Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

The blizzard was blowing on the streets and alleys of the town, and the white snow was flying down from the sky and falling on the asphalt pavement and the eaves on both sides. The whole town seemed to be frozen in the snow, and there was no one there. Only the white snow was flying on the streets, and the only sound was the trembling sound of the strong wind beating against the windows.

The entire town was in deathly silence, no, the entire planet was in a complete deathly silence, just like a corpse, a corpse that was abandoned in the cold snow field and no one cared about it.

But the silence was broken by the figures walking in the distant direction. Two figures appeared at the end of the snowy street, with wind and snow flying around the narrow flashing lenses on their heads.

Goose-feather-like snowflakes fell on the gray armor. The powerful lining power system of the power armor pushed the armor's legs forward, allowing the wearer to easily walk through the ankle-deep snow on the street.

Two people wearing advanced power armor walked into the town. They walked one behind the other, one with a gun and the other without. The fully enclosed power armor made it impossible to see their faces clearly, but Their respective personalities can also be seen in their behavioral habits.

The man holding the gun is very experienced and calm. He is not exploring everything around him like the man behind him. Instead, he is holding the kinetic energy penetrating rifle in his hand and walking at the front. His fully enclosed smart helmet is looking around everything. , the thermal imaging scanning system scanned everything room by room.

The power armor he was wearing provided surging power to allow him to cross the snow. This "Thor" power armor, which is standard for the Federal Marine Corps, is equipped with a complete life support system, and its internal intelligent control system is also equipped with auxiliary equipment. Aiming system.

Autonomous power feedback program, composite active shield generator, and multiple alloy armor can block most weapons from shooting. Even the Eldar weapons that are similar to magic can also play an effective protective role. Multi-functional weapon platform collaboration protocol The equipment can be called a miniature version of a human mecha. It is simply the favorite of those marines who often fall from the sky and jump into the enemy.

Not only that, the comfort level is also quite good. At least the soldiers are not used as consumables. The all-terrain adaptable life support system maintains the internal temperature. No matter it is hundreds of degrees below zero, the frozen world where people's blood will instantly freeze when they step out. , or a blazing planet close to a star where the temperature can instantly melt steel, the life support system of power armor can ensure the absolute safety of its wearer, at least until it is penetrated by a more powerful weapon.

His eyes looked around under the helmet. The whole town was completely silent. There was nothing on the motion capture radar and sound collector, only the rustle of white snow blowing through the gaps in the buildings.

"It's almost quieter than a cemetery here, and the wind makes people feel chills on the back." Vito walked on the street with a gun in his hand. The weapon system inside the pulse rifle in his hand was docked in the armor. He didn't need to aim, and he could shoot from the smart phone. Inside the helmet you can see the aiming baseline and smart auxiliary sight, as well as all ammunition quantities.

The muzzle of the pulse rifle swept through the surrounding quiet buildings. Vito walked past those buildings, his steel boots crackling under the crisp snow.

Kenobi followed Vito. He was also wearing the power armor. Although his long hair was quite in the way when putting on the helmet, it was good that he put it on before Vito impatiently waited for him to comb his hair. , and now, his eyes are looking between the long hair bundles on both sides, looking around the surrounding buildings.

Kenobi is not very far from Vito. He does not carry a pulse rifle or even any weapons, but don't think that he is really "unarmed". Trust me, he can kill a dozen marines at any time if he wants. .

Although the Thunder God power armor has also been specialized in the spiritual weapons of the Eldar, and its active shield can effectively isolate and protect against most common psychic attacks, it is obvious that the attack of this guy who has lived for tens of thousands of years is "not conventional." ” kind of thing, so yes, your best bet is to headshot him before he starts fighting and strike first, if you can do that.

"Miners and their families live here, and judging from the vehicles on the roadside, I don't think they went to the mines." Kenobi said as he walked past a snow float vehicle, a family-style The floating car landed quietly on the ground, letting the vast white snow almost submerge its body.

Vito walked to the building in the middle of the road in the town. He stopped and looked at the door and wall of the building. There were holes cut and pierced by steel on the door. The strong wind in the snow came from those holes. It blew through the cracks and hollows, bringing with it a hissing sound.

"Turn on perspective scanning." Vito said softly. The intelligent system in the helmet turned into a circle in front of Vito. With a ticking sound, the entire helmet interface swept across. The perspective radar screen covered the entire field of view, and also The contents unfolded before Vito's eyes.

He frowned slightly and walked towards the door of the building. Kenobi also stopped when he passed by the door of the tavern. He looked at Vito and watched him carefully approach the aluminum alloy door of the tavern with a gun. Lights running down the spine along the back of the armor flickered under the porch.

Vito turned his head and nodded slightly to Kenobi, who also nodded to him and then turned to the door. Suddenly, a stream of air appeared from under his feet. The snow rolled up, as if a snow storm had formed around him.

After seeing this, Vito walked to the door. He hung the pulse rifle back to the magnetic anchor point on his back. The gun body was instantly attracted by its magnetic lock. Vito stepped forward and thrust his hands into the aluminum alloy. In the crack of the door, his arm suddenly used force to slowly tear the door open.

The power buffer bolt on the arm of Thor's power armor popped out and slowly rotated. As the cylinder rotated, the door was instantly torn open. The two door panels were instantly pushed into the gap in the door frame. Vito pulled out instantly. With the ion pistol on his waist, I strode into the house.

Vito broke into the room with a standard CQB action. His pistol swept around quickly, and the scanning radar of the power armor also completed the enemy-friendly scan in the blink of an eye. Yes, there were no enemies in this room. As Vito expected, here Not even a living person could move.

Vito lowered the ion pistol in his hand. Kenobi stepped into the door of the tavern with his iron feet. The wooden floor was obviously not as durable as the concrete floor outside. Thor's power armor boots stepped on the wooden floor. The next moment, it started to squeak and groan.

Kenobi stood next to Vito. He looked around at the tragic situation in the entire bar. It was obvious that the torn steel marks on the door had also left many footprints here. The invaders left a large number of corpses here. No, Let me correct you, it was a corpse that had been torn apart and had no human shape.

"Are there any living people?" Kenobi asked. Vito did not answer him. Instead, he inserted his pistol into the holster and walked deeper into the tavern. He walked to a corpse and took off his helmet. After buckling the helmet upward with the palm of his hand, the locking points opened one by one, and the constant-temperature gas spurted out from the initial opening of the helmet.

Those gases that were hotter than the surrounding environment came into contact with the cold air, and quickly turned into bursts of white mist rising from the side of Vito's face. He shook his head and looked at the corpse on the ground, and then looked at the other one, " What does your monitor tell you?"

Vito asked, and Kenobi glanced at the readings in the helmet with his peripheral vision. "There is no living person. To be precise, there is no living thing." "Isn't that right?"

Vito said and squatted down next to the man lying on the ground in front of him. His entire back was completely cut open, and the exposed spine was bent outward. All the blood and broken tissues and organs were frozen in the cold winter. Living.

There was another man beside him. He was leaning on a table. His whole chest was cut diagonally, and his neck was cut in half by something sharp. The other half of his flesh and blood was still hanging on the head. on the shoulders.

Vito looked around at the corpses in the entire tavern. There were corpses on the bar, in every corner of the room, and among the remains of tables and chairs. There were corpses of men, women, old people and even children. This was a massacre.

"They have been dead for a while, and their blood has completely coagulated. Although the corpses are in good preservation condition under the severe winter, purple and corpse spots have also appeared on the skin." Vito looked at the corpse in front of him, and he touched it with the fingers attached to the power armor. Looking at the corpse in front of him, his body was as stiff as a piece of iron.

"Who do you think did it?" Kenobi asked at the door. He did not take off his helmet. It was not because of the smell of the corpse. In fact, there was no smell here at all. The corpse did not rot in the harsh winter environment, so there was no There was no corpse smell, but he still didn't take off his helmet, maybe to protect his flowing hair?

"I don't know, but they must be very strong. They can break people's bones and endure heavy blows with blunt objects." Vito said and grabbed a shovel on the ground. After all, the people here are all miners, maybe they just got off work. I came here to have a drink with my colleagues, but I was very unlucky to encounter this massacre.

Vito looked at the end of the shovel, and then at the broken steel fragments on the ground. His fingers grabbed a fragment on the ground and looked at it, "That thing has a metal shell, and since it didn't die after being pierced by the shovel, That thing is not a human being.”

"What you said is not accurate. It is indeed a human, but it is a robot." Kenobi said and walked to the remains of tables and chairs on the side. He picked up a severed hand from it. It was different from the other mutilated limbs. It was made of iron, and the parts that fell out were not flesh and blood, but electronic cables.

Vito frowned. He stood up and walked to Kenobi and took the severed hand. Vito looked at the robot's severed hand. He then looked around your space in the entire room. Indeed, here There is not even a single word of the remains of an intelligent robot. If this was a robbery by robbers, it is hard to believe that they would only kill people and not attack the robots that would protect their owners.

Moreover, Vito looked at the severed hand of the robot, turned it over and looked at the dried blood on its fingers. It seemed that the answer to who killed these people had been revealed.

"The robots killed them, killed the whole town, but why? Poisoned?" Vito said and looked at Kenobi beside him, who put on his helmet so he couldn't see his face. Kenobi looked around The corpses in the entire tavern were silent for a moment.

"Anger, hatred and jealousy." He said softly, and Vito chuckled and looked at the mechanical wrist on his hand. "Artificial intelligence does not understand these emotions, they will only act according to the program."

"But your Helen can understand those emotions." Kenobi said as he leaned closer to Vito, and then started to walk out of the tavern door. Vito was stunned for a moment, then frowned and turned to look at Kenobi.

"Helen is an outstanding artificial intelligence. The intelligence here is at most ordinary level. The two are not the same existence at all, just like chimpanzees and humans."

"But humans also evolved from chimpanzees. What if chimpanzees evolved?" Kenobi said at the door. Vito looked at him and fell silent. He looked at the severed palm in his hand in silence for a while before looking up. .

"How did they evolve?" "Someone, or something, helped them. That thing is marked on your and my helmets."

After Kenobi said that, he walked down the steps of the bar. He walked along the street towards the fall point indicated in the helmet. Vito looked down at the robot in his hand after cutting off its hand and put on the helmet. He put on the helmet with one hand. The helmet was buckled on the neck of Thor's armor, and the fixed points were locked one by one.

Vito walked out of the bar. He walked down the creaking steps and stepped onto the snow. The mechanical arm slipped from Vito's hand and fell to the snow. The vast white snow sprinkled on its metal surface, and the smooth metal mirror Reflexively, Vito stepped over the Broken Palm and took the rifle from his back.

The broken palm reflected their silhouettes and their receding shadows. Suddenly, the fingers of the mechanical arm moved. It moved.