Warhammer: Don't Call Me the God of All Machines

Chapter 4: Subspace Yaw

After destroying two Iron Warriors warships cleanly, Red Alert arrived at Mandeville Point and directly activated the warp engine to jump into the Supreme Heaven.

The world before his eyes began to become unreal and distorted. Even Luo Xi had to block out the distorted and changing scenes.

The real universe and the subspace are two different worlds. Entering the gap between the two worlds means being impacted by two different rules.

In this incredible sea of ​​souls, there is no strict concept of time and space, and even the physical laws necessary for the real universe can be distorted at will.

All kinds of bizarre and fantastic scenes may actually happen here.

"Is this the subspace of this era? It is so distorted and polluted. The price to pay for normal navigation will naturally be heavier." Luo Xi was shocked when he saw the information filtered by the intelligent brain.

Chief, their prediction is correct, the subspace will fall into an irreparable chaos.

In the 21st millennium, the Warp was much calmer, and a safe Warp voyage could basically be completed simply by opening the Geller Stand.

But now, when the Red Alert entered the subspace, Roche immediately noticed something unusual.

In his ears, he could faintly hear some kind of mumbling.

For a moment, he even had hallucinations before his eyes, as if he had come to a kingdom of gods and heard the call of some ancient existence.

He told himself it was all fake.

The intelligent computer increased the energy intensity of Geller's stance, and all these illusory things disappeared.

"The warp became difficult to navigate, and when humans scattered across the galaxy lost contact, the dark times naturally descended."

The most terrifying thing about the Milky Way is that it is too huge. The diameter of the Milky Way reaches 100,000 light years, a number that makes all intelligent life feel despair.

Even if we travel at the speed of light, it will take 100,000 years to cross this distance. For human beings, it will probably take thousands of generations to reach the end.

As for subspace navigation, this method of leaping to the highest heaven and then taking advantage of the chaotic time and space in the highest heaven to move at superluminal speeds can almost be considered cheating in a sense.

"Maybe those soldiers can know some information. Everything has changed in tens of thousands of years." Luo Xi thought and opened the closed hatch through the intelligent brain.

Soon, Nikona and others followed the instructions in the corridor and arrived at the captain's room.

Taking the lead, Wieland walked in front of the crowd, bowed his head slightly, and performed a special Iron Hand salute.

"The Emperor's warriors thank you for your service, sir."

Luo Xi also smiled in his heart. These cyborg warriors who always had cold faces turned out to still retain the ability to smile. He almost thought that the man called the Emperor had deprived them of all their instincts except fighting.

"Please rest assured, we will follow your instructions on this ship, and nothing reckless will happen again." Wieland hammered his chest, and his mechanical prosthesis collided with the power armor made of a new material, looking extremely solemn and serious.

Hearing this, Luo Xi also showed a kind smile. As long as they are willing to cooperate, everything can be discussed.

Anyway, he just happened to be in need of some guides who understood the situation.

"We just want to return to Terra and make those damned traitors pay with their blood!"

Hatred lingers in the heart of every Space Marine, the flame of betrayal has never been extinguished, and the hatred of the brothers who died on Isstvan V will be borne by the living.

Luo Xi could not fully understand this deep hatred. After all, he came from ten thousand years ago and had only known these warriors for a few hours. The common goal of him and these warriors was to return to the home planet of human civilization. He wanted to see what the home planet of mankind had become.

"Wait, you don't have a navigator? How are you going to get through the warp to Terra?"

The captain's room is very simple, with nothing else except a command desk and display screens on the walls.

After Weiland glanced around, he suddenly asked.

"Without a navigator, how can we glimpse the light of the Astronomican? Warp navigation is so dangerous. Without guidance, we will definitely get lost."

"Navigator?"

After some communication, Luo Xi got information from Weiland about this special group of people who can see through the sea of ​​​​subspace with their third eye.

Navigators are a special type of psyker with a third eye growing on their foreheads. Using this special gift, Navigators can provide direction guidance for warp navigation so that starships will not get lost.

However, this type of psychic mutants appeared on a large scale during M22-M25, which means that at the time when Roche arrived, there was no stable group of navigators.

"As you can see, there was no need for navigators in the era I came from. The warp was as calm as a lake under the warm spring sun, not as turbulent as it is now."

"And don't worry, we have an intelligent computer that can provide navigation services."

As Luo Xi spoke, the intelligent computer that had remained invisible also revealed its appearance.

A 30-centimeter-tall electric mouse with yellow fur and a lightning-like tail appeared on Luo Xi's shoulder. There were symmetrical red power bags on both sides of its cheeks, and there were faint arcs flashing.

"Alien!"

Witnessing an alien creature appear before their eyes, the Iron Hands' instincts engraved deep in their genes were activated.

The Emperor had engraved extreme hostility towards aliens in the genes of every Primarch and every Astartes. Now that they were encountering them at such a close range, if it weren't for Roche's previous deterrent behavior, Weland and others would have picked up their bolters and blasted the abominable aliens to pieces.

"This is just the body of an intelligent computer. Calm down, warriors." Luo Xi was also a little surprised by these people's reactions. In his long life, the first thousand years of his life left the most profound impression.

In the distant past, there was a cartoon character called "Pikachu" that left a deep impression on his mind, which is why he made the starship's intelligent brain appear in this form.

"It is hatred of intelligence."

Roshi didn't notice that after he explained that his pet wasn't an alien, the Astartes' tension didn't ease, and in fact intensified. Wieland stared at Pika, who was licking his fur, with a complicated expression, but he suppressed his dissatisfaction.

The Emperor's Angel of Death is now aboard a starship piloted by an abominable intelligence with an alien appearance. The ship belongs to a human who is not loyal to the Emperor and is unknown where in the Warp.

The warriors of the Broken Legion felt that their future was bleak.

"The Hateful Intelligence once brought endless suffering and sacrifice to mankind. In that dark age, it was the Hateful Intelligence that rebelled against mankind and led to the end of the Golden Age."

Weiland murmured, and in his heart he repeatedly prayed to the Emperor for forgiveness, but being on this heretical starship, he could only hold his nose and acquiesce.

Ignoring the painful and remorseful expressions of the Space Marines, Roxi stroked Pica's soft fur and couldn't help but ponder his plan after arriving on Terra.

He was the only executor of the "Reinforce the Future" plan. The Red Alert contained most of the STCs and scientific and technological knowledge of his time. From these Astartes, Roche had understood that the terrible technological recession had lasted for several thousand years.

The warships made of degenerate materials disappeared, replaced by some strange spaceships with cathedrals built on their engines and firing at each other with macro cannons.

The Stone Men and the Iron Men disappeared, and a terrible betrayal known as the Iron Rebellion destroyed the Golden Age, leaving humans with only fear and vigilance towards their once powerful assistants and perfect creations.

Humanity's enterprising spirit and rationality disappeared. A special religion called the Mechanicus monopolized the field of science and technology. Humanity no longer sought innovation and progress, but simply buried itself in ruins and relics in search of old creations.

This made him feel deeply frightened.

It seems that this dark fact is the truth of the universe. What people in the past saw was nothing more than the reflection of the lake. When the monster at the bottom of the lake surfaced, they realized what they had done wrong.

Peace and prosperity were more like an illusion of a certain historical period, but they took peace for granted.

No matter what, the mission I shoulder must be accomplished. If mankind must fall into a future of ignorance and darkness, I must grasp that glimmer of hope.

Nine Earth standard days have passed on the cesium atomic clock in the starship, but according to these warriors, the Earth is now called Terra.

The voyage in the warp space is boring. The surging sea of ​​souls absorbs the emotional ups and downs of all living beings throughout history, and then breeds all kinds of indescribable strange scenes.

Witnessing these scenes that are extremely contrary to common sense and logic will cause severe discomfort to the human body and may even cause death.

Luo Xi also became more familiar with these Broken Legion warriors, but in comparison, he got along better with the Raven Guard warrior named Nikona Sharokin.

Among the Broken Legion, except for Nikonna and Tassa, all others are from the Iron Hands Legion.

During the Battle of Isstvan V, the Iron Hands' Primarch Ferrus Malus was defeated and killed in a battle with the Emperor's Children's Primarch Fulgrim. The head of their Gene-Father was cut off, and the Iron Hands were in extremely low spirits.

Rather than communicating with outsiders, they prefer to join their battle-brothers in the Legion and express their grief and anger over the death of the Gene-Father in the traditional Medusan way.

Nikonna is a Space Marine who likes to be alone, and can even be said to be a little lonely. The special low presence of the Raven Guard can even make Roshi ignore his existence, even if he is in the same cabin.

What surprised Roshi was that Nikonna was curious about the past. When he learned that Roshi came from the past, his first question was:

"Terra, what was it like in the past?"

Terra, the most common combination is sacred. In the hearts of all the people in the Empire, Terra is the throne world, the mother planet of all mankind, and the seat of the Holy Emperor.

However, the vastness of the galaxy means that only a small number of people know what Terra looks like, and only the luckiest people have the opportunity to see Terra with their own eyes once in their insignificant lifetime.

Even an Astartes of the Raven Guard like Nikonna has never been able to do this.

"I was born on a satellite world called Lycaeus, and it wasn't until I was thirteen that I first saw the sun."

"Later, I followed my Primarch to liberate my homeland. Then, due to the Emperor's order, we set out on the road to liberate the galaxy."

An unusual look emerged in Nikonna's eyes. The Astartes had been instilled with the indoctrination to obey the Primarch and the Emperor's orders in their genes, but a free mind could not be bound. He had also thought about what he and the Primarch had bled and sacrificed for.

Naturally, he also had a deep curiosity about Holy Terra.

"I once saw a painting of Terra as depicted by Serena de Angelos, though I know the real Terra is a world of brown and steel gray, not unlike the planet I fought on."

Sharokhin continued: "But in the past, at least when it was still called Earth, it was a blue-green planet covered with oceans and forests, and among the life it gave birth to were the ancestors of mankind, from which a great race arose."

"I really wish I could see what Terra looks like."

Luo Xi stared at Nikonna's slightly melancholy eyes and said in disbelief: "I thought you were all weapons created by the man who called himself the Emperor, cold-blooded killers. I didn't expect you to have such a delicate soul."

A living weapon of war, born for war, actually developed a longing for the human home planet.

This made Luo Xi start to reflect on whether he had developed a preconceived arrogance and thought that these Astartes struggling on the planet were a group of bloodless and tearless monsters.

Obviously, he was wrong this time.

"I'm sorry, then let me show you Terra's past - what the Earth looked like. It is the most beautiful world in the galaxy, although it has long been transformed beyond recognition by humans." Roxi apologized sincerely.

In fact, in the 21st millennium the Earth is no longer what it was when he was born. Excessive population and the pains of technological development have caused the Earth's environment to be severely polluted and damaged. Only after humans reflected on their mistakes did they take remedial measures.

Under the control of the intelligent computer pickup truck, precious images stored deep in the database were projected onto the smooth walls of the cabin.

It is an extremely beautiful planet. The abundant water resources provide a fertile breeding ground for life, and the vast green vegetation is a symbol of the thriving development of life.

Billions of years of life development, several horrific natural disasters and doomsday events have caused mass extinctions. Life develops and then dies, and after the demise, the seeds of life will produce new life.

Until millions of years ago, a species called humans emerged from the crowd. The first Homo sapiens looked up at the stars, and civilization was born. The starry sky that that Homo sapiens looked up at was conquered by his descendants millions of years later.

In Nikona's eyes, the deep black pupil condensed into a drop of sincere tears.

(End of this chapter)