Chapter 65: Separate Actions
The cold evening breeze poured in with the open car door in the dark corner, and the kestrel collapsed in the corner, frowning at its closed eyes, fine sweat oozing from its forehead, as if it was having some nightmare that it could not wake up from.
This lasted for a few minutes, and then a faint electrical current was released from the electrodes buried under the flesh, passing through his nerves, and repeatedly stimulating until he woke up.
The kestrel looked at the collapse in confusion, and after a short moment of stunned thought, he whimpered in pain, struggled to get up on the ground, and then reached behind his neck, and forcefully ripped off the thin cable, along with the electrodes and blood buried under the skin of his neck.
It's a device called a safe, and everyone who fights demons has something like this, and when consciousness is eroded, it releases electricity to wake itself up.
However, the trigger rate of this thing is more metaphysical, but fortunately this time it was triggered, so the kestrel woke up, which felt really uncomfortable, like being beaten up, and exuding fatigue and pain all over the body.
"Exactly...... What's wrong?"
The Kestrel looked at the open door and remembered the last scene, Lorenzo didn't know what he had found, and suddenly rushed out, and then the Radiance seemed to hit something, and the whole train came to a sudden stop under the resistance, and the Kestrel crashed into the wall and fainted.
But Kestrel remembered something, and finally in a state of confusion he saw Eve open the car door and walk out.
Eve!
Thinking of this girl, the kestrel instantly came to his senses, and with the pain in his body, he picked up the firearm on the side and limped out.
Only a few people know the secret of Eve, even the kestrel only knows a little bit, but just like seeing the shadow of something, you can infer the horror of its nature from the shadow alone, and the same is true about the truth.
Eve can't die here, at least not so meaninglessly.
Thinking like this, the kestrel came to the outside world, and the entire surface of the earth was changed by the twisted flesh and blood, which was obviously an endless wilderness, but under its effect it turned into a concave and complex terrain.
"Where are you?"
The kestrel muttered to himself, his eyes glancing over and over until he saw Eve's figure swaying on the top of a raised hill at the end of his vision.
......
The eye can see the picture, the nose can smell the breath, the sense of touch can perceive the material of things, and the ear can understand the fluctuations of sound.
Sometimes Eve wonders if intuition is also a perceptual organ, like something that cannot be perceived in a conventional way, and that it eventually needs to be observed by something called intuition.
At this moment, Eve was following her instincts, and after the violent bumps, she staggered out alone, obviously it was difficult for her to kill the demon, but she was suddenly not afraid of death, so she moved forward slowly.
Looking at the green light rising at the end of the horizon, Eve knew that it was her destination, as if something was waiting for her there, calling for her.
Everyone around seemed to be dreaming, and when they came out, everyone closed their eyes and gasped slightly.
Or rather, what Eve herself experienced at the moment was like a dream, after all, she had never seen the power to change the terrain in such a short time, the huge flesh was completely beyond her comprehension of living things, and the strange green screen spread over the night sky.
It's like an absurd dream, and the dream and reality are intertwined, and the world is plunged into endless madness.
There was a faint roar in the distance, and the creature that appeared to be the demon was also crisscrossing the land, and Eve clenched the silver-white revolver in her hand and quickened her pace.
She didn't know exactly what was beneath the green light, but like some kind of ritual, when she arrived, she was sure to discover something, whether it was a harsh reality or a way to end the nightmare.
"Eve!"
Suddenly, a voice rang out from behind, and the man called out to her urgently.
Eve subconsciously turned around and the flaming bullet passed by her, and the thermite bomb released a violent heat to pierce the demon that suddenly appeared behind her, and the demon's whereabouts were very secretive, but it was still detected by the kestrel when it launched the final attack.
The high-ranking knight showed great physical fitness at the moment, carrying heavy equipment to catch up with Eve in such a short time, pushing her away, the kestrel continued to fire at the demon who was struggling in the fire, knowing that the liquid metal had completely poured it, he stopped firing, put down the gun, and gasped violently.
"What are you doing?"
The kestrel looked at her anxiously and puzzled, she might be killed by a passing demon if she left the protection of the carriage so rashly.
"There...... There's something ......."
Eve wasn't quite sure how to describe herself, and she pointed to the green light.
Looking at Eve's serious look, according to the normal plot, the kestrel would definitely reprimand her behavior, and then forcibly take her back to the safety of the carriage, but this plot must be abnormal, and the kestrel asked rhetorically as if listening to Eve's words.
"What do you think there's there?"
He looked very concerned about Eve's words, and his face was serious.
This reaction surprised Eve, who thought for a moment and finally said.
"The source......"
"The source?"
Kestrel nodded, and he seemed to understand the meaning attached to the word, and he continued.
"You know, the connection between the darkness is like a vortex, and the deeper the connection becomes, the heavier we become in the vortex, and the easier it is to be drawn into the center of that darkness. ”
"It's like a swamp, that's how Lorenzo described it to me, fighting demons is like fighting in a swamp, and the more you fight, the deeper you get. ”
Eve replied, her connection to the darkness deepening until there was no longer anything between them.
"That's not bad, but I would say that when you connect more deeply with the darkness, you can see the darkness...... You know what I mean?"
Kestrel held an athermite rifle, and his expression was serious.
"You mean...... The source of the pollution is there!"
Eve said with some excitement and fear.
"That's right, if your connection to the darkness is really that deep, then your instincts are right, at least I've come this way with nothing but irritability. ”
Kestrel inexplicably trusted Eve, and then he said.
"Now we need a new plan. ”
"What do you mean?"
"What else, we already know its approximate location, all that's left is to find a way to destroy it. ”
As he spoke, the kestrel raised the thermite rifle in his hand, and the flames burned on the ignitor at the front end, which was extremely bright.
"It's supposed to be a widespread mental anomaly, and from the fact that it's been so quiet so far, the rest of the guys should still be sleeping. ”
"Do we need to go back and wake them up?"
Eve felt that it was the right thing to do now to go back and wake up the guys, and it was only the two of them that Eve felt that she would not be able to get there anyway.
But the kestrel shook his head and said.
"No, the most dangerous place now is the carriage, if they can wake up under this large-scale mental abnormality, then nothing will happen, once they can't wake up, they will be eroded into demons. ”
The kestrel said calmly, clenched the gun in his hand, and then strode forward.
"The optimal solution now is for the two of us to determine the location of the source of the pollution and then signal to the rest of the people who can wake up. ”
"But isn't the communication jammed?"
Before leaving, Eve picked up a communicator, which was silent, and no one responded to his messages.
"So I brought flares. ”
The kestrel proudly revealed the weapon around its waist, an incendiary bomb launcher.