Chapter 335 Finale
Hong Kong, Broken Dome Base.
Fu Qinghai and Zofia are having dinner in the drivers' exclusive restaurant. Like other places in the Broken Dome, this place has a gray steel structure and yellow concrete walls. It is simple, plain and cold, but Fu Qinghai enjoys the decoration style here, which has a special industrial and mechanical beauty.
He knew the same was true for Zofia.
There was no communication between the two of them. They just ate in silence, with only the occasional sound of the knife and fork touching the steel plate.
Fu Qinghai took a bite of the sandwich and felt that the taste was a bit bland. He was about to get the sauces on the table, but before he could reach out, Zofia handed him a cup of mustard, honey and mayonnaise. Fu Qinghai took the cup and handed a bottle of iced soda to the girl. They looked at each other and smiled, then said nothing and started eating in silence.
This is a typical synaesthesia sequelae.
Almost every driver group encounters this.
Even after the synaesthesia connection was disconnected, there was still an extraordinary tacit understanding and coordination, and their minds were so connected that they could be called synchronized, as if the two were twins.
"Let's go."
Fu Qinghai stood up and clapped his hands.
He knew Zofia was full too.
Zofia nodded and screwed the cap on the bottle.
The two walked out of the restaurant together.
…
The Broken Dome of Xiangjiang, the mecha equipment area.
The staff were moving about busily.
The "White Scar" stands quietly in the middle, the mecha hunter has been repaired and its paint is bright and shiny.
"Dr. Fu Shan, all preparations are ready."
A staff member came over.
"Where is the video equipment on the monster's body?"
Fu Qinghai asked.
"Everything is loaded, including various spectral, chromatographic and mass spectrometric data collection devices, as well as recovery devices."
The staff member replied.
"Very good. This is a great opportunity for us to learn about the world on the other side. We must not miss it."
"Understood, Doctor."
The staff stood at attention and saluted.
"Take me to the interrogation room."
Fu Qingbian talked as he walked.
…
In the interrogation room deep inside the Broken Dome.
The first thing Dr. Morales tried to do after being captured was committing suicide - there was a cyanide poison sac embedded in her tooth socket. She succeeded, but what she didn't expect was that Xiao Fei chopped off her head right away, and then ordered his robot slaves to make it into a servo skull.
The servoskull is equipped with a meditator system made from a human brain, which can retain a certain degree of memory from before death. How much is retained depends on the means and operations of the technical priests.
If it is used as a wetware chip, the memory will hardly be preserved. However, there are special cases, such as a certain Imperial Guard marshal, whose brain was made into a command-type servo skull after his death because of his outstanding command ability. It floats around the staff every day and curses loudly once it finds a decision that it is not satisfied with. The curse is very ugly.
That's right, for the people of the Empire, having their brains made into servo skulls after death is not a punishment but an honor: only loyal servants of the Empire who have sacrificed their lives in the line of duty, technical priests with outstanding knowledge, and Imperial Guard officers with outstanding command capabilities have the opportunity to be made into servo skulls.
"How's it going? Did she confess? We use synaesthesia to implant specific instructions or even a virtual personality."
Fu Qinghai asked.
"I think I figured it out."
Xiao Fei said:
"You can find someone to try."
Fu Qinghai looked at the man in the interrogation room.
General Quan.
He sat slumped on the floor in a daze, his face showing a mixture of confusion, puzzlement and pain, and he looked very aggrieved.
Maybe his dominant personality has come back.
To be honest, Fu Qinghai had never doubted General Quan before, because General Quan was the designated successor of Marshal Pantecost. Later, he became "Marshal Quan". Although his status and power were lower than that of Secretary-General Mori Mako, it also showed that he was loyal to PPDC and all mankind.
And this is the terrifying thing about this technology.
When a spy or a traitor is completely unaware that he is a spy, no matter how others torture him, they will not be able to pry anything out of him.
Similar methods also exist in the Warhammer 40K universe.
Before the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, there was a historian from Terra who accidentally crashed into the atmosphere of Prospero. He was rescued by the Thousand Sons Legion. The Thousand Sons Librarians used magic to brainwash him, turning him into a Thousand Sons spy without him knowing it. He was then sent to Fenris as a spy planted in the Space Wolves Legion.
He didn't know he was a spy.
But in Fenris, this spy disguised as a scholar was seen through by the Wolf King at a glance. The Wolf King told him the truth, and the historian realized that he was a spy.
The Thousand Sons Legion has many spies like this, not only planted in the enemy but also in other legions. However, they use magical means, while synaesthesia brainwashing technology is a technological means, and may be more concealed. It can be seen as an advanced version of the idea implantation in Inception.
It is also very useful if used properly.
"I guess our chief intelligence officer, No. 56, will be very interested in this technology."
Fu Qinghai said with a smile.
The Alpha Legion, the famous Riddler Legion, welcomes all new espionage methods.
Then, Fu Qinghai pulled Xiao Fei aside again.
The two of them conspired quietly.
Fu Qinghai said:
"Pick a person from among the captured monster believers, preferably one with a scientific research background, like Dr. Morales. Use the synaesthesia brainwashing technique to implant a command in him so that he forgets about being captured. Then arrange for him to work in Shaw Industries and let him establish a synaesthesia connection with the monster's secondary brain in the name of experimental research."
Xiao Fei asked in confusion:
"What's the point of doing this?"
Fu Qinghai smiled mysteriously:
"The significance is to start the plot of Pacific Rim 2: Uprising. Now that Dr. Newton is dead, how can we start a new plot without Dr. Newton secretly making monster drone mechas... The key is, are you not interested in the Pioneer's wormhole technology at all?"
In the Warhammer 40K universe, the only force that can utilize wormholes is the Necrons, whose Night Scythes can capture natural wormholes as transportation channels.
"ah..."
Xiao Fei suddenly realized:
"We can't go to another world to ask the pioneers how to create a wormhole, but we can artificially arrange a traitor and let the pioneers teach him how to create a wormhole, just like the pioneers taught Dr. Newton how to create a wormhole."
In the second movie, Dr. Newton used drone mechas infected with monster brain tissue to open new wormholes. Every six drone mechas could open a wormhole. At that time, a total of three wormholes were opened on the earth at once.
These unmanned mechas are manufactured using Shaw Industries' automated production lines. By restoring the relevant information and technology in Shaw Industries' database, we can understand how the pioneers opened the wormhole.
After Xiao Fei figured it out, he raised a new question:
"But I can't handle this matter by myself. PPDC is detaining monster believers, and Shaw Industries is responsible for production and manufacturing. You must have the cooperation of these two to realize your plan. Do you think they will agree?"
Fu Qinghai pursed his lips and said:
"I'll try to convince them as much as I can."
...
Pacific Ocean, Mariana Trench, Challenger Deep.
The mecha hunters "White Scar" and "Eureka Raider" escorted the corpse of the monster "Abomination" into this location, and the monster's stomach was filled with a giant nuclear bomb with the largest yield ever made by humans.
Visibility was very low in the pitch-black seabed. Only the cold white light from the searchlights on the chests of the two mecha hunters penetrated the water and barely illuminated the area of less than fifty meters in front of them.
But soon, their attention was attracted.
The wormhole crack is emitting beautiful orange light.
No new monsters emerge from it.
According to Dr. Herman's research report on "Potential Trends in Monster Size Growth", a level five monster is the maximum size that a monster can pass through a wormhole. If you want to get a larger monster, you need to use a "scam" method like the combination of three monsters in the second movie.
"Marshal, are you ready?"
Fu Qinghai asked in the communication channel.
"All ready."
Pantecost replied in a deep voice.
"Okay, then start casting!"
After saying that, the two mecha hunters worked together to push the monster's corpse into the wormhole. In front of Fu Qinghai, layers of blue-purple membrane doors opened one after another. These entrances that opened in sequence were like the queen of flowers in the rain forest. Each layer of membrane door automatically opened a narrow passage when the monster's corpse approached, and the charred and bloodstained remains of the "abomination" slowly sank.
The body of the monster "Abomination" gradually sank to the end of the wormhole and began to fall into another world.
At the same time, the detection equipment fixed on the monster's corpse began to diligently collect and record various data and true appearance of the other side of the wormhole.
…
This is a city made of flesh, bones and organs, perhaps millions of years old.
The pioneers moved from one planet to another, and finally came here, and built a different world with this place as the center. Now this monster world is dying, and this city is the last place to survive. They have gradually exhausted all the available things, and if they don't choose another habitat, only death awaits them.
In this burial ground, an aging sun hangs in the misty sky, emitting a pale and dim light. They have waited for hundreds of millions of years, waiting for the earth to become a "fairyland". In front of the real warriors of the pioneers, even the "poisonous woman" is dwarfed, and the mecha hunter is as small as a child's toy.
These super monsters trapped in monster cages made of bones and flesh are the real power of the pioneers. Unfortunately, for various reasons, they cannot pass through the wormhole.
Below the wormhole is a magnetic field, and the biomechanical devices surrounding it send out pulses at the right time, causing the wormhole to vibrate. The nerves of artificial organs extend from underground through this dying city to various places, where the pioneers complete the manufacturing process of monsters:
classification, cultivation, mixing, and assembly.
"Abomination" is slowly emerging from this end of the wormhole, and the energy that comes with it dyes it with all kinds of strange colors that cannot be named. As if it is still in the sea, the corpse sinks very slowly, gradually returning from the wormhole to the world of monsters.
In the video footage of the detection equipment, the surrounding area is filled with endless bone bridges, bone roads, rivers and lakes made of active silt, shell-like houses, and exoskeleton buildings, which contain giant organs that constantly pulsate.
The wormhole is located right in the heart of this city.
The pioneers stopped what they were doing and looked up.
They stared at the monster's corpse motionlessly, as if they didn't understand what was happening. There was a hint of confusion and uneasiness in their emotions. These emotions radiated to every monster through the nerves embedded in the city streets. The monsters all raised their eyes to look at the obviously modified corpse of their own kind, and the sound of terrifying roars continued.
"Countdown, 3, 2, 1..."
"laugh--"
The cylindrical detection device ejected and flew toward the wormhole entrance above his head, disappearing from the one-way valve.
Next second.
"boom--"
Radiation and high temperature swept everything in an instant.
...
Pacific Rim Joint Defense Force Research Report
Speaker: Dr. Fu Shan
Speaker Topic: Other Worlds and Pioneers
Another World:
In a distant galaxy there exists an "Another World" planet, where the land is barren and covered with dark clouds. The atmosphere is yellow, and there are no rivers on the surface, only rock formations. Aliens called "Pioneers" live in the rock formations.
After analysis, we believe that the pioneers reproduce and survive by constantly invading other planets. They have mastered advanced space technology and can connect other planets with the local area by establishing "wormholes" and attack other planets by internal infiltration.
Pioneer:
Pioneer is about 3.6 meters tall and looks like an aquatic insect. This creature has four arms with translucent wings attached to them, and can walk upright. Like crustaceans on Earth, their skeletons grow outside the body and are probably made of a substance similar to chitin.
The pioneers had no eyelids, and their eyes were similar to those of fish, which looked scary and funny. On their heads grew a fan-shaped protrusion like a "crown", and analysis showed that this "crown" symbolized honor, identity, class and status.
It is preliminarily speculated that the social hierarchy of the pioneers was very strict, and the subordinates had to obey the orders of their superiors. Generally speaking, the bigger the pioneer's crown, the higher the rank and the more noble the status, because through the video footage, we can see that they treat their superiors with great respect.
...
News headlines:
"Victory! Victory! Victory!"
By Kelly Keliski, ZNN reporter.
The wormhole closed.
PPDC monitoring shows that there is no more sudden release of energy in the areas near Challenger Deep and the Mariana Trench, and no abnormal crustal activity has been found except for the subsidence rate that has been common in recent decades.
Monitoring will continue.
The monster may come back again.
The "Hunter Project" came to an end.
The United Nations will continue to support the Pons Bridge/Synesthesia technology upgrade and the K-Science Department's monster biotechnology reverse engineering research program, with the base camp for these scientific projects established at the Anchorage Shatterdome Base.
Thank you "White Scars", thank you PPDC, and thank you to all the Mecha Hunters who have fought for all mankind.
You are the true light of humanity!
We have obtained photos of the White Scars pilot team, and the two heroes are just as expected, a handsome man and a beautiful woman, a perfect match made in heaven, which is very enviable. For some reason, PPDC is so secretive about this and is unwilling to release the pilot team's information to the public.
But anyway…
We won!
Cheer, celebrate, shout...
This is not just a victory for the Pacific Rim countries.
This is a victory for the entire planet and all humanity.
Long live the great unity of the people of the world!!!
...
[In the Pacific Rim Universe, the main storyline of the reincarnation world, the Monster War has ended, and the human faction storyline has won the final victory! ]
[Start calculating assimilation points... 12108 points! ]
…
[The current reincarnation world has ended, and you are preparing to return to the anchored world. Please quickly select the items within your control or the abilities you have already obtained to start assimilating.]
[Available options]
[Item: Mecha Hunter "White Scar"]
[Item: Blood and Flesh Curse Human Skin Scroll x3]
[Item: Blue Light Ring]
[Item: Green Lantern Ring]
[Confirm selection: Item: Blood and Flesh Curse Human Skin Scroll x3, Item: Blue Lantern Ring, Item: Green Lantern Ring. This assimilation will consume 8981 assimilation points.]
[Beginning to assimilate... 1%, 54%, 100%, assimilation completed, recovering the soul of the reincarnator]
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Thanks to book friend Lulumu^ for the reward.
1. The Pacific Rim universe has officially ended. It will come back once more, but there will be no long plot line.
2. As mentioned before, the name Zofia was originally taken from the name of a female character in "Rainbow Six: Siege". The character was set to be of Polish descent, so I followed suit and gave her a Polish surname "Boleslaw", which was the name of the Polish king who defeated the Holy Roman Empire three times. Of course, I know that the suffix "夫" at the end of a female surname in Russian has to be changed to "娃", but I don't know whether it has to be changed in Polish.
3. Aesthetics is hard to say. At first, everyone thought that the "Gundam style" mecha hunters were the most popular, so the two generations of "Wanderers" in the Pacific Rim movie were both Gundam style. However, online voting shows that the most popular mecha hunter is "Cherno Alpha". It seems that I am not the only one who likes this Soviet-style heavy industrial aesthetic.
4. The pilot team of "Cherno Alpha" is a couple. I have checked the setting information. The setting of brother and sister seems to be adapted from the movie or something.
5. Some research and corrections: The timeline has been modified. Normally, after the death of "Storm Red" and "Cherno Alpha", the nuclear attack wormhole plan will begin immediately. The time here has been extended by me. The monster "Elytra" is my original monster, which does not exist in the original book. The names of all other monsters are derived from the settings in the original book.
6. The plot between each reincarnation world is the plot of the Warhammer 40K universe. I won't say much about this, it's a convention.
(End of this chapter)