Chapter 6 Cheslatan Colonial Stronghold
The Milky Way, Hazy Star Field, Cheslatan Star, the human colonial stronghold on the main continent.
Bright and mottled warm yellow light hits the floor through the window panes, and a gentle breeze blows in through the door.
Fu Qinghai, shirtless and wearing trousers, sat on the edge of the bed and turned to look outside the door. The dazzling star hung in the sky, which was a little bigger than the sun.
It has been a week since he came into this world.
A standard Terra week to be exact.
He probably understood the situation at hand.
Fu Qinghai is currently in the Warhammer 40K universe.
Warhammer 40K is a pop culture IP created by the British company GamesWorkshop. The first version of the war chess board game was released in 1987. It is a cultural IP with a long history and distinctive features. It is popular at home and abroad. All have a large number of fans.
Of course Fu Qinghai has heard of it a little bit.
Fu Qinghai spent a week trying to recall the Warhammer 40K games he had played and the novels he had read in his previous life, to think of a way out based on the current situation.
He is now on a colonial planet called "Cheslatan". This planet was originally a wild planet without civilization and intelligent creatures discovered by the Human Empire during the Great Crusade. The Empire No. 17-974.
It means the 974th planet discovered and conquered by the 17th Expedition Fleet. "Cheslatan" is the name given by the colonists.
Although it is a wild world, Cheslatan is not far or close to the star. There is water on the surface of the planet, an oxygen-containing atmosphere, and a dry and pleasant climate. It is a rare Terra-like planet. Not to mention the minerals that may exist underground, the current conditions alone are very suitable for the development of an agricultural world.
The administrative departments of the empire can directly establish biochemical breeding factories on the planet without having to pay the huge cost of modifying the planet's surface environment.
The only drawback is that Cheslatan is on the edge of the Obscure Star Field, a little far away from the star system with dense human activities.
So, after the Expedition Fleet No. 17 from the Blood Angels Legion inspected the natural environment of the planet, the Space Marines identified a large lizard on the planet that may pose a threat to human survival after a comprehensive assessment. The same creature committed species extinction, and then notified the nearest hive world to send an immigrant spaceship to Planet 17-974, leaving behind a few poor administrative officials, who finally patted their butts and rushed to the next destination. Conquer the world.
The Levant hive world closest to Cheslatan began to send colonial ships here. As a result, after the first colonial ship arrived at the planet through a long subspace voyage, the entire sector suddenly began to be filled with violence. Due to the subspace storm, astrological communication with the hive world was interrupted, and there was no news about the subsequent colonial fleet.
A colonial spaceship and more than 6,000 colonists on the spacecraft were stranded alone on this wild planet in the distant universe.
It’s been two years.
Fortunately, all possible threats on this planet have been eliminated by the space warriors. In addition, the climate is suitable for survival. The first batch of human colonists also brought worries and uneasiness about the long-term raging of subspace storms. Settled down here.
In a simple hut made of khaki concrete, Fu Qinghai stood up from the bed, walked to the floor-to-ceiling mirror, and looked at the figure in the mirror.
This is a handsome young man with black hair and black eyes. His appearance is similar to that of his previous life. He has fair skin, a high nose, and deep eyes. Compared with traditional East Asians, he has another difference. He looks like a mixed race, with a thick frame. He is over 1.8 meters tall at the age of 17, and has a faint muscular outline without training.
Such a young man with handsome appearance, smart mind, strong learning ability, good physical fitness, great development potential, temperament than Zunlong, face like Yanzu, and figure bigger than Kimura.
In the Warhammer 40K universe, there is a simple and unified title——
mortal.
A creature that can die in hundreds of millions in any local conflict in the human empire.
In the Warhammer 40K universe, the galaxy is dark and cruel.
"Arlo! Arlo, come and eat." A familiar brisk voice sounded outside the door.
The girl with blue eyes and short hair came bounding in. She was not surprised by Fu Qinghai's naked upper body. She grabbed Fu Qinghai's arm and walked out, "Let's go eat."
Fu Qinghai was interrupted from his thoughts. He quickly picked up a shirt on the bed and was dragged out of the room by the girl.
When he walked out of the room, the metal door behind him closed automatically. After putting on his clothes, Fu Qinghai came to a street filled with earthy colors. People in twos and threes were walking casually, occasionally raising their face towels to block the wind. Entrained slight dust.
The climate of the main continent of Cheslatan is hotter and drier than most areas on the earth, and the vegetation is not lush, but this climate is already a rare and livable climate in the entire galaxy.
The girl took Fu Jinghai to a low building where food was distributed. The two received the uniform meals and found a corner to eat while listening to the girl chirping about what Fu Qinghai had seen at the base during his coma. .
Thanks to the fact that the first colonial spaceship did not carry too many people, but carried a lot of large-scale development equipment, the current colonial stronghold's mere three thousand people are simply insignificant compared to the resources of the entire planet, so the stronghold Life here is quite comfortable.
Without the arrival of a new bureaucracy, the first few administrative officials from the expedition fleet became the top officers of the colonial stronghold. The captain of the spaceship who was forced to stay here was also an official of the stronghold, and established a temporary colonial stronghold. Management order.
No, it can no longer be called "comfortable". Cheslatan at this moment is simply a paradise, a paradise in the cruel galaxy!
As mentioned before, the Warhammer 40K universe is dark and cruel. The quality of life of most humans is far inferior to that of the ancient Earth of Terra. The human empire is always faced with various alien creatures and subspace. Invasion of mysterious forces.
Ordinary humans living in the Hive World and the Forge World either fight to the death on the front lines against heretics and aliens, perhaps without leaving any honor or name, or they live in the dark and polluted lower levels of the Hive City. They work to death and eat corpse starch from their circulatory system for the rest of their lives.
Compared to these two inferior options, Cheslatan's colonial stronghold, which was blocked and isolated by the subspace storm at this time, was completely a refuge in the cruel galaxy.
Temporary.
Unlike the confused people in the colonial stronghold, Fu Qinghai certainly knew why this sudden subspace storm lasted for so long.
The supreme military commander of the Human Expeditionary Force, the Primarch Warmaster Horus, launched a rebellion at the end of the unfinished Great Crusade, and half of the Space Marine Legions joined the rebel camp.
The evil gods in the subspace took the opportunity to set off a subspace storm, blocking the connections between various parts of the empire and the various Space Marine legions, whether it was communication or transportation.
Fu Qinghai’s new identity after rebirth is called Locke. He has no surname, just a simple word.
The name of a typical lower-class hive city dweller is as simple and outrageous as his orphan origin. The immigration opportunity obtained by drawing lots is the result of the mercy of the planet's governor.
Of course, it is also possible that the Levante Hive's population capacity has reached its limit.
The blue-eyed girl is called Fei, and she is also an orphan. However, unlike Locke who boarded the immigrant ship as an orphan in the hive, Fei once had parents, a pair of botanists, Levante The middle-level residents of the hive city were commissioned by the imperial government to study the flora and fauna of the New World, but they only contracted an illness and died during the exploration of the colonial world.
During the long journey of the colonial ship, Fei's family took good care of Locke, who was an orphan. The two of them were able to get together and depend on each other in the colonial stronghold. Besides being orphans, there was another reason - Fei. Unlikable.
There is no reason, no reason, everyone in the entire colonial stronghold, except Locke, inexplicably finds this little girl annoying and is unwilling to get close to her.
Recalling this, Fu Qinghai found it a bit strange. How could someone dislike such a beautiful and kind girl?
Feiyi has an ethereal appearance with a hint of wildness and a height of nearly 1.7 meters at the age of 15. In her previous life on earth, she didn’t need any talent to have an Instagram look with millions of followers. If you are worthy of becoming a blogger, you don't need to use photoshop or makeup, and you will have great potential in the modeling industry.
But Fu Qinghai didn't think much about it. What he needed to consider now was another more pressing issue.
How to participate in the Horus Heresy, which is currently the main plot of the human empire and the entire galaxy.
Different from the previous universe, this time Fu Qinghai did not have the novice gift pack for free choice of camp, and randomly chose the emperor camp.
Not bad, at least a camp that can win without the intervention of other reincarnators.
However, recalling that the reincarnators in the last universe even dared to take on Iron Man's idea and almost succeeded, Fu Qinghai couldn't be happy - how could there be no reincarnators to intervene?
Fu Qinghai had an idea and opened his attribute panel in his mind.
[Name: Fu Qinghai (real name)
Reincarnation number: 60731920
Race: Human (Space Terran)
Height: 184cm
Weight: 75kg
Power: Tony Stark Electronic Soul Backup (Completeness 17%) Binding Brain
Reincarnation Equipment: None
Assimilation points: 124 points
World Anchor: X1
Reincarnation Life: Some of them made Fu Qinghai think a lot. In connection with the magic novels he had read in his previous life, could this "real name" be related to some magic rituals or head-lowering techniques?
The race has changed, from the original earth human race to the space human race. Different from the earth human race, when Fu Qinghai's thoughts focused on the four words "space human race", an introduction emerged:
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In the long process of space exploration, humans have gradually adapted to the microgravity environment and radiation background in space, have developed a certain degree of resistance to cosmic rays, and the ultimate overload they can withstand has also improved to a certain extent.
In a reasonable change, Fu Qinghai knew that traditional earthlings cannot actually stay in space for a long time. Scientific research institutions in previous lives studied the bodies of astronauts and found that staying in the low gravity environment of outer space for a long time can lead to various chronic diseases. When diseases occur, vision and thinking ability will be affected, such as genetic mutations, osteoporosis, muscle weakness, and cerebrospinal fluid accumulation.
"Tony Stark electronic backup (17% completion) bound to the brain domain".
And this is the reward that Fu Qinghai fought for with his life in the previous universe.
This is also the reason why Fu Qinghai fainted from pain as soon as he woke up in this universe.
Fu Qinghai, who had just understood what the extra things in his brain were a week ago, couldn't help but be ecstatic.
He knows that in the Marvel plot, Iron Man once made an electronic backup of his brain. After his death, a Tony Stark composed entirely of data often appeared and participated in the form of blue holographic projections. In the subsequent plot, when he was at his strongest, he once wanted to destroy the universe.
But those plots mainly take place in the Marvel Ultimate Universe (1610 Earth Universe) and other parallel universes. The plot currently shown in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) does not show Iron Man electronically controlling himself. Cloning situation, so Fu Qinghai didn't think about it at first.
Unexpectedly, in 2013 in the MCU, Tony Stark started a plan to electronically back up his brain. Perhaps it was also out of post-war anxiety after the Battle of New York, and it was the same as the Ultron Project. performed simultaneously.
Currently, the completion rate of the electronic cloning project is still very low, only 17%, but when Fu Qinghai’s thoughts touched it, he found that the knowledge contained in it was already vast.
This is also very easy to understand. According to Fu Qinghai's understanding, it is actually very easy for Iron Man to back up the knowledge he has mastered - isn't it just a matter of establishing a database of knowledge documents, which can be completed by a third-rate programmer? After all, knowledge is dead Yes, no matter how vast the knowledge is, it is still dead.
But this is not called artificial intelligence at all, let alone an electronic soul. The real difficulty of this electronic soul cloning project should be how to digitize and clone Iron Man’s emotions, personality, likes and dislikes, and how to face different situations. The choices and judgments you will make are the core of this black technology.
Fu Qinghai guessed that when the electronic soul backup is truly completed, knowledge and logic will only account for 30% of the data at most, and the remaining 70% will be Iron Man's clone of his own personality and emotions.
After all, there are countless smart people in the Marvel Universe. The reason why Iron Man is Iron Man does not entirely depend on that knowledge.
Now it seems that Tony Stark may not have thought of a solution for the time being, so the plan was shelved for the time being.
As for how the data interface of a hard disk is connected to Fu Qinghai's brainstem, this may be attributed to the magical world of reincarnation.
Fu Qinghai probed his thinking tentacles into the vast realm of thinking, and pieces of knowledge appeared and disappeared in his mind.
This is a very wonderful experience. It is like trying to recall a certain memory fragment, but it is not as vague as the memory. Fu Qinghai can clearly feel that there is an extra piece in his head. The ocean was ice cold, and bubbles exploded from time to time. But when he tried to "think" about that thing and chased the bubble, it disappeared again.
Fu Qinghai gave up.
He was a little discouraged.
What's the use? Even though I have 17% electronic backup of Iron Man in my head, I haven’t become 17% Iron Man.
Taking a mouthful of food, Fu Qinghai sighed and looked around in confusion.
Suddenly, he saw a servitor placed on the side of the street not far away.
It was a stocky humanoid creature. Nearly half of its flesh and blood body had been replaced with various agricultural machinery. It stood on the side of the road with dull eyes, motionless, and its back was hunched over, as if it was over-equipped. The robotic arm was about to crush him.
Servants are not humans. They are flesh-and-blood machines that have been stripped of most of their brain functions and are used to replace artificial intelligence. They are cloned organs or criminals derived from culture chambers and are the cornerstone of the human empire's workforce.
That’s why Fu Qinghai used the word “arrangement”.
Fu Qinghai, who first arrived in the world of Warhammer 40K, also took some time to adapt before he could see the servitor as something like a refrigerator or a washing machine, rather than a living person.
At this moment, staring at this servitor, a bubble suddenly burst out in the unfamiliar sea of thoughts in Fu Qinghai's mind.
"Machine slave worker, mechanical prosthetic artificial human, additional modifications to the hand: shallow drilling arm, additional modifications to the left shoulder: high-power lighting, additional waist... Preliminary analysis shows that the modifications have exceeded those of the original factory Set load, output power is insufficient... Optional modification directions: 1. Remove the shoulder... 2. Modify... 3...."
< br>As Fu Qinghai watched, a large piece of fragmentary information suddenly flashed through his mind. Fu Qinghai, who originally knew nothing about the manufacturing principles of the servitor slaves, the more he looked at it, the more he felt that there was something wrong with this servitor. It was wrong here and it couldn't work there. It could. He was transformed even better by himself, and there was still a vague impulse in his mind that drove him to take apart the servitor and study it.
Shaking his head, Fu Qinghai dismissed this unrealistic idea.
The officials of the colonial stronghold seem to be kind to the people, but this is only because he needs to ensure the survival rate of the immigrants. At this time when communication and transportation are cut off, every population is valuable.
But the servitors in the colonial stronghold, like all kinds of large-scale development equipment, are the property of the imperial government. They are not something Fu Qinghai can just mess with. He is a subordinate with a blank academic qualification. Hive paupers, not tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus.
I see... Fu Qinghai was thoughtful and had a general understanding of this "Tony Stark electronic backup (17% completion level) bound to the brain area".
Let’s just say, the superpowers linked to Iron Man shouldn’t be useless, they just need to be developed.
Unexpectedly, I randomly pulled out an alloy hard drive and it turned out to be Iron Man's electronic backup.
No wonder a mere hard drive requires a massive 7012 assimilation points to assimilate... Fu Qinghai then thought about it, could I be the legendary European Emperor?
Sure enough, if you want to be rich, you must place a big bet, win the young model in the club, and lose the reincarnation... Fu Qinghai thought happily.
"Hey, hello, Alo!" A slender little hand waved twice in front of Fu Qinghai's eyes, "Why are you smiling at the servitor? Is your head not healed yet?"
< br>"Uh..." Fu Qinghai put away his expression and came back to his senses, "Where did you just say?"
"I said, a terrible event happened in the stronghold yesterday!" Fei Yi said in a tone of shocking secrets.
"What's the big deal? How terrible is it?" Fu Qinghai asked casually.
“Do you still remember what caused you to coma?”
“Didn’t you tell me that you were hit on the head by a stone falling from the sky?” Fu Qinghai looked at Fei Yi strangely. Taking a glance at it, I thought to myself, do I need to repeat this extremely unfortunate thing?
“Yes, later Calvin and Caesar found out that a spacecraft crashed more than two hundred kilometers away from the stronghold. A lot of iron blocks and stones fell from the sky that day, destroying the stronghold. Some of the roofs were smashed through.”
Calvin and Caesar were administrators of the colonial stronghold.
"Including the one that hit your head." Fei added.
Why are you still mentioning this..."Then, didn't Calvin take people to see it? After watching it, he blocked the news, said nothing, and did not allow people in the stronghold to go to the place where the spacecraft crashed. .”
Fu Qinghai also knew what happened next.
Fei lowered her voice and said, "I heard that the night before yesterday, Hedric and his group secretly went to the spaceship at night."
"Oh?" Fu Qinghai also focused his attention.
“After Calvin and the others went to the crash site of the spacecraft for the first time to check it out, there were private rumors in the stronghold that the spacecraft was a warship and a ship of the expedition fleet, but they didn’t know why Calvin gave the order not to do so. The residents of the stronghold approached the ship. Sidric and the others had already been clamoring to go hunting for treasures and weapons in the spaceship, saying that they would use it if they got the bolt gun. "
Hide. Rick's small group is one of the strongholds. A group of young people aged 16 or 17, hoodlums, and some orphans among them. If they were the same age group in the previous life on Earth, they would be considered unruly and bearish at most. However, this group of young people who grew up in the lower levels of the hive city do not use the word "bear". Children can be described as "children". The dirty streets in the lower levels of the hive city are filled with drugs, guns, bloody murders and violent gangs. Compared with the young warlords in Africa who can fight for independence with an AK, what they lack is a child who can fight for independence. It's just an independent environment.
Hidric and his gang often formed a group to bully Locke, that is, Fu Qinghai. Maybe they were jealous of Locke's handsomeness, or for some other reason. Anyway, the gangsters didn't need a reason to find trouble, and Feiyi Just like her parents did when they were still alive, she always bravely stood in front of Locke to protect him. Of course, it wasn't because of how good Fei was in fighting, but because Hedrick and the others were annoyed when they saw Fei and didn't want to get close.
“As a result, only one person came back this morning, and it was Ladzoor. He was covered in blood, his face was pale, and he was delirious. He looked like he was overly frightened, and he was mumbling something in his mouth. The devil, the white devil, etc., suffered serious injuries and died not long after returning!”
Fei couldn't tell whether she was scared or gloating. After all, Hedric's small group often came to Locke for trouble, not to mention causing trouble for the colonial stronghold.
Hearing this information, Fu Qinghai narrowed his eyes.
Even if you don’t consider participating in the main plot, Cheslatan’s colonial stronghold can only be a temporary shelter. No matter who is the final winner of the great rebellion, sooner or later it will return to the rule of a certain force. .
The worse result is that before the rule of the human empire came, other alien races from the edge of the galaxy ushered in, which would undoubtedly be a disaster for this weak colonial stronghold.
So, no matter what the reason was, Fu Qinghai couldn't just live an ignoble existence, and sooner or later he would have to consider a way to leave here.
And the spacecraft that crashed half a month ago was an opportunity.
"Devil, white devil?" Fu Qinghai muttered to himself, this information was too vague.
Fu Qinghai frowned and thought.
The subspace evil appears?
Not to mention how complicated and huge sacrifices and rituals are needed to let the evil spirits in the subspace break through the barrier and come to reality. If it is really some evil thing from the subspace in the spaceship, then Ladzoor will not be able to do it at all. There is no chance of escaping back. Those things that do not belong to the rules of the real world make it difficult for even powerful Space Marines to harm them.
What's more, Calvin, the administrator of the colonial stronghold, took people to check it out.
By the way, let’s just ask Calvin and see if we can get something out of the way.
“Let’s go!” Fu Qinghai took Fei Yi’s hand, stood up and walked towards the residence of the stronghold official.
“Why are you going?” Fei Yi, who was led away by Fu Qinghai, didn’t know why.
…………(End of this chapter)