Ember Gun

  Chapter 276 There are many mysteries

  The faint sound of rain came from outside the window. The rain was weaker, but it hadn't stopped. In the cold night, the two watched each other vigilantly.

   "Are you... eroded?" Kestrel was a little uncertain.

In fact, among these superior knights, the Kestrel is considered the least professional. It was originally just a gangster in the lower city. By chance, he was promoted by Shrike. Joey was the opposite of him. He came from a family of hunting monsters, Joshua. In each generation of the sub-family, several people joined the cleansing organization, and he had known about demons for a long time.

  Joy understands himself and the enemy, so he can judge these in such a short time.

  Compared to demons and humans, they are really too fragile, and the only advantage is that reason is not yet crazy.

   "That nightmare..."

  Joy recalled those children, those ghosts who appeared continuously. It was no coincidence, Joey could be sure that he was eroded.

   "I had a nightmare...or a hallucination." Joey said.

   "Illusions are caused by erosion, right? That's why this ghost screams."

  Kestrel looked at the huge Geiger counter behind him. The sensitivity of this thing is extremely high, and it can accurately determine the residues of pollution, but unfortunately it is too large to move.

  Joy did not continue to say anything, nor did he notice. He slowly embraced himself, his eyes gloomy, as if he had experienced something terrible.

  Kestrel also obviously noticed this. He hesitated for a while, but he still asked.

   "You saw them again, didn't you?"

  Joy nodded hard and said nothing.

   "Joey, you need psychotherapy." Kestrel said.

  "Do you mean going back to the Black Mountain Hospital? I won't go back to the **** place." Joey refused altogether.

   "Actually, there is nothing terrible about that place, isn't it? You are just afraid of yourself. Those who were in the past, you returned to the Black Mountain Hospital, and those who could not bear to look back will come back to you."

  Kestrel comforted him.

"Joy, although I joined in halfway, I actually fight against the demons, and it feels like being in the lower city, and the gangsters and gangsters beaten up... This is inevitable. We are just a piece of the cog of this huge machine, I There is actually no way to decide what we can do.

  You should not be responsible for the death of those children, and in the final analysis, it was Gawain who killed them, and it has nothing to do with you. "

  Joy shook his head stubbornly, looking very painful.

   "This is not the same as the Kestrel, you were not there at the time... It was a crime to look on at that time."

  There was blood flowing across the front of his clothes, and Joey suddenly discovered that he accidentally injured himself in the loss of control just now, his elbow was knocked, and the faint red dyed his white sleeves.

  He tore off the piece of cloth uncontrollably, and then threw it away forcefully, as if avoiding a monster.

  Obviously, Joey is in a terrible state at the moment. He hasn't pulled up the folding knife and slashed himself. He is already considered excellent self-control. Kestrel looked at him sadly. He knew why Joey was like this.

  Demons are taboo monsters. There is a price to fight against that kind of monster. The pain may be the slightest among them, and the most common price is mental torture.

No matter what kind of protection or post-war recuperation, the erosion will eventually have an impact on the fragile will, and over time some mental illnesses will be born. This is why the retirement of the knight who eliminates the organs is not judged by age, but by age. The reason is judged according to the mental state.

Joey’s significant influence is cleanliness, but it’s not so much cleanliness that he hates blood splashing on himself. After experiencing that incident, he became like this, and there are many people similar to him, such as Shrike. , He always carries weapons with him, his favorite is the revolver called Death Knell, there are many examples of this.

  Sometimes the Kestrel even feels that Lorenzo’s paranoia towards demons is also an erosional influence. They find the weakness of their will and magnify the defect infinitely.

  Kestrel sighed helplessly, and sat next to Joey.

   In the final analysis, the removal agency is a large psychiatric gang, while the Black Mountain Hospital is a large psychiatric hospital, and patients always don’t want to go back to the hospital.

  "Joy, you need help...at least you need to stabilize first." Kestrel said.

  But Joey ignored him. He just stared at him, but there was nothing in front of him. There seemed to be a vague voice, which was Gawain's voice.

   Joey was originally Gao Wen's subordinate, but after experiencing that incident, he requested to be transferred back to Old Dunling until today.

   "I just killed their parents, and the weapon is by their side... They may also hide those demons."

At that time, Gawain said to him like this, holding a burning thermite rifle in his hand, the unsolidified thermite bombs pierced through the heads of one child after another, and molten iron covered the faces of the young people, casting them into steel masks. .

  Their corpses and the corpses of their parents were piled up together, piled up into hills in the dark and smelly room, and the faint children's crying seemed to be still echoing.

  "You are not suitable for this business, Xuanfeng."

   Gawain looked at Joey who was vomiting constantly and said.

  "We are fighting demons, and fighting demons requires no mercy, no sympathy, no messy feelings, and we don’t even need humanity."

   "That bastard..."

Joey roared, his trembling hand picked up a side of Florund's potion, and injected it into his body again. With all the potion injected, his trembling body finally gradually stabilized, breathing violently. , As if just gone through a big battle.

   "No...not these..."

  Joy tried hard not to think about those, those long past, he began to retrieve everything he had encountered, as an excellent superior knight, he tried his best to judge when he suffered erosion.

  Countless pictures overlapped and scattered back and forth, and finally, in the pouring rain, the pale cult group was revealed before his eyes.

   "James...James Moriarty."

  Joy said the name, the strange name.

   "Kestrel, that doctor has a problem."

  Joy grabbed the Kestrel by the collar, bloodshot eyes.

   "The doctor!"

"Who?"

Joey's reaction was a bit too violent. Kestrel was dragged by his collar. He wanted to calm down his colleague, but he couldn't help Joey for a while. It seemed that the nightmare was back again, and Joey kept roaring. .

   "He! That doctor!"

  That weird White Church, that weird mutual aid association, in retrospect, everything there is so weird and absurd.

   "He is... he comes from Montenegro Hospital... he has a problem..."

  Joy muttered repeatedly, severe pain tormented his mind, and in the end it was like a constant dream, Joey murmured these, and fell unconscious, unconscious.

  ……

   "Lorenzo Holmes is missing."

  In the warm room, Samuel reported the news to the man behind the desk.

  This time, the demon hunters who arrived in Old Dunling were not only those led by Anthony on the surface. There were also a group of demon hunters who arrived in Old Dunling before them and acted in secret.

  "The dark chess we placed before searched for his residence and the place where he might appear, but we couldn't find him." Samuel said.

  "Has it been protected by the decontamination agency?"

  Behind the desk, Anthony looked at the file in front of him and said without looking up.

   "I don't know, we currently do not have the ability to infiltrate the cleansing agency...but it is also possible that he absconded. Old Dunling's traffic is very developed, and the railway covers the entire territory of Inverweg."

   "Are you talking about running away?" Anthony shook his head. "I don't think Mr. Lorenzo Holmes will run away."

He said that he recalled Lorenzo's fury when he was in the conference room. Lorenzo's fury really shocked him at that time, and even said that it shocked everyone, even if he suddenly violent and went to war with everyone. Anthony was not surprised, but after Lorenzo left, he realized all the disguise.

  It was Lorenzo's disguise, his bluff, this was a demon hunter with raging anger, even if he was already wounded at that time, he had to pretend to be strong.

"As for the decontamination agency, in fact, we have already played a role. That conversation must have made Mr. Holmers aware that an organization as large as the decontamination agency is not credible. At least such a large organization will not depend on one person Will stop.

  I think he should be hiding, hiding in a corner of Old Dunling, watching us quietly, ready to jump out at any time and bite our throats. "

  Samur was a little worried, "Do you need to send out those dark moves to hunt him?"

   "No need, they need to stay until the end, now they are just attacking the snake."

  Anthony directly rejected these.

   "We need a living Lorenzo Holmes... his value is far more expensive than it appears on the surface."

Samuel doesn’t understand this. In fact, he has always wondered what Anthony wants to do... Or what the new pope wants to do. Anthony is the most trusted sword of the new pope. It can be said that everything Anthony is doing now is new. The will of the Pope.

   "Aren't we looking for "Revelation"?" Samuel asked.

"But we don’t have any clues, don’t we? We can learn from the exchange of information with the decontamination agency that Lawrence is dead. In the night, no one knows how long he planned, let alone that he occupied the "Revelation" for so long.

  There is too much forbidden knowledge in that book, even the knowledge that even the evangelical church chooses to forget... But it is such a terrible person who died and was killed by Mr. Holmes. "

   Anthony raised his head as he spoke, with a vague worry in his eyes.

"The cleaning agency did not tell us the specific conditions of the battlefield at that time, but it is clear that from the current point of view, Mr. Holmes has absolutely no chance of defeating Lawrence, but the fact is that Lawrence is dead, and he is still alive unscathed. Down.

  Perhaps...this is the power of the pseudo-Holy Grail. "

  Samuel was startled, he had never thought about this, no one knew the power of the pseudo-Holy Grail, and even the appearance of the pseudo-Holy Grail was unclear.

   "Lawrence is the only clue to find the "Apocalypse", and now he is dead, but the inferior secret blood is still appearing...It seems that another person has joined the game instead of Lawrence."

   Anthony paused as he spoke.

  "Let’s stop talking about it, Samuel, the current situation is very complicated, even I don’t know what to do...At least until the Pope’s order is given, we’d better maintain the status quo."

   "But...what about those dark moves?"

   Samuel heard Anthony’s question and said quickly.

  "At present, they have successfully integrated into the old Dunling. Among them, he is the most outstanding, even infiltrating the Black Mountain Hospital."

  Anthony clearly knew who Samuel was referring to, and he was not surprised.

   "His power is very suitable for penetration."

   seemed to think of something, Anthony couldn't help laughing.

  The power Anthony was too familiar with. At the beginning, the new pope used this blood to wash the whole place of Qiqiu, and those people did not understand why it was so until death.

   "But he... is not very controllable."

  Samur expressed his concerns.

   "What he did before..."

  "As long as the value is greater than the risk, it is good, just like the removal agency did to Mr. Holmes."

  Anthony seemed to be fully prepared and said confidently.

   lowered his head, and the long-looking document was placed on the desktop. Anthony was silent for a long time, but after a while he smiled again.

   "Samuel, take those witch hunters around."

   "Walk around?"

Samuel didn’t understand. When he came to Jiudunling, he was ready to fight to death. But after he arrived, there was no sword and light sword. There was only a verbal battle. It seemed that this was a game between two huge groups. If you can No one wants to see blood.

   "This is the old town, the nest of our enemies, the frontier of the world, there is no harm in seeing it more."

   "But... this feeling is like entertainment before death." Samuel couldn't help but said.

   "Perhaps, after all, we might all die next... This Lorenzo Holmes is so enigmatic that he didn't even realize it."

  Antony said and picked up the document. There was not much writing on it, just a few lines of scribbled words, and a few black and white photos sandwiched on it.

This document came from the Place of Seven Hills. It was secretly delivered to Anthony a few days after he arrived in Old Dunling. The photo contains several half-burned documents, although the black and white photo is not clear. Details, but from the rough outline you can see that one of them is a list.

  The handwriting in the other photo can be slightly clearer, and Anthony can see the number of re-stamps on it, as well as the blurred text.

  "Project: "Sword and Sheath Treaty", executor: Lorenzo Medici..."

   Anthony's brows are frowned together, and a problem that is far beyond the control of the current situation has emerged.

  (End of this chapter)