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Chapter 1504 Grammer Iron Cavalry (Today's lunch was terrible)

Compared to the mess and miserable situation on the ground, the scene in the underground shelter was quite different. Rather than calling it a shelter, it reminded Duanmu Huai of the cities of dwarves, gray dwarves or dark elves in the world of Faerun. That's right, this was not some kind of shelter, but more like a large city built underground.

Walking in it, the pedestrians coming and going all looked very calm, which was in sharp contrast to the city on the ground that was being destroyed by the swarm of insects.

Seeing Duanmu Huai and the others, the pedestrians also showed a curious look, but when they saw the mecha girl walking behind them, everyone's face suddenly changed and hurriedly moved away, as if it was some kind of pathogen. Seeing this scene, Duanmu Huai said nothing, he just observed the surroundings silently, and then let the young man take himself and others to a building not far from the city gate.

Judging from the interior decoration, this should be some kind of office space. However, there is no one here at the moment, or it could be said that there were people here before, but now there is no one.

Duanmu Huai glanced at the steaming drink on the table, then looked away.

"Okay, now you can tell us why you brought us here."

"of course."

The young man nodded, then he looked at the mecha girl.

"Iron Cavalry, for the sake of stability, I hope you can stay here for a while, okay?"

“That’s not in compliance with regulations.”

The mecha girl shook her head.

"Based on the current situation, I think we should search as much as possible and gather survivors to the shelter."

"………………But, I heard that you were just rescued, don't you need to rest?"

"This is the rule of the Grammer Iron Cavalry."

The mecha girl still didn't waver.

"Article 3: Any threat must be completely eliminated. The locust plague is still raging across the universe, and our mission is not yet complete. If you have no other instructions, please excuse me."

After saying this, the mecha girl saluted to the young man, then turned and left. As the mecha girl left, the young man opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything in the end, just silently watching the mecha girl disappear outside the city gate.

"………………………"

The young man was silent for a moment, then turned around and looked at Duanmu Huai and others.

"Sorry, let's continue... Please explain your identity and purpose..."

This was a normal process of communication, and Duanmu Huai was too lazy to talk nonsense, and directly said that they were interstellar travelers who came here to travel, but they encountered a battle between insects and fleets, and then accidentally rescued the mecha girl...

"Star Traveler? At this time?"

The young man was stunned when he heard Duanmu Huai's nonsense.

"You should be well aware of the threat of the current locust plague in the universe. Under such circumstances, how dare you travel?"

"Some are greedy for money, some are lustful, and some just like to watch the world burn."

Duanmu Huai spread his hands and curled his lips.

"It's just a personal hobby, it's not against the law, right?"

"Well…………………"

It is indeed not illegal.

"Well, I think you have already seen the current situation of this planet. We will return to the ground again after this insect plague is over. During this time, I am afraid you will have no choice but to stay here. I can introduce you to a place to stay, but please note that this place is currently closed because you can only move around in a fixed area. You are not allowed to go to other areas without permission. Once discovered, you will be arrested or even executed."

"I see."

Duanmu Huai also seemed very well behaved, and he believed what others said. Of course, with his appearance, no matter how much he assured them, the young man still looked at him with suspicion, but... what else could he do? He couldn't just arrest them.

Apart from anything else, this big guy looks like he can fight...

Perhaps the three girls following Duanmu Huai were so insensitive that the young man thought that a grown man like him taking three girls out would not cause trouble, so he just warned them a few words and then took them to a nearby hotel. After informing them of the scope of the activity, the young man turned around and left, leaving everyone behind.

"How should I put it... This doesn't feel like a shelter at all."

Walking to the window, Alicia looked at the underground city scenery outside with curiosity.

"There won't be any hotels in normal shelters, right? Or is it because of cultural differences?"

"What if this isn't a shelter?"

Duanmu Huai also used the auspicious device to scan the entire hotel room. After confirming that there were no monitoring or reconnaissance devices, he sat down on the sofa and started talking.

"Not a shelter?"

"Don't you think it's strange?"

Looking at the puzzled expressions of Alicia and Mu Geng, Duanmu Huai chuckled.

"Remember those people we saw on the way here? Did they look like they were about to die?"

“Not really.”

Now Kisara also recalled and shook his head.

"It seems like they are used to staying underground and don't care about the situation above at all... But those people seem to be very afraid of that mecha warrior. She is obviously fighting for them..."

"What's the specific situation? If we investigate, won't we know?"

Duanmu Huai stretched and looked at Lumiaire.

"how's it going?"

"The encoding method is quite special... OK, we have cracked it and entered the deep network."

As he spoke, Lumière reached out and tapped on the projected keyboard, and then a screen was projected onto the wall.

【Grammer Republic Ruling Parliament Database】

"The Republic of Gramer?"

Looking at this beginning, Alicia tilted her head in confusion.

"Isn't it the Empire? Isn't this change of dynasty a little too fast?"

"You'll know after you see it, Lumiel, search for the Gramer Cavalry."

"clear."

Lumiaire reached out and tapped the keyboard again, quickly retrieving the information from the database.

Grammer Iron Cavalry Project

[Warning: Level 1 Confidential]

[Object Class: Highest]

[Person in charge: Dr. Chris Hanke]

[Plan content: Countermeasures against the global locust plague]

【Preface】

[Relying solely on humans to fight against the Universal Locust Plague is fruitless. Everything we create will be affected by the meme contamination of the Universal Locust Plague, and as for humans themselves, we do not have enough numbers to fight against the Universal Locust Plague... However, this does not mean that the Universal Locust Plague is invincible.]

[Specific plan outline: substantial application of breeding destiny]

[Plan 1: Cultivate breeding mothers to fight against the global locust plague]

"What are they planning to do?"

Seeing this, Alicia couldn't help but speak in surprise.

"Isn't the Breeding meant to destroy them? They're actually using the power of the Breeding to fight against the Breeding? Is that possible?"

"of course."

Duanmuhuai nodded.

"Although the Star God represents destiny, he does not completely control destiny. It's like tug-of-war, except that the Star God is strong enough to pull the rope to his side smoothly, so it gives people a feeling that he can control destiny. But in fact, destiny itself does not distinguish between good and evil, and has no self-awareness. Just like Honkai energy, the Herrscher is using Honkai energy, and aren't you also using Honkai energy to fight against the Herrscher?" "I see, that's understandable. Then this Grammer Iron Cavalry looks similar to a Fusion Warrior?"

"Probably. Just keep reading and you'll know."

Soon, everyone finished reading the introduction of Grammer's Cavalry in the database and knew what the plan was all about.

First of all, the purpose of this plan is to use reproduction to fight reproduction - in the final analysis, humans cannot defeat insects because there are not enough of them. After all, everyone has seen the division of insects, which is so unreasonable, while human reproduction is obviously not so unreasonable, and it is done by mitosis directly.

So what should we do?

  It’s very simple, you have destiny and I have technology!

The Grammer Republic is also considered an interstellar civilization, and it obviously has all the necessary technologies. Although these technologies combined are not enough to resist the Zerg tide, if they are used together, it is another matter.

Thus, the Grammer Iron Horse Project came into being.

The plan was simple. First, find a being affected by the fate of reproduction, and the ruling council actually created such a weapon "born for war".

  Then what to do?

As mentioned before, humans are humans, and no matter how much they reproduce, they will not split like insects. However, the Grammer Republic has the technology to clone humans!

  For interstellar civilizations, cloning or artificial human technology is considered standard. The Cherubim of the Inquisition were created this way. They can't just go to the cemetery to dig up dead babies all day long, wouldn't that make them necromancers?

Ordinary clones are definitely not possible, but if the breeding orders are combined with these culture chambers and the power of breeding is used for catalysis, then clone soldiers will be like leeks, one crop after another and you can't stop!

Of course, this alone is not enough. The bred soldiers still have human attributes. No matter how powerful they are, they are not able to fight insects with bare hands.

But it doesn’t matter, we have technology!

  Iron Cavalry Mecha came into being!

Thus, the entire Grammer Iron Cavalry Project was born - with the breeding order mother as the core, using her cells to clone and replicate humans, and then using the power of breeding to catalyze them so that they can reach the fighting age in the shortest possible time. Then they can escape from the incubator, equipped with Iron Cavalry mechas, form an army, and fight against the locust plague throughout the universe!

So the question is, aren't you afraid of the mother's resistance? What if she becomes upset or doesn't want to be sucked blood by you anymore?

It doesn’t matter, just stamp your thoughts on me!

As long as the Grammer Republic is set as the empire of the breeding mother, then as the "soldier ants" of the queen ant, all these cloned people can do is to fight to the death to protect the queen's territory! For this mission, they fearlessly meet the enemy and die gloriously in battle. They will never feel fear, terror, or even flee from the battlefield like ordinary humans.

Seeing this, everyone finally understood why the mecha girl kept calling it the Grammer Empire. It turned out that in their minds, this place was the Grammer Empire, and the people here were the queen's people.

The soldiers' unhappy reactions were understandable, after all, the queen was not a real queen, but just a set identity. In the real Grammer Republic, there was no such thing as a queen.

But what follows is somewhat unexpected.

[The Grammer Iron Cavalry plan went very smoothly, the insect tide has been repelled, and the plan has entered the third stage]

[Warning: Unpredictable errors occurred in the plan, start the reproduction plan]

"The insect tide has been repelled?"

Seeing this, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. They had just been face to face with the insect swarm, and now they were being repelled?

"Investigate the re-creation plan."

"receive."

Liumiail nodded and searched for the [Reproduction Plan] again according to Duanmu Huai's request.

However……………

[Reproduction plan: Use the Yadrifen system as bait to attract the insect swarm to come again, and use this as a benchmark to completely destroy the Grammer Iron Cavalry system.]

"Wait, so these people want to use the power of the Zerg Tide again to destroy the Grammer Iron Cavalry?"

Seeing this, Alicia couldn't hold back any more.

Instead, Duanmu Huai nodded with emotion.

"That's it, I understand."

"What do you understand, Mr. Grand Inquisitor?"

"In fact, if you think about it carefully, you will find that all this has been foreshadowed."

Duanmu Huai waved his hand and explained to the three girls.

"Remember? When we saw that girl, she was wearing an armored mecha, and her voice was specially processed. Your first reaction was to think that she was a man."

“That’s… not wrong.”

"And she also told us that one of the rules in Grammer's military regulations is that you are not allowed to leave the mecha without permission."

"Yes, what's the problem?"

"It's simply a cognitive illusion."

Duanmu Huai chuckled.

"You see, for ordinary people, a group of unknown warriors who are always hidden in armor, possess great power, and can even defeat the insect swarm are terrifying. But what if it is a group of cute, young and beautiful girls? Do you think ordinary people would have the heart to let them die?"

"Of course not."

Alicia raised her head proudly.

"Cute girls need to be cared for!"

“So you see, here comes the problem.”

Duanmu Huai shrugged his shoulders.

"The mechas that cover their entire bodies have been modified to sound like deep male voices, and they are not allowed to take off their mechas without permission. All of this is done to conceal the true identity of the Grammer Iron Cavalry. People will only know that they are a group of determined warriors, but they will never imagine that the ones operating the mechas are teenage girls. This way, when they want to abandon and destroy them, they will have no psychological burden."

Having said that, Duanmu Huai sighed silently.

In fact, the situation faced by the Grammer Iron Cavalry is similar to that of the Astartes. For the Inquisition, it is - are you loyal to the Emperor or the Empire?

The Astartes were indeed respected, but at the same time, the more fanatical and loyal they were, the more they were feared.

  Because you can't be sure who Astartes is loyal to?

The Emperor? The Empire?

From this perspective, it is only natural that the ruling parliament would be wary of the Grammer Knights.

Just as the High Lords Council would not like the Legiones Astartes either.

"But...hasn't the ruling parliament already taken out insurance?"

Alicia still couldn't understand.

"Didn't they make special modifications to these clones, injecting them with something called... entropy? Didn't they say that this disease would slowly make these Grammer Knights disappear? Why did they do this?"

"Death in three months and death tomorrow are two different concepts. For someone who will die tomorrow, there is nothing he can do now. For someone who will die in three months, who knows what he will do in these three months."

Duanmu Huai rolled his eyes silently.

"Moreover, entropy is not invincible. Let me tell you, as long as you reach the level of Star God, it is not difficult to cure entropy. I can do it. Then the question is, if the locust plague is really eliminated, then who can guarantee that the 'queen' will not become the new breeding Star God? At that time, entropy and the like will still be useless. Can you pat your chest and guarantee that there will be no such accident? It's like saying that you fusion warriors may become Herrschers because of absorbing too much Honkai energy. Do you dare to say that it is absolutely impossible?"

To treat entropy disorder, the other party is ultimately a concept, and we just need to destroy it with the same concept.

So the question is, who is the God of Destruction?

"this…………………"

After hearing Duanmu Huai's analogy, Ailishia was completely speechless.

  Absolutely impossible? Who knows about this?

But you want to give it a try? Are you kidding me? Is this even possible?

"So that's why the ruling council took this approach to destroy the Grammer Cavalry? Is that why the fleet collapsed so easily?"

As a fusion warrior, Alicia also has a strategic vision. In her opinion, it is a bit incredible that the defense line formed by the steel battleships collapsed so quickly, but considering that all this is part of the reconstruction plan, it is understandable. Maybe the ruling parliament has been prepared for a long time, just waiting for the two sides to fight each other, and then use some method to wipe out both sides completely, leaving no one alive.

This is the real ending.

"So...are we just going to sit here and do nothing?"

Alicia was a little uneasy. After all, she felt that this was not a good thing. However, she was still thinking about what to do.

However, Duanmu Huai had other ideas.

"That's not necessarily the case."

Duanmu Huai touched his chin and smiled.

"Didn't I tell you that I love watching the world burn the most?"

I went to eat hamburgers for lunch, and thought I'd buy some hot drinks since it was cold. Then I saw that the milk tea was sweet, so I asked for milk. But it turned out to be made with milk powder, which was disgusting. It would be better if you could get a bag of milk from the store next door...