Lorenzo sat in his chair with several bottles of potion in front of him, and although they were well sealed, there was still a strange smell that rushed into his nostrils, and he couldn't help but sneeze.

Raising his head, he was now in this huge underground factory, steel and machinery, they were intertwined with each other, like a huge deep well, he was at the bottom, and he couldn't see the sky when he looked up.

After several temptations and persuasions from Merlin, Lorenzo reluctantly agreed to his experiment, and at the same time he thought a lot about himself, just like Merlin said, why he survived.

Lorenzo thought about it for a long time, who would be the biggest beneficiary if he survived, and finally came to only such a conclusion.

It's Watson who doesn't want to die, and his own survival is just an incidental.

Lorenzo himself is a cage that traps Waren in it, as long as Lorenzo remains silent, Watson will be trapped here forever, and when Lorenzo dies, the last person who remembers her dissipates, and Watson has no way to survive, so she needs Lorenzo to live, and the two are like a strange symbiotic relationship.

Of course, these were only Lorenzo's inferences, and he could only rely on speculation about the nature of this false grail.

Watson was born on the night of the Advent of Destruction, and most of the participants died in that catastrophe, not to mention experimenting with the nature of the Pseudo-Grail, and even few people knew of her existence...... It is even said that Lorenzo is alone.

To this day, Lorenzo still considers himself one of the few survivors of Arrival, and he is the only one who still remembers the tragedy.

"So you're still watching it all?"

Lorenzo whispered, his eyes wary looking around.

He remembered his conjecture again that Watson had disappeared since Lawrence's death and when he had returned from the Black Angels, and that the evil devil had never replied to any of his calls, as if she had only been Lorenzo's crazy imagination, or that she had escaped from Lorenzo's cage.

Lorenzo's preferred guess was that Watson was still trapped inside her, but she remained silent, observing Lorenzo's confused expression with a wicked smile, waiting for her own crankiness and self-doubt until a crack in her firm faith broke to break her.

Glancing back and forth, Lorenzo believed that Watson was nearby, peering at him in some darkness that he could not perceive, but in this case, there was another suspicion in all this, that is, Medanzo's whereabouts.

The ghostly Medanzo existed in Lorenzo's [gap], he was one of the shackles guarding the pseudo-chalice, but he still did not react, Lorenzo did not feel his presence.

The puzzle appeared in front of Lorenzo's eyes again, as if some danger was slowly approaching, and he wanted to prevent it in advance, but he couldn't see the direction it was coming from.

"Mr. Holmes!" Merlin shouted, pulling Lorenzo back from the whirlpool of thoughts.

The alchemist had clearly premeditated, and some of the experimental tools and potions had been prepared, and Lorenzo wondered if he had been calculated.

"Just call me Lorenzo. ”

Lorenzo said, hearing too many respectful words, but feeling a little strange.

"Okay, then use this first, Lorenzo. ”

Merlin said as he handed Lorenzo a Florente potion, "We don't know what will happen to you, but there's nothing wrong with sobering up." ”

Lorenzo took the potion, expertly pressed it on his neck, injected it, and after a short period of pain, there was a piercing cold sensation, and everything was a little clearer in front of his eyes, which felt great.

"Do you remember how you used the Armor of Original Sin earlier?" asked Merlin.

Lorenzo nodded, to be honest, every time he drove the Original Sin Armor, the process was not so good.

"Lorenzo, the last time you drove the Original Sin Armor, you lost consciousness directly, but it's funny, you didn't lose control, in that erosion, you seem to have entered a strange state, am I right?"

Merlin was indeed premeditated, and if there was anyone in the purification agency who wanted Lorenzo to live the most, it would be Merlin, and such experimental material was not often foreseen.

"Weapons Division?"

Lorenzo recalls everything as he enters the original sin armor known as the Weapons Division, and then ...... Then he stepped into the gap.

Yes, Lorenzo suddenly remembered this, he looked up at the black angel who seemed to be hanged, and a terrible thought slowly rose in his heart.

The mysterious [gap], every time Lorenzo arrived there, he relied on the call of Medanzo or Watson, but this time was different, the original sin armor seemed to be some kind of connector, so that he himself took the initiative to reach the [gap].

"Connected with Managers ......"

Lorenzo remembered Medanzo's description of all this, like some large spiritual world, when the erosion reached a certain point, when you were swept into the deepest depths of darkness, you could see it. Lorenzo could only be passively connected, just as the call from the Temple of Stasis was at that time.

But with the Original Sin Armor, it was different, when he took the initiative to connect to that strange spiritual world with the help of the weapon, and even said that he saw the [gap] representing the Stagnant Sanctuary there.

Where does the gap come from, and what is the temple of stasis...... Is it really just a building?

"What's wrong, Lorenzo?"

Merlin looked at Lorenzo, who suddenly fell silent, and although he lowered his head, Merlin saw the corners of his mouth gradually becoming hideous, as if he was laughing maniacally.

"Huh?"

Lorenzo's thoughts were interrupted, and he hurriedly put away a somewhat crazy smile.

"No, it's just, just thinking of a lot of things. ”

Was that the connection to the darkness? Many of Lorenzo's troubles were answered in an instant, and for Watson and Medanzo, it would be nice if he returned to [Interval] to confirm it all with his own eyes.

"When can we start?"

Lorenzo reversed his previous passivity and was very cooperative with the work, which made Merlin a little stunned, but then he said.

"The Black Angel still needs to be adjusted, do you have any last words? What if you can't get down?"

Merlin said as he sat down next to Lorenzo with a look of concern.

"What are you going to do?"

"Just talking about your heart, relieving your inner stress and doubts, can improve your survival rate in the next experiment. ”

"Wait, what does survival mean?"

"Because of the danger of the Black Angel, we still can't find the answer to its mystery, and it also fuses the Holy Grail flesh and blood, and you also have a certain proportion of this thing, who can guess what will happen when you enter? Maybe the two Holy Grail flesh and blood will merge together and a super demon will appear? ”

"Just kidding, just kidding. ”

Lorenzo looked at the face that had all the nerves of his face necrotic, stiff as a brick, and the jokes he told with this face had a cold feeling.

"Did Merlin say you're not fit to joke?"

"Hmm...... Probably not, after all, I rarely talk about it. ”

"Then you know it now. ”

The two freaks sat together, and there was a different feeling, Lorenzo swept his gaze at Merlin from time to time, sometimes this alchemist and the witcher were also a little similar, they were both incomprehensible guys, and they seemed more withdrawn than the witchers.

The awkward silence lasted for a few seconds, and Merlin suddenly spoke again.

"Do you want to think about writing a will?"

"Please, don't be kidding, okay?"

"I'm serious, haven't you thought about this? Lorenzo, I thought that you would carry a will with you at all times in a high-risk profession. ”

Merlin said solemnly.

"Think about Lorenzo, human life is so fragile, maybe you slip on one foot and fall, hit your head on a raised stone, die like this, or be eaten by a demon that suddenly jumped out, of course I know that you witchers are not so fragile, but you are not invincible, right? ”

Lorenzo looked at him with a puzzled expression, and Merlin continued.

"Just like you, every time you kill a demon, you get hurt and sometimes pass out...... Didn't you think that one day you wouldn't wake up?"

Merlin looked at him, and in that empty gaze, Lorenzo couldn't read anything.

"Isn't feeling good lately?"

"What do you mean?"

"Emerald, Apocalypse, etc., although I am like this, I am very sensitive to human change, Lorenzo, you are wary of us...... What are you afraid of? Let me guess. ”

A stiff smile tugged at Merlin's face, the alchemist was also full of weirdness, and Lorenzo suspected that he had transformed himself into an inhuman creature in his quest for truth.

"Are you worried about us becoming the next Demon Hunter?" Merlin asked.

"The Book of Revelation is not something that ordinary people should understand, it will bring out the inferiority of human beings, like the Demon Hunters, who first used it to defend the world, and then tried to conquer it with it. ”

Lorenzo didn't answer directly, but said something else.

"Of course I've thought about that, Merlin, but I've thought about it for a long time, and I can't find an answer. He said and looked at Merlin, looking directly into the empty eyes.

"Persuasion, warning, these are useless, even in the Evangelical Church, those who know the history of demons will surrender before temptation, let alone you?

Lorenzo seemed to have understood these and replied indifferently.

"You are an organization, a group, and the will of one person cannot change the whole idea, and after all, the real decider is the Queen Victoria, isn't it?

Merlin asked, "What would you do if something really happened that you didn't want to see?"

"In my way, as before, demons must be eradicated. ”

Lorenzo replied briefly.

"yes, that's what I've always felt. Merlin said suddenly.

"What do you think?"

"There is no good or evil in people, just different positions, just like you, Lorenzo Holmes, what you want is the destruction of demons, everything related to demons should be buried in the fire, and I am different, our different positions will eventually lead us to the opposite sides, until the sword is drawn...... But in reality, none of us is wrong, we just think differently. ”

Merlin continued, questioning Lorenzo.

"Do you know the curse of knowledge?"

The alchemist spoke calmly, and without waiting for Lorenzo to answer, he revealed all his secrets bit by bit.

"Actually, I can only cooperate with the purification agency, just like your relationship with the purification agency, we just have the same position, or part of the position coincides, so we can become temporary allies. ”

"I helped the Purifier develop techniques to fight demons, and they collected those lost alchemy notes for me, and if your quest is to eradicate demons, then I am the truth, the truth that no one knows. ”

Merlin thought for a moment and continued to explain what he wanted to say for Lorenzo.

"Speaking of which, Lorenzo, the Black Angel is important to me, and I think it's a key that opens the door that has been sealed in the dust. ”

"I think you're like a wand right now. Lorenzo said with some trepidation, these alchemists are all crazy, but Merlin is the calmer one of them.

"This is the inferiority of human beings, we will never understand each other, and it is this curse that causes knowledge, remember what you said to me about the baptism of God?"

Merlin's expression was full of yearning, happiness and pain at the same time.

"Lorenzo, I'm a scholar, your story didn't attract the attention of others, but I was deeply attracted to it, such a magnificent and wonderful world......

But something even more painful came to me, Lorenzo, no matter how much I imagined, I couldn't construct in my mind that world I had never seen, and the same was true for you, no matter how detailed you explained it to me, I was still a blind person to that unknown world, and I couldn't see anything. ”

Merlin looked at the black angel above, and under the light, it carried a strange sense of sacredness, and it all seemed to be a sacrifice.

"I read a lot of alchemy notes, and I cracked a lot of them, and the more I delved into that knowledge, the more I discovered this terrible ......"

Merlin looked at Lorenzo and voiced his doubts.

"Have you ever thought that demons are the unknown, and that what we know about them is the curse of this knowledge?"

"Poor information. ”

Lorenzo said slowly, he began to put away his carelessness, and gradually became serious as he listened.

"Just like when we developed the steam engine, in fact, it caused a lot of dissatisfaction at the time, they thought it was abnormal, because this far more than human machinery broke their 'common sense', yes, before the steam engine appeared, everything was human power, and some people even thought that we were wizards, and bound our souls into the machine to work for us.

This is ignorance, this is backwardness, this is a kind of information gap......"

Merlin leaned close to Lorenzo's ear and whispered, as if it were some kind of taboo, some kind of blasphemy.

"That'...... There is no such possibility, Lorenzo Holmes. ”

There was darkness in his hollow eyes, reflecting Lorenzo's appearance.

"Is it possible, demons are originally a norm, but due to erosion, our understanding of it is gradually lost, just like the world you saw in the [Baptism of the Gods], no matter how the ancestors explained it in their alchemy notes, I can't restore the original appearance of the demons in their eyes. ”

Merlin slowly stood up, the seeker of truth looking at the black angel who was hoisted, perhaps that would be the key to the truth.

"Just like a man a hundred years ago who saw today's war airship, he didn't understand it, he couldn't describe it, and when he told others what he saw, those people just thought he was crazy......"

Merlin laughed as he said this, and he muttered to himself.

"yes...... Who would believe it? How could steel fly into the sky?

Perhaps, we are cursed, Lorenzo. ”

Silence, after a long silence, a voice sounded.

"Your words will be burned at the stake in Filene. ”

The speculation revealed in these words was enough to make Lorenzo think too much, and he felt that his brain froze, and he could only respond to it casually.

But Merlin shook his head, he looked at Lorenzo suspiciously, and asked again.

"So is the so-called doctrine of the Church preventing us from knowing the truth, and is the person who was burned at the stake really breaking the doctrine, or is he learning something that should not have been understood?"

Lorenzo was stunned, the sturdy restraints slowly shattering, revealing his free will.