Ember Gun

  Chapter 478 The End of the Road

  The smell of disinfectant water mixed with the smell of blood. They hovered beside Lorenzo, and he couldn't help but sneezed.

   Rubbed his nose vigorously, Lorenzo leaned back lazily, and then his eyes fell on the scavengers around him.

  These autistic guys are busy at the scene, laboriously carrying the wounded away. The surviving personnel have seen the appearance of the angels. Judging from the regulations, these people are now contaminated and need to be quarantined.

  The entire cleaning mechanism was running at full speed, only hearing the sound of clattering from the top of the head, the rails dragged the supplies through the various rooms, and steam surged at the end of the corridor, and the original sin armor half kneeled on the ground.

  Although the body is too large, it can only move on the guide rail in the perpetual pump, but when the original sin armor is set in the corridor, they themselves can be guarded as a solid artillery.

   "The workshop is temporarily blocked, and the residual erosion intensity inside is very high, and it may not be used for some time."

  The voice sounded from Lorenzo's side, and Arthur came over. He was always on the top of the dome, watching all the actions in the workshop.

   "What a terrible discovery, Mr. Holmes."

   Arthur took a rare cigarette, and his old hand trembled slightly, not sure if it was affected by erosion or because of fear.

  He frowned and looked at a mess in the workshop.

The solid walls of the well are covered with scars left by the claws of wild beasts. The scorched armor of Original Sin falls, white smoke is still rising from the dark skeleton, and the remaining fire is still burning, but they are dropped by the dome. With the light rain extinguished, everything gradually returned to peace.

  It’s not that the angels left nothing, their bodies turned into ashes and scattered all over the ground. They were spread over the dead corpses, as if a long time had passed, covered with dust.

"You know? According to the scavengers' inspection, the erosion intensity inside has reached a terrible value. An ordinary person will become a monster if exposed to it for a few minutes, and this power is only the remnants of those monsters' battles. ...Just such a remnant is enough to cause us death and injury countless."

Arthur sighed. He thought that after so many years of hard work, although human beings could not completely defeat demons, they should at least have the capital to fight against them. But when this deeper darkness appeared, all he could feel was A deep sense of powerlessness.

  Angels will not die, but humans will.

  Arthur turned his head and looked at Lorenzo. He was not happy to know this, but was deeply tired.

  At a certain moment, Arthur felt that he was shaking. He didn't know if he persisted like this. Is he really capable of conquering all this? It is still to maintain the balance between humans and monsters, until the near future, this balance is broken by some kind of force.

   "What are you going to do with this?"

   Lorenzo asked, the Silent, like the demon, erosion has memetic pollution. It will spread through different media. The scavengers need to strictly control all participants in this experiment.

  Not only Merlin or Arthur, but also the insiders, even the scavengers themselves should be part of the containment.

  "Ordinary employees will be amnesticized. We don't know whether this method can protect them, but at least it can block the transmission of ‘information’."

   Arthur said slowly, before the start of the experiment, he and Merlin simulated many plans based on conjecture.

   "Informers, such as me and Merlin, we will enter the scavengers' watch list, and if something goes wrong, they will deal with us."

  "Do those scavengers know this?" Lorenzo asked.

"No, the original intention of the scavengers was to take over our existence when the cleansing mechanism was corrupted and out of control by demons. After the arrival of the Nine Summer Fleet and bringing innovative technology, they gradually evolved into a memetic unit to deal with these. Incidents related to erosion and pollution."

   Arthur continued.

  "They will not know anything, they will only act according to the order, even if the target is Queen Victoria, they will firmly pull the trigger."

   "What’s left? Now that you know such precious information... Although this information itself is a vicious curse, would you guys give up easily?"

   Lorenzo asked, he really wanted to know how the cleansing agency would handle this information.

It can be said that the silencer’s information has completely subverted the cleansing agency’s previous perceptions of demons. Demons are only by-products of the epidemic. The real enemy is the weird erosion, and these identities are like shepherd’s silencers are the guardians of mankind. .

  So who is their enemy?

   "With so many people dead, will you back down? Arthur."

   Lorenzo asked, he was a little worried.

   "How can it be possible to give up?"

   Arthur said without hesitation.

"You also said that so many people have died, so many ancestors, and many more forgotten people who we have never known. After so many years and so much effort, we have finally come to this point. , Do you think it is possible for us to give up?"

There was joy suppressed in his voice, no...it should be described as ecstasy. Lorenzo looked at Arthur. He found that he was not trembling with fear. He was happy and extremely happy. If it were not to maintain his image, he They are about to jump up excitedly.

   Hot flames rolled in the old pupils, and Lorenzo saw himself in the figure of Arthur, who he was once.

  More than a year ago, in the dark tunnels of Xiacheng, he acted with a girl named Eve, where he discovered the existence of a demon in a long time.

  Lorenzo still remembers his excitement at that time, and he almost yelled out of joy. The confused life suddenly had a goal to vent.

Presumably now Arthur is in the same mentality. He and the knights who cleansed institutions, they are all advancing for a near-nothing goal. Until so many years later, Arthur finally looked on a road with almost no end. To the end.

It is impossible for him to retreat, he will run wildly, even if he falls, he can't stand up anymore, he has to climb to the end, this is the time when he is closest to all of this, how could he be scared back by death .

  "The scavengers and the pump of Perpetual Motion have already had a preliminary plan. We will renovate a laboratory to study these. It will be completely independent of the existence of the cleaning agency system and assisted by multiple agencies."

  Arthur had already prepared everything.

"The location of the entire laboratory is confidential. They have sufficient reserves. After the experiment is launched, there will be no population movement. The transportation of materials will be handled by the mechanical guide rail, and its entirety will be protected by a huge antimemetic system. , I don’t know if this can prevent those guys from coming, but this is the highest level of defense we can currently do, and then it will be under the supervision of the scavengers, with three generations of armor for protection.

All the information about the investigation experiment will be centralized and integrated, and it will be placed in a secret room in the laboratory. The secret room is only for basic experimental research and recording. No more than three people will enter at a time. Individuals have the right to get the full picture of the information in it, but after knowing this, they will be cleared of memory, that is to say, the secret of the chasing experiment, except for our brains, can only exist in that secret room. "

  He knocked on his head as he said, and after thinking hard, this is the safest way to block information.

"But someone has to know the whole picture to organize the experiment. This will be the responsibility of Merlin. He is the only person in the entire laboratory who knows the whole picture, and he will not say this. All the experimenters will only execute his research orders. May assist in research without knowing the information, just like a personal tool."

   "What about after this?"

   Lorenzo asked again.

  This time Arthur fell silent. He seemed to be thinking about something, his expression became savage, and finally he relaxed slowly.

   "I haven't thought about it yet."

   "Don't think about it?"

  Lorenzo thought he had heard it wrong.

   "Yeah, I just didn't think about it. I didn't think about the future at all. To be honest, Lorenzo, I never thought that our progress towards monsters during my tenure would be so great that I could never think of the future afterwards."

   Arthur said with a wry smile.

   "Yeah, what should I do next? No one thought about it...None of us dared to think about it more than ten years ago. We could actually fight against demons with frontal firepower."

  He looked at the wreckage of the armor. As long as the three generations of armor like this wait for the factory's production capacity, they will turn into a flood of steel to overthrow everything.

   "In short, we are moving forward, Lorenzo, no matter whether it is **** or heaven ahead, you have to walk there before you can see it."

As Arthur patted Lorenzo on the shoulder, he walked to the other side. The scene still needs Arthur's command. The new three-generation armor was put into the workshop, but this time it was not a coordinated battle, but Responsible for helping clean up the battlefield.

   is probably the reason why the third-generation armor has been mass-produced. Everyone found that this big guy has more magical uses.

   "By the way, Lorenzo, there is still something about the Victorian royal family."

  Arthur stopped suddenly, he turned around and said to Lorenzo.

   "Do you mean war?" Lorenzo said.

"Yes, this war is too weird. It started suddenly. Even I don’t know this. You must know that I am also Arthur. The Phoenix family is also a meritorious family. The queen directly ignored everyone to do this, facing me. In doubt, the queen did not reply to me. In fact, since a few days ago, she has not seen anyone, but I remember she said that she would like to see you and give you an answer, right?"

  Arthur became suspicious of the queen as early as when the war message arrived.

   "Do you think she is wrong too?"

"Well, according to previous inspections, William has applied for the experiment more than once, but it was rejected by the Victorian royal family. Only the Queen has this power. William was also overwhelmed by the desire for secrets. He conducted the experiment privately." Say.

   "But he paid the price, and his death has its due value...Although it was many years late."

  The scavengers dug out something from the hideous mess, picked up the broken and charred bones, and they reluctantly formed a broken human form.

   "Maybe it is not too late, Arthur, if William survived then, you without the armor of original sin will only cause even greater disaster."

  Lorenzo didn't think it was so bad.

"probably."

  Arthur didn't bother to continue thinking about something.

   "Then what do you need me to do, Arthur, kill the queen, master all the power, and beat the monsters in one go?"

  Lorenzo said eagerly, with a feeling that it was not too big of a problem.

"How is it possible to kill the queen who will replace her? In fact, she is the most suitable person to be a queen. The curse will always haunt the Victorian royal family. Even if they have sinful desires, their desires will be firmly locked. In the platinum palace."

  Arthur said bad things.

   "I need you to see her and see how she is."

  Lorenzo heard the overtones.

  "Do you think she might be corrupted?"

   "It is possible that there is no such proposal in the disaster plan. The high-level command will be corrupted and the communication will remain silent. At that time, there will be a scavenger to replace us... But we can't leave everything to the plan."

  Arthur took a deep breath, walked quickly to Lorenzo, and whispered to him.

  "But have you ever thought about another possibility, such as the queen has not been corrupted, she has always been very clear about what she is doing, whether to deny William's experiment or start a war. So what is her purpose?"

  Arthur's voice speeded up.

"You are right, Lorenzo, if we got this information more than ten years ago, it will not help us, but will harm us. Is it possible? The Victorian royal family has known this information for a long time, but due to the existing power They can’t handle these at all, they can only keep it secret and clean up all those who try to reach them.”

  Lorenzo felt that his thoughts were touched by something, but he did not think of it for a while, but asked instead.

   "Then the experiment is now allowed. Does the Victorian royal family feel that the existing power can handle these?"

   "No, the experiment was not allowed. The queen tried to stop before it started, but I ignored it... So if this guess is true, then she feels that the power we have now can't handle it."

  Arthur raised the volume, then left again.

   "Anyway, if the queen has something abnormal, please report it to me. Now everything is crowded together. Wars, demons, and angels are like a crazy storm. Everyone will be swallowed."

  Lorenzo looked at Arthur's back, and suddenly he thought of what he had been touched. When Arthur said his guess, he felt that the image of the Victorian royal family was so similar to the silent ones.

  They are all keeping a sinful secret, a cursed secret, but the existing power is simply not enough to deal with this despair. They can only eliminate the relevant people and control the spread of this disease as much as possible.

  Lorenzo shuddered.

  (End of this chapter)