Warhammer 40 A New Hope

"You! You! I saw you die three times on the highest difficulty! Shame on you! Give the controller to someone else!"

"The Council said that they would study and record all relevant intelligence. Does that mean the book should be studied as well?"

Just like a secret machine that was put into operation, all the Iron Hands Space Marines on the planet Medusa began to work because of the news brought by Kerr.

"...Have I led them all astray..."

In any case, this huge battle group began to move for a new goal.

Although the preparations for this goal are indeed a bit biased.

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[Hope]

"The artificial skin technology we have is not very compatible with your body. It needs some adjustments, but we don't have that much time." Farr said as he checked the information in his hand. "You have to make the specific adjustments yourself."

"I will modify your current body to a certain extent so that you can use the [Experimental Assault Armor] I made..."

"I always thought this thing would just sit there in a warehouse gathering dust."

At this time, the projection of the Hope AI appeared near Far and looked at the machine running in front of it.

"I rewrote her firewall, fixed some bugs in her program, and set up a few low-level instructions," said Xiao Wei (Hope). "But based on the information available, these cannot guarantee that she will not be hacked or infected."

"This is all I can do at this stage. I need to spend more time debugging the armor," Farr said, looking at the opened device and the smoke coming out of it. "I'll go find my equipment."

After Farr left, A2, who was covered with artificial skin again, looked at his newly restored body in a daze, feeling his limbs becoming flexible again.

[In some ways, you and I are very similar] Xiao Wei said while looking at A2 in front of her. [We both lost our goals for a period of time...]

[But we are also lucky because he appeared beside us and guided us]

[Repeat the underlying instructions, Ms. A2]

"Loyal to the only human being - Zhang Yi."

"The Ark of Loyalty to Hope - Xiao Wei."

"Be loyal to the entire human empire, the entire empire, and give everything for it."

[Very good, one more task]

[Find me a good-looking body! I want to go out and play, too! ]

. . . . . .

Macragge

The yellow stars slowly set, and the planet is about to usher in another night.

"...at least he listened to what I said and didn't stop me from going..." Zhang Yi, who was hanging on the highest point of Macragge, looked at the slowly falling stars and murmured. "Fuck you old bacon! You just want to hang me here to make an example of me, right?!"

A golden slap appeared in front of Zhang Yi, and then gave him a big sinus.

【Shut up! 】

Even though one was in the middle level and the other at the top level, the weakened emperor was still able to slap Zhang Yi in the face and make him shut up.

"If we don't consider other issues, my little brother's approach is indeed feasible." Guilliman said. "Both the artificial humans who were once human bodies and the various technologies of that world are of great help to the current empire."

"I know, but I have to teach this guy a lesson." The emperor said as he flipped through the exploration report submitted by Zhang Yi. "To prevent him from messing around outside."

"I'm really worried that the kid will bring me a nest of snake eggs or something."

"Ahem, Ms. Medusa should have been born alive."

"I know." The Emperor put down the information in his hand. "I admit that if we can obtain the population and technology of that world, it will be of great help to the current human empire, but..."

"He still doesn't protect himself enough."

"I can spare some more Ultramarines to be responsible for his safety."

"No, your descendants need to focus on the two major expeditions that are underway." The Emperor refused. "It is important to capture each planet, but the subsequent management and pacification of the population on it are more important."

"Besides, I have a better choice to protect that kid."

At this time, the door of the room opened and a guard in black armor walked in.

"Shadow Prison?" Guilliman was a little surprised and doubtful. In his opinion, these powerful guards in black armor would never leave the underground of the palace.

"The reason why I didn't let him go to that world before was to wait for them." O'Neill looked at Guilliman who was a little surprised and said, "You know, when we chose to abandon Terra, we spent a lot of effort and time to safely transfer those things under the palace."

Shadow Prisoners are a special kind of Imperial Guard. Even among the Imperial Guards, they are special.

Ordinary Guards are there to protect the Terra Palace or to carry out the Emperor's will, but the Shadow Prisoners are different. They have only one mission from beginning to end - to ensure that the things located under the Palace do not run out and destroy humanity.

They have indeed done so, and at this stage, there has been no news of anything escaping from the basement of the palace and from their supervision.

This also proves, from another perspective, the strength of these black-armored imperial guards and their expertise in dealing with all kinds of monsters.

"My Emperor..." the imperial guard saluted O'Neill in front of him. "We have temporarily suppressed the activities of those things. After a while, we will be able to assign people to complete the task you ordered."

"Very good. I hope you still remember my requirements for the candidates."

"All the Shadow Prisoners who followed the new Primarch are experts in dealing with mechanical enemies," the Shadow Prisoner replied. "They have gone through all 26 endings and are fully familiar with the story and background information of the entire game, and fully understand what the possible enemies are."

"They also believe that they have the ability to defeat all possible enemies they may face."

"very good."

515. Peaceful Village

The World of NieR: Automata

call out--!

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh－－!

A blue shadow flew through the air, followed closely by three black shadows.

A slash of energy came straight at him, but was easily dodged by the former, before a brilliant green blade of light appeared and flashed past.

One of the pursuing black shadows was shot down, and the scene just now slowed down the other two black shadows.

This also gave the former an opportunity. In almost the blink of an eye, the blue shadow disappeared from their sight without a trace.

"Report to [Bunker], we lost them..."

. . . . . .

The armor that looked like the Gundam Exia unfolded, and the repaired A2 walked out of it. Then she touched the armor behind her, and the whole armor disappeared before her eyes.

"...Humans are amazing."

The space storage technology from [City] can be said to be a product of mankind.

[Experimental Assault Armor], it uses the name of Assault, but it looks like the Gundam Exia. Fal’s response to this is: What the hell are you doing to me!

Although in the Warhammer world view, this thing can be said to be flashy and useless, but in the world of NieR, it plays a significant role.

During this period, A2 began to appear in different areas according to Zhang Yi's orders, collecting more intelligence and confirming the situation in each area.

This is not easy now that the whole world is in chaos, even with the equipment provided by Zhang Yi and others.

However, what can be confirmed is that the androids in the [bunker] and the ground resistance are already hostile to each other, and all active beings are trying to find the possible existence of humans and the can in the hands of a certain resistance android.

However, apart from the ground resistance, the other two factions have ulterior motives in looking for humans.

A2 learned that after the robots of the Fortress found humans or target objects, they would take them directly to the lunar base, and the mechanical life forms also seemed to be building something, such as to imprison humans or place objects containing human DNA.

It has been several days since she returned to this world alone. During this period, A2 would go to the agreed target location every day to see if Zhang Yi and the others had returned.

Seeing humans again changed A2's mentality, and he began to rely more on the human he had only met once - this may also be related to the program written by Xiaowei, the AI ​​of the Hope.

Once again, A2 came to the place agreed upon with Zhang Yi and others, a wide area hidden between abandoned high-rise buildings, but it seemed that just like the situation in the previous few days, there was no one else here except her.

"...Maybe, we need to wait a little longer..."

Just as A2 was about to leave, a white light appeared in the air and then expanded.

A2 naturally noticed this situation, and before she could react, several giants wearing black power armor walked out and guarded the surroundings.

"Safety."

"No enemy response."

These giants ignored the existence of A2 and began to be on guard around. More giants walked out of the passage.

"Are you really waiting for me here?" Zhang Yi followed an Iron Hand siege dreadnought and walked out of the portal.

Seeing Zhang Yi appear, A2 knelt down on one knee towards him, but was caught by the former first.

"Don't kneel, I don't like that." Zhang Yi said. "How did you do the task I taught you?"

"I have collected enough information and roughly confirmed the current situation." A2 replied. "In addition, I also found Pascal Village..."

. . . . . .

Pascal Village

This is a pacifist faction led by a machine lifeform called Pascal. When 2B, 9S, and A2 arrive here, they can see Pascal and the villagers holding up a flag, saying that they are pacifist machine lifeforms.

The villagers of Pascal Village have traded with the resistance and 2B, 9S and others who were carrying out the descent operation, and have controlled ×Gus to help A2 fight against hostile mechanical life forms.

As the village chief, Pascal also taught the villagers what "fear" is in order to keep the villagers peaceful, so that they would respect life and not kill at will. This is indeed very effective.

But because of this, in one of the endings, the mad mechanical life forms attacked the village, causing the surviving villagers to feel "fear", and eventually this fear overwhelmed them. After Pascal and A2 returned, all the survivors committed suicide (destroying their own cores).

Pascal regretted teaching everyone what "fear" was, and because he couldn't accept this reality, he asked A2 to erase his memory.

A2 did as he was told. Pascal, who had lost his memory, stood in front of the empty village and the corpses of mechanical life forms on the ground, saying things like "It's so empty here" and "It's so troublesome to clean up all the metal garbage on the ground", and sold the cores of the villagers to A2.

[Who threw these things away?] A2 looked at Pascal, who had lost all his memories and was mumbling to himself, with endless sighs in his heart.

Although the situation this time is not as serious as the last ending, all three parties give top priority to finding humans. It is not like the last ending, where a large number of out-of-control red-eyed mechanical life forms indiscriminately devour and infect all living things.

However, the sound of gunfire and fighting, which was more intense than any previous battle, still frightened many villagers. After all, this was something they had never experienced before.

Zhang Yi's orders included having A2 contact Pascal and persuade him to give up his village as the base of operations for Zhang Yi and his team. In return, the villagers of Pascal would be given their protection or sent to a safe world for refuge.

Pascal was a little hesitant about A2's proposal, but when they saw the Iron Hands Space Marines in power armor and numerous war machines appearing around Pascal Village, the village chief realized that he seemed to have no right to refuse.

"So, what do you want to choose?" If the appearance of the Iron Hands Space Marines brought fear and anxiety to Pascal and the villagers, then when Zhang Yi, a human, appeared, Pascal was completely dumbfounded.

[Humans? Living humans?! ]

"I shouldn't be dead." Zhang Yi looked at Pascal and said, "Do you want to leave here, to a safe place, or stay?"

No one wants to leave their home, even though it is shabby and possibly dangerous, but no one will leave voluntarily.

Pascal is also a rare person who understands human emotions. He knows the value of peace and life, what fear is, and what home is - it is definitely not a simple place that can shelter from the wind and rain.

[．．．Can we come back?] Pascal asked anxiously. [After peace is restored]

"I don't know." Zhang Yi shrugged. "We still don't know much about the current situation. I don't know how this battle will end or what the outcome of the meeting will be."

"I don't want to lie to a mechanical life form."

【What is, 'lying'? 】

"It's just a lie."

[… The children are scared.] Pascal was silent for a moment, then said, [I hope I can take them to a safe place…]

[But I want to stay and watch over everyone’s village]

[If possible, I hope I can come back, and I hope everyone can come back too]

"Row."

Zhang Yi clapped his hands, and the portal appeared again. Then he signaled Pascal to organize the villagers who were about to leave and enter the portal.

Behind the portal is a planet in the ring world, where people will receive these pacifist mechanical life forms and monitor them.

While the villagers of Pascal were being relocated, the Space Marines of the Iron Hands also began to make arrangements to transform the village, which was originally an ordinary residential area, into a fortress.

Equipped with signal shielding devices, fixed heavy-bolter machine guns, and small removable plasma reactors...

The road leading to the machinery factory was blocked, leaving only the road to the amusement park. Various detection equipment was installed in every hidden corner.

"..."

Seeing their village gradually turning into a fortress, Pascal, who stayed behind, felt lost and helpless. You know, the reason they built this village was because they hated fighting and wanted to avoid fighting, but now...

"If possible, I can ask another group of people to restore the village." Zhang Yi stood next to Pascal and said, "I know a group of people who are very good at construction work. They should be happy to take on this project."