Ember’s Gun

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The rainy season in Old Turin is over. This gloomy city has rarely ushered in a clear sky of ten thousand li, with a little bit of dew on the green field, reflecting the Glory of the sky.

Eve stopped briefly and looked at this incredible piece of beauty.

She has hardly left Old Turin through her childhood, and the sky seems to have always been gray, with pattering light rain falling from time to time.

Although the location of Phoenix Manor is located in the suburbs of Old Turin, after so many years of expansion, most of the fringe area of ​​Old Turin has been swallowed by the growing city. The blue sky of Phoenix Manor has also been in these years. Inside, it becomes the same gray.

Eve held the white bed sheet that had just been dried in her hand, and was stunned for a long time. She woke up when she heard the call from others, and ran off with it.

Countless brackets were erected on the green field, with cleaned and sterilized bed sheets and quilts hanging on them, as well as some sick clothes. They swayed in the wind like dancing flags.

This is Merlin’s castle. After the Black Mountain Hospital incident, in order to relieve the pressure of containment, Merlin generously contributed this ancient castle that was about to be abandoned and temporarily became a hospital for some patients.

As the chief technical officer of perpetual motion pump, Merlin is essentially an alchemist. He may have different ideas from mortals. He is not interested in ordinary wealth. When he was divided into this land, he also treated it as a warehouse. , I rarely come back, even if there is a need to use it, most of the time it is like a temporary residence.

Lorenzo and Red Eagle and the others woke up in this castle a few months ago and spent a not too long holiday, but now it has welcomed new guests.

The doctors walked through the castle, the nurses pushed the wheelchairs, and the patients screamed from time to time. The stale air was covered by the smell of disinfectant. Eve walked in between and saw a group of people cleaning, in the corner Thick dust was swept out.

Because Merlin used this place as a warehouse, the staff of the castle has always maintained the lowest manpower. When the doctors of the Black Mountain Hospital moved in, they even thought it was abandoned.

Everything went into chaos after the incident. At that time, Arthur was still in a coma inside, and Eve not knowing what to do suddenly remembered what Arthur said to her last.

Merlin knew her past, so when Arthur was still in a coma for treatment, Eve applied to come here. After an erosion test, she became one of the nurses.

In fact, Eve didn’t expect that she would come in so smoothly. In her eyes, this is a mysterious organization. Everyone in the organization is a blood-sucking evil spirit, but it may be because of the Demon revolution. Friendship, these people were unexpectedly good to her.

Eve is so unfathomable mystery and became a member of this temporary hospital. He ran back and forth here for half a month.

During this time, she also tried to find Merlin. His office was set on the top of a tower in the castle. Eve heard other people call it a museum, and he didn’t know why.

As the chief technical officer of perpetual motion pump, Merlin was very busy in this half a month. He never had time to discuss this with Eve in detail, and he dragged it around. In the end, the conversation was set to today.

After putting the washed sheets, Eve moved towards the top of a tower called a museum.

Everything he has been obsessed with is about to be answered, but at this moment, Eve’s heart is not excited, but calm.

Eve has always been a keen and smart child. After experiencing so much, she actually had a vague guess about the reverberating nightmare and her own weirdness, but she was not sure about it all.

It can be said that she did not come here this time eager to get an answer, but hope that someone will affirm her guess, but she suddenly became a little flustered. Although all this has already become history, when she thinks that the fact is true, Eve still Somewhat unacceptable.

It seemed that it was a long way, but Eve walked through a few thoughts. She was silent for a while and knocked on the door.

……

Pushing open some heavy doors, the decadent air assaults the senses. As the only piece of “Merlin’s private area” in the castle, it has not been cleaned by the caregivers. Except for Merlin’s office here, few people come here. .

The bright light fell on Eve’s face, making her unable to open her eyes.

The dome of the entire museum is made of transparent glass. It was still dusty and dirty a few months ago, but after the rainstorm, all of it was washed clean and covered by rays of light. Holy look.

The inside of the museum is filled with some weird things. It is not so much a museum as a warehouse. There are 7 8 messy things everywhere.

The wheel was placed on one side of the wall, the nautical chart was hung on one side of the wall, a coin placed in a box, and an ancient flintlock.

There are so many weird things, many Eve can’t see it, she even has a little difficulty in judging why Merlin wants to put so many things here.

“Eve?”

Suddenly there was a voice remembering that under the rays of light, Merlin raised his head. Only then did Eve notice that there was still a person sitting in the pile of clutter.

Various documents piled up, and Merlin cleared a space among these messy things to use for office work.

He has never been a guy who often appears in the sun. For most of the year, Merlin is like a mouse, nesting underground in all black, no daylight.

Now he appeared in the sun, his pale and sick face seemed to be dying, and Eve was actually faintly afraid, afraid that this strange alchemist would fall in the next second.

“I know what you are going to do. He had already told me about this when he communicated with Arthur a few days ago.”

“Is he awake?”

Upon hearing about Arthur, Eve asked.

“Wake up, there is nothing serious… But you, you want to know the reason for your abnormality… This has to make me think about what I should say to you.”

Merlin rubbed the temple. He didn’t like this job. He explained these dirty things for the little girl. In his opinion, this might affect the innocent heart of the little girl…Although he said that this little girl chopped up Demon, More fierce than these professionals.

After looking at the girl sitting across from him, Merlin sighed secretly.

Is it worthy of being Arthur’s daughter? Or to say… the nature of the rangers.

“In general, you, Eve Phoenix, died long before you were born.”

After the silence, Merlin started everything with this somewhat startling remark.

“what did you say?”

Eve was a little confused and didn’t understand what he was talking about.

“Don’t worry, I will explain all this for you… In fact, this is what Arthur meant. He told me that after thinking about it for a long time, he suddenly realized that he might be wrong.”

Merlin continued.

“Perhaps you already have the ability to protect yourself. All that he has done is just a restriction on you, but what you need to know is that the more we touch Demon, the closer we get to the dark, until we are swallowed by it.

Arthur’s protection for you only hopes that you can stay away from it, but looking at these events, you have also become a part of the’curse’. “

“So?” Eve asked.

Regarding this part of the darkness, she had heard Lorenzo explain, and correspondingly, she could understand everything Merlin was saying now.

“So he gave up protecting you. Instead of protecting you like this weakly, it’s better to let you hold a sharp sword to protect yourself. After all, Arthur can’t protect you forever. It is for this reason that he chooses to tell you everything. You make the decision.”

Merlin said that he picked up the water glass and took a sip to moisturize his throat. This ghost place was too bright, hot and dry, and he began to miss the somewhat cold underground facilities.

“Actually, you met Demon long before you were born.”

Merlin talked about the past.

“That was a long time ago. In an accident, your mother was attacked by Demon, and she was pregnant with you.

You also know the characteristics of Demon, physical injuries, as long as they are not too serious and fatal, most of them can be healed with our abilities, but the erosion that directly affects the spirit, we are helpless, no… to be precise Is helpless against you. “

Merlin watched Eve’s expression, watching her emotional changes.

“We cured your mother and also carried out erosion tests, but unfortunately, your situation was approaching birth at that time, which means that there is another fully mature but ignorant consciousness in your mother within the body. I can Test her, but cannot detect how much you have been eroded.”

“The human will is very peculiar, like a mass of plastic clay. In the acquired training, it can be kneaded into different shapes by us, swords, shields, firearms…

One of the reasons why we are able to resist erosion is that we have a relatively complete understanding and can naturally fight against the darkness, but for an ignorant child who has not yet been born in this world, she cannot distinguish all of this, she cannot Understand light and dark, and don’t know what Demon is… even she may not have the concept of’I’ yet.

Child’s will is like a mass of unplasticized soil, she will be easily affected by erosion and be shaped like a Demon. “

Merlin was silent for a moment, then asked.

“You understand what this means, right?”

Eve remained silent. The nightmare in the memory was recalled again. A certain monster crawled out of the flesh and blood inside, accompanied by a sticky sound and a woman’s wailing, baring fangs and brandishing claws, tearing the fragile body to pieces.

Under Merlin’s narration, the vague memories suddenly became clear, the darkness was swept away, and in fear, she could clearly see the appearance of the monster.

It was a young and ignorant face, she was innocent, but her hands were stained with blood…It was herself, Eve Phoenix.

Eve’s body trembled uncontrollably.

“At that time, it was certain that you had been eroded, but the extent of the erosion was unknown, but judging from the records of our cleansing agency, young children are extremely susceptible to erosion and infection, not to mention you who have not yet been born.

You are nearing birth and cannot have a miscarriage, but we still have some risky operations that can solve all of this, but this has been opposed by your parents. They have lost many children and do not want to lose your last one.

So another plan was proposed. “

“What is it!”

Eve’s voice was a bit agitated, her pupils tightened, and fine sweat flowed across her neck.

“The Ranger project is a kind of intensive experiment, but the risk is very high. Your father is also the subject. Part of this strengthening is that it can increase the resistance of people to erosion. At that time, we were planning to conduct the Ranger project on you. You, who have not yet been born, are resistant to erosion, which may save you.

But even if you conduct experiments on professionally trained people, they will die from some unstable complications, not to mention that you were still in a fetal state.

But your mother accepts all this, the main subject is her, and those experimental drugs will be delivered to the fetus through the weakening of the mother.

But all this is just what we expected. No one knows what will happen when it is actually implemented. It can even be said that everyone was doing all this with an experimental attitude at the time. No one thought it would be successful…unless there is a miracle. occur. “

Merlin stopped as he said, and he sat up straight, setting aside some documents that were still being processed.

“But I survived, and now I am sitting alive in front of you.” Eve whispered.

“Yes, a miracle happened, and the human will triumphed.”

A stiff smile appeared on Merlin’s indifferent face, and then he stood up and moved towards Eve.

“Your mother survived the experiment and gave birth to you safely, and you are also the first natural ranger in human history.”

“That was incredible. I was a little skeptical at the time. I didn’t expect that human beings can really do all this. You are very healthy as a new born person, but unfortunately, your mother, as the subject of the test, has been greatly traumatized. She was often tortured by some complications until she left.”

Merlin walked up to Eve, lightly took her hand and made her stand up.

Under the warm rays of light, the two of them seemed to be dancing.

“This is why Arthur is like a mental illness sometimes, because you are his last warmth. Without you, he really has nothing. Maybe after this he will become a monster similar to Lorenzo.”

When Lorenzo was mentioned, Merlin couldn’t help sighing.

“The guy who has nothing is really terrifying, he will not lose anything, so he is fearless.”

I looked at the girl’s stiff expression again, maybe she hadn’t noticed it herself, tears had covered her cheeks, the fuzzy memories became clear, everything became so cruel.

“It looks like it will take a while for you to understand this, but… please do me a favor first.”

Merlin patted her, awakening Eve from this long sorrow. The girl was nodded stiffly. She could not say anything. She knew everything she wanted, but the whole person seemed lost.

Death is really long. Mother left a long time ago, but today Eve feels that she is really dead. This long death has come to an end, and she just left.

“But your birth inspired many people. At that time, we had an internal incident called’Red News’. We were hit hard internally. Everyone lost the hope of continuing to forge ahead and looked decadent. This is also the reason. Your birth was not optimistic. After all, everyone was pessimistic at that time.”

Merlin seemed to be looking for something in the clutter, and the old dust rose one after another.

“But you survived. This is nothing short of a miracle. You were crying loudly at the time, but the crying made everyone a lot of excitement. Such a child is trying to survive. What is this setback?”

“I was also slightly touched at the time, so I have built this place ever since.”

Merlin picked up a container filled with formalin solution.

“At that time, I was thinking, how long have humans existed in this World? At least a few thousand years, but we only have vague records in the last thousand years, and the history before it has disappeared in the memory. People are remembering all that.

I was wondering if humans will disappear one day. If they disappear, it’s nothing. Humans will die, and humans will die. But even if they die, I think something should stay. .

As long as there is something that can represent human beings, even if we are all dead, we can still live inside the carrier of records. That’s right… just like you. “

Merlin carried the container laboriously.

“I?”

“Yes, you are the continuation of your mother. As long as you are still alive, she can live in your memory, and she will not really die, right?”

Merlin motioned to Eve to take the container.

“Look here, this is what I built, which can best represent everything’human’.”

He opened his hand and looked around this messy museum like a lord. Eve also held the container and followed Merlin’s words and looked at it for 7 weeks.

“You can’t understand it, right? In fact, other people don’t understand all of this, but if everyone understands it, then there is a problem.”

As Merlin said, he walked to the clutter and introduced Eve.

“This stack of paper represents the carrying of human information. We will not die with the knowledge in our minds, but will record it and inherit it across the barrier of time. This wheel means that we have shortened the distance of the world. This code is human The proof that restrains one’s desires, so we are distinguished from the wild beast, which follows instinct.

This…and this…”

Merlin introduced the exhibits in this strange museum to Eve. All human cognition exists here. A hazy but majestic illusory shadow slowly rises within Eve’s cognition.

“Of course there is this.”

Merlin said and pointed to the container in Eve’s hand.

“what is this?”

“Your placenta.”

“what?”

Eve’s grief was suddenly interrupted by Merlin’s words. She almost shook her hands and threw this thing down, but finally stabilized her silhouette, lowered her head and lightly wiped the dusty surface, under which the formalin was floating. A mass of twisted and pale flesh and blood.

“I have collected your placenta, but this is not a perverted hobby. I just think that this museum needs something to prove the will of mankind…this is one of the wills.”

“what?”

“Sacrifice, a mother’s sacrifice for a child.”

Merlin said softly, as he walked to the gate and watched it all.

“But this is not enough. Everything here is not enough to represent everything about human beings. After all, human beings are very complicated. Some things we have are too nihilistic, and it is difficult for me to find suitable things to represent them.

“such as?”

“For example, things that are exclusive to human beings. Because we are human beings, we have created one word after another to know everything in this World, but some things are nothingness, just like the soul, it is disordered and difficult. Captured, beyond our control…this thing is difficult to find a representative.”

Merlin smiled and looked at the beauty of this sun-shrouded, magnificent human pile.

“You know, Eve, although you were born, no one still thinks that you survived. Your life is only temporary. You may die because of the backlash of Ranger Medicine in the subsequent time.

But you survived, grown up. “

“Thank you for coming, Eve, now my work is complete.”

Eve looked at Merlin blankly. It may be that these alchemists were inherently crazy. The smile on Merlin’s face began to twist, like a fanatical believer.

“Yes! Eve Phoenix! You represent human stubbornness, human perseverance, and human stupidity, but under this inferiority, you have done what only humans can do.”

“What is it?”

“miracle.”

The dying fetus survived tenaciously. She was holding her placenta in the face, standing inside a pavilion built by a madman, and became a part of this work.

Throughout the past and future of mankind, it has piled up miracles that belong only to mankind.

The long night is over, the sun is blazing.