Warhammer 40,000: Mortal Gods

"I've always wondered what this thing is used for."

As he walked, Guilliman kept fiddling with the amulet that the mad inquisitor had thrust into his hand before he died.

This amulet looked very strange. It was obviously an item full of the style of the state religion, but Guilliman had a vague feeling that this thing was not simple, and thought that it should not just be an amulet used to protect something.

This intuition was just that, just like Guilliman's intuition that there was something waiting for him in the Eye of Terror.

"That thing can protect the soul." Piccolo took the amulet from Guilliman's hand. It could feel how it worked on the spiritual level by closing its eyes. "And it also stores a lot of data. It should be data belonging to Vashtor that was stolen from the network channel."

"Can you interpret the data?" Qin Mo immediately became energetic.

After experiencing too many confusing events in this webway and filling his heart with too many mysteries, Qin Mo didn't want to let go of the opportunity to get even the slightest clue.

He believed that the amulet contained something about Vashtor that would be useful in solving the mystery.

"Yes." Piccolo let the living weapon in his hand change into the form of some kind of equipment again, then stuffed the talisman into it, and then inserted a dangling line extending from the living weapon around his neck.

Finally, it began to interpret, and then replied disappointedly: "It records some civilizations and species that have been directly or indirectly destroyed by Vashtor since its birth, as well as some information about the extinct species and civilizations it has searched for in the universe. .”

Even so, Qin Mo still wanted to listen.

"Vashtor hates species that are uncreative and simply love destruction, and it will destroy them."

"The data stolen from the amulet contains records of many civilizations of similar species."

"The civilization that was indirectly destroyed was brought to destruction by the overly advanced technology it created through various temptations and influences."

"There are also some complicated records of other race civilizations in the universe. They were not destroyed indirectly or directly, they just died on their own."

Listening to Bick's narration, Qin Mo suddenly fell into thinking.

Guilliman asked: "Vashtor is also a subspace creature that was born in the past and future. Has it recorded the extinction of the human species?"

"There is no record." Piccolo crushed the amulet in his hand, "But there is no doubt...even if the human species will not die, the empire will one day collapse, and the civilization will one day wither. This is the reality in the real universe. Material rules are inevitable as long as human beings are still living beings in the real universe."

At this time, Ryan was here, listening to a subspace creature saying that the empire would collapse, and Piccolo would definitely be banished back to the subspace with a punch from the Lion King.

But Guilliman would not, because in all the intense and profound thinking he had done before, he had already reached the same conclusion.

The empire in Piccolo's mouth does not only refer to the human empire, but refers to all the countries established by human beings from the birth to the future.

"Including the Tailong Star Sector?" After thinking, Qin Mo suddenly raised his head and asked Bic, "In the future you see, will the star sector I established be destroyed?"

"I don't see that long term." Piccolo bowed slightly, "But you should know the answer better than me."

Qin Mo took a deep breath, fell silent, and walked with his head down.

Guilliman noticed a change in Qin Mo's mood.

"The law of entropy increase exists in the real universe, just like inertia. Just as the thinking of living creatures in the real universe cannot escape the influence of inertia, the same is true for entropy increase."

As if to persuade him, Piccolo quickened his pace and walked side by side with Qin Mo, looking at the face of his creator's creator and speaking gently.

"An object goes from birth to destruction, plants grow from flourishing to decay, the universe goes from birth to heat death... the same goes for civilization."

"The star sector you established will also inevitably go through a process from prosperity to decay, but this process may be very long, but one day it will cease to exist."

"Of course, the Tailong you established is great. The constantly improving social management science and corresponding science and technology make it more and more developed. It is conceivable that if nothing happens, it will last for tens of thousands or even millions of years. One hundred thousand years of prosperity and enlightenment, but one day it will slowly become decayed.”

Except for Thrall who drives the Titan, Guilliman and Qin Mo are all listening to Piccolo's words.

Guilliman was silent, and Qin Mo responded: "Entropy increase is indeed an irreversible law of physics, but even the smallest fragment of the Star God has the power to reverse entropy. If the Star God..."

"If the Star Gods protect a civilization, they will not be restricted by the law of entropy?" Piccolo said, "If you really think that those Star Gods who have supernatural power, but are as brutal, cruel, selfish and cunning as primitive people are reliable, You will not restrain those star gods from having extensive contact with your people."

Qin Mo was silent.

When Piccolo wanted to speak again, Qin Mo interrupted Piccolo: "We are in the webway of Vashtor, and the things in the amulet have no meaning as the things we discussed. We should talk now. The most important thing is how to fight all the way to Longlin Planet and kill the Discord Engine or Vashtor or both of them."

"Yes." Piccolo bowed slightly and fell silent.

Guilliman, who was listening to the conversation between the two, withdrew his gaze and started thinking as he liked.

In his opinion, Qin Mo is a complex person, he is realistic and naive.

In the incident that Piccolo was discussing with him just now, what Qin Mo said represented his innocent side.

In the Tyrone Sector, a person who wants to gain status and wealth can join the army or run a business, and they can often get what they want.

And a person who has nothing to desire and only expects to die can live a carefree life for more than two hundred years through the ultra-cheap food and extremely cheap industrial products provided by many agricultural worlds, as well as the free supply of life-extending drugs. Year.

Guilliman believed that he was the person who knew Qin Mo best besides Qin Mo himself, and he had long recognized Qin Mo's many qualities of innocence and reality during his interactions with him.

On the one hand, Qin Mo does not believe that he can build a utopia with absolute equality and only beauty and happiness, so what he pursues is the improvement of material conditions.

On the one hand, Qin Mo naively hopes that the Tailong Star District can exist forever, and that the prosperity he and the people in the Star District have established can also exist forever.

But there is obviously no eternity in the real universe.

Not only heroes have old age, but civilizations and species also have it.