It's like a myriad of mosquitoes whispering in your ears, the harsh and anxious sound that consumes Eve's calmness, and the negative emotions of restlessness, panic, and panic are trying to eat away at her reason.

Eve wanted to scream, but she was pulled by Lorenzo, a nervous scumbag with an indescribable sense of reliability at the moment, and he held Eve by the hand to maintain the last of his sanity.

The two of them ran desperately in this dark secret passage, but it seemed that there was no end, and they could never see the end of the road, and although the red tide of death behind them was gone, the murmur that kept echoing in this darkness warned the two that it was still in hot pursuit.

"Don't be afraid, that thing can't catch up with us!"

As if to comfort the girl, Lorenzo said suddenly.

"A group of human conjugates, although that thing is beyond common sense, still follow the laws of reality to a certain extent, such as too fat to run fast, too big to squeeze in. ”

As he spoke, he picked up Eve, and Eve was completely frightened at the moment, like a doll, being fiddled with by him.

It was a road that was a head above normal people, and it was extremely secret in the darkness, but in the midst of the crisis, his senses became sharper, and Lorenzo threw Eve up without even thinking about it, and then climbed into it himself.

This is the secret passage of the dungeon, with Sabo's vigilance, it must be in all directions, maybe any road leads to a hidden exit, if it were not for those weird demons Lorenzo would have time to try one by one, but now he can only bet it all on luck.

I really hope that Lady Luck still cares for me.

Fear and death followed, and Eve wondered why the detective could remain calm in such a situation, and why he didn't feel fear.

Far beyond the calmness and perseverance of ordinary people, think carefully about the bad character of this person, he is simply an invincible genius, whether it is the cunning strategy and swordsmanship, it is the existence of crushing ordinary people.

Eve wanted to ask, but she felt it, and Lorenzo's hand was trembling slightly, albeit faintly, but Eve clearly felt it.

He's scared, he's scared, the hellish detective is, but Eve knows very well that he's different from herself, he's forcing himself to calm down, and only then can they get out alive.

As for death, Lorenzo didn't care about that kind of thing, he was the kind of madman who was knocking on the door and dared to pull out Winchester and shoot him at the door.

Lorenzo wants to live, he must live, he has come to Old Dunling, and that beautiful new life is already in his hands, he can feed the pigeons in the square with a cigarette in his mouth, or he can ride around the whole mechanical city in a steam tram.

No one can take his life, not even the demon who digs the grave in his own memories.

"Don't worry, it's normal to be afraid, that kind of thing will oppress the spirit, force you to have your own negative emotions, and once you lose, you will become a puppet of fear!"

Lorenzo explained to Eve as if he had been confronted with something like that.

Enjoying the taste of tobacco hard, Eve could only see the fire of the cigarette butt in the darkness and smell the smoke lingering on the tip of her nose.

Eve couldn't see Lorenzo's face clearly, but she could feel another strange emotion welling up.

"We have to get out quickly, if we can, we need to inform the Sualan Hall who came to the rescue, ordinary people are just dying in the face of that kind of thing. ”

The voice was flat, but underneath that was anger and self-reproach.

It's Lorenzo's fault, he should have realized this problem when he saw Wall's mutated corpse, Wall didn't know why he had already begun to mutate in the direction of the demon at that time, but he killed him in time, and he hadn't completely mutated.

Presumably at that time Wall begged to kill him for this reason, he had realized that he was different, he didn't want to be one of the monsters.

I should always be vigilant, it was the life of the old Dunling that made me lose my vigilance, and the strange changes in flesh and blood were obviously so obvious, but I didn't think in this direction.

"That'...... What exactly is it. ”

Eve calmed her breath as she tried to calm herself down, then clenched her weapon and asked the figure in the darkness.

The question seemed to bring back bad memories for him, and he replied in a difficult voice.

"Demons. ”

......

"God said there would be light, and there was light. ”

This is the first sentence from the opening sentence of the Gospels, which believers usually use to understand the power and holiness of God, but what is not recorded in the Gospels is that where there is light, there will be darkness.

Some philosophers understand it this way, just like the opposition of all things in the world, with cold, people can understand what warmth is, kindness is precious in the face of sin, and only death can show the beauty of life.

The gods seem to be testing mortals, bringing light while the darkest and deepest abyss rises in its shadow, where monsters called demons are born.

Originally, the word demon came from the gospel church's book of Isaiah to describe the "adversaries" who were hostile to God, who, unlike mortals bathed in the glow of God, crawled out of the shadow of God, lured mortals into the abyss of depravity, accompanied by sin and violence, and abandoned by heaven to live in hell.

Eve was in a trance, of course she knew the meaning of the word, the old Dunling was originally founded by the Romans, they brought not only the glory of the place but also the faith, although the influence of the evangelical church on the countries was minimized, it still had a large number of believers, Eve's mother was one of them.

She told Eve about this when her mother was alive, and even gave her a Christian name, so Eve knew a lot about these things that were close to theology, but she was also terrified by knowing them.

"This ...... How could it be ......"

The perception of the whole world was subverted at this moment, and Eve's heart, which had finally been stable, beat violently again, and in this deep tunnel, it was as clear as a bell.

Eve had always scoffed at the so-called mythological beliefs, she thought that it was just something that the authorities had invented in order to stabilize their rule and plunder profits, but what was originally a myth now existed in front of her eyes, as Lorenzo said, it was not a so-called illusion, but something tangible.

"Nothing is impossible, we must escape as soon as possible, although I don't know how the demon appeared here, but now there are at least hundreds of people in this underground palace, or the kind of people who are incapacitated by hallucinogens, those people are its food, it will only get bigger and more terrifying. ”

Lorenzo's voice came from the darkness ahead.

“...... How do you know that, Lorenzo!"

Eve stopped following closely, and the murmuring in her ears intensified, as if a strange monk was in her ear, the effect of hallucinogens and the impact of demons on the spirit, the girl's condition was so bad that she could not trust anyone.

The muzzle of the gun was pointed at the figure in the darkness, which was Eve's own matching gun, which was filled with bullets.

"Don't give in to Eve, you've been affected by it. ”

Lorenzo's voice was still calm, completely oblivious to the fact that Eve was pointing a gun at him.

Cold sweat slid down the girl's cheeks, her breathing grew heavier, thoughts tumbling in her mind, and Lorenzo's suspicions grew bigger and bigger under the catalysis of the negative emotions.

Why did the detective know so much, why did he choose to be with him, was it really for the rescue plan? Of course, none of these suspicions were fatal enough, and the most lethal thing was Lorenzo himself.

A detective who is proficient in combat skills and stealth knowledge, the very existence of Lorenzo is the biggest suspicion.

"Don't be afraid of Eve, I can understand you, I was just like you when I first faced the demons...... I almost killed my friends, and they're just that, they destroy a person's mind, and the person who fights against them has to guard against not only demons but also teammates who have fallen into madness. ”

Lorenzo comforted in the dark, but his hand was already clenching the staff sword, this is a dark tunnel, the visibility is very low, and Lorenzo and Eve are also very close, as long as the sword is fast enough, Lorenzo is confident that Eve will shoot and kill the girl first.

There is no so-called inner entanglement at all, from the first time Lorenzo swung his sword at the demon a long time ago, he knew one thing, there is a price to pay for fighting against that kind of weirdness, whether it can be a person's kindness, or the binding of his own principles, or the cold of warm blood.

"Eve, calm down, don't let your ancestors down. ”

The voice became stern, Lorenzo was like an old-fashioned teacher admonishing his unsuccessful student at the moment, but even so, the staff sword in the darkness had been raised above his head, and with Lorenzo's arm strength he could directly cut Eve into two pieces in an instant.

Confusion haunted Eve, the hand holding the gun trembled, and the two faced each other in the dark for nearly a minute, and in this long silence Eve finally put down the gun in her hand.

"I ...... What's wrong with me......"

Eve knelt down weakly, her eyes were bloodshot, her beautiful face turned pale, her youth and vitality were gone, she looked like a sick woman.

"Demons are a very strange thing, they are not even living creatures, everything they come into contact with will be infected with that grotesque nature, like a vessel that has been touched by it, ordinary people will have nightmares if they touch it.

In the same way, once ordinary people look at it, hear it, smell it, and so on, and observe its existence, it will be affected, and the effect is the 'madness' that arises according to the strength of the contact. ”

Lorenzo put down his deadly sword and picked up Eve as she put away her gun in case the girl did something stupid.

"Not even reading the text about it, it's not looking, it's not reaching, it's not understanding. ”

Eve turned her head with difficulty, and in the strange atmosphere, Lorenzo still looked calm, as if he was not affected in the slightest.

"Then why didn't you ...... Scared?"

Lorenzo helped Eve forward, answering her as he went.

"There are many factors, it's like being with a tiger every day. The first time you see it, you're scared to death, but if you see it every day, you'll think it's just a fierce big cat. ”

There is light shining ahead, which seems to be an exit.

"So you think that is just a big cat?"

Seeing the light in the endless darkness, the girl's mood finally eased a lot, and she actually wanted to laugh when she heard Lorenzo's description.

"When fear becomes the norm, it becomes just an ordinary emotion. As I said, I used to be a priest, from the Holy Gospel Papal States, and I know very well that the demon is an unknown thing, and that we need the same unknown to fight against. ”

Lorenzo lifted Winchester, his fingers hooked the retainer and flung it up vigorously, the shotgun spun gracefully and finished loading in the spin, the cigarette was gone, and Lorenzo trampled it out with the embers and ashes.

"The unknown that protects us was called God and Faith hundreds of years ago, and now it's called Machine and Energy. ”

Lorenzo took off his mask, it felt really uncomfortable to wear this thing, and the girl saw Lorenzo's appearance clearly through the afterglow of the exit.

I always thought that Lorenzo was also afraid, but this detective's psychological quality was strong enough to force him to calm down, but the real reality was that his face was full of rage, which is what a person who should be afraid should look like.

The hand holding the gun was shaking uncontrollably, it wasn't fear, it was just that Lorenzo was too excited.

He knew very well why he was like this, just like the hunter who sealed the shotgun, all the trees were burned into charcoal, the hunting forest disappeared into the long river of history, and the so-called hunter was abandoned by the new era.

But one day, you found that the dark forest still existed, and it was crawling with those weird things that should be burned to death.

So you pick up your dusty shotgun and welcome a new life.