In the silence of the space, countless bookshelves surrounded the huge round table, with Lorenzo on one side and Arthur and Merlin on the other, as if they were inattainable.

The nostrils are full of old smells, and they speak of the past, like the silent chant of a bard, pouring out words.

Lorenzo leaned back in his chair slowly, feeling a little surprised and a little shocked.

Alchemy, a word that has almost disappeared from history, is the most hidden wisdom of the old era, and every alchemist clings to his knowledge, recording them on cursed parchment scrolls with complex codebooks, so that when they die, no one can understand them, so that the glorious alchemy gradually dies due to the changes of the times and the stubbornness of the alchemists.

Nowadays, this technology is only faintly mentioned in some folklore, and there are not many people in the world who really understand it.

But now a living alchemist was sitting in front of him, and he was still the chief technical officer of the Perpetual Motion Pump.

Lorenzo had long since put away his contempt, and his face was solemn, he knew too well the value of an alchemist.

"That is, the people who really want to see me...... Is that you?"

Merlin nodded, a hoarse voice rang out.

"It's for your inference, to be precise, Joey has retold your thoughts, and we think it's a possibility. ”

Probably, this is something Lorenzo had been talking to Joey about when he was in 121A Cork Street.

According to Joey, there have been demons committing crimes in the old Dunling since this period, and judging from the trajectory of their movements, it is clear that the demon retains his sanity.

The Geiger counter can't detect the actions of demons, and like Lorenzo, as long as the secret blood is calmed down, it will not have any demon erosion, in other words, the demon who has been acting may be a demon hunter.

At that time, Lorenzo and Joey both thought of this, this is not a trivial matter, just from Lorenzo's strength can see the overall demon hunter's combat effectiveness, and after Lancelot's pursuit, everyone judged that the demon was dead, but the subsequent report of the scavenger force showed that they did not find the body of the demon in the steam well.

So is there a possibility, that it is the witcher who has been torturing and killing, and only the witcher can escape the monitoring of the voyeur system, and only the witcher can withstand so many attacks without dying, and even said that he did not die in that steam well, but just calmed the secret blood and left from another place.

The appearance of an unknown demon hunter in Old Dunling, combined with the news of the new pope of the Evangelical Church and the re-establishment of the Demon Hunting Order, is chilling.

"It's just a possibility. ”

Lorenzo affirmed.

"That thing isn't a witcher, at least not a witcher in the Demon Hunter Order. ”

"Do you have any internal judgments?"

Arthur asked slowly.

"It's not a way to judge, it's that the witchers are almost dead, and even if there are survivors, they will honestly hide, instead of doing some hellish revenge and torture. ”

Lorenzo confessed that he thought he was the last witcher after Arrival, but he was clearly not alone.

"What's more, if it was really a witcher, he wouldn't do that kind of torture, we have a lot of means to torture heretics within the Order, if we just want to make a person feel pain, there is no need to do that. ”

The Demon Hunters were never a glorious and sacred place, and in order to achieve their desired purpose, the deep dungeons were filled with the corpses of people.

Arthur was silent, he didn't continue to ask Lorenzo about the witcher, and he knew very well that Lorenzo would not say anything related to the night of Arrival.

"So if it's not a witcher, is it possible that someone can control demonization to a certain extent?"

The silent Merlin spoke, and Lorenzo's gaze turned to him, a slight coldness.

"It's basically impossible, the witchers are essentially a group of people who can freely control demonization, but in order to do this, the Evangelical Church has carried out hundreds of experiments to stabilize the secret blood, not to mention implanting technologies such as the Silver Bolt and the Alchemy Matrix. ”

Some people say that the strength of a country can be deduced from a sharp weapon, and this principle is no exception to Lorenzo's, but the secret shown by the witcher at this moment is like the deep blue sea, and the small is big, and the deep bottom of the evangelical church cannot be seen at all.

"There are exceptions, though. ”

Lorenzo said again.

For a moment, he suddenly remembered a man, the outlaw who had fought all his life to survive.

Lorenzo was rarely impressed by a single person, Sabo was one of them, and it was hard for him to remember what he looked like, but the blood-stained mask always came to mind, accompanied by the words of venom, as if to curse the whole world.

"I've won everything in life, but it's just a little bit, it's just a little bit ......"

Lorenzo shuddered.

That deformed dwarf possessed willpower beyond ordinary people's imagination, and in order to survive, even inferior secret blood could not completely devour it.

Even if it was the secret blood ritual from the Demon Hunting Order, there would be many people who couldn't hold it, but Sabo survived, but he couldn't resist the erosion after all, and it was only a matter of time before he lost his mind.

"Perhaps...... A degraded witcher?"

Lorenzo thought about it, and he thought it would be quicker to use such a word to describe it.

"What do you mean?"

Arthur asked, and Merlin on the side said slowly.

"You mean, it can also calm down demonization, just like controlling the secret blood?"

"It's impossible to control it completely, even the Order can't do it, I think it can be controlled to a certain extent, but it will definitely deteriorate a lot compared to the Demon Hunter, such as stability, overall strength, and so on. ”

"Then it looks like someone is secretly trying to replicate the Demon Hunter Order's secret blood technology. ”

"It's obvious, even your purifiers have tried to do this, right? ”

Lorenzo remembered Eve, he didn't know where the faint secret blood in Eve's body came from at first, but when he realized that Arthur was the Duke of Phoenix, all this was clearly explained, presumably a long time ago, Eve had also entered the secret center of the purification mechanism, but she had forgotten it.

The secrets of the Purification Mechanism are not much less than those of the Demon Hunting Order, and even because he does not know the whole picture of the Purification Mechanism, Lorenzo has a sense of crisis at the moment, maybe a group of Original Sin Armor will break into the door in the next second and study themselves in frozen slices.

Speaking of this, the atmosphere was silent, in fact, Lorenzo said this on purpose, but also to test whether Eve's secret blood was really related to the purification mechanism, and now judging from the two silent people, the situation is basically the same as Lorenzo's guess.

No wonder your dad feels so sorry for you, it turns out that you used to be a monster too.

Lorenzo whispered in his heart, and suddenly wanted to laugh, Eve is like this, and Seleuc is the same, he found that the people who came with him were basically not normal people, is this a mutual attraction between freaks?

But this was only in his mind, and he didn't dare to say it, after all, Arthur had already wanted to kill him more than once.

"Alchemy...... Perhaps alchemy can fill that gap. ”

Merlin's hoarse voice rang out again, interrupting Lorenzo's train in his head.

"Alchemy?"

Lorenzo didn't know much about this near-lost technique, his position in the Demon Hunter Order was that of a warrior, a guard, and he was the hand that held the sword, and the hand holding the sword didn't need to know how the sword was made.

"It's not just the fact that demons are active in recent events......

"Merlin. ”

Arthur interrupted Merlin in a sudden deep voice, and his young but sickly face turned to Arthur, and he spoke slowly.

"There's no need to hide anything, I trust Mr. Holmes's character. ”

"Are you sure you know this psychotic way of doing things??I have a thick copy of his black history, and if he were sent to Sualan Hall, according to Ingwig's laws, he would have been in prison until he died, provided he lived to be two hundred years old, of course. ”

Arthur didn't worry about Lorenzo, a strong sense of hostility.

Lorenzo on the side didn't care, but looked at Merlin's eyes changed slightly, as if he had a little more sympathy for the same kind, after all, there are not many people with such a vision nowadays.

"And for a different subject, Mr. Holmes, may I ask you a few questions?"

Merlin looked at Lorenzo again, this seemed to be the first time that the two looked directly at each other, the gray and blue pupils reflected Merlin's somewhat empty eyes, Lorenzo suddenly had an indescribable discomfort, Merlin's gaze was as empty as a dead man, it seemed that the soul under this shell was long gone, and now it was just a walking corpse.

"What do you want to ask. ”

Lorenzo swallowed and sat upright.

"Mr. Holmes, do you know the train problem?"

Lorenzo was stunned, as if he didn't expect it to be this kind of problem that was already rotten on the street.

"You're saying a train is rumbling in, with five people on one side and one person on the other, and one person should be sacrificed or five, right?"

Merlin nodded.

"So what do you do?"

Lorenzo was silent for a moment, then leaned forward slightly, like a beast ready to hunt.

"In fact, the question is essentially a question of whether we have the right to sacrifice the interests of a small number of people to protect the interests of the majority. ”

The gaze sharpened.

"It's like the purification mechanism, it's like the Demon Hunting Order, in order to fight the demons, do we have to sacrifice a small number of people to save more people? ”

Merlin smiled and nodded.

"Go on. ”

"If it were me who had chosen, of course it would have been to kill one person and save five people. ”

Without much thought, Lorenzo replied directly.

"Why did you make this decision? Just because you could save more people?"

Merlin asked, his head on his back, a rare hint of interest.

"The lesser of two evils. ”

Lorenzo replied simply, time seemed to fly by, and the hall of the round table began to crumble, and finally returned to the desolate [gap], and the man smiled at Lorenzo.

This is what he taught Lorenzo, and this is what he insisted on, and sometimes Lorenzo would feel that he was so similar to him, so similar that Lorenzo was like his shadow.

The lesser of two evils.

Merlin savored the words, but then Lorenzo on the other side was out of his mind, and he asked.

"Is that your problem, it's a bit too simplistic. ”

"It's true that a lot of people just talk about it, but when it's actually real, they make different choices, and of course some people are afraid to make choices...... To be precise, the fear of the 'sin' that will have to be borne after making a choice. ”

"Don't tell me there are six unlucky guys tied to the rails right now, waiting for me to make a decision, right? ”

Lorenzo's old face darkened, this purification mechanism is full of neurosis.

"How so, Mr. Holmes, we wouldn't do such an inhumane thing, but because we can't prove it in practice, I want you to be serious enough to make a decision that comes from your heart. ”

Merlin's hands clasped together, solemn.

Lorenzo also replied solemnly.

"Then that's my decision, the lesser of two evils. ”

Merlin didn't say anything more, but seemed to be lost in thought, and after a long time, Lorenzo asked again.

"So that's your problem? Honestly, there's really nothing new. ”

Merlin's dead face slowly provoked a smile as he looked at Lorenzo.

"Mr. Holmes, do you think I'm going to be that boring? That's not the whole story. ”

"So there's a second problem?"

Lorenzo chuckled, he is a strong-willed man, his body is a cage, and he is locked up with the demon, he must always be firm and strong, only in this way can he suppress the will of the demon, only then this specific name is Lorenzo Holmes, not some hellish John Watson or some other hellish name.

He's Lorenzo Holmes and always has been.

I don't know when, the conversation also became tense, Merlin breathed lightly, and then said slowly.

"Second question. ”

"If five people are tied to railroad tracks, there is only one rail. ”

Merlin added.

In Lorenzo's eyes, he was already in the framed world, five unlucky men were tied to the railroad tracks, and a steam train whistled melodiously.

"There's no fork in the road, just you and another person standing next to the tracks, and the only way to stop the train from running over is two. ”

Lorenzo seemed to sense some kind of crisis, and then the world was constructed in Merlin's words, and a man appeared next to Lorenzo.

It could be Eve, it could be Seleucus, it could be this annoying Arthur, it could be any one of the multitudes.

"Two ways, push the person next to you onto the tracks, the train will run over him and then stop, so the five people are saved. ”

Merlin smiled like a fox.

"Or ......"

"Shall I go up and sacrifice myself for the sake of everyone?"

Lorenzo said.