Ember Gun

  Chapter 141 Silver-Binding Mystery

  Permanent pump.

Eliminating institutions, and even the entire Inverweg's science and technology center, they are the most front-end scientific research institutions. The research scope ranges from alchemy steam technology to monsters. It can be said that they have promoted the development of science and technology in the entire world in one fell swoop. The first steam prototype on the site was built here.

  This institution has a high level of concealment. In order to ensure concealment, most of them act as the mechanical institute on the surface. Most of the technology is created by them, and then handed over to the mature industrial line of the mechanical institute on the ground for extended research.

  The snake biting the tail is their symbol, which is said to symbolize "perpetual movement" and "infinite".

  "The security level here is the highest. The Broken Dome and the Platinum Palace have the same level of security in Old Dun Ling."

  Kestrel still acts as a tour guide, but at this moment he is even more excited than Lorenzo.

As a high-ranking knight, he is not qualified to arrive at the pump of perpetual motion at will. It is as mysterious as a myth. Usually you can only see a row of unknown carriages parked in front of you with dazzling sparks, and then a few white coats will drag. Come out with weapons that can slay the gods and slay dragons, give you a thick manual that can be used as a brick, and then disappear...Sometimes they even ask the scholars of the Academy of Mechanical Engineering to send the weapons.

Kestrel’s feeling is so wonderful now, it’s like Jianhao walked into the casting field of the Peerless Excalibur. Although he didn’t scream like an idol, he thought that the power against demons was studied from this mysterious place. Come out, there is a strange sense of pilgrimage.

  Whether it is the original sin armor, the Ranger plan, or the steam engine that changed the world, they all originated from here, this mysterious perpetual pump.

   "May I take some souvenirs and go?"

   Suddenly the sound of **** rang, but it was not the Kestrel, but Joey who had been silent.

  It was rigorous. He was staring at the experimental field next to the passage. Through the blocking glass, a group of scientific researchers could clearly see that they were experimenting with weapons.

  They were wearing fire-resistant suits made of asbestos, standing far away, and then something seemed to be activated. The mechanical arm in the middle of the test field slightly pulled the trigger, and the armored firebolt opened fire instantly.

The bright room was covered with blood-red color for an instant, and the high temperature caused the lower ammunition to exit the chamber instantly. However, due to the high temperature, the entire fire blast also exploded at this moment, and the semi-melted metal appeared to expand outward in a fan shape. The warhead burning in the center penetrated several layers of experimental steel plates, and the remaining molten metal fragments were also nailed to it.

  The alarm bell was made in the experimental site, and then the surging low-temperature gas poured in to cool the boiling and burning steel plate.

  Several scientific researchers looked calm, standing beside the molten wreck, recording the values ​​seriously.

"Dragon's Breath Armor Fire Blast, because it is too powerful, it can be used to explode, and finally made into a disposable consumable. The purpose of the current experiment is to optimize the materials and reduce the cost. After all, this weapon is really used. You don’t need to change your ammunition if you lose a handful."

  Tesla said on the side that the ideas of these researchers are so peculiar. Instead of thinking about ensuring that the chamber is not blown up, it is better to make consumables. After speaking, Tesla also glanced at Joey.

   "That thing is for the original sin armor, you can't use it, you should pick some other souvenirs."

  Tesla took a few people forward, crossing the long corridor. During this period, he passed several experimental fields one after another, and the explosion even trembled the entire corridor slightly.

Kestrel's expression is very subtle. He knows very well that if the pillar of the furnace is described as an upside-down tree, the mechanical courtyard is located at the root of the tree, and the pump of perpetual motion is located in the trunk. If it blows to the sky, everyone who is doing it can't escape.

  Finally, Tesla took you to a large experimental site. The interior was completely covered by fine steel plates. The entire site was circular. When you look up, you will find that it is like a huge deep well, running through to the dome above your head.

  The light array above the dome provides illumination for the entire experimental field, just like a day in the sky.

There are several large lifting platforms along the edge of the shaft wall. With the power of the motor slowly rising and falling, there are also huge gates on the edge of the shaft wall, from which steel rails extend across the deep well, on which a suspension is suspended. With illegible machines, they passed over everyone's heads, followed the guide rails and sank into the gate at the other end.

Gears and cables are unabashedly exposed. From time to time, there are flashes of electric light, and a faint steam overflows, but it is quickly sucked by the exhaust fan. Different instructions broadcast echoes. Everyone is like a small gear on a machine. , A precise bite.

  "Welcome to the'Workshop', everyone."

  Tesla smiled.

   "Our next experiment will be held here, but in the meantime, let us prepare first."

  He picked up the communicator in his pocket and didn't know what he said, and soon the whole workshop started to move.

The machinery lurking behind the steel began to rotate slowly. The originally flat ground slightly bulged. One metal platform after another rose in the middle of the site. At the same time, the lifting platform on the shaft wall also began to climb, and the heavy gates fell one by one. All exits were sealed, and even the door when Lorenzo came in was tightly closed.

   "What are you doing?"

  Lorenzo was not worried, but asked curiously, this is like a cage, which has locked them all in.

   "Protection measures. This is currently the largest and strongest experimental field in the perpetual pump. After all, what we are going to experiment next is very dangerous."

While Tesla answered, countless small bumps protruded from the edge of the well wall. They were Geiger counters one after another. They completely covered the surrounding area, and used this extremely clumsy way to increase the sensitivity to erosion. .

   "Then let the appetizers come out first."

  The goods on the guide rails began to fall, and finally fell slowly to the center of the venue. As the frame of the package opened, Lorenzo could clearly see the contents inside.

   His hands clenched tightly, his voice was a little cold.

   "Are you trying to annoy me?"

   "No, it's just science."

  Tesla’s voice is very calm, not calm. He doesn't care about Lorenzo's thoughts at all, and walks over directly to show Lorenzo his work in all directions.

It was an illegible corpse. The flesh and blood were mixed with the silver-white metal, but its interior was hollowed out. The metal spine was placed on the other side of the corpse, and it was twisted and grown like small branches. Of iron branches.

   "Mr. Holmes, I have a lot of questions I want to confirm from your mouth before participating in the experiment."

  Tesla put on his gloves and twisted the metal spine with pliers. It was covered with weird lines, like countless lines intertwined.

   "What is this thing that you call... the silver bolt?"

  Lorenzo looked at Ed’s corpse, the spine that had been completely wrapped in Holy Silver, and it was obvious that there was something on it that did not belong to this body.

"What do you mean?"

   "I mean, do you really know what the gospel church has installed for you?"

  Tesla took out a thing with countless tiny nerve wires from another pile of parts with pliers.

   "Look at this, how exquisite... technology."

  Under the high magnification lens, Lorenzo can clearly see the complicated mechanical structure, which is far beyond the extreme that can be achieved by modern craftsmanship.

"It was completely destroyed by the molten sacred silver. We can only study the degree of precision of this thing that humans cannot do at present. Don't show incredible eyes. Your current position is the pump of perpetual motion, the entire mechanical civilization. The place of origin, but even in this way, our factory cannot produce such a thing, or even imitate it."

  Tesla put it back in place, his eyes full of admiration and puzzlement.

   "Mr. Holmes, do you know what this means?"

"what?"

Lorenzo was faintly aware of Tesla’s meaning, but he just didn’t know how to explain it. Thinking carefully about his experience in the Order, a demon hunter would perform the [God Baptism] after receiving training, and the silver bound The implantation of the plug and the secret blood were carried out at the same time. They said that only the vitality given to them by the secret blood could make the Demon Hunter survive the implantation operation.

  Silver-binding bolt implantation surgery.

  It was then that Lorenzo realized that he had never seen the Silver Bolt with his own eyes, and he never knew what was in his body.

  "This is not a process that can be achieved by modern technology. Can you explain to me what this thing does for you?"

  Tesla asked very seriously that this kind of mechanical technology beyond Inervig is enough to make the whole country rethink its attitude towards the evangelical church.

  "...The device that controls the demon hunter. When our secret blood awakens beyond the critical value, it will melt on its own to kill the demonized demon hunter."

"In other words, this thing can detect the purity of the secret blood in your body? This is amazing. We also have a device to detect similar erosion levels, but that thing is the size of a small cart, and it has to The needle went into the head."

  Tesla's unstoppable praise continued to question, in his eyes Lorenzo was a huge treasure, waiting for him to dig.

"anything else?"

Like a huge truth about to be unearthed, Lorenzo actually felt a slight fear, not because of simple death and monsters, but just fear of the unknown, like walking in the deep mist, you will always It is not clear what will be after the fog.

  "The connection to the Temple of Silence."

  Perhaps it was the trust in allies, or the pressure from Master Lawrence, Lorenzo did not hide this time.

  "You can understand it as something similar to a communicator, the'communicator' inside our Demon Hunter. I don't know more about it. After all, I can't return to the Temple of Silence."

  Tesla didn’t seem to be surprised at everything, he continued.

   "Well...Is it possible to carry out ultra-long-distance radio communication technology without a signal base station? I started to celebrate that the Happy Music Church had played it to death, otherwise we may really be unable to fight the war."

  Tesla explained with the technology he understood. His eyes on Lorenzo changed slightly, but he quickly changed the past.

   "What on earth do you want to ask?"

  Although Lorenzo has not taken a class on mechanics, he began to feel a lot of bad things in the constant rubbing class in the university, the increased experience.

   "It's nothing, it's just a lot of ideas, so let's change the topic now."

  No one knows why, Tesla did not go further on the topic of the Silver Bolt, but turned his attention elsewhere.

Without waiting for Lorenzo to continue to ask anything, the metal frame closed, pulling Ed's body back onto the guide rails, and then another heavy container fell, carrying a violent wind, and the moment it landed, it was mottled. The rusty container opened suddenly, and erosion engulfed everyone.

  Lorenzo looked at the contents of the container, and the surrounding scientific researchers came over. They were wearing isolation suits and inserted the slide rails into it, and then the steel knight inside slowly walked out of the darkness.

It is an original sin armor, but it is different from the original sin armor that Lorenzo has seen. It is too large and bloated. The complex mechanical structure is not well protected. Most of the steam engines are exposed, and many parts can be seen. It has fallen behind the times, just like a weapon more than ten years ago.

  "What you see now is the original original sin armor. After receiving the technical support of Jiuxia, we built the first original sin armor. We call it the'new hope'."

   Tesla explained.

  In the melting pot more than ten years ago, demons that changed war appeared.

"What do you want to do?"

  Kestrel asked directly, he was very scared of the original sin armor. In his eyes, this thing was extremely unknown, like a silent beast, slowly devouring the knight inside.

  He still remembers the tragic situation of Shrike in the hospital.

   "It's very simple. As test drivers, you should always understand the basic composition of the original sin armor. Don't be like him. You don't even know what's in your body."

  Tesla glanced at Lorenzo as he spoke, full of mockery.

  Can ask Joey again at this time.

   "Wait, you said ‘you’?"

  The usual strictness and caution are no longer, and Joey's expression is starting to become strange.

   "Yes, you guys, do you think the pump of perpetual motion is where you want to come? This is the ticket."

   "No, wait a minute, our resistance to erosion is not that high, you are asking us to die!"

  Kestrel screamed. He was loyal to the cleansing mechanism, but he has always lacked trust in these neuroses.

   "So that's why we invited Mr. Holmes, he will participate in the optimization of the second-generation armor, and optimize it until people like you with insufficient erosion resistance can also drive."

  Tesla...Merlin, to be precise, has made all the plans for this project. From the selection to the test-driving of the armor, they are a group of unlucky mice, who inexplicably stepped into the cage.

The two of them were extremely gaffey and howling. They looked at the heavily protected workshop and were still thinking about whether they could go all the way back to the surface, but Lorenzo seemed very calm, as if he had expected everything, he just raised his head slightly. , Look at the container on the rail.

  The container that was gradually under the gate, Ed’s corpse, the mysterious silver-binding bolt.

At this moment, he truly understood the ignorance Arthur said. All the things he didn't understand were attributed to the ethereal god. He had never thought about why it could do this...just like a mysterious demon. , Unreasonable demons, blamed all their strange evils on the knowledge of the church.

  The inexplicable cold rushed into Lorenzo's mind. At that moment, he seemed to have touched something, as if to see a corner of the taboo truth.

  (End of this chapter)