Erosion stirred up a windless storm, and the wailing ghosts were swept into it. They were like thousands of circling crows, playing the ominous sound in everyone's heart.
"William! Tell me the details of your experiment."
Hearing Lorenzo's words, Merlin immediately quickened his pace. He tried to control his emotions and asked calmly.
"I regard the abnormal erosion that caused all this as a plague, and the demons are the patients infected by the plague. I am thinking about how to cure it... As I said before, find the inhibitory force, the shepherd, but obviously I was wrong."
After learning the truth, this cruel reality almost broke William down.
"The shepherd is working for the benefit of the entire flock. In his eyes, we restless lambs are as damnable as hungry wolves. He will get rid of us. This is what happened with the Red News incident. A force we were not aware of suddenly descended."
William became emotional as he spoke.
"Just like now, the intensity of erosion is constantly increasing. They appear out of thin air and destroy the surrounding matter. But it is more like an equivalent exchange. It uses the surrounding matter as a basis, plundering them to build its own entity out of thin air. As for more details, I don't know."
William took a breath and continued.
"I was directly exposed to the high-intensity erosion environment at that time. Many people collapsed and turned into monsters. Some people still resisted stubbornly, but it was useless. I was one of them. I only had about a few dozen seconds to think about it. As for the appearance of those shepherds, I only got a glimpse of them."
"What do they look like?" Merlin asked.
"Angel… "
William was recalling the past that he should not recall, with a somewhat sacred look on his face, but he was interrupted by Lorenzo just after he revealed a few words.
"They are not angels, they just have a holy appearance. They are similar to a spiritual life and cannot be completely killed. The appearance we see is just a replaceable shell for them."
William looked straight at Lorenzo. Merlin beside him was also stunned. He asked belatedly.
"You knew all this a long time ago?"
"Almost, but William made me more certain of this, which is also why I warned you at the time..." Lorenzo said.
"Because you've already encountered them and survived."
Merlin felt that the situation had become more complicated and more interesting.
"Knowledge is cursed, Merlin, you know that well, it shouldn't exist within the [Fence], and we shouldn't cross the [Border]," Lorenzo said. "If this hadn't happened, I would have hesitated to tell you this... Not everyone can face a monster like that."
"Are you ready?"
At this time, William interrupted their conversation. After a brief surprise, he easily accepted all of this. After all, William was also the chief technical officer, and he had the same rationality as Merlin.
“Although it’s hard to believe, from the results of my experiment, the shepherd is protecting humans, and its way of protection is to block all information transmission, which means that now all those who know the truth may be killed by it.