125: Chapter 125 The Two Saints Return to Court

The Chaos Gods of the Warp are indeed capable of reaching the deepest parts of the human heart. This does not mean they can read minds at every moment; they are not that omnipotent. Unless you call out a Chaos God's true name in your heart, they do not know what you are thinking. It simply means that the Chaos Gods have seen so many people and things that they can guess what you are likely thinking.

Main Body had originally intended for his Librarian team to prepare a vast array of arguments to engage in repeated, drawn-out negotiations with the Prince of Pleasure. While the Chaos God certainly commanded millions of Greater Daemons, the Cheng Yu Empire was not lacking in manpower itself.

However, Slaanesh shut down all of Main Body's points with a single sentence: "I can bring your family over from another world; give me a list."

"Is that true, Foster Mother?" Main Body was both shocked and overjoyed. He naturally missed his parents; it had been nearly ten years since he had suddenly transmigrated here, and he did not know how worried his parents must be. For all he knew, he had long been listed as legally dead back on Earth.

"Earth is Terra, and Terra is Earth. Pulling a few people from the past is not very difficult."

From the moment Slaanesh was born, He has existed permanently in the past, present, and future. Such a high-dimensional being looking at low-dimensional life is like us watching a slideshow; pulling a person into the future is equivalent to taking a slide from earlier and moving it to the end.

Of course, one cannot take too many; taking too many would mess up the slideshow, and the result of that would be something even a Chaos God could not predict.

"Your subject, Cheng Yu, has drifted for half a lifetime without encountering a wise master. If the Lord of Pleasure does not abandon me, I am willing to pay respects as Foster Mother... or Foster Father."

Main Body's regard for familial affection was about the same as Liu Bang's. If he could barely save himself, he was capable of kicking his family off the carriage, but in a situation where he was doing well, he certainly would not begrudge being a filial son or a loving father.

Slaanesh gently moved a finger, and a pinkish-purple screen appeared in the void. On the other side of the screen was the scene of Main Body's transmigration ten years ago.

That day, he had gone out to buy soy sauce and encountered a small fire at a barbecue stall on the way. The owner of the internet cafe next door brought out a dry powder fire extinguisher to put it out, but the extinguisher had expired, and the powder would not come out.

In a moment of quick thinking, Main Body channeled the little hero Yu Lian, unzipped his fly, and extinguished the fire. However, like the ungrateful dog biting Lü Dongbin, the barbecue stall owner grabbed him and demanded payment for the lamb.

"This is duck meat! If I pay, I pay for duck, not lamb! Let go!" Main Body angrily scolded the barbecue stall owner, and the surrounding crowd joined in to help. No one noticed that although the fire was out, the small gas canister at the stall had already started leaking.

With a loud "bang," everyone present was sprayed with blood, but fortunately, no one was killed. Only Main Body had disappeared.

"What a brave and abstract little fellow," Slaanesh said, covering His mouth and giggling. "Do you want to know what happened afterward?"

"Yes, yes," Main Body nodded.

Slaanesh advanced the flow of time. The police officers arrived at the scene quickly. Because everyone's face was covered in blood, they highly suspected that Main Body might have been blown to pieces. Although this was highly unreasonable, looking at the low-pixel surveillance footage from the entrance of the internet cafe, it was the only explanation.

In the end, the court ruled that the barbecue stall owner was guilty of manslaughter and compensated Main Body's family 350,000 yuan. Main Body had purchased personal accident insurance before his death, but the insurance company refused to pay on the grounds that it was a criminal case. Main Body's parents continued to sue the insurance company, and finally, both sides reached an out-of-court settlement for 250,000 yuan.

Main Body's parents cannot be said to have been completely without grief for their son, but they soon raised a "small account," which was Cheng Zhou, the younger brother Main Body had never met. Synchronizing the flow of time, he was eleven years old this year.

"They conceived in the same month I died. Are they using me to bring good luck?!" Main Body laughed in anger. "Please, Foster Mother, bring my biological parents and brother over. If it is not too much trouble, please bring a few of my ex-girlfriends over as well. Actually, never mind, they must be married by now. I won't break up their families. Forget I said that last part."

Slaanesh did not waste words and immediately transported Main Body's parents, brother, and his only unmarried ex-girlfriend directly from Earth in the 2K era to the Imperial Ancestral Temple in the Imperial Capital. Of course, He could not bring them here; that would be no different from killing them directly.

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Imperial Capital, Imperial Ancestral Temple.

Cheng Yu's father, Cheng Tianxiao, had originally been having a small drink at home. Having consumed four taels of baijiu and two jin of beer, he had already lost all sense of reality, so he was not very surprised to suddenly appear in a strange place, merely assuming that the mushrooms in his side dish, chicken stewed with mushrooms, might not have been fully cooked.

Cheng Yu's mother, Li Xuemei, had originally been scolding Cheng Zhou for not doing his homework seriously. It was hard to say who Cheng Zhou took after; Main Body's grades had been decent when he was young. The two of them felt immense fear as the scenery around them shifted in an instant, and they were so frightened that they hid behind Li Xuemei's own massive spirit tablet, which read "Empress Xiaoci Chun," trembling.

Oh no, he had forgotten to remove the spirit tablet. Back then, Main Body had thought he would never see his parents again, so he had set up the spirit tablet early for his descendants to use during the Qingming Festival.

Main Body's only unmarried ex-girlfriend, Lin Xiao, was wearing a prison uniform. The reason she was not married was not because she was waiting for Main Body—it was not that romantic. She was serving time in Tilanqiao Prison for suspected duty-related crimes. Her life sentence had been commuted to twenty years, and then to twelve years. Because she had consistently behaved well and helped the prison with financial bookkeeping, she had almost become half a prison guard. Today happened to be the day of her release; she had just collected her personal belongings and had not yet had time to change her clothes.

Slaanesh did not transport her into the Imperial Ancestral Temple but threw her into the Imperial Clan Court prison behind the temple. This was a prison dedicated to the royal family; it was currently empty, but in the future, it might be used to imprison convicted members of the imperial clan.

Main Body did not have time to receive them for the moment, and it was not convenient to send his clones; the simultaneous appearance of multiple versions of himself could easily scare his parents—whom he had wanted to support but had been unable to—out of their minds. Therefore, he urgently issued an imperial decree for Ivankov, the most eloquent person in the empire, to go to the Imperial Ancestral Temple to explain the situation to the Retired Emperor, the Empress Dowager, the Imperial Younger Brother, and the future head of the Imperial Clan Court, using that same "Clone Empire" excuse.

"Go, my loyal subject. I will come as soon as I finish talking with Foster Mother."