Traveling through time, I'm making pancakes in Warhammer

The rain had stopped, but water was still dripping everywhere.

These accumulated water will eventually seep down through the cracks in the hive, all the way to the bottom of the hive, where it will be recycled and start a new cycle. Perhaps one day the water Howard drinks will be part of today's rain.

The area where Arabelle lived was very remote and dilapidated. During the day, Howard could occasionally see some workers or suspected gang members moving around, but at night it was difficult to see anyone in the neighborhood.

The buildings in the middle levels of the hive were mostly bizarre and chaotic. A single inhabited house could simultaneously function as a house, the hive's framework, a bridge support, and a piece of machinery in a factory production process. Many places seemed within easy reach to Howard, yet required a long detour. Because of this complex road situation, Howard spent nearly two hours circling the streets before finding his target neighborhood. A brass sign hung on a dilapidated building on the street read: 10 Kant.

So Howard counted the house numbers along the way.

No. 11, No. 12, No. 13, No. 14, No. 1... No. 16?

Howard counted again and confirmed that number 14 was directly number 16.

So Howard took out the Om Messiah and wanted to ask it if it saw anything.

As a result, Om Messiah remained dormant and did not respond at all.

Howard remembered the agreement between himself and Om Messiah that Om Messiah should not reveal himself to a third party unless Howard's life was in danger.

Howard swallowed unconsciously. Now that he couldn't awaken Om Messiah, did it mean that someone was watching him somewhere he didn't know?

As he thought about this, Howard's hand unconsciously touched the pistol in his belt.

He has encountered this scenario many times in the game. Usually, the character controlled by the player receives a task from an NPC and goes to a certain place, but when he arrives at the area mentioned by the NPC, he cannot see the task target. Usually in this case, the target location is hidden, and he needs to solve a puzzle or have corresponding prerequisite props to continue to advance the task.

Between these steps, the game's makers usually insert a wave of monsters to annoy you.

It's time to start solving the puzzle, please don't spawn monsters for me, Howard prayed in his heart.

With this idea in mind, Howard began to analyze the content of the puzzle.

First, analyzing from the house number, if the target area is a magic station similar to Harry Potter, then there is no need for him to occupy a house number that already exists in reality and arouse suspicion. Therefore, Howard first determines that this address objectively exists in the material universe.

Since it was assumed that the other party existed objectively, Howard first needed to determine whether there was a hidden entrance between No. 14 and No. 16. So Howard walked between the two buildings and saw that the two buildings were completely stuck together with no gap in the middle.

Howard reached out and touched the crack. It was made of rough lime and cement and didn't look like it had any mechanism.

Then Howard wondered whether Kant No. 15 was in the air or underground, so he took a few steps back and carefully observed the two buildings No. 14 and No. 16, but found nothing, and there were no telephone booths or garbage dumps on the surrounding roads that looked like entrances.

Howard felt that he probably couldn't solve this puzzle, so he began to try the second method: showing the props in front.

Howard took out the nut from his pocket and held it high. Since the Om Messiah refused to turn on, it meant that someone was probably watching him in the dark. And since this nut was given to him by Arabelle, Howard naturally thought it was a prerequisite prop.

So Howard stood like a fool on the deserted, flooded street late at night for several minutes holding a nut, but nothing happened.

Howard put down the nut somewhat awkwardly. Just when he was about to go back and ask Arabelle again, a sound of electricity flashed by, and a street lamp that had been broken on the side of the road suddenly lit up again. Under the light stood a man wearing a gas mask, half naked, with electrodes inserted in his head.

Mechanical servant.

The servitor looked at Howard, tilted his head slightly to one side, then turned and staggered away.

Howard followed and then realized where Kant No. 15 was.

康德15号的位置就在14号和16号中间，只不过14和16号面向街区的那一侧进行了向外和向两边的扩张，所以把康德15号给藏了起来。

If you stand in the air and look down, you can see clearly that No. 14 Kant and No. 16 together form a "concave" shape, and the facade of No. 15 is in the small concave opening.

Howard, who had figured out the problem when he arrived at the door of Kant No. 15, nodded repeatedly, thinking, "Great, great! This is how it works, right? The owner of this place better not be obsessed with online shopping, or else he'll be beaten to death by the courier."

15 From the outside, it looked like a simple warehouse, but when the servitor opened the door, what was inside was... a warehouse.

Howard knew that since the servitors had come out, things would definitely not be that simple, so he followed the servitors in. The warehouse door was closed and locked, and then the ground began to sink.

The elevator disguised as a warehouse sank at high speed for about three minutes and stopped in front of a copper-green door.

The valve opens, steam is released, and the door slowly opens to both sides.

This is an underground laboratory... Speaking of which, the concept of "underground" should not exist in the hive city. The floor of the laboratory is filled with dry ice gas, and countless huge glass culture chambers are filled with green liquid soaked in strange organs and tissues that are definitely not human. Many mechanical servants walk back and forth between the culture chambers, looking after these facilities.

The robot servant who led Howard led him to a corner of the laboratory, where there was a facility similar to an operating table. However, the robotic arms and equipment connected to the operating table were obviously too old, and many surgical instruments still had coagulated black blood stains on them.

A man in a red robe was working beside the operating table. Without even raising his head, he could accurately select the required instrument on the robotic arm with just a raise of his hand, and then continue his operation.

Howard took a closer look and saw a broken arm on the operating table. This arm was definitely not from a human. It had only three fingers, each with a black and sharp nail. The skin on the arm was gray and wrinkled like the skin of a bird.

The "doctor" used a scalpel to peel out the nerves inside the arm, then connected the nerves to wires. A slight electric current passed through, and the arm began to clench and relax at a strange frequency.

The doctor seemed satisfied with the result, then he turned off the power and looked in Howard's direction.

Howard saw the other person's face clearly. Two-thirds of the doctor's face had been replaced by mechanical structures, and the remaining flesh was covered with leprosy and healed scars. He also retained one eye, but that eye had completely turned the color of turbid lime water and had long lost its original effect.

A bell and an incense burner hung around the doctor's neck, and his red robe was emblazoned with the imperial double-headed eagle.

If Howard guessed correctly, this person should be a technical priest of the Mechanicus.

It's no wonder that Om Messiah remained silent around here. If these mechanics found out that Howard called a small cell phone "Om Messiah", they would probably think it was a blasphemy to the God of All Machines and shoot him.

And if they thought that Om Messiah was really "Om Messiah", they would definitely shoot him and then take Om Messiah away.