Ember Gun

  Chapter 489 Prison Cage

  The sound of footsteps broke the calm of the Platinum Palace. There were only a few people walking slowly in front of the magnificent palace. The sunlight passed through the painted glass and fell on a few people, reflecting the pale faces with colorful colors.

  It's not the first time Lorenzo has come to the Platinum Palace, but his eyes are like a child who has just entered the place, and he scans randomly from the corner of his sight.

After so much, Old Dunling is no secret for Lorenzo. Whether it is the mysterious perpetual pump or the broken dome, he has personally visited and learned about it, but the platinum palace is the only one. exception.

  It belongs to the royal family of Victoria. It is free from the management of the cleansing agency. It is like a fortress that puts an end to everything. It is located in the heart of the old Dunling. If you don’t know that the queen lives here, it is calm and almost forgotten here.

  Lorenzo's arrival disturbed the calm, and under the leadership of Anakin, they stopped in front of a gate.

  Compared with other gates in the Platinum Palace, this gate is simple, without any cumbersome patterns and patterns, it just appeared in front of you abruptly, blocking the way.

   "Then you need to move forward by yourself."

   Anakin stopped outside the door, with no intention of moving forward. There was also a royal guard not far away staying with him.

   "What's behind the door?"

   Lorenzo asked, everything in the Platinum Palace is unknown to him, and what he saw and heard before is also under the control of the queen, and he has no time to explore freely at all.

   "Royal Realm."

   Arthur said suddenly, he looked at the door, and a little nostalgia rose in his eyes.

   "I've been here... probably more than ten years ago, I almost forgot about it for a long time."

  As he said, he pressed his hand on the door and pushed slowly until a crack appeared between the door, and there was no light from it. It seemed that there was a dark corridor behind it.

   "Let's go, Lorenzo."

  Arthur walked in through the gap that was pushed open, Lorenzo stopped for a moment, grabbed his cane, and stepped in.

  As I thought, unlike the palace shrouded in light, behind the door was a dark corridor, and the steps gradually descended, seeming to lead to the underground.

  "What is the realm of the royal family?"

  Only Lorenzo and Arthur were left in the promenade, he asked directly without concealing it.

   "Literally, it is the realm of royal life," Arthur explained. "Don't you find out that apart from the queen, we haven't seen the second royal family member from beginning to end?"

   "And... do you know the queen's name?"

  Arthur smiled and asked as he walked.

  Lorenzo was stunned, he couldn't think of the answer for a moment.

   "Yes, something is wrong, Lorenzo, the queen of Inervig, what a distinguished status, we can't even remember her name, but we can't remember, or is it not clear at all?"

In this huge old and magnificent platinum palace, only Queen Victoria can be heard. All information about the royal family is an unbreakable mystery. Under this information blockade and subtlety, it is extremely big. Some ordinary people don't know how the queen was selected. In fact, they don't care. What's more serious is that few people know the queen's name.

Lorenzo realized this at this moment. He was surprised to find this illusion, and he was puzzled. From the beginning, he did not know the name of the queen. She was always called by the so-called "queen", just like her own individual. It doesn't matter, what matters is the identity she represents.

"How is this going?"

  Lorenzo found things interesting, as if there was some power that made him ignore the inquiry about it. If it hadn't been pointed out by Arthur, Lorenzo might not have realized this.

   "You'll know in a while."

At the end of the promenade, there is a slightly empty grassland behind the end, and there is a dome with light on the top. Lorenzo is not clear about the specific location of this place, but it can be seen from these that this should be the underground of the Platinum Palace. They broke through the surface and built a fortress half-underground.

  There were people walking on the grass. They were wearing black gas masks, and their bodies were completely hidden under the heavy coats. They could not make any sound except heavy breathing.

  Lorenzo never expected that the scavengers would be here. Looking around, they were almost everywhere here, just like guards.

The other group is people wearing white clothes. Most of them are sitting in wheelchairs, being pushed around by attendants, saunting the sun, and some can move freely, but most of them are children. They run in the grass and fields, but they are fast. Will be caught by the attendants, and then there will be a reprimand.

   "Antimemetic?"

   Lorenzo saw this, and subconsciously thought of the weird power that was completely opposite to erosion.

   "Well, the king cursed the royal family of Victoria. In order to ensure continuity, let everyone forget it is the best way. For the world, it is just a vague vocabulary and does not represent anyone or any place."

  This is a forgotten place. Even if Arthur, who has been here, doesn’t deliberately think about it, it’s hard to think of it.

  Here is protected by the power of antimemetic forces, completely taken over by the scavengers.

   "Sweeper...Is this also the base of the sweepers?"

   Lorenzo asked curiously.

Whether it is cleaning the headquarters of the agency, the pump of perpetual motion, and the Black Mountain Hospital, they all have a clear location as a base, but Lorenzo still does not know this part of the scavengers, they are so mysterious, as the cleaning The agency’s backup plan exists, and it is also in charge of weird antimemes.

  It can be said that with the blessing of antimemetic power, they can completely make everyone forget their existence and perform extremely confidential tasks.

   "I don't know. According to the regulations, I also can't know. After all, one of the meanings of their existence is to supervise us." Arthur shook his head and said.

  The arrival of the two did not attract anyone's attention. Lorenzo thought that those royal family members would look at him, but most of them looked like dead people, looking up at the bright dome without any reaction.

  The muscles of the body atrophy, close to the bones, and his face is pale, like a patient who has lost blood. Everyone has despair in his pupils, and the soul underneath is muddy.

  There are countless corpses like this. They seem to have been lying in a wheelchair for too long. They are like swaddling babies, shrunk into a ball in steel.

  The children are still playing and running innocently. They don’t understand why the adults always reprimand them. The adults look at the dome in despair. They know their destiny very well. He is a human, but he is imprisoned here forever by Wang Zhou.

  Lorenzo's heart suddenly chilled. It is not so much the residence of the royal family as it is the royal family's cemetery.

  Everyone here is protected by antimemetics. They are forgotten by the world, and they cannot get out of here because of the power of the curse. Perhaps they have never seen the outside world from birth to death.

  Their world is only this big, and the meaning of their life is simply to live, nothing else.

   "Let's go, the queen should be there."

  Arthur pointed to the end of Kusano, where there was also a gate, not knowing where to lead.

  Lorenzo followed him forward, but his eyes stayed on the faces of these people, unable to leave.

"Who are you?"

   Suddenly there was a voice calling Lorenzo. It was a little girl in a white dress. She was chasing and playing with other people just now, but stopped after seeing Lorenzo.

  There is novelty in her eyes, and joy that cannot be hidden on her face.

  "You...are from outside?"

  The girl said and walked towards Lorenzo. There are almost no outsiders in this forgotten land.

   "What is it like outside?"

   She asked excitedly, her eyes glowing, at this moment her playmate also ran over and looked at the two outsiders, Lorenzo and Arthur curiously.

  Lorenzo looked at the girl’s face, with strange emotions in his heart.

  He thought it was ridiculous, and the so-called Victorian royal family seemed like a joke at the moment.

Obviously as the royal family of Inervig, they are like imprisoned living dead. The so-called power and glory are meaningless to these people. They are not even as free as prisoners. At least those prisoners have seen this world. good.

A child staggered and fell. This broke the silence. The girls exclaimed, with fear in their eyes. The boy slowly got up from the ground, only to find a scratch on his wrist. It was obvious that the injury was not serious, but the blood was It flows out continuously.

  He cried out in horror.

The attendants skillfully picked up the medical kit, rushed over, and treated the wounds for the child on the spot, but the child’s crying kept on. The crying seemed to disturb the others. The living dead bowed their heads slightly, Looking back from the unreachable sky, they looked at this immutable cage, and then they wept together.

  This weird change made Lorenzo feel uncomfortable, and Arthur patted Lorenzo at this time.

   "Don't look, we still have things to do."

  Arthur has seen such a situation. He has also experienced the same emotions as Lorenzo, but he can't change much.

"Um……"

  Lorenzo responded with difficulty, the boy's blood was spilled all over his body, and the pure white skirt was dyed blood red.

  These children are all members of the royal family. They are all tortured by the curse. As they grow older, these children will eventually become the living dead in the wheelchair.

"let me go!"

A miserable whistle sounded, and an old man was struggling violently in a wheelchair. Years of restraint had completely reduced his muscles. His limbs were weak and he could only squirm with difficulty, and then fell from the wheelchair. He Biting a mouthful of green grass, stretched out a slender hand, scratched the grass hard, dragged his body to crawl outside the door.

  All this is in vain. He did not leave here when he was young, and it is even more impossible when he is old.

Arthur sighed weakly. Although Ovis was dead, now Arthur understood the child’s madness a bit. He was born in such despair, and finally escaped from the cage and died in the outside world. This ending should be what he desires most.

  Lorenzo couldn't bear to look at this anymore, he withdrew his gaze, turned into that indifferent look, and walked towards the end of Kusano with Arthur.

  The next journey was much simpler. They walked in this tomb-like building and rode a lift into the darkness. Arthur was somewhat unable to confirm where he was.

  Although he is the person in charge of the cleansing agency, and although he has also been to the royal family, he never knew that there are such huge underground buildings here. The Victorian royal family has created these by themselves. Then who did it? Those scavengers out of their control?

  Arthur couldn't figure it out. This kind of whereabouts lasted for nearly ten minutes. In the long silence, both of them felt that this elevator would send them to the abyss.

  Fortunately, it stopped at the end, and behind it was the darker promenade. When they stepped out of the promenade, they saw Queen Victoria.

This is a scene somewhat like a stage play. In the endless darkness, a beam of light pierced the darkness. It fell from above, illuminating the queen in the darkness. She was sitting at a long table, and it seemed that she had been waiting for the two for a long time. , As for other places, it is a vague darkness.

The distance is a bit long. Lorenzo and Arthur walked for a long time before they walked to the long table. They did not deviate from the direction on the way, because Lorenzo discovered through the vision of the demon hunter that this is a long suspended bridge. If you deviate from the route, you will fall into the darkness, and he can't see how deep it is.

   stared hard, as if they were in a huge underground cavity, and some sharp edges and corners could be seen vaguely, like a mechanical structure, but more Lorenzo could not see clearly.

At the same time, Lorenzo also noticed a strange feeling. Thinking back to his peeping a while ago, if he didn’t think about it seriously, Lorenzo would not be able to remember the scene... It was obvious that it happened just now, but he would These are quickly forgotten.

   "Is this protected by antimeme?"

  Lorenzo and Arthur sat down along the edge of the long table.

   "Well, this can be regarded as the core of the secret, of course, all kinds of protection are indispensable," the queen nodded affirming Lorenzo's words.

"Mr. Holmes, your will is amazing. In fact, if you change to someone else, such as Arthur, he may not be aware of it. Some people who have not undergone spiritual specialization will only need a little Psychologically, after walking out of here, he will completely forget what he saw."

  After hearing the Queen’s words, Arthur realized this strange power. He also had to admit that he and Lorenzo did have an amazing difference in this regard.

   "Then stop talking nonsense, let's talk about business."

  Lorenzo did not continue to talk about antimeme, he sat, his eyes sharp.

   "Now you can state your reasons, Your Majesty."

"Well, I know, but first let me think about where I should start... Actually, I was thinking about this before you came, but maybe I am also affected by the antimeme here, and my thoughts are chaotic. "

  Queen admitted frankly.

  "Then let me think of something and say something..."

  The voice sounded, and there was a long reverberation soon afterwards. The space here was far bigger than Lorenzo had imagined. No one knew what was hidden in the darkness.

  "Let’s start with...who am I."

  The queen coughed and talked about the past.

   "So, do you know the ‘Builder of the Country’?"

  (End of this chapter)