Embers of Embers

Chapter 580 The Secret Keeper
"end of the world……"
Lorenzo stared at this silent monument, and the next moment he was running away.
Running wildly on the ice and rushing into this dense forest of steel, he was like a prisoner who had regained his freedom, his eyes moving happily through it, searching for potential hope.
Turning around, stepping back, and moving forward again, Lorenzo ran faster and faster, almost flying.
The footsteps echoed among them, hitting the monument, and then being swayed back, resonating with each other.
"Keeper of the Secret...Keeper of the Secret..."
He kept mumbling, his mind that suppressed pain was swallowed up by the ecstasy of hope at this moment.
Lorenzo didn't know how long he ran. Finally, he slowly stopped and stood blankly among the monuments. He raised his head and looked at the gradually dimming sky.
He has strange ideas.
The towering monuments were like spears piercing the sky, and Lorenzo fell among them, but he was just a corpse that was about to die.
He just stared blankly like this for who knows how long.
……
Dots of fireworks went up in the dense monument. Lorenzo and others sat around the bonfire, expressionless.
They had thought about the scenery at the end of the world, but they never imagined that it would be like this, with towering diamond-shaped spiers densely covered with long-forgotten names.
This is not a place of hope, but a cemetery, the cemetery of reincarnation.
"Still found nothing?"
Lorenzo heard the gusts of wind. High in the sky, the Black Angel slid among the monuments, dragging several deep scratches on the ground, and finally stopped not far from the bonfire.
"No, nothing."
Watson's voice sounded, and there was a vague sense of loss in the calmness.
After arriving at this monument, Lorenzo and the others began to search for the existence of the secret keepers. They ran like crazy and peered into every corner around them, but unfortunately, no matter how hard they tried, nothing could be found. not found.
There is nothing here, nothing but these silent monuments.
But Lorenzo didn't want to give up. With the speed of its movement, the Black Angel rose into the sky and looked down at the earth through the starlight, but found nothing.
Just like the previous discoveries, there are no buildings here except for these monuments. Lorenzo also tried to explore according to his previous ideas. His eyes rolled the fireworks and peeked at the world under the ice, but this ice The layers were so deep that Lorenzo could not see the base of the monument, and could only witness the gray metal melting into the darkness.
“How much more paint antimony do we have?”
Lorenzo thought for a moment, stood up slowly, and mobilized the secret blood in his body.
"What do you want to do?"
The epidemic doctor asked at this time. He could feel Lorenzo's anxiety. They were only one step away from the door of truth, but at this moment they were strangled here and could not move forward at all.
"Burn through the ice. As I said before, the ice here appeared later. Maybe the door is under this ice."
As Lorenzo spoke, he was going to mobilize Michael, the power, to melt a big hole in the ice.
"You're betting, Lorenzo, that you won't be able to evaporate such a large area of ​​ice, and you will die of exhaustion."
Watson replied calmly.
Not to mention the solid ice in the circular crater, the ice layer covered by the monument alone was extremely huge. Lorenzo burned vertically downwards, only burning out a pinhole-sized hole in it. This was a futile move.
Lorenzo did not respond. He lowered his head and stared at the ice that sealed the darkness in the depths. It was like a smooth mirror, reflecting the embarrassment and ridicule of several people.
"Maybe this place was really built after the war? Holmes."
The epidemic doctor looked around, stretched out his hand and touched the cold metal surface, feeling the densely packed words.
"These monuments are built right at the heart of that war in honor of the victims of that war."
"No, it won't. There must be something here. Otherwise, what's the point of the guards' protection and the antimeme?"
Lorenzo said anxiously that he was beginning to be afraid of failure. Once he failed, the previous sacrifices would become meaningless.
"A scam."
The epidemic doctor's eyes were lowered and he said a little sadly.
"How to kill those endless pursuits of truth? Just tell them where the truth is and set a trap."
This is a scam, a trap. These hard-working pursuers will eventually disappear here and die in front of the door of truth.
"What about Merlin? He came here and left alive. The same goes for the Victoria family. They got brand-new knowledge from here, as well as the builders of the country."
Lorenzo felt a headache. All the previous information revealed the existence of the secret keeper, but when they came here, there was nothing.
"But in fact, the real insiders back then are all dead, aren't they?"
Watson was analyzing at this moment.
"The Victoria family received assistance from the Keepers of Secrets, but those who knew about it back then are all dead, and even Victoria's descendants are haunted by the King's Curse.
Merlin?You also said that he was probably affected by the antimeme and could not remember the details of the voyage at all, but only remembered the guided aurora... Maybe this guy didn't get here at all. After all, Merlin didn't know what the end of the world was. That's what it's like, isn't it?
As for the nation-builders... under the influence of reincarnation and antimemetics, who can guarantee that the history they record is accurate?Even the Demon Hunting Order has gone through repeated shuffles in order to bury the secrets of the Watchers forever. "
Listening to Watson's story, Lorenzo took a deep breath.
This world is riddled with holes. History has been erased and rewritten. Under endless reincarnations, it has long lost its recognizable appearance.
"Then where does the Victoria family's knowledge come from?"
Lorenzo asked in a low voice, recalling what Queen Victoria had said to him and remembering the magnificent machinery he had seen underground.
"They must have gotten something here?"
Lorenzo said firmly that he had not actually come to the door of truth, but he was temporarily unable to knock on the door.
"If we keep looking, we can find the way."
Lorenzo stood up again, he still wanted to try, but just when he wanted to take action, he lost all motivation in his heart.
There is nothing here, only the dark and silent monuments are visible, and countless dead souls are watching all this indifferently.
Their existence has long been forgotten, standing quietly at the end of this world.
Lorenzo felt a twinge of pain in his heart. He gritted his teeth and stubbornly ignited the pure flame, burning the ice beneath him.
He couldn't fail, so many people died, if he failed here, Lorenzo couldn't accept it all.
"Holmes..."
The epidemic doctor wanted to say something else, but was severely interrupted by Lorenzo.
"I won't give up, the Keepers must be here!"
The dazzling fire burned, and the rising fireworks took away all the light. Lorenzo melted the ice easily like the scorching sun, and his figure slowly descended.
Watson watched Lorenzo's loss of control silently. He had not lost control like this for a long time, like a hysterical madman.
Lorenzo cannot tolerate the failure of this operation. Once it fails, the world will enter a new reincarnation, and everyone who knows the existence of all this will be wiped out again. Everyone Lorenzo is familiar with, his friends...
This is a bleak and hopeless future.
Now the opportunity to reverse all this is in his own hands. At this moment, Lorenzo will not give up no matter what. Even if he can't find any other way, he will stubbornly carry out it.
"Lorenzo, if this continues, all of us will be lost here... the supplies are almost exhausted."
A cold voice sounded among the Black Angels, and then the flesh and blood dragged the steel, opening the Black Angel's chest.
During the time Watson stayed at the Black Angel, he had completely controlled the original sin armor. The breastplate cracked, revealing a vague human form covered with scarlet flesh.
The human being as the carrier has completely integrated with the black angel. His body is very weak. In order to move forward in this environment, Watson had to "demonize" him in this way. Then the iron box was removed. It’s the last supply box.
"Most of the Florund potion has been consumed. Every minute we waste here will consume it in vain. Once it is all used up, we will all be lost in it."
Watson's voice was a little nervous. The ubiquitous antimemetic influence was the biggest factor limiting their actions.
"If we return now, we should save on using them. These potions are enough to support us in leaving the area of ​​antimemetic influence, but if we continue to consume them here, some of us will need to make sacrifices."
Watson said and looked at Floki. This guy had no intention of participating in these arguments. He kept scribbling on the parchment and didn't care about anything outside. Probably, all he had in his mind was It's over with these things.
Lorenzo was silent, the fireworks gradually extinguished, and soon he walked out of the melting pit with the remaining flames.
"No, no... there must be some oversight."
Lorenzo thought.
The atmosphere of the situation has become a little bit wrong, of course, the main reason is Lorenzo and the epidemic doctor.
The epidemic doctor came here without fear of death for the sake of the secret keeper and for the truth. But now all this has become a bit false. He will definitely not die here.
Now the epidemic doctor also has a reason to leave alive. If Lorenzo continues to be so stubborn, maybe a fight will begin between the two.
Watson remained silent. She seemed to be in a neutral position. No one knew what decision she would make at that time.
The doctor's eyes flashed back and forth between the faces of several people. He felt that he would have the upper hand. Although he didn't know Watson well, the doctor could feel that Watson would be on Lorenzo's side, and Watson would be on Lorenzo's side. This guy who has always been silent is so calm and rational. She will cooperate with her and drag Lorenzo away from here.
"I think, I know what's going on."
Lorenzo raised his head, his eyes losing their luster.
"nothing is forever."
Lorenzo looked at these dense monuments. Maybe there was something eternal, but after all, they were just cold metal one after another.
"You mean...the secret keepers are all dead?"
Watson had already thought of this outcome, she asked.
"Perhaps, what I have seen in His [gap], even the sublimated demon hunters... Even if they hold the power Gabriel, they will eventually become monsters who lost themselves one after another. "
Lorenzo recalled in his mind the faceless men one after another, kneeling on the edge of the Well of Sublimation for an unknown amount of time, stepping into eternity like sculptures.
"Whether the secret keepers are humans or monsters, under this iteration of reincarnation, it is difficult to avoid such a situation, isn't it?"
Lorenzo thought he had found the answer. He spoke very fast. The once glorious era had entered darkness. How long can these shelters last?
"The flesh and blood body will decay and age, and when you enter sublimation, you will lose yourself in a long time."
Then he stood there blankly.
"The secret keepers are all dead... This is the last time the Victoria family saw them...
Yes, it is precisely because they are all dead that Merlin returned without success, so we can't find anything..."
As several people watched, Lorenzo's momentum gradually declined. He staggered to the edge of the monument and sat down against it.
This time no one urged Lorenzo to make a decision. He needed some time to accept all this. In fact, in their eyes, Lorenzo was considered a crazy believer, and now his faith was shattered.
No matter what kind of monster they are and what kind of beliefs they have, they still have a mortal heart from beginning to end.
Just like smelting metal, no matter how purified it is, it is always difficult to remove human impurities.
"I want to try again."
Lorenzo staggered to his feet. He seemed to have aged a lot in an instant, and his eyes were full of exhaustion.
"Perhaps there are still secret keepers who survive. They exist to preserve knowledge, so they will definitely continue their existence by any means necessary. They must still be here."
"What are you going to do? Run around here? Shouting while running?"
The plague doctor couldn't help but ask. This trip indeed brought him a lot of knowledge, but if he couldn't find the secret keeper, all this would not be worth giving up his life and getting lost in it.
"No, I just need to spread the erosion."
While speaking, a blazing storm rolled up in Lorenzo's eyes.
"I want to search for the [gap] around here and the secret keeper's [gap]. As long as he is still alive, the [gap] will definitely exist."
Simple and fast, but the price is that Lorenzo has to fight against the ubiquitous antimeme, and probably because of being at the core, the antimeme is far more powerful here than at the edges.
Watson was a little frightened. She wanted to stop Lorenzo, but it was too late. When Lorenzo said this, he had already started to act.
With the current situation, Inverg is unable to organize another voyage. Lorenzo has also met the watchers, and he will inevitably be surrounded by them. In any case, this is the last chance to break the reincarnation. Otherwise, everyone related to it will die in the hunt.
His heart was beating violently, and his blood was boiling. The moment Lorenzo released the erosion, he was counterattacked by the antimeme. The cognitive world continued to collapse, but soon, the white storm swallowed everything.
Power Gabriel.
The invisible storm expands outwards, greedily searching for possible life and plundering their [gaps].
Lorenzo couldn't hold on for long. He only had a few seconds. The power spread crazily, but before it could spread outside the iron forest, the storm collapsed.
Blood overflowed from the corners of his eyes, as if invisible claws were tearing his body apart. Multiple wounds appeared on the surface of his body. Violence and impact lingered in his mind. Lorenzo staggered and fell to the side. His breath was sluggish, as if he was about to die.
Before he fell completely, Lorenzo pulled out the nail sword and inserted it into the ice, supporting himself tightly. His eyes were scarlet and he stared at the direction where the people came from.
Lorenzo failed. The power of the antimeme here was too strong and his erosion could not spread too far, but Lorenzo still felt it.
In the process of the erosion spreading, he felt that he was hindered by something. The size of that thing was approaching the size of a human, and it was still moving slowly here.
"Something is coming."
Lorenzo whispered.
There is joy and fear in my heart.
At the end of the world, apart from them, the only life that can exist is the secret keeper. But if the other party is not the secret keeper, who is it?
Footsteps sounded in the darkness, and the man appeared in everyone's sight. He was wearing silver armor and holding a sharp spear.
The pioneer just walked to the side of the crowd, and sat down by the campfire holding a spear.
The helmet moved a few times, as if observing a few people, and then he said.
"What do you want to ask? Truth seekers."
(End of this chapter)