Chapter 409 The Road to Expedition: Mechanical Priest

The huge dark well was flickering with fire, and bright flames were sprayed in the dark and silent wide longitudinal tunnel. The spattered sparks flew around, lighting up the surroundings shrouded in darkness in the flickering halo.

The rock wall illuminates the concave and convex gaps surrounding it layer after layer.

Hong Suo fell downwards, his exposed silver steel arms grasping the rope. The hard iron rope made of tens of millions of steel wires rubbed violently between his palms. Where did the dazzling sparks come from?

It spurted out from between the fingers, lighting up the dark space around it.

The entire surrounding rock wall is full of saw-tooth marks that have been shattered. The deep marks that snake and cling to the surrounding rocks extend in circles and circles, just like a chain coiled on both sides of the mountain.

The lines in the staircase corridor perfectly match the edge of the drill bit of the huge drilling rig parked on the ground at the end below.

Hongsuo looked down at the huge machinery below. The huge shield machine had returned to its horizontal position. It was parked quietly on the ground, and around its sides were a large number of servitors carrying tools. Some of them were holding tools.

Industrial hot melt guns, or small drill tools, etc., and bright searchlights are set up on both sides of the excavation site, just like coming out of the underground of the mine.

The hard-working workers here are working hard, and they are digging the tunnels painstakingly. After all, the servitors can't speak, nor can they think or feel tired, right? They are simply the perfect labor force, especially in the

Here, in this bottomless underground, who else but them can dig clangingly here?

The machine servant held a hot melt gun and sprayed the high-temperature fire pillar on the rock wall nearby. The wall was melted little by little by the high temperature and turned into a bright stream of fire. The flame flowed down and spread little by little on the ground.

Come on, the firelight also illuminated another servitor holding a drill.

The pale light shone behind them as they worked among the surrounding rock walls, making the excavation site below even bigger. In the clanking underground environment, the lights of the lights were also brightened as they stood.

On the mechanical priest behind him.

The priest in a dark red robe stood in front of the tall fuselage of the shield machine. He rolled his eyes on the ground and looked at the servitors all around who were repeating mechanical movements. They did not complain, did not talk, and did not even breathe.

The simple movements are repeated over and over again, and during that movement, the space here is also rapidly becoming larger.

He stood here alone, and Father Heimer walked alone beside the shield machine. Just as Honso would not let any of his men avoid him to get the ancient artifact, neither would Father Heimer.

Allowing priests of the Mechanicus, other than himself, to step into this technological palace he had just discovered.

Everything here shocked Haimer. When the shield machine drilled through the hard granite, he stood in front of this magnificent tunnel. Everything in it, no matter how simple it was, made him nervous.

The mechanized, non-existent heart was beating violently under the chest.

Haimer's mechanical eye turned in a circle, scanning the surrounding caves on his vision interface, and then turned his head to look at the huge cave sitting there. To be precise, it was a door, with some kind of structure that he could not analyze at all.

A huge gate composed and constructed of scanned metal.

Behind it, there is a deep corridor, leading to a certain place. Haimo doesn't know what is at the end of there, but he is sure that there is something powerful there, because the energy scan on his vision interface

The spectrum can almost be said to reflect the energy radiation in it.

At the end of the tunnel, Heimer discovered the existence of a powerful energy body. The same level of energy intensity Heimer had only seen among the ancient, mysterious, and more deadly Star God fragments of the Necrons.

I once heard that it only takes one ancient fragment of the Star God to blow up the entire galaxy.

And now, on the scanning interface in front of Haimer, he was witnessing a picture of the same powerful energy. The ever-changing radiators were constantly moving irregularly on his graphics window, as if they had life, a living person.

energy of.

"What an amazing place. There are so many technologies and mysteries here. If more excavations and research can be done here, it will provide more help for the journey of knowledge."

The priest walked to the door and scanned the unique silver-gray steel-like surface with his eyes. In fact, the priest had no idea what kind of material it was. He could only name it "silver-gray alloy" through similar observations and comparisons.

"He stored the name in his database to facilitate subsequent research and analysis.

The surface of this metal is almost completely sealed, and all the molecules are locked together without even a single gap. The priest was once a high-density metal of the undead. As a priest of the Dark Mechanicum, Haimer is fortunate to have access to and study it.

Those technological products that are considered dangerous by the empire include the technology of the undead.

Heimer was not a member of the Mechanicus during the Great Expedition. He was an ordinary person who was born on Mars in the later empire. Later, he lived in the red world full of poisonous gas and harmful radiation in order to survive and seek knowledge, perhaps more of the former.

On the planet, people only have two choices.

Either they become low-level workers with a short lifespan, living under the factory gas that has been circulated countless times, working in obscurity for a lifetime in the bottomless underground, and finally dying in obscurity, and their bodies may be transformed into those ferocious creatures.

servitors, or they may be made into corpse starch and supplied to others.

Or you can become a Tech-priest, join an order under the God of All Machines, convert to the Cult Mechanicus to gain protection, transform your body to survive in that harmful environment, and have a longer lifespan and better food and living environment.

Most people don't have much choice, do they? Almost everyone wants to be a Tech-priest, all the children of Mars, but only a handful of them are qualified to pass the rigorous tests of the Mechanicum.

, and Haimer is one of the lucky ones.

He has forgotten how long ago it was. He has long forgotten the red planet, the steel factory on it and the never-ending sound of forging. The only thing he remembers is exploration and knowledge, on the exploration fleet.

A journey of seeking knowledge and technology in the galaxy.

Once, Haimo was just an ordinary child who converted to the God of All Machines in order to survive, but perhaps it was the will of the Omi Messiah that he soon showed great talent and a natural keen insight into knowledge.

This allowed Heimer to climb up the ranks within the Adeptus Mechanicus, eventually becoming the Commander-in-Chief of the Exploration Fleet under the Priest.

When Heimer embarked on the path of seeking knowledge, he showed his infinite thirst for knowledge. This is true no matter what kind of knowledge it is, even those technologies that are taboo and considered heretical. Heimer believes in knowledge.

There is no distinction between good and bad, the only difference is the person who uses it.

Although Heimer could not remember the specific life in Low Nest, the hunger and physical pain never left no matter how many iterations of data memory were performed. Heimer wanted to change that miserable life, just like Ohm Messiah.

As the Emperor expected, use technology to benefit mankind.

But with such a great dream, Haimer ran into obstacles everywhere. He soon discovered that the officials of the empire and the ruling nobles of the planet did not care about the lives of civilians. Even if there was a slight possibility of changing society, they would

He regarded it as a scourge and firmly refused on the grounds that it would shake the foundation of the country.

They would rather watch tens of millions of ordinary people in the empire live a hard life than extend a hand to help them, because that would be of no benefit. They would rather spend that time fighting for ridiculous power, as if what they have is not enough.

Not the same enough.

What makes Heimer even more desperate is his own colleagues. The members of the Mechanicus don't care about all this at all. They are even worse than the officials of the empire. They only care about technology and what they can do for themselves.

The technology used is a technological legacy that allows them to climb the hierarchical pyramid within the Adeptus Mechanicus.

"The Cult Mechanicus has betrayed the Ohm Messiah."

These were Haimer's last words before he left the Empire and the Mechanicus. He left the corrupted Order and Empire. Haimer once vowed to use the power of technology to change the Empire. If there is real change, then Haimer will

To do that, no matter who helps him, as long as the result can still serve the well-being of all mankind and overthrow that decadent country, then Haimer will follow him.

Chaos provided him with this opportunity. In the Dark Mechanicum, Heimer could research more technologies, many of which came from the alien race. Which technologies could benefit the people of the empire, such as better medical technologies?

Agriculture and construction technology, etc.

But all of this was previously banned by the empire as "dangerous alien technology". How ridiculous and absurd it is. It is precisely because of this that the country that was once founded on reason and truth has become a country in just a few thousand years.

In this way, Heimer is almost certain that the Emperor and Ohm Messiah will also condemn them.

So for Haimer, he is not betraying, the real traitors are the group of people in the empire, the group of traitors who claim to be loyal, but always rebel and betray the principles from which the empire was founded.

Therefore, when Honso extended an invitation to him, promising that the technology he was looking for would bring radical changes to all mankind, Haimer agreed to his invitation and came here to assist Honso in finding the ancient technology.

And now, he is standing in front of those technologies.

He has studied the polymer technology of the undead and similar technologies of several other alien races, but they are completely incomparable to the metal in front of him. This metal gate is completely locked to the structure behind it.

It has eliminated all the molecules and does not even have resonance. When you tap its surface, not even a little vibration will occur.

Its structure is locked by some unknown, radiating energy body rich in special energy forms. The priest believes that it is some kind of unique spiritual energy. Only the expert can explain the complete randomness of this energy. The priest has observed them thousands of times.

Tens of thousands of times, but no repeatable pattern was found at all. Each energyization was random, but the results were completely consistent.

This made the priest extremely curious. He was eager to study everything here and stay here for a while, a few months? Maybe a few years, or even longer to study these unknown ancient technologies.

The priest hoped that he could further unearth the technical mysteries here by studying these technological creations, but now, he had to inform his employer, so the priest's alarm clock dialed the communication channel, "Lord Honso, I have completed

Digging and waiting for your arrival."

"Very good, priest." Honsou's voice echoed in his ears, but it was not from the communicator, but from behind him. The priest turned around and looked at the falling behind him under the huge impact.

Honsuo, he fell heavily behind the priest, and his tall body slowly stood up with a battle ax in hand.

"Sir, I am glad that you can come here. I have discovered a large number of scientific and technological products here, but they have not been included in any collection. I request that more research be conducted here to facilitate more knowledge and exploration."

"Very well, priest, I agree to your request, but precisely because of this, you must also personally defend your technological heritage and buy time for me to go and get the technological artifact that changes everything. Someone is behind you.

He is in hot pursuit, can you stop him?"

Honso said, raising his head and looking upward. Of course, he didn't expect Heimo to be able to stop Vito. Unless the Four Gods personally took action, no one could stop the attack of the Supreme Marshal himself. That was no different from committing suicide, so Honso

Only then did he decisively choose to run.

He does not have the blessing of any of the four gods. The battle ax in his hand can kill ordinary space warriors, but it can never be used to kill gods. If he confronts the marshal head-on, he will definitely die. I am afraid that if Vito wanted to, he would not be able to hold on even for a moment.

If he doesn't hold on, he will be killed instantly. What he needs now is time, time to run away after getting the artifact, and Haimo should be able to hold him off for at least a short while so that he can reach the shrine.

"Of course, Lord Honso, I will protect this valuable knowledge and buy you precious time. In the name of Ohm Messiah, we will change the world together."

"Of course, Abbey, of course, good luck to you now, you're going to need it when you face him."

After Honso said that, he turned around and ran towards the gate on the side. Haimo turned around and looked around, his mechanical eyes scanning everything around him, just like a hunter checking his hunting ground.

He didn't know who Honso was talking about, but the priest believed that it should be the Astartes. Combining the recent situation with the dozens of endings he had calculated, the probability was as high as 88.12%.

Heimer was sure that his analysis was correct, and he was well prepared to deal with the Astartes. His army of servitors were all equipped with weapons, and he himself also carried weapons designed for the Astartes.

equipment.

But how can I put it, I think he was probably not prepared to deal with a guy who was "bigger" than the Astartes, something that even his old boss, Honso, would run away from when he saw it.
To be continued...