The cold wind of the old Dunling blew on his cheeks, and perhaps it was time to discharge, and the fog in the streets increased significantly, and they tumbled and tumbled, and one after another black shadows appeared in them, and then broke through the mist, and hurriedly walked down the street.

As Hercules said that, the chaotic trail became clear in Lorenzo's mind for a moment, from the cause to the effect, from the comers to all their intentions.

Lorenzo naturally knew what was going on in the north, where he killed Lawrence, and thus led to the search for the Book of Revelation, and likewise, it appealed not only to the purification and evangelical churches, but also to the exiles, so that everything made sense.

Shermans didn't arrive in Old Dunling to escape, he was looking for the Book of Revelation, an opportunity to take it back.

At this moment, Lorenzo didn't care about chasing Shermans, but went to warn the purifier that the fight for the Book of Revelation was not only for these people at present, but also for those hiding in the shadows.

Lorenzo was fast-paced, he had to bring the news to Arthur as soon as possible, vigilance was vigilance, and in this kind of thing, Lorenzo still needed to get rid of the behemoth of the mechanism.

Maybe it's hard work, and Lorenzo feels like he's on the road all day, from one place to another.

From beginning to end, Arthur did not reveal the specific location of the purification agency, and Lorenzo didn't care much about it at first, but in the current situation, in fact, Arthur was also guarding himself, after all, with the power of the witcher, if he could really sneak in, it would be too simple to kill them.

But in order to cooperate, Arthur made certain concessions, such as giving Lorenzo a specific point of contact, but Lorenzo preferred to call that place a staff dormitory rather than a point of contact.

Rushing into the building on the street, the doorman saw Lorenzo's appearance clearly, gave him permission according to the traffic regulations, and then according to the house number in his memory, Lorenzo kicked open the door and shouted.

"Joey!"

With the crisp sound of loading, several men flipped over to the couch and used it as cover, then set up their guns and pointed them at Lorenzo, and just as they were about to fire, they saw Lorenzo's face.

"Mr. Holmes?"

A few people recognized Lorenzo and slowly put away their guns in horror, while others looked scared and sad.

"Can you knock on the door?"

These are the personnel who are stationed here, and this is one of the dozens of strongholds of the Purifier scattered throughout the Old Dunling.

They are well hidden, and from the outside they look like an ordinary residential building, but if an unlucky thief tries to come in and steal something, he may not even be able to pass the doorman at the bottom of the building.

But despite being a stronghold, Lorenzo prefers to call it a staff quarters, where Joey usually spends if he doesn't have any extra tasks to do.

The roar of the machine sounded slightly, and in the living room, a pillar of steel ran through it, the shell was polished, and in the alternating gaps, the rotating gears and the working machinery could be seen underneath, and the indicator light flickered on and off, and as Lorenzo approached, it began to emit a sharp sound.

It was a large Geiger counter, and one of the jobs of the colony was to maintain it and collect data, and tables were piled up next to it to record and report on it.

Passing through the door next to the living room, it is Joey's bedroom, it is estimated that many people will envy Joey, he only needs to walk a few steps from getting up to work.

That's why Lorenzo called it a staff dormitory, and Joey didn't seem to have a good relationship with his family for some reason, only going back for the holidays on God's birthday, and he usually lived here, slept with work, and loved his job very much.

Lorenzo remembered that Kestrel lived in this kind of staff dormitory, but he had a lot of work now, and he was busy running around the old Dunling.

"What about the Joy people?"

The stationed staff were unable to touch the heart of the incident, and Lorenzo had to inform Joey of it.

"He went out. Someone said.

"Is there any temporary assignment going on?" Lorenzo asked, and if there wasn't a temporary assignment, Joey probably wouldn't have left here.

"Probably not, to be precise, today he rested. The other said that they knew that Lorenzo was an ally and that he should be their superior, and that they knew everything about him.

"At this time, you still have a vacation off from work?" Lorenzo was a little surprised.

Lorenzo expected that a group of people should be staring at the risk of dark circles and sudden death, and they would work until they were at their workstations, but how could they still have vacations? Are you sure it's not absenteeism?

"Rest...... It's still okay for a day. ”

They don't quite understand Lorenzo's eagerness right now, there is a strict level of confidentiality in the Purification Agency, and many times after a battle, the outermost people like them don't know what they're doing.

This is an effective way to stop the spread of erosion, as in the current colony, where the personnel only know how to record the real-time index of the large Geiger counter, and the other more important things they don't know at all.

"Where has he been?" asked Lorenzo.

The whole unreliable place of the purification mechanism reappeared, and without this contact, Lorenzo had to go to the lower city to find the shrike again.

"This may have something to do with personal privacy. ”

A few people were in the know, and they said with some hesitation.

"Huh?"

Lorenzo looked over and couldn't imagine that this break had something to do with personal privacy.

"What? Did he go on a date?"

......

"After all, this kind of thing is actually a little difficult to talk about, so I cover it up well...... Probably, it sucks, so bad that every time I come, my friends think I'm here for a date. ”

In the mild and comfortable room, everyone sat in a circle carrying different chairs or sofas, and Joey was among them, he listened quietly, looking at the man who was talking, he was already the father of two children, but when he said this, his wrinkled face was still a little embarrassed to smile.

There are men and women present, with a huge age span and different types of identities, it is simply a hodgepodge, it stands to reason that these people have no intersection, but at this moment they appear here so neatly.

The man was still talking, telling about his recent situation and ideological awareness, and from time to time there was applause to cheer him on.

"To be honest, I didn't expect to see you here. ”

Higg was a little afraid, but here he overcame his inhibition and introversion, and said to Joey beside him with a little courage.

"I didn't expect it, how long have you been here?"

Joey remembered Higg, he was Lorenzo's roommate, although he hadn't seen him many times, but after all, he was the roommate of the infamous Lorenzo, and Joey couldn't think of being impressed by him.

From Joey's point of view, the people who can live with Lorenzo are not normal people.

"It's been a while, but I haven't seen you yet, do you rarely attend, or is it your first time?"

Probably because of the same presence here, it made Higg more receptive to Joey.

"Me too, I came to the mutual aid meeting a long time ago, this is the advice given to me by my doctor at the time, he said that I should find someone to talk to more, but then my condition has improved a lot, plus I am busy with work, basically only come once a month, maybe you didn't come when I came. ”

Joey whispered, and then the man's speech was over, and another woman spoke.

She burst into tears, talking about the difficulties of life, and the harm of addiction to hallucinogens, and then thanking everyone, who made her feel like a family, where everyone helped each other, made progress together, and got rid of the hallucinogens.

The more she spoke, the more excited she became, and her face turned red, and when she said that she was going to press your heads and worship them here as brothers.

There are many people who are in the same situation as her, they applaud vigorously or whistle, these people have just been off hallucinogens for a long time, and their mental state is only close to normal, and when they encounter something happy, they will look like this.

Joey and Higg, who had been quitting for a long time, seemed much calmer at the moment, and they could clearly distinguish from the crowd.

This is a mutual aid society for hallucinogens, and the members here are poor people who have been exposed to hallucinogens and have their lives ruined, but they have not chosen to fall, but have tried to quit hallucinogens and strive to live strong.

There are many such small groups in Old Dunling, and because of the problem of hallucinogens, these things are a shame for many people, and they don't want to mention it to others, so everyone has to get together like this and help each other.

"You're also plagued by hallucinogens?"

Higg asked cautiously, he still didn't know what this guy with a connection to Lorenzo did, but according to his guess, it should also be the group of people who fought and killed in the lower city, and it stands to reason that he should be accompanied by hallucinogens all day long, why did he choose to quit it?

"Well, it's a very complicated and long-term thing, except for the needs of work, I haven't touched that kind of thing for a long time, but sometimes a lot of troubles can't be talked to others, so I can only come here to find the same kind. ”

Joey is referring to people like Higg, haunted by hallucinogens and ruined by hallucinogens.

Sometimes people are like this, they will instinctively identify some similar things and the like, like a strange balance, if you stand with everyone without pants alone, you may bow your head in shame, but when everyone is not wearing pants, you are probably not only not ashamed, but you can also whistle happily.

Although it sounds a bit nonsense, Joey does, about hallucinogens, he rarely says to others, even a colleague like Kestrel only knows a rough idea, only when he is here, Joey can say what he has and doesn't, without pressure, maybe this is also a kind of gossip about people.

"What about you? I'm actually a work injury, and why did you come into contact with hallucinogens?"

Joey asked, curiously.

In fact, Higg was lucky, if the hallucinogens he encountered were the kind mixed with secret blood, maybe he would have seen Lorenzo's heroic appearance, and then he would have been beheaded by the witcher's cheers.

At the mention of this, Higg's expression was slightly puffed, and then he became melancholy, and he shook his head with a wry smile.

"Just like everybody. ”

He looked at the people around him, everyone was laughing and laughing, but there was a little numbness in the depths of his expression.

"It's always because of some damn curiosity, or the mentality of giving it a try, like that. Higg said.

"Many people are not like this, they are inexplicably confident in their self-control, they feel that they just use it once, and they will never touch it again, but the result is that they fall into the quagmire step by step, and the more they struggle, the deeper they fall, until they cannot be separated from the filth. ”

Higg's voice was full of remorse.

"Actually, I'm lucky that I was able to come to my senses and not continue to be in a mess. ”

Joey nodded, he could understand this, as a member of the purification mechanism, the spirit of the superior knight who had been specialized, but even so, he almost sank in that psychedelic.

"I can't say much because of my work, but like you said, like everyone in this room, I have a proud self-confidence, and then I stumble and fall into the quagmire. ”

Joey muttered that although a long time had passed, it was still a wake-up call to himself, and that he would come back here from time to time, as evidenced by that.

"Does it work...... You're working with Lorenzo?"

For the same reason, Higg was rarely wary of Joey, a stranger, and instead let down his guard and chatted with him.

The atmosphere of the scene gradually became warmer, and several patients looked like they were old at first sight, and now they were hugging each other and crying bitterly, and there was a group of people cheering for them around.

"Well, sort of. ”

Joey also doesn't know how he mentioned Lorenzo.

The two of them listened to the repentance and cheers of those people, so you and I chatted one by one.

"Actually, I envy Lorenzo. Higg said suddenly, for some reason.

He looked at Joey and said with some hesitation, "Do you know Lorenzo?"

"Understood?"

"Well, you can tell that I'm a bit of an introvert, and even though I've been roommates with Lorenzo for so long, I don't know anything about that guy, he's like a mystery. ”

Joey smiled wryly, "He's not a good thing, you'd better not know too much." ”

"I know this, you may not know, sometimes when he comes home, his clothes are dripping with blood, the amount of bleeding is huge, normal people have died a long time ago, but he is like no one, he is so happy...... This blood belongs to someone else. ”

Hygg didn't realize that he had become different from his usual life, and even his words were different.

"But sometimes people are like that, right?"

"Are you...... What do you mean?" Joey didn't understand.

"Just like when we first came into contact with hallucinogens, we all knew it was filthy and dangerous, but we touched it anyway...... It's like when you're standing on top of a tall building, you know that the closer you get to the edge, the more likely you are to fall, but you can't help but poke your head out and look down at the grandeur below from this highest vantage point. ”

Higg said.

"It's human inferiority, not so much curiosity as chasing danger. ”