Ember Gun

  Chapter 336 Beheading

   "Don't worry, although the battle looks a little scary, it's actually just that the machine is too big."

  Abigail stood in front of Lorenzo and fastened the various mechanisms on the chair.

She was right. The machine was too big. The cables and steel were like roots of trees, spreading along the chair under Lorenzo, and as Lorenzo sat on the chair, he could clearly feel it. The metal shivered, as if some monster was acting under the ground, but it was actually steam surging in the pipe.

As an important scientific research institution for the cleaning agency, the scientific research area of ​​the Black Mountain Hospital is the same as the perpetual pump underground in the Mechanical Institute. It is directly powered by the pillar of the furnace, and huge energy passes through the machinery. With the development of antimony paint, This power is getting stronger and stronger.

  Lorenzo raised his head and looked around. The dazzling light above his head made it difficult for Lorenzo to look directly. The surroundings were cage-like structures, and Lorenzo was in the center of the cage.

  On the way he came, Arthur explained it roughly for him. They called it a birdcage. Lorenzo hadn't noticed the meaning of this word when he first came in, but now it seems that he understands a little bit.

Like a delicate bird, he was locked in this metal cage. Because of the dazzling light above his head, Lorenzo could not see the people outside the cage, but he clearly felt that there were counts. His eyes were fixed on him.

   "What is this machine used for?" Lorenzo asked.

   "Analyzing the brain... Actually speaking, it is more complicated and contradictory, but I still have some time to explain it to you."

While Abigail was talking, there was a clattering sound. The medical staff pushed the cart to the bottom of the steps, then took out some medicine bags and needles, and hung them skillfully on the iron rack beside Lorenzo. Then the needle was pierced into Lorenzo's arm.

"This is an emergency measure. After all, the technology is still immature at the moment. Some accidents may happen during this period, and you are a demon hunter, different from normal people... So if something really happens, these medicines will be injected into you urgently. In my body, I don’t know to what extent your secret blood can do it, but at least this is a guarantee."

  With a few crisp sounds, Lorenzo was completely tied to the chair, and the steel almost completely wrapped him, which looked like a throne and a cage.

   "It feels like an electric shock chair."

   "Almost, the biggest difference is that the output power of the electric torture chair will kill you... Probably, but this will not. At most, you will feel pain and some hallucinations."

  Abigail waved his hand and motioned to the people to connect the disconnected cable.

  "This thing is more difficult to explain. The cleansing agency has always looked at the world from a rational point of view, and this is even more true for a scientific research institution, but because of rationality, Merlin and I have more or less disagreements in recent years."

  Abigail suddenly stretched out his hand and pressed it on Lorenzo's head. Lorenzo was unable to resist because he was restrained.

"Just like the human brain. From a rational point of view, humans have no will and soul. All our actions are indicated by the sticky rotten flesh under the skull, and the erosion of demons can also be understood as... Some kind of radiation? Or something else, anyway, this thing is currently unknown to us, so call it whatever you want.

  After being eroded, the human brain will first begin to "pathologically", alienate into a monster, and pass on this erosion, which is like some kind of...【disease】. "

  Lorenzo frowned slightly. In Shermans' notes, the old man had similar views, but now no one knows the truth behind the fog.

"Merlin is an alchemist after all. Although he also advocates rationality, his past identity is sometimes bound to him. He feels that people...may have souls, and erosion is a kind of soul to our souls. corrupt.

  But you should know some of these theories. In fact, they are just useless nonsense, but this involves the machine itself. "

  Abigail became serious.

   "We are exploring the unknown in an uncontrollable way, and what we get is often the unknown that surpasses our current cognition."

   gently stroked the steel surface. It was once covered with blood, and some of the people sitting on the chairs were deformed into monsters, and some successfully received power and became rangers.

This reminds Abigail of those alchemy rituals. The rituals shrouded in mystery are so similar to the experiment at this moment. The bird cage is the altar of this ritual, and Lorenzo is the sacrifice to be consecrated. .

"This machine is our most accurate detection machine for erosion. Whether the so-called pseudo-Holy Grail is a bizarre [epidemic] or, as Merlin speculated, it is a mysterious spirit body, whether it is What kind of form exists, but as long as it exists, it will definitely have a certain impact on your brain."

   "Like the wind, we can't see it, but we can hear it, feel it..." Lorenzo said.

   "Almost, so the first step of the experiment is to detect whether your brain has any obvious abnormalities, and if so, whether that abnormality is a pseudo-Holy Grail."

  After finishing all the preparations, Abigail walked off the high platform. After she left the venue, Merlin’s voice came from the radio.

   "How do you feel now, Lorenzo."

   "It's OK."

   "That's good, we don't know what will happen next, after all, this thing has not been activated for a long time." Merlin said.

   "So... this might be a bit painful."

Merlin said that he pulled down the lever without any warning. For a moment, a huge current flowed through the entire birdcage, and brilliant sparks splashed on the steel structure. Lorenzo only felt a slight tingling feeling, but he seemed to feel heavy. Fist hits his head, it seems that an invisible executioner is torturing him, trying to pry open his head to see what is hidden under the lump of rotten meat.

The momentary pain caused Lorenzo to lose his senses. The light above his head flashed and disappeared, and the colorful world began to lose its color. In the end, Lorenzo's eyes were only dark black and white, but this black and white was constantly passing away. As if darkness gradually swallowed him.

   "Lorenzo has a small button on the side of your left armrest. I need you to press it every five seconds to prove to me that you stay awake."

In a trance, Merlin’s voice sounded again. After enduring the severe pain, Lorenzo soon found the button. He wanted to swear, but at this moment, the violent torture had occupied all of his will, and he had no strength to scream loudly. Renzo could only lower his head, count the seconds silently, and press the buttons while staying awake.

  On the top of this chair, with Lorenzo's press, a ridiculous indicator light turns on and off.

The high-frequency noise echoed between the birdcages, and the steel plate began to slide down, revealing the roaring differential machine afterwards. The gears interlocked to drive the machine. The fan rang loudly to drain the hot air, and the current was in the meantime. Walk through, and finally convert the complex signal from Lorenzo's body into a chart and spit it out from the printer.

  Under the limitation of technology, all this seems so ridiculous, a bloated and ridiculous machine, but full of the terrible will of human beings.

  Go forward, go forward unscrupulously.

The paper is spit out from the machine, and the ink on it still has a warm touch. Under the current technology limitations, humans cannot display the data in real time, so the data is printed every five seconds, and the data on the paper changes rapidly. Then they were collected by the blue jade.

  Everyone is busy. It may be because it has not been used for a long time. There was a fire in the corner of the birdcage.

Everything went well until the Geiger counter in the birdcage turned red, followed by a sharp whine. Its sound disturbed the calm, and then more Geiger counters turned red and whimpered. .

   "Is it Lorenzo!"

   Arthur asked hurriedly, but Merlin frowned and did not understand.

   "No... Lorenzo is still awake."

  The ridiculous light was still flashing, and Lorenzo remained awake, restraining his bloodthirsty nature.

   "Then what's going on?" Abigail asked, "Where does the erosion come from?"

   answered her with a heavy roar, and then the entire birdcage trembled violently, the emergency lighting came on, and Gao Wen's voice in the chaos sounded from the broadcast.

   "This is the Knight Commander Gao Wen. We are stationed outside the critical area. At present, we have detected that a large number of monsters are approaching here from the mild area..."

The sound of his words was covered by violent gunshots, the endless rainstorm fell on the surface, the thicker dark clouds obscured all the light, the wailing of the monsters overlapped with the howling wind, and the darkness continued to light up. His gunfire illuminates that hideous armor one after another.

   "The defenses on the periphery of the Black Mountain Hospital are normal, and the enemy is suspected of appearing from the inside of the Black Mountain Hospital!"

  Percival's voice sounded, and the original sin armors were moving towards the area where the battle broke out. She had been laughing and joking. This time she became rare and serious, and looked at the gunfire under the iron curtain through the gap in the visor.

  Countless demons came from behind the rain curtain. They spread their teeth and danced their claws to add blood to the cold rain curtain. The dull thunder sound rolled behind the dark clouds, and the pale light raged through, like a group of out-of-control beasts.

   "Protestant group?"

  Abigail asked Arthur that the cleansing agency had been guarding against potential attacks by the Protestant group, but they did not expect the scale of this attack to be so large.

   Arthur said slowly with a gloomy face.

   "Not quite right, the Protestant Order does not have the ability to control demons...no...Lawrence."

  He grabbed the communicator and asked anxiously.

   "Gawain examines the bodies of the monsters and reports all the characteristics."

Can’t tell whether it’s the sound of electricity or the wind. Gawain gritted his teeth and moved forward. This bad weather greatly affected the vision of the original sin armor. The soldiers on the ground, wearing heavy equipment, armed the building. fortress.

  The soldiers could not come out to assist Gawain. Under the protection of the armor, he could withstand the suffocating rainstorm, but the soldiers could not. Fighting against the monsters in this environment would be death.

   Swinging a heavy blade to penetrate a demon that jumped out of the water vapor, Gawain dragged the struggling half of the demon backwards.

  Modern firepower has formed a firepower network at this moment, blocking this area, and Percival in the periphery is also rushing to eliminate these monsters.

   "Features...wait, the monster is wearing a black mountain hospital gown?"

   Gao Wen will still be struggling to raise the demon, and through the light of thunder, he can see the torn medical coat on the demon.

   "Is that so..."

Arthur slowly put down the communicator. At present, the only people who can do artificial monsters are those who have the "Apocalypse." In addition, Lorenzo chased down the inferior occult blood incident before, and Arthur only felt that he was ready for a long time. Clouds struck.

  Merlin heard those too, he asked.

   "Lawrence's remnant party?"

   "Yes, but how does he know what is happening now, or to say...we have their people inside?"

   Arthur looked at Merlin, revealing killing intent in a flat tone.

All of this seems too weird. Arthur would not be surprised if it was said that this was done by the Protestant. But at this moment, it seems that it was the remnants of Lawrence who caused all this. Arthur thought that after Lawrence died, it was against him. It was hit hard, but now it seems that the power behind Lawrence is much more than that.

  But there is no time to solve those at the moment, Arthur gave the order.

   "Gawain, guard the line of defense and kill all the monsters. Percival, you lead the team directly to the top of the research area to protect it."

   "But a demon..."

  "This is an order, the demons give it to Gawain, you come to protect the research area!" Arthur roared.

   "Arthur, Percival is behind the monster wave. She and Gaowen can directly kill the monsters." Abigail did not understand Arthur's instructions.

   "Then who will fight the Demon Hunter?" Arthur asked with red eyes.

   "What... Demon Hunter?"

   "The Protestant Mission."

   Arthur picked up the bullet-filled gun from under his clothes, his eyes stern.

  "The Protestant Mission will not give up Lorenzo easily. After losing the "Revelation", they absolutely can't give up the false Holy Grail, but here is the old Dunling, they can't confront us head-on, but it's different now.

  This is a conspiracy, a cooperation. Although it is not clear what purpose Lawrence’s remnant party attacked, in this case, do you think the Protestant Group will miss this opportunity? "

  Abigail froze. As a scholar, she knew very little about these conspiracies.

  "The Protestant Group has been hesitating, but now the opportunity is here. Not only can he regain the false Holy Grail, he even said..."

   Arthur also realized the terrible truth when he said that, his eyes moved from Abigail to Merlin who was aside, and his words trembled.

   "I even said that all the elites who cleaned the organs were beheaded here."

  ……

  All the foreshadowings that have been prepared for a long time broke out here under various coincidences.

  Anthony raised his head and looked at the roaring clouds, slowly let go of his hand, and let the letter paper written in secret blood drift with the wind until it was completely torn by the storm and wind.

   "So who on earth sent this letter?"

  Samuel wrapped his raincoat and shouted to Anthony.

   "I don't know, but what is certain is... he didn't lie."

  Fireworks ignited at the end of the rain curtain, and the roar of the demon turned into a storm like a doomsday scene.

  "Are we going to attack? This is a suicide operation. Even if Arthur and others are successfully killed, it will cause the Evangelical Church to start a war with Inervig." Samuel said.

   "I know, so we just need to wait and see, and Moriarty will give the rest." Anthony said blankly.

   "What if he fails?"

   "What did we fail to do?" Anthony asked rhetorically, repeating what he said to Arthur and Lorenzo at that time.

   "The Protestant Order did not have a demon hunter named James Moriarty. It used to be this way, and it is still the same now."

  Samuel suddenly felt a chill. He looked at Anthony beside him and suddenly felt that he was so strange, and it seemed that he had finally met him officially.

  (End of this chapter)