Chapter 176: Confession Bureau
“Sometimes I really don’t understand you.”
The special team had already exceeded the goal of this trip, so they walked outside the guild building.
When entering the elevator, Olina suddenly spoke to Qin Xia.
“What don’t you understand?” Qin Xia raised her hand and pressed the button, asking as the elevator door slowly closed.
Qin Xia seemed careless about Olina's question and did not listen carefully. Her eyes fell on the elevator floor.
The blood of the people previously killed by Quadrant with a laser grenade seeped into the elevator. Qin Xia noticed this and "drove" the blood with psychic energy.
"You obviously know more than all of us."
Orina spoke slowly.
“You know that some things are harmful, but you are particularly interested in those harmful things.”
"You explore them, collect them, monopolize them."
"What is driving you to do such things?"
Hearing these words, clinging to the quadrant at the top of the elevator room His interest suddenly arose, and he held the silver vine wrapped in Ellie in his arms. His head and neck vertebrae extended from the body and went around the silver vine, observing the speaker and the person being questioned like a camera.
The monks from the Mechanicus had wanted to ask this for a long time, but because they were afraid that Qin Xia would do something that would lead Qin Xia to commit a crime, they never dared to ask, never dared .
So after Olina asked the question, the quadrant focused on Qin Xia.
Qin Xia looked up at the floor display bar above the elevator door, still looking careless: "As far as AI is concerned, I think our species still needs the assistance of AI to some extent, because I have seen that relying solely on the human brain and What does a paper-managed interstellar empire look like?"
Brown, who was observing, gave a thumbs up: "Thumbs up for you, man."
"It's not just about AI." Olina asked. , "You know I'm not just asking about AI."
Faced with the questioning, Qin Xia became serious and rubbed his chin with his right hand - this is what he would do subconsciously when he was thinking very seriously. action.
Qin Xia felt that perhaps because of the spiritual power of the Olina sisters, one of them could occasionally ask him questions that made him think deeply.
In response to the questions asked by Oulina, Qin Xia thought deeply and then answered.
“For mankind, but not exclusively for mankind... This is my motivation for doing these things.”
“I have told you that I have special psychic powers. Affected by the malevolence in the Warp, not as random as Caesar."
"There is some knowledge of the Warp that is useful and necessary, but also dangerous, and only available to someone like me. Take control of it."
"There is some knowledge that brings danger just by existing, such as the knowledge that any idiot can get a certain book and chant a spell to bring subspace creatures into reality. This knowledge alone can distinguish it and destroy it to prevent it from bringing danger to our entire race."
"Maybe saying this makes me feel conceited, but I am special. This is an objective fact."
"For human beings, this is part of the reason, and part of the reason is that I just like knowledge. , maybe it’s path dependence, you all should know some of my past, for example, I used knowledge to change my destiny.”
Speaking of this, Qin Xia lowered his head, stopped talking, and fell into deep thought.
Qin Xia thought this way:
I know very well that the pursuit of knowledge in the Warhammer universe and the knowledge itself are very dangerous.
Objective analysis.
In this universe, the human soul resides in the body, but the soul will project in the subspace. Human thoughts will act in the subspace, which is nothing more than the size of the influence.
Because of this, human behavior will attract the attention and invasion of malicious beings in the warp. This is the so-called Chaos Corruption.
So in this universe, "ignorance is bliss" is absolutely true.
Before risking his life to dive deep into the subspace for the first time, I was wary of knowledge, and even deliberately let myself not think too much or learn too much in most cases so as not to attract the attention of some bad things, otherwise Given his personality, he probably had already learned all the psychic spells before he was changed into a Gray Knight.
It was also because he discovered that he had no soul projection when he dived deep into the subspace for the first time that he felt free to pursue knowledge.
After thinking about it for a while, Qin Xia opened his mouth, pondered for a moment, and then said as if confessing: "I have great pursuits in this matter, but I definitely have selfish desires, no doubt. "
"I actually didn't want to ask so deeply, but..." Olina closed her eyes and recalled what she learned about the empire through various channels, "It's just that I think what we are doing may attract people. Destruction, whether this destruction comes from the person named the Emperor, or from the cruel methods set up by the Emperor to deal with the 'Forbidden Ones'."
After my sister said this, my sister. Ou Liya put her hand on Qin Xia's arm and said seriously: "My sister just means that we shouldn't invite destruction because of these things. We should... be careful."
"This is me Why not let the think tank participate in our search for the 'taboo'?" Qin Xia said with a smile, "Whenever the Dongchuang incident happens, I have a way to keep us safe, and all the responsibility can be placed on me instead of the entire 12th Army."
Ouliya also smiled and nodded silently.
Qin Xia just discussed a very serious matter with her two sisters.
Brown listened to the whole thing. It was so serious that it couldn’t say anything. It just used it as a stone man and a synthetic human brain to think about what Qin Xia said and feel about whether the human race can be revived. Not optimistic.
As for Quadrant...
When he noticed that no one was talking in the elevator, Quadrant restarted his hearing device: "I turned off my hearing device after I realized that you were talking about confidential topics. Device, if you don’t believe it, you can ask Brown to check my body operation log.”
"No need, you are not an outsider." Qin Xia shook his head.
“When did I become one of my own.” Quadrant asked, “I was already a sinner after I followed you to obtain information about the Hateful Intelligence. Forgive me, Ohm Messiah.”< br>
Qin Xia turned and stared at Quadrant: "You didn't stop us when we obtained the AI information. You didn't refuse when I asked you to join this team. You didn't refuse when I took you to do this. . "
"..." Quadrant was silent for a moment, and then gave the same calm answer, "Because I'm afraid that if I disobey you, you will kill me." "I'm too worried. I think you are one of my own because I know you will never return to Mars. You are an exile." Qin Xia no longer looked at the quadrant, "What kind of Mechanicus person can be used as a record? Who? ”
The quadrant was completely silent.
What Qin Xia is talking about is not the speculation of people outside the Mechanicus about the future of the Mechanicus monks.
Even as a person who was born and grew up on Mars, Quadrant knows his fate better than Qin Xia - there is no doubt that he will be exiled.
"Besides, don't pretend to be the White Lotus who was kidnapped on the pirate ship." Qin Xia added, "You yourself know the reason why you chose to join my team."
Brown immediately Then he said: "Qin Xia is right. You do know what you want, Quadrant. It's not that we kidnapped you. If Qin Xia didn't take you with him, you would try his best to follow. You have many secrets, just like you The identity is not the same as the secret you think is still a secret in front of us.”
After hearing what the stone man said, Quadrant had no expression on his face and no reaction.
Of course, the quadrant cannot have expressions or reactions, at least not this body.
In the room belonging to the quadrant on the Perseverance, a room with a laboratory specially arranged by Angron as a courtesy to the narrator, there was something soaked in a jar containing nutrient solution.
This thing looks like a quarter of the brain, and a large number of artificial nerves are implanted in this quarter to carry a meaningless personality and self-identity in the eyes of the quadrant mentor. Knowing...these are the parts of human nature and biology.
This piece of brain is connected to an eyeball, and some biological tissue remains in the lower half of the brain.
After hearing what Brown said, the eyeballs in the jar twitched, and he was shocked by what Brown said.
Quadrant is moving by remotely controlling the body, but he doesn’t know when Brown realizes...
No, Quadrant thinks this is reasonable, because Brown is obviously not a human being. Implanted with ancient neural devices to expand data transmission flow and memory, it is not surprising that such a being knows that it does not really exist in this body.
"I did do it on the spur of the moment."
Quadrant said frankly.
"I discovered you after I entered the Twelve Legions. I contacted you deliberately. I also needed the 'forbidden object' to achieve my purpose, but the only thing I concealed was that my body is no longer in this body."
"Primarch Guide, it is true that I fear you, and it is true that I long for you to help me. I am only a chronicler, and the past I told in the Eldar ship is all true."
"..."
Qin Xia raised her hand with her back to Quadrant, indicating that Quadrant didn't need to say anything.
But Quadrant does not think that it does not need to continue to explain, because after calculation, it believes that the probability of misunderstanding in the current conversation situation is very high.
"Angron can actually feel whatever thoughts you have." Qin Xia said slowly, "Ouliya came to see me that day and saw you walking out of the room with me and Brown. We were talking about You joined us.”
“Before I took the initiative to find you, Angron mentioned your matter to me, and he had already explained it to me.”
"Quadrant, since I brought you with me, I trust you."
After hearing these words, Quadrant shook his head up and down.
Brown looked at the quadrant and said: "Actually, you don't need to keep those biological tissues. Your neural implant technology is very amazing. This body is enough to carry your humanity and thoughts. It can even be said that Your soul can reside in this body, which is why the Primarch can sense your emotions and thoughts."
Quadrant's head turned towards Brown: "In my opinion, this mechanical body is disposable, although I spent a long time shaping it. In my opinion, the biological carrier of human nature is equally important as human nature itself."
< br>Brown looked at the quadrant and nodded silently. The look in his eyes said: I disagree, but I understand.
In the eyes of this stone man, natural man has such thoughts that are difficult to understand, but this is also the reason why natural man can transform from a forest ape into the creator of their stone and iron men. .
"Guide."
The Quadrant spoke again.
"I said something about myself on the Eldar ship, but I didn't say why I kept my biological tissue."
"Once my mentor took me to its laboratory Here, it asked me a question, just one question, a very simple question. If I answered wrongly, I would have a biological tissue removed."
"The question is: Do you choose to inherit me. mantle, or choose to carry out your meaningless and blasphemous persistence."
"I answered that I persisted, and then my heart was removed, and my mentor personally replaced it with a mechanical device that replaced the heart. .”
The appendages of the quadrant point toward the heart.
The heart is located on the "chassis" and is protected by a fine gold shell.
"I gave the correct answer until it started cutting away my brain tissue until it was just the little bit I still have left."
Speaking of which, The quadrant stopped.
This is a confession, an explanation, but it is also a request for help.
Quangrant hopes that Qin Xia can help him protect his remaining biological tissue. Maybe he doesn’t need this leader to use his powerful spiritual power to defend the biological tissue, but at least don’t tell anyone what’s in the jar. .
"What's your mentor's name?" Qin Xia asked.
Quadrant answers immediately.
His answer was as cold and calm as ever, but Qin Xia could almost imagine how the remaining biological tissue he soaked in the jar trembled when Quadrant said that name.
"Kelbor Hal."
(End of Chapter)