An invisible storm rolled up in this closed workshop, and countless ghosts accompanied by wailing sounds created this windless, crazy tornado. The mind and body, the metal baffles and the armors of the armors were violently shaken.
Trembling.
"Geiger...the index continues to rise!"
Percival's voice sounded in the channel. Due to the influence of erosion, it was intermittent and soon completely disappeared from the channel. Only the harsh sound of electric current echoed in it. The sound of electric current continued to surge up like a roaring wind.
sound.
"Stay alert!"
The sound rang again, but this time it didn't come from the channel. With the channel being interfered with, Percival turned on the Sin Armor's loudspeaker, letting his voice echo in the workshop.
Based on previous experience in fighting monsters, in order to maintain communication, the purification agency used a simple and crude tool like a loudspeaker.
As she said this, it felt as if the air in her lungs had been drained. Percival felt extremely depressed. Under the erosion, she began to have difficulty breathing, followed by a surge of emotions, countless
Complex emotions stirred her heart.
The darkness spreads in my heart little by little, until invisible palms stretch out from the deep quagmire. They are like strong seaweed, scratching everything within reach.
Suddenly Percival had a strange feeling, and she realized that the original sin armor she was currently controlling was actually a cage, closing little by little, trying to swallow her into darkness...
The harmonious emerald green on the indicator light turned into blood-like red, the alarm sounded inside the armor, and then emergency measures were triggered. Florund's medicine was injected into Percival's body according to the pre-buried infusion tube.
She was in a daze for a while, and finally the indicator light turned back to a harmonious green color.
She almost lost control at that moment, and Percival knew why. In that seemingly endless storm, she was the same as now, falling into the ferocious armor, looking at the steel that penetrated her body, and...
There was a constant flow of blood.
"Percival are you okay?"
A voice sounded from the other side, the Sword Dancer approached the Lancer, Shrike asked.
"I'm fine. Pay attention below, Lorenzo is starting to erode William."
Percival said briefly, and at the same time, the huge lance she was riding also finished loading, tightened the trigger, and was ready to fire at any time.
The erosion stirred up a storm, and Lorenzo was the center of the storm? The eye of the storm.
In the critical breakthrough state, his erosion will break free from the constraints of the body and expand outward. Similarly, once entering this state, Lorenzo will tend to become demonized.
Under the black coat, you can see slight bulges wriggling. Lorenzo's exposed skin becomes tough. Strong muscles continue to grow, filling his body, and the fireworks in his eyes become extremely fierce.
It rose up and finally turned into a pure white color that could not be looked directly at.
Lorenzo could smell that the air was filled with everyone's emotions? Fear, anxiety, sadness, guilt, inferiority... and there was also the smell of urine.
Something... isn't quite right.
Lorenzo lowered his head and saw William clinging to the back of the chair. He was shaking constantly, his heart was beating violently, his face was red, and there was light yellow liquid dripping under his legs. He was incontinent.
Ah this...
"It's quite frustrating."
Lorenzo muttered to himself. The next moment, he stretched out his fingers and pressed gently on William's forehead. The erosion broke out at close range, pushing the pollution in his brain. After so many years, he re-conquered this cursed place.
Everything is moving forward again.
William's expression froze, as if he had been injected with a sedative. He no longer trembled or struggled. His eyes moved over with difficulty, and he looked at Lorenzo, even though the white fireworks were so bright.
, he did not move his eyes away, letting tears fill his eyes.
"Welcome back, William."
Lorenzo retracted his hand and said softly.
…
"The awakening is successful. William has woken up, but judging from the intensity of Lorenzo's erosion, we don't have much time!"
Merlin saw this from a distance. Lorenzo raised the sign to indicate that the awakening was successful. Under Merlin's order, the medical staff injected Florund's medicine and rushed towards William in the center.
"Where...is this?"
William's voice was shaky. After he went crazy, he regarded himself as an alchemist, and his method of alchemy was to chew on various strange things, so he hurt his throat several times while chewing.
"The core experimental area and workshop of the Everlasting Pump."
Lorenzo replied that he was trying hard to calm down the secret blood. William had already woken up. He needed to reduce the intensity of the erosion, prolong his awake time as much as possible, and allow others to come closer.
Corrosion does not distinguish between friend and foe, and while William is enduring this, other people in the workshop are also bearing this horrific erosion.
"Eternally Moving Pump... Workshop..."
William slowly raised his head and looked at this magnificent steel temple. He remembered this, but it was very different from everything in his memory. At that time, the dome was still a few pitiful large searchlights, and the surrounding iron walls were far from what they are now.
So sophisticated, not to mention those large lifts.
"I... I remember that I was doing an experiment, and then an accident happened... I was locked in a cage, a dark, twisted cage. It was just like the place where I did the experiment, but it was
There seems to be no end, no matter which door I push open, there is just another repetitive laboratory...
I've been lost for too long."
William looked like a frightened child, but his face was so old and weathered.
"That should be your [gap]. It seems like that experiment was really important to you, so much so that it became a scene in your [gap]."
Lorenzo said that the most important scenery for everyone will become what is seen in the "gap", and after the erosion of madness, the poor will is sealed in the "gap", carrying out endless processes.
reincarnation.
"[Gap]? What is that?"
This was a new word for William. Although his head still hurt a little and his mind was still shaking under the influence of erosion, he still became interested in it.
William is a scholar. In order to know the secrets he wants, he even dares to disobey the queen's orders and start experiments privately.
"I also want to talk to you about this...but this is not what we should talk about today. Your time is limited."
Lorenzo shook his head. As the secret blood subsided, the changes in his body were gradually restored. William saw all this, and his eyes were filled with a little fear.
"Let me talk to him, Lorenzo."
Rapid footsteps sounded, and Merlin led the medical staff as they strode forward.
"Examine William, inject him with Florund's medicine, and prolong his awake time as much as possible. You are responsible for recording, and every sentence must be recorded in detail."
Merlin directed others. In order to prevent the information from being destroyed due to "accidents", this time he summoned several people to take charge of recording, and he and Lorenzo were among the recorders.
"Hello, William, I think you have no impression of me, but it doesn't matter."
Merlin said and stretched out his hand, but then he realized that William was tied up and he couldn't reach out at all. Merlin had no intention of untying him. He paused awkwardly, then retracted his hand and said to him.
"I am the current technical director of Everlasting Pump, Merlin."
"Chief Technology Officer? I am...the current..."
William paused as he spoke, looked at Merlin blankly, and then asked.
"what happened?"
"There was an accident in your experiment, which triggered a high-intensity erosion pollution in the Perpetual Motion Pump. Many people turned into monsters, and all relevant information was destroyed. However, you became a monster due to the influence of erosion.
madman."
Merlin didn't have much time to investigate the truth. He didn't take care of William's emotions at all, and he didn't need to do so.
"It is now the year 932 of the Inverg calendar."
Merlin added.
William was stunned. He couldn't believe the information he heard. He looked at Merlin and then at Lorenzo. His eyes swept back and forth, observing the surroundings. Everything was so familiar, but yet
It's so strange.
The medical staff noticed William's reaction. They had prepared the Florund potion and a series of emergency measures. They had considered these before the experiment started. Under the influence of erosion, William knew that he had been crazy for so many years.
Will it lead to a mental breakdown?
William did not speak. He finally lowered his head. No one could see his expression clearly. He remained silent.
"Your experimental accident is what we call the 'Red News Incident'. Today, so many years later, we have found a way to save people from the effects of erosion, so you are awake now, and we need your experiment
Report, what exactly happened in that experiment?"
Merlin continued, time is urgent.
"Rescuing crazy people from the influence of erosion? This is really a good initiative... You said that my time is running out, so is this sobriety only temporary?"
William was talking to Lorenzo, but he didn't wait for his reply, but was talking to himself.
"Ah...it's been 932 years in the Yin Erwei calendar. It's actually been so long."
"His mental state doesn't look very good, so we're going to inject him with Florund's medicine."
Merlin said expressionlessly.
The medical staff was about to step forward, but at this moment William suddenly raised his head, his face filled with tears and sadness.
In fact, death is not terrible. What is terrible for William is the awakening after death. His life has been stolen by fate for countless years, and he has missed too many things.
"No need, I just need to adjust my mentality. After all, this kind of thing is really confusing."
William's voice also became calmer, and his face became expressionless, although it was covered with tears and looked embarrassed.
"I am the technical director of Everlasting Pump, William. At that time, I was conducting research on demon erosion. It can be said that we have never faced a real 'demon' so far. What we have faced is one after another being eroded.
Human beings have become demons, which means that the long history of human struggle against demons is actually just a civil war between us humans."
William repeated his inner thoughts. He was a member of the purification agency and held the position of chief technical officer. He knew exactly what he was doing for. After a brief period of pain, he returned to his former appearance, a
Scholar, a transmitter of knowledge.
No more words were needed, William knew very well that his sobriety was an extremely precious opportunity, and he wanted to pass on the knowledge that he had devoted everything to pursue.
"I suddenly realized that maybe...the demon is not a demon. The real demon is 'corrosion'. The power of this pollution, the so-called demon is just the carrier of pollution. Even the so-called demon is just the process of erosion."
The by-products are the same.
This is like a disease, all it needs is to spread continuously, and death is just a by-product of its spread. This is the real 'demon' and our real enemy."
"What kind of research did you conduct?"
Merlin asked next, and both he and Lorenzo frowned. This was a novel angle and a terrifying guess.
"Before telling me about my research, I need to talk about some prerequisite information that triggered my experiment."
William took a deep breath. The erosion was still affecting his brain. The knowledge he had memorized was shattered under this influence, which also caused his words to be illogical.
The medical staff injected him with a dose of Florund's medicine, which made William feel much better. He sat upright with unspeakable dignity and stubbornness.
"You mean that based on the demon's ability to spread, humans are simply unable to resist it, right? But we still exist in this world and can fight against it. So in order to correct these, there must be some abnormal inhibitory force that controls the spread of demons.
?”
Merlin continued.
"I have read your research and some of the surviving diaries, and your ideas coincide with those of a cardinal of the Evangelical Church."
William was stunned for a moment, then nodded vigorously.
"That's right, it's true, I just know that in the end, we will all be walking on the same road."
"My research was to track down this mysterious power. If we could control it, we might be able to completely eradicate the demon. But I was still too naive at the time. I never thought about why the inhibitory force did this.
."
William said and felt painful again.
"Why do this?"
"Yes, it has the ability to control demons and correct the world, so why not completely eradicate demons? Or is it unable to kill all demons? All it can do is control and maintain the fragile balance between humans and demons.
"
William's speaking speed increased.
"I realized it. At the end of the experiment, I realized that we are like a group of lambs enclosed by a fence, and that inhibitory force is the shepherd. They protect us from the dangers outside the fence, but there are still
Part of the weirdness flowed in through the cracks in the fence...
That is the devil."
The words seemed to have magic, and everyone felt it. As William told it, the bone-chilling cold spread to everyone's body bit by bit, but everyone knew very well that this was underground, and the entire facility of the Perpetual Pump was
Attached to the main branch of the Furnace Pillar, it has always been hot here, and there has never been any so-called cold.
"We are a group of restless lambs. We are trying to find out the truth, but this will inevitably lead to crossing the fence. We may die outside the fence, but it is more likely to bring in hungry wolves from outside and kill other peaceful people.
Lamb, what would you do if you were the shepherd?"
William looked at Merlin, staring intently into those empty and dull eyes.
"Kill the hungry wolves that sneak in...and the restless lambs."
William smiled and shook his head helplessly.
"This is my experiment...the truth about the Red News Incident."
The heart-stopping power surged again, startling everyone. When they turned around, they saw that Lorenzo was fully armed, with dense iron armor covering the vital parts of his body. He pulled out his nail sword and Winches.
Special, his eyes are like a torch, and he is alert to his surroundings.
Lorenzo felt it, and as William, the restless lamb, recounted the cursed knowledge that should not exist, he clearly felt the surge of power.
"Merlin, you'd better speed up."
Lorenzo held his weapon and looked around anxiously.