The Bizarre Adventures of the Oil Man, but Starting with Warhammer 32K

Needless to say, there are super-heavy tanks such as Stormbird and Shadow Sword, known as Titan Killers, in the warehouse. The mother group has more or less stocks of these from the Great Crusade era.

What really surprised Li Ang was their production line.

"Are there separate production lines for Land Speeders and Predator tanks?"

Looking at the inventory inside the Mountain Array, Li Ang could only sigh at the generosity of the founding group.

Land Speeders are among the rarest repulsorlift vehicles found in the Imperium today. Once issued as punishment to mortal soldiers caught breaking military discipline during the Great Crusade to conduct reconnaissance fire, these vehicles are now the exclusive domain of the Astartes Chapters.

The Predator tank is a technology inherited from the Dark Ages of Technology. It is said that it was also the main equipment of the human army at that time - of course, not as a tank, but as an armored vehicle.

Taking into account the factors of technological regression, the defense level of the armored vehicles of that time can be used as tanks today.

These are two extremely valuable production lines, the details of which even Leon, a sage, has never come into contact with in the forging world.

For some ordinary war groups, let alone producing them on their own, they may have to work for the Forge World for more than ten years to get a few such vehicles as compensation.

However, Li Ang dismantled the two production lines right away. He picked and practiced in them, and finally picked out the technology he wanted.

Originating from Rand's Anti-Gravity and Predator, it is a ceramic steel/elastic metal composite material technology with five times the defense of traditional steel.

He had many ideas for upgrading the siege tank, and now with the combination of these two technologies, he felt that he could come up with one of the upgrades.

Tanks in Warhammer are more like platforms for delivering heavy firepower than tanks. With the exception of super-heavy tanks, which are designed to carry only a single powerful weapon and are specifically designed to take out heavily armored targets, the rest of the tanks are packed with turrets to increase their effectiveness in clearing out light units.

There is certainly some truth to designing the tank this way, but it does not align with Leon's vision of a siege tank.

He planned to use anti-gravity technology and composite steel technology to reduce the vehicle's weight, then mount the blast-penetrating cannon on it. The engine would also be upgraded from a traditional one to a nuclear fusion reactor engine, thereby increasing overall output.

The problems of low speed, low survivability and high energy consumption of the siege tank that originally used the Leman Russ as its vehicle body will be eliminated. The new siege tank will no longer just provide supporting firepower.

Of course, this also has other disadvantages, such as the high cost and the radiation of the nuclear fusion reactor. However, Leon does not intend to completely replace the original Leman Russ siege tank with this thing.

That thing will still be the main force used by the mortal army. As for the upgraded version using anti-gravity technology, Leon only plans to assign siege tanks to Space Marines.

After all, the nuclear fusion reactor is also the power source of the power backpack. Space Marines who carry special fuel for the backpack can provide enough energy for the upgraded tank and use the radiation resistance of the power armor to drive this tank.

It will become a new generation of high-speed assault vehicles that can accompany the Astartes in assault operations, and as a mobile heavy firepower point, it will teach those enemies who want to rely on fortifications to hold on an unforgettable lesson.

——This is the true meaning of siege tanks.

Leon was very satisfied with his idea. He believed that the upgraded siege tank would bring unexpected shock to the greenskins or other enemies.

By combining the dismantled Predator and Land Speeder production lines, he could put this new vehicle into mass production.

But this was not the only reason he came to the foundry.

He spent a week finalizing the design of the new siege tank and also figuring out the structure of the entire foundry area.

Production requires coordination across all aspects, so the foundry floor typically integrates various control devices. Under the guise of a renovation, Li Ang quietly connected his code to the foundry floor's central control room.

The authorization granted by Kurland became Leon's initial disguise. His data flowed back into the data stream of the Phalanx through the central control room on the casting floor, searching for his target location within the vast amount of data.

This was not a complicated task for Leon, who had a clear goal, but an unexpected incident made it take Leon a little longer than expected.

"Are there other intruders?"

Realizing that he was not the only one who had tampered, Leon took some time to track down the intruder.

The intruder, who was trapped in the firewall due to his lack of skills, was aware of the presence of others. He seemed to recognize Leon's identity and used binary code to draw a cat's paw in the data stream and presented it to Leon.

Li Ang: "..."

Although he had considered this possibility, he still did not expect that the cat thief would sneak into the Phalanx.

It took him some time to rescue Occam, but the prolonged time allowed the Phalanx's machine soul to sense something was amiss, and with a certain degree of self-awareness, it began to track Leon in reverse.

However, the unique ability of Leon to obliterate machine spirits made the Mountain Phalanx fear him like a tiger. Its firewall circled around Leon, but did not dare to engage him.

This is Li Ang’s confidence.

Of course, he couldn't directly wipe out the machine soul of such a big guy, but as long as the machine soul didn't dare to do anything to him, he could do whatever he wanted at the data level.

Ignoring the Shanzhen machine spirit that didn't dare to track him, he finally found his target - the cold storage room on the Shanzhen.

"Is this where the gene seeds are stored..."

This place was not within the range that Kurland allowed Leon to go to. Even if he trusted him, the matter concerning the survival of the war group was still too sensitive.

Leon didn't need Kurland's approval. He retrieved the route to the cold storage room and hijacked the data to forge entry permissions for himself.

Considering Thorne's previous aggressiveness, Leon felt that he needed to go there first before redesigning the siege tank's hull production line.

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After leaving behind a fake data showing that he was always in the foundry area, Leon confirmed the target location and began to move through the Mountain Array.

The semi-abandoned Phalanx made his infiltration quite convenient. Leon extracted abandoned cabins unknown even to the Imperial Fists from the data stream and mapped out a route. After passing through a long, abandoned maintenance tunnel, he arrived at a massive lift platform.

The rusty control panel was reactivated by Leon. It started up at Leon's command, and the low roar sounded like a warning from the Phalanx itself to Leon.

But Leon didn't care. He just poured in more binary codes, forcing the equipment on the Phalanx to work for him.

Compared to the physique that makes the loyal machine soul very happy, Leon prefers his current state - he quite enjoys the feeling of being coerced as if he is holding the other party and questioning "Machine soul, you don't want to..."

Compared to performing shaman rituals to serve those uncles, his method is much more useful than other mechanical priests most of the time.

The lifting platform finally stopped reluctantly in the deep area of ​​the Phalanx. The sudden drop in temperature indicated that this was the location of the refrigeration equipment that provided cold air to the cold storage. Next, they just had to follow the pipeline that transported cold air from the underground well to reach the cold storage room where the genetic seeds were stored.

He uncovered the underground well and then interfered with the surveillance system in the cold storage room. Nothing unusual happened during the process. Everything went as smoothly as Li Ang had expected.

Leon looked around the cold storage - like other places on the Phalanx, the reduction from a legion to a battle group made every place here seem empty.

However, Leon recognized a cryotube at a glance. It was the gene seed belonging to the Elger brothers that Kurland had entrusted him to pick out on Maxim.

Li Ang realized that he was already halfway to success.

Every cryotube holds a hope for the continuation of the Imperial Fists. But today, those hopes might need a little extra juice.

Leon showed the Second Legion gene seeds he brought with him, and began to tamper with the numbers of these seeds and merge them into the existing seeds.

The most common method of verifying identity through gene-seed is to compare it with the gene-seed of the parent group. Later, the Soul Drinkers discovered that they were not the sons of Dorne because of a genetic comparison with the Imperial Fists.

In other words, as long as the gene seed of the Second Legion was also in the gene seed of the parent group, even if they found that the genes of the veterans of the Second Legion were too different from those of ordinary Imperial Fists during the genetic verification, they would put aside the dispute and recognize their identity as Imperial Fists because the parent group did have the corresponding genetic samples.

To get away with this trick is definitely not as simple as just stuffing the gene seeds in. Leon also has to connect to the information recording equipment on the Mountain Array and add "evidence" that these seeds have already existed in the gene bank.

This method is not suitable for those chapters with complete heritage. If people verify each other, they will quickly realize that the data has been tampered with.

But now that the Imperial Fists have been nearly wiped out, there is no evidence to prove their mistake. As long as these seeds and the pharmacists who took them out are marked as fallen brothers, it is guaranteed that the Imperial Fists will not be able to find any problems.

Perhaps they will investigate on their own in the future why there are two types of gene seeds within the regiment, but that is not something that Leon, who has already earned a legitimate reputation, should consider.

The Shanzhen was very angry about Leon's wanton tampering, and the lights in the cold storage room began to flicker, but these superficial efforts could not stop Leon's actions.

Li Ang happily smeared the body of the Mountain Array with his hands: "Just dodge, even if you burn out the light bulb..."

"Stop."

A deep voice accompanied by a flashing light interrupted Leon. Leon was startled and turned towards the source of the sound, but his visual sensors could only capture a large, blurry shadow due to the interference from the Phalanx.

It turns out that the flickering lights were providing cover for the newcomers?

He drew his plasma pistol and stepped back cautiously. As he retreated, an oversized Contemptor Dreadnought emerged from the shadows of the cold room.

That was the same Dreadnought who had appeared in the monastery earlier when Koorland was reviewing the last Imperial Fists recruits.

He looked like he had been waiting here for a long time.

Li Ang's heart sank.

He knew that the sarcophagi containing the veterans would be placed in stasis in the cold storage room, but this Dreadnought had been awakened before. How could the Dreadnought appear here when everything he did was so seamless?

"You shouldn't be here, Sage."

There was an unshakable majesty in Fearless's voice: "Your actions betray the trust placed in you by the Imperial Fists."

"So are we going to have a fight now?"

Wu Wei was silent for a while, as if he was choked by Li Ang's straightforward way of expression.

"No, leave now, and I will ensure that you continue to cooperate with the Imperial Fists under supervision."

Li Ang shook his head regretfully: "Then there's nothing to discuss."

"You attempted to intrude upon the most private part of the Legion, yet you remained cooperative. This is the greatest trust we can offer you after your transgression. Isn't this enough to satisfy you?"

"Is it possible that I was building trust for the next action, but you broke in and destroyed it?"

Fearless didn't answer. He raised his power fist and walked towards Leon. Leon sighed, realizing that this battle was inevitable.

"Before that, I'm more curious about how you knew I was here?"

"Nothing you do will be hidden on the Phalanx."

It seems that the Phalanx leaked its information to the other party.

Li Ang took a few steps back to avoid the power fist, thinking quickly about countermeasures in his mind.

He was well aware of the level of the technical sergeants currently on the Phalanx. They might be able to sense the general mood of the Machine Spirit, but it was impossible for them to communicate with it specifically, let alone determine its exact location.

Although it is unknown how this Dreadnought found this place, the Imperial Fists, who are short of patrol personnel, should not notice the abnormality here in a short time.

As long as we deal with this fearless person in front of us before that, there is still room for turning things around!

Wu Wei seemed not to want to destroy the cold storage and chose close combat, which gave Leon an opportunity.

He knew that any head-on confrontation with a Contemptor Dreadnought would be futile, but the Dreadnought was a machine after all. As long as he could destroy some of the anti-interference equipment on the Dreadnought, Leon would have the opportunity to paralyze the Dreadnought through electric current.

Unfortunately, Wuwei's experience was beyond Li Ang's expectations.

He seemed to have extensive experience fighting the Mechanicum, and he blocked Leon's possibility of using materials from the cold storage to make a simple microwave bomb. Leon, who could only barely defend himself by dodging and moving, had no chance to find the opportunity he wanted.

However, just as Wuwei was chasing Li Ang relentlessly, a slight noise on the ceiling of the cold storage attracted Li Ang's attention.

He instinctively looked up and saw a dark figure descend from the sky like a ghost, landing precisely behind Fearless. The opponent's power armor was covered in dark paint embroidered with lightning patterns, and the bat wings on the helmet looked particularly ferocious in the dim light.

Wu Wei obviously didn't expect there was such a trick. Although he reacted, his own flexibility limited his movements.

Malik stabbed the claw blade into the joint of Fearless's back. The sound of Fearless's joints connecting suddenly became chaotic, and his movements inevitably became slow.

Efron took the opportunity to attack from the other side, and his power sword forced the Dreadnought, which was no longer able to move, into a defensive position.

Leon looked to his side. Occam, wearing a dark blue power armor resembling snake scales, had appeared beside him. Coiled around his shoulder was the Elu cat he had taken from Leon earlier.

Felyn jumped from Occam's shoulder to Leon and licked Leon's cheek affectionately.

"It seems our sage is in a little trouble."

He quipped, "It's a good thing he once formed an alliance with an Alpha."

"Why are you here?"

Leon clearly remembered that although he rescued Occam, he did not reveal his destination in the data stream.

"I'm the Alpha, we're everywhere."

PS1: According to the settings, the power backpack needs to be refueled once a month when operating at full power. So the canned food without any supplies is not as durable as people think (of course, it can last a long time after shutting down the non-essential systems).

PS2: The production line on the Phalanx was seized from rebellious Mars during the Horus Heresy. Dorn sent 14,000 Astartes. This force should have been quite strong, but they were overwhelmed by the Titan Legion, so after the seizure, they quickly took a few Martian loyalists with them.

By the way, the location of that battle was called Lava City.

Chapter 159: The Soul Drinker Rebellion.

Everywhere?

"I guess Cat Elu led you to me."

"There's no need to expose it so quickly."

Li Ang declined to comment, but it was a fact that the other party helped him.

Seeing this, Fearless clearly realized that the situation was out of his control. He forced Efron and Malik to retreat and warned Leon: "Give up cooperating with the traitor, Sage. This will lead to a result you cannot bear."

"At least it's better than surrendering without a fight."

Leon shrugged and turned to look at Occam: "Entangle him?"

"He wouldn't have expected where I would attack from."

Occam joined the siege of Dauntless like a cold, poisonous snake. He used Malik and Efron as feints in exchange for the opportunity to paralyze Dauntless with one blow.

But the seemingly paralyzing opportunity was just a flaw deliberately buried by the Dreadnought. When Occam leaped out from the shadows, he suddenly swung his power fist and hit Occam's chest armor.

Occam flew backwards in front of Leon at a speed faster than his attack. There was a large dent in his breastplate and blood was flowing from under his helmet.