"Don't worry, as scary as the battle may seem, it's just that the machine is too big. ”

Abigail stood in front of Lorenzo and fastened the machinery in the chair.

She was right, the machine was so big, the cables and steel spread like the rhizomes of a tree, along the chair at Lorenzo's feet, and as Lorenzo sat on the chair, he could clearly feel the slight trembling of the metal, as if some monster was moving underneath the ground, but it was actually the steam surging through the pipes.

As an important scientific research institution of the purification agency, the scientific research area of the Black Mountain Hospital, like the perpetual pump under the mechanical institute, is directly powered by the pillar of the furnace, and a huge amount of energy travels between the machines, and with the development of lacquer antimony, this power is becoming more and more powerful.

Lorenzo looked up, the blinding lights above him that made it difficult for Lorenzo to look directly, and around him was a cage-like structure, with Lorenzo in the center of the cage.

Arthur explained it to him on the way in, they called it a birdcage, and Lorenzo didn't realize the meaning of the word when he first came in, but now he seemed to understand it somewhat.

Like a delicate bird, he was trapped in this metal cage, and because of the blinding light above his head, Lorenzo couldn't see anyone outside the cage, but he could clearly feel that several pairs of eyes were fixed on him.

"What is this machine for?" asked Lorenzo.

"Analytic Brain ...... It's complicated and contradictory, but I still have a little time to explain it to you. ”

Abigail said as there was a rattling noise, and the paramedics pushed the cart to the bottom of the steps, then took out some medicine bags and syringes, and expertly hung them on the iron frame next to Lorenzo, and then pierced the needle into Lorenzo's arm.

"This is an emergency measure, after all, this technology is not mature at the moment, some accidents may occur during the period, and you are a witcher, different from normal people...... So if something really happens, these potions will be injected into your body urgently, I don't know how far your secret blood can go, but at least having this thing can be considered a guarantee. ”

With a few crisp sounds, Lorenzo was completely restrained in the chair, steel almost completely enveloping him, like a throne, like a cage.

"It feels like an electric torture chair to me. ”

"Almost, the biggest difference is that the output power of the electric torture chair will kill you...... Probably, but not at all, you'll feel pain at most, and some hallucinations. ”

Abigail waved his hand and motioned for the men to connect the disconnected cables.

"It's a bit of a struggle to explain this, and the purification agency has always looked at the world from a rational point of view, and this is especially true of me, a scientific research institution, but because of rationality, Merlin and I have had some disagreements in recent years. ”

Abigail suddenly reached out and pressed Lorenzo's head, because he was restrained, Lorenzo could not resist.

"For example, the human brain, from a rational point of view, human beings do not have a will and soul to speak of, and all our actions are only indicated by the sticky rotten flesh under the skull, and the erosion of demons can also be understood as ...... Some kind of radiation? Or something, it's still unknown to us anyway, so let's call it whatever we want.

After being eroded, the human brain will first begin to 'disease', alienate into demons, and pass on this erosion, which is like some kind of ...... [epidemic]. ”

Lorenzo frowned slightly, in Shermans's notes, the old man also had a similar opinion, but the truth behind the fog, no one knows now.

"Merlin is an alchemist after all, and although he also advocates reason, this past identity always binds him sometimes, and he thinks that people are ...... Maybe there is a soul, and erosion is a kind of corruption of our soul.

But you should know some of these theories, but it's just useless nonsense, but this one involves the machine itself. ”

Abigail became serious.

"We are exploring the unknown in an uncontrollable way, and what we get is often the unknown beyond our current understanding. ”

Gently caressing the surface of the steel, once covered in blood, the people sitting in the chairs were either deformed into monsters, while others had successfully received their power and became rangers.

This reminded Abigail of the alchemical rituals, the mysteriously shrouded in rituals so similar to the experiments of the moment, the birdcage being the altar of the ritual, and Lorenzo being the sacrifice to be offered.

"This machine is by far the most accurate detection of erosion we have ever had, whether the so-called false chalice is a strange [blight] or, as Merlin surmises, some mysterious spirit that, whatever form it takes, will certainly have some effect on your brain. ”

"It's like the wind, we can't see it, but we can hear it, we can feel it......" Lorenzo said.

"Pretty much, so the first step in the experiment is to test your brain for any obvious abnormalities, and if so, whether or not the anomalies are false chalices. ”

After all the preparations, Abigail stepped off the high platform, and as she left the venue, Merlin's voice was heard over the radio.

"How does it feel now, Lorenzo. ”

"It's okay. ”

"Well, we don't know what will happen next, after all, this thing hasn't been activated for a long time. Merlin said.

"So...... This can be a bit painful. ”

Merlin said and pulled down the lever, without warning, and in an instant a huge electric current flowed through the entire birdcage, brilliant sparks splashed on the steel structure, Lorenzo only felt a slight tingling, but then it was as if a heavy fist had been smashed on his head, as if an invisible executioner was torturing him, trying to pry open his skull to see what was hidden under the rotten flesh.

The momentary pain made Lorenzo a little distracted, and the lights above his head went on and off, and the colorful world began to lose its color, until finally Lorenzo's eyes were only gray black and white, but this black and white was also passing away, as if there was darkness gradually engulfing him.

"Lorenzo, there's a little button on the side of your left armrest that I need you to press every five seconds to prove to me that you're awake. ”

In a trance, Merlin's voice sounded again, and Lorenzo, who endured the severe pain, quickly found the button, and he wanted to scold, but at this moment this intense torture had occupied all his will, and he had no strength to roar loudly, Lorenzo could only hang his head, silently read the countdown, and press the button while staying awake.

Above the chair, a ridiculous indicator light turned on and off as Lorenzo pressed.

High-frequency noise echoed between the birdcages, and the steel plates began to slide off, revealing the roaring differential machine behind it, the gears snapping into each other to drive the machinery, the fans rumbling to drain the hot air, the electric current running through it, and finally converting the complex signal from Lorenzo's body into a graph and spitting it out of the printer.

Within the limits of technology, it all seems so ridiculous, bloated and ridiculously machine, yet imbued with the terrible will of man.

Forward, unscrupulously.

The paper is spit out from the machine, and the ink on it still has a warm touch, and under the limitations of the current technology, humans cannot do the real-time display of data, so the data is printed every five seconds, and the data on the paper changes rapidly, and then it is collected together by Blue Jadeite.

Everyone was busy, probably because they hadn't used it for too long, and there was a fire in the corner of the birdcage.

Everything went well until the geiger counter in the cage turned red, followed by a shrill wail, which disturbed the peace, and then more geiger counters turned red and let out a whimpering howl.

"Is it Lorenzo!"

Arthur asked hurriedly, and Merlin frowned a little puzzled.

"No...... Lorenzo remained awake. ”

The ridiculous light flickered and flickered, but Lorenzo remained awake, restrained by his bloodthirsty nature.

"And what's going on?" Abigail asked, "where is the source of the erosion?"

She was answered with a heavy roar, followed by a violent tremor of the entire aviary, emergency lights turned on, and Gawain's voice rang out from the radio in the midst of the chaos.

"This is the Knight Chief Gawain, we are stationed on the periphery of the severe area, and we have detected a large number of demons approaching here from the mild area......"

His words were covered by the sound of violent gunfire, endless torrential rain fell on the surface, thickening dark clouds obscured all light, the wails of demons overlapped with the howling wind, and the gunfire that continued to light up the hideous armor one after another in the darkness.

"The perimeter defense of the Black Mountain Hospital is normal, and the enemy is suspected of appearing from inside the Black Mountain Hospital!"

Percival's voice rang out, and the Armor of Original Sin was heading towards the area where the battle broke out, and she, who had been giggling, was rare this time becoming serious, looking through the gap in the armor at the gunfire under the iron curtain.

Countless demons struck from behind the rain curtain, their teeth and claws adding blood to the cold rain curtain, the dull thunder rolling behind the dark clouds, the white light raging through like a pack of out-of-control beasts.

"The Protestant Order?"

Abigail asked Arthur that the Purifiers had been on the lookout for a potential attack by the Protestant Order, but they hadn't expected it to be so large.

Arthur said slowly with a gloomy face.

"No, the Protestant Order doesn't have the ability to manipulate demons...... No...... Lawrence. ”

He grabbed the communicator and asked anxiously.

"Gawain examines the corpses of those demons and reports all the characteristics. ”

Unable to tell whether it was the sound of electricity or the wind, Gawain gritted his teeth and advanced, the bad weather greatly affecting the vision of the original sin armor, and the soldiers on the ground, who wore heavy equipment, armed the building into a fortress.

The soldiers could not come out to help Gawain, and with the protection of his armor, he could withstand the suffocating rain, while the soldiers could not, and fighting demons in such an environment would be death.

Swinging his heavy blade through a demon that leaped out from behind the vapor, Gawain dragged the still struggling half of the demon backwards.

Modern firepower has now formed a network of firepower, sealing off the area, and Percival on the outskirts is also rushing to rid them of these demons.

Feature...... Wait, the demon is wearing a hospital gown from the Black Mountain Hospital?"

Gawain lifted the struggling demon up, and by the light of the thunder, he could see the tattered hospital gown on the demon's body.

"Is that really the case......

Arthur slowly put down the communicator, and at present, the only ones who can make artificial demons are those who have "Apocalypse", plus the previous incident of Lorenzo's pursuit of inferior secret blood, Arthur only felt a dark cloud that had been prepared for a long time hit.

Merlin heard that too, he asked.

"Lawrence's remnants?"

"That's right, but how does he know what is happening now, or ...... We have their people within us?"

Arthur looked at Merlin, his flat tone revealing murderous intent.

All this seems too weird, if this is what the Protestant Order did, Arthur would not be surprised, but at this moment it seems that it is Lawrence's remnants who caused all this, Arthur thought that after Lawrence's death, it would be a heavy blow to him, but now it seems that the power behind Lawrence is much more than that.

But there was no time to deal with that at the moment, Arthur gave orders.

"Gawain, hold the line and kill all the demons. Percival leads the team directly above the research area and protects it. ”

"But the demon ......"

"This is an order, the demons give it to Gawain, you come to protect the research area!" Arthur roared.

"Arthur, Percival is behind the tide of demons, and she and Gawain can directly destroy the demons. Abigail didn't understand Arthur's instructions.

"And who's going to fight the witchers?" Arthur asked with red eyes.

"What...... The Witcher?"

"The Protestant Order. ”

Arthur picked up the loaded gun from under his coat and stared grimly.

"The Protestant Order will not give up Lorenzo easily, after losing the Book of Revelation, they must not give up the false chalice again, but this is the old Dunling, they can't confront us head-on, but now it's different.

This is a conspiracy, a cooperation, and although it is not clear for what purpose Lawrence's remnants are attacking, do you think the Protestant Order will let go of this opportunity in this case?"

Abigail froze, and as a scholar, she knew very little about these intrigues.

"The Protestant Order has been hesitating, but now the opportunity has come, he can not only reclaim the false Holy Grail, but even say ......"

Arthur realized the terrible truth as he said this, and his eyes moved from Abigail's body to Merlin's beside him, and his words trembled a little.

"It is even said that all the elites of the Purification Mechanism will be beheaded here. ”

......

All the foreshadowing that had been prepared for a long time broke out here by various coincidences.

Anthony looked up at the roaring and tumbling clouds, slowly let go of his hand, and let the letter written in secret blood drift away in the wind until it was completely torn apart by the tempest wind.

"So who sent this letter?"

Samur wrapped his raincoat tightly and shouted loudly to Anthony.

"I don't know, but what is certain is...... He didn't lie. ”

Fireworks ignite at the end of the rain curtain, and the demon's roar turns into a raging storm like an apocalyptic scene.

"We're going to attack? It's a suicide act, and even if it succeeds in killing Arthur and the others, it will cause the Evangelical Church to go to war with Invig. Samuel said.

"I know, so we just have to wait and see, and Moriarty will take care of the rest. Anthony said expressionlessly.

"What if he fails?"

"What do we have to do with failure?" Anthony asked rhetorically, repeating what he had said to Arthur and Lorenzo at that time.

"The Protestant Order does not have a witcher named James Moriarty, it was and still is. ”

Samuel suddenly felt a chill, and he looked at Anthony beside him, and suddenly felt that he was so strange, and it was as if he had finally officially met him.