Ember Gun

  Chapter 469 Pursuit [Thanks to the lord of Meina Muse]

The industrial facilities in the machinery yard work tirelessly. When you look up, you can see the molten iron pouring down like a waterfall. They are burnt red, like the melting sun, poured into the mold below, and flow like a river along the channel. Through this black land.

  The heat wave came, because the turbulent shrike handed Lorenzo a respirator. Under these conditions, you must be equipped with such equipment. Otherwise, once the hot air is inhaled, the fragile respiratory tract of humans will be instantly scorched.

"follow me."

  Shrike's voice looked a little fuzzy, he waved to Lorenzo, countless sparks floating in the sky.

  In this huge building, the sound of heavy hammers is continuous. It is so loud, like a giant wielding a hammer, creating a weapon for killing gods.

Lorenzo does not come here very often, let alone witnessing this kind of full-scale operation. Many staff can be seen walking through it. They are like arsonist troops, wearing heavy asbestos clothing, and their eyes are covered. Hidden under the thick lenses, he laboriously manipulates this behemoth.

   "Huh, this place is like the **** of lava."

  Walking into the elevator, Shrike pulled off the respirator, which he wore panicked.

   "This is industry... the iron cavalry and chivalry of the old age are vulnerable to it."

  Lorenzo ignored the shrike. He leaned on the edge of the elevator and saw the outside structure through the hollowed out gap.

As people in the old Dunling often mentioned, the mechanical courtyard hollowed out the ground, the elevator fell in the endless abyss, and the flowing firelight could be seen in the darkness. Those were molten iron that penetrated into the ground along the channel. They Being poured into different equipment, forging steel weapons.

The sound of crashing water sounded from the end of the darkness. Lorenzo knew exactly what it was. In order to cool down such an industrial system, the Institute of Mechanical Engineering drew the Thames River over. The scream of steam sounded, and hot gas was in the elevator. The periphery passed quickly, leaving only a layer of cold condensate on the surface of the steel.

  "Every time I see these, I am surprised to realize that this is the real old Dunling...or ‘dunling’."

  Lorenzo slowly said that these innumerable complex systems constituted the entire old Dunling. They controlled the city, and with human power, they achieved near-divine feats.

   "Yes, most people don't believe in the nonsense of hollowing out the underground, but this is indeed true. This is a war factory, and we have many such factories."

  Shrike also approached, the friction of the sliding rail sounded, and several black skeletons were hoisted, passing in front of the two of them, and rising upward.

  The elevator stopped at the bottom of the abyss. In Lorenzo’s memory, they had just descended along the main road of the Pillar of the Furnace. They are now at the root of the steel tree, the pump of perpetual motion.

  The iron door opened. After the smoke and dust passed, Meilin had been waiting for a long time.

  "Long time no see, Mr. Holmes."

  Merlin smiled as much as possible on the dead man's face, and didn't say much, but just stepped aside and signaled Lorenzo to follow.

   "Our time is tight, so I will make a long story short...how much do you know about the progress of the Red News incident?"

  "Not too much, I just know that you succeeded in regaining sanity for some crazy guys, but the time to maintain sanity is very short." Lorenzo told the news he knew.

"Almost, do you remember the prefrontal lobe resection that I mentioned to you before? According to our long-term research on the perpetual pump, we have found that the erosion of demons is a cognitive hazard. As long as we maintain our sanity, this This kind of harm will continue to approach, but if we interrupt our channel of'cognition', we can block this kind of harm. In the same way, the subject's own will will be imprisoned under the skull and become a mere instinct. Reactive fool."

  Merlin walked fast. Lorenzo hadn’t seen this weird alchemist for a long time. From the perspective of his actions, he was much more active than before. It seemed that the discovery of knowledge also made him very excited.

"We transferred a few death inmates from the prison to conduct experiments, and let them stay in the same room with the captured monsters for a long time. Of course, there was an iron fence in the middle. Being able to escape from this environment, they began to experience self-harm and other phenomena."

  Another voice rang around, a woman.

   Dean Abigail didn’t know he walked out from there, followed Merlin’s team, and added to Lorenzo as he walked.

   "Dean Abigail? I thought you wouldn't be here."

  Lorenzo looked a little surprised when he saw Abigail. He vaguely remembered that the Pump of Perpetual Motion had little cooperation with the Black Mountain Hospital.

"The red news incident has dealt a great blow to the scientific research forces of the cleansing organization. In order to find out the truth, I am willing to temporarily come to this ghost place and cooperate with these people," Abigail explained to Lorenzo, "We control After the death row prisoners’ self-harm, they tied them up, and then, as we know, they began to alienate under the erosive environment for a long time.”

"First, there was an abnormal change in the body, and then the spirit began to go crazy. At this time, we terminated the experiment, rescued the condemned person, and after controlling it, we tested him. He was eroded to the middle of the second stage. The erosion has already begun to be irreversible. Although there is theoretically hope that it can be saved, the hope is too slim."

"and then?"

"After leaving the corrosive environment, the alienation on his body began to stop, and there are signs of recovery, but his sanity failed to recover, and the whole person is in a state of madness...Most of the patients in our Montenegro hospital are in this state. They are in this state. It was eroded when dealing with demons. Although he survived, his sanity was also completely shattered."

  Abigail flips through the experiment log in his hand.

"We are thinking about why they are crazy. I know this sounds a bit dizzy, but Lorenzo, you should have experienced it. In fact, before you are completely alienated into a monster, your will will be suppressed by erosion. Get into a kind of'entanglement'."

   "Entangled?"

   "Yes, it's like sleeping late in the morning, one voice says to get up, one voice says to continue to sleep, this is almost the case when we face the erosion of demons. Will will be tested, will it be surrendered or resisted?"

  Abigail shrugged.

   "However, in the face of the erosion of demons, our final outcome is surrender. The struggle is only to delay the time we become monsters."

"We have done many tests, and although there is no clear conclusion, it can be roughly speculated that madness is a kind of self-protection, instinctively blocking the input of external'information', just like a frontal lobe resection, but this This method cannot prevent the spread of erosion. It is only deceiving ourselves. In order to reproduce the scene at the time, after the madness, we put the death row prisoners in the erosion environment again. Under the pressure of erosion, their will was reconsidered."

   "Then they are sober?" Lorenzo asked.

   "Yes, to be precise, I was awake briefly.

   Faced with erosion again, it was just to re-advance their interrupted ‘alienation’. The self-protection mechanism was broken. Like a charming dream, he woke up and returned to **** again. "

   Abigail continued.

   "Although it is cruel, it does give us a better understanding of the relationship between erosion and sanity, and provides clues for us to find out the truth about the Hongxun incident."

  Merlin stopped and stopped in front of a steel gate.

  Lorenzo looked up, he remembered the door.

  Along with the tightening of the chain, the steel door was mechanically pushed and opened little by little. From the cracked narrow gap, bright light could be seen, and the old dust was dancing like a moth under the light.

  The core experimental area and workshop of Perpetual Pump.

Just as remembered, there are several large elevators built on the surrounding iron wall. Soldiers are ready on it. The aluminized rifles are all ignited. Above the higher dome, there are dark silhouettes. Looking at the light, Lorenzo knew exactly what those things were from the hideous outline.

   "Welcome to the workshop!"

  Percival's voice echoed through the radio in this huge cylindrical space, and the silhouette above the dome stood up. It was extremely tall and waved downward.

After experiencing the deadly battle in the storm, Percival was also traumatized and eroded. According to the estimation of the perpetual pump, she is no longer suitable for driving a generation of armor with a higher proportion of demons, and for her mental state. , Now Percival’s car is the latest third-generation armor.

The proportion of monsters is only in the key part of the structure, and the rest is supplemented by advanced mechanical technology. The power is also replaced by new energy paint antimony. After several actual combat tests, the current third-generation armor is already fast in performance. Approaching the second-generation armor.

These are not the key points. The most important thing is that the third-generation armor can be mass-produced to a certain extent. Lorenzo saw in the elevator that the black skeleton is the central frame of the third-generation armor, and the third-generation armor has a very small mental burden on the driver, and It can be replaced by different equipment to adapt to different battlefields. Now the three-generation armor is the primary item of the perpetual pump.

   "This experiment will be escorted by the Percival Knight Commander."

  Merlin said to Lorenzo.

   "Why, don't you believe I can hit ten?"

  Lorenzo revealed Winchester under his coat and said jokingly.

   "I believe it, but didn't you warn me? We may wake up something terrible, and Lorenzo, no matter how powerful you are, there is only one person." Merlin said solemnly.

   There was a burst of iron humming from above, and the steam engine roared. Percival drove the third-generation armor code-named "Lancer" to the edge of the platform.

The same as the previous three generations of armor, because most of the mechanical structures are used, the body is like a giant steel beast. The key parts are protected by external armor. There are also a certain number of fuel tanks on the back for propulsion, but the most eye-catching Is it still the arms on its back.

  It is called Lancer because of the customized equipment it carries. The gears turned slowly, and a huge, complicated-structured firearm was lifted from the shoulders, and then dropped in front of the Lancer, holding the large firearm with both hands. It was so huge, like a knight's long spear.

  The shell is filled from the upper part of the lance. Due to technical limitations, it uses a large bullet nest, just like a revolver, but the volume of the ammunition is too large, which is the capacity of four consecutive rounds.

   "The Lancer is in place."

  Percival's voice sounded from the radio. Lorenzo looked at the weird lance, which seemed to be a new weapon for the perpetual pump, but Lorenzo still didn't know the actual combat effect.

   "The rest is up to you, Lorenzo."

  Shrike who had been following behind suddenly said, he patted Lorenzo on the shoulder, and then ran to the edge of the workshop.

  The iron rope fell from above, and the Shrike grabbed it and stepped on the bulge at the end of the iron rope. With the rotation of the winch, the whole person was dragged upward.

   "The sword dancer is in place."

Another third-generation armor appeared on the top of the dome. After the storm in the Black Mountain Hospital, at the strong request of Shrike, his car was replaced with a third-generation armor with higher safety. However, some of the armor was targeted at the driver. The custom-made Shrike is still being built in the furnace for the time being, so he can only wrong him to use this mass-produced sword dancer.

  Two sharp giant blades exude cold light, and all security weapons are in place.

  "The ‘tracking’ begins."

  Melin said to the communicator.

The surrounding lights turned into alarm yellow and kept flashing off, and the steel gates behind them slowly closed together, like interlaced canine teeth, biting each other to death. Then a patter of rain fell from the dome, baptized with neutralizing liquid. At this dirty workshop.

   "So who is the goal of this final experiment?"

   The patter of rain has cooled the sultry underground facility a lot. Feeling the coolness coming from the face, Lorenzo only remembered this question at this time.

   "William, the last chief technical officer of Perpetual Pump, the main person in the Red News incident."

  Merlin walked forward as they said. The medical staff had already stood by. As the experiment began, they cleared the road, revealing the equipment that was in the middle of the workshop.

  It was a device similar to an electric chair. Lorenzo remembered that he had sat on this kind of ghost when he was examined at the Montenegro Hospital. The doctors called Lorenzo the birdcage.

"He didn't declare, he started a secret experiment, and then the experiment got out of control, and terrible erosion erupted from the inside of the perpetual pump. Afterwards, we investigated the defense and there was no trace of monster invasion, which means that the erosion occurred out of thin air. Then the detailed information about the experiment also disappeared in the eroded outbreak, and the main participants either became monsters, or, just like him, became lunatics."

  Merlin came to the electric chair. At this moment, an old man with turbid consciousness was strapped to his head. His appearance has been specially modified, and it does not look so unbearable.

   "It's so pitiful, the once extremely intelligent soul is now imprisoned in such a poor body..."

  Merlin sighed.

"So you are going to let him accept the erosion again and carry out the unfinished alienation, so as to obtain information related to the red news? You should know what this means. After the experiment started, William's life was only left for a few minutes. Alienated, he is destined to be killed."

   Lorenzo asked. For a moment, he also thought about using Power Gabriel, but when he thought of Watson’s warning, he hesitated.

  "What we need is a sage who can lead us back to the source of the monster, not a mad mental illness all day long. In fact, William died as early as the red news incident, and now he is just a poor walking dead."

  Merlin did not waver at all, he was very resolute, and when he knew this, he made up his mind. Now he is very sensible.

  "What we have to do now is to bring William to life, and to bring the hopeful William to life."

   "What about the demon?"

  Lorenzo no longer said anything, Merlin's attitude was so determined that all that was needed now was to carry out all this. He looked around and couldn't find the trace of the demon, and the workshop had been blocked since the beginning.

   "Demon?"

  Merlin listened to Lorenzo's words and turned around. Under absolute reason, he was as cold as a machine.

   "Isn't there one here now?"

  Merlin said, his hollow eyes fell on Lorenzo.

  (End of this chapter)