First there was a brief doorbell, then a slow push of the door open, and Lorenzo held his breath, praying that it wasn't a troublemaker.

Lorenzo wants to spend a day of leisure and waste time comfortably in bed, although it is not a good thing to waste time, but in a hurry of life, no matter how strong a person is, he will want to rest for a while.

The door was slowly pushed open, and Joey stepped inside.

"Isn't it!"

Lorenzo clenched his fork hard and thrust it into the table.

Sure enough, as long as you see these guys who have eliminated the organs, there must be no good thing, and I don't know where Joey came from, but he definitely can't let himself rest at home.

"Good morning, Lorenzo. ”

Joey, as usual, was probably dawn, and his nightly negativity was much better.

He greeted Lorenzo and gestured to Higg and Madame Vanrude.

Joey had been here many times, and over time he had become more familiar with the others, though not so well.

"Say, what's wrong?"

Lorenzo asked with an unhappy look on his face, fiddling with his fork as he kept fiddling.

"A conversation. ”

Joey looked at the others, they had nothing to do with demons, and Joey could only reveal these for the time being.

Lorenzo thought for a moment and sighed a little helplessly.

"Wait a minute. ”

As he spoke, he turned back to his room to change his clothes, and Lorenzo, who had rested, turned into a busy Lorenzo again, bringing his weapon and sword with him.

However, during this time, Higg raised his head slightly and looked at Joey with an indifferent face.

Maybe as Joey said at the time, the two of them are in different worlds, Joey and Higg can talk very well, but it's a pity that Joey is related to demons, and he doesn't want to implicate these innocent people, but Higg obviously doesn't know this.

"You...... Okay, see you again. ”

Higg said with some hesitation, Higg didn't have many friends, maybe he was also troubled by hallucinogens, Higg always felt that Joey was the same kind as himself.

"Hmm. ”

Joey replied somewhat indifferently, it was work time.

Higg wanted to say something more, but then there was a sound of footsteps, and Lorenzo came downstairs, still dressed in the same familiar outfit, but with a strange chain around his neck.

But without waiting for Joey to ask, Lorenzo asked first.

"You two know each other?"

Lorenzo looked at Higg, who was about to speak, and then at Joey.

Of course the two know each other, after all, they are Lorenzo's roommates, Joey has been here many times, and there are always a few times when they can see Joey, but now the two are obviously not familiar with each other, but a deeper communication.

"I met at the mutual aid meeting. ”

Higg replied, and Joey didn't bother to say anything more, but after a moment of affirmation, he urged Lorenzo to leave.

The morning began in a hurry, looking at the two people who left, Higg was stunned for a moment and ate all the food on the plate, and also packed up and prepared to leave.

"Where are you going?" asked Madame van Loude, with some curiosity.

Lorenzo had been out of sight for a day, and she had become accustomed to it, but Hieg had just been weaning off hallucinogens, and although she had been doing well lately, out of a sense of responsibility, Madame vanloude had a concern for the child she had grown up with.

"Mutual Aid, Whitechapel is ready to be put back into use, and the new doctor wants me to help him more. Higg said.

......

Ride in the dark carriage, just like before, another repetitive and monotonous day, to accept missions, find clues, and then draw your sword and slash demons.

A tired Lorenzo put his head to the side and looked out the window.

"Mutual Aid Society?" Hallucinogen Mutual Society?"

After a long pause, Lorenzo asked, as if something had suddenly occurred to him.

He sat up straight, only then did he realize the strangeness of the matter, and looked at Joey with interrogation in his eyes.

Joey, on the other hand, didn't notice Lorenzo's attitude in the slightest, probably because he didn't care and simply replied.

"Hmm. ”

"Huh?"

Lorenzo looked at him, and then with surprise in his eyes, as if he was about to open his mouth to shout something in the next second, he grabbed Joey's shoulders and shook his body vigorously.

"You, Joey, Hallucinogens?"

Lorenzo shouted loudly, looking incredulous.

"What's wrong?" Joey had an inexplicable attitude, as if this kind of thing was normal.

"You're a high-ranking knight in the purification mechanism, a specialized backbone in the fight against demons, and you've been addicted to hallucinogens?"

Lorenzo was so sad that he almost hid his face and wept.

"You thick-eyed and big-eyed person, why did you betray the revolution?"

"Huh?"

After several minutes of verbal and forceful persuasion, Joey reluctantly quieted Lorenzo, and the two of them were the same as before, leaning back in their chairs and briefly staring at each other.

"So it's very common?" asked Lorenzo.

"Probably, in fact, I was shaken by the demons. Joey explained.

"Lorenzo, we have only undergone mental specialization, and in the final analysis, we are only a little better than ordinary people in terms of fighting demons, and it is inevitable that there will be some mental illness under long-term contact. ”

"Black Mountain Hospital?"

Lorenzo said that after being in contact with the purification mechanism for so long, Lorenzo also has a more specific impression of this huge organization, because of the erosion of demons, many front-line knights have a "service life", and when their mental pressure reaches the limit, they will be taken on vacation.

Most of them will be treated in the Montenegrin hospital for a period of time, and those who have improved will be reassigned to work, and as for those who have not recovered, their outcome is also varied.

The people of the purification agency were very repulsed there, they called the hospital a grave, and most of the people who entered did not come back.

"yes, I've been there for a long time. ”

Joey replied slowly, his eyes reminiscing about the past.

"At that time, I was a newcomer, following the will of my family and becoming a member of the purification agency, and at that time I thought that I was just a member of the state secret service, fighting against spies from Gaulnalo and other countries. ”

Remembering that he was a little naïve at that time, Joey couldn't help but laugh.

"But then they said what the hell demons, I was unprepared, I was terrified, but without any time to prepare, I started working, running around, carrying a thermite rifle and shooting one demon after another. ”

"I love it. ”

Lorenzo was always so keen to slash demons.

"I don't like it, at that time, the original sin armor was not yet put into large-scale use, we could only rely on modern weapons and numbers to suppress the demons, our damage rate was very high, I watched my teammates fall into madness little by little, and then pointed the gun at my own people, I couldn't save him, I could only kill him with one shot, and then continue to kill the demons. ”

Joey's voice was calm, probably used to this kind of slashing and slashing, and now in retrospect, there was no emotional fluctuation.

"That's when you got hallucinogens?" asked Lorenzo.

"Almost, maybe it's the effect of erosion, and my own pressure or something, I intercepted a lot of hallucinogens in one operation, and with some strange luck, I tried it to find some dreams in this hellish world. ”

Joey shrugged.

"Then there are the familiar ones, my use of hallucinogens caused my mental instability, which caused a failed operation, I was punished and quarantined, and then I was sent to the Black Mountain Hospital for compulsory treatment, which is really not a good memory. ”

It may have been an unbearable memory, but it also became ordinary in Joey's mouth.

"So, fighting demons is always a bit of a psychological problem, and after that, I became clean and couldn't tolerate that filthy blood splashed on my body. ”

Indeed, Joey's clothes were always so neat that Lorenzo was like a wild dog wallowing in a puddle of mud.

"Is that the same with everyone else?" asked Lorenzo curiously.

"Almost, everyone has been more or less affected by demons, and the flaws in our personality have been magnified, but usually we pretend to be very good, although we are a precarious patient, but we still pretend to be healthy. ”

Joey turned his gaze to Lorenzo as he spoke, the detective didn't seem to care about the conversation just now, what kind of disease madness, these words had become as common in his life as dead leaves on the side of the road.

Thinking of this, Joey can't help but feel a strange feeling, his life is related to madness, but at least not fully integrated, Joey still has a partially normal life, but Lorenzo is different, he has lived in this crazy world since he was a child, until now this terrible madness is like ordinary daily life in his eyes.

Joey couldn't help but ask.

"Lorenzo, don't you have any ...... Is it a flaw or a dark side?"

"Defects...... The dark side?"

Lorenzo thought for a moment, then laughed.

"I, Lorenzo Holmes is invincible, how could I have such a thing?"

Flaws and dark sides, Lorenzo really doesn't seem to have such a thing, he maintains absolute sanity no matter what the situation, even in the face of powerful enemies like Lawrence's.

"No, it's possible that you're used to it, like being stuck in a quagmire and not knowing it. Joy said.

In his eyes, there is no such thing as invincibility in human beings, as long as they are human, they must have flaws, even if they are invincible witchers in the world, maybe Lorenzo just didn't realize his flaws until now.

"Maybe you have some strange mental illness, but you don't realize it. ”

Listening to Joey's words, Lorenzo was silent for a while.

"Does it count as slashing demons?"

"Oh, in fact, I used to think that every time I cut a demon, it would be so cool, if the demon can also have human emotions, in their eyes I may be a crazy murderer. ”

The man was inexplicably proud.

"But...... Joey, where the hell are we going?"

Looking out the window, the street scene was gradually bustling and seemed to be heading towards the inner city, and Joey said that there was a conversation waiting for him, but did not say who it was.

"You'll know when you get there. ”

Joey seems to be hiding something.

The carriage finally stopped in front of an auditorium, and the guards stood guard nearby, which seemed to be some important place, and then a waiter pushed open the door and led Lorenzo and the others forward.

Walk past the tall arches, the steel and glass domes, and the huge columns fall behind you one by one, until the end of the line of sight is the blue jade and the shriek, dressed in more formal attire, surrounded by soldiers armed with thermite rifles.

Lorenzo began to feel that something was wrong, subconsciously warned him, stretched out his hand along the hole in his coat pocket, and held the shotgun under his clothes, but Beroe had long been familiar with the operation of this neurotic, and directly stepped forward and grabbed Lorenzo's arm.

"You can't bring weapons in, Lorenzo. ”

"Why are you here?"

Lorenzo asked rhetorically.

Shrike runs the lower town, and unless something is important, this guy won't leave there at all, and it's clear that something is not right today.

"Please cooperate, Mr. Holmes, for this is good for you and me. ”

Blue Jade said on the sidelines, "It's rare for us to have the relationship we have today. ”

Lorenzo was silent and hesitated for a long time before he handed the shotgun out.

"And. ”

Probably too well aware of Lorenzo's neuroticism, Berau continued.

Lorenzo glared at the bastard, then handed over a dagger and the sword he had with him.

After doing this, he let go of the road, and he turned sideways and slowly opened the door behind him.

The sun shone in, and there was a conference room behind the door, and it seemed that those people had been waiting for Lorenzo for a long time, and they were all seated in their places, and Lorenzo slowly moved forward, seeing their identities clearly.

Arthur and Merlin, as well as the two knight captains he met at the Perpetual Pump, Gawain and Percival, and on the other side sat someone Lorenzo didn't know, but there was a strange familiarity in them, which made Lorenzo look at it a few more times.

It was clear that the people in this room were divided into two camps, one was the purifier led by Arthur, and the other was the mysterious people.

Lorenzo sat in a chair near the doorway, keeping a safe distance from both camps until Arthur spoke.

"Long time no see, Mr. Holmes. ”

Lorenzo leaned back in his chair lazily, and though he moved casually, he already felt the strangeness of the current situation.

"What's wrong with Arthur?" asked Lorenzo.

"Nothing, just a short meeting, we have something we want to confirm, and it's more reassuring to explain everything than to work together with suspicion, isn't it?"

Arthur said, looking at the guys around him, and then said.

"Someone wants to see you and confirm something with you personally. ”

After Arthur finished speaking, the man in the other camp stood up, motioned to Lorenzo, and then introduced himself.

"Hello, Mr. Lorenzo Holmes. ”

The priest looked at Lorenzo with a smile, and then said something that made Lorenzo feel a little suffocated and nervous.

"You can call me Father Anthony, currently the new Imam of the Demon Hunting Order. ”

Lorenzo was stunned at first, then his muscles tensed, his gaze swept back and forth around Anthony, looking at the expressionless waiters, and at this moment he finally understood where the familiar feeling came from.

Witchers, they're all witchers.

The secret blood was slightly restless, as if it was jubilant and joyful.