Warhammer: Rebuilding the Golden Age Starting with Farming

Chapter 137 The Underworld Works

Andy is in a great mood right now!

Soon, he returned to the underground east area carrying a heavy anti-static turnover box.

The box was filled with necromancy components that Hughie had processed.

To be honest, although Hughie always felt like she was being used as a laborer, she was really honest when she was working and didn't take the opportunity to cause trouble.

The reason is simple: Andy promised her that if she cooperated well, he would give her the key to the single room in Building A with a private bathroom and hot water all day.

For someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder who has been living in a coffin for thousands of years, bathing and privacy take precedence over all racial hatred.

Andy put the box on the ground and opened the lid.

Most of them were vertebrae removed from the ghosts of the underworld, along with a dozen or so relatively well-preserved ghostly scarabs.

These are low-level units in the undead army; they are numerous and relatively easy to acquire.

"Let's begin."

Andy casually grabbed a scarab beetle and threw it onto the black round platform.

"Buzz"

The parsing station is started.

This time, there was no rejection reaction, and the nanorobots smoothly decomposed the shell's material structure.

Sample analysis complete.

Material composition: Nano-beetle swarm (unlocked).

[Potential technology path 1: General-purpose funerary organization.]

Andy skillfully chose this option.

Based on past experience, after the selection is completed, the analysis station will automatically output a standard-sized board.

But this time is different.

After Andy pressed the confirm button, the options did not disappear, but instead a new secondary menu expanded to the right.

The menu didn't contain the low gothic language that Andy was familiar with; instead, it listed a row of hieroglyphs that emitted a faint green glow.

These runes have complex structures, full of sharp angles and rounded nodes, and are typical of necromancy.

"What the heck?"

Andy was taken aback.

"Why are you even introducing differentiation?"

Previously, during parsing, because the samples were locked, the parsing station could only brute-force them, and whatever it output was what it got; there was no choice at all.

Now that the sample is clean, it seems that access has been granted as well?

Andy immediately accessed the STC database for real-time translation.

Soon, the meaning of these runes was deciphered.

【91】

【82】

【Seven Three】

[55]

【Sanqi】

【28】(Gray, not selectable)

Andy stared at the numbers for a while, and then, with the help of the annotations below, quickly understood their meaning.

The "universal psychic mechanism" of the spare ribs seems to be a superposition of matter between "macromechanical" and "nano-beetle swarm".

These ratios represent the proportion between "physical design" and "logical construction".

Andy's finger stopped on the "37" option.

According to STC's notes, this is the most widely used specification among Space Necromancer's technological products.

"This is it."

Andy enters the command.

The nanofluids on the pedestal began to recombine.

A few minutes later, the fluid receded.

A black board, about the size of a palm and about 20 centimeters thick, lay quietly in the center of the round platform.

Its surface has no luster, but it has a warm and smooth texture when held in the hand. It doesn't feel like metal at all, but rather like some kind of jade.

Andy immediately performed a deep scan on the board.

The data feedback made him instantly understand the meaning of "Sanqi".

Inside this board, 30% of the material structure is in a "deadlock" state.

The deadlock section forms the rigid skeleton of the plate, which determines its basic physical strength, heat resistance and corrosion resistance.

No matter how much it's manipulated, this 30% structure will remain unchanged, ensuring its fundamental stability as an industrial material.

The remaining 70% consists of swarms of nanobeetles that are in an "active" state.

This part of the material can be programmed using external electronic signals.

They can flow and recombine in the gaps of the skeleton, changing the local shape of the board and forming specific functional interfaces.

Simply put, this is a piece of metal that is "hard, but can be squeezed".

If it's the [91] specification, then it's 90% deadlocked, basically equivalent to a piece of ultra-high strength armor plate, extremely hard, but with almost no deformation ability, usually used to build main armor.

If it is a 55 specification, it is a balanced type, which has both strength and a certain degree of deformation capacity, making it suitable for manufacturing connectors.

As for that gray "28" specification...

Andy guessed that it was probably a very high-precision component, with 80% programmability meaning it could simulate extremely complex internal mechanical structures.

It's grayed out because of a system notification:

[The current sample purity is insufficient/the analytical precision is limited.]

[A conversion loss rate exceeding 10% is considered a manufacturing failure.]

The analysis station works like this: it refuses to work if the loss rate exceeds the standard to prevent waste of materials.

Even if it's just the "37" specification, it's already awesome enough for Andy.

He picked up the board and examined it from all angles.

Under STC's high magnification, the internal structure of this board reveals a breathtaking level of integration.

If Joka's main focus is energy integration, then Paigu's main focus is technology integration.

In the industrial system of the human empire, if you want to achieve a function, such as "rotation".

You need a motor, gears, bearings, lubricant, and a housing, and then assemble them together.

However, this logic was completely abandoned in the Necromancer's tech tree.

There are no independent parts inside this board.

Each micro-unit serves as a structural support, a power source, and a logic circuit.

Moreover, Andy noticed a very interesting detail.

Even in the golden age of human technology, the core of photoelectric conversion technology was still based on semiconductor physics, namely diodes, transistors, and field-effect transistors.

Logical operations and energy conversion are achieved by controlling the flow of electrons within semiconductors.

Although the process can be done at the atomic level, the underlying principle has remained unchanged.

However, the underworld's working mechanism does not contain a binary system.

Its photoelectric conversion and signal transmission rely on a holographic force field.

The nanounits do not communicate with each other through electric current, but rather through a microscopic, invisible force field beam.

After entering the interior of a material, photons are directly captured, refracted, and stored by this force field, and converted into energy or signals.

This means it doesn't require complex circuit boards and chips, or even specialized batteries.

The device itself is made up of batteries, chips, and motors.

Once it's powered and commands are input, this board will automatically perform operations, calculations, and emit light.

In comparison, the Empire is still using thick cables to connect servo skulls and pistons to drive robotic arms—they're practically primitive!

Even the T-9000 exoskeleton and the elite power armor in Andy's hands, although they used a lot of good materials, are essentially just a bunch of independent parts put together.

The Minggong organization solved all the problems from the material level.

Although the performance limit of this universal psychic mechanism is certainly far inferior to that of the biomimetic multi-alloy that can be set at will.

However, its advantages lie in mass production and stability.

As long as there are enough undead remains, even just fragments, Andy can continuously produce this "37" specification of universal board.

Then, these sheets were used to create internal components with performance far exceeding Imperial standards.

To be honest, Andy never intended to incorporate this necromancy technology into his entire industrial system from the very beginning.

But there's really nothing we can do about it.

In Andy's grand vision, whether it's the Reiss's bioengineering, the Eldar's Netherbone, or the Necromancer's Nethercraft, they are all essentially just "transitional technologies."

They are useful, but they rely too much on scavenging, and their output is entirely dependent on luck.

If the core technology of deep space industry is built on such unstable external support, it will collapse at the slightest sign of trouble.

Moreover, as an Iron Man, Andy himself actually has a strong inclination.

In his subconscious, only the standardized, mass-producible, and complex-logic-based Golden Age technologies in the STC database could be the cornerstone supporting a super civilization spanning the galaxy.

As for these alien black technologies, they are at most plug-ins used to save the day in critical moments, and can be used to make some special components and solve some specific problems.

If we were to really rely on them to advance our technological advancements, not only would the quantity be far from sufficient, but Andy also had no intention of doing so.

Things have come to this point —

Let's enjoy using it for now!

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