As long as you die, you are invincible, but in 40K

That’s right, the so-called “production of small black holes” is nothing more than a peripheral product caused by the operation of the equipment.

In fact, it is not difficult to guess if you think about it carefully... This thing caused a storm when it was dormant, but the effect of activating it was just to amplify this "storm" of the dormant state countless times?

It's like a computer that generates waste heat in sleep mode. And then when it's turned on, you tell me it generates even more waste heat? That's pure nonsense.

The reason why no one has discovered the true purpose of this device before... is just as the fallen angel said.

The authority review is too strict.

So what they did before was actually just waking up the machine, and then they couldn't get in when they had to enter the password... But they didn't realize this, and instead happily regarded "generating more waste heat" after turning on the screen as the real purpose of the instrument.

It's roughly equivalent to a high-end version where the chip is sharpened and used as a spearhead.

Oh, no, a more vivid image would be to let the heat-resistant laptop heat itself to several thousand degrees Celsius, and then swing it like a fire-enchanted brick to hit people?

But the question was, what use was this thing to me? If I said it was a time machine, no one would believe it. And without external help to obtain various parameters like coordinate data, wouldn't its effectiveness be infinitely close to zero?

not to mention...

Looking up at the instrument that was joyfully lighting up with rays of light, although he was not quite sure why it started because of him, Zhang Ge still silently said sorry: I may have to disappoint your expectations.

Until we figure out how this thing will produce negative effects, let's pretend it's a holy object and seal it away.

After informing the Mechanicus later, they should not mind helping Zhang Ge to transport this fortress-sized thing away. At that time, it must be placed in the most heavily guarded temple, covered with layers of protection, and then people must worship it every day.

What else could I do? It's already difficult enough to find death, and now what about this?

Zhang Ge was speechless.

Why does all the bad luck happen to me?

Fortunately, this thing is not like ordinary equipment, so there is room for maneuver, otherwise his dreams next time will be full of alert forts.

After making the decision, Zhang Ge simply let the instrument converge the external storm without any further operation.

However, even so, perhaps because it had been silent for too long or what, this thing still looked extremely excited, with various energy channels surging, actively executing this sole instruction.

After finishing this task, Zhang Ge turned his head.

?

Why are you all kneeling? Only Amelia is still standing.

Wait a minute, why does my vision seem a little blurry?

With doubts and a bad feeling in his heart, Zhang Ge walked forward a short distance, and only looked back at the device after he was out of the hazy vision.

What came into view was the violent energy tides rolling and surging, accompanied by the faint echoing of hymns. Sometimes they overlapped with each other to form a brilliant star map like the Milky Way, and sometimes they transformed into countless faceless heads stacked on top of each other. Every change was as if some great creation was expressing its emotions.

However, what Zhang Ge didn't notice was that this was not just a sound and light effect, but also an inexplicable sense of oppression like a mountain, as if he was alone in space facing a huge battleship, or witnessing a planet passing by him. The oppression accompanied by fear permeated the entire room.

For others, these various inexplicable situations overlap and point to a single explanation:

Manifestation of holiness.

As for whether it is the Emperor, the Om Messiah, or something else, it depends on what one truly believes in.

However, Zhang Ge did not have any more feelings except the initial shock. Instead, after looking at the expressions of the crowd, he suddenly felt that he could take advantage of it.

He looked at the fallen angel who was staring blankly at the strange sight before him, walked up to him, and said in a deliberately low voice:

"Because of your actions, he has pardoned your crimes. So, are you willing to join my team?"

That's right, we must cut our losses in time. If we take this opportunity to keep this fallen angel by our side now, then we won't be caught by the Dark Angel Tutu when we leave. The plan works.

After Zhang Ge finished speaking, the other party did not answer the question immediately, but said in a trembling voice:

"By the Emperor..."

The ending tone seemed to be trembling, but also seemed to have let go of a heavy burden.

After this long sigh, he seemed to have collected his emotions for a while before answering Zhang Ge:

"You...Okay, I'll join."

At first he seemed to want to ask Zhang Ge something, but eventually gave up and just agreed and stood up.

Stand up?

Zhang Ge was dumbfounded.

No, what about your injury?

Chapter 221 Retrospection and My Love

However, when Zhang Ge asked his question to the other party, the answer he got was a classic imperial answer.

The fallen angel thought for a moment, then said to Zhang Ge:

"I don't know. Wasn't it you who did it? In that case, perhaps it was a display of power by the Emperor, or perhaps it was some function of that instrument?"

Although the fallen angel in front of him did not have the same fanaticism as a religious believer towards the Emperor, although he did not directly use the title of "God" or "God-Emperor", he still had a kind of blind reverence for the Emperor.

Moreover, this was just the beginning, more strange things happened afterwards.

While the two were talking, Amelia suddenly reminded:

"Someone is coming, but they are not friendly forces."

"Wait, don't do anything yet! These are my brothers."

Your brothers, is there a second group of your brothers who can make it here alive?

Zhang Ge, who was somewhat skeptical about the business capabilities of the Dark Angels, was shocked when the "brother" he mentioned appeared.

Those were three fallen angels... Fallen angels were nothing new in the Fortress, but the key point was that the moment Zhang Ge saw the power armor paint on those three people, he recognized their identities - the corpses that had been lying in various places in the secret passage not long ago.

Resurrection? Faking death? No, neither. At that moment, Zhang Ge understood what had just happened.

It's time to look back!

Was it a machine spirit or AI that was responding to him in that instrument? If it was the latter, then its autonomy was far greater than that of a regular machine spirit. It was true that he had only given her the order to quell the storm, but he hadn't ordered her not to do anything else, had he?

This means that now is not the time to worry about those fallen angels. The key is to figure out to what extent the singularity machine has traveled back in time in that short moment just now.

After figuring this out, Zhang Ge turned around without hesitation and walked to the instrument's operating table again and placed his hand on it.

The connection with the singularity machine was established, and a neutral, slightly female voice seemed to sound from all directions:

"Oh—my dearest, my dearest, your touch is like a fire hotter than the core of a star. Please don't be impatient. What we have the most is time. Please believe me, my desire to be with you will not disappear, just as I am eager for you to turn back and choose to be with me again..."

Zhang Ge didn't feel anything before, but now he could sense the obvious time lag in her voice, as if the long river of time had been stretched countless times while the two of them were talking.

And this is the reason why there was endless chanting before - this guy is actually a chatterbox.

Therefore, Zhang Ge chose to interrupt her without hesitation and stopped her from continuing to say those words that were close to flirting:

"Tell me, to what extent do you engage in time manipulation?"

"Ah... so strong, but I also like this feeling. Please vent to me as much as you can... Oh, sorry, little master, I will leave your love story for now. I will answer the question you raised first."

When it came to professional matters, the instrument didn't use inefficient language to explain them. Just like the previous instructions, this time she directly transmitted what was happening to Zhang Ge, allowing him to understand it all in a very short time.

To put it simply, while this thing was eliminating the storm, since it felt that it was already Zhang Ge's "people", the Fortress naturally belonged to Zhang Ge, so it also restored the entire Fortress and the surrounding areas to its pre-war state. Specifically, it went back to the time when the fleet had just landed at the Dark Angel camp outside.

Naturally, since Zhang Ge recruited the fallen angel outside, other fallen angels from the same faction as that fallen angel were also traced back together, with a total of more than fifty people.

And, more importantly, this instrument is smart enough. Although she doesn't know what the so-called "Emperor" that others are talking about is, based on what happened before, she judged that a large part of the reason why the fallen angels would be loyal to Zhang Ge was because of this "Emperor".

Therefore, the bodies of the other fallen angels who were retraced only returned to their pre-war state, but their memories were still at the moment before their death... This means that for them, the current situation is no different from being resurrected.

In addition, the resurrected Fallen Angels were only those who had always been loyal to the Emperor. After a brief initial disturbance, they quickly came to a conclusion:

Although no one knows why, they should have been pardoned for some reason, and it is far more than that. They may have been given some special responsibilities at the same time, so they were not only pardoned, but also resurrected to take on this important responsibility with a new body.

Gua, Emperor, we will not let you down!

With this idea in mind, finding out what that special responsibility was naturally became the primary task of these fallen angels, and the secret room where the mysterious instrument was stored naturally became the first target to be searched.

After figuring out all this, Zhang Ge was sweating profusely.

"How many times can you do a similar backtracking?"

"My dear Master, if you wish, you can order me around as much as you want and make me do what you ask until I am useless."

The information stream that came along with similar nonsensical words explained the situation seriously - these years of hibernation had almost charged her up, and it was harmless to go back for more than ten minutes at this moment. She herself could not calculate how many times she could do it.

Of course, the scale of the backtracking needs to be controlled...unless Zhang Ge doesn't mind a black hole suddenly appearing on the surface of the planet.

Since black holes are the "waste heat" generated by the instrument itself and are also space-time singularities, backtracking has little effect on them. Erasing a small one will most likely create a larger one.

If we don't want this irreversible situation to happen, we have to limit the scale.

Zhang Ge was speechless after receiving this information, and thought to himself that if you had created the black hole the first time, I might have been more grateful to you.

"If you don't have my orders, don't perform any time manipulation on your own. The risks are too great... You should understand what I mean. If you try to exploit my language, I will destroy you personally unless you kill me."

"My love, you...how could you associate such a horrible word as 'kill you' with me? Even though my feelings for you are so deep, I will be hurt by these words that are sharper than time. As long as I don't accept this kind of evaluation that hurts me so much, I am willing to accept all your restrictions. Oh, or perhaps you can say it's a constraint? Hmm..."

Without listening to her continue muttering, Zhang Ge pulled his hand away.

To be honest, in comparison, the hymns whose specific meanings cannot be understood seem much more pleasant to the ear.

Chapter 222: The Spirit of Vengeance and the Singularity Machine

The time-reversal machine is really too involved. If used properly, this tool can provide almost infinite fault tolerance - Zhang Ge feels extremely horrified just thinking about such a scene, which is even more terrifying than a hundred thousand Chaos Space Marines combined.

In comparison, the mere fifty or so fallen angels were just a small problem. Zhang Ge was so worried that he even endured the noise and turned back, imposing several more restrictions on her on the grounds that the risk was "too great."

Damn it, the plan to enshrine this thing as a sacred object must be implemented as soon as possible.

However, before that, Zhang Ge seemed to have to deal with these fallen angels standing in front of him.

Since the communication between Zhang Ge and the instrument was only a moment for the outside world, the fallen angels at the door of the secret room had just taken a few more steps.

As expected, they did not attack, but stopped slowly because of the scene that was being displayed in the secret room.

The redemption that I imagine every day and night has never been so clear, as if it is within reach, no, it is within reach.

They couldn't help but reach out to try to touch the rolling energy tide, and without a doubt received warmth in response... It would be strange if it wasn't warm. Such enriched energy, if its material properties were not extremely stable, it would not be surprising if it exploded in the next second. What would be the big deal if it was just heated a little?

Of course, to the fallen angels who had just been resurrected, this was not what it seemed. Isn't this exactly the warm embrace after being forgiven?

Emperor, you are so gentle.

The fallen angels did not indulge in this warm feeling for long. They did not forget their business. After notifying others through the sound array, they quickly crossed the crowd and came to Zhang Ge.

As for why they recognized Zhang Ge as the core at first sight?

A large group of people in the audience knelt in front of him, and the only two people who did not kneel were facing him. Anyone who was not blind should be able to see it.

"A miracle worker."

The fallen angel who first agreed to join Zhang Ge's team briefly introduced his new brothers, and then took the lead in saluting Zhang Ge.

All communication was completed without words.

This is undoubtedly their special responsibility.

After the fallen angels saluted, their blazing gazes seemed to be transmitted through their eyepieces, saying the same thing:

"Please give the order!"

This made Zhang Ge a little nervous.

No, I haven't even said I'll accept you, so why are you bowing? Bowing is fine, but what does that look mean?

Planning to be nice and then bring all the Chaos to justice, right?

"...I don't think I have the experience to command an organized force of Space Marines."

After brainstorming, Zhang Ge barely came up with a reason that wasn't too outrageous.

It's not that he has a bad imagination, but for a Colonel in the Astra Militarum, refusing Space Marines to join is really a bit beyond his scope.

"You don't need experience, just your will to guide us."

But for these Fallen Angels, experience? Was that even a problem? They had it in abundance. Besides, their lack of experience only served to reinforce their need for us. If they could do everything, why would the Emperor resurrect us?