Ember Gun

  Chapter 251 The Curse of Knowledge

  Lorenzo sat on a chair with a few bottles of potion in front of him. Although it was sealed well, a strange smell poured into his nose, and he couldn't help but sneezed.

   Raising his head, he is now in this huge underground factory. Steel and machinery are intertwined with each other like a huge deep well. He is at the bottom, and he can't see the sky when he raises his head.

  Under the temptation and persuasion of Merlin several times, Lorenzo reluctantly agreed to his experiment, and at the same time he thought a lot about himself, just like Merlin said, why he would survive.

  After thinking about it, Lorenzos thought for a long time, who would be the biggest beneficiary if he survived, he finally came to this conclusion.

  It is that Hua Sheng does not want to die, his own survival is just a collateral product.

Lorenzo himself is a cage, trapping Hua Sheng to death. As long as Lorenzo remains silent, Watson will be trapped here forever, and when Lorenzo dies, the last one who remembers her The people dissipated, Watson no longer had the means to survive, so she needed Lorenzo to live, and the two were like a strange symbiotic relationship.

  Of course, these are just Lorenzo's inferences. As for the nature of this pseudo-Holy Grail, he can only rely on speculation to judge.

Watson was born on the devastating night of the Holy Land, and all participants basically died in that catastrophe, not to mention the nature of the experimental pseudo-Holy Grail, even very few people knew her existence... even said Only Lorenzo was alone.

  Until now, Lorenzo still believes that he is the only survivor of the Holy Night, and he is the only one who still remembers all the pain.

   "So are you still watching all this?"

  Lorenzo whispered softly, looking around with alert.

He remembered his conjecture again. After Lawrence died, when he returned from the black angel, Watson disappeared. This evil demon never responded to any of his calls, as if she was just Lorenzo's crazy conjecture. , Or she has escaped from Lorenzo's cage.

But Lorenzo's more inclined guess is that Watson is still trapped in her body, but she remains silent, she is observing Lorenzo's own confused expression with an evil smile, waiting for her own thoughts and self. Doubt, until a crack appeared in the firm belief, to let her defeat.

   glanced back and forth, Lorenzo believed that Watson was nearby, peeping at him in some darkness that he could not perceive, but in this case, another doubtful point appeared in all this, that is, the whereabouts of Medanzo.

  The ghostly Medanzo exists in Lorenzo's [Gap]. He is one of the shackles that guard the pseudo-Holy Grail, but so far he has not responded, and Lorenzo can't feel his existence.

  The puzzle once again appeared in front of Lorenzo, as if some danger was slowly approaching. He wanted to prevent it in advance, but he couldn't see where it came from.

   "Mr. Holmes!" Merlin shouted, pulling Lorenzo back from the whirlpool of thoughts.

  This alchemist had obviously planned for a long time. Some experimental equipment and potions had been prepared, and Lorenzo doubted whether he had been calculated.

   "Just call me Lorenzo."

   Lorenzo said, hearing more respectful words, but felt a little weird.

   "Okay, then use this first, Lorenzo."

  Merlin said, handing a Florent potion to Lorenzo, "We don't know what you will encounter, anyway, there is nothing wrong with making yourself sober."

  Lorenzo took the medicine, pressed it skillfully on his neck and injected it in. After a brief pain, there was a biting cold sensation. Everything was clear before his eyes. It felt great.

  "Do you remember how you used the original sin armor?" Merlin asked.

  Lorenzo nodded. To be honest, for him, every time he drives the original sin armor, the process is not so good.

   "Lorenzo, the last time you drove the original sin armor, you lost consciousness directly, but it is very interesting, you did not lose control, in that erosion, you seem to have entered a strange state, am I right?"

  Merlin was indeed premeditated. If anyone in the cleansing agency wanted Lorenzo to live, it must be Merlin. Such experimental materials are not always foreseeable.

  "Weaponist?"

  Lorenzo recalled everything at that time, he entered the original sin armor called the weapon master, and then...then he stepped into the [Gap].

  Yes, Lorenzo suddenly remembered this. He raised his head and looked at the black angel who seemed to be hanged. A terrible thought slowly rose in his heart.

That mysterious [Gap], every time Lorenzo arrived there, he relied on Medanzo or Watson's call, but that time was different. The original sin armor seemed to be some kind of connector, which made him voluntarily reach [Gap] ] In.

  "Connected person and manager..."

Lorenzo still remembers Medanzo’s description of all this, [Gap] is like a large spiritual world, when the erosion reaches a certain level, when you are drawn into the deepest part of darkness, you can see it . Lorenzo could only be passively connected, just like the call from the Temple of Silence at that time.

  It was different with the original sin armor. At that time, he relied on the weapon master to actively connect to that strange spiritual world, and even said that he saw the [Gap] representing the Temple of Silence there.

  [Gap] Where did it come from, and what is the Temple of Silence... Is it really just a building?

   "What's wrong, Lorenzo?"

  Merlin looked at Lorenzo who was suddenly silent. Although he lowered his head, Merlin still saw the corners of his mouth that gradually became savage, as if he was laughing wildly.

"what?"

  Lorenzo's thoughts were interrupted, and he hurriedly put away some crazy smile.

   "No, it's just, I just thought of a lot of things."

  Is this the connection with darkness? In an instant, many things that bothered Lorenzo were answered. For Watson and Medanzo, as long as he returns to [Gap] to confirm all this with his own eyes.

  "When can we start?"

  Lorenzo reversed his previous negativity and worked very well together, which made Merlin a little dazed, but then he said.

   "Black Angel still needs to debug, is there any last words? What if you can't come down by any chance?"

  Merlin said and sat beside Lorenzo with a caring look.

"what are you up to?"

   "Just talk about your heart, relieve your inner pressure and doubts, and improve your survival rate for the next experiment."

   "Wait, what does survival rate mean?"

"Because of the danger of the black angel, we have yet to find the answer to its mystery, and it also incorporates the Holy Grail of flesh and blood. This thing also has a certain proportion in your body. Who can guess what will happen after you enter? Maybe the two Holy Grail flesh and blood will fuse together, and a super monster will appear? That's impossible, right."

   "Just kidding, just kidding."

  Lorenzo looked at the face with all the facial nerves as if it were all necrotic. It was stiff like a brick, and the jokes he said with this face had a cold feeling.

   "Did anyone in Merlin say that you are not suitable for telling jokes?"

   "Well...probably not, after all, I rarely talk about it."

   "Then you know now."

The two freaks were sitting together, and they had a different feeling. Lorenzo swept towards Merlin from time to time. Sometimes the alchemist and the demon hunter are somewhat similar. Understanding guys, and they seem more withdrawn than the Demon Hunter.

  The awkward calm remained for a few seconds, and Merlin suddenly said again.

  "Will you consider writing a will?"

  "Please stop joking, please?"

   "I'm serious, haven't you thought about this? Lorenzo, I thought you would carry a will with you at any time for a high-risk profession like you."

  Merlin said solemnly.

"Think about Lorenzo. Human life is so fragile. Maybe you slipped and fell and hit your head on a raised rock. You died like this, or you were eaten by a monster that suddenly jumped out. Of course you know that you demon hunters are not so vulnerable, but you are not victorious in all battles, right."

  Lorenzo looked at him suspiciously, while Merlin continued to speak.

   "Like you, every time you kill a monster, you will be injured, and sometimes you will pass out in a coma...Have you never thought that if one day you will not be able to wake up?"

  Merlin looked at him, and Lorenzo couldn't read anything in his empty eyes.

   "I feel not so good recently, right?"

"What's the meaning?"

  "Flender, "Revelation", etc., although I am like this, I am very sensitive to changes in people. Lorenzo, you are wary of us... What are you afraid of? Let me guess."

  A stiff smile appeared on Merlin's face. This alchemist was also full of weirdness. Lorenzo suspected that he had transformed himself into an inhuman creation on the road of pursuing the truth.

  "Are you worried that we will become the next Demon Hunting Order?" Merlin asked.

  ""Apocalypse" is not something that ordinary people should understand. It will arouse the inferiority of human beings. Just like the Demon Hunter, they used it to defend the world at first, and then tried to use it to conquer the world."

  Lorenzo did not answer directly, but talked about something else.

   "Of course I have thought about this, Merlin, but I have been thinking about it for a long time, but I can't find the answer." He said, looking at Merlin, looking directly at the hollow eyes.

  "Persuasion? Warning? These are useless. Even in the gospel church, those who know the history of demons will surrender before temptation, let alone you? And what is the use of the persistence of a few people?"

  It seemed that Lorenzo had already understood these things, and answered indifferently.

"You are an organization, a group, and a person's will cannot change the overall idea, and in the final analysis, the real decision maker is the Queen Victoria, isn't it? Compared to the interests of the entire Inervig, what are these demons? ?"

   Merlin asked, "Then something you don’t want to see really happened, what would you do?"

   "In my way, as before, the demons must be eradicated."

  Lorenzo responded briefly.

   "Yes, this is what I have always felt." Merlin said suddenly.

   "What do you think?"

"People don’t have good and evil, just different positions. For example, you, Lorenzo Holmes, what you want is the destruction of demons. Everything related to demons should be buried in a sea of ​​fire, but I am different. , Our different positions will eventually lead us to the opposing sides until we draw our swords...but in fact none of us is wrong, it’s just that we have different ideas."

  Merlin continued, questioning Lorenzo.

  "Do you know the curse of knowledge?"

  The alchemist said quietly, and before Lorenzo could answer anything, he revealed all his secrets a little bit.

   "In fact, I and the decontamination agency can only be regarded as cooperation. Just like your relationship with the decontamination agency, everyone just has the same position, or part of the position overlaps, so we can become temporary allies."

  "I helped the cleansing agency develop the technology against demons. They collected the lost alchemy notes for me. If your pursuit is the eradication of demons, then I am the truth, the truth that is unknown."

  Merlin thought carefully, and continued to explain what he wanted to say for Lorenzo.

   "Then back to this, Lorenzo, the black angel is very important to me. I think it is a key to open the dusty door."

   "I think you are like a **** stick now." Lorenzo said with some fear. These alchemists are all lunatics, but Merlin is one of the more calm ones.

  "This is the inferiority of human beings. We will never understand each other. It is this curse that triggered knowledge. Remember what you said to me [God Baptism]?"

  Merlin’s expression is full of yearning, and she feels painful at the same time she is happy.

   "Lorenzo, I am a scholar. Your story did not attract the attention of others, but I was deeply attracted by such a magnificent and beautiful world...

But a bit more painful appeared, Lorenzo, no matter how I imagined it, my mind couldn’t build a world that I had never seen before. The same is true for you. No matter how detailed you explain all this to me, For that unknown world, I am still a blind person, seeing nothing. "

  Meerlin looked at the black angel above, and under the light, it carried a sense of evil sacredness, all of which seemed to be a sacrifice.

   "I have read a lot of alchemy notes, and I have decoded many of the contents. As I learn more about the knowledge, the more I discover this scary point..."

  Merlin looked at Lorenzo and spoke out his doubts.

  "Have you ever thought that demons are the unknown? Our understanding of them is the curse of this knowledge?"

   "Poor information."

   Lorenzo said slowly, he began to put away his indifferent mood, and gradually became serious as he listened.

"Just like when we developed the steam engine, in fact, it caused a lot of dissatisfaction at the time. They felt that this was abnormal, because this far-super-human machine broke their'common sense'. Yeah, before the appearance of the steam engine, everything was It is manpower, and some people even think that we are wizards, tying our souls into machines to work for us.

  This is ignorance, this is backwardness, this is a kind of information gap..."

  Merlin approached Lorenzo’s ear and whispered, as if it was some kind of taboo, some kind of blasphemy.

   "Then...is there such a possibility, Lorenzo Holmes."

  The hollow eyes were dark, reflecting Lorenzo's appearance.

"Is it possible? The demons were originally a normal state, but our understanding of it was gradually lost due to erosion, just like the world you saw in [God Baptism], no matter what the first ones are in the alchemy notes. Explain, I can't restore the original look of the demon I imagined in their eyes."

  Merlin stood up slowly, and the seeker of truth looked at the black angel that was hung up. Maybe that would be the key to open the door of truth.

   "Just like a man a hundred years ago saw today's war airship, he does not understand, nor can he describe it, telling others what he saw, those people just think he is crazy..."

  Said Merlin suddenly laughed, and he said to himself.

   "Yes...Who would believe it? How could steel fly to the sky?

  Perhaps, we are cursed, Lorenzo. "

  Silence, after a long period of silence, a voice sounded.

   "Your speeches will be burned at Feilengcui."

  The speculations revealed in these words were enough to make Lorenzo think too much. He felt that his brain was frozen and he could only respond casually like this.

  But Merlin shook his head, he looked at Lorenzo suspiciously, and asked again.

  "Then the church’s so-called doctrines are preventing us from knowing the truth? Did those people who were fired really violate the doctrine, or did they learn something that shouldn’t be understood?"

  Lorenzo was startled, and the firm fetters slowly shattered, revealing his free will.

  (End of this chapter)