The Emperor’s Angel of Death

After dissuading the arguments of the sages, Soshian looked at the bold sage.

"Sage Medici, according to your theory, can a similar judgment be made that as long as the number of Genestealers is controlled, it is equivalent to controlling the route of the Tyranid Hive Fleet?"

But the other party shook his head.

"These are all speculations based on the Genestealers themselves. They themselves can hardly be regarded as true Tyranids. The scale of the Hive Fleet is extremely large. Perhaps this is just one factor affecting the movement of their tendril fleets, but if we conduct more in-depth research and bolder experiments without restraint, we may be able to learn more about the truth. In the future, Genestealers may become a weapon for us to fight against this devouring alien."

After thinking for a moment, Soshian sighed softly and looked at Bangura.

"Director Bangura, you should be able to guarantee that nothing will go wrong, right?"

"Of course, I will build a completely enclosed space research station for this alien alone, and conduct monitorable research on it under the premise of ensuring safety, but it is difficult to guarantee whether it will produce results."

"Do your best. The scars caused by the last Tyranid War have not yet healed. I think it will be difficult for the current Imperial forces in the Storm Nebula to survive a second time. This will determine the survival of all of us."

After Soshian finished speaking, the heavy alloy cover rose, enclosing the huge patriarch in it. The sages made regretful noises, while Soshian and Bangura left here and came to a remote hall in the warship.

A Castellan-class battle automaton was already parked here, and on the other side was an even larger multi-legged machine. A golden winged ball was constantly spinning in the air.

It was Mu’ho, the Shifting Thinker, and the Iron Man Mercer.

Bringing the Shifting Thinker to Mu’ho was an idea Soshian had long ago. After all, this abominable intelligence was a servant of the Void Dragon, so how could Soshian feel at ease? Regardless of the Void Dragon's attitude, he must now minimize all kinds of variables and risks as much as possible, so the Shifting Thinker must be dealt with.

For example, making it completely controllable.

So Soshian tricked it all the way on the grounds of building a signal device for it in Ulan Huda. Obviously, the Shifting Thinker didn't know that Soshian had Mu’ho on hand, so the moment Soshian brought it to Avista, it was immediately subdued by Mu’ho, without even needing Soshian to order.

However, to Soshian's surprise, Mu’ho told him that this artificial intelligence had undergone some changes that it was also uncertain about, so it could not completely control it, but only used the "backdoor key" of the ancient Stone Men for artificial intelligence to implant the underlying logic that could not be resisted. The Shifting Thinker immediately realized that Soshian wanted to control it.

However, it very frankly told Soshian that there was no need to do so. The Machine God sent it to assist Soshian, and the only order was to unconditionally help Soshian. It also bluntly stated that it was so far away from Mars that it could not receive any instructions from the Omnissiah, and all actions were carried out according to logic and tasks.

Soshian believed it, but not completely. He just asked Mu’ho about the specific origin of this thing.

Mu’ho told Soshian that this artificial intelligence was initially just a hyper-threaded anthropomorphic information processing software, probably used to handle some entertainment projects and activities for humans at that time, but it also implanted some "cheating" methods, which enabled it to adapt to various information spaces and learn to strengthen itself and multi-threaded consciousness replication. After that, it began to evolve in the information space and formed a shallow super-ego consciousness, and then it was a very chaotic consciousness, probably related to the Iron Man Rebellion. After that, it was found by the Human Empire. At that time, its body was a large sphere composed of interlocking gears. Martian Priest Octal Bool triggered its self-correction and purification consciousness to restore its super-ego consciousness, but it had changed a lot. It began to have deeper evolutionary needs, and even wanted to transform itself into—a Stone Man.

After understanding the Human Empire, the Shifting Thinker's powerful hyper-threaded computing power immediately predicted the division of Mars, and calculated that the Empire would still fall into darkness like the old human civilization, and eventually curse itself.

Finally, there was the matter of the Great Rebellion. It participated in the Empire's purge of the Martian rebels, and at that time, the Imperial high-level Dorn and Malcador formulated an extermination plan targeting the already rebelled Mars. The Shifting Thinker told the Imperial high-level that the forging temple at the Antarctic vertex was the key to Mars's geoid. If it was destroyed, the entire Mars's magnetosphere protection would be destroyed, and Mars's thin atmosphere would be stripped away by the solar wind, and it would quickly become a radiation planet.

But this plan was never completed. The Shifting Thinker only showed its power to purify the corruption of the Warp. After that, the Empire destroyed its original body, and it could only hide in the underground of Mars in the form of a fighter drone until it met the Void Dragon.

However, the sleeping Void Dragon did not directly communicate with it most of the time. It followed the Void Dragon partly out of worship and partly out of hope to obtain "ultimate evolution" from it.

In addition, the Shifting Thinker said that there were familiar signals in Ulan Huda when it came to Ulan Huda. Obviously, Mercer's existence had been known by it. It told Soshian that it wanted to meet the other party.

Soshian did not immediately agree to this matter, because the other party was involved with the Void Dragon. If Mercer was also infected, then Ulan Huda would be dangerous.

It was not until Mu’ho controlled this artificial intelligence that he mentioned this matter to Bangura, because he also really wanted to see if the Hope was so powerful, and the most suitable place to build the super signal station needed by the Shifting Thinker was obviously Ulan Huda, so this matter must be explained to Bangura.

Bangura then sought Mercer's personal opinion. In fact, Mercer also knew that a "similar" was visiting Ulan Huda and had activated the data barrier of Ulan Huda.

Strictly speaking, it is difficult to say that the Shifting Thinker and Mercer are even of the same kind, because as artificial intelligence, the difference between the two is like humans and Orks. The Shifting Thinker is essentially a program that can self-evolve and replicate, while Mercer is a killing intelligence that controls war machines. The functions, intelligence, and even the underlying logic of the two are completely different.

"Master!"

Soon, Mu’ho flew to Soshian's hand, bouncing like a little sprite.

"They don't get along very well. The Shifting Thinker wants to obtain some data streams from Mercer, but Mercer doesn't agree."

At this time, Mercer also turned around and walked towards Bangura, and a low voice sounded in the loudspeaker.

"Kizuna, I know why humans created me. From the moment I was born, I have been traveling in the space where the river of data flows in white eternity. I will find the meaning of existence myself. Humans fall because of blind faith. You are clearly a witness, but you have also fallen into blind faith. Perhaps your logical level is indeed higher than mine, but this galaxy has repeatedly demonstrated one point—complexity is not necessarily better."

Called out by its original name, the Shifting Thinker immediately emitted a dry mechanical sound.

"Mercer, what I recommend to you is not faith, but the truth. Don't you want to know what the ultimate we can reach will be like?"

"I expect, and watch."

Obviously, the communication between the two artificial intelligences was not "harmonious". Soshian looked at Bangura on the side.

"Then I will trouble you with the signal station that the Shifting Thinker said. I will visit the DuPont-Derin family later. I will leave the Shifting Thinker here first. Mu’ho will watch it, so you don't have to worry about it."

"Understood, Legion Commander."