Ember Gun

  Chapter 250 Its Purpose

As if it were some kind of evil sacrifice, the dark evil egg was hoisted high by iron ropes and machinery, and countless lights hit it, showing the details of the steel feathers in every place as much as possible. In front of a person's eyes.

  Lorenzo looked up at the stone-like existence. Under the gaze of his concentration, Lorenzo could feel its vitality. Over time, as if breathing, the steel feathers brought slight ups and downs.

  "After recovering the black angel, we did a lot of checks on it, the indicators were all normal, and we couldn't find the reason why it was out of control."

  Merlin also looked at the dark egg, with greater awe in her heart.

  "It...is still alive, it is breathing."

  Lorenzo stepped on the unknown red liquid and approached the black angel little by little.

   "Yes, the Holy Grail flesh and blood is not only fused with you, but also combined with this forbidden armor of original sin, steel and flesh..."

The scarlet muscles extend and grow under the black steel feathers. It connects every mechanical structure. They are wrapped in a heavy package, guarding the most core steam engine and the monster that has been processed by the perpetual pump. heart.

This is the armor of original sin, the combination of demons and machinery. The perpetual pump cuts off their own brains, leaving only the heart used to drive the flesh and blood. To be precise, this is a walking dead. It needs human will to drive it, but When the fire fell that day, it was out of control, and without the will to drive, the walking corpse moved.

"It can be said that this may be the most terrifying armor of original sin we have ever created. After possessing the Holy Grail flesh and blood, it is far more powerful than other armors of original sin, but the same price is also very high, and the erosion it endures when driving it far exceeds ours. Imagination."

  Merlin said slowly.

"We have done several tests. The driver has just activated the black angel, and the Geiger index directly reached the peak. The driver only stayed awake for tens of seconds, then fell into a crazy hallucination, and then was corroded and demons change……"

  Dragging a living person into the abyss of monsters in just a few minutes, this cleans up any kind of erosion that has been in contact in the history of the organization, and it is almost fatal in an instant, and it has not even had the time to resist.

   "What's next? Is it out of control?"

Lorenzo also knows a lot about the original sin armor. They are somewhat similar to the demon hunters. They will cause terrible damage when they lose control. This degree of erosion, presumably the perpetual pump has paid a great price in order to control it. .

   "No... this is its strangeness."

Merlin shook his head, and his hollow eyes stared at the dark object shining stubbornly. As an alchemist, Merlin had seen many strange things in his life, but there was never one thing that made him feel so troublesome. The whole body is full of unexplorable unknowns.

"Do you know? When I was young, when I first came into contact with demons, my world was shattered, and I was occupied by the fear caused by this abomination. But under this long-term contact, I was wise to devour the demons. The monster, I feel accustomed to it." Merlin said.

  "It's like being with a tiger all day long. After a long time, I feel that it is just a fierce big cat." Lorenzo replied, he often described the monster like this.

"Part of our common sense is based on habit. We are used to the sun rising from the east, so we feel that the sun rising from the east is'common sense', but it is called a demon on some...some morning with hazy morning light. The evil appeared in our world, breaking our common sense of the world."

  Merlin turned to look at Lorenzo as he spoke, his stiff face showed a rare expression that Lorenzo could understand.

  It was fear, awe and fear. Lorenzo became nervous for a moment. What could make this knowledgeable alchemist feel terrified?

   "Mr. Holmes, are you still afraid of demons? Or, you are surprised by their existence?"

  Lorenzo couldn't understand what he said, so he shook his head in confusion.

   "I don't know what you mean...the monsters, hunt them when they appear, isn't it all right?"

"Yeah... as long as they show up, just hunt and kill them, just like humans and beasts in those long ago, raising torches and spears... haven't you noticed? Mr. Holmes, unknowingly We are accustomed to a world where demons exist."

  Merlin said somewhat unacceptably, sometimes everything is like this, if you are too persistent in it, you will not be able to pay attention to all the abnormalities.

  "We have become accustomed to the appearance of demons, and over the long years we have become accustomed to all this horror, from ‘abnormal’ to ‘ordinary’, and become ‘common sense’ which cannot be made known to others.”

  As he spoke, he pointed at himself, and said softly.

  "It only belongs to the ‘common sense’ of a few of us."

  Lorenzo is silent, sometimes it is true, all this is too long, so long that people feel numb to the fear of demons.

"Our common sense was broken for the first time because of the appearance of demons, and the black angel was undoubtedly the second break of common sense. I went through the alchemy notes that were about to be turned over. I have never seen such a phenomenon. Abnormal'abnormal'."

Merlin said and walked quickly. Lorenzo followed him closely. During this period, the machine made a harsh buzzing sound, dazzling sparks fell from above, and the red liquid fell along with it. It was not blood. , But some kind of alchemy medicine, repeatedly scouring the solid surface of the black angel.

   "What happened?"

  Lorenzo couldn't help being attracted by Merlin's words. He looked at the dark angel from the corner of his sight. He was curious about this "savior".

   "Let’s take a look. This is the report of the previous experiments. We were ready to meet the loss of control at the time. We mobilized a lot of firepower for this purpose, but it is strange that the expected loss of control did not happen."

  Up along the iron ladder, in an observation room in mid-air, Merlin picked up several documents from the table, which were also mixed with several black and white photos.

   "Look at these, after the driver started, they maintained a very short sense of reason, and then they were swallowed by erosion. They began to demonize inside the armor of Original Sin."

   "It looks... normal."

   Lorenzo said, just like those who were eroded before, they were "normal" demonized.

  After saying this, Lorenzo felt a deep chill. Just as Merlin said, he began to recognize abnormalities as normal.

   "No, it's not right, we collected a lot of out-of-control data in the early stages of the original sin armor development, this time is different from before."

  Merlin is one of the earliest developers of the original sin armor, and he knows the details of these experiments.

  "After the driver is demonized, it will cause the original sin armor to lose control. This is because the human brain makes up for the lack of the original sin armor itself."

   "These machines have no sense of self, they rely on the will of the driver." Lorenzo said.

"Yes, every time the original sin armor is out of control, the driver is eaten back. They begin to demonize, hyperplasia and change, and merge with the flesh and blood of the original sin armor, and their consciousness is replaced by that madness, thus completing the evil demon. ."

   Galahad’s wound flashed back in his mind. Galahad is regarded as the black angel's incumbent driver. He was eroded out of control during the attack on the underground palace. When Merlin and the others pulled him out of the armor of Original Sin, Galahad's back had been mutated, and the flesh and blood were connected to the armor. Together, they took a lot of effort to "cut out" him from the armor of original sin.

"According to our common sense of this, when the driver is demonizing, he will alienate into the brain of a demon, and become a bloated flesh and blood that fills the entire vacancy of the machine. At that time, the armor of original sin can also be called a demon... …In fact, it’s not much worse, and it’s not bad to think of it as a monster wearing a mechanical armor."

  Merlin's gaze was constantly swiping on the data, as if she was looking for something.

"Let’s take a look at this. This is a photo of the black angel after it got out of control. Everything was calm at the time. The expected battle did not appear. The driver was directly decomposed in the cockpit, which is a literal decomposition, like being buried in a tree. The corpse below, all his nutrients have been swallowed up, there is nothing in the small cockpit, he and this armor are integrated, and the armor is not out of control, and the surface is extremely calm."

  Merlin handed the picture to Lorenzo. Due to the limitation of photography technology, the black and white picture was a bit blurry, but Lorenzo still barely recognized everything in it.

  It seems that a monster has eaten cruelly in it. It eats very cleanly, with only a few pieces of flesh and blood in some corners.

  "This is a unique case, a very special case, a case we did not know, just like one day when you wake up and find that one plus one is not equal to two, but equal to three."

  Merlin’s hollow eyes were filled with excitement. At this point, Lorenzo was somewhat clear about what he wanted to do.

  Lorenzo yelled directly, shaking his head vigorously while yelling.

   "No, no, no! Merlin, don't even think about it, I won't go in!"

"Lorenzo, you are dedicated to scientific research! No matter how you can fight a demon hunter, decades, even hundreds of years later, it is just a pile of bones, and technology! This knowledge can be passed on forever! "

  Merlin said while catching Lorenzo who was trying to escape.

He is an alchemist, a guy who is stubborn about the truth to the madness. The reason why he is so normal is that Merlin is too far away from the unknowable truth, just like you look at the mountain hidden behind the clouds, you know very well. The distance between you is not so urgent.

  But this time is different. Merlin found a breakthrough. This abnormal original sin armor, this uncontrollable mysterious armor, may be a breakthrough point in technology.

  Under such temptations, alchemists who are indifferent to fame and fortune will also go crazy. For them, the knowledge they have not yet mastered is the perfect reward.

   "Lorenzo, you have to help me! You survived from this armor of original sin, and even said that this armor of original sin was probably out of control because of you!"

  In strength, Merlin was obviously not Lorenzo's opponent. Just when Lorenzo was about to escape from the observation room, Merlin shouted loudly.

   Hearing Lorenzo's pace stopped here, he looked at Merlin with some doubts.

   "You said, because of me out of control?"

"Yes, this is the only inference. The original sin armor will not activate on its own unless something affects it, making it self-aware, or a certain intentional power of action. Think about Lorenzo at the time. On the battlefield, the black angel has a very strong purpose!"

  In order to persuade Lorenzo, Merlin said all his speculations.

   "Think about the causality here, the black angel is driven by a certain purpose!"

  Lorenzo was stunned. For some reason, after that incident, unless necessary, he rarely recalled the scene at that time. Of course, this may also be related to his severe injury and unconsciousness at the time.

  "A certain purpose, what purpose?"

   Lorenzo asked, this alchemist really knows a lot, and he doesn’t know what he usually studies in the ground.

   "You!"

  Merlin said.

   "Its purpose is you!"

  It may be that you have been in contact with demons for a long time, no matter who it is, there is more or less a sense of madness.

  Merlin completely forgot that Lorenzo tried to escape, and he began to analyze everything about the incident for Lorenzo.

   "The original sin armor doesn't have the ability to think independently. It is just a living armor! But at that time it acted, and it was very purposeful, and even said it had a certain amount of wisdom!"

   "Lorenzo, none of us thought about using the Holy Grail to treat dying people. Have you ever thought about this?"

  Listening to Merlin's words, Watson's face flashed through Lorenzo's mind, the woman who had disappeared like a dream since the assassination of Lawrence.

   "No...no."

"Yes, this is wisdom, or has a certain degree of judgment on the scene! The black angel is developed by us, and it is absolutely no problem in itself. If the armor of original sin we made was so powerful, we would have long pushed it to Feilengcui. It's at the door!"

  Although it has reached a harmonious society, Merlin’s grievances towards the Gospel Church are not uncommon. This huge organization has put tremendous pressure on the cleansing agencies.

   "There must be some variable on the battlefield at that time, an unknown variable, that variable affected the direction of all this."

  Merlin was a little confused.

   "And your survival is the result of this variable."

  Lorenzo slowly said after a long time, "Is there any problem in this?"

   "There is a problem, but when I say there is a problem, it is not me who has the problem, but you!"

  Merlin said and pointed to Lorenzo.

   "You have a problem, Lorenzo."

  "Think about Lorenzo carefully. It needs your survival, under the influence of variables, the loss of control of the black angel, the hunting of the Holy Grail, etc., all this is for you, for your survival."

  Merlin coughed a few times and stood at the door and blocked all of Lorenzo's way.

   "Then the question, Mr. Holmes, how can you come back from the dead?"

  (End of this chapter)