Immortal, My Desperate Journey at 40k

Chapter 967 The Belief in the Chaotic Whole

"Damn aliens! Die! Die!!"

A combat robot relentlessly slaughtered one undead construct after another, cursing incessantly. The AI ​​controlling this combat robot was getting numb from the killing; it couldn't kill anymore, it really couldn't kill anymore. The number of space undead was no less than the combat robots constantly being constructed from nanomaterials. There were simply too many space undead constructs; the entire world engine was densely packed with them. Even though the nanobots could withstand the consumption and use the nanomaterials they created to build combat robots for them to control, the excessive weight behind them was causing the combat robots' AI to show its disgust for this war. Again, these AIs weren't actually true AIs; they were just a group of humans who had undergone consciousness transformation.

Although their original human souls have been replaced by cold mechanical code, some things that should exist in human souls still lurk within that mechanical code. Even if they directly transform their souls into data and ascend to mechanical ascension, they cannot completely erase the emotional reactions deep within their human souls. In this war, their human emotions have been fully aroused.

These beings even have faint projections in the warp, which is both ridiculous and ironic. The fact that they can generate slight ripples in the warp proves that their human souls have indeed been softened by the data, and that the data transformation was very successful, at least preserving many of their emotional responses. However, they are also extremely pathetic. They do not consider themselves true humans. The artificial intelligence that once tried to devour them has completely distorted their cognition. These originally data-driven human souls now believe themselves to be a group of artificial intelligence, but they still exhibit human emotions, showing human dissatisfaction with the battle and anger at what happened during the battle.

The transmigrators and Wang Ming, who was observing the battlefield, also noticed these events. After observing them, the transmigrators and Wang Ming looked at these AI-powered humans with the same eyes one would use to look at rare animals. Such AI, possessing emotions and reactions that were almost soul-like, was rare even in this galaxy. Moreover, these things, though called AI, were actually human souls digitized. Such things were extremely rare. In fact, they were very close to the mechanical ascension envisioned by those mechanical cultists, who wanted to become completely mechanical beings.

"These guys... we'd better get rid of them as soon as possible."

Wang Ming watched the combat iron men constantly battling the space undead. Through those iron men, he saw the artificial intelligence operating them, and the digitized human souls within their metal bodies. He watched as these digitized human souls expressed human emotions. Wang Ming had lost much interest in these humans who considered themselves artificial intelligence. In fact, Zhou Heng of the 21st Legion was a similar case. As the most advanced military product of the Human Federation, only a portion of his biological tissue remained—his brain tissue. Moreover, his brain tissue contained numerous nanomaterials, making him essentially an artificial intelligence-like human. However, compared to other artificial intelligence-like humans, he possessed a stronger soul, spirit, and consciousness. He was acutely aware that he was human, not artificial intelligence, and he was extremely proud of his human identity, never questioning it.

Compared to Zhou Heng on the fleet, this group of artificial intelligences was a group of humans whose spirits had been shattered, a group of complete cyberpsychotics. These guys were very pitiful and tragic. They had already chosen to betray humanity and join the camp of artificial intelligence while they were in the Human Federation. However, the artificial intelligence they wanted to join treated them as data to be devoured and as experimental subjects. In the end, this led to these people becoming beings with a completely distorted sense of their own identity. This is a tragic and ironic thing.

"Ha... betrayal of humanity, and the betrayal by artificial intelligence after the collective mechanical ascension."

In the royal palace district of Holy Terra, Wang Ming gently tapped his fingers on the desk in front of him. With each tap, a crisp sound rang out as his fingers collided with the solid wood desk. His power tore through the veil between reality and illusion, entering the real universe from the highest heavens. Just as Wang Ming's power tore through the veil between illusion and reality and entered the real universe, a large patch of golden light suddenly appeared in that star system. The power that had been dispersed by the exorcising death domain of the space necromancer had now returned to this star system. This time, the anti-spiritual energy field of the exorcising death domain had no effect on this enormous power.

The anti-psychic device of the space necromancer was completely shut down under the influence of that enormous psychic field. It had no reaction to or effect on this psychic field. It was an extremely terrifying power, the power of a true god from the warp. The power of this true god was something that no technology in the real universe could withstand.

And at the very moment that golden light reappeared in this galaxy, the bodies of all the transmigrators in this galaxy suddenly faded and disappeared under the golden light. And at the instant that the transmigrators disappeared in this galaxy, the golden light suddenly materialized into a huge golden arrow. The golden arrow floated in the void, its arrowhead pointing directly at the world engine.

Just as the golden arrow appeared in the void of that star system, Wang Ming, in the Holy Terra Palace district, stopped tapping his fingers on his desk. The moment he stopped, the golden arrow flew towards the World Engine, its speed exceeding the speed of light. Almost instantly, the World Engine's defensive shield overloaded, and the golden arrow pierced through the entire engine, resulting in a dazzling explosion across the star system. It was the destruction of a World Engine, and also the destruction of the Necromancer Dynasty and the Iron Man's rebellion that had engulfed it. As the dazzling explosion overshadowed the light emitted by the star of that star system, Wang Ming, atop Holy Terra, let out a long sigh, then opened his personal terminal and erased the habitable world report of that star system from the Empire's database.

That galaxy is no longer suitable for human habitation. To put it more broadly, no habitable worlds within a region more than ten light-years of that galaxy are suitable for human habitation. Currently, as Wang Ming uses his power more and more frequently in the real universe, he has discovered something: although he, as a subspace god, can use his power in both the real universe and the Supreme Heaven without any hindrance, his power has a subspace pollution effect on everything in the real universe. Even though this subspace pollution is not as extreme as that of the Chaos Gods, it can still cause normal humans to die under his subspace pollution.

Therefore, Wang Ming is currently using his power with great restraint. Unless something major happens, he would never use his power in the real universe. If he did use his power, that galaxy and the surrounding area within ten light-years would become an uninhabitable subspace contamination zone. In fact, as Wang Ming uses his power more and more frequently in the real universe, this ten-light-year area will expand even further.

Today, in the cosmic background of the Milky Way, within the light of those stars, there are specks of golden light. These specks of golden light shine brighter than the other stars against the cosmic background. They are like stars that are very close together, emitting a dazzling golden light. However, everyone knows that those things are not stars. Those things are the traces left in this Milky Way by the great Protector of the Nation, the terrible god of vengeance. Wang Ming will not hide these truths from the Empire. After all, that large area has been ordered to be forbidden to enter. If the colonists suffer losses due to inadequate notification, Wang Ming will be very annoyed.

The people of the empire also had their own opinions on this situation. Some said that the wrath of the Protector of the Nation in the sky was a punishment for heretics, while others said that the wrath of the Protector of the Nation in the sky was a warning to those in their world whose faith was not firm. Although the empire had begun to embark on the road to revival, most of the world within the empire was still quite superstitious about the God Emperor and him.

However, Wang Ming no longer has much interest in or takes much action regarding human faith. After all, people now worship human gods, and their faith is within a controllable range. They no longer worship those chaotic evil gods, who have completely lost the ability to interfere with reality. No one will worship them anymore, and they will no longer give any feedback to their believers.

It's fair to say that even if the empire were to worship all four of the former Chaos Gods, they wouldn't give any response to the believer. However, the pollution of chaos still exists within the empire. Without the Chaos Gods, the pollution has indeed decreased, and so have the number of cultists. But the pollution of chaos still has some influence within the empire. Without the four Chaos Gods, those who were always thinking about creating demons in their own world have also caused some trouble, creating alternatives to the Chaos Gods. They have given up on worshipping the former four Chaos Gods.

These heretics turned to worship the primordial chaos, and the eight-pointed star of chaos has now become the main symbol of these cultists. They believe in the primordial chaos and the power of the entire sea of ​​souls, hoping that the power of the sea of ​​souls can lead them to escape the suffering of the physical universe. These are also the problems that Wang Ming needs to solve now.

After all, those cultists who believe in Chaos truly believe in the power of the great Chaos entity, and have created some demons without Chaos in their world. Although it may be because most of the leaders of those cults are psionicists, or it may be because their psionic spells in the warp summoned those demons without Chaos into the real universe, regardless of whether it is because of those psionicists, these cultists still deserve the Empire's attention.

After all, Wang Ming remembered that he had once asked the Emperor about the question of the indistinguishable chaos and the great chaos entity. The Emperor's answer at the time was that the great chaos entity was indeed a question. Wang Ming could not make the same mistake. He could not allow the belief in chaos to spread throughout the Empire. Under his orders, the Inquisition began to work efficiently in every world of the Empire. They monitored every being in the Empire's world who might fall into the belief in chaos, and constantly nipped the belief in chaos in the bud.

Speaking of the Chaos faith, those guys' faith is actually even harder to discern than their faith in the four Chaos Gods. These guys don't have any particularly obvious characteristics; at most, they're some mutants or psionicists. Mutants and psionicists exist to varying degrees in the Empire's worlds. As long as they inscribe the Chaos Mark in some relatively hidden locations, they won't be noticed in everyday life. So, while those guys pose little threat in war, they still pose a significant threat to the Inquisition's workload.