Chapter 89 New Life

The books that Calvin saw at the end were not the same as the ones he came for.

He saw some unexpected gains in the bookshelves on the transparent walls outside the library.

At the end of Calvin's sight, there was a whole layer of bookshelves that looked different.

Their all-metal material and the spines of books reflecting the metallic luster on them made Calvin know that these were a batch of books prepared for the Astartes.

This was a rare thing. After Calvin became a Grey Knight, he had never seen what the books prepared for the Astartes looked like except for the demon book.

And these books that were obviously prepared for them made him feel the rare but real breath of life in him.

Yes, it was the breath of life.

Calvin was reluctant to call his service life in this life life.

Because in his eyes, from the moment he woke up and became a Grey Knight, he no longer belonged to the category of civilians.

So for a person who was cultivated by countless people in the empire and the most expensive currency of the Emperor, Calvin had his own consciousness:

As a Grey Knight, he can be born and live, but he has no life.

This is fundamentally different from other Astartes, because even as angels, Astartes have their own non-combat state and private time.

Private time, private hobbies, private aesthetics, and private consciousness.

What does the above mean? It means that even as powerful as Astartes, they still have personal likes and dislikes.

In other words, if you dissect the appearance of these heavily armored, nine-foot-tall god-like warriors, the essence of their souls is still human.

At least, in their subconscious, they still regard themselves as humans.

They have all the good and evil, black and white, joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness that humans should have.

So they are also good at the shortcomings brought by these emotions.

Maybe these shortcomings are not a problem when facing aliens and heretics, but when their enemies appear those evil gods from the subspace who can play with people's hearts, their shortcomings will be infinitely magnified.

So they are the ones who have a god-like body but no corresponding will.

And if we continue to deduce from this point of view, the rebellion and betrayal that followed will seem natural.

But the Grey Knights are different. They are born to face the chaos and evil from the warp.

They must arm themselves with faith at all times and cannot slack off for a moment.

Whether it is fighting on the battlefield or practicing on the Titan, the Grey Knights have never had time for themselves.

In essence, they have given up their identity as human beings, the beauty of human nature and the shortcomings that come with these beauties.

They choose to completely give up themselves, embrace divinity and animality after abandoning humanity, and use inhuman coldness to resist the pollution and corruption of evil gods.

As long as a Grey Knight can still realize that he is alive, his will will only be prepared for the battle with demons.

No rest, no dormancy.

Their spirit and will are always alert, so that even the slightest pollution cannot take advantage of the opportunity.

Tired? Maybe, but life is so short, and you should sleep after death.

This is Calvin's idea, and in fact, it is the idea of ​​all Grey Knights.

So death is a relief for them, so death is the completion and end of their duties for them.

It is precisely for this reason that the Holy Dreadnoughts of the Grey Knights, who also belong to the Astartes Codex, are the rarest among all Astartes.

Because there are really few Grey Knights who are willing to drag their bodies to fight for the Emperor again after fighting Chaos all their lives.

That is really too cruel for them.

Compared with such endless suffering, they have the right to choose eternal sleep.

Calvin turned away from this uninvited "trouble" and chose to walk towards his goal.

And the trainee demon judge behind him also chose to stay away after receiving Calvin's clear gesture.

The huge library was unexpectedly quiet.

Calvin never met a second person in the process of moving inward. Only the servo skulls that occasionally responded to the call in some spaces and flew quietly indicated that there were more than two people here.

The architectural structure of the library is very exquisite. The designer seems to have classified it into independent spaces according to different content orientations and longitude and latitude coordinates.

The size of each independent space is just right, and it is enough for one or two people to read and study quietly again.

And each independent space can be dismantled and ejected at any time under this overall structure.

This design once again made Calvin determined to borrow books and leave, and never read here.

After arriving at this area that was obviously prepared for Astartes, he quickly found the summoning authority of the servo skull according to his study abroad experience in the City of Vision.

But unlike his expected quick reaction, the servo skull here did not start searching for books immediately after he made the request.

After confirming Calvin's borrowing authority and level, the other party summoned the "colleagues" on the entire floor.

Soon, these little guys who relied on the micro anti-gravity engine to float, in groups of two, carried out the books that Calvin needed one by one.

A total of 150 heavy books wrapped in metal were placed in front of Calvin, who was already stunned, with the hard work of 30 servo skulls.

"I was careless, this belongs to..." Calvin looked at the little guys in front of him apologetically.

He didn't know the internal structure of the Mechanicus, so he didn't know whether each of these servo skulls had its own consciousness, or whether they were all the bodies of a certain main consciousness.

But such an invalid instruction obviously made him feel a little sorry when facing these skulls, but he didn't know how to express it.

So, in the quiet air, Calvin looked at the skulls, and the skulls also looked at Calvin quietly.

"It's so stupid..." Calvin patted his head.

So he selected two books that he wanted to read recently according to the order he set, and then watched these little guys in front of him carry the remaining books back one by one in groups of two again.

Having achieved his goal, Calvin tightened the books under his armpits and walked out quickly.

This library gave him a really bad impression, and in this universe where psychic energy is the embodiment of idealistic power, if it feels bad, it is bad.

An instinctive feeling seemed to tell him to get away from this place as soon as possible, otherwise something bad would happen.

He strode out of the library from the cableway he came from, and this strange feeling disappeared from his heart only after he passed through the huge gate and watched the heavy door panel close in front of him.

"Strange things..." Calvin shook his head and put this matter behind him.

This kind of old ship likes to do such strange things, even the Grey Knights' ship is no exception.

This has nothing to do with the pollution of Chaos, otherwise the Geller force field detectors all over the hull would have discovered it at the first time.

Even if it was a more secretive invasion, the purity marks and rituals that had been carried out throughout the steel smelting process in the early stage of manufacturing would never be felt.

What's more, this entire ship of Grey Knights is itself the victim of the warp.

"Invade a Grey Knight battleship?"

If you say this, I'm afraid that the Bloodletter will think you are having a heartburn.

However, such things have indeed happened repeatedly on warships in the various fleets of the Empire that have been in service for too long. After many investigations by all parties, no recognized results were obtained, and finally it could only be classified as a rebellion by the Machine Soul...

The priests and bishops of the Mechanicus had no objection to this on the surface.

Because this does increase the mystery of the Ohm Messiah in the Empire in a certain sense, but only the omnipotent Ohm Messiah knows whether the binary language in the hearts of the bishops and priests is cursing.

After leaving the library area, Calvin returned to his living area and began his new life on the ship.

The concept of time in the subspace is chaotic and disordered, but this has little to do with the crew living inside the Supreme Decree.

The real state of the Supreme Decree in the subspace, which is covered by the Geiger force field in every inch of the entire hull, is actually a bubble of the real universe floating in the water flow of the subspace.

The space inside the ship is the space inside the Geiger field, where the laws and rules of time and space are the same as reality.

Like all crew members, Calvin abides by the time in the ship that has been accurately calibrated by Terra to maintain his work and rest and training.

But unlike ordinary crew members, he needs to bear more responsibilities and obligations.

As a quasi-senior personnel in the top 5 of the actual command sequence in this space city with more than 200,000 crew members in full preparation.

Whether Calvin is willing or not, he needs to participate deeply in the command of the entire ship.

This is not to say that the entire ship really lacks him.

But as a large military organization equivalent to a standard military region of ours, all the staff and combat personnel of the Supreme Decree are making as detailed and safe plans as possible for various situations that may be encountered in the entire battle every second before entering the battle.

Of course, there will be issues about the orderly transfer of command positions when the highest commander is no longer able to perform his duties.

So even if the probability of occurrence is very small, Calvin must take at least 4 hours a day to understand the command and operation system and its principles of the entire warship from the middle-level staff.

This job is undoubtedly complicated and arduous, but fortunately, Calvin is not a complete rookie.

His previous service experience on the Soul Redeemer saved Calvin's quality of life on the ship at this time, so that he was not entangled by these systematic tasks and affected other aspects of training and learning.

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