Ember Gun

  Chapter 143 First Test Drive

The steel is staggered to death. Sometimes you will feel that the entire perpetual pump is like a mechanical life with life. The heavy and complex mechanical structure is its organ. In the metal-cast catheter, the blood current is surging. .

The boy raised his head and looked at the metal ceiling above his head. Maybe everyone who wakes up from the hospital bed has this in common. What he sees when he wakes up is not a concerned look or the fireworks surrounding him, it is just monotonous. ceiling.

   "You look good, kid, the armor protects you, otherwise you may never wake up again."

  The doctor saw him waking up to examine his body, and by the way told him what happened during the time he was in a coma.

  The boy did not speak, but stared at the ceiling blankly, immersed in his own world.

  The doctor seems to be used to these things, and doesn't care about the boy's reaction, but does all the work for him, putting the new medicine on the other side of the bed.

  He is the only person in the entire ward. This is a custom-made room for him, a room that belongs to him alone.

As the doctor left, the room calmed down again. Perhaps because of the effects of the drug, the boy felt sleepy, but he didn’t want to sleep like this. He didn’t feel anything in the lower body. He tried to sit up with both hands, but The residual pain in his body made him unable to do anything.

   "Yo, Ovis, I'm so happy to see you wake up."

  Suddenly the door was opened again, and Merlin walked in cheerfully, even though his almost dead face smiled with a bit of horror.

   Immediately after Merlin walked to the bed and helped Ovis sit up, he looked very young, young and a little underage.

   "How do you feel this time? Do you still have nightmares?"

  Merlin didn't care about Ovis' indifference, he had long been used to it, and continued to ask with concern.

   "Yes, but it's vague."

  Oviz finally spoke, his voice calm.

  It is a very dangerous thing to pass in a coma in the armor. The power of the monster will continue to erode the driver. In the coma, the driver’s will is completely unprepared, which will accelerate the degree of erosion.

  Oviz hadn't passed out in a coma in the armor for a long time, but this time he was traumatized, and it was lucky to survive.

   "What exactly is it?"

  Melin then asked, seeming to be doing some research in general.

   "Very vague... You also know that people can't fully record dreams. I can only see false grays and obscure voices... What do you ask these for?"

  Ovis looked at Merlin, he usually didn't ask about it.

Dreamland is a very strange thing. Usually you can’t remember how you arrived at the dreamland. The weird world is extremely chaotic, but it’s like another power hinting at you, even if it doesn’t conform to the laws of physics. But your brain will also recognize it as a normal state.

  "We have a new test driver. You met him, Mr. Lorenzo Holmes. To be honest, I am also upset about the Demon Hunter's test drive of the original sin armor."

   "After all, every knight driving the armor for the first time is accompanied by a huge risk."

  "Everyone’s first drive is full of risks."

  Merlin said one point of his anxiety, and he stopped talking for a long time before he talked about it again.

   "You should remember that I said'contact' with you, this thing is right, the more you interact with demons, the more you have suffered erosion, the more you can feel something indescribable."

"connect?"

  Merlin nodded, then continued.

   "I also asked Mr. Holmes, he said that the strange feeling is called the connection with the darkness... It's like you are going deep into a blue sea, the deeper you go, the more you can feel its huge and terrifying."

  "This is something that I suddenly realized recently. After all, erosion will interfere with our nerves. All illusions can be attributed to this, but this connection is different, as if your spirit is about to reach another world."

  In fact, there are some Merlins who have not told Ovis that he is an alchemist, and he has a name for the depths of the spirit in that ancient and mysterious art.

  【Gap】.

  "At first, I thought that only erosion was causing trouble, but I found that everyone who was affected by erosion would have a certain blurry illusion. Everyone has..."

  The sound gradually faded away, but then suddenly disappeared.

   "Ovis, what did you see when you drove the armor for the first time?"

   Merlin immediately asked, this alchemist seemed to have inspired himself, and from the hollow eyes he could feel something called passion.

  Oviz thought for a while, that was his clearest dream, and it was hard to forget if he wanted to forget it.

"That is…"

But at the moment he was about to say it, the roaring alarm bell spread throughout the perpetual pump. You can see that all the indicator lights have turned to red. Under the bright light, everything is bathed. A layer of hideous scarlet.

   is like a boiling hell.

  As if evil spirits invaded the entire underground facility, according to emergency measures, the steel gates were dropped and sealed one by one, and electric current was applied. The security guards took the experimental weapons and walked to the emergency passage, and all scientific research personnel took emergency refuge.

"what happened?"

Merlin said that he tried to open the door of the room, but because the entire perpetual pump entered a state of emergency, the door was tightly sealed. He was yelling and cursing while looking for his key. He was the technology of perpetual pump. Chief, his key can open any door under any circumstances.

   "It's... the armor of original sin, I feel the erosion."

  Owes yelled from the bed, the faint erosion is everywhere.

  "Let me go out and prepare me the armor of original sin, I can subdue it."

   "Shut up, you will die if you use that ghost!"

   Merlin turned her head and shouted.

  For a while, the agitated atmosphere seemed to disappear, and Ovis sat on the bed blankly looking at Merlin, as if he couldn't believe it.

"what are you saying?"

   "I said you can't use armor anymore! Lancelot, you can control the armor perfectly but it doesn't mean that erosion doesn't exist!"

Merlin opened the door and rushed out, as if he was afraid of him coming out. He also sealed the door tightly again, leaving him a little unbelievable to watch all of this, whether it was the danger of breaking free or something else. Nothing can interfere with him anymore.

  ...

  Half an hour ago, the workshop.

   "So you want me to test drive this?"

  Lorenzo looked up at the container that had fallen from the rail, and asked Tesla.

  After a series of inspections, the physical condition of the three mice was very healthy, and it happened that one of the second-generation armors had been debugged, and the first test-driving experiment started as a matter of course.

  There is a yellow warning mark on the container, and the cast iron surface is covered with scratches, like some kind of beast dying in it. With the opening of the container, after erosion, the hideous armor will be exposed.

  Different from the New Hope, the second-generation armor is significantly smaller. After casting with modern top crafts, sophisticated armor and fully protected internal mechanical equipment, the cumbersome and magnificent patterns are engraved on the bright armor. Lorenzo looked at this second-generation armor, and he felt a little familiar.

  "The registered code name of this second-generation armor is Weapon Master, and it appeared during the operation in Ende Town."

  Tesla explained to the three of them that it was produced in the Burhans Arms Factory and was urgently dispatched to Old Dunling when it was operating in Ende Town.

"I think you guys should have seen it. During the operation in Ende Town, this was the armor driven by the Shrike. In order to enable the upper knights to drive perfectly, we have greatly reduced the proportion of monsters on the second-generation armor. The result is reduced flexibility, but the impact is not too much."

   "I remember it should be... more dangerous than it is now."

  Looking at the armor, there was always a difference in the impression that Lorenzo could only say vaguely.

"You mean its armed, code-named Weapon Master. It is positioned to use a variety of weapons to suppress demons. There are two large weapon racks on the back, as well as many external weapons and new armors, but after all, it is only It's just an experiment, there is no need to be so fully armed, right."

  Tesla knocked on the solid armor. This ghost is extremely deadly even without a mission weapon, not to mention that it is fully armed. Once it loses control, this ghost may kill the entire perpetual pump.

   walked around the armor of the original sin called the weapon master, like a sculpture out of a whole piece of steel, there is no gap for people to attack.

  "So, where should I get in?"

  Lorenzo walked around, not knowing where he should go in.

"here."

  Tesla pulled the valve while talking, the cable connected to the armor was energized, the steam engine roared slightly, and then the entire armor came alive.

There are two ways to activate the original sin armor. One is that the driver himself is placed in the central frame, and the flesh that grows later will connect it with the loaded armor. The second is Lorenzo’s current situation. After assembling the armor as a whole, enter from the position where the armor is opened after preheating.

  The whole armor moved strangely. It knelt on one knee and lowered its head. The whole body looked like a rugged hill.

  Lorenzo originally thought it would be opened on the chest like a new hope, but in fact it opened at the position where the neck of the armor was connected to the back. As the steam escaped, the dark door opened to Lorenzo.

  "Do I need to do anything after I go in?"

  Lorenzo got on the ladder, stood on the back of the armor, and looked at the darkness inside, he suddenly felt a little uneasy.

   "Nothing is needed, but it's the first time you connect to the armor. I don't know what will happen, let alone you are still a demon hunter."

  Tesla also felt a little uneasy. The Demon Hunter and the Armor of Original Sin, two extremely dangerous things came together, and no one knew what would happen.

No matter whether it is the gospel church or the cleansing organization, no one has truly understood what a monster is. Because of the strange erosion, scholars of the perpetual pump have been troubled by this. The scientific research cannot be continued, and the gospel church can only Explain all this unknown with the name of a god.

   "I only have one word to tell you, Mr. Holmes, stay sensible. Please stay sensible at all times."

  As he said, he began to back up, and took the remaining two white mice to the lifting platform, and started to lift to the safe area as the gears turned.

  The whole workshop is running again, the gates leading to the outside world are blocked and electrified, the Geiger counters on the wall of the shaft bounce one by one, and the ancient forbidden ritual is about to begin.

  Lorenzo looked up at the scorching sun on the dome, and then he was in the gloom.

He could clearly hear the sound of the steel rejoining the surrounding steel, and a warm feeling came from the surface of the body. The touch was very soft, filling the gap between him and the steel like flesh and blood, and finally along the back of the neck. At the beginning, the slender probe was inserted into the body and began to connect with the flesh and blood of the demon.

Then a new heartbeat sounded. It was stronger than Lorenzo's heart, and heavier than a war drum. It hammered Lorenzo's chest heavily, giving strength to this steel body. .

   "Mr. Holmes, how do you feel?"

  Tesla’s voice rang in his ears. From the high platform, Lorenzo still stayed on the steel altar with one knee after activating the armor.

  "Excuse me, please try to move Mr. Holmes, we can't get any experimental data if you stay in this place."

   "Mr. Holmes?"

  Tesla’s voice echoed in the narrow armor, but no one responded to his call.

   "Mr. Holmes, if you are still awake, please reply to me immediately."

   This time Tesla’s voice became serious. On the high platform, looking at the sculptural armor, he knew that the most dangerous thing had happened.

   Suddenly the armor stood up slowly, but different from what was expected, dark red flesh and blood poured out under the plate armor, and the overgrowth of muscles twisted the armor into a weird monster.

  Steel and machinery were mixed in it, until the flesh and blood even completely covered the visor, and finally it opened, revealing a big scarlet mouth.

The Geiger counter screamed desolately, and the lights in the entire workshop turned red. Tesla stood high and looked at the bottom of the well. The Armor of Original Sin had no extra action. It just stood there blankly, from time to time. Accompanied by the twitching of flesh and blood.

  Pressure, endless pressure comes from the armor. Although it stays in place like a sculpture, its crazy enough erosion is continuously spreading from it.

The    index has reached the limit value, and the rainwater made of neutralizing liquid rises from the dome above the head. It washes the well wall and finally falls on the armor.

   "He... he's out of control! Hurry up and think of a way!"

   Kestrel could not stop shouting, it was obvious that under normal circumstances, the flesh and blood of the original sin armor would not grow so vigorously. It twisted and extended, seeming to completely swallow Lorenzo in the armor.

   "No, it hasn't lost control yet."

   Tesla gritted his teeth and said slowly.

  The body bathed in the neutralizing liquid was reflected in its eyes. It just stood on the spot without any abnormal reaction, looking at the burning light of the dome.

   "Be sane, Mr. Holmes."

Tesla prayed last, and inside the armor, Lorenzo had already closed his eyes. When he opened his eyes again, he was sitting on the bench, and there was a roaring cold wind around him, endless gray. It's like an ice field at the end of the world.

  (End of this chapter)