(Bonus update 2/5, with thanks to Assassin Bug Lover Ling and Yuwen Hao for their tips.)
The attendant nodded respectfully.
"Yes, my lord. Every attraction here is performed by people, including the executions and all the cultural scenes."
Li Qinwu took another look at the still-burning stake with his psychic sight, confirming the traces the Psyker had left behind after her death.
In the world of Warhammer 40,000, where psychic power existed, witches could very well be real.
The Witch Hunts of the fifteenth century might actually have been hunts for Psykers!
Li Qinwu happened to know of Magdalena, the witch who had just been burned to death.
She had been a peasant woman from a village near Trier, Germany, in the fifteenth century. Her neighbors had accused her of being a witch, and she had been dragged away and burned.
Li Qinwu knew about this because, when he was young, he had been fairly familiar with the Dark Middle Ages and had read plenty of historical material. Magdalena's burning had been a minor incident among the Witch Hunts.
An incident this minor had almost been consigned to a forgotten corner of history even in Li Qinwu's own time. Now it was forty fucking thousand years later. Humanity had fought countless wars, and countless documents had been destroyed in them.
Yet here, this tiny incident had been recreated. No matter how he looked at it, something was deeply wrong!
And if they were supposedly actors, why had Li Qinwu seen the soul of the actor at the stake being fucking burned out of her body?
Something was wrong. Nine out of ten kinds of wrong!
Li Qinwu hurriedly pressed the stop button on the remote, and the maglev villa immediately came to a halt!
His expression turned dangerous as he