Ember Gun

  Chapter 93 Broken Armor

   "To be honest, Lorenzo, in some ways you are really surprisingly good."

  In the dark tunnel, Shrike mocked Lorenzo.

  The great detective followed him slowly, pretending to be incomprehensible.

The farce ended with Seleu being left behind. When Shrike realized the identity of Miss Stuart, he called the guards to take care of her, and took her to take a look at the exhibition, while Lorenzo followed him to take a look. That real exhibit.

   "Is that thing polluting?"

During Lorenzo's actions in Ende Town, he roughly understood the origin of the armor of original sin. Those scholars of the Far East Nine Summers made the monsters into armor. From Lancelot, who fought with him in the end, the weird mobility Looking at it with strength, the erosion of this thing will not be much worse than the secret blood.

"no."

   "No? How is it possible?"

  Lorenzo was a little surprised, and the shrike in front of him continued to move forward. From the words, it sounded that he did not lie.

   "Yes, so this matter is being handled by the Broken Dome. Our task now is to transport this thing to the Perpetual Pump in a few hours."

  Shrike turned his head, the candlelight on the wall illuminates his face slightly.

The destination has arrived, the door behind him slowly opened, with the babble of dust and metal rubbing, that is the deepest huge warehouse, countless sealed boxes are quietly stagnant in it, the guards are fully armed, there There is an isolation zone at the very center, in which the bronze giant knelt on one knee.

   "Those monks did not tell the origin of the armor. Maybe they don't know it. From what we know about Nine Summer, they are very strict in controlling armor technology."

  "A piece of armor that was smuggled out?"

Lorenzo walked forward slowly. The broken armor was covered with green moss after the baptism of time. The metal surface was oxidized, most of the joints were rusted to death, there was a huge wound in the chest, and the steel deck was broken. The huge cavity, the broken part bends inward, as if something penetrated through it.

  The decorative moiré has lost its luster, and at this moment it is like a twisted paw print spreading on the dead body.

  "It is not polluting."

   Stopped for a long time before the dead armor, Lorenzo said slowly.

  The demon hunter has always been absolutely sensitive to demons, but Lorenzo could not feel anything before this armor, just a monotonous void.

   "There is no trace of steam technology, and the magical part of it seems to be dead long ago."

  Lorenzo walked around the armor. At this moment, he finally looked like a detective, putting together the traces one after another to restore its original appearance.

  "I think this should be an armor that was abandoned on the battlefield. Only in this way can the monks get this thing, just like your scavengers, Jiuxia's logistics forces did not find this wreck.

The part of the demon died long ago with the fatal blow to the chest, and the metal part decayed under the baptism of time, and there is no trace of steam technology. It can be judged that the year it was made should be before the visit of Jiu Xia... This should be Armored decades ago. "

  Lorenzo looked over, his eyes slightly cold.

The inside of the armor is a complex mechanical structure, but unlike steam technology, it is a way of operation that Lorenzo has never seen before. The energy required is not the power brought by the steam engine, maybe...that is Something called an institution.

   "So in your opinion, what is the use of this armor, it is just a piece of scrap iron now."

  Lorenzo asked the shrike on the side.

   "You have to ask the lunatics of Perpetual Motion Pump, but I know a little bit at the moment."

  Shrike seemed a little proud, and there were not many opportunities to play with his knowledge in front of this detective.

"The decontamination agency has a formula for monsters, just like the kind of intuition your hunters rely on to detect monsters? But we are different. Geiger, the former deputy director of the Academy of Mechanical Engineering, discovered the weak radiation on the monsters and created them. After using the Geiger counter, some formulas were also calculated, such as estimating how long the pollution of the monsters will be eliminated in the natural state based on the radiation intensity."

  This is the advancement of knowledge, and the mysterious and mysterious belief of the Demon Squad, and the elimination of agencies who choose to believe in science, can be said to be a group of firm materialists.

  "We can check one by one according to different radiation intensities, and then deduced how long ago this armor was scrapped, and even said to what extent Jiuxia's armor technology was used to deduct it."

Shrike's voice gradually became in awe. In his opinion, it was a very common technical recurrence, but it felt weird to say it in front of Lorenzo, like a firm believer and a scholar who denies everything. Meet.

  Lorenzo did not speak. He re-recognized the technical ability of cleaning organs. It has to be said that it is indeed the country where the steam engine was developed. There are some novelties here every day.

He stretched out his hand and stroked the armor's back, where the penetrating injury penetrated. The entire back had been completely exploded, and the iron armor was shattered. It can be expected that the knight in the armor was directly shattered inside the iron armor. Cracked into a mass of sludge.

  But Lorenzo still felt that there was not too much, and stroking the wound, he felt that he seemed to have neglected something.

   "Hmm... Are you interested in letting me smoke a cigarette?"

  Lorenzo took out the cigarette with bellflower, and even though he asked about it, he lit the cigarette butt, closed the curtain and meditated before the armor, and then the infinite light disappeared.

  Windweed can make people fall into that strange spiritual vision. In that state, many people can see fragments of reality, an inexplicable memory, or a key clue.

But the herbal medicine will help deepen the connection with the darkness. Lorenzo has fallen very deeply. The sudden appearance of the woman in the church is the best proof. Since then, Lorenzo has been in the darkness. The depth has reached that even if you don't smoke herbs, you will enter the state of spiritual vision from time to time.

  According to Lorenzo's idea, he has already decided to quit smoking for one year, but this has only been a week.

  He knew that this would only worsen his state, but he had a strange idea about this armor, and he must confirm it.

Shrike's voice became blurred. He knew what Lorenzo was doing, but he hadn't had time to stop it. Everything was stretched by the strange power. After the endless night, there was light. Lorenzo saw it. It was a desolate world. , He tried to move forward, but his body was heavier than ever before. He lowered his head, and the heavy armor was reflected in the clear water.

  He entered the armor and placed himself on the long battlefield.

  (End of this chapter)