Warhammer: Don't Call Me the God of All Machines

Chapter 680 Genetic Miracle (Three in One)

After returning to the X-School in New York State with a few people, Luo Xi didn't want to waste time continuing to train those rookie mutants.

After telling Charles that he had some personal matters to take care of, Roxie returned to the underground base on Mars with Wolverine Logan and the captured White Queen Emma.

"Welcome to the future, Emma."

“You will become a part of it, but it may not be the form you imagine.”

The dazzling light in front of her eyes faded away, and what appeared before Emma was a scene she had never dared to imagine in her dreams.

Emma saw with her own eyes the endless underground base on Mars. Countless iron men and engineering vehicles were operating in the base. A large amount of matter moved in the air under the influence of the force field and was quickly transformed into the required specific form.

She understood why the oriental-faced man in front of her looked indifferent and even disdainful when she said that Xiao had tied up the Yellowstone volcano and could cause the end of the world at any time.

Even if they blew up the entire Earth, what would it matter to Roche, who had such a grand and spectacular secret base on Mars?

What's more, facing an enemy that possesses technological power that is far ahead of its time, can Xiao really make good on his threat?

Emma is different from those illiterate mutants. She was born into a wealthy family in Boston. Her father is a successful but indifferent businessman, and her mother even needs to rely on psychiatric drugs due to family pressure.

Because of her social class, she has an innate advantage in learning various cutting-edge scientific knowledge and theories, especially she has a deep understanding of electronic theory and electronics.

If an ordinary person saw himself in an underground world that looked extremely sci-fi, he might just be surprised and sigh.

But Emma's vision is broad enough, and she can see the value of everything in front of her.

This fucking level of technology isn't what humans should be capable of. It might not be possible even after a thousand or ten thousand years.

Because she knew enough, she was desperate.

Look at those concise and efficient humanoid intelligent machines. They are capable of increasing their value exponentially. They are absolutely overwhelming whether they are used in industrial production or war.

There are also those forms of energy utilization that Emma simply cannot understand. The small nuclear submarine reactor she built for Xiao is simply a child's toy.

"No, you are not from Earth at all. Who are you?"

"Aliens, people from the future, or monsters disguised as humans?"

Luo Xi raised his brows slightly, looking a little unhappy.

He is a serious, native Earthling, so who can he call not an Earthling?

Apart from old guys like Orpesson and Neos, there are not many people on Earth who are older than him.

Fortunately, she met me. If Emma dared to say "You are not a human" to Neos, I am afraid she would have been destroyed long ago.

Luo Xi was too lazy to answer Emma's question. The best outcome for this woman was to be confined to the Mars base and live well as a precious sample material.

Luo Xi's silence confirmed Emma's fearful fantasy.

Yes, this guy is definitely not a human. He is just disguised as a human and came to Earth to carry out his own unknown conspiracy.

Women have rich imaginations. In her mind, Luo Xi has long been distorted and abstracted into an indescribable existence.

Luo Xi brought Emma to a genetic laboratory, where the stone men in white research suits had been waiting for a long time.

Cole continued to be excited and agitated. In order to drain his own energy, this guy increased the use of stimulant drugs almost without scruples.

Caffeine-based drugs, whose concentration was enough to cause sudden death in ordinary humans, were injected directly into Cole's abdomen like refueling.

This guy, like his teacher Akan Rand, insisted on not undergoing biochemical or mechanical transformation on himself, so he could only use these methods to refresh his mind.

Emma looked at these strange people who surrounded her in horror. There was no trace of blasphemous desire in their eyes when they looked at her, only pure curiosity.

Yes, in their eyes, I am probably no different from a piece of pork.

The White Queen instinctively used her mind control ability to try to control these people, but she helplessly discovered that these people's spiritual world was completely different from that of humans.

They constructed the spiritual world with pure rationality. Although they had the sensibility that humans should have, it was always suppressed by rationality.

The only difference is Kaul, he is more human.

Emma invaded Cawl's mind world with the idea of ​​fighting a desperate battle, but she saw a pure soul who devoted himself completely to gears and codes.

Kaul was indeed human, but he was free of any base desires, and his will and convictions were condensed to a frightening degree of purity.

He believed 100% in the God of All Things and Om Messiah, and devoted his entire life to the great cause without reservation.

Even in the Mechanicus, there are very few people as pure as him. Although others call themselves the God of All Machines, they all have more or less distracting thoughts in their hearts.

The White Queen didn't know that people like Cawl had another name in the Warhammer universe: Om's Messiah Chosen.

Cole even carefully recorded his feelings under the White Queen's mental attack. These were precious data that could only be accurately felt through personal experience.

"Psychological shock rating: B."

"Inferior to Charles Xavier's mutant powers."

Countless data are fed into the logic matrix for calculation and verification.

Kaul grabbed the White Queen's limp arm and without mercy drew a large amount of blood from the veins under the skin.

The thick needle pierced into Emma's body, which immediately frightened her so much that she turned pale.

The nanorobot entered the body through the needle and collected some tiny blood and flesh tissue samples, as well as a small amount of bone marrow fluid.

With enthusiasm on his face, he sorted the genetic samples into the laboratory's storage library in order.

+Telepathy, from Charles Xavier+
+Magnetic Field Control, from Eric Lansherr+
+Gene simulation, from Riven+
+Survival of the fittest, from Aman Darwin+
Emma saw a sign with her name on it, and the blank space was filled in by Call.

+Telepathy, body diamondization, from Emma Frost+
The cruel reality was hard to accept. She realized that her capture was not an accident. This oriental man named Luo Xi was deliberately collecting genetic samples of mutants.

She even saw the "Sebastian Shaw" logo next to her, but the container was still empty.

The Black King, who was hiding in the dark and stirring up storms, was nothing more than a precious genetic sample waiting to be taken in in his eyes.

Emma felt her head spinning, and she didn't know if it was because of the excessive blood loss at one time or because she was shocked by the cruel reality.

She smiled bitterly. If she had a choice, she would rather not know this.

Many times, ignorance is bliss, and knowing too much can be more painful.

Although Luo Xi was not interested in the sexy and noble White Queen, he was not opposed to having such a gorgeous beauty witnessing the great moment.

"I don't know where the X gene came from. Maybe it's not the product of so-called natural evolution or mutation, but the experimental creation of a great civilization."

"But it is indeed excellent enough. The X-Gene combines technology and psionic power, physics and biology, the real universe and the subspace.

It is a product of balance, able to leverage incredible power in this world where the veils and rules are unusually loose.”

Emma did not feel happy or proud from Roche's praise, because even mutants with many extraordinary abilities were just experimental subjects in the hands of the man in front of her.

In fact, the more he praised her, the more uncomfortable she felt.

If they did not have this innate talent, perhaps they would not have to endure these pains.

Luo Xi is personally performing the operation, stripping out and analyzing the truly valuable parts of Emma's blood.

It was an extremely gorgeous gene sequence. Theoretically, human genes had almost infinite possibilities in terms of combination and structure, and the X gene had reached an astonishing level of complexity.

Even though Roche has the assistance of a main control intelligent computer with almost unlimited computing power, and with the participation of many scientific research stone men headed by Kohl, it still takes a long time and luck to crack this ability.

However, he did not aim too high. Analyzing the essence of mutant power was an extremely difficult task. His first step was to give the target specific mutant abilities.

If you want to learn to run, the first step is to learn to walk.

The stone men operated cutting-edge machinery to edit and imitate ready-made genetic samples at the atomic scale.

In layman's terms, they are just copying homework, first finding the part of gene X that really works, then editing it out and inserting it into the gene sequence of a specific object.

On the operating table of the biological laboratory lie experimental subjects created by cloning technology.

The experimental subjects created by Roche did not have developed brain organs, so strictly speaking, they were all mindless vegetative people.

When given a choice, Luo Xi still cherishes his humanity and bottom line.

He knew how powerful he was, especially in this strange universe, and no one could really restrain his behavior.

If he has ambitions, this is a fertile ground for his ambitions to grow.

But these were not what he wanted.

“I once heard a saying: If you lose your humanity, you lose a lot; if you lose your animality, you lose everything.”

“I cherish my humanity, which is my constraint on my own nature and an anchor for my self-perception.”

"But I will not completely suppress and abandon my animal nature for the sake of so-called humanity.

The first priority of human beings is to survive. If we cannot even survive, then no matter how much humanity we talk about, it will be meaningless.

The genetic medicine copied by the stone people was injected into the experimental subject little by little. It was the X-gene extracted serum from the White Queen Emma.

If the mutant's blood is directly injected into the body of an ordinary human, it will naturally have no effect. On the contrary, there will be a severe rejection reaction and the person will die miserably.

These extracted serums contain a large number of coded nanorobots and nutrients, which can directly edit and modify human DNA at the genetic level.

As the X gene serum spread throughout the body through the blood circulation system, the subject's epidermis began to shed a large amount of dandruff, and the flesh under the skin gradually showed a special crystal clear light.

The White Queen's X gene comes into play.

What Luo Xi wants to do is to use gene editing surgery as a pen and the analyzed X gene as ink to paint on a blank piece of ordinary human gene sequence.

The subject was trembling, his body was constantly collapsing and reshaping. It was a long and complicated process.

Luo Xi continuously injected medical nanorobots into it to stabilize the gene sequence that could collapse at any time, and continuously injected life-sustaining drugs and X-gene serum to ensure the continuation of the transformation.

On a more microscopic scale, the subject's human double-helix genes were collapsing. Using extremely precise means, Roche had modified and added a specific X gene, allowing it to possess specific superpowers while maintaining stability.

Strictly speaking, what Roche is doing now is similar to the [Thunder Warrior Project] and [Astartes Project] that were originally promoted and developed by the Emperor.

At that time, Neos used the knowledge he learned from the long Golden Age and Dark Age of Technology as a basis, as well as some knowledge found in the Warp, and worked with many outstanding genetic engineers to create the Primarchs, Thunder Warriors and Astartes.

"My creations are far inferior to the creation of the Primarchs. Without the support of that part of the Warp knowledge, it would be impossible to do it."

"But what I am about to do is not much different in difficulty from creating Astartes. I am pushing Astartes to another level."

"Although what I do is standing on the shoulders of the giant Emperor, my contribution is in no way inferior to the foundation he laid."

Although what Roshi is doing now is only the first step, he wants to give the X gene to an ordinary human test subject, which is still a long way from concentrating it and grafting it into the body of the Astartes.

But the first step is always the most difficult. From "0" to "1" is a qualitative change, while from "1" to infinity is a quantitative change.

A tragic war is breaking out in the genes of the experimental subjects. Roche wants to start all over again and use the original genetic material to construct the power properties expressed by the X gene.

After a long period of adaptation, the experimental subject injected with the White Queen X gene finally broke through the critical point.

His skin had grown back, in the form of a thin, organic diamond that shimmered under the lab lights.

At the same time, the psychic detection instrument nearby began to beep, and Luo Xi felt a relatively weak psychic power emerging.

Although this psychic power is pitifully weak, it is the spiritual power released by a vegetative person who has no brain organs and no soul fluctuations.

If the mechanical sages of the Mechanicus who specialize in studying psionic energy and biology were to see this scene, they would probably be so excited that their engine oil would spray out.

"Gene X contains infinite possibilities and forms a bridge between biological genes and the psychic power of the subspace."

The White Queen was already speechless. The ability she was so proud of was being cracked and mass-produced.

Roche did not imprison her freedom, and the mutant's fighting power was completely meaningless here.

The patrolling security iron men completely ignored this level of psychic power, and although Kohl and the stone men were positioned as researchers, their power should not be underestimated.

What kind of researcher are you if you don't have enough strength to knock your research subject to the ground and press him onto the lab table for dissection?

Luo Xi wanted to break all of the White Queen's psychological defenses and let her see everything openly, but she would not be able to change anything.

The experimental subject has been transformed into a living diamond creature, and his internal organs can be clearly seen squirming and trembling.

Theoretically, when a person's internal organs turn into diamonds, he must be dead, because this is simply unable to support the functioning of the life system.

But under the influence of the X gene, everything became a reality. It activated the psychic power from the subspace and maintained the operation of life.

Emma hoped desperately that this crude imitation would break into pieces and die, but unfortunately, the transformation of the experimental subject was successfully completed and its vital signs stabilized.

Luo Xi smiled, but in the eyes of this mutant, it looked like a devil's smile.

“The first step has been successful, but it’s still a long way from where I need to be.

Next, I will carry out targeted gene editing and cultivation to obtain diamond crystals with extremely strong heat resistance, diamond crystals with greater strength and toughness, and diamond crystals with excellent resistance to high-energy radiation damage..."

"These are shortcomings that you cannot avoid, but they can circumvent these weaknesses through iteration and evolution, thus becoming more powerful and versatile."

"Your ability is a rich initial asset. As long as you manage it properly, I can continue to amplify and increase its value like a snowball."

The White Queen's face became even paler, which was different from her skin which was as white and smooth as milk. It was a look of complete despair and a look of misery as if she didn't know how to resist.

She realized that her ability had become a key, opening a door of light for the humanoid demon in front of her.

Luo Xi and Emma walked around and inspected the huge laboratory, while Logan followed silently behind.

In the past, he might have hated and despised these laboratories, but now his stance has shifted to the concept of humanity as a whole.

Everything Luo Xi did was to enhance the overall strength of the race in order to fight against those terrible enemies.

He even wished that Roche's research could be faster and more rapid, because the current Earth was too weak.

Some ignorant humans who are still on the surface of the planet and unable to reach the outer world are racking their brains and fighting each other to the death for a little bit of trivial interests.

The two superpowers are hostile to each other and are determined to defeat each other's ideology and become the true global hegemon.

But with this goal and energy, why not leave the Earth and find a clean world to practice your own ideas?

It is true that part of the reason is that they do not have the ability to colonize the stars, but part of the reason is that they have never been able to break away from their narrow-mindedness and immediate interests.

Human beings need an enemy to exert pressure and a guide to point the direction so that they can get on the right track.

Emma saw different laboratories, all of which had different research directions, but their core goal was to analyze and quantify the mutant's X gene.

In one of the laboratories marked with the ability of "survival of the fittest", there is even a black mutant who actively cooperates with the researchers' actions. Emma doesn't understand if the other party really doesn't know what this will lead to?

Each mutant's talents are unique, and now someone is trying to steal and improve them.

This is a thief and even more of a robber. Shouldn't mutants unite to resist him?
Luo Xi ignored the woman's complicated inner thoughts. He just stood at the observation window of the first branch laboratory.

Since this is just the beginning, the first thing Roche did was to inject each X gene into the body of the experimental subject to collect initial data.

After the data collection is completed, what he needs to do is to try to merge the different mutant genes according to their compatibility.

For example, Darwin's "survival of the fittest" is very suitable for Mystique's "perfect simulation".

Therefore, the experiment of fusing these two X genes has gone ahead of all other projects, and Luo Xi has obtained a special cell that combines the advantages of both.

This fusion cell can not only help the host adapt to harsh environments and block and reduce damage from certain extremely powerful attacks, but what is even more amazing is that it is not something that can only be passively activated like Darwin's original power.

Mystique's "perfect simulation" complements this, making the survival of the fittest more proactive and controllable.

Completing the Astartes created by the Emperor was only the first step taken by Roche.

It would be a waste to use something as simple and useful as the X-Gene only to upgrade the Astartes. Another powerful force under Roche, the Iron Legion, also needs to be upgraded and strengthened.

"However, unlike the difficulty of completing the Astartes, it is much easier to create an iron man similar to the Sentinel. At least I don't have to waste brain cells to overcome the difficulties of gene collapse and gene fusion."

"The Iron Men only need to use the ability characteristics of Mystique's [Perfect Simulation] to download the ability information of different mutants from the main control brain, and then they can simulate the corresponding abilities."

"There is no doubt that the Iron Men have more variant abilities at their disposal, but their depth of development of different abilities is obviously not comparable to that of the Astartes."

Luo Xi extracted a prototype of the "Sentinel Iron Man" from a laboratory nearby. The countless scale-like structures on its body surface were fluctuating wildly, but unfortunately it was just a superficial form.

"There is still an essential difference between using and mastering, but this is the same as how I have always positioned Astartes and Iron Man. The former takes the route of cutting-edge elites, while the latter takes the route of massing troops."

"What do you want to do? If you just want to rule the world, you don't need to go through so much trouble." Emma looked at Luo Xi silently, and suddenly she didn't feel the pain anymore.

There is a gap between the two sides, and it is painful when the gap is too obvious. But now she understands that the power that Luo Xi is preparing and accumulating to deal with them is like using a cannon to kill a mosquito.

The gap is so big that there is no visible edge, so naturally there will be no more entanglement and fear.

"Rule the world?" Luo Xi asked back, "Why do you think I would have such a stupid and low-level idea?"

“The world in your eyes and the world in my eyes are two completely different things. If I want, I can turn the entire galaxy into my kingdom.

The productivity I control is countless orders of magnitude beyond your time."

"To me, your ambitions to rule the world are nothing more than a group of monkeys fighting for control of the monkey group."

A sarcastic smile appeared at the corner of Luo Xi's mouth.

"Why do you guys who do things in secret always have a similar reason?"

"Why can't you broaden your horizons a little bit instead of just limiting yourself to this tiny place?"

Emma's head was like being forcibly opened by Luo Xi, pouring in some knowledge and vision that far exceeded her cognition, and she suddenly became short of breath.

“You are both unfortunate and lucky. You have no idea what kind of enemies and threats humans, a species that spans countless multiverses, are facing.

You don’t even know your true birth and origin, you just proudly claim that you are a miracle of nature and a superior race that replaced humans.”

"You are totally wrong. In my opinion, if you cannot understand the responsibilities you should shoulder, then the best outcome is to be put under house arrest in a laboratory and let others use your talents for you."

"Be thankful that you met me instead of those lunatics of the Adeptus Mechanicus who would drain all your secrets and abilities.

Your self-consciousness will also be annihilated, and only your body will be extracted and cloned into 10,000 copies to perform repeated extreme human experiments."

"And I can at least give you some humane treatment."

The White Queen had already collapsed to the ground. A tall and handsome stone researcher picked up Emma and took her to her room.

"You...you devils!"

Emma looked at the handsome man holding her, and even with her eyes, she couldn't find any flaws.

If it were normal, she might not mind having a romantic date with such a man, but now she just felt fear deep in her bones.

Because these guys who look like humans are actually modified humans made of biochemical materials.

The White Queen doesn't think she is the same kind as this guy.

"You can tell me any needs you have, including food, entertainment, sex, or even travel to relax. I will meet your legitimate demands." Researcher Shi Ren said gently.

"What if I want to leave?" Emma demanded.

"Sorry, this is an unreasonable request. You can only move around in the biological laboratory. No one, including yourself, has the right to harm your body. You are our precious living genetic sample."

Emma sat in a daze in the luxurious room. All kinds of furniture and appliances that were so advanced that she couldn't even understand them were neatly arranged. Tens of thousands of check-box menus were displayed on the transparent screen for her to choose from.

But she understood that no matter how good these things were or how rich they were, they were just toys to entertain the little white mice in the cage. She was a prisoner, an experimental subject, not a free person.

"Xiao, maybe soon you will be my neighbor." Emma said with a wry smile.

(End of this chapter)