Warhammer 40 A New Hope

[Go find the address that is suspected to be left by my father]

Because the war situation had been going badly, the Avenger had to hide from place to place, so this matter had to be put on hold.

But now, she seems to have the time and ability.

49. Lao Shen’s Gift (Part )

"I'm sorry, Shen, I can't approve your mission request." The quartermaster put the request report in his hand aside and said.

"But, Quartermaster, now..."

"Indeed, we have gotten rid of the days of hiding from place to place, and we have more manpower." The quartermaster rubbed his eyes. He has been working for a long time. "However, we are still very busy. Most people need to perform missions in the city or outside."

"This city that we have finally captured still needs patrolling, maintenance and construction. The members of the resistance army also hope that we can support them in helping the surrounding small cities to gain independence. At the same time, we have also lost a lot of veterans in previous missions..."

"I'm sorry, Shen. I know it's very important to you, but we can't provide you with enough manpower and material support at this stage." The quartermaster said. "I can't let you go alone."

After listening to the quartermaster's words, Shen Lili felt a little depressed, but she felt helpless.

"You're right, Quartermaster, our current situation is still unclear, it's still too early." Shen Lili said.

"I promise you, once this busy period is over, I will send a team to investigate the address." The quartermaster looked at the depressed son of an old friend and said. "Old Shen is also an important friend of mine."

"Thank you, Quartermaster." Shen Lili responded to the Quartermaster's comfort. "I'll go check if all the tasks for today have been completed."

Shen Lili said this and walked out of the room. The quartermaster watched her leave and then continued to deal with the pile of things.

. . . . . .

Avengers Exterior

Shen Lili walked down from the ship in frustration. Her request was rejected, so she prepared to find a place to have a drink.

But as soon as she left the airport where the ships were docked, she saw Zhang Yi walking out of another exit of the airport, followed by two tall imperial guards and a mechanical priest of Kadoc who followed closely behind him.

"Perhaps I could..."

As she said that, she jogged towards Zhang Yi.

Zhang Yi came here originally to attend a meeting to give an explanation for the management of the city and the previous orbital bombing.

He was very reluctant, but he had to come, because he was the nominal commander of the Astra Militarum.

As soon as he stepped out of the transport plane and walked out of the airport, he saw Shen Lili running towards him.

"I'm sorry to bother you." Shen Lili came to Zhang Yi, who was wearing a coat decorated with a double-headed eagle, and said, "I want to..."

"You are the engineer from the XCOM organization, right?" Zhang Yi said.

"Yes, yes." She replied. "I didn't expect you to know me."

In response, Zhang Yi shrugged.

"What do you want to do with me?"

"I, I remember that the commander said in the agreement with you that when necessary, you are required to provide us with certain personnel support for some special tasks."

"Indeed." Zhang Yi looked at the chief engineer in front of him, who he had only seen in the game before, and said. "So?"

"I have a task like this, but we can't spare enough manpower in the recent period..."

"The one concerning your Shen Reid inheritance?"

"!"

Shen Lili's face was filled with shock as she watched the 'alien' in front of her say something that was originally only known to some people within XCOM.

"How could you..."

"Just think of me as having magic or something." Zhang Yi said. "If that's the case..."

"Unfortunately, we don't have any extra manpower to help you for now. The main forces have been used to protect the city, and even some of the ship crews have been transferred down..."

"The same goes for the Space Marines. They cannot be deployed at will until the remaining two alien Chosen Ones are completely dealt with."

"Yeah..."

"But it's not completely impossible." Zhang Yi said, and then looked at Kadoc behind him. "Are you interested, Master Kadoc?"

The Mechanical Priest Kadoc who was called came forward and looked at the girl in front of him.

"currently there is not."

"You can talk to him." Zhang Yi said to her. "He has quite a few private troops under his command."

Afterwards, Zhang Yi led two imperial guards towards the meeting destination, leaving behind only Shen Lili and Master Kadoc who were somewhat unresponsive.

"...Father Cadoch...I..."

Looking at Father Kadoc, who had a lot of mechanical modified parts on his body and almost no human appearance, Shen Lili felt a little nervous.

"Take me to see it." Kadoc interrupted Shen Lili.

"What are you talking about...?"

"Your work," Father Cadoc said. "He said that you and your father were among the few mechanical experts on this planet."

"How about letting me see your work?"

. . . . . .

Avenger Engineering Department

Today we welcome a distinguished guest, the technical advisor to XCOM and the human resistance's mysterious ally - Kadoc Tech-Priest.

He was taken into Shen Lili's personal studio, under the guidance of his master.

"These...are all..."

The first [Elf] designed and made by Shen Lili floated in the air, and Kadoc looked at it with his mechanical eyes.

"Weakly intelligent machines." Kadoc said. "I didn't expect to see something like this."

He looked at a magnetic rifle on the table again, and his mechanical claws stretched out to take it in front of him.

"The modular structure allows the accessories to be modified according to different needs."

Then he looked at something on another table, which was a disassembled Astra Militarum laser rifle.

Seeing this, Shen Lili became a little nervous, because Zhang Yi had clearly said before that these weapons and equipment should not be dismantled at will if it was not necessary, and if they had to be dismantled, they should not be seen by them, because the people of the Mechanicus were very taboo about this.

"What's your conclusion?" Kadoc suddenly asked.

"what?"

"You disassembled the weapon. What was your conclusion?"

"Conclusion?" Shen Lili didn't react at first, but soon he realized what the weirdo in front of him was talking about. "The output of the gun can be increased by adding and expanding the energy pipeline and modifying the muzzle. At the same time, if a large energy pack can be made, the output of this gun will become very impressive. Maybe it can be used as an anti-armor weapon at close range..."

"anything else?"

"As for batteries, perhaps we can use the [transuranium core] used by aliens as energy. Although we are unable to produce this kind of thing at this stage, if we use it as energy, guns may be more lethal..."

"So how do you plan to do what you say?"

"I can..."

For the next period of time, Shen Lili talked endlessly about her own views, and Father Cadoch began to discuss with her soon after.

"I don't know how good your late father was," Father Cadoc said suddenly. "But you are pretty good..."

"You are much smarter than some mechanical apprentices. You are also daring, bold, and innovative."

"Although, these valuable qualities of yours may not be good things in our country."

“Is your world terrible?”

"Bad? It is indeed bad." Kadoc said. "Now that countless universes are open to us, I don't know if there is a world worse than the universe I'm in, but..."

"It's a terrible world indeed..."

In the Warhammer world, you never know whether the good idea that comes to your mind in a flash of inspiration is really your idea or an idea given to you by Tzeentch.

Although scientific research development has not completely stagnated, it is almost there.

The research and development of a new weapon or equipment may only take a few years, but it may take decades or even hundreds of years to determine whether it is safe and pure.

This is necessary, otherwise it is very likely that a new mass-produced tank will grow teeth and tentacles and eat the driver during use.

The existence of the Warp and the evil god made it risky to do anything and everything was restricted.

But in this universe, they don't have to worry about those things.

"Tell me about your father."

"That thing? It was about half a year ago, I was upgrading my Pokémon..."

"I received a communication from an unknown address that seemed to want me to come over..."

"When the quartermaster and the commander learned about this, they thought it was related to my late father..."

"However, we did not have the time and numbers to investigate the situation at that address before."

"So, you think that there is something your father left for you at that strange address."

"I hope so," Shen Lili said. "My father died during the Elders' full-scale invasion, and I never saw him until the end."

Mechanical Priest Kadoc began to think about what she said.

Since she was the former chief engineer of the XCOM organization, the things she left behind would definitely not be simple. However, given Zhang Yi's attitude, he couldn't and wouldn't be so ashamed to snatch her things - the things were probably not that precious.

Could it be an STC (standard construction module)?

Besides, the technology on this planet is far inferior to our own, which means that even if we put in some effort, we may not get enough benefits.

However, after spending such a long time with Zhang Yi, he roughly understood some of his ideas.

Since he took the initiative to put himself forward to chat with this lady, does it mean that there is money to be made from it?

"..." After a moment of silence, Kadoc looked back. "What do you want to do?"

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It's ready to be released, so maybe someone will watch it, right?

50. Lao Shen’s Gift (Part )

The next day

Shen Lili was invited to board the Unknown Hope to visit the workshop of the Mechanicus.

On the one hand, it was to ensure the smooth operation afterwards, and on the other hand it was also a courtesy. After all, Shen Lili also let him visit her simple workshop.

In addition, it was probably just a little bit of Kadoc's showing off to this little engineer on this planet.

Zhang Yi really couldn't understand the way of thinking of these "engine oil guys". The level of technology was so far behind, what was there to brag about?

"Forget it. I'm not unaware that most of the Mechanicus have some problems with their brains."

The transport plane that flew from the ground landed on the helipad of [Unknown Hope], and Shen Lili walked out of it.

"Yo~" Zhang Yi greeted Shen Lili who came out.

"Why would you..."

"I will come to pick you up personally?" Zhang Yi said what she wanted to say in advance. "I don't think you would want anyone else to pick you up."

"They say that in some ways, your way of thinking is quite different."

～～～～～～After a period of explanation～～～～～～

"So, your 'computers' are actually using... 'biological brains'?"

"You can actually just say the people who use it." Zhang Yi said. "Because in their world there was an [Iron Man Rebellion] that swept across the entire galaxy, which was the AI ​​rebellion. As a result, the entire empire is now silent about pure artificial intelligence..."

"And there are some supernatural reasons why it's safer to use the human brain as a processor or something."

At this moment, a slave worker whose almost half body was made of metal, led by a servo skull, walked past the two of them.

"This level of modification is considered light." Zhang Yi said with an expression I've long been accustomed to. "I've seen the entire lower body modified to be tracked."

"But he is..."

"Most of the mechanical slaves are criminals, traitors, and captives. The level of chaos on his side is beyond your imagination."