Ember Gun

  Chapter 266 Demon Hunters

  First there was a brief door bell, and then the door was slowly pushed open. Lorenzo held his breath, praying that he was not a troublesome guy.

  Lorenzo wants to take a day off and waste time lying in bed comfortably. Although it is not a good thing to waste time, in a hurry in life, no matter how strong people are, they also want to take a break.

  The door was slowly pushed open, and Joey stepped into it.

   "No!"

  Lorenzo squeezed the fork firmly and thrust it into the dining table.

  Sure enough, as long as you see these cleansing guys, there must be no good, and I don’t know why Joey came, but I definitely can’t let myself rest at home.

   "Good morning, Lorenzo."

  Joy is as usual, maybe it's dawn, and his negative emotions in the night have also improved a lot.

  He greeted Lorenzo and gestured to Sieg and Mrs. Van Lud.

  Joy has been here many times, and over time, he has become familiar with other people, although he is still not so familiar.

   "Go ahead, what's the matter?"

   Lorenzo asked with an uncomfortable face, and continued to fiddle with the fork.

   "A conversation."

  Joy looked at the other people. They had nothing to do with the demons, and Joey could only reveal these temporarily.

  Lorenzo thought for a while, and sighed helplessly.

"Hold on."

  As he said, he turned and went back to his room to change clothes. Lorenzo who was resting became a busy Lorenzo again, bringing weapons and swords.

  However, during this period, Sieg slightly raised his head and looked at Joey with a cold face.

Perhaps as Joey said at the time, the two of them are in different worlds. Joey and Sigg can talk very well, but it is a pity that Joey is related to demons. He doesn’t want to implicate these innocent people, but Sigg obviously doesn’t. Know these.

   "You... well, see you again."

   Sig said hesitantly, Sig doesn't have many friends, maybe he was also troubled by hallucinogens, Sig always feels that Joey is of the same kind as himself.

"Um."

  Joy replied somewhat indifferently. It is time for work.

  Sig wanted to continue to say something, but at this moment the sound of da da footsteps sounded, and Lorenzo walked down from the stairs, still in the familiar clothes, except that there was a strange chain around his neck.

  Not waiting for Joey to ask, Lorenzo asked first.

   "You two know each other?"

  Lorenzo looked at Sieg, who was hesitant to speak, and then at Joey.

Of course the two knew each other. After all, they were Lorenzo’s roommates. Joey had been here many times, and there were always times to see Joey, but now the two are obviously not at the stage of familiarity, but on a deeper level of communication. .

  "I met at the mutual aid meeting."

   Sieg replied, Joey didn't bother to say anything when he heard it, but he just affirmed and urged Lorenzo to leave.

  The morning started hurriedly, looking at the two people who left, for a moment Sieg ate all the food on the plate, and packed up and prepared to leave.

   "Where are you going again?" Mrs. Van Lud asked curiously.

  Lorenzo has been accustomed to missing her one day, but Sieg has just given up hallucinogens. Although she has performed well recently, she has a sense of responsibility, and Mrs. Van Lud is concerned about her elder child.

  "Mutual Aid Association, Whitechapel is ready to be put into use again. The new doctor hopes that I can help him more." Sieg said.

  ……

  Riding in the dark carriage, just like before, another monotonous day, to accept the task, look for clues, and then drew the sword and hacked the monster.

  The tired Lorenzo put his head aside, looking at the scenery outside the window.

  "Mutual Aid Association? Hallucinogen Mutual Aid Association?"

  After a long time, Lorenzo asked as if suddenly thinking of something.

  He sat upright, only then did he realize the strangeness of the matter, and looked at Joey with interrogation in his eyes.

  Joy didn't notice Lorenzo's attitude at all, or it might be because he didn't care, but simply answered.

"Um."

"Um?"

  Lorenzo looked at him, then his eyes were surprised, as if he was about to open his mouth in the next second, he grabbed Joey's shoulders and shook his body vigorously.

   "You? Joey! Hallucinogen Mutual Aid Society?"

  Lorenzo shouted loudly, looking unbelievable.

   "What's wrong?" Joey had an inexplicable attitude. It seemed that this kind of thing was normal.

   "You are a high-ranking knight who cleans up institutions! Specialized to fight against the backbone of demons! As a result, you have also been addicted to hallucinogens?"

  Lorenzo almost hid his face and wept from the look of grief.

   "How come you, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, betray the revolution?"

"what?"

  After several minutes of verbal and force persuasion, Joey reluctantly calmed down Lorenzo, and the two became the same again, leaning on the back of the chair and looking at each other briefly.

   "In other words, this kind of thing is very common?" Lorenzo asked.

   "Probably, I was actually shaken by the monster." Joey explained.

   "Lorenzo, we have only undergone spiritual specialization. In the final analysis, we are only better than ordinary people in terms of fighting against demons. It is inevitable that we will have some mental illness after long-term contact."

   "Black Mountain Hospital?"

Lorenzo said that after having been in contact with the Elimination Organization for so long, Lorenzo had a more specific impression of this huge organization. Because of the erosion of demons, many front-line knights have a "lifetime". When their mental stress reaches the limit, they will be taken vacations.

  Most of them will be treated in the Black Mountain Hospital for a period of time. Those who get better will be redistributed to work. As for those who do not get better, they will have many endings.

  The people who cleaned the organs rejected it. They called the hospital a tomb, and most of the people who entered did not return.

   "Yes, I recuperated there for a long time."

   Joey answered slowly, looking back at the past.

  "At that time, I was still a newcomer, following the will of the family and becoming a member of the cleansing agency. At that time, I thought I was just a member of the state secret agency, fighting against spies from Galunaro and other countries."

   Thinking of being a little naive at that time, Joey couldn't help laughing.

"But then they said something **** of a monster. I was unprepared at the time. I was frightened. But without any time to prepare, I started to work. I ran around, carrying a thermal rifle and shooting one after another. ."

   "I like this job."

  Lorenzo has always been so keen on hacking demons.

"I don't like it. At that time, the original sin armor had not been put into large-scale use. We can only rely on modern weapons and numbers to suppress the demons. Our damage rate is very high. I watched my teammates go into madness a little bit, and then turned the muzzle. Point to my own person, I can't save him, I can only kill him with one shot, and then continue to kill the demons."

  Joy’s voice is very calm. He may have been accustomed to such hacks and slashes, but now in retrospect there is no emotional fluctuation.

   "Did you get a hallucinogen at that time?" Lorenzo asked.

"Almost, it may be the effect of erosion, as well as my own pressure and other things. I intercepted a lot of hallucinogens in one operation. With some strange fluke mentality, I tried it. In this hell-like Find some dreams in the world."

  Joy shrugged.

"The next thing is what everyone is familiar with. I took hallucinogens and caused my mental instability, which caused an operation to fail. I was punished and isolated, and then sent to the Montenegro hospital for compulsory treatment. It was really not a period of time. Good memories."

  It may be an unbearable memory, but it also became ordinary in Joey's mouth.

   "So, when fighting against demons, there will always be some psychological problems. After that, I became hygienic and can't tolerate the dirty blood splashing on my body."

  Indeed, Joey’s clothes are always so neat and tidy, Lorenzo is like a wild dog rolling in the mud.

   "Are the others the same?" Lorenzo asked curiously.

   "Almost, everyone is more or less affected by demons, and the defects in personality are magnified. It is just that we usually pretend to be very good. Although we are a precarious patient, we still pretend to be healthy."

  Joy turned his gaze to Lorenzo as he spoke. The detective didn't seem to care about the conversation just now, what kind of sickness was crazy, these words became as common as dead leaves on the roadside in his life.

Thinking of this, Joey can’t help feeling a strange feeling. His life is related to madness, but at least he hasn’t fully integrated into it. Joey still has a part of his normal life, but Lorenzo is different. He has been mad here since he was a child. Survive in the world, until now, this terrible madness is just like ordinary daily life in his eyes.

  Joy couldn't help asking.

   "Lorenzo, don't you have any... flaws or the dark side?"

   "Flaw... the dark side?"

  Lorenzo thought about it carefully, then laughed.

   "I, Lorenzo Holmes is invincible, how can I have that kind of thing?"

  Flaws and dark side, Lorenzo really doesn't seem to have such a thing, no matter what the circumstances, he maintains absolute sanity, even in the face of powerful enemies such as Lawrence, without the slightest fear.

   "No, it's also possible that you are used to these, like being stuck in a quagmire without knowing it." Joey said.

  In his eyes, human beings do not have any invincibility. As long as they are human, they must have defects. This is also true of the invincible demon hunter in the world. Perhaps Lorenzo just hasn't realized his shortcomings until now.

  "Perhaps you also have some strange mental illness, but you have never realized it."

  Listening to Joey, Lorenzo said in silence for a while.

   "Does cutting demons count?"

   "Oh, actually, I used to think that every time I slashed the monsters, I was so happy. If the monsters can also have human emotions, I might be a crazy murderer in their eyes."

  This person is inexplicably proud.

   "But... Joey, where are we going?"

  Looking out the window, the street scenery gradually became more prosperous, as if heading towards the inner city. Joey said that there was a conversation waiting for him, but he did not say who came.

   "You will know when you arrive."

  Joy seems to be hiding something.

  The carriage finally stopped in front of an auditorium. The guards were guarding it nearby. This seemed to be a more important place. Then a waiter opened the door and led Lorenzo and others forward.

  Walking through the tall arches, the dome made of steel and glass, the huge columns fell behind one by one, until the blue jade and the shrike appeared at the end of the line of sight. They were dressed in more formal clothes and surrounded by soldiers holding aluminum thermal rifles.

Lorenzo began to feel that something was wrong, and subconsciously warned him. He stretched out his hand along the hole in his pocket and held the shotgun under his clothes, but Shrike had already been familiar with the operation of this neuropathy, and he went straight forward and grabbed it. Lorenzo's arm.

   "You can't bring weapons in, Lorenzo."

"Why are you here?"

   Lorenzo asked rhetorically.

  Shrike manages the Xiacheng District. Unless there is something important, this guy will never leave there. Obviously something is wrong today.

  "Please cooperate, Mr. Holmes, this is good for you and me."

  Blue Jade said to the side, "It's rare for us to achieve today's cooperative relationship."

  Lorenzo was silent, after hesitating for a long time, he handed out the shotgun.

"Besides."

  It may be that Lorenzo is too familiar with this neurosis, Shrike continued.

  Lorenzo glared at the bastard, and then handed out a short dagger and the sword he carried with him.

  After finishing these shrikes, he let go, and he opened his body sideways and the door behind him slowly opened.

  Sunlight came in, and there was a meeting room behind the door. It seemed that those people had been waiting for Lorenzo for a long time. They were all seated in their positions. Lorenzo slowly moved forward and saw their identities clearly.

Arthur and Merlin, as well as the two knight commanders who met at the Pump of Perpetual Motion, Gawain and Percival, on the other side sat people whom Lorenzo didn’t know, but they were kind of weird. Lorenzo couldn't help but glance more at his familiarity.

   can clearly distinguish that the people in this conference room are divided into two camps, one is the decontamination agency headed by Arthur, and the other is the mysterious people.

  Lorenzo sat on a chair near the door, keeping a safe distance from both camps until Arthur spoke.

   "Long time no see, Mr. Holmes."

  Lorenzo leaned back in his chair lazily, although he moved at random, he already felt the weirdness of the current situation.

   "What's wrong with Arthur?" Lorenzo asked.

   "It's nothing, it's just a short meeting. We want to confirm something. It's more reassuring than cooperating with suspicion, isn't it?"

   Arthur said, looked at the guys around him, and then said.

  "Someone wants to see you, confirm something with you in person."

  After Arthur finished speaking, the man in the other camp stood up, gestured to Lorenzo, and then introduced himself.

   "Hello, Mr. Lorenzo Holmes."

  The priest looked at Lorenzo with a smile, and then said words that made Lorenzo feel a little suffocated and nervous.

   "You can call me Father Anthony, currently the new headmaster of the Demon Hunter Order."

Lorenzo was stunned at first, and then his muscles tightened. His eyes swept back and forth near Anthony, looking at the expressionless waiters. At this moment, he finally understood where the familiar feeling came from. Place.

   Demon hunters, they are all demon hunters.

  The secret blood is slightly restless, as if in joy.

  (End of this chapter)