Ember Gun

  Chapter 492 Opening Up the Future

   "Human beings have indelible inferiorities, but they also have brilliant virtues. If one of the virtues is the most precious, it is probably brave for me."

  The movement of the queen seemed very difficult. She sat beside Lorenzo very hard, her slender and pale legs swaying in the air.

"bravery?"

The word    is too small for Lorenzo, if it hadn't been mentioned by the queen, he would have forgotten the existence of this word.

  "You might think this term is very common, right? But on the contrary, it is so precious that not many people have really had it."

  The queen slowly stated that she had rarely communicated with people so profoundly in her life. Since wearing this crown and knowing the secret, she has lived in panic all day long.

"I am a person who lacks courage. If I am full of courage and dare to do things that do not know the consequences, I may not become a queen. I probably escaped from the platinum palace when I was young and took a look at the outside The world, and then die."

  The queen said, turned her head and glanced at Arthur, then said with a smile.

  "This is why I let Ovis go with you, Arthur, that kid has courage that I didn't have. He dared to take that step, even if it ended badly... it's really enviable."

  Although she is Queen Victoria, like all Victorians, the queen has been trapped in this luxurious palace all her life, and she has been tied to the throne by countless powers.

"Brave, courage, what an ordinary vocabulary, everyone can say that they have these, but when they really prove all of this, people will shrink back, fear, and most people lose the ability to be brave in the face of danger. Stop at the edge."

  The voice paused, and the queen continued to preach.

   "In fact, this does not mean that people are not brave. They do have the courage to face danger, but they do not have the courage to bear the cost of danger."

  The queen repeated again.

   "The price, this is what we fear."

The voice reverberated in this lonely cemetery. Under the gaze of the steel corpses, the atmosphere here softened. Arthur watched the two who were talking, which reminded him of the appearance in the church. The believers confessed to the priest. Reading, telling the pain of life.

The queen is the believer in suffering. She seems to be explaining all this to Lorenzo, but more similar to self-confession. The platinum palace is so huge, but no one can understand the queen's suffering from the beginning to the end. , And she could not pass on the cursed knowledge.

  "Whether it is you or the other people who cleans up the agency, I know that most of you are extremely wicked people, and everyone who throws them in the court is the beginning of the death penalty.

  You are filthy all over, with all the inferiorities of human beings, but what I want to say is that even such filthy people have a noble soul.

  You have things that I have never owned. No matter what the purpose is, you have the courage to wield swords in the face of unknown evils, even if you have to bear death, or even a heavier price after that. "

  The queen went on to say one of the reasons for the war, at least in her opinion, the responsibility for this part lies with herself.

"I also know that war will only bring pain, but I don’t have the courage to make changes. As you said, using the technology here to deal with the expansion of demons, I know all of these, and I know more in detail than you. The third-generation armor can be initially mass-produced, and the military strength of Inervig has never been stronger...

  But, I dare not, Lorenzo Holmes, what if you fail? Once we are defeated in the war with the demons? "

  The queen was asking Lorenzo, but she was still talking to herself more. Her face was pale, her eyes were the same fear, and her body trembled slightly, as if she would fall in the next second.

  At this moment, she is just like an ordinary person, in fear and shaking.

  "I don’t have the courage. I don’t dare to imagine failure. I can’t breathe under the pressure of such a duty. The only thing I can do in the end is to obey these and ignorantly reduce the population."

  Suddenly she grabbed Lorenzo's hand and forced him to stretch her neck, but she didn't have much strength at all, and the action was ridiculous.

   "Or...Kill me, you come to get this power and do what you want to do, as long as you don't let me bear it anymore..."

  The crazy chatter soon ended. The Queen realized her absurdity, slowly let go of her hand, and lowered her head in silence.

Lorenzo looked at the queen pityingly. She was just an ordinary person. Unfortunately, she was born in Victoria’s house and was under the curse of the king. She was trapped in this platinum palace all her life, and she had never had real freedom, and she felt I was unlucky enough, but something like this happened again during the tenure.

  Continuous events almost destroyed this woman.

  Lorenzo and Arthur kept silent tacitly, giving the queen some time to relax. In this forgotten place protected by antimemetics, she is the only place where she can get rid of the crown.

  I don’t know how long this lasted before the queen said slowly.

   "Of course, it's not just chicken soup like courage, but also part of the times. This may be the last time we can fight back."

   "What do you mean?"

  Lorenzo heard something else.

  "Angels, you should have seen them, the information threshold protection mechanism, once someone knows too much cursed knowledge, they will appear and hunt it down."

  The queen looked straight ahead, trying not to look at each other as much as possible, her eyes were slightly red.

  "The builders of the country call them silent, keeping the world silent. At the same time, we also think of it as a protection mechanism, a mechanism to protect mankind."

  "Mechanism to protect humans?" Arthur was puzzled.

"Excessive and cursed knowledge will plunge us into darkness. We have always thought that this darkness refers to the coming of the silent, but in the understanding of the country builder, we think that the silent is the same as us. Like the birth control mechanism, before human beings cause disasters, we must solve ourselves first.

This is the case with the Silent. According to the country builder’s speculation, we will cross the fence when we are subjected to excessive and cursed knowledge. In the dark world, the fence remains silent and invisible. Once we cross the fence, we will go over the fence. The hungry wolves who are entrenched will discover the existence of the fence. "

   "So the Silent One appeared, and dealt with us before we crossed the fence and contacted the hungry wolves...we restless lambs." Lorenzo said depressedly.

   "That's it. The next war that will break out is largely due to this. The fence cannot protect so many people. Once it bursts, we will be unreservedly exposed to the dark and surrounded by hungry wolves."

  The queen did not know how to describe her mood at the moment, and said with a complicated expression.

  "This world is both a cage and a refuge."

"The shepherds who maintained the fence and prevented the hungry wolves from advancing, exactly when they appeared, and what exactly the hungry wolves were against, we still don’t know. Maybe it’s been recorded before, but most of them are lost in the years. Under this long self-castration, the cursed knowledge is difficult to pass down, even the things I know now have been processed."

  Lorenzo understood what the queen meant, which reminded him of the description of demons and gods in the Demon Hunting Order.

   "Because of the unknown, it is sacred, so that it can be passed down in a deified manner. Although the original intent is distorted, it can at least let us know a little about its nature."

"In fact, another part of the reason that convinces me that the disaster is coming is that we are still alive," the queen said again. She seemed to have adjusted her emotions and her eyes became cold and indifferent. "Judging by the information threshold, we were all hunted. Goal, but we are alive now, the silent person is like something happened to us, and has no time to take care of us."

   "This...I also realize it."

   Arthur said at this time that at the end of the workshop battle, the Silents suddenly stopped their movements at the same time, and then left together. It was clear that they should kill all the talents present, as if something more important had happened.

   "What is more troubling to the shepherd than killing these restless lambs? It was the hungry wolves that slipped in."

  Lorenzo slowly said, this kind of thing is easy to guess, but if it is really the case, it also proves the credibility of the country builders.

  The fence is almost unable to hold on.

  "This is a rare gap, Mr. Holmes.

A rare opportunity in a century, the focus of the silent people is now attracted by unknown reasons, which means that their control of cursed knowledge has been weakened a lot. Once these words were known to us, we would suffer Hunting, but now we can not only talk freely, but also reflect a lot from it. "

  The queen's voice became urgent. She stood up swayingly, as if she would fall in the next second, but she still stood strong before she fell.

   "During this period of time, we have the ability to exchange this knowledge, which means that the long-term oppression finally has such a chance to breathe... And then this is my plan."

  The queen sat back on the long table, her face gloomy and angry.

  "We made a deal with Jiuxia more than ten years ago to exchange armor and antimemetic technology for steam technology. In fact, this is not the case. What we exchange is the knowledge of the keeper."

   "Wait..." Lorenzo sensed something wrong, "Is there a country builder in Nine Summers?"

"Probably, I couldn't believe it at first. According to the last queen, when the big **** ships appeared in the port of Rendona, she really thought that there was going to be another war... but that's the truth. The history of the country is longer and more mysterious than any one of us imagined."

  The queen said that it seemed a little helpless.

   "Of course, I don't know anything else. Under the blockade of information threshold, we will only become more and more ignorant.

For whatever reason, the frequency of the demons in the Jiuxia region is much less than in the Western world, and in them, knowledge seems not to be cursed...Nor can we say that, for some reason we don’t know yet, The transfer of knowledge there is much more stable than ours.

For this reason, the builders designated Jiuxia as a research area. In order to keep this knowledge'clean', we are secretly affecting the world. Therefore, the eastern route has not been opened up so far, and it is completely connected to us. isolate. "

"so what?"

   Arthur asked, probably because there are enough secrets known today, it is difficult for the queen to talk about these things to cause a change in his mood.

"There is no reason. This is a complete isolation. I don't know what Jiu Xia is studying and to what extent. In short, it is regarded as an unknown surprise. On our side, now the silent person cannot take into account the overall situation. We can conduct small-scale knowledge exchanges, which may bring our knowledge of the world [the truth] one step closer."

  The queen said and looked at Lorenzo again.

  "Mr. Holmes, I need you to go to the end of the world to find the Secret Keeper. Today's knowledge has been broken down too much. I need you to get something from the Secret Keeper..."

  She took a deep breath, looking a little tired.

"Actually, I don’t know what I can get from the Secret Guardian, let alone what Jiu Xia will bring. Everything is unknown, but I think we can try to gamble and use the only chips to gamble. A new future."

  "You want to bet? Betting on the fate of mankind?"

  This thing only made Lorenzo feel heavy and breathless.

   "How is it possible, I don't have the courage."

  The queen laughed mockingly.

   "The two plans will move forward in parallel. If we really win the bet, then we will open up a new future. If we lose and the war remains, we will enter the next cycle."

   "And we all die, don't we?" Arthur asked at this time, "After entering the next cycle, those of us who know knowledge will be hunted by the quieter who eases over."

   responded to Arthur with a long silence, and the queen said slowly after a long time.

   "Yes...we will all die, sorry."

"There's nothing to be sorry about, for the gambler, with such a small chip, to bet such a big bet, you win blood and you don't lose money if you lose..." Lorenzo suddenly said something bad, and I don’t know if he is comforting other people, or if he really thinks like this, "Everyone is mortal, and they will die anyway, right?"

   "If it is done, everyone here will be great, the kind that can be written into textbooks."

  Lorenzo continued to speak bad words and stood up from the edge of the high platform. He seemed excited and panicked.

  "The fleet is ready, but we don’t know the exact location of the end of the world. In order to ensure that knowledge is not contaminated, the keeper has hidden the channel in a mysterious fable.

  As for it itself is surrounded by the Sea of ​​Silence, and the chaos of the Sea of ​​Silence has dimmed the stars. Even the most recent time, Merlin arrived at that location under the leadership of the navigators of the Viking nations. "

  The queen talked about this grim situation, but thanks to this harsh environment, the secrets at the end of the world were concealed and kept absolutely silent.

   "It sounds okay... then can we leave?"

Lorenzo couldn’t wait. Unlike the queen who was crushed by despair, Lorenzo looked very happy after despair. In Lawrence’s [Gap], he saw the arrival of the end. He tried to change everything, but didn’t know. Where to start, and now Lorenzo finally found the direction of travel.

  He strode forward and whispered softly.

   "Now, let us open up a new future."

  (End of this chapter)