Warhammer: I don't want to be a stinky can! ! !

Chapter 754 197. Mutual Fantasy
"How are your friends?"

In the quiet and comfortable room, light quietly sprinkled through the gaps in the ceiling and shone on the two titanium bodies, causing their gray-blue skin to show a special light and shadow.

The Fire Clan warrior asked the Water Clan diplomat Polonium'Nivaan with concern, but Polonium'Nivaan shook his head silently.

"I think the self-destruction of the Mechanical Sage has put him under a lot of psychological pressure - but more crises are still lurking underwater. I think he is a little shaken."

Yingyang grunted, then turned his face away apologetically.

"I'm sorry to have put your friend under such psychological pressure. I should have searched the prisoner more carefully."

Polonium'Nivaan was silent for a moment, then it touched its smooth forehead with three fingers. There was no hair there, and a thin olfactory slit extended downward from the center of its forehead.

"I am not blaming you. Perhaps I am only blaming myself. I really shouldn't have let this poor human warrior witness all this, even though he volunteered to do it."

Shadowsun shrugged. The Fire Clan was trying to express their emotions as best as possible.
"Spend more time with him,"

it says,

“There are also soldiers from the Human Empire in my core, and I often fight against this behemoth of the Empire. This beast of the Human Empire is too cruel and huge, and it usually leaves unimaginable scars on its people.”

Polonium'Nivaan supported his forehead with his hand.

"Most of them are fanatical, at least in the early days."

"Yes,"

Shadowsun nodded. The soldiers of the human empire usually showed a fanatical and foolish devotion. For the Tai, this idea was difficult to understand.

The faith of the human empire supports them, making them willing to believe and accept suffering for a specific person, or for their "Emperor" or "Pluto", forcing suffering on innocent aliens, causing one vibrant planet after another to fall into the quagmire of destruction.

"But your work is effective, Shuishi."

Shadowsun immediately added the next sentence, looking at Polonium'Nivaan, who smiled and made a gesture of humility.

"Because the Greater Good endures forever,"

Polonium Nivaan smiled and said,
"After experiencing warmth and hope, these people who have suffered so much will understand that the Greater Good is their true destiny. Everyone for me, I for everyone. A small number of humans are not stubborn. After accepting the assistance from Titanium, they will know who their true friends are."

As of now, the Tau Empire has a huge human population - if a detailed count is made, this number may reach a staggering number.

This phenomenon is extremely rare. After all, humans have become civilized in the galaxy with their extreme racism. It is unimaginable and almost impossible for them to submit to alien races on a large scale.

But the Tau Empire has a large number of human subjects, and these blue-skinned aliens often do this -

They would send out trading ships staffed by Water Clan members and soldiers, and would persistently exchange their convenient, easy-to-use and cheap creations or food for the most worthless things in the area, such as bricks or soil.

At first, humans would attack them and take away the supplies brought by the Titanium, but then some humans would find that attacking this small Titanium was extremely boring. If they did not attack them, the Titanium trading ships would still arrive next time and give them the supplies on this ship almost for free.

Then the humans would try to trade with the Tau.

Once they started trading, the door was opened. The eloquent Water Clan knew how to win the favor of the local humans, and the technological creations they brought did save the local people.

So, day after day, when the time is ripe, a member of the Water Clan will visit the supreme leader of this human civilization with a covenant of cooperation. This will be an extremely ordinary contract at first, but slowly, Titanium will replace it with a more unbreakable covenant.

Of course, if someone asks, what if humans had resolutely resisted the merchant ships sent by Titanium at the very beginning?

It's simple, the Tau would station an army near this human settlement before commencing trade.

If the humans do not accept the trade, then the Tau will send in their army.

"For the Greater Good."

After hearing what Polonium'Nivaan said, Shadowsun followed suit, and then the Fire Clan added another point that confused it,
"Our captive this time is a Mechanical Sage."

it says,

"I originally wanted to call a human with a similar background to him to persuade him, but after I sorted through all our data, I found that there was no such person among the human population."

"But I have encountered them in combat. They are crazier than ordinary imperial soldiers. From what I understand, it seems that the Mechanical Sages are a religious faction independent of the Empire, and are a branch of the Empire that specializes in scientific research."

"Just like the Tu clan."

Polonium'Nivaan responded, "But the Earth clan won't be as crazy as they are."

"Yes,"

Shadowsun looked away, remembering some of his bad memories on the battlefield.

In the blasphemous creation controlled by the Mechanical Sage of the Human Empire, it had witnessed with its own eyes a human being who had been transformed beyond recognition by the Mechanical Sage, screaming - the human's brain was half exposed with electrodes inserted directly into it.

"They're... they're scary and weird."

Shadowsun said, and it began to pace around the room.
"Some of the technological creations of humans are difficult for the Earth Caste to understand. I once talked to an Earth Caste scholar who was involved in intelligence analysis. He was very surprised why humans were so obsessed with using their own kind, or cells taken from them, as computing power hubs. According to our understanding of other technologies in the empire, they should have the spare capacity to develop drones, or even more intelligent creations."

Polonium'Nivaan turned his head and looked at Shadowsun.
"So what is your final conclusion?"

Yingyang suddenly stopped, her face became a little funny, it seemed hard to imagine what she was going to say next, but the logic behind it was actually very reasonable.
"We ended up thinking it was a human quirk."

Yingyang said,
"Or maybe it's the mechanical sages' hobby. The cruel humans are keen on torturing their civilians. Although I was a little remiss, I tried to understand the mechanical sages' beliefs afterwards."

"That's not the Emperor they usually call."

Shadowsun turned his head, half of his face hidden in the shadow.

"…but Hades… Hades."

Yingyang chewed on this strange word in his mouth. He had reason to believe that this "god" was more brutal because the mechanical sages under his command were more incomprehensible and ruthless.

"It's probably another one they made up."

Polonium Nivaan made a disappointed gesture.

"One god is not enough. They need another god to express their cruel and cowardly thoughts."

Yingyang was a little hesitant.
“But I always felt like something was wrong.”

"No,"

Polonium'Nivaan comforted the Fire Clan member in time.
"It is true that the same race worships different gods. Among the dozens of races that have submitted to the Titanium, some of them already believed in several gods before they met the Titanium."

"It is not uncommon for widely divergent individuals within a race to worship gods that are unique to similar groups."

"Similar groups, just like the Water Clan, Earth Clan, Fire Clan, and Air Clan."

Polonium Nivaan said calmly,
"But we are different from them. Even though there are great differences between us, all the people of Tau believe in the Greater Good under the leadership of Ether. This is our advancement and civilization. We know how to be tolerant, just like water."

“Rather than brutally eradicating dissidents and burning individuals who are different.”

"The Greater Good..." Shadowsun said thoughtfully. Thinking of the cruelty of those mechanical sages towards their own people, he couldn't help but realize again the greatness of the Greater Good. It was the Greater Good that allowed Titanium to revive and allowed different clans to hold hands and move towards the sea of ​​stars.

"For the greater good."*2
They both couldn't help but say this at the same time, and then the two Titaniums smiled at each other, and the atmosphere became a little more relaxed.

"That's why I insisted on keeping the Mechanical Sage."

Yingyang turned his hand and explained,
"There are no mechanical sages among all of our human subjects. First, there are too few of them in various human settlements. Most of the mechanical sages we have seen are expeditionary forces that followed the empire to attack us."

"The second reason is because of their beliefs," Yingyang's face looked a little strange. It was still a little afraid of Pluto.

Because from the information found by Yingyang, Titanium was somewhat surprised to find that Pluto's traces and descriptions were not as vague as those of the Emperor. In the personal belongings of the Mechanical Sage, Pluto's traces were even clear to the year, month, day, minute and second, where he landed, and what he did.

It even found a black fragment emitting a certain aura among the relics of the great sage. Although Yingyang had also seen the holy objects emitting golden light carried by those living human saints, the black fragment of the Mechanicus that looked quite simple made Titanium alert.

These signs show... as if... as if Pluto really exists.

But it is obvious that Pluto is a god invented by the human empire. He cannot possibly exist.

The perfect image described by the Mechanicus, omniscient and omnipotent, sometimes merciful and sometimes ruthless, is simply impossible to exist. There is no intelligent creature in this universe more perfect than Ether.

"They often call out the name of their gods and then commit suicide - they treat themselves as cruelly as they treat their fellow slaves."

“Perhaps we can understand it this way,”

Polonium Nivaan whispered,

"The god they worship, Hades, treats them as slaves, so they treat themselves in the same way, and follow the god's example to treat their own people in the same way—

Such behavior often occurs among ignorant and uncivilized barbaric races, so there is no need to worry. "

Yingyang smiled.
"Thank you for your concern. I don't know much about the work of the Shui family, but I want to say something else - didn't I just mention that those sages are keen on using their own people as computing power hubs?"

"Yes what's the matter?"

Polonium'Nivaan looked at Shadowsun.
"The ship we captured, the one led by the self-destructing sage, doesn't have many devices that use the flesh and blood of their own kind as computing power. The computing power of the entire ship is concentrated in a main system called Nirvana."

"The Tu clan scanned it and believed that it contained a small amount of flesh and blood, a large portion of unknown materials, and a portion of mysterious power - the same power that the barbarian wizards were keen to use."

"It's weird."

Polonium'Nivaan said, and Shadowsun's look showed that the Tau thought the same.

"This ship is... different."

Yingyang said a little uneasily,
"It is painted with a mechanical sage emblem that we have never seen before. The technology used on it is also more intelligent. The various devices including Nirvana confuse our Earth Clan."

This showed Shadowsun another possibility, that the Empire mobilized troops from farther away to deal with them, with high-tech devices and larger scales that were different from the mechanical sages they had faced before. Shadowsun remembered what the sages said about the "Forge World".

According to the description of those robots, the mechanical sages live in a concentrated area on an entire planet, unlike in the human settlements of the Tau people, where there are only a few of them, serving the nobles or wandering around human settlements selling goods.

In short, the two Titanium have not yet realized that they are so remote that the Mechanical Sages are too lazy to come here.

Before the return of the Primarchs, the White Scars and the Ravens were not legions that the Sages particularly favored, so the Sages who followed the army all came from small and medium-sized forge worlds that were friendly with the two legions.

"Perhaps they are a force from a more remote part of the empire."

Polonium Nivaan explained,

"Compared to us, the Empire's navigation is also extremely unstable. They were probably thrown here randomly. This is a low-probability event."

Shadowsun was silent for a while, and finally, it nodded.

"Maybe it was an accident."

it says,

"But thank you for the help your friend Maiga has provided us."

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"The estimated arrival rate of the advance force is 86.3491%. There are currently 137 known missing ships, including 0 Legion battleships, 3 heavy cruisers... 1 Mechanicus Punisher-class battleship, and a Mechanicus Moon-class cruiser..."

Hades frowned. His appearance had become a little sloppy because he had been working all day.

Hades held the report form in one hand and a special pencil that he used for writing and drawing was tucked between his ears.

"We still lost one battleship,"

He frowned and said, subconsciously picking up the pen and starting to spin it.
[This is already a very high success rate.]

Finus stepped over Hades' desk, lay on the floor full of papers, and frantically signed documents. He said,
I had expected the loss rate to be higher.

Finus replied coldly, thinking that Hades's action was a little ostentatious and nitpicking.

In his opinion, such a high success rate was the perfect outcome achieved under the buff of Hades's physique and the Mechanicus' faith.

"The main force is still on the way. I estimate that there will be more casualties after arriving at the destination."

Hardy paused, then he raised the paper again, like a stingy tailor counting threads.
"How did we lose a battleship...?"

All large ships had their own specific programs written by Hades himself, and he tried to calculate them himself, calculating each round of calibration data at least a hundred times.

It should be noted that the ship's operating code changes in real time with the stars and paths, which means that the data calculated by Pluto will be even larger, so large that it is unimaginable.

Logically speaking, it is true that the channel will be lost due to randomness, but Hades is like an asshole who scored 149.5 points in math, and he must get the last 0.5 points.

He wanted non-war casualties to be minimized - preferably even zero, because that meant the empire behind them was providing them with the best possible environment.

After all, every large ship is the hard work of the empire. If Hades could calculate it, he would have wanted to calculate the coordinates of every crew member of the expeditionary force.

【You have other business.】

Finus reminded Hades, and Hades realized that he should do something else. He casually put the thin piece of paper on the pile of papers next to the desk, but he was still muttering,
"It's all fate after all... I think I saw the wise man leading the team on the day when Jin welcomed me back. Was he at the end of the team?"

【Perhaps they simply deviated from their course,】

Finus said calmly,

[Have you forgotten the last time that Space Marine Chapter strayed off course and landed at the wrong location, it directly wiped out all the alien races there and then established an empire to rule?]

"Haha, that's true."

Hades smiled, forgetting that the Empire was full of martial virtue, and he picked up the next file.
"Those sages are probably going to go and scare others. I hope they can catch up with the expedition against Tau."

(End of this chapter)