Ember Gun

  Chapter 587 Old Glory

   "Adelon... Levien?"

  The light on the electronic eyes went off for a while, and the secret guard's voice seemed a little confused. It took him a while to wake up from the sleepiness of long sleep, and asked in disbelief.

   "The Pope? The Patriarch?"

  This is a vocabulary that existed in the old age. After such a long time, these things have become too far away for the Secret Guardian. Now when they mention it again, he only feels strange.

"Um."

Adren responded. He observed this flesh and blood body covered in metal. He had heard of this great existence in the words of the popes of the past. So now that he saw him with his own eyes, Adren did not feel this strange posture. Accident.

With his eyes drifting in between, Adren looked up at this magnificent building. The walls of the well were covered with dense containers, but most of them had become empty, and the warning red indicator light was still lit below, like Scarlet eyes.

  The Secret Guardian is still silent. In his prediction, the outside world has been completely ruined in the reincarnation again and again. Maybe there are still human beings alive, but they must also become primitive and barbaric, just like beasts.

  Fragile, backward, ignorant, tortured under the suppression of darkness, slowly dying.

It may have been alive for too long, and the Secret Keeper has almost forgotten that he is a human being as fragile as them. Facing all this misery, his heart is only numb, sticking to his duties stubbornly and continuing. Meaningless continuation.

   "The Pope...that is, the church?"

  The secret guard murmured, he suddenly sounded, the group of visitors hundreds of years ago, the group of visitors who were chattering, like monkeys.

He looked at Adlon in front of him. He was wrapped in a heavy coat, covered with frost and snow, but from under the coat you could see the exquisite and gorgeous placket, the long and thin sword blades with patterns full of sword pockets... …If there is no problem with the electronic eye of the Secret Guardian, this seems to be a forbidden alloy.

  The most amazing thing for the Secret Guardians is Adren’s eyes, with white fireworks burning in them, just like the enemies of mankind for countless centuries.

  Buzzing noise rang from the chest of the Secret Guardian, probably because of excessive emotional ups and downs, and the mechanical pump speeded up blood flow.

  Probably how many years old.

  The secret guard once again experienced the so-called "excitement".

"I abide by the orders of the popes of the past and execute the hand of God. We have once again reinforced the protection of the well of sublimation. The cast of holy silver completely sealed the cage, leaving only a well for observation, aimed at the monster’s east. The expropriation is also proceeding in an orderly manner. The hunting sect has been dispatched as many as possible, led by the'angels' to crusade against the demons raging across the country, and the reclaimed land has been cultivated and cultivated.

In the meantime, we also contacted the country builders again. Based on the alchemy they obtained, we strengthened the weapons and equipment of the demon hunters, and also carried out the development of the silver binding bolt. According to the "sublimation", the new generation The Demon Hunter will be more controllable.

   Although it is said that this will inevitably deepen the connection with the unspeakable, judging from the situation of the whole world, such a deterioration is acceptable. "

  Adelen probably expected many exchanges with the "God" on the road, so these words seemed to be carried in his heart, and he calmly and steadily reported all this to the Secret Guardian.

  The various indicator lights on the Secret Guardian kept on, using his own adjectives, now he was wrapped around a festive light belt.

  Adelen waited for the Secret Guardian's reply, and after a long time, the Secret Guardian said slowly.

   "Let me calm down first..."

The electronic eyes turned back and forth, and the Secret Guardian walked to Adren’s side. He wanted to speak and stopped. The metal arm rested on his shoulder. Adren’s expression changed slightly. It seemed that the contact with God made him a little bit. nervous.

  The awkward silence lasted for a long time, the Secret Keeper said dryly.

  "Are you...interested to see the cold cutting blade for overpressure fluid?"

  The Secret Guardian said that he was quite hip.

Adelen's expression was still cast iron and cold, and he did not make any response. In his opinion, these gods' movements seemed a bit... strange, but it is also true to think about it. After all, the other party is a so-called god, which is difficult to predict with common sense. Don't do unnecessary things yourself, just fulfill the duties of the popes of the past.

  The Secret Guardian takes a deep breath...At least he thinks the loud air pump sounds like a deep breath for him.

   "So, there are still humans living in the outside world, right?"

  The Secret Guardian's words seemed a little hasty, and he was in a panic, just like a child about to open his birthday present.

"Um."

"how many people?"

  “I’m not sure, the gospel church does not involve statistics on the population of various countries.”

   "Countries?"

   "Yes, many countries are mostly secretly controlled by country builders. From their words, they seem to have your will on their backs."

   "Where are those monsters?"

"Do you mean the demons? We have recaptured most of the land from them. The Eastern Expedition is still going on, and will continue until they are driven to extinction. At the same time, we are also carrying out informational activities in accordance with the oracle. Erased, we burned all the information related to demons and held these secrets in the Demon Hunting Order."

  The conversation is over.

The Secret Guardian lowered his head slowly, and then staggered back. He felt that his legs were a bit soft and some were untenable, but in fact the Secret Guardian knew very well that he was using a metal prosthetic limb, and he was able to pull a full leg. Kick the concrete.

  But now he is... just feels a little weak.

  Adren looked at the Secret Guard who was leaning aside. He said nothing, and there was no expression on the metal face. Adren couldn't understand his emotions, and asked in awe.

  "Are you dissatisfied? I also think we are too slow. According to the original Pope, all this should be completed about a hundred years in advance."

Adelon blamed himself, in order to optimize the power, the Demon Hunting Order took too many years to unearth the authority of the angels from death after death, and systematically use these mysterious powers. Cognition.

   "No...I just, I just feel a little ashamed."

  The Secret Keeper’s words are stumbling. It may be because of not talking to people for too long, or it may be due to other reasons.

  He looked at Adron, the young pope was wearing a silver crown, and the dim light was reflected by it, so that the secret guards could hardly open their eyes.

  The Secret Guardian remembered that his heart had been removed many years ago, and now he was supplied with a complicated mechanical pump, but for some reason, there was a heartbeat in his ear that he had not heard for many years.

  Plop, plop...

   "I thought, we lost."

  The secret guard muttered to himself.

"I have never been a brave person. I dare not walk out of this shelter to welcome true death, nor do I dare to push everything about humans onto the gaming table. All I can do is fulfill my duty, live here, and tell later These stories."

  He remembered many years ago, those saints who were like monkeys, the Secret Keeper still remembered the way these guys threw their noses and tears on him.

   "I am a coward..."

I remember that the Secret Guardian stood here, watching the saints leave. In fact, he wanted to laugh at these guys. Mankind has gone to extinction. Even if those guys got the knowledge, there was almost nothing after they left. Hope at all.

  At that time, even the Secret Guardians chose to live pessimistically. What can these monkey-like humans do?

   "I'm like a monkey."

  The Secret Guardian said something that Adron could not understand. After a while, the Secret Guardian stood up straight again, straightened up his waist, and once again melted together some things that had been broken.

  "You are a sublimator, are you? I saw the fireworks, and you are on the road to sublimation. This is not a good thing."

  "Sorry, only by becoming a demon can you kill a demon."

   Adren responded firmly. He was familiar with the "Gospels" and "Revelation", and he knew the cause and effect of all this.

  The Secret Guardian smiled. He stepped forward abruptly, wrapped his hands around Adren’s face, put his forehead together, and his pupils looked at each other.

   "Yes, only by becoming a demon can you kill a demon."

  Electronic eyes stared at Adren’s pupils, and the secret guard’s voice sounded in his ears.

   "You can do that too, right? It's the ability to invade my consciousness."

  "Do you mean Mighty Gabriel?"

   "What? What strange name."

  "This is a gift from God. We named these abilities after angels."

   "Ah... I knew I wouldn't give you those religious knowledge, but these are not important."

  The Secret Guardian cried powerfully.

   "Invade my consciousness, read my memory, there is everything you need to know."

  ……

   "In this way, I told Adelen the truth about everything."

  The old man thought for a while, and continued talking.

  "His reaction was very calm. I guess he had been suspicious for a long time. Otherwise, according to the group of monkeys, when Adelen saw me, he would have bowed his head and bowed."

  The story of the past unfolded before his eyes. Lorenzo looked at his palm from time to time. There were scars burned by the holy silver, and under the scar was the surging secret blood. Now Lorenzo finally found the so-called origin.

"I calmed him down for a while, and it happened that I also calmed down for a while, waking up a few other old guys who were still alive, and under Adellen’s intelligence, we learned about the survival of outside humans, and they survived tenaciously. The dark age ushered in the silver dawn.

  To this end, we made a decision together, prepared to use all the resources, and carried out the last restart. "

  The old man said and looked at the other iron coffins surrounding the disc. The dim light on it was no longer and only the old gray was left.

"We guys are too old and have stayed here for too long. We are already integrated with this shelter and it is difficult to step out again. For this reason, I awakened Roger Cruz from his sleep and ordered him to assist. Adren Levien restarted.

The two of them left again with the knowledge and truth in the sanctuary. Adren returned to his legion and continued the crusade, regaining the land of human existence from the hands of demons, while Roger Cruz tried to reunite due to the years of loss. The builders of the country, he established a group called Rosicrucian, and Shunjian used the history of the reopening of the sanctuary as the background of the group.

  The world calls these people with advanced knowledge alchemists. Later, the group grew larger and evolved into a group called the Golden Dawn. "

  The old man’s tone changed from excitement to loss, and Lorenzo could clearly feel this change.

   "It was really good at that time, everything was positive, and for a moment I thought that humans might be able to win this battle.

The Golden Dawn led by Roger Cruz possesses advanced knowledge and technology, but the current infrastructure is not enough to support the reproduction of the previous technology. For this reason, they split, and a group of people returned to the shelter and used Some of the remaining equipment in the sanctuary conducts research, and some people walk on the ground, spreading basic science among the countries, hoping to complete all this in a few generations.

  Most of the members are nation builders who have been reunited, so the whole world is climbing up under the division of the Golden Dawn.

  But one day, one thing changed all of this. "

  The old man's words stopped, he was a little reluctant to think about it.

   "What disagreement?"

  Lorenzo didn't mean to let the old man go, he asked.

   "About the unspeakable."

   said the old man.

"Under the research of the Demon Hunter for centuries, they have a large degree of knowledge of the Unspeakable. It can be said that the power of the Demon Hunter originates from the Unspeakable. For this reason, Adren also Aware of the disaster."

  "The population has reached its peak, and the unspeakable will wake up from sleep."

   Lorenzo said, this is an unsolved problem, and it is also the problem that Lorenzo is facing now.

"Adren does not want to succumb to such a threat. He has finally created such a beautiful era. How can he bear to destroy it like this? For this reason, he has assembled a large number of elite demon hunters, all of whom are sublimers, who can sneak into Fight against the unspeakable underground in the well of sublimation.

The same is true for Roger. With the cooperation of alchemists and nation builders, the civilization of the entire world is advancing faster. Although these are not worth mentioning compared with the glory of the old humans, we are struggling to restart countless times. , The most promising time. "

  The old man still regrets and regrets his powerlessness.

"I can't do anything, I've lived for too long, not just physical being; optimized", even memory is the same, my life is so broken, I can't remember the appearance of my wife... Maybe I don't have a wife, and I don't have any memory except for my duties.

  I can only watch them step into the well of sublimation. "

"and then?"

  "Then they failed. They really felt the madness of the Unspeakable, and fell into despair under its whisper.

  Adren and Roger are both affected. Their connection with the Unspeakable is deepening, and because of this deepening, their sublimation is deeper. "

   "Become a nihilistic spirit body, just like me."

  Watson, who had been silent for a long time, said at this moment, she seemed to understand the origins of the watchmen, and also knew how Adren was angry and irritable at the well of ascension at that time.

   "Almost, Roger left disheartenedly, we can't find him anymore, and Edron proposed the ‘Watcher Project’.

After returning from the Well of Sublimation, Adren realized that he was under the gaze of the unspeakable. He would become a'passage', from a guardian to a perpetrator. He did not hesitate and gave a series of instructions. .

  Adren sealed the power Gabriel, and related information was also burned. The only recorded "Revelation" was also corroded and shrouded due to the connection with the unspeakable, making it difficult to read.

  The road to sublimation was cut off.

  The rest of the Ascenders who participated in the Operation Well of Ascension were summoned by Adren. Adren knew that they were also contaminated and might become a ‘passage’.

  For this reason, he made these subliers lose themselves, completely lose the meaning of autonomy, and become a tool after another.

Then Adron used this extraordinary power to build layer after layer of defensive circles outside the sanctuary, and made the illusory self'dimensioned', absorbing demons and death row prisoners, plus the flesh and blood molded by them out of thin air. , Created a huge monster named Leviathan, and its [Gap] became the residence of the watchmen.

Leviathan walked on the edge of the sanctuary, hunting down any living creatures that tried to approach, thereby cutting off the possibility of knowing the way of sublimation from the sanctuary. The watchmen who lost themselves followed the orders and chased any potential threats. In this regard, a nearly perfect fence encloses the human cognitive circle and isolates the unspeakable. "

  The old man told this dark and cruel ritual, and felt pain for his incompetence.

"The Watcher system is important. It needs an immortal and sensible manager. For this reason, Adren puts himself into a long sleep, and while prolonging his life, he also avoids being further corroded by the unspeakable. Only when he encounters He will only be awakened when the watchmen can't handle the problems.

  And before falling into long sleep, Adron made one last instruction. "

"what?"

   "Hunt and kill Roger Cruz, he is also the returnee of the Well of Ascension, and he may also become a ‘passage’."

  The old man talked about the misery of the past, but his mood gradually eased. It may be the reason that someone finally communicated, or it may be the release of pressure, he continued.

  "The two of them are very good friends. They felt they could work together to save the world, but they turned out to be like this.

Since the Well of Ascension, no one has seen Roger Cruz. His last recorded action was a report from the builders of the country. They received instructions from Roger and started when the population reached the cordon. The war is let down.

  In this way, there is no sublimator, no knowledge from the shelter, nothing, everything seems to be back a long time ago. "

  Lorenzo and Watson both remained silent. In the old man’s statement, one unsolved mystery in the past was answered.

   "In the end...it was me in the end, Roger and Adron, they both made their choices, and I should make a choice too.

It’s a pity that I’m not a soldier or a scholar. I’m just a sad recorder. More importantly, I’m still a coward.” The old man laughed, “but there are always things that a coward can do. Bar. "

   "What did you do?" Lorenzo asked.

  The old man patted the solid iron coffin, he said.

   "I called those old guys who weren't dead, and made the last ‘optimization’ for me, so I can live till now and wait until you come."

  A group of fragile, old, but still stubbornly alive brain tissue.

   "I want to live."

  The Secret Guardian whispered.

   "Live by all means."

   "I want to become a monument of flesh and blood, commemorating the glory of mankind."

   "The glory of the old days."

  (End of this chapter)