121A Cork Street, Winchester Office.

With the arrival of Arthur, the originally joyful atmosphere dropped to freezing point.

Arthur carefully studied Lorenzo's face, he hadn't seen him for a month and a half, and there was no obvious change in this guy, he still remembered the unbeaten look.

"I think, you're all open open, and you're not going to hide, so the next thing should be to enjoy your retirement and be a detective seriously?"

Arthur had been standing outside for a long time before he came, and although the decorations were funny, it was clear that Lorenzo seemed to be really ready for a good life, but even the interior was still a bit outrageous.

"Winchester's office? ”

Looking up, the familiar Winchester was hanging above everyone's head, and the small poems carved on it were clearly visible.

But even so, Arthur remained skeptical about all this.

"I feel like we're the same kind of people, and the kind of people we have nothing to retire from, and there's only one end waiting for us

- Die in the corner of the battlefield. ”

Lorenzo was silent, he didn't seem to be in a hurry to answer Arthur, but just looked at him with a playful smile, and under that gaze, Arthur somehow felt that he was an animal being observed.

"So? Then you seem to be prepared to come to see me, a reason I can't refuse even if I want to retire. Lorenzo asked.

"Our research on demons...... It's about to usher in a huge breakthrough. ”

"How?"

"During the local war in the Black Mountain Hospital, Mordred, who had been affected by erosion in his previous post, briefly came to his senses, and he talked about many feelings of erosion, as well as those more secret parts. Perpetual Pump and Black Mountain Hospital have now joined forces to conduct research on his intelligence. ”

Arthur was referring to the previous Merlin, William, who had personally experienced the Red News incident and might be able to find a story from him that could be concealed.

Lorenzo's eyes narrowed slightly, more and more like a fox, and it was a long time before he spoke slowly.

"Did I say I was going to retire?"

Lorenzo suddenly got up, stepped on the mess, and walked to Arthur's side.

"But this office ......"

Arthur was caught off guard by Lorenzo's sudden change, and he had prepared a lot of words to pull Lorenzo back into his camp, but he didn't expect him to end up with such an answer.

"Arthur, you have an inherent prejudice, is there any necessary connection between me opening an office and me continuing to slash demons?" Lorenzo put his arm around Arthur's shoulder, looking intimate.

"And is there a contradiction between me being a heinous wicked person and being a good orphanage director?"

Arthur was a little confused by Lorenzo's incessant words, but then Lorenzo sat down on the mahogany table, flattened the standing card with his name written on it, and looked at Arthur with a wicked smile.

He was dressed in ridiculous pajamas, but at the moment he was like a great man who was about to announce a great invention.

Stretching out his finger to the blackboard beside him, it was full of messy handwriting, crooked.

It was unabashedly placed, and Seleu and Oscar had just passed by it, but no one paid any attention to the troublesome text.

Lorenzo...... You ......"

Arthur looked at the handwriting on the blackboard, his eyes gradually stiffening.

It was full of analysis of demons, scribbled handwriting listing a simple timeline, and some details of events, a little bit of what was revealed in the text, and Arthur felt great fear.

Lorenzo had been preparing these things here, he had been studying the roots of the demons, and at this moment the voice of indifference rang out.

"Arthur, how can I retire? ”

Lorenzo lifted his baggy pajamas, two sharp armor-piercing hammers placed close to him, and he was far more vigilant than ever.

"But a good life is also to be enjoyed, you say?"

The next moment the cold face melted, and Lorenzo picked up a wine glass from the kitchen with a sinister smile on his face, and brought one to Arthur.

"And, I suppose you, the Queen Victoria behind you, have more or less changed her mind after this incident, right? As she has seen, the Protestant Order is far less reliable than mine, so in the end, I am the most suitable collaborator for your purification of the Agency. ”

Lorenzo said as he handed Arthur a glass full of inferior red wine.

"But you're still hiding too many secrets, like the False Grail. ”

Arthur took the glass, still wary in his eyes.

"I know that part of it is being concealed because I don't know what it's all about. Lorenzo sat back in his place, "But I figured it out now." ”

"So you're going to explain all this?"

"Of course, the premise of cooperation is that the other party can make you feel at ease, isn't it?"

During this break, Lorenzo gradually understood everything based on his gradually recovering memories and the information given by Watson when he left.

"You'll still trust us?"

Arthur was suspicious of Lorenzo's overly friendly attitude, and in the previous Protestant Order, they were forced to oppose each other by order of the Queen.

"Of course not. ”

Lorenzo's answer came as a bit of a surprise.

"But you're the only choice, I can only trust you. ”

"Fighting demons is not something that can be solved by shouting slogans, I need a strong backup, a deadly arsenal, and even a group of troops who are not afraid of death, but all this is still too ridiculous with my own strength, and at present, between these forces, it seems that the only choice I can have is you. ”

Lorenzo made his explanation.

"What about North Drow?"

Arthur had always worried that Lorenzo would be taken away by the Nordro group, and once he was out of Invig territory, the purification mechanism would be powerless against the Nordero.

"They can't, after all, Nordro is just a bunch of merchants, and I don't think they mind selling demons as products if they can, but again, if the price is right, they can be hired to fight demons. ”

Although the only person who has been in contact with Lorenzo and North Dero is Oscar, it can be seen from this guy that North Dero, and the "builders" after North Dero, have a way of doing things.

Although it is unclear what the true purpose of these nation-builders is, it can be understood that they are not absolutely opposed to demons, and if they can achieve their goals, they don't even mind the existence of demons.

"Cheers to our hypocritical friendship, then!"

Lorenzo said as he picked up his glass and touched it with Arthur, then drank the red wine from the glass.

Arthur was completely carried up by Lorenzo's rhythm, and after clinking glasses, he involuntarily drank the wine in the glass like Lorenzo, but then his face showed an ugly expression.

"What a strange smell. ”

"Don't care, after all, there's not much money left, so let's just do it. ”

Despite what he said, Lorenzo looked at Arthur with disdain.

"Then pick a time, I want to meet Merlin, I still have a lot of important information to communicate with him, and there is ......"

Lorenzo thought about it for a moment, and finally said it.

"I want to meet Queen Victoria. ”

The scene fell silent for a while, Arthur looked at Lorenzo with solemn eyes, and Lorenzo picked up the corner of his pajamas nonchalantly and wiped the wine stains from the corner of his mouth.

"That's what you said, trust is really important, but that storm has eroded the trust between us, if you want a better cooperation, let me meet her in person, I have to be in person to be sure. ”

"I ...... I'll apply to her. ”

With this condition alone, Arthur had no way to answer Lorenzo directly.

The entire Victorian royal family is plagued by royal curses, and in that fragile constitution, the slightest injury can put Queen Victoria to death, and if Lorenzo, a madman, is allowed to meet the queen, there is no guarantee that something will happen.

Say...... Maybe Inglwig just changed the queen?

"But, Arthur, are you ready?"

Lorenzo's mood switched rapidly, and he had been smiling at first, but now he was serious again.

"What do you mean?"

"Next, let's dig deeper into the demons. ”

Looking at Lorenzo's solemn expression, Arthur felt that his mouth was a little dry for a while, and the whole atmosphere was suppressed with the change of Lorenzo's mood.

"What's wrong. ”

"I have a rough guess about all this, the knowledge of the cursed, the roots of the demons, and this ...... A twisted world. ”

Lorenzo's vision fell on the clutter, revealing a corner of the book, Shermans' notes.

"But I don't know what's going to happen next, maybe something terrible. ”

It's a lie, and Lorenzo knows very well what to expect if he goes any further, the weird reticulators.

One of Lorenzo Medici's plans was to make 016 actively participate in [Ascension], and in his opinion, the so-called Silent Ones also seem to be the product of [Ascension], and instead of continuing to venture after them, it is better to create one himself.

In the end, the experiment succeeded, and Watson appeared, taking on a posture of neither human nor ghost, in which she did bear a slight resemblance to the Silencer, followed by Lorenzo Medici's own sublimation.

The rest of the story is clear, he failed, and everything was left to Lorenzo to continue to explore the Boundary, to explore the Plague called the Demon, and to find the Patient Zero who caused it all.

Lorenzo didn't dare to take any chances, he feared that if he did anything to study it, it would lead to a Second Coming, and he had a new doubt about it.

Watson is so similar to the Silent One, the same formless, the only difference is that Watson needs a certain medium to interfere with reality, just like she manipulates the black angel to rescue herself, but the Silent One does not have to be like this, if necessary, they can directly use the existing matter to construct the body, and then interfere with reality.

As for himself, Gabriel......

Lorenzo once asked Watson why the alchemy matrix he carried was not this, but it could control the power of the dual system, and the answer Watson gave was not clear.

The origin of all this, the Book of Revelation, has been lost, and the details are only recorded there, and everything that remains is from his own speculation and information left by Lorenzo Medici before his death.

Watson said that Gabriel was special, and it had to do with sublimation.

She said that perhaps human beings really have a so-called soul, consciousness, or spirit, and the power of this [sublimation] directly acts on this deep level, so Lorenzo's soul has been qualitatively changed and has obtained this extraordinary authority.

It will not be lost by the annihilation of flesh and blood, but will remain buried deep in the depths of Lorenzo's soul.

"Lorenzo!"

Arthur's shout called Lorenzo back from his thoughts, he was a little stunned at first, and he didn't seem to expect that he would think for so long, but Arthur, who was sitting opposite him, felt the difference in Lorenzo just now.

Lorenzo himself didn't notice that when discussing these abominations, he had already involuntarily clenched the armor-piercing hammer on his waist, as if in the next second, a demon would appear in a dark corner and tear the two to pieces.

"In short, take your time, Arthur, compared with the whole historical process, our understanding of demons has been a qualitative leap in the past few years. ”

Lorenzo finally reassured him.

All the mysteries began to dissipate and become clear, and in this twisted world, Lorenzo was close to touching the hidden truth.

The clock struck at midnight at this moment, and Ryasser heard a strange noise outside the door, and he looked very alert, and at this moment Lorenzo said.

"Arthur, it's Saturday. ”

Arthur didn't understand what Lorenzo was talking about, when the door was pushed open again, and a group of women came in, chattering Lorenzo's name and commenting on the firm's décor.

Arthur was a little dazed, and the people he brought with him outside the door were also a little dazed, and as the midnight bell rang, one carriage after another stopped outside the door, they were very vigilant at first, and even secretly clenched the handle of the gun, but then a group of women came out of it.

"What's going on? Lorenzo!"

Arthur was a little overwhelmed by the situation, and some of the women he had the impression that they were the upper echelons of the nobility.

"First of all, I'm a detective, and although it's a bit of a shame to say, I also have a regular clientele. ”

Lorenzo looked like he loved life.

The members of the housewives on Saturday cried to him after seeing him, some asked Lorenzo why he had been closed for so long, some asked how Lorenzo opened his office in such a remote place, and some said that they hadn't paid attention to it before, and found that Lorenzo was also good, was he interested......

The scene was chaotic, and all kinds of pre-written orders were floating everywhere.

No one cared about Arthur's existence, and he deliberately avoided her gaze, only to gesture to Lorenzo and leave silently.

Lorenzo responded with a smile to the customer's questions, picking up the orders and putting them together.