Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 456

Chapter 455, Machine Soul Cleansing

In order to repair and evaluate the condition of the newly captured Retribution-class battleship, the entire joint fleet will have to stay in the Tiedong II system for a whole day.

Although Gu Hang was not satisfied with the long time it took, Wang Zhaoran, the ruling bishop of the Mingyang sect and the chief technical consultant of Feiyi Star, did not care.

He explained the reason to Gu Hang.

First, the shipbuilding technology of the Tianma Star Region is the best in the entire Dragon Eagle Star Region, but there is still no experience in manufacturing, maintaining, and repairing Retribution-class battleships. They have never built such a large ship, and it is not long to build such a large ship at once.

Second, the degree of chaos corruption suffered by this ship is quite serious, which is a bigger problem than the former.

In fact, when Wang Zhaoran told Gu Hang that he could get the ship back, although he acted very confident, he was not so sure in fact.

But…

“Teacher, aren’t we deceiving the governor by doing this?” His apprentice couldn’t help but ask Wang Zhaoran in a low voice while working.

Wang Zhaoran’s mechanical arm pushed the apprentice’s head back: “Work hard and don’t talk nonsense.”

Another apprentice smiled and said: “Teacher, if you don’t say that, what if Governor Gu gave up the plan to seize the ship? How can we have such an opportunity to contact such a large ship?”

Wang Zhaoran nodded slightly.

He really meant that.

Moreover, if it was just a Retribution-class ship, it would be fine, but the key is that it is deeply corrupted by Chaos.

Chaos corruption is certainly not a good thing, but isn’t this a very rare situation?

Rare battleships plus rare corruption, how can the oil man not be tempted?

He must come!

However, the current situation is still a bit beyond his expectations.

If it is just a mechanical problem, it is actually easier to deal with. Although Wang Zhaoran has no experience in dealing with Retribution-class battleships, after all, many naval ship technical knowledge is universal. The most important thing is that the damage to this Retribution-class ship is not that big, just figure out how to drive the ship.

But the corruption problem is different.

The Mechanicus believes that all mechanical creations in the world, from super starships as large as cities to the most ordinary guns, have souls.

This is the so-called “machine soul”.

Whether it is changing the battery of a laser gun, applying oil to the tracks of a lion tank, or chanting blessings with incense and scriptures before the Space Marines go out to fight, they are all ways to appease the machine soul. When the machine soul is happy, it can make the mechanical creation more stable and even perform exceptionally; when the machine soul is unhappy, it will malfunction.

Of course, although this saying is more popular, it is mainly the Mechanicus and the people who believe in the Mechanicus who take it seriously.

The machine soul is a bit mysterious, and quite a number of people do not believe it, or do not understand it.

At the moment, Wang Zhaoran confirmed that it would be very difficult to rescue this battleship.

The main problem is the rebellion of the machine soul caused by Chaos corruption.

The corrupted machine soul is violent and bloodthirsty, filled with a crazy power.

Driving this ship for a short time may be fine, but if it lasts a little longer, all the crew members will be infected and then go crazy.

Crazy crew members may suddenly start indiscriminate attacks on the battlefield with the ship, or even worse, they may start evil rituals inside the ship and call on the abyss demons.

This kind of problem cannot be solved by repairing a few devices and parts on the ship. It requires a long and complex technical means to solve the corruption problem of the machine soul.

Even Wang Zhaoran is not sure whether there is such a way to soothe and purify the machine soul.

At least he wouldn’t.

After handing over the basic ship inspection and maintenance work to the students, he spent the next day trying various ways to see if various methods of appeasing the machine soul were effective.

He made fifteen attempts, and each one failed.

There was no movement at all. In the process of communicating with the machine soul, he couldn’t even feel the machine soul of this Retribution-class battleship giving him any feedback. All he heard was always a violent roar.

In fact, he didn’t dare to continue trying. Every time he tried to communicate with the machine soul, he could feel a lot of mental pressure. After all fifteen methods failed, although he still had a few tricks, the probability of being effective was extremely low, and it might even make him fall into the abyss…

There was no need for that.

The next day, when he came to Gu Hang, he didn’t dare to hide anything or make up anything, and basically explained what he knew.

At this time, he was still a little nervous.

Before coming here, he said that he could drive the ship back.

Now… he didn’t break his promise, he could definitely drive it back. But what’s the point of just going back if the problem of ship corruption is not solved? It can’t be used in actual combat.

Even if it is simply parked in the star port, there is a risk of corruption spreading.

But Gu Hang didn’t seem to care too much about it.

He smiled and said, “It’s fine as long as we can go back. Let’s go back now without delay!”

…

Unlike what Wang Zhaoran was worried about, Gu Hang was not afraid of chaos corruption. What he was most afraid of was that the mechanical mechanism of the ship would have some relatively large and unsolvable problems.

If there were such a problem, he would be helpless and could only admit that this operation was a big loss.

But fortunately, this problem did not occur under his caution.

As for the problem of corruption, he had a way to solve it.

He couldn’t quite understand the so-called “machine soul” of the Mechanicus. In his opinion, the religious meaning of that thing was greater than its practical significance.

In this universe that was not materialistic or scientific at all, Gu Hang would not easily deny such a mysterious thing. Its existence and its widespread recognition by a large part of the population might make it come true.

However, Gu Hang has his own way of dealing with the current situation.

He really doesn’t understand what it means for the machine soul to be corrupted, but he can solve the problem in a very simple way: use thunder and storm power to wash every part of the ship, even every screw, from top to bottom, from inside to outside.

Use the power of storm and thunder to wash away all the blood god aura that has stained this battleship.

Maybe washing it once is not enough, so wash it ten times, a hundred times.

When this battleship is in the real universe, in a place where the “tyrant” cannot interfere, and is baptized by thunder power again and again, it will eventually be cleaned.

By then, the corrupted machine soul should also be free of corruption!

(End of this chapter)