Shortly after Russell and Colonia departed, the research ship and frigate, assembled by Grey Wind, completed the first round of system self-inspection, swam out of Embra's orbital dock, and docked in the starport above Falla.

As a theorist who spends his days at home doing research, the head of research feels that it will take a lot of time to become familiar with the operating systems of these ships, and it will not be easy to get used to getting used to getting along with the hive biological engines.

Although the Order of Truth is open to the use and absorption of alien technology, and is not resistant to using brainwashing methods and bio-modification surgery to enslave the spirits, they still have some psychological obstacles when they put a live alien bug on a battleship to use it as a wet engine.

After all, after years of strife and the Havoc of the Long Night, hatred of Xenomorphs has been carved into the collective subconscious of all humans in this universe.

Even the pragmatist monks of truth must have taken a long time to get rid of such inertia of thinking.

But how long is that time? Half? A year? Or more than ten years?

…… The answer is not an hour.

When all the preachers and accompanying combat and logistical personnel had boarded the ship and were fully equipped, the expedition fleet quickly sailed away from Fallas in a neat formation, through the rubble belt, and through the outermost ring of the galaxy until it left the area of influence of the gravity well of Falla.

- The warp engine isn't just extragalactic, it's just that Falla is too prosperous these days. The system is full of merchant ships and mechanical order ships, and the routes of various spacecraft are very dense, in order not to cause traffic safety hazards, the research fleet needs to start warp outside the Fallas system.

In the ship's core cabin, under the nervous gaze of the preachers, a powerful electric current is pumped out of the central nervous system of the brain worm and is released all the way to the cerebral cortex, and countless neurons are stimulated by powerful bioelectricity to enter an overclocking state.

The bio engine, starting to start,

In an instant, the starlight around the hull of the ship was quickly crushed and twisted, like a ball of alkaline noodles being kneaded and flattened by the chef's powerful palm.

Eventually, the curved curvature of space encircled the silver-white hull, forming a layer of starlight-ting, thick-laced film, which packed the entire ship into a "cavitation".

At this point, there is no need to start any thrusters and maintain the power of the reactor; Just as a sailboat riding the wind no longer needs to paddle, a sailfish research ship that enters the curvature bubble does not have to do anything superfluous, just glide forward with the curvature, and it can naturally exceed the speed of light.

So the preachers looked at the hideous and terrifying grotesque brain worm in front of them, and their eyes were suddenly full of kindness.

The same change of attitude took place in every research ship, with endless starlight rushing through the portholes, and the previous rejection and revulsion were far away along with the astronomical distance.

A young preacher looked at the brain worm with a flash of electricity in his head and couldn't help asking, "Do you want to eat something with such a vigorous brain activity that consumes a lot of energy?" ”

The brain worm blinked its symmetrically arranged six eyes, and was stunned for a moment before understanding what the other party meant.

"If you can, give it some high-purity glucose solution."

A calm voice suddenly came from behind, and the young preacher turned to see that it was a man in a pure white research coat, with gray sideburns and an old appearance.

Head of Scientific Research at the Falla Research Base.

He was followed by two "sarcastic banshees" dressed in full lobby mechs and armed with argument spears, and important figures like the Head of Research would always have enough guards even in the Order's own warships.

"If my memory is correct, you should call it 'Alphonse'?" The head of research said with a smile.

The young preacher whom he called Alphonse hurriedly bowed slightly, nodded and said, "That's right, Director, it's me." ”

"Looks like my nerves aren't too bad......" The Head of Research was amused, and then he turned around and took a sealed glass tube containing a clear solution from a sarcastic banshee following behind him.

Using the spirit bone blade in the banshee's hand to cut the glass tube open, the scientific director reached forward and poured the clear solution inside into the mouthparts of the brain worm that could not wait to open.

"Although the energy provided by a tube of solution is very insignificant for the huge consumption of warp sailing, the brain worm likes to ingest glucose solution and feeds some from time to time, and it will be very happy." The Head of Research said, placing the empty glass tube back in the box.

"I see." Alphonse nodded yes, but he was still a little curious, it was the first time he had come into contact with the bio engine, why did the scientific director know the preferences of the brain worm so precisely? Hasn't he been staying at the base and concentrating on academics......

Alphonse had the vigor that a young man should have, and he didn't hold back his doubts in his heart, and asked directly.

In response, the head of research had the sarcastic banshee behind him remove the mask with its wings engraved on her face, revealing a handsome female face and a pair of eyes that glowed with a light purple glow.

It's the same as the psionic glow in the eyes of the brain worm.

"The Aydari once had a unified spiritual field that connected all individuals in the clan, but due to the collapse of the Elder Spirit Empire, they lost that connection for a time - until now."

The head of research patiently explained to him:

"After psychic training and body modification surgery, the banshees have rebuilt their spiritual connection with each other through the Gestalt will of the life-shaper, who is controlled by the powerful psionic power of our leader. While using the hive spirit network to resist the influence of the subspace, they can also directly know the hearts of other banshees and insect swarms, including the dietary preferences of brain worms. ”

"I see......" Alphonse couldn't help but fall into deep thought as he looked at the tall and graceful Spirit Banshee, and then at the terrifying and grotesque, which could be called an ugly brain worm.

The fact that these two very different species have a close connection at the soul level makes him feel a strange feeling that lingers in his heart.

Looking at Alphonse's serious and thoughtful expression, the scientific director smiled unconsciously. He has always admired young people who dare to learn.

The young preacher named Alphonse was not a native of Falla, did not even have a home planet, and was a "child of the void."

Children of the Void are children born on space ships.

Alphonse's family had lived and thrived on the battleship Flame of Confession for generations, and the long millennia and frequent hybridization had long since made them forget their home planet, and for the Children of the Void, the ship they lived on was their home planet.

Even among the Children of the Void, Alphonse is a very different being - he is a natural psyker, and a very powerful and uncontrolled psyker.

Alphons, who was used as a psychic theory research consumable, had only been born for a short time and had not yet reached the full moon, but his powerful psionic energy had already made the old think tanks of the Confessional Fire Wargroup almost unable to suppress it.

If it weren't for the fact that the Truth Cult was conducting research on absorbing and storing spiritual energy at the time, and constantly draining the powerful spiritual energy he unconsciously emitted in many experiments, the baby who was just a month old would probably have burned out his brain. Overly powerful psionic energy had plagued Alphonse as he grew up until a few years earlier.

After the integrated prosthetic transformation, the huge computing power and strong subspace resistance endowed by the quantum neural connection allowed him to truly master his psionic talent.

However, like Russell, he has powerful psionic powers, but he has not learned a few spells and does not know how to use his power to the fullest.

"The Star Bulleter is the most powerful psionic I have ever seen, and has unfathomable insight and vast knowledge, if I could ask the leader to teach Alphonse how to practice psionic powers...... That couldn't be better. ”

The head of scientific research muttered to himself, secretly thinking about how to convince the bullet star, so that Russell, who did not understand advanced psionic spells at all, would teach Alphonse, a psyker who was created by himself and can be called the chosen one.

- Powered by a warp engine, it took 12 Terra days for the expedition fleet to arrive at the Flare System where the Black Pyramid Group is located.

The fallout in space has not yet cleared, and the ship's energy shield still needs to be turned on.

During their time there, Lystia negotiated with the Inquisition many times, and even used Alexei's authority to temporarily suppress the Inquisitor's desire to break into the pyramid in search of the missing Flame of Confession and the exclusivity Inquisitor Blood Lion, so that the building was preserved.

According to the style of the Human Empire, most of the inquisitors will blow up these pyramids after entering.

The armed expedition team consisting of 21 Sailfish research ships, 63 Swordfish frigates, and a number of logistics transport ships immediately joined the self-repairing Ark of Bliss and the Oracle of Truth after entering the Flare Galaxy, exchanging information obtained during this time:

"Before you arrived, I organized several teams to do some cautious preliminary exploration of the outer parts of the pyramid group, and by the way, I also recovered the corpses of several Space Marines - warriors with Flame of Repentance, and some unknown Astartes whose genetic coding information is so old that even the data records are blurred."

As she spoke, Listia sent a short expedition report to all 21 research vessels:

"As you can see, the various infrastructures inside the pyramid are mostly intact, and the few pieces of equipment that were damaged are also caused by the recent battles here, and the warriors of the Flame of Repentance are engaged with some enemy, and I venture to speculate that their firefights may be against the mysterious Astartes with ancient genetic codes."

"Also, some of the few small buildings we have explored on the periphery, some of which are suspected to be arsenals, some of which are hangars for ships, and the team encountered some bionic automata similar to snakes and spiders during their exploration, which should be part of the automatic maintenance and defense system of these buildings. In order not to cause a larger ripple effect, we did not explore any further. ”

"But it is worth mentioning that although the automatic maintenance machinery is still there, whether it is the arsenal, the dock, or the hangar, it is empty, and there are no weapons or equipment or spacecraft left, which we infer based on the recent operation of the infrastructure......"

"This complex is not much of a relic because their owners are still alive and left just a few years ago, taking all their weapons and spacecraft with them, leaving only a handful of ships to guard the base camp - the two Scythe-type battleships that attacked us earlier."

Although she hadn't found any traces of living sapient beings in the wreckage after destroying the Dead Scythe battleship, there were a considerable number of mechanical skeleton remains.

"Those mechanical skeletons are the masters of this pyramid group." At the behest of the Head of Research, Alphonse sent this message to the Ark of Elysium and the Oracle of Truth.

"Huh? The bloodthirsty sick robots? Aren't they war machines made by the owners of the pyramids? Listia's voice looked surprised.

In a hurry to do other things, Russell only briefly introduced some basic information about the space necrons to the Monk of Truth on Fallas, and did not communicate with the Ark of Elysium.

The monks on Fallas were busy preparing to gather personnel to count supplies and equipment for a warp voyage, and did not contact the Ark of Bliss to exchange information, thinking that the far-sighted leader had already told Listia and them.

It was only now that Listia really knew whose grave she was digging.

While exchanging information internally, the research fleet quickly set off for the carbonized crystalline planet that was closely monitored by the Inquisition.

While the Mechanics' fleet was still in the subspace and had not arrived, they were ready to launch a full-scale investigation as soon as possible.

After a short time, after authenticating and showing the inquisitors the authorization document signed by the Fallan Senate, the mighty scientific expedition fleet hovered above the pyramids.

The Swordfish frigate's weapon system was always on alert, and the Sailfish research ship also maintained the full power of the two sensors, tachyon and psion, and the hatches of each ship opened, dropping the first wave of landing troops to the surface of the ruins.

These scouts who went to the forefront of the danger were all heavily armed spirit banshees, and they needed to complete basic surveys on the ground and set up teleportation beacons in suitable locations so that follow-up personnel could quickly teleport between the battleship and the ground.

That's what the preachers brought them to do.

These female spirits who have had their ovaries and uterus removed and brainwashed and trained by Colonia have been divided into multiple classes by the Order of Truth, such as:

the "greed" of assembling weapons of mass destruction and being responsible for fire suppression;

Equipped with extreme power hot melt weapons and armor-piercing weapons, the "rage" of meltdown operations against high-defense targets;

Also, equipped with a variety of cold weapons such as argument spears, specializing in melee combat and stealth assassination.

The perfect physical fitness and excellent psionic potential of the Spirit Race were developed to the extreme by them, and they used them to support themselves in this mission that could be called death.

The main fleet of space necromancers, who have not been here for a long time, don't know when they will return, and when the time comes, they will have to let the banshees jump to help the living metal battleship.

For humans, the life of the spirit race has never been a life, and when the consumables are used, it will be over.

(End of chapter)