The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

At this moment, Dr. Hayden saw a girl with round animal ears walk into the viewing platform, and she recognized this as the adjutant next to the warlord Oregana.

"Is there a problem?"

"The results of the investigation of Hell these days have come to an end," Liu Lizi said, "Boss hopes that the two of you will go there together."

"Oh?"

Findings about hell?

Dr. Hayden and the Doom Slayer looked at each other, and both saw puzzled looks in each other's eyes.

The hell this thing... essence?

The essence is a different space floating in the subspace, in which demons will be continuously generated, and at the same time, putting the souls of intelligent creatures into it can form special energy.Although this kind of place is strange and chaotic, it still conforms to the basic properties of the subspace, so no one has studied it carefully—after all, there is no way to thoroughly study things like the subspace with the previous technical level of the Mek tribe.

There's no way to check it out—it works anyway—it's just contact—I forgot to find out—but it's been so many years, it doesn't seem to be that important to figure it out.So it is regarded as a resource point that will automatically spawn monsters, but Meck is obsessed with [resource points], and Doom Warrior is obsessed with [here will spawn demons, so you must keep killing them].

It is completely regarded as a natural phenomenon.Even if it is an investigation, the investigation is still the ecology of demons, the culture that once existed, not hell itself.

With this kind of doubt, the two followed the leopard to the port, changed to the shuttle to the laboratory that was dragged outside the fortress shield.

On the way, Hayden saw that the laboratory was a bit scary-it was just floating outside without any shelter, and there was a thousand-meter-class battleship not far away.At first, I thought that the battleship was here to protect the facilities, but after a closer look, there are two main turrets pointing directly at the laboratory... What does this mean?Explode if something gets out of control in the lab?

This group of people is really scary.

And after entering, she found Oregana herself inside, and she was looking at the wreckage with a guy who could tell at a glance that she was not human.

After all, human beings don't have two heads, wings and blue feathers, and they don't stretch their necks up and down from time to time to make 'cuckoo cluck' sounds.Judging from the feeling, this should be the same type of demon as the Great Warlord.But what's strange is that even though his four eyes are closed, he and Oregana still carefully 'look' at the wreckage, and exchanged a few words in a low voice from time to time.Many technicians and demons were busy among the shelves, and the big screen next to them showed the appearance of Urdak half trapped in the warp and the restrained icon of sin.

What they were studying was a bloody wreck, on which fragments of armor and bones could still be seen, and there were many similar things on the shelf next to it.Taking a closer look, Hayden recognized the real body of those things—that was the medium used to control the icon of sin. They had been cut open, and Varen's dagger was also placed beside it.Judging from the size, there is not only that medium, but also something similar in shape that the priest next to him changed into later.

"You are here." The warlord Oregana looked full of energy. It was hard to see that she had driven the profane combat machine to fight a few days ago, and faced the psychic echo of Queen Mek before her death. .She could not see the slightest bit of the mental shock Neklavo suffered before, and the fatigue accumulated from the subsequent battles.I don't know if her spirit is really tough to this extent, or she has used some methods unknown to outsiders to reduce stress.She patted the shoulder of the blue two-headed bird:

"This is our companion, Life Weaver."

"Hello……"

But this bird is not interested in saying hello and greetings. It just shakes its wings and makes a slight cooing sound, which is reminiscent of the ostrich in childhood.He turned his head, his yellow beak collided up and down, and he uttered a human voice with a clicking sound—it was an intelligent male voice, reminiscent of a young scholar with gold-rimmed glasses:

"We have been busy investigating the ruins and hell of Urdak these days, and now we have the results."

"The ruins of Urdak?" Dr. Hayden shook his head and said, "Sir, there shouldn't be much left to investigate. The power of hell has never reached Urdak before, and it is related to hell." only Yajin Energy.”

Until this war, Queen Mek did not allow any aliens to enter Urdak, this was to ensure the 'purity' of the Holy Land itself.She has carried out this concept almost paranoidly in the past thousands of years. In the years of mutual contact, hell really did not leave any traces in Urdak that are sufficient for investigation.It is more convenient and intuitive to go directly to hell than to conduct investigations in Urdak.

"That's not necessarily true, Dr. Hayden." Fate Weaver shook his head and said - the two bird heads shook very fast, giving people an illusion like a propeller.After that, some messy feathers on the head slowly retracted by themselves. This series of actions makes people feel that this demon is like a large parrot. "Some things will interfere with your judgment, such as...familiarity. You know Ur Dak and Meck's history, but because of this, you can't open your eyes to see the truth buried under everything you know."

"..."

Fateweaver's eyes were tightly shut, but when his head was turned in his direction, Dr. Hayden still felt that he saw everything clearly.This sense of strangeness gave his words extraordinary power—a sense of convincing.But Destiny Weaver is not someone who convinces the other party just by relying on this feeling. He always likes to show evidence, and only evidence can explain everything.

He walked to the console with a cane, stretched out his thin fingers and clicked on the operation panel a few times, then turned around and said:

"Let me just say the conclusion first—hell is a living creature. I'm not talking about demons, but hell itself is alive." His fingernails collided with the operation panel and made a clicking sound. "The devil itself is A huge subspace creature, do you know the concept of a subspace creature?"

Dr. Hayden is of course aware of the concept of warp beings.In his memory, this thing is rare, but Meck's fleet has spanned the vast universe, and in remote areas they have also dealt with behemoths lurking in the warp.They will sail with the fleet for a long time, but will not make further moves, just like the dolphins on the earth chasing the waves of ships.

After she said that, Oregana showed such an expression on her face:

"Well……"

"Huh? Is there a problem?"

"There is indeed a problem." Oregana said, "Meke's ship is not equipped with equipment for subspace protection. According to common sense, subspace creatures will not do nothing—that is, they will drag the ship into The sea monsters that devour the crew in the sea are not harmless dolphins chasing the waves. Born from the emotional flow in the subspace, they will be close to the place where intelligent creatures gather, based on the energy aroused by the emotions of intelligent creatures in the subspace. They are usually harmless, but if you go into the sea and swim with them, they can become extremely dangerous predators."

The Mek fleet itself, which cannot be attacked by subspace creatures, is considered an anomaly.

"?!"

"It's the same as I thought. We'll talk about this later, let's talk about hell first." The lifemaker shook his cane, and the movement seemed to be performing some kind of ritual, but in fact it was just his own habitual movement "Hell The scale is quite large, very large, surprisingly large, and the scope of influence is also large. Like most warp creatures, it was born from the consciousness of intelligent creatures. I think there used to be an interstellar civilization of a certain size in this area. They Consciousness formed the embryonic form of 'hell'."

"Is there evidence to support this?"

"Of course, my subordinates are investigating the ruins in hell—although it is difficult to confirm the exact time in the subspace, judging from the things collected so far, they are far older than the records left by the demons. There are these buildings in the records of the demons, but the inscriptions are even more decayed than these ancient buildings. They have almost maintained this dilapidated state and have not changed at all, because this is the core of the birth of hell."

While speaking, the Destiny Weaver turned on the projection equipment, displaying the images of the floating islands of hell that have been discovered so far one after another.

From the very delicate models and images, it can be seen that the investigation team of the Fate Weaver or the Ministry of Integration is very serious-they have taken pictures of the appearance of those floating islands in all directions, and there are as many as a thousand.I'm afraid it was done by deploying warships into hell, and then releasing a large number of drones to do it step by step?This kind of thing can only be done by the Ministry of Consolidation with sufficient supplies. In the eyes of the previous self and the Mek tribe, the fog of hell and various disturbances restricted the investigation. It is very difficult to draw a detailed map of a large area.

So Maker's map of Hell is linear, with 'needed areas' constructed from point to point, and other unnecessary areas treated as if they didn't exist.

Under the operation of the life weaver, these floating islands joined each other one by one, and the cracks roughly coincided with each other.The large and small floating islands were spliced ​​together like building blocks under Dr. Hayden's amazed eyes, and finally formed a huge land.On this land, you can see towering peaks, dry seabeds, protruding islands, and cities standing by the sea—Neklavo is not far from the coastline, and Kadinger Sanctuary is in Further inland, the infernal structure in contact with the Goddess of Joy lies on a raised landmass on the dry seabed, which is now covered in lava.

The meaning expressed by the actions of the Destiny Weaver is very clear, that is, a considerable part of the floating islands in hell originally originated from a planet.For some reason, the planet shattered and its remains made up the 'land' of hell.

"As the investigation continues, I think it's only a matter of time before the whole planet is pieced together."

The Fate Weaver is satisfied with his masterpiece, and he enjoys Dr. Hayden's feeling of being in a daze.But the Doom Slayer is still calm and relaxed—because he doesn't think these things have anything to do with him, knowing that the floating island in hell comes from a planet that once had a high civilization has nothing to do with killing demons himself.

"What the hell is...what's going on? Why..."

"In the ancient past, a strong psionic civilization was born on this planet." Lan Cuckoo pointed to the 'building block' that was put together and said, "They prospered and prospered, but in the end they were destroyed by an accident-this This kind of thing is rare, but it is not uncommon, and the reason is all because of using the subspace. It is fine to touch the subspace cautiously when the technology is not in place, but most civilizations are facing the concept of 'development' This is why it is difficult for strong psionic civilizations to pass through the big filter... They will die because of their own desires, and at the same time cause a series of problems after death."

Some civilizations died from the exploration of the subspace, and some civilizations were defeated by hedonism and their own desires for sensory stimulation.The most extreme of these situations once led to the birth of the evil god——

An ancient race known as the Eldar once fell into hedonism. When the territory expanded to the entire galaxy, these emotionally rich and highly intelligent races fell because of their inability to resist pleasure in the pursuit of pleasure.The spiritual energy of pursuing sensory stimulation and novel experience is released into the warp and aggregated into entities, which gradually become stronger in the following years.Before it had self-awareness, some Eldar had begun to worship this still sleeping god.The warp is a mirror, which reflects the consciousness of the Eldar to form an 'image', and the Eldar staring at the mirror and the 'image' in the mirror interact with each other, and eventually lead to disastrous results.

The dreams of the evil gods were disturbed, and the souls of the Eldar were reversed to accelerate their degeneration, and the spirits who pursued more pleasure increased their energy output to the evil gods.This ultimately led to disastrous results.When the Eldar realized their depravity, the great fear caused the evil god to fully wake up.Her powerful cry filled the entire warp, pierced the minds of psykers everywhere, and tore a huge rift in the planet that was once the home of the Eldar, where the material universe and the warp overlapped. The place that came to be known as the Eye of Terror.

Khorne, Nurgle, and Tzeentch were all shaken by the burst of powerful energy, and had to admit the birth of the fourth evil god—that is, Salexus.

"The massive collapse of a psychic civilization...their pain forged hell?"

"It's not accurate, their psychic energy plays a bigger role, because hell didn't inherit their...spirit and consciousness." The fatemaker explained, "The eruption of psychic energy reverberates during destruction, purposeless consciousness, created by will A disorganized psychic filling that became the basis for a large warp creature. The only reason we failed to discover the birth of this behemoth could only be a matter of time."

"A matter of time?"

"When the Sanctuary world group was divided, the powerful energy resonance reverberated in the subspace for centuries from the time of preparation. At that time, everyone's sight was blocked, and a very small number of dark worms took advantage of it. Taking that opportunity to sneak into the Sanctuary world group, this is why you can occasionally find wandering bugs in it. If the birth of hell happened at that time, and the absolute distance between them is so far, then there is no It's not surprising to be discovered, to hide in the shadow of the hole in the world and gradually grow."

"And then gradually grow up in the following years. Grow into an exaggerated behemoth."

Even if civilization is dead, huge corpses continue to exist... and hell is a huge fungal colony that grows on corpses. After absorbing the nutrients of corpses, it expands itself, and begins to continuously devour all the nutrients around it and gradually grows up.

Thinking of this, Dr. Hayden showed a disgusted expression on his face.

It's like a natural disaster, a natural disaster that brings great damage, but you want to blame but you can't find anyone to blame.And even after being told that hell is actually a living thing, she still couldn't see that 'world' as a living thing.

"Then where is the connection between Hell and Meck?" Doom Slayer only spoke now. "Is this related to Urdak's discovery?"

At the very beginning, it was the blue Gooko who mentioned that he came to the conclusion after conducting an investigation on Urdak, but until now Urdak has not been mentioned, so the Doom Slayer Some care.

"Of course, the most important evidence that I can be sure that Hell is a subspace creature comes from Urdak—you listen to me slowly." The life weaver raised a hand, signaling the hunk to be calm—— Worthy of being one of the most well-known Tzeentch monsters, no demon in hell dares to do this kind of action "First of all, I have to say that the existence of this large-scale subspace creature is not stable, and there is no large-scale subspace with a core of consciousness Creatures will separate some things when they reach a certain threshold—for example, a subspace creature that is one size smaller, which will make it weaker and dumber at the same time. As for how stupid it becomes, it depends on what is split out partly, and at the same time the process is irrepressible."

"Mitosis?" Khorne swayed around twice, and the mechanical structure next to the ear lit up a red indicator light, indicating that the software was unstable. Right? If it becomes two, activate two clones."

"...You can't reach that scale, and don't you have the consciousness as the core? Don't join in the fun." The consciousness of the clone warrior as the core is frighteningly stable, it is impossible to split, and Khorne will not Allowing Oregana to become two...in every sense of the word.The Destiny Weaver waved his hand at Oregana, "Let's continue talking—the separated small individual is powerful but also 'unconscious', but it can be given 'consciousness' by intelligent creatures. You understand me mean?"

It is powerful but has no consciousness, but it can be attached with 'consciousness' by intelligent creatures.

Both Hayden and Doom fell into silence, and they all thought of something that both of them knew.The howling of that thing opened up the biosphere, awakened the people of the Ring of Nuer, and in the following years, it was added as something that should be a 'god' in various sacrifices and ceremonies, and it has been used for a long time The supply of power to the Nightguard enables them to fight their enemies.

Although they are alien in appearance, they are the patron saints of the Ring of Nuer and the spiritual pillars of the Yajin people.Their names are—

"...Elemental Ghost!"

"Elemental ghost!"

"That's right." Gu Gutou snapped his fingers, and a weak arc was drawn between his fingers.His two heads looked at the control panel and the projection above at the same time, and the movement of turning his head left and right looked like an imperial double-headed eagle. It is not in accordance with the law that there will be elemental ghosts on the ring of Er, and even subspace creatures that have opened up the biosphere. But if the elemental ghosts themselves were born from 'hell', then everything makes sense."

As he said that, the Fate Weaver turned on a projection, and the picture was the elemental ghost found in hell.

Since Varen handed over the key to the Tomb of the Elemental Ghost, the Elemental Ghost was captured and sent to hell to generate electricity.When they were discovered today, these elemental ghosts who had been imprisoned for thousands of years had already been drained of their psionic energy and turned into corpses on the execution platform.But just because he has been bound on the execution platform and has never been touched, his body structure is very complete, and there are not even a few teeth missing in his wide-open mouth.

It has an inhuman head with no discernible eye structures, and the horns on its head curve backwards in a complete arc.On the side of the body, the arms and wings are composed of six limbs, and the lower body has no feet, only squid-like tentacles.It was restrained on the execution platform, its upper limbs were pulled to the sides, and it was forced to lie on it. The entire chest cavity was open, and a cloudy red light ball floated inside.

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"Is this the element ghost..."

This is the first time that Doom has seen the real appearance of elemental ghosts. In the past, these creatures would not come out to see people in the Holy Sepulcher, which is more like a seal than a sanctuary.However, literary works depicting the appearance of ghosts in the outside world are vague, and the paintings are also vague, because there are religious regulations such as 'cannot depict the face of God'.

The instant he saw this thing, the Doom Slayer understood——

Why did Pastor Dia fall to Meck's side immediately after coming into contact with Meck.

Hayden couldn't help but grinned and let out a silent exclamation.

For comparison, the Life Weaver showed another corpse.

"Let's make a comparison." He pointed to the two giant projections floating in the air and introduced, "This is an elemental ghost that was nailed to hell to extract power, and it was discovered in Urdak The nearly complete corpse of Queen Mek..."

"Before that, we would like to ask," Oregana patted Hayden on the shoulder, pointing to Queen Make who was soaking in the sink, "Why is there another one?"

"That body was originally for me..." Hayden looked at this big guy with a complicated expression, just like a clone warrior looking at a clone of himself that has been damaged, "but the consciousness can't be put in after it's done, It won't start and just sits there."

"That is to say, this is indeed the complete appearance of Queen Meck?"

"Yes, indeed."

The body structure of the elemental ghost is very similar to that of Queen Mek.The position of the curved corner of the element ghost's head is exactly the same as the shape of the brain of Queen Mayk's head, and the angle is not much different. The structure of the lower body is exactly the same, and the energy ball under the chest is something that everyone is very familiar with—— Doom has also seen this thing and Oregana's Daedric face-to-face.The difference is in the upper limbs. Queen Mek has four strong limbs to serve as hands and wings, and the length of the wings is much longer than that of the hands.The elemental ghost uses six auxiliary limbs to support its own wings. The length and thickness of the uppermost group are similar to Queen Mek's wings, while the lower two pairs are much thinner.At the same time, the head of the elemental ghost does not have a developed brain structure, only an empty 'pedestal', as if a brain can be placed in that place in the future.

Comparing the two together, you will feel that the two products come from the same source. Meck's evolution level is much higher than that of the elemental ghost, but they are essentially the same thing.

At an ingenious timing, Fate Weaver opened his mouth to draw everyone's attention to himself:

"The demons of the warp use projections to form their respective appearances to show the evil gods they support. This is almost instinctive - so I am a blue bird with two heads, symbolizing wisdom, hope and victory."

"This is what you symbolize?!" The skull maker was at a loss, "This is the first time I heard that the shape of your Gu Gu's head means this!"

"After all, it's a blue bird, that's what it means to be a blue bird that brings happiness to people." The lifemaker turned his head, "Have you read the fairy tale "The Blue Bird" by Georgette Leiblen? The woodcutter's child Di Dee and Meddy had a dream in which the Fairy entrusted them to find a blue bird for her sickly little daughter, so that the poor child could be healed, so they set out in the house of cats, dogs, and fairies of all kinds. Accompanying him to another world, the story of looking for the blue bird under the guidance of Di... Guangshen."

"This……"

In that fairy tale, the children did not find the blue bird until the end, and the blue bird was always found after all the hard work.Waking up in the morning, the neighbor's wife came to ask for a Christmas gift for her sick child, so Didi had to give her his beloved pigeon.Unexpectedly, the pigeon turned blue at this time and became a "blue bird".The girl from Xianju also recovered from her illness.The staff of the dark rock, the heads of the life weavers are all blue Googoo... It seems that there is indeed a sense of that...

But I still feel that Cuckoo is lying to me.

Looking at the bewildered expression of the Skull Maker, the life weaver's Gu Gu showed joy on his face, and he turned his head:

"It's definitely not a coincidence that Queen Mek's body is very similar to the elemental ghost. After realizing this, I immediately compared the psionic waveform and removed some of the clutter and the settings that the Yajin people added to their primitive beliefs. .The results are surprising..."

On the projected chart, the waveforms of the two psionic responses overlapped.