SCV Massage Technician

As they stepped into the elevator, the group ascended directly to the bridge of the warship.

Only upon entering the bridge did Gao Yi truly understand why Vail had said things were bad—it wasn't just the lower decks; even this most central part of the ship had been attacked.

Crew members were scrambling to tend to the wounded, damaged equipment sparking relentlessly, while the ship's tech-priests worked to soothe the agitated machine spirits and repair the machinery.

Bodies were being carried out of the bridge one by one.

"Connie, help treat the wounded!"

"On it!"

At Gao Yi's command, Connie began injecting nano-repair bots into the injured. Under the incredulous gazes of those around, crew members who had been on the brink of death miraculously revived, as if nothing had happened.

Witnessing this, Vail turned his gaze back to Gao Yi.

"Lord Gao Yi, what technology is this?"

"Tech from the Dark Age! You know I'm a captain who explores void ships, Vail. Even here, you were attacked?!"

Gao Yi had no better explanation—in the Warhammer universe, any unfamiliar tech could just be blamed on the Dark Age, since this world's technology relied on archaeology.

"Yes. Someone cracked the ship's security permissions—all elevators and doors were opened. The shipworkers and clans from the Lower Deck started a riot. The cargo deck is also down there; someone must have been secretly supplying weapons to those traitors for a long time."

"Can't your crew handle the riot below?"

"We've suppressed the rebels who charged up and pushed them back. I've already sent Enforcer Squads into the Lower Deck, but the situation there is far more complicated than imagined. It's not just the rioters—the influence from the Warp is spreading some kind of plague through the lower levels. Those who worship the Chaos Gods can ignore it, but our crew cannot."

"Plague." At the mention of plague, Gao Yi immediately thought of Nurgle. The followers of the Chaos Gods were far too obvious to mistake.

"And worse—Captain Ludwig took the ship's most elite warriors, her family's household guard, down to the Lower Deck before the riot broke out. I tried to stop her, but she insisted on going."

"You're saying a Rogue Trader personally went down to the ship's Lower Deck?" Hearing this, Gao Yi found it hard to believe. A lofty Rogue Trader diving into the chaos of the Lower Deck? For what? An inspection? To win favor with the Deep Hold dwellers?

This was the Warhammer world!

"I don't know. But we've completely lost contact with Captain Ludwig."

"So you don't even know if Captain Ludwig is still alive?"

"I refuse to believe Lord Ludwig would die. But as the ship's seneschal, I have to plan for the worst."

Just as the two were speaking, the warship suddenly shuddered violently.

A crewman operating a Thinker shouted in terror: "Lord Vail! The ship's engine is critically damaged! The Engine Seer reports he can't repair it in time—at this rate, the ship will lose all power!"

"Can't repair it?!"

Losing power in the Warp was no different from a death sentence for everyone aboard.

"Vail! Take me there now—I might have a solution!"

"You have a solution?! Even the tech-priests can't do it—can you?!"

"Stop wasting time! Do you want everyone to die?! Take me now!"

"Fine! Follow me!"

Hearing that the engine was severely damaged, Gao Yi immediately thought of the SCV engineering vehicle. If the Medic's effects worked like in the game, could the SCV, which could repair anything mechanical, also function the same way?

Regardless, Gao Yi had to try.

They sprinted all the way to the engine room doors. Even before entering, they could hear sporadic explosions and rumbling from within. Blue arcs of electricity flashed out from the engine room. When they saw the scene inside, they realized it was even worse than imagined.

Massive arcs of electricity crackled across the Warp engine, and strange noises made it feel like the engine could explode at any moment.

The cogboys frantically operated the machinery before them, struggling to keep the engine stable, while the tech-priests used every method to calm the machine spirit.

The ship's Engine Seer was chanting the name of the Omnissiah.

His mechanical tentacles were moving so fast they were almost a blur, yet the engine's condition continued to deteriorate.

"0100, 001001, 0010011, 0111001," Engine Seer Pavian barked orders in the binary language of the Adeptus Mechanicus to his underlings and servitors.

"Pavian! What's the situation?!"

"By the holy Omnissiah, the machine spirit is in turmoil! Wild Source Energy is surging through the engine! In one more Terra-hour, it will overload! The machine spirit refuses to let me access its safety protocols!"

"You are the Engine Seer, Pavel! You must fix this!"

"Captain Ludwig isn't here! This ship belongs to her family—the family's machine spirit recognizes her! If she were here, maybe it could be done! Vail, you must find the captain!"

As the two shouted at each other, Gao Yi had already opened the store interface.

He still had three hundred Psionic Crystals left—enough to recruit two SCVs.

With the crystals spent, two SCVs materialized behind the group.

In the game, SCVs looked small, but in reality, they stood three meters tall. If not for the vast interior space of a Warhammer warship, there might not have been room for these behemoths.

The sudden appearance of the SCVs caught the attention of both Vail and Pavian.

When the two turned and saw these massive machines behind them, they both instinctively raised their weapons. Pavian's mechanical tentacle, holding a plasma weapon, had already begun charging.

"Don't shoot! They're with me—I might be able to fix the engine!"

Gao Yi quickly stopped them, genuinely afraid they'd dismantle the SCVs.

"Impossible. How did you bring something like this in without anyone noticing?!" Vail felt his mind struggling to keep up.

"I told you, this is Dark Age technology!! If this ship's Machine Spirit serves the family, then as someone with the family bloodline, would I also be effective?"

"Perhaps. Only the captain has ever been authorized to access it before. No one else has ever tried."

"Let's give it a shot! I don't think either of you have any other options right now, do you?!"

Gao Yi stepped directly up to the Thinker before him and placed his hand upon it. The moment his skin made contact, he truly felt the presence of what they called the Machine Spirit.

At that moment, the Machine Spirit was raging, furious—it had completely abandoned any effort to maintain the Warp engine's operation.

Gao Yi commanded the two SCVs to approach the Warp engine. Their tool clamps and drill bits made contact with the engine and began to operate.

As the SCVs started working, a miraculous scene unfolded. The roar of the engine began to subside, and the overload index slowly started to drop. Gao Yi could sense the Machine Spirit's emotions—it was gradually calming down. He wasn't sure if he heard correctly, but it almost seemed like the Machine Spirit let out a comfortable groan.

As if the SCVs were massaging it!

"It worked!" Gao Yi knew he had bet correctly.

Beside him, Pavel was stunned. He had seen everything clearly. Those two unknown machines—what had they really done? Nothing much! They just reconnected a few pipes and circuits that had been damaged from the overload. He had done the exact same thing just now, and it hadn't worked at all! Yet these clamps and drills, with all their chaotic fiddling, had actually fixed the engine?!

Omnissiah above! What the hell kind of technology is this?!