Chapter XXVI

A crisp sound kept coming from the table, and the books that should have been on them had been pushed aside, and now there was a mess.

Lorenzo sat in his chair and worked on the bullets in his hand, leaving iron filings everywhere.

Inside the suitcase he was carrying was a piece of holy silver that he had taken away from the Order, which had been in an equipment box somewhere.

As a witcher, there will always be some unexpected events, coupled with their strong individual combat ability, basically every witcher is assigned something similar to an equipment box, everything from medical treatment to weapon manufacturing, and even the precious holy silver is distributed

Lorenzo's holy silver has been taken from it since the battle lasted for so long, and although the holy silver nugget is not large, it can still be used for a long time based on Lorenzo's consumption.

But Lorenzo didn't plan to use it so lavishly, the production technology of holy silver was also monopolized by the Evangelical Church, for him, this is a little less lethal metal for demons, and the holy silver weapons are mostly plated, and even recycled metal can't be done.

Loading the bullet into the weapon, Lorenzo jerked the retainer and reloaded it with that crisp sound.

Winchester used a deer bullet, which was filled with large spherical lead bullets, and after processing, he mixed them with a bullet plated with holy silver, which was very lethal to the demon weapon at close range, and some low-level demons would be directly broken into pieces under this shot.

But Lorenzo felt that it was still not enough, if he was facing the demon who caused the murder, this bit of firepower did not seem to be enough to kill it directly.

Flicking the gun, just as Lorenzo was thinking, his fingers flicked some uneven textures, and turned over the gun, which was a small line of poetry.

For a moment, it seemed as if I had gone back a long way ago, when a man like myself was so gentle with Winchester, and then he picked up the carving knife and carved words on the wooden gun.

Lorenzo remembered the poem, and the man who had survived in the [gap] liked it so much that he engraved it on his gun, and then he died, and it was Lorenzo's turn.

Lorenzo had searched many library books, but he couldn't find the source of this little poem, he said that it was his own idea, but in Lorenzo's opinion, this thing was probably a gift of [God's Baptism], Lorenzo got a lot of ghostly dreams in that baptism, so he knew some poems that did not exist in the world and it was easy to understand.

Shaking his head, Lorenzo gave up thinking about it, and it was already dawn, although it was a little oppressive to be covered by the clouds.

Lorenzo picked up his cane and hung Winchester under his trench coat, and seeing that Joey was about to pick him up, he pushed open the door and walked down the stairs, but the same footsteps sounded below, Lorenzo looked up and saw Higg walking up the steps.

Higg had dark circles under his eyes, his face was a little pale, and his hair was messy, and he didn't know where he was going to fool around for the night.

Lorenzo's relationship with Higg is not very good, because he doesn't want to drag others down to connect with demons, and to a certain extent, Lorenzo has a very cold attitude towards anyone, even his roommate who lives next door to him. In Higg's opinion, his roommate is not a good thing.

This somewhat neurotic detective has been living here for six years, and during these six years, Lorenzo will inevitably encounter some uncontrollable things, sometimes returning with a wound, and Madame Vanrude, who has a black history, can see the essence of Lorenzo at a glance, plus her own lawless character is not afraid, but this makes Higg bitter.

You're a diligent mechanic, and the guy you live next door to you seems to be some underworld killer city soldier king, with Winchester under him who can beat people into mud through the iron plate, and you only have a wrench underneath, you don't necessarily move yet, and you have to panic if you change anyone.

However, in the past six years, this violent person with the title of detective has not brought "work" home, which has made Higg feel much more relieved, and he has barely lived until now.

He didn't have much to do with Lorenzo, and when he saw Lorenzo, Higg was stunned, and then said something dry.

"Good morning. ”

Lorenzo nodded coldly, this is how he usually communicates with Higg, although Lorenzo can think a lot in private, but this roommate is miserable enough as a mechanic who repairs good fortune, he doesn't want to connect the unlucky demon with him anymore.

So in essence, Lorenzo still likes this roommate and making friends or something, but unfortunately because of the connection with the darkness, he must ensure that the fewer people who know him well, the better, and there are too many intersections with people like him, but there is no good end.

The two of them stepped forward at the same time, Lorenzo slightly sideways, and gave way to Higg, but in the moment he seemed to smell something familiar.

Walking downstairs, Lorenzo looked up at where Higg had disappeared, a strange sense of familiarity swept over his perception, but he couldn't remember, there seemed to be a smell of blood in the air, Lorenzo didn't wonder what all this was all about.

Watson sat on the sofa on the first floor and looked at Lorenzo with a smile, she seemed to know something, but she didn't say anything, just showed a weird smile, but Lorenzo ignored it.

Since Operation Endertown, she has appeared more and more frequently, like a ghost swimming next to Lorenzo, and sometimes Lorenzo can see her presence in the corner of his sight with a casual glance.

But fortunately, she didn't show up when Lorenzo took a shower and went to the toilet, and it seems that this damn devil still has a little conscience, but thinking about it at that time, it is also a bit too corrupt to the temperament of the "mysterious ultimate monster".

The dark carriage had stopped at the door, the door was open, and Joey sat inside waiting for Lorenzo, pulled the door shut, and the carriage sped off.

"Then it's up to me to decide how to investigate the case, right?"

Lorenzo asked, leaning back in his soft chair.

Joey nodded, and continued.

"We don't care about the method, we only pursue the result, this demon has been out of the control of the purification mechanism for too long, and no demon has survived for so long since we established it. ”

Joey relayed orders from Arthur.

"These are the things you need to take, this is the internal communicator of the purification agency, there is any newspaper that will notify you as soon as possible, you better keep it with you at all times. ”

Saying that, Joey handed over the communicator, Lorenzo looked at this interesting thing with some curiosity, in this era the telephone and telegraph have appeared, but the hidden radio communication like this still surprised Lorenzo.

These things are not talked about in the university classroom, and they are probably the research of the perpetual motion pump.

Lorenzo tried to ask Joey, but Joey shook his head and said he didn't understand, which made Lorenzo even more confused.

Sometimes Lorenzo felt that there was a great sense of dissonance in the world, like the steam engine.

This thing relies on boiling water to make the boiler high pressure, then the steam expands to push the piston to do work, and finally the generator set is added to drive the generator to generate electricity.

Deep beneath Lorenzo's feet was the world's largest steam unit, the Furnace Pillar System, and the power of that thing made the whole old Dunling go round.

But Lorenzo sometimes felt ...... It shouldn't be this way.

Thinking of those things inside the Demon Hunting Order, whether it was the [Baptism of the Divine Favor] or the mysterious Static Saint, Lorenzo felt that that kind of thing was enough to change the world, but the Evangelical Church was like not knowing their abilities, so it was only firmly sealed and only used for the Demon Hunting Order.

He doesn't know anything about technology, but sometimes he always notices something unusual in the world, not just demons, but also the essence of human power.

Lorenzo couldn't tell the weird specifics, but sometimes he was keenly aware of its existence and haunted it.

Sometimes he thinks of what is often said about the alternation of times, the old era is gone, the new era is coming, and those barbarian pasts have been outlawed by the steam engine, so ...... So will there ever be a day when the steam engine will also be replaced by something?

This is not the fantasy of the mentally ill, Lorenzo had seen it in the [Baptism of God], that world is far more magnificent than now, Lorenzo does not know whether it is real, or whether it is feasible, but it successfully made Lorenzo suspicious, doubting that the so-called modern technology is really the end of technology?

The sudden stop of the carriage interrupted Lorenzo's thoughts, he was really a person who liked to think, Lorenzo thought it would be nice to pass the time with this, but this time Lorenzo actually felt a little tired, he had never thought of this before, not even when he was shocked by the first contact with the purifier because of their damn black technology.

Joey didn't keep Lorenzo thinking, he said.

"If you want to investigate the case, let's start here. ”

"What's wrong?"

Lorenzo asked.

These days, Lorenzo has discovered a very interesting phenomenon, as soon as he gets on the carriage of the purifier, it will run without Lorenzo saying the location, as if he knows where Lorenzo wants to go.

"The suspicion has been confirmed, the demon is not dead, it committed another crime last night. ”

"Is it so urgent?"

Lorenzo got out of the carriage, he was not surprised that the demon was not dead, he just didn't expect the demon to be so anxious, he thought that the demon would hide for a few days before making a move, but it didn't seem to want to rest at all.

Completely oblivious to what he had just thought, the cold air poured into his nose with a thick blood vapor, and even without Joey's guidance, Lorenzo knew where the crime scene was.

"Another revenge?"

"Of course, it still has a handwriting. ”

Joey said.

After a moment of contemplation, Lorenzo continued.

"Then we need to hurry, or we may not be able to catch it again. ”

"Why?"

Joey didn't understand, he didn't expect Lorenzo, who was a witcher, to give up so quickly.

"It's very simple, this is the fifth deceased, the time span is nearly a month, with the will of that mortal, I am afraid that it will not be long before he will be completely demonized, and then he will not be able to ask anything. ”

Lorenzo said the results of his analysis.

"Besides, are there so many enemies of his? this is the fifth, and if he finishes his revenge, he will probably never commit another crime, which is a great obstacle to our investigation. ”

"Or maybe his revenge isn't over yet, and now there's another unlucky ghost in this city about to be tortured and killed, and his life or death depends entirely on whether we can catch that demon in time. ”

Lorenzo had a strange sense of responsibility for a while after he finished speaking, and now someone's fate was in his hands, although Lorenzo didn't know him, but his life or death completely depended on Lorenzo's action.

"So...... Let me see. ”

Lorenzo said as he stepped into the guard.

The intensity of the scene was almost impossible to look at, and the bleeding was as heavy as the bloody room Lorenzo had seen.

The scene has been surrounded by the people of the purification agency, because the place of the crime is in the lower city, he thought that the thorns of the gangsters would come out to send them to death, but it is obvious that the deterrent power of the shrike has played a role at this moment, and the vicinity is very clean under his orders, and even the rest of the gang members are very tacitly away from this place.

Come to think of it, the deceased's name is Hughes, and he is the leader of a gang in the lower city, and it stands to reason that this kind of person is difficult to die, and there is a group of younger brothers who follow him wherever he goes, but even so, he still died, and he died with his younger brothers.

The rest of the gang leaders must have been terrified, after all, that monster could easily kill Hughes, and it could easily kill them, and judging from the cooperation of those gang members during the questioning, the leaders behind them also hoped that Lorenzo and them would catch that monster quickly.

"Do you have any opinions?"

Joey seemed to be able to accept the bloody scene, and watched coldly, blood was spilled all over the alley, and Hughes's body was lying on the ground, the blood from the waist down the abdomen was basically gone, and it continued to be cut by the razor little by little as it was now.

"At first glance, it seems that he died of blood loss, and the pain lasted for a long time, and the demon really tortured him with all his heart. ”

Joey said.

"Where do you think to start?"

This should be the first time in the history of the purification agency to solve a case related to demons, after all, the demons they encountered before this time were not rational to speak of.

"Revenge ......"

Lorenzo said suddenly, and then laughed.

"Actually, this case is very simple, isn't this demon taking revenge?

I thought back to the dead before, they all had different statuses, but they were all killed by demons in the name of revenge.

"Give me all the details of the deceased, there must be some connection between them, because this connection leads to the revenge of the demons, and if we can, we may be able to guess the next victim based on this connection. ”

Lorenzo looked at the horrific corpse and said slowly.

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