It's like a strange meeting, in the narrow back kitchen, among the pots and pans, two people and a mouse.

Camus was still mopping the floor, and the water washed over and over again, finally washing away the blood, as is often done in the lower towns, and he laboriously carried the dead people and threw them into the Thames not far away, not knowing where they would fall, but not being an eyesore here.

Every now and then there were gunshots, killing those who were still dying, and then throwing them into the river, which was not the same thing as a double in Kamu's skillful movements.

In the back kitchen, Lorenzo looked at the excited Hercule, and after a brief hesitation, he still stretched out his hand and shook it with him.

This is a harmless fellow, as he himself said, Hercule has to take a few breaths to run, but at the same time he is so dangerous, his strange calculation and control, he can deduce the beginning and end of the event, not relying on extraordinary strength, just strong enough memory and deduction ability.

"So how did the rest of the bad rats do it, your organization's connections, and the preservation of materials?"

"It's very simple, training mice, different colors indicate different situations and logos, as for information and information, etc., this kind of memory is not impossible to copy, as long as there is a certain amount of training, ordinary people can become the same as me, of course, it may not be able to reach my level. ”

He pointed to his head again and said very seriously.

"Train yourself to build your own archive, your own palace of memory, in your mind, and put all the things you need into it. ”

"Do you want to learn? Mr. Holmes, I can see your curiosity, and with your wisdom you will learn very quickly. ”

Lorenzo didn't reply in a hurry, he just observed the somewhat excited man, and he began to find the events interesting.

He has experienced too many extraordinary events, and even said that Lorenzo himself is the embodiment of transcendental, and there is secret blood flowing in his body, so many things, when they are beyond the logic of ordinary people, he will think of demons, or something more complicated, but Lorenzo never thought that the final truth would be so simple.

It's all just a man's interpretation, and he integrates one story after another from the huge amount of information, and finally finds the loopholes between them.

If Lorenzo hadn't seen those outrageous things, no one would have believed Hercule, and everyone might have thought that his mental illness had relapsed and he would have been sent to a nursing home.

"You've reintroduced me to the limits of mortals. ”

"But mortal limits are always immeasurable, aren't they? Hercule replied.

"Too many people live in this city where steel and miracles coexist, and the longer they live, the more awe they become, but they never thought that every inch and piece of this place was built by mortals in the past. ”

Lorenzo didn't speak, but today's conversation with Hercule had already made him think too much.

"So you've done all this, you've been looking for 'us' for so long, and you've been honest about everything now, what do you really want?"

Lorenzo asked again.

"Knowledge, curiosity, curiosity, too much, too much!" Hercule said.

"The more I know about that morbid desire to control, the more curious I am about the fog of Old Dunling, just as there is another invisible roommate living in your room, and you are at first terrified, then insatiably curious. ”

He said to Lorenzo.

"Who are you, what do you want to do, and for what?"

"But why did you suddenly jump out of contact with us before?" Lorenzo didn't answer that, and asked about something else.

With the way the Purifier acts, and the casualty rate of the personnel, if they find someone like Hercule, they will either lock him up in the Perpetual Motion Pump to study his brain slices, or they will join the work and fight the demons at their posts until they are exhausted.

"Because I wasn't sure what you were?" said Hercule, "I don't know where you stand, and I don't know what you're trying to do, so maybe you'll kill me as soon as I show up?"

"As for the present appearance, it is because we have the same interests, and in some respects, we are aligned, and if I had not found this agreement, I might have been avoiding you all the time, like a mouse in the gutter, longing for the light but fearing it. ”

Without waiting for Lorenzo to continue to ask anything, Hercule rummaged through the cupboard on the side, and after a while, he took out a row of reagents, looking at those familiar things, Lorenzo didn't know how to talk for a while.

It seems that Hercule really has some mental problems, and such a dangerous thing is so generously placed in the cupboard.

"You're familiar with these things, aren't you, hallucinogens? ”

Hercule placed a row of hallucinogens in front of Lorenzo's eyes, in different styles and with different degrees of surface wear, but what they all had in common was the power of an eerie restlessness inside.

"I discovered these special hallucinogens about a year ago, and unlike ordinary hallucinogens, there seems to be demonic blood here, and anyone who uses them will become crazy and violent. ”

Hercule said as he carefully observed Lorenzo's expression, and no slight change could escape his eyes.

I have to admit that he and Lorenzo are really similar, but the difference is that Hercule does not have the same powerful combat power as Lorenzo, he can only rely on his brain, so he is more cautious, sharper, and more cautious than Lorenzo.

"So varied?"

Lorenzo hadn't thought there were so many types of hallucinogens, but Hercule denied it.

"It's not the kind, they're all hallucinogens made by the same producer, and he seems to be using people as experiments, and these different packages are just iterations of differences. ”

Hercule said, pointing to the labels on the hallucinogens, which had a different date, the date they were discovered.

"It can be seen that the producers' experiments have been successful, and they have made rapid progress and iterations until this latest version. ”

Pointing to the end, the new glass contains a brilliant liquid.

"How did you find this?"

The more we talked, the more Helculi surprised Lorenzo, a mortal who had deduced the secret of the Purification Mechanism.

"Bad rats, at first it was reported that hallucinogens drive people crazy...... It's very common, and I've heard even more outrageous from the mouths of bad rats, where one person used hallucinogens and, under the hallucination, stripped naked and fled into the furnace. ”

Hercule laughed, under such a huge message, listening to some sand sculpture news was a source of joy for Hercule.

"I didn't care, after all, the data I had to count was too large, and I would instinctively ignore some of it until there was a problem with the variable. More and more bad rats reported this, and then I pretended to be a homeless man and witnessed it with my own eyes, and I took this strange thing seriously. ”

"It's evolving so fast, in recent generations, it's been able to turn people into monsters, bloodthirsty monsters, but every time it appears, you're killing and cleaning it up as if nothing had happened. ”

Hercule's tone was strange.

Lorenzo asked, "Your suspicions have come to us?"

"That's right, a mysterious force from some official secretly used people in the lower city to conduct some kind of experiment, which is too much in line with conspiracy theories, and for a while I had a strong sense of justice, and I was even ready to collect enough evidence to bring the people in the lower city to uncover it. ”

Hercule's voice stopped suddenly, and after a moment of silence he continued.

"But I later found out that you were not complicit, and that you were also pursuing this, as evidenced by Sabo's death, I discovered early on that he had something to do with the circulation of these hallucinogens, and that the flames of the palace were in the sky, and the Praetorian Guard was stationed and surrounded by them. ”

Hearing this, Lorenzo's heart froze, Hercule had been paying attention to these for a long time, and it was terrifyingly early, and the mortal body made him have an extremely excessive warning.

"That's what you're using me today, right?" Lorenzo asked, and behind all the coincidences was Hercule, who was driving the chain of events.

"I found out that they were going to ship the last shipment, and this is my last chance to make a move, and I took advantage of you, to be precise, it's a win-win, after all, you're also looking into the case, aren't you? ”

Hercule continued, "I don't know what you're capable of, you're on your own, or you're at risk. ”

"So you called the Sualan Room?" asked Lorenzo.

He nodded, and continued, "Sheriff Donas has been eager for a promotion for a long time, he needs to solve a big case, but I may be alert if I give him information directly, and that's when I found a new person, she is also very interested in investigating the case and is full of motivation......"

"You did all this with her hands?"

"That's right, I think you and the Mounties in Suaran Hall can solve these things perfectly, but it seems that I still underestimate the evil of this hallucinogen. ”

Lorenzo was silent for a long time, as if thinking about something.

Hercule was so smart that if it weren't for the fact that there was really nothing abnormal about him, Lorenzo even suspected that he was also affected by demons, but this effect was positive, he didn't go crazy, but became more and more sane.

After a long pause, he asked again.

"How much more do you know, or how far do you know enough information?"

"Hmmm......"

Hercule picked up Poirot in Lorenzo's arms, thought carefully, then laughed and replied.

"In short, your ability to act, my interpretation, we will be limited omniscient and omnipotent. ”

Hercule fell into the carnival of finding his kind, this is a very strange man, although it is said that he is fighting against the darkness, he has no lofty ideals, and what a tragic past.

He was just a man driven by primitive desires, an overzealous curiosity, and a deformed desire for control, pure human.

Like those navigators who are not afraid of death, they raise their sails to meet the storm, he does not desire wealth and glory, Hercule is just curious, curious about what lies on the other side of the sea.

"Then let's get started quickly, Mr. Holmes. ”

Hercule cheerfully kicked open the door to the back kitchen, but Lorenzo sat there and shook his head.

"Not yet, Hercule, I still have a lot of work to do. ”

"Like going back to report on the mission?" Hercule was well aware of the behemoth behind Lorenzo, and the conversation just now was not only for Lorenzo, but also for the organization behind him.

"Sort of......

"Would you mention me to your boss? How would you judge me? Trust is precious, and I don't want to be arrested and put in a mental hospital just after you're gone. ”

Hercule's tone hardened.

"If you're afraid of that, you shouldn't expose it. ”

"But to satisfy my deformed curiosity, I'm willing to take those risks. ”

The two looked at each other briefly, then laughed, and Lorenzo said slowly.

"No, I'm not going to tell anyone I've seen you, but again, you've touched me, Hercule, and I do need someone like you. ”

Hercule's eyes were slightly puzzled, and then his speeding brain thought of something, and his smile became strange.

"You have your own thoughts, don't you?"

Lorenzo didn't deny it, he nodded, "Of course, but if I can, I don't want that day to come, after all, it's still a bit unacceptable to turn against each other." ”

"Is there a conflict between the individual and the group?" Hercule said something that only the two of them could understand.

Lorenzo no longer responded, but pulled out the knife he had inserted and left without looking back.

After Lorenzo left, Camus cautiously walked back, although he was not present at the time, judging by the tragic situation of these thugs, it was all done by Lorenzo.

"They sent the letter again. ”

Camus looked in the direction Lorenzo had left, and after making sure that no one was there, he took a letter from his bosom and handed it to Hercule.

"They're really not giving up. ”

Hercule looked at the seal on the envelope, the melted fire paint was pressed into a peculiar symbol, and in the triangle, a strange eye stared silently at the world.

"Just burn it, I'm not interested in them. ”

Hearing Hercule say this, Camus was a little confused, although he had been working under Hercule for a few days, he also had a rough understanding of what the letter meant.

"Really?"

"Of course, my curiosity and desire to control are too deformed, and they are a bunch of monsters with secrets, do you think that after I join, will I be able to resist my instinct and not explore them, or will they relax and stop being wary of me?"

Hercule continued.

"Deduction can not only deduce those secrets, but also take advantage and avoid disadvantages. ”

Kamu nodded, agreeing. Although Hercule does not seem to be rich on the surface, he knows very well how terrifying the accumulation of wealth of this guy in front of him is, and presumably those people only value Hercule.

The tavern was indeed Hercule's property, but what wasn't mentioned in the conversation was that it was only one of Hercule's many estates, and unlike Lorenzo, who used all his talents to slay demons, Hercule took his talent to the extreme.

"They've been around for too long, and they're a shareholder if they die, but this time it's different, invest in this detective...... I'm a partner!"