The target is awake and the state is stable. ”

In the drizzling rain, the security team that rushed in directly controlled Lorenzo, and then the medical personnel examined the two.

Lorenzo sat obediently on the wreckage of steel, letting these white coats touch left and right on his body, and from time to time someone pulled down his eyelids to carefully observe his pupils, and the night owl was carried on a stretcher, and the burden was finally lifted, and the whole person passed out, not knowing where he was carried by those white coats.

Heavy slings slowly descended from the rails and hung one by one on top of the black angels, lifting the eerie armor as the rain washed the blood and it gathered into a pale red liquid and fell.

As if touching something, the black angel moved again, and the broken wings slowly closed, completely enveloping itself, and turning back into the black egg-shape.

In the process, the flesh shrunk and died, and they hid back under the steel, and the scarlet eyes on the armor cracked, leaving only hollow black gaps, like a soulless iron shell.

"How it feels, Lorenzo. ”

The platform descended to the ground, and Merlin and Nikolai walked over one after another.

Merlin had become that cold and empty appearance again, and they were all living with suppressed emotions for the sake of that beautiful ideal.

"It's not bad, erosion does exist, but it can only affect my judgment to a certain extent, and it can't control me. ”

Lorenzo replied directly and in detail.

"It's like this thing. ”

He patted the remains of the Sword Dancer beneath him.

"I just want to incapacitate it, but that kind of ......"

"Amplify the negativity of emotions, those unspeakable malice, right?"

Merlin replied directly, he knew this very well, and after studying it for so long, although the power of the demon was still weird, the power of the void gradually had a vague outline with the deepening of his cognition.

"Hmm...... Pretty much, it made me more belligerent, more angry, but only a little bit of guidance, and I was able to control it in the end. ”

Lorenzo looked up at the black angel that was fading into the rails, it was a double-edged sword, but Lorenzo was able to hold it firmly.

"Enough data has been collected, in fact, you can be regarded as the most suitable driver for the Black Angels. ”

Merlin glanced at the record on the paper, and then said intentionally or not.

"I'll forget it. ”

Lorenzo didn't think much about it and directly refused.

"What? I thought you'd like this, it's powerful, after all. ”

Lorenzo's outright refusal was a bit of a surprise to him, and he had expected Lorenzo to love it.

"Strong is strong, it has its own disadvantages, it's not like a sword, it's not a gun, I can carry it with me at all times, right? and I'm strong enough, Medanzo's power gives me protection, and my own mobility and stability are not weaker than it. ”

After thinking about it carefully, Lorenzo said with some seriousness.

"Even if I face the Sword Dancer again, I'm confident that I'll be able to solve it in the way of a witcher. ”

As long as the propulsion system is destroyed, the danger of the sword dancer will be greatly reduced, and it will lose its mobility, its bloated and bulky body is far from keeping up with the agile witcher, and the external armor seems to be tight, and that is only for another armor, another group of demons.

Just like a duel between knights, the gap between the armor will be the most fatal weakness, and Lorenzo has the confidence to stab the cockpit directly with his sword along the gap.

"Of course, the portability is not comparable to those weapons, of course, this is also the reason why we are vigorously developing the Atrium Serpent system, I dare not say otherwise, at least in the old Dunling, we are still very confident in the rapid delivery. ”

Merlin continued.

After so many years of development of the purification mechanism, the old Dunling has been transformed into a fortress, but the people who live here have never realized it.

The serpent that encircled the atrium had wrapped its massive body around the Old Dunling, and even in Invig, and it complemented the Peep system, and the rapid response team led by Lancelot was based on this, so that they could be quickly launched into the battlefield when the demon appeared.

The aftermath of the battle is dealt with by the mysterious scavenger troops, whether it is the damaged field, the corpses everywhere, or the terrified crowd, they can solve it perfectly, as if it were just a strange nightmare, and everything is empty when you wake up.

"It does ......"

Lorenzo still agrees with these words, the Purification Mechanism and the Demon Hunting Order are completely two ways of doing things, one is closer to the modern and the other is more and more ancient.

"But the Black Angel still has those nostalgic places, such as the [Gap] shuttle. ”

Lorenzo whispered, for now it was a secret that only he and Merlin knew.

Merlin nodded, "I will have the Black Angel sealed, and the enhancement plan for you and the Black Angel will also be discussed later, as for the [gap] those ......"

There are too many results from this test, not only to preliminarily determine the future direction of armor research and development, but also to determine the weirdness within the evangelical church, which is far from being as simple as it seems.

"We'll need to discuss it, but that's for later, so take a break, Lorenzo. ”

Lorenzo stood up, and as he moved, he could feel the slight tingling pain coming from his body, most intensely in the back of his neck.

The flesh extending in the black angel directly connected him with the armor, Lorenzo gently touched the back of his neck, and could feel a small wound, which was not caused by electrodes, those flesh and blood were like dense tentacles, piercing into the skin and spreading to the nerves, intercepting Lorenzo's instructions for the body directly into the armor.

Although he didn't drive the armor much, Lorenzo could still detect the strangeness, but he didn't care about it, and seemed to blame it on the Holy Grail Flesh.

Lorenzo and the Black Angel are of the same origin to a certain extent, which may be the reason why he was accepted by the Black Angel.

"Then I'll go back. ”

Lorenzo said to Merlin that he had enough of this dark underground world, and although he lived in the dark, Lorenzo still longed for a cloudless sunny day.

Merlin waved at him, and someone led Lorenzo through the way, up from the ground up until he was back to the surface.

With the experimental data, Merlin hurried back to his laboratory, and now that everything was really crowded together, and they could not afford to have half of the things, if they took the wrong step, they could fall into the game with the evangelical church.

Suddenly, someone stopped him, Gawain still had a resolute face, just like those trustworthy knights a century ago, but he was not wearing ordinary armor, but the crystallization of current technology, the armor of original sin.

"Knight Gawain. ”

Merlin said that although they all served the Purifier Agency, Merlin was not very familiar with these knights stationed abroad.

"Chief Merlin...... You should know our attitude towards Lorenzo at the moment, right? But why ......" Gawain asked, a little confused, but more like accountability.

"Because we don't care about that, Knight Gawain, I know you follow the rules, but some of our rules are just ...... There are no rules. ”

Merlin's tone was unusually relaxed, and he looked unconcerned.

"Of course I know that Lorenzo has deceived us about his identity, and even that he has a very dangerous weapon, but at least for now, he is on our side, and he has value worth using, doesn't he?

We're good for him, he's good for us, and that's the strongest partnership. ”

Merlin said slowly, if he was still a little hesitant about Lorenzo's identity before, after Lorenzo was able to directly detect the Stagnant Sanctuary through the [Gap] shuttle, his value to the Purification Mechanism would undoubtedly soar by several notches. The advantages of his presence outweigh the disadvantages.

"What's more, if we had to analyze everyone's past strictly, and label it suspiciously as soon as there was a little stain, at least half of the people in the entire purification agency would be suspicious and untrustworthy, even me. ”

Merlin defended Lorenzo.

"Not everyone is as good as you, Knight Gawain, my past is also full of blood, shriek, blue jade, kestrels, even Joey, none of them are clean. ”

Gawain was silent, he wasn't good at arguing with people, and Percival walked over and interrupted the conversation.

"Don't be so serious, alas, Gawain is like that, a bit too rigid. ”

Percival grimaced at Merlin as she spoke, she and Gawain were a complete counterexample, one was as serious as a stone, and the other looked too happy.

"Chief Merlin, the reason why we can tolerate these 'unclean' is precisely because even if they pose a threat to the purification organs, it is within the controllable range, and Lorenzo is different......"

"Don't worry about that, I and Arthur, in fact, everything about Lorenzo, we were prepared when we approached him, and it was all kinds of preparations that got us here, didn't we?"

Gao Wen was stunned for a moment, and then said.

"If he really threatens us, who is responsible. ”

Merlin didn't answer directly, but after pausing for a long time, he said meaningfully.

"There will be someone. ”

......

The carriage stopped in front of the door of 121A Cork Street, pushed the door, and the roar of traffic hit the ears.

Lorenzo stood in front of the door, and instead of rushing in, he looked around and sat down on an old sofa in front of the door.

The sofa was broken, the leather cracking to reveal the cotton wool underneath. It was carried out by Madame van Loude after the winter, and it was not known when it was going to be disposed of.

Lorenzo sat on top of the shabby street, looking at the familiar street as a bystander.

He liked this feeling, witnessing the passers-by going back and forth, watching the fog rise and the end of the day, it seemed that only Lorenzo could really feel that he was an ordinary person living in this ordinary world, and everything was full of the so-called "sense of life".

Lorenzo thinks it's not bad, in fact, the long career of the witcher is not all about fighting and killing, and if you think about it, there are still some gentle memories.

In the spring and summer, for example, there are a few more rocking chairs on the sofa, and there is a parasol on the other side, and Madame van Loude sets out some dessert fruit plates, and Lorenzo sits here with her and Higg in her spare time...... Of course, the premise is that Lorenzo pays the rent well that month.

Lorenzo couldn't figure out why he suddenly wanted to sit here, maybe the inhuman experience just now was a little intense, and he desperately wanted to integrate into this ordinary life and continue to deceive himself about the beauty of life......

"Lorenzo?"

Someone shouted quietly, his voice full of unconfidence.

Lorenzo looked up and continued.

"Huh, Higg, did you just get off work?"

Looking at the returning Higg, Lorenzo habitually greeted, although he had lived for so long, there was very little communication between him and Higg, and they didn't know much about each other.

Higg lost his job because of hallucinogens, but now that he's quit that, he seems to have found a new job.

"No, I just finished attending a mutual aid meeting. ”

Higg replied very seriously, uncharacteristically.

He has always been afraid of Lorenzo, although Higg thinks he is hiding it well, but these are so clear in Lorenzo's eyes, he knows very well what kind of hellish image he is in Higg's eyes, but it can't be helped, Lorenzo doesn't want to always go home with someone else's blood.

"Mutual Aid Society? Oh, that thing. ”

Hearing him say this, Lorenzo also remembered that in order to encourage each other, many people will set up some mutual aid associations, such as the Mutual Aid Association for Alcohol Withdrawal, the Mutual Aid Association for Withdrawal of Psychenogens and the like.

"Hmm...... You look good, what's going on?"

It's not a good state anymore, Lorenzo feels a little cheerful in Higg for the first time in so many years, and I don't know what he's been through.

"Okay, made a new friend. ”

"That's good. ”

Lorenzo was very happy for Higg, who was obviously a bit of an autistic fellow, who had come to Old Dunling at a very young age and lived in the house behind Lorenzo, where he had lived and never left.

Higg never mentioned anything about his family, he always looked at the world with a blank face, and sometimes Lorenzo couldn't understand his sadness, wondering why he was the way he was.

"Don't you go in?"

He opened the door and stood in front of Lorenzo as Higg tried to accept the others, starting with a normal conversation with Lorenzo.

Lorenzo shook his head, this feeling of fireworks in the world, he still wanted to experience it for a while, of course, he also felt a little weird, after all, he was used to the gloomy, silent Higg.