The smell of disinfectant mixed with the smell of blood, they hovered around Lorenzo and made him sneeze uncontrollably.
Rubbing his nose vigorously, Lorenzo leaned back lazily, and then his eyes fell on the scavengers around him.
These autistic guys were busy at the scene, laboriously carrying away the wounded. The surviving personnel all saw what the angels looked like. Judging from the regulations, these people were now contaminated and needed to be isolated.
The entire purification mechanism was running at full speed, and there was only a crashing sound above the head. The guide rails were dragging materials through various rooms. Steam was also rising at the end of the corridor. The Original Sin Armor was half-kneeling on the ground.
Although they are too large and can only move on the guide rails in the Perpetual Pump, when the Original Sin Armors are set up in the corridor, they can serve as a solid artillery to guard.
"The workshop has been temporarily blocked. The residual corrosion intensity inside is very high, and it will probably not be put into use for some time."
A voice sounded from Lorenzo's side, and Arthur walked over. He had always been above the dome, peeping at all the actions in the workshop.
"What a terrible discovery, Mr. Holmes."
Arthur rarely smoked a cigarette, and his old hands trembled slightly. It was unclear whether it was affected by erosion or because of fear.
He frowned and looked at the mess in the workshop.
The solid walls of the well are covered with scars left by the claws of wild beasts. The charred original sin armor fell down. White smoke is still rising from the pitch-black skeleton. The remaining fire is still burning, but they are covered by the fire that fell from the dome.
The light rain extinguished everything, and gradually everything became calm.
It's not like the angels left nothing behind. Their bodies were reduced to ashes and scattered all over the ground. They were spread over the dead bodies, as if they had been covered with dust for a long time.
"Do you know? According to the inspection by the scavengers, the intensity of corrosion inside has reached a terrifying value. An ordinary person will turn into a monster after being exposed to it for a few minutes. This kind of power is just the remnant left by the battles of those monsters.
...Just such remnants are enough to cause us numerous casualties."
Arthur sighed. He thought that after so many years of hard work, although humans could not completely defeat the demon, they should at least have the capital to fight against it. But when this deeper darkness appeared, all he could feel was
A deep sense of powerlessness.
Angels don't die, but humans do.
Arthur turned his head and looked at Lorenzo. He was not happy to know this, but felt deeply tired.
At a certain moment, Arthur felt that he was shaking. He didn't know if he could really defeat all this if he persisted like this? Or could he maintain the balance between humans and monsters until the near future?
broken by some force.
"What are you going to do with this?"
Lorenzo asked, "The Silent One, like the Goblin, has memetic contamination, and it will spread through different media. The scavengers need to strictly control all participants in this experiment."
Not only Merlin and Arthur were insiders, but even the scavengers themselves were part of the group that should be contained.
"Ordinary employees will have their memories erased. We don't know whether this method can protect them, but it can at least block the transmission of 'information'."
Arthur said slowly that before the experiment started, he and Merlin had simulated many plans based on conjectures.
"Those with knowledge, such as Merlin and I, will be put on the scavengers' watch list. If anything unusual happens, they will deal with us."
"Do the scavengers know this?" Lorenzo asked.
"No, the original intention of setting up the Scavengers was to take over our existence when the purification mechanism was corrupted by demons and went out of control. After the arrival of the Jiuxia Fleet and brought innovative technology, they gradually evolved into a memetic force, specializing in dealing with these
Incidents related to erosion pollution.”
Arthur continued.
"They will not know anything. They will only act according to orders. Even if the target is Queen Victoria, they will pull the trigger firmly."
"What about the rest? Now that you know such valuable information... Although this information itself is a vicious curse, will guys like you give up easily?"
Lorenzo asked, he wanted to know how the purge agency would deal with this information.
It can be said that the information of the Silent has completely subverted the purification agency's previous understanding of demons. Demons are just by-products of epidemics, and the real enemy is strange erosion. These Silent, who are like shepherds, are actually the guardians of mankind.
.
So who are their enemies?
"So many people have died, will you back down? Arthur."
Lorenzo asked, he was a little worried.
"How could you give up?"
Arthur said without hesitation.
"You also said that so many people have died, so many ancestors, and many more have been forgotten, people we have never heard of. After so many years and so much sacrifice, we have finally reached this point.
, do you think it’s possible for us to give up?”
There was suppressed joy in his voice, no...it should be described as ecstasy. Lorenzo looked at Arthur and found that he was not trembling with fear. He was happy, extremely happy. If it weren't for maintaining his image, he would
Almost jumping with excitement.
With hot flames rolling in his old eyes, Lorenzo saw himself in Arthur's figure, his former self.
More than a year ago, he and a girl named Eve acted in a dark tunnel in the lower city, where he discovered the existence of a demon for the first time in a long time.
Lorenzo still remembered how excited he was at that time, almost roaring with joy, and his confused life suddenly had a goal to vent.
Arthur must have the same mentality now. He, as well as the previous knights of the Purification Agency, are all moving forward for an almost nihilistic goal. It was not until so many years later that Arthur finally saw it on an almost endless road.
Reached the end.
It is impossible for him to retreat. He will run with all his strength. Even if he falls and cannot stand up again, he will have to crawl to the end. This is the closest he gets to all this. How could he be scared away by death?
.
"The scavengers and the Perpetual Pump have already made a preliminary plan. We will transform a laboratory to study these. It will be completely independent of the purification mechanism system and will be assisted by multiple agencies."
Arthur has already prepared everything.
"The location of the entire laboratory is confidential. They have sufficient reserves. After the experiment is carried out, there will be no population movement. The material transportation will be handled by mechanical guide rails, and the entirety of it will be protected by a huge antimemetic system.
, I don’t know if this can prevent those guys from coming, but this is the highest level of defense we can currently achieve, and then it will be under the surveillance of scavengers and protected by three generations of armor.
All the information about the interrogation experiment will be centralized and integrated, and it will be placed in a secret room in the laboratory. The secret room is only for the most basic experimental research and recording. No more than three people can enter at a time.
Individuals have the right to get the full picture of the information in it, but after knowing this, their memory will be erased, which means that the secret of the experiment can only exist in that secret room except in our brains."
As he spoke, he knocked on his head. After thinking hard, he realized that this was the safest way to block information.
"But someone has to know the whole picture and organize the experiment. Merlin will be responsible for this. He is the only person in the entire laboratory who knows the whole picture, and he will not tell them. All the experimenters will only carry out his research orders.
It may be possible to assist in research without knowing the information, just like a human-shaped tool.”
"What after this?"
Lorenzo asked again.
This time Arthur fell silent. He seemed to be thinking about something, his expression became ferocious, and finally relaxed slowly.
"I haven't thought about it yet."
"Didn't you think about it?"
Lorenzo thought he had heard wrongly.
"Yes, I just didn't think about it. I didn't think about what happened next. To be honest, Lorenzo, I never thought that we would make such great progress against demons during my tenure. I couldn't think of the future at all."
Arthur smiled bitterly as he spoke.
"Yeah, what should we do next? No one has thought... More than ten years ago, none of us dared to think that we could actually confront the monster with frontal firepower."
He looked at the remains of the armor. As long as these third-generation armors wait for the factory's production capacity to increase, they will turn into a torrent of steel and overthrow everything.
"Anyway, we are moving forward, Lorenzo. No matter whether it is hell or heaven ahead, we have to get there before we can see it."
Arthur said and patted Lorenzo's shoulder. He walked towards the other side. Arthur's command was still needed at the scene. The new third-generation armor was put into the workshop, but this time it was not a coordinated operation, but
Responsible for helping to clean up the battlefield.
Probably because the third generation of armor has been mass-produced, everyone has discovered that this big guy has more wonderful uses.
"By the way, Lorenzo, there is something else about the Victorian royal family."
Arthur stopped suddenly, turned around and said to Lorenzo.
"You mean the war?" Lorenzo said.
"Yes, this war is too weird. It started suddenly. Even I don't know this. You must know that I am also Arthur, and the Phoenix family is also a meritorious family. The queen directly ignored everyone to do this. Faced with my
The Queen didn't reply to my question. In fact, she hasn't seen anyone since a few days ago, but I remember she said she was willing to see you and give you an answer, right?"
Arthur was suspicious of the Queen as early as the news of the war arrived.
"You also think something is wrong with her?"
"Well, according to previous inspections, William applied for experiments more than once, but they were all rejected by the Victoria royal family. Only the Queen has this power. William was also carried away by the desire for secrets, and he conducted experiments privately." Arthur
explain.
"But he paid the price, and his death had its due value...even though it was many years late."
The scavengers dug something out of the hideous mess, picked up the broken and charred bones, and reluctantly pieced together a broken human form.
"Maybe it's not too late, Arthur. If William survives by then, you without the Original Sin Armor will only cause a greater disaster."
Lorenzo didn't think it was so bad.
"I guess so."
Arthur was too lazy to continue thinking about anything.
"So what do you want me to do, Arthur, kill the queen, take all the power, and defeat the monster in one fell swoop?"
Lorenzo said eagerly, as if it was not a big deal.
"How is it possible to kill the Queen and who will replace her? In fact, she is the most suitable person to be the Queen. The King's Curse will always plague the Victorian royal family. Even if they have sinful desires, those desires will be firmly locked
In the Platinum Palace.”
Arthur said terrible things.
"I need you to go see her and see how she's doing."
Lorenzo heard something different.
"Do you think she might have been corrupted?"
"It is possible that there is no such proposal in the disaster plan. All high-level commands are corrupted and communications remain silent. At that time, scavengers will replace us... But everything cannot be left to the plan."
Arthur took a deep breath, walked quickly to Lorenzo, and whispered to him.
"But have you ever thought about another possibility? For example, the queen has not been corrupted. She has always known what she was doing, whether it was vetoing William's experiment or launching a war. So what is her purpose?"
Arthur's voice sped up.
"You are right, Lorenzo. If we had obtained this information more than ten years ago, it would not have helped us, but would have harmed us. Is it possible that the Victoria royal family had known this information for a long time, but due to the existing power
There is no way they can deal with this, so they can only keep it secret and eliminate anyone who tries to touch it."
Lorenzo felt that his mind was touched by something, but he didn't think about it for a while, but asked.
"So now that the experiment is allowed, does the Victoria royal family feel that the existing power can handle this?"
"No, the experiment was not allowed. The queen tried to stop it before it started, but I ignored it... So if this guess is true, then she feels that the power we have now is still unable to handle this."
Arthur raised his voice and left again.
"Anyway, if there is anything unusual about the queen, please report it to me. Now everything is crowded together, war, demons, angels, like a crazy storm, trying to swallow everyone up."
Lorenzo looked at Arthur's back, and suddenly he thought of something that had touched him. When Arthur expressed his conjecture, he felt that the image of the Victorian royal family was so similar to that of the Silent Ones.
They are all keeping a sinful secret, a cursed secret, but the existing power is simply not enough to deal with this despair. They can only eliminate the relevant people and control the spread of the disease as much as possible.