Chapter 200 03.0199: "Things that cannot be explained by science"

"Ah~ Mr. Horatio, welcome to my laboratory, but you'd better not touch anything to avoid irreversible consequences~."

As soon as he entered the door, he heard a lifelike, sweet and enthusiastic female voice, but Father Latti, who was still busy at the workbench, neither turned his head nor stopped his work.

Horatio was already accustomed to her perfunctory courtesy under the guise of a so-called lady, and after seeing the bureaucrats revising the public relations strategy, he even found Father Latti's simple contrast somewhat cute.

Because of some deal, Horatio has her door identification information.

The mentors were traveling in the void again, so during this period of time, except Horatio, no one else could automatically pass the access control and enter the Abyss Port.

"Good day, Father Lati. Remember last time I gave you a bottle of experimental sample, which contained a small object like mercury. Do you still have it?"

"I handed it over to my mentor, but unfortunately, he was away with the great sage Cambrius."

The woman smiled. The mechanized parts on her face did not detract from her delicate features, and even added a bit of the cold beauty unique to metal. "But I got it back somehow."

"Have you figured out anything?" Horatio walked forward and got straight to the point.

"Have you found anything?" Father Ratti skipped the pleasantries and responded to Horatio's question with a question.

"Yes, I did find something. This thing is related to the incident on the Retribution-class 'Sacred Will'. I think you should already know what happened yesterday."

"Hmm~" The woman smiled.

The overhaul of the fleet's flagship requires the cooperation of almost all the Mechanicus on the planet.

The fate of the Sacred Will was widely discussed by everyone in Abyss Port, from high-ranking officials to ordinary people. She probably knew about it a long time ago.

"I found this in the brain of the mutinous sailor. It is also a mercury-like amorphous liquid. I want to know if it is the same substance as the sample I gave you before."

Father Latti stepped forward and used his prosthetic limbs to grasp the sealed container that Horatio handed over.

She opened the container, took out the glass slide inside, and placed it under a huge nano-scale analytical microscope. After a moment of humming sound from the machine, Father Lati moved from a static state. It was obvious that the observation data directly transmitted to her by the equipment had been analyzed by her.

"Your guess is correct. They are indeed the same substance."

"what is it?"

"I think it's a kind of...nanoworm."

"Biological? Or construct?"

"Both."

Father Latti looked at the data image projected on the electronic prosthetic eye.

Under the microscope, these nanoworms form twisted, irregular, and awkward corners and patterns one after another:
"But if you want me to analyze the structure of this thing and understand its secrets, I'm afraid I can't do it in a short period of time. The technical threshold for studying it is very high, and it is nano-micro-grade. Maybe Mars has this technology, but Abyss Port can't do it."

"Really? I'm sorry, but I don't have time to wait for you to figure out the nature of this thing. But can you tell me what it is used for?"

Horatio's eyes fell on the samples on the table and a death row prisoner who was tied to a restraint chair by Latti and had his eyelids and upper and lower lips cut off.

In the Empire, the Mechanicum is responsible for the follow-up treatment of most death row prisoners who are in relatively good physical condition.

For the Imperial authorities, handing over death row prisoners to the Mechanicus is a method far more cruel than the death penalty.

The death row prisoner's eyes were bright red, filled with bloodshot from fear and pain, with white foam flowing from the corners of his lips, and he looked unconscious.

Latti used a mechanical drill to drill open the criminal's skull and inserted an optical microscope into the hole.

In this way, the female priest only needs to walk behind the seat, point the electronic eye at the perspective mirror, and through double micro-zooming, she can see what is happening inside the human brain.

This cannot be done with the naked eye alone.

"You can take a guess first."

"Brainwashing? Parasitism? Manipulation? What else could it be?"

"The fourth dimension."

"What?" When Horatio heard Latti say the word 'fourth dimension', he frowned half in confusion and half in doubt.

"I think it's the influence of the 'fourth dimension'."

The goddess just removed her mechanical eye from the perspective mirror, looked at the young man and said.

The 'fourth dimension' is too unfamiliar to a hammer guy like Horatio who traveled through time.

"Can you explain it briefly?"

"When these nanoworms receive certain command signals, they can form all kinds of distorted and irregular shapes in the human brain that do not conform to the laws of the physical world at all."

The goddess took Horatio's hand and led him to the external display screen of the nanoscope.

On the screen, Horatio saw that these nanoworms were constantly changing, forming all kinds of distorted and ugly shapes with each other.

Just one look at it made him feel extremely uncomfortable and nauseous due to the indescribable illusion and distortion.

This power is even stronger than the effect of Farida's Untouchable physique on ordinary people. "I'm not sure what I said is correct, but I think these nanoworms distort the laws of physics through some mechanism I don't understand, forming a fourth-dimensional micro-space in the human brain, causing creatures in the real three-dimensional universe to feel severe physiological discomfort, hallucinations, and eventually unable to distinguish between friend and foe."

Letty's explanation went beyond what Horatio expected.

At first he thought it was just a parasite that was taking control of humans.

But unexpectedly, after Latti's analysis, he actually told something so complicated, unheard of, and incredible.

"If these nanoworms are lurking in a person's brain, is there any way to eliminate this hidden danger without killing the person?" Horatio worried.

If the people around you are corrupt simply because they are hostile to the God-Emperor and the Empire, then at least you can find some clues by observing their subjective emotions.

However, if this kind of forced distortion of the fourth dimension causes physical discomfort in people and thus allows them to be forcibly controlled, it would be difficult to deal with.

No one can tell how many people are around them, or even whether they have been infected.

"Ah~ Mr. Horatio, being impatient is not a plus for a gentleman~ You left me too little time, even for me..."

Father Ratti had barely opened his mouth to speak.

The gentle eyes suddenly widened, and the sharp eyes were filled with displeasure and hostility.

She looked out the door.

"According to a certain formula, a certain pill made from the ashes of a psychic can destroy this thing in the brain." A voice of thought sounded directly in the minds of the two.

Only his voice is heard but his person is not seen.

Hiss—the door was opened again.

A man walked in.

"Inquisitor Ravenno...? How did you find him?"

Behind him followed his Inquisition attendant, a man with prosthetic eyes and a head full of neural plugs. His body was no less modified than that of the Mechanical Priest. He dropped the neural plugs he had extracted from the access control servitor's brain and followed him in.

"It just so happens that I have something I want to talk to you about, but it seems that you have discovered something very interesting."

The Inquisitor used clever words to make it seem as if he was just relying on his extensive knowledge to solve a small problem of Horatio.

It was the four-dimensional nanoworms that caused the Imperial Guards to suddenly attack Inquisitor Einhorn and his entourage without any warning during the Book of the Dead incident.

As an important part of the Book of the Dead event, the leakage of information about it will lead to irreversible consequences.

Even Eisenhorn himself conducted research in private, risking being hunted down by the Assassin's Court.

These research results were preserved in his faction, and his successors were always on guard to prevent danger and disaster from coming back again.

It was also the focus of Ravenno's investigation when he came to Abyss Harbor.

"We have the same interests in this matter, Mr. Horatio." He held out his hand to Horatio.

Horatio looked at him, then finally reached out and shook it.

"Due to confidentiality requirements, I cannot tell you what this is, especially when there are outsiders here." He looked at Father Latti, saluted very gentlemanly, and greeted him apologetically.

This allowed Father Latti's original eyes to vividly demonstrate what it looked like to want to slice someone into pieces.

He came to her secret laboratory, but was told that he was an outsider and could not tell her the secret of this magical creation.

"You are really uneducated, sir."

Father Lati was so angry that he activated the emotion suppressor in his brain, and the metal prosthetic hand holding the Axe of Ohm Messiah creaked.

She maintained a dignified smile and uttered an emotionless curse with the greatest dissatisfaction and malice that a 'lady' could express.

"Please forgive me. After all, I am an illegitimate child who was abandoned by my parents who had a one-night stand. I grew up in a den, and I don't know what education is." Clarence Ravenno didn't seem to care about the verbal attack and took over Latti's words generously.

"That is why I am still alive today and can serve the God-Emperor loyally." He narrowed his eyes, as if Lati's words were a compliment to him.

"People with narrow eyes are all monsters." He complained silently in his heart. During the invisible conflict between the two, Horatio felt a drop of cold sweat on his temples.

He looked at the mysterious man and took a deep breath.

"Are you sure, Inquisitor, that medicines made from the ashes of psykers?"

Horatio tried to use the scientific method and rational logic he had developed in his previous life to think about the feasibility of this matter.

After all, aren’t the ashes of a psychic really just ordinary calcium?

But he soon gave up.

In this world, if pure science was useful, the human empire would not have developed to its current level.

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