Chapter 359: The Road to Expedition: The Sunburned One-Eyed Ogryn

Arthur actually doesn't like repairing machinery, very much. He hates the pungent smell of engine oil and the bad feeling of lubricating oil on his hands, which makes him unable to read. As long as he touches the pages, those precious , precious books that can no longer be copied were destroyed.

But now Arthur has learned how to repair and maintain machinery. This is not out of his own wishes, but from his father Adams. The old Adams needs a son who can repair machinery, and among his three sons, apparently only Arthur had the talent and patience to learn this technique.

Therefore, Arthur was sent to Father Moral and learned the skills of mechanical repair. He could even build some small machines by himself. Now, Arthur is using the skills he learned from the Mechanic Father to fix the problem. Front water pump with turbocharger.

Arthur squatted beside the machine by the river. There was a box beside him. It was a yellow tool box with an iron fist in a ring imprinted on it. The fist was as stained and rusty as the box. And dents are made up in its corners and corners, testifying to its long use time.

Arthur took out a wrench from the box. He looked at the mechanical panel in front of him, and used the small wrench to start turning the countless cables and electrodes in front of him. He repeated the action over and over again, making the electrodes a little bit smaller. The ground was twisted off.

"How long will it take you to fix it?" Arthur said to a dark-skinned man behind him. He stood behind Arthur, with his thick arms bare and wearing a jacket with the cuffs cut off to make it easier for farm work. The old man in the vest asked as he looked at the mechanical dial of the water pump in front of Arthur.

"Come on dad, I still need a little time, but I will make it work." Arthur said and threw the unscrewed electrode aside. He took out a brand new electrode from the box and inserted it into the panel. up, and then repeats its twisting action again.

Old Adams watched his son screw the electrode into it with the turns of the wrench. Arthur quickly put the thing on, and then took out a small welding gun from the tool belt on his waist. After pressing the trigger with his finger and confirming that the welding sparks ejected were normal, Arthur immediately started working with it.

His body was close to the electronic surface of the water pump, and he used the tiny welding gun in his hand to begin detailed circuit reconstruction and welding. Dazzling tiny sparks accompanied every touch of the welding gun, and were ejected from the mechanical surface. Along with the sparks, And a bright light lit up Arthur's face.

Although the sparks were bright, they were not to the point where he needed to wear a welding mask, so Arthur narrowed his eyes slightly and never stopped working on his fingers. The father behind him was also quite satisfied with his arms and stood. Behind Arthur.

He looked at the mechanical surface that Arthur was handling and nodded affirmatively, "You are much more reliable than your three brothers. Arthur, you should have listened to my advice and put away your useless books." , and then learn the technology from the mechanical priests honestly, instead of being obsessed with useless knowledge. "

"Knowledge is always useful, father. Old knowledge can lead to new knowledge, and new knowledge can bring more changes." Arthur said as he stopped what he was doing and turned to look at Adams, who gently said He snorted, quite disdainfully.

"That's what the old guy Vertus said, right? He said it when he was still on the expedition, that old guy, their preachers do nothing all day long, they just carry out endless activities in their own palaces, which is meaningless. Stupid debates, discussing useless and ridiculous philosophy, intellectual understanding and other similar nonsense.”

Adams spoke with undisguised disdain. He pointed to the water pump panel in front of Arthur, "What they should really do is take off those ragged robes and then get the tools to repair or create something, not After endless wrangling in our minds, we have to feed the philosophers in the end.”

"The wastes who live for free, just like the emperor said, only hard work, labor and piety can benefit the empire, instead of being tempted by dangerous and useless knowledge to do fantasy."

"Father, didn't the Emperor also say that reason and thinking are also the cornerstones of the Empire? If we give up thinking and the exploration of knowledge, human civilization will eventually stagnate and return to a state of ignorance, with a few powerful people controlling the right to speak. , turning into an existence completely opposite to the civilized country envisioned by the emperor."

Arthur argued with reason, like a thinker, philosopher, and scholar in all the murals who were questioned and condemned by ignorant people, but his argument was destined to be meaningless because Adams was his father. , so he doesn't need to convince his son.

"Shut up, you bastard, and stop talking back to me with those preachers' nonsense. I told you to stop hanging out with Reno. That stinky boy is also a "thinker" who is just as hungry as Vertus. Humph, in the end he still It’s not up to us to feed them.”

Adams said and patted Arthur's head. After finishing the farm work, he patted Arthur's head with his dirty hands. Then he picked up the hammer that was leaning on the side and walked towards the fence on the hillside of the river bank. "Hurry up and put it down." Once the water pump is repaired, stop thinking about messy things. The Emperor said that too much knowledge only brings danger!"

Arthur looked at his father who was walking away. He sighed softly and then picked up the welding gun and continued to operate on the panel in front of him. Sparks were flying in front of him. Soon Arthur reassembled the messy circuits on it. After the correction, the port return was completed. He placed the welding gun on the gravel ground on the river bank, and then suddenly pulled the lever at hand.

The lever on the circuit side of the water pump was pulled down sharply by Arthur, and the convex steel end of the long rod quickly hit the bottom of the slot. With a crisp metal collision sound, the entire water pump moved after a roar. When I got up, the knowledge points on the mechanical instrument lit up one by one, and the entire machine vibrated.

Arthur looked towards the river on one side of the water. The water pipes submerged in the water along the river beach began to suck in large amounts of water while trembling. With a small vortex appearing on the river surface, a large amount of river water was pumped into the pipes of the water pumps. , and then moved all the way up the water pipe in front of Arthur under the mechanical push.

The long pipeline goes all the way forward, and finally goes up the slope at the edge of the river embankment, drilling into the direction of the farmland through the pre-opened gap under the fence. The water will eventually be drip-irrigated through countless small branches distributed in the farmland. Pipes are collected throughout the field.

Arthur listened to the gurgling sound of water flowing in the water pipe, then stood up and walked to the operation panel on the side of the water pump main unit. His fingers quickly clicked on it. With the icons flashing by, two power bars appeared. Then it appeared in front of you.

Arthur pulled it up and fixed it to a value. As his finger moved the pointer, a long red line rose from the end of the screen. As the red line gradually rose quickly and approached the pointer, the water pump also moved. He worked quickly with a duller voice.

When all the work was completed, Arthur took off the work gloves on his hands, threw it in when he walked past the tool box, and then walked to the backpack leaning on the stone by the river bank. The young maintenance man put the His hand skillfully reached into the flowing river water, quickly cleaned it and pulled out a book from the bag.

It was a very old book, and the bookcase was already full of scars from the falling cover. Arthur took the book and then sat on the ground. He leaned on the rocks on the river bank and pointed his fingers. Gently brushing against the cover of the book he had read countless times, he looked at the title on the cover that was covered with peeling skin.

On the bookcase covered with fallen scars, the name of the book is still clearly visible. "Divinity and Humanity - Part 1" was written by Malcador in the 10th year of the Unification War.

Arthur turned over the old pages, and his fingers turned the pages that were still yellowing over the years. Many of the pages had been bound many times, and the custodians tried their best to preserve this book. The integrity of the book obviously took a lot of effort, but it is also useful. After all, the original content of this book is still in Arthur's hands, right? Rather than being scattered in one place, and then flying to countless unknown corners.

This knowledge was carefully preserved and finally passed to the hands of this young man. This was the only solitary book in the entire settlement. Arthur knew that this book was one of those sealed by the huge iron door in the battleship library. The survivors who were lucky enough to escape from the dark prison in the ancient palace of knowledge.

It is so important that Arthur can't find any suitable words to describe it. Any words he can think of are not enough to describe its importance. It is too important. This book is to spread the reason and truth in it. The final medium, the rest of the classics were locked behind the door, sleeping in the darkness forever under the threat of the electronic demon.

Arthur looked through the contents, and his eyes read between the lines of text. In fact, Arthur no longer had to look at the lines to read the contents. He had already memorized them. All the passages in it were already known by heart after he had read them countless times.

But Arthur will still read this book over and over again, and every time he will read it again with the same longing, humility and excitement. The content in it is so shocking that Arthur still remembers his first time When he saw this book, he was refreshed by its scientific and rational explanations and conclusions about divinity.

Although my father always said that the things in this book were very ridiculous, how could the Emperor not be a god, but a human being? But whenever he saw Malcador's name written on the author's side, Adams would quiet down and pretend as if he hadn't seen the book.

This provided Arthur with a good opportunity to read and re-appreciate the text. Now, Arthur opened the page that was stuck with a bookmark, and then quickly slid his fingers along the text. I stood up and looked at every font in it carefully, as if I was afraid of missing something.

"The so-called gods are just things that humans cannot explain for the time being. The so-called divinity, miracles, witchcraft and magic all have principles that can be explained by science, but"

"Foolish people will name things they cannot understand in the name of God to cover up their stupidity and ignorance, but wise people can always get the truth from knowledge."

Arthur was reciting one of the passages, but when he was about to recite the next section, suddenly another voice unfamiliar to Arthur sounded behind him. He helped Arthur read out the second half of the text, word for word, and accurately. Read it out without mistake.

Along with his voice, there was a huge shadow, which immediately enveloped Arthur. Young Arthur raised his head and looked at the tall giant behind him.

The mountain-like giant has dark red skin. Under the sunlight, his eye-catching complexion looks like a burning flame. His long red hair also hangs down behind his head, behind the rest of his crown. Exuding fiery red light.

He wore an armor full of exotic styles. It was not like the Sun Army or the Astartes that Arthur had heard of, covering his whole body tightly. Instead, it was lighter and more gorgeous, much more His muscles and skin were all exposed, and he didn't know whether it was because the giant didn't have any use for it or for some other reason.

Arthur looked at the tall figure in front of him. He raised his head along his towering body, just like a climber at the foot of the mountain looking up to the top of the mountain. Soon, Arthur saw the top of the mountain.

It was a red-gold eye. The single eye stared at the tiny Arthur, and the other eye was wearing an eyepatch. Arthur looked at the eyepatch and suddenly thought of the ancient Taipei that old Vitus had told him. Legend has it that Odin, the king of gods in ancient Terran Nordic legends, is also blind in one eye, and the other has a red-gold eye.

Arthur looked at him. After looking at the face, he quickly reacted after some thought. He recognized who the person in front of him was, and then immediately stood up and looked up at his face, "Lord Magnus."

"Do you know me? Child." Magnus said softly, and Arthur looked up at the golden eyes and nodded. He looked up at him without any fear while holding the book in his hand.

"I have seen the portraits of all of you, Lord Magnus, the eighteen Primarchs, the eighteen children of the Emperor, and I am deeply impressed by you among them."

"Why?"

"Because you are the one who relies most on knowledge. Vertus told me that you are the one among the eighteen sons of the emperor who regards knowledge as a treasure. Your Prospero's Great Library contains the entire galaxy. All the books! I’ve always wanted to check them out, there will be so much to read!”

Magnus looked down at the excited young man in front of him. He didn't say anything. He didn't tell him that Prospero's great library had long been reduced to ruins by the roar of wild wolves, and that it contained endless knowledge. Trampled under the feet of Russ and his savage heirs, they were reduced to ashes under chainsaws and explosive bombs.

Magnus just looked at the young man in front of him. His red-gold single eye glanced at the book in his arms. He gently opened a big hand. Arthur looked at the stretched out hand. He immediately understood what Magnus meant, and then held up the book in his hand.

The book was placed flat on Magnus's palm. He picked up the small mortal-sized book for him and looked at it. "Divinity and Humanity is a good book, written by Malcador." , I vaguely remember that he wrote it when the last church was torn down by the Emperor."

"Do you know the author of this book? He is such a genius! The ideas and content in this book are revolutionary! The so-called divine power and miracles are structured using quantum science, psychic energy and molecular science. , to prove that there has never been any witchcraft and magic in this world, and those so-called miracles and miracles are just different ways of expressing science, and they are just clumsy tricks to deceive ignorant people. "

Magnus looked at the young man in front of him. He listened silently to the child's story. Arthur looked up with passion at the legendary original body in front of him, the son of the Emperor who represented truth.

"This completely overturns all religions from the lowest level of logic! It sweeps all miracles and legends into the trash can. I heard that it was this book that became the later Imperial Truth, which the Emperor used to unify The theoretical guidance of Galaxy comes from this book!”

Arthur's eyes sparkled, and Magnus looked at the young man in front of him. He saw a familiar feeling in those eyes. Those eyes seemed to be a mirror, reflecting his young self. At that time, he was also ordinary. The most radical, energetic and tireless young apprentice on Spero.

Like the child in front of him, he absorbed knowledge eagerly and read all the books in the entire library. At a young age, he became the most outstanding academic master in the entire Prospero, and even defeated many highly respected masters. , and their truths that seemed absolutely correct and flawless in the past.

Some people say that Magnus's success is due to the Emperor's blood flowing in his body. That sacred blood makes him superior to all mortals and gives him genius-like wisdom, but Magnus doesn't think so. He believed it had nothing to do with the Emperor's blood.

After all, reckless men like Angron and Russ have nothing to do with knowledge and intelligence. If they were really like this, they would not have rejected the knowledge of subspace during the Micaea Conference. .

While Magnus was still reminiscing, looking at the child in front of him who looked exactly like himself when he was young, and recalling his happy youthful years, Arthur in front of him asked a question, breaking Magnus's words. Meditation brought him back to reality.

Arthur said a lot of words in a series, but only one of them was really noticed by Magnus. The young child raised his head and looked at himself with eyes shining with curiosity. He asked in a curious and puzzled voice. , "Lord Magnus, my father, and many elders told me that the Emperor said that too much knowledge will only bring danger. Did he really say that? Does knowledge really bring danger? ?”

After Arthur's words stunned Magnus for a moment, he seemed to be back on Micaea for a moment. The tall giant suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, wearing golden armor, with gold burning on the back of his head. The majestic giant of the ring looked down at him, his golden eyes seeming to burn out his soul.

Everything around Magnus became dark, and he seemed to be plunged into a black swamp. There was water under his feet, some kind of liquid, no, blood.

Magnus looked up at the giant. He was sitting on the throne. Behind it was a huge golden door. He looked down at himself with burning golden eyes. Magnus also looked up at him. Suddenly, in a sea of In the silence, there was a loud noise like a landslide, and the golden door shattered and collapsed. In an instant, countless figures rushed past Magnus on both sides. He looked to both sides, and there were endless demons. Flooded towards the throne.

All kinds of demons roared, waving their weapons and claws, and rushed towards the throne on the endless sea of ​​blood. They passed by on both sides of Magnus, impacting the deepest screams in his brain and thoughts. With the roar blasting into Magnus's mind, he suddenly covered his ears and stepped back.

The demons rushing from behind kept hitting his arms, causing Magnus to take a few more steps forward. He looked up at the throne as if involuntarily. The golden giant sitting on the throne was endlessly moving. The other side of the sea of ​​demons looked at him, and before he was about to be overwhelmed by the demons, he roared at Magnus with a soul-piercing voice.

"Magnus! What have you done!?"

The sound suddenly knocked Magnus back to reality. He opened his eyes suddenly. He clenched his fists and stared at Arthur below, who also looked at him with a puzzled expression. Looking at him.

"Sir? Are you okay?" Arthur asked, looking up at the strange Magnus in front of him. The latter looked down at Arthur in front of him and was stunned for a moment. Then he saw the ancient book in his hand, and he opened the pages. , looking at the paper that had been read countless times and had obvious finger marks on every page.

"Have you read the next one? The second volume of this book." Magnus said, looking through the books in his hand. Arthur looked at Magnus in front of him and shook his head in distress.

"No, sir, no. The second volume was locked in the ship like the other books. Reno and I tried to sneak in, but we almost died in it and didn't even reach the library. After that, Captain Reina stopped We're on board."

Arthur said with great regret, while Magnus looked at the child in front of him. He nodded slightly and waved his hand gently by his side. Soon, a crack with flashing psychic waves appeared in front of him. , Magnus put his hand deep inside and pulled out a book. After dusting off the book, he handed the book to Arthur.

The latter took the book with both hands, and then his eyes widened when he glanced at the title on the book cover. The font of "Divinity and Humanity - Part 2" was imprinted on it.

"Sir! This." "Take it, kid. I haven't looked at it for a long time, since... those things."

Magnus gradually stopped as he spoke. He looked at Arthur in front of him and sighed silently, but Arthur, who was obviously focused on the book in his hand, did not notice Magnus' sigh. He was very I was so excited that I looked at the complete book in my hand with all my attention.

Magnus raised his head. He didn't know why. Maybe it was intuition or some effect of psychic energy. He immediately noticed Vito leaning against the alleyway not far away. He was leaning against the wall with his arms folded. on the road, looking at Magnus from a distance, saying hello to him with a smile and beckoning him to come over.

Magnus nodded to him, and then returned the finger to Arthur. "I can see that you need it more than me."

The latter took the book in his hand and looked up happily at Magnus who was walking by. He looked at Magnus who was walking away, holding two books in his hand and looked at him, "Sir! Can you answer the question I asked you before? Is too much knowledge really dangerous?

Magnus stopped, and he turned his head slightly to look at Arthur behind him. The Cyclops lowered his eyes and was silent for a moment, "Only you can give yourself the answer to this question, child, do what you think is right. "

Magnus didn't know why, but he remembered what Vito told him during the Micaea meeting, and he didn't know why he blurted it out. He thought about all that, and sighed silently after everything after that memory. After taking a breath, he walked away.

He left Arthur behind. After watching Magnus leave, the latter immediately sat down holding the second volume in his hand. He immediately opened the thick book cover and started reading with eager eyes. It contains brand new words and knowledge.

Just like the kid on Prospero.

And the child, the grown-up child, walked across the river beach. His tall body walked very quickly, and soon he came to the entrance of the alley. Vito leaned against a wall under a hanging machine, holding his arms in his arms. Looking at Magnus in front of him with a smile.

"How generous are you to give the book away without blinking an eye? You have never given me a gift, well, in fact, you have never given a gift to anyone." Vito said with a slightly resentful tone, but However, Magnus could not see any emotional changes other than being serious from his still playful and smiling face.

He walked up to Vito and looked at Vito who was leaning against the wall, "You never like reading, and I don't like the weapons and "cool" toys you like, so I don't have the things you like. I can send it to you.”

"Sanguinius doesn't like guns, swords, etc. Didn't they also give me a long sword? You can change sometimes and learn how to get along with everyone. For example, start by giving gifts?"

"You're not wearing that power armor, Vito, where's your armor? If you didn't just wake up after a "long night's sleep" and forgot to put it on before you woke up, you might have some new idea. "Magnus looked at Vito on the side and said coldly and emotionlessly, while Vito sneered and waved his hands with his arms folded.

"Okay, you boring nerd, but yes, I do have an idea. If we're lucky, we can get out of the webway, and we can all get out together, and the heavy power armor won't be needed for the time being. Thrown on board."

"That thing is always glittering with gold. When the old fool made it, he seemed to be afraid that others wouldn't know that he was making a grand appearance in that armor. If you put on that thing and go out for a walk, you will become the center of attention in less than a minute, and , The firepower is under special care, so I can’t use that wealthy gold thing now.”

"You always have ideas, Vito, although most of the time, your ideas are linked to seeking death, which is stupid and incomprehensible." Magnus said speechlessly, he turned his head slightly and turned his eyes away from Vito. The body was removed.

"Hey, but most of those bad ideas are successful in the end, right? I think it will be the same this time." Vito smiled and leaned against the wall and sighed. He adjusted the position of his legs so that he could lean against it. Standing on the wall is more stable.

"Helen will solve the problem of the electronic demon, and I will be responsible for getting the raw materials needed to repair the Dream. After Helen solves the bastard in the system, we can use those resources to repair the ship. You can leave this hellish place.”

"What about the Webway? The Dream cannot open the Webway, remember? This is an Imperial warship, not an Eldar longship, unless you have a way to forcefully open a Webway gate."

Magnus said as he looked at the waterfall in the distance. The waterfall flying down from the battleship hit the river. At the landing point, a large amount of water mist splashed up with the landing point of the waterfall, as if A faint mist on the ground.

Vito also looked in that direction, then smiled and shrugged, "No, I can destroy the Webway, but destruction and creation are still two different things after all. In many cases, creation is much more difficult than destruction."

"Can't you do it with Lilith's help?"

Magnus asked, looking in the direction of the waterfall, and Vito laughed suddenly. He leaned one side of his head against the wall, smiling all over his face.

"Indeed, you can, but believe me, unless you have to, you won't want Lilith to open the door for me. The last time I did that with her, the psychic collision effect exploded half the galaxy. So, unless you like to be incarnated in the human world Cannon, or you wouldn’t want that.”

"But it's not necessary now. We have a safer, more convenient and simpler method. It just requires a lot of people to die. To be precise, they are aliens."

"Have you found a new webway?" After hearing this, Magnus turned his head and looked at Vito in front of him. The latter raised his head and looked at him and smiled. He raised his finger and pointed in the east direction. Magnus Nuss looked in the direction of the finger, which was the direction where they first discovered the remains of the Eldar and met Peter.

"Our alien neighbors, if I guessed correctly, there will be a network tunnel for us to use. By the way, we can also "borrow" a lot of raw materials and so on. If I guessed correctly, there will be a lot of them there. nice one."

Vito raised his finger as he spoke. He looked at his nails. Then he pulled out a knife from his waist and began to use the tip of the knife to pick out the dirt in his nails. "In short, I will go to the neighbors to pick up the dirt." Just a friendly look."

"Sure enough, it's another bad idea, going deep into the Dark Eldar's lair and single-handedly fighting God knows who the Dark Eldar are and their twisted creatures."

"Is it that bad? I've done worse things." Vito said, picking out the stain with a dagger. He raised the dagger and looked at it in the sun. Magnus also turned to look at the stain in the sun. The reflection of the golden light from the dagger's blade hit Magnus's face, making him unable to open his eyes.

"You came to me because you need my help? For your "not too bad" plan?"

Vito smiled. He turned his finger, and the blade quickly turned in another direction. The reflected sunlight also flashed from Magnus's face and then disappeared. Vito turned the knife with his fingertips. Flexibly let the sharp weapon dance in your hands.

The sharp blade could cut through Vito's skin in just one stroke. In fact, it was true. The blade almost cut Vito's finger several times, but every time it was done skillfully and at extremely close range. Passed by.

"I don't need your help for my plan yet. If I want to blow something up, I'll come to you again, so I came to you for another thing."

"What is it?"

Magnus asked. Vito smiled and quickly turned the dagger around his fingers, then grasped the dagger on his fingers and pointed it at Magnus," "You, Magnus, our great scholar has to go to the school and take a class."

"What? !"

"Wow, I know this is a bit sudden. Virtus originally asked me to go, but with my literary level, forget it. I still remember my teacher when I was a child, Herodotus? Or who was it? I forgot, I remember it very clearly, he always said that I was a fool who only wanted to wield swords and sticks, fight and disobey the rules. "

Vito said as he raised his finger slightly, and the dagger flew up immediately, and then the handle flew into Vito's hand. He held the dagger, looked at the blade and shrugged with a playful smile, "But you can't blame me. At that time, going to school well was a rarity. From Sparta, Thebes, to Troy, no boy would hold a book every day, except for the sissy boys in Athens. "

Vito said righteously. It seems that even after 50,000 years, Greek civilization itself has disappeared, but Vito still remembered to carry forward the fine tradition of mutual blackening among various city-states and spraying Athens together.

He smiled and shrugged, gently picking the blade, "In short, I can't take that class, so go ahead, I know you don't need to prepare in advance, just like when you grabbed me and discussed "The Great Collapse of Ancient BC" with me, I believe you can handle those eager children. "

"No, Vito, are you out of your mind? Is this the point? Do you really not know, or are you testing me?" Magnus frowned and asked seriously. He felt like he was being suspected. He looked at the man in front of him angrily.

"If you are testing me, Vito, use a smarter way to trick me into your trap. Don't treat me as an idiot."

Magnus said viciously, and the latter looked at him and smiled, then spun the dagger in his hand and suddenly inserted it into the scabbard behind his waist.

"What's the point? You are a Tzeentch demon primarch. You may secretly spread Tzeentch pollution when you go to class, corrupt those children into believers, and then corrupt the entire ship? So I am setting a trap for you, tricking you into entering it, exposing your conspiracy minions, and then rushing out from somewhere to kill you on the spot? "

Vito stood up and said that. Magnus frowned at Vito. He said it lightly, as if he was just talking about an insignificant topic. Its importance might not be as important as what to eat for lunch today.

"What are you going to do, Vito? What are you planning?" Magnus looked at Vito who stood up in front of him. He lowered his head and laughed softly, then turned and walked towards the alley.

"What happened today? Since the Tzeentch demon took the initiative to remind the victim that he was going to plot? And in fact, I thought you would like this kind of weird feeling, a feeling of going home?" Vito laughed jokingly, his words were full of teasing. Magnus behind him was still very surprised and didn't understand Vito's meaning at all. He took a few steps forward to approach the man in front of him.

"Enough, Vito, what do you want? Don't play riddles with me. "

Magnus said as he strode behind Vito, looking aggressive, while the latter turned calmly and looked up at the Cyclops in front of him, "Good man, aren't you, your boss, and your men all so unspeakable on weekdays? You ask Tzeentch a question, and he can give you nine contradictory, inexplicable and illogical answers. "

"But okay, I just ask you to take a class, that's it, that's all, I can't go, and I don't have time, I'm just preparing for the preliminary plan. "

"Are you so confident and bold that you hand over those children, the future of the empire on your future ships to me? You know who I am, come on, Vito, don't try to deceive me! I'm not a fool!"

"Look at my sincere expression, do I look like I'm lying? And isn't lying your patent? "Vito smiled and pointed at Magnus in front of him. He smiled at Magnus who looked surprised and didn't understand at all.

"If you really intend to plant a corruption bomb for me, you will immediately refuse, and then let me persuade you and then accept it reluctantly after three visits. This is the habit of the Tzeentch demons. I have seen it too many times and I am very familiar with it. They will not come to question me angrily, whether they are suspicious of you and set a trap for you, or you are pretending too well, but who knows?"

Vito said with his arms folded, looking up at Magnus in front of him. He stood in front of Vito. The towering giant looked down at Vito, but no one could see that the dominance was now in the hands of this little man.

"Go and tell those children about history and stories. They are the last generation who grew up in the truth, reason and knowledge of the empire. Use your learning to teach them well for me. Maybe in the future, they will become the revivalists of the empire's rational and knowledge era? And you, Magnus, are one of the pioneers of that era."

After Vito said that, he stepped back with his legs, then turned around and walked towards the end of the alley. Magnus looked at Vito's back in silence for a moment, then raised his head and looked at him, " Are you trying to lure me back to the empire? Don't treat me like an idiot! I know what you want to do, and I won't be loyal to that hypocritical guy!"

"You won't, I know." Vito said and stopped in the alley. He stopped and stopped on the ground of the alley. Vito's back was turned to Magnus, but his words did not So affected.

"But I know you, child, from the time you and they were born, from the first time I saw you. Whether you were loyal to the Emperor or loyal to Chaos, all you ever desired was to protect those precious things. It's just knowledge, continue those treasures. To you, conspiracy and power conquest are meaningless. They are just barbaric games of stupid people. That's why you stayed in the subspace for ten thousand years without Like Angron, he picked up a big ax and rushed out several times to cut scarlet roads in the empire. "

"You want to protect that knowledge, and those children are the last generation in the galaxy created by reason and knowledge. They are the treasures of knowledge that you are eager to protect, the true future of reason and civilization, and ignite the fire of the kingdom of knowledge. , so you will protect them, whether from the Emperor or from Tzeentch, you will not let them be used, you will not let the future be buried."

"I said I believe you, kid. I know you are not a bad person. None of you are, except for Erebus." Vito burst out laughing as he said this, and he kicked his hands into the pockets of his jacket. He raised his head slightly with his back to Magnus, who was looking at him at the end of the alley, wanting to say something, such as refuting him, but he couldn't say a word, not even a word.

"So, take good care of those kids, believe me, they will drive you crazy at that age, so good luck to you."

Vito waved his hand and left with his pocket. Magnus behind him looked at him, silently watching Vito leaving. After some thought, he slightly turned his head and looked into the distance. Arthur on the river bank, looking at the book he had just given to the child, his face was full of smiles, just like his own smile back then.

Magnus was thinking in his heart with only half of his soul left. Then Magnus turned and walked in a direction, and behind him, a butterfly flew across the alley. The butterfly vibrated its wings and moved The aftermath of those ten thousand years ago stirred up again.

The butterfly trembled its wings, causing the pointer of the clock of destiny to point in the next direction.

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