Red Robin had been silently looking at the scenery outside the taxi window, and Lilith asked in his head, "What do you understand?" ”

"The murderer has a vendetta against Cain."

The span of thinking was too large, Lilith didn't react for a while, she was silent for a while, and asked, "Why?" ”

"A very simple logical reasoning question...... Oh, I forgot that you are a demon and should not read the Bible, and that Abel's sacrifice to God was the fat of the sheep he shepherded, and God was pleased with it. ”

"If it was a human being who died, then I think it might have been done by a serial killer who took the biblical story as the subject, but that man was a vampire, a subordinate of Mary, the Queen of Blood, whose owner was Cain."

"That's why I left there at once, because I knew that Mary, the Scarlet Queen, would not leave a blind eye to the death of her men, and soon Mary would go there to check on the situation, and the stupid woman would not know why, and repeat the scene to her master, and even take her master there."

"Cain, who saw with his own eyes how the youngest son, who was favored by God, killed the lamb and took the fat from its belly, and gained more affection through this sacrifice, must have been stimulated by this scene, so guess whose head he would vent his anger?"

“…… Mary? Lilith speculated.

"You're not too stupid." Red Robin's tone was so calm that Lilith couldn't even find a reason to be angry at him.

Red Robin sighed softly and took out the small display from his arms, and as soon as the screen was opened, Cain's gloomy face appeared in the center of the screen.

The camera was set up just above the corpse, and Cain's every expression as he gazed at the corpse could be seen clearly.

There was an incomprehensible cold expression on his pale and handsome face, while Mary, the Scarlet Queen, stood at the side of the corpse and screamed sharply, "How dare he kill my child?!" He is my first descendant, my firstborn! I'm going to suck his blood dry! ”

When he heard the word firstborn, Cain's pupils contracted slightly, and suddenly, Mary, the Scarlet Queen, was slapped to the ground by an invisible force.

She lay on the ground in disbelief and looked around, then met Cain's cold eyes.

"God, God, master, great ancestor, please forgive me! I didn't expect Morgan to be killed! He's a goddamn waste to drink mercury...... Rest assured, host, this will not stand in the way of our great plans! I also have many excellent descendants...... Uh-uh-uh!! ”

Mary, the Scarlet Queen, let out a high-pitched scream, her mouth wide open, her eyes bulging, and her chin scratching with her hands as if she had been choked by the neck.

"Master, save my ......"

With a thud, Mary was thrown to the floor by the door, her gorgeous dress stained with blood, she clutched her chest in pain and gasped and coughed, and Cain didn't even look at her as he walked past her.

"Find the murderer and bring him to me."

Taxis stopped by the River Thames, the spectacular Westminster Abbey was even more magnificent at night, and Red Robin got out of the car and headed for Westminster Abbey.

Westminster Abbey is closed to visitors at this time, but this did not stop the agile Red Robin, who managed to lure away the night guard and slipped in through the transept on the side of the church.

"I don't think anyone who would take all the epidermis off the belly and waist of a humanoid and scrape off the fat would truly believe in God." As she walked through the dark church, Red Robin said, "God is just an excuse for them to do something crazy." ”

"But I don't think he's just killing, he wants to leave some message, the fat in his belly is a sacrifice to God, and Westminster Abbey claims to be the closest thing to God in Britain."

Going out through the side door of the transept and bypassing the courtyard, Red Robin deliberately walked in through the main entrance of the Great Hall, the huge spire door was pushed open a small crack, and the sword-like light shot out through the crack in the door, and the patterns on the carpet were blurred.

There had been a ceremony here not long ago, Red Robin thought as he stepped through the crack in the door, his boots on the dark red carpet without making a sound, and silence in Westminster Abbey.

Walking up the long red carpet to the pulpit, in the cold moonlight through the three huge pointed Gothic windows, a glass bottle as clear as a jewel was placed in the center of the pulpit.

Red Robin walked over slowly, stretched out his hand towards the glass bottle, he stared at the fat that had settled in the bottle, and said like a dream, "Honey and wine......"

When Red Robin's fingertips almost touched the glass bottle, he slowly lowered his hand, took a deep breath and said, "No, the ritual is not finished yet, he needs more sacrifices." ”

Red Robin looked around as if he saw a dense jar that had not yet appeared, but was already in his field of vision—filled the entire pulpit, containing balm like jade and newborn skin.

Red Robin watched it all silently, observing, understanding, appreciating, and then imagining further.

"He would put wax wicks in all the bottles and let them burn like candles for sermons, and let the curling smoke rise into the sky with the moonlight......

Red Robin mumbled until Lilith's high-pitched call woke him up, and the old demon said in a tone of astonishment, "If I were not the devil, I would have thought you had been bewitched by the devil!" What exactly are you talking about? ”

"Art." Red Robin lowered his eyes to the non-existent flame of the candle, and once again he put a hand on the edge of the pulpit, and said, "The art of deconstructing life that you cannot understand." ”

"Let the unacceptable be sacrificed to the slaughter, let the blood of those who thirst for blood be abandoned, let the life of the immortal become a fleeting candle flame, let the ...... Let...... No! No! This is incomplete! ”

Red Robin turned left and right to look around, raised his voice and said, "There's still a part missing, this painting is missing a corner!" ”

"Wake up! Tim! Lilith cried out, "You have been bewitched, I order you to come to your senses!" ”

In an instant, the spiritual power belonging to the ancient demon swung away, and Red Robin covered his head and groaned in pain, but weakly half knelt down and hugged his head and said, "Don't interfere with me, I'm looking for the missing corner of this great work of art......"

"Who the hell is the devil?! Can you sober up a bit??! ”

"I see! I know! Red Robin suddenly straightened up, grabbed the chair next to him, stumbled to the pulpit, and looked up.

The three large Gothic spire windows have intricate patterns that are difficult for ordinary people to understand, but Red Robin does not look at the windows themselves, but at the sky outside the window.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Lilith roared.

"Shhhhh......h The sound of birds flapping their wings ......"

He stared intently at the window, oblivious to the passage of time outside until the night grew thicker and darker, and the clouds completely obscured the moonlight.

The sound of "bang-la-la-la" echoed, but it was not a hallucination of Red Robin, but a real whisper.

Lilith looked at the sky through the eyes of Red Robin, the dark clouds dispersed by countless swirling currents of air, the wind brought by the bat's flapping wings.

Thousands of bats swept over the fog, obscuring all light, and in the pitch-black church, only the pupils of the young people burst out with a little bright light.

The glow of the torches scurried through the eyes of Jim, the master of the night, and screams, blood, and fire filled the manor, and a swarm of bats swept over Jim's head, transforming into Bennett's human form, and he jerked his head back to look out the window.

His pupils constricted as he saw the endless bat in the sky swoop down like black clouds towards the London skyline.

After a moment of stiffness, Bennett turned to Jim, the Night Master, and said, "We've been fooled!" Their goal is London! Go back! ”

Jim, the master of the night, rushed to the window in three steps and two steps, staring at the army of bats in the sky in amazement, he cursed fiercely, looked back at the inside of the manor with some concern, and said.

"No, we can't leave the Josegoi family alone, they have guarded Merlin's blood for generations, and if the vampires get it, they may become stronger."

Then the dead man Boston hurried through the side door of the manor, and said, "Do you see that?" The Bloodlines are attacking London on a large scale, and the Second War of the Bloodlines is about to break out! ”

"There's no more Bloodline War...... Jim said, shaking his head, "the Archmage has suffered so many casualties, the wizarding world has collapsed, and we can't even assemble a decent countervail. ”

"But we can't just give up on London." Dead Boston pursed his lips and said, "You know what harm they will do to the world if they convert all of London into blood." ”

Jim sighed and said, "You two take the survivors of the Josegoi family with you, and I'm going to go back to Maia to find a friend who can help." ”

"What about Zatana?" Bennett asked.

"She's strong, but she can't be involved in the fight until she's sober, take care of her."

Jim's portal had already opened, but at this time, another portal came faster, and the white-haired Master Andrew and Lady Shangdu walked out of the portal that had just opened.

"Bad news, Jim." Andrew walked quickly up to Jim and said, "The group of the Archmage Guild is going to renegotiate with the demons. ”

"Renegotiation? Isn't that a good thing? Jim said in some surprise.

"But the way they get the demons to sit down and negotiate again is not to force them, but to betray themselves!" Andrew gritted his teeth and said: "They are willing to accept unequal treaties just to gain power again, and some are even willing to sell their souls in exchange for less than a tenth of their original strength." ”

Jim cursed fiercely, took several sharp breaths to calm himself down, and then said, "John is right, these are a bunch of idiots!" ”

Madame Shangdu stepped forward and said, "Some of them were beaten to death by other creditors, and they were forced to go to the devil so that they could pay off their debts. ”

"But there are also many people who are reluctant to see the scenery of the magic world, do you think that without the magic world, can they accept sitting in the office from 9 to 5 like office workers just to fill their stomachs?"

"It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift." Dead Boston sighed and said, "How many mages rely on portals to walk, can they be expected to go back to the days of taking the bus?" ”

Andrew also sighed and said, "I admit that the archmages are too deep in the wizarding world, we almost don't deal with the ordinary world anymore, and we hide in our mage towers all day to support our apprentices, and almost no one bothers to run the industry in ordinary society. ”

"After the spatial crack of the mage tower fell, most of the property disappeared with it, and if we returned to the society of ordinary people, we would have to be beggars, but I still can't accept to kneel and pray for power from the demons."

"Is there no other solution?" Jim said in a tone that was on the verge of collapse, "After all these years of existence in the wizarding world, hasn't anyone anticipated the current situation and come up with a solution?!" ”

"Of course there are solutions, but almost no one wants to try." Andrew smiled bitterly and said, "We still have a lot of strength in ourselves, and some artifacts with energy have also been rescued by the apprentices, but compared to the past, the ones I squandered are only a drop in the bucket. ”

"I don't want to kneel down to demons, but I don't want to beg for food on the street either, so I can only save some energy."

Andrew turned around and let out a long sigh, speaking in a tired and somewhat fortunate tone.

"Fortunately, I'm not one of those crazy young mages, I also studied the labor-saving magic circle in the early years, but at that time, there was plenty of energy, and I didn't study it deeply, so the efficiency of the magic circle was very low."

"Now, I'm going to be an apprentice again, and I hope that the amazing apprentice named Bruce Wayne can use his intelligent academic brain to teach us how to make the best use of what little power we have left."

(End of chapter)