Warhammer, I'm a nanny, not your father!

Chagatai Khan asked, "What is it that I cannot see?"

Wop asked in return: "You can see how high the mountain is, how wide it stretches, and whether there is snow on the top and whether there are trees at the bottom, but what if there is a nimble dog in the mountain?"

Chapter 129: The Philosopher Khan (5K)

"When the Primarchs gather, the first one they hate the most is Angron, the second is Curze, and the third is Guilliman.

Because one is brainless, one doesn't care about the legion, and one is obviously a traitor.

Then Dorne always makes people unhappy,

Perturabo gives people a feeling of paranoia and psychosis.

Mortarion was a little bit crazy.

Magnus has been playing with fire,

The Alpha Twins are mysterious and terrifying.

Ryan Johnson is an executioner.

And Leman Russ is a completely hidden killer,

Fulgrim is a sour, smelly showpiece.

Luo Jia is a charlatan.

The Crow King doesn't have a good relationship with other people.

The Lord of Fire Dragon can only be considered a loyal and honest person.

Ferrus was too close to Fulgrim, and his ideas were completely impersonal.

Horus, like a child, wanted to take over the Emperor.

Sanguinius is so perfect that it makes people jealous. This is both an advantage and a disadvantage."

A sharp gleam of thought flashed across Chagatai Khan's deep eyes, "What about me?"

Wop: "No you, because you said that."

A rare hint of surprise flashed in Chagatai Khan's eyes. He thought this was Wop's evaluation of the Primarchs, but it turned out to be his?

“Is this the future?”

"A future that no longer exists," Wop said. "Curze wouldn't abandon the Legion. Corax has a good relationship with him. Russ is no assassin. Angron has brains. Lorgar is no shaman."

Jaghatai Khan laughed. "And Mortarion said I was possessed."

He described Mortarion as crazy, and Mortarion also described him as crazy. They really were brothers.

Wop sighed softly.

The Khan's comments on the other Primarchs were sharp and precise, each one hitting home.

But this keen insight, like seeing through fire, just exposed his fatal blind spot in vision - he had no self-awareness.

He always looked down upon his brothers from a high position, like a cold-eyed referee, but he never realized that he was also involved in the situation, nor did he understand his brothers deeply.

But this was not a flaw unique to Chagatai Khan; all Primarchs lacked self-awareness.

Corax did not have the best of relations with the other Primarchs, as his situation was very difficult.

Corax was the last Primarch to return, and the time left for him was too short.

There was a rift between him and his descendants, an uprising was brewing on his home planet, and he had to command the Great Crusade. He had no time to cultivate relationships with his other brothers, and many of his brothers hated him.

Only Guilliman had a good relationship with him, which stemmed from their mock battle on Macragge, and they got along very well.

This just confirms a regrettable fact: it is not that Corax is unwilling to get close to other Primarchs, but that fate has never given him the opportunity to choose.

When he returned, the other Primarchs had already formed their own small circles.

Moreover, there was an unbridgeable rift between him and Horus. The Son of the First Return enjoyed high prestige among his brothers, and many Primarchs loved him.

Since Corax was at odds with Horus, many Primarchs kept their distance from him, further alienating him from the other Primarchs.

Corax was heartbroken, but he had no one to vent to.

Chagatai Khan was just the opposite. He was like a lone star, deliberately keeping a distance from all his brothers and almost turning alienation into an art.

So during the Horus Heresy, both loyalists and traitors were trying to win over the Khan.

Is it because they all think that Khan is one of them?

Wrong, because they all know that Khan is not one of them!

In the early days of the Heresy, both the Empire and the Rebels had almost completely forgotten about the White Scars until they came into view on both sides.

Chagatai Khan's choice of the empire had nothing to do with loyalty or honor, which had already disappeared when he hesitated, but simply because the rotten rebels were worse than the empire.

The White Scars cannot stay out of it, so they can only choose the Empire. At least the Empire is only occasionally inhumane, and the rebel Quan Dou tribe is a poet.

Wop: "Chagatai Khan, you and Xiao Mo are actually very similar."

"Why?" Chagatai Khan frowned barely perceptible.

Wop calls him Khan, but he can affectionately call Mortarion Little Mo. Wop's preference is too obvious.

Even if he didn't regard Wop as his father, he was still his mentor, so why was he so unfamiliar with him?

"Mortarion believes that the Emperor is a tyrant full of lies, and you also believe that the Emperor is a tyrant full of lies. Your views on the Emperor are surprisingly similar."

"Neither Mortarion nor you have ever been happy to join the Empire."

"In your eyes, the Imperium is a civilization built on lies. You have a different vision for humanity's destiny than the Emperor."

Chagatai Khan: "We are different. He is too paranoid."

"No." Worp shook his head. "You are both equally paranoid. He is paranoid about wanting to eliminate all psykers, while you are paranoid about advocating for the truth and trying to tell it to everyone. However, the truth is poisonous."

Jaghatai Khan hated the Imperial Truth so much that during the Great Crusade, the White Scars were obsessed with fighting the xenos so that they wouldn't have to face other human civilizations and spread the lies of the Imperial Truth to them.

Chagatai Khan also had a completely different vision for the fate of mankind than the Emperor.

So, how did Chagatai Khan realize his vision?

No, if he has found what he thinks is the right path, he will follow it.

The poor emperor couldn’t find any other way, so how could he find it?

He escapes from the imperial truth precisely because he understands that he has no other choice.

Wop: "The two great errors of the world are, first, to pretend that the Way to Heaven does not exist; and second, to worship it with blind superstition."

"Am I the latter?" asked Chagatai Khan.

Wop: "You're a centrist."

Chagatai Khan: "Is this a mistake? You taught me to compromise."

Wop: "That is quite right. We should neither deny the existence of the Warp nor worship it blindly. But there are two great errors in the world. First, pretending that the truth does not exist. Second, worshipping it with blind superstition. Which one are you?"

Chagatai Khan frowned: "You are sophistry, it can even be applied to anything!"

"Look into my eyes and answer me!"

Wop, in a rare moment of silence, cast aside his usual gentleness, his voice resoundingly powerful. His eyes, like a frosted blade, pierced Chagatai Khan's gaze.

Chagatai Khan lowered his eyes and stared at Wop. After a long while, he slowly said, "I am the latter."

"Then why can't you compromise this time?"

"Are you trying to convince me to accept a lie?"

Wop: "Have I ever lied to you so far?"

Chagatai Khan shook his head, "No."

"Everything I told you is true. But who says I didn't lie to you?"

Chagatai Khan's eyes narrowed slightly. Since these are all facts and truths, how can they be called lies?

Wop: "Say you're going to attack the Hulailie tribe today, and your scouts report that their cavalry has been spotted in the east, so you lead your army eastward to pursue them. But in reality, that's just a diversionary tactic by the Hulailie tribe, and their women and children have already followed the main force westward. Isn't that deception?"

"Calculate."

"Did the scout lie?"

"No."

"Your scout didn't lie; every word he said was true. But precisely because it was true, he convinced you so completely that you willingly walked into the enemy's trap."

Chagatai Khan remained stubborn, "But that is not the truth!"

Wop's eyes were blazing as he retorted to Chagatai: "Then let me ask you, what is truth?"

Chagatai Khan: "What you told me is the truth."

Wop shook his head slowly. "The truth changes."

"Let me tell you a story, if you're willing to listen."

He had never used storytelling to teach Chagatai Khan before, because he was no longer a child and storytelling would only make him feel childish.

Chagatai Khan: "I am listening."

Wop: "In ancient Terra, before humans could observe the stars, they could only rely on speculation to explore the universe. Initially, some people believed that Terra was the center of the universe. This was first proposed by Eudoxus, and later developed into the geocentric theory."

"But around the same time, an astronomer named Aristarchus proposed the heliocentric theory, which held that Terra orbited the sun. Later, Copernicus further refined and systematized it, arguing that the sun was the center of the universe and that Terra and the other planets orbited around it."

"Originally, geocentrism was an unquestionable truth."

"More than a thousand years later, the heliocentric theory came out on top and briefly became the universally accepted truth."

"A few hundred years later, with the continuous progress and development of astronomy, people finally realized that neither Terra nor the Sun was the center of the universe. The solar system is just an inconspicuous speck of light on the arm of the Milky Way."

"Since then, humanity's view of the universe has remained largely unchanged. Because humans have never been able to leave the Milky Way, we have no idea what the world outside the universe is like. Thus, the truth of the universe is fixed within human civilization."

"Is this the truth?"

Chagatai Khan: "It is the truth."

"Also in ancient Terra, scientists proposed the Fermi Paradox. Based on our understanding of the universe, there should be a large number of alien civilizations in the Milky Way, but humans have not observed any signs of alien civilizations."

"This has led to many speculations, such as the zoo hypothesis, which suggests that humans are being kept captive by one or more advanced civilizations, and therefore humans will never be able to come into contact with extraterrestrial civilizations."

"For example, the Great Filter hypothesis states that any planet, from the birth of life to the formation of civilization and then to interstellar colonization, requires a very long process, and there are many key nodes in this process, each of which can be regarded as a filter."

"Any extraterrestrial civilization that could be detected by us would have to pass through a lot of filters, and the probability of successfully passing all of them is very small."

"Now, human civilization is spread throughout the galaxy, and there are countless intelligent life forms in the galaxy. Are these two hypotheses true?"

Chagatai Khan: "No."

Wop: "How do you know it's not? Even if humans aren't the only intelligent life in the Milky Way, how do you know the Milky Way is the only galaxy in the universe with intelligent life? Even if the universe is full of intelligent life, how do you know the universe isn't just a zoo for higher-dimensional beings?"

"You're still making excuses."

"But isn't truth the highest form of sophistry?"

Chagatai Khan frowned, "Truth is truth. How can it be compared with sophistry?"

Wop: "Back in ancient Terra, a scientist named Newton proposed Newton's three laws of motion. Later, Einstein proposed the theory of relativity, which broke Newton's three laws. With the continuous development of civilization, we have gained new insights into the universe, and quantum mechanics has broken the theory of relativity. So, are Newton's three laws of motion and the theory of relativity true?"

“Since it has been broken, how can it be considered the truth?”

"But Newton's three laws of motion are still quite applicable and are still used today. And when your vision is limited to the interior of a planet, its conclusions are often accurate. The same is true for relativity."

Chagatai Khan: "Then it is a limited truth."

"Ancient Terra scientists also proposed a grand unified theory, based on the fact that there are only four forces of interaction between microscopic particles: gravity, electromagnetism, strong interaction, and weak interaction."

"So, in theory, all phenomena in the universe can be explained by these four forces. By further studying the connections and unification between the four forces, we can find a theory or model that can unify the four forces, which is called a grand unified theory."

"For a long time, humans have believed that the Grand Unified Theory is the only truth in the world."

"But since there is a subspace outside the real universe, is the Grand Unified Theory still true?"

“It’s the truth, but it’s also limited.”

Wop: "Then what is the truth without limitations? The universe is divided into the real universe and the subspace, which is the truth, but this is only the truth you know. What if there is a third universe that you don't know about?"

Chagatai Khan remained silent for a long time before he slowly spoke: "There is no absolute truth in the world. Is this what you want to teach me?"

"I'm not trying to teach you. I'm just telling you that the truth you believe in may not exist in this world."