Warhammer 40K: Return of the Men of Iron
Chapter 566

Interrogation

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Perturabo's transformation of himself is like being trapped in a cocoon at this moment.

The Alloy chain that goes deep into the brain was originally used to better control the Power Armour and many equipment on the body.

But this moment became a quick entry point for Iax to read its memory.

Quantum Probe easily connected to the many data interfaces of Perturabo that acted as hair, and then began to release pulses of specific frequencies.

The nerves in his brain tissue first fell into chaos, and then began to release Bio-Pulse uncontrollably and began to interact with Quantum Probe.

The Iax easily converts all data signals into images.

Perturabo has never experienced such torture.

Countless pictures were playing simultaneously in his brain, as if his personality had been completely torn apart and his entire life was playing out again in an instant.

And this all happened at the same time.

This confusion of time and space and the explosion of huge memories made him feel intense discomfort.

What's even more frightening is that the pulse waves released by Quantum Probe are damaging his brain.

But as Primarch, its self-healing ability is amazing.

Damaged brain cells continue to regenerate and re-inherit memory information.

"The download of the memory block partition is completed and the data analysis is loaded."

Perturabo, who was fixed on a unique instrument, remained awake, with various phantoms appearing around him.

He instinctively wanted to struggle but was completely unable to make any effective movements.

His body was shaking crazily, but he was completely disobedient.

The connection between the brain and the body is severed.

No instruction can get where it's supposed to go.

All the muscles in his body were twitching.

The wrong electric signal caused blood to spurt out from his body.

Part of the muscle tissue destroys itself.

Iax carefully observed the memory information of Perturabo, and was surprised that the reason for Primarch's betrayal was so puzzling.

At the moment when the sea of consciousness was torn open by the torrent of data, Perturabo seemed to have returned to the Olympia foundry in the Great Crusade period. His father's eyes coldly swept across Holographic Projection's face covered in engine oil.

Main Logic Core of Iax analyzes the Neural Pulse signal at a rate of one hundred billion times per second. The memory of Perturabo does not flow linearly, but is like a twisted gear set, with every fragment covered with rusty resentment.

At Forge World Olympia, Emperor inspected his and Dorn's masterpieces.

I only said "it can be optimized" for the Orbital Defense Array designed by Perturabo, but I stopped in front of the military fortress of Dorn for three hours.

This scene was repeated in memory 17 times, each time superimposing the neural signature of "paternal indifference" on the retinal projection.

at Isstvan III.

When Perturabo showed Horus his designed Virus Bomb, what flashed in his memory was not the ecstasy of victory, but the morbid satisfaction of "finally someone valued my creation."

Synapses burst into abnormal discharges at the nodes of "identification" and "betrayal".

After the death of Ferrus Manus, Perturabo heard the news of Ferrus Manus's death when Horus gave it to Forgebreaker. At that moment, what surged deep in the memory was not hatred, but a kind of absurd relief - "At least this time, my father will notice me." The emotional entropy value of this moment even exceeded that of Iax's pair The default model of the concept of "rational betrayal".

With the in-depth exploration of memories, Iax gradually clarified the life of Perturabo.

Perturabo was deeply dissatisfied with Emperor's indifference. He felt that no matter how hard he tried, he could not get the recognition and care from Emperor like he did to other Primarch.

During the Great Crusade period, his legion undertook a large number of arduous Siege Warfare tasks, but his achievements always seemed to be ignored. Primarchs such as Sanguinius, Dorn, etc. were often favored and praised by Emperor, which caused jealousy and resentment in Perturabo's heart to continue to grow.

He was eager to prove his worth and to be valued by Emperor, but things went against his wishes. This long-term depression finally drove him into the arms of Chaos, just to let the entire Milky Way know his power and existence in his own way.

Regarding this situation, Iax, who is Men of Iron, is somewhat unable to understand.

According to the information, there is a kind of academic in Ancient Terra called psychological intervention. Iax who has read Emperor's diary knows very well that Emperor actually treats all Primarch equally.

In fact, they are all "tools" in essence.

But tools also have their own differences in whether they are easy to use or convenient.

Problems arise when living things have emotions.

And Perturabo is obviously a typical example.

Emperor created tools but did not "maintain" all tools equally.

If Emperor allocates some of its attention to Perturabo, perhaps the entire history will undergo huge changes.

As for emotional defects, there is some information recorded in Iax's information.

After all, there is this obvious difference between Men of Stone and Men of Iron who are Semi-Biological Synth.

However, the emotional simulation of Men of Iron is a kind of simulation data in any case and does not exist in real life. Its main function is to better understand the instructions rather than resist.

Iax believes that Men of Iron is the better choice.

Otherwise, there would be no need to create Men of Iron after Men of Stone came out.

Creation is always optimized from generation to generation, which is an inevitable result.

Men of Iron is not affected by hormones. If emotions can control reason, then there must be something wrong with this Machine Body and Intelligence Core. It is recommended to format and reorganize immediately.

Perturabo's memory began to be accelerated, and countless pictures flashed through Quantum Core like streams of light.

After repeatedly screening all the memory information from the end of Horus Heresy to the present, Iax had to scan Perturabo's brain again to avoid missing information.

With brain damage, abnormal discharges, and constant body repair, Perturabo's wails echoed throughout the cabin.

In other cells not far away, the Iron Warriorss imprisoned in them looked at the tortured Gene-Father with complicated expressions.

Men of Iron lifted their defenses and dismantled their Power Armour and Bionic Body.

Many people could only drag their bodies and sit on the ground.

In the most serious case, one-third of the head is replaced by metal machinery, and only two-thirds of the torso is the main body.

Iron Warriorss don't have much emotion towards this once mean and cold father.

Since betraying Imperium, Perturabo began to construct his Fortress World.

Since then, I have been staying on Planet Fortress and stayed behind closed doors.

His Progenys received the same treatment as he did.

Not being welcomed by his own father.

When Perturabo's brain was almost reaching maturity, Iax terminated the action.

"The interrogation is over, there is no key information."

Outside the cell, a Attendant Men of Iron suddenly appeared next to Jaghatai, who was leaning on the Alloy cabin.

"Is that Traitors still alive?"

Attendant Men of Iron nodded.

"The vital status monitoring fluctuates greatly, but there is no dangerous data. The brain injury is recovering and is expected to be recovered in four hours."

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