Ember Gun

  Chapter 370 Lorenzo’s Friends

   "How do you feel? Arthur."

Abigail lifted and removed the wound gauze little by little. It may be due to being a ranger. Although Arthur is older, his physique is still much stronger than ordinary people. The previous hideous wounds are now Healed a lot, leaving a shallow white mark under the old skin.

   "Not bad..." Arthur said, recalling everything he had experienced before, and couldn't help sighing, "It feels good to be alive."

   Arthur rarely has nightmares, but since waking up, he will always dream of the last part of the journey.

  That very long journey.

In the long corridor full of rust and blood, whether moving forward or backward, there is only a cloud of invisible darkness. He runs wildly, but he will never reach the end, only in this long despair. The will is wasted in it.

   Stepped on the thick pool of blood, smelling the suffocating stench, witnessing familiar corpses one after another...

   "You are lucky, there are basically no fatal injuries. The only thing that needs attention is the wound on your shoulder."

  Abigail picked up the scissors and alcohol cotton, and continued to treat the wound on Arthur's body.

   "That guy seems to be really crazy. I had no strength at the time. I was in the same room with that guy. I was not killed by the monster, but was almost killed by him."

   Arthur smiled bitterly, and looked to the other side of the ward. At this moment, there was a patient **** on the iron bed, William, who was the last technical director of the permanent pump.

  It seems that he doesn't like his current state very much. He whimpers and growls from time to time, struggling hard, like a beast.

Since the crash of the perpetual pump more than ten years ago, William has gone into madness due to high-intensity erosion and turned into a patient. Now he eats whatever he sees, and in the storm half a month ago, The rescue was not timely, and the unconscious Arthur was almost about to have his throat chopped off by him.

   "It seems that this incident touched you a lot." Abigail looked at Arthur's expression and continued.

  "What does the little girl know..." Arthur tried to refute.

Compared with Arthur, Abigail is indeed a little girl. She and Nikolai are considered to be a new generation of scholars in the cleansing organization. Coupled with the reason that she has been in the underground scientific research area for many years, her skin is a little sickly white. I am much younger.

   "I just... understand other people a little bit."

   "What do you mean?"

   "Like being alive, such as being afraid of death?" Arthur couldn't help but laugh halfway through.

  Arthur has never been a person who is afraid of death. As a commander leading the cleansing organization, he can be cruel and ruthless, and easily sacrifice others and himself.

  But this time he was scared. In that deep darkness, he was so afraid of death, even eager to pray for the mercy of death.

   "I can't die yet, at least I can't die with this information. Cole Fei has passed the torch into my hand so hard, how can I let it go out in my hand?"

  Arthur looked at the ground as if in a daze.

   "So what did you get?"

  Abigail asked curiously, about what Arthur knew in the darkness, he hadn’t told anyone yet.

  "Clues, clues that lead us to the truth."

  Arthur raised his head and looked at Abigail, his old eyes flashing blazing fire.

  "According to Cole's intelligence, after he was corroded, his consciousness remained awake to a certain extent, and his consciousness was trapped in a strange place.

  A place he is very familiar with, like a peculiar spiritual world, or...[Gap]. "

  Abigail was stunned, and she knew something about [Gap]. In the eyes of alchemists, it was regarded as the end of darkness, a deep spiritual space that existed but very few people could reach it.

  "Do you know what this means? Abigail."

"what?"

   Arthur took a deep breath. During the half month of receiving treatment, he had been thinking about all this, the connection between demons and humans, and what the nature of demons was.

"Perhaps, all the people who have been alienated into demons have not lost their minds, they are still alive, but their will is separated from the completely alienated body, their will is imprisoned, and they are trapped in the name [Gap] In the cage."

  Abigail’s eyes shrunk a little, and a cold wind swept across her back in the airtight room.

  Looking at her subtle reaction, Arthur laughed hoarsely.

   "It's very interesting, right, but it's just my speculation. In order to confirm this possibility, I need your Black Mountain Hospital's full contribution next."

   "This kind of thing..." Abigail still felt a little weird.

"Don't panic, you are still too young, we clean out the organs, no... Isn't this what we humans do with demons, face the unknown, guess the unknown, and then verify it in a way we can understand, turning the unknown into the known ."

  Arthur continued to think about all that, everything that Cole gave him before his death.

   "Cole didn't know why he escaped from [Gap], so maybe we can also find a way to wake him up."

  His eyes fell on William.

   "This guy also has a lot of secrets, Abigail."

  Abigail's gaze also shifted to William. After Arthur’s explanation, she also understood the identity of this guy. He was the former Merlin, who was the former technical chief of Perpetual Pump.

"A decade ago, there was an accident named Red News Incident in the Pump of Perpetual Motion. It was also because of the Red News Incident that demons once wreaked havoc in Old Dunling. It was even said that Eve was due to the aftermath of this incident. …never mind.

At that time, William seemed to be doing experiments, but based on the intelligence given by Cole, he seemed to have found the so-called "truth". At that time, our observation was that the huge erosion instantly came to the perpetual pump, and we directly Lost contact with it.

Even today, we don’t know what happened in the pump of perpetual motion that day. When our rangers rushed into the pump of perpetual motion, only the monsters suddenly appeared inside and the corpses in one place. All records were lost. A certain force was deliberately destroyed, and all personnel were driven into madness due to erosion. "

  Arthur's eyes gradually became more solemn.

  "Mordred...that is, Cole, and William, they all went crazy in the red news incident...

  No...this is a bit wrong..."

The more he recalled the past, the more Arthur recalled all kinds of doubts. No, this is not a doubt, but after so many years, Arthur combined his existing intelligence and corrected the past red news events. At this moment, At that time, some of the doubts seemed to be clear.

   Soon there was a cold hand stroking Arthur's neck, and he suddenly felt an indescribable anxiety.

  He vaguely felt it, as if something was blocking him, like a wall.

   "This is so similar..."

"what are you saying?"

  Abigail could not hear Arthur.

   "It's so similar...like another Holy Night."

  He whispered in a voice that Abigail could not hear.

Looking back at this time, Arthur couldn’t help wondering whether there really was a so-called destiny in this world. The cognition of demons had been progressing very slowly, but in recent years, they have been advancing by leaps and bounds. Armor technology, the Holy Grail and the pseudo The Holy Grail, the decline and rise of the Demon Order...

  These events have erupted concentratedly in these years, as if someone had accelerated the course of history.

   "Lorenzo Holmos..."

He couldn't help chanting the familiar and unfamiliar name, and Arthur rubbed his temple vigorously. In the past, with the physique of the Ranger, he didn't care about health preservation, but now it seems that he has to pay more attention. After all, he has to work hard to live, at least to live to know the truth of all this.

   "Where is Merlin?"

  "He should be in his castle," Abigail said. "The Black Mountain Hospital has become a ruin, and many patients have no place to shelter. He contributed to his dusty castle."

   "Is this..."

   Arthur thought, then asked again.

   "Have you found Lorenzo's whereabouts?"

   "I don't know, but according to their speculation, that guy is probably dead, but we haven't found his body yet." Abigail replied.

  In the storm half a month ago, in order to destroy the extremely intense pollution source, Gareth commanded the Route Dawn to launch an artillery bombardment on the Reichenbach, destroying the flesh and blood airship.

Lorenzo was also on the airship at that time. Although someone observed that he and the black angel had escaped from the airship at the end, in the final analysis it was 10,000 meters high, and the heavy black angel did not have any flying ability at all. All he could do was gliding, but at this altitude, gliding just slowed the arrival of death, and the impact of landing would still easily kill him.

  "Black Angel is out of control strangely again...but you have to ask Merlin for the specific situation. According to the operation records on the Course Dawn, Merlin actually opened the hatch and dropped the Black Angel out."

  Abigail spoke and picked up the report from the side table.

  "They sent it this morning to investigate the crash site of the Reichenbach."

  Arthur picked up the report, which was mixed with several black and white photos.

The wreck of the Reichenbach fell on the ridge, and the blazing fire spread to the nearby dense forest. Through the inspection of the wreck, many corpses of the monsters were found, and from the index of the Geiger counter at the time, plus the Montenegro hospital, Compared with the corpses of those demons, they speculated that these corpses were all demon hunters who were alienated into demons.

  The black angel that had fallen several kilometers away was also found. The original sin armor fell almost to pieces, ploughing a hundreds-meter-long impact trajectory on the ground.

  But they did not find Lorenzo's body.

  "Do you think that guy is dead?" Arthur asked.

   "Probably, after all, at such a high altitude, perhaps the strong wind from the fall blew him to another place... Anyway, it has been blocked by the scavengers. If he dies, his body will be found sooner or later."

  Abigail seemed to think of something, and then said to Arthur.

   "By the way, the Protestant Mission has already left. To be precise, it has fled."

"what?"

  Arthur raised his head abruptly and stared at Abigail.

   "Yes, it means literally, the report on this matter is also on the table." She said and pointed to the small table to the side, where there were already piles of papers on the hill.

   "It is certain that they must have disrupted the local war in the Black Mountain Hospital, but they have already dealt with it well."

   "Don't admit it, do you?"

   "Yes, the demon hunters in the mission have always been in the consulate. Those demon hunters who acted should sneak in secretly, but as long as they don't admit it, we have no direct way.

While you were in a coma, the scavengers also acted, but after all, the opponent was a demon hunter. There was an exchange of fire between us, and the opponent was not in love with each other, so we had no casualties, but again, we could not stop them. Guy, after tracking to the port, we completely lost track of each other. "

   Abigail explained that as an important person, she was the luckiest person in this local war. She was sent out of the war zone by the Shrike in the first time. Therefore, she was responsible for a lot in the subsequent handling of the incident.

  "Is that right? After all, the opponent is a demon hunter. Without the original sin armor, we are still at a disadvantage for these human monsters."

Arthur's face was angry, and he didn't expect the other party to escape so easily. However, the energy of the cleansing organization was completely concentrated on the Black Mountain Hospital. Difficult to pursue.

   "What does the queen mean?"

   "The Platinum Palace has not responded yet."

  Listening to Abigail's words, Arthur couldn't help sighing.

   "So did we lose this war? We lost to the Protestant League?"

   "No... to be precise, we all lost, we all lost to Lawrence's remnant party." Abigail hesitated, but finally said it.

   "Based on the survivor's intelligence and our integration, I think this time we were all calculated by the guy called the Epidemic Doctor."

  "The Epidemic Doctor..."

   Thinking of the weird guy in his mind, Arthur fell into silence.

  In this local war, countless forces were mixed together. It will take some time for Arthur to figure out all this completely, but at this moment someone knocked on the door of the room.

  The door was pushed open, and the soldiers came in with weapons, holding two people, one large and one small.

  This combination is very interesting, just like a grandfather taking his granddaughter, and like a profiteer fooling his children.

   "You are finally here, Lorenzo's good friends."

Arthur looked at the two men and rearranged his emotions. Just as he thought, there were too many people involved in this incident. Even when Arthur followed the clues to find these two people, he felt that Something unexpected.

  "The Duke of Stuart is still cooperating. As for Mr. Oscar Wilde... When we found him, he was trying to escape by train," the soldier said.

Lorenzo’s rescue team came on stage, but Hercules was missing. He might really be the breeder of the Rat King. Hercules is a very sensitive scent, and he sees the Leichenbach’s heading. When it was right, the guy cleared up and ran away.

  The two people who reacted slightly slower were directly stared at, in order to eliminate the agency's control over the old Dunling, they could not hide for long.

  Seleu still had a cold face. As for Oscar, there was a shameless sneer on his face.

   "Oh! I finally saw you! I wanted to accuse Lorenzo's atrocities! He threatened us to do everything! That's right! That shameless bastard! We are at best accomplices!"

  Oscar looked righteous, and Arthur was caught off guard by this sudden reaction, but he reacted immediately.

"Threat? So under the threat of a third-rate detective, the noble Duke of Stuart and North Dero... just like this, you transferred the power to help him do this? You North Delor even lost a ship. The Reichenbach?"

   "It is not accurate to say that I am us! This time it is our joint venture."

   Oscar said with a proud face, he also patted Seleu on the shoulder, and Seleu rarely nodded in cooperation with him.

  Looking at Oscar's appearance, Arthur was a little bit dumbfounded for a while, but then killing intent appeared on the peaceful face, he took the gun and aimed at Oscar.

  Oscar was taken aback, it seemed that Arthur would not be so direct, while Seleu became serious. Although he thought that the consequences of being discovered would be serious, he did not expect that Arthur would not give them any chance of turnover.

   Seleuc was thinking about the next countermeasures, and at this moment Oscar suddenly said to her, with grief on her old cheeks.

   "Sorry, my child, this is reality. It seems that our revolutionary friendship will end here."

   Seleuc: "?"

   "Well, I have recruited it. It is Lorenzo who is crazy about to run away from Old Dunling. We just said that we only helped him make an escape route, but I didn't know that this guy didn't want to escape!"

   Regardless of Seleu’s curses and fights, Oscar turned his head and shouted unreservedly.

  (End of this chapter)