it would wake up and emit purple smoke to expel the subspace energy. The Hammer Order has also noticed that the Cult of the Dark Mechanics has given subspace isolation technology as a reward to the Chaos Space Marines, who in turn have given them various dark technology relics in return as a common exchange between the forces of Chaos. ”

Sid Nora reveals the secret.

(PS: "Zero Point Emitter", "Zero Point Force Field"...... The energy of a particle vibrating at absolute zero is the zero-point energy, a physical term that GW writers have used widely in various descriptions to render a sci-fi feel, but they don't know what it means. ）

Fu Qinghai understood.

It's not that if you take refuge in the four gods and embrace Chaos, you won't be harmed by Chaos, but the Cult of Dark Mechanics and the Chaos Space Marines will be harmed by the fickle subspace. Moreover, many traitors hate the Empire but also don't like Chaos, such as the Midnight Lords. For a long time, in the Eye of Fear, the largest subspace rift in the entire universe, where the immaterial universe and the material universe meet, they need some way to stop the erosion of chaos.

On the one hand, the black oil guy wants to study the mysteries of subspace, but on the other hand, he doesn't want to be harmed by subspace. The subspace compartment, under this demand, came into being.

There's something about this group of Vortex Technicians!

Fu Qinghai commented in his heart.

"So the last stick ......"

Fu Qinghai pointed to the stick and asked:

"What is it?"

"According to the book, the device is called the 'Treacherous Matrix', which is a torture instrument, the brain neuroscience instrument of the Cult of the Mechanical God, and was born by combining it with subspace energy pollution, creating a subspace energy whip that directly whips the mind of the tortured person, which can root the psionic toxin in the former faith, and then burn the pious memories through pain, until the foundation of a person's faith and spiritual pillar are completely destroyed."

Fu Qinghai suddenly remembered.

Karamanda had said that underneath that room were the bodies of eight loyalist technocrats, who had died in "horrific condition" and were suspected of being "tortured", and that Protes, who claimed to be a "master interrogator", had relied on this thing.

This can be given to Karamanda.

This torture instrument that directly acts on the mind can be used as a special torture tool for fanatical believers and technical priests, and it is difficult for traditional interrogation methods to pry open the mouths of the oily guys, because they no longer have many flesh and blood bodies and painful nerves left on their bodies, and at the same time, for those cult members, there are already many self-harm and self-masochistic behaviors in their religious rituals, and it is difficult for ordinary pain stimuli to make them submit.

The black oil guy knows a lot about interrogation.

Fu Qinghai once again gave a high evaluation.

Space marines have also invented some special torture tools, such as the "Pain Gauntlet" also known as the "Nerve Glove", the invention of the Imperial Fist, but they are not used to abuse people but to abuse themselves, which is related to the special legion culture of the Emperor Fist.

The Pain Gloves are called gloves, but they are actually thin garments made of electrical fiber nets that cover the entire body except the head. It stimulates the nerves and causes the most extreme pain without causing harm to the body. The device also inhibits the reflex nerves that cause fainting to ensure that the user remains awake throughout the procedure.

In addition to the masochistic demons of the Imperial Fist, the Dark Angels' interrogation priests also have a lot of strange special torture tools that are used to induce the fallen angels to "sincerely repent" and ensure that the warband is "forever loyal" and "has no secrets".

"Aoyama Khan ......"

Figuring out what these things do, the judge looked up at Fu Qinghai, considered the words and said:

"These things, all of which are extremely dark and heretical forbidden technological creations, should be handed over to the Inquisition for safekeeping, according to the regulations......

Fu Qinghai was expressionless and noncommittal.

Just whispered:

"This is the trophy of the Iron Float Slaughter Band."

"But ......"

Sid Nora was about to say something more.

But he suddenly realized that there were three Space Marines standing quietly behind him.

Sid Nora had observed the heraldic specifications on the shoulders of the Iron Slaughter, with the company number and band logo for ordinary Space Marines and the positive spiral and geared skulls for Apothecary and Technical Sergeants. These three Space Marines, on the other hand, have their own coats of arms, which are the golden crow, the bat and the hydra.

The most important thing is.

Sid Nora felt it clearly.

All three of them are psykers.

"So ......"

Sid Nora shook her head and smiled bitterly:

"If I insist on taking these heretical technological creations away, I won't be able to leave this room, will I?"

Fu Qinghai smiled and didn't say anything.

Rather, the answer is not what is asked:

"Your Excellency Archinquisitor Sid Nora, I find it quite a pleasure to work together so far."

Sid Nora could hear the implicit threat in his soft tone, he didn't even care about the Cult of the Mechanics, and it wouldn't be difficult to kill me as an Inquisitor.

Sid Nora nodded and said:

"Qingshan, it's okay for me to call you that, right? It's better to take a step back like this, I'll take the divination instrument, that thing is too dangerous, I don't worry about being out, all the other heretical technological creations belong to the Iron Floating Slaughter Battle Regiment, how about it? Neither you nor I will disclose this to the public. ”

Tsk, worthy of a radical judge.

Fu Qinghai sighed in his heart.

Sid Nora is more radical than he could have imagined.

She wouldn't want to ask a soothsayer through a sacrificial ritual and find the Chaos traitors within the Empire, would she?

"Yes."

Fu Qinghai nodded and said seriously:

"But I have to warn you, the guy who invented the divination device told me that if I destroyed this device, it would create a subspace rift, I don't know if what he said is true or not, whatever you want to study this thing, don't study it near my warship, understand?"

"I see."

Sid Nora nodded.

After saying that, he took out a black cloth and covered the divination instrument completely, then picked up the device and walked out, the hatch slid open, and the three Space Marines turned to make way and watched the female inquisitor leave the cabin.

"Ms. Sid Nora."

Fu Qinghai looked at her back and said loudly:

"Poisonous trees do not produce good fruits. If you were to use evil and blasphemous sacrificial means to find the answer to your question, are you sure that answer would be what you wanted? ”

Sid Nora stopped.

Without looking back, he said in a deep voice:

"I'm the Demon Inquisitor of the Demon Inquisition, and I know better than you where the Fall came from, Aoyama."

Then he walked away without looking back.

I hope so.

Fu Qinghai thought to himself.

I hope you really know.

After all, aliens are born in the alien court, heretics are born in the heretical court, and there are demons in the demon court, and sometimes......

Not a joke.

…………

(End of chapter)