Ember Gun

  Chapter 132 Information Virus

  This is a very quiet place. The air is full of light floral fragrance. Some people use perfume deliberately to try to conceal the blood in the room and the strong smell of disinfectant water.

  The neatly arranged beds are lined up, but only the middle bunk is filled with people, and all kinds of books are piled up next to the bunk, which seems to be used to relieve the boredom of this patient.

Lorenzo stared at the ceiling blankly. He was lying on the soft bed, his left foot was wrapped in a bandage, the bracket wrapped it and then raised it high, his other hand was randomly placed on one side, covered with potions. Pinhole after injection.

It has been a week since the night when Master Lawrence appeared. The chaotic fight finally ended with the escape of Master Lawrence. According to reports from off-site personnel, Master Lawrence seemed to have tried to kill and lost his mobility due to erosion. Lorenzo, but just as he was about to do it, the war airship above the night sky fell out of control, burying everything on the battlefield.

  They were Lorenzo found in the wreckage of the airship. He was blood-stained and penetrated by steel. His left foot was the most serious, and a large amount of metal fragments cut into it.

  So when Lorenzo woke up again, he was always here. This is a psychiatric hospital secretly dominated by the decontamination agency, and the soldiers who have been eroded will receive treatment here.

Arthur came here once during this period. This super soldier didn’t look so super. He was wrapped in bandages on crutches. Master Lawrence’s sword almost killed his old life. At the time, he was doing it for Eve on the battlefield. I just withstood it, or I would have passed out a long time ago.

In this battle, Lorenzo lost, and the elimination mechanism also lost. According to the investigation and analysis after the war, when Master Lawrence activated the secret blood, the erosion that was beyond imagination was brought about, and the scope was very wide. A low-altitude flight The war airship was also affected. Most of the crew were unconscious, and the airship that lost control immediately hit it. Fortunately, it only carried a small amount of ammunition. Otherwise, it was estimated that there would be no survivors in the second bombing. NS.

Even if a week has passed, the post-war treatment has not ended. The impact left by Imam Lawrence is still eroding the surrounding area. According to the survey, residents within a few kilometers nearby have recently started to have nightmares, and some have serious problems. Mental illness, the psychiatric hospital in Old Dunling was almost overwhelmed.

The inside of the battlefield was handled by the well-protected scavengers. The entire Salicardo Manor was completely destroyed. Fortunately, Lorenzo dragged most of the monsters and the Master Lawrence during the battle, and some of the nobles were transferred at the time. Going out, the casualties were not so shocking.

  After dealing with these, the questions originated from the people. Most of the residents watched the fall of the war airship, and the flames illuminated the entire night sky.

With the erosion and panic, the entire old Dunling’s law and order has become a little messy. Fortunately, these scavengers are quite skilled in handling this kind of thing. Various errors in the operation of the gas explosion airship have been reported, and they have asked for a few more. I wrote a few conspiracy theories, and all the added oil and jealousy made the water more muddled.

  This kind of feeling is not good. At the moment he fell, Lorenzo had a familiar feeling, as if at that moment he had returned to that night, the night of Holy Prophet.

  All efforts are in vain, and many things are already doomed.

  With the babble, the iron gate was slowly opened, and the doctor walked in with a cart full of medical equipment.

"how are you feeling?"

"not bad."

  Lorenzo stared at the ceiling blankly.

   "Hmm... I'll check it."

The doctor said that he lifted Lorenzo’s foot from the stent. This is the operation that this doctor performed for Lorenzo. He should be the medical staff who cleaned the inside of the institution. When performing the operation on Lorenzo, he tried Picking out the fragments that were shattered into the flesh, Lorenzo's body continued to heal itself, which greatly hindered his operation.

It was the first time this doctor saw a human with such strong vitality. Had it not been for someone to remind him that Lorenzo’s blood was mixed with secret blood, which was poisonous and deadly to ordinary people, it would have eliminated the collection from Lorenzo. Sample idea.

   "It's really monster-like vitality. I thought you were dead, but it was only a few days away."

  The doctor told Lorenzo to walk around.

  Lorenzo did not speak, and stood up slowly, with no unusual reactions other than the pain while walking.

   "You seem to be able to walk freely."

   "Probably... can I be discharged from the hospital?"

  Lorenzo looked at the door of the ward. Since waking up, Lorenzo looked like a different person, or, in other words, changed back to what he was before, with apathy in his eyes. No one knew what he was thinking.

   "I'm afraid this won't work, Mr. Holmes."

  The voice came from outside the door, and Arthur's face appeared in his vision with a somewhat haggard face.

  This old guy has not been well these days, let alone the physical injuries, he needs to deal with the aftermath of the incident, and even the platinum palace, which has been silent, summoned Arthur again.

  This is the largest casualty incident in Old Dunling since the Glorious War. The impact was far-reaching and bad.

  Lorenzo stepped out without saying anything, Arthur was sitting in a wheelchair, Joey pushing the wheelchair behind.

  This time, these high-ranking knights did not suffer any injuries. They were located on the outskirts of the battlefield and successfully avoided the airship’s fall zone.

  But Joey was a bit unlucky. He was hit by the falling debris and was in a coma for a few days in the hospital. Lorenzo was the one who was lying on the bed next door at first.

Eve and Seleuc were not in any serious trouble under the protection of the soldiers, and Lancelot, who fell in the core area with Lorenzo, seemed to have been taken away by the pump of perpetual motion, and the armor of Original Sin protected him, although The injury was serious but not fatal.

"How's it going?"

   "It's a mess. Fortunately, in recent years, we haven't compressed the scavenger force due to the reduction of monster operations, otherwise I will really be busy."

   "In order to accelerate the erosion of the erosion, we injected all the stock of neutralizing liquid into the pillar of the furnace, and the main steam outlet point was set at the Salicardo Manor."

  Neutralizing liquid is also an alchemy agent produced by the Perpetual Pump. Its only effect is to speed up the erosion of regional erosion and pollution. It is usually injected into the column of the furnace and diffused in the affected area along with water vapor.

   "Then there was the destruction of several large Geiger exponents. The high intensity at that moment destroyed these observation equipment. Now the surrounding area is no longer under the surveillance of the peeper system, but we have increased our inspection force."

   exchanging information, the two of them were already on the same front unknowingly.

  "We need to raise our strength as soon as possible. Imam Lawrence carries a dangerous thing on his body. Once that thing is completely diffused inside the old town...then we can only hope that the Evangelical Church has the ability to organize an expedition."

The Eastern Expedition, a religious vocabulary exclusive to the Gospel Church, ostensibly records the largest religious war in history, but in fact it refers to the full-scale war of the Demon Hunters' sect. All the demon hunters came out. All actions of the Holy Evangelical Papal State serve them first.

  In Lorenzo’s memory, the Demon Hunter’s Eastern Campaign was carried out hundreds of years ago, and the result of that time was that the demon once disappeared from the world.

   "There is something on him."

  "A [Messiah]-class containment object containing the "Apocalypse" with secret blood technology."

  Lorenzo has nothing to hide. He knows that Master Lawrence cannot be killed by his own power. He needs allies.

   "Something that sounds very troublesome."

   Arthur had a headache. He was a little envious of the previous Arthurs. When the immortal was in office, when the demons were most active, they only had the intensity of Ende Town's actions, and all of them directly became **** mode.

   "Arthur, do you have any ideas? This is the old Dunling, your home court."

   Lorenzo asked.

"Please give me some time to think, as I said before, the problem is not only inside the old Dunling, the new pope also wants to unite with us, but I don’t know if he really thinks so. The situation is far better. It’s complicated."

  The reconstruction of the Demon Hunting Order, the appearance of the new Pope, and then the return of these monsters that have died in history.

  It feels like the end of the world, everyone came out singing and dancing happily, with rising fire and sorrow.

   Arthur was very tired, just like an appointment in advance, all the chaos was triggered at the same time.

  All three of them were silent for a short time, and the lingering cloud shrouded the old Dunling.

But suddenly an expressionless face flashed before Lorenzo's eyes, Lorenzo remembered him, the Baron Abel, but now the **** has a demented face, his eyes are hollow and his head is drooping. On one side, as if he had lost his soul, he sat in a wheelchair and let the doctor push him away.

"what happened to him?"

Lorenzo asked subconsciously, he didn't care about people like Baron Abel, but when he saw those hollow eyes, he felt as if he was staring at something strange, and felt the chills. .

   "It's just a fool."

  Arthur said slowly.

"What's the meaning?"

   "Let me talk to you slowly, that Master Lawrence almost cut my trachea. I dare not cough now."

   Arthur clutched his chest, his face twisted slightly every time he spoke.

  "This is one of the early findings of the decontamination agency."

  In the empty corridor, Joey pushed his wheelchair, and the three of them strolled and talked like this.

  "We have discovered several stages of the erosion of demons. The first stage is to feel all kinds of constantly amplified negative emotions, the second stage is the beginning of hallucinations, confusion, and even madness, and the third stage is demonization."

   Arthur's voice seemed a bit long. He didn't say where the information came from, so that things that abandon humanity do not need to be exposed to the sun.

  The experimenter and the demon are in the same cage, but there is an iron fence between the two. They witnessed the despair and madness of the experimenter, and finally turned into the same monster as the demon.

  And this kind of experiment is more than once, sometimes in order to save humanity, it is necessary to abandon humanity first.

  "We have discovered a very interesting phenomenon. The key to the erosion of demons is in the third stage. As long as they do not enter the third stage, normal people will only become lunatics, not demons."

   "So we conducted many experiments, and even said that the death row prisoners of Old Dunling were used up by us.

  We found a theorem that when the monster cannot be observed, erosion will stagnate. "

"What's the meaning?"

  "Understand it this way, Mr. Holmes, how do you observe the world?"

   Arthur saw that Lorenzo was confused and led him to think, but he did not give Lorenzo a chance to answer, he said immediately.

"It uses visual, tactile, auditory, taste, etc. perception organs. It is precisely because we can perceive the existence of the world with these perception organs. Then another way of thinking, if we can’t perceive anything, then does the world correspond? Doesn’t exist in terms of it?"

"Is it because of our observation, right? Hundreds of years ago, people like you would be regarded as heretics and would be executed by fire, or would be executed by Michael the Demon Hunter, burned to the point where there is no ashes left. ."

  Lorenzo's expression could not help being solemn, Arthur's words are like a madman's theorem, but this theorem is absurd and weirdly true.

"So you demon hunting sect is not willing to welcome the new era and push everything to the head of God. We are different. We believe in science, technology, and something that can be formulated. It does not stem from the gift of anyone. Belongs to us."

   Arthur continued.

"These observed data will eventually be transmitted to our brains. If we accept normal information, we won’t be abnormal. But when the received information comes from the erosion of demons? It’s very polluting and incomprehensible. Absurd and unacceptable forces will use this as a medium to invade our brains."

  "After several autopsy, we can prove this. All demonization starts in the brain first. Open the head and you will find their diseased brain."

  The empty corridor seemed so silent, so silent that everyone's breathing and heartbeat could be heard.

"so what?"

  Lorenzo looked at Arthur. As he had guessed before, the cleaning agency knew far more things than it appeared on the surface, but he didn't expect to be so shocked.

   "So, what if we cut off all the means of information transmission before the brain disease, that is, before the third stage of erosion begins?"

  Arthur raised his head, looked at Lorenzo, and said blasphemous words.

"As long as the bridge connecting with the outside world is cut off, you can't see, hear, smell... refuse to accept all the information, then does it mean that the erosion of the demons can no longer deepen, or in the eyes of the parties, the demons Doesn’t exist anymore, even the whole world doesn’t exist anymore?"

  "Enclose the whole brain..."

   Arthur said with a smile.

   "If it can't be observed, then it doesn't exist."

   "I will introduce to you, one of the most cruel operations in human history, the prefrontal lobe resection."

  　The reason for the setting is that it’s boring to unfold it all at once, take it easy

  (End of this chapter)