Ember Gun

   Chapter 81 Speed ​​of 80 kilometers per hour

  Old Dunling, broken dome.

Here is the secret place. There is only one elevator connected to the outside world. All the rest of the communication with the outside world relies on a system called pneumatic pipeline logistics transmission. The pipelines responsible for transportation are all over the broken dome, and files are stored under pneumatic power. The capsule is moving fast, this kind of thing will always have a sense of mystery, even the person who stores the capsule does not know where the file will go.

  This is the place where all the files finally gather. In the Hundred Years War, Inverweg lost a lot of books. For this reason, in the facilities of the new era, no matter which department is very concerned about the issue of file survival, even the clean-up agency is the same.

Countless pipes fell from the dome, like falling star trails, and finally poured into a pool filled with insulating liquid under your feet. Lights lit up at the bottom of the pool, reflecting the copper pillars one after another, as if it were an ancient myth. The sacrificial ceremony exudes magnificent glow.

  Grey-robed man stared at the copper pillars, seeing a little fascinatingly, even if the elevator was opened again, it did not attract his attention.

   "What are you looking at?"

  Arthur walked out of the elevator and said to his old friend.

   "Those differential engines."

  Grey-robed man pointed to the differential engines that were silent in the insulating liquid. They were combined together as if they were erected copper pillars, and rubber-wrapped cables were interspersed in them, like seaweed surging on the bottom of the sea.

  This is also a product of science and technology. With the advent of the steam age, it can increase the speed of multiplication and improve the accuracy of logarithm tables, transform the complex calculations of function tables into difference operations, and replace square operations with simple additions.

  Here is just a small part. The largest differential cluster is currently being built on the perpetual pump to provide convenience for those crazy scientists.

   "Actually I sometimes think about one thing, whether we are on a crooked road."

   was silent for a while, the gray-robed man said again.

   "Just like steam technology, we have reached a bottleneck, no matter how we improve, we can't break through that limit...Have we taken the wrong route from the beginning?"

  He meditated, staring at the copper pillars of the rituals. They are the embodiment of technology, but if civilization is extinct, will there be new life, worshiping it like a god?

  "Even the difference engine is the same. Our limit to a thing is to create a bigger one, like a pillar of a furnace, like this Babbage array."

  "This is just an escape, not a technological breakthrough. If we continue like this, we are like bloated people with a choked throat."

  Silence. On this question, Arthur has only silence. The man in front of him is the heart of science and technology of Inervig. If he is confused about this, only that person can give him the answer.

  "Didn't you go to the end of the world? Didn't the Secret Keeper give you the answer?"

   asked Arthur. In this respect, the gray-robed man made the decision. He didn't even know where the end of the world was. That thing was a secret in the gray-robed man's mind.

   "No, he didn't even see me. I almost froze to death on the ice sheet."

  The gray-robed man sighed a little, and then looked at Arthur.

"Compared to these, the actions of Ende Town are the most important issue, so why would you agree with this? Let a demon hunter from the demon hunter group be responsible, you should know what the secret blood is, that demon hunter is A walking pollution source will be extremely threatening once he loses control."

   "Yes, but I think he can be trusted."

  Arthur said lightly.

  "But you haven't even met him, Arthur, can it be said that you are also guided by some so-called intuition now? That kind of thing can be deceived."

  The gray-robed man was very dissatisfied with Arthur's behavior.

"I know, so I have enough reasons. Do you still remember the intelligence we accumulated in the Seven Hills for six years? Our intelligence department has finally deciphered the key points. To be honest, all this is more complicated than we thought. ."

   "How complicated is it?"

"a lot of."

   Arthur’s voice seemed to be steel-like. He looked at the water in the pool that was magnificently reflected by the lights.

"In fact, we had a mistake in judgment at the beginning. For example, the place of Qiqiu has been banned for six years. You should know how small the place is. If you just urinate, maybe there is a cardinal buried underneath. One year is enough time for them to go through the entire city."

   Arthur sighed.

   "In six years, even if you check one by one, you can find out everyone's identity."

  The gray-robed man looked awe-inspiring, and he realized what was wrong.

   "Our eyeliner was instigated?"

   "Almost, according to their account, they were exposed in the second year, but the Gospel Church did not kill them. Only recently did they release them back, and they came back with intelligence."

  This is where Arthur is most confused, he said.

  "This is the information that the Evangelical Church deliberately gave us. They want us to know this. We have cut off contact with the Evangelical Church for too long. This is a sign of their attempts to reconnect with each other."

"court?"

  The gray-robed man smiled disdainfully, "I don't think those magic sticks are so kind."

"But this is true. We even said that we just received a telegram from the place of seven hills dozens of minutes ago. In the telegram, the new pope expressed his intention to reestablish diplomatic relations and share knowledge about demons. If a pope is an iron-fisted ruler, the pope is like a sly fox. I don't know his purpose at all."

Hearing the message that was enough to shake the Western world, the man in gray nodded slightly, but then he seemed to think of something, as if a primordial monster jumped out of the huge shadow of the sea, with astonishment and fear, he looked at Ya Se, the cold eyes were full of affirmation.

   "Wait! You mean the new pope?"

  Already expecting the panic of the old friend, Arthur repeated it again, with a long and heavy voice.

   "Yes, the 36th Pope of the Evangelical Church."

   "Senny Lottel."

  The old era is gone, and the new era is roaring.

  ……

"It's really beautiful, isn't it? My father always said that I was lucky. I was born at the transition of two eras. The solidified old class will be swept into the garbage dump, and everything new is waiting for young people to plunder. Steam technology, the East, wealth, there are so many worthy things in the new era."

  Above the lonely lighthouse, the Kestrel facing the hunting sea breeze, overlooking the twisted and ferocious earth, telling it like a life.

   "You gave me the feeling like a depressed poet who was about to jump off the building and was already dead."

  Eve spoke rudely, but Kestrel turned his head with a sad expression on his face and looked at Eve.

   "Compared with what happened next, I think it's easier to jump off the building and die."

   "Oh, instead of dying, you might as well help. If you want to die, I don’t want to!"

   Eve spoke angrily.

  The two are on the top of the lighthouse. The bright light exudes a harmonious white. Perhaps the weird green light also exists because of the dream-builder, and now it is gradually dissipating with the death of the dream-builder.

But this is not the end of the battle, but the beginning of the decisive battle. After killing the Dreambuilder, Eve woke up the Kestrel. When the two were entangled in the next move, the gate at the lower end of the lighthouse was knocked open by the demons. Like a dense colony of ants.

Fortunately, the huge body of the captain, the dream builder, fell and blocked a large part of it, which slowed the influx of the demons a bit, and then the two evacuated everything on the upper floor with all their strength, removing all the things they could lose. After throwing it down, he stubbornly withstood the upper door, and then came to the top of the lighthouse.

  Here you can directly see the monsters rushing from the end of the horizon. The number is uncountable. With the two currently armed, the only thing that can be done is to choose how to die.

   "Wait Eve, this lamp burns oil!"

Talking about the Kestrel suddenly discovered the abnormality of this lighthouse. Nowadays, with the development of science and technology, most lighthouses have been connected to electricity, but this lighthouse still relies on old-fashioned kerosene to burn, and the complex lens system is sunk into mercury. Scan the darkness with a mechanical twist.

  Hearing that Eve’s eyes lit up suddenly, as long as there was kerosene, they could support it for a while. That was the knowledge Lorenzo had told her that demons were afraid of flames.

   "What are you going to do? Break it?"

Eve hasn’t seen the spare kerosene for so long here. It must be the last kerosene in the wick, but once removed, Eve may be able to withstand the attacks of the demons for a period of time with kerosene, but the pressure of darkness will inevitably be futile. increase.

   "It may be the only way, otherwise they will climb up sooner or later."

  Kestrel said and looked towards the bottom of the tower. The demons piled up a shallow layer and tried to climb up the lighthouse. However, inside the lighthouse, due to the spiral staircase, they could hardly open the heavy door, so don't worry about it for the time being.

   "It's up to you, madam."

  At this time, Kestrel showed that **** gentleman's behavior, maybe people will become a little abnormal when they are in desperate situation.

  Eve was silent, she could see the pressure of the Kestrel, his face was pale, and his willpower was undergoing a huge test.

   "Is there no turning point?"

  Eve still doesn't want to die, there are many problems she hasn't figured out that she doesn't want to die here.

   "I'm afraid it's gone."

  Kestrel handed over his communicator, the indicator light above was still red, and the two of them were on an isolated island of darkness, except for the two of them, there were only the demons below who were waiting for the meal.

The Kestrel slowly raised the gun in his hand and pointed the muzzle at the fragile lens system. As long as the wick was smashed, the kerosene would overflow and burn the **** monsters to death. Of course, the place is so narrow and maybe I haven't waited. If the demon is burned to death, he and Eve will die in the fire first.

  "Are you ready?"

  Kestrel asked, this is indeed a difficult decision, there is only a thin line between them and death.

  Eve did not reply for a while, she looked at the communicator in her hand, and then closed her eyes. Maybe this is her end, and she is buried here.

"let's start."

   She said, but just then the red light turned green, and then a familiar voice came from the noisy electric current.

"anyone there?"

  Eve opened her eyes sharply and looked at the communicator in her hand.

"Hey!"

  The voice sounded again, this is not a **** illusion.

  Eve was startled for a moment, and then she screamed.

  "Kestrel, don't shoot!"

  Kestrel did not shoot, just a second before he was about to shoot, he heard the familiar and **** sound in the communicator, and he stared at the communicator in the girl's arms.

   "Is it Eve? Where are you?"

  Lorenzo's voice sounded, kindly like a mother who wakes up and calls you to have breakfast.

  "It's me! We are on the lighthouse, and the orientation is...yes..."

  Eve said anxiously, but then she realized that she could not report any direction at all, but then the voice sounded in the communicator again.

   "The lighthouse? I saw you!"

  I saw...how could it be...

Eve thought so, but then she understood that this dazzling light attracted not only the predators in the dark, but also those who were fighting with them. She did not dare to think about the fate of her breaking the light. This night It's so dark, it can't point out the direction without it.

   "Where are you!" Eve yelled, but suddenly she said again, "Don't come near! There are all monsters here, you can't handle it!"

  The monsters were as numerous as a sea of ​​sand. They came just to die, but the voice sounded again, calm and calm.

  "Twelve o'clock direction."

"what?"

  Eve didn't understand, the voice repeated again.

  "Twelve o'clock direction!"

   This time she raised her head and looked at the pitch black at the end of her sight. With the countdown of the man in the communicator, the roar of steam gradually became clear.

"three!"

"two!"

"one!"

  The countdown sounded, so Eve saw it.

Accompanied by the melodious whistle, the headlights on the front of the car pierced the darkness. It was made of steel. The heavy carriage broke off the track and moved on the ground, bringing dazzling sparks, and the whole train rushed like a snake. Run over the monsters that fell on it one after another.

  "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Glorious train. I am the conductor of this train, Mr. Lorenzo Holmes."

  The demon hunter stood on the crazily swaying front of the car, slowly spreading his hands to embrace the whole world, blood gushing from the huge wound in the palm of his hand, and sprinkled on the train with the wind.

  "Move! Cheers! Praise!"

  Some narcissistic and crazy voices came from the communicator, he said.

  "This is a great rescue from Mr. Lorenzo Holmes!"

   "At a speed of 80 kilometers per hour!"

  This is the meaning of madness that pierces despair, and has made countless people's hearts and guts torn apart.

   Endless white flames erupted from the sprinkled blood, and the blazingly burning train slashed fiercely like a fire sword guarding the kingdom of heaven.

  (End of this chapter)