Traveling through time, I'm making pancakes in Warhammer

"Master, please hide yourself in the box."

While Howard was still temporarily deafened by the explosion, the following words appeared on the screen of Om Messiah.

So Howard gritted his teeth and dragged his body, which seemed to have been beaten, to crawl on the ground. Finally, he crawled to a wooden box that had fallen to the ground and used all his strength to buckle the box on himself.

Howard then curled up into a ball, covering his mouth and nose.

Now he could only hope that the enemies attacking here were space pirates or ordinary Chaos believers, so that he might have a chance of survival, because no matter whether they were Space Marines who defected to Chaos or Demons from the Warp, they all had the ability to detect hidden enemies. The Space Marines' power armor had infrared detection capabilities, and the Space Marines' superhuman modified organs could also allow them to hear the breathing and heartbeat of the enemy a hundred meters away.

As for the demons of the Warp, they can directly see the souls of living organisms. Even if they are obscured by material existence, the psychic projections of these individuals in the Warp are still as bright as candlelight in the dark night.

Not long after Howard hid in the box, another round of fierce gunfire broke out outside. After the explosions, screams, and chaotic footsteps, silence returned.

Then, something walked in.

Through the gap in the wooden box, Howard saw a humanoid creature over three meters tall, with hooves and six mammary glands, squeezing in from the slope of the utility room and slowly approaching where he was hiding.

If this creature had a density similar to that of a human, then it would have weighed over a ton, but when it walked, the sound of its horny hooves hitting the ground was very slight.

demon!

Howard's heart suddenly tightened and his breathing stopped.

But although the demon walked in, it didn't seem to notice Howard. The demon's eyes slowly swept across the small house with traces of human life, and finally locked onto Howard's uneaten rations.

The demon picked up a packet of rations, tore it open and threw it into his mouth.

Then He spat the chewed rations on the ground in disgust.

Even demons won't eat imperial rations!

After being disgusted by the imperial rations, the demon raised his foot and crushed all the remaining unopened rations into pieces, then continued to explore the storage room. He looked through every box and checked every corner. When he was closest to Howard, the demon's tail swung in front of Howard, and Howard could even see the mane on it clearly.

"Bah."

A soft sound came from above Howard's head. It was the devil putting his hand on the box where Howard was hiding.

Howard was desperately counting prime numbers in his mind. People are prone to irrational behavior when they are extremely nervous and in danger. For example, when a person stands on the rooftop of a high-rise building and looks down, he will always have the idea of jumping down. This is actually a self-protection function of human beings. By calculating the worst result in the mind, the brain will be alert to this choice.

And now Howard clearly felt that he wanted to rush out. He knew that if he was exposed now, he would be committing suicide, but there was a limit to the pressure a person could withstand. Howard was not sure how long he could suppress the idea of committing suicide.

Finally, just when Howard's sanity was about to collapse, the devil seemed to sense something and quickly left.

It was not until the devil's footsteps completely disappeared that Howard slowly removed his hands that were tightly covering his mouth and nose. If the devil had stayed a little longer, Howard would have suffocated himself.

Howard looked at his hands, which were shaking badly.

At this moment, the previously silent Om Messiah restarted its machine. It scanned Howard with the same green light it used to scan rations, then said, "Master, the explosion just now has reduced your body's function by 12 percent, but it hasn't caused you any fatal damage. Please cheer up."

"I...I'll try my best..." Howard answered while panting.

"Why didn't that demon find me?" Howard said to himself.

"Master, based on the analysis of the existing information, the demon has already discovered you, and Sherlock told me that the demon seems to have left, but in fact it has been lingering nearby." Om Messiah replied.

"Cat and mouse game." Howard understood it immediately.

"Cat and mouse game." Ohm Messiah confirmed Howard's guess.

Howard's heartbeat gradually stabilized. Just now, the devil was standing in front of him. He had no ability to resist and could only wait for death. But now the devil chose to play games with him.

Since it is a game, there is a possibility that the weak will defeat the strong.

Now the cat has discovered the mouse, and the mouse knows that the cat has discovered the mouse, but the cat does not know that the mouse knows that the cat has discovered the mouse.

"Oh my Messiah." Howard called out the phone's real name.

"Master, I am here." Om Messiah responded.

"Can you open my vision for me?"

"Of course, master." Om Messiah replied, and then it projected a complex cross-sectional view of the entire warship. In this cross-sectional view, there was a green dot and a slowly moving red dot.

"Master, the green dots here represent you, and the red dots represent the devil. You've probably played parkour games before, but this time, you're about to experience a real-life parkour game. Please be prepared."

As Om Messiah spoke, he marked a path on the ship. The path then zoomed in on the screen, shifting perspectives until it became a main perspective similar to a parkour game. The starting point of the game was Howard's location.

Om Messiah: "But now, all the traps in the road will serve you!"

half an hour later

Howard rushed in at the moment before the freight elevator door closed, and then the elevator rose rapidly. After about ten seconds, Howard heard a huge bang and roar coming from the bottom of the elevator shaft.

The map provided by Om Messiah showed that the demon failed to break through the specially reinforced door of the elevator shaft. After several unsuccessful attempts, the red dot began to retreat, getting farther and farther away.

But Howard wasn't sure if the demon had given up or was looking for another way.

The demon thought he was playing a cat-and-mouse game, but he didn't expect that this was a cheating mouse.

Half an hour ago, Howard just rushed out of the utility room, and he was following not far behind. When a cat plays with its prey, it will not kill it at the beginning, but will torture the prey to exhaustion first.

Then Om Messiah controlled the automatic defense cannon inside the warship and fired a burst of bullets at him.

Although the artillery slowed down the demon's speed, it did not cause any substantial damage to him. Howard did not expect to knock him down so easily, but taking advantage of this gap, Howard was able to enter the closed door at the end of the aisle before the demon caught up with him.

Next, Howard experienced the feeling of cheating in a parkour game.

Under the control of Ohm Messiah and Sherlock, every time Howard came to a door, the door would be closing, but the gap left was just enough for him to pass through. Once he passed through, the mechanical device inside the door would lock and the defense module of the previous area would be activated.

Or, in some open areas, Howard would get into a preheated transport vehicle, and the transport vehicle would immediately drive automatically at maximum horsepower to take Howard away from the demon, and other transport vehicles that Howard was not on would also start at this time and crash into the pursuing demon.

On the map, the red dot representing the devil was no longer as calm as it was at the beginning. It began to chase at the fastest speed. The most dangerous time was when Howard would have been caught by the devil if he had been a second slower. But before that, Howard entered the next blast-proof door without any danger, leaving the devil on the other side of the blast-proof door helpless and furious.

The cat got angry because of the mouse.

"squeak--"

After a sharp friction sound, the elevator Howard was riding in stopped in the middle of the elevator shaft.

"What happened? Is the devil chasing us?" Howard, who was still gasping for breath, was startled.

"Master, this is a safe zone. You have consumed too much energy. I suggest you take a rest." Om Messiah replied.

Hearing this answer, Howard finally felt relieved and sat down on the ground against the wall.

"Master, Sherlock sent a request."

"What request?" Howard asked in confusion.

Om Messiah projected again, still a cross-sectional view of the warship, but this time, some parts of the warship had turned red.

"Reply Master, the enemy has released a cyber-demon. Sherlock is in pain and is asking for my help."

"Can you clean up the electronic demon?" Howard was shocked again, because he knew that the so-called electronic demon and computer virus were not the same thing at all. The electronic demon was a living plague from the subspace that could infect machines.

"Answer the master. I can eliminate the electronic demons that have invaded Sherlock."

"Then go clean it up!" Howard said.

But the Om Messiah's breathing light flashed a few times, and it replied: "Reply to the master, if you want to help Sherlock clean up the electronic demon, I need to connect to the main control room."

At this time, on the holographic map projected by Om Messiah, in addition to the green escape route originally marked for Howard, a new yellow route was marked at Howard's current location. The only difference was that the green route led to the warship's hangar, while the yellow route led to the center of the warship.

According to the route, if Howard wanted to go to the hangar, he only needed to take the elevator to the top floor and then get on the transport vehicle that Ohm Messiah had arranged. Ohm Messiah would then be able to take Howard directly to his destination, where there was an already activated reconnaissance plane waiting for him.

And according to Om Messiah's calculations, the warship will pass through a subspace rift in an hour, and Howard can take the reconnaissance plane back to the display universe.

If Howard chose to go to the main control room, he would need to stop at the elevator's basement level, then walk at least ten kilometers and pass through several areas where firefights were taking place.

"Master, I suggest you go directly to the hangar. This route gives you over a 70% chance of returning to the real universe. Going to the control room will reduce your chances of survival to 16%. Even if you succeed, Sherlock's internal imperial forces will only increase their chances of success by 8%."

"If you really suggest that I just save myself, why don't you just filter this message?" Howard asked.

Ohm Messiah: "Answer Master, I have no right to make decisions for you."

Howard was silent, but after only a minute of contemplation, he suddenly asked a strange question:

"Om Messiah, can you know what you don't know?"

"I'm sorry, Master. I don't understand what you mean."

Howard considered his words carefully before asking again, "I'm saying there's some information you shouldn't know, like the Chaos invaders' strategic intentions or the internal structure of Chaos warships. Do you have a way to obtain it?"

This time, it was Om Messiah's turn to remain silent, but He only remained silent for a few seconds before giving His response: "Master, I can only obtain information that I can directly or indirectly detect, and I am currently unable to establish contact with the Chaos Machine Soul."

Howard's eyes flickered upon hearing this answer, and then he returned to the original topic: "You said that even if I successfully helped Sherlock eliminate the electronic demon, it would only increase the Empire's chances of winning by 8%. So what are the Empire's chances of winning now?"

Om Messiah: "Answer Master, less than 1 percent."

Howard: "If I succeed and the Empire wins, how many people will survive?"

Ohm Messiah: "Master, I cannot give you an exact number, but the number of Imperial personnel alive on Sherlock is currently 0. If the Empire fails, this number will be ."

Howard: "I'm going to the control room."