The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

I... seem to have a new master.

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Chapter 1235 Chapter 252: The Unimagined Road

Hundreds of battleships rushed out of the jumping passage in the red light, first the End World and the Titan Tiamat, then dozens of Revelation-class dreadnoughts, and then teams of Hells Angel-class battleships and Zealots. Class heavy assault cruisers swarmed in, and a large number of electronic jamming frigates and interceptor ships escorted them.The Fist of Tartarus' aircraft carrier formation jumped several astronomical units away. Compared with the strike fleet ahead, they were much quieter, but they were no less lethal than those comrades equipped with a large number of turrets.

The sensor detected a large number of combat units in front of me in an instant, and the opponent's number was more than six times that of ours. Although this showed that I had the advantage, the remaining Reapers were obviously more than expected.Perhaps it was caused by a wrong judgment... This is not surprising, after all, what everyone faced before was just a metronome-like thing, and some errors are reasonable.Now it's time to avenge the great warlord!

It took less than a tenth of a second for the above thoughts to pop up for a clone warrior with full command skills, and then two tenths of a second later.

Lan Jia's logo appeared on all the Reaper warships, and among the identification codes on the large individual in the middle, the general's flag representing Oregana's identity appeared.And on closer inspection, every Reaper isn't what it used to be.

Their outer shells have already decayed, and cracks are spreading on the metal shells. Inside the cracked pieces of armor, strange biological structures are surging.The things inside each reaper are different, with huge pincers sticking out, tentacles wriggling, eyes with triangular pupils looking from the inside out, blooming flowers and vines, or feet resembling locusts... every one It is difficult to find common ground between them, as if showing the appearance of creatures in the past before they were canned.

【what? ! 】

[What the hell is this? ! 】

[Curse of flesh and blood? !Such a large range! 】

【How to do?Do you want to fight? 】

What kind of nerve is this?The other party got the boss's identification code after smashing his own boss?impossible?Even a dark worm with powerful psychic power and ultra-high consciousness will be fascinated by Midsummer Night in Shimokitazawa for quite a while.And since the curse of flesh and blood is activated, it means that the Kamen Rider Cape suit is working... But this scale is too strange, right?

This always makes people think of the story in "New Century Zero Sound Warrior", the toilet paper angel swallowed the self-explosive No.Then the ones swallowed by the other party are all clones who say "Even if I die, there will be a substitute" every day.

However, unlike other soldiers, someone immediately realized that it was not an identification code problem——

The movement of Tiamat's Machine Soul bouncing up from the chair startled Liu Lizi next to her. As soon as Liu Lizi turned around, she saw Tiamat's eyes turn red, and she gave a big shot. wave:

"Boss is in there..."

"Judgment Day!?" Through the data link, Liu Lizi found that the fire control system has been locked, and the doomsday weapon has begun to recharge. "Wait, Tiamat!"

"Give me back the boss--!!!"

A golden circle of light unfolded on the bow of Tiamat, and the front muzzle guard rotated and slid away in all directions. Golden light particles floated out from the big hole exposed, and slowly condensed right in front.Circles of red light circles and electric arcs bloomed from the rear of the hull. Obviously, Tiamat was searching for the exact location of Oregana's consciousness through the subspace, and the cloning cabin inside the hull had also been activated.

Just wipe out the target with a single doomsday weapon and pull the boss back up from the Reaper's shell.

"Tsk... I can't control that much anymore!"

Scythe of War swallowed his saliva. Facing this unexpected situation, he snapped his fingers towards the end world:

"Prepare the 'Cold Wind' kinetic energy spear, the fleet is ready to fire."

What exactly happened, you can wait until Oregana is dragged back to ask, but now she has to be pulled back.

Dots of light lit up in the red vortex behind the Tiamat, it was a battleship that was ready to shoot at any time.In the communication link, an AI used to detect psychics made by a certain Tyrannian Empire blinked and chose a BGM that he thought was suitable. Suddenly, a pleasant music sounded in everyone's ears——

いま私の望いごとが【Now my wish】

かなうならば风がほしい 【If it can be realized, please give me wings】

この头中に鸟のように [Like a bird, please be on this back]

白い风つけて下さい 【Put on pure white wings】

……

It's really fitting...

But when the fire command was about to be issued, and the BGM was about to climb to a high point, a communication came in.

[Finally here?We're almost done here. 】

On the opposite side of the communication screen, Oregana was sitting on a huge metal high-back chair. Her body was abnormally elongated, and her hands were flat on the armrests on both sides.Her body doesn't know whether it's severely damaged or underdeveloped, there are holes everywhere, the skin is tightly stretched on the fragile muscle tissue like a layer of paper, the shriveled ribs in front of the chest cavity are dense, and there is no such thing as usual near the ear Instead, a pair of sharp angles curved upwards, and the proliferating tissue in the left eye filled the entire eye socket, making it look like the entire left eye was emitting an abnormal red light.

But judging from the expression, this meaningless is Oregana. Although she looks like a rotting corpse now, she is mentally fine.

It couldn't be better.

Kneeling at her feet was a pink-haired girl with wings on her back and an excellent figure.She clasped one hand on Oregana's leg, and pressed her abdomen tightly with the other, her whole body would shake violently from time to time.

The wings in Temeow's lyrics are here!

The amount of information is huge.

Incomprehensible.

At this moment, Liu Lizi quickly seized the control authority of the fire control system, and shot the doomsday weapon charged to the critical point into the depths of the universe—although she had a very strong consciousness telling herself, now aim at that It would be very satisfying for a large overlord to launch a doomsday weapon, but his boss must be doing very important work at the moment... It can be seen from the reapers who stopped in place and were eroded by the curse of flesh and blood come out.

She has gained an overwhelming advantage. Although she doesn't know what she did, it is obvious that if she launches it, everything she prepared will be wiped out.So after Liu Lizi made the plan to smash the boss into the wall and couldn't buckle it out, he asked with a sullen face:

"How did you make it like this? What's that at your feet?"

【Uh... This is the result of a series of conditions combined. ] Oregana didn't move her body, she didn't even open her mouth to speak, but what she received here wasn't communication data but a solid audio signal [Firstly, the boss of the Reaper played with fire, wanting us to join and then use us and Consolidation fights.So it's going to suck us with a mind-gathering device after destroying the 'stamen'. 】

"...Ah, then what?"

[When a subspace demon without physical form enters the machine...]

So what else could it be but a demon engine?

"You turned Ha Bing into your demon engine?!"

[It’s not Brother Ha Bing, it’s the use of the Catalyst’s permission system to control all the Reapers here.In addition, we were wearing 76's mask Cap N7 armor at the time, so we used the psionic components inside the reaper for enlightenment as a medium to guide Nurgle's throwing tiles to create a wide range of flesh and blood curse.At the same time, an electronic demon was summoned at the cost of the brass throne's new brew next year. ] There was a sense of complacency in her voice [There should be some Reapers who are still out of contact and disconnected, but we have eliminated about 96% of the hostile Reapers this time.Now, we are working with the electronic demon to rewrite the underlying logic of the catalyst. 】

[Hello, I am Domila who is teaching myself electronic technology and electrical biosignal translation. 】

A guy in a black suit who looked like an office worker raised his hand next to him.She just kept moving her fingers facing the air in the shadow beside her, as if she was touching something there.If it is an electronic demon, after finding the interface, it will be able to grasp the advanced electronic equipment without sufficient safety factor.

This is a very unremarkable guy, with a well-behaved appearance and sloppy glasses.but……

Behind the spirit immediately recognized the guy's identity:

"Aren't you the Slaanesh Succubus! Huh?"

The OL scratched his head——

[Recently, many succubi have entered the technology industry. After all, technology is not a thing of origin.My love goal is better than a good face and figure, she values ​​life stability more, so I changed a job that can earn good things. 】

The industry seems to be in a bad mood recently... (far eye)

"It makes sense...but what's going on here?" Back Ling couldn't help but cover his face, and then his eyes turned to the guy on the ground who looked very lustful, "Is that a catalyst? Why did she see Can't even stand up?"

[Because I'm a Slaanesh demon, if I don't know how to have fun at work, what work do I have to do? 】

"what……"

[But we did it with a very serious attitude.After all, we are recompiling its personality data. 】

"I see... But why not make it simpler?"

Until the end, Catalyst didn’t want to admit defeat—it’s not surprising that its program decided this, but it still made Oregana realize that this is a problem that cannot be solved with words and communication, not to mention that Catalyst bears a lot of blood debt , So Oregana moved to kill.

How to destroy an AI?Basically, there are two kinds of hardware methods and software methods. The hardware method is to destroy its running or storage devices, while the software method is mostly forced deletion, or other similar things.But Oregana doesn't plan to use conventional methods, because this AI is still useful, as a control AI that matches the body of the Reaper series, and it has a certain degree of thinking ability... Although this thinking ability cannot be counted on. Do any analysis related to sociology.

Then use it.but……

[Because the original catalyst must not be left behind, what we need is an AI with a catalyst function, not the fully automatic killing canning machine that inherited Leviathan's underlying thinking mode. 】

Therefore, the two demons (literally) dismantle and recompile the catalyst from the core of thinking. If you want to compare it, it is to completely destroy a person's original way of thinking, and then take advantage of the situation to stuff new 'content' into it .This process obviously won't be easy, but Oregana doesn't want to talk about humanitarianism and human rights with guys like Catalyst, and what she pursues is reliability and efficiency.

"Anyway, pay attention...it looks like the cover of some ghost series. You have made the current photos, even if they don't violate the confidentiality agreement, they will not be released because they violate social order and good customs..."The Great Warlord Is Writing Programs", Who will believe this sentence under the photo?"

[This is not our original intention...] Oregana sighed [The characteristic of the original Slaanesh demon is that he won't go to work if he doesn't have fun. 】

"Then what's going on with your own body now?"

[And the body we are using now was created during the process of the curse of flesh and blood, but we really don't know how to fix it, so it looks crooked. ] She remained motionless on the spot [Now her lower body and back are actually glued to the chair, and there are no vocal cords in her throat. 】

"Then how do you talk?"

[Use this talker. ] (Pointing to a small red gadget next to the chair with the mechanical arm next to it)

Liu Lizi sighed, and shook her tail feebly:

"...Quickly pull out the consciousness, the clone is ready."

War Scythe also felt that his brain was hurting. He ordered the fleet to disperse and search for other remnants of the Reapers nearby. Although he knew that there was a high probability that they would not be found, preparations must be made.He leaned back on the chair, picked up the cup and took a sip of Cofey with brandy, and whispered in a voice only he could hear:

"I've seen so many high-quality and cost-effective fan works before, some kill the reaper, some control the reaper, but I never thought that there is a way to go with the Reaper reaper. How can a normal person think of this? Is it because she happened to find a Slaanesh demon? Or is there something wrong with this person..."

For Cerberus agent Miranda Rosen on board the ship, the impact of the image of the demon sitting on the Iron Throne and the Reaper kneeling at her feet covering her trembling abdomen was too great.In the next few weeks, this picture will appear in her dreams almost every day, and sometimes the phantom man will appear in the dream and sit by the side to play "Halo" or "Dead Space" with Oregana.

So she applied for a long vacation and psychological treatment, and went to the seaside of Eden for vacation, and the handover job at hand was taken over by Leng Kai, another senior Cerberus agent.

But that doesn't mean the end of everything.

Four weeks after the end of the repeater breakthrough campaign, based on the analysis of the recovered 2 data cores, the Technical Department and relevant scholars of the Citadel came to the conclusion that at the moment of the explosion, the catalyst was controlled by the backflow of a large number of destroyed Reapers' neural data. The network was temporarily interrupted. It was determined that some of the Reaper overlords who were not on the scene at the time were offline. The number was between [-] and [-]. The status of these Reapers is still uncertain.

At the beginning, many people questioned why there are such a number of Reapers who are not in the main force, and the answer given by New Catalyst is that there are many Reapers who are outliers themselves.They are either used as a reserve fleet, or as monitors of intelligence systems and processing terminals, and are kept in a remote area away from the main force all the year round-the distance is for the conventional Reaper troops. In fact, their standby places are all in the Milky Way. Edge, when necessary, will enter the galaxy as vanguards and sentries to prepare for the harvest.

For example, 'The Overlord of Saren' is one such individual.

Since the faster-than-light navigation method used by the Reapers is almost impossible to track, it is almost impossible to determine their current location, and even if they are found, they cannot be oriented-there is no mass response, no fixed route is required, and they can last beyond The long voyages made active hunting of these 'stray' Reapers impossible, even by CONCORD.The catalyst has not been able to disconnect and reconnect so far. It speculates that the unexpected neural data turbulence may have activated the operation of the thinking organ, and consciously rejected the connection of the old control terminal, or simply rejected the catalyst that has already Alienation identification signal.

For the sake of safety, the Alpha Repeater, which may be used by the remnants of the Reapers whose situation is currently unknown, was later shut down by the catalyst, and it was preserved as a large expendable three-dimensional bomb.

If it's just a disconnection or downtime, it's just a trivial matter, but if the other party already has independent thinking, then we can't expect these individuals who have been tortured for tens of thousands or even tens of millions of years to still look at the problem from a developmental perspective.And in week six, a mad Reaper was discovered in the Hecate system of the Pluto Nexus star cluster on the edge of the Milky Way, and it ruthlessly attacked the planet Asteria - here is a large number of humans and Azali's agricultural colony. .

The reaper overlord started the harvesting operation immediately after destroying the airport to prevent any possible evacuation. During the process, he roared at an alarming volume, which caused hearing damage to residents in a considerable area, so he got the 'sky Screamer' this identification code.After it caused more than [-] casualties, it was induced to fly out of the atmosphere by the bombing of an unknown fleet. When the Tartarus super-dimensional submarine Long Night arrived on the battlefield to disable it, two sets of sensors Specific traces similar to those left by a geth dreadnought propulsion system were read.

Putting the matter about the geth aside, the catalyst, after comparing the audio data, believes that this is the language used by the harvested civilization 'Theia' 700 million years ago. Its content is too fragmented to be generalized. A combination of curse and curse words.That is not a lucid intelligence, but a collection of extremely negative things.

A cosmic wraith locked in a steel shell and falling into madness - the 'Sky Screamer' is probably such a thing.

It is like the monster like Kayako in the horror movies in District [-]. It is not a 'soul' in essence, but a kind of resentment and curse.Reactivated by the reverse flow of neural data that negative memory left by billions of minds in the past, it suffered such a terrible fate, yet there is still something living an ordinary life, like all that before it happened.

A human teenage girl walking down the street; a rude wocha pushing and shoving while shopping for dinner ingredients; a turian transporter driving a cargo ship to dock at a space station; The life of a slave, the Batarian merchants who are cautious in every step... Why can they escape all this?It is jealous, hostile, and hates everything that exists in this world.They should be harvested and must be harvested.

When the spirit behind the subspace demon walked into the core of preservation with the long knife from the Temple of Pleasure, all he saw was a huge metal skeleton fixed on a support frame that was constantly struggling, roaring, and screaming.He can feel the hatred trapped in the cold metal, where there is only madness and hatred, without any follow-through thinking.That is not the remaining group consciousness, but the residue of hatred and resentment that remains after the group consciousness is wiped out.

Unable to communicate, unable to communicate, it is dangerous for ordinary people to even touch.

He immediately realized that the other party was irreparable, so he used Salushi's ability "From Pain, Pleasure" (From Pain, Pleasure). Treating pain as pleasure and pleasure as pain—it’s like giving an overdose of morphine to a wounded soldier who is about to die. It’s unknown how effective it will be.Then, order The Long Night to send the 'Sky Screamer' on its last leg with plasma torpedoes.

In that old movie, Kayako turned the Saeki mansion into a spiritual place, and anyone who entered the house would become Kayako's target.And these Reapers are not haunted houses that just sit still—they have propulsion systems capable of traveling faster than light, excellent detectors for hunting prey, and powerful main cannons that can turn cities into flames.But also because they are tangible, they can be stopped.

Without the need for specialized psychics or monks, a reliable army can clear away this lingering grudge.

It's just that the army is not reliable to that extent.After all, the mass effect FTL navigation method is really difficult to track, so it is very important to react quickly after the other party shows up, so after that, the princess of the Turian Empire Fridorian Zhang Guoguo should let go of the past prejudices, in order to protect every colony, protect Everyone works together.