Chapter 497 Is this considered a traditional performing arts? They are worthy of being father and son -
“It’s finally over.”
Wannas heard this and glanced at Hong Suo.
Now the two warriors, both wearing newly repaired armor, passed through the ruins and rubble being cleared south of the Indomitable. The fortress was tilted askew during previous attacks, but other basic life support facilities are being restored.
Two Iron Warriors passed by them carrying a stretcher, and the Potion Master stopped to examine the remains on it, even though it looked like just a mass of molten metal and burnt flesh. "Send it to the lower level of the central church as well," he told them.
Some time has passed since the end of the entire battle. The outer fleets have been swept away, captured or destroyed. Tens of thousands of prisoners and slaves have been taken. The control of the Indomitable has also fallen into the hands of Honso. War Blacksmith The remaining ships in the fleet are now all docked at the Indomitable's dock for maintenance, and the walls between the fortresses are being re-erected and reinforced.
They continued to walk forward until they passed through the city wall that was beginning to be repaired and came to the Central Cathedral, which is also the command center of the Star Fortress.
The lower part has now been hastily transformed into a multi-purpose room, with gray exposed concrete, steel bars and iron cladding beneath a golden marble floor that celebrates the heroic stories of Ultramar. Caged stones made up rooms and fortifications, and burned cables were pulled out, repaired, and arranged again.
Experimental water tanks were erected one after another, and a new temperature control system lowered the temperature here to a level that inhibits biological activity.
What makes the slave workers and prisoners who built this place even more uneasy is that many new steel operating tables have been installed here, and there are drainage troughs for discharging liquids and cleaning underneath. Some of them are of similar size. Larger than mortal, fear of what the Warsmith was about to do permeated the Starfort.
"I thought it was impossible for an Iron Warriors warsmith to grow weary of war," the Raven Guard said as they began to descend into the newly built elevator, descending to Honso's new laboratory.
“No.” Honso replied, looking at the approaching laboratory lights. “The current situation is such that war is inevitable, so we can’t get tired of it. Even though many of us have been programmed in our genes from the beginning. It contains... a fondness for war, but, Vannes, human beings cannot be formed by pure war—unless they abandon everything about themselves as human beings, leaving only the sharp edges of weapons."
The Raven Guard thought thoughtfully, "Are you referring to someone?"
The Potion Master shook his head, "I didn't name anyone."
Elevator Running to the connection point of the platform, it stopped with a clang.
They stepped out of the elevator door, and frost immediately began to spread upward from the ground, condensing on the surface of the power armor.
"This is our new control center. Time is tight now and it is a bit crude."
Hong Suo took him to stop in front of one of the water tanks near the center, and the lights inside illuminated it. A suspended head was found. The burnt marks still remained on the scalp, which was soaked and turned white. The bones were repaired in many places, and a spine was connected underneath. The surface of the spine was etched with delicate surgical techniques. New circuits and interfaces were installed, and more cables were connected. If any member of the Fifth Company of the Ultramarines were here, they would definitely be surprised.
The face shown by the remaining flesh on the head is clearly that of the technical sergeant, Hestian.
Now the technical sergeant's head has his eyes closed, and his eyeballs are moving behind his eyelids. The panel data shows that his stress level is within the normal range, but he is still frowning slightly.
"Is he dreaming?" The Raven Guard frowned and observed the Ultramarines carefully. The fellow Astartes couldn't help but feel a little sad when he saw such a scene, although the body that was put into the Dreadnought might not be the same. It's not much better, but there is still some difference between facing the modified fragments naked and being separated by a thick armor plate and amniotic fluid chamber.
"Yes." Honso replied, and at the same time he woke up other lights in the room, and the bottom lights in the rows of experimental tanks began to gradually light up, "He is working hard on the situation I provided. We adjust the flight attitude of the Indomitable. You can also think that he is now half of the machine soul of the fortress under our feet. And there is another advantage to using him to create an interactive interface. He will subconsciously use his own methods for any communication from the empire. I don’t have to specify and dig out the known codes and password responses.”
There are dozens of transparent tanks in the new laboratory, some of which only have one or several balls of flesh connected to electrodes and cables. There were several pieces, and some of them had an almost complete body. Vannas's eyes swept across the faces in the water tank, and as expected, he found Sergeant Olanto and Inquisitor Sibiya. The former was suspended in the air. In the amniotic fluid, her facial expression seemed to be full of doubts, her fingers were curled into a weapon-holding posture, and the latter's face was full of vigilance. Next to her experimental sink, there was a fully enclosed black rectangular cabinet with a thick coating on the surface. ice.
“How dare you directly link her to this assassin.”
“What else?” Honso shrugged, “The body of the Iverson assassin cannot be studied directly. I'm trying to figure out how to replicate the potions they used. Some of the materials are really... well... very revealing. I wonder how many of the people who originally established the Assassin's Court were human because of the special and fragile internal drug balance of this kind of assassin. With the self-destruction feature, they can only be in a stable non-death state... Although I am not lacking in theoretical information, I can see with my own eyes how a trained Inquisitor will activate and use the Iverson Assassin in their minds. Okay.”
"What should I do if she wakes up and activates him to start killing people here directly?"
"I have set up targeted brainwashing content and monitoring measures, as well as emergency throwing devices."
" What a reassuring answer. How many have been restored? Are they all dreaming now? "Yes. Grendel still does well when he really wants to work." Yes, the devices and drugs he left behind have preserved many of the most seriously injured or those that have been restored to the level of implantation through my technology. They can easily accept brainwashing suggestions, while those who have been more completely connected are Need to adjust and control frequently."
"What about the fearless machine?"
Honso shrugged, "He is old and confused. He has very typical neurodegenerative symptoms, and the protein denatures very quickly. He thought he was a soldier of the first company, fighting against Tyranids on the Macragge Arctic Fortress." If I hadn't come, his condition would have deteriorated rapidly within a few months, his memory would have been eroded, and he would have been completely unable to recognize other people, becoming a being who only relied on instinct and biological electrode stimulation to fight."
"...Then he and they have to thank you."
"That's exactly it." The master of pharmacy nodded his head without shame, "This is a process that lasted for hundreds of centuries. It has been a long-standing galactic-level problem, and I have a way to stop the progress and even start to recover. This skill alone can allow me to win the rule of several habitable galaxies from those who can afford the price. Really, Vanus, you don't need to show that distrustful expression, anyone who knows the value of this skill will say so."
"Okay, okay." The Shadow Master nodded in agreement, "In that case. Extracting a single organ can make your brainwashing program run more stably. Why do you still keep the bodies of these Ultramarines? "
"Of course it's because of the gene seeds," Hongsuo said. The body is basically intact, so there is still a complete and pure gene seed. Of course I can extract it immediately, but I want to try to see if I can..." Vanas turned back in horror, staring at the person who was about to tell the horror. The potion master of Devil's Word.
The approval of two, no, three gods came from the highest heaven.
“Since the initial gene seeds all come from the same sample container, and it itself is a type of cell that needs directional catalysis to promote differentiation and growth...”
“Throne!” The Raven Guard cursed.
“Grendel happened to be seriously injured.” The Potion Master said shamelessly, “We always want to give our brothers the best, so I used the gene seeds of the Ultramarines to make different organs of targeted cultivation. It was then used to treat his injuries, and the effect was very good. The mutant genotype of the Ultramarines was indeed proven to help with faster recovery.”
"You madman! Do you know what you are doing?! Confusing the genetic blood of your legion?!"
"You are far from a madman." Hongsuo said nonchalantly, walking to the same suspended In front of Grendel in the water tank, half of Arms Commander's face and facial bones disappeared, showing what a horrific blow he had received - Artolion's powered battering ram just grazed his face. With such an injury, if Grendel hadn't slapped the medicine in his hand onto Wuwei's face before he passed out, I'm afraid all he would have been left hanging here was a pile of mud.
"Let the title of madman be given to others. There are many people in this shaky galaxy who are more suitable than me. Aha - look at Grendel, he combines two genes The subsequent regrowth of bones and muscles was more than 11% faster than when he only had the Iron Warrior gene seed. This is an advantage that cannot be ignored. It will be very useful in the future... but the specific impact on memory or other places still needs to be Wait until he wakes up to observe."
"Grendel hates your mixed-race identity... If he wakes up and knows what you have done to him, he will definitely want to kill you immediately!"
< br>"I don't think so." The master pharmacist carefully adjusted the amount of medicine to be infused.
"Why?"
"Because the old warrior used a hammer to smash his forehead bone and half of his frontal lobe. Out of appreciation for his outstanding martial arts skills and his kindness in helping him not to become drooling, When I was repairing it, I used the cultivated Ultramarine organization to fuse it in..."
"You are a madman. A complete madman," the Raven Guard said with certainty. "So where is Mka? Why haven't I seen it for so long?"
Honso looked sideways at Vannas, "You were calling me crazy just now, and now you're asking me why I can't see it. A demon appeared in my laboratory?"
"I thought one of your main purposes for going to Moliana was to find and release Mka, isn't it known that it is related to Calga? You have a lot of trouble with the Ultramarines, and you want to attack the Ultramar sector to gain military merit and a position with the Blackheart King."
"Well, you think so too?" War Blacksmith sneered, "That's wrong. My goal is the Indomitable. The Indomitable itself. Except for something as powerful as the Phalanx, there is nothing more powerful than a Ramirez-class ship. Star Castle is more suitable as our long-term base at this time - even Huron himself only has one 'Hell Iris' of the same level, right? Doesn't being able to completely capture the 'Indomitable' prove part of my ability? "
"But...but?" Vannas was speechless. Sometimes Honso's aggressiveness was scary, but sometimes he gave up when things were good, but it was unpredictable, "But it's just One Indomitable as a trophy cannot satisfy the other members of your fleet...they...right...?"
The Raven Guard fell silent. Many of what Honso had done before seemed subtly unreasonable but The behavior hidden under the fog has been reasonably explained at this moment.
"So Uruvent's berserkers and most of the aliens have actually died in the war of attrition, and you won't recycle their remains like you recycle the Ultramarines," he said bitterly, "And with your promise, Worsell Tucker used up most of the resources he could find on hand and around him that could be used for mechanical flesh and blood transformation. His foundry ship is now leaderless and idle, and he himself Because he was allegedly damaged in the final explosion, he is recuperating here..."
The Potion Master shrugged and pointed to a simple life support tank in the corner of the laboratory, with a ball of bubbles suspended in it. Tissues and brain in amniotic fluid.
"I didn't mean to turn him like this." He explained, "He didn't have much meat to begin with, and the amniotic cylinder always hung like this under his mechanical spider."
"And Nossa... When Aitasia quietly retreated from the rear, she also took away those in Katja Salomba's team who were more willing to listen to you... The rest were taken by you and lined up at the front line of this attack..."
Honso shook his head, "Wrong. It was their own greed, desire and desire for vicious killing that pushed them to stand on the front line. I just provided a target within reach. You said it, They are not the most obedient group of people, how could I convince them to rush to the front for me with just orders?”
“There is really nothing wrong with your wine and promethium mixed with laboratory products? No?"
"Those are just good drinks that make people more impulsive. Isn't that what happens when you drink? So you and I are designed to have a body that doesn't work with promethium. What’s the problem? They have their own inspection methods, and they think it’s qualified.”
Light blue eyes and purple eyes stared at each other for a moment.
"Okay, then how did you arrange Muka?"
"How else can you arrange it?" This time it was Hongso's turn to be a little surprised, "The traditional habits of our Iron Warriors Demons have always been used as the core energy source or equipment engine of the foundry - I am trying to solve the problem of our lack of navigators to make subspace jumps - really, it turns out that those impulsive guys are still a navigator. None of them are left for me!"
The Raven Guard stared at the Potion Master with an expression of "Don't you even know that we have been working with demons?"
Finally he showed a tired expression.
"Where is my room? I think I need to rest for a while."
(End of Chapter)