Carrying the pitch-black box on his back, Lorenzo slowly returned home after sunset, the fog rising on the road, and the multicolored light reflected through the fine droplets of water, the light reflected was psychedelic and distracting.

After a brief greeting to Madame vanroude, Lorenzo returned to his room, and locked the door.

Lorenzo took out the only information he had obtained in the dungeon that night, a bill, which was one of the reasons why Lorenzo saved Eve at that time, when it left the dungeon with Eve and the boat, so it was well preserved and the handwriting was clearly visible.

Human memory is unreliable, and no matter how hard you try to remember it, you may end up forgetting it, and you won't even realize it's happening.

So no matter what the organization is, it needs a bill, a bill that details the expenses, even if it's Saab's gangsters.

Fingers slid over the accounts, looking back and forth, the things on them were very messy, it seemed that the person in charge of the accounts was not very professional, their respective expenses were written together in a haphazard manner, and some transactions might be more important, replaced by strange symbols.

Lorenzo looked at it for a long time and didn't find a clue, after thinking for a while, he indifferently took out a cigarette, which was rolled with tomato grass, presumably that strange vision might be able to help him, but Lorenzo was also hesitating, his connection with the darkness had undoubtedly deepened a lot, and now he didn't know what would happen if he ate this herb again.

But...... Whatever? It's just a cigarette in case of trouble.

Thinking of Lorenzo, he lit a fire, and opened the box brought back from the graveyard, which contained more than he had imagined, and there were many bottles and cans in addition to the blade.

Picking up the reassuring blade, the touch felt like holding cold frost, inhaling the psychic herbs into his lungs, staring at the bill, and then the whole world fell into darkness.

The familiar sound of the tide sounded again, the damp wind carried the smell of the sea, and the angry waves crashed against the shore and shattered into white flowers on the rocks.

Lorenzo lowered his head, his expression rare solemn.

Beneath his feet was soft earth, on which the yellow grass died.

It was such a clear and real environment that if it weren't for Lorenzo's consciousness, he would have thought he had come to this unknown place himself.

The good thing is that he can see more clues through his vision, and the bad thing is that he has a deeper connection to the darkness.

A faint green light lit up not far in front of him, like a burning green sun, and it seemed that some kind of huge pupil was staring at the world.

Looking up, it was the lighthouse that Lorenzo kept seeing, he was in front of him at the moment, the damp entity was covered with moss and vines, and the top of the tower emitted an ominous light, if nothing else, the mysterious sacred coffin should be stored in it at this moment.

That's where it all began.

Lorenzo calmed down after a brief surprise, he needed more clues, Invig was full of coasts, there were at least a hundred such lighthouses, and he had to find the characteristics that could distinguish them.

But as he looked around, a hoarse voice sounded, and a dark shadow enveloped him, and the strange back was to the green light, and the warm breath like a giant bear poured out of the bloody mouth.

Lorenzo was undaunted, he had seen many times, and although what he saw was wrapped in some reality, it was still mostly illusory, just the work of herbs and unknown powers.

So it can be said that everything in front of him is illusory, only the clue is real, but just as he thought so, the shadow in front of him attacked, like a temptation, randomly driving away the flies in the air, and simply swung it down and smashed it at Lorenzo.

Instinctively warned Lorenzo, but without thinking about it, Lorenzo directly raised the blade in his hand to cut off the illusory shadow, so warm blood spilled on Lorenzo's face.

It was so real, so real that every hair in Lorenzo's hair could feel the blood on his cheeks, and there was an electric current surging in every nerve.

It's true...... Target?

The shadow roared, and smashed on the blade with great force, and the sharp claws left a bloody mark on Lorenzo's arm, and there was no time for Lorenzo to judge whether it was true or false, he immediately swung the blade again, but the illusory shadow dissipated like ink under his sword strike, so the whole dark world collapsed, and the familiar room reappeared in front of him.

He still kept swinging his sword, but there was nothing in front of him.

Before you know it, the tobacco has burned out, and the vision is over.

Lorenzo sat down in his chair in a cold sweat, slowly resting the blade on the table, pausing for a long time as pain came from his arm.

It was a shallow wound, and the ghost had wiped his face with a god, but the palm of his hand was scarlet blood.

Is that...... True.

Everything that the vision saw was real, and at that moment Lorenzo was at war with the monster in the vision.

This didn't happen by accident, it was clear that this had never happened before.

Taking a deep breath, a terrible conjecture rose in Lorenzo's mind.

His connection to the darkness deepened, so deep that Lorenzo could briefly and truly dwell in that world in his vision.

It's not good news, as he and Eve say, you live in the same world as dark creatures, but you can't see each other, and now Lorenzo can see them, and they can see Lorenzo.

"What the hell......"

Lorenzo cursed casually, thinking for a moment and placing the blade beside him, trying to add some security.

It is the standard weapon of the Demon Hunting Order, made of alloy and plated with holy silver, which is a deadly weapon for demons, because it looks like a long nail, so it is nicknamed the nail sword.

Originally, Lorenzo used the staff sword in large part because it resembled this weapon, except for its weight and much less lethality to demons.

"Lorenzo!

Madame vanroude's shrill voice sounded downstairs, and it was then that Lorenzo realized that his agitated sword had knocked over the bookcase, and the sound caught Madame vanroude's attention.

"I fell, it's fine!"

Lorenzo replied loudly. Madame van Loude is so old, so she should not have anything to do with demons.

Lifting up the bookcase and looking at the scattered books, Lorenzo was in no mood to clean up, and sat back in his seat, his eyes suddenly glancing at the bill, the thick pages of the book turned to a new one, and the bright red blood stained it.

Lorenzo seemed to have discovered something, and he saw the blood stain one of the transactions red.

It was an address, and Lorenzo pulled out his map, but he couldn't find the address in the transaction for a long time.

After a pause, Lorenzo remembered that with Invig's astonishing rate of expansion, the city-states in his territory were changing every day, and his map was not up to date enough.

As if thinking of something, Lorenzo strode out of his room with the bill, and came downstairs, where Madame vanloude was sitting on the sofa reading the newspaper, and seeing Lorenzo so flustered, she took off her thick reading glasses.

"Are you stupid?"

"No, I'm looking for something. ”

Lorenzo replied, and then stood in the center of the drawing-room, a huge map, with mountains and cities depicted in ink on yellowed vellum, detailing all the information of the entire territory of Invig, and even some hidden objects would be marked on it instead of symbols.

It was a military map from the Glorious War, and it recorded things in more detail than Lorenzo's map, and as for the timeliness, you can even find backup resources buried by the Invig army at that time, even the city that no longer exists.

This thing was supposed to be sealed in the military warehouse, but when Madame Van Loude retired, I don't know how she did it, she actually smuggled out a large map and hung it in the living room.

She said that it was more a tribute to her military career than a medal of honor, and sometimes sitting in the drawing-room with her, Madame van Loude would always point to the land on the map and say to Lorenzo in a swaggering manner, "See? I wrote down from this to this on the map." ”

"What are you looking for?"

"An address. ”

Lorenzo's line of sight travels back and forth along the coast of the sea on the map.

It was a transport deal, and Sabo was delivering a lot of food to a town called Ender, and there were countless towns in the whole of Invig, but Lorenzo saw the lighthouse in Vision, so he narrowed it down to the coastal town, but he couldn't find it.

"No......"

Lorenzo had not found the town on the map for a long time, and it was at this moment that Madame vanroude approached.

"Ender?"

Wearing the thick reading glasses, Madame van Loude squinted slightly.

"Are you looking for this town?"

"Yes, a small coastal town, but there is no ...... on the map"

"Coastal? Of course not. ”

When Madame van Loude heard the word coastal, she immediately gave an answer.

"No? why?"

Lorenzo turned his head, a little puzzled as to why Madame vanrude said this.

"Because of the Glorious War, we and Gaul Nalo are separated by a White Tide Strait, in the hundred years of war, the fleets of both sides have fought I don't know how many times, coastal towns have long been transformed into military bases or moved into the interior, until the end of the Glorious War more than ten years ago, the coastal areas gradually have population return. ”

Madame vanloude was a man who had experienced war, and she knew more about this than Lorenzo.

Dry fingers slid across the map, she said.

"Military maps should be read in conjunction with a symbol book, and we usually use symbols and numbers to represent a place, so that even if the map falls into the hands of the enemy, they can't read it without a symbol book, and look at the triangular symbols, which represent the place that used to be a town. ”

There are no names for cities, just rows of triangle symbols with suffixes with numbers along the coast.

Looking at Madame Vanrude, Lorenzo thought for a moment and said tentatively.

"Ma'am, which town do you think needs to be fed from the outside?"

"You mean the supply line?"

"Probably......

According to the transaction records, Sabo invested a large amount of money to transport food to the mysterious town of Ender, which was transferred directly from the port of Rendona to the town of Ender, whose location is unknown.

"Hmm...... Probably here. ”

Madame van Loude pointed to the far edge of the map, to the west of the island of Invig, for which there had not yet been developed, and there were not even a few railways.

"Because of the war, Inlwig has a very tight control over the places where he communicates with his neighbors, except for the north and the west, our north is the northern sea, and the enemy has to endure the ice floes and the Vikings if they want to attack a long way, and the west is an endless ocean, and our main cities are concentrated in the center, where they can only eat hay. ”

"So that's the only way, far from the main cities, there's no port, even fishing boats don't pass through, there's no food to be self-sufficient, and we need outside supplies. ”

"Then why not the North?"

Lorenzo was still a little unsure.

Madame vanrude gave Lorenzo a blank look, and then said.

"What a child living in the new era, really not suffering, the north of Invig has been covered with ice and snow for many years, before the advent of the new steam engine, the frozen soil there could not be developed, let alone built towns, and in recent years, the expansion of the port of Rendona has no development value in the north. ”

Listening to Madame vanrude's words, Lorenzo nodded, his eyes focused on the west of Inlweg, where the triangular symbols were not dense, as Madame van Loude said, Invig did not develop much for the west, and the symbols moved more and more sparsely to the west until they disappeared.

Suddenly, a symbol leaped into Lorenzo's eyes, a symbol that appeared beyond the land, a town built in the sea.

"Ma'am, do you know what this is?"

It had a triangular symbol for the town, but it was at sea, and it was a military map, and Lorenzo didn't think it was caused by a drawing error.

"Hmm...... Probably some town that has been swallowed by the sea, this is very common, and sometimes the water level rises along the coast, flooding the lower land, but when the tide is low, it will be revealed, so that symbol is there. ”

"Is that so......"

It was a strange feeling, Lorenzo had not been able to determine the location of Ende before, but after hearing Madame van Loude say all this, he was sure that this was there.

Suddenly remembered what the first shrike had said to himself.

Gut feeling......

The sacred coffin lured him in front of him, pulling his instincts to pursue it.

"Are you going on a trip?" Madame vanloude looked curiously at Lorenzo, who was no man's land to the west.

"Sort of. ”

Lorenzo replied.

"Hmm...... Then I recommend you to take this line. ”

Madame van Loude said as she pointed to a dotted line running west, which was a railroad.

"This is a military route, and at first everyone felt that they could not win the glorious war, so they prepared to withdraw to the west to continue the resistance after the fall of the southern coast, but as you know, we drove the enemy out of Old Dunling and won the war, so the construction of the railroad was stopped.

But in recent years, someone has developed a tour of the west side and restarted this route, and I think you should use it. ”

Madame vanloude sat back on the sofa and continued to read the newspaper, and after thinking about it, she said again.

"Lorenzo, there are quite a few weapons in the basement, if they are not damp, you can use them, they are all military supplies, and the quality is definitely better than those profiteers in the lower city. ”

Lorenzo was just about to go up the stairs when he stumbled when he heard such a sentence.

"What are you talking about?"

"Huh, do you think I'm going to believe your nonsense?"

Madame vanloude looked up at Lorenzo, her cloudy eyes seeming to penetrate the heart.

"Traveling? You will travel? Who would believe it! The one who introduced you to live here was a shrike! You are going to kill people compared to traveling!"

Lorenzo had always thought that he had hidden well from Madame vanrude, who would have thought that this shrewd old lady would have seen through it a long time ago.

"No...... Compared to this...... Military?"

Lorenzo was a little confused, meaning that he had lived in an arsenal for six years and then didn't know it.

The scene was a little awkward, and Madame van Loude scolded and scolded.

"What's the matter? I've gotten medals that can be hung all over the wall, and the pension is just a little bit a month, so what's wrong with me selling a few boxes of arms with it?"

This old lady is not as simple as hell anymore...... I've seen the wool of the country, but Lorenzo hasn't seen it so straightforward.

"I thought I could make a lot of money, but when I heard that it was military supplies, no one dared to take over the usually menacing bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods in Xiacheng District, so I put it now. ”

Rolling her eyes, Madame van Loude finally said.

"By the way, Lorenzo, tell me in advance, if you die, I'll sell the contents of that room to pay the rent. ”

Lorenzo's face darkened, this damn old lady......