Chapter 40: Mercury's Hammer/Cannon (Dual Perspectives)
The glare of the sun woke Jace to open his eyes and rub his dark red vision, the stinging pain on his head that had been distracting him, and the workbench was covered in dried blood.
Through the sun hanging high outside the skylight, Jace knew he had been unconscious for hours.
An inexplicable sense of urgency appeared in his heart!
He looked at the workbench, the Shurima Crystal placed on it was gone, it must have been taken away by Victor, no matter what he was going to do, he would not respect the free will of others, and he took such a strong approach, it definitely meant that his plan was almost completed.
Jace held his forehead to empty the liquid metal used for the experiment, and sure enough, he found a blue crystal shard at the bottom of the tank.
The crystal shard, hidden in the molten metal, managed to evade Victor's search, but it is possible that he didn't care about it at all.
Jace retrieved the crystal shard and mounted it on a massive Hex-deformable warhammer - a blasting device he had invented years ago that had been shelved due to a lack of a powerful enough battery.
The moment the crystal was embedded, the weapon called the Mercury Hammer in his hand immediately emitted a slight buzz, and Jace was enveloped in an energy position, and the agitation of energy injected into his muscles, allowing him to easily pick up this heavy weapon, which gave him a great boost of confidence.
Time is of the essence, every second counts! Jace didn't even care about how miserable his sexy and handsome face had become this time, and went straight to Zu'an at full speed.
Jace didn't choose to call the police, knowing that Piltover had the lowest violent crime rate in the world, but there were still many holes to exploit.
The biggest rule of the Picheng garrison is that it never enforces the law across districts on a large scale.
Therefore, only if the murderer can safely escape to the labyrinth-like Zu'an after committing the crime, to a large extent, he does not have to be afraid of the threat of the police.
At the same time, Jace didn't want to call the police, it wasn't his style to bury someone's future like this.
Subconsciously, he felt that Victor could still be convinced, and if he was not convinced, then he would be convinced! Just to take revenge.
Soon, he set foot on the realm of Zaun.
Along the way, the warhammer in his hand kept vibrating, and a force pulled him towards the depths of Zuan.
The crystal shard couldn't wait to reunite with his mother, and the force eventually led Jace to the factory deep in the trench.
Looking at the locked gate, Jace didn't want to be turned away again, and the Mercury Hammer in his hand transformed into the Mercury Cannon, aiming at the rusted iron door, the electric energy stirred, and a lightning ball shot out, instantly blasting the gate.
Not far away, Blitz sensed this abnormal energy fluctuation, thought for a while, put down what he was doing, and rushed to the abandoned factory.
Walking through the billowing smoke, Jace entered the ruined building, and he saw that the layout was as intricate as a maze.
But it doesn't matter, the hammer will guide him to the crystal, and even if he reaches a dead end, he can easily smash down the wall with the hammer in his hand.
The environment along the way was dark and cold, and the dense cobweb-like cracks in the walls reminded him that it seemed as if an arm of steel could appear at any moment, breaking through the fragile walls and clutching his neck, suffocating him in this cramped corner.
Jace didn't dare to let his guard down, but fortunately he didn't encounter any ambushes along the way, he just scared himself, until he heard the humming of the machine in front of him, and he immediately turned off the energy supply of the crystal shards, so that the warhammer no longer emitted light and hum.
In the dim light, Jace crept closer to the source of the sound, and when he was close enough, he stopped to look around at his new surroundings.
Behind him were glass jars, and the green liquid in them filled several walls with organs mixed with flesh and metal.
There was a gurney next to it, the leather surface was stained with blood, and there was a mechanical hand drill, lying quietly in the middle of the room.
The air smelled of blood, and Jace saw dozens of corpses, all lying in dark red hospital beds, their skulls sawed open and their brains gone.
The terrifying scene in front of him made him shudder with his hairs standing on end.
He didn't expect that Victor was already so cruel that he could slaughter lives with such a bottom line.
Jace gritted his teeth and continued to sneak closer to the source of the sound.
In the deepest part of the labyrinthine cavernous factory, Jace saw the crystal's blue glow, the only source of light.
The crystal was embedded in a large device, and Victor stood by it, intently manipulating the device, as focused as a surgeon performing surgery.
Dozens of cables stretched around the device, connecting dozens of robots leaning against walls, and from their gaping heads, Jace saw the brains taken from the corpses, still alive and immersed in the green nutrient solution.
"Is this the first step in the glorious evolution?"
The sight pierced Jace's heart deeply, and he slowly walked over to Victor, trying to get him to stop, but the closer he got, the more his thoughts wavered.
The two of them had numerous conflicts at work because of different approaches, and then reconciled because of the results of different paths.
But this time there seems to be no possibility of reconciliation, Jace wants to retain the sensual side of humanity, while Victor wants humanity to become absolutely ideal, and the two are essentially opposites.
At this moment, he suddenly realized that maybe he had to kill his old friend.
Looking at the war hammer in his hand, Jace suddenly had confidence, and he decided to try one last time, hoping that Victor could turn back as a prodigal son, so that he could at least not report Victor's crimes to the Leather City Science and Technology Association.
"Victor!"
A loud cry came from the darkness, which did not attract Victor's attention, and he was still concentrating on the control device, as if it had reached the last moment, and he could not be distracted at all.
But Jace was sure that Victor had heard, because as he spoke, the army of robots connected to the cables all stood up and turned to stare at him.
He took a deep breath and shouted:
"Victor! Please take a look around! Look at what you've done! What are these things? Are these robots what you call evolution? Whatever it is, it's not the progress you were looking for when you were younger! ”
Jace's questioning echoes through the empty factory, but Victor receives no response.
"Progress is groping for mistakes over time, and now you have put an end to human mistakes, and at the same time cut off the space for them to progress. What are you...... It's in! …… Destroy our beautiful tomorrow with your own hands! ”
By the end, Jace's voice couldn't stop shaking, he had melted all his feelings into the words, and even so, Victor still didn't look back at his true feelings.
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Listening to Jace's complaints, Victor remained silent.
He couldn't understand why Jace couldn't get the slightest bit of approval when he saw the work he was about to finish.
Victor was lazy to argue, even if he told Jace that he was saving the people whose brains had been invaded by toxins, Jace wouldn't believe it.
Jace looked at Victor's indifferent back and pleaded bitterly:
"Victor, I'm sorry, I was wrong! Forgive me for my arrogance, forgive me for my rudeness, forgive me! They are innocent. If you know your mistakes, let's correct them ourselves, and don't do it on our behalf! ”
Jace's sudden apology came Victor by surprise, but what's the use of playing the emotional card with someone who already has no feelings?
Victor has already seen Jace clearly, he will only blindly misunderstand himself, where is the toxin dialysis device, its function, Jace will not be able to see it? He knew that habitual preconceptions had made Jace lose the ability to see reality.
And isn't this kind of recklessness the negative impact of emotions on human beings? What can Jess correct if he keeps saying that he wants to correct it, but he keeps ignoring the essence of the error?
Victor is tired of disagreeing with each other and hurting each other, is it really a difficult thing to understand others?
Thinking of this, Victor couldn't help but sigh and ordered to the cyborg legion:
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"Kill him."