Chapter 364: The Fall of an Empire



but.

The transformation technology in this document is not complete, because the complete catalog has 19 biological transformation processes, and it also lacks the most important transformation, a transformation process called "Black Shell" [Interface System].

The exoskeleton armor of Space Marines is different from that of others. They are equipped with the most advanced exoskeleton armor, and the combat environment they deal with is more complex, which makes it much more difficult to operate than other power armors. Conventional operations cannot bring out the true strength of Space Marines, so there is a special modification in the bio-transformation technology.

It is called the 'Black Carapace' implant, and is the last and most special implantation procedure for a Space Marine.

Without this transformation surgery, Space Marines could not be called Space Marines, and they also lost the title of "Chapter".

There is not much data about the "black shell" in it. It can only be determined that it is a special substance made in a culture tank. After being transplanted under the human skin through surgery, the substance will expand and connect to the nerve bundles in the Space Marine's body within a few hours.

After a few months, the black shell fully matures and forms a unique biological neural sensor that can directly contact the connection points of the exoskeleton armor. It is used to detect and analyze the status of the entire exoskeleton armor, including medical treatment, life support, combat damage, etc. All this information is transmitted directly to the brain through the nerve bundles.

It's like a biological system that is specifically designed to assist in the control of interstellar armor.

"There are quite a few missing transformation surgeries!" Su Ziyu quickly browsed through the information and thought to himself, "The data is quite detailed, but what about the gene seeds that serve as the basis for the transformation?"

“Why aren’t there any records?”

Gene seeds are the foundation of all transformations. Only by accepting the implantation of gene seeds can one withstand the complete nineteen genetic modifications.

Without gene seeds, ordinary people can only undergo three to five genetic modifications at most, depending on their physical constitution.

The imperial soldiers in the underground base are examples of those who have only undergone one or two genetic modifications. They are usually implanted with a 'second heart', which is the simplest, easiest and lowest-cost modification operation. A small artificial bionic heart is installed inside the chest cavity to speed up blood flow and maintain complete body functions when the original heart is damaged.

The technology for making a bionic heart is in the data, and it is recorded very completely. It can also be manufactured with the technological level of the wasteland plane.

Usually.

Ordinary knights of the Empire would undergo three to five genetic modifications, including a second heart, bone enhancement, muscle strengthening, multifunctional lungs, etc. If it was a strong one like the Holy Blood Rose, she should have undergone no less than 10 genetic modification operations, and might even have had gene seeds implanted. Based on the superhuman reaction ability she demonstrated, this female warrior must have had the [Superconducting Fiber Neural Tree] implanted.

“The information is fine.”

"But what about these genetically modified materials?" Su Ziyu couldn't help but fall into deep thought, muttering: "If the technology inside is taken to the wasteland, I guess only the simplest two or three operations can be performed."

"I'll save it first."

Thinking of this, Su Ziyu directly ordered: "System, copy the data inside to the database."

These transformation technologies are far more advanced than those in the wasteland plane. The final Space Marines may have a slight change in skin color, but otherwise they basically look like normal people.

The final strength will directly transform from ordinary people to superhumans, which is roughly equivalent to the legendary level in the fantasy plane.

A quick step to success!

This is the terrifying background of the technological dimension. As long as there are enough resources, they can mass-produce a batch of legendary warriors.

If you really take action.

The strength of these Space Marines is even more terrifying than the legends because their equipment is also very advanced.

"Ordinary knights of the Empire have only received a maximum of five transformations."

"Easy to deal with."

"But the high-level knights have undergone a lot of transformation. If they have been implanted with gene seeds, their strength will not be much weaker than the Holy Blood Rose." Su Ziyu said to himself: "I have to be careful next time."

"They must have had more than ten remodeling surgeries."

At this time.

Su Ziyu turned his gaze to the rebel soldier wearing a scout-type exoskeleton. He gently raised his hand and took off the other's helmet, revealing a capable female face with short hair. The two eyes were slightly different colors. The right eye was dark blue, probably a bionic eye implanted. At this moment, her expression was quite terrified. She wanted to move but was completely unable to.

——"Psychic suggestion!"

A glimmer flashed in Su Ziyu's eyes, but he was surprised the next second because the other party was immune to his mental invasion.

This woman's psychic enhancement level is at most LV3, so it is impossible for her to be exempted.

"Is it because of this device?" Su Ziyu reached out his hand to the back of her head and touched a small silver-white metal device.

A tiny current jumped.

The next second, the short-haired woman in front of him looked confused.

"Come with me." Su Ziyu nodded with satisfaction and ordered, "I'll take you to a safe place first."

I finally captured a prisoner and now I can collect some intelligence about this world.

The battle on the other side has ended, and those rebels who attracted the firepower may all be defeated. Su Ziyu does not want to provoke the Empire's pursuers, so he plans to leave the area first.

Along the way, Su Ziyu also asked the other party about the information of this world.

The result was a bit unexpected.

Although the empire they are talking about is an empire, it is not a real empire. It is just a lucky country that has inherited some of the ancient imperial technology.

The whole story begins more than three thousand years ago.

At that time, the planet was still in the Middle Ages. Although humans came to this planet as colonists, due to the disasters of unknown subspace storms and alien invasions, the entire human civilization regressed to the primitive civilization period.

The existence of alien beasts in the subspace made human survival increasingly difficult, and civilization was in a state of stagnation for a long time.

However, at that time, a powerful medieval empire was also born on this planet.

After the rise of this empire, they began to explore the outside world. They were the true sons of destiny on this planet. Not long after their rise, they dug up a complete base of an ancient lost empire. Since then, the empire has begun to climb the technology tree at an astonishing speed, but because the technology it has acquired is relatively one-sided, many aspects still maintain the ancient medieval customs, and the feudal imperial system has been used until now.

Hundreds of years passed.

The Empire ruled the planet at an astonishing speed and developed a powerful civilization. They began to realize that there were more intelligent life forms on the planet than just humans. In order to deal with threats from the outside world and underground, the Empire began a cross-era "racial ascension" plan.

Since the technology tree is not complete, the empire does not have a very strong research capability, and most of the technology comes from the remains of the ancient lost empire.

This racial ascension plan, which spanned more than three hundred years, failed just halfway through.

The entire plan was called [Psychic Ascension]. The emperor of the empire decided to adjust the genetic tree of the imperial people through genetic modification so that they would be born with the gift of [psychic sensitivity].

The initial plan for psychic ascension was successful.

Because during that period, all newborns in the empire displayed psychic abilities of at least LV1, and many children displayed psychic abilities of LV3 or above at a young age.

The empire began to flourish.

The nobles rushed to carry out genetic optimization, and at the same time, they made breakthroughs in the technological research of the ancient lost empire. They successfully created a [Psychic Amplification Device] that could greatly amplify a person's psychic power through machinery. Almost all of the nobles in the empire possessed superhuman powers.

However, technological progress does not mean the transformation of civilization. In the empire that still retained medieval feudal rule, the powerful nobles began to indulge in luxury and pleasure and became increasingly decadent, and life became more difficult for the lower classes.

Especially with the prevalence of genetic modification, many lower-class people have become experimental subjects and victims.

That’s when the original resistance was born.

At first they could only hide underground, looking for opportunities to resist the tyranny of the empire.

But no one expected that the Empire's [Psychic Ascension] plan would lead to their own rapid destruction. As a large number of Imperials underwent genetic optimization and modification, more and more people gained the gift of psychic powers.

The empire was about to enter a period of incomparable power and glory.

Suddenly one day.

The whispers of the mind broke out, stronger than before, filled with more evil thoughts and negative emotions.

Those imperial people who were born with the gift of [psychic sensitivity] suffered a devastating blow. Countless people went mad and died, and countless others had their minds twisted and turned into lunatics.

Emperor of the Empire.

A peerless strong man who had lived for nearly six hundred years had directly turned into some kind of horrible monster.

Disaster has struck.

The entire empire suddenly collapsed overnight. Those imperial people who were born with powerful psychic talents died one after another. The once glorious cities turned into ruins. The survivors who were lucky enough to survive could only hide underground and rely on mind suppression barriers to survive.

Until now, the nobles of the empire have been unable to live on the ground for a long time. They can only move around in the outside world for a short period of time, and must hide in underground bases for the rest of the time.

The inheritance of civilization was once again cut off.

Fortunately, the former empire had a rich heritage, and they obtained more than one technology from the ancient ruins. As the plan of psychic ascension failed, they began to turn to researching another technology tree.

The failure of psychic ascension frightened the Imperials.

Although they possess a large amount of mechanical bionics and biological transformation technologies, they still dare not carry out a second "racial ascension" plan.

Huge resources were consumed and the empire's foundation was gradually exhausted.

A failed "psychic ascension" completely drained the empire's wealth, and it has not recovered to this day.

Now the top leaders of the empire can only hide in underground cities and survive.

“What a bunch of lunatics!”

After listening to the empire's past, Su Ziyu couldn't help but exclaimed: "Can the plan of racial ascension be accomplished so easily?"

Today's imperial nobles are always trying to correct the genes of their offspring.

After a certain degree of genetic modification, the descendants of the imperial nobility can now move around a little on the surface, but they are still unable to resist the whispers of the mind. The sudden facial distortion of the shriveled old man that Su Ziyu had seen before was a side effect of his overly sensitive mind.

This talent brings powerful psychic powers, but the price is quite heavy.

at present.

The strategy of the Empire has shifted to biological transformation and bionic transformation, but due to the scarcity and rarity of gene seeds, except for a small number of high-ranking officials and lucky ones who can receive gene seeds from ancient ruins, the rest can only accept the most basic transformation procedures. The nobles of the Empire are very opposed to bionic transformation, because accepting bionic transformation means that they have to give up some of their luxuries and pleasures. In order to satisfy their desires, they would rather live in underground cities.

"So you say."

"There aren't many Space Marines in the Empire itself?" Su Ziyu said to himself.

All gene seeds come from inside the ancient ruins. It seems that the ancient lost empire buried some gene seeds deep underground before some terrible disaster broke out.

Because gene seeds are too scarce, bionic transformation is currently being promoted within the empire.

Initially, they chose the route of "psychic ascension" because the empire's resources just happened to meet the conditions for ascension, but they did not expect that it would lead to the fall of a powerful empire.

"The risk of racial ascension is very high!" Su Ziyu murmured.

I will have to remind the people in the wasteland plane in the future, because the technology tree of the wasteland plane will soon reach the route of mechanical ascension.

Today the empire is torn apart.

Currently, the empire implements a governor system, but in fact it is a group of independent small kingdoms.

Fortunately, the imperial family still holds powerful military force, especially the transformation surgery and advanced bionic technology of Space Marines. Only the imperial family has complete scientific and technological information.

However, the current Queen of the Empire, Isabella II, also has big problems.

Isabella II was known as the 'bloodthirsty queen'. It was rumored that she had a very cruel personality and liked to execute people by skinning them. She had headaches since she was born and was moody. Although she held great power in the empire, she stayed in the Forbidden Palace for a long time. It was said that she was born with an extremely amazing psychic talent. Even within the protective barrier, she could not be completely immune to the whispering of the mind, which directly led to her distorted personality under the torture of the whispering of the mind.

After the failure of psychic ascension, all the royal heirs of the empire suffered from "psychological abnormality".

Queen Isabella has to go into a hibernation chamber to rest every once in a while. Currently, the rule of the entire empire is maintained by the Ministers of the Interior, and the nobles in various places have formed small kingdoms with complete autonomy.

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