Chapter 117 Nano Mechanical Trojan Horse!
With the legion's high command all on the bridge, the apothecary captain, Ferron, reported excitedly. "In the blood vessels of those who died from high-energy nuclear radiation, we used microscopic instruments to detect extremely tiny microweapons in these damaged blood cells."
"These terrifying weapons are nanometer-sized! Although they were completely destroyed by high-energy radiation, their microscopic mechanical structure was still clearly discovered by us!"
Everyone was shocked to hear about the nanoscale weapon, though they had by now expected it. Bright had initially thought it was a biological virus, but it turned out to be a miniature machine, a weapon that none of the people present had ever heard of.
Apothecary Ferron showed everyone a large number of microscopic images. Among them were magnified blood cells and three hovering machines with red tails that looked like wingless mosquitoes.
After the truth was revealed, no one present said it was related to the warp or psykers anymore. They all looked incredulous and shocked.
Omega looked at it carefully for a few moments and exclaimed in amazement. "As expected of a remnant of the Dark Age of Technology. Even the nano-level weapons are so exquisitely crafted and terrifying!"
"How are we supposed to fight this war? We have absolutely no weapons to deal with microweapons, my lord. Can you think of a method like the one we used on Shadowtooth?" Logician Cofer asked hopefully, feeling powerless.
"How about another hydrogen bomb?" Bright blurted out, and the other company commanders glared at him. He shut up quickly.
"Even if a hydrogen bomb is dropped on a continent's nanoweapons, it's uncertain whether they've been completely destroyed. These weapons are so small they're invisible to the naked eye. If any remnants spread to other continents, or even if one manages to infiltrate the fleet, it would be a catastrophic problem!"
Everyone agreed with this assessment, and as subordinate officers, they all looked at Omega with hopeful expressions.
"The other side is highly intelligent. We can deploy a message stating our position and hope they will spare the humans of Reinharden!"
"Whether it works or not, give it a try and see how the other party reacts!"
After hearing this, Company Commander Norton knew that even Omega couldn't easily solve this problem, so he took on the task himself. Suddenly, he thought of something.
"We don't know their name, so how should we address them?"
"Just call them microweapons. Given their intelligence, they'll immediately understand we're talking about them!"
A day later, on the continent of Reinharden on the planet Faran, ten Thunderhawk gunships flew over a city. A heavy, cube-shaped metal object, one meter on each side, fell from the sky into the city, where blood-soaked corpses lay everywhere, covering an area of hundreds of kilometers.
The entire city was afflicted with hemorrhagic plague. They either lay dead in pools of blood or were bleeding to death.
Thump!
A heavy metal object fell onto a square where corpses were scattered. Then the Alpha Legion's words to the owner of the microweapons were played, the sound echoing hollowly in the square, surrounded by thousands of corpses and not a single living person.
The recording played consisted entirely of Omega's words to the owner of the nanoweapons, hoping that the other party would stop and spare the humans of this continent.
Time passed slowly, and countless streaks of bright red blood began to appear on the ground of the square from nowhere. Some flowed from cracks in the ground, some from the surrounding corpses, and some from other streets and rooms.
Countless vibrant red blood vessels, resembling a fine red net, covered the square, sending chills down the spines of those monitoring from space.
As countless blood vessels passed before the heavy, square metal player, they paused for less than half a second before coiling around the steel and transforming it into a blood-red cube.
Before long, countless blood-red threads scattered and disappeared into the surrounding crevices, and the entire thick metal cube object vanished without a trace.
On the spaceship's bridge, Skol witnessed this scene firsthand and roared in anger. "What an arrogant bastard! Does he really think we can't kill him?"
The other company commanders also showed anger. The Alpha Legion's request had been rejected by the other side, which meant that the other side was not willing to let go of the people of the entire continent. It meant that they had officially declared war on the Legion.
Omega was also annoyed. "You really think we can't handle you? Cofer, have you analyzed the communication method for these microweapons yet?"
"The communications of these microweapons cannot be eavesdropped on. They are very likely using quantum communication!" Cofer reported, and Bright promptly provided Omega with a large amount of data for review.
"With communication equipment, there's no problem. I'm planning to give them a series of big surprises!"
Omega smiled mysteriously, then immediately summoned the entire Data Think Tank. With himself leading thousands of people, they began creating a large-scale purification program, while the Adeptus Mechanicus, along with Skol and others, prepared to capture a half-dead nanoweapon.
Having gained experience with damaging nanoweapons to the point of near death, Skol and his team were very confident.
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One month later, inside a spaceship's laboratory, a spherical metal box held a tiny silver-gray tube that pierced its interior. Under extremely microscopic conditions, a half-dead, barely moving nano-mosquito could be seen inside the box.
Then, a massive flow of information poured from the metal box along a nanometer-sized thread into the nanomachine. A Space Marine from the Data Think Tank watched expectantly from outside, while on the bridge in outer space, Omega and his high-ranking officers observed quietly, all eager to see what would unfold.
After the purification program was integrated into the miniature nanomachine, the Space Marines conducted further microscopic inspections and tests, reporting a major success to Omega.
The purification program had purified a nanomachine!
Omega had anticipated this outcome. While nanotechnology might seem invincible, its tiny and delicate nature also makes it vulnerable.
The intelligence contained in a single nanomachine was extremely limited, and it could be infected with information viruses as long as there was a data interface.
More importantly, they discovered another weakness in these nanomachines: they were vulnerable to ultra-high-temperature ion flames.
After purifying the nanomachines captured during this period one by one, Omega prepared his countermeasure: the Trojan Horse strategy.
These nano-mechanical Trojan Horses would continuously spread the computer virus meticulously crafted over the past month. As long as the countless nanomachines on the Reinharden continent could communicate with each other, the information virus would be transmitted to every single microscopic nanomachine.
In the sky above the planet Faran, a high-speed aircraft dropped a small box into a city experiencing a massive outbreak of hemorrhagic plague.
The box shattered slightly upon landing, revealing its empty interior. More than a thousand invisible nano-mechanical Trojan Horses emerged and began communicating extensively with the nanomachines scattered throughout the city.
Each exchange purified the recipient's information programming, allowing the virus to spread continuously, from one to ten, from ten to a hundred, eventually reaching the entire city.
As time went on, one street was littered with corpses lying in pools of blood.
From this extremely microscopic perspective, one could see that the numerous nano-mechanical mosquitoes, which were originally swimming in the blood, were beginning to stiffen and mutate.
Once the infection and mutation succeeded, these nanomechanical insects transformed into new nano-mechanical Trojan Horses, which continued to spread one by one.
On a microscopic scale, countless nanomachines within the city's corpses were infected and mutated by the computer virus, and within a single day, hundreds of millions of nanomachines in the entire city were transformed into nano-mechanical Trojan Horses.
Starting from this city, hundreds of millions of nano-mechanical Trojan Horses began exchanging information with nanoweapons in hundreds of cities across the continent of Reinharden. Like the widespread outbreak of hemorrhagic plague, the nano-mechanical Trojan Horses now spread rapidly to hundreds of cities across the continent thanks to their incredibly powerful quantum communication capabilities.
On a microscopic scale, countless nanoweapons were rapidly purified and mutated.
Even Omega was unaware that these countless nanoweapons had no individual masters, existing as a unified entity. Through the influence of clustered thinking and the unknown influence of the Dark Age, the consciousness of these billions of nanoweapons had merged into a single whole.
The nano-consciousness that had tormented over 12 billion people and killed nearly 2 billion on the Reinharden continent was also terrified by the sudden information purification virus. As a nanoweapon created during the Dark Age of Technology, it had possessed intelligence from the very beginning.
It was also an Abominable Intelligence.
With its massive computing power and incredibly strong logical thinking, the nano-consciousness immediately mobilized its enormous computing resources to defend against the information virus, preparing to purify the virus's mutation itself.
[End of Chapter]
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