"Demon ...... Although we have been fighting for endless time, we still don't know what it is, where it comes from, what it is, and what it is for......

Perhaps there were people who knew this, but also died in the grave with secrets, and these are the things I can know, but everything deserves its own name, even the filthy monster, so the saints named it after the mythical hostile to the gods. ”

Lorenzo whispered about the old secret, and the mere recounting of the story made the girl feel inexplicably stressed.

The girl's breathing remained silent, she listened to Lorenzo's words, but she didn't want to say anything more.

As Lorenzo said, it was forbidden knowledge, and in Eve's current state it was better not to touch it too much.

"That'...... Is it an export?"

In this moment of despair, the glimmer of light in front of her grew brighter, and Eve was in a trance, taking tired steps.

As if grasping some hope, she regained some strength and ran desperately, she felt that it was the exit, as long as she left here she could say goodbye to these weird things, and this damn nightmare would be over, but when Eve was only a few steps away from the light, Lorenzo knocked her down, and the girl wanted to say something but he covered her mouth tightly.

"Don't be silent, it's not right. ”

Lorenzo's voice was soft, and the calmness in his eyes still dominated the excited body.

Eve didn't resist too much, and only Lorenzo's voice was heard indifferently under Lorenzo's confinement.

"All you can do in the face of madness is stay sane, absolutely sane, you understand?"

Lorenzo had experienced this many times, and after being under great pressure in the dark, everyone would lose their minds when they saw the light, just as people who had lived underground for a long time embraced the sun when they stepped on the surface.

But that ending will not be good, the blazing sun will instantly scorch the eyes that have adapted to the darkness, and in the light after the darkness, perhaps what awaits Eve is the more terrifying monster.

Under Lorenzo's control, the two of them moved slowly forward, and finally she moved her gaze to the front, behind the light.

There was nothing Lorenzo had been wary of, it was just a deep pit, and the passage where Eve and Lorenzo were at the moment was on top of the pit, connected by a staircase that rose along the wall of the pit.

Eve had thought that the banquet hall was the largest underground space in the dungeon, but it was clear that this was the largest.

Endless light sprinkled from above, it seemed to be some kind of high-intensity electric light, and the two of them just moved their eyes to the top to feel dazzling, and they couldn't observe it at all.

The entire pit was at least tens of meters deep, illuminated incomparably brightly, and a series of meaningless torches were lit around the pit wall, and the bottom of the pit was covered with blood-red mist, and only a vague red could be seen as far as the eye could see.

"I guess it's a place of sacrifice. ”

Lorenzo looked at the bottom of the pit, which was obscured by fog, but his past experience made him wary.

"So your previous job at Philanthop was ...... Against this kind of thing?"

Eve said slowly, but when it comes to demons, she instinctively avoids them, and has only seen them once, but the impact of demons on her is extremely profound.

"Yes, but not comprehensively. In general, we have a well-established hunting system, and we will hunt people before they completely become demons, rather than waiting for them to become completely demons. ”

Just like Wall, as long as a person has not completely transformed into a demon, then it is still a human at heart, and it can be easily killed with a sword and a gun, but after the mutation is completed, it is an inhuman existence, and it requires inhuman means.

"Is that why you're a priest who knows swordsmanship?"

Eve suddenly felt that Lorenzo's life story was a bit legendary.

"Bologna swordsmanship is a compulsory course for every Templar, and being a priest is a prerequisite for becoming a Templar. ”

The voice was flat, but the short sentences all revealed Lorenzo's former identity, and Eve was a little confused, she remembered the description of the Templars, knights favored by the gods, noble personalities under white armor, holding the sword that ignited the flames to maintain order and peace.

Although it is not clear how this person with a bad personality came to be associated with the word noble, Eve is still curious.

"That should be a very noble status, but why did you come to Invig as a detective?"

Even if the influence of the Evangelical Church is not as strong as it once was, the status of Templars in the Holy Gospel Pope is still very noble, and these knights who guard the place of the seven hills are simply angels who are born in the eyes of the faithful.

"Quite simply, I don't have the meaning to exist anymore, or rather...... I'm unemployed. ”

Lorenzo didn't really want to talk about the past, but he did it anyway when Eve asked.

"The demons were exterminated a long time ago, so there's no need for me to stay there...... You may not believe it when you say it, but I, Lorenzo Holmes, have a dream. ”

He actually laughed as he said that.

"Be a detective?"

It's a hellish inspirational story, and he nods vigorously in the face of Eve's inquiry.

"It's a place where people don't stay, unlike the progress and openness of the old Dunling, it's like a dying saint, full of rules and beliefs. ”

It may be that they were recalled, and although Lorenzo hated them, he still talked about them at the moment.

"It is even more prosperous in the capital of the Holy Gospel Papal States, the Seven Hills, where only the most devout believers are allowed to enter, they say that it is the holiest place in the world, and that demons cannot set foot in half of it, when in fact there are Templar crusaders stationed there, and even if Invig attack, it will take several days. ”

A strong fishy stench came from below, and something fell from above in the middle of the conversation.

It was a rapidly descending black shadow that slammed down on the stairs in front of the exit, it was a corpse, and with the violent impact, the whole corpse shattered a few points under the impact, and dark red blood slowly flowed from it.

"Of course, if I have the opportunity to go back, my greatest wish is to go to the streets of the Seven Hills and pour cow dung...... Did you know that those believers are proud to die in the Seven Hills, and if you sprinkle a basin of water, there may be a few cardinals buried in the ground? ”

Lorenzo said as he strode out.

"Of course, these are all later words, what I want to do now is to find out, why are the extinct demons still alive?"

At the end of the words, like the low roar of a lion, he kicked the corpse out of the pit, and the kick was full of emotion, and it seemed that this guy was indeed very unhappy.

The corpse slid down, and then fell to the surface of the pit, and the thick red mist was blown away a little by the violent impact, and the hazy ghost face was lifted.

"It's a sacrifice...... Someone is raising these things. ”

Lorenzo's voice was cold like it had never been, and it was now certain that everything tonight was not accidental, it was a plan that had been planned in the dark for a long time, and it all had to do with the mysterious object called the Sacred Coffin, and that mysterious object had to do with demons.

This is only the tip of the glacier that has surfaced, and the deeper and darker ones are still unknown.

Eve looked at the deep pit, as if something had crawled out of her stomach, and she couldn't hold back for a moment and retched on the edge.

It was a ground of white bones and flesh, the same red tide that hunted the two at the end, the stinking flesh covered with tiny fluff.

After the corpse fell, the flesh seemed to come to life, and the red fluff was like silk wrapped heavily around the corpse, accompanied by a faint gnawing sound, and in just a few breaths, only a few breaths left the corpse's position was only a pile of white bones.

"It's the stomach chewing grass, a plant-like demon that is incapacitated, but the danger lies in its hunting nature, and once caught by its fluffy tentacles it will penetrate your skin and eat your body. ”

Lorenzo stood on the edge of the stairs, and it was a really bad feeling to be back in business.

"Be careful, these things can't move, and for predation it's like biological evolution, they have companions that cooperate with it, such as another group of demons that can move, they are responsible for predation, and the deadly property of the stomach chewing grass will provide them with shelter. ”

Eve struggled to muster up her courage, scared but as Lorenzo said, she had to force herself to be strong if she didn't want to die.

"What should I do?"

In this way, the two of them have no way to go down at all, and there is no other way to go back the way they came.

Lorenzo didn't answer, just looked down at the terrain, and Eve suddenly had a bad feeling, and she asked tentatively.

"Are you going to kill it?"

Eve said scaredly. The thing called the demon, Eve was so frightened by the so-called spiritual oppression just by the sight of it, let alone swing a sword at it, and even if she had the courage to swing the sword, what if that weird and twisted thing could really be killed with a sword and a gun?

Then a large area of blood-red demon grass.

"You know? Demons all have one thing in common, they are light-weary and afraid of fire and silver. ”

This is the knowledge accumulated by the Evangelical Church for thousands of years, and it is all in Lorenzo's mind at the moment, but what if you know, let alone silverware, there are only a few torches that light up the flames.

"Eve, this is something that has been kept in captivity, look around the bottom of the pit, it is tumbling and boiling, but it never overflows, you must know that although it cannot move, it expands very quickly, it is recorded in the church books, just a stomach swallow the whole town, in order to control, the church burned the whole town. ”

"You mean there's something restricting its movements?"

Eve seemed to understand what Lorenzo meant, this detective's observation was indeed sharp, and he would not think of any means of counterattack at all, and his mind was only about escaping.

"yes, I think I know what's going to happen tonight. ”

Everything was pieced together in Lorenzo's mind, and the details of the night were picked up by the detectives, and he finally figured out what Sabo was going to do.

"Tonight Saab prepares to launch a premeditated attack on the whole of Old Dunling. ”

The detective's face became extremely ugly, how many people are there in the old Dunling? a million or two million, as long as there is enough flesh and blood, it is only a matter of time before this stomach grass grows all over the old Dunling.

"That's why he said that no one survived tonight, let alone the dungeon, and that once these things left, the entire lower city would fall tonight. ”

Sabo's words echoed in his mind, he had done everything according to the mysterious teacher, whether it was the death of those people or the lack of survivors tonight, it was all related to the mysterious coffin of the Holy Spirit, because those dead people had contact with it.

Lorenzo seemed to grasp some key point, he thought of it, that is, the Sacred Coffin had stayed here.

Saab destroyed the people associated with it, and now he wants to destroy it along with this place, simply because it has to do with the Sacred Coffin.

"Shrike...... What the hell did you ship? ”

Lorenzo whispered that if he made it out alive tonight, perhaps he would really have to have a serious conversation with the shrike.

In this strange silence there seemed to be another voice, a cogwheel dragging an iron lock, as if rusted with moisture, and the sound was very high-pitched.

Eve looked up, the sound coming from above, the intense light that had faded from the time she first entered, allowing Eve to observe.

I saw that the top of this pit was a funnel-shaped iron net, and above it was a dense array of fluorescent lamps, although the light attenuated, but against the light, it could only see a distorted black shadow, and countless hands stretched out at the edge of the shadow, as if it was pitch black composed of hundreds of people.

Suddenly, droplets of water fell from the dark shadow and fell on Eve's face, the liquid was warm, and the girl wiped it with her hand, only to find that the palm of the hand had been stained red.

"I think I know what it is. Lorenzo on the side said suddenly.

"That's the shackles that bind this demon. ”

The dense array of fluorescent lamps constituted this high-intensity daylight illumination, which limited the activity of the stomach chewing grass to a certain extent, and now that the light was extinguished and the iron net fell off, the contents of the package were also clear, it was countless corpses.

The ones who fell by chance before fell from it, and now they all fell to the bottom of the pit.

In the next second, the lights completely dissipated, and the darkness engulfed everything around them, just as they had encountered the demon in the hall.

Both of them breathed heavily, and then from the darkness came the sound of countless gnawing, it was the demon eating, and it was an incomparably rich feast for it.

"What's going on. ”

The girl didn't get an answer, Lorenzo was silent and just pulled her towards the corridor behind him, in fact, he knew very well what was going on, it was a feeding, it would definitely expand after feeding with the characteristics of the stomach grass, and now the high-intensity fluorescent lamp that limited it had been extinguished.

As Saab said, the real "no survivors" are about to begin.