60: Chapter 60 Growing Up

At the very moment Sera prayed to the Machine God, the base of the Black Tower seemed to sense the approach of biological life. Hundreds of humanoid xenos with insectoid limbs crawled out from underground.

Like wandering walking corpses, they moved erratically around the Black Obelisk.

Seeing this, Sera issued the order to attack without hesitation; great mechanical creations must never be allowed to be defiled by xenos.

Intense combat once again echoed across this long-silent land.

Northern Main Continent, Academy of Sciences.

Hua Ke was currently focusing on two research directions: one was the technical improvement of the lucius lasgun, changing it from semi-automatic to fully automatic.

This technology had entered its final critical stage, and the original lucius lasgun had been modified beyond recognition.

Based on the blueprint of the lucius lasgun, the Academy of Sciences combined the stability and full-auto fire mode of the Mars-pattern lasgun, while also adding an extra heat dissipation module. This completely solved the lucius lasgun's cooling defect, achieving high-intensity sustained firepower output.

The new model of lasgun is more powerful, more stable, and more accurate than the original lucius, though its cost and price have doubled. It has currently entered the final testing phase.

The second research project was Soilless Cultivation Technology.

After repeated attempts by the entire team, they were now able to complete small-scale experimental planting within greenhouses, and everything was growing well.

Hua Ke was very satisfied with this. He expected that by the time the Archon ended his hibernation this year, they would be able to present him with a perfect result.

Imperial Cult Cathedral.

On the pulpit, Saint Sabbat spoke eloquently to the believers below about the doctrines of the Ecclesiarchy, guiding countless faithful back to the faith of the Emperor.

Every speech and every sermon by Saint Sabbat drew cheers and thunderous applause from the crowd below.

The believers firmly believed that the Emperor was the guide of humanity, and the great Archon was the steadfast executor of the Emperor's will.

They would follow the Archon forever to fulfill the Emperor's ideals and achieve the revival of the Great Empire.

Administratum.

Nuwa looked at the mountain of data and pending administrative affairs without the slightest complaint. Like the most loyal administrator, she controlled the Servo-skulls to handle all matters with administrative efficiency several times that of an average Zheng Hai.

Surrounding Nuwa were thousands of Administratum officials.

Like never-stopping gears, they processed every report needing a signature, every task needing clear instructions, and every application needing the allocation of material, human, and financial resources on this planet.

Within the massive hall of the Administratum, only the cold clacking of typewriters echoed continuously.

All information from across the planet converged here, and after being processed, was distributed to every corner of the world.

The gears of this planet's operation turned here without ever ceasing.

Cult Mechanicus Foundry.

Leovitos of the Iron Heart Society was continuously improving the military production lines.

They performed batch-based instructional modifications on the Servitor modification assembly lines. With just one control Servitor inputting corresponding instruction chips at each stage of the process, the entire assembly line could run automatically and continuously.

At the same time, Leovitos also received the improved lasgun sample sent over by the Academy of Sciences.

While Leovitos muttered that this was a lack of respect for the Omnissiah, his hands were very honest as he picked up the sample and examined it closely, his eyes filled with uncontrollable appreciation and admiration.

"The cost has increased by 200% in exchange for ultra-high reliability, fire continuity, and rate of fire."

Leovitos's Logic Core calculated rapidly and finally reached a conclusion.

"An excellent lasgun, suitable for large-scale military equipment, but only on the premise of having substantial financial and resource support."

Leovitos set the gun aside and continued to focus his attention on the entire military forge factory. Countless pieces of military equipment were continuously rolling off the lines here.

Meanwhile, in the Prefabricated Parts Factory.

Blacksmith was watching prefabricated modules being produced one after another from the production line, while outside the factory, super-heavy trucks had already been waiting for a long time.

In space.

Zheng Hai was piloting the dream star, patrolling the entire system and eliminating uninvited guests who dared to intrude into the Lanshan Star System.

Looking at the wreckage of the destroyed Ork ship before him, he couldn't help but complain:

"Truly the street thugs of the universe; you run into these greenskins everywhere."

Zheng Hai thought to himself that there must be an Ork settlement not far from this system; otherwise, the greenskins wouldn't be coming here in such a steady stream. It was time to draft a battle plan; they had to firmly control space superiority to ensure the safety of the entire system.

Zheng Hai looked at the wreckage ahead and then issued an order:

"Recover any usable resources and perform a thorough cleanup to prevent Ork Spores from attaching to them."

Upon receiving the order, the crew on the ship immediately dispatched Engineering vessels to begin the cleanup and recovery mission.