Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

Darkness, pure darkness swallowed up everything. There was no time, no space and no touch. There was only darkness in front of him. He could not feel anything. Sound, taste and body senses all seemed to disappear. There was only one situation. A person will sink into the darkness where all things return to silence, and that is death.

But he was not dead, he knew, because gradually he could feel his body, his arms, legs and twisting nose all returning to the neural control of his brain.

There was also a voice, and that voice appeared in his mind. It was a voice coming from his auditory nerve. It seemed to be far away, but also seemed to be close at hand. It was a person calling him.

"Sir? Sir, can you hear me? I think he is about to wake up, right?" The girl said, "Yes, according to the nerve reader, his cranial nerves have been restarted. I think he is about to wake up."

What responded to him was a mixed voice composed of mechanical and electronic sounds. The unnatural voice came from some bad sound-producing device, like a bad band ensemble.

"But why is he still like this? Are you sure?" "Well, maybe I can test it." The mechanical voice said and gradually came closer. He could hear the moving mechanical sound, which was the simultaneous movement of several mechanical torsos and hydraulic devices. Harsh sound.

The sound of mechanical movement was getting closer and closer, and the pungent smell of brass and chromium metal hit my face. It was probably because the olfactory nerve had just been awakened, so it was extremely sensitive to the gas. In human terms, that's The metallic smell on the guy smelled worse than ever.

"Vito? Can you hear me? I can't check your reboot like I can with other Mechanicum priests. Are you powered on?"

"I smelled your fuel as soon as I woke up, so move your body away from me, Call." He said, and gradually, the light appeared, and the pitch-black darkness split from the center, and a A pale beam of light illuminated his field of vision, and everything gradually became clear in the blurry light.

Vito was lying on an operating chair. His eyes unconsciously looked at the surroundings. This was an operating room. To be precise, it should be a laboratory. Scalpels, cutting saws and fixed pliers were all around. There was something on the operating table. It was obvious that some dissection had just been performed on the operating table over there, and the white cleaning cloth was still stained with dried blood.

And the success of the anatomy probably lies there. A large number of culture tanks are stored on the surrounding shelves. Each formalin tank is soaked with the anatomical organs of people or who knows what, including hands, eyes, noses and ears. It looked like a horror movie set.

"Damn it Caul, why does your laboratory always look like the set of a horror movie?" Vito complained. He turned to look at the huge Mechanicum Sage next to him. He turned around and used one of his mechanical tentacles to lift off the table. Grab a certain reagent.

The green potion was stretched out in front of Caul by the mechanical arm. His blue mechanical eyes turned to look at the potion. He nodded with satisfaction and then turned around and wriggled several mechanical iron feet under his red robe to the side of the operating couch.

"Perhaps you have forgotten, Vito, in addition to the command sage, I am also a biological sage. I think most biological sages are similar to my laboratory." Caul said a few mechanical wires under his arm The arms stretched out at the same time, and those small robotic arms all had welding nozzles at the ends. They flexibly reached the inside of the robotic arm on Vito's right side and started welding. …

Small sparks accompanied the welding flames and shot under Vito's armpits, but the sparks were temperatureless, so even if they splashed on Vito's body, he would not feel pain.

"You mean your labs are like the basements of Slaanesh killers?" Vito said with a wry smile. Call was not distracted by the witticism. He inserted the green potion into the side of Vito's robotic arm. In the interface of the medicine bottle, as the mouth of the medicine bottle was inserted and turned gently, the green liquid was pressed into the arm.

"If I were a Slaanesh murderer, I would also be a murderer who could help you repair your mechanical arm." Call said, his eyes scanning Vito's right arm, and several of his small mechanical tentacles were spraying on it. Flames and electromagnetic filaments repeatedly shocked the surface of each crystal.

Vito looked at his right arm. He tried to move his arm, and the powerful mechanical fingers began to bend and move. He nodded slightly and then sighed and rubbed his forehead with his left hand.

"I had a dream, a very, very long dream." "That was the effect of Nasomic elements. That kind of chemical reagent can block your nerve reactions, so that when I adjust the nerves in my arm, I can't It will make you doubt your life."

Kaul spoke word by word, his eyes still on Vito's mechanical arm. The electric light from his countless arms illuminated the only human face under his robe.

"But the reagent sometimes causes a reaction in the deep nerves of the subject's brain. After the body perception and consciousness are shielded, the movement and activity of the brain are maintained to avoid death and irreversible damage caused by unresponsiveness of the brain nerves. And the biology of the deep cerebral cortex The electrical signal reaction is called a dream by your flesh and blood.”

"Why do you oil guys like to babble these words that normal people can't understand? You're just pretending, and I know it was a dream." Vito said, rubbing his temples, and looking at Helen at his hand from the corner of his eye. , the latter was also standing on a small CD with his hands behind his back and looking at himself.

He was still the same as he remembered, with a blue halo body and beautiful short hair. Vito looked at her and smiled and put down his left arm, "I slept for so long, did you miss me?"

Helen looked at Vito expressionlessly. She waved her finger and an electronic clock appeared in front of her. The floating numbers danced in front of Helen, "No matter how long your dream is, sir, in fact you only slept for six months." Only hours.”

"Only six hours? Then why do I feel that my dream lasts as long as I have slept for several days?" Vito asked in confusion, and Kaul at his hand spoke, "In deep sleep, you will feel that your dream is as long as sleeping for several days?" The time is so long that it almost replaces the real time, but that’s just an illusion created by your brain to confuse you.”

"The flesh-and-blood brain is always easily confused by false illusions and is very unreliable. I suggest you mechanize your brain as soon as possible. If you are ready to do it now, I have several."

"Go, go, I still want to keep my brain and my other fleshy parts. I don't want to turn into electronic Cthulhu. It's troublesome enough to turn this arm into iron." Vito waved his hand. , pushed away a mechanical arm stretched out by Caul, and the tiny rotating slices roared in Vito's ears, making him tingle all over. …

"Flesh and blood has limits, Vito, but the steel body given by the God of Machines does not. We evolve much faster than flesh and blood, and we will not be tortured by the pain of flesh and blood." Kaul said, and the work at hand also Without stopping, Vito rolled his eyes at him.

"You sound like a missionary, Call, like those Ecclesiastical guys, talking about converting so and so without mentioning the possible costs."

To be honest, although the robotic arm seems cool, in fact it is not the case at all. You have to find a motor oil guy like Vito to perform maintenance on your nerves every once in a while, and debug it. I also messed with the mechanical arm, and the result was this.

You will be given an injection, then fall into a drowsy sleep, have a strange dream, and then wake up with a pain in your head and arms. Although it is said to relieve pain and block pain nerves, believe me, That stuff won't make you feel very good, and if you want a full-body transformation, you have to figure out whether you like a lot of pain all over your body.

Of course, in theory, you can also replace the brain or more nerve parts of the body with mechanical ones, which will solve the problem. You will not be in pain every time you perform maintenance, but there is another small problem. , you may die suddenly due to rejection between machines, or between machines and organs, at any stage of your whole body transformation.

Wow, there is no way to deal with this problem. You can only pray that the Emperor or Omnisea is not so anxious to summon you and go over to accompany them.

"I think this is what you should understand before choosing the Mechanicus, rather than needing me to tell you." Caul said, his face was illuminated by electric sparks, and Vito made a wave. He waved his hand, but what he said was correct. Most of the many Mechanicus believers in the empire chose to join the Mechanicus in order to escape from a bad living environment or were desperate.

Please, for the pursuit of knowledge, truth and infinity? Understand, this is the empire, and idealism is too extravagant for the people of the empire.

Vito took a deep breath and leaned on the operating chair. He would always dream about past memories, and every debugging of the robotic arm would be covered with a long memory. Most of the time he would forget his dreams when he woke up. No matter what I saw, the things in those dreams would become blurry and fragmented, looking more like a messed up video tape.

But this time, Vito vaguely remembered something. He looked down at Helen and the blue Helen at his hand. The latter also looked at Vito with slight confusion.

"Sir? What's wrong?" Helen asked in confusion, while Vito waved his hands and sighed, "It's nothing, Helen, it's nothing, I just dreamed of something."

Vito looked at Helen as she recalled the memories in her mind, those unpleasant memories. Vito had many memories that he didn’t want to remember. You see, living longer can certainly increase experience, experience and strength, but your memory I will also record the mistakes, regrets and contradictions over the long years.

Vito has contradictions. The old bastard also said this about himself. In fact, Vito often knows that there are some things that he cannot do. If he makes up his mind about some things, he can understand them by breaking them off. But he can't do it. He is often bound by those memories, those are his beautiful memories. …

So sometimes, Vito also thinks that the old Chaos has been away from the world for thousands of years. Maybe there is nothing wrong. If you want to be truly rational and without hesitation, and not be troubled by beautiful memories, then it is best. The only way is to not have those memories, and that also means that you will erase the most important thing about yourself as a human being, your feelings.

"You dreamed about me, right?" Helen asked calmly. Vito was stunned for a moment and shook his head slightly, "No, I just dreamed about something about my arm. It has nothing to do with you."

"Sir." "Really, Helen, you know, when I fought with the avatar of Khorne on Nothan, the bastard chopped off my hand, and I blinded one of his eyes. That’s it, that’s all.”

Helen lowered her head in silence. Her expressionless face did not reveal any hesitation or thinking. She looked as if nothing had happened, but she knew it was not the truth.

"That's interesting. It seems like your dreams have some precognitive power, Vito." Caul said as he completed his work. He adjusted the final connection between the mechanical arm and the motor nerves, and then came the final step.

Caul's slender, curved robotic arm interface was inserted into the round hole on the side of Vito's arm. With the insertion of the interface, Vito's arm was quickly covered by bionic skin that spread downwards. The robotic arm's The steel surface instantly changed into that of a normal person.

Kaul pulled out the tentacle-like interface from Vito's arm. As the slot separated, the skin instantly covered the last exposed position of Vito's arm. Now, the entire arm has returned to its original state.

"What do you mean? Prophecy? Then I want to predict when I can open a harem, retire happily with a group of beautiful girls, and then tell that old Chaos to get the hell out of me and quit." Vito laughed. He moved his arms, and his robotic arm moved as directed.

"Well, in theory, I can give up my job now, after all, Big Blueberry is back." "Are you serious?"

Kaul said on the side, he stood up and turned to another operating table and started to pack the surgical tools on it.

Vito sighed with great regret, and the sigh came from the heart, "I want to, but I can't. Can I rely on Guilliman to solve this messy situation in the Empire once I leave? Well, at least I can't. I can't retire until the other Primarchs are recovered."

Vito sighed and rubbed his neck, while Caul responded to him with that weird voice, the painful laughter of a sage from the Adeptus Mechanicus. Oh, that laughter simply made the hairs on the whole body stand on end.

"Damn it, Kaul, your laugh is still so scary. Why don't you work part-time in the interrogation department? You are scarier than the interrogators in the Inquisition, in every sense of the word." Vito said, sticking his head out to look at The various scalpels that were packed away were reviewed seriously.

"Well, I think your Mechanical Priest Omega may be more suitable. He knows the habits and regulations of the Tribunal better, and I am sure that he must have helped you with the interrogation, right?" Kaul asked, and Vito shrugged.

"Ah, Omega has indeed helped, but not the kind that involves using knives or guns, breaking off a few fingers, or amputating hands and feet. Ah, I don't know if he will like it, but every time he helps When I read those guys’ memories and burned their heads, he didn’t seem to have much discomfort.”…

Vito was stunned, raised his head and looked around. He looked at the entire research room. This was once one of Omega's several research rooms. It was also the place where he and Bell used to dissect and study alien aliens. Although Vito remembered that once, they dissected an green-skinned boss and tried to study how the guy went from an green-skinned kid to a three-meter-tall big guy.

That experiment was not a remarkable success, but when they finally cleaned the laboratory, the spores in the green skin's blood drifted to the lower deck through the exhaust pipe, and then Vito and Olaf, the four of them, were on the lower deck. The deck played with the new green boys for an entire season.

"Where's Omega? Although I know that Helen will appear here, Omega is definitely not here, but what about that guy? His research on biology is also very good. Don't you want him to help you?" Vito asked, testing Er turned his head to look at Vito and rolled his eyes.

"No, he did help me. After anesthetizing you, he helped me open the nerves in your arm and perform minimally invasive surgery. In fact, the young man performed most of the operation. I only performed the arm surgery at the end. It’s just the installation and neural connection.”

"Ah, I know that Omega has been adjusting it for me in the past few years. That young man's skills are very good, isn't he?" Vito said with a smile. He stood up from the surgical couch and moved his arms and legs. Speaking of which, every time I wake up after deep anesthesia, I feel like I am reborn after death, but it would be nice if my head didn’t hurt so much.

Kaul walked to the cabinet on the side. He put many medicines and surgical supplies into it. The slender robotic arm clearly placed each item in its place. "Indeed, the knowledge of the young priest is amazing. I I believe that after he left Mars and joined your account, he learned and understood more things, some of which are even difficult to accept by our other colleagues. "

"Well, he's a technological heretic, but I think you and he must have some chats. You two are definitely the most heretical in the Cult Mechanicus besides the guys from Underworld VIII." Vito twisted the arm on the other side of the mechanical arm. That arm is as flexible as his own. As mentioned before, Omega's neural adjustment is very good, even far beyond that of many Mechanicus priests with greater age and qualifications.

"Well, it is true. We have a lot to talk about. He is an outstanding young man. I am considering including him in my research team. I believe he will have different creativity and understanding of the Primaris project."

Kaul said, while Vito stuck out his tongue and made a face, "Good guy, how long have you been on the ship? And you started poaching me."

Both of them laughed, although Call's laughter was still so weird. Call looked at Helen in Vito's hand and slightly raised her head under the hood, "Since you trust him so much, why don't you introduce Helen to him?" What? I believe Helen can analyze it for him and create more research ideas, just like you introduced her to me."

"Without Helen, the Primaris Project might not be able to be implemented now. We have seriously lost and lost those ancient Dark Age technologies that created the Primarch Project. Without Helen's help, maybe I would never be able to complete my project. Mission and mission." Kaul said and nodded sincerely to Helen, who also nodded slightly in response. …

"I have indeed thought about it, but not all members of the Mechanicus have lived as long as you, and have seen and thought through many things. After all, Omega is only a young man, not yet three hundred years old, so, Helen's presence may be a little too early for him."

Vito laughed again as he spoke. He put his hands on his hips and turned to look at Helen, "Besides, I don't want him to take my girl. With his and Bell's knowledge enthusiasm, they will know Helen." They have to "borrow" it for a while, and I don't want to do that. "

Vito looked at Helen, who sighed silently, but at the moment when Vito and Caul, who was more indifferent to human emotions and didn't understand, didn't notice, Helen's indifferent mouth smiled slightly.

"As you wish, sir." Helen said softly, while Vito smiled and picked up Helen's CD. He looked at the finger girl on his palm, and then turned to look at Kaul, "Speaking of which, where is Omega? ? I have never seen him disappear halfway through an operation. He is always responsible. Even if he is bombarded by bombs, he will finish what he is doing before leaving. "

"I think everything has a priority. For us in the Mechanicus, we will analyze, sort and come up with the best solution. So when Captain Cole called it to go to the bridge to help, I thought about Omega, and it will Hand over your surgery to me."

"Bridge? Cole? What happened when I was asleep? Damn! We couldn't have collided with one of Abaddon's fleets, right?" Vito exclaimed, but Cole shook his head. Of course I knew Vito was joking, and he wasn't stupid. Didn't he look like he was having a fight? And when the fight started, Cole must have brought a bucket of water to wake him up, and then gave him a chain sword and told him to get up and fight quickly.

Then Vito had to go fight Chaos like a pirate, swinging his sword with one hand, but obviously he didn't, so yes, the answer was clear, but not quite, and now, Call would give him Answer.

"As I said before, your dream may have some foresight. We are indeed docked at a planet called Northen. Our ship encountered an empire's Rogue Trader fleet here. Their Mechanicus priest is dead and their ship has been severely damaged during the warp voyage, requesting our support."

"So, Omega was sent to be this mechanic?" Vito asked with raised eyebrows, and Caul relaxed his big mechanical shoulders, "Well, it seems like everyone has work to do, I guess Coul You also handed me in, right? He will definitely not let me sleep idle."

Vito said, taking off his jacket from the chair on the side. He put it on, and his upper body was finally somewhat covered. Caul nodded, and kept holding Vito's Phoenix Sword with his mechanical arm. The bolt gun holster was also handed over.

"Yes, Captain Cole has clearly requested that if you wake up, go to the bridge to find him immediately. I guess there is something I need your help with?"

"Well, the Rogue Trader fleet, the warp storm and whatnot, well, I think so, he's probably really waiting for me." Vito said, taking the weapon belt from Caul, and he put it He hung it on his body and winked at Helen, "My dear, although you are very beautiful, I guarantee this with my 40,000 years of life experience, any man will be fascinated by you, but, ah, look, An artificial intelligence appearing on the bridge may be somewhat out of place.”

"Sir, your experience makes me think"

"Awesome?" Vito turned up his nose, looking full of energy.

"Disgusting." Helen sneered and gave a short answer.

After she said that, she disappeared from the disc, and Vito smiled and put it in his arms. He snapped his fingers to Caul and walked towards the exit of the laboratory.

Kaul watched Vito walk out from behind the automatic door. His mechanical eyes turned to look at the re-closed door. Kaul silently stretched out a hand from under his red robe. It was a large bottle filled with There was a potion bottle filled with blood, which was the blood he extracted from the sleeping Vito.

A line of data slid across his mechanical eyes, a line of file samples called the Primarch Project, which was the original plan that Guilliman gave him ten thousand years ago and was written by Dr. Astartes himself.

Kaul looked at Navito's blood, and his mechanical eyes turned left and right to stare at the blood, "Let's see what kind of work can be created by fusing the blood and genes of two human gods together."