Ember Gun

  Chapter 108 St. Mary’s Cathedral

The night was once again shrouded in the old Dunling, the moonlight could only reveal its faint brightness in the gloom, lightening the heavy lead ash slightly, and the huge steel whale in the icy cold wind cruising among the clouds in the night sky. The dazzling light swept the turbid mist.

Sieg walked on the misty street. The weather in the old town in winter was extremely humid and cold. Huge steam gushing from the underground pipes, and the warm gas that had not yet cooled down brought a thin mist of water, and there was nowhere to be cold. Avoidable.

  The cheeks were a little thin, shaking like a lost soul.

  In fact, this was not his way home. Under the watch of the street lamp, Sieg could not bear the restlessness in his heart. It seemed that there was another voice whispering in his ear, urging him to step into the abyss of sin.

   "Damn! Damn!"

Sieg suddenly scolded, and his pale and sick face showed an intolerable grimness. He kicked the street lamp aside and made waves of iron screams. Then Sieg seemed to calm down, reflecting in the shallow sewage under his feet. With his ugly face.

Then for a moment he was stunned. Some could not believe that the person in the water would be himself. Then a painful scream came from his throat. He stumbled to the corner of the street, sat directly beside the garbage dump, and grasped harder. The hair curled up.

The pedestrians who came and went did not look at him, because there are many people like Sieg, and every day in Old Dunling, many people fall under the pressure. Some people choose to leave this suffocating city, while others choose to fall. Xiacheng has become their new home.

  Sig raised his head slowly in the darkness, his eyes full of exhaustion, like a dying person.

  He is in pain, very painful.

  In fact, unlike Lorenzo's idea, Sieg has not worked overtime in the factory during this period. He was fired from the factory a long time ago because he was found by his boss to take hallucinogens.

The factory is trying to win the production of the new steam tram, and there are several other factories competing with it. In order to securely win this list, these factories have engaged in several secret battles, and many of them sent reporters to sneak into the factory to check. The working environment of workers, as well as some other aspects, were subsequently suppressed in public opinion.

  Obviously, the boss was scared. In order not to be caught, he directly fired Sieg. After all, the official attitude towards hallucinogens is very bad, and he does not want to lose such a large business because of this trivial matter.

  So Sieg was unemployed. Just because of taking hallucinogens, it was obvious that every mechanic in the factory was using this thing.

  Those mechanics feel that this thing will allow them to step into the heavenly environment, and it is the best relief in the high temperature and depression of the factory.

  He couldn't believe all this at first, Sieg tried to stay, but was rushed out mercilessly by the security guards. He spent a long time on the street and finally returned to Cork Street in a muddle-headed manner.

This is a big gap. The moment before he was still a magnificent mechanic, but the next moment he fell on the street. Sieg also tried to apply for employment elsewhere, but no one needed a mechanic who sucked hallucinogens. Not to mention that this is the old Dunling, the world's first steam engine was born here, and extremely rare mechanics can be seen everywhere here.

  This is really a bad day.

Sieg’s background is not good. He was born into a family that is not wealthy. In order to satisfy his mechanical dreams, Sieg worked in a bakery for a long time, and used all his savings to exchange for one to go to Old Dunling. Train ticket.

  He still remembers the feeling at that time. Sieg poked his head out of the car window and looked at the scenery that was constantly swept behind him. There was no sorrow of leaving home in his heart, but an uncontrollable ecstasy.

Sieg left. At that time, he saw that the world was only divided into two parts. One was the town where he had lived since childhood, and the new world was outside the train tracks. The wild dogs happily ran towards the inexplicable unknown. He didn't care about everything.

There is nothing to be sad about. Although Sieg had been on the train for several days at the time, he did not feel any so-called tiredness, because he knew that the distance between him and Old Dunling had been in every second of the past. Constantly approaching.

   is coming soon, I am fascinated by it.

  The hazy fog condensed on the window bars above his head, and the unsolidified water droplets fell. The cold touch made Sigg a little awake, but when he was sober, he remembered Mrs. Van Lud’s face again.

  Whenever I think of that fierce and kind face, Sieg has never experienced pain.

  He was like a wild dog running around. When he was frozen and trembling in the alley, Mrs. Van Lud took him in. At that time, she was not as irritable as she is now, so he became the earliest tenant of 121A Cork Street.

  Mrs. Van Lud is like a relative to Sieg. Although she is not very kind, she has made Sieg. Without her, Sieg would have frozen to death one night.

Therefore, every time he faced Mrs. Van Lud, Sieg felt an unspeakable sense of guilt, as if he had disappointed her. He didn't want Madam Van Lud to find out about it. He was even thinking about whether to move away. It's better to leave without saying goodbye on Cork Street than to stand in front of her in shame.

Slowly stood up, Sieg continued to walk, and suddenly looked up into the strange street scene. It seemed that Sieg came to a strange place in his unfamiliar situation, but he had lived in Jiudunling for a long time. , He did not expect that one day he would feel strange to this city.

There are many tall buildings, and the dark night looks like countless monsters’ minions. The street lights on the street are also different from what you are familiar with. Under the deformed development of the old Dunling, there are actually many areas that are not connected to electricity. It seems that this is also , The all-colored gas lamp, in the mist not far away, there was a lighter walking forward, and then one after another light came on as he walked past.

It was dark, but he still didn’t want to go home. He hated Madame Van Lud’s stern kindness. He seldom felt the tenderness of others. Compared with the parents who drove him out of the house, she was in Sieg’s heart. A light inside.

  But he didn't want this light because he was disappointed and walked in confusion. The huge building protruded from the fog, and the little light flickered in it. Sieg was slightly startled, and then heard the faint hymn.

  This is a church.

Hundreds of years ago, Inervig also surrendered to the powerful and holy papal kingdom. Through those white-robed missionaries and sword-wielding Templar Knights, the Evangelical Church also entered the world of Inervig. Although in recent years, Inervig has forgotten its existence in a targeted manner, there are still many churches in the old Dunling today, but they are only hidden by the buildings built in the later period. You can only hear the faint holy Songs and prayers, but unable to find the existence of that building.

But to Sieg’s surprise, the church was not covered in the slightest. It just appeared between the streets so generously. Behind the steel door rail is the illuminated door of the church with countless gargoyles. , Guarding this sacred place.

Sieg seemed to remember what this place was. This was St. Mary’s Cathedral. This area of ​​Dongcheng District used to be the place where the believers of the gospel churches gathered. However, as the number of believers gradually decreased, the place became lonely, even the name. Also forgotten, Sigg also read the story about this place in the book.

  The whole church is built with white stone, the pure color is pure, even at night, it will not be contaminated with the slightest filth, many people have forgotten its name, but instead call it this remarkable feature.

  White Church.

Just as Sigg thought about it, the iron gate suddenly opened. A man who seemed to be a priest was standing not far away looking at him with a smile. His hair was gray and his face was full of wrinkles, but in the middle of the winter night, Sigg actually felt a little warm under his gaze, just like sunshine.

"Excuse me……"

   "You must be very confused, right, do you need me to listen for you?"

   Without waiting for Sieg to say anything, the priest said first, and then he turned sideways, as if inviting Sieg, the door of the White Church slowly opened.

Sieg wanted to refuse. He didn't believe in any so-called gods. As a mechanic, he believed in absolute reason and reality. He believed that machinery was omnipotent when it reached its extreme, so omnipotent, rather than a godless god. What is the difference between a machine and a god?

  He thought so, but for a moment he did not refuse to come out, as if he had been given some instructions, he nodded in a ghostly manner, and then stepped into the white church.

  ……

   "So where are we going?"

  Lorenzo was sitting on the carriage, and the scenery outside the window flew away. At this moment, they were galloping on the old streets, the galloping wind stirred up the fog, like a ghost running wild.

  "Clean up the headquarters of the agency, Mr. Holmes, if your conjecture is true, Old Dunling will now face a threat that has never been seen before."

  Compared to Lorenzo, who was stubborn, Joey's expression at the moment was undoubtedly much more serious. He was like a cold weapon, only waiting for the appearance of the enemy.

   "But this is just a conjecture."

"But your so-called conjecture is a possibility. Within the clean-up agency, we have deduced several plans regarding the collapse of the city and the division of the kingdom, and proposed different solutions to this plan. The final result is that some plans are true. Occurred, and under our foresight, the situation was well controlled and resolved."

  Joy looked out the window to determine the position as he said. It seemed that this guy was really anxious.

   "That is to say, according to the normal historical process, you have eliminated the organs and even Inervig has been destroyed several times?"

Lorenzo was a little surprised. What Joey said was like the prophecies in the Demon Hunting Order. Those demon hunters who are still dangling branches are always nagging anticipating the death of others. The two are actually almost the same, but What Joey said was much more true.

   "To be precise, we have avoided the possibility of destruction. Since we have avoided that period of destruction, there is no such thing as a history."

   "Like branches?"

   Lorenzo said, choosing one road after another, but these people already knew what the road would usher in next, and responded accordingly.

   "Probably that's it."

  He answered.

The carriage ran wildly in the street, like a galloping chariot. It finally stopped after running wildly for an unknown amount of time. At this moment, there were countless soldiers who appeared in front of Lorenzo, and they pointed their weapons directly. With the carriage, Lorenzo has been "cooperating" with the cleaning agency for so long, and his understanding of its equipment is that it is an all-in-one aluminum thermal rifle, and one round of fire is enough to melt everything.

  "This is the headquarters of your decontamination agency?"

  Lorenzo did not show anger on his lips, but the secret blood had already started, and he did not trust these people very much.

  "Please calm down, Mr. Holmes."

  The soldiers dispersed, and the Kestrel came out of them. Lorenzo did not expect him to come.

   "How do you know that I am not calm enough?"

  Lorenzo thought that his emotions were well controlled and there was no possibility of being discovered, but the Kestrel raised his hand, and on it was a Geiger counter. At this moment, its index was rising slightly.

   "I didn't expect that ghost to be very sensitive."

  Lorenzo said coldly, but the index is still rising, he does not intend to give anyone face.

"This is just for safety. After all, you also know that we are just a group of mortals, but we are fighting against demons. What you have to do next is to clean up the headquarters of the organization. In order to prevent the high-levels from being corroded by demons, we can do a lot of things. Kung Fu, these are just security forces."

The   cleaning mechanism is different from the hunting sect. They don’t have the black technology blessing in the "Apocalypse". The only armor technology is also exchanged for the precious steam technology from Nine Summers.

The noble and important figures in the Demon Hunting Order are guarded by the demon hunters of Medanzo branch. They are the guards of the heaven. Lorenzo's power is obvious to all, but he is still not the strongest among these sacred guards. , Even only ranked in the middle.

In the history of the Order, there have been examples of demons successfully invading the place of seven hills, but under the protection of the powerful Medanzo branch demons, the Cathedral of San Nalo lasted a night in the flood of demons. The flowing blood soaked the entire place of Qiqiu, and the only thing they could do was to stain the door of the church red with blood.

  After the dawn, the door opened and the pope knelt unharmed before the holy cross. The cardinals followed behind him, whispering prayers as loud as a bell.

  But such deeds will never happen again, Lorenzo whispered in his heart.

  Finally, Kestrel took out a pair of blindfolds and handed it to Lorenzo.

"that's it?"

   "Yes, we don't want the location of the cleansing organ to be exposed. These soldiers are just guarding here. I will take you there next."

Lorenzo looked at him suspiciously, but in the end he took the blindfold. If the cleaning agency had thoughts about him, they would have done it a long time ago. There is no need to worry about those. Of course, it may be that they did not understand before this. How to deal with themselves, and now they have found a way.

  K Lorenzo did not make any statement, honestly put on the blindfold, in his opinion, he was also a little curious about what the mysterious removal mechanism would look like.

  (End of this chapter)