As night fell, as usual, there was nothing special.

The streets looked a little desolate at the moment, deliberately driven away, there were not many passers-by nearby, and the barricades were piled up at the intersection to avoid the arrival of inconsequential people.

Many people in maintenance suits walked among them, including the kestrels, and although the winter of the old Dunling was gone, the slight chill was still there, and with the already humid environment, he still felt a little cold, pacing on the side of the road.

"Pretty much done?"

Someone from the mansion came out of the mansion on the side, and as the kestrel got closer, he saw him clearly, and then asked.

"Almost, according to the report, it was Lorenzo who dealt with these demons, but after dealing with them he did not stop at the scene and did not know where they went. ”

Joey also felt a little cold, and looked around, there was a faint figure, casting a curious gaze here.

When Lorenzo fought the demons, their erosion was detected by a large Geiger counter nearby, and shortly after Lorenzo ended the battle, the purifier arrived, and after processing, it was now the finishing touches for the scavengers, who claimed that the steam pipes had ruptured, threatening to cause a chain of ruptures underground, and sealed off the place for a short time.

"Is Lorenzo really coming and going, isn't he at home?" asked Kestrels. Here he only played the role of overseer who came to replace the shift.

"No, I sent someone to look for it. Joey replied.

"But he's so mobile, like he doesn't get tired...... Is it so fun for him to kill demons?"

"What's wrong?" Hearing Joey sigh like this, the kestrel was a little curious about what Lorenzo had done before.

"In the battle against Lawrence, he used up all his weapons, even the Winchester of the heart was blown up, he needed some new weapons, I just sent him this morning. ”

"As a result, the demon was solved in the evening...... "Kestrel weakened in his voice, this efficiency is not ordinarily high, fortunately, there is no formal employment contract between Lorenzo and the purifier, otherwise there may be a day when Kestrel will lose his job before he retires.

"yes......"

Joey thought back to the scene underground, the demon stopped by the interceptor net, and the familiar hook gun still hung on the slashed body, and he could think of Lorenzo's heroic appearance at that time, the witchers shining on the scene, and the demons fleeing with their heads beaten in pain.

Unfortunately, the demon did not escape from the ground, and was captured by Lorenzo and killed as if it were an execution.

"What did you find?"

"A lot, such as hallucinogens mixed with secret blood, that demon is called Baner, he was injected with an overdose of hallucinogens and transformed into a demon, we also found some other corpses, after a simple examination, it can be determined that they were also injected with hallucinogens, but they were killed before the alienation.

The remnants of Lawrence are still in the Old Dun Spirit, and this matter is so important that Arthur has been informed. ”

The two put away their jokes, not serious, as they said, this matter is really important.

Finding the whereabouts of the "Apocalypse" is the most important thing to purify the mechanism after Lawrence's death, but now that a new secret blood has appeared, the "Apocalypse" is still around the old Dunling, and the remnants of Lawrence are still hiding in the shadows.

"And what about Arthur? I thought he was going to be here himself. Kestrel asked.

"He's been here before and should be in Montenegro Hospital now. ”

"Just ask the people about it? It seems that he is really interested. Kestrel continued.

"Not only that, but this incident also has the mounted police of Sualan Hall, according to the sheriff, he got some reports, found out about the smuggling operation, and led the attack, but he didn't expect it to be related to demons...... Yes, how could ordinary people think of demons and these things, for him, no matter how bad it is, it's just that these smugglers are armed with guns. ”

Joey said and looked at the kestrel again, "Also, his daughter is on the team, and it seems to have something to do with her." ”

"Arthur must have a headache for this kind of thing, too. ”

Joey said and looked up at the sky, and the giant whale of steel swam slowly through the clouds as usual.

Devil...... Devil......

"Kestrel do you think we'll be like this in the future?"

Joey said suddenly.

"What?" asked Kestrels.

"Even after retirement, you should know the rules of the purification mechanism, we will be organized into logistics, a little bit out of everything related to demons, that dark door will be closed to us, and everything we will do in the purification agency at that time will be just a strange nightmare. ”

"When we wake up, it's time to go back to normal life, they will pay us on time, and there will be psychological evaluations every month, and it will go on for many years, and maybe we will die in an accident or something before it is over. ”

Joey took a deep breath, he didn't know why he was suddenly so sad, but more confused, a little trance.

"But can you really wake up from this nightmare?" he wondered.

Like that mysterious connection, Arthur even tried so hard to get his family involved, first his wife, then his daughter...... I understand Arthur, and I don't want my kids to be exposed to that. ”

Saying this, Joey was suddenly stunned, as if he had seen through a huge scheme, basically one or two of their Joshua family would join the purification mechanism every generation, he initially thought it was a family tradition or something, but now it seems that this is just getting deeper and deeper.

Joey doesn't come into contact with demons at first, but it's like fate.

"I didn't think about it that much. Kestrel said, not quite understanding Joey's sadness.

"I'm just a street thug, and the only friend who thinks I've left Old Dunling, like you said, I don't want to drag him into the water, I haven't seen him since I joined the purifier......"

The kestrel paused, in fact, it was not that it had never been seen again.

"Without the job given by the shrike, I would have died on the streets, and I am grateful for everything I have now, and I would have kowtowed to me when I retired, so I can't think of those sad things.

Don't think about that, let's finish today's work first. ”

At night, people are busy at work, transporting corpse after corpse for autopsy and then incinerator, and the scavengers will continue for several days, where they will check for missed contacts and send them to a psychiatric hospital.

This is the world they live in, gray, cold and damp, everyone lights the fire, although fleeting, but still worth cherishing.

......

"Why are you here, I thought you would go straight to the Black Mountain Hospital. ”

The carriage door was pushed open, and Merlin saw the comer, somewhat surprised, according to his character, he should not be here now.

"It's not the first time Eve has encountered a demon, she's not that vulnerable, and tonight's events are more important than looking at her. ”

Arthur's thread wasn't very good, and he didn't know if it was the next thing that troubled him, or if Eve was suffering from demons.

Merlin was still faceless, and although he sometimes tried to get his stiff muscles moving, the expression was terrifying.

"She'll have to face this day sooner or later, and you're just delaying the demons finding her. ”

Merlin told Arthur that he had advised Arthur since Eve was born, but he also knew that it was a difficult decision, and although Merlin had no heirs, he could understand that beneath the painful, cold surface, he also had an almost mortal heart.

"Perhaps......"

After all this, Arthur was also a little shaken, and the connection with the darkness was like a spell, no matter how hard mortals tried, they couldn't control it.

"Let's not talk about this yet, those guests are still waiting for us, they are much more troublesome than these things. ”

The carriage moved slowly, and ran wildly through the dark streets, and the hour had entered midnight, and the old Dunling was silent, so quiet as if it had lost its voice, except for the occasional steam surge.

But above that night, the clouds were tumbling, and the war airships were slowly diving, countless pillars of light encircling the wagons, ensuring that they were in a place of light.

The sound of horses' hooves could be heard in the distance, and the soldiers protected them in the shadows.

"Is this their share?"

Merlin handed over a document with the information of the guests, and Arthur looked at it a few times, feeling extremely tired.

"Anthony Russo, judging by the information they exchanged with us, is the central figure of this mission, ostensibly a priest, but in reality he is the imagin, the rebuilt leader of the Demon Hunting Order. ”

Merlin didn't like the word imam, the guy named Lawrence was causing them too much trouble, but Anthony didn't seem to like it either.

But judging from what they said, he didn't like to be called a patriarch, just a priest. ”

Seeing Arthur's tired look, Merlin simply read it for him.

He had been a member of the Templars, an inconspicuous one, but he seemed to have belonged to the new pope, and when the new pope took office, Antony led the rest of the group in a surprise attack on the opponents, and suppressed them with violence and force. ”

Arthur's brow furrowed when he heard this, another madman-like enemy.

"Is he the one who came to negotiate with us......? Special people?" asked Arthur.

"There are a few, they are very honest, and in order to protect Anthony, there will be several witchers as guards to protect him at all times. ”

The Witcher......

Arthur's headache was even greater, after seeing Lorenzo and Lawrence, he could deeply appreciate the destructive power of these monsters, but now there were a few more in the city.

"I know your concerns, but at present, we have temporarily given Gawain and other knight captains the authority to transfer the original sin armor at will...... I just hope that when I don't use them. ”

Merlin was also a little worried, not so much to transfer back the knights, but to transfer back the original sin armor, as the first echelon of combat power, when dealing with emergencies, only their mobility can be put on the battlefield at high speed.

"They don't have secret blood, right?" Arthur suddenly remembered where the new generation of witchers came from after the Apocalypse had been lost for so long, and that core had been lost.

"Maybe there are some backup resources, don't underestimate the evangelical church, although it no longer has the glory it once was, but it is still an evangelical church, we have not seen it with our own eyes, so we can't be sure, no one knows what is hidden under its curtain. ”

As an alchemist, Merlin knew what a mystical group like the Evangelical Church could do, the original alchemy was the whims of a group of madmen, and when the madmen had a soil to nourish them, Merlin didn't think that witchers were their only work.

"But it also shows from this that he can't create witchers on a large scale, and if he could, they wouldn't have to fear us at all. ”

Arthur nodded, as a man in power, he was sometimes exhausted by the struggles between various forces.

"Do you think the purpose of their mission is anything other than technical exchanges?" asked Arthur.

"The Book of Revelation. ”

There were only Merlin and Arthur here, and he didn't need to hide anything, so he said directly.

"Have you ever wondered if our lack of access to the Book of Revelation could be the reason why we are not an evangelical church?" Arthur said.

"It's so critical and important, and for so many years, the Evangelical Church can't help but protect it somewhat, just like a witcher can perceive the darkness, is there something special that we haven't found out, so we can't find it?"

Arthur continued.

"And, from beginning to end, we haven't seen the Book of Revelation, right? Even if Lorenzo only knew it existed, he didn't even know what the Book of Revelation was like...... Is it really going to be a book?"

He voiced all his doubts, followed by his biggest worries.

"Merlin, sometimes life is really hard to decide. ”

"What's wrong?"

"I'm Arthur, I'm the head of the purification agency, but I serve Queen Victoria, the whole of Invig, and sometimes I need to abandon my sense of self as a cold decision-making machine. ”

Arthur's eyes were a little dazed, the carriage was fast, and they were almost at the dock to greet them.

"I always have a hunch that the Emerald mission won't be so simple, and this time we're not hostile at least on the surface......"

"Are you worried about Lorenzo?" Merlin realized what Arthur was trying to say.

"My decision cannot be based on personal feelings, but purely on the basis of interests, the exchange of technology, and the exchange of interests, which is Invig to the Holy Evangelical Papal States, not to the Purification Mechanism to the Demon Hunting Order.

Lorenzo's presence could not be concealed from these emissaries, and from the point of view of Emerald Filipino, he was a defected witcher......"

Arthur didn't go on with the rest of the words, as if some terrible prophecy would come true once it was spoken.