Ember Gun

  Chapter 258 Fully Armed Sword Dancer

  The largest and most rigorous experimental site in the permanent pump, in a huge cage called the workshop.

  Lorenzo and Merlin were in it at this moment, but their thoughts never stayed here, the roar of machinery continued, the protective armor was gathered and reinforced layer by layer, and the lifting platform rose and fell. It seems that they are ready for the experiment.

Everyone is very excited. Although only Mei Lin is an alchemist, as researchers, their desire for knowledge exploration is no worse than Mei Lin. They are working hard to explore the frontier of human cognition and will have a great impact on the world. Understanding from simple and cold iron tools to complex and efficient machinery.

  But at this moment, the two of them are in a completely different mood from everyone, fear, awe, and confusion.

  Merlin seemed lost. He sat on the shoulders of the black angel with hollow and sluggish eyes, but his thoughts were advancing quickly, telling broken clues and putting them together again in an attempt to restore the shattered mirror.

  After a long time, even others did not understand what Merlin was doing. After all, he should preside over the start of the experiment, not sitting on the shoulders of the black angel, as if he was conspiring with Lorenzo in a low voice.

  He thought of something, Merlin got close to the visor, and after a brief panic, he thought of something more terrifying.

   "Lorenzo, there is another question."

  He said softly, for fear that this terrifying secret would be heard by anyone.

   "You, in the perception of your demon hunters, will demons die naturally like humans?"

   "Naturally...death?"

At this moment, Lorenzo’s inner pressure is not much less than that of Merlin. He thought he knew enough about the gospel church, but now it seems that this long-spreading huge organization, even if it is dead, the secrets it hides are far beyond. Everyone’s imagination.

"Yes, natural death. Even if there is no disease and no external influence, human organs will continue to weaken and age as they grow older. They are like mechanical gears that slowly rust and die until the machine stops. Can't start either."

  Merlin had a terrible guess, he couldn't help asking.

"Because you demon hunters carry secret blood, that powerful forbidden blood will strengthen your body, and because of that weird power, your physique is far superior to ordinary people, and even close to monsters, so you have the horror of monsters. Your vitality. You can usually live a long time and can delay the failure of this organ for a long time."

  "There is a problem. Even though we have fought with demons for so long, we never seem to have discovered demons that die naturally...

  In other words, demons will die naturally, but because of the fighting between us, they are rarely observed... Then come back to this stagnant temple. "

  Merlin couldn't help but looked at the gap on the visor, and the delicate patterns were looming on the armor.

   "Lorenzo, have you ever wondered how long this ‘Standing Temple’ has existed? How many years? Decades? Or hundreds of years?

  Demon, what exactly is it? "

  ……

Gray steam overflowed from the gaps in the armor, and iron feathers fell to the ground, like thousands of suspended sword blades, black angels kneeling like a stone sculpture, and the iron armor wrapped in them burst open, exposing Lorenzo. A viscous, blood-like liquid dripped in between.

He took a sip of water, then lit a cigarette, and looked at the bright dome above. He didn't know what he was thinking. The electrode wire on his back was wrapped in flesh and blood, and it was connected to the inside of the armor. The connection between Lorenzo and the black angel has not been broken. Open, this is just the intermission of the experiment.

The staff walked back and forth nearby, casting a surprised look at Lorenzo. They never thought that someone would be able to control this monster armor, not to mention that it was still so stable. The bright green light brought a peaceful atmosphere. , Ordinary people will have symptoms when driving armor for such a long time, but Lorenzo is like a okay person, as if he was born for this.

  No one can answer Merlin’s last question, Lorenzo can’t do it, and he doesn’t know that there are more unsolved mysteries and “truths” that have not yet been touched in this world.

He looked around at random and touched these secrets in a short period of time. Instead, he felt a strange sense of exhaustion. If Lorenzo could have a good night’s sleep, he didn’t know how long he had been here, maybe one day. Passed.

  The staff are not clear about Lorenzo's thoughts. They are just doing their own jobs, influencing cables and fuel, and injecting them into the body of the black angel.

  In the initial start-up, Merlin was not optimistic about the results of the experiment. For the sake of safety, the black angel was the minimum start-up. Now for the experiment, he needs to ensure that it has a certain ability to act.

   But even though it was, Merlin did not disassemble the crimson restraint. Lorenzo performed well, but Merlin always felt that there was a hidden risk.

   "Lorenzo, I will read those alchemy notes carefully about these."

  Merlin’s voice sounded from the communicator on the side, but Lorenzo did not look at it, but at the elevated platform on the side, where Merlin was preparing for the follow-up experiment.

  "Do you think there will be clues there?"

"Naturally, demons have a long lifespan, or their flesh and blood have extremely strong vitality. If our guess is true, this should be found in some notes. After all, this nature is related to the immortal sage stone. Too similar."

   "Sage's Stone?"

"The sage’s stone, the philosopher’s stone, or the elixir of life, this kind of thing is a kind of pronoun in alchemy, the real miraculous power, you can exchange it for the mighty power of the gods, and you can also get Life that will never die...At least when I was young, many alchemists I met pursued immortality."

  Merlin recalled what happened when she was young, with a little nostalgia in her words.

"At that time, my teacher was not dead. At that time, alchemists were not as scarce as they are now. We sometimes exchange materials with other alchemists. We will exchange technology slightly when necessary, but more often we rob each other of knowledge. , I learned swordsmanship at that time, and killed many alchemists who were pursuing immortality."

"At that time, the hit rate and lethality of firearms were not very stable, and the blade was still very reliable at the time. One of the main reasons why alchemists yearn for immortality is that they can occupy knowledge forever, greed and abomination, but we also end up with this. The price was paid."

  Lorenzo was silent for a while, then asked slowly.

   "Then Merlin, how long have you lived again?"

  Thanks to the fierceness of the Glorious War, the long evolutionary history of firearms was accelerated in the war, and it was deformed into what it is today in less than a hundred years, but Lorenzo knew very well how far back that era was when firearms were still in their rudiments.

  "Don’t worry about this. I am not a demon, nor a monster. I am just a person protected by alchemy. I just live a little longer than ordinary people."

Merlin replied directly, judging from his appearance, he looked very young, but in fact he has been alive for a long time, as if he had fixed his body at a certain time in a long time, so he kept this appearance all the time. Live to the present.

  "Where are those Fei Lengcui visitors? How did Arthur talk to them?"

  After talking here, Lorenzo couldn’t help asking, “The gospel church is far deeper than it appears on the surface. I sometimes feel that even if we fall into the Seven Hills one day, we will not be able to restore those secrets.”

   "It's true, and Arthur is also very difficult now. I haven't seen him for many days, but from the rumors, that Anthony is very difficult."

  Merlin said, and then said again.

   "Get ready, Lorenzo, the test is about to begin."

Hearing Merlin's words, Lorenzo discovered that the staff had already left the workshop. The heavy gates fell heavily and sealed off from the outside world. Lorenzo got back into the fleshy cockpit. , To be honest, every time you enter the black angel Lorenzo, you need to bear a certain amount of psychological pressure. This feeling is like jumping into the big mouth of a monster.

The split armor was heavily closed, and the visors were closed one by one to completely wrap Lorenzo, and then amid the roar of the steam engine, the half-kneeling black angel slowly stood up, and the iron feather buzzed with the shock. .

The large Geiger counter went online, and at the same time a heavy rain curtain fell from above, washing away the remaining pollution in the workshop. The pattered rain rail slowly dragged the machine, and then threw a dark steel object at Lorenzo In front of him.

   "That...what is it? Merlin."

  Lorenzo has never seen such a machine, but from the perspective of this arrangement, this is the object of his experiment.

"The third-generation original sin armor... to be precise, it is a degraded version of the second generation. Well, in fact, the current original sin armor is basically the deteriorating version of the first generation. We ordinary people can't resist that terrible erosion, so we have to keep reducing it. The proportion of monster flesh and blood in the machine.

If the monster flesh and blood is regarded as some kind of composite material, its mechanical application is quite good, strong toughness and resilience, so we built it on this basis, the third-generation armor can be mass-produced on a large scale, and the driving standard It has also been lowered a lot, and the price paid for this is in combat effectiveness, which is far inferior to previous generations. "

While Merlin explained to Lorenzo, on the other side of the workshop, the armor of original sin also slowly stood up, because it weakened the proportion of the monster's flesh and blood, and with more mechanical structure reinforcement, it was better than the black angel. It's a bit bigger, it's even more cumbersome and sturdy.

   "Hello, Mr. Holmes."

  A voice came from the opposite side, and Lorenzo was not familiar with this voice.

  "He is Ye Xiao, currently a test driver of the three generations of Sword Dancers of Original Sin." Merlin explained.

  I had some impressions of the code name Lorenzo Ye Xiao, but he asked immediately.

  "Test driver? This is also an experimental weapon?"

   "Yes, you just succeeded. I want to test how far the third generation of sword dancers are from the first generation of black angels."

  Merlin is careful about his experiments.

   "Then what am I going to do? Beat him?"

   Lorenzo asked, this was the first time he used the original sin armor to fight, and he didn’t know what would happen.

  “Of course, it’s best to hit harder. Anyway, the third-generation armor is not very valuable. If the test results are good, we can start mass production on a small scale at any time.”

   "Will I kill him?"

  "What do you think the thick armor at the core of the third-generation armor is used for?"

  Merlin replied Lorenzo's words, and then said to Ye Xiao.

"Don't be polite to Mr. Holmes, he is a demon hunter, even if he is not protected by the original sin armor, he will be more powerful than you. I tried to kill him with all my strength. I need the detailed data difference between the two generations of armor. ."

   "Okay." Ye Xiao replied briefly.

  Black Angel watched the sword dancer on the other side of the workshop. This was Lorenzo’s first battle. He even learned how to raise his hand with the Armor of Original Sin a few minutes ago.

The order was given, and the battle began suddenly. Lorenzo made enough preparations. It stands to reason that one generation of armor would not lose to the three generations of armor that has been deteriorated several times, but the sword dancer did not rush to attack, but stood still and followed. A sword blade several meters long ejected from the elbow, the other hand grabbed a handful of armored fire blunders, and at the same time the heavy armor fell, protecting his deadly parts.

  Lorenzo was startled, he slammed the button and the joystick, but no new weapons popped up on the black angel, only those dense blades took orders from Lorenzo.

   "What's the matter with Merlin!"

Lorenzo screamed. While he screamed, he clearly saw the sword dancer behind the weapon rack like a weapon master. Although the weapon equipped was not as much as the weapon master, it carried several heavy pieces. Its external armor seems to have completely abandoned its maneuverability.

"I also realized this when I was developing the third-generation armor. We have been stepping into a misunderstanding of R&D. Although the first-generation armor is powerful, its driving requirements are too demanding, and its own advantages are only those of resilience and maneuverability. , But our own advantage does not lie here."

Merlin reflected on himself. Sometimes when he got a new technology, he couldn't help but lean on other outstanding people, such as the Demon Hunter's Order. At the beginning, the original sin armor was positioned like a demon hunter. , Has a powerful single combat capability.

"Our biggest advantage is the terrible industrial foundation and strong production system. Compared with increasing the proportion of monsters and flesh and blood to strengthen resilience, it is better to add a few more plates and pursue mobility, but rather to equip with powerful firepower, after all. A lot of this kind of steel can be made in the Academy of Mechanical Engineering in one day."

   "Lorenzo, this is a victory for productivity."

Merlin said this, and at the same time the sword dancer relentlessly squeezed the trigger, the blazing dragon's breath rushed towards his face with half-melted molten iron, and in an emergency, Lorenzo instinctively controlled the black angel, and the steel feathers were torn apart. After the surging fireworks, the red molten iron adhered to it, but then there was a howling wind.

  The cold steel blade cut through the burning sea of ​​fire, and the sword dancer suddenly rushed in front of him.

   "You said this is poor maneuverability?"

  Lorenzo couldn't help screaming.

   "Yes, so in order to make up for this, we put a lot of things outside." Merlin replied with a smile. He liked seeing Lorenzo deflated.

The fully-armed sword dancer pulls up a sword light several meters long, and on his back, the rough propulsion system gives him a strong power in the most primitive way. Although it can only travel in a straight line, it is enough. NS.

  This is a dreamy armor. A group of neuroses add something to the left and equipment to the right. Based on the design idea of ​​"insufficient performance, peripherals come together", this experimental weapon was born.

  (End of this chapter)