Ember Gun

  Chapter 335 Music starts

   "It was here many years ago. We launched the Ranger Project, and after our failure, we created the Florent Pharmacy. The neural connections in armor technology were also carried out here..."

   Abigail whispered, looking through the gray glass to the experimental platform like the Colosseum.

  An electric chair-like mechanical chair stands on a high steel platform. With it as the center, machinery and pipes extend outward like vines, with cables entangled in between, and a faint steam overflows from the gap.

  The logo of Black Mountain Hospital was engraved on the iron wall above the chair, and the lancet that penetrates the brain seemed to break through the shackles of the plane and pierced along with the person on the chair.

  They usually call this a birdcage. The subject of the experiment sits on a chair and is surrounded by people behind the guardrail.

   "It's still the same here, haven't you enabled it in so many years?"

  Meiling came from the rear, looking at this place with a little nostalgia.

   "After the teacher's death... to be precise, it was never activated again after that incident. Anyway, we didn't have the opportunity to use it." Abigail said.

"Ah... I really miss it. At that time, Perpetual Motion Pump and Heishan Hospital worked closely together, instead of operating independently like it is now." Meilin gently brushed the surface of the steel, although people would come here to maintain it from time to time, but Under the erosion of the years, the edges of the metal are still covered with rust.

"But the failure of the Ranger plan proves the difference between us. The Black Mountain Hospital is trying to tap the extreme of human spirit, and what your ever-moving pump has to do is just machinery. The bigger and bigger machinery, the more and more powerful. Explosives."

   "But there is no way..." Merlin sighed.

"That incident changed a lot of people, and it was at that time that Arthur made a decision," Merlin said, recalling the past. "Although Arthur lost a lot of children at that time, he was still a passionate person. Guy, it looks like no one can defeat him, but until the demon finds him."

"Lorenzo often tells me these things. The more you come into contact with demons, the more you are contaminated with darkness. The clearer we are in the eyes of those demons, so that weird things can find us. This explains why demons would Find the reason for Arthur." Merlin said.

   "What happened at that time, I only know a rough idea. After all, I was not the dean at that time, I was just a student." Abigail asked.

  Merlin hesitated for a moment. He just wanted to say something, but he took it back. The whole experimental field was very quiet, only the restless fan sound pumped out the old air.

   "What else can happen, it's just a cliché story."

  Merlin finally preached slowly.

"The Ranger Project was originally an attempt to reproduce the secret blood of the Demon Hunter Order, but we took a completely different path, focusing on strengthening our spirit... Actually, looking at it now, I somewhat understand why Queen Victoria would Approving this somewhat risky plan, she should have wanted to try to use the product of the Ranger Plan to solve the King Curse.

After acquiring the armor technology, Arthur became the last group of Rangers. At that time, because of the battle with the monsters, Arthur was discovered by the monsters, and hordes of monsters attacked Phoenix Manor, and his pregnant wife was at that time. Also wounded by demons. "

   "This incident changed Arthur?" Abigail asked.

"Almost, after this incident, we discovered another nature of monsters, but due to too few cases, it was not until we met Lorenzo and under his affirmation that we established this connection with darkness... just like The moth is the same as the chase of light."

  Merlin continued to remember what happened a long time ago, he continued.

"Arthur thought it was his own cause that caused the injury to his family. He remembered the children he had died before. He believed that all the faults originated from himself, from the demon, and after that he changed. Become the way it is now, extremely abhorrent to demons, and has an almost pathological protective desire for his last child, Eve Finisco."

   "So what's the matter with Eve Phoenix? In these days of testing, she is different from ordinary people in some places."

  Abigail looked suspicious. At this moment, she was no longer wearing the heavy protective suit, and she looked at Meilin's hollow and pitch-black eyes unabashedly.

  Although this was just an ordinary monster erosion event, Abigail detected a lot of strange things on Eve's body.

   "According to her indicators... Eve is also a product of the Rangers plan? But isn't the last batch of Rangers Arthur?" In terms of time, none of this is right, making Abigail suspicious.

   "Ah...this is what I want to tell you next, don't worry." Merlin said slowly.

"At the time, Phoenix Manor was attacked. Arthur's wife was not only injured by the demon, but also corroded at the same time. She was pregnant with Eve at that time. Although her injury was serious, she was completely injured with our existing technology. It can be cured, and after a mental examination, it can be confirmed that she is in the first stage of erosion and can be completely cured, but the question is...what about Eve?"

  Merlin slowly turned his head, looking at the hollow gaze, Abigail couldn't help feeling a burst of unbearable coldness, as if there was some kind of weird and evil soul under this immortal body.

   "It is not only her who is eroded, but also the child in her womb. You can test and treat her, but Eve, who is still a baby, can't," Abigail said.

"Yes, it was such a situation at the time. It was a very difficult situation. We have never encountered such a case, but according to calculations, the child in the arms did not have a mature mind at the time, and it was very likely to be eroded and alienated into a monster. Merlin continued, "We seemed to have only one choice at the time, to kill the child in her arms."

   "But Eve survived."

"Yes, Arthur strongly refused all this. After experiencing this, his mental state was already a bit weird. Under this stalemate, the director of the perpetual pump at the time, that is, my last term, he did A decision was made and he was going to experiment with Arthur's wife, using the last legacy of the Ranger Plan before being sealed up to try it."

  Merlin said, with some fluctuations in her flat voice, she didn't know if it was fear or shock.

  "Arthur has no power to choose, he can only accept, otherwise Eve will be forcibly killed, or even worse, become one of our specimens. After all, Arthur did not have so much power now.

  We have given Mrs. Phoenix an injection of Ranger's medicine and some operations. She will act as a mother and pass these medicines to the fetus in her abdomen. "

   "It's impossible..." Abigail couldn't believe it.

  “Of course it’s impossible. One of the reasons why the Ranger Project was sealed is the destruction of the users. Even Arthur would die if he didn’t pay attention, let alone a woman who hadn’t experienced this.”

  Merlin's voice gradually lowered, and suddenly a low voice roared.

  "But things like humans always create miracles, don’t they? It is even said that we are called humans because we can create ‘miracles’ beyond imagination.

She was locked up in a special ward with Geiger counters all over her room. As long as something was abnormal, the child in her belly would die. But a few months later, she gave birth to Eve smoothly, a very healthy one. Child.

The drug was injected in the mother's body congenitally, and the day after tomorrow was born smoothly... What a taboo is this, even if we conduct experiments, it is difficult for us to do such a thing under the so-called ethics, but It was so successful at that time, but with the birth of Eve, she seemed to have emptied her mother’s vitality, and she died a few years later... This is normal. Not everyone can bear the Ranger's potion. She can It was a miracle that Eve was born. "

   "Is Eve stable after that? If this injection can create a stable ranger..." Abigail looked a little excited, this kind of taboo experiment could open new doors.

   "Abigail!"

  Merlin said sharply, freeing her from the frantic fantasy.

  "This is against the bottom line of ethics and morals, and the scavengers will not allow this," Merlin said, "and to this day I still feel that Eve's survival is a special case, a special case that is difficult to replicate... This is a miracle."

   "Is this...but you can tell me this. This story is also related to what we are going to do next, right?"

  This is a story that is sealed in the file. If it is not necessary, Merlin does not need to tell her so much.

  Merlin nodded, and he continued.

"In fact, there are many doubts about the incident at that time, such as why someone would allow this experiment, but I now know that it was Queen Victoria who acquiesced in the experiment... This is also the reason why I was so late before, and I received it directly from Order of Queen Victoria."

   "What does she want to do?"

"Replicate everything that was done in the past, but this time the injection will be secret blood. This innate experiment will be used to get rid of the shackles of the king curse, but don't worry, we will directly experiment on the royal family members after the initial success of this experiment. , Will not involve ordinary people." Merlin said frightening words.

   "In other words, was she planning all this many years ago?" Abigail asked.

"Almost..." Merlin said with a sigh, "She has been restrained by Wang Shu for too long, so long that she doesn't even expect to get rid of it. She wants to cut Wang Shu in this generation, which is also contributing to the current situation. s reason."

  "This is the cooperation between our Perpetual Pump and Black Mountain Hospital since then. I hope we can cooperate happily."

  After a short silence, Merlin said, and at the same time, the sound of sliding pulleys echoed in the silent birdcage.

  ……

  Lorenzo raised his head, the lights above his head flashed one by one, and the sound of a fan that made people feel a little irritable in his ears.

   "Actually, I can walk by myself." He raised his head and tried to see the guy pushing the wheelchair.

   "It's all here, you can rest in peace, Lorenzo." Arthur said, looking forward.

  The corridor seemed extremely long, and only two people were left in the long.

   "The Protestant Order is not to be trusted, Arthur." Lorenzo broke the long silence.

"I know."

   "I didn't lose control."

"I know."

  "……"

   "You... Arthur, what's the matter with you."

  This mechanical answer made Lorenzo uneasy, he asked again, but also at this moment Arthur stopped suddenly, he stopped in place, but still looked forward.

  "Do you think I am contradictory? I know it is a trick, I know that they are also enemies... But in the end I still make this decision, right?" Arthur said.

  "Do you... still believe the information of the Protestant Mission until now?"

   Arthur nodded stiffly, not knowing whether it was exhaustion or something, his eyes were a little dull.

"Lorenzo, sometimes I feel that human beings in this world are like a lonely person walking in a dark night... We have to live by what we believe, and sometimes it doesn’t matter whether the thing we believe is correct or not. .

   Actually you are like that too, don’t you? "

   "What are you talking about?"

  Lorenzo felt that Arthur's state was a bit weird, but Arthur smiled and replied.

  "It’s just flipping back to the previous record, and thinking of the sad things again... In fact, I think about it now that everything we are doing now is just repeating everything.

  Just like when I first came into contact with these, this is a heavy problem. With the spread of demons, human sanity is at stake. The only way to solve this problem is to kill all demons.

  Lorenzo, do you believe this? Can killing all the demons end this? "

  Lorenzo was silent. As he explored the past, he also realized that the monster is far from being as simple as it seems, and Arthur did not give Lorenzo a chance to answer, he continued.

"There is no way, we can only believe, so that we can release the hatred and anger brought by the monsters, just like the only light in the dark night, we can only move towards that light, we can only believe, even this There are deeper mysteries and loopholes behind everything...but we can only believe."

  Arthur pushed the wheelchair again, and he said to Lorenzo as he moved forward.

"I made this decision many years ago. My wife and daughter are dying, but the only way to save them is taboo and absurd... But I can only believe that this is the only way. In fact, I was also evading. Well, I never thought about what would happen if I failed. I was almost crazy at the time, just thinking that something could lie to me so that I could move on, but fortunately, I succeeded in the end."

"Just like the Protestant Church, I know they are plotting bad things, but with our current understanding of reaching the border, I can only believe it. Don’t blame me, Lorenzo, I believe that if you are me, you will do the same. The decision is like the anger that has been driving you.

  You believe that you can get revenge by eradicating demons, you believe that eradicating demons can end all this, and you believe that eradicating demons will end your suffering...

  In fact, these have always been your own imagination. No one has told you that eradicating demons will end all of this. This is the reason for you to deceive yourself so that you can continue to have the motivation to go on. "

  Arthur's voice echoed in this empty corridor, with a dim light shining at the end.

   "This world is terrible." Lorenzo said.

   "Yes...but..."

   Arthur did not continue to say anything, Lorenzo felt a chill instead, the touch fell along his wrist, he tried to move his restrained arm, and felt a slight tingling as he moved.

   "Arthur..."

   "Shhh..."

   Arthur covered Lorenzo's mouth and whispered in his ear.

"She is going to restart the Ranger plan... No one is absolutely trustworthy, even if she is the same. Many years ago, Eve survived because of her order, but now, in order to be free from the curse, I can't guarantee that she will What to do to Eve.

  It felt really bad back then, I couldn’t do anything, but now it’s different.

So let me use it again, Lorenzo, if the next enemy is the Protestant Order, then destroy the Protestant Order. It is Lawrence’s remnant party and kill them quickly. The order of the queen is the Queen’s order, so take Eve. Leave. "

  Lorenzo remained silent, twisting his wrist slightly to adjust the lancet inserted into the sleeve of Arthur to an appropriate position.

  The promenade came to the end, and Arthur pushed Lorenzo into the birdcage and left without looking back, but at this time there was a slight sound, which seemed to be laughter.

   "You don't really think I lost, Arthur."

  Lorenzo looked at Arthur with a weird smile.

  ……

  Today’s rain seems to be extraordinarily heavy. Thick dark clouds obscure the sky. Because it is too dark, the street lights on the street are temporarily lit during the day. The wind and rain engulf leaves and debris, and beat everyone who is enveloped.

  The parked carriage was also shaken. The girl in the carriage looked out the window and then looked at the old guy sitting across from her.

"So Lorenzo said let's wait here?" Seleu asked. A few days ago she suddenly received a letter from Lorenzo, but when she went to find Lorenzo, he mysteriously disappeared with his roommate. .

   "That's what the letter to me said anyway."

  Oscar looked at the **** weather outside the window, and his tone became a little uncertain. He didn't understand what Lorenzo was going to do.

  Suddenly the door of the car was opened, and a wet black figure rammed in, scolding as he boarded the carriage.

   "Wow, why is this rain so heavy! Baby, are you okay."

  He muttered, but soon two pistols were put on his head, and the atmosphere in this small carriage was a bit embarrassing.

   "According to your strength, I suggest you use this ladies pistol."

  Oscar said as he handed Seleu a smaller pistol, and then one large and one small pistol was placed on the man's head. He looked embarrassed, but then said.

   "That... Seleu Stuart? Oscar Wilde?"

  He seems to be recognizing people, and Oscar also feels that this guy who has been drenched is a bit familiar.

   "Ah, you are the group of relatives and friends mentioned in Lorenzo's letter, right!"

  "What kind of family and friends group?"

  Seleu felt that the person in front of him was a bit inexplicable, but soon the guy became serious.

  "Introduce, Hercule Christie, this is Poirot."

  Following Hercule’s speech, a big mouse jumped out from the corner, one person and one mouse. This combination seemed a bit weird to Seleucus.

  "Oh, that guy Lorenzo is really troublesome. He has given us so many things. Although this is the best solution, after all, he has involved everyone's attention, so that we can secretly plan these..."

  Herkeley combed her mustache that was hanging down from the rain, and then said with a smile.

   "Then let's start working on Lorenzo Holmes' script now. The protagonist has been on the stage and the curtain has opened! The music is playing! ... Wait, supporting actors! You should be ready, right?"

  (End of this chapter)