Chapter 418

"... No, it's one thing for them to kowtow to me, but why are they kowtowing to this gunship?" Su Xing touched his neck and head, unable to help but ask curiously.

His emotional perception was indeed being used all the time, but the emotions he perceived were all piety, ecstasy, and various pure thoughts like those of a fanatic, without any distracting thoughts at all. Even thoughts like "Am I pious enough?", "Such piety is worthy of praise", or "I am truly pious" were absent, making it impossible for him to know why they were doing this.

Caesia already generally knew about Su Xing's unfamiliarity and ignorance of this era. She weighed her tone and vocabulary and said, "These people are members of the Adeptus Mechanicus. They firmly believe that machines have spirits, and above these spirits is the Omnissiah, all-knowing and all-powerful, while machines are the manifestation of the Omnissiah in the world. That is why they kowtow, because this gunship completed a great mission and brought back the equally great you, so they believe this gunship is a manifestation of the Omnissiah."

Su Xing looked at the group of stylish cyberpunk cyborgs for a long time, and he said speechlessly, "I always thought they were scholars or something who studied technology..."

Caesia nodded as a matter of course and said, "That's right, they are scholars and experts who study technology, the small group of people in the Empire who are most proficient in the field of technology."

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Su Xing's head was full of question marks. In his emotional perception, Caesia's thoughts were very pure, pure to the point of being completely matter-of-fact, still without many distracting thoughts. This made him unable to perceive the core key, which was... why were this group of people who were kowtowing scholars and experts who studied technology, and the most proficient ones at that?

Forget it.

Su Xing wanted to throw his brain away directly to avoid making his neck and head too fragile. He said, "Get me the major events, historical trends, processes, and various situation data of Earth after the 21st century as soon as possible. I want to Holy See it. By the way, also compile a report on the various factions, the Warp, demons, and what you call xenos."

Caesia immediately stood up straight and said loudly, "Yes!"

Su Xing took two steps forward, stopped, and said again, "Everyone is very tired, and there are many wounded. Don't rush to do anything else now; let everyone rest for a few days... And, thank you for your hard work."

After saying this, Su Xing walked toward the room arranged for him.

Caesia stood blankly in place for a long, long time, and then she bowed slightly toward Su Xing's departing figure...

As an Inquisitor, and an elite-level Inquisitor who had a Grand Inquisitor as a master, Caesia's seat was a Gothic-class heavy cruiser. The total number of personnel on the ship was over 120,000; even Caesia herself didn't know the exact number, and this was the norm for the entire Human Empire.

And this was still the result of Caesia, as an Inquisitor, normalizing the cleaning of her own ship. In the entire Human Empire, some merchant ships, transport ships, or armed ships that were far smaller than Gothic-class cruisers, carrying hundreds of thousands or even millions of people, were everywhere.

So this time, nearly 250,000 people boarded this Gothic-class cruiser, and there was no phenomenon of overcrowding... In fact, if you didn't treat them as humans, let alone 250,000 people, even 2.5 million people could be loaded.

These were not problems, at least not the main problems of this world.

There was only one thing that was truly a major problem in this world... faith and corruption!

After the cruiser set sail, Caesia did not immediately order it to prepare to enter Warp jump status, because she was not sure if it was appropriate to bring Su Xing into the Warp. She only checked again and again whether all the personnel who entered the ship were demons and whether there were any signs of corruption.

The result made her very relieved and satisfied.

No one was a demon, and no one showed signs of corruption.

This might be the only time in history that mortals witnessed demons and even fought against demons in person, without any signs of corruption.

This also proved the uniqueness and importance of Su Xing!

Next, Caesia called for the priest, the Tech-Priest, and everyone related to scholars who had landed on the warship from the paradise world. In the end, there were thirteen people in total, and they began to discuss how to describe human history to Su Xing.

The priest said first, "Since this is the wish of the Living Saint, it must also be the will of the Emperor. We must obey. And with the Living Saint on this warship, any text we write and any knowledge we spread will not attract corruption from the Warp. But I am worried that we cannot fulfill the Living Saint's request, because... even if we know some knowledge, it is only knowledge of our own world and our own field. Unless it is a great scholar certified by the Ecclesiarchy or the Inquisition, or a great Magos of the Adeptus Mechanicus, we cannot outline human history."

This was indeed the truth.

The history of humanity in this world was too vast and too magnificent. This was still the overall history of humanity. If it involved specific sectors or even specific planetary worlds, this historical information would gather into a sea of books.

Caesia immediately said, "What the Living Saint hopes for is a general description of information. He does not seek events that happened in a specific year. To put it more bluntly, the Living Saint may be completely ignorant of human history after the 21st century, so we only need to generally describe human history after the 21st century."

But everyone was still at a loss. Because let alone what Su Xing wanted to know, they only knew about the time unit of the 21st century through some hearsay and the technical support of the Tech-Priest.

They discussed for a whole night and ended the argument the next morning.

They decided to continue to adopt Caesia's proposal to describe the historical process of humanity in a comprehensive form, such as the tens of thousands of years from the 21st century to the Golden Age. They also tried their best to describe terms such as humanity walking out of the starry sky, and then they could focus on the encounters of the Golden Age, followed by the Emperor, as a god, beginning to walk in the world and leading humanity's Great Crusade, and then they fell silent again.

Because the end of the Great Crusade, the Great Heresy that led to the Emperor's slumber, was a taboo among taboos. Let alone describing it, if those who knew about it didn't have a strong enough background, they would probably be sent directly to the stake.

Caesia said with a headache, "I will personally relay this to the Living Saint... Everyone, please describe the history you know as much as possible, and then integrate it and present it to the Living Saint... Although the Living Saint is exceptionally kind, please remember that he represents the Emperor's will. I hope you will not go astray because of laziness!"

This meant that they had to write it out as soon as possible. Everyone felt a chill in their hearts, and naturally, they all said yes repeatedly, not daring to disobey.

After these people all left, Caesia came to the Astropathic Hall with a heavy heart. She didn't talk to anyone, but found a quiet room to sit down. After thinking for a long time, she wrote some content on a piece of paper in secret code.

"... The above is my entire experience in the Audia paradise world. I swear in the name of the Emperor that everything I said is true, without any falsehood or lies."

"Currently, the ship has captured what is suspected to be the most powerful Greater Daemon of the Changer of Ways, Kairos Fateweaver (unsealed state), and the head of the Daemon Primarch Angron (not dead, unsealed state)."

"I have checked repeatedly that there are no traces or phenomena of corruption on the entire ship, and all the poisons of the Warp have been isolated... no, they should have been cleared."

!

"But I am not sure if my mental state when I wrote this text is already in a corrupted form, nor am I sure if what I saw and heard is an illusion after being corrupted."

"My respected master, Grand Inquisitor Anris Gus, I request that you come to my star system as soon as possible to examine everything on me and the ship. If there are traces of corruption, please clear me and everything here as soon as possible."

"If all this comes true, then perhaps our long-cherished wish, the hope of our humanity, has appeared."

"Everything is the will of the Emperor, everything is His will!"

Then, Caesia ordered the Master Astropath to transmit this information to her master, Grand Inquisitor Anris Gus.

On the other side, Su Xing had also been wandering around the entire cruiser for the past three days, understanding the people, talking to them, giving them confidence, etc. Then, on the third day, he received the first volume of the general description of human history.

"... Since the 21st century, human technology has made significant progress..."

"... Humanity left Earth and headed toward the universe..."

"... This was a golden age that felt like gold. Human technology made great progress. They could easily transform any planet, push planets into the habitable zone of a star system, build magnificent machines that could change a star system, and it was even rumored that in that era, they could build time machines, freeze time, and reverse time..."

"... But all this greatness collapsed in a rebellion. That was the rebellion known as the Iron Men..."

"... Humans of the Golden Age were called Golden Humans, and in order to manage an uncountable number of planetary worlds and operate the vast and extreme social civilization of humanity, they created many artificial intelligences. Those were Abominable Intelligences, terrible demons lurking in machines. These intelligent machines called Iron Men rebelled against the Golden Humans. After a war that was tragic to the extreme, the Golden Humans won the Iron Men rebellion, but the Golden Age ended there..."

"... A Warp storm of unimaginable scale swept across the entire galaxy. Since then, faster-than-light travel could no longer be carried out (Note 1), and all surviving Golden Human colonies were disconnected and could only govern themselves. Some entire planets of humans disappeared in the Warp storm, while others, due to rebellions, civil strife, the rise of extreme rulers, etc., led to the loss of civilization. The entire planet regressed to a primitive society or was destroyed in civil war..."

"... The Warp storm lasted for five thousand years, and then about ten thousand years ago, that is, in M30, the great god appeared on Terra (Earth)..."

Note 1: The Warp is a world of spirit and soul. In the Warp, there is no fixed flow of time, nor is there a fixed distance of space. Faster-than-light travel relies on the Warp. When matter breaks through the veil of reality and enters the Warp, it can cross distances of tens, hundreds, or thousands of light-years in a very short time. This is faster-than-light travel.

(End of chapter)