Old Dunling is a very special city in the world. It is not only the capital of Inverg and a leader in technology. Its most special thing is that the city itself is wrapped in several secret systems.
Ordinary citizens don't know this at all. The long-term explosion of science and technology has made it easy for citizens to accept these new things. Under such numbness, few people can notice the existence of these secrets, let alone the purification mechanism.
Due to the existence of regulations, the information in the purification agency is not completely open. Most soldiers only know the existence of the Mechanical Institute, but they do not know that underneath it is the mysterious perpetual pump, not to mention the Black Mountain Hospital, Dungeon Hospital, etc.
The pagoda has waited.
As the rank rises, more secrets are revealed to the newcomer until he reaches the top.
But at this time, people's hearts will not feel happy because they know all the secrets. They will have doubts, just like Merlin now.
"After becoming the technical director of the Eternal Pump, I thought I knew enough about the purification mechanism, but no one thought that there was a mysterious nation-builder above us."
Merlin and Arthur walked in the huge underground factory. The molten iron spread along the flow channels and turned into deadly weapons one after another under the processing of technicians.
These are all molten holy silver. The Mechanical Institute has fully taken over the excavation of the holy silver mine. Trains are constantly transporting the holy silver into the furnace. The factory is working day and night, rushing to manufacture weapons. Soon after, the holy silver will be assembled.
Weapons will completely arm the purge agencies.
"Arthur, sometimes I wonder, since the builders of the country exist, is there a department or system within the purification agency that we don't know about?" Merlin doubted.
"I don't know, just remember, Merlin, if there's something you don't know, it means you shouldn't know it," Arthur replied.
The corners of Merlin's mouth were raised stiffly. He had a facial paralysis. To Merlin, this was already considered a smile.
"Arthur, sometimes I really don't know if you are loyal to the regulations or if you are stupid and stubborn?"
"I just believe in myself, the purification agencies, and the people who make the regulations." Arthur said.
"Doubt will shake us down, and the enemy will take advantage of this moment."
"All right."
The surrounding temperature began to become hot, and a restart was imminent. The perpetual pump and even the entire purification mechanism were fully activated. All unnecessary projects were temporarily shelved, and the current enemies were regarded as the highest priority.
The ground shook slightly, and the tall original sin armor stepped forward, guarding the eternal pump. This model is also a riot suppressor, but in terms of equipment configuration, it is completely different from the riot suppressor patrolling the streets of old Dunling.
grade.
"Old Dunling is wrapped in several huge systems, the iron whale wandering in the sky, the railroad tracks all over the corners of the city, the Dunling Tower, the Pillar of the Furnace...
We are going to build a shelter at the bottom of the Forge Pillar, which will be entirely made of holy silver and protected by the entire old Dunling."
Merlin told Arthur the prototype of his plan.
"Old Dunling will become a war fortress and will be the last place to fall in the apocalypse."
"What is this plan called?" Arthur asked.
"'Death Row' was named by Lorenzo. I don't know why he gave the shelter such a name. I asked him and he said he didn't know and that he chose it at random," Merlin said.
"Death cell... It's actually not bad. If we lose the battle, the shelter won't last long. It will become a death cell where survivors are imprisoned. Everyone can only walk towards death in the darkness."
Arthur looked very disappointed and muttered to himself.
"I actually think that things like shelters are meaningless. According to Lorenzo's information, the Indescribable will completely wake up, and humans will have no chance to fight back. At most, they will linger and die slowly."
"But he insisted on doing this... I am more surprised than you that Lorenzo actually has a day to retreat, but he said that we must prepare for the worst and at least leave some hope.
As for lingering on for a while..."
Merlin hesitated for a moment, feeling heavy and depressed every time he thought about this dark truth.
"In his words, human beings have been lingering for a while. In fact, the history of these thousands of years has been lingering, and the war has never ended."
The two stopped and looked aside in unison.
The slide rail passed by, and what was hung on it was the broken Black Angel, like a hanged monster, losing all its evil meaning, leaving only the coldness of death.
Fragments of metal debris fell off from it, clinking to the ground. The Geiger counter bound to it made a warning sound, and warning signs were plastered all over its body, as if it were a corpse.
The iron coffin sealed with spells refuses the resurrection of the dead souls inside.
In fact, without Duke Stuart's request, the Perpetual Pump will also give priority to repairing the Black Angel. After all, it is Lorenzo's weapon, and this guy is now mankind's ace.
"This is like a grand gambling game. We are both gamblers and chips on the gambling table." Arthur turned back and looked at Merlin, "I put all my chips on Lorenzo."
"Is there anyone else we can bet on?" Merlin responded, as did Arthur.
"Lorenzo has another reason for being on Death Row."
Merlin's expression was serious, and darkness rose in his lightless eyes.
"Now there are two sublimators who are very likely to become the 'road' wandering around. They are both monsters who have lived for an unknown length of time. They are almost at the end of sublimation. The most important thing is that they both have sanity.
They are no longer the monsters we are familiar with, they are enemies with reason, which means we can no longer judge based on common sense.
Adren is the original Watcher. It can be said that he is actually in the same position as us, but if we continue to break it down, the way he chooses is different from ours. There may be the possibility of cooperation between us, but we are destined to draw our swords.
Opposite.
Roger is a madman who has been corrupted by the Unspeakable. Now he just wants to open the 'road' to wake up the Unspeakable, end the long struggle of mankind, and complete the great sublimation."
Merlin's gaze went up along the factory wall, as if he wanted to see the grandeur of old Dunling through the heavy mud and stone.
"For Roger, his enemy is not only Adren who is hunting him, but also us, the Purge Agency, Old Dunling, Yin Erweg, and all the existences that may prevent his actions."
"Roger may not be able to defeat Adren, but once he comes to Old Dunling and chooses to destroy us first, it will be a disaster."
Arthur's eyes were solemn. This was the meaning of the existence of "Death Row". Once the future envisioned by Merlin really happened, no one could predict the direction of the war.
If Roger succeeds and turns old Dunling into ruins, then "Death Row" is the hope of counterattack.
"Faced with such a monster, no matter where we hide, it is not safe. Besides, I feel that we are not the only ones who are threatened by this."
Arthur thought for a while, recalling powerful enemies one after another, and a new idea came to his mind.
"Roger's targets are not just us, I guess the evangelical church is also within his hunting range."
"That's right, and it seems that Edron has been awake for some time. When Lorenzo went to the Silent Sea, the Seven Hills was completely sealed off. No one knew what happened inside. All the Knights Templar were blocked.
There was no news of the new religious group gathered there.
The Evangelical Church stationed its troops at the Seven Hills, which is Adren's headquarters, and they knew the enemy was coming."
"Then Roger will give priority to attacking the Seven Hills?"
"I don't know, but Lorenzo felt that we could try to use Adren, so he chose to integrate this information and give it to the new pope to see what decision he would make."
Merlin continued.
"But Lorenzo also said that the new pope might be dead. At that time, the situation had not become so serious. He said that the new pope might have been attacked by Adren long ago, and his life or death is unknown."
"Then do we still want to continue sending information?" Arthur asked.
"Lorenzo means to continue. Whether it is the new pope or Edlen, before all this happened, we were all opposed to each other. Now we have to try to bring them together. It is nothing more than the size of the risk.
different."
"This is a gamble." Arthur felt uneasy.
"This is a war with great disparity in strength. We have to need some luck... I think Lorenzo is quite lucky." Merlin said calmly.
"If the new pope is still alive, let him know the truth, and this information cannot be hidden from Edron. Tell Edron what we want to do. Judging from his responsibilities, he should be happy to cooperate with us.
Let’s hunt Roger together.
As for what happens next, we’ll talk about it later.”
Merlin let out a long breath, the fate of the world was wandering in the hands of these people, looking for a path illuminated by light among the countless branches of darkness.
"These matters were handed over to Queen Victoria and other nation builders for decision a few days ago. In fact, all they can do now is to completely trust us. After all, we are familiar with the war against demons." Merlin asked Ya
Se, "What do you think?"
"What else can I say, I can only agree," Arthur said helplessly, "We are familiar with these things, but Lorenzo is an expert. Professional things should be left to professionals."
The more Arthur thought about it, the more he felt afraid. This emotion was not strong, but it surrounded you like a mosquito and couldn't be driven away.
"Using Adren...it's crazy to think about it."
"More than that, Lorenzo also wants to use more people, but he is also very hesitant about this part."
"Why are you hesitating?"
"Lorenzo also wants to use another person, which, if successful, will add more opportunities to our war.
This man is very complicated. In Lorenzo's words, he is a madman who commits heinous crimes, but judging from his original intention, he is indeed saving the world.
If we use it well, it may really have a big effect; if we use it poorly, it will speed up our demise.”
Thinking of this, Merlin also felt frightened. Although that person was not as powerful as Edron, but maybe because of his experience with him, Merlin felt that he was more terrifying than Edron.
"who?"
"Lawrence."
Looking at Arthur's stunned expression, Merlin shook his head and said slowly.
"When I knew this name, I had the same expression as you. I think this trip to the Silent Sea really had a big impact on Lorenzo. It drove him crazy. Even Lawrence wanted to take advantage of it."
"What exactly does Lorenzo want to do?" Arthur lowered his voice to prevent himself from shouting.
"Save the world, he said it himself," Merlin said, "Save the world by any means, even if you make a deal with the devil, as long as you can end this dark fate and break the cycle of reincarnation."
"He is indeed crazy."
"Absolutely. Lorenzo said that he had seen Lawrence's [gap]. He continued to expand his legions for the war he predicted, and now the war is coming.
What we're going to do is so simple that it won't even trigger a conflict with Lawrence."
"What's up?"
"The same method as for the new pope, tell him the truth about the world, tell him who his enemies are, so that his legions can have a goal. As for what will happen, Lorenzo said he doesn't know.
Maybe the next day Lawrence would lead his legion to a surprise attack on the Seven Hills and set the Well of Ascension in flames, or maybe he would completely fall into madness, complete the great ascension, and become one of our enemies."
Merlin waved his hand.
"Who knows? Lorenzo himself didn't know what Lawrence would do, so he was hesitant about whether to take advantage of this madman."
"I think Lorenzo should have realized the error of his behavior when he had this idea," Arthur said.
"Lorenzo had a strange hope, and it was this hope that prompted him to use the new pope, Edron and even Lawrence.
He feels that using these demons may be the right way to end reincarnation."
"Why is he so sure of this? Just because of this strange hope?"
Arthur couldn't accept it. He had seen Lawrence's terror, and his fear was rooted in everyone's heart.
"Remember what I just said to you? Arthur, why are you so stupid and blindly trusting the so-called regulations?" Merlin said.
"You believe in the people who made the regulations, you believe in the purification agencies, and you believe in yourself."
"What do you want to say?" Arthur asked.
Merlin changed his words and suddenly talked about something else.
"Lorenzo said that he sometimes feels a sense of trance. He didn't expect that he had lived in Old Dunling for so long, so long that sometimes he forgot about his life in Feilengcui. Looking back on the past, that experience seemed to belong to another person.
."
This is what Lorenzo told Merlin before at the Perpetual Pump. At that time, just like now, they were walking in the factory deep underground, looking at these rumbling machines, feeling the iron and steel
fire.
"Lorenzo said he was willing to believe these lunatics, and his reasons were the same as yours as to why."
"What reason?"
"He believed in the oath he swore when he became a witcher."
Arthur was stunned. He felt something holding his heart, and with the slight force, blood rushed through his body.
Merlin's face was expressionless, as solemn as a priest in a church.
"No matter their position, no matter their purpose, no matter what they did, they were once members of the Evangelical Church and members of the Demon Hunting Order."
"Eradicate the demon.
This is the meaning of the existence of the Demon Hunter Order and the oath of the Demon Hunters."