Darkness, pure darkness swallowed up everything. There was no time, no space and no touch. There was only darkness in front of him. He could not feel anything. Sound, taste and body senses all seemed to disappear. There was only one situation.

A person will sink into the darkness where all things return to silence, and that is death.

But he was not dead, he knew, because gradually he could feel his body, his arms, legs and twisting nose all returned to the neural control of the brain.

There was also a voice, and that voice appeared in his mind. It was a voice coming from his auditory nerve. It seemed to be far away in the horizon, but also seemed to be close at hand. It was a person calling him.

"Sir? Sir, can you hear me? I think he is about to wake up, right?" The girl said, "Yes, according to the nerve reader, his cranial nerves have been restarted. I think he is about to wake up."

What responded to him was a mixed voice composed of mechanical and electronic sounds. The unnatural voice came from a bad sound-producing device, like a bad band ensemble.

"But why is he still like this? Are you sure?" "Well, maybe I can test it." The mechanical voice said and gradually came closer. He could hear the moving mechanical sound, which was the simultaneous movement of several mechanical torsos and hydraulic devices.

Harsh sound.

The sound of mechanical movement was getting closer and closer, and the pungent smell of brass and chromium metal hit your face. It was probably because the olfactory nerve had just been awakened, so it was extremely sensitive to the gas. In human terms, it was

The metallic smell on that guy is worse than ever.

"Vito? Can you hear me? I can't check your reboot like I can with other Mechanicum priests. Are you powered on?"

"I smelled your fuel as soon as I woke up, so move your body away from me, Kaul." He said, and gradually, light appeared, and the pitch-black darkness split from the center, and a

A pale beam of light illuminated his field of vision, and everything gradually became clear in the blurry light.

Vito was lying on an operating chair. His eyes unconsciously looked at the surroundings. This was an operating room. To be precise, it should be a laboratory. Scalpels, cutting saws and fixed pliers were all around.

It was on the operating table. It was obvious that some dissection had just been performed on the operating table over there, and the white cleaning cloth was still stained with dried blood.

And the success of the dissection is probably there. A large number of culture tanks are stored on the surrounding shelves. Each formalin tank is soaked with the anatomical organs of people or who-knows-what, including hands, eyes, noses and ears.

, looks like a horror movie scene.

"Damn it Caul, why does your laboratory always look like the set of a horror movie?" Vito complained. He turned to look at the huge Mechanicum Sage next to him. He turned around and used one of his mechanical tentacles to lift off the table.

Grab a certain reagent.

The green potion was stretched out in front of Caul by the mechanical arm. His blue mechanical eyes turned to look at the potion. He nodded with satisfaction and then turned around and wriggled several mechanical iron feet under his red robe to the side of the operating couch.

"Perhaps you have forgotten, Vito, in addition to the command sage, I am also a biological sage. I think most biological sages are similar to my laboratory." Caul said several machines under his arm.

The arms stretched out at the same time, and those small robotic arms all had welding nozzles at the ends. They flexibly reached the inside of the robotic arm on Vito's right side and started welding...

Small sparks accompanied the welding flame and shot under Vito's armpits, but the sparks were temperatureless, so even if they splashed onto Vito's body, he would not feel pain.

"You mean your labs are like the basement of a Slaanesh killer?" Vito said with a wry smile. Call was not distracted by the witticism. He inserted the green potion into the side of Vito's robotic arm.

In the interface, as the mouth of the medicine bottle is inserted and rotated gently, the green liquid is pressed into the arm.

"If I were a Slaanesh murderer, I would also be a murderer who could help you repair your mechanical arm." Call said, his eyes scanning Vito's right arm, and several of his small mechanical tentacles were spraying on it.

Flames and electromagnetic filaments repeatedly shocked the surface of each crystal.

Vito looked at his right arm. He tried to move his arm, and the powerful mechanical fingers began to bend and move. He nodded slightly and then sighed and rubbed his forehead with his left hand.

"I had a dream, a very, very long dream." "That was the effect of Nasomic elements. That kind of chemical reagent can block your nerve reactions, so that when I adjust the nerves in my arm, I can't

It will make you doubt your life in pain."

Kaul spoke word by word, his eyes still on Vito's mechanical arm. The electric light from his countless arms illuminated the only human face under his robe.

"But the reagent sometimes causes a reaction in the deep nerves of the subject's brain. After the body perception and consciousness are shielded, the movement and activity of the brain are maintained to avoid death and irreversible damage caused by unresponsiveness of the brain nerves. And the biology of the deep cortex of the brain

The electrical signal reaction is called a dream by your flesh and blood."

"Why do you oil guys like to babble these words that normal people can't understand? You're just pretending, and I know it was a dream." Vito said, rubbing his temples, and looking at Helen at his hand from the corner of his eye.

, the latter was also standing on a small CD with his hands behind his back and looking at himself.

He was still the same as he remembered, with a blue halo body and beautiful short hair. Vito looked at her and smiled and put down his left arm, "I slept for so long, did you miss me?"

Helen looked at Vito expressionlessly. She waved her finger and an electronic clock appeared in front of her. The floating numbers danced in front of Helen, "No matter how long your dream is, sir, in fact you only slept for six months."

It’s just an hour.”

"Only six hours? Then why do I feel that my dreams are as long as if I have slept for several days?" Vito asked in confusion, and Kaul at his hand spoke, "In deep sleep, you will feel that your dreams are as long as if you have been sleeping for several days?"

The time is so long that it almost replaces the real time, but that is just an illusion created by your brain to confuse you."

"The flesh-and-blood brain is always easily confused by false illusions and is very unreliable. I suggest you mechanize your brain as soon as possible. If you are ready to do it now, I have several."

"Gungun, I still want to keep my brain and my other fleshy parts. I don't want to turn into an electronic Cthulhu. It's already troublesome enough to turn this arm into iron." Vito waved his hand.

, pushed away a mechanical arm stretched out by Caul, and the tiny rotating slices on it roared in Vito's ears, making his whole body numb...

"Flesh and blood has limits, Vito, but the steel body given by the God of Machines does not. We evolve much faster than flesh and blood, and we will not be tortured by the pain of flesh and blood." Kaul said, and the work at hand was also limited.

Without stopping, Vito rolled his eyes at him.

"You sound like a missionary, Call, like those Anglican guys, talking about converting so and so without mentioning what the price might be."

To be honest, although the robotic arm seems cool, in fact it is not the case at all. You have to find a motor oil guy like Vito to perform maintenance on your nerves every once in a while, and debug it.

I also messed with the robotic arm, and the result was...

You will be given an injection, then fall into a drowsy sleep, have a strange dream, and then wake up with your head and arms hurting to death. Although it is said that it can relieve pain and block pain nerves, believe me,

That thing won't make you feel very good, and if you want a full-body transformation, you have to figure out whether you like a lot of pain all over your body.

Of course, in theory, you can also replace all the brain, or more nerve parts of the body, with mechanical ones, so that the problem can be solved, and you won't be in pain every time you perform maintenance, but there is another small problem.

, you may die suddenly due to rejection between machines, or between machines and organs, at any stage of your whole body transformation.

Wow, there is nothing you can do about this problem. You can only pray that the Emperor or Omnisea is not so anxious to summon you and go over to accompany them.

"I think this is what you should understand before choosing the Mechanicus, rather than needing me to tell you." Caul said, his face was illuminated by electric sparks, and Vito made a wave.

He waved his hand, but what he said was correct. Most of the many Mechanicus believers in the empire chose to join the Mechanicus to escape from a bad living environment or were desperate.

Please, for knowledge, truth and infinite pursuit? Understand, this is the empire, idealism is too luxurious for the people of the empire.

Vito took a deep breath and leaned on the operating chair. He would always dream about past memories, and every debugging of the robotic arm would be covered with a long memory. Most of the time he would forget his dreams when he woke up.

No matter what I saw, the things in those dreams would become blurry and fragmented, looking more like a messed up video tape.

But this time, Vito vaguely remembered something. He lowered his head and looked at Helen, looking at the blue Helen at his hand. The latter also looked at Vito with slight confusion.

"Sir? What's wrong?" Helen asked in confusion, while Vito waved his hands and sighed longly, "It's nothing, Helen, it's nothing, I just dreamed of something."

Vito looked at Helen recalling the memories in her mind, those not so pleasant memories. Vito had many memories that he didn’t want to remember. You see, living longer can certainly increase experience, experience and strength, but your memory

I will also write down the mistakes, regrets and contradictions over the long years.

Vito has contradictions. The old bastard also said this about himself. In fact, Vito often knows that there are some things that cannot be done. If there are some things that he can understand if he makes up his mind and decides on them, but he can't do it.

He is often bound by those memories, those beautiful memories that belong to him...

So sometimes, Vito also thinks that the old Chaos has been away from the world for thousands of years. Maybe there is nothing wrong. If you want to be truly rational and without hesitation, and not be troubled by beautiful memories, then it is best.

The only way is to not have those memories, and that also means that you will erase the most important thing about yourself as a human being, your feelings.

"You dreamed about things about me, right?" Helen asked calmly. Vito was stunned for a moment and shook his head slightly, "No, I just dreamed about something about my arm. It has nothing to do with you."

"Sir." "Really, Helen, you know, when I had a fight with the Avatar of Khorne on Nothan, that bastard chopped off my hand, and I blinded one of his eyes.

That’s it, that’s all.”

Helen lowered her head in silence. Her expressionless face did not reveal any hesitation or thinking. She looked as if nothing had happened, but she knew it was not the truth.

"It's really interesting. It seems that your dreams have certain precognitive power, Vito." Kaul said and finished his work. He adjusted the final connection between the mechanical arm and the motor nerves, and then came the final step.

Caul's slender and curved robotic arm interface was inserted into the round hole on the side of Vito's arm. With the insertion of the interface, Vito's arm was quickly covered by the bionic skin that spread downwards. The robotic arm's

The steel surface instantly changed into that of a normal person.

Kaul pulled out the tentacle-like interface from Vito's arm. As the slot separated, the skin instantly covered the last exposed position of Vito's arm. Now, the entire arm has returned to its original state.

"What do you mean? Prophecy? Then I want to prophesy when I can open a harem, retire happily with a group of beautiful girls, and then tell that old Chaos to go to hell and quit." Vito laughed.

He moved his arms, and his mechanical arm moved as directed by his arm.

"Well, in theory, I can give up my job now, after all, Big Blueberry is back." "Are you serious?"

Kaul said on the side, he stood up and turned to another operating table and started to pack the surgical tools on it.

Vito sighed with great regret, and the sigh came from the heart, "I want to, but I can't. Can I rely on Guilliman to solve this messy situation in the Empire once I leave? Well, at least I can't.

I cannot retire until the other Primarchs are recovered."

Vito sighed and rubbed his neck, while Caul responded to him with that weird voice, the pain-in-the-ass laughter of a sage from the Adeptus Mechanicus. Oh, that laughter simply made the hairs on the whole body stand on end.

"Damn it, Kaul, your laugh is still so scary. Why don't you work part-time in the interrogation department? You are scarier than the interrogators in the Inquisition, in every sense of the word." Vito said, sticking his head out and looking at it.

He carefully reviewed the various scalpels that he had packed away.

"Well, I think your Mechanical Priest Omega may be more suitable. He knows the habits and regulations of the Tribunal better, and I am sure that he must have helped you with the interrogation, right?" Kaul asked, while Vito said

shrugged.

"Ah, Omega has indeed helped, but it's not the kind where he needs to use knives or guns, break a few fingers, or amputate hands and feet. Ah, I don't know if he will like it, but every time he helps

When I read those guys’ memories and burned their heads, he didn’t seem to have much discomfort.”…

Vito was stunned, raised his head and looked around. He looked at the entire research room. This was once one of Omega's several research rooms. It was also the place where he and Bell used to dissect and study alien aliens. Although
To be continued...