The skull seemed to be filled with lead, and the heaviness and intense pain echoed in his mind, as if a sharp knife was cutting the nerve repeatedly.

Joey sat on a stretcher, he wanted to cover his head to relieve the pain, but now he was wearing a straitjacket and couldn't move.

The effect of the potion was still there, his consciousness was drowsy, and it seemed that he would fall asleep in the next second, but at the same time, with the injection of Florent's potion, his body was reviving, and his heart was beating violently, faster and faster, like an overloaded machine, maybe it would explode in the next second.

This is the side effect of the potion, which has a great burden on the human body, and this is still after deterioration, and the Rangers faced worse side effects than this at the beginning.

"Wake up!"

Someone slapped Joey's face hard, and the vision gradually became clear, it was a kestrel.

"How...... Done?"

"There's no time left to explain this nonsense to you, anyway, hurry up!"

Kestrel said as she untied her harness and strapped the Geiger counter to his chest, accompanied by a ticking sound.

"You've got erosion on you...... Forget it, there's no need to worry about that, now each of us is polluted by erosion. ”

"What happened?"

Joey is in a terrible state now, and he has to endure the burden of his body in a drowsy, but because of the potion, his consciousness is constantly awakening.

There is some heat all over his body, this is a normal reaction, the medicine is awakening his body's desire to live, this feeling is really not good, it seems that he will die suddenly in the next second.

"A lot of things...... But you just need to know now that we need you, or we won't arrest you. ”

The kestrel carried Joey on his shoulders, and if he dragged it any longer, the situation would only get worse, and the survivors would have to muster all their strength and fight their way to the lifting zone under the siege of the demons.

"Although according to the rules and regulations, you should be suspended from work to recuperate, but there will always be some emergencies in this kind of thing of fighting demons, right? ”

The kestrel carried Joey forward, and Joey's body needed a while to regain consciousness, but there wasn't that much time for him to recover now.

"However, you have to work hard, after all, only if you survive can you get overtime pay, otherwise, you will die or die. ”

I don't know if it's to comfort myself, or if he's just a bad person, Kestrel continued.

"Ah, no, you can't die, this hellish place is the Black Mountain Hospital, and the place not far from here is the cemetery!"

Finally, he threw Joey on the ground, and gathered a group of people here, who seemed to be the only combat force at present, including Eve and Ovis, the two children as if they had just been reprimanded, both with the same expressionless faces and gloomy expressions.

"Wait here for me, you're not conscious yet, you just need to listen to my instructions in a moment, understand?" Kestrel said.

"You?" Joey was half-kneeling with one hand over his head and one hand on the ground, "Leave my life to you? ”

In Joey's view, everyone has different values, a soldier has the value of a soldier, a commander has the value of a commander, he is not afraid of death, but he is afraid that he will not be able to die properly, especially when following the kestrels.

Kestrel didn't have time to pay attention to him this time, although he was talking bad words, his expression was more serious than anyone else's.

Swift has been wounded, Joey's state is unstable, Arthur is the commander, and he shouldn't be on the front line, so if you rule it out, only Kestrel Robin and Blue Jade can effectively fight at this moment, as well as those ordinary soldiers.

In other words, the Kestrel, a knight who is resistant to the erosion of demons, will be the vanguard, and only if they can keep their sanity in that harsh situation, and only in this way can they open a way to the lifting area.

Those who were still capable of fighting were gathered around the makeshift defensive line, and the guns continued to fire, and the soldiers were running out of ammunition, leaving them with little time.

"Actually, the plan is not that complicated, kill all those demons, reach the lifting area, and return to the surface. ”

Arthur stood in front of the line and said to the rest of the group.

"Who's going to drive that armor?" asked Swift, none of the high-ranking knights present had experience piloting the original sin armor.

"That's not something you should be thinking about. ”

Arthur replied that he did not want to tell them about it, otherwise in their minds the commander was superior to the knights, and they were the ones who should have driven the armor.

The Blue Emerald who was in the know also remained silent, just like Arthur said, the resistance of the upper knight is difficult to resist the erosion of a generation of armor, only Arthur can do all this.

"What about the patients?" asked Joey.

"We can't take them away, and the erosion pressure in the research area will intensify, and they'll just become ......monsters like demons," Arthur said.

"Summarily execute all patients?" Blue Jade suggested.

It was a correct and even humane choice, these patients had no hope of escape, and instead of facing the fear of demons, it was better to kill them here.

But for such a seemingly "correct" reason, the psychological burden of the killing still greatly affects everyone, everyone is facing depression and faint fear, and the dam of reason is crumbling at the moment.

"No, as the robin said, release them and use them to attract demons. ”

Arthur gave the command coldly, and under this command, everyone's heart fluctuated slightly, some fell into deeper depression, and others breathed a sigh of relief.

They didn't have to kill the sick, they were destined to die, but at least not by their own hands, and they comforted themselves and persevered in the midst of despair.

"Is that the case again......"

A faint voice rang out, and someone sighed in a low voice.

It's a paradoxical issue, the purification mechanism and the demons are fighting to maintain human sanity, and now they have to sacrifice those people in order to maintain sanity.

The train roared, and Arthur knew very well that the blue jade was a very sharp weapon, but only he was the one who could hold the weapon, they only carried out orders, and Arthur took care of the rest.

No one said anything, everyone silently followed Arthur's instructions and began to act, Joey, who had just recovered from his recovery, still didn't know what was going on, but judging from the solemn atmosphere, it seemed that everything had come to a critical moment.

Giving up on the sick ......

Joey's head ached, and his gaze lingered on Kestrel before drifting back.

A few minutes earlier, he had been one of the patients, lying on a stretcher and falling asleep, if it weren't for the kestrels, he might have been one of the abandoned, and of course, Arthur didn't want to give up any possible strength and called himself up again.

No one knew what was going on, and there was no time to confirm this, and the others were a little shocked to see Joey wake up, but before they could say anything, Blue Jade threw a thermite rifle at Joey, which was still stained with blood, and looked like it had just been removed from the corpse of some soldier.

There was no need for any words of justification, and in this grim situation, everyone acquiesced to Joey's return.

"Eve is the first human to be congenitally strengthened by the mother's womb after the Ranger program, so it can be said that she is a natural Ranger ......," Arthur said.

"Sounds like the offspring of two witchers...... Can something like a witcher be fertile?"

Kestrel couldn't help but talk badly, Arthur didn't pay attention to this guy who kept talking badly, although Kestrel said it very easily, but with what everyone knew about him, this guy was a bit like Lorenzo, the more scared he was, the more he talked about this guy in order to comfort himself, and now it seems that Kestrel is about to be suppressed and crazy.

"The queen has decided to restart the Ranger program, and continue to study this trait of Eve, she must live, maybe the age of knights in the future will come to an end, and the Ranger will replace us and continue to fight against demons. ”

Arthur said in a deep voice, and then his gaze fell on Ovis.

And he ...... He is related to the royal family, and his main protection target is Eve and Ovis, and he prioritizes escorting them both away. ”

The others nodded, and then went into action.

The upper knights opened the way ahead, and the important target was protected in the middle, because of Ovis's mobility problems, he was carried by the kestrel, the boy was like a delicate doll, he didn't say anything, but his eyes kept staring at the front, and the kestrel didn't know what he was looking at.

Joey took one last look at the safe house before leaving, and the patients staggered out, like ignorant children, who had no idea what was going on.

Higg should have been there as well...... Joey remembers the last image he saw, before the doctor gave him a tranquilizer, he saw Higg in the same hospital gown, and his body was already in a state of alienation......

Shaking his head vigorously, Joey gritted his teeth to keep himself from thinking about the strange things that would only interfere with the next action.

Yes, I should be like a weapon, and the weapon has no so-called emotions at all, only in this way can I do cruel things that ordinary people cannot do without scruples.

Just like Lorenzo, just like the witchers, perhaps the original concept of the Demon Hunter Order was not to control the witchers, in the era before the steam engine, the era of armor and blades, perhaps in that extremely difficult and dark era, the only way for the witchers to fight.

Abandon everything to become a monster and become a weapon.

The gunshots rang out, and the roar shattered Joey's thoughts, and without the slightest pause, the team began to sprint, the demons galloping towards the end of the corridor, the dense thermite bombs temporarily forcing them back, and the team continued to move forward without stopping.

They couldn't be dragged down, and once they were dragged they couldn't reach the lifting zone before they ran out of ammunition, and the sounds were twisted together in chaos.

The action was very smooth, according to the calculation, as long as the long corridor in front of them was crossed, the lifting area was reached, and everyone was a little happy, thinking that they would be strongly attacked by demons, but they didn't expect it to be so smooth, so smooth that people felt a little uneasy.

Although he was carried on his back, the violent bump also made Ovis feel painful, and his gaze was a little dull, even a little humiliated.

He hated it, the free soul was trapped in this cowardly body by this inexplicable curse, and Ovis needed the help of others no matter what he did, like a dead thing that could breathe, or a pet who had been given the name of honor.

It was a terrible feeling, terrible, but it was good that Ovis was able to pilot the Armor of Original Sin, and he could re-experience the feeling of freedom on top of that evil creation, and then he was no longer a creature who had to rely on others, but Lancelot, a nightmare for demons.

He is Lancelot, the mighty Lancelot, the youngest knight to purge the trap......

Not anymore.

It was a delicate dream, but it was shattered, and he could no longer drive the Original Sin Armor, and he would spend the rest of his life in a luxurious large stroller, like the rest of the royal family, carefully cared for and humiliated.

Countless thoughts rushed through his mind, and Ovis had been thinking about them since the beginning of that desperate situation.

Ovis's gaze became terrifying, for him, this was a seemingly "selfish" thought, he didn't want to give the last of his royal family, he wanted to die here, die here as a person, instead of getting out alive and becoming some poor guinea pig, continuing to be carefully cared for.

So when he was in the safe house just now, he was still quite happy, he was going to die, but not in a wheelchair, he would die with honor as a member of the purification agency, which was so beautiful, but this dream was also coming to an end, his surname was Victoria, he carried the royal charm, he was a guinea pig, he had to live.

He clenched his fists, his nails digging into the flesh, and the blood flowed uncontrollably.

"This shouldn't be my end, it shouldn't be ......"

The whispering was drowned out by the roaring gunshots, and the kestrel did not notice Ovis's anomaly, but judging from the current tense atmosphere, he did not have the energy to pay attention to Ovis.

Throwing out the folding knife, the kestrel slashed hard, killing a fallen demon completely, the blood had soaked his clothes, as if it had been poured by heavy rain, he was drenched, but the heat rose on the viscous clothes.

It's quite strange, some people want to die, and some people desperately want to live.

I don't know if it was erosion or killing the red eye, under the extreme fear, the kestrel was full of motivation at the moment, and the gate of the lifting area was in front of it, as long as the door was opened, the escape plan would be half successful.

Yes, in fact, there is still a good chance of survival, all the conjectures just now are based on the worst-case scenario, maybe the demons on the surface have been killed by Gawain? Maybe the lifting area behind the gate is empty, and there are no demons?

In the midst of his rage, the kestrel thought as optimistically as possible, and then the door opened, and the icy wind swept up thousands of rains.

Everyone stood still, and at some point the dome above the lifting zone had been opened, and the torrential rain had poured down the hole, accumulating a shallow layer on the ground, and the fire was burning on the large lifting platform, and the deafening sound of gunfire could be heard.

Before it could think much about it, the demon roared, and a body of original sin armor fell from the edge of the dome onto a large lifting platform, and several demons climbed its body, its claws repeatedly cutting through the outer armor, which was covered with sharp scratches, until a demon slipped through the fuel canister it carried.

A violent explosion sounded, the entire armor was slapped on the ground, and the demons were also torn apart by the fire that burned on their bodies, and after a short pause, the armor slowly stood up, the outer armor was damaged, and the wiring and pipes were completely exposed.

"Night Stalker......

Arthur recognized the livery on the armor, it was the third generation of armor that the Night Stalker was driving, but why was he here?

The sound of the sound again attracted everyone's attention, and on top of the large lifting platform, a fallen armor stood up with difficulty, and it could be seen that its state was not much stronger than that of another third-generation armor, but the flesh on it was rapidly healing, pressing the broken steel back together.

The engine roared, and with the constant release of steam, the first-generation armored corpse stood up again with its great sword, not knowing how many demons it had killed, or if it had suffered its own wounds, and the rain mixed with blood fell down the edge of the steel.

"Arthur, you're still alive, ah...... I don't know if it's lucky or unlucky. ”

There was a voice, she was a very cheerful person, but now she also looked tired, at such a close distance, the sound was free from the interference of erosion.

"Percival. ”

Arthur's eyes constricted, and the situation was worse than expected, in fact, Percival had already returned to the defense, but they were engaged on the ground with some enemy, some enemy who had crossed the Gawain line, the one who had infiltrated the research area.

As things stand, it was clear that Percival had lost, and they were losing in the face of that mysterious enemy.

"What to do! Arthur!"

Blue Jade yelled at Arthur, calling him back from his stunned stupor.

Dead, everybody's dead, everybody's bound by the despair in front of them, everybody's overwhelmed by this fear.

Say something, Arthur, even if it's to lie to everyone, continue to deceive everyone, depict the only hope in despair, as long as there is a new order to be given, everyone will not be swallowed by despair, and everyone can continue to fight for that illusory hope.

He deceived himself until he died.

"No, we haven't lost yet, someone must live, someone must evacuate safely, continue the battle plan, and kill all these demons!"

Arthur roared, and in a terrifying roar, a dark figure walked to the edge of the dome, which was like a cage, and he looked down at the slaves in the cage.

"Looks like Lorenzo Medici isn't here......"

The doctor's gaze swept back and forth in the crowd, and finally said with some disappointment.

Above the surface, demons tore at the shattered armor, and countless corpses were scattered in the stagnant water, both demon and human, and blood poured out of the warm flesh and blood, which converged into red streams and poured into the dome.