Warhammer: Lord of the Endless Monsters

Chapter 572 The Lost Khan, Ten Thousand Years Have Passed
The sudden appearance of the Laughing God startled the cycling convoy. The white-scarred Space Marine following Chagatai Khan took out his explosive gun and pointed it at the clown-like alien in front of him, who was wearing a plaid shirt.

"Don't misunderstand! I'm here to rescue you." Laughing God Qiao Gaoqi quickly raised his hands and said.

“We don’t believe what the Outcasts say! We came here precisely to deal with those Dark Eldar,” said a Space Marine with a white scar.

“You’ve been trapped here for a long time. The terrain here is extremely complex, and I know this place best. I know every passage and every corner, so only I can lead you out,” said Laughing God Qiao Gaoqi.

He tried his best not to cause any misunderstandings and then safely led the people out. These guys had been hanging around in the online world for so many years, but they had no idea how much time had passed.

“We will find a way out ourselves!” Chagatai Khan said.

The reason he brought his personal guards into this place was to deal with these dark spirits. Although these were not the dark spirits he knew, they were probably some clowns.

He had seen these guys before when he was speeding through the network.

“Hey guys, you have no idea how long you’ve been here. You might be shocked to hear it. Don’t you feel like you’ve been gone for a really, really long time?” Laughing God Joe Gaoqi said.

Sometimes the subspace is like this. Although the Networld is not a subspace, it was carved out using the space between the subspace and reality. There is no concept of time here.

Otherwise, the Space Marines who followed Chagatai Khan wouldn't have lasted ten thousand years; they would have grown old and died long ago.

"Alien, what do you mean by that?" Chagatai Khan asked, frowning.

They have indeed been speeding around here for a long time, well, it shouldn't be more than a year or two. Could it be that something happened outside during the year or two that I entered the online world?
"How long do you think you've been here?" asked the Laughing God, Joe Goch.

“At most a year, or even just a few months,” Chagatai Khan said.

Pfft! The God of Laughter almost couldn't hold it in, then burst into laughter, even rolling on the ground. These guys are hilarious! It won't last more than a year!

How did you come to this conclusion? In the online world, you don't feel the passage of time at all.

"Alien! What are you laughing at? Are you mocking me?" Chagatai Khan asked.

"I'm laughing at you. You haven't just been here for a little over a year. It's been a very, very long time, so long that you can't even believe it yourself."

Dude, you've been away from your legion for a full 1 years. Now, according to your human calendar, it's the 42nd millennium.

"You have been speeding around here for a full ten thousand years," said Xiaoshen Qiaogaoqi after a sigh.

Upon hearing this, the warriors with white scars were shocked, and then looked at the Laughing God Qiao Gaoqi with disbelief.

That clown dressed in bright colors is lying. How could ten thousand years have passed?
If 10,000 years were to pass, the Primarch would certainly be able to survive, but they simply wouldn't live that long; the lifespan of a Space Marine is at most 1000 years.

“Are you joking with me, clown? I know how long I’ve been here; ten thousand years haven’t passed,” Chagatai Khan said.

"You should know that there is no concept of time in the subspace. When you enter the subspace, you will not be able to travel without the illumination of starlight or the guidance of your navigators."

You could very well get lost in the warp and not know when you'll be able to emerge again, or even be exposed to the light of the star torch. Even if you have your own navigator on board, you could still get lost in the warp.

The world you are in now is a world that was carved out by an extremely ancient race more than 6000 million years ago.

It lies in the space between the subspace and the real universe, deeply bound to the subspace, so there is no concept of time here. Laughing God Qiao Gaoqi patiently explained the relationship between the subspace and the Networld to the white-scarred member in front of him.

"You're talking nonsense. If that much time had really passed, our motorcycles and our equipment would have rotted away long ago."

"We ourselves are already old and dying, it's impossible for us to live this long," one of the members with white scars said in disbelief.

“I’m not lying. Didn’t I just explain to you? There’s no concept of time here. You’re completely unaware of all your actions here.”

"You have been running here for a full ten thousand years, constantly on the move, yet you have not felt hunger, nor have you rested at all," said the Laughing God, Qiao Gaoqi.

In fact, the Dark Eldar had encountered this white-scarred Khan and his army before in the online world. Dark Eldar records show that several raiding parties encountered this white-scarred warrior.

Half of them were wiped out by the members with white scars, while the other half escaped. Because the Primarch, leading his genetic offspring, could unleash unimaginable fighting power, the Dark Eldar could not afford to offend this Khan who was speeding through the Web.

So when this Khan entered the Web Dao world to cause trouble, he sent out some people to gradually lead him into a more ancient and complex Web Dao world, causing this human's genetic prototype to gradually lose his way.

Aside from their builders, the ancient holy race, the only person most familiar with these ancient network systems is himself. Only he can find this Chagatai Khan; no one else could possibly find this place!

The members of the White Scars exchanged glances, then collectively turned their gaze to their genetic father, Chagatai Khan, awaiting his judgment.

"If we really have stayed here for ten thousand years, what has become of the empire? What has become of my father? Has he risen from the golden throne?" Chagatai Khan asked.

"Ten thousand years ago, your father was not in good condition. His body had already suffered irreversible damage during his battle with Horus, and he was even on the verge of physical death."

At that time, there were only two ways to save him. One was to abandon his physical body, enter the warp, and ascend to become the fifth Chaos God.

“You’re lying. My father would never do that.”

Before the God of Laughter, Qiao Gaoqi, could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Chagatai Khan. He knew his father too well; no matter what, his father would never stoop to the level of entering the subspace and becoming an evil god, because that was the kind of existence his father hated most.

If his father was truly destined to become an evil god, he would have done so before his final battle with Horus.

"So I mentioned the second possibility: after he sat on the golden throne, his body began to decay, and after ten thousand years, he became a dried-up corpse."

Your human enemies, who even call him the Corpse Emperor, have transformed the empire into something completely unrecognizable to you over a full ten thousand years.

"The world you knew is gone. What you have now is an unknown world, but I think you can adapt," said Laughing God Joe Gorky.

Since Rhodes appeared, he has retrieved all the Primarchs one by one. Except for Vulcan, who retrieved himself, the return of all the other Primarchs is related to him.

Now is the best time for this Chagatai Khan to return to the empire. If he had returned a few years ago, he might have felt that the human empire established by his father had been usurped.

"If you're interested, I can tell you in detail what has happened to the human empire over the past ten thousand years."

“Have we really been lost here for ten thousand years? Has the empire become like this?” Chagatai Khan said.

He had a vague feeling that the clown in front of him hadn't lied to them; they really had been here for a very, very long time, so long that he himself had forgotten!
This is a feeling that is difficult to describe in words; it is the psionic sense of the primordial gene.

Chaktai Khan looked back and saw that only a dozen or so of the soldiers who had rushed into the world of the net-way with him back then were left, whereas there were hundreds of them back then.

These people were his personal guards, but one after another his comrades fell, and they became more and more lost in the online world, until they even forgot the concept of time.

Looking back now, I realize that I have lost so many genetic offspring, and that I have long since left the starting point.

"There has been some good news in recent decades. A man named Rhodes saved your empire and created a new Primarch, and even made your father, the Emperor of Man, a better one."

"I've regained some of my power, and I can even speak from the golden throne. You'll see when you get back," the Laughing God said.

“We really should go back, my children, it’s time to come home, I can feel my father needs me.”

"He has needed me for a long time, but I have been lost, lost here," Chagatai Khan said.

"But Father of Genetics, can we trust this alien? What makes him think he can help us?"

“Don’t misunderstand, helping you is helping myself. Now our Spirit Race has formed an alliance treaty with you humans, and you humans can now use our network system, which is why I’ve come to take you out,” said Laughing God Qiao Gaoqi.

At the same time, a spatial rift was opened.

(End of this chapter)