Warhammer: Expedition to the Multiverse from 30k

In the simulated battle of the intelligent computer, the tactical troops composed of the new model of Star-type power armor were able to achieve a combat loss ratio of 1:1.2 with the troops of the first-generation adamantium armor or strong interaction force armor.

This is already a very terrifying improvement. You have to know that the first generation of Extreme Marines who were equipped with adamantium armor fought head-on against the World Eaters and Word Bearers in Amatra, and achieved a terrifying battle-loss ratio of one to more than ten.

The rapid replacement of equipment also enabled Guilliman to speed up the innovation of his military theory. Roche knew that the Lord of the Ultramarines had always hoped to compile a holy book that could adapt to most war environments.

Guilliman would often discuss the lessons of war with Roche via holographic communication, or when he would go to the Great Library of Macragge to read historical documents.

According to a recent conversation, Guilliman seems to be trying to divide his troops more finely, reorganizing them from the original relatively rough chapter companies into a more adaptable mixed model.

"The equipment update rate of the auxiliary forces in the 56.79 worlds of Ultramar has reached 1.5%. The vast majority of important worlds have completed all updates, and the remaining ones will also be completed in an estimated Terran years."

There were heavy footsteps in Roche's laboratory, and the regular sound of pistons and gears heralded the arrival of a technical priest.

Buckle Dylan held his technological scepter and walked into the laboratory leisurely.

The long disinfection corridor purified the germs and microorganisms that he might be carrying. After triple identity verification, the technical priest came to Luo Xi.

Luo Xi raised his eyes slightly, and his eyelids twitched slightly for a moment. This old guy was about to move his hometown to Mustafar. Now there were oil men everywhere on this planet.

By the time you see one oilman, the entire planet is already full of oilmen.

These tech-priests, clad in Martian red robes, reminded Roche of a tenacious creature from the distant past called cockroaches.

"Praise the Gear, Father Roshi, our anti-psychic research is finally making some progress."

Dylan brought good news as soon as he opened his mouth, although the ups and downs of his voice and the fluctuations of emotions could not be heard in his electronic voice.

"Has there been any progress in collecting the Untouchables?" Luo Xi controlled the intelligent brain and cast a set of power armor suitable for the body of a mortal in the laboratory.

"Yes, the collection teams we sent out found 51 untouchables on 223 planets, 87 of them were male and the remaining 136 were female."

After hearing these data, Luo Xi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Ever since he witnessed a large number of demons appearing in the real world in Nuceria, he has shifted a considerable amount of his focus to the research of anti-psychic energy.

The armor he made had almost reached a critical value in terms of resistance to physical attacks, energy attacks and other damage. Unless he continued to make breakthroughs in materials science and used stronger materials to cast power armor, he could only make modifications to the edges and corners.

But the biggest problem at the moment is the counterattack against demons. Most of the Ultramarines who died in the Battle of Nuceria were killed by demons. Those abominations from the warp have attack modes that can penetrate armor.

And according to the feedback reports from the Extreme Marines, the vast majority of warriors clearly felt strong mental interference and soul corruption when fighting against demons.

Although these corruptions were not obvious to the Astartes with iron wills, many corruptions were clearly evident when the large number of mortal auxiliary troops were carrying out corpse recovery work.

If a warrior's heart is not firm enough, or there are obvious psychological loopholes, there is a great probability that he will be corrupted by the power of the warp.

Warp corruption is a psychic phenomenon, and if the spread of psychic power can be limited on the battlefield, then there will be a new and huge advantage against demons.

"Has the Mechanicus made any progress in its research on the Untouchables?" Roche finished the new work in his hand, which was a power armor specially customized for the Untouchables.

"The Untouchables have always been the subject of research by some biological sages, but unfortunately, our understanding of this special kind of soulless beings is still limited to the surface." Sage Dylan inserted a data pad into the reader.

The data in the data board was immediately uploaded to the central intelligent computer, and detailed information of the uncontactable people who were found appeared in front of Luo Xi.

"There was once a biological sage who tried to cultivate the Untouchables through cloning, but no matter how consistent the conditions were, the clones did not show the same traits as the originals."

"Perhaps our cloning technology is not perfect enough, or perhaps the essence of the soulless is not in their flesh and blood."

“This is an extremely rare mutation in the human gene pool. No one knows where it came from, but it is certain that it is almost impossible for soulless people to obtain it through artificial means.

They exist without souls, and are no different from other humans except for their soullessness."

Soulless people will naturally release a soulless attitude, and this special attitude makes them completely isolated from psychic energy and almost unaffected by it. But at the same time, the "black hole" state of the soul makes people around them instinctively have reactions such as headaches and physical disgust.

This also makes it extremely difficult for the Untouchables, who are already extremely rare and can only be born through miraculous mutations caused by population reproduction, to grow up.

Many times, even their parents would regard their Untouchable offspring as freaks, and the vast majority of Untouchables did not even survive infancy.

“When our collection teams found them in the hives of various planets, almost all of the Soulless were living at the bottom of society, and even at the bottom of the hives there were few groups that would accept them,” said Sage Dylan.

"Some of the untouchables can only wander in the wilderness, surviving by picking up unwanted garbage from the hives, while even more soulless people can only find a corner at the bottom of the hives to live in, relying on the mortals' disgust for them to survive."

Luo Xi quickly went through the information of the soulless people, and he was soon attracted by a special record.

He manipulated his fingers to call up the record, and the target's information was presented in front of him in the form of a holographic projection.

"This male Untouchable named Dulles Valentine was found on a fringe planet of the Five Hundred Worlds. When we found him, he had already assembled a gang of Untouchables in a local hive world."

The technical priest recounted this interesting experience.

"Dulles himself is an untouchable. He has lived at the bottom of the Hive World since he was a child. By chance, he saved a gang leader who was attacked by psychic mutants. Since then, he has been accepted by the gang. When we found him, he had already climbed to the position of gang leader."

"Dulles searched for untouchables like himself in the hive world and other spheres of influence, and raised them to adulthood. This time alone, we found 13 untouchables, which is the largest harvest since the operation began."

Luo Xi savored in amazement the life experience of the Untouchable who had taken the gang script. This guy actually began to flexibly utilize the characteristics of the Untouchable.

When gangs fought over resources, he and other untouchables went out together, using their soulless stance to directly destroy most of their opponents' combat effectiveness.

When mortals get close to the Untouchables, they will involuntarily experience headaches and physical disgust, and the degree of this feeling varies.

The weak untouchables may give people the feeling of an unbearable stench, which cannot be avoided even by gas masks, but this is not enough to make the enemy lose their combat effectiveness.

Powerful soulless beings can even drain the souls of humans within a certain range. They are truly like walking black holes. Not only psychics, but even mortals find it difficult to survive when seeing them.

When the dozen or so Untouchables assembled by Dulles went out together, their combined Soulless stance was comparable to that of a powerful Soulless, which was why they were able to win repeatedly in gang fights.

"Bring him here. I want to talk to him. He is the godfather of the Soulless Gang. He is really interesting."

The technical priest immediately ordered his men to bring over the untouchable named Dulles. He changed into a sterile suit and wore a special bracelet of the Mechanicus on his wrist, which could be used for precise positioning and identity confirmation.

Of course, when necessary, this bracelet will also become a tool for the Mechanicus to recover test subjects. The high-voltage current and toxins it releases are enough to kill even the thick-skinned Ogryns one by one.

Luo Xi looked up, and what he saw was a middle-aged man who looked a little haggard.

He had a greasy backcombed hair, with rough stubble from lack of trimming, and his eyes seemed a little dull from lack of rest and being in an unfamiliar environment.

A very ordinary middle-aged man.

Of course, when Luo Xi felt it carefully, he sensed an instinctive discomfort. This was not an emotional feeling of nausea, but came from instinctive resistance and disgust.

As he took a few steps toward Dulles, the feeling intensified. His stomach started to churn and his head started to feel a little dizzy.

Chapter 103 The Soulless One

Dulles looked at the man who walked out of the laboratory with some fear.

He came from a hive city on a fringe world called Lund, which was located on the eastern border of the Five Hundred Worlds.

It was an ordinary hive world, a huge hive left over from the distant past, with a population of tens of billions, and Dulles came from the bottom of the hive.

In the bottom of the hive city filled with all kinds of abandoned garbage from the upper and middle nests, highly toxic chemicals and deadly radiation, all kinds of terrible cults, gangs and mutant monsters are bred.

And Dulles has been living in this terrible hell since he became conscious.

He knew from a young age that he was different from other people. No one would be willing to contact him, not even those terrible cannibalistic mutants.

Relying on his tenacious desire to survive and a little bit of luck, he survived from a toddler to adulthood, and while looking for food, he met the gang leader Carl who was besieged by those mutant bastards who used psychic powers.

When the gang leader, who was somewhat famous in the bottom nest, witnessed the mutant's head explode in front of him, he accepted Dulles.

Later, Dulles, who had the support of the gang, thrived in the Bottom Nest. He found many people like him and recruited them into the gang.

At the bottom of the desperate hive, there is a group of untouchables who huddle together for warmth. They call each other brothers and sisters, and the eldest Dulles is respected as "Godfather" by the new soulless people.

It would have continued like this, with Dulles aging slowly in the darkness of the lower levels of the hive, if he was lucky enough not to have died in a gang fight or a terrible mutant riot.

Until one day, he will die from chronic diseases or radiation sickness caused by the harsh environment, just like Carl, the gang leader he saved, and then hand over the position to a brother he trusts.

But this kind of life was disrupted by a group of weirdos who called themselves the Mechanicus. When the nobles of the Upper Nest brought these weirdos in scarlet robes to the Lower Nest, Dulles knew that something big was going to happen.

The upper nest and the lower nest are two completely different worlds. Although Dulles has never been to the legendary upper nest, it does not mean that he cannot find clues from rumors and the garbage discarded by the upper nest.

Those noble rulers have ruled the hive for countless millennia, but now they are willing to be driven by these weirdos who smell of motor oil.

Dulles subconsciously ordered his men to flee, but he had to fulfill his responsibilities as a leader and hold back these uninvited guests.

Decades of experience in the bottom nest told him that there is no such thing as a free lunch, and even if there is, it must be poisonous.

His first reaction was that his gang had somehow angered these high and mighty masters, so that they were now coming to settle the score.

"A group of precious untouchables, favored by the God of All Machines."

This was the last human words Dulles heard. In the next second, the oil men threw out a large number of anti-gravity paralysis bracelets and handcuffed every gang member under the control of the Thinker system.

Some impatient gang members had just taken out the few laser guns they had, but at a glance, their bodies were turned into powder by the arc launchers and melta guns that popped out from the oil men.

Then, Dulles and his Untouchable brothers and sisters were taken to a Mechanicus exploration ship hovering in orbit, a huge starship they had never seen before.

A huge blue-white plasma tail stream cut through the dark space. Complex and mysterious mechanical creations were scattered all over the surface of the Ark. Pink arcs and dots of light flickered regularly on the surface of the starship.

To these country bumpkins from the Bottom Nest, this was far more startling than their stranger dreams and their most terrible legends.

Dulles didn't know what these weirdos who came from the starry sky were going to do, but life on the starship was indeed good. Apart from restricting their freedom, the oil men provided them with abundant material conditions.

Pure water without the stench of chemical pollution, delicious meat, and they even gave precious medicine to cure the radiation sickness of the youngest boy among them.

Dulles saw all of this and he understood that there is no kindness in the world without reason.

But at least now, he was sure they were valuable.

Don't be afraid of others coveting your value, just be afraid that you have no value at all.

When he saw the man coming out of the laboratory under the guidance of the technical priest, he immediately realized that this man was the biggest manager here, because all the attention of those oil men was focused on the seemingly ordinary man.

As Dulles observed Roche in his sterile suit, he was also sizing up the Untouchable.

Luo Xi was very interested in the godfather of the Untouchable gang, and his experience and education made communication easy.

You should know that among the recovered untouchables, many of them are just wandering in the wilderness like wild beasts. They can't even speak a complete sentence, let alone receive an education.

"Hello, Dulles Valentine."

"Sir, I am at your service." Dulles imitated the technical priest and performed the gear salute. He believed that Luo Xi must be the leader of these engine oil guys, and it would be right to use their etiquette.

His attitude was very positive. He was willing to be ordered as soon as he opened his mouth. It was obvious that he realized his value to Luo Xi.

If you have value, you need to show it. Only when others realize your value will you be taken seriously by others.

"Don't be nervous. We have no ill intention in bringing you here. On the contrary, this is a very good opportunity for you." Luo Xi calmed him down. He could see that Dulles was very humble, fearing that he would offend the person in front of him.

“I know that people like you are often not welcomed by others, and many people will naturally hate you and even want to kill you.

But we won't. You may not know how rare untouchables like you are, but I can tell you that our people searched around 500 worlds and only found more than 200 of your kind." Luo Xi said comfortingly.