"Glory! Supreme glory! Salute to you, my beloved Lionheart King!"
In the dark platform, men sat quietly on red and brown horizontal rows of wooden chairs.
The space is filled with an abnormal atmosphere, the smell of cold air, rust and cooling steam embraces every sleeper. It is obviously only the season of early autumn, but it is as cold as entering the northernmost end of the world... Men with stern faces are here
In the bad weather, my eyebrows were slightly blue due to the cold, and my hands and feet were stiff, but no one stamped their feet or stood up to warm themselves up.
Silence and darkness ferment.
Until the whistle sounded, and a figure wearing a top hat and dragging a heavy storage box half a man's height came down from the steam locomotive...
With the first cheer, the men looked at each other, and then the cheers were like a tide, and the roaring applause and laughter exploded. The huge sound wave dispelled the air conditioning, the silence faded, and the darkness disappeared.
It worked.
After the Gate of Romulus, they once again won a great victory concerning the mortal world. The descendants of the Rongguang Family were rejuvenated. It is foreseeable that there will be another hundred years without bloodshed!
"It's just me."
After getting off the steam locomotive, the man wearing a top hat shook his head and stepped back. His wide cuffs were blown up by the cold wind, revealing the golden family coat of arms that seemed to be branded on the back of his hand - an unruly lion lying low, breathing flames like a dragon.
, the beast’s pupils are like melted into molten iron. Hot oozing gold:
"I'm sorry, but I'm the only one of my companions who survived. Please stop all praise before mourning."
Half of the man's body was shrouded in a pitch-black dress, and even his face was hidden under a wide-brimmed hat. Only a pair of slender, white hands were exposed in the darkness, printed with an angry lion roaring silently.
The blond young man smiled silently and tightened his grip on the half-human-high storage box in his hand.
"Lionheart King..."
"Call me Gaius." The man turned his head: "Sir Hein, is my grandfather still alive?"
"Cerebral stroke, paralysis, liver failure and severe motor neuron disease." In the crowd, the gray-haired old knight's eyes flashed with regret: "The Gate of Romulus almost destroyed everything for him, old man
The lion has long since died. Boy, do you want to see him?"
"0——012, didn't you enable this on him?"
"He refused."
Gaius was silent for a few seconds, closed his eyes in an unspeakable silence, and then gently stroked his hat: "...Really?"
"Want to go to Sacred Heart Hospital? The old lion has been waiting for you."
"No, go see Him first."
"See Him?"
"Sir, besides this, do we have another Him?" Gaius waved his hand and took the lead in lifting the storage box.
At the same time, a few passengers outside the station watched in astonishment as the guards, armed with live ammunition, suddenly lifted the blockade.
The densely packed military police and adjutants dispersed and solemnly divided into two rows. Various high-ranking officers wearing brass or silver collar badges stepped forward, their red outer cloaks and inner black cloaks fluttering in the cold wind. The salute that had been prepared roared into the sky.
, trombone, trumpet and bassoon ensemble, like the majestic music coming from the end of the world, as heavy as the ocean tide.
It's like...celebrating a triumph...
"Supreme glory."
In the thick white steam, accompanied by the adjutant and with bright gold tassels hanging on his shoulders, the big man raised his hand and said in a singing voice.
"Supreme glory." Gaius slowly exhaled a cold breath.
The two people looked at each other from afar through the white steam, and the wind blew from all directions, bringing the sound of the tide of the new era.
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Date:1476.10.17
Currently displaying text: Celestial Voice.
Tested by: D-3025-6
Test: The test subject appeared in a trance within half a minute, suspected of comatose catatonia, and did not respond to external commands. A large amount of local hot air evaporated from the skull, the metabolic process was accelerated, he was insensitive to stimulation, and he was dehydrated.
Result: Tester ████
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In the rectangular experimental field, tens of thousands of indicator lights flickered on and off, and various instruments and metal parts rotated in response to the swing of the robotic arm, making a harsh roar.
This is the control center.
People in white robes shuttled back and forth like a colony of ants, taking lift chairs to different steel platforms, operating those weird instruments and recording their parameters.
Surrounded by a group of assistants, Eamon Colt held his quill and tremblingly wrote down today's latest research data.
In this underground place where there is no day or night, amidst the sound of heavy instruments, the collision of steel and steel is like a rustling and sharp breathing sound, which hurts the eardrums.
Can't imagine...
Eamon Colt didn't want to think about it, but his mind stubbornly repeated the tragic scenes one after another.
The dehydrated and deformed mummy was lifted out. The extremely shrunken flesh became shriveled and hard. The empty eye sockets were exposed. The eyeballs and eyelids disappeared. Only the corners of the mouth were torn open in an incredible arc, leading straight to the ears, as if they were about to open up.
What secrets are told in the last moment of life.
say what?
What is he going to say?
Eamon Colt's fingers couldn't help but jump, and the bloodshot eyes burst out inch by inch. The evil spirit and inexplicable fear completely swallowed him up. When he finally couldn't help screaming or jumping wildly, a
A big hand rested on his shoulder.
"Voice of the Celestial Bodies, Gherroth, Xagai..."
A young man's voice sounded behind Eamon Colt: "Is this new knowledge?"
The dark dress covered most of his figure. Under the wide-brimmed hat, a pair of golden beast eyes calmly stared at Eamonn Colt with an indifferent expression.
"Sir..." Eamon Colt stood up tremblingly: "Mr. Gaius, I..."
"You're tired."
"gentlemen……"
"You're tired." Gaius spoke again.
He exchanged glances with Sir Hein and silently uttered a few words: "It's mental pollution!"
Sir Hein understood immediately. After several guards took Eamon Colt out under half-force, all the researchers at the experimental site stopped and looked at the young man who bowed his head in thought on the high platform in front of him.
"Gentlemen, let's stop here and leave the rest of the time to me."
Gaius was silent for a moment, put the experimental data back into his sleeve, and said lightly: "I always have to talk to Him, like my grandfather, right?"
After a brief silence, the collision of steel and steel stopped. Driven by the mechanical arm, the lift chairs lifted everyone in the experimental site out of the sky. The whole process seemed to be silent.
"Do you want me to stay with you?" Sir Hein tapped his cane on the lift chair: "Your grandfather almost wet his pants when he saw Him for the first time."
“Should we fear God?”
Gaius waved gently to the sky. After everyone left, he picked up the storage box that was half a man tall and jumped off the high platform.
Lines covered the ground, and machines like steel forests were like various giant skeletons, ancient and formidable... At the end of the experimental site, there was a huge gate, with headless knights and lions etched on the door.
"Enter command."
Gaius pressed his hand on the door, and a cold mechanical sound spurted out from the crack of the door.
"HERMETICUM." Gaius said.
The gates suddenly opened, revealing a dark and lightless underground tunnel. After constantly changing instructions and passing through seven gates, he finally stopped in front of the last door.
There is no sound.
Even the sound of the wind was silent.
The real sense of breathing and heartbeat was gradually stripped away, and the huge chaos froze everything, bringing about the original mystery that humans can see when they open their eyes.
"Human beings have reproduced for 250,000 years, and only the last 4,000 years are meaningful."
"What have people been doing for nearly 250,000 years? We've been hiding in caves, sitting around small campfires, fearing things we don't understand - explanations of how the sun rises, monsters with human heads and bird bodies.
, those living stones. So we call them “gods” and “demons” and ask them for forgiveness and pray for salvation.”
"After that, their number decreased and our number increased. When the things we feared became fewer and fewer, we began to look at the world more rationally. However, the unexplainable things did not disappear, as if the universe deliberately wanted to show
The absurd is the same as the incredible.”
"Humanity can no longer live in fear. Nothing can protect humanity, we must protect ourselves"
Gaius recited the ancient proverb in a low voice, raised his arm, and the lion shield was stamped on the ancient door, slowly illuminating his pale face:
"The old king has died. To comply with the ancient agreement, God, in the name of the lion-hearted blood descendant, I bind you! Order you to guide me! Follow the agreement since ancient times!!!"
The blood flowed out of Gaius's body, and the bright golden liquid flowed into the door, rising like a huge amount of steam and exploding, whipping up gusts of wind in the dark underground tunnel, as violent as a tsunami!
The lion roared and descended suddenly.
"I keep your covenant." God responded at the door.
