The year 932 in the Invig calendar.

Another year passed, another year had grown, and everything had moved forward again by a fraction.

The streets still bear traces of the joy of the gods' birthdays, and the fluttering floral ornaments are swept up by the wind and shattered under the galloping wheels.

Although the festival has just ended, people have long lost their joy, as usual, everyone walks calmly in the foggy morning, as if the beauty is just a dream.

But there was a discordant guy in the midst of this, and he had a mean smile on his face, which was out of place in the crowd.

Taking a big breath in the haze peculiar to the old Dunling, Lorenzo looked very happy, but this is also the usual appearance of the great detective.

This is the seventh year he has spent in Old Dunling, and looking at this steel and mechanical city, he can't help but sigh that time is so fast.

Of course, it was more of a feeling that Lorenzo was already familiar with the life of the old Dunling, and although the days at the farmhouse were leisurely, he always felt uncomfortable, and when he returned to this gloomy city, Lorenzo felt that he had returned to the pond

People always need to do something to fill their slightly empty lives, and it didn't take long for the Sualan Hall to appear in front of Lorenzo's eyes, and he went straight in with his cane, as an external detective, he was more active than these regular employees.

"Morning! Pree!"

The voice was the same as asking for life, and Press at the workstation couldn't help but shudder.

I saw the chief detective happily coming, twisting left and right on the narrow road between the workstations, and the young detectives looked sideways, and in a blink of an eye he came to his workstation.

In order to find something to do for the detective, Lorenzo worked as an external detective in the Sualan Hall, and Pres acted as an intermediary in charge of the connection between the two.

Although they had not worked together for a long time, Pres was already vaguely aware of the mystery of Lorenzo and the secret department that had authority over them.

But he doesn't care about that, he's just a detective who has been smoothed out by life, Pres doesn't have any ideals of punishing evil and promoting good, he just wants to work hard until retirement, and then find a town where he can see the sun to spend his old age...... The ordinary can't be more ordinary.

"Early, Mr. Holmes, I haven't seen you for a long time. ”

Pree, Lorenzo had mysteriously disappeared since that serial murder, and he thought the detective had died in a sewer somewhere in the lower town.

"Do you have any work? I've been a little flustered lately. ”

"There are a lot, and there is never a shortage of cases in the Sualan Hall. ”

Preece was a little decadent, as if all his energy had been swallowed up by work.

"You look a little bad. Lorenzo crouched down and crouched down at Pree's table, looking him in the eye from below.

Preece had dark circles under his eyes and a blank gaze, like an old and dying tree.

"If you were to work overtime on God's birthday, you would be like me. "He's weak.

"So miserable?"

"After all, you have to do things when you get money, and the rent in Old Dunling is very expensive. ”

Preece thought in pieces.

"Old Dunling is good, they are full of gold here, everyone comes, but how many people can live a good life here......?

The negative energy visible to the naked eye was released from him, like a devil's claw, scratching indiscriminately, substituting the people around him into that emotional Zheng

"Okay, okay, I can understand your pain, but ah, anyway, you're all a tool, and you have to be the best!"

Lorenzo soothed Pree, but his words of comfort were not very pleasant.

In this case, no amount of passion you have will be consumed.

"Well, it's okay, just give the money," Preece comforted himself, looking at Lorenzo with as much spirit in his decadent eyes as he could.

"It's just a salaryman, it's good to earn a pension, either busy living, or busy dying. ”

It seems that the overtime work on God's Birthday is really irritating to the detective.

"So there's a big case, busy like this?" Lorenzo pulled a chair from the side and sat down.

The only recent big event was the assassination of Lawrence, but with the scavengers wrapping up, it won't get around at all.

"There are no big cases, but there are too many cases. ”

Lorenzo was at least superficially good, and he was still an external detective in the Suaran Hall, so Pres did not hide it from him.

"For example, hallucinogens, no matter how they are suppressed, will continue to appear after all, and those stowaways!"

Until the stowaway Pree's voice was raised, and he looked very angry.

"Ah, what's so good about Old Dunling, why don't you talk so much about coming here?"

He had a terrible headache.

According to the rules of the old Dunling, people without formal status can only gather in the lower city, and those smugglers generally gather in the dirtiest places, enjoying less than the glory of the old Dunling, but they still come one after the other.

With long legs on them, no matter how much police force is invested, there will still be so many people who disrupt the normal law and order.

"On God's Day, although the celebration of God's Day is over, there will be missions from various countries arriving in the following days, and in order to stabilize the order, we have not taken a vacation, I just hope that after all this, we can have a good rest. "Pres.

I still know something about the celebration Lorenzo, I don't know if Arthur did it on purpose or what, the time at the Lorenzo farmhouse happened to be the day of the celebration, and he missed these perfectly.

"That is, the missions of various countries have not left yet?"

"Not only did they not leave, but they were also on their way. Preese recalled.

"Leba, Gaul Nalo, Viglia, Nalo...... Wait, the surrounding countries are coming, and a large part is still on the way. "Pree," the whole of Old Dunling has already entered martial law, don't you notice that there are a lot fewer people?"

Glancing around, there were not many people coming to work, he continued, "The mounted police are no longer enough, and in order to ensure safety, even the outer city has begun to have mounted police patrols. ”

Hearing this, Lorenzo realized the seriousness of the official matter, the time for the celebration was over, they were not here to sing and dance, maybe there would be a high arms deal here, there was a lot of technical support, and complicated political ...... But it has nothing to do with Loren.

Lorenzo is self-aware, he knows very well that his life should be a cool article of fighting and killing, not some officialdom, there is no need to think about that.

But looking at it this way, he understood why Arthur was so eager to kill Lawrence, and once Lawrence lived until the missions arrived in Old Dunling, no one knew what he would do.

"That'...... Rest today?" Lorenzo asked tentatively, unlike Pree, he was an outside detective and didn't have to go to work.

"Get out of here!" Preece didn't look at Lorenzo, he was so irritable now, he didn't want to let this talkative detective continue to annoy himself, he didn't want to go out with this detective and do some strange adventures after a night of sleep.

Lorenzo shook his head and stood up helplessly, looking like Pres didn't want to waste his precious time on himself.

But as soon as he got up, Lorenzo saw an unwell figure, and was immediately stunned, and then sat down again, but this time he sat directly against Pree's table, as if he was hiding from someone.

"What are you doing?"

"If you shut up, I'll figure out how about getting you out of here? ”

Lorenzo directly blocked Prees's words.

Although he was in a trance, Prey was in a state of mind, and he still believed in the return of this nonsense, although Lorenzo was an unserious detective, but seriously, in his eyes Lorenzo was a black-and-white mysterious person, who was called by the mysterious department, and called him a brother and sister.

But then he became a little curious, and looked around, trying to find what Lorenzo saw, and then an equally familiar figure appeared in his eyes... He also had a bit of a headache.

The girl was dressed in a standard police uniform, her long fiery red hair was coiled up, and unlike those who were in a state of mind, every time she saw her, she was always full of vitality and spirit.

"So isn't she on leave?" asked Lorenzo.

"You can't take a few months off!" Preese replied, though he didn't know what was happening.

"But ......"

Lorenzo's mind is a little messy, judging by Arthur's personality, it is impossible for him to let Eve come back to work, or is it ...... Or has this old guy finally figured it out, it's better to block it?

"She's turned positive?"

"It's turned positive. ”

Preece nodded, the first time he met Lorenzo was with Eve, he didn't know why Lorenzo had such a big reaction.

"You're ...... now. Are you avoiding her?"

"Exactly, I was a little caught off guard by this sudden meeting. Lorenzo shrunk back, no one could have imagined that this great detective could hide in such a narrow place.

"I think with your character, you will stand up shamelessly no matter what the situation. Although the contact was not very long, Preece was already impressed by Lorenzo's strong character.

Lorenzo was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it carefully, he really was, but then shook his head.

"Pree, people change. ”

"Thin-skinned?"

Lorenzo did not respond to him, just remained silent.

The last time he saw Eve was when Lawrence first appeared, and like Arthur, he was a man disguised as a normal maniac, and his burning anger caused him to abandon Eve and try to kill Lawrence.

Afterwards, Lorenzo thought back to whether he would do it again if he had to make a new choice, and the result was "yes".

Yes, the night of Advent took everything from Lorenzo, and the culprit was in front of him, not Eve, even if Lorenzo himself died there.

But now it was different, Lorenzo came back from the dead, and even the cold cruelty melted a little, and in the process of assassinating Lawrence, he became more and more like a person, and the heart of stone grew flesh and blood.

Strip off the skin of the beast and live as a man.

So he was thinking about that time.

In that desperate situation, Lorenzo was his last hope, but this hope was thinking of taking her and Lawrence to die together.

Lorenzo's ideas are constantly changing, just like people grow up, with age and experience.

Sometimes he comforted himself that he didn't know much about Eve after all, and he was also killed at that time...... Well, that sounds a bit like a scumbag

So at the end of the day, Lorenzo is still different from then, he becomes more like a person, he doesn't grin and "hey, it's not going to be long", he feels a little ashamed and uncomfortable by being cheeky and hiding from it.

"Is she gone?" asked Lorenzo.

But there is no need for people to find themselves unhappy, and it is a while to be able to hide.

"Gone, looks like she's on patrol. "Pres.

"I was finally able to get up. ”

Lorenzo got up from the ground, he wasn't ready to face Eve, after all, he almost killed someone, he used to be shameless and didn't care, but now he felt a little "guilty".

Lorenzo shuddered at the thought of this.

Sure enough, with emotion, people will have weaknesses, and if someone uses this guilt to deal with themselves, it is really unimaginable.

But as if he had tasted the forbidden fruit, Lorenzo had already experienced the joy in it, and with Lawrence dead, it was difficult for him to strip away his emotions and turn them into cold weapons.

After looking around, there was indeed no familiar figure, and Lorenzo got up to leave.

"Wait Lorenzo!" Prestz grabbed him.

"What?"

"We're good. ”

Preece stared at Lorenzo with dark circles, and if Lorenzo said anything, he didn't mind letting Lorenzo experience the wrath of a social animal.

Lorenzo swallowed, "Okay, okay, I think you really need to get some sleep, damn capitalism turns people into ghosts!"

The detective looked distressed.

He flipped up on Pree's table.

"Are there any cases that need to be investigated right now?"

"There are a lot, there are not enough people, there are too many cases piled together. ”

Preece looked at Lorenzo, who was flipping through the papers, and asked, "What does this have to do with my rest?"

"Because we need a great adventure to cover up your work touch. ”

But Prese shook his head, he knew that it was not a great adventure, it was just that the detective was too busy to find something to do, and the so-called case was just to make his fire conform to Invig's laws.

Lorenzo closed his eyes and pulled one out of it.

"It's up to you!"

The detective was so happy that he couldn't beat it

"Alright, my old man, let's get moving! If you go slow, I swear I'll kick you in the ass with my boots!"

The detective's voice was pretending to be deep again, and the sentence pattern was like what people had spoken hundreds of years ago.

The sound made Prey uncomfortable for a while, and in layman's terms, it was ...... Diaphragm.

Just like when tormenting the kestrels, Lorenzo's chaotic thoughts continued to affect Pres with his words.

"Wait, I still have work to do here!"

"No, detective, you've been requisitioned! Your job now is to investigate this case with me!" Lorenzo said rightly, and then said to Presie, "It's just a formality, you go home and sleep after you go out, I'll investigate, and I'll write a good report!"

Preece looked at him suspiciously, but Lorenzo's eyes suddenly became hellish sincere.

"Good...... All right. ”

"So let's see what the case is drawn this time......"

Lorenzo looked through the case he had drawn, but his smile gradually froze, and his eyes were a little solemn.

It's a very ordinary case, just a group of fleeing stowaways, but the place they come from makes Lorenzo feel a little uncomfortable.

"Stowaways from Emerald Jade?"

Lorenzo whispered.

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