The carriage outside the window was far away, and the sound of heavy horses' hooves gradually faded until it disappeared into the cold silence of the night, along with Arthur's thoughts, who woke up from the memory, and lowered his head, and could not help but find that the black and white picture had been clutched by him.

That night Anthony brought extremely important information, Lorenzo was not stable, but remembering all the actions in the previous battle, Arthur could not have imagined that he would be such a stranger, or that the witcher was not aware of his madness at all.

Of course, Arthur wouldn't trust Anthony so easily, after all, this is also Anthony's side, even if there are those documents, they may be forged, Arthur will not directly suspect Lorenzo like this.

Although Arthur annoyed the damned witcher, he was also a comrade-in-arms who had been born and died, and trust was the cornerstone of a group, and after saying goodbye to Anthony, Arthur didn't fully believe his words.

But the monster is weird, Arthur is deeply aware of the strangeness of this kind of thing, and the comrades who just fought side by side with you may fall in the erosion of the murmur in the next second, they open their teeth and claws, turn against each other in an instant, and swing their swords like you.

Arthur trusted Lorenzo, but again, Anthony's words undoubtedly brought a rift in that strong trust, and Arthur, as a leader, could not have allowed such a risk to arise.

Therefore, while contacting the exiles, he asked Galahad to bring these documents to Shermans for verification, and the cardinal of the exile did not know his conversation with Antony, nor the struggle between the purification institutions and the Evangelical Church, and he would give the most truthful answers.

The answer was that Shermans recognized the man in the photo at a glance, and although the exiled cardinal was old, he still remembered him, and his number was 047 and he was given the name of Medanzo, the strongest of the Medanzo witchers.

They were outside the Basilica of San Narlo, protecting the Pope and sometimes the cardinals, arguably the closest to the cardinals, and Shermans would not be mistaken.

This comparison directly confirms that Anthony's words are not a lie, or that he is not lying about Lorenzo's identity.

Then it was Lorenzo who lied, but why did he lie, he had woven his past into another story and misled everyone...... Or is he also on the lookout for himself?

The nature of the artifact that originated from the night of Adringe, the mysterious artifact known as the false chalice, is not known at all, and the extent to which it can be achieved, no one knows......

Blue Jade looked at Arthur with some concern, only to see Arthur leaning down, staring at the crumpled black and white photo, sweat dripping from his cheeks, obviously nothing happened, but he seemed to be facing some weird pressure.

So, think about it this way, Lorenzo is hiding himself because he knows this, he is deceiving everyone, just to hide this secret that he brought out from the night of Advent, but at that time, is there anything that Lorenzo has made up about everything he said about the night of Advent?

With great exhaustion in his heart, he made his decision in constant worry.

"Everyone has a secret ......"

Arthur said and looked at the Blue Emerald, his concealment of Eve, the Blue Jade's past, and the evil that Lorenzo had.

"Did Lorenzo lie to you again? And very badly. ”

Although she didn't know exactly what was going on, she also roughly analyzed what she had just done.

"Sort of, I'm a little unsure of that bastard's position. ”

Arthur hung his head, his heart tangled.

"Shouldn't it......"

If Lorenzo really had any intentions, how could he be so desperate to assassinate Lawrence? It was not desperate, it was simply a death, if there was no subsequent mutation, Lorenzo would really be dead, and there would be no body in the bombing.

He will die, along with the secrets he has hidden.

"Do you think Lorenzo can be trusted?"

Blue Jade was stunned for a moment, she thought for a while, but just as she wanted to speak, Arthur said suddenly.

"What exactly does he want to do?"

"Do...... What?"

Lan Jade thought about it, she and Lorenzo had not been in contact for a long time, and even said that they had not met a few times, but she couldn't think about Lorenzo as a person without a deep impression.

Although he was a psychopath, he was a witcher with a strong personal touch, she replied.

"Hunt demons, that's all I can think of, like a diligent worker, his job is to hunt demons, and he will never stop killing from Fei Leng Cui to Old Dunling. ”

"But what if he's a terrible demon himself?"

"Isn't that what witchers are like?"

Blue Jade's words woke Arthur up like she didn't understand Arthur's distress.

"Just like the original sin armor or the secret blood, we are all using the power of demons to fight demons, we are all monsters, but we keep our sanity in the madness. ”

She said and pointed to her head, the place where she kept her sanity.

"yes...... Lorenzo hadn't gone crazy yet, at least, or he had been crazy for too long, like a normal person. ”

Just like the patients in the Black Mountain Hospital, they can live a normal life, talk to you, and some of them are even more intelligent than you, but they are not normal people, they are crazy, but in that madness they learned to disguise themselves and wait for the day to escape from that hospital.

Arthur regrouped his thoughts, thinking about Anthony's words and actions, and he continued.

"I need to talk to him, where is he?"

In such a complicated situation, Arthur hopes to end this in a bloodless way.

......

"It's been a long time, Mr. Holmes. ”

Walking out of the tightly sealed conference room, in the gray corridor, the familiar alchemist waved to Lorenzo, Merlin was still wearing the somewhat tattered gray robe, as if he wore it all year round.

"yes, long time no see. ”

Seeing Merlin, Lorenzo's mood was slightly better, he didn't quite understand why Gawain was so indifferent to the information of the exiles, but what he didn't know was that in fact, the purification agency had cooperated with the exiles, but in order to ensure safety, this news was currently strictly blocked.

"You look like you're recovering well, there's nothing wrong with you, right?"

Compared to the meeting of friends...... If they are friends, Merlin cares more about Lorenzo's body, in the eyes of this alchemist, Lorenzo is a very perfect test subject, if it weren't for Lorenzo's disagreement, he estimated that there would be a lot of strange things, and he wanted to try it on Lorenzo's body.

"It's ok, nothing else. ”

The sudden concern made Lorenzo uncomfortable, though he knew that Merlin was only asking to study his body.

"It looks like the flesh and blood are perfectly blended with you, it's incredible. ”

Merlin looked at Lorenzo from beginning to end, he wasn't there when Lawrence was assassinated, but according to the thrilling reports, he could also think of the thrill at that time.

According to the report, Seleuc dictated, Lorenzo was dead at the time...... Probably half-dead, almost impossible to survive, but he survived, and the Black Angel fell uncontrollably, killing Lawrence, who was dominated by the Holy Grail, and then devoured Lorenzo, and then the witcher reborn from the ashes and descended back on the earth.

There has been no investigation into the Black Angel's loss of control, and the Original Sin Armor known as the Black Angel has been sealed deep underground in the Perpetual Pump since then.

"Follow me. ”

Merlin glanced at it and motioned for Lorenzo to follow him.

Lorenzo, the Perpetual Pump, didn't come very often, and he didn't have a free movement every time he came, and he didn't have a specific idea of the size of the research institute built on the backbone of the Crucible.

As Merlin leads, the ground beneath his feet stretches, and the more he advances, the more Lorenzo can feel the enormity of this place.

Lorenzo remembered what those people had said about the old Dunling, they said that the mechanical institute had hollowed out the underground of the old Dunling and built a huge mechanical system there, at first Lorenzo only thought it was an exaggeration, but as he gradually learned about the underground world, he felt more and more that it was not a boast.

I can't remember who told him that, but he said that it was like a towering tree, with a mechanical yard, a furnace pillar, and a perpetual pump, all built vertically on top of each other throughout the land called Old Dunling.

"This reminds me of the Temple of Stasis. ”

Lorenzo said suddenly.

"The witcher's station?"

Merlin asked with some curiosity when he heard Lorenzo's voice.

Lorenzo nodded, and continued.

"The Sanctuary of Stasis is like this, built under the Cathedral of San Narlo, like a shadow after that splendor. ”

"I'd love to see the place where the Demon Hunting Order originated when I have the chance. ”

Merlin's voice revealed yearning.

"That's not a good place...... On the contrary, I don't want to go back, and I don't want to be near Fei Lengcui in my life if I can. ”

Lorenzo made no secret of his dislike for his homeland.

"Why? That's where you were born. Merlin asked.

"Do you think that simple thing can restrain me? It's just a simple annoyance. ”

Lorenzo thought for a moment, then said, "It's a sad place, I don't like it. ”

"Wait, why am I telling you this? Where are you taking me?"

Lorenzo suddenly came back to his senses, probably out of trust in the alchemist, he let himself follow, and he followed, after walking for so long, Lorenzo still didn't know where the destination was.

"Soon, I just want you to cooperate, do some research, and of course, check on you. ”

Merlin said with some concern.

"You know it yourself, right, your resurrection from the dead is not a miracle, but the flesh and blood of the Holy Grail saved you, and that terrible life force could not kill it even by the bombardment of artillery fire and the burning of crude oil, and after losing the shackles of Lawrence's will, it grew like a weed......"

Merlin's footsteps stopped suddenly, and his tone was full of fear.

"If it weren't for the follow-up events, the savage growth of the Holy Grail flesh would have proliferated and mutated like the demons we encountered, but it was finally fused into your body. ”

He said, gesturing at Lorenzo's chest and warning.

"Lorenzo, don't look at you now, but in fact, you have successfully fused the flesh and blood of the Holy Grail like Lawrence, and the difference between you and Lawrence is that the flesh and blood of the Holy Grail are completely mixed with your body, and in terms of flesh and blood ratio, you are far superior to Lawrence. ”

These words made Lorenzo himself worried, he didn't think much about it, but he didn't expect it to be so terrible in Merlin's mouth.

"Luckily, you're much younger than Lawrence, and your will is still sane, not controlled by the primordial Grail flesh like he was. ”

Merlin said as he stopped in front of an elevator, and as the steel door slowly opened, a small space was revealed to the two of them.

"Come in. ”

He walked in and shouted to Lorenzo outside the door.

Lorenzo didn't move, but looked at the elevator with some suspicion, he was already in the perpetual pump, so what was further down?

In fact, what he had not said all along, as he followed Merlin, there was an inconvenient sense of strangeness haunting Lorenzo's side, Merlin's conversation occupied his attention, and he didn't pay much attention to it, but now the weirdness was even worse.

After a moment's hesitation, Lorenzo walked in, the small space swaying slightly, and both of them were silent until Lorenzo couldn't help asking.

"What's down there?"

"Hmm...... Probably your savior. ”

"A lifesaver?"

Lorenzo was stunned, and then the door opened, and a blinding light shone down.

He squinted slightly, and forced himself out of the elevator with discomfort, and as he got used to it, he realized that he was in a large underground space, which looked similar to the Workshop, but differed from the Workshop in that it did not have the strong defenses of the Workshop, as if it had been built improvly.

The steel skeleton supports the space, and people walk around it, rails and cables are staggered in it, and the rotation of the winch wheel lifts one heavy object after another.

The smell of rust mixed with the stench of blood rushed into Lorenzo's nose, an unknown red liquid flooding his shoes and then pouring into the drain holes in an unknown direction.

"We've been researching why it got out of control since that incident, but to no avail, and it's not just you who have been fused with the Holy Grail flesh and blood at that point, it's also it. ”

Listening to Merlin's words, Lorenzo couldn't help but raise his head and look at the mid-air, countless chains and strange metal machinery bound it, the pitch-black iron feathers intertwined, tightly closed to protect the core, in the strong light, it was like a finely crafted black egg.

"What a lifesaver......"

Lorenzo looked up at the black angel, which remained absolutely silent, like a sculpture.