Stepping onto the elevator, the group went straight up to the bridge of the voidship.
Walking into the bridge, Gao Yi finally understood why Veil said things were terrible; not just him, even the most central command post of this voidship had been attacked.
Crew members were rescuing the wounded, sparks constantly erupted from damaged equipment, and the ship's tech-priests were pacifying the restless machine spirits while repairing hardware.
Corpse after corpse was being carried out of the bridge.
"Connie, help treat the wounded!"
"I'm on it!"
Under Gao Yi's orders, Connie began injecting nano-repair bots into one injured person after another. Under everyone's incredulous gazes, crew members who had already reached the brink of death miraculously came back to life, acting as if nothing had happened.
Seeing this, Veil looked at Gao Yi once more.
"Lord Gao Yi, what kind of technology is this?"
"Technology from the Dark Age! You know I am a captain who explores voidships, Veil. Even this place was attacked?!"
Gao Yi did not know how to explain it; anyway, in the Warhammer universe, any unfamiliar technology could just be dumped onto the Dark Age. After all, the technology of this world relied on archaeology.
"Yes. I don't know who cracked the voidship's security permissions, but all elevators and gates were opened. The shipworkers and clans of the lower deck started a riot. The cargo deck is also on the lower level; someone must have been secretly providing weapons to this group of traitors for a long time."
"The ship's crew can't resolve the riot at the bottom?"
"We have suppressed the traitors who rushed up, and they retreated, and I have already dispatched an enforcement squad into the lower deck. But the situation on the lower deck is far more complex than imagined; it's not just these rioters. The influence from the warp has caused a certain plague to spread through the lower levels. We can ignore those guys who worship the chaos gods, but our crew members cannot."
"A plague." Upon hearing the word plague, Gao Yi immediately thought of Nurgle. The manifestations of the chaos god's followers were too straightforward to even need guessing.
"And the more serious situation is that Captain Ludwig, before the riot broke out, led the most elite warriors of this voidship—namely, his family guards—to the lower deck. Although I tried to stop him, he still chose to go."
"You're saying the Rogue Trader personally ran down to the lower deck of the voidship?" Hearing this, even Gao Yi found it incredible. A lofty Rogue Trader running into the chaotic lower deck? What for? Inspecting the work, currying favor with the people in the deep hold?
This was the Warhammer world!
"I don't know. But we have completely lost contact with Captain Ludwig."
"Meaning we don't even know if Captain Ludwig is still alive?"
"Although I don't believe Lord Ludwig would die, as the castellan, I can only handle the situation based on the worst-case scenario."
Just as the two of them were talking, the voidship suddenly trembled violently.
A crew member operating a thinker shouted with a terrified expression, "Lord Veil! The voidship's warp engine is severely damaged. The engine seer reports that he has no time to repair it. If this goes on, the voidship will completely lose power!"
"Irreparable?!"
Losing power in the warp was little different from pronouncing a death sentence for everyone.
"Veil! Take me there quickly! Maybe I have a way!!"
"You have a way?! Even the tech-priests can't do it, but you can?!"
"Stop wasting breath! Do you want everyone to die?! Take me there quickly!"
"Fine! Follow me!"
Hearing that the engine was severely damaged, Gao Yi immediately thought of the SCV. Since the medic's effect could be just like in the game, could an SCV, which could repair any machinery, also achieve the exact same effect as in the game?
No matter what, Gao Yi had to try.
Running all the way, the group arrived at the heavy doors of the engine room. Even before entering, they could hear the explosions and roaring sounds intermittently echoing from within. Blue electric arcs surged continuously from the engine room. When everyone saw the scene inside, they realized the situation was even more dire than imagined.
Massive electric arcs flashed across the warp engine, and relentless abnormal noises made it feel as though the engine could explode at any second.
Gear kids constantly operated the machinery before them, struggling to maintain the engine's stability, while tech-priests exhausted every method to pacify the machine spirit.
Meanwhile, the voidship's engine seer was loudly chanting the name of the Omnissiah.
The mechanical tentacles on his back were whipping about so fast they were blurring into afterimages, but even so, the engine's condition continued to deteriorate.
"0100, 001001, 0010011, 0111001." Engine Seer Pavian continuously commanded the mechanics and servitors under his command using the Adeptus Mechanicus's binary language.
"Pavian! How is the situation?!"
"Blessed Omnissiah be praised, the machine spirit has fallen into frenzy, and violent source energy is surging within the engine. In another terra-hour, the engine will overload! The machine spirit refuses to let me access its safety protocols!"
"You are the engine seer, Pavel! You must resolve this problem!"
"Captain Ludwig is not here! This voidship belongs to his family, and the family's machine spirit acknowledges him! If he were here, perhaps it would be possible! Veil! You must find the captain back!"
Listening to the shouting of the two men, Gao Yi had already opened the store page.
At this moment, his psionic crystal balance was still at three hundred, enough for him to recruit two SCVs.
As the crystals were consumed, two SCVs materialized behind the crowd.
The SCV looked small in the game, but in reality, its height reached a full three meters. If the interior space of the Warhammer voidship hadn't been large enough, it really might not have been able to squeeze this big guy in.
The commotion of the SCV's appearance also caught the attention of Veil and Pavian.
When those two turned around and saw these two big guys appearing in front of them, they all instinctively raised their weapons. The plasma weapon held by Pavian's mechanical tentacle even began to charge.
"Don't shoot! They are brought by me! Perhaps I can repair this engine!"
Gao Yi hurriedly intervened, genuinely afraid they would dismantle the SCVs.
"This is impossible. How on earth did you bring this kind of thing in without a sound!" Veil felt his brain was struggling to function properly.
"I told you it's technology from the Dark Age!! You said the voidship's machine spirit serves the family; am I, who possess the family bloodline, also effective?"
"Perhaps. In the past, only the captain was qualified to access it; no one else has ever done so."
"Let's try it! I imagine neither of you has any other options right now?!"
Gao Yi walked directly up to the thinker before him and placed his hand upon it. The moment his hand made contact, Gao Yi truly felt the presence of the so-called machine spirit.
The machine spirit at this moment was feral, furious, and had completely abandoned maintaining the operation of the warp engine.
Gao Yi commanded the two SCVs to approach the warp engine. The tool clamps and drills in their hands touched the warp engine and began to operate.
As the SCVs started working, a miraculous scene occurred. The roaring sound of the engine began to subside, the overload index also began a slow decline, and Gao Yi could feel the machine spirit's emotions. At this moment, the machine spirit slowly began to calm down as well. Gao Yi did not know if he misheard, but he fancied he heard the machine spirit let out a comfortable groan.
It was as if an SCV was helping it give a massage!
"It works!" Gao Yi knew he had gambled right.
Pavel, standing off to the side, was dumbfounded. He had seen it clearly—did these two unknown machines actually do anything you could point to? They hadn't done anything at all! They just connected some pipelines and circuits that were broken due to overload, which he had just done too! It had been completely useless, yet after this chaotic operation with clamps and drills, they had actually fixed the engine?!
Omnissiah be praised! What kind of goddamned technology was this?!
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