Murphy came to his senses from the resonance of ancient memories.

His first instinct when he opened his eyes was to feel the blood crystal, and he wanted to tell Lord Pa Ying what he had seen.

He didn't know if he knew about the disgraceful role played by Grand Duke Constance in that incident after his ancient memories were awakened, but he was sure that the main reason for the problem of the vampire's perfect life experiment was the "main gene module" provided by Constance at the end, which directly turned the seven subjects into carriers of subspace shadows in the material world.

From this recollection, Constance's deathbed farewell to Edward can be discerned, and the "original sin" in her mouth should refer to the object of worship in the current twilight, the chaotic villain who longs to launch an annihilation in the material world.

But there are many details in the last memory.

Murphy still doesn't know what Constance is studying in the "Mystery Department" thousands of years ago, and listening to her, it seems that they have stepped into some kind of forbidden realm that the Creator has strictly forbidden, and until then, this department has been studying the gods.

Tsk, it sounds like a mad scientist.

In the first recollection, Constance also confessed to Edward that their research on divine power had failed, and that the experiment had been conducted by Councillor Vidia, but combined with the fact that Vidia had become an imprisoned deity of the old days, what happened after that sounded a bit scary.

Murphy looked at the blood crystal in his hand at this moment, and he was rarely hesitant when it came to matters related to dusk and subspace threats.

He knew that if he told Pa Ying about these things, then the first reaction of the Lord would definitely be to go and arrest the current Grand Duke of the Mystic Blood Clan, force the candidate binding so that Murphy could figure out what Constance had done through ancient memories, and by the way, break the legs of old Edward in the name of betrayal, and drag him to Murphy for in-depth fact-checking.

However, judging from these ancient memories alone, old Edward did nothing bad a thousand years ago except for hooking up with a coquettish old aunt and messing with the relationship between men and women.

My impression of "Wolf Venom Grand Duke is a big villain" is obviously skewed.

He was indeed a bastard, and one of the Vulture Clan's worst enemies.

But at least a thousand years ago he was not a dangerous person, and compared to what Constance and Charlemagne did to the deaths of the two Grand Dukes, Edward was too normal to be normal, so the real question for the Archduke of Wolf Venom was what he had done in the last thousand years.

The mysterious capsule that Constance gave Edward at the end of his memory helped him resist the memory formatting of the beta program, coupled with the advice of the Archduke of the Secret Blood, with the old Edward's style, it is impossible to understand that he has been secretly chasing the remnants of the Mysteries Department for a thousand years.

Murphy's mind was full of doubts.

He urgently needed to analyze the various ins of this matter with the others, and after thinking about it, he activated the blood crystal.

The image of the Lord soon appeared in front of Murphy's eyes, and he frowned when he saw the sewer environment in which Murphy lived, obviously very dissatisfied with the environment in which he was talking.

"Don't get too busy getting angry, and if you're doing something important, then we can make an appointment later."

Murphy rubbed his eyebrows and said:

"I'm sure you're not in the mood for anything else after hearing the news I brought."

"Huh?"

The Lord raised an eyebrow.

Between the various outrageous operations that Murphy had done before, he hesitated for a moment and asked:

"So, a good thing? Or is it a bad thing? ”

"Well, it depends on how you define good and bad, and to me, it's a mixed bag."

Murphy thumped his somewhat chaotic brain, sighed, and said:

"I just saw old Edward from afar on the city walls, and this was my first meeting with him. The sight of him triggered the resonance of ancient memories, which is the main reason why I'm hiding here now.

I guess, you know what that means. ”

The Lord's face changed instantly.

When he binded the blood alliance candidates before, he had experienced the special state of memory resonance, and now that old Edward was not bound to the candidates, it could be triggered, which only showed that the Grand Duke of Wolf Venom did not have amnesia at all.

In the years of a thousand years of confusion, when all the ancients were trying their best to find ancient memories, when brothers and sisters with amnesia and heavy past stabbed the blade of betrayal at each other, when the entire vampire civilization continued to sink into the years of blood-sucking sin and depravity, old Edward disguised himself.

That guy deceived them for a whole thousand years!

It's a crime!

Whatever the reason for his choice to deceive, however, this concealment alone was enough for Lord Pa Ying to go to the trouble of that guy with the holy spear in hand, but from Murphy's complicated expression, the Lord could tell that there was much more to him than that.

The Venerable Lord took a deep breath to calm down his angry self, and he asked:

"What else?"

"And there's that. Lady Constance single-handedly caused the explosion in Eden, and it was she who used special drugs to help old Edward preserve his memories, and her mysterious department stepped into the taboo of the Creator, and suspected of discovering the untold truth.

She said she deserved to die, and she said that everyone in the department she was in deserved to die.

I know the head of the Mysteries Department is Councilor Steiner, so that should be your colleague, right? So, what exactly is that department researching? ”

Murphy frowned and asked:

"Didn't the Governing Council of a millennium ago have an accountability mechanism? You don't care about these private actions? Long before the Perfect Life Trial caused a catastrophe, the Arcane Department was mass-producing monsters.

As far as I know, they are still connected to Vedia, and have secretly studied the gods together. ”

"The study of divinity and divinity is not a secret, Murphy, and that proposal was adopted after months of discussion in the committee."

The Lord explained with some hesitation:

"During the Golden Age, my 'jailers' were tasked with guarding the cages of the gods left behind by the Creator, but it soon became clear that the Creator had not sealed off all the old gods of the primordial world.

There are also some wandering nature gods who demarcate their own territories in a savage and primitive manner, causing great hidden dangers to the development of Eden and the advancement of the Creator's blueprint.

That's why we started that project to study the weaknesses of the gods and counter them.

That's not an evil test!

Eventually, the Esoteric Division came up with a well-established plan, allowing the Jailer Force to capture and guard four old gods in a row over the course of five years.

Well, Aurora was one of them.

As for the responsibilities of the Mystery Division, you can tell from this incident that they are specialized in researching and countering issues that will have a huge impact on the advancement of the World Blueprint and the Life Greenhouse Project.

It is essentially a system of research that brings together the best researchers of all races, of which Vidia, Fato, and Constance are members, but in charge of different projects. ”

The Lord sighed and said:

"The importance of that department has led to it being taken care of by other departments, and in addition to the jailers, Oksana's Ministry of Internal Affairs is directly responsible for evaluating the projects they propose, and in some cases the most dangerous ones, it has to be authorized by the Sentinel Corps.

As for Councilor Steiner.

I.

Murphy, I don't have this person in my memory!

But since I had told so many details, I was sure that he must have existed, but some kind of force forcibly pulled this person out of my memory, and when I tried to remember, the blank in that memory could not be faked. ”

"Can I guess then, one of the three decisions when the Scepter of God was activated came from this guy or his successor?"

Murphy asked:

"To be more direct, isn't this guy the villain leader who single-handedly formed Twilight?"

"There is no evidence, but there is a strong probability."

The Venerable Lord had already felt the trick, and he pondered for a moment and said:

"Don't meddle in Edward's affairs, I'll take care of it."

"What are you going to do?"

Murphy asked rhetorically:

"Confronting him face to face? What if he still quibbles? Edward Sr. obviously knew a lot of details, but the biggest problem was that we couldn't falsify it, and the resonance of ancient memories was not omnipotent, and I could only experience what he had experienced through Salokdal's eyes.

This requires that my old matriarch must be present at the same time as Edward when important things happen.

This prerequisite also means that everything I see is mutilated, and this mutilation prevents many hidden secrets from being discovered, and it would be a bit hasty for you to prepare to dispose of an ancient Grand Duke on that basis. ”

"I was the commander of the Jailers' unit, Murphy."

The Lord stood up, and he said in a stern tone:

"The Holy Spear Eternal Silence also has the function of interrogation, this is a midnight holy relic to be used in conjunction with the natural power of the Blood Alliance Clan, if Edward is not going to confess all this to me, then I assure you that the Wolf Venom Clan will change a leader tomorrow morning!

This is not something he can hide with a lie.

Because of his concealment, we have lost three Ancients in a row for the past thousand years!

If he had spoken out sooner, Oksana, Charlemagne, and Salekdal wouldn't have died so miserably.

He. Be responsible for their deaths!

He must also be responsible!

Leave it to me, Murphy, and I'll take care of everything. ”

The smell of blood mixed with the lord's words made Murphy shiver, and he mourned in his heart for old Edward, then cut off the communication, and then moved his neck to get up and say to Captain Paula beside him:

"It's okay, let's go, go find the Steam Lords and keep working, and you didn't hear anything just now! Unless you are willing to meet with Lord Pa Ying, who has come with the Holy Spear in hand, on a sleepless night, to discuss the harsh covenant of secrecy. ”

"Huh? What are you talking about? ”

Captain Paula asked with a clear look in his eyes:

"I seem to have intermittent deafness or I'm too nervous, anyway, I don't have time to pay attention to you, okay? This sewer is so dangerous, it seems that there is something terrible hidden in the darkness, and it scares me to death. ”

"Well, thank you for your help."

Murphy raised an eyebrow and blinked, following Paula down the sewers towards the area in the center of the city, while feeling in his heart that this time the resonance of ancient memories was quite serious.

Although he watched the astringent story of Edward and Lady Constance, at least he didn't make out the dilemma of himself and Shanny, so it was okay, if he continued to entangle like that, Murphy really couldn't tell if he had ten mouths.

It made him feel weirdly better.

But there is still a little bit of weird regret, saying that in the first three embarrassments, Xia Ni's emotional changes are also quite interesting, from anger and shock at the beginning, to resistance and resistance, and then to the third time her heart is like ashes

Oh, I can't think about it anymore, Murphy, Murphy, you're a Blood Lord with status! You are a gentleman with great respect for women, and you are too undignified with yellow waste!

He warned himself as he followed Paula up the escalator to and from the sewers.

As a result, as soon as he was halfway up, a strange dizziness emerged from his brain, and Murphy said that he was not good, and scolded how this memory resonance could have a second half!

He had already guessed what was going to happen next, and the vampire lord fell off the escalator to the sound of Captain Paula's screams, slamming to the ground.

The scroll of memories unfolded in front of me, and it was from Edward's perspective.

Edward, with two gifts, walked through the cabin of the Scarlet Dawn with a vigorous stride, intending to give his handmade armor to Sarokdal and his wife, Oksana, as a reward for transporting the craftsmen of Eden to the Creation Engine, and to improve his relationship with Sarokdal.

The conflict between the two of them has been going on for a long time.

Before the vampire's home planet was destroyed, the two and their respective clans had been hostile for millennia.

Edward and Salokdahl were contemporaries, and there was always a rivalry between the two geniuses, which, combined with the cumbersome and eerie culture of the vampires, turned hostile.

However, those past grievances have dissipated like clouds of smoke after the explosion of the home planet.

The vampire's master craftsman walked to the bridge where Sarokdal was, and was about to call to open the door when he suddenly heard a strange sound coming from inside.

Edward's expression changed slightly.

He had already guessed what Salokdal and Oksana were doing inside.

The guy smiled weirdly, placed the gift box in his hand at the hatch, and prepared to turn away.

He wasn't a sullen guy like Charlemagne and liked to listen to the wall, but just as Edward had taken a few steps, he saw Miss Constance in "simple clothes" leaning against the door of her cabin, holding an unlit lady's cigarette.

She said to Edward with a grumbling face:

"The sound insulation of this spaceship is too bad, I really shouldn't have chosen here, those two guys are especially excited today, so noisy that I can't sleep, just when you came"

"That. The craftsmen are still waiting for me to go back to the meeting. ”

Edward smiled awkwardly, but the next moment Miss Constance grabbed his tie and pulled him into the cabin.

Well, this ancient memory is still a fucking episode.

However, Murphy didn't have time to pay attention to that.

Due to the special "memory memetic" nature of ancient memories, Edward's mind was pulled back into Sarokdal's body when he intervened in the incident, and he looked at Lady Oksana riding on him through the eyes of the Scarlet Dawn as the Scarlet Dawn turned into the luxurious bridge on autopilot.

The complex look revealed in the other party's eyes means that there is another "implicated" soul in this tempting body at this moment.

"It was really an accident this time."

Murphy used the resonance of his soul to convey a sincere apology, saying:

"You believe me! I really didn't mean to. ”

"Don't say it, I believe you're not in Transia at all now, and you have no means to do bad things."

Xia Ni's heartbroken voice came from the other side, and she asked:

"So who did you meet that activated the memory resonance? Let me guess, old Edward didn't actually have amnesia and you just met him, right? ”

"Huh? How are you?"

"Lady Oksana discovered this secret more than 800 years ago, and what I didn't tell you is that the last two of her six trips to the ruins of Eden were with Edward, don't worry, Murphy.

Edward was not a bad person.

At least not the kind of bad guy that requires us to focus on it with all our might.

Damn it!

Hurry up this time, okay?

I'm in a meeting with the wolf girl, so you'd better not embarrass me too much in front of my juniors."

——

At the same time, on the positions in the outer city of Port Chardo.

Lord Pa Ying put down the psionic whetstone in his hand, stroked the sharp blade of the holy spear with his fingers, and then stood up to finish the matter, but at the same time, a knock sounded outside the door.

"Come in."

The Lord spoke.

In the next second, old Edward pushed the door in and closed it with his hand.

Lord Pa Ying stared at him, his eyes were complicated and there was a hint of sternness that could not be ignored, and Edward knew that if he didn't show something real today, he was afraid that his thousands of years of life would end here.

Pa Ying was really angry.

Such murderous intent boiled over him, reminding him of the years before the fall of the last fortress on his home planet, the Honorable Lord of the Commandments, whose blood-stained "Lord of the Precepts" was still as just and indifferent as those faded memories.

Under a stern gaze, Edward pulled out the journal from which he never left, flipped to the previous pages, and handed it to the Lord.

The latter took it in his hand and glanced at it, and it was full of more than fifty names.

More than forty of them were painted with red lines.

"I killed them with my own hands, in every hunt for the last thousand years."

Edward moved his wrist and said in a dumb voice:

"Day after day searching, day after day tracking, day after day searching, pulling out the bastards who killed Constance from the corners of this chaotic age, and then bestowing the most painful and long deaths on them in the most terrible way.

I didn't tell you because the Occult Department was still working in the shadows.

Compared to their age-old threat, Dusk is nothing more than a bunch of clowns jumping off the beam under the guise of annihilation.

The hunt continues, Pa Ying.

I now formally invite you to finish it with me, there are few people left, and I will willingly accept your judgment when the last one howls and dies. ”

"I'm more curious about why Constance did that!"

Looking at the bloody entries in the diary, Lord Pa Ying looked at Edward and said:

"And, why are you doing that?"

"I don't know and I don't care, I just know that Constance was killed by them."

Edward lowered his head and touched the pair of handguards, which were very well maintained but very old, and he said in a choked tone:

"As for why I am. You see, after losing the center of gravity in life, I have to find something to do for myself so as not to be swallowed up by endless emptiness, I am not as selfless as you, Pa Ying, the life and death of others have nothing to do with me.

However, in this ruin where joy is absent, the endless wait is always more difficult than eternal life.

So I'll ask you one last time."

Grand Duke Wolf Venom gripped the hilt of the Thorn of Dread at his waist.

He stared at Lord Pa Ying and said in a deep voice:

"You're the last person to see Constance, tell me! Pa Ying, is she really dead? ”

"She's dead, Edward."

The Lord said in a cold voice:

"Vanishing before me, it was only a clone who accompanied us out of Eden, and she ended up on a path of self-destruction."

"I don't believe it! She is such a wise person who will always leave a way back for herself, and she must still be waiting for me somewhere in this world! ”

Edward took a deep breath, let go of his weapon, and said to the Venerable One:

"If you don't plan to kill me today, then please forgive me for leaving, and I will continue to walk and find every corner of this world.

I'll see her again.

I promised her that I would find her in the afterlife! ”

"Let's make things clear before we go!"

"It's all in the diary, see for yourself, I know why you're so angry, but even if I say that, I can't save those who should have died, the destruction of Eden represents the end of an era, and we remnants should die with that era.

That's where we end up.

You, and me.

Pa Ying, we will all die miserably in a pool of our own blood like them, but this time, I will not allow myself to go down that road alone."

(End of chapter)