Embers of Embers

Chapter 65 Dilemma
The sealed carriage was filled with sticky flesh, which extended into a web-like structure, like the nest of some kind of giant spider.
Shrike's body was trapped in the corner, and he curled up in it like a baby. Layers of blood nets wrapped around his body, and even tiny flesh and blood protruded into his nose and mouth.
He also fell into the endless dream, but suddenly a beam of light lit up in the dark carriage, and then the man waved a folding knife to split open the layers of blood. Looking at the sleeping shrike, he seemed to have no idea. Thinking that this guy would have such an innocent side, she chuckled mockingly. She picked up the injection and hit him hard on the neck. After a few minutes of the drug taking effect, Shrike recovered from the dream. Wake up slowly.
"Slept well."
Lan Jade looked at the shrike using the electric light on his iron helmet. The light in the dark carriage was too bright, making it difficult for the shrike to look directly at this guy.
"What is this?"
"According to the anomaly regulations of the purification agency, it can be preliminarily judged that we have just experienced a large-scale mental abnormality."
Lan Jade recalled these words in the Purification Agency. As an organization that relies on technology to fight against demons, the Purification Agency pursues the goal of making mystery no longer mysterious, and then using the known mystery.
Therefore, it has a set of professional vocabulary for many monster phenomena. Compared with the Demon Hunting Order, which has everything to do with religious gods, the Purification Agency is terrifyingly rational.
It can be said that this is a group of fanatical materialists.
"Is it a dream?"
Recalling what was almost real just now, Shrike felt a bit afraid, if there was no blue emerald, maybe he really wouldn't be able to wake up.
"Yes, you also know that my willpower is very obvious in the evaluation, so I should wake up first. In order to make you hurry up, I injected you with the Florund potion, which will make you Temporarily increased resistance to erosion."
Lan Jade was so calm that she even threw a gun to Shrike, and then the electric light scanned the surroundings, seeing that damn flesh and blood everywhere.
"We should have entered Ende Town by now."
"End Town?"
Shrike felt a little incredible. According to the map, the train had just reached the edge.
"Obviously this town is different from the town we understand. It is more accurate to call it a mentally abnormal area. These should be the products of demons. Maybe when we open the car door, we will face hundreds of demons."
Blue Jade actually told a joke at this terrible moment, but the Shrike didn't think it was funny at all.
Picking up the communicator, there was only the noisy sound of electricity, and the entire channel was silent, as if it was isolated from the world.
"What a bad start."
After monitoring for a few minutes, the communicator still looked like a dead sea. Shrike sat slumped aside and smiled helplessly.
Before seeing the so-called sacred coffin, the delaying troops suffered heavy losses. After feeling a little depressed, Shrike regained his energy, looked at the weapons rack in the carriage, and began to arm himself.
"Do we need to die now?"
Lan Jade looked at Shrike's posture, with his body full of weapons, as if he was fighting one against a hundred.
"Almost, but you can stay here."
As Shrike spoke, he loaded the bullet into the weapon. This is a special warhead from the Mechanical Institute. It is expensive to make, but it is effective against demons. It stands to reason that everyone can only be allocated a little of this thing, but now in this large area Under the mental abnormality, the Shrike can only be used.
"Lan Jade, you don't need to die with me. You stay here and try to wake up others. If you gather the strength, you can try to save me."
Shrike said calmly, it seemed that this person was thinking very broadly.
"Why? Do you want to create a sacrificial look for yourself?"
Lan Jade didn't feel anything, she wasn't even moved by the Shrike, instead she saw through the Shrike like a caring big sister.
"It's not that, firstly, someone really needs to stay here to wake up others, and secondly, you are a person with wishes. Haven't you always hoped for a good life from the beginning to the end?"
Looking at the light, the electric light above Lan Jade's head was really dazzling.
"This is an opportunity. As long as you survive this mission, Arthur might approve your resignation. You can find a bad guy and live a rich life."
"Is this an account of your funeral?"
The atmosphere was made very sad by Shrike, extremely sad, like a funeral, and the dead man was about to enter his own grave, so he said his final farewell.
"It's about the same. Actually, I don't want to die, but I can't help it. I am the commander. Some things have to be done, so let me do it."
"Well, if you say you want to die for me, I might be moved."
Under the strong light, Lan Jade showed a sly smile, but Shrike couldn't see it because of the strong light.
"what?"
Shrike's face turned red at these words, and the atmosphere of generous death that he had managed to create suddenly disappeared.
"Don't worry, it's just a joke. Let's wait until we leave here to decide whether we will die or not."
Lan Jade looked to the other side, and the light illuminated the car door.
"Compared to dying, I feel that we don't even have a chance to escape."
Clumps of flesh and blood entangled the machinery, and the car door was tightly closed. No matter how hard Lan Jade tried to push, or even used a folding knife to pry the car door, it remained tightly closed and could not be shaken.
"what happened?"
It's over, it's over, I finally put on a heroic look in front of the lady, but it was shattered because the car door couldn't be opened.
"It's this damn flesh and blood."
The sharp folding knife cut into the flesh, but after cutting even half an inch, it was impossible to continue. Not only was it a problem with its strength, but the strange flesh and blood was still healing. Although it was slow, it was enough to hinder them.
This is also the reason why weapons against demons must be plated with holy silver. Only in this way can the demon's vitality be barely limited.
"How about a thermite rifle?"
Shrike said as he took a thermite rifle from the weapons rack and ignited the pilot, igniting a flame in the darkness.
"Are you trying to weld the car door shut?"
Lan Jade suddenly felt that Shrike was mentally abnormal.
The thermite rifle can indeed melt car doors, but when it cools they will be welded together, and burning requires a lot of oxygen. The two people may be suffocated before the door can melt open.
"Hell! Does that mean I can't even die?"
Shrike hit the car door angrily, and used all his strength to pry out a tiny gap in the door with a folding knife, but there was still flesh and blood behind the gap, which was blocked from the outside.
In order to cope with this mission, the carriages were reinforced and armed, which could effectively resist the attack of demons. Now this carriage has become the tomb of the two people.
"We have to find a way to get out, there is not much time left for us."
Lan Jade sat aside and tried to adjust her breathing. The entire Glory stalled for unknown reasons, and the amount of oxygen available for breathing in the airtight compartment was gradually decreasing.
It's really bad for a teacher.
Shrike looked back and forth at the weapons in the carriage. In order to fight against the monsters, the Mechanical Institute had provided them with weapons of mass destruction. If used here, they would be killed by the broken shrapnel before the monsters could attack.
"The pressure is building."
Lan Jade looked at the roof of the car and suddenly said this, then her eyes fell on Shrike, her eyes were stern.
"We are still in the midst of that huge source of pollution. If we continue to delay it like this, sooner or later we will be completely eroded."
source of pollution.
Shrike remembered this. At the end of his consciousness, Lorenzo said to himself in the communicator that the Radiance was stepping into a huge pollution source, to such an extent that the Geiger counter collapsed the moment it sensed it.
Thinking about it, Shrike reached out and touched the Geiger counter hanging on his shoulder strap. Sure enough, just as Lorenzo said, the pointer had begun to be chaotic and swaying randomly.
"It looks like there's only one last way to go."
Shrike looked at the darkness at the other end of the carriage. This carriage came from the Burhans Military Factory. These layers of weapons were not to protect the people in the carriage, but to protect the sealed other end of the carriage, where Hidden weapons from that industrial area, the trump card of the mission.
As a commander, Shrike knew exactly what that thing was, and he also knew the cost of using it.
"Come on Blue Jade, it looks like that's all we can do."
As the Shrike spoke, he pushed away the sundries on the ground, revealing a small door behind it, which was sealed with heavy locks, as if some demon was imprisoned.
(End of this chapter)