"With me?"
"Sorry, I don't understand."
Although Luo Ji was good at analytical thinking, "Warp" and "Four Chaos Gods" had nothing to do with science.
Besides, that wasn't what he was concerned about.
"Let's not talk about this," Luo Ji tidied his thoughts, held the 'key' in his hand, and handed it to Emrys on the throne.
"There's no time for idle chatter now, outside it's almost a complete ran."
Emrys said nothing, gazing at him quietly.
"I almost forgot, you don't know…" Luo Ji hastily recounted his experiences before ascending the mountain.
"The situation outside might be even worse than you described."
After patiently listening, Emrys unhurriedly said, "ETO has already controlled more than half of the seats in the High Lord Council. The only one who could restrict them, the Grand Inquisitor of the Inquisition, is currently missing. In other words… the current High Lord Council is a mere formality, having completely fallen into the hands of ETO."
Luo Ji was already shocked, his heart churning with stormy waves.
He had only been gone for less than a week, and the world outside had become such a ran?
"Not only that."
Emrys, seeing his thoughts, continued, "The Trisolarans took the opportunity to propose the concept of peaceful coexistence with human civilization."
"Peaceful coexistence?" Luo Ji's eyelids twitched, feeling that the world was changing too fast, and he couldn't keep up.
"That's right, peaceful coexistence, and the agreement has already passed the High Lord Council."
Emrys said indifferently, "They are willing to provide technical assistance, disband their existing fleet structure, and establish a joint oversight body to ensure the Trisolarans' harmlessness to humanity… What do you think about this?"
"Bullshit, this looks problematic no matter how you look at it!"
Luo Ji couldn't help but curse.
Last century, the Trisolarans were unyielding, not even caring about humans, viewing humanity as ants.
How could the Trisolarans change their minds in just two centuries?
The only explanation was… the Trisolarans were also learning, also evolving, and they had even learned human 'schemes'!
"Wait, how do you know all this?" Luo Ji seemed to suddenly remember something and looked curiously at Emrys on the throne.
"Because I have always been watching humanity."
Emrys was a bit helpless; he was sitting here, but that didn't mean he was 'imprisoned'.
So many tech-priests, including the Martian Mechanicum, and even the Adeptus Astartes, all obeyed him alone. Even within the Inquisition, he had specially placed many people; otherwise, how could Luo Ji have crossed half of China to this snowy mountain unscathed?
Did they really think the Inquisition was useless?
"You, you knew everything?"
Now, it was Luo Ji's turn to be shocked. He stared intently at Emrys.
"Wait, since you knew everything, why didn't you go out and solve it? Why did you just watch Shi Qiang and the others get killed? What exactly are you thinking?!"
Emrys on the Mechanical Throne also experienced a bit of the 'Emperor's' feeling.
He could 'see' everything, yet he was powerless.
A hint of sorrow appeared in his eyes, and he sighed deeply.
"I know, but… I cannot leave here."
"Why?!"
Luo Ji questioned loudly.
"I have already told you the reason."
Emrys said expressionlessly, in a soft voice.
"I am with them. Once I leave this chair, the Warp will use me as a 'channel' to completely 'project' into this world. Can you… understand?"
Looking at Emrys on the Mechanical Throne, his expression devoid of joy or sorrow, appearing like a withered husk, Luo Ji suddenly had an ominous premonition.
"You… you mean to say…" Thinking of the possibility in his mind, he instantly felt parched, his heart's dull thumping accelerating the blood flow throughout his body, yet even so, he couldn't feel any warmth, and was even enveloped in a chill.
"Their appearance is inextricably linked to you? And this chair… is the key to restricting them?"
Emrys on the Mechanical Throne lowered his eyes, remaining silent.
Evidently, he had tacitly acknowledged this 'fact'.
"But… I don't understand." Luo Ji felt his brain overloading, falling into a temporary blank, and spoke incoherently.
"The Warp… even if it cannot be explained by physical phenomena, it is still an objectively existing 'matter'. What does this have to do with you?"
Emrys' gaze deepened slightly, and he sighed softly.
"Yes, what does it have to do with me?"
However, at this point, he paused for a few seconds, and with a self-mocking tone, said.
"But what if I told you that this world… should not have had the 'Warp' at all? That it was originally a 'phenomenon' that should not exist?"
A phenomenon that should not exist, which means… the Warp originally did not exist?
Luo Ji's extraordinary rationality and calmness came into play at this moment.
His powerful logical thinking ability allowed him to focus more on complex information that ordinary people would find difficult to process.
It was precisely because of this that, as he 'filtered' information item by item in his mind, he discovered a 'blind spot'.
A 'blind spot' that was almost overlooked by everyone.
Before Merlin Emrys appeared, humanity had experienced tens of thousands of years of reproduction, yet there was never a single instance—remember… not even 'one instance'—of evidence for superpowered individuals.
His thoughts were like a storm, myriad ideas intertwining and colliding in the depths of his mind.
One by one, when those scattered, seemingly insignificant 'clues' were 'connected' into a straight line, the answer was already evident.
Boom!
Luo Ji's whole body trembled, as if struck by a bolt of lightning.
The thoughts constantly colliding and intertwining in his mind finally converged into the answer.
"Before you, humanity never had evidence of the existence of 'superpowers', but after you… 'superpowers' were proven, and more and more Awakened appeared."
"Correct, you've found the key."
Emrys on the Mechanical Throne seemed to be enduring intense pain, his voice extremely hoarse, sounding like sand scraping against a mirror, making one uncomfortable.
"This is the problem. It is because of my existence that the various entities of the 'Warp' could be projected into your world, and I… discovered it too late."
Yes, he discovered it… too late!
In this world, there was never such a thing as a 'free' lunch, but unfortunately, he only realized it two hundred years ago.
"This, this is not scientific…"
Luo Ji felt this sounded absurd, completely devoid of any 'logic'.
"If a 'phenomenon' can exist, it must prove that it already existed. How could the appearance of this 'phenomenon' be the result of one person's influence?"
"No, you don't understand the 'Warp'."
Emrys shook his head stiffly and slowly said, "In your understanding, everything should have a sequence of cause and effect, and precedence, but the 'Warp' is not like that. It has no 'cause and effect', and no 'precedence'. If an entity is born in the future, then in the distant past, it already existed and could even influence the past."
The example he cited was the birth of the fourth Warp God, Slaanesh, due to the fall of the Eldar Imperium!
Slaanesh was indeed born from the fall of the Eldar Imperium, but within the Warp, there is no such thing as 'time', 'cause and effect', or 'precedence'. Since Slaanesh was already born in the future, then it already existed long before the fall of the Eldar Imperium.
To use a more popular term, it could probably be understood as… one proof, eternal proof?