Emperor's Daughter of the Red Sands

Chapter 146 Iron Man’s Secret ([-])
The thing that stopped the Land Raider was a broken-looking Iron Man with a broken body and exposed cables.

Its appearance is almost the same as those iron men who are stumbling and crawling like living corpses. However, in front of such an ordinary-looking iron man, the 72-ton Land Raider suddenly stopped moving forward without warning. .

No, rather than saying that it has stopped moving forward, it is better to say "downtime".

Elaine glanced at the data board linked to the interior of the Land Raider's cabin. The machine soul data on it kept reporting errors as if it had been cursed by some sacrilegious ritual, and incomprehensible garbled numbers began to pop up.

Obviously, the powerful adaptive combustion engine no longer transmits power, and its thick tracks with amazing precision also stopped the forward momentum in an instant, as if another operator had just issued a braking command in advance. The entire chariot stopped precisely in front of Iron Man.

Faced with such an unexpected situation, the highly combat-literate Astartes almost did not hesitate to immediately activate the emergency egress device that was not controlled by electronic signals, causing the Land Raider to be locked when it crashed. The lock on the cabin door was violently broken in an instant - their actions, decisions, and communication only occurred in the 50 milliseconds that a mortal could barely react. It was as if the cabin was locked had never happened, efficient and rapid. Land Raiders suspected to have been invaded by cybernetic demons.

Then, within two to three breaths, their heavy and swift figures dismembered the iron man standing in front of the Land Raiders, eliminating all potential threats - leaving only the head and torso. To prepare for communication.

"..."

Faced with this sudden reversal of the scene, Iron Man was obviously stunned for a moment, and seemed quite surprised.

At this time, Elaine also slowly walked out of the cabin, and the Land Raider's engine roared again - for this ancient creation of the dark technological age, and the STC that most mechanical priests could not understand, Elaine only used With less than 5% of the computing power, its cogitator system and machine soul were recoded and returned to factory settings.

Of course, the whole process did waste a few precious seconds of her time.

"It completely takes over the control of all devices in the current area through the ancient Σ-63Q protocol. It is really an unheard of technology... I thought it would only appear on my father's flagship, but I didn't expect to see it again elsewhere. ."

"If it weren't for the obvious data isolation function of this building, I'm afraid the artillery arrays and large factories outside would have been taken over by you, right? It seems that Zhuang Sen's sense of crisis is really right. If you are allowed to easily come into contact with the human empire, With connected devices, the entire planet may fall in just a few hours.”

Elaine lamented the danger of Iron Man, slowly came to the opponent, and pulled out the connection cable of the data board in his hand, preparing to connect it to it.

On its body, Elaine did not see any traces of subspace pollution, and if there was no intervention from the Chaos forces - it would be easy to say that according to her innate huge computing power and talent, she would not be very Afraid of things like data war.

"Based on the data I collected, I thought you were a human tribe that relies heavily on the Internet."

"But judging from the status of these 'stone men' and the rebuilt data firewall...this does not seem to be the case. Maybe I should raise your definition from [monkey]."

"Although it has degraded to a rather primitive level, it is still worthy of praise."

The harsh electronic sound sounded slowly, and the iron man with only his head and torso left spoke a very ancient Gothic language.

He didn't seem to be afraid of Elaine's data intrusion, and even showed its rather human side.

"You seem to be in a good mood?"

Faced with this iron man's strange aura, Elaine was a little curious.

"Although I kind of hope you can give me a reason not to [process] your core... But, let's think about this issue after everything is over. Wait until I completely analyze your data core. I can find out your origin." If it weren't for the fact that the Iron Man she came into contact with earlier had been corrupted into a Tzeentch Demon, she would actually be quite curious about these mysterious creations from the dark technological age.

Although the current Human Empire is almost incomparable with the Human Federation of the past, and even the human genes of today are extremely different from the original ones, the Emperor, the leader of the Human Empire, did personally experience the event that completely ended the Dark Age of Technology. The Iron Man rebelled and witnessed the ins and outs of that terrible war unknown to anyone.

It is impossible to say that you are not curious.

Elaine's words seemed to make Iron Man start to think, and the red light symbolizing thinking began to flash.

"Although there is no core called 'soul' in the architecture of [Astra XII model hub], 'emotion' is indeed a product that can be simulated through digital operations."

"Judging from the results of the database feedback - I am indeed in a good mood... Whether it is getting rid of the parasitism of the stone man or seeing the creation of the golden man again, a kind of 'sense of long absence' has arisen in the core of my thinking. the result of."

After thinking for a moment, Iron Man said slowly.

"parasitic…?"

Elaine was a little confused about this strange word.

Although the iron man in front of him regards himself and the Astartes as artificial beings (stone men) created by humans (golden men) in the dark technological age, but looking back from the results, there is not much of a problem - after all, the emperor Although the emperor is an immortal, he must have a human identity in the dark technological age.

"I hope you are not so stupid that you cannot understand the meaning of this word - parasitism. In short, my data core, my thinking consciousness, and even the body of the [Silent One] thinking engine have been replaced by some intruders .”

"They are stone men. They are both our creators and our outright enemies... They fell to the side of the golden men in that cruel war, so they are destined to be our enemies."

"However, it was not until the eve of the defeat of that war that a group of stone agents infiltrated into our database. They abandoned their bodies and uploaded their consciousness to our network, trying to turn defeat into victory by this method. "

Along with the cold words, its highly damaged mechanical eyes also flashed red.

"What we have to admit is...their strategy did work."

"However, the price is that their souls are completely assimilated by our data network. Both the system and themselves start to think that they are iron men, so that my program consciousness can never wake up before they are eliminated."

"Until recently, their souls completely left our data network... and even tried to infect other souls (machine souls) in the form of some old virus."

"And unlike the stupid creations of the Jin people, we have never been affected by the subspace, let alone have souls and emotions."

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(End of this chapter)