Chapter 40: Mercury's Hammer/Cannon (Double Perspective)
The dazzling sunlight woke Jace up, opened his eyes and rubbed the dark red vision. The stinging pain on his forehead was distracting his attention, and the workbench was full of dry blood.
Through the sun hanging high outside the skylight, Jace realized that he had been unconscious for several hours.
An inexplicable sense of urgency appeared in his heart!
He looked at the workbench and the Shurima crystal placed on it disappeared. He must have been taken away by Victor. No matter what he wanted to do, he would not respect other people's free will. His tough measures definitely mean that his plan was about to be completed.
Jace held his forehead and emptied the liquid metal used for the experiment. Sure enough, a blue crystal fragment was found at the bottom of the trough.
This crystal fragment hidden in the metal liquid successfully avoided Victor's search. Of course, it was also possible that he didn't care about this thing at all.
Jace took out the crystal fragments and mounted it on a huge Hex deformable warhammer. This was a blasting device he invented a few years ago, and was shelved halfway through the lack of a sufficiently powerful battery.
The moment the crystal was embedded, the weapon named Mercury's Hammer immediately buzzed slightly. Jace, who was shrouded in energy, injected into his muscles with the stimulation of energy, allowing him to easily pick up the heavy weapon, which greatly increased his confidence.
Time is tight, and every second is always fighting! This time, Jace didn't even have time to deal with his own sexy and handsome face, so he took a step and rushed to Zuan at full speed.
Jace did not choose to call the police because he knew that although Piltwolf had the lowest violent crime rate in the world, there were still many loopholes to be exploited.
The biggest rule of Picheng Security is to never enforce law across regions on a large scale.
Therefore, if the murderer wants to escape to the maze-like Zuan after committing the crime, he will not have to be afraid of the threat from the police.
At the same time, Jace didn't want to call the police, as it was not his style to ruin a person's future.
Subconsciously, he felt that Victor could still be convinced. If he didn't agree, he would be able to be convinced! It was just a matter of revenge for a single arrow.
Soon, he set foot on the territory of Zuan.
Along the way, the war hammer in his hand was shaking, and a force led him to move towards the depths of Zuan.
The crystal fragments couldn't wait to reunite with their mother, and this force finally led Jace to the factory deep in the trench.
Looking at the locked door, Jace didn't want to be turned away again. The Mercury hammer in his hand turned into a Mercury cannon, aiming at the rusted iron gate. The electricity was stimulating, and a lightning ball shot out, instantly blasting the gate.
Britz, not far away, sensed this abnormal energy fluctuation, thought for a while, put down his work and rushed to the abandoned factory.
Stepping on the rolling smoke and dust, Jace entered the abandoned building, and he saw that the layout inside was as complicated as a maze.
But it doesn't matter. The warhammer will guide him to the crystal, and even if he enters a dead end, he can easily knock the wall with the warhammer in his hand.
The environment along the way was dark and cold, and the dense spider-web-like cracks on the wall reminded him that it seemed that a steel arm could appear at any time, breaking the fragile wall, grabbing his neck hard, and suffocating him in this cramped corner.
Jace did not dare to relax his vigilance, but fortunately he did not encounter any ambush along the way, but just scared himself. Until he heard the buzzing sound of the machine ahead, he immediately turned off the energy supply of the crystal fragments, so that the warhammer no longer emitted light and buzz.
In the dim light, Jace tiptoed to the sound source, and when the distance was close enough, he stopped and looked around his new environment.
Behind him were glass jars, and the green liquid inside them was filled with organs of flesh and metal mixed with them, filling several walls.
There is a gurney next to it, with blood stains on the surface of the leather, and a robot drill is placed, lying quietly in the middle of the house.
The air was filled with blood. Jace saw dozens of corpses lying on the dark red hospital bed. Their skulls were all sawed open and their brains disappeared.
The horrifying scene in front of him made him unable to help but stand up and shudder.
He didn't expect that Victor was so cruel that he could slaughter life without a bottom line.
Jace gritted his teeth and continued to sneak closer to the source of the sound.
In the deepest part of this maze-like cave-like factory, Jace saw the azure light emitted by the crystal, which was the only source of light.
The crystal was embedded in a huge device, and Victor stood aside, controlling the device with a focused expression, looking like a surgeon performing surgery.
Dozens of cables extended around the device, connecting dozens of robots leaning against the wall. From their wide open heads, Jace saw the brains taken out of the corpse, and was still immersed in the green nutrient solution.
“Is this the first step in glorious evolution?”
The scene before him deeply hurt Jace's heart. He slowly walked towards Victor, wanting him to stop, but the closer he got, the more he wavered his thoughts became.
The two of them had countless conflicts when working because of different methods, and then they reconciled because of the result of the same fate.
But this conflict seems to be without a possibility of reconciliation. Jace wants to retain the sensual side of humanity, while Victor wants humanity to become absolutely ideal. The two are essentially opposite.
At this moment, he suddenly realized that maybe he had to kill his old friend.
Looking at the warhammer in his hand, Jace suddenly had the confidence and decided to try again in the end, hoping that Victor could turn back, so that he would at least not report Victor's crime to the Picheng Science and Technology Association.
"Victor!"
A loud noise came from the darkness, which did not attract Victor's sight. He was still concentrating on controlling the device, as if he had reached the last moment and could not be distracted at all.
But Jace confirmed that Victor had heard it, because after he opened his mouth, the army of robots connected to the cables stood up in unison, turned around and stared at him.
He took a deep breath and shouted:
"Victor! Please look around you! Look at what you do! What are these things? Are these robots what you call evolution? No matter what these are, they are not the progress you pursued when you were young!"
Jace's question echoed in the empty factory, but he could not get Victor's response.
"Progress is to be explored through constant mistakes. Now you have eliminated human errors and cut off their space for progress. You are... this is!... destroying our beautiful tomorrow with your own hands!"
At the end of the day, Jace's voice could no longer stop trembling, and he integrated into all his feelings in this sentence. Even so, Victor still did not look back at his true feelings.
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Listening to Jace's painful complaint, Victor continued to remain silent.
He didn't understand why Jace still couldn't recognize him a little when he saw his upcoming work.
Victor lazily defended himself. Even if he told Jace that he was saving these people who were invading their brains by toxins, Jace would not believe it.
Jace looked at Victor's indifferent back and begged:
"Victor, I'm sorry, I was wrong! Please forgive my arrogance, forgive my rudeness, and forgive these people! They are innocent. If you know the mistake, you can correct it yourself. Don't interfere with the law again!"
Jace's sudden apology surprised Victor, but what's the use of playing the emotional card with someone who has no feelings anymore?
Victor had seen Jace clearly. He would only misunderstand himself. Where is the toxin dialysis device? Will Jace not be able to see its function? He knew that habitual preconceptions have made Jace lose the ability to see reality clearly.
Isn’t this kind of recklessness that turns a blind eye the negative impact of emotions on human beings? Jace kept saying that he wanted to correct it, but kept ignoring the essence of the mistake. What can he correct it in this way?
Victor is bored by the disagreement of each other and mutual harm. Is it really difficult to understand others?
Thinking of this, Victor couldn't help but sigh and ordered the robot army:
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Chapter completed!