Ember Gun

  Chapter 298 Patient Zero

  Lorenzo didn't know who sent the letter, but judging from the secret blood, the other party must know something and have bad intentions.

But as Oscar said, this is a conspiracy, a conspiracy that Lorenzo cannot refuse. Even without these, Lorenzo would like to meet Shermans. He is the only one in the old Dunling in the past. Someone who knows and meets him may be able to get some confirmation of his doubts.

  He stepped on the soft green grass and headed towards the manor.

The process of infiltrating is not difficult. There are not many guards here. Basically, they are all the guards taken away by Shermans from the emerald. They may have been sheltered by the cleaning agency. Most of them have relaxed their vigilance and don't think there will be anyone. Find this hidden place.

  In fact, this is the case. With the development of steam technology, people have abandoned the backward towns and plunged into the developed big cities. The old Dunling is like a magnet, attracting everyone around.

  In this case, the former noble manor has also fallen into disrepair. Compared with this, people prefer to live in the old town center.

  Empty and shabby, it seems that Shermans has just moved in. Lorenzo is hiding in the shadows, looking for the trail of Shermans.

  The internal division of the church also took place after Holy Night, and the mysterious new pope was crowned on top of this.

Thinking back to everything that happened in the Temple of Silence, under the mask of steel, there were eyes that were as hot as Lorenzo. Obviously, Seni Lotaire was a demon hunter, so he was wearing a fake Face, when he was crowned the Pope, who was he among the Demon Hunters?

  The aftermath caused by the night of the Holy Prophet is not only the ones that Lorenzo understands on the surface.

While thinking about this, Lorenzo escaped one patrolling guard after another. Among them, several of Lorenzo had a vague impression. They seemed to have seen them in the Seven Hills, which confirmed their identities. These People are followers of Shermans.

  Lorenzo stopped, he leaned on his side, hiding himself, and soon someone passed by before his eyes. The man limped on a cane.

  Yage didn't realize the crisis, he reluctantly moved forward on crutches, Shermans did not wait for him, and at this moment he did not know where the old man had gone.

  Lorenzo looked at his back from a distance. At the time, it was the attack he launched on himself in the rat's nest. Now everything has been confirmed. At that time, it was Shermans searching for the whereabouts of "Apocalypse."

  But now there is no sense of tension in the manor. It seems that these people are on vacation. Could it be that they have given up searching for "Revelation"? But is this the only force they can fight against the new pope, or do they get a stronger boost?

  No one can explain the answer to Lorenzo, only he slowly finds it by himself.

  ……

  The curtains are closed tightly, the room is dim, and fluorescent candles are rising. They are slowly burning around the sacred cross, and the melted wax covers the ground, like a solidified red sea.

  Shermans tried his best to restore this place to the pious atmosphere in the Cathedral of Saint Nalo, but unfortunately, he knew very well that this was different, no matter how it was restored, it was different.

  He slowly sat down on the chair, put on the thick lenses, picked up the pen, and opened a delicately decorated and very old book.

There is no book title, and no author’s name. The cowhide cover removes the decorative patterns, just a monotonous dark green, and the spine is covered with scars. It looks like it has been changed many times. New paper is added to it. .

  This is Shermans' notes, or diary, in short, it is the book he used to record, and the records are complicated and messy, which makes it difficult for him to distinguish between them.

Shermans is an extremely pious cardinal. He does not have the extraordinary ingenuity or terrible force, but he has a deep knowledge of theology, although in the eyes of those atheists, Shermans’s behavior It seemed so ridiculous that he dedicated his precious life to the **** of nothingness.

  In this long life of Shermans, he comprehensively analyzed the "Gospels", trying to figure out the mysterious gods with mortal thinking as much as possible, starting to record from the day he became a believer until today.

  Opening a thick book, it was full of his handwriting. He turned through it with great effort, until the end, it seemed like his dying life, only a few pages of this notebook were left.

  The dry palm gently brushed the white paper surface, and he sighed. Although not much, it was enough for him.

  He was too old, and his thoughts became dull. For a moment he couldn't remember what he should write, so he had to look through the front handwriting.

  This notebook not only records the life of Shermans, but also the history of the Evangelical Church in recent years.

The changes of the gospel church, the rise and fall of the hunting sect, from the hunting of the "last monster", that is, the "Holy Grail", to the eruption of the night of the Holy Advent, during which there was also a struggle for power within the gospel church. There is a game between the faith faction and the war faction.

Shermans did not realize that it was his devotion to faith and the study of theology that made him watch and record all this in a neutral position, and the burning fire on the night of Holy Prophet burned too much. With so much information, the notes in his hand are extremely precious.

  But that's it, Shermans didn't expect this at all, but continued his research under this situation.

   "Demon..."

  Shermans said softly, his rigid thoughts gradually came to life, he picked up the pen and continued to write on the blank page.

  Holy Pro Night.

  It was a night that changed the lives of many people. The old order was destroyed. The Master Lawrence rebelled and stole the "Revelation". The extremely powerful evangelical church declined from here...

  This strength, which has lasted countless years, collapsed only overnight.

  Shermans was lucky. He was neutral and did not participate in the game, so he was also refused to participate in the experiment against the "Holy Grail". That night, he was in Feilengcui and avoided the shadow of death.

  Until now, he still remembers everything that night clearly, as if this memory had lost the possibility of being forgotten, and it was deeply carved into the depths of his mind.

  At that time, Shermans felt an indescribable heart palpitations, as if there was something in the dark that was warning him, and then it walked out of the study and saw the abominable picture.

  Under the gloomy night, the sacred place of the seven hills was completely engulfed by the fire and burned.

At the end of the night, only the scorched ruins were left. Shermans didn’t know exactly what those people did, but from the terrible consequences, he could also get a glimpse of it. After that, Sherman The thing Si was thinking about was no longer pure faith, he was still thinking about another thing.

  What is a monster?

  "I searched a lot of documents, but I couldn't find when the monster appeared in this world, as if it did not appear suddenly at a certain moment, but has always been with this world.

A strange place has appeared. If the demons were born with this world, then in the age of remote ignorance, in the age when mankind has not yet mastered iron and fire, at that time human beings simply could not resist the demons, that terrible power And the erosion that is hard to resist is like an unstoppable plague.

  It stands to reason that the so-called humans should have been completely extinct at that time, but we have survived, and even today, thousands of years later, we have temporarily accommodated the ‘Holy Grail’. "

  After a short silence, Shermans seemed to remember where to start writing. She clenched the pen tightly like a dead wood, and muttered slightly with her mouth, deepening her memory, leaving black writing on the white paper.

"We are still alive, so weirdly survived, then can it be proved that in a certain blank history of the world, in an era that has been forgotten by everyone, demons do not exist, but in the future , It suddenly appeared in this world."

  Shermans' actions suddenly stopped. If you say so, everything is logical, but new mysteries have appeared. If this is the case, then how is the demon born?

  Nothing can appear out of thin air, so where does the monster come from?

"This world is very strange... The world we live in is a little abnormal, and I don't know where its problems are, but every time I try to understand the history, the past, and the demons, I can always feel These.

  The weird and distorted feeling haunts me, I can only devote myself to faith and try to resist it.

Sometimes I am surprised to find that Shermans, who is rigid and stubborn, will temporarily ignore faith to explore these unsolved mysteries. This is not like what I can do, but there is no way. People always change. of. "

  Shermans smiled a little, he often laughed at himself in his notes, this was his little self-entertainment, but then his face became cold.

  "This is like a bottomless abyss. As I dig into the past, the strange sense of violation has intensified. I suddenly realized a problem..."

Shermans's pen stopped, and he was a little afraid to write. There seemed to be something peeping at him, as if as long as he knew the weird truth... No, even if it wasn't the truth, as long as it was slightly involved Write down part of the weird truth, and he will be killed by the evil power.

  This is taboo knowledge. There are unknown things guarding these secrets.

  But at this moment, he didn't feel fear, but a strange joy. He was addicted to this for too long, so long that he completely confused theology with the monster.

  Yes, he should have understood this long ago. As the "Gospels" said, evil demons were born in the shadow of God, and they were inseparable.

  Shermans’ eyes were bloodshot, and he held his forehead with one hand, and the hand holding the pen trembled violently.

  He thought of it suddenly, as if the wall that had been blocking his thinking had collapsed, and then free will was liberated.

"Looking back at the history of the Gospel Church, I found that we have been fighting humans and fighting our kind... Yes, it is true. The demons we kill are all alienated from humans. Then those [originally] What about Monster]? It’s like a plague. There should always be a [Patient Zero], a starting point that triggers all this."

  The sharp coldness pierced Shermans's bones and clenched his heart along the blood.

   "We have been ignoring these... or there is some unknown force preventing us from thinking about them.

  The monsters we killed were originally human beings. The only difference is the [Holy Grail].

  The demon who is endowed with the concept of demon is called the [Original Demon] of the [Holy Grail], but is it the only one? Do we really understand them?

  What is a monster? "

  (End of this chapter)