Ember Gun

  Chapter 491 Desperate Cemetery

  A world war, the war that sweeps every inch of land, no one can stay out of it.

A storm rolled up in Lorenzo's mind, and he began to realize these changes, Lawrence’s Secret Blood Legion, the reincarnation of the builders, the doomed battle of the doomsday... All of this is advancing like crazy, Like the wheels of history, he thought he had the ability to stop these, but found that everything was walking with it.

   Arthur's eyes were dull, his pupils shrunk to a point, and he looked straight at the queen, his voice did not fluctuate at all, it was like a machine.

   "What about the reason for the war?"

  "This is what I want to explain. After so many years of research on the cleansing agency, have you ever thought about the connection between monsters and us?"

   asked the queen back, she seemed to know everything.

"No, it is a bit inaccurate to say that. I have also read Mr. Holmes’ report and Merlin’s feedback. In essence, the'monster' is just a by-product. What really threatens the survival of mankind is something called'erosion'. ."

  The queen continued to add that this is the conclusion drawn after experiencing various events and the recent traceability experiment.

  "The real epidemic is the so-called erosion. Demons are just sick humans. This has always been a civil war between humans."

  She raised her head and looked at the only beam of light in the dome.

"Light, we can't observe the existence of light intuitively, but we can realize its existence from the side of things that are reflected, and the same is true for erosion. We can feel the depression and hear the Geiger counter. The tweets of, and the changes of demons, these are all evidence of erosion from the sidelines, but we have not intuitively noticed it."

  The queen said and looked at Lorenzo again. She seemed to know something, and Lorenzo's heart was flustered by the dumb eyes.

  Although he didn't want to admit it, at a certain moment, Lorenzo seemed to realize the source of the demon, or the source of erosion.

  Power·Gabriel.

  After being sublimated, Lorenzo's emptiness will itself become a source of erosion, like light, invisible and intangible, but it can detonate amazing power from nothingness.

In fact, it is somewhat inappropriate to take Lorenzo himself as an example. He is not completely nihilistic. Lorenzo still has a physical basis. As Watson said, Lorenzo is incomplete [sublimation]. Rather than a failed [sublimation].

  Each power corresponds to a characteristic of a demon, and power Gabriel may correspond to those weird angels, silencers, and shepherds.

The cold sweat soaked Lorenzo's back, maybe... maybe those weird guys are the source of the erosion, and myself, this power named Mighty Gabriel, the end of this [sublimation], will it? Yes……

   "The knowledge among the builders of the country has also been missing a lot with the iteration, but there are some secrets inside that do support part of the cognition of demons."

  The queen's words interrupted Lorenzo's thinking. She did not continue with the previous topic, but mentioned something else.

  "For example, your so-called shepherd theory may disappoint you. This was realized by the builders hundreds of years ago. The world is covered by invisible fences and humans live in it ignorantly.

  It is necessary to know that the history of mankind is very long. In this long history, there are similar suitors to the unknown. Most of them have died, but there is still something left behind. "

Lorenzo understands what the queen means, just like Shermans’s notes, Merlin’s research, Lorenzo Medici’s obsession, none of these people have much to do with each other, but they have a tacit understanding of the same thing. Pursuing.

This reminds Lorenzo of what Oscar once said. At the time, the two were talking about writing. Oscar said that if you have a shocking idea, then there is no need to rejoice, because there must be another person in this world who thinks of it. NS.

   "Then... why hide the secret?"

   Arthur questioned at this time, so it seems that the interrogation experiment is meaningless, and the builders of the country have already grasped this part of the situation.

   "If your country builders don't keep secrets like this, the red news incident can be completely avoided...that's right."

  The anger that Arthur had just risen weakened again. He looked at the queen and realized the origin of this sorrow. He could only lower his head and be tortured by the pain of knowledge.

"Arthur, knowledge is cursed. The royal family has prevented William from exploring more than once, because we are very clear about the results of the exploration, which is a disaster, but we have no way to warn him, because this will inevitably trigger the information threshold, Causing disaster."

  The queen said helplessly.

"But we still underestimated a scholar's pursuit of knowledge. He started the experiment privately. All we can do is keep the harm to a minimum. The same is true for your investigation experiment. You should have seen those angels. "

  Arthur nodded stiffly. This is the sad part of this world. The royal family has long known all the secrets, but they cannot tell others. This knowledge cannot be passed on. It is cursed.

"Because of this, I guess that the predecessors might be afraid of causing greater disasters. They castrated themselves, blurred the division of historical times, deified demons, and actively abandoned most of the alchemy knowledge, making people as ignorant as possible. So that more people can survive."

  The queen guessed about the past.

  "And this is the main reason why human beings have been unable to defeat demons. Our knowledge cannot be passed on. Even if someone knows it, it may trigger the threshold of information and be killed by the descending angel."

   "Keep silent."

  Lorenzo said suddenly, he realized what the world was like now.

"Humans live in a fence of ignorance. Shepherds keep the sheep quiet, so as not to be hunted by hungry wolves outside the fence... Then why do they need to kill lambs on a large scale? Obviously they don't know anything, neither It will trigger the information threshold, and it will not attract the attention of hungry wolves."

  "Because the fence is not big enough, Mr. Holmes, there is only a fixed amount of humans we can protect."

  The queen tells the amazing secret.

"According to hundreds of years of investigation by the builders of the country, we will find that no matter **** the demons, they will continue to appear. To be precise, this'eroding' disease will continue to spread and cannot be controlled at all. Just like the detection of a Geiger counter. Similarly, erosion can be regarded as a kind of radiation, so there must be some kind of radiation source in this world that is spreading disease."

  The queen looked at Lorenzo, and then asked.

   "You also have such a concept within the Demon Hunting Order, right? Just like the lie of the Saint's Night, you have captured the source of the concept of ‘Demon’."

Lorenzo did not answer this question. In fact, it seems that the Demon Hunting Order may also be right. The silent will and the nature of continuous diffusion and erosion are in line with the concept of a walking "demon", but Lorenzo Clearly, as shepherds, they should not be the source, at least not the main source.

  Like a big river, they are just one small branch.

   "Have you found the radiation source?" Lorenzo asked.

"No, but I got an interesting data, which may not be accurate, but just like breathing. Every once in a while, demons will appear on a large scale, which means that the uncertain radiation source will spread by a large margin. Erosion, and this value is related to human population. The current world population value has exceeded the fixed value, and the next round of monster disasters is about to move."

   "A birth control mechanism, when the human population reaches a certain value, they will come out to harvest a round to ensure that the human population is at a stable value." Lorenzo said.

   "Almost, but you made a mistake. The real birth control mechanism is the country builder. We set off various incidents to drastically reduce the population so as to avoid the large-scale spread of erosion."

  The queen looked at the darkness around her, she continued.

  "Mr. Holmes, I know that you still have suspicions about me, but this is no way. Knowledge has been contaminated. All we can do is believe foolishly. Do you know the Plan of Dying?"

  She mentioned the Dunling Plan again, and Lorenzo remembered it. In the fine weather, the tall Dunling Pagoda can be clearly seen no matter where it is in the old Dunling.

The Dunling Project is a technological innovation led by the Perpetual Pump. If the plan succeeds, the world will take a big step into the electrical age, but in the end it was stopped, and the dust was sealed in the archives. The only thing left is It exists in the old Dunling and serves to eliminate the organs.

"In fact, the main reason for the suspension of the Dunling Project was the will of the builders of the country. It will bring prosperity and disaster. You may not understand this, but it is easy to use the disaster plan to eliminate the agency. It's easy to explain."

The queen turned her head and looked at Arthur, probably because there are too many things he knows today. Arthur’s eyes are bloodshot. It is difficult for him to describe his mood at the moment. He has been chasing things for so long. The royal family knew it, but they were silent about it out of so-called protection.

  Arthur felt betrayed, and felt worthless for those who died. Faces of death flashed before him, and there were too many names worth telling.

   "I remember that plan was called a technological disaster.

A hundred years ago, our communication needed carriages and letters. They were awkward and slow, but with technological innovation and the continuous development of transportation and communication technology, once out of reach areas became within reach, and the entire world became smaller for humans. , The unknown land on the map is clearly marked.

This kind of thing should have made people happy, but the builders of the country expressed concern about it, eroding the memetic diffusion method. Once we only needed to completely burn a city and kill all the insiders to block it. , But now with the development of communications, we need to do more and more, and even say that antimemetic forces have appeared, but even so, it is difficult to contain these.

  In the face of large-scale erosion and explosion, technology will accelerate our deaths. "

   "So this is why the Dunling Project was stopped? Is it just that?"

   Arthur questioned, he was angry, and the queen had no idea how many people's pursuit of knowledge had been ruined by such an act.

"Sorry, we can only do this. Compared to the safety of all mankind, the price is too small," the Queen continued. The memetic nature, this time we may not have time to stop it, and we will fall completely."

  "Are you controlling the progress of technology?" Lorenzo asked.

   "Yes, just like this."

  As the queen's voice fell, the light beams that had been illuminating several people dispersed, and they spread to the dark corners, reflecting them.

Lorenzo looked around, there was still most of it in the darkness, but from the illuminated silhouette, he saw the things hidden in the darkness, one after another, which he had never seen before. Equipment, they are enclosed in a transparent container filled with protective oil.

  Like the corpse specimen immersed in formalin, there is a steel corpse in each container. They are like erected copper pillars, densely covering the space below.

  "New-style steam engine, Otto internal combustion engine, Turing machine..."

  The queen looked at the copper pillars below, and said strange words one after another.

The light passed by, Lorenzo was completely sluggish, the strong light outlined one after another hideous machine, and some were too huge, were directly exposed to the air, Lorenzo had never seen such a machine. It is like a bird, with huge wings and a heavy tank with a huge cannon standing above it.

"You must know that human wisdom cannot be underestimated. The perpetual pumps and other institutions of the country builders and new technologies of the past 100 years are gathered here, but they are all judged by the country builders to affect the survival of mankind. Stable, and thus be sealed here."

   Arthur’s eyes trembled. He knew very well that a random technique used here would have a great potential to affect the world today, but now they are like specimens, being housed here without seeing the sun.

  "This is...the cemetery of technology."

  The queen looked sadly at all this, this magnificent cemetery.

  "This world is an extremely perfect cage. Knowledge about demons cannot be passed on. Over-advanced technology will also lead to disasters. Humans can only find a strenuous balance in this and live on their dying breath."

  "Have you...never thought of using these technologies? Maybe we can win this war?"

   Arthur asked naively.

"If mankind really has the power to defeat all of this head-on, then why would the Golden Dawn collapse?" the queen asked, "all of our technologies are based on the secret guards, and the secret guards themselves are most powerful in them. We haven’t been able to solve all of this at the moment, how can we do it?”

Arthur fell silent. He began to understand the despair of the queen. He was the only person in this world who knew this knowledge. Arthur saw the world clearly, but was unable to change everything. He could only be so dazed. To live, surrender to the cruel reality.

   "So... the war will continue?"

   Lorenzo asked, looking at the steel lining.

   "Yes, in order to preserve the flock, in order to maintain balance."

   "But this is not quite right...why is it like this?"

  Lorenzo was a little unacceptable, he walked to the edge, as long as he took a step forward, he would fall into the darkness, but he did not, but slowly squatted down and shrank into a ball.

   "Whatever you think is wrong, right?"

  Lorenzo has a hideous face, he can't compromise all of this.

  In the face of the cruel reality, some people will feel helpless, and some people will fall into hysterical madness.

   "Yes, it's not quite right, it shouldn't be like this, but I don't have the ability to do more things. The only thing I can do is to keep these things in mind and tell them to the latecomers."

  The queen walked over without expression. The intrusion of Wang Shu made her body weak, but she still stubbornly walked to Lorenzo's side.

  "Lorenzo Holmes.

  I know that I don’t have the right to ask you to do something for me, but I’ll take it as... a gamble, in order to break this repetitive cycle, I hope you can do the last thing for me and for everyone. "

  Lorenzo slowly raised her head and looked at the queen. She was against the light, her face rolling in pitch black.

   "Go to the end of the world, the Secret Keeper knows far more than I know. If it were you, you might find a way to get free from it."

   "Why do you think I can? So many people and so many people in history have tried it, but everyone has not been able to break free from it. Why do you think I can?"

  Lorenzo was extremely painful. At this moment, he could only feel a sense of powerlessness and despair that he had never felt before.

   "Probably...you are braver than me and everyone."

  Queen whispered.

  (End of this chapter)