Volume 16 Tower of Babel Chapter 882: Factory
"Why are you so stubborn...?" Father Charles looked at his old friend, a trace of pity finally revealed in his eyes.
"Because... because..." Bruno wanted to say something else, but his remaining strength was not enough to support him to utter a complete sentence.
At this moment, the cardinal walked up silently, put his hand on Father Charles' shoulder, and said in a voice that only Father Charles and Bruno could hear: "The Lord once granted him salvation, but he gave up the opportunity... and he gave up many times... Now, this heretic is about to die. If you light the pyre after he dies, it will be difficult to redeem the sins you carry..."
"Ah?!" Father Charles' pupils suddenly trembled, and he almost dropped the torch in his hand.
But in the next second, he would rather hope that he had not been able to hold the torch firmly and just ignite the firewood pile. Perhaps he would not have to face the inner struggle that followed.
"I... I will purify this... this heretic right now!" Father Charles took a deep breath and finally moved the torch towards the pile of wood at Bruno's feet.
"Bang!"
A stone flew out from the crowd and hit the torch in Father Charles' hand accurately. The torch flew out and fell into the crowd, causing a brief commotion.
Ke Lan finally rushed to the stake and kicked down two believers who came to stop him.
He knew very well that in the illusion, no matter what he did, it was meaningless, but this place was still a good place to vent his emotions - after all, everything was virtual, just like when he was in a bad mood in the past, he would choose some violent and bloody games to relieve stress.
For some reason, when Ke Lan saw the kind but weak smile on the cardinal's face, what came to his mind was Neto's expressionless face. Without thinking, he punched the cardinal in the nose.
The cardinal leaned back instantly, and there were cries of surprise all around him. Dozens of armed church members rushed to the stake and surrounded Ke Lan.
"I've played so many games, but this is the first time I've played a plot of robbing a prison. Moreover, it's a completely immersive experience. It's really good." He licked his dry lips, bent down to pick up a piece of dry firewood scattered on the ground, and then rushed in a random direction.
Two believers dressed in white and holding sticks rushed towards Ke Lan, but Ke Lan dodged their attack. The next second, dry firewood covered with thorns hit the two men's faces, leaving two bright red blood marks.
Although Ke Lan's strength became the same as that of an ordinary person in the illusion, his fighting skills were retained. He felt no pressure when four or five believers besieged him at the same time. Instead, these believers were beaten by him and screamed in pain.
The dry firewood was soon broken, and Ke Lan simply drew out the dagger hanging from his waist, and in no time he stabbed down three believers who had also drawn their swords.
In this virtual world, killing people would not be a psychological burden... If possible, Ke Lan even wanted to kill everyone in the Flower Square...
But as soon as this thought came to his mind, he was scared by himself - didn't Neto choose to let him enter such an illusion just to make him have such thoughts?
This is the other party's purpose...
After realizing this, Ke Lan, who was still swinging the dagger, stopped and stood where he was - but at some point, all the believers around him had fallen down, and the flower square that was originally crowded with people became empty.
A burning sensation and a smoky smell came from behind him. Ke Lan turned around and saw that the torture chamber was already burning fiercely. Bruno's body gradually turned into a black skeleton in the flames.
"You can't change anything, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that farces like this have been staged countless times in human history." said the skeleton in the flames.
"No, I'm just curious about one thing. Since you can let me fall into this illusion, why don't you just show the things on the dome in the illusion?"
"That is His miracle, and no one can simulate it..." Neto said, "And you should also know that the materials that make up these illusions are all from your memory. I cannot make things that are not in your memory appear in this illusion."
"Yeah, I noticed it." Ke Lan nodded. The cardinal's face was a combination of many people Ke Lan knew. As for Bruno, his face came from a document about heliocentrism that Ke Lan had read before... But the portrait of Bruno was created by later artists, and the real Bruno would definitely not look like this.
At least not exactly the same.
"Although the illusion is false, this history is real... If you feel that this history is too far away from you, why not try this instead?"
"Are you done yet?" Before Ke Lan finished her complaint, the scene around her changed again.
This time, the surrounding scene suddenly became modern - this was a factory built on an open plain, with eight huge factory buildings forming a circle. In the middle of the factory was a shed built with steel beams and lightweight polymer panels. The height of this shed was more than 300 meters and it covered an area of more than 100 football fields.
Countless workers, transport vehicles and construction machinery were shuttling back and forth under the shed. A huge device that was in the assembly stage was located in the center, surrounded by hundreds of brackets and robotic arms... Although it was just a frame, Ke Lan could tell at a glance that it was a modular power block on Noah's Ark.
Although the main body of Noah's Ark was built in the universe, due to time constraints, many equipment did not have time to be transported into space. Some components that require higher processing conditions, such as power blocks and electronic equipment, were assembled on Earth and then packaged and sent to space by rockets or space shuttles.
This place is obviously also a factory used to produce such parts.
Ke Lan looked at her attire. She had changed from the clothes worn by Romans during the Renaissance to a dark blue overalls with a work cap on her head. On the cap were written in both Chinese and English : "Safety Manager, Ke Lan, Team 9 of the Fourth Factory."
There was a folding submachine gun hanging around Ke Lan's waist - the safety officer was not responsible for the production safety of the factory, but the safety of the factory and the workers.
Before Ke Lan could get familiar with the surrounding environment, a sudden explosion sounded in one of the eight huge factory buildings.
