Embers of Embers

Chapter 611 Fake Attack
The work continues, there is no time for rest.
Rhodes' life was very leisurely before. Apart from the research on Jiuxia, he had almost nothing to do. And because he was at the forefront of researchers, the research process was not strenuous and he had a large amount of funds available.
At that time, Rhodes felt that life was very boring. No matter how much he studied, it was all false and he could not see this real and mysterious country.
But now Rhodes has seen these mysterious Jiuxia people with his own eyes, and there are two of them right next to him, within reach. But after the ecstasy, he is tired. The secrets he has learned in the past few days are echoing in his mind, and he suddenly feels It’s not bad to return to that mediocre scholar.
"What are you thinking?"
Sa Liangxi came to him at some point and asked abruptly.
"what!"
Her words startled Rhodes and brought him out of his trance.
Rhodes' reaction was very interesting, like a frightened rabbit, he almost jumped up on the spot. Sarangxi couldn't help laughing. Looking at this weird girl, Rhodes calmed down and sighed. Take a breath.
Because of Sa Liang Xi's poor Western language, Rhodes and Sa Liang Xi had a close relationship. In addition, the girl always used herself as a tour guide, and they were inseparable for a while.
Rhodes thus understood these Jiuxia people to some extent. In fact, except for the beautiful fantasies in his heart, Jiuxia people are no different from Westerners. Everyone is very ordinary, just a mortal.
"Rhode, you...scholars, are you always distracted like this? Are you thinking about some great knowledge?" Sa Liangxi asked again and again.
"Why do you think so?"
Rhodes pretended to be calm. He was not good at dealing with such active and enthusiastic people, even if he knew them well.
"Because the scholars in Jiuxia are like this. Everyone is in a daze, reading books all day long."
Sa Liangxi only thought they were boring.
Rhodes thought for a while, among a group of mutes like Shao Liangye and Zuo Tang, there was also a group of dull scholars, and this lively Sa Liangxi.
She is like a catfish that dives into a school of sardines, muddying the water and making everyone uneasy.
When Rhodes thought of such a scene, he suddenly wanted to laugh, while Sa Liangxi looked puzzled. He couldn't figure out why he smiled again after being in a daze. As expected, these scholars were somewhat neurotic.
After looking around, they were still in the lower city. In the corner of Shrike's underground casino, Lorenzo and others fell to the side and took a short rest.
As people from Jiuxia, Saoliangxi and Shao Liangye are very conspicuous in this old Dunling. For this reason, they rely on the iron snake to transport them. The iron snake that transports them has not arrived yet, so they have to wait for a while.
Lorenzo is as familiar with this place as his own home. If he hadn't wanted to keep it secret, he would have taken these Jiuxia guests to play a few games, experience the customs and customs of old Dunling, and let them lose points. There is no text left.
"So...where is this? And this!"
Sa Liangxi didn't know where he took out a map of Old Dunling. Several locations had been marked on it, and they were all famous tourist attractions.
Rhodes' expression was stiff. He would answer whatever Sarangxi asked.
She was also full of curiosity about Old Dunling. If it weren't for her responsibilities, Rhodes guessed that she would have started wandering around these attractions.
"She has always wanted to come here, otherwise she wouldn't have asked for mercy and let us take her with us."
Shao Liangye looked at all this and said slightly indifferently.
"Whether it's you or us, we are both full of curiosity about each other, aren't we?" Lorenzo responded casually and then asked.
"By the way, are you interested in telling us what Jiuxia is like?"
Lorenzo's eyes were full of expectations and his words were casual. In fact, he was the same as Rhodes, and everyone was the same, full of curiosity about that mysterious country.
"I do not know."
Shao Liangye shook his head and gave Lorenzo an extremely unexpected answer.
"You do not know?"
"That's right, to be precise, I don't have many 'accurate' memories about Jiuxia," Shao Liangye said seriously, "Our enemies are all-pervasive. In order to avoid any potential risks, we will be inversely modeled when we leave the Forgotten Great Wall. Due to the baptism, part of the memory about Jiu Xia was forgotten, making it hazy."
"You have completely forgotten your homeland?"
Lorenzo almost screamed, he never thought that the anonymous people would do this.
"It's not completely forgotten, but full of misleading, and some key parts have been downplayed... In fact, I still remember many scenes in Jiuxia." Shao Liangye explained.
"Is that the same for her?" Lorenzo pointed at the Sera River.
"This is true for every anonymous person, but like I said, forgetting is not complete. The antimeme does not completely wash away our memory, but covers it and buries the trigger of the catalyst. When we return to the Great Wall of Forgotten When the time comes, it will be triggered and the buried memory will be returned.”
"So when you return to Jiuxia, you will be able to remember everything clearly again."
"That's right," Shao Liangye didn't care, "but remember, it doesn't matter to Anonymous, we are covered with different antimemes one after another, and different catalyst triggers are buried."
"The effective memory year is only five years, and this number of years will continue to decrease with the spread of antimemes."
Shao Liangye said some sad words, but he seemed to have been accustomed to these words for a long time, and his emotions did not fluctuate much.
"The past is meaningless to anonymous people. All we have and need is the present that promotes the future."
The conversation between the two fell into silence. Lorenzo didn't know what to say for a while. He wanted to compare Anonymous with the Witcher, but he felt that the price paid by the two was not comparable.
Lorenzo was really asked to make a choice, and he didn't know which one to choose.
One is the curse of turning into a monster, and the other is the blank space of forgetting everything...
"It's not a good thing."
Lorenzo sighed, but then he heard something, a subtle sound that was gradually increasing in frequency.
The noise continued to intensify until Lorenzo stood up in shock and looked at the others.
"Did you... hear that?"
Lorenzo's pupils turned blazing white, and everyone who noticed this realized the seriousness of the matter.
The Geiger counter is screaming.
……
"The future is destined to be dark, and death is the only relief."
Someone in the corner murmured such words, and the gangsters passing by were a little curious. These words sounded like words, but they would not work in the cruel lower city.
Rather than harsh words, punching your fist is most effective when others are talking nonsense.
He walked around the corner to see who was talking nonsense. It would be best to beat that guy again and keep him away from his gang's headquarters. They did not welcome such a talkative guy.
Turning the corner, the gangster looked into the corner, and the fishy smell hit his face.
The narrow alley was filled with thick blood energy. Through the silhouette of the sunlight, one could see a slightly twisted body moving towards this place. The ground was covered in blood, as if a fight had just occurred here.
The gangsters instinctively clenched their weapons. Fighting and killing were so common in the lower city. He thought it was someone else's attack on their gang, but soon he found the source of the sound.
It was a figure lying in the garbage. The homeless man's face was stained with blood. Looking down, the gangster felt that his heart was wrapped in a severe cold.
The homeless man's body seemed to have been eaten by a monster. The entire lower body had completely disappeared, leaving only dirty blood and minced meat on the ground. Under the huge wound, he could see the slowly squirming internal organs.
The gangster had never seen such a cruel scene, but this time it was different from the past. It seemed that something strange was brewing here, which made him retching uncontrollably.
"It's so pitiful..."
The homeless man laughed obsessively and looked sideways at the gangster.
He is about to die, but his expression is not painful, and there is a weird smile on it, as if "death" is some kind of happy relief.
The strange feeling became more and more intense, and countless negative emotions were growing in the darkness in the gangster's heart. At the same time, more footsteps sounded. At the end of the alley, more twisted and distorted figures appeared, and they moved towards here. Move forward step by step.
"Strange...monster!"
The gangster screamed and turned around to run away. His courage, which was not strong enough, was completely shattered when he witnessed these cruelties.
He was running on the muddy ground, but suddenly he didn't know where to escape. As he hesitated, severe pain came from his abdomen.
A bloody and ferocious spike penetrated his abdomen. The gangster tried to grasp the spike, but the next moment a huge force came from it, slashing to one side along the wound on his abdomen, tearing most of his body apart. Come.
In the corner of his vision, the gangster saw groups of monsters, following the scent of living people, wandering in the lower city.
At the end of his death, he saw a plague called erosion, which broke out among the crowd, causing one mortal after another to degenerate into demons. Amidst the terrifying bloodshed, some shepherds held high banners and commanded the demons.
……
At the first moment of the erosion outbreak, the large Geiger counters placed in the lower city area issued alarms one after another, and the information was transmitted to the Shattered Dome. After a second confirmation, the cleansing mechanism was fully activated and containment control began.
Countless armed iron snakes rushed towards the lower city along the railway tracks. The soldiers blocked the road and completely blocked the area. Among the evacuated people, tall original sin armors could be seen coming against the flow of people.
All nearby rioters received orders from the Broken Dome, and they began to move towards the lower city. At the same time, the iron whale crossed the sky, dropping supplies towards the nodes of the road, which was the only way for the rioters. .
Just like it had been prepared countless times, the reaction speed of the purification agency was beyond imagination. The riot suppressor stopped briefly near the supplies and opened the wooden box. Among them were additional weapons one after another, strengthening the firepower of the riot suppressor. .
In just a few seconds, the riot suppressors turned into killing machines, striding towards the location where the erosion broke out.
A massive amount of information was disseminated, ordering the chess pieces one after another on the chessboard, driving them to fight.
"This is a feint attack. He wants to test how much strength we have."
In the darkness, Watson watched all this sideways. As the real operator of the chess game, she was not surprised that something like this happened. It could be said that everything was under control.
"The purge agencies are out in force." Galahad responded.
"The purging agency has to come out in full force. This is a powerful enemy that is difficult to resist," Watson said. "The initiative is in Roger's hands. He can choose to feint to test the power of the purging agency. After reaching the purification mechanism, turn this feint attack into a full attack."
"Why do you think the person coming is Roger?"
Galahad didn't understand that they only observed the demon and never found the enemy.
"Edron is the original watchman. He won't do things like turning others into demons. If he came to attack, he would bring the watchmen down from the sky, not like this."
Although he had not been in contact with Edron for a long time, Watson always felt that he knew Edron very well. His behavior was very familiar, and he was a pure demon hunter.
"What's next?"
"According to the original plan, we hide in the dark and leave these to the guys in the open."
Watson paused, then urged.
"Roger's temptation is faster than I thought. We need to speed up the pace. The prototype of 'Death Cell' has been built, and our 'Deus Ex Machina' must also keep up."
Galahad made no answer, and the conversation fell into silence and darkness.
The war in the outside world has already started during the conversation, and the raging high-intensity erosion has washed away most of the lower city. With the spread of demons, it is still increasing. This is a surprise attack on the purification agency. It is unimaginable that such a force will detonate in the city center. What does it look like.
But fortunately, with the rapid deployment of troops, the spread of demons was controlled in the lower city. They were like disordered beasts, hitting the buildings back and forth.
In Shrike's casino, the guests have been frightened out of their wits by the monsters outside the door. It stands to reason that the people who hang out here are the most ruthless people, but in the face of this evil that transcends reason, everyone is no more than a child.
Fortunately, this seemingly fragile abandoned fortress was much stronger than expected. The demons were blocked from entering and could not be killed for the time being.
"Dear guests, please don't panic! As long as everyone is still here, the casino will ensure your personal safety!"
At this fatal moment, a cheerful voice sounded from the depths of the casino, and a guy who looked like a waiter came out and comforted the guests... except that he was not wearing a uniform.
There were more people following behind him, two of them had foreign faces, and it was difficult to tell where they came from in the panic.
Some people preserved some sanity under the erosion. They remembered the legend of this casino, which was the property of Shrike, the territory of the real controller of the lower city. They suddenly had hope for these strange waiters, and even said that they were afraid of this strange waiter. The ruler of darkness, Shrike, is favorably favored.
Then, in the almost desperate eyes of the guests, Lorenzo pushed open the closed door, exposing the crowd to the sight of the demon.
"Have you ever seen how a witcher fights?"
Lorenzo pulled out his staff and sword and asked Shao Liangye beside him.
"No."
Shao Liangye glanced at those blazing white eyes, smiled slightly, and responded.
"Have you seen how Anonymous fights?"
"nor."
The two smiled at each other and rushed out of the casino.
(End of this chapter)