Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 636: Mystery of Mars
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Late that night.

The city of Olympus.

Quadrant locked himself in the tent and refused to come out.

People waiting for him to come out and give a sermon formed many circles of tents in the square.

Even the imperial guards were outside the tent at this time, waiting with everyone else.

At this time, Qin Xia suddenly teleported to the vicinity of Cole.

In the eyes of others, he was just an ordinary Mechanicus priest, and he did not appear by teleportation, but squeezed out of the crowd inexplicably.

"What about the quadrant?"

"In the tent."

"What's going on? Why doesn't he come out?"

Qin Xia was about to ask about the quadrant, but Cole changed the subject.

"What did Malcador's agents say?"

"The person who met me was Nagase Yasushi, an agent of Malcador, a guy with a samurai sword."

When Cole heard Qin Xia mention Nagase Kang, he nodded slowly.

As a member of the Imperial Guard, he could see those whom Malcador met in the palace, including the agent Nagase Yasushi.

"Nagase Yasushi told me about Malcador's plan. The entire Mars now needs someone who can unite the majority of people and who is easy to manipulate in the eyes of various forces."

"Kel Bohar wanted to mobilize the Titan Legion in the first few months after the arrival of the Quadrant, but the Assassin's Court shattered his idea."

"Now all he can mobilize are his die-hard fans."

"It must be said that Malcador is really capable. That old man is really... so smart that he is almost a demon. Compared with him, Kelborhar's skills and strategies are like a child."

Qin Xia said a lot.

Cole nodded after hearing this.

Cole was not surprised that Malcador could handle many Martian matters on Terra.

However, Kelbohar had almost no trump cards to play in the face of the "general trend", which was not beyond Qin Xia's expectations.

Horus did not rebel, and the Empire did not focus on suppressing the rebellion. It was only a matter of time before Kelbor was dealt with.

"What's going on in the quadrant?" Qin Xia brought the subject back.

So Cole told the story of how he gave Quadrant Chip.

After listening to the story, Qin Xia used his psychic power to pause time, making everyone except himself and Cole stop in place.

Cole looked at the guide suspiciously.

Qin Xia took a few steps back, then started running quickly, kicking out with both feet together at lightning speed.

Cole didn't have time to dodge and was kicked to the ground.

When Cole got up from the ground, time resumed flowing.

"He should have known this." Cole was not angry, but smiled and said, "What should I say, Guide? I should be thankful that you are not in the webway now, not in front of my Lord, otherwise your kick..."

Qin Xia also smiled.

"No..." Cole suddenly remembered something and his smile disappeared.

……

Comoros.

Angron turned his gaze from the essence of the Warp away from Mars and strode into the tower where the Emperor resided.

Valdor was knocked away by the Primarch.

Angron teleported to the top of the tower and threw open the door, rushing towards the Emperor who was rising from the shadows, kicking out with his legs together.

Back then, Angron also used a similar trick to kick Perturabo away when he was about to issue an eleven-stroke kill order.

……

"He should know the truth! But not now!"

Qin Xia said to Cole.

"I can understand that the Emperor wants to gradually dismantle the Adeptus Mechanicus and let the Quadrants who know the truth help him dismantle the Adeptus Mechanicus, but that should be after everything has settled, after the Quadrants have matured and assumed many responsibilities."

"Did your master tell you to give the chip to Quadrant when he was ready to do something?"

Hearing this, Cole said nothing. In the eyes of others, Qin Xia said nothing to the imperial guards.

Then Qin Xia disappeared from the spot and entered the tent.

The quadrant sits cross-legged on the ground.

The floor of the tent was littered with debris, all of which were religious items he had broken.

Seeing Qin Xia's expression, Quadrant knew that Cole must have told his best friend what had just happened.

Qin Xia sat down cross-legged in silence.

The two faced each other and looked at each other for a moment.

It was Quadrant who spoke up: "It's all lies. The Adeptus Mechanicus was an idea of ​​the Emperor, and Moravec was a sock puppet of the Emperor. It's all lies."

"Moravec is not the Emperor."

Hearing what Qin Xia said, Quadrant was stunned for a moment.

But the chip that the Emperor entrusted Cole to give him...

"Moravec is a great scientist. He laid the foundation for the religious theory of human-machine integration, but do you know the hidden part of this theory?"

Qin Xia began to tell what he knew.

“What is hidden in the theory of human-machine integration is not another set of theories, but the practice that Moravec has done.”

"This person is a great believer in AI, and he also believes in the subspace. His vision is to make technology, the subspace, and humans become one."

"He has a cellar on Mars where Moravec's research is stored. All of it is tainted with Chaos."

"The Emperor is indeed beginning to promote AI now, but that is after the realization of the Webway Project, and he will also castrate AI and impose great restrictions on it."

"So the Emperor is not necessarily Moravec."

Quadrant fell into deep thought.

After a moment he asked: "What is the truth? Is the information in the chip the Emperor gave me false? At least he has never played Moravec, but just landed on Mars by coincidence, or he knew the prophecy and then came to Mars..."

"If you ask me, haha." Qin Xia shook his head, "He actually didn't intend to tell you the whole truth. He just wanted to make the information in the chip complete a logical loop."

Quadrant fell into deep thought again.

But there is no point in simply doubting that Moravec was not necessarily played by the Emperor.

The Mechanicus' beliefs were false, so prayers were never answered.

As for why the machine soul exists, Quadrant, who has been with Qin Xia for a long time, also knows this clearly - all objects in the real universe have projections in the subspace, and it is normal for strong mental projections to distort reality.

"It doesn't matter." Quadrant took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, "Let's just do what we need to do. We can't die just because the Mechanicus is fake. We still have to live our lives."

Quadrant stood up and walked towards the tent exit.

Thinking of something, he turned back and said, "Moravik Cellar? What is that place?"

"A place where a large number of terrible creations are stored." Qin Xia said, "I will go to that cellar and destroy everything inside. Malcador's agents will show me the way."

Quadrant recalled that Qin Xia said that it was a place full of chaotic creatures, so he said: "I can help you. Don't forget that I have an army of synths in my hands."

Qin Xia nodded.

Quadrant left the tent and resumed his sermon.

As he himself said, life must go on.

He would be the only one who knew that the Adeptus Mechanicus was a lie, and had substantial proof of it.

Now that Qin Xia thought about the Emperor giving the quadrant chip, he could also guess the Emperor's arrangement for the Mechanicus.

That is to gradually decline and disappear in a bright future due to corrupt, ignorant and disgusting reasons, or intentional or unintentional suppression from both inside and outside.

Is Moravec the Emperor?

Even Qin Xia didn't know much about Moravec.

Perhaps, as shown in the chip given by the Emperor, he is Moravec, and at a certain period of history he did not hate AI and the Warp, just as he was once happy to know that there were gods.

Or perhaps Moravec was simply a scientist of extraordinary intelligence, and an overload of his neural implants caused him to believe that he had seen the Lord of All Machines, and then he announced the prophecy, inadvertently allowing the Emperor to take advantage.

This incident will become a mystery. Along with many things, people, and objects of this era, it will be forever buried in the long river of time. Until several years later, except for a very small number of immortals, humans will forget this mystery along with many other things.

Even many people of this era will become abstract good or bad characters in books.

Including the quadrant and Qin Xia himself.

No one knows, no one cares.

(End of this chapter)