Ember Gun

  Chapter 262 Merlin's Cliff

  The endless skylight fell, shining on this messy battlefield.

  Two extreme monsters are fighting here, and the fierce battle is finally over, leaving only this frightening scenery.

  Shards of blood and machinery, they are scattered all over the ground, like a slaughterhouse of some kind of machinery and flesh and blood creatures, the disgusting taste is mixed together, shocking everyone's taste.

  The wriggling flesh and blood gradually fell asleep. As Lorenzo cut the connection between the two, the irritable armor also lost all power, and knelt motionless on the metal wreck.

  Yexiao looked at Lorenzo in disbelief. With the light behind his back, he could only see the vague darkness, like a shadow under the sun.

"How are you?"

   Lorenzo asked, he showed the power of the black angel and remained awake, but under the influence of the erosion, he still appeared a little shake, such as emotional anger.

  Because of these interferences, it also contributed to the current tragic situation of the sword dancer. Lorenzo originally intended to make him incapacitate, but he played a few more times and completely scrapped the armor.

   "I...I'm okay..."

   Ye Xiao was a little startled, he was so close to death, he even said that he had just thought he was dead, and then the shadow stretched out his hand to him.

  ……

"what happened?"

  Nikolai was lying on the edge of the elevator platform, looking down below. He had prepared for a time out of control of his armor, but when the situation was going to the end, everything suddenly stopped.

  The Geiger index began to fall, and the constant ringing of alarms gradually stopped as all this ended. Everyone's faces were terrified, until Merlin suddenly laughed.

   "Should I say, is it a witcher?"

  Looking at Lorenzo, who had not figured out the situation below, Merlin made no secret of praise.

   "He hasn't lost control?"

  Nicholas also slowed down. If the black angel loses control, it will not stop at all. It will kill Ye Xiao first, and then himself.

"Of course, he is a demon hunter, a demon hunter with secret blood...Many times the secret blood awakening is actually based on the same principle as the driving armor. It is to awaken a certain forbidden power with the will of a mortal. Stay awake under the horrible pressure."

  Merlin said and patted his palm gently. Lorenzo not only proved the ability of the first generation of armor, but also proved his own ability.

"Unlike us, we only need to resist the erosion while driving the armor. In the long life of the demon hunters, they have been dealing with the forbidden power at all times. The long-term erosion has already made their will be incomparable. Strong, how could the erosion of this armor affect him?"

  "Restrictor..."

  What else does Nicolas want to say? Unlike Merlin, he doesn’t understand these mysterious academics at all. What he can trust is only the stable values ​​derived from the formula.

   "It's very simple. Do you think a rusty blade can give a swordsman full power? The same goes for the black angel."

  The bound black angel cannot show Lorenzo's full power. They complement each other and turn into a terrifying existence like a nightmare.

   "Such a powerful single combat capability, this is Lorenzo's first test drive, and without external weapon support, he can easily defeat a heavily armed sword dancer."

  Merlin said, still staring down, Lorenzo was slamming the steel, trying to drag Ye Xiao out of it.

   "Then... Do you want to continue the development of a generation of armor?"

   asked Nikolai.

As a person highly recommended by Merlin, the Pump of Perpetual Motion has always been rumored that Nicholas can start a new era, and he also represents the side of the Pump of Perpetual Motion for rational science. Now Lorenzo has proved that a generation of armor Potential, based on the demon technology, may suppress the rational side.

  But in the next picture, the worried Nikolai did not expect Merlin to shook his head and vetoed these.

   "No, on the contrary, we have to do our best to develop the third-generation armor."

"Why?"

  Nicholas was a little puzzled.

  Merlin was a little dazed at first, and then seemed to think of something, his tone was a bit naive.

   "Because this is the future."

  "Like alchemy, the first generation of armor is so powerful and efficient, but after all, it can only serve the few people, very few special people. Do you think our ordinary people can have the same resistance as a demon hunter?"

  The alchemy is dead, and the last alchemists have insisted on this, even now.

  "The third generation of armor is our future. The future of most people, even if it has not been specialized like a knight commander, ordinary knights such as Ye Xiao can be armed and have the power to fight a generation of armor...

  Maybe one person can’t beat it, how about hundreds? Hundreds of heavily armed armors of original sin, they are a torrent of steel, an unstoppable tide of death.

  Efficient production of modern industry is our advantage, not to mention that we have discovered crude oil as a new energy source. This is the future, the future of most people, and the future of armor. "

  Nicolas looked at Merlin in disbelief, and he asked slowly after a long time.

   "Then the so-called alchemy will be forgotten by then, right?"

  "This is the progress of the times, the elimination of good and bad." Mei Lin replied almost indifferently.

   "So you are destined to not see the truth that you have been pursuing for a long time, right?"

Nicholas is not an alchemist, but he has been with Merlin for so long. Although he has maintained a terrible sense of reason, he will still be a little shaken when the temptation of truth appears, just like the greed for knowledge. So, falling into a slightly crazy attachment.

  But if Merlin had expected it, he might no longer be able to peek at the truth he was seeking.

  Old memories will arise at this moment for some reason, Mei Lin murmured.

   "I don't know why, I suddenly thought of my teacher."

Nicholas was silent. He didn't know how to answer the conversation. Perhaps the heart of awe was surging. He was joined by the pump of perpetual motion, and Merlin was like his teacher for a long time. In general, although there is no official recognition, Nikolai feels this way.

  Merlin started talking to herself on the sidelines.

   "In fact, if people live too long, those things in the past will become hazy. Sometimes when you think about it suddenly, you will feel strange, suddenly feeling the same after so long..."

  As he said, there were weird tears in his hollow eyes.

   "Merlin..."

Nicholas was a little at a loss. He had never seen Merlin cry. He might have never thought that people like Merlin had the ability to shed tears. Sometimes these real helms who cleaned the organs were just like that. It was cold. It is like a stone sculpture that has lost its soul, as if no matter how cruel the decision is, it is as light as a feather in their hands.

  Most of the time these people are hard to be called humans, but Nicholas thinks they are monsters in human skin...only monsters can contend against monsters.

   "That is really an unforgettable memory. Maybe everyone's good memories originate from the time of school."

  Merlin said softly. For most of them, the good memories may be concentrated in that period of school. Everyone sits in the classroom and listens to class, meets classmates, has friendship and happiness, and even the ignorant love.

   "Presumably the same is true for you, right, Nicholas, life on campus is always so fascinating, and I am no exception, although I am an alchemist."

  As he talked, he laughed suddenly, and didn't wait for Nikolai to answer, maybe he didn't want to get any answer.

   "If people are clay sculptures, that period of time should be our softest time, distorted into different appearances by the things we touch, in fact, a big factor in my current appearance comes from that time."

"My teacher has influenced me a lot. The first thing he taught me is to hold a sword and take me to the door to kill all kinds of alchemists...Of course, we will let them make a living for those alchemists who cooperate, do you think Are we crazy?"

  Merlin suddenly looked at him as she spoke, tears in her hollow eyes, which was so weird, but Nicholas felt an indescribable sadness.

"Actually, the idea that alchemy is dead was proposed by my teacher, but at the beginning he worked hard with the idea of ​​saving alchemy. He is not only an excellent alchemist, but also a powerful swordsman. He feels that alchemy The teachers have been fighting each other for too long. Everyone is so greedy and unwilling to share knowledge with others. This will only make the alchemist continue to decline.

  So I followed him north and south, using my sword to persuade those stubborn old guys, we tried to unite all the alchemists, put everyone's knowledge together, to restore the truth..."

  Merlin's words stopped suddenly, seeming to be swallowed by the tide of memories, and it took a long time for him to continue slowly.

"But human beings are like this, ridiculous and pitiful. Everything we do is in vain. The once passionate teacher is also decadent. Alchemy is dead and destined to die, or it is like this, tempting humans to move forward, but It leaves us with flaws that cannot be repaired, so we can only kneel down and plead for the door of truth."

  Nicolas lost consciousness for a while. He looked at Merlin and felt the unknown for the first time.

Many people know that there are too many secrets in Merlin’s mind, but few people have thought about Merlin’s own secrets. Hearing all this, Nicholas can feel the sadness. The guy who used blood to save alchemy finally came up with the idea that alchemy is dead...

   "Pursuing the truth? That is a good ideal, but the ideal will be replaced by a better ideal."

  Merlin replied like this, with empty eyes and expressionless face, and changed back to the way he used to be. He has always been like this, and all emotional activities require others to guess.

"I agree with the saying that we are all travelers walking on the fragile ice, going to the place where we will eventually arrive in the cold wind, but the ice cannot bear our weight, and we have to leave it on the way forward. What... it's just like our sanity, Nicholas."

  Merlin looked at the young child, he wore a sick face, with dark circles under his eyes because of the long working hours.

  "We need to ensure our own sanity, but human beings are all poor guys with emotions and desires, so our...at least there is such a cliff in my heart."

   "Cliff?"

  "The sensible cliff, the lazy Merlin, the angry Merlin, the ridiculous Merlin... They walked up the cliff one by one, pushed down by the sensible Merlin, and fell to the bottom..."

  The alchemist was expressionless and said the most feared words.

  One by one, Merlin lined up to advance, their silhouettes stretched for several thousand meters, walked blankly to the sensible cliff, and jumped.

"The cowardly Merlin, the greedy Merlin, the cowardly Merlin, they all died. They died in the valley under the cliff, and the corpse became a hill. But this is not enough. Our destination is still too far away, for All of this we still need to stay sensible and go further.

  So to kill more emotions. "

  The voice was so plain, with a bone-to-shoulder cold inside. It was a person's self-destruction, and in this underground world, everyone seemed to be like this. Nicholas even forgot to breathe.

   Countless people leaped from the peak of reason, fell into blood and blood, and then were buried by more corpses, group after group, accumulating, and dying.

"Of course, sometimes other Merlins don’t want to be like this. The easy Merlin wants to give up. He wants to escape, and the painful Merlin can’t bear it. He wailes and leaves... But they still died. They were killed by the sane Merlin. He was A cold murderous demon, chasing everything except reason."

  Melin said and laughed. Sometimes reason and madness are just a thin line apart. Even the most knowledgeable doctor can sometimes not distinguish all of this.

"For that lofty ideal, we used all means to rationally kill all the unnecessary emotions that might interfere with us. So the stubborn Merlin, the longing Merlin, the selfish Merlin, and even the truth-seeking Merlin, they are all pushed to the bottom. "

The sensible Merlin stood on the cliff with the howling wind blowing, his face was cold and he was holding the blood-stained sword. He was doing what he considered noble, but the sword in his hand was doing the most brutal slaughter, just like that. Crazy lunatic.

  The sensible Merlin whispered repeatedly.

  "Keep your mind, keep your mind..."

  Only by staying sensible, he can make correct decisions. Only by staying sensible can he not be invaded by demons. Only by staying sensible can the night of fear come to dawn.

   Stay sane.

A patter of rain fell on the top of the dome. They washed the blood-stained iron wall and neutralized the pollution remaining due to erosion. It rained on Nicholas and Merlin. The two did not speak any more. Just waiting for the end of it all.

  (End of this chapter)