Chapter 48: Mistakes
"So you calculated that in the first place?"
"It's not a calculation, it's just a little premonition. ”
There was a voice, it sounded like two men, and they seemed to be talking about something.
"Premonition what?" the man asked.
"I have a hunch that Erin Adler will not be such a simple person, she must still want to do something, but we don't know yet. The other man replied.
"So this is a trick you've set up, bastard, you're using me!" the man's voice raised.
"It's not a use, it's just a matter of getting ready, I guess if Erin wants to do anything, spending time alone with you is her only chance, and we're not here, only you, the loser, are there. The other man continued.
"What do you mean by a defeated general!"
"Didn't you get tricked by her once? If it was still you, it would make her let her guard down. ”
"Let your guard down, she almost killed me!"
"But I changed the bullets, especially for you, otherwise when she hit you, she might have used live ammunition, and now you are a corpse. ”
"I have to thank you, don't I?" the man's words contained anger.
"You can thank me if you want to. The other man said with a still shameless face.
"Lorenzo!"
Kestrel raised his voice, and he was about to greet Lorenzo when he was interrupted by Lorenzo.
"She seemed to be awake. ”
After speaking, a large blurry face appeared in the field of vision, and I couldn't see his appearance clearly, but then there was a slight pain in his neck.
"Florent's potion, it should help you sober up...... Wow, Kestrel you are so ruthless, can't you be gentle with the lady?"
"She almost killed me! Lorenzo! Almost, just a little!"
With the scolding of the two, Erin gradually woke up.
She didn't know exactly what the so-called Florente potion was, but the effect of the injection was obvious, and she felt like her head had been taken out of her skull, then soaked in cold water, and then roughly stuffed back again.
Erin blinked vigorously, finally seeing her surroundings clearly, she was lying on the bed, trying to move, but her limbs were clearly bound by something, and beside her, Lorenzo and Kestrel sat on either side of her, one left and one right.
The kestrel's arm was completely bandaged, and there was an extra protective gear on it, which hung around his neck, and there were many more wounds on his face, and Erin remembered that she had just beaten it out.
Lorenzo on the other side was the same as usual, he was looking at himself with a serious face, but in the depths of those gray and blue eyes, there was some banter.
He won, but Erin couldn't hold back after all, showing her feet in front of Lorenzo.
"Although you say that you are here to help us, how can I believe the words of a person like you?"
Lorenzo saw that Erin was awake, and he spoke slowly.
"You did it all on purpose?"
Erin's voice was a little weak, and she felt that her head hurt, but thinking about it, the kestrel smashed it with a lot of rivet, and the doctor cut off Erin's long hair in order to bandage the wound, and wrapped it around her head again and again.
"Yes, your solitude with the kestrel and the weapons in that case are all for you, and if you really have any ideas, you won't let go of this opportunity. ”
Lorenzo continued.
"You're already an enemy of the Iron Law Bureau, and after this operation, you're bound to be my enemy, isn't that good, and you're not completely sure you'll be able to escape, are you?"
Lorenzo continued to dissect Irene's thoughts, and the more he delved into them, the more interesting he found them.
"So what is the reason? What would be the idea that would make you take such a big risk?"
In the face of Lorenzo's questioning, Erin is like no one, just like Lorenzo, she is very good at hiding her inner thoughts.
The two looked at each other for a brief moment, and Lorenzo said helplessly.
"Kestrels, go and rest first. ”
"Rest, can I do it!"
Kestrel was stunned for a moment, and then replied that although there was only one hand left to move, he could continue to compare with Erin, and inexplicably, Kestrel especially wanted to compete with Erin today.
Seeing this, Erin smiled helplessly, she felt that she was stupid, she would be overturned by such a guy, Lorenzo got up and said with a serious face.
"So let's put it another way, get out, understand?"
"Ah...... Okay. ”
With two hands, Lorenzo couldn't beat Lorenzo, let alone one, and Kestrel looked at the two of them, and then walked out, and from the door, Eve and Haybold were tidying up the living room, and under the battle between Kestrel and Irene, the two of them almost turned the entire living room over.
Lorenzo followed, glancing at the living room.
"Hasn't Hercule come back yet?"
"No, but Poirot was sent back. ”
Eve said and pointed to the big rat running all over the ground, and when they returned, the staff sent the big rat back, and no one knew where Hercule had gone.
"Is that so......"
Lorenzo wasn't worried about Hercule, this guy didn't have any strengths other than that weird brain, so this guy had a clear understanding of himself, and it was too easy for him to take advantage and avoid harm.
Closing the door, Lorenzo and Irene were the only ones left in the room, and he sat back in his seat, looked at Erin and whispered.
"Are you afraid of Hybald?"
There was a momentary pause in Erin's expression, which was brief but very obvious to Lorenzo's eyes.
She looked at Lorenzo, not knowing what to say for a moment, and finally asked helplessly.
"When did you find out. ”
"From the first time you met Haybode, your reaction was funny, like a mouse meets a cat...... You're scared. ”
Erin didn't continue to explain anything, her expression relaxed, the disguise she had been wearing was removed at this moment, and she finally became a little more relaxed, although she didn't want to do it herself, but continuing to pretend in Lorenzo's eyes was only embarrassing herself.
"Your main purpose in driving away the kestrel is to isolate Hybord, isn't it?"
Erin looked at the closed door, and that's when she realized that she had avoided Haybold every time she spoke to Lorenzo.
"yes, I'm more worried about that guy than you. ”
Lorenzo stared at Erin, his gaze making Erin a little uneasy.
"Hybod is Ivar's personal bodyguard. Erin said.
Lorenzo thought for a moment.
"Love triangle?"
“?”
Unable to stand Erin's disdainful gaze, Lorenzo apologized repeatedly.
"I'm sorry, I'm just trying to liven things up. ”
"Is there any need for this atmosphere to liven up?"
Erin was almost laughed at by Lorenzo.
"I thought it was, at least it seemed to me. Lorenzo continued to explain.
"After all, you're the famous Erin Adler, and Heybod warned me so many times before he came, and you looked like a cold viper to him, and you saw it like a kestrel like that.
You captured his mind so easily, and to be honest, it's hard not to be wary. ”
As if she didn't expect to look like this in Lorenzo's eyes, Erin shook her head, she was beaten by the kestrel and her whole body hurt, the pain interfered with her thoughts.
"Do you smoke?" Lorenzo asked, "you look a little bad." ”
Erin nodded, and continued.
"You know what I do, and I'm pretty versatile to get closer to my goal, and I even fix steam engines, albeit on the fly. ”
Erin said as she remembered the work.
"My target was a captain who was in charge of an arms smuggling route, and I boarded the ship as a maintenance man, and he thought he would have an unforgettable journey with me, but I threw him into the combustion chamber and burned to the ground. ”
"Oh, that doesn't sound good. ”
Lorenzo said as he handed Erin a cigarette mixed with ashweed and lit a fire for her.
"Hallucinogens?"
Erin was immediately aware of the cigarette problem, Lorenzo replied.
"It's pretty much the same, I usually use this when I'm stressed, and it's quite pain-relieving. ”
"Definitely. ”
Erin felt it too, the pain was diluted, and gradually she couldn't feel anything.
Leaning against the head of the bed, she seemed to realize that she could not change anything, and her somewhat reddened eyes finally broke the embankment, and she raised her head as best to keep Lorenzo from seeing the embarrassing scene.
"So if it's not a love triangle, what is it?"
Lorenzo didn't look at Erin very tacitly, but picked up the book on the side at random and flipped through it, and after a few glances, it was actually the hellish "Victoria's Secrets".
In fact, he was also curious about the ending of this story.
"Actually, I've read this book. ”
Erin squinted at the book, not knowing who she was talking to.
"A lot of the time I had to hide in my room, and I was bored during that time, just reading these weird books, when in fact I ended up with the same ending as this. ”
"What do you mean?"
"I had a chance, a chance to escape. ”
Erin thought as she spoke, and she swallowed the fog.
Ivar asked me if I would be interested in getting out of here, and although the guy had always looked like he was owed money and was gloomy, he liked to hang out, and in his parlance, he hated the cold north, and he wanted to see the warm land. ”
Maybe it was the ashweed at work, and Erin didn't know if it was a hallucination or what, but in her blurred vision she saw the face she hadn't seen for a long time.
But he is the son of the King of the Ice Sea, although he was born deformed, but his status is still higher than many people, and the meaning he carries is extraordinary, he said that what he misses most is when he was a child, when his father was not the King of the Ice Sea, and did not treat him as a deformity, and would take him to sea with him.
Despite the burden, Ivar was able to roar at the storm, but with the blessing of the crown, it was all back. ”
Lorenzo asked in a low voice as he felt he was about to touch the secret of the depths.
"And then? And then what happened? You designed to kidnap Ivar?"
Erin was silent for a moment, then nodded.
"It was a long-planned escape, and I had made a route where we would travel around the world, and everything was beautiful, and even his escort, Haybod, was moved by me. ”
"Actually, Hypard is a nice fellow, he once told me privately that he sympathized with Ivar, and although he felt a little sorry for him and looked disgusting, he felt that the Vikings should not have died in a wheelchair like this, not to mention that the man was still bleeding the blood of the King of the Ice Sea, and he couldn't bear to watch Ivar continue to be depressed like this.
So at my beheaving, he let us go and let us go. ”
Erin took a deep breath, a cigarette burned out, Lorenzo cooperated and handed over another, the ashweed made Erin very relaxed, in such a tired situation, this was the time when she let her guard down the most, and it was also Lorenzo's most likely chance to learn the secret.
"And then?"
Lorenzo continued to ask.
"And then, as you can guess, at first everybody was happy, like the story in Victoria's Secrets, where the boy and the girl escaped and went on that unknown journey, and Haybold took all the blame for covering our whereabouts, and then ...... Then I let him down. ”
Erin's gaze was a little glazed, staring straight into the void ahead.
"The joy didn't last long, we were intercepted on the high seas by the Iron Law Bureau battleship, which had been ambushed beforehand, and Ivar was captured, and he was silent as if he knew it was going to happen. ”
Lorenzo looked at Erin, and he suddenly realized that his guess might be true, and he couldn't help but feel a wave of trepidation, and ...... Amusing.
"That's a low-level mistake, how could you make such a mistake? Lorenzo asked.
Erin turned her head to look at Lorenzo, she knew that she had been seen through by Lorenzo, and she asked rhetorically with a smile.
"What about you? Lorenzo Holmos, haven't you made a mistake in your life?"
Lorenzo was stunned, and Erin continued.
"Probably this is the inferiority of human beings, I think Mr. Holmos, you have killed a lot of people, too many to count. ”
Lorenzo nodded stiffly, and Erin asked.
"Can you tell if you're simply killing, or if you're carrying out the so-called justice in your heart?"
Erin smiled self-deprecatingly.
"Just like me, just like us, we all wear masks, but sometimes we remember the masks, but more often than not, the masks are stuck to our faces and we can't take them off. ”
"It's terrible, Irene. ”
Lorenzo was sad about all this, and he took pity on Irene.
"You're in love with him?"
Silence, I don't know how long this silence lasted, Erin laughed, she couldn't stop laughing, and finally even coughed, pulling the wound.
"How so?"
As if it was some kind of funny joke, she was almost crying out of laughter.