Chapter 738 Your demons are dying every moment, but my children and grandchildren are endless
Matter and spirit, flesh and blood and machinery, when a person's body is replaced many times and eventually everything except consciousness is replaced, can he still be called himself at this time?
No one knows the answer. No matter whether it is the Oil Man who believes in the ascension of flesh and blood, weakness and machinery, or the Black Watch who is resurrected multiple times through biotechnology, they cannot solve this ultimate question that has risen to the realm of philosophy, or no one cares.
Ever since Hogg created the Flesh Reshaping Chamber ten thousand years ago, the boundary between life and death in Blackwatch began to gradually blur. Finally, after the mental network was officially put into operation, the already indifferent veil of life and death was completely shattered.
In Blackwatch, missing arms and legs are just skin injuries. Even if only half of the spine is left, as long as the head is not completely inactivated, it can be restored through the Flesh Remodeling Chamber. The only drawback is that one has to undergo 22 surgeries again.
Hogg had high hopes for this technology when it was first created. With this technology, not only the Blackwatch, but almost all the Space Marines of the Legion avoided the tragic fate of being placed in the sarcophagus.
It is said that entering the Dreadnaught is an honor, but in Hogg's opinion, the price of this honor is too high. He will not allow his descendants to suffer, even if it is an honor.
As the flesh-reshaping chamber became more popular in every legion, both the old-fashioned refrigerator and the later oven dreadnought have been replaced by the latest model of dreadnought mecha.
This thing was made by Hogg based on the Invincible Mech, and it also incorporated some inspiration from the Dread Knight of Heavenly Punishment. Once it was launched, it received unanimous praise from all Space Marines in the Empire, especially the specially thickened front protective armor, which saved countless lives of the Can Boys.
Not only that, Hogg is well versed in the art of nesting dolls. Based on the Dreadnought Mecha, he developed the Knight Mecha that can do secondary nesting dolls, and even finally came up with a Titan platform plug-in that can do tertiary nesting dolls.
When the outermost Titan frame is destroyed, the Knight Core hidden inside will break out and engage in a second battle. If even the Knight Mech is damaged, the Dreadnought can be ejected to continue fighting.
And if one's luck is extremely bad and even the last layer of Dreadnought is destroyed, the Space Marines inside can still catapulted into action for a final desperate escape, which is the ultimate application of the concept of life-saving.
This tactic made countless aliens hate it, but these alien bumpkins had no way out and could only be completely defeated by the Dreadnoughts in battle after battle.
As the saying goes, although he is good at both literature and sports, his achievements in mechanical manufacturing are far inferior to Hogg's greatness as the master of imperial biological technology.
Just like the very precious combat potion from the outside world, Blackwatch directly drinks this stuff as if it were water, especially the most powerful Kowloon series. One injection can turn you into a muscular man who can tear apart vampires with bare hands within ten minutes, even if you are an ordinary Star Army soldier.
Unlike the Iron Phoenix next door that believes in mechanical ascension, in Blackwatch, every cloaked cockroach has evolved into a canned slime monster, which can not only fuse with the power armor on its body, but also can basically stuff anything into its body as long as the mental pressure allows. It is more evil than a demon engine.
However, even so, Hogg, who was rubbing gene seeds in the laboratory, faced an extremely embarrassing problem. He discovered that the Second Legion had no uncontaminated gene seeds at all.
"Why are you looking at me? I didn't become a cat person voluntarily. This blame should be borne by Sera."
Roland spread out his hands, his eyes sparkling with energy, and Hogg could not find any fault with him at all. He could only look at Sera who was pretending to be stupid next to him.
"Don't look at me either. With the shocking explosion that year, the Second Legion was completely wiped out. It was not easy for me to preserve their souls. I'll just have to make do with it. Anyway, the Second Legion is now made up of cats, so let Lancelot and the others bear with it for a while!"
At this point, Hogg had no choice but to do as he was told, but he still issued a disclaimer before producing the gene seed:
"Let me make it clear first. I am just a heartless gene-seed maker. If anything goes wrong, I will not be held responsible."
After finishing the disclaimer, Hogg picked up the syringe and inserted it into Roland's body. As the blood flowed, the gene seed culture chamber began to operate officially.
As Roland looked at him with a look that said, "Are you trying to hurt me?", Hogg took out a thicker syringe and thrust it against Roland's arm, then modified the data in the flesh-remodeling cabin next to him.
"What are you looking at? You stupid, hairless Ogryn, just be a good blood bag. If you look at me like that again, I will charge you 20% more for the transformation surgery.
Now that I'm in a good mood, I'll give you some basic knowledge. For wandering souls like Lancelot, the physical body is more important than the genetic seed.
Generally speaking, a physical body must first be created to house their soul, and then the gene seed must be implanted into it during the transformation operation in order to become a qualified Space Marine.
But you are lucky this time, Blackwatch has developed a super canned surgery, you don't need to waste time to go through 21 transformation operations to change your clothes with just one click.
This technology includes life alchemy and some knowledge of making the Imperial Guard. It is genetically modified through the spiral coding of the gene seed, participating in genetic programming during the physical cultivation period, and eventually replacing the brain stem to form a stable and deployable secondary brain...
Do you know what this means? I tell you, it means that the time it takes for a Space Marine to be selected and officially join the battlefield will be greatly reduced.
As long as there are suitable soldiers, there is no need for lengthy surgical transformation. The combat experience inherited from the gene seeds is enough to make up for the most critical link. They are not cannon fodder, they are qualified soldiers from birth.
Moreover, their physiques are stronger, more powerful, and more domineering!
Don't tell me about the Chaos enemy or the alien scourge. With the current productivity of the Empire, give me 20 years and I can produce 1000 million Space Marines with a wave of my hand.
Damn it, you are incompetent, you have lost our sovereignty and humiliated our country, and in the end you have to rely on me, the immortal Hogg. The shoulders on my shoulders are not fat meat, but the four star regions of the Milky Way and the teeth of billions of people in the empire!
By then, my Black Watch will be endless, accompanied by the overwhelming black light insect swarms that cover the sky. Hahaha, what can you use to fight me? What can you use to fight me... "Seeing Hogg dancing and talking about his great technology, telling how great this technology is, and what a powerful force that can completely change the pattern of the empire, as long as it is popularized, the enemy will always have an end, but my 50-yuan good brothers are endless.
Roland was confused throughout the whole story. Only Sera at the side could talk to Hogg. But in order to make himself appear more sociable, Roland could only nod his head continuously and make humming and aahing sounds in his mouth to respond.
Roland was not the only one who had the same idea. The same was true for Flying Guilliman beside him. The two looked at each other and felt that the knowledge had entered their brains in a despicable way, but they could not express it yet and could only daydream and make up for it.
"Guilliman, do you understand what's going on there, ahhhh?"
"Ah? I, I, I am sure I understand."
"Then tell me what I just said?"
Seeing Hogg looking at him with suspicion, Guilliman's brain worked fast, but the problem was that he was just thinking about how to make catman grass delicious, so he didn't remember what Hogg said at all.
"Go on! I've been talking for over half an hour. Did you not hear a single word I said?"
"I definitely listened."
"Then you should tell me!"
In Guilliman's eyes, Hogg in the laboratory instantly became extremely tall. This was a kind of knowledge crushing, regardless of the size of the body. In comparison, he and Roland became even smaller. He could only say randomly:
"The Chaos Demons are suffering casualties every second, but my descendants are endless."
After he finished speaking, Guilliman regretted it, because he was observant and noticed that Hogg's face looked wrong, and even Sera beside him was silent.
An indescribable awkwardness arose in the laboratory. If the unknown device next to them had not been still running, Guilliman would have thought that they were under the psychic sorcery of time stopping. They could only pretend to be calm and repeatedly scratch the soles of their shoes with their toes to hide their embarrassment.
However, in Hogg's eyes, Guilliman's expression was firm at this moment, and his little yellow hair was extremely dazzling, especially his determined eyes, as if he was going to die together with the enemy with the whirlwind torpedo in the next moment.
Hogg was so moved that he moved forward and came to his good brother. Under Guilliman's innocent gaze like a baby, he jumped up and hugged him.
"Brother, I deserve to die!
I used to think you were ambitious, but I didn't expect there are so many talented people in the countryside, and you are the greatest among us!"
This sentence confused Guilliman, and so did Roland. But Roland was not important at all because he was also distracted just now. What was important was that Guilliman found that Hogg was crying.
"Brother, are you okay?"
"Okay, I'm so fine. I've never been so fine before. You don't know how painful it was for me to make this decision just now. But with what you said just now, I think it's all worth it."
Guilliman felt that Hogg seemed to have misunderstood something, but seeing his true feelings, he could only hug his short brother who had a bad temper but was "kind-hearted".
"Hogg, don't worry, I will support you no matter when and where, because we are brothers!"
As soon as these words came out, Hogg burst into tears and his voice almost choked:
"I know, I know. I originally planned to have Black Watch expedition to the subspace. Only in this way can we attract all the firepower and give me the opportunity to implement plan B.
This trip will definitely lead to a life-or-death experience, and I might not be spared. This decision makes me extremely painful, because only they can go deep into the warp, but I dare not tell anyone. But I didn't expect that the one who raised me, Emilia, and the one who knows me is you, Robert Guilliman!"
"What, me?" Hearing this, Guilliman realized that something was wrong, but before he could say anything, a pair of strong arms tightly strangled his chest, almost making him suffocate.
"I know, my good brother, you don't need to say anything more. Just based on what you just said, I will not enjoy this honor alone.
I dare not say anything else, but I guarantee that you will have endless numbers of Extreme Warriors, and be the first one to carry a hot melt bomb to blow up the evil god!
Hey, Guilliman, what's wrong with you? Why are you rolling your eyes?"
(End of this chapter)