Chapter 335: Second Brother? You're Not Dead!
Through the translation between the two, Hogg realized that he had overthought. Old Man Huang did not make extensive use of this unreliable magic circle. Instead, he was quite restrained, even to the point of being cautious.

Moreover, that magic array only has the function of traveling through time. The magic array that can attract other planes is another by-product of the research process. The most crucial thing is that the power of this magic array is very small and it can only connect some weak planes.

Unlike Magnus, who possessed incredible wisdom, the Emperor, who had lived for tens of thousands of years, knew that randomly connecting to other dimensions would only make the current situation worse and might even destroy the entire galaxy.

The Emperor's solution to this problem was to restrain its use and make it into a dirty bomb. When the Emperor could no longer hold on, he would destroy the entire world and bury the remaining enemies along with humans.

"Don't look at me like that. You don't really think I'm a gambler, do you?" The bruised and battered emperor argued cunningly as he looked at the two rebellious sons in front of him.

Thinking of the Webway Project that Old Man Huang had gambled the future of all mankind on, Magnus mocked Hogg before he even had to say anything:

"Father, you should have some dignity. If we hadn't tried our best to make up for it and build a usable stargate, the human empire would have been destroyed long ago. How can you say such a thing?"

For some reason, being ridiculed by Magnus about the Webway Project gave the Emperor an inexplicable feeling, as if these words should be his own.

As he had just had a fight with Hogg, Old Man Huang, who was once again infected by high-purity psionic energy, erupted in humanity. In order to prove that he was not a drag, the Emperor directly created a psychic clone and wanted to take his descendants to see the results of his research over the past thousand years.

With the sound of mechanical rotation, the originally tall golden throne moved backwards, revealing a bottomless freight elevator.

After stepping into the elevator, Hogg was amazed. Judging from the situation, Old Man Huang might have planned this for a long time and hid countless little secrets from him.

When the elevator descended to the 13th floor, what came into Hogg's sight was a huge underground city. The overall scale of it was completely like a secret nest buried deep underground, with all kinds of facilities.

Looking at the bustling crowd in front of him, Magnus found something wrong and pointed at those "humans" with long furry tails and asked:

"You are such a good old man, Huang. You actually raised an alien without telling us. You are really unworthy of the admiration of thousands of humans. You should abdicate and give the throne to Hogg. Maybe after I become the prime minister, I can still keep your little secret for you."

"Bang" the familiar psychic force came and knocked Magnus to the ground.

"Shut up. What do you mean by raising aliens behind your back? These creatures have been breeding here for 10,000 years. They are a genuine sub-human race. Don't slander me. This is also my helpless move."

When they heard that there was still a melon to eat, their four ears immediately pricked up to listen to the old father talk about this old melon.

For the Emperor, it was time to let others know this secret that had once caused him so much pain. He led his two rebellious sons to the research institute, saying:
"The scientific name of this race is Cat People. They were a genuine subhuman race during the Great Crusade. Before you returned, they were loyal allies of the Empire. However, with a sudden rebellion, only these are left before you.

In order to eliminate the impact of the rebellion that severely damaged the empire, all parties involved underwent memory erasure surgery, and the remaining cat people were gathered together to atone for the rebellion for generations. "

At this point, the Emperor stopped and sighed deeply:

"During that rebellion, the human empire not only lost an ally, but I also lost a descendant. Otherwise, you would not have been the one to take part, and the Great Crusade would have been successfully completed long ago."

Combining all the previous clues, the two were able to guess that the man was the long-lost Second Primarch, their real second brother.

Looking at the sad-looking Emperor, the two brothers did not make trouble for the first time. They hugged their old father and comforted him: "Alas, Old Man Huang, don't you still have us? Don't worry, I was able to gather all the Primarchs back then, and I can also find all the brothers this time. Even if the second brother dies, the brothers can revive the Empire again."

The emperor was deeply moved by the scene of loving father and filial son. He took back his previous words. Although Hogg was a bit of a jerk and Magnus was not a good guy, they were both filial and knew how to share his burden.

But when the Emperor was enjoying these warm days, the door of the laboratory opened from the inside, and a giant cat-man came in front of the three people and shouted to the Emperor:
"Father, you're not going to say I'm dead again, are you?"

"Hmm?" Looking at the unusually tall giant in front of him, even though Hogg did not feel the breath of the Primarch from him, the words just now had already revealed the identity of this person. He was the second Primarch who was killed by the Emperor.

When Hogg thought that Old Man Huang dared to deceive his feelings, he punched his clone in the face and knocked him to the ground:
"Damn you, you are so despicable. You even pretended to be an old widow and deceived our feelings. You are so shameless!"

The emperor, who was despised by his offspring, had nothing to say. He pretended nothing had happened without blushing or beating his heart. His skin was as hard as the hardest thing in the world. He was not disturbed by these words at all. Instead, he complained first, saying that he was wrong and that you had misunderstood him.

The two did not want to listen to Old Man Huang's explanation, so they went straight to the brother they had never met before, wanting to hear his story and why he was alive and well and did not seek a reunion with his brothers.

Looking at the chattering dwarf beneath him, the tall Second Primarch Roland Griffith felt a headache. Being extremely socially anxious, he was not used to this kind of enthusiasm at all, and he spoke in a low voice about the past ten thousand years ago.

It turned out that during the Great Crusade, the Second Legion had once been glorious, and Roland had even served as the Imperial War Marshal, the real leader at the time.

However, due to his extreme social phobia, he had no control over his men, and eventually, due to chaos corrosion, genetic mutation, and the crisis of the intelligent machines, a riot comparable to a major rebellion occurred, which was directly and harshly suppressed.

As a result, the powerful Second Legion also suffered heavy casualties, and those who were not purged were all divided up and assigned to the First Legion and the Extreme Marines.

Not only was the unlucky Roland betrayed by his subordinates, he also died in the orbital bombardment and was directly re-cultivated by the Emperor. When he woke up again in the incubator, he didn't know how long the rebellion had been over.

Even more unfortunate was that when Roland had been farming for hundreds of years and was preparing to return to the ground to reunite with his brothers, a brief warp storm hit, and Terra was filled with Dark Angels who slaughtered people wantonly.

Not wanting to be suppressed by the First Legion again, Roland had no choice but to continue to live in disgrace. But when he was preparing to make a second comeback, another familiar subspace storm hit. As soon as they showed their heads, they were slaughtered by the Death Guard as if they were aliens, and returned to the underground hive in disgrace.

After that, whenever Roland wanted to return to the surface, he would always encounter some bad luck, either the angels turned evil or Angron's good governance. The worst time was when he was pinned to the ground and beaten by the suicidal black army led by Abad.

After many failures, and seeing that only one in ten of his fellow cat-people were left, Roland gave up completely and became a total otaku. He did not take another step out of the underground for thousands of years and was not discovered until the Emperor awakened 1000 years ago.

After telling his story, Roland did not lose heart. Instead, he extended his hand to Hogg optimistically:

"Brother, it's nice to meet you and your red-skinned son."

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(End of this chapter)