"Director of Foundry, do we really want to give them a piece of land or even a quota?"
Although he maintained his human form, but his modified head had been replaced by steel, he looked at the foundry director angrily: "They have nothing but a ship and hundreds of people. I think we can even annex them and seize them." Get off this ship instead of treating them with so-called courtesy - let alone return them honor and status."
"Yes!... It's just a boat, why can it be dragged like this?" A sage stood up and complained angrily.
But some sages hold different opinions: "But they just killed five or six alien ships with almost no damage!"
"So what?!" Another sage was equally angry, "Our Mechanicus fleet also killed more than a dozen ships!"
"But... we only have three frigates left..." One person made a weak voice, "And he only suffered about 30% damage to the hull structure..."
As soon as these words came out, the whole place fell into silence.
"Ahem," the steel-headed sage came out to make peace with the mud, "There is no need to emulate others' ambitions and destroy one's own prestige. The ship of our Adeptus Mechanicus is still of high performance and unrivaled - it's just bad luck that we didn't get Ohm's Messiah. He failed because of Asia's favor.
This failure has revealed to us that we must pay the most loyal worship to every Om Messiah at all times in order to gain their attention and favor, so that we can be invincible. "
"That's why!" The steel-headed sage changed the topic and looked at the righteous words of the great sage Person, "We absolutely don't need a heretic to tarnish our pure loyalty to the Ohm Messiah!"
"Yes! Yes, there is no need for pagans or unbelievers!" One of the sages stood up and shouted loudly.
"No pagans, no unbelievers!"
“No pagans, no unbelievers!
"Soon the entire meeting of sages began to shout in unison, with such fanatical expressions, as if they had control of justice.
But Great Sage Person was just quietly listening to the local sages shouting mindlessly, and then waved his hands violently: "That's enough. With your wisdom, you won't be so neat. I know what you are thinking." What."
As soon as the words fell, the enthusiasm of all the sages present immediately disappeared - just as the great sage said, although they fanatically believed in Ohm Messiah, after becoming sages and undergoing many transformations, in fact they did not have much at all. Normal human emotions... are unlikely to involve the process of fanaticism.
In fact, there is only one reason for their disagreement: they do not want outsiders to invade their territory - even if this territory is occupied by aliens. Being occupied by aliens is one thing, but being occupied by outsiders is another. .
Especially if they want to use the territory of the Forge World as a deposit to regain the world - they would rather let the aliens occupy it, which makes them feel better.
In a word, any change that involves my own interests means that the ancestral law is immutable!
However, there is one person who is not among the interest groups, that is, the Steel-headed Sage: "Great Sage, how can you question our enthusiasm for the Ohm Messiah?!"
This steel-headed sage's name is Sharif Zealot. He is the commander of the Zealot Titan Legion stationed locally and is under the direct jurisdiction of the Director of Forging.
Titan is a giant war mecha that basically travels on two legs. The big one is more than a hundred meters high, and the small one is more than ten meters high. It is equipped with shields and large heavy firepower weapons, and has extremely powerful firepower output.
The Titan Legion is the most powerful land execution force in a forge world - and the greatest force guarantee of the Forge Director.
"Commander Sharif, I don't question your enthusiasm, but I think his appearance is the will of Om Messiah - he was sent by our God of All Machines to save us."
The Great Sage Persson calmly spoke out a shocking and violent statement.
Immediately, these words caused the entire conference room to suddenly become calm, and it suddenly started to surge like calm water reaching the boiling point.
"What a blasphemy!
! "
"There's absolutely no way he's a messenger of the Om Messiah - he hasn't even had any modifications done to him!"
"How can a slippery man become the messenger of Ohm's Messiah? Isn't this nonsense!"
Even Sage Yin Er, who had remained silent and had not participated in the "resonance" before, didn't understand why Sage Person described the captain in this way.
But after the Great Sage Person stretched out his hand and pressed down, the restlessness stopped - as a casting director, his intimidation was still very strong at this time.
"I understand your disbelief, but I do feel that we have been blessed by the Om Messiah. There is a reason for this. Let me elaborate slowly."
Great Sage Persson began to speak, and even Steelhead, who had looked like a prickly head just now, began to listen attentively.
"First of all, I saw from the battle situation and their war patterns that this was a ship that didn't fit the style of any xenos seen recently - but they were also emerging from the turbulence of the warp.
The problem is - they don't have a subspace engine, they don't have a Geller force field, they don't use void shield technology, but they come out of the subspace - do you understand what I mean? "
All the sages looked at each other, feeling something, but they couldn't grasp the main point.
Seeing that everyone was a little confused, Great Sage Person looked at Sage Yin'er and motioned for him to introduce his findings.
When it was time for him to speak, Sage Yin Er expressed his opinions in an orderly manner: "I was the first to meet him, because in order to determine whether he was a human or an alien disguised as a human, I scanned him. Didn't refuse.
But the result is that his skeletal form is a very ancient human form. Although the density of his whole body is extremely high, there is no doubt that he is indeed a human being... It's just that his subordinates don't look like that..."
"Define what is a very ancient human form?" One of the sages asked a question, "How old is it?"
"Hmm...his bone shape...well...shows that he spent most of his growth on the surface of the planet...but then began to spend a long time in space...participated in interstellar wars...but did not have implants..."
Sage Yin Er began to publish all his observations as if they were a piece of paper. However, the sages who were the audience, even Sharif, were very serious, careful, and mesmerized to be a qualified audience. It seemed that listening to such a lengthy report was something that they were accustomed to and willing to accept.
After a report that lasted for thirty minutes, the eloquent Sage Yin Er made a statement without saying anything: "In the end, I came to the conclusion that this skeletal form was almost 3K-4K when human bones were in After entering the space environment from the planetary environment, and continuing to be active for a period of time - he should be a human from the 3K era... to be precise, a human from the mid-3K era."
quiet!
The atmosphere that had been a little lively just now suddenly became extremely quiet, so quiet that the sound of the power furnace they used to drive their bodies could be clearly heard.
"Uh... Sage Yin'er, although your findings are well-founded and irrefutable to me, are you sure?"
Sharif was the one who spoke: "A person from the third millennium appears today in the thirtieth thousand years. Oh my God, how can he survive a gap of 20,000 years? I really can't imagine."
"Actually, people's inferences can be put aside first, but the ship is also a problematic place..."
Seeing Yin'er finish, Great Sage Person continued to add: "There are definitely traces of subspace fluctuations on it, and at the same time, the direction in which they appear is often those pirate ships emerging from the subspace turbulence. direction.
But their ship was indeed not equipped with a Geller force field and a subspace engine, so after derivation - either they were sucked into the subspace turbulence recently and returned to the real space not long ago; or, they came from Those who were involved in the subspace turbulence just before the 18th millennium have only recently escaped from it.
There is no other possibility. "
The sages were also silent for a while. The former inference was actually more likely, but the problem was that the person on the ship was a person from the 3K period - how could there be a person from the 3K period now? !
But the problem with the latter inference is that the subspace engine and the Geller force field only appeared in the 18th millennium. If they only stayed in the subspace for at least 12,000 years, how many parts have mutated?
But the scan report shared by Sage Yin Er shows that there is nothing wrong with this person - it still shows an obvious 3K human skeleton shape, that is, the density of biological tissues throughout the body, including bones, is very high... But is the mutation that simple?
Tech-priests who have actually studied the subspace, or have seen people mutated due to traveling through the subspace, all know that 90% of the probability that such mutations are harmful to any living thing in the real space - but even if it is beneficial, Nor is it possible that this is a change in the extremely high density of biological tissue throughout the body.
It is impossible for Sage Yin Er to have a close relationship with Captain Xie Yuan as soon as they met, so his conclusions and reports are very objective - but the more objective they are, the more absurd they feel.
However, the technical priest who had regained his composure suddenly felt a burning feeling in his heart - a ship that was said to be an alien must have alien technology worth studying; and it was said that Captain Xie Yuan had more than two sets of The production line - although this is not a standard STC template, and there was a set of death regulations of the "Scarlet Agreement" in the early days of the Mechanicum to prohibit the research of "hating intelligence", but if after research, it is determined that intelligence is sacred... then it is not impossible. Research.
After all, this may be the earliest form of human intelligence technology - basically impossible to risk hating intelligence, and much simpler to dispose of.
Seeing the unexplained glint in the eyes of the sages, the great sage nodded with satisfaction - desire means possessiveness, so that he can guide other sages through words to increase the retention rate of Xie Yuan and his group. rationality and importance.
Then the casting director started using coincidences to guide him.
For example, their fleet was originally going to be outnumbered and annihilated. If that were the case, they would have no offensive capabilities at all and could only retreat in the forge world, constantly being attacked by others - time and time again, In the attrition attack that cannot be replenished, it gradually collapses.
However, the arrival of Xie Yuan's ship turned the tide and allowed the entire forging world to save a handful of frigates, thus preserving the spark of hope for future expansion of strength.
So he deduced that in any case, there was a will that made Xie Yuan arrive on the surface of their planet by coincidence, participate in the operation, and reinforce their ships to save them from destruction.
And he believed that this will was the Ohm Messiah!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" At this moment, a series of explosions began to sound - the sound was not too loud, it sounded like it was far away, but the vibrations caused were clearly transmitted.
"Who is calling again?!" Great Sage Person immediately made an inference and asked Sharif to go check it out. "Prepare the war dog-level Titan. This way you can advance or retreat. Don't be too lazy to fight."
"Yes!" Sharif immediately took the order and left.
Five and a half hours later, the roar of bombings gradually subsided, and eight hours later, the Council of Sages received a call request...from Sharif.
As soon as he saw Sharif's face, Great Sage Person prepared for the worst, so he immediately asked: "Legion Commander, tell me, who defeated us? And where did we lose?"
But this report was unexpected, and Sharif's expression was more intriguing: "Great Sage, no place was attacked. Our observation post only saw the Orc settlement-the large mine with flames rising into the sky at the moment. .”
"Didn't they attack us?" Great Sage Person continued to ask without giving up.
"Oh Messiah, I swear I didn't see any shadow of the Orcs..." After Sharif finished speaking, he shared his speculation, "I suspect that they seem to be being attacked at the moment... I think Probably Captain Xie Yuan.”
"He brought his Marines off the ship early? How rude."
Xie Yuan was happy that he dared to take action, but a little unhappy that he was rude for not bringing his own army.
Great Sage Person immediately contacted the captain's liaison, and the communication was transferred to a first mate named Little Angel - the Great Sage discovered that Little Angel seemed to be a subspecies of human, with large eyes with wide separation.
But after asking about Captain Xie Yuan's whereabouts, the little angel's answer surprised him: "You mean Captain? He has been off the ship alone for more than 10 hours. If it weren't for the fact that his signal still showed survival - I would have thought What happened to him?"
"What?! Disembarked alone?" Great Sage Person and other sages were shocked, "But we didn't receive any news at all, and we didn't even detect a signal."
"Oh, you're talking about this! Hi!" Little Angel said patiently, "Our shuttle called Kodiak can achieve a kind of radar invisibility."
"Stealth... okay!" Poulson could only accept the fact that Xie Yuan was temporarily out of contact. As for Xie Yuan attacking the Orcs or something, he found it hard to believe - what's the use of one person's force? Woolen cloth?
But soon he was slapped in the face. Sharif, the commander of the Zealot Legion, suddenly screamed: "Oh, Om Messiah! It's Commander Xie Yuan in white armor. He actually has a huge one on his head. The orc head came out - Om Messiah, it turned out to be the head of an orc boss!
Captain Xie Yuan killed an orc boss! "
"boom!
! "The whole parliament just exploded.
Beheading an orc boss in one battle. Although the boss is just the lowest orc leader in terms of ranking, he still has tens of thousands of greenskin troops. They can't pay them all themselves, but the boss often escapes. Success - I didn't expect that this big enemy would be in trouble today!
"Wait!" Sharif's sudden words tightened everyone's heartstrings.
"What's wrong?!" the great sage asked angrily.
"I found that not a single orc was chased out, not even an orc slave." Sharif's voice became very cautious, "It seems... it seems that this captain gave the entire orc tribe... to..."
"Give what?!"
"Bathed in blood!"
"Wow!
! "There was a commotion at the meeting of sages.
Killed an orc horde single-handedly? ! I'm afraid this is not a golden human from the past!
Even a small tribe of orcs must invest a lot of manpower. Clearing out the orc tribe has always been a difficult and difficult task for the sages who master their own mechas.
What they have always insisted on is to let the Zealot Titan Legion arrange to nip the risk in the cradle when the orc tribe develops crude machines like small Titans. As for other tasks that require a lot of time to clean up the lair... they generally don't want to You have done it, you have done it. If you consume too much, there is no guarantee that you will not be weaker than other sages in terms of the right to speak.
"Uh... there's one more thing... I just contacted Captain Yuan. He... he told me that he had just helped clean up a land factory area occupied by Eldar pirates, plus the mine that the orcs were guarding. The venue...is his meeting gift."
"And..." Sharif said hesitantly, "He invited me to be his shuttle back to the Forge Temple. You see..."
"Come over with him!" Great Sage Person agreed. "The rest of the legion will try to slowly explore whether this large mine has really been emptied. After all, we all know that even if we kill the leader, we will not be able to do anything." It basically heralds the demise of the orc tribe - but we should not be careless, as long as there are fish that slip through the net, we all know that it will never be cleaned up."
After hanging up the contact with Commander Sharif, Great Sage Person looked at the other sages who were deeply shocked by the news, and started the next step of the meeting in a very serious tone.
"Now, let's talk about how to make this captain ours."
