Ember Gun

  Chapter 471 Shepherd

An invisible storm rolled up in this closed workshop, and countless ghosts accompanied the wailing to create this windless, crazy tornado. The mind and body, the metal baffle, and the armor of the armor were all violently Trembling.

   "Geiger... the index continues to rise!"

Percival’s voice sounded in the channel, intermittently due to the influence of erosion, and soon disappeared completely in the channel. Only the harsh electric current reverberated in it, and the electric current sounded continuously, like a strong wind. The sound.

   "Stay alert!"

  The voice sounded again, but this time it was not from the channel. When the channel was disturbed, Percival turned on the amplifier of the Armor of Original Sin, making his own voice echo in the workshop.

  According to the previous experience in combat against monsters, in order to maintain communication, the cleaning agency used a simple and rude tool such as a loudspeaker.

She said this, feeling that the air in her lungs had been drained. Percival felt extremely depressed. Under the envelope of erosion, she began to have symptoms of dyspnea, followed by a surge of emotions, countless. Complex emotions stirred her heart.

  Darkness spread in my heart little by little, until the invisible palms stretched out from the deep quagmire, they are like exuberant seaweed, scratching everything that can be touched around.

   Suddenly Percival had a weird feeling. She realized that the original sin armor she was currently driving was actually a cage. It closed little by little and swallowed herself into the darkness...

The harmonious bright green on the indicator light turned to **** crimson, the alarm sounded in the armor, and then emergency measures were triggered. Florund's medicine was injected into Percival's body according to the pre-buried infusion tube. Her spirit was in a trance, and finally the indicator light changed back to a harmonious green.

She almost lost control at that moment. Percival knew why. In that endless storm, she was just like now, falling into the hideous armor, looking at the steel that penetrated her body. There is a constant flow of blood.

   "Percival, how are you doing?"

  The voice sounded from the other side, and the sword dancer approached the Lancer, Shrike asked.

   "I'm okay, pay attention to the bottom, Lorenzo is starting to erode William."

  Percival said briefly, and at the same time, the huge lance she was driving had also been loaded, squeezed the trigger, and was ready to fire at any time.

  Erosion stirred up the storm, and Lorenzo was the core of the storm, the eye of the storm.

In the critical breakthrough state, his erosion will break free from the shackles of the body and expand outward. Similarly, once in this state, Lorenzo tends to demonize.

Under the black coat, you can see slight bulges squirming, Lorenzo's exposed skin becomes tough, strong muscles continue to proliferate, filling his body, and the fireworks in his eyes have become extremely blazing. When I got up, it turned into a pure white that I couldn't look directly at.

  Lorenzo could smell it, and the air was filled with everyone’s emotions, fear, anxiety, sadness, guilt, low self-esteem... and some urine smell.

  Some...not quite right.

  Lorenzo lowered his head and saw William clinging to the back of the chair. He was shaking constantly, his heart was beating violently, his face was flushed, and a light yellow liquid was dripping under his legs. He is incontinent.

   Ah, this...

   "It's also quite helpless."

Lorenzo muttered to himself, the next moment he directly stretched out his fingers and gently pressed against William's forehead, erosion broke out at close range, pushing the pollution of his brain, after many years, he was cursed again. Everything has been promoted again.

William's expression froze. He was as if he had been injected with a tranquilizer. He no longer trembles or struggles. His eyes moved with difficulty, and he stared at Lorenzo, even if the white fireworks were so bright. , He did not remove his pupils, letting tears fill his eyes.

   "Welcome back, William."

  Lorenzo retracted his hand and said softly.

  ……

   "Wake up successfully, William has woken up, but from the intensity of Lorenzo's erosion, we don't have much time!"

  Merlin saw this from a distance, Lorenzo raised the sign to signal the successful wake-up, and under Merlin's order, the medical staff injected Florund's medicine one after another, and then rushed towards William in the center.

   "Here... Where is it?"

  William’s voice squatted. After he went crazy, he regarded himself as an alchemist, and his way of alchemy was to gnaw all kinds of strange things, so in the process of gnawing, he hurt his throat several times.

  "Perpetual Pump Core Experimental Area, Workshop."

  Lorenzo replied that he was trying to calm the secret blood, and William had awakened. He needed to reduce the intensity of the erosion, extend his awake time as much as possible, and let others have the ability to lean over.

  Erosion does not distinguish between enemy and us. While William is bearing this, other people in the workshop are also bearing this terrible erosion.

  "Perpetual Pump...Workshop..."

William slowly raised his head and looked at this magnificent steel temple. He remembered this, but it was very different from everything in his memory. At that time, the dome was still a few poor large searchlights, and the surrounding iron walls were far from what it is now. So sophisticated, let alone those large elevators.

"I... I remember I was doing an experiment, and then an accident happened... I was locked in a cage, a dark, twisted cage, where I was doing the experiment, but just As if there is no end, no matter which door I open, behind the door is just another repeating laboratory...

  I have been lost for too long. "

  William is like a frightened child, but his face is so old and weather-beaten.

   "That should be your [Gap]. It seems that the experiment was really important to you, so that it became a scene in your [Gap]."

Lorenzo said that everyone’s most important scenery will become what they see in the [Gap], and after eroding the madness, the poor will will be sealed in [Gap], and there is no end to it. Reincarnation.

   "[Gap]? What is that?"

  This is a new vocabulary for William. Although his head is still aching, and his mind is still trembling under the influence of erosion, he is still interested in it.

  William is a scholar, in order to know the secrets he thinks, he even dared to violate the Queen’s orders and start experiments privately.

   "I also want to talk to you about this... but this is not what we should talk about today, your time is limited."

  Lorenzo shook his head. As the secret blood subsided, the abnormal changes in his body were also restored little by little. William saw all this, and his eyes brought a little panic.

   "Let me talk to him, Lorenzo."

  The sound of rapid footsteps sounded, and Mei Lin led the medical staff to stride.

  "Check William and inject him with Florund's medicine to prolong his awake time as much as possible. You are responsible for recording, and every sentence must be recorded in detail."

  Merlin commanded the others. In order to prevent the information from being destroyed by accident, this time he summoned several people to take charge of the record, and he and Lorenzo themselves were one of the recorders.

   "Hello, William, I think you should have no impression of me, but it is not important."

  Merlin stretched out his hand as he talked, but then he realized that William was tied up, he couldn't stretch out his hand at all, Merlin didn't mean to untie him, paused awkwardly, he retracted his hand and said to him.

  "I am the current chief technical officer of Perpetual Pumps, Merlin."

   "Chief technical officer? I am...the current..."

  William paused as he said, he looked at Merlin a little blankly, and then asked.

"what happened?"

"There was an accident in your experiment. A high-intensity erosion and pollution occurred in the pump of perpetual motion. Many people became monsters and all relevant information was destroyed. However, you have become due to the effects of erosion. madman."

  Not much time was left for Merlin to investigate the truth. He did not take care of William's emotions at all, and he did not need to do so.

  "It's 932 years in the Inverwege calendar."

   Merlin added.

William was stunned. He couldn't believe the information he had heard. He looked at Merlin, then at Lorenzo, his eyes swept back and forth, watching the surroundings. All this was so familiar, but yet again. It's so strange.

The medical staff noticed William’s reaction. They had prepared Florund’s medicine and a series of emergency measures. They had considered these before the start of the experiment. Under the influence of erosion, when William knew that he had been crazy for so many years After, whether it will cause a mental breakdown.

  William did not speak, he finally lowered his head, no one could see his expression, he was silent.

"Your experiment accident is called the'red news incident'. Today, after so many years, we have found a way to rescue people from the effects of erosion, so you are now sober, and we need your experiment. Report, what happened in that experiment?"

  Merlin continued, time is urgent.

  "Rescue the crazy people from the effects of erosion? This is really a good start... You said that my time is running out, so is this soberness only temporary?"

  William was talking to Lorenzo, but instead of waiting for his reply, he was talking to himself.

   "Ah... It's been 932 years since Inverige, so long has passed."

   "He doesn't seem to be in a good state of mind, and he is going to inject him with Florund's potion."

  Merlin said blankly.

  The medical staff was about to step forward, but at this time William suddenly raised his head, and his face was full of tears and sadness.

  Actually, death is not terrible. What is terrible for William is the awakening after death. His life has been stolen by fate for countless years, and he has missed too many things.

   "No, I just need to adjust my mentality, after all, this kind of thing is really a bit daunting."

  William’s voice also calmed down, and he became expressionless, although it was full of tears and embarrassed.

"I am the last technical director of Perpetual Motion Pump, William. At that time, I was conducting research on the erosion of demons. It can be said that we have never faced a real'monster' so far. We are facing erosion one after another. Human beings who have become demons, that is to say, the long history of human struggle against demons is actually just a civil war between us humans."

William repeats his inner thoughts, whether he is a member of the cleansing organization or the position of chief technical officer. He is very clear about what he did for what he did. After a short period of pain, he changed back to what he once was. A scholar, a transmitter of knowledge.

  No more words are needed. William knows that his sobriety is an extremely precious opportunity. He wants to pass on the knowledge he has given all to chase.

"I suddenly realized that maybe... a monster is not a monster. The real monster is'erosion'. The power of this kind of pollution, the so-called monster is only a carrier for it to transmit pollution, and even the so-called monster is just eroding the transmission process. The by-products are the same.

  This is like a disease. All it needs is to spread continuously, and death is only a by-product of its spread. This is the real ‘monster’, our real enemy. "

   "What kind of research did you conduct at the time."

   Merlin then asked. Both he and Lorenzo frowned. This was a novel angle and a terrible conjecture.

   "Before telling my research, I need to say some prerequisite information that triggered my experiment."

  William took a deep breath, and the erosion was still affecting his brain. The knowledge he remembered was shattered under such influence, which also made his words illogical.

  The medical staff injected him with a Florent medicine, which made William feel much better. He sat upright, with unspeakable majesty and stubbornness.

"You mean, human beings have no power to resist according to the spreading ability of demons, right? But we still exist in this world, and we can fight against them, so in order to correct these, there must be some abnormal inhibitory power to control the spread of demons. ?"

   Merlin continued.

   "I have read your research and part of the diary that survived, and your thoughts coincide with a cardinal of the Evangelical Church."

  William was taken aback, then nodded vigorously.

   "Yes, sure enough, if you know the end of the road, we will all walk on the same road."

"My research is to track down this mysterious power. If we can control it, we might be able to completely eradicate the demons, but I was still too naive at the time. I didn't even think about why the inhibitory force did this. ."

  William was in pain again.

   "Why do you want to do this?"

"Yes, it has the ability to control demons and correct the world, so why not completely eradicate demons? Or it can't kill demons. All it can do is control and maintain the fragile balance between humans and demons. "

  William’s speech speeded up.

"I realized it. At the end of the experiment, I realized that we are like a group of lambs surrounded by fences, and that restraining force is the shepherd. They protect us from the hazards outside the fence, but there are still Part of the weirdness poured in from the gap in the fence...

  That is a monster. "

The words seemed to have magical power, and everyone felt it. With William’s words, the bitter cold spread to everyone’s body, but everyone knew that this was underground, and the entire facility of the perpetual pump was covered. Attached to the main branches of the Pillar of the Furnace, it has always been hot here, and there has never been so-called cold.

"We are a group of restless lambs, we are trying to find out the truth, but this is bound to cross the fence, we may die outside the fence, but it is more likely to bring in hungry wolves outside and kill other peaceful wolves. Lamb, if you were a shepherd, what would you do?"

  William looked at Merlin, staring at those empty eyes.

   "Kill the hungry wolves that sneak in... and the restless lambs."

  William smiled, and he shook his head helplessly.

  "This is my experiment...the truth of the Red News incident."

The palpitating power skyrocketed again, and everyone jumped. Turning his head, he saw that Lorenzo was already fully armed. The dense iron armor covered the vital parts of his body. He drew out the nail sword and Winches. Especially, his eyes are like a torch, and he is alert to the surroundings.

  Lorenzo felt it, as William, the restless lamb, narrated the cursed knowledge that shouldn’t exist, he clearly felt the surge of that power.

   "Merlin, you better speed up."

  Lorenzo held his weapon and looked around nervously.

   "The shepherd is coming."

  (End of this chapter)