Chapter 266: Open Your Eyes

40, within the miniature Milky Way, the Xihe Galaxy.

Grey Wind prepares for commissioning of the Sentinel antenna.

The delivery date for the completion of the Juggernaut is expected to be in 020, but the construction of the Sentinel Array, which started later, has been progressing faster than the Juggernaut that carries the stargate.

The structure of the Sentinel Array is not too complicated and is mainly divided into three parts

The Sentinel Antenna is the core of the entire Sentinel Array, large enough to extend the listening range to the entire galaxy

The oscillating fin, an extremely delicate structure similar to the gills of a fish, can separate the faintest useful signal from the ubiquitous cosmic background radiation interference

The data processing center is responsible for screening, separating, and decoding the required information from the massive data monitored by the sentinel antenna

The oscillating fins have not yet been installed, and the data processing center is not yet in place, except for a sentry antenna of the Commander of the Light Pole standing alone in the orbit of a dead planet in the Xihe Galaxy, and Grey Wind is debugging its power.

After all, the Xihe galaxy is inside the miniature galaxy, and although there is a stargate to communicate inside and outside, it is still unknown whether the sentinel antenna can detect the information of the outer large universe inside the small universe, which has been extended from the physical category to the metaphysical realm.

Every plan proposed by Russell patted his head had to be implemented by the woman standing behind him. Grey Wind felt like she was about to become a mother.

"Okay, the main antenna has been successfully put into orbit, the power commissioning is complete, and the energy is ready to be pumped..."

Stabilizing the Sentinel antenna, the Gray Gu Mothership dispersed and disintegrated over the dead planet, connected the antenna to itself, and used the sensors in its own hull to temporarily make a cameo oscillating fin, Gestalt Consciousness assumed the work of the data processing center. Experimenting with antennas in this way to verify the feasibility of building sentinels inside the miniature galaxy is a unique advantage of nanomachine clusters.

It's just that considering that the sentinel array's listening range is the entire galaxy, the risk of data processing centers being contaminated by harmful information will also be present in Gray Wind now, and it is necessary to do a good job of prevention.

For example, put the Zelo Soul Stone in the cabin of the Gray Gu Mothership to refresh your electronic brain.

"The nerve cable connection is complete, the energy is pumped into the Sentinel antenna, and the first test run begins."

The icy electronic sound rang out in the depths of Grey Wind's consciousness, and she closed her eyes in the miniature galaxy as she opened her eyes to see the world.

The first thing that came to Gray Wind was a meaningless white noise. It is the microwave background radiation that has been transmitted since the beginning of the Big Bang, and it reverberates forever in the infinite stretch of time and space.

"Successfully received the signal~"

Grey Wind hugged the Zelo Soul Stone and blinked, and countless nanobots came into motion, inserting the oscillating fin spare parts in the cabin into their bodies one by one.

With the intervention of the oscillating fins to reduce noise, soon, the white noise that pervades the universe is no longer monotonous. Pieces of oscillating fins are connected to the antenna, like a paintbrush, and soft brushstrokes fall on the white paper, and the boring world in the depths of Gestalt consciousness begins to take on color and give birth to flowers.

Gray Wind's expression was slightly in a trance, and the massive data from the entire galaxy was loaded into her consciousness at one time, even a micromechanical gestalt of Gray Wind's level was a little unbearable, and she felt that her thinking seemed to be a little stuck.

The white noise was gone, replaced by an empty pitch-black space, with a little starlight in the sky gradually lighting up. It was Grey Wind using its computing power to render a complete star map of the entire galaxy in real time based on the information collected by the Sentinel antenna.

"It's hot, it's hot! I'm going to blow up my head......"

Grey Wind hugged the Zelo Soul Stone, his entire body curled up, white steam floating out of his head.

It was the first time since she was born that she had taken on such a heavy task of calculation, and every thought process was completely full, making her lose the ability to think for a short time. More nanobots overheat and die every minute, and the starlight in the galaxy becomes denser and denser.

"Galaxy Star Map.40.09.10 version, rendered completely, took 2 hours, 1 minute and 37 seconds."

Gray Wind, who came to his senses, hurriedly checked his condition and found that about 2% of the nanobots that formed his consciousness circuit had died.

"It seems that it has to multiply itself once after a long time to replenish the consumption." Gray Wind touched his hot skull, and with a long sigh of relief, he began to examine the galaxy star map that had been stored in his brain.

The reliability of the Sentinel has been proven.

The starry sky rendered by the gray wind is not beautiful, it is full of all kinds of large and small potholes, and it looks very tattered and very bumpy. There are also many vague hazy areas, like a mosaic pasted on the Milky Way, which makes people inexplicably irritable.

"The marshal usually has this kind of mosaic on the picture files he usually reads?" The gray wind whispered, and the starry sky in front of him was mottled and unobstructed.

The 'pothole' is the wound of the real universe, an ambiguous area that merges with the subspace. Such craters are randomly scattered all over the galaxy, like patches of ringworm growing on the body of a skin disease, the largest of which is called the Eye of Fear, and the second largest is the 'Maelstrom'.

The 'fuzzy' area is a small but scattered collection of special galaxies that cannot be detected by even Sentinel antennas, some of which hide important tomb worlds of the Necronomins, or the remnants of some extinct xenomorphs.

Greywind casts his main perspective on the center of the galaxy and discovers the Kettle of Greed, which is sailing along the Eye of Fear.

"I'm really investigating the Eye of Fear. I thought I was looking for a female general to secretly date......" Gray Wind was deeply ashamed of his misunderstanding with the marshal.

Then move the perspective to the Far East Star Field, there are many subspace fluctuations and energy signals frequently lit up on the western border in the north, which are black merchants smuggled between the Extreme Star Domain and the Far East Star Field, and the imperial refugees who have poured into the federal jurisdiction.

With the Sentinel Array's powerful listening capabilities, underground transactions that would otherwise be difficult to manage can be brought under control.

Grey Wind moved his perspective away from the Far Eastern star field with satisfaction, and then cast his eyes on the southeast corner of the Milky Way, to the north of the astronomical trench named 'Damocles Bay' by the Empire, which is the star field of Vidal's star sector.

The energy signals in Vidal's sector are dense and mixed, as if the audio signal lights are changing frequently, and the migratory armies of space necrons and greenskinned orcs are fighting fiercely in this star field, and the sky is dark.

Gray Wind turned his gaze and marked the green-skinned orc's psionic signal green, and in an instant, the entire galaxy turned green.

"Wow, wow......" Grey Wind was shocked.

In the past, when she listened to the marshal's stories, she often heard Russell say that there are many greenskins, many, many and many, and they are one of the number one hazards in the galaxy. It was only now, on the Milky Way star map detected by the Sentinel Array, that Gray Wind really realized what kind of multi-method Russell's 'green skin is a lot'.

- About two-thirds of the entire galaxy has greenskins, and they spread like a virus to most of the galaxy, multiplying wildly and fighting desperately in every imaginable and unexpected corner.

In contrast, the orcs who are now fighting the space necrons in the Vidal sector are only a drop in the bucket of the total number of orcs.

"Oh?" Grey Wind was a little surprised.

She suddenly noticed that the green patches that filled the entire map in front of her were moving in real time, and in the same direction.

The green tide that spreads across the galaxy is surging in the same direction, slow, tortuous, but indeed advancing.

"There's ...... Solar Star Field. ”

The green skins of the entire galaxy are migrating towards the solar star field where Terra is located.

"That's right, the planet called Armageddon is in the Sun Domain." Greywind remembers Russell telling her that the relict 'Khan's Throne' is suspected to be on Armageddon.

Armageddon's predecessor was called 'Ulanor', and it was the spiritual home planet of the Greenskins. The planet was conquered by the emperor's son Horus during the Great Expedition, and after the Beast War, it was secretly transformed by the oil guy and became the current human colony, Armageddon. A relic called the 'Khan's Throne' has also been lost to the planet.

The supreme gods of the orcs, Brother Gang and Brother Mao, once issued an oracle ordering the greenskins of the entire galaxy to go to the Sun Star Field.

The Green-skinned Great Khan who successfully captures Armageddon, recaptures his home planet, and sits on the throne of the Khan can become the supreme Green-skinned Great Khan. He has the ultimate authority to command all the greenskins in the galaxy.

Gray Wind put a towel on his forehead and thought to himself, "The Sun Star Domain is the core of the Human Empire, they should be able to hold it, right?" ”

Instead of continuing to observe Greenskin's movements, she shifted her perspective back to the Far Eastern Star Domain and looked at the garrison of Colonia's swarm in the southern belt.

The signal of the swarm is marked rusty red by the gray wind, evenly covering the entire star belt south of the Great Hollow in the constellation Nightmare, indicating that Colonia is doing a good job of garrisoning, with biological outposts and mobile hive fleets in each major system to guard against orcs and space necrons in the southwest.

Grey Wind was about to extinguish the star map and continue the installation of the Sentinel Array when suddenly, a striking red dot caught her attention.

It was a psionic signal with the same rust-red color as the swarm of Coroniai, but the location where the signal lit up was not in the Far Eastern Star Field, but on the south side of Damocles Bay, the southeasternmost corner of the entire galaxy star map.

"There's like, 'Otlama Five Hundred Worlds'?"

Gray Wind frowned slightly. Colonia secretly divided a hive fleet to go to the territory of the Ultramarines? What does it want to do?

She quickly zoomed her perspective closer to the red dot in the Otrama field, and the shortly cooled thought process began to run at full power again, using the sentinel antenna's detection ability to remotely and accurately lock on to the signal and render it live in a single star system.

Soon, an incredible image appeared in front of Gray Wind.

It was a galaxy colonized by the human empire, but there was no signal response from human spacecraft or space stations in the galaxy, only a large number of irregular metal fragments floating in space, refracting electromagnetic waves.

Immediately afterward, the Sentinel locked onto the striking red psionic signal.

Grey Wind saw a starry beast roaming through the star system.

The surveillance footage hastily obtained by relying on the incomplete Sentinel Antenna was not clear, because Gray Wind was busy cooling himself and did not use all his computing power, and the turning motion of the giant beast was still a little off, but it did not prevent Gray Wind from recognizing the appearance of the big guy.

“…… Aether Dragon? No, it's just the appearance, this monster doesn't have the high-energy core of the Aether Dragon, and it shouldn't be able to spit out the deadly tachyon breath. Other than that, there are many subtle differences in the rest of the body structure, not like a dragon, but more like a ...... Worms in dragon skins. ”

Grey Wind was a little distressed, she couldn't figure it out.

The Aether Dragon is a Leviathan creature from her home universe, and the relict obtained after killing the Aether Dragon is the dragon's head.

"If the 'Aether Dragon's Head' is fed to the swarm and Colonia analyzes the genetic sequence, it is indeed possible that it will succeed in creating a giant life similar to that of the Aether Dragon." Grey Wind frowned.

But the problem is that Russell doesn't have the head of the Aether Dragon, and the former Human Federation failed to kill the Aether Dragon to obtain its relics, and this unlucky guy was killed by the mad 'Military Isolator'.

Could it be that Colonia accidentally picked up the head of the Aether Dragon while defending the Southern Belt, and then secretly produced this giant worm in dragon skin, and sent it to the Otlama Domain?

…… That's.

But the Aether Worm's psionic signal was so similar to Koroniai's swarm that even the Sentinel Antenna manipulated by Grey Wind couldn't tell the difference between the two for a moment.

Maybe it's because the brain is overheated and overloaded and hasn't cooled down, and Gray Wind still can't figure it out when he thinks about it, and his head hurts a little when he thinks about it. In the end, he had to give up thinking, drive the gray Gu mothership out of the miniature galaxy, and ask for help from the Pot of Greed, which is far away in the eye of fear.

At this time, Russell was navigating the outline of the Eye of Fear, on his way to the Cadia Star Zone.

"If you want to enter Comoros, you have to go through the network, and there should be an entrance to the network of the Spirit Race in the Cadia Star Zone, but the problem is how to find it."

Russell slouched half-reclined in the soft seat, one rubbing his shoulders and the other massaging his calves.

"After the previous incident of killing the members of the Immortal Bird School on Krentarina, the Dark Eldar should have been wary of me, and it is estimated that it will not be too easy to get the coordinates of the entrance to the network from them......+"

"The whereabouts of the Ark Spirit Clan are too unpredictable, and they can't be caught for a while, so they can't be counted on."

The sisters' increasingly proficient skills can only relax his body, but the inexplicable situation cannot be broken up by hand.

"Do you want to use the old way again......" Russell was a little distressed.

At this moment, a message suddenly came from a communication channel that had been silent for a long time. Russell, who was bored, immediately got up to check, the sender was Gray Wind, and the content was very brief:

[When I was debugging the Sentinel Array, I detected a psionic signal that seemed to be a swarm, and when I looked closer, I found that the source of the signal was a giant hive creature that was highly similar to the 'Aether Dragon', but the specific information is unknown, so I will temporarily name it the 'Aether Giant Worm'.] 】

[The signal of the Aether Giant Worm is located in the Otlama Star Field of the Extreme Star Field, in a star system called 'Pamenio'. It is reported that the Ultramarines are mobilizing the fleet to rescue Pamenio. 】

[That and that...... Colonia said it had no idea where this guy came from, Marshal, what about you? Do you know what this Aether Worm is? 】

After reading the content of the message, Russell was stunned in place.

"What the hell...... Aether Worm? ”

(End of chapter)