Ember Gun

  Chapter 520 Return to the ordinary

After the naval battle with the Black Tooth pirates, the voyage of the Chenhui Advance ushered in a calm time. The scarred iron-clad ship sang forward, leaving a turbid white current on the sea, and the cargo ships followed behind it. Straight forward, full of supplies and hope.

  This is the first few days since it left the port of Rendona? Lorenzo also can't remember, the monotonous life at sea not only makes people feel boring, but even the senses are blurred by mechanical repetition.

  Lorenzo no longer cared that it was the first few days. He just wanted to get to the land as soon as possible and let his feet step on the solid ground. This swaying deck is really hard to make people feel at ease.

   "Blue Emerald, are you bored too?"

  Lorenzo tilted her head and looked at the blue jade, who was kneeling on the deck. She was holding a brush in one hand and a bucket in the other, constantly rubbing the bulkhead to clean up the rust.

  Lan Jade is too lazy to care about him. To be precise, she is too lazy to care about anyone. She rubbed the rust with force to let herself have something to do.

  "What about you? Seleu, what do you think of the sea?"

Lorenzo looked to the other side again. Seleu took a small chair and sat in the shadows. The sea breeze sounded very gentle, but after a long time it was a bit uncomfortable, but she squinted her eyes and was stubborn. Sit down on a chair.

  Seleu said that she wanted to see the sea, and then she sat there. At first she was quite interested, but after a few minutes, even Seleu appeared to be wilted.

  The sea is a monotonous picture. If it were not for the rolling of the clouds, sometimes you would suspect that you were still staying in place.

  But it’s not too bad. Even so monotonous, Seleu still likes to sit here and feels free.

Since becoming the Duke of Stuart, she has very little free time. She is either learning new knowledge or participating in various meetings. Although many people in the group also have the power to make decisions, in the end, Seleuc’s signature is required.

  For Seleu, this can be said to be a rare holiday. Of course, this holiday seems a bit exciting.

  The shadows on the fort not far away are in a hurry, and the maintenance of the Chenhui Advance is still going on. Before arriving in the Viking countries, some can be repaired.

The successive firings caused Ascalon to have some problems. The main thing was that the base was a little unstable. It could be seen that the bracket supporting the barrel had been slightly bent, and the slide rail used to control the direction had been completely broken. NS.

  Here is a rest and vacation. After walking a few steps, I arrived at the harsh battlefield. Seleuc has long been accustomed to such a somewhat fragmented life.

   "Well, it's like a desert made of water, endless, and you might die here if you are not careful."

   Seleuc said slowly, the afternoon sun fell, and it was a bit hot, making people drowsy.

The crew is not like her. As the logistics staff, they have accelerated their pace to maintain. They are very busy from morning to night, but everyone likes such a busy life. For them, it is a long and boring life. In the itinerary, there was finally something to do to pass the time, and everyone was immersed in it.

   "A desert made of water? It sounds pretty romantic."

  Lorenzo felt a chill while speaking, it was the coldness of the sea breeze.

  He looked in the direction of the Chenhui Advance, a steady stream of cold invaded, although most of it was neutralized by the hot sunlight, Lorenzo still keenly felt it.

   "It seems that the Viking kingdoms are not far away."

  "How did you know?" Seleu asked.

   "By feeling."

   Lorenzo muttered, seemingly casual, but he has been observing Seleuc.

  This is a clever little girl. Lorenzo is watching out for her to find a secret that he deliberately hides. As he said at the beginning, Seleu can never know the intelligence at the end of the world.

Two worlds overlap on this ship, one is the world of mortals, and the other is the **** of demons. The two are so close, as long as you reach out your hand, you can touch each other, but you just can’t see their existence. A tall figure surrounded the human wall, blocking them out.

  Lorenzo took off his shirt, picked up his special harpoon, and climbed onto the railing.

  Waiting for the Viking countries, Lorenzo has no interest in continuing to fish. He doesn't want to jump into the cold water to catch fish.

   "It's really coming soon."

  Lorenzo looked at the sea below. There were broken ice floes drifting along the ocean currents. They melted very quickly, and there were only small pieces.

  ……

   "Are they... fighting wits and courage?"

  Shrike came over with a bucket and a mop, but he couldn't get any more free, so he could find something for himself to do as much as possible.

   "What do you mean?"

  Blue Jade stopped working and looked up at the shrike who came by.

  He was facing the sun, his face was dark, and he was wearing loose clothes. Generally speaking, Blue Jade could not recognize him at all, but she saw the silver-white revolver in her pocket at a glance.

  "She and him, one side racked his brains trying to dig out some secrets, one side hid it and hid it again..."

Shrike shook his head helplessly, "This looks like a pitiful dilemma."

   "We have been in such a predicament, doing... barely bright things, but these things cannot be told to anyone."

  Blue Jade and Shrike are still familiar, probably because they have experienced life and death together. Blue Jade is more talkative about Shrike.

   "By the way, Shrike, do your family know what you do?"

"what?"

  Shrike did not expect the topic to lead to this.

  "I’m curious, how would you explain such a job to your family and lie? But once a lie is told, more lies are needed to fill it. Did your family not notice anything?"

   Lan Jade asked curiously.

   "Why do you want to ask this?" Shrike said.

   "I'm very curious."

   Lan Jade explained, her expression seemed a little troubled.

"Myself...I don't need to explain to anyone anymore. Kestrel is the same. You know, Joey. Their family has been subordinate to the decontamination agency for generations, just like the Phoenix family. As for the robin, his family is very The simple, general explanation is that he is a chaplain with the army, always going on business, going in and out of some sinister places, and praying to the soldiers."

   "It sounds really messy." It was the first time that Shrike heard these things, and then he was surprised, "Don't say anything else, do people really believe in robin shit?"

   "At least he does look like a pious pastor, more than that."

  Blue Jade pointed to Lorenzo not far away. This guy was standing on the railing, holding a harpoon tied to a rope, and looking excitedly at the surging sea.

   "Oh, our priest looks like he is going to hunt in the sea."

  Even the blue jade, at this moment, I still admire Lorenzo's self-entertainment spirit. A guy like this can live strong no matter where he is thrown.

  "I remember the regulations. Each of us uses a code name to act. It is only right to keep our own past confidential, right?"

  Shrike remembered the regulations at this time.

  "Is there any such regulations?"

  The blue jade leaned against the newly cleaned bulkhead, the sun was scorching hot, and the water stains on it evaporated in a short while.

   "Just talk about it, Shrike, just pass the time. The ghost knows how long it will be here."

  Shrike thought for a while, he put down the bucket and mop, and leaned into the cool shadow.

"Actually, my situation is similar to Joey. My family has been subordinate to the decontamination agency for a long time. Each generation has one or two unlucky ghosts dragged into the decontamination agency." Shrike pointed to himself, "I am this. The unlucky ghost of a generation."

"But something special is that only the core members of the family can know about the existence of the decontamination agency. It is probably limited to the family owner, serving and members who have served in the decontamination agency. That is to say, most people in the family don't know us. doing what.

  After a long period of time, this has also become a consensus rule. No one will ask us about these things. Even if someone who is curious asks, our answer is a secret agency, and we can’t say anything. "

   "Sounds quite boring." Lan Jade felt a little boring.

   "Then what do you think it will be?" Shrike asked.

   "Probably... the family has seen through your lies, so that you have to tell more lies, then tear down the east wall to make up the west wall, and you are in a hurry."

  Blue Jade rarely showed his casual side, his expression still looks indifferent, but now it feels much warmer.

   "I wonder if you have read the pamphlets issued by the scavengers." Shrike said.

  "Brochure?"

  Blue Jade has some impressions. She can't remember the specific content, but vaguely remembers that it has nothing to do with herself, so she doesn't care much.

   "Yes, they often send out brochures of identity information, which contain different professional identities, professional common sense, and some questions and answers. If you learn a part of it, you will have a new identity."

  "Is that so? Then I shouldn't pay too much attention to it. Anyway, apart from cleaning the organs, I have nowhere else to go."

  Blue Jade and Kestrel are somewhat similar. They have no place to go back. They just stayed in the cleaning agency and easily adapted to such a weird life.

However, the two men are very different in character. Kestrel is always very optimistic. In his words, if the organs were not cleaned up, he should have died in some dirty puddle. Now he enjoys every day. They were all stolen from the **** of death.

  With the idea of ​​living a day and earning a day like this, Kestrel had a good accident.

  Blue Jade is at the other extreme. It may be that her past experience is still haunting her. She always looks very gloomy, saying nothing, silence is on the side.

  Working with Lan Jade for so long, she talked a handful of times. The last time in Shrike’s memory was on the train of death, when the two talked to each other about the will and prepared to go to the place of death.

Then……

  Shrike thought, looked aside, and only heard Lorenzo cheer, and then he jumped down with the harpoon and smashed a beautiful splash.

  This guy is the happiest, right?

  "Sometimes I think about the future, Shrike, where we will be in the end."

   Lan Jade suddenly said, she stared into Shrike’s eyes without emotion at all.

"future?"

"If all the demons are killed, clean up the institutions, the hunting sect... all the things and things that appear due to the demons, what will our final outcome be?" Lan Jade thought, "When there is no more in the forest. When there are prey, the hunter also loses its meaning."

   "I never thought about such a remote thing, but I heard that the cleaning agency really has such a plan."

  Shrike heard Lan Jade’s troubles, and some did not know why she asked such a question.

   "Don't be too surprised, there are all strange plans for the removal of agencies, and they even have a plan for a "literary killer"."

"what is that?"

The name    makes Lan Jade feel a little inexplicable.

"Probably it was some retired guys who changed their experience in the decontamination agency into a novel and published it. In fact, this situation is not too harmful, but the decontamination agency still made the necessary countermeasures," Shrike said. There was a pause, pretending to be suspense, "Our elite team will come to burn his manuscript, and then drag him into the Black Mountain Hospital until he forgets those things."

  "As for the future you are talking about, its plan is called'Return to the Ordinary'."

   "Return to the ordinary?"

"Yes, all the monsters have been killed, and our mission is finally completed. At that time, we will break up," Shrike said with a smile. Yes, I just don’t know if we can catch up."

   "Sounds pretty difficult."

  Lan Jade thought of her physical father, with his blood flowing in her body, and she had the same trouble for a while.

  Return to the ordinary.

This is something that many people desire, but for the blue jade, it is so unfamiliar. She is not the same as the kestrel. The kestrel will always adapt to the environment and live, but sometimes blue jade can’t adapt to this. She couldn't imagine her life when she put down her shotgun.

  Unknowingly, Lan Jade has been integrated into this huge machine called the Elimination Organ. The ordinary life is too far away for her.

   "I am sometimes afraid..."

  Blue Jade's voice lowered with the words, and the sound of the waves easily covered it.

  Shrike did not hear her, he was attracted by the murlocs jumping up in the sea.

I saw Lorenzo leaping up into the sea carrying a big fish. He looked so funny. The fish's tail twitched vigorously. A slap was slapped on his face, and the foot that landed on the ground slipped. In the cry, Lorenzo carried the big fish and rolled on the deck several times, overturning a few unlucky ghosts passing by, and finally stopped by the disassembled bracket.

"We have arrived!"

   Just then Notar also walked out and shouted from the deck.

  He pointed to the sea in front of Chenhui Advance. Floating ice can be seen everywhere, and there is a cold breeze with it.

  "We have arrived in the waters of the Viking nations!"

  (End of this chapter)