Chapter 31: Courage
Don't die, Lorenzo Holmes!
Eve thought silently in her mind as she ran, telling the truth that everything she had experienced tonight was more exciting than all the events of the first half of her life combined, the monsters that lived in the dark side of the world, and those who fought with monsters.
The world was more complicated than Eve had imagined, and the girl was distressed by it, but also felt more inspired than ever before because of Lorenzo.
It was perhaps the bravest person she had ever seen in her life, and although he had a bad personality, he still had the courage to swing his sword in the face of a monster that could destroy spirits, which was bleaker than Eve had ever seen in his radiance.
I don't know how long she ran, but Eve kept going down, and she heard the sound of the rushing water, which was the canal that Lorenzo said.
The girl stopped directly, and the surrounding area was dim, and only the dim electric light illuminated the small space.
She didn't have Lorenzo's erudition, she couldn't see what was going on around her, and that's when the girl realized the importance of Lorenzo, and if it weren't for the detective, she might have died long ago.
But at this moment, the voice that had been chasing Eve sounded again, the faint and clear sound of scales winding around the snakes, because of the sound of flowing water, Eve couldn't tell where the sound came from, the girl only clenched the gun in her hand and looked around vigilantly.
Lorenzo had said that it was incredibly stressful, but once you got used to that fear, even the most ferocious tiger was just a dangerous cat.
Clenching the gun in her hand, Eve's gaze swept back and forth in the darkness.
Thoughts kept flying, and for a moment Eve thought a lot, she thought about what would happen if she survived, what would happen if she died, there was nothing to be afraid of, but there would be a lot of regrets.
For a while, it was an extremely strange trance, and Eve didn't quite know when she became like this, remembering that a long time ago she was also a very ordinary girl who liked skirts and dolls, when did she start to hold swords and guns?
In the darkness of consciousness, the girl thought hard, and everything became clear in this thought.
Eve was born after the Glorious War, but she actually had three older brothers before Eve was born, and as those war stories say, all three of her brothers died in battle before she was born, and her parents always looked at her with a faint sadness, treating themselves as treasures.
Sometimes ironically, the death of the three older brothers is a constant sadness for the family, but it is also because of their deaths that the parents gave all their love to Eve, and Eve's childhood was simply growing up in a sugar house.
So why did you become like this?
Eve couldn't think about it, and the sharp claws in the darkness came in an instant, it was a chilling breath, but Eve still raised a little courage, she rolled to dodge the attack and then shot back, dark red blood gushing out of the darkness and spilling on the ground.
Her heart was beating violently, and unlike before, when she was too scared to walk, Eve was getting used to it, dragging her stiff body as she ran towards the dark corner, as Lorenzo had told her in the corridor.
The voice of the memory rang in my ears.
"According to the Order, in the beginning, humans and demons lived together on the earth, and humans kept themselves in captivity with strong walls, and when night came, they would hide in sealed shelters, holding back their fear and not making a sound. ”
I remember that Lorenzo said this at that time.
"We tremble in the darkness until the first flame ignites and illuminates the dark forest, which can make other people who are confused in the night find their way, but it will also make the demons lurking in the darkness aware of your presence, so the light sometimes does not protect us. If you want to kill the demon, you have to become it and dive into the darkness. ”
The grinding of the scales was even more intense, and Eve could even smell the fishy smell in the air, and she leaned against the wall in the darkness so that she could only keep her eyes.
She was going to live, at least until Lorenzo arrived.
It is a circular courtyard building, because the sound of the curved walls is reflected between them, and the sound of water and friction is heard together, making it impossible to determine the direction.
Something seemed to be brushing Eve's face, but she rubbed her sleeve and there was nothing, probably falling dust, the girl thought as she raised her gun and fired into the darkness above.
The muzzle of the gun burst into a dazzling firelight, reflecting the darkness and the demon entrenched on the top, it was a strange and twisted body, the miserable white bones connected to the bare muscles, three or four hands clasped the wall, sharp teeth and mouthpieces, dense eyeballs lined up.
The bullet successfully hit the demon, and Eve had a perfect score in her shooting lessons when she was studying at the police academy, and at close range, she hit the demon in the head directly, and several eyeballs shattered directly and let out a hoarse howl.
"Calm down, Eve, calm down......"
The girl muttered silently as she rolled away from the falling demon, her eyes bloodshot and her hands trembling slightly, still holding her weapon. It's still a little difficult to be reasonable to see such a twisted nightmare as a dangerous big cat.
This is the terrible thing about demons, every moment of fighting them is a spiritual test, and once it collapses, it will usher in death.
A violent howling wind came from behind him, it was a sharp claw, and it wore a ring on the slender claw, it looked like it was once human, but it was also one of the demons under the weirdness of tonight.
Eve turned around sharply, she knew very well that she couldn't escape, pulled out the short sword and slashed hard, but the girl's strength was obviously not comparable to the demon, the short sword and the claws collided together, Eve only felt that her mouth was numb, and then the short sword was weakly knocked away, and then there was an extra scar on the slender arm.
As if because of human blood, the demon let out a howl similar to excitement, the sharp mouthparts opened, and the twisted arms grabbed Eve, the meat-grinder-like mouthparts just unfolded in front of the girl, and it was not surprising that she would die here next.
And that's the end of it?
But it seemed that it could only end like this, several arms grabbed Eve like shackles, and the slender claws pierced into the flesh, and the spirit became more and more broken, and it seemed that he would fall into madness in the next second.
It's really an unlucky night, if you listen to your father, maybe you are sleeping in the warm bed, you won't know what the so-called demons are, you will grow up happily, until you meet a beloved other half, and spend the rest of your life on a beautiful island.
It's supposed to be like this, but when did you become like this?
Is it a father who drank heavily at night after his mother's death? No, in fact, he has been like this since he was born, and he is grieving for his brothers. The familiar picture frame rose in her mind, but Eve couldn't remember the face on it, she only knew that it was her brothers, that she was the princess of the Phoenix family, the newborn immortal bird in the ashes.
But it was themselves who survived, but they were the ones who became ashes.
Every moment of breath and every moment of life they enjoy is bought by their death, maybe it became like this when they understood this.
The sharp mouthparts churned and fell, and at that moment, Eve's body erupted with incredible power, enduring the pain of the claws, the arm broke free from the restraints, and then punched and stabbed the pistol into the demon's falling mouthparts.
It was almost numbing pain, but Eve didn't care, under extreme fear some people would go crazy, and others would fall into hysterical bravery.
The girl's fierce and brave face was reflected in the dense eyeballs, and the pupils shrank with rage, like the vertical pupils of the beast.
"Die!"
She roared, pulled the trigger in her hand, and a dull sound continued to sound under the strange flesh, bullets continued to penetrate the demon's body, strangling its flesh directly from the inside, it slammed Eve out of the wall, gulps of blood poured out of the mouth, and the hoarse sound was piercing.
Eve fell heavily from the wall, it felt like her whole body was broken, her arm was bloody with amazing wounds, and the demon on the other side was not comfortable, but it was only uncomfortable, it was a demon, and this painful wound only stimulated its bestiality, and the stomach grass that was parasitic on the body grew one after another, like a group of snakes dancing wildly.
The cowardly heart finally became brave, Eve gritted her teeth and stood up with difficulty, even if she died, she could not weaken the limelight of the Phoenix family, the demon rushed towards Eve again, Eve tried to move, but the severe pain in her body almost made her faint, but finally the girl still moved, dodging before the fatal impact came.
The gray dust fell violently, and the hideous shadow twisted and waved in the flying dust.
Eve gasped violently, she survived, and lived for dozens of seconds, but that was enough, she wanted to live, at least until Lorenzo, although she only knew this detective for long, but the detective's appearance of resisting the demon alone was indeed imprinted in her heart.
Lorenzo Holmes wouldn't die, he dared to stay there to kill the demons. As long as you live, you can live......
Another roaring attack, the random growth of tentacles like flying swords, Eve was just scratched and left a wound, and the blood could not stop flowing.
Her vision was a little dim, and Eve felt as if she had been immersed in a sea of ice, and because of the blood loss, her will was no longer able to resist the attack of demons.
Seemingly about to stop there, Eve closed her eyes as she looked at the approaching demon.
As the minutes ticked by, the expected death did not come, and a light seemed to rise in front of her eyes, so Eve opened her eyes, and the blazing white flames filled the entire field of vision.