An invisible storm rolled up in the sealed workshop, countless ghosts and wails forged the windless, frantic tornado, and the mind and body, the metal baffles and the armor trembled violently.

Geiger ...... The index continues to rise!"

Percival's voice resounded in the channel, intermittent due to the effects of erosion, and soon disappeared completely into the channel, and all that reverberated in it was the piercing sound of electricity, which continued to surge, like the sound of a howling wind.

"Be vigilant!"

The voice rang out again, but not from the channel, and with the channel disrupted, Percival turned on the Armor of Original Sin megaphone, causing his voice to echo through the workshop.

Based on his previous experience in fighting demons, in order to maintain communication, the purifier uses a simple and crude tool such as a megaphone.

As she spoke, she felt as if the air in her lungs had been drained, and Percival felt extremely depressed, and under the cover of erosion, she began to experience breathless symptoms, followed by a surge of emotions, countless complex emotions stirring her heart.

Little by little, darkness crept into my heart, until my invisible palms stretched out from the deep mire, like vigorous seaweeds, scratching at everything around me that could be touched.

Suddenly, Percival had an eerie sensation, realizing that the Armor of Original Sin she was now wielding was actually a cage that was closing little by little, trying to swallow itself into darkness......

The harmonious green of the indicator light turned a bloody red, the alarm sounded in the armor, and then emergency measures were triggered, and Florent's potion was injected into Percival's body according to the pre-buried infusion tube, and her spirit was in a trance, and finally the indicator light changed back to harmonious green.

She had almost lost control for a moment, and Percival knew why, in the seemingly never-ending storm, she had fallen in the hideous armor as she did now, looking at the steel that ran through her body, and the blood that kept pouring out.

"Percival, are you alright?"

A voice sounded from the other side, and the sword dancer approached the lancer, and the shrike asked.

"I'm fine, watch out below, Lorenzo is starting to erode William. ”

Percival said briefly, as the huge mounted gun she wielded finished reloading, pulling the trigger and ready to fire.

Erosion swept up the storm, and Lorenzo was the heart of the storm, the eye of the storm.

In the critical breakthrough state, his erosion will break free from the restraints of his body and expand outward, and in the same way, once in this state, Lorenzo tends to demonize.

Under the black coat, a slight bulge could be seen squirming, Lorenzo's exposed skin became tough, strong muscles continued to proliferate, filling his body, and the fireworks in his eyes became extremely blazing, and finally turned into a pure white that could not be looked at directly.

Lorenzo could smell that the air was filled with all the emotions of all, fear, anxiety, sadness, guilt, low self-esteem...... There's also a little bit of urine.

Some...... Not quite right.

Lorenzo looked down and saw William clinging to the back of his chair, his heart pounding, his face flushed, and a pale yellow liquid dripping under his legs. He was incontinent.

Ah......h

"It's frustrating. ”

Lorenzo muttered to himself, and the next moment he reached out and gently pressed his finger on William's forehead, eroding at close range, pushing the pollution of his brain, and after many years, pushing the cursed everything again.

William's expression froze, as if he had been injected with a tranquilizer, he no longer trembled or struggled, his eyes moved with difficulty, and he looked at Lorenzo with difficulty, even if the blazing white fireworks were so bright, he did not take his eyes away, let the tears welled up in his eyes.

"Welcome back, William. ”

Lorenzo withdrew his hand and whispered.

......

"The awakening is successful, William has already woken up, but judging by the intensity of Lorenzo's erosion, we don't have much time!"

Merlin saw this from a distance, and Lorenzo held up the sign to signal that the awakening was successful, and under Merlin's orders, the medical staff injected Florent's potion one after another, and then rushed towards William in the center.

"Here...... Where is it?"

William's voice stumbled, and after his madness he saw himself as an alchemist, and his way of alchemy was to gnaw on all sorts of strange things, so in the process of gnawing, he hurt his throat several times.

"Perpetual Pump Core Experimental Area, Workshop. ”

Lorenzo replied that he was trying to calm the Secret Blood, that William had awakened, and that he needed to lower the intensity of the erosion, to prolong his soberness as long as possible, and to give others the ability to lean in.

The erosion is indiscriminate, and while William is bearing it, the rest of the workshop is also bearing the horrific erosion.

"Perpetual Pump...... Workshop ......"

William slowly raised his head and looked at the magnificent steel temple, he remembered this, but it was very different from everything he remembered, the dome was still a few poor large searchlights, and the iron walls around it were nowhere near as fine as they are now, let alone the large lifts.

"I ...... I remember I was doing an experiment, and then the accident happened...... I was locked in a cage, a dark, twisted cage that was the same place where I was experimenting, but it was like there was no end, and no matter which door I pushed open, there was just another duplicate lab behind it......

I've been lost for too long. ”

William was like a frightened child, but his face was so old and weather-beaten.

"It should be your [gap], and it looks like that experiment was really important to you, so much so that it became a scenario within your [gap]. ”

Lorenzo said that the most important scenery for each person will become what they see in the gap, and after the erosion of madness, the poor will is sealed in the gap, and there is no end to the cycle of reincarnation.

"What's that?"

It was a new word to William, and although his head still ached, and his mind was still shaking under the influence of the erosion, he was still interested in it.

William was a scholar, and in order to know the secret he thought, he even dared to disobey the queen's order and start the experiment privately.

"I'd love to talk to you about that, too...... But that's not what we're supposed to talk about today, you have limited time. ”

Lorenzo shook his head, and with the subsidence of the secret blood, the mutations in his body were also recovering little by little, all of which William saw in his eyes, and his gaze brought a little horror.

"Let me talk to him, Lorenzo. ”

Hurried footsteps sounded, and Merlin led the paramedics in stride.

"Check William, inject him with Florente's potion, prolong his sobriety as long as possible, and you take care of the record, and every word is to be recorded in detail. ”

Merlin commanded the others, and in order to prevent the information from being destroyed "accidentally", this time he summoned several people to take charge of the records, and he and Lorenzo themselves were among the recorders.

"Hello, William, I don't think you have any impression of me, but it doesn't matter. ”

Merlin said and held out his hand, but then he realized that William was tied and he couldn't reach out at all, Merlin didn't mean to untie it for him, and paused awkwardly, he withdrew his hand and said to it.

"I'm the current Chief Technician of Perpetual Motion Pumps, Merlin. ”

"I'm the ...... Current ......"

William paused as he spoke, he looked at Merlin a little blankly, and then asked.

"What happened?"

"Your experiment went unexpectedly, causing a high-intensity erosion of contamination within the perpetual motion pump, many people became demons, all information was destroyed, and you became a madman due to the effects of erosion. ”

There wasn't much time left for Merlin to investigate the truth, he didn't care about William's emotions in the slightest, and he didn't have to.

"It's the year 932 in the English calendar. ”

Merlin added.

William was stunned, he couldn't believe what he was hearing, he looked at Merlin, then at Lorenzo, his eyes swept back and forth, looking around, it was all so familiar, but so strange.

The paramedics noticed William's reaction, and they had prepared Florent's potion and a series of contingency measures, which they had considered long before the experiment began, and under the influence of erosion, William knew if he would have a nervous breakdown after so many years of insaneness.

William didn't speak, he finally lowered his head, no one could see his expression clearly, he was silent.

"Your experimental accident is what we call the 'Red News Incident', and today, after so many years, we have found a way to save people from the effects of erosion, so you are sober now, we need your experimental report, what happened in that experiment?"

Merlin continued, time was of the essence.

"Is it a good idea to free the insane from the effects of erosion...... You're saying I'm running out of time, so this sobriety is only temporary?"

William was talking to Lorenzo, but instead of waiting for his reply, he was talking to himself.

"Ah...... It's been 932 years in the Invig calendar, and it's been so long. ”

"He doesn't seem to be in good spirits and is ready to inject him with Florent's potions. ”

Merlin said with a blank face.

The paramedics were about to step forward, but William suddenly raised his head, tears streaming down his face and sadness.

In fact, death is not terrible, what is terrible for William is the awakening after death, his life was stolen by fate for countless years, he missed too many things.

"No, I just need to adjust my mentality, after all, this kind of thing is really a bit trance-like. ”

William's voice also calmed, and he became expressionless, although it was covered with tears and embarrassed.

"I'm the previous Chief Technician of Perpetual Motion Pumps, William. At that time, I was conducting research on the erosion of demons, and it can be said that we have never faced real 'demons', and we are facing humans who have been eroded into demons one after another, which means that the long history of human beings fighting against demons is actually just a civil war between us humans. ”

William repeated his inner thoughts, whether he was a member of the purification agency, or a position like the chief of technology, he knew very well what he was doing for, and after a brief period of pain, he was back to what he used to be, a scholar, a transmitter of knowledge.

There was no need for more words, William knew very well that his sobriety was an invaluable opportunity to pass on the knowledge he had given everything he had to pursue.

"It dawned on me that maybe ...... Demons are not demons, the real demons are 'erosion', the power of this pollution, the so-called demons are just the carrier of its transmission of pollution, and even the so-called demons are just by-products of the process of erosion and transmission.

It's like a plague, all it needs is to keep spreading, and death is just a by-product of its spread, which is the real 'demon', our real enemy. ”

"What kind of research did you do at the time. ”

Merlin then asked, both of him and Lorenzo frowning, a novel angle and a terrible conjecture.

"Before I talk about my research, I need to say some of the prerequisites that led to my experiment. ”

William took a deep breath, the erosion still affecting his brain, the knowledge he remembered shattered under the influence, and the illogic of his words.

The paramedics injected him with a Florente potion, which made William feel much better, and he sat up straight with unspeakable majesty and stubbornness.

"You mean, according to the ability of demons to spread, humans are powerless to resist at all, right? But we still exist in this world, and we can fight against them, so in order to correct these, there must be some abnormal inhibition to control the spread of demons?"

Merlin continued.

"I've read your research and the diary that partially survived, and your thoughts coincide with one of the cardinals of the Evangelical Church. ”

William was stunned for a moment, then nodded vigorously.

"That's right, sure enough, at the end of the road, we will all walk on the same road. ”

"My research was changed to track down this mysterious power, and if we could control it, we might be able to eradicate the demon completely, but I was still naïve at the time, and I didn't even think about why the inhibition force did this. ”

William said as he became in pain again.

"Why?"

"Yes, it has the ability to control the demons and correct the world, so why not eradicate the demons completely? Or is it unable to kill all the demons, all it can do is control and maintain this fragile balance between humans and demons. ”

William's voice quickened.

"I realized, at the end of the experiment, that we were like a herd of lambs enclosed in a fence, and that restraining force was the shepherds, who protected us from the hazards outside the fence, but there were still some weirdness coming in through the cracks in the fence......

That's the demon. ”

The words seemed to have a magical power, everyone felt it, and as William spoke, the cold to the bone spread little by little to everyone's body, but everyone knew very well that this was underground, and the entire facility of the Perpetual Pump was attached to the main branch of the Furnace Pillar, which had always been hot, and there had never been a so-called cold.

"We are a restless herd of lambs, we are trying to find out the truth, but this is bound to go over the fence, we may die outside the fence, but more likely to bring in the hungry wolves outside and kill the other lambs, if you were a shepherd, what would you do?"

William looked at Merlin, staring at the empty gaze.

"Kill the hungry wolf that slipped in...... And those restless lambs. ”

William smiled, and he shook his head helplessly.

"That's my experiment...... The truth of the Red News incident is here. ”

The palpitating power swelled again, startling everyone, and when he turned his head, he saw that Lorenzo was fully armed, and the dense iron armor covered the vital points of his body, and he drew his nail sword and Winchester, his eyes like torches, vigilant all around.

Lorenzo felt it, and he clearly felt the surge of power as William, the restless lamb, spoke of the cursed knowledge that shouldn't exist.

"Merlin, you'd better speed up. ”

Lorenzo looked around uneasily, weapon in hand.

"The shepherds are coming. ”