Chapter 287 The Rise of the Primarch: Mechanicum-style Interview

The hot red light of the welding ray hits the armor plate, and the mechanical arm behind the Mechanic-Priest operates with a clear creaking sound. His mechanical eyes are locked on the huge engine in front of him, and the servo skull is suspended beside him.

The scanning beam is also repeatedly swept over the engine to feed back the structural parameters to the priest in real time.

His blue mechanical eye rotated twice clockwise, and the coaxial focusing ring creaked. The priest concentrated his energy on the engine assembly in front of him, and the ancient Mechanicus requiem hymn was muttered in his mouth.

His robotic arm placed the data board on the engine instrument. As the sparks of the minimally invasive welding chip burst out, the prayers to appease the manic machine soul were recited and sang in an orderly manner, like the torrent of thousands of data in his mind.

In that way, there is not even a single mistake in the extremely complex syllables and poems.

Every qualified Mechanicus priest can do this. They can sing the complex Mechanicus hymns and melodies at the same time, without a choir, without any accompaniment or assistance. Their already mechanized voices and electronic lungs can do it.

He can perform hymns by himself that are no less impressive than those of a choir, with everything from accompaniment, melody to verses.

As the poem sang, the micron-level crystal pins of the CNC chip were connected one by one. As the minimally invasive soldering points were closed one by one, the entire engine control system was installed.

The priest turned his head slightly, and the servo skull next to him also flew to the other side. The scanning light quickly completed the engine scan. After getting the data to support his calculation, the priest was ready to start the next operation.

But when his robotic arm had just approached the exposed fiber-grade data pipeline, and when he had just begun to sing comforting poems, another burst of humming interrupted him, and the priest raised his head and looked at the engine in surprise.

Opposite him, he saw the man who was humming and walking among the priests of the Mechanicus.

Vito hummed songs and strolled and danced in the aisles. He walked briskly and his upper body danced along with the melody of the lyrics. He just hummed and walked from between the work areas of the Mechanicus Priests on both sides.

He walked over and sang the cheerful melody as he walked between the machines and the hanging mechanical arms.

This area is a comprehensive area for R&D, scientific research and maintenance on the Infinite Frontier. Simply put, this is the territory of the ship's Mechanics. The engine oil guys will work on their own research and inventions here, and occasionally work part-time as a mechanic.

A repair shop or something like that, helping marines and battleship maintenance teams repair some important parts.

Generally speaking, each member of the Mechanicus has his own journey of seeking knowledge. Even if their main responsibilities on the ship are maintenance workers and engineers, everyone still has their own research projects, and they are all different. Biology, mechanics

What to learn about weapons, etc., depends on each person’s research direction.

Like most Mechanicus believers, they hate other people, that is, non-Mechanicus members, wandering around in their "hall of knowledge", but it is obvious that Vito is not on this unpopular list, or at least they

Can you tolerate this guy singing, or to be precise, singing and dancing while walking by?

Vito hummed as he walked to the end of the long and narrow corridor in the middle of the wide research workshops on both sides. He passed between the jingling maintenance area and the engineering area and came here. This large door was branded with the red mechanized skull of the Mechanicus.

In front of the door.

Vito hummed and placed his palm on the scanning interface on one side. As a green light swept across, the indicator light above the door lit up, "No. i-0001, Grand Inquisitor Vito Constantine."

Authorization passed."

The door slid open to both sides as Vito hummed. He turned around and walked in behind the door. He walked through the laboratory while humming and dancing, while Caul and Omega were both beside him.

Looking at him, the two Mechanicus sages looked at Vito as he walked by like a fool.

Vito walked briskly to a workbench. He picked up a wrench from the table and turned it twice in his hand before pointing it at the two of them. Two irons? I don't know, members of the Mechanicus can be called people.

? I mean, they probably don’t have a few pieces of meat left on them, right?

But well, Vito obviously didn't care about this issue that would lead to decades of debate between the Ecclesiarchy and the Mechanicus. He asked another question meaningfully.

"Have you eaten?"

Omega looked at Vito, his mechanical eyes moved, and the brief data flow on the curved glass window was interrupted. He stayed there in silence for a long time, as if thinking about how to answer this question.

"Is this your problem? Or is this a problem?"

"I think so, so have you eaten? Yes, I know you guys, oil guys, don't eat like us, but you have to put something into your stomach."

Vito pointed at Omega's belly with his wrench and shook it twice, as if he was really thinking about this question, "Seriously, what do you eat? Gasoline? Is there any difference in taste between 39-octane gasoline and 51-octane gasoline?

?”

"No, we don't drink gasoline. If you are really asking this question, we will drink a special energy liquid, which contains the fuel part that supplies the mechanical parts to operate. There is also a remaining part that has not yet been modified to be absorbed by the flesh and blood organs.

Nutrients for digestion.”

Omega said as he used his robotic arm to grab a jar from the table on one side. The oil barrel-like jar was grabbed by the flexible robotic arm and picked up. His robotic arm sent the oil barrel to Vito, and then

The reporter took the oil barrel and looked at it in surprise. He raised his eyes to look at Omega and pointed at this thing.

"Is this the thing?" "Yes, there is energy liquid in it."

After Vito came close to the oil barrel and smelled it, his expression immediately twitched. He threw the oil barrel on the table aside and rubbed his neck. He was silent for a moment with a strange look on his face, "Wow.

.Your taste is really unique.”

As he spoke, Vito took out the reagent given by Bell from his arms. He shook the thing, and Omega's mechanical eyes immediately locked onto the thing, and his scanning circle slid to the right several times.

"This is?" "An unknown alien creature that Bell and the others discovered on the bottom deck. It can speak human language, is intelligent, and can imitate human appearance, although it is still ugly as hell."

Vito said as he waved the potion in the air twice, and the flesh slices in it were turned upside down. "Bell said he couldn't analyze it. Please handle it and see what the hell this is."

After Vito said that, Omega's mechanical arm stretched out from behind him. His slender mechanical arm stretched out in reverse like a steel snake, and the triangular mechanical claw at the end grabbed Vito's hand.

The reagent on the bottle was quickly grabbed by Omega as Vito let go.

"You said they have intelligence?" "Yes, they can talk, and they can imitate very well. They also know how to make the most basic weapons and confuse the enemy. So yes, they have intelligence, although I don't think it is very high.

"

Vito shrugged as he spoke, while Omega's mechanical eyes looked at the thing carefully. The scanning data quickly rolled on the mechanical eyeballs. He watched the biological slices and walked to an instrument not far away.

"Your descriptions are really interesting. Let's see if they are satisfactory." Omega said and inserted the reagent containing the biological slices into the hole on the side of the instrument. As the test tube was inserted into it, a

The indicator lights of the series lit up, and all data interfaces started ticking.

One of Omega's robotic arms dexterously rotated the three-edged claw. The claw was as dexterous as a windmill as the end of his wrist rotated. He raised the claw and then inserted it into the data interface on the surface of the instrument.

Omega's eyeballs began to scroll with a stream of data. The dense data scrolled rapidly along with the calculation array on the instrument interface. Omega's mechanical fingers quickly clicked on the touch screen. As the icons clicked on him one by one,

Dancing between his fingers, other robotic arms behind him also started working on the surrounding instruments.

Vito watched the dexterous mechanical arms clicking on the surrounding instrument keyboards. As the mechanical keyboards clicked, the instruments in front of Omega also projected a three-dimensional image, which was composed of several data modules and computing arrays.

Pictures from heaven, Vito can say confidently.

He can not understand.

Seriously, who can understand this damn thing except those from the Mechanicum? There is nothing on it except a bunch of scrolling data and letters of unknown meaning. There is not even a part that can be spelled out in human words.

Who can understand except these oil guys?

"What were you talking about before? Before I came in." Vito walked to Caul and asked softly. The Great Sage's Gundam body stood aside, and his head deftly turned to Vito, with half of his face

He looked at Vito with his eyes, and then raised his eyes to look at Omega who was rapidly operating many calculation arrays in front of him.

"The research topic on gene seeds of Space Marines is really interesting. Did you know? Omega is also researching the knowledge of gene seeds, and the progress is amazing."

"Gene seed? This... I really don't know." Vito said, crossing his arms and looking at Omega in front of him. Vito looked at him and narrowed his eyes slightly. He tried to understand how much Omega was hiding from him.

, a "sensitive" research topic, but it was obviously useless. He didn't know what he was still studying.

And if he guessed correctly, Omega, like most mechanical priests, did not disclose his research to anyone. Only he knew what the dangerous content of his research was.

"His genetic research on Space Marines is very outstanding, and I have benefited a lot from many conjectures and hypotheses. He is indeed an excellent priest with a bright future." In Caul's comments, his admiration was undisguised.

It turns out that he likes this young man very much.

"How's it going? Have you told him about the Primaris plan?" Vito asked looking at Omega, while Caul shook his head slightly.

"No, not yet, but I am indeed considering recruiting him, if you allow me." Kaul said and looked at Vito, as if asking for his permission, which made Vito laugh.

Then he walked forward and walked to Kaul's side to look at the complex calculation interface.

"So have you researched anything? Something that can be translated into human language."

"Indeed, my analysis shows that these aliens have human genetic characteristics mixed with them. After comparative testing, I can confirm that they are hybrids of humans and aliens."

"Hybrid creature? Like the Tyranids?"

Vito asked in surprise. Omega clicked on the data node in front of him. As he clicked, the holographic interface in front of him also instantly switched to the Tyran data interface. The data was compared with the aliens on the bottom deck.

Moreover, Omega has indeed been optimized, and now Vito can understand the meaning of the data.

His eyes kept jumping between the two columns of data to compare, and he quickly came to the conclusion, "These creatures are not as smart as Tyranids, right? And their ability to evolve their minds is also weaker."

"Correct, the intelligence of a single creature in the Tyranid swarm is limited, but it can be connected to the Hive Will through node creatures and tyrants, and can greatly improve its intelligence through centralized thinking calculations similar to parallel connections, so ordinary war beasts can also use it.

Complex tactics to become a truly intelligent beast."

"Even the hybrids of gene stealers are significantly more intelligent than the new alien we discovered. I think this alien belongs to a low-end parasitic species. They infect an original individual

, mutate its genes and become the host of the alien, and then spread the population by interbreeding with humans or other organisms. The purpose is purely primitive biological instinct."

"Wait, you mean, these monsters are the carriers of some kind of virus? What's in their bodies is the true nature of these monsters?" Vito asked in surprise, while Omega nodded slightly.

He clicked the screen with his finger, and soon a small, wriggling creature appeared on the holographic projection, "Your judgment is very accurate. These creatures are just carriers for the population spread and movement of these cellular organisms.

The real core is these fungal cells."

"They will infect the host's genes, and then merge into the gene tree of the organism, and then they can control the host's gene spread within this population. They do have some basic survival instincts, such as through the memory and thinking of the host's brain.

Learn and apply some knowledge of this group.”

"Then this kind of thing is pretty strong, about the same as Tyranids." Vito said with his arms folded, while Omega shook his head and pointed at the data that appeared in front of him.

"But the intelligence of this kind of creature is, as you said, very limited. Their learning process is extremely slow and they rely more on instinctive reflexes. Just like the evolution of primitive creatures, they only learned the basics after many generations of reproduction.
To be continued...