"Lorenzo, I have been thinking...in what form do I survive, and what kind of existence is [the gap]."
Medanzo looked at the dim starry sky, and then stepped towards it.
"After I thought about it for a long time, I suddenly realized that my personal thoughts were unclear because 'human' common sense was interfering with me, just like you can't fully understand animals."
It is difficult for humans to make absolutely rational judgments about the unknown, and human common sense is interfering with them.
Lorenzo heard what Medanzo meant, and he looked at Watson, that disturbing woman.
"So you asked the demon for advice?"
"Yes, at least for now, she is the only one who can answer my question, so... Watson and I have reached a temporary agreement. Of course, we do not rule out the possibility that she will jump back at the critical moment."
Medanzo turned around, and the terrifying rift was right behind him.
"I realize that I may be living in a state of spiritual consciousness, intersecting with your consciousness... Our consciousnesses intersect, and this [gap] is the space that connects us."
Three different wills exist together in the same [gap].
Lorenzo shook his head and said.
"I don't understand."
"Actually, this is easy to understand. Let me give you an example."
Medanzo said and moved away, allowing Lorenzo to observe the starry sky that was blocked by him. In the dim darkness, there was a bright star point near the crack.
"That is another [gap], a space that connects people's wills on a spiritual level, and you should be familiar with it."
"Familiar? How is that possible?"
Lorenzo looked at the strange starry sky. The darkness seemed to have magic power, attracting Lorenzo's thoughts, but his instinctive sense of crisis told him that once he fell, there might be endless darkness.
"You are still within the misunderstanding Lorenzo, and the stamp left on your mind by the Evangelical Church has not been removed."
Medanzo said with some sadness.
When you are instilled with an idea since you were born, that invisible cage will imprison you and make you believe in it. Even if Lorenzo has left the Evangelical Church, even if he no longer believes in any god, in his subconscious
, Lorenzo still avoids them.
Just like someone says that ice is hot and will burn you if you touch it, you may question it, but when it becomes an iron rule in your life, you will regard this "abnormality" as "normal", and you may even
I don't think about whether it is wrong or right, after all, it is as ubiquitous as the wind.
Lorenzo still had the church's restraints on him in his mind. He should keep questioning everything that was mysterious, instead of thinking that it was the reality that existed correctly, and he should turn everything that was incomprehensible into theorems and formulas that could be peeked into.
"Haven't you ever wondered where the voices in your head come from?"
"The...voice in my head?"
Lorenzo seemed to realize something, the sound coming from the mysterious machine echoed in his mind.
It's like there is a strange system in your body that will give you help and instructions at specific times, but you never think about what it is or why it does what it does. You just succumb to that so-called
"System" to execute one strange command after another.
Just like a humble and pitiful tool man, all your actions, all conflicts of events, and the glory you achieve all originate from that weird system.
Even if you gain supreme power, you are just a puppet of the system. Without it, you are nothing.
"Yes, you can hear the voice from the Silver Bolt and Watson's voice, but haven't you thought about the similarities between them? Or is the church hiding this perfectly?
Have you been misled as well?"
The evangelical church has so many secrets, so many that almost no one really understands them all.
"Maybe I can understand it by changing my name."
Metanzo smiled evilly as if he was trying to play a prank. He was looking forward to Lorenzo's reaction, because when he really learned this, he couldn't help but feel shocked like never before.
"You can call that star, that [gap]...the Temple of Stasis."
The words were like thunder, all anger and vigilance were emptied out at this moment, and the whole person seemed to be stunned in place.
Medanzo looked at Lorenzo's shocked eyes, and he was extremely satisfied.
"Yes, that's what you understand. The voice that has been echoing in our minds, we thought it was the voice coming from the Silver Bolt."
Every witcher obeys the voice in his head, which issues orders from the church.
"The heart-centered network system established with the Temple of Stasis as the foundation, the church uses mysterious myths to cover up this damn thing, but if the inference is correct, it is essentially a large [gap], which connects
Every witcher."
"A world where you can connect with the spirit."
"This is why you can see Watson and hear Watson, but others can't, because you are connected in this [gap], Watson's [gap]. This is also why you were able to
An order from the church was heard within the Silver Bolt."
"The invisible [gap] serves as a link to connect you and me."
So weird sounds echoed in this empty and cold ice world.
[Reconnecting to the Temple of Stasis...]
【Connection failed.】
【reconnect……】
The stars in the dim sky were calling Lorenzo, longing for the return of the children.
Lorenzo was completely stunned on the spot, and Watson's protection continued, making it impossible for Lorenzo to reconnect to the Stasis Temple.
"We used to be confused about this and couldn't understand because we were just the 'connected ones', but now we have... Watson's help. Although she is not very believable, at least we have become the same."
Manager'."
Metanzo invites Lorenzo.
"Are you interested in going back 'home'?"
…
The siren echoed in the perpetually moving pump, shrill and harsh, like a woman's scream.
The passage to the entire workshop was opened again, but this time the people who stepped into it were well-armed security forces. They were carrying experimental weapons. Most of these things were scrapped due to the high cost of mass production, but in
Here are the most basic security weapons.
The security soldiers wore heavy isolation suits, carried huge steam backpacks on their backs, and carried bulky firecrackers in their hands. There were steam pipes connected to the triple firecrackers in their hands. The giant triple firecrackers were driven by steam power. The firecrackers
It fires an electric spear that can interfere with the operation of machinery. Due to the explosive power of high-pressure gas, it is far more powerful than gunpowder and can destroy armor and suppress it in an instant.
They were ready, their heartbeats rising and falling with the gradually opening gate.
But there were no terrifying monsters behind the door, nor any out-of-control armors. The weapons master stood quietly in the center of the steel altar. The thick flesh and blood stopped after spreading to a certain extent, like a garden of flesh and blood.
Dark red vines covered the steel armor.
The breastplate undulated slightly, moving with the violent heartbeat.
"The security team is in place."
There was a sound in the communication channel. This was not the first time the security team had dealt with an armor out of control, but this was the first time they had encountered such a quiet armor. Unlike the out-of-control armor with a strong desire to attack, it was so quiet that it was so quiet.
horrible.
The security team did not dare to enter further. In essence, they were the second line of defense. The first line of defense was inside the workshop. There was heavy firepower on the dome, but no one could peek under the strong light.
"How's it going?"
A new voice sounded in the channel. Merlin's voice appeared on the high platform of the workshop. He used his power to forcefully open the high passage and entered the workshop.
"He didn't lose control, but he didn't react in any way."
Tesla looked at the high platform at the other end of the shaft wall, and Merlin appeared there. In fact, Merlin had violated many regulations at this moment, such as forcibly entering the blocked area, but this incident was different from all the previous incidents. This time the out-of-control armor
There is a witcher here.
Merlin felt that he had to arrive at the scene in person and observe all this.
"What's going on? Please explain?"
he asked on the channel.
"Mr. Holmes stopped in place after driving the armor. The demon's flesh and blood grew abnormally, and the erosion deepened and gradually spread... He seemed to have passed out, without any action, but he was not controlled by the demon, and was just in a daze.
In place."
Tesla was as calm as possible. This was a situation he had never encountered before. Generally speaking, after the driver is unconscious, the armor will be driven by the unconscious demon flesh and blood, which is extremely aggressive, but now it is too quiet, quiet
horrible.
"How's the fuel consumption?"
"The Weapon Division is currently operating with minimal energy consumption. We have not filled it with fuel, and it will be exhausted soon."
The steam engine of the Original Sin Armor is one of the main outputs. It also requires fuel consumption, but this is just an experiment, so Tesla only injected a small amount of fuel into the weapon master.
"Security team, take action immediately and drag our Mr. Holmes out of his armor."
After a moment of silence, Merlin gave the order.
"Would you like to wait until the fuel runs out?"
Tesla didn't understand that when the fuel was exhausted and the steam engine shut down, the output of the Original Sin Armor would be greatly reduced, and the operation would undoubtedly be much safer by then.
"The longer the delay, the greater the degree of erosion will continue to deepen. There is still secret blood in his body... Lorenzo himself is the biggest uncontrollable factor."
The mysterious demon hunters are themselves the sons of demons.
Following Merlin's words, the action quickly began. The security team stepped on the somewhat warm neutralizing fluid and walked towards the center of the steel altar.
As an extremely dangerous original sin armor, it was designed from the beginning to be prepared to deal with the loss of control, such as the emergency opening valve that can be activated from the outside of the armor. In order not to be accidentally touched, it is protected by heavy armor and its location is hidden.
Countless eyes crossed the muzzle of the gun and focused on the silent weapons master. The thick flesh and blood were like wildly growing vines. They carefully cut open the flesh and blood, and then large amounts of blood gushed out, but even with such armor,
There was still no response until they pulled the hidden valve and hot steam gushes out from the gap.
The armor on his back suddenly bounced up, and with little white smoke rising, the unconscious Lorenzo appeared in everyone's sight.
The wanton growth of flesh and blood has spread into the armor. Most of his body has been entangled with flesh and blood, and he has no reaction. The security guard cuts part of the flesh and blood with a knife, and pulls out the thin nerve electrodes from his body.
.asxs.point of blood.
Lorenzo was dragged out directly like this. Everything was so safe, but after that, it was hard to be afraid.
The first example in the original sin armor experiment record.
"what happened to him?"
After confirming that the Original Sin Armor was completely closed, the crisis was temporarily relieved. The elevator on the shaft wall descended, and Tesla and Merlin rushed to the center of the steel altar together.
Lorenzo seemed to have fallen into a deep coma, lying unresponsive on the ground, with several experimental fire cannons pointed at his head and firing at the same time, enough to shoot him into a pulp.
"Nothing happened."
The researchers removed the probe from his brain, and they immediately examined Lorenzo, but all the numerical feedback was strange.
"What's the no response?"
Tesla couldn't help but ask, every driver who came out of the armor, even if he stayed awake, the various values after their examination were ridiculously different, just like a patient who was about to die, but here with Lorenzo
There is nothing.
"There's nothing unusual...he...it's like he's asleep."
The man said.
"It's like... it's like the soul is no longer here."
He didn't know why he said that. He obviously advocated science and rationality, but he used "soul" to explain everything.
"Okay, I understand. Place him... and temporarily contain him in the same way as a demon. Of course, I don't mean to ask you to lock him directly in a tight iron prison and tie him to an iron bed. We still have some human rights.
!”
Merlin said to the security team members who wanted to kill Lorenzo on the spot.
Like a ridiculous farce, it unfolded quickly and ended quickly.
Tesla looked at his boss with some suspicion, and he thought for a while and asked.
"You know his condition, right?"
"Tesla, you are a genius, but some knowledge is not something you can understand now."
Merlin knew that he couldn't hide it, especially when facing this rare genius.
"Slow down the project temporarily. Don't start it until he wakes up."
"Then what do I do?"
Tesla said with some dissatisfaction that the project ended just after it started, which is simply crazy.
"Continue your electric current project, didn't you say you were about to have results?"
"how about you?"
Tesla asked.
In fact, few people have noticed that the technology in this ever-moving pump is slowly changing. If scholars led by Tesla represent modern technology, then taking Merlin as an example is the almost disappeared alchemy. Once this
The mysterious technology allowed the purification agency to survive the most difficult period, but now it is gradually disappearing here.
"I'm going to find Arthur. There are some things that need to be discussed."
Merlin didn't give Tesla a chance to ask questions and turned around to leave. The atmosphere in the entire workshop was very subtle, except for the two Joey and Kestrel who were glad that they didn't have to be guinea pigs for the time being. They had tears in their eyes and hugged each other excitedly.