Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 482 06.0481: ‘The Secret of the White-haired, Red-eyed Machine Soul Girl’

“Enemy collision time, last 30 seconds! Speed ​​16 knots!”

“My ship’s speed is 13 knots!”

“Hurry, hurry, hurry… Epic, I know you can do it!” The power department officer looked at the car clock dial with a cold sweat, and the numbers inside kept jumping up.

Soon, the speed increased from 13 knots to 14 knots.

But the enemy was still two knots faster, and fortunately the estimated collision time on the screen changed from 30 seconds to 48 seconds.

This is the process of the two sides competing in acceleration. Normally, small ships of the navy of each race will be slightly faster than larger ships of the same type.

But the opponent had always maintained full speed to avoid torpedoes. After receiving the collision order of a desperate fight, he immediately turned and rushed towards the Epic at the highest speed.

Compared with the Epic after the high-energy turn, this is undoubtedly an unfair race. She needs to accelerate from zero and compete with the opponent who has already completed the speed-up.

"Fin control group, rudder down, lower the altitude!" After a long time, Horatio, who was already soaked with sweat, issued another order.

Seeing the captain speak, the people who had watched him for a long time without speaking breathed a sigh of relief.

Facing the risk report, after he issued the straight-line acceleration order, he just sat there without saying a word, and his cold face did not react at all.

Just now, Horatio suddenly "stagnated", which made Farida and Louise concerned about his condition-he had been commanding operations at his post for too long, and this unusual detail was very worrying whether he had some kind of accident.

According to the previous statistics of the Imperial Navy, sudden cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, heart disease, or losing oneself in the communication with the machine spirit, may occur in this situation.

But now he finally said a word, which made everyone feel at ease.

The operation team that received the order guided the Epic to sail downward, trying to use flexible maneuvers to escape to the plane below before the enemy ship hit it.

In the machine soul world, Horatio led the white-haired, red-eyed girl in front of him and walked slowly down.

"Follow your orders, Captain." She replied softly.

"Take your time, follow my rhythm." He said.

"Increase the speed to 15 knots, almost there!" The voice of the external report came, as soft as if it came from the depths of a thick fog, and it also made the machine soul from the calmness just now become uneasy, eyelashes trembling frequently, and slender hands trembling.

"Hold steady, you are doing well, you are working hard, the God of All Machines will see through and praise you." Horatio did not respond to the outside, but focused on comforting the machine soul in front of him.

Her white body surface, like the first snow, oozed some liquid like human sweat.

It can be seen that this kind of adjustment to control the entire ship at the same time is not an easy task for the new machine soul.

Horatio saw it with his eyes and felt a little strange in his heart. He had not yet deeply understood this knowledge.

Maybe next time I should ask Lati more, learn more about this strange creation of the God of All Machines from the mouth of the technical priest, and explore the more advanced and in-depth training for them.

"Power up to 16 knots! Our ship is at the same speed as the ramming enemy ship! They can't catch up with us!"

"It's time to distance ourselves. Archie, give the commanding helmsman an order to sail towards the gas cloud. There, we will reduce the speed to cruising speed, return to stealth mode, and then slow down further until the shadow field is opened."

"Yes, Captain. Turn left! Drive into the gas cloud ahead."

"Turn left! Drive into the gas cloud ahead--!" The warrant officer helmsman who had served on the Indefatigable recited the first mate's order in his signature dragging voice.

The figure of the machine soul in front of Horatio gradually solidified, and the outline became clear and obvious.

With the continuous pouring of mental power, the machine soul was stabilized.

This is a good sign, which means that the probability of the new machine soul being broken and unable to communicate due to pressure or other reasons is greatly reduced.

Among the warships that the Empire could trace back to the cause of their mutiny, some of them did so due to design problems.

These warships with design defects buried the hidden danger of corruption during their first subspace voyage after leaving the orbital dock, and the spreading darkness gradually eroded the unstable machine soul.

The entire ship was completely transformed into a Chaos monster, and then the crew members of various key departments were eroded one by one. The dark power would even erode the captain along the neural plug, and finally cause the ship and the people to join the Chaos army.

Even if there are no obvious signs of corruption, the machine soul of the ship facing high pressure and component damage is prone to problems, especially those new warship machine souls that have not yet matured.

The Epic Machine Soul has stabilized, which means that there is no problem with her design, but the captain lacked patience in the previous training.

Once the first captain is a naval officer like Horatio who has both patience and skills, this warship is very likely to serve the Empire conscientiously for thousands of years in the future, until it sinks in the void.

For them, there will never be a day of retirement, and sealing is the only rest.

She was lucky, she met Horatio Cochrane, the heir of Spyr, a legend of a rising star.

She will complement him and start a legendary journey together.

"The distance is widening! We are entering the gas cloud."

On the bridge, the exhausted people used their remaining energy to cheer for the escape from the jaws of death.

They threw their hats into the sky, and jumped for joy with their eye bags swollen from more than thirty hours.

"Thank you for your hard work, Epic." Horatio raised the corner of his lips and said to the blurry girl with white hair, red eyes, and golden and white light in front of him:

"You did a good job, that's it, you just started serving the Empire, so it's inevitable that you are a little unfamiliar, and I am your captain, I will teach you carefully and teach you everything you need to fight for the Empire."

The white-haired girl nodded obediently.

Horatio touched her head, but this behavior also made the cold-faced girl with red hair and red skirt next to her frown and turned her face away in dissatisfaction.

Well, although he didn't know why the machine soul in front of him turned into the appearance of a girl, maybe this was a simulation made by the advanced machine soul for better communication after transferring his consciousness through the neural plug?

Horatio thought that if he wanted to communicate with the other party, the best part would be to become the appearance of the other party's same race, which would make the other party let down some of their vigilance, reduce the difficulty of acceptance, and improve the efficiency of communication.

Since the machine soul took the initiative to transform into a human, that is to say, the machine soul actually has self-awareness.

This self-awareness is not artificial intelligence, but a "soul" in the academic sense that is generated by relying on wetware and the cognition of the people. This soul can communicate freely, think, and has already understood many truths.

Interesting.

Unfortunately, he heard that only those ancient consecrated objects that have gone through thousands of years; or large and ancient super-mechanical giants such as knights, Titans, and warships, can have such intelligent machine souls as living people.

Moreover, the machine soul relies on objective and real matter. Once the ship is damaged, the machine soul will be injured like a human, will go crazy because of the damage, be corrupted by chaos, and even be killed, so it needs to be carefully guarded.

Horatio still doesn't know where the wetware core of the Epic is scattered. He only knows that these structures are located in secret and safe places. These are the secrets of the Mechanicus and they try to protect them.

No one, even the crew, is allowed to approach. Only those chosen by the God of All Machines, that is, the Mechanicus, can get close for maintenance.

That was the most secret of secrets, the most sensitive secret of Om Messiah.

That was also the only territory in his kingdom that he, as the captain of a ship and the king of this warship, could not govern.

If he wanted to find and view these, he had to obtain the permission of the chief technical priest on the ship, that is, the consent of Lati-EB2A1.

But this secret was so attractive that he really wanted to learn more about it, although he was not sure whether Lati would share such a profound secret with him.

[But speaking of it, is the machine soul so obedient? And why can this iron hand let himself enter the machine soul world? ]

[There must be a fragment of the Void Dragon Star God in the iron hand. ]

[Haha, how is it possible, this is too far-fetched. ]

Horatio thought about it for a while, and then immediately turned his attention back to the whole battle situation.