It was a quiet place, the air was filled with a faint scent of flowers, and some people deliberately used perfume to try to hide the blood in the room and the strong smell of disinfectant water.

The neat bunks are lined up, but only the middle bunk is full of people, and the bunks are piled up with various books, which seem to be used to relieve the patient's boredom.

Lorenzo stared blankly at the ceiling, lying in a soft interior, his left foot wrapped in bandages, wrapped in a brace and raised high, his other hand casually resting on the side, covered with pinholes after the potion.

It's been a week since the night Sheikh Lawrence appeared, and the chaotic battle ended with Sheak Lawrence's escape, and according to reports from people outside the field, Sheikh Lawrence seemed to try to kill Lorenzo at the end, who had lost his ability to move due to erosion, but just as he was about to make a move, the war airship in the night sky fell out of control, burying everything on the battlefield.

They found Lorenzo in the wreckage of the airship, his whole body was bloody, pierced by steel, and his left foot was the worst, with a large amount of metal shards cut into it.

So when Lorenzo woke up again, he had been here, a psychiatric hospital secretly run by the purification mechanism, where the corrupted soldiers would recuperate.

During this period, Arthur came once, and this super soldier didn't look so super, he was on crutches and bandages, and the sword of Laureus almost killed him, and he had resisted it on the battlefield for Eve's sake, otherwise he would have passed out.

Lorenzo lost this battle, and the purification mechanism also lost, according to the post-war investigation and analysis, when Laureus Imam activated the secret blood, it brought about an erosion beyond imagination, and the scope was very wide, a low-flying war airship was also affected, most of the crew were unconscious, and then the airship that lost control directly crashed down, fortunately, it only carried a small amount of ammunition, otherwise under the second martyrdom, it is estimated that there will be no survivors present.

And even after a week, the post-war treatment is not over, and the influence of Imam Lawrence is still eroding the surrounding area, according to the survey, residents within several kilometers of the vicinity have recently begun to have nightmares, and some have developed serious mental illness, and the old Dunling psychiatric hospital is almost overcrowded.

The interior of the battlefield was handled by the well-guarded scavenger troops, and the entire Salicado estate had been completely destroyed, but Lorenzo had dragged most of the demons and Sheikh Lawrence during the battle, and some of the nobles were able to be evacuated at that time, and the casualties were not so shocking.

After dealing with this, there was a question from the people, and most of the inhabitants watched the fall of the war airship, and the fire lit up the night sky.

The erosion and panic caused the whole old Dunling to be a little chaotic, but fortunately, this group of scavengers was quite skilled in handling this kind of thing, and all kinds of gas explosion airships were reported to have made mistakes, and they also hired a few writers to write a few plots, and all kinds of oil and vinegar added to the water to muddy the water.

It wasn't a good feeling, and at the moment he fell, Lorenzo had a familiar feeling, as if he had returned to that night, the night of the Holy Presence.

All efforts are in vain, and many things are already predestined.

With a babbling sound, the iron-cast door slowly opened, and the doctor walked in with a small cart full of medical supplies.

"How does it feel?"

"Not bad. ”

Lorenzo stared at the ceiling.

"Hmm...... I'll check it out. ”

The doctor lifted Lorenzo's foot off the brace, this doctor did the operation for Lorenzo, he was supposed to be the medical staff inside the purification agency, when he operated on Lorenzo, he tried to pick out the pieces that were shattered into it, and as a result, Lorenzo's body continued to heal itself, which hindered his operation very much.

It was the first time the doctor had seen a human with such a strong vitality that had not been reminded that Lorenzo's blood was mixed with secret blood, which was poisonous and deadly to ordinary people, and that he had discouraged the idea of collecting samples from Lorenzo.

"It's really a monster's vitality, I thought you were dead, but it turned out to be just a few days. ”

The doctor told Lorenzo to get down and take a walk.

Lorenzo didn't speak, but slowly stood up, with no unusual reaction other than a little pain in his steps.

"You look like you're able to walk freely. ”

"Probably...... Can I be discharged?"

Lorenzo looked at the door of the hospital room, and since he woke up, Lorenzo seemed to be a different person, or rather, changed back to his previous appearance, with indifference in his eyes, and no one knew what he was thinking.

"I'm afraid that's not going to work, Mr. Holmes. ”

A voice came from outside the door, and Arthur's somewhat haggard face came into view.

This old guy has not had a good time in the past few days, not to mention the physical injuries, the aftermath of the incident needs to be dealt with by him, and even the Platinum Palace, which has been silent, summoned Arthur again.

This is the largest casualty incident in Old Dunling since the Glorious War, and the impact is far-reaching and severe.

Lorenzo didn't say anything and walked out, Arthur was in a wheelchair and Joey was pushing the wheelchair in the back.

This time, the high-ranking knights were not injured, they were on the outskirts of the battlefield, and managed to avoid the drop zone of the airship.

But Joey was a little unlucky, he was hit by the falling wreckage and spent a few days in a coma in the hospital, and Lorenzo was the one lying on the bunk next door at first.

Eve and Seleuc were fine under the protection of the soldiers, while Lancelot, who fell with Lorenzo in the core, appeared to have been taken away by the Perpetual Pump, protected by the Original Sin Armor, and was badly wounded but not deadly.

"How's it going?"

"It's a mess, but it's good that we haven't downgraded the scavenger force in recent years due to the decrease in demon action, otherwise I would have been really busy. ”

"In order to hasten the receding of the erosion, we poured all the neutralizing liquid from the stock into the Furnace Pillar, and the main steam outlet point was set to the Salicado Manor. ”

The neutralizing liquid is also an alchemical potion produced by the Perpetual Pump, and its only effect is to speed up the subsidence of erosion and pollution in the area, and is usually injected into the pillars of the furnace, which is accompanied by water vapor that spreads throughout the affected area.

"Then there was the destruction of several large Geiger indexes, which destroyed the observation equipment with a momentary intensity, and now the surrounding area is no longer under the surveillance of the Peep System, but we have increased our patrol force. ”

Exchanging newspapers, the two of them were already on the same front.

"We need to gather our strength as soon as possible, Imam Lawrence is carrying something very dangerous, once it completely spreads inside the old Dunling...... Then we can only hope that the Evangelical Church will still be able to organize a crusade. ”

The Crusades, a religious term reserved for the Evangelical Church, ostensibly recorded the largest religious war in history, but in fact it refers to the all-out war of the Demon Hunters, in which all the Demon Hunters poured out of their nests, and all the actions of the Holy Evangelical Papal States were prioritized in their service.

In Lorenzo's memory, the Demon Hunters' crusade was carried out hundreds of years ago, and the result of that time was that the demons disappeared from the world for a time.

"There's something on him. ”

"A Messianic-class containment object, the Book of Revelation containing the Mystic Blood Technology. ”

Lorenzo had nothing to hide, he knew very well that he could not kill Imam Lawrence on his own, and that he needed allies.

"Sounds like a lot of trouble. ”

Arthur had a headache, he was a little envious of the previous Arthurs, when those old immortals were in office, when the demons were most active, they only had the strength of Endetown's actions, and all this directly became hell mode to himself.

"Arthur, do you have any ideas? This is Old Dunling, your home turf. ”

Lorenzo asked.

"Please give me some time to think, as I said before, the problem is not only within the old Dunling, the new Pope wants to unite with us, but I don't know if he really thinks so, the situation is far more complicated than it seems. ”

The re-establishment of the Demon Hunters, the emergence of a new Pope, and the return of these monsters that have died in history.

It felt like the end of the world, and everyone came out to sing and dance happily, wailing with rising fire and sorrow.

Arthur was so tired that all the chaos was triggered at the same time, as if he had agreed beforehand.

All three of them were silent for a short time, and a lingering cloud hung over the old Dunling.

But suddenly a faceless face flashed before Lorenzo's eyes, and Lorenzo remembered him, the Baron Able, but now the playboy had a demented face, his eyes were blank, his head drooped to one side, as if he had lost his soul, and he was in a wheelchair and let the doctor push him away.

He ...... What's going on?"

Lorenzo asked subconsciously, he didn't care about someone like Baron Abel, but when he saw those empty eyes, he felt as if he was being stared at by something strange.

"I've just become a fool. ”

Arthur said slowly.

"What do you mean?"

"Let me tell you slowly, that Lawrence Patriarch almost slit my trachea, and I don't even dare to cough now. ”

Arthur covered his mouth, his face slightly contorted with each speech.

"This is one of the results of the early discovery of the purification mechanism. ”

In the empty hallway, Joey pushed his wheelchair, and the three of them just walked and talked.

"We found several stages of demonic erosion, the first stage is to feel all kinds of amplified negative emotions, the second stage is to start hallucinating, confusion, and even madness, and the third stage is demonization. ”

Arthur's voice was a little long, he didn't say where the information came from, so that the abandonment of people didn't need to be exposed to the sun.

Locked in the same cage as the demon, but separated by a bar, the experimenter witnessed the experimenter's desperation and madness, and finally turned into the same monster as the demon.

And such experiments have been done more than once, and sometimes in order to save people, it is necessary to give up people first.

"We found a very interesting phenomenon, the key to demon erosion is in the third stage, as long as you don't enter the third stage, normal people will just become crazy, not demons. ”

"So we conducted a lot of experiments, and even said that the death row prisoners in the old Dunling were used up by us at one time.

We discovered a theorem that when demons cannot be observed, erosion stagnates. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Understand, Mr. Holmes, what is your way of seeing the world?"

Arthur saw Lorenzo's confusion and guided him to think, but he didn't give Lorenzo a chance to answer, and he continued.

"It is the use of sight, touch, hearing, taste, and so on to perceive the existence of the world, precisely because we can perceive the existence of the world with these sensory organs, so to put it another way, if we say that we can't perceive anything, then the world does not exist correspondingly?"

"Is it up to us to observe whether or not it exists? Hundreds of years ago people like you would have been considered heretics and burned at the stake, or the kind executed by Michael's witchers, burned to ashes. ”

Lorenzo couldn't help but be solemn, Arthur's words were like a madman's theorem, but this theorem was absurd and strangely true.

"So you Demon Hunters are not willing to welcome the new era and push everything on the head of God, we are different, we believe in science, technology, something that can be formulaic, not from anyone's gifts, only our own. ”

Arthur continued.

"These observations are eventually transmitted to our brains, and if we accept normal information, we will not be abnormal, but what about when the information we receive is from the erosion of demons? The extremely polluting, incomprehensible, ridiculous and unacceptable forces will use this as a medium to invade our brains. ”

"After several dissections, we can prove that all demonization starts in the brain, and when you open the skull, you will find their diseased brain. ”

The empty hallway was so silent that you could hear everyone's breath and heartbeat.

"So...... What?"

Lorenzo looked at Arthur, as he had guessed before, the purifier knew much more than it appeared on the surface, but he didn't expect it to be so shocked.

"So, what if we cut off all the way of information transmission before the brain lesion, that is, before the third stage of erosion unfolds?"

Arthur looked up at Lorenzo and said blasphemous words.

"As long as you cut off that bridge with the outside world, you can't see, you can't hear, you can't smell...... If you refuse to accept all the information, does it mean that the erosion of demons cannot go deeper, or that in the eyes of the person concerned, demons do not exist, or even that the whole world does not exist?"

"Seal the whole brain ......"

Arthur said with a smile.

"I would like to introduce you to one of the most brutal surgeries in human history, the anterior frontal lobectomy. ”