eurekapd Chapter 223 Try
Chapter 223 Try
Howard left the Eldar spaceship and returned to the human line again.
The battle sister was still tinkering with her equipment. She took off her helmet and disassembled the communication device on the ear part of the helmet. The magnets, coils and small boxes of powder inside the device were all exposed. After the disassembly was completed, the battle sister used the small laser generator on her weapon to solder something to the circuit board of the helmet.
It was a simple antenna, made of wire and covered with a thin layer of tin. Howard watched the Sister of Battle rubbing it with her hands as she sat by the fire the night before her second visit to the Eldar to make her request.
From Howard's point of view, it was a dead giveaway that this thing was effective. In reality, it could only receive outdated long-wave signals at best. But this was the Warhammer world... Considering that in the Warhammer world, there were tanks that could be driven by peeing in the tank as fuel and laser guns that could be charged by heating them with fire, Howard resisted the urge to complain.
After connecting the antenna to the communication module, Sister Silent stood up. She held the helmet in one hand and raised the antenna above her head with the other.
...If the helmet in his arms was replaced with a holy image and the antenna held high was replaced with a cross, it would be a fatal blow, but unfortunately he couldn't do that.
The Battle Sisters were trying to re-establish contact with the rear of the empire and fight their way back to meet the supreme commander of humanity. The choice of the Eldar side was decided by Charandi and had not yet been decided, while on the human side, Howard could only choose Gloria, not only because Gloria knew more of the truth, but also because Gloria was the only person he could persuade.
Howard didn't have to work hard to convince the battle sister, because the battle sister had made a similar judgment to Howard at the beginning of this military operation, that is, the original intention of the person who decided this operation was either stupid or evil.
However, questioning the decision does not mean that one can disobey the orders given by the superiors at will, so before actually implementing the plan of returning to the rear, Gloria is still making a final attempt.
"Hey! Help me!" Gloria, holding the helmet in one hand and the antenna in the other, suddenly said to Howard.
"Ah?!" Howard, who had just sat down, jumped up almost as a conditioned reflex.
"You! Be responsible for adjusting the power." Gloria gave Howard directions with her eyes.
Howard followed the Battle Sister's gaze and saw something sandwiched between the Battle Sister's arm holding the helmet and the helmet. He took the thing out and found that it was a knob.
"Turn the knob, back and forth, not too fast, not too slow," said the Sister of Battle.
The Empire is extremely unreliable in information transmission, and the low efficiency of information transmission has always been a major concern for the Empire. It can even be said that if half of any orders issued by the Empire and any information transmitted can be on time and half of the half that are on time can be accurately interpreted, the Empire would not have fallen into this dire state.
However, due to some special reasons, humans in 40k are extremely backward in the two technological fields of intelligence and information. In the 3k era, humans already had the prototype of quantum communication. As a result, the human empire in 40k not only failed to invent new and reliable technologies, but also completely forgot the original technology. Not only did they forget it completely, but they also regressed further and further.
Nowadays, the most commonly used and efficient communication method in the Empire is actually the astropathic communication driven by psionic energy. In order to avoid malicious tampering and distortion from the warp, the content of these astropathic communications is often convoluted and difficult to understand. Every time you receive an astropathic communication, it is like receiving a long and boring riddle.
Therefore, on the battlefield, communication interruptions between human troops are common. Even if communication is smooth throughout the battle, it would seem abnormal.
The same was true in this battle. Perhaps under the influence of the orcs' strange psychic power, the communication between this human army deep in the orcs' heartland and the rear had long been cut off.
Before deciding to go find the Eldar Prophet to negotiate again, Howard tried to get Om Messiah to restore communications. After all, communications were also blocked in the hive city of Kalimdor, but Om Messiah was still able to break through the blockade and send the message.
But this time, Om Messiah did not respond to Howard's request. It was not known whether Om Messiah was unable to break through the blockade of the orcs' psychic energy, or because it did not want to do so.
Recovering his thoughts, Howard slowly turned the knob. At first, his fingers felt obvious resistance when turning the knob, but soon, after turning it a very small angle, a slight "click" sound came from inside the knob device, and then the resistance dropped sharply.
The slight sound indicated that the device had been activated. At the same time, a "sizzling" sound of electricity and meaningless noisy noises came from the communication device of the battle sister's helmet.
The battle sister did not expect to gain anything at the beginning. Then, she moved slowly while holding the combat helmet, and kept adjusting the angle with her hand holding the antenna high.
Howard also cooperated and adjusted the power back and forth at a suitable speed... Because if he turned it up too fast, the noise coming from the helmet would be very harsh...
The battle sister held the antenna high as she passed through the human line. When the other soldiers saw her actions, they immediately understood what she was doing. Then the light of hope appeared in the eyes of these poor people who originally had tired and gloomy eyes. These ordinary soldiers were not afraid of sacrifice, but they were afraid of meaningless sacrifice. After they came here, the number of orcs they killed could not keep up with the speed of their reproduction, but they were not without gain.
After going deep into the Blackwater Section, they were constantly observing and recording useful data, from the size, equipment and tactics of these orcs to the terrain inside the Blackwater Section and some important strongholds of the orcs. These were all valuable data. Now that they were imprisoned, even though these data were valuable, they would be meaningless if they could not be transmitted back.
Under the leadership of the Sister of Battle, the previously lifeless human front regained a small amount of vitality. Every soldier, every combat squad, every company commander, and every frontline commander was compiling useful information. Then, more and more people followed the Sister of Battle and Howard, each holding papers or booklets containing intelligence they believed must be reported. They followed the Sister of Battle from a distance, silent but with eyes full of hope. It seemed as if the Sister of Battle, helmet in hand, holding high the antenna, was truly a saint holding an icon and a cross.
And everyone's expectations seemed to have finally been responded to. After almost walking through the entire human line and after the nun climbed onto a pile of sandbags, some hoarse and unclear human words finally came out of the communication module of the combat helmet in the nun's arms.