Ember Gun

  Chapter 585 The Last Secret Guardian

  From the emerald river, to the quiet Saint Nalo Cathedral, to the blazing night of the Holy Promenade, the patter of the old dunling...

  Lorenzo moved forward in the narrow darkness, facing the faint blue light, and stepped his body into the world after he entered.

The darkness gave him a short period of peace. In a little peace, he suddenly recalled the journey along the way. He felt very peaceful, without the slightest fluctuation, all the words were said, and the blood that should shed was also full of the ground. , Lorenzo just accepts all this now.

   Standing in the dusty ruin, Lorenzo stared at the blue light.

  Behind the door is an extremely huge columnar space, like an extremely huge deep well, involuntarily reminding Lorenzo of the well of sublimation, and workshops. It may be accidental that these buildings are all approaching the shape of a well.

Lorenzo remembers Merlin talking about these vaguely. This is related to the so-called "sublimation", from the humble to the sublime. It can be regarded as a kind of "altitude" change, coupled with the restriction of the wellhead, they all like to use it. Construct a structure like a "well".

  "Leap from humble to sublime, step out of the wellhead and see the bigger world..."

   Lorenzo whispered.

  But in this quiet space, his voice was so clear and loud that Lorenzo felt a wave of anxiety at the moment he finished speaking, for fear that his voice would disturb the ghosts who had fallen asleep.

  Nothing happened, everything is like the endless years of the past, maintaining absolute tranquility.

  A platform spreading from under the feet reached the center of the columnar space. Above it, countless cables and machinery were dropped from the darkness on the dome. They held up a huge disk and located in the core.

Lorenzo stepped forward and could see what seemed to be on the walls of the surrounding wells. The walls of the wells were not smooth. If you looked at it carefully, you could see one bulge after another, which looked like some kind of translucent. Glass, they are elliptical, densely arranged on the wall of the well, spreading to the end of the upper and lower sides.

  I don’t know what these are. After all, everything here is outside Lorenzo’s cognition. He can only rely on rudimentary common sense to judge the functions of some things.

  Most of the translucent ellipses have been broken, and water stains can be seen below. It seems that there used to be water here. As the glass broke, the liquid in it was poured out.

These things seem to be some kind of container, plus the effusion, it is a bit like the incubator room seen in the Montenegro hospital, maybe something was bred here before, but now the things here are no longer there, or they are dead. NS.

  Lorenzo looked away, and under careful observation, he found that there were still indicator lights under these containers, but most of the indicator lights had been completely extinguished, and only a few were still running, but they also emitted dim red light.

  Like a pair of tired scarlet eyes, watching here quietly.

   "Lorenzo..."

  The Epidemic Doctor looked around and said at a loss.

   "These things should all be damaged."

  Lorenzo looked at the dim red light and said based on his common sense and understanding.

  "The degree of damage is more serious than we thought, and some indicator lights are not on."

   "Damage...?" The epidemic doctor took a deep breath, and he felt a bit bad here, very depressing, but he couldn't tell the specific reason.

Frocky followed the Epidemic Doctor. This guy was like a child who knew nothing about it. It might be the reason the Epidemic Doctor helped him heal himself. He instinctively felt that the Epidemic Doctor was safe...Although this guy was covered with squirming and waving. His scarlet tentacles are nothing like human beings.

   "This should be something similar to the cultivation warehouse, but it's all damaged." Lorenzo looked around, and it was full of dim red light.

   "Is it destroyed?" The epidemic doctor said.

   "It doesn't look like it," Lorenzo glanced at the door behind him. Except for the stuck and downtime, the surface of the door was smooth without any scratches. "There are no traces of fighting here. It may be due to time."

"The shelter has existed for too long, but nothing is eternal. The flesh and blood will age, the metal will rust, and the precision machinery will be covered with dust. Don't say that it is completely isolated from the outside world. Exhausted."

"The sanctuary is dead," the epidemiologist listened to Lorenzo's words and said slowly, "I guess they should have also designed an internal ecological cycle, but the energy is conserved, and they can only guarantee to reduce energy loss. Under the erosion of time, such a false eternity will one day collapse."

Epidemic doctors can’t help feeling a heavy sense of despair. The people living here guard the fire of civilization, hold on to the barriers, and resist any possible attack by the unspeakable. They also know the destiny of death and live uncomfortably alive. , Waiting for the day when all resources are exhausted.

   "This looks like a forgotten cemetery, Holmes."

  【No, there is still a Secret Guardian alive, it is he who guided us here. 】

  Watson’s voice sounded in the head of the epidemic doctor. Watson rarely talked with the epidemic doctor along the way. It was almost as if he did not exist as an epidemic doctor. The epidemic doctor was also used to this. This sudden speech shocked the epidemic doctor.

  "Where is he?" The epidemic doctor searched for a circle, but did not find anything similar to the "secret guard", "We followed the indicator light, and here is the end."

  【Lorenzo. 】

【I see. 】

  In silence, Lorenzo and Watson reached a consensus tacitly.

  He closed his eyes and mobilized the secret blood, causing it to rush in the blood vessels, and the power rose, bringing anxiety and evil.

   may be the reason for contact with the pioneer. Lorenzo suddenly had a strange feeling this time. He could vaguely see a deep darkness, and there seemed to be something watching him in the darkness.

  It's like staring into the darkness of the well of sublimation in the illusory and still temple.

  This is the same feeling.

The scarlet eyes opened in the dark, and the extreme strangeness almost caused Lorenzo's heart to stop suddenly, and the ascending of the secret blood interrupted, Lorenzo breathed quickly, bent over, and then vomited a large amount of Dirty blood.

"what happened?"

The Epidemic Doctor warned. Aside from the two monsters of Pioneer and Adren, the Epidemic Doctor felt that he and Lorenzo could walk sideways if he joined forces. This sudden change of Lorenzo might be something he encountered. A monster that has no entity.

   "I...I may have seen it." Lorenzo said with difficulty.

"Who?"

   "The Unspeakable."

  The Epidemic Doctor's mind got cold, and then slowly withdrew, keeping the distance between Lorenzo and Lorenzo.

  "Don’t worry too much, it should still be asleep...Even if it wakes up, it shouldn’t be me who died first, but the two fighting above."

  Lorenzo pointed to the dark dome and smiled bitterly.

  The end of sublimation is the unspeakable. This is like the end of the demon hunter, or the crazy monster. They are all the same, and while gaining power, they also deal with the price.

   "Maybe, the pioneer really wanted to save the world at first."

  Lorenzo recalled the disgust, and said suddenly.

  "Monsters like him, the longer they live, the less humanity they are, the closer they are to the end of sublimation, and the closer they are to the unspeakable. He might have been driven mad by the dream of the unspeakable."

   "Maybe... I have a chance to ask him."

  The Epidemic Doctor tried to be humorous and adjusted the atmosphere, but he felt the sense of death filled with years. He felt that even a comedian at this moment would not be able to save it.

  【Corrosion is memetic. Contact with pioneers may pass the erosion of the indescribable, bringing us closer to the darkness, and making the indescribable realize our existence. 】

   "In other words, are we all on the blacklist?" the epidemic doctor asked.

   "We have been on it a long time ago, but the ranking is not so high." Lorenzo stroked his chest, pressing the strange feeling back.

Now it seems that Lorenzo knows why he is on the watchmen’s blacklist and why the ranking is not so high. The first place must be the pioneer. These watchmen have been hunting for this and the Unspeakable The guys who have been in contact have vowed to cut off the spread of power here.

  【Need me to come? 】

   [No, I will try again, your sublimation is far deeper than mine, and your situation is more dangerous than mine. 】

Lorenzo responded. He began to understand why the Watchers were hunting down so endlessly. He also understood why Adren wanted to seal the power Gabriel. Ascenders like them are all loopholes one after another. It is possible for the unspeakable to break through the cage.

  So what about the watchmen themselves?

  Aren’t they themselves an extremely unstable loophole?

Thinking about this, Lorenzo suddenly remembered the faceless people he saw in the [Gap], and judging from the behavior of those angels, they don’t have any wisdom at all, more like a piece Tools to follow instructions.

  The only self-conscious person is Adron Levien.

  Lorenzo was a little confused about the relationship, so he could only pin his hopes on the secret guard.

  Without these sublimators, there will be no immortals among mortals. Under the iteration of reincarnation, people will misinterpret the past history sooner or later, which will further distort the world.

The more I think about it, the worse it gets. Although the full picture of the truth is still unclear, Lorenzo can feel the distortion of the world today, just like on a weird train, the passengers take advantage of all kinds of strangeness. The thing made it run wild, throwing clothes and gold coins into the combustion chamber, throwing weapons and corpses...

  It's so inexplicable, the train is moving forward, maybe one day it will completely collapse.

Prepared again. Under the suspicion of the epidemic doctor, Lorenzo started the second attempt. This time he was more cautious. The Unspeakable was still in sleep. He regarded the situation just now as his own bad luck. The depression in my heart has weakened a lot.

The epidemic doctor was a little confused about what Lorenzo was doing. He and Watson often communicated directly in the [interval] and did not take care of the epidemic doctor at all. The epidemic doctor could only bring a stupid look of Frocky. Unidentified and crowded onlookers.

   Then he felt it.

  The erosion like a wave spread from Lorenzo's body. He was releasing his power to resist the suppression from inside the sanctuary, using this method to search for the [Gap] of the Secret Guardian.

From the words of the pioneers, it can be judged that the Secret Keeper still maintains the purity of human beings. His [Gap] will be nowhere to hide, even if it is wrapped in Holy Silver, Lorenzo can feel a little hindrance, and search for him. s position.

   Soon Lorenzo’s perception responded, a dim star was shining in the darkness, Lorenzo opened his eyes and looked forward.

   "He... is here."

  Lorenzo looked at the disc in front of him and muttered, without making any stops, he walked quickly over and came to the disc.

  It is placed flat in the core, like a huge round table, with many cracks on the surface, and the faint blue light emerges from it.

At first it attracted Lorenzo’s attention, but because these technologies are far beyond Lorenzo’s cognition, he did not act rashly, and now he feels it very clearly, [Gap] is in it, the disc There is a living person in it.

  "How do I open this thing?"

  Lorenzo's hand was pulling on it casually, but he couldn't find a way to open it.

   "Should I say that it was demolished directly?"

  The epidemic doctor also followed. He didn't have much awe of machinery, and he was more pleased than these strange corpses.

  Lorenzo was too lazy to take care of the epidemic doctor, and it was also at this time that there was a rustling electric sound.

  The disc opened.

  The fissure began to expand, and the machine turned hard. It seemed that it hadn’t been activated for too long. Such a delicate instrument became bloated. It made a hoarse sound and finally bounced a corner barely, revealing the things under it.

  A faint white air permeated, revealing a scene of decay and ruin.

Lorenzo didn’t know whether the thing in front of him could be regarded as a human or a distorted corpse. In short, this thing was far more weird than the experimental objects he had seen in the Black Mountain Hospital. It had no fangs. And sharp claws, but from its state, you can vaguely feel the crazy nightmare.

  The pink brain tissue is quietly contained in a translucent container, with several electrodes connected to it, deep into the culture chamber.

This should be his head, but except for a few epidermal tissues, most of it has been replaced by complicated machinery. The tubes of different colors are exposed, following the metal spine, directly connecting the head and the chest cavity, and beating in it. It is no longer the heart, but a circular mechanical pump that continuously squeezes the blood and transports the blood filtered by the separator.

Probably to reduce the energy consumption of the body, the useless limbs have long been severed, and even the trunk is not much left. Most of the digestive system has been removed and replaced by various life support systems. The lungs are long gone. After all, that This kind of thing was still too fragile, replaced by equipment that Lorenzo didn't know.

   "It's perfect, he is like being dissected alive, throwing away all the useless organs, just to... make a living."

  The epidemic doctor couldn't help but exclaimed when he saw this. Fortunately, he didn't violently demolish this thing just now.

   "Survival?"

  Lorenzo only felt that the scene before him was frightening.

   "Yes, giving up all the organs that increase energy consumption is not so much for sustaining life, but for keeping this brain alive."

  The epidemic doctor swallowed. This is a medical technique beyond his knowledge. He renewed his interest in the truth, and his heart was filled with ecstasy.

   "But is this ghost a Secret Keeper?"

  The epidemic doctor feels weird. Right now, the "secret guard" has given up everything in order to make a living and only saves a brain.

The epidemic doctor does not know whether he still has any self-awareness. If he does have it, just thinking about it will make people feel terrified. He can't feel hunger and thirst, can't hear or see, and can't sleep. , And can't really wake up.

  This is enough to torture anyone crazy, but this Secret Keeper has already spent so much time in such a posture.

  If he really has self-awareness.

  If he is really the Secret Keeper.

   "Then other..."

Lorenzo looked at the other parts of the disc. At this time, it seemed that it looked like an iron coffin that was spliced ​​together. The other parts should also contain such brain tissue, but on those surfaces, there is no secret. The blue light appeared, just a monotonous gray, as if all the colors had been lost.

  They are all dead.

  Thinking of this, Lorenzo shuddered. He looked at the oval entity above the well wall in a panic. Seeing the dim red light, a terrible conjecture rose in his heart.

  Also at this time, the silent Froggy ghost screamed, his legs trembling watching all this in front of him, tears welled up in his eyes, and the vague voice pieced together words that could barely be recognized.

   "Hall of Valor!"

  He waved his limbs, but soon fell silent.

  There are no banquets, no wine and bacon, no gods and warriors, only absolute silence and ruined dust.

Looking down at the deep darkness in the well, Lorenzo didn’t know if the piles of dust and debris, or corpses after another, had overcome despair and disaster, and imprisoned the unspeakable in a cage, but in the end They were defeated by the years and turned into meaningless loess.

   "The last... Secret Keeper."

  Lorenzo whispered.

  "They were trapped in this shelter, exhausted all materials and energy, and died one by one, but for the sake of continuity, they became like this."

  The epidemic doctor said and looked at Lorenzo.

"You have also heard the words of the pioneers. In order to ensure the safety of the sanctuary, these secret guards not only closed themselves up to isolate the unspeakable from intruding, but in order to continue their lives, they even rejected the sublimated immortality. Instead, they chose this way. .

  So if he is really a Secret Keeper, why should he let us in, those who are entangled with sublimation? "

  The epidemic doctor does not understand.

   "Because he can't hold on anymore."

  Lorenzo responded, he stretched out his hand and gently pressed it on the glass container, underneath was the brain tissue soaked in the liquid.

  "The secret keepers are to continue choosing to stick to the rules, not to survive for the rules.

  Now the last Secret Guardians will also die, and their continuation ends here. What is the meaning of the rules to defend? "

  They are recorders, witnesses, and the only people who know the truth.

  They need to live and live by all means.

   "So, is this why you let us in?"

  Lorenzo stared at the brain tissue and whispered softly, for fear of awakening him in a dream.

   "But now he can't speak or give any feedback. In fact, he is just a mess of rotten meat now."

  The epidemic doctor said that after a brief period of joy, he was once again lost. He thought it was ridiculous to think that such a magnificent building would only protect such a bunch of flesh and blood in the end.

  Lorenzo shook his head, this time his voice was full of awe.

  "You still don’t understand, the epidemic doctor, it doesn’t matter whether you can speak or not, and what he did is not for this."

  Lorenzo couldn't imagine what kind of mentality he was carrying out all this in the beginning. He felt his flesh and blood peeled off one by one, lost all perception and plunged into darkness, and was unwilling to step into sublimation after experiencing the torture of years.

  But all this was just to cut off all potential risks, and only for this reason, he chose this path.

  "Have you guessed that there will be such a day?"

  So you cut yourself into this, just to live as long as possible.

  Lorenzo sighed.

  "He is to save his [gap]."

  Eye pupils rolled up a blazing storm, and in the field of vision, the dim stars burned blazingly, bright as the day, the light track connected the stars, opening the way forward.

  (End of this chapter)