The doorbell rang again at 121A Cork Street, and Mrs. Fanlu pushed the door open, looked at the smiling man and hesitated for a moment, then asked.

"Lorenzo?"

Joey nodded, and Madame Vanlu got out of the way, looking at the back of the man walking up the stairs, not feeling that after so many years, Lorenzo finally expanded his social circle.

Yesterday's pursuit caused a certain amount of chaos, but under the control of public opinion in the purification agency, it was turned into a pursuit of fugitives.

The demon was put into the steam well by Lancelot, and then the pipe was broken by Lancelot's slash, and the blazing steam overflowed, and everyone thought that it should die in the heat, but in the subsequent cleaning of the scavengers, they could not find the body, they went deep into the inside of the steam well, but found nothing.

This is another suspicion, judging by the reform index, the demon is indeed dead, but no one has found its body.

Knocking on the door, Joey pushed it open and walked inside, he was assigned to be in charge of Lorenzo's contact with the purification agency, this job was originally a shrike, but he had to manage the interests of the entire lower town, and he was too busy to take care of Lorenzo's troublesome ghost.

The air in the room smelled of tobacco, Lorenzo was nestled on the couch by the window, and there were cigarette butts in the ashtray that had not yet been extinguished.

He didn't seem to notice Joey's arrival, just stared out the window, where the frost of winter covered the window, obscuring his vision.

"Mr. Holmes, this is the final report of this case, and if you are sure that it is correct, it will be put on file. ”

As he spoke, Joey took out a document and placed it on the low table in front of Lorenzo, and then sat down across from Lorenzo.

Although he has only been in contact with Lorenzo for less than a few days, Joey seems to have gotten used to Lorenzo, the detective is full of unreasonable qualities from beginning to end, sometimes he is like a wild dog without a purpose, even if he runs wildly in the wind, he will spit out his tongue and laugh, but sometimes the beast will grow sharp fangs and will not waver in order to kill the demon.

This is an uncontrollable man, and it's hard to guess what he's going to do next.

Still, Joey likes to guess, guess what he's going to do, and it seems to him that being able to guess the trajectory of such a person is like winning the jackpot.

After a while, Lorenzo seemed to wake up from a daze, and looked at Joey and then at the documents in front of him, in Joey's opinion, he should have talked to himself first, and then looked through the documents, but Lorenzo was beyond his guess.

Lorenzo wrapped the blanket tightly and then picked up a bottle of wine from the couch.

"A sip of warmth?"

“......”

"Oh, hell, the heating pipe on Cork Street broke due to aging after I came back yesterday, and those maintenance workers didn't repair it overnight, and now there is no heating on the whole street, and I almost froze to death in the night. ”

Lorenzo took a sip as he picked up the bottle and took a sip.

"Ah, that dead old lady won't let me sleep on the first floor, it's so warm with the fireplace......"

Joey nodded as much as he could with a smile, indeed, he came in from outside, the temperature difference did not change much without attracting his attention, and now listening to Lorenzo say this, it feels that the temperature in the room is indeed very low.

"Then Mr. Lorenzo, please take a look at the follow-up to yesterday's case, if it is correct, we are ready to file and close the case. ”

Lorenzo reached for the document and asked with some curiosity before he could turn two pages.

"What's the use of asking me, I'm not a purifier. ”

"But you're an experienced witcher, and you're part of the hunt. ”

This is true, the Purification Agency's understanding of witchers is still too shallow, and even if Eddard's corpse is obtained, the dissection and analysis will only expand the mystery.

The power of the witcher is too unique, with the blessing of secret blood possessing far more power and sense than ordinary people, not to mention the mysterious power named after the angel.

Lorenzo didn't say anything further, Arthur had always been curious about the power of the witcher, and it would only be unusual if the purifier's attitude towards him had become cold.

"So you're blaming it for all the murders? ”

Lorenzo wanted to ask more, but before he could do so, he found an answer for himself.

It was written in that document that before yesterday's tragedy, similar cases had occurred in different places in Old Dunling, cruel torture and bloody revenge, which could basically be attributed to the hand of the demon yesterday, but Lorenzo still didn't understand something.

"It's not the first time this demon has struck, the first case was half a month ago when he killed a gang member in a small town, and the last time was yesterday, the deceased was just a worker. ”

Lorenzo noticed something unusual, and he set the bottle aside, his eyes fixed on the document, piecing together the different words, and a bewildering story slowly unfolded.

"What's wrong?"

Joey couldn't help but be secretly happy when he saw Lorenzo's increasingly serious god, and sure enough, he could find more retribution in this witcher.

"I think you've found out inside the purification mechanism, and it's a bit strange that this demon is hunting target. ”

Lorenzo said.

"Strange......? But aren't demons like beasts, without any rules?"

Joey didn't understand that demons seemed to him to be a bunch of corrupted creatures, monsters from nowhere, trying to attack the existing solid domination of humanity, and it was their instinct to kill living creatures when they saw them.

"No, the beast has a pattern. ”

Lorenzo directly denied his words, and then took out the old Dunling map in the cabinet and unfolded it before his eyes.

"This is where it first appeared, in the chaotic Lower Town, which would be the perfect hunting ground, but it didn't stay any longer, and kept going deeper into the old Dunling, even saying that the last hunt was on the other side of the edge. ”

"If a beast is for food or to kill, it shouldn't leave the Lower Town...... It is purposeful, for the revenge of the blood word. ”

Lorenzo suddenly realized the location of the information gap between him and Joey, and he looked at the heavily labeled man and asked seriously.

"Joey, have you ever encountered a sane demon in the purification mechanism?"

"Demons of sanity?"

Joey was shocked by Lorenzo's question, demons are a bunch of disordered beasts, but why are they called sanity?

He didn't answer Lorenzo's words for a moment, but he didn't have to, Lorenzo had read the results from his stunned expression.

"Demons of sanity, you are ...... What do you mean?"

Lorenzo thought for a moment, trying his best to organize what he had in his head and tell it in a way he could understand, and then he slowly explained to Joey.

"A demon with sanity can maintain a certain level of sanity under demonization...... In other words......"

Lorenzo shook his head, Joey didn't know the story of the Demon Hunters, and he didn't need to know so much.

"The so-called demon of reason can be understood as unstable, can be completely eroded at any time, is not controlled by any safety equipment, and drives a violent body to act with a weak reason.

Witcher. ”