Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Tool Man

Lorenzo, I've been thinking about it...... In what form I survive, and what kind of existence is the gap. ”

Medanzo looked at the bleak starry sky, and then walked towards it.

"After thinking about it for a long time, I suddenly realized that my personal mind is not clear, because the common sense of 'human' is interfering with me, just like you can't fully understand animals. ”

It is difficult for human beings to make absolutely rational judgments about the unknown, and common sense as human beings interferes with them.

Lorenzo heard what Medanzo meant, and he looked at Watson, the unsettling woman.

"So you consulted the demons?"

"Yes, at least for now, she's the only one who can answer me, so I talk to ...... Watson reached a tentative agreement, of course, it is not ruled out that she will jump back at a critical moment. ”

Medanzo turned around, and the terrifying rift was right behind him.

"I realize that I may be living in a state of spiritual consciousness, intersecting with yours...... Our consciousness intersects, and this gap is the space that connects us. ”

Three different wills exist together in the same gap.

Lorenzo shook his head, he said.

"I don't understand. ”

Actually, this is very understandable, to give you an example. ”

Medanzo said as he stepped out of the way, allowing Lorenzo to observe the starry sky that he had blocked, and in the dim darkness there was a bright star near the rift.

"That's another [gap], the space that connects people's wills on a spiritual level, and you should be familiar with it. ”

"Familiar? ”

Lorenzo looked at the strange starry sky, the darkness seemed to have magical power, attracting Lorenzo's thoughts, but the instinctive sense of crisis told him that once he fell, it could be endless darkness.

"You're still in the wrong Lorenzo, and the steel seal that the Evangelical Church has left in your mind has not yet been removed. ”

Medanzo said with some sadness.

When you were born with a thought, the invisible cage that made you believe in it, even if Lorenzo left the Evangelical Church, even if he no longer believed in any gods, but in his subconscious, Lorenzo still avoided them.

Just like someone says that ice is blazing and you will be burned when you touch it, you may question it, but when it exists in your life like an iron law, you will instead think about this "abnormality" as "normal", and you will not even think about its right and wrong, after all, that thing is as universal as the wind.

Lorenzo still had the Church in his mind, and he should have questioned everything that was mysterious, not that it was the reality of the correct existence, and that he should have turned everything incomprehensible into a theorem that could be peeped into.

"Haven't you ever wondered where the voice in your head comes from?"

"The ...... in my head Voice?"

Lorenzo seemed to realize something, which echoed in his head), from the voice of the mysterious machine.

It's like you have a strange system inside you that will give you help and instructions at certain times, but you never think about what it is, you never think about why it does it, you just succumb to the so-called "system" and carry out one strange command after another.

Like a lowly and poor instrumental man, all your actions, all the conflicts of events and the glory you have achieved are all due to that strange system.

Even if you achieve supreme power, you are only a puppet of the system, without which you are nothing.

"Yes, you can hear the sound from the Silver Bolt, and Watson's voice, but don't you think about the similarities between them? Or is the Church so perfectly hidden that you've been misled?"

There are so many secrets in the evangelical church that almost no one really knows them all.

"Maybe a different name would make sense. ”

Medanzo smirked as if he were going to play a prank, and he was looking forward to Lorenzo's reaction, because he wasn't shocked to learn about it like he had never felt before.

"You can call that star, that [gap] ...... Stasis St. ”

The words were like thunder, all anger and vigilance were emptied at this moment, and the whole person seemed to be stunned in place.

Medanzo looked at Lorenzo's shocked eyes, and he was very satisfied.

"Yes, that's what you understand, the voice that keeps coming back to our heads, we thought it was coming from the Silver-Bound Bolt. ”

Each witcher obeys the voice that comes from his head, and it gives orders from the church.

"The Nexus Web system, built on the basis of the Stagnant Saint, is a mysterious myth to disguise this hellish thing, but if the inference is correct, it is essentially a large [gap] that connects every witcher. ”

"A world where you can connect with spirits. ”

"That's why you can see Watson hear Watson and others can't, because you are connected to this gap, Watson's gap, and that's why you were able to hear commands from the church in the silver bolt. ”

"The invisible gap connects you and me as a bond. ”

So the strange voice replied) in this empty and cold ice field world.

【Reconnecting to the Stagnant ......】

[Connection failed.] 】

【Reconnect ......】

The stars in the dim sky called to Lorenzo, longing for the return of the children.

Lorenzo was completely frozen in place, and Watson's shelter continued, preventing Lorenzo from regaining access to the Stagnant Saint.

"We used to be confused about this and couldn't understand it because we were just 'connected', but now we have ...... Watson's help, although she is not very credible, but at least we become the same 'managers'. ”

Medanzo made an offer to Lorenzo.

"Interested in going back to 'home'?"

......

The sound of the alarm echoed inside the perpetual pump, sharp and piercing, like a woman's scream.

The passage to the workshop opened again, but this time stepped in by heavily armed security forces, carrying experimental weapons, most of which had been scrapped due to the high cost of mass production, but which were the most basic security weapons in this case.

The security soldiers wore heavy isolation suits, carried huge steam backpacks on their backs, and carried bulky musket weapons in their hands, with a steam pipe connected to the triple gun in their hands, the giant triple musket was driven by steam power, and the electric spear that could interfere with the operation of the machinery was fired from the firecracker, because of the explosive power of high-pressure gas, it was far faster than gunpowder, and could be suppressed by armor piercing in an instant.

They waited for them, their hearts beating with the floodgates that were gradually opening.

But there were no terrible demons behind the door, and there was no out-of-control armor, and the weaponist stood quietly in the center of the steel altar, and the clumps of blood stopped after spreading to a certain extent, like a garden of blood, and the dark red vines crawled all over the steel armor.

The armor rose and fell slightly, agitated with the violent heartbeat.

"The security team is in place. ”

A voice sounded in the communication channel, this was not the first time the security team had dealt with the loss of armor, but this was the first time they had encountered such a quiet armor, unlike the out-of-control armor with strong attacks, it was terrifyingly quiet.

The security team didn't dare to enter further, they were essentially the second line of defense, the first line of defense was inside the workshop, and there was heavy fire on top of the dome, but no one could see it in the bright light.

"How's it going?"

A new voice sounded in the channel, and Merlin's voice appeared on the high platform of the workshop, and he used his power to forcibly open the passage from the top and enter the workshop.

"He didn't lose control, but he didn't react either. ”

Tesla looked at the high platform at the other end of the well wall, Merlin appeared there, in fact, Merlin had violated many rules at the moment, such as forcibly entering the lockdown area, but this incident was different from all previous events, this time there was a witcher in the out-of-control armor.

Merlin felt that he had to be on the scene and observe it all in person.

"What's the situation, explain?"

He asked in the channel.

"Mr. Holmes drove the armor and stopped where it was, the demonic blood growing abnormally, the erosion deepening and spreading...... He seemed to be unconscious, not moving, but also not controlled by the demons, just staying where he was. ”

Tesla was as calm as possible, this was a situation he had never encountered, generally after the driver was unconscious, the armor would be driven by the unconscious demon blood, extremely aggressive, but now it was too quiet, quiet and terrifying.

"What about fuel consumption?"

"The weapons division is currently running at the lowest energy consumption, we are not filling up the fuel, it will run out quickly. ”

The original sin armor's steam engine is one of the main outputs, and it also requires fuel consumption, but this is only an experiment, so for the weapons master Tesla only injected a small amount of fuel.

"Security team, move right now and drag our Mr. Holmes out of his armor. ”

After a moment of silence, Merlin gave the order.

"Don't you wait to run out of fuel?"

Tesla didn't understand that when the fuel ran out and the steam engine was shut down, the output of the original sin armor would be greatly reduced, and the operation would undoubtedly be much safer at that time.

"The longer the postponement, the more the erosion will continue to deepen, and there is still secret blood in his body...... Lorenzo was the biggest uncontrollable factor. ”

Mysterious witchers, they are the children of demons.

As Merlin's words soon began, the security team stepped on a somewhat lukewarm neutralizing solution and walked towards the center of the steel altar.

As the most dangerous original sin armor, it was designed to be ready for loss of control, such as an emergency opening valve that can be activated from the outside of the armor, protected by heavy armor to avoid accidental touch, and hidden in location.

Countless eyes crossed the muzzle of the gun and focused on the silent weaponist, the clump of blood like a crazy vine, they carefully cut through the blood, and then a large smear of blood poured out, but even then the armor did not react until they pulled down the hidden valve, and the blazing steam poured out of the gap.

The armor on his back bounced violently, and with a little white smoke rising, Lorenzo, who was already unconscious, appeared in everyone's field of vision.

The blood had spread to the armor, and most of his body was already entangled with blood, and he didn't react, and the guards cut some of the blood with a knife, and the slender nerve electrodes pulled out of his body with the blood that took the point.

Lorenzo was dragged out directly, everything was so thrilling, but after that, it was difficult to be afraid.

The first case in the original sin armor test log.

"What's wrong with him?"

After confirming that the original sin armor was completely closed, the crisis was temporarily lifted, and the lifting platform on the wall of the well dived, and Tesla and Merlin rushed to the center of the steel altar together.

Lorenzo appeared to be in a deep coma, lying on the ground unresponsive, several experimental firebolts pointed at his skull, firing enough to turn him into mud.

"Nothing happened. ”

The researchers removed the probe from his brain, and they examined Lorenzo immediately, but all the feedback was strange.

"What's the lack of any reaction?"

Tesla couldn't help but ask, every driver who came out of the armor, even if he remained awake, the values after their examination were ridiculously bad, like a patient who was about to die, but there was nothing here in Lorenzo.

"Nothing out of the ordinary...... He...... It was as if he was asleep. ”

The man said.

"It's like...... It's like the soul isn't here anymore. ”

He didn't know why he said that, but he would explain it all in terms of "soul" when it was a place that advocated scientific reason.

"Okay, I see, put him in...... Temporarily contained in the same way as the demons, of course, I didn't mean to let you directly put him in a tight iron prison and tie him to iron, we still have some human rights!"

Merlin said to the security guards who were eager to kill Lorenzo on the spot.

It's like a ridiculous farce, which unfolds quickly and ends quickly.

Tesla looked at his boss with some suspicion, and he thought about it and asked.

"You know his state, don't you?"

"Tesla, you're a genius, but there's something you know that you don't know right now. ”

Merlin knew he couldn't hide it, especially in the face of this rare genius.

"Let's slow down the project for the time being, and don't start until he wakes up. ”

"So what do I do?"

Tesla said with some dissatisfaction that the project ended at the beginning, which was maddening.

"Continuing your current project, didn't you say you're about to get results?"

"What about you?"

Tesla asked.

In fact, few people have noticed that technology is slowly changing in this perpetual motion pump, if the scholars led by Tesla represent modern technology, then Merlin is the alchemy that has almost disappeared, once this mysterious technology made the purification mechanism survive the most difficult period, but now it is gradually disappearing here.

"I'm going to Arthur, there's something to talk about. ”

Merlin didn't give Tesla a chance to ask, and turned away directly, and the atmosphere in the entire workshop was very delicate, except for the two Joey and Kestrel who were glad that they didn't have to be guinea pigs for the time being, they were in tears and hugged each other excitedly.

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