After a few days of pouring down, the heavy rain was much lighter, like a hazy veil, and the slender rain silk lightly hit the ground, causing ripples in the stagnant water.

At night, the rainy season of Old Dunling is like a psychedelic underwater world, the steam that overflows from the ground is broken by raindrops before it rises, and the biting chill accompanies every traveler like a ghost.

There was no one on the streets anymore, no one liked to travel in such weather, and the night was quiet, only the faint sound of horses' hooves sounded in the darkness, announcing that the mounted police were still patrolling.

A glimmer of light rose from the darkness, and the kestrel stepped out of the darkness, dropping the still burning cigarette into the stagnant water beneath its feet.

He doesn't smoke much, but in this hellish weather, this thing seems to be the only thing that can warm up, though it is mostly psychological comfort.

Colleagues say that Kestrel is a guy with a very good mentality, no matter how bad the environment is, he doesn't seem to be afraid, and sometimes even tells jokes to everyone about the rotten meat and internal organs in a place, in fact, Kestrel is not so heroic, he is just an ordinary person, telling jokes is completely because he is about to be scared to pee, and can only talk about something else to divert attention.

Looking at the rain-shrouded world around them, the whole city was silent as if only one was left...... It's a great environment for some hellish murders, and I don't want to work in the middle of the night if I could.

The kestrel sighed helplessly, and the heat it exhaled quickly disappeared into the evening breeze, like being killed by something unknown.

He was wearing a black umbrella, his clothes were also pitch black, a pistol was inserted under his clothes, and a folding knife was pinned to his waist, and the whole person was fully armed.

The kestrel was like a grim reaper ready to start work at night, and as he stepped through the stagnant water, more of the grim reaper came out of the darkness with him.

The carriage was parked not far away, and the members who had arrived in advance had already taken control of the building, carrying forged police badges and telling the other residents who had been woken up that they were just maintaining a small level of security.

But this was not a small maintenance of the law, the men were hiding in the shadows that no one could see, the thermite rifles had been ignited, and with the blazing heat, the humid environment did not affect it much.

"I always have a delusion sometimes. ”

Another voice rang out, and Robin, a devout believer, with a silver-white cross hanging from his black robe, stepped aside.

Although he believed in the nihilistic God of the Evangelical Church, this faith had long been unbelievable in the process of Invig's indigenization, and Robin was well aware of his position.

Faith is faith, work is work.

"What delusion?"

Kestrel continued, he wished someone had spoken to him more in this damn environment, so that the heavy rain would not separate him from the world, so as not to seem so lonely.

"Old Dunling, this city is a vibrant city by day, the gears roar to create wealth and wonder, it leads the development of the world, people work hard here, consume everything in life, but at night it becomes another world altogether. ”

Robin said.

"A world that is not of mortal nature, with strange and disgusting monsters hidden in dark corners, trying to bring humanity back to the dark ages, and we are the heroes of fire, fighting against them. ”

"Hmm...... It reminds me of those. Kestrel said.

“？”

The robin squinted at the kestrel, this big grin guy didn't look like a guy who would take the initiative to get into literature.

"It's not the obscure traditional literature, it's some people who write it...... Anyway, I don't know what to say, it's a very interesting story, but it's not very well received. ”

"Those...... Knight?"

The robin thought carefully for a moment and thought of the word.

This is something that has appeared in recent years, writing about the love and hatred between the aristocracy, or the adventure story of exploring the New World, without a serious core idea, and without touching words, just telling it as you like.

It was something that no one cared about, but it was welcomed among the young people, and they were delighted that the stories were different from the serious literature they had read, while the older generation felt that it was something that was not in the flow and objected to it.

The robin didn't expect the kestrel to look at these things, but thinking about it was something he could do.

"That's the case in those stories, there are villains in the city, and they come to do evil at night, so the protagonist practices swordsmanship, and when night falls, he puts on a mask and goes out to do chivalrous. ”

Kestrel looked at the robin, and said, "Don't you think this resembles us, even though we're not fighting badass, we're fighting something trickier than badass." ”

"The little girls loved the story, and they thought it was cool for the main character, who was chivalrous at night, but didn't identify himself. ”

Kestrel said with a smile on his face, as if it was himself who was popular with the little girls.

"Do you like this story?"

"Of course. ”

Kestrel has a youthful vigor in him, and Robin doesn't understand him at all, although they are all colleagues, they also have a large age span, Kestrel seems to be the same age as Lorenzo, and Robin is in his early thirties, if it weren't for the damn job of cleaning the mechanism, he would have considered marrying a wife and having children.

The robin paused for a moment, and then, like the old-fashioned old guys, didn't know what was going on with the young people these days.

Anyway, Joey looked angry. "I've never seen him so angry." ”

"Probably because of those damn hallucinations...... Joey saw the kid again. Kestrel said.

The robin was briefly silent, he was aware of the incident.

"Is that so? Hasn't he come out of that shadow?"

"Where do you think his cleanliness comes from, he has killed men, women, old people, young people, even things that are not human, but that time he killed a child...... A lot of them. ”

Kestrel understands Joey, and this kind of thing is not just talking.

"That's not to blame him, it was on the battlefield, and it was mainly Gawain's hands. "Robin tries to exonerate Joey.

"So, it's hard to kill someone, and you have to suppress your emotions until you get used to killing our kind. The kestrel suddenly felt that the rain was making people even more irritable.

Few people know

At first, Joey was not stationed in the old Dunling, but followed the Gawain Knight to encircle and suppress the demons on the edge of the land.

It was the edge of the law and the sword, often accompanied by blood and death.

But in one operation Joey killed innocent people, a group of children.

"I still remember Gawain's ugly face...... In fact, he did it right, according to the regulations of the purification organs, but it was still uncomfortable. Kestrel said he even remembered what Joey had repeated for himself.

At that time, Gawain said.

"We just killed their parents, and their family is believing in demons, we don't know what kind of power they have, or weapons, and they are full of hatred for us now, maybe in the next second this little imp will become a demon and kill my men, I will be responsible for their lives. ”

So Gawain killed them, killing all of them to be exact.

It was a battlefield, a cruel and cold-blooded battlefield, and there was nothing wrong with what Gawain did, and if there had to be any mistakes, it was that he was too obedient to the rules, and he obeyed it as if he was not a human being in cold blood.

In order to fight demons, human beings always have to abandon some inferior natures, such as pity, such as sympathy, such as weakness......

In fact...... Everyone is quite cold-blooded, but they don't want to admit it, it seems that as long as they don't admit it, they are still a normal human being.

That's when Joey was tormented.

It's a kind of mental torture, everyone in the purification mechanism has it, they have killed people, they have committed crimes, although they say it is for a brighter tomorrow, but they still take the lives of those innocents, even the kestrel with big nerves, sometimes can't help but learn a few words of prayer with the robin, chanting it.

But that time Joey felt that he was too guilty to ignore.

After that, Joey applied to be transferred back to the old Dunling, and in the midst of his suffering, he began to use hallucinogens to comfort himself, and his mental state continued to decline, sometimes stained with blood, and he remembered everything that nightmare.

"So it's really important to see a psychiatrist often. Kestrel said.

"I thought you were going to say something serious and meaningful. "The robin couldn't imagine what the kestrel would say.

"What a deep meaning, what seriousness, don't you feel too tired to live like that?" Kestrel said, "everyone's work is already so bad, don't torture yourself anymore." ”

"Is this a foolish idea?"

"It's just heartless...... After all, people like me usually live longer, don't they?"

The kestrel was not serious at all, just casually.

It's not that he doesn't have any ambitions, it's just that when he was in the lower city, the years of death and life made it easy for him to be satisfied.

"Alright, stop chatting everyone, it's time to work. ”

A voice interrupted the conversation, and another man stepped out of the rain.

The Night Stalkers rarely joined them.

At present, there is only one third-generation armor that can be officially put into use, but it has been blown up by the black angel piloted by Lorenzo in the test, and before the new armor is built, the night owl, the test driver, has no work, so he is temporarily transferred back to make up for the lack of manpower.

"The personnel are in place, it's time to act. The Night Stalker said.

"But is that really good?" asked the robin, "that doctor is one of us, and he came to the door without any evidence?"

"Joey himself is proof...... And isn't the reason why Old Dunling was able to guarantee such peace because of our excessive vigilance," said Kestrel "As long as there is the slightest symptom, I will not let it go, even Arthur's daughter is still in the Black Mountain Hospital......"

Kestrel knows how difficult the hellish place in the Black Mountain Hospital is, but now that almost two weeks have passed, and the little girl has no intention of being discharged.

"However, it is also because of this that we are also very wary of our own people. ”

The Night Stalkers are aware of their concerns, but it has nothing to do with him, and they will play a different role tonight.

In terms of position, the upper knight also follows different knight captains, Joey and Night Stalker are Lancelot's subordinates, but Lancelot mysteriously disappeared a few months ago, according to rumors, he is suspected of being eroded by a generation of armor like Galahad, and is in emergency treatment.

However, in the perpetual motion pump, there are still people who have seen the figure of Galahad, Lancelot...... It was as if this guy was a non-existent ghost, and even though he was his subordinate, Joey and the Night Stalker had never seen that guy.

The kestrel reached into the rain and rubbed her eyes vigorously with her cold rain hand to refresh herself.

He didn't think about it anymore, the more he knew, the faster he died, and the kestrel still knew this.

"Alas, it's unimaginable......," robin sighed.

While fighting demons, not only must they be wary of demons, but also their teammates who have been demonized, and the purifiers believe Joey's suspicions and suspect that there is something wrong with the doctor, and similarly, they also suspect that Joey has a problem, he has been injected with hallucinogens before, and has been lying in the Black Mountain Hospital for a while, in the eyes of the purifiers, this thing is already considered black history.

If it can't be proven that there is something wrong with the doctor, then Joey will be waiting for a psychological evaluation and psychiatric test, and they have the condition to suspect that Joey is carrying the residue of erosion and causing the mental abnormality. This is not good news.

"Have you seen the doctor's profile?" asked Kestrels.

The robin nodded, and on the way here, he had already seen it in the carriage.

Although they are all in the service of the purification mechanism, just like the perpetual motion pump, the Black Mountain Hospital and these front-line knights are completely two parts, and there is little communication between the two.

"James Moriarty, aged 27, unmarried, and a native of Old Dunling, was admitted to the Black Mountain Hospital after graduating from the Royal College of Medicine, and after a year of investigation, became a full member. ”

The resume is very clean, clean is not good.

From birth to the present, all his deeds have been recorded in detail, and with just these few pieces of paper, you can even reproduce his not long life.

But now such a clean doctor is suspected by Joey.

Kestrel still remembers the situation, Joey fell into a terrible anomaly, as if under a terrible erosion, and after he was mentally stable, with the help of a large sensitive Geiger counter, Joey made this judgment.

In fact, Joey can't be sure of his own judgment, but he trusts his instincts, and James Moriarty may have something to do with demons.

That strange mutual aid society, after meeting Moriarty, repeated hallucinations......

Like a transparent cobweb, you can touch everything weird and feel the invisible pressure, but you can't see it clearly.