Viewed from Dun Ling Pagoda, the old Dun Ling now presents a very nice view.
The leaden dark clouds were crushed by the golden sunshine, and the rays of light fell one after another, reflecting on the streets. On the tide that had not receded, the golden glow overshadowed the painful gray and blue, incorporating everything into the golden
in the world.
The sunlight is not too hot, but it shines on your body, giving you a sense of warmth, driving away the cold chill and bringing you some comfort.
There was still drizzle falling from the sky, pattering, but compared to the previous violent storm, this was undoubtedly much gentler, falling with light jumps and drops.
Lorenzo sat expressionlessly on the ledge of rubble, with the ruins of the broken dome above his head, which shielded Lorenzo from the falling drizzle.
There was a dry sound of rust rubbing behind him, and soon after, the sound of footsteps gradually began. The high-ranking knights and the anonymous people who were still able to move arrived here. They seemed confused and didn't understand why Watson had summoned them here.
Apart from them, there were some people who did not come, but most of them were injured like Shrike and unable to move, so Watson could only deal with it himself.
"Lorenzo?"
Eve noticed Lorenzo in the shadow and didn't expect to see him here. She took a few steps quickly and wanted to say hello to Lorenzo, but she suddenly stopped and did not dare to move forward.
Behind them, Sa Liangxi and Rhodes also followed. Probably because of the friendship formed under the heavy rain, they are now inseparable, just like a real team.
Then they also stopped, not even daring to say anything.
They stared at the familiar but unfamiliar guy in front of them. They saw that Lorenzo's body was in tatters and stained with blood. They could also see the gaping wound, and the granulation in it was struggling to sew up the fatal wound.
Wound.
Lorenzo himself remained silent, as if he was thinking about something profound. He just looked at Jin Can in front of him and paid no attention to them.
The arms were hanging down, and the clothes on them had already burst open, and the exposed skin was like burned rotten wood, shriveled and cracked, with the light of flowing fire rolling between the gaps.
Lorenzo turned his head stiffly, glanced at everyone standing in the shadows, and then said.
"let's start."
Hearing his signal, Watson also came slowly, looking at everyone gathered, she said softly.
"Thanks to everyone's hard work, we successfully killed Edron Levien and Roger Cruz."
Listening to Watson's words, the visitors looked a little confused, as if they didn't understand what she was saying, but then, their numb faces broke, and uncontrollable ecstasy emerged, and they almost screamed loudly.
.
But it might be fatigue, or it might be the pain all over the place. The ultimate ecstasy flashed through their eyes, and their expressions changed from pale and numb to a little smile, but before the smile was released, it solidified again.
Got up.
Crying and laughing, everyone had such weird expressions on their faces.
"Actually...did it really succeed?"
Shao Liangye whispered. From the first moment he encountered the demon, he felt that the battle would not be successful, at least not as expected, both of them would be killed. After all, they were too powerful, but he never expected that
They won.
"Then what? What to do next...how to deal with this?"
Ye Xiao asked feebly. He was being supported by Lan Jade and looked very embarrassed.
"Now everyone in Jiudunling has seen the existence of the demon, and the erosion has spread to the entire city... We will no longer be able to keep the secret of the demon, or are you ready to share this fear with the world?"
Night Owl looked sad. Although he had killed these two extremely troublesome guys, there were still a lot of problems waiting for them to deal with.
"This time it's not a gas explosion that can be fooled."
He smiled bitterly twice. Hearing this common saying, the others couldn't help but smile. Only Shao Liangye and a few other anonymous people didn't know what they were talking about. This was considered "black talk" in the purge agency.
"The plan was complete and perfect, and of course everything was within expectations."
Watson replied that this was not a problem for her.
The ending of the story has been determined from the moment it was written, just like now.
"Oh? What should we do?"
Kestrel couldn't help but ask, he was curious about how Watson would solve all this.
After a moment or two of calm, Watson recounted his final plan.
"As early as half a month ago, the scavenger troops used the Pillar of the Furnace to spread antimemetics on a large scale in Old Dunling. It is expected that after the war is over, we will dump all the antimemetic materials into the furnace.
In the pillar, it will operate at full speed, spreading excess antimemetic matter throughout the city."
Hearing this, Kestrel realized something and looked at Joey on the side. Kestrel knew why Galahad happened to save him underground, because they had originally planned to do this and transfer the excessive inverse mold.
As the substance is poured into the pillars of the furnace.
"It will be encircled by water vapor, overflow from the underground to the ground, and fall into light rain, purifying the whole city... But please don't worry, this will not have much impact on the citizens, they will only become a little bit
Forgetful, for safety reasons, their understanding of everything that happened in this month will be blurred.
This is necessary. The antimeme will not only make them forget these nightmares, but also eradicate the entangled erosion and reduce the Geiger index of the old Dunlin back to the stable range."
Watson continued to tell that this plan involved far more people than everyone knew.
"Then there is the cover-up of false information. The purification agency manages newspapers and radio broadcasts in old Dunling. We will attribute all this to abnormal weather. The heavy rains and floods caused by it have affected some old facilities, including paralysis and explosions.
…”
"Like another 'gas explosion'?" Kestrel thought this sounded familiar no matter how he heard it.
"But this still can't cover up all doubts."
Night Owl said that for events like this, relying only on public opinion and antimemetic forgetfulness is still unreliable, and there will always be clues left.
"Yes, so I will control the antimeme, affect their memory, and even distort cognition, creating a natural disaster without the appearance of monsters... After this, you don't have to worry too much about it, you will
The scavengers will take care of it."
Watson looked at the old Dunling under the rain and fog. Most of the citizens should have fallen asleep. While they were sleeping, the scavengers were working hard to clean the battlefield, at least to clean up the corpses exposed on the surface of the old Dunling.
.
Dead citizens and soldiers will appear on the missing list in disaster reports. People will grieve, but they will also get up from their sorrow and move on.
"Well, according to our plan, we will obscure everything on this day as much as possible, and all reports will deliberately forget this day, and it will become a day that does not exist," Joey said at this time, as a scavenger.
The police officer knew what would happen. "As for the corpses on the street, we will deal with the ones that are exposed on the street and can easily be discovered first, and the rest are expected to be thoroughly cleaned within half a month."
"Then there is monitoring. We will continue to monitor the changes in the situation. This monitoring will last for several years until we ensure that everyone has forgotten everything that happened on this day.
Bury the nightmare and cut off all erosion."
This is what the scavengers have to do. Normally this is an almost impossible task, but under the influence of such a large scale, excessive antimeme, and Watson, the monster who controls the [Gap], this is impossible.
Everything becomes possible.
It's like there are two invisible big hands controlling everything. In people's lives, they are cut out in a few days, thrown into the dusty shadow, and buried forever.
Only in this way can the secrets of the demon be kept hidden in the darkness and the spread of the demon's "information" suppressed. Only in this way can the erosion left by Roger be completely eradicated, without any possibility of the "road" reappearing.
"Are you sure this is possible?" Night Owl asked.
"perhaps."
This time it was Shao Liangye who replied. He looked at Ye Xiao and continued.
"This may be feasible if we use Jiuxia's antimeme."
"Because you often do this in Jiuxia?" Ye Xiao asked.
"There is nothing we can do about it. Facing such an enemy, we must isolate ourselves from the information about the disaster...that is, forgetting, isn't it?"
After listening to Shao Liangye's words, Ye Xiao also fell silent.
Indeed, in the purification mechanism, the fate of all people is to be forgotten, just like the forgotten robin, which gradually disappears and returns to ordinary people.
"The history we have experienced is wrong history. We must correct this wrong history and get it back on track...and when everything is back on track, there will be no need to remember the mistakes."
Watson's voice was extremely cold and robotic.
"That's why I called you here. You are resistant. This level of antimeme won't have much effect on you, so I need to focus on you."
"What did you say?" Kestrel exclaimed, "In other words, you want us to forget this too."
"Any questions?"
Watson asked back. When she said this, Kestrel didn't really know how to refute for a moment, but he couldn't figure out why he wanted to refute.
Maybe he has always been the processor, and now he has become the one being processed. This strange sense of gap motivates him.
"This is your protection, and it is also a condition for the plan to continue to advance. You are all contaminated. Not only are you confronting Roger, you may also be targeted by the Unspeakable in the darkness."
Watson continued.
"What's more, you have also noticed that the success of the deus ex machina proves the feasibility of the plan and the importance of 'forgetting'. This can not only protect you, but also protect our true purpose from being spied on by the enemy.
"
This is a complete burying, leaving no insiders, a war destined to be forgotten.
"So who will remember all this?"
Suddenly, Sa Liangxi asked, she looked at Watson.
"Just like you, there will always be someone who remembers all this and is watching secretly, right? So who are they?"
Watson shook his head, "You have no right to know."
After hearing this, Sa Liangxi also understood another meaning. She was not an insider, and she was also a member who needed to be forgotten.
The scene was silent for a long time, and no one spoke. Sometimes someone would look at Lorenzo, but Lorenzo didn't respond. He just stared blankly at the golden sky.
"I'm a soldier, I'm an employee, and I follow orders, if that's what you want."
The first one to make a decision was Ye Xiao, and then Lan Jade. She supported Ye Xiao, and the two of them walked into the drizzle. Then came the others. Eve hesitated for a while, and suddenly she heard Lorenzo.
the sound of.
"Go ahead, this was a bad nightmare that no one should remember."
Lorenzo still looked ahead, not sure whether he was talking to Eve, but hearing this, for many people, can feel a little at ease, and then walk calmly into the rain.
"So I will forget about you again? Like before, thinking you are dead?"
Kestrel asked Joey, "This sounds really unlucky. You just lived in my world for a few minutes, and you are going to die again."
Joey smiled and said nonchalantly.
"I am a returned person. I should have died, but I couldn't... Just treat it as a fairly interesting dream, my friend."
"Ah...this job is really terrible."
Kestrel complained, looked deeply at an old friend, and then walked into the rain.
He raised his head. Under the sunlight, the rain was not cold, but very warm. It was as comfortable as taking a bath at home.
The rising fog enveloped him, and his figure became blurry.
Lorenzo stood up slowly. His body had healed a lot, and simple movement was not a problem at the moment.
Everyone present had almost left, and only a few people were left hesitating as if they couldn't bear to forget.
"Just...can't forget it?"
Rhodes looked at Sa Liangxi and then at Watson. He was not as resistant as others. Rhodes would forget more, not only this day, but also all the experiences in these days.
In his not-too-short life, the experiences of these few days seemed so dazzling.
Watson did not respond, and all he received in response was a cold iron face. He wanted to say something more, but was pushed into the rain by Sa Liangxi.
"What are you doing!"
Rhodes shouted loudly, the warm rain hitting his body felt like strong acid. He wanted to escape in horror and returned to the shadows, but he saw the absent-minded and indifferent face of Sa Liangxi.
"She is right, this is the only way to protect you from being affected by erosion."
Sa Liangxi's strength was astonishing. Every time Rhodes tried to escape, she pushed him back hard.
"But, but..."
Rhodes wanted to say something else, but was kicked in the stomach by Sa Liangxi. His whole body rolled around in the rain. It took a long time for him to get up with difficulty.
Like a helpless child, crying and howling.
"You can't do this, you can't!"
He shouted, but soon, those foundation stones collapsed one by one, and Rhodes' expression changed from fear to confusion, and in the end he was just like other people standing in the rain.
Rhodes' figure gradually stiffened, and the memory and filth were washed away by the heavy rain filled with antimemes.
Sa Liangxi turned around and saw Shao Liangye standing next to Lorenzo. It seemed that he was one of the insiders. The only thing missing was that he hadn't stepped into the rain yet.
Like Rhodes, she is reluctant to give up and can't bear it, but she is an anonymous person who obeys orders. They are carrying out a great cause. It doesn't mean that they can change anything by crying and making noise. Too many people have already disappeared.
In this heavy rain, what do these troubles of Sa Liangxi mean?
"Remember the teacher, Shao Liangye."
Sa Liangxi shouted to Shao Liangye, then she took a deep breath, mustered up her courage, and walked into the rain and fog.
Under the mask of steel, a blazing storm emerged, and the antimeme further affected them, eradicating erosion and nightmares together, causing Watson and the scavengers to hide in the darkness again, waiting for the next time they draw their swords.
when.
"Let's go."
Lorenzo said at this time, he put a hand on Shao Liangye's shoulder and asked him to help him leave this sad place.
Shao Liangye also tried his best to suppress his emotions. The two walked into the dark and charred corridor. Listening to the sound of rain, Shao Liangye finally couldn't help it anymore. He tried to look back, but was stopped by Lorenzo.
Living.
All he saw was a pair of tired eyes. Lorenzo forced his eyes to look forward, and then heard him say.
"Don't look back, Shao Liangye."
Lorenzo said stubbornly.
"Move forward."
"Yes, that's it, move forward."
"Don't look back."
The light rain poured down on the city, and the hazy mist spread, swallowing everything up in the blue and disappearing in it.