Chapter 80 Subspace Nightmare Emperor’s Blessing
Human beings live on a small island called ignorance in the dark ocean. This ocean is vast and contains endless secrets, but we should not sail too far or explore too deeply.
————From "Call of Cthulhu"
Geller's position is the greatest invention so far in the dark age of mankind. Without it, from the first hour that humans can submerge into subspace, their position in this dark universe has been destined. Alan Bayer cannot imagine those unimaginable things. How can such horrible things be studied? It is also unimaginable how much energy humans spend to place themselves in the ocean of consciousness.
This dark and deep place is definitely not an area suitable for any creature in the physical world to sneak into. Even a lieutenant colonel who has lived two lives, has seen wars, and killed countless horrible things can't help but lose his mind due to those terrifying hallucinations.
The lumen bar driven by the Source Power in the corridor of the loyal battleship began to flicker. Under the flickering light, grotesque things with naked bodies were swimming in the ship. They had many joints and their bodies were twisted. They looked like humans but not like them. They were hollow. Their eyes make you feel that they do have intelligence and consciousness, and their bodies are twitching all the time, almost like an epileptic patient.
They brushed against the bodies of the crew members, who could only continue to ignore them and chant words of firm belief.
"I have crossed over to the underworld with my soul, the God Emperor is above, the God Emperor is above!" The soldier in navy uniform chanted, and the words began to become less clear. Alan Bair gradually couldn't understand his language, and Lieutenant Colonel All he got was a bullet to his head.
This is not a creature from subspace but an hallucination. There is no use in closing your eyes or even sleeping. Maybe only the whole ship is unconscious to escape for a few minutes. But when Geller's position fails and the subspace entity invades, tens of thousands of Imperial subjects on the entire ship They will all be slaughtered.
They are always by your side. If you close your eyes, you can feel their illusory souls. If you plug your ears, you can hear their whispers. Unless you leave the subspace, those nightmares will not dissipate.
Now the soldiers on the ship began to shoot at each other constantly, and even the captain was definitely not in good condition. He stood next to the command point and said. "Salia, is it you? Sister? Why..."
"Ah!"
"No! God Emperor!"
A person as strong-willed as the staff officer is not necessarily a good person. Sweat dripped from his forehead. He was chanting a complicated standard prayer of the national religion in his mouth, but his eyes were staring into the distance. What did the Zhongsi Academy student without his parents see? Because Alan Beyer is unknown and his condition is not good.
Lieutenant Colonel Avada, lieutenants, comrades-in-arms, all the people he knew who were good to him were trying to persuade him to join their party, but this was not a gentle admonishment, but an attempt by the subspace to seize his soul.
And the most determined officers in the empire are like this, so what about others? It is conceivable that this terrible place is like this, with constant screams...
If Geller's position was not slowly dissipating, subspace entities would also be attracted to the human souls and flesh and blood on the battleship. Subspace is not only the domain of gods, but also has countless terrifying "creatures" and distortions. entity, any soul greedy for the material universe.
Alan Bayer thought so, and suddenly felt his shoulders were heavy. A naked hairless monkey with three hands, four joints and five eyes, an asymmetrical thing, the size of a small dog, fell on his shoulders, groping Alan with its arms. Bayer's head seemed to be trying to find the location of this entity's soul.
Alan Beyer instantly realized that this was a "real thing"!
Anyway, can you imagine what it feels like to turn around and see this thing? Alan Bayer didn't scream. He had seen many terrible things. Although this thing was disgusting, it didn't rank among the top!
He yanked the monster's spider-like arm and threw it onto Class A, onto the cold ground. The monster's body twitched abnormally, like a cassette recorder. Alan Beyer pulled out the Kata from his waist. Chang's long-edged knife was inserted into the neck of the chaotic thing.
"Go to hell!"
After the sharp eardrum-breaking scream, the thing died, as if they had the concept of death, but after the blade was pulled out, the thing quickly got up, as if nothing was wrong, and continued to reach out to touch Alan Bair. .
"Fuck..."
The existence of such a thing around you is terrifying, not to mention that it will eat, drink, and eat, and it will only take a few days for a normal person to go crazy. Moreover, this is something that can barely enter the ship from Geller's point of view, and it is not a real demon.
But now the light of Geller's position is getting weaker and weaker. If you want to survive, you must do something, even if it means seeking death.
Alan Bair raised his hand and slapped the aristocratic captain of the rank of rear admiral on the face. Although he was not in the same department, such behavior was also very out of bounds, but now was not the time to dwell on the rules.
"Captain!"
"You rubbish nobleman who rose to power by relying on connections, if your faith and will are no better than that group of illusions, when our souls return to the throne, I will report your incompetence to the emperor!"
"You and your battleships are useless, whether it is facing the Red Pirates or subspace, the experienced Imperial Navy is nothing more than waste!"
The old captain angrily woke up from his weird dream, breathing heavily, and his uniform was wrinkled. "What did you say?! You can scold me, but you can't scold her!"
Alan Beyer continues to add fuel to the fire. "This battleship will soon be corrupted by the subspace and become an engine of demons, or one of the countless hulks in the subspace, becoming a place where demons live, and your incompetence is the culprit for this situation!"
The old captain was furious. He walked up to the command point and opened the control panel. His anger made his mind clear again. Loyalty and honor made him throw the phantom of subspace to the ground. His former family, lover, or the most terrifying dream. Not as good as his obsession with the emperor and the navy, and those things have even been engraved into his soul.
"You said that!" the captain cursed, and he picked up the communicator.
"All members of the navy who can still move and have a clear head, come to the forward position to pilot the Bordero! Don't indulge in those damn hallucinations, we have been insulted by the Imperial Navy!"
"The Lieutenant Colonel commented that we are useless sailors! Let them see that we can also swim in subspace!"
When the sailors approached the bridge restlessly,
The captain watched the imperial naval guards running quickly, the sound of military boots hitting the deck, and the captain shouted to the others. "Full power, maximize the power of the subspace engine, we rise!"
shouted the sailor. "No, sir, we have no coordinates. In the subspace storm just now, we may have deviated tens of millions of light years!"
Subspace has no specific location and space concepts, but under the spiritual light of the Star Torch, humans can use it as a beacon to judge its position in subspace. Subspace is actually more similar to the seabed than the ocean. It is not only It’s the flat surface, and there’s the deep dive.
Geller's position is an outer armor that can withstand water pressure. Subspace pollution is the embodiment of water pressure. Although there is light, the psyker dies, the navigator's head explodes, and without the command of the Star Torch, human beings are actually not It was not clear where to sail.
The captain, who was aware of the situation, looked at the screen of the battleship in front of him. The camera showed Geller's position as the front section of the spacecraft became increasingly thin. He said. "Close part of Geller's position, just close what's in front of me..."
"I am not a psyker, but with the Emperor's blessing, I can see the light! I believe so!"
The few sanity of the sailors prevented them from obeying this order. "Your Excellency, God-Emperor, Captain, how can we move forward without you?"
said the captain. "Turn off, in the name of Rear Admiral of the Imperial Navy, I want to witness the luster of the Emperor and lead us forward!"
But Alan Beyer took out his firearm and put it against the captain's head. "Forgive me for being rude. Now, give me the sacred compass and remove it from the command point. I will take a look."
The captain was angry. "This is my ship, my duty!"
Alan Beyer replied. "No one in this place knows how to drive better than you. The storm in the subspace hasn't left yet. Without your command, we can't even sail in a straight line. How can we get out of here?"
The sailors instantly raised their sidearms. Most of them were small automatic guns from the empire. They could not even penetrate Alan Bair's carapace, but if they hit the cheek, they would still die. The captain threatened Alan Bayer with this. .
"You are an Imperial Guard. You shouldn't have done this. I put you in danger, so I, the old sailor, should take responsibility."
The situation reached a stalemate. The staff officer picked up Alan Bair's hell gun at this moment. How he judged became the decision book for who should witness the current situation of the subspace. In any case, if you have seen that kind of place, you will be crazy at least, and demonic at worst. , whoever witnesses the Warp will lead to the most horrific situations.
Even people with a strong will and strong faith will lose themselves even more before seeing the light of the Star Torch with the naked eye, instead of successfully discovering their own direction in the subspace. Otherwise, why should we cultivate navigators? Why can navigators become a family? If witnessing the reality of subspace is something that ordinary people can do, why do they need them? Just find a few hive guys or sinners.
He knew very well, and everyone present knew very well that it was suicide to witness the subspace. They didn't know what was there, but the subspace was absolutely dangerous. People without psychic powers could not project their vision and could only see nearby, And the light of the star torch in Terra is not felt.
The staff officer should stop the farce, but even if they don't look at the subspace, they will die from the invasion of the subspace due to the collapse of their position. He doesn't know what it is, he only knows that it is similar to water pressure, but he has no idea what situation it will cause. .
But such an action is equivalent to swimming naked for half a minute in a thousand-meter-deep sea, and the water pressure can kill a human in just a few seconds!
The staff officer finally said. "I believe you, Lieutenant Colonel..."
He raised the hell gun and fired at the sailors. If he really fired, the flames would kill those soldiers in an instant, allowing Alan Bayer to seize all the command of the battleship. From this point of view, this was a bad game, Star Boundary The army won.
The captain lowered his weapon. "You are a great person. If you see the light from Terra, I hope you can tell me how beautiful that light is, how it can guide us forward, and it will last for thousands of years..." He knew what was in front of him. People could die, and the entire bridge raised their weapons, pointing at the Lieutenant Commander, lest he suddenly mutate.
The captain handed Alan Bair a compass with coordinates written on it. It was something carved into bones, with approximate directions and specific numbers written on it.
Alan Bayer walked up to the command point, and the light blue light in the huge electronic screen blurred the entire terrifying subspace universe. His heart beat faster, and he couldn't believe that he had made such a stupid decision.
The voice of a sailor came to my ears. "Reduce energy output, slow down, Area A Geller position is dissipating..."
Alan Bayer saw bright purple light, large nebulae, spiral things, an endless void, several huge monsters floating in the void like islands, a nightmare composed of eyeballs, twisted and unrealistic, If he had seen such a thing somewhere, it would probably be...
A dream, an absolute nightmare...
Those gadgets, subspace entities could almost instantly feel the soul breath flowing out of the small open space. Those monsters approached the battleship with twitching bodies. Alan Bair had no time, his head was tingling, and his soul was Or something else, things that weren't organs and flesh were twitching.
Whispers and confusing hallucinations filled his head, and he began to be unable to distinguish which were subspace entities and which were hallucinations. Are those nebulae real?
Are those monsters real?
The compass in his hand turned into a huge mushroom, and then eyeballs sprouted from the mushrooms. The eyes were written with scales, and the scales were written in Latin. He began to understand those words, which wrote things from all ages to the present, and were full of countless information. , poured into his head in just an instant.
He looked everywhere, but could not see the light of the star torch at all, nor could he see Holy Terra at all. Madness and weirdness were growing in his mind. He felt that his eyes were itching to death, and his ears were full of indistinguishable sharp points. The scream might be from a sailor, or it might be a hallucination.
Just when he almost collapsed, a voice suddenly appeared in his head. "Don't think, don't think, don't expect, don't indulge, my child."
Turbid, rough, and perfect, this voice suddenly appeared in Alan Bayer's mind. His eyes became clear again. He saw that the compass on his finger was as clear as the light of day and the appearance of a huge silver star next to it.
"Turn it off!"
After a while, Geller's position was reactivated. The subspace entity no longer found the battleship and could only wander around. Alan Bair gasped heavily, covering his head, and then unbelievably pulled out many strange flesh threads in front of his eyes. Then the thing struggled in his hand, screamed, rotted, turned to dust and dissipated.
He didn't know what it was, but don't think about it, don't think about it, don't understand it.
He only remembers the numbers on the compass at that moment. "N36, W23, that's the direction of Terra..." He said tremblingly, his body had not mutated, his consciousness was still clear, and he sat powerlessly at the command point.
Everyone on the bridge looked at Alan Bayer in disbelief. He had completed a rare record in human history and faced the subspace universe...
Is he a Space Marine? Or a living saint? Obviously not, the captain and staff officer who couldn't explain the situation trusted one thing and shouted. "The God-Emperor has appeared!"
Alan Bayer also asked leisurely. "Can you determine the location?"
At his reminder, the other crew members started the subspace engine belatedly, and then shouted. "Definitely completed, heading to Mandeville Point, time consuming, not sure..."
"But we experienced a subspace storm. According to the comparison of coordinates, it seems that we... traveled through about half of the extreme star field in three hours, sir!"
The captain took off his hat. "No matter what, with the Emperor's blessing, just treat it as our hero and leave the subspace as soon as possible!"
When the battleship broke through the membrane linking reality and illusion against Geller's weak position, and a moment later, countless lights and stars appeared in front of the unknown star, and the captain couldn't help but sigh.
"Praise the Emperor! It's the stars, I miss this terrible dark void so much!"
the sailor shouted. "Sir, we have received distress signals! There are hundreds of them, all about...alien attacks!"
"According to the time stamp in the message, we have been in the subspace for half a year, but the physical perception is only three hours."
"This is a certain star area in the Extreme Star Territory. According to the communication information, the nearest imperial world here is called Quadra Vidia, which is an imperial commercial center."
"The content of the communication stated that this galaxy is surrounded by aliens, including the Tau and...Tyranid Hives!"
Swimming naked in the deep sea without a wetsuit is about as difficult as inviting four vendors to drink tea in subspace. Either way, they will all die.
(End of chapter)