"..."
Corvus remained utterly indifferent to Qin Mo's joke.
He could not even be bothered to put on the dismissive, perfunctory attitude he had shown at first.
That was from Qin Mo's perspective.
But from Corvus's perspective, he did not see anything amusing about the joke. He did not care.
Yet he very much wanted to hear the person before him continue, because it concerned one of the reasons he had come here.
He wanted to find out what difference there was between the Liberator, the Sector Lord, the great man spoken of by those soldiers, and his own Father-Emperor.
Would this man treat humanity a little better before humanity met its final destruction?
Like on Salvation Star, whenever a worker was about to die and barely clinging to life, the other workers would gather around them, comfort the dying person's family, and bring out the food they had saved so the dead could eat their fill before withering away...
If Qin Mo had known Corvus's thoughts at that moment, he would have been surprised, then immediately abandoned his probing.
He, too, was probing—testing whether Corvus still remembered the past, whether Corvus truly retained a trace of humanity after accepting the nature of the Warp, as his actions suggested. Even if it was only a fragment of the "enemy of oppressors" spoken of by Sorkhono.
Because that would mean Corvus still had hope of fully standing with humanity and contributing his formidable strength.
This conversation, which appeared to be casual chatter, was actually a psychological duel of reconnaissance and probing.
Qin Mo had no choice but to probe, because he did not know what Corvus's current condition truly was.
Those were Qin Mo's thoughts and motives at that moment.
As for Corvus, his motive for probing Qin Mo was... he