Ember Gun

  Chapter 45 Hardcore Military House

   Carrying the dark box, Lorenzo slowly returned home after sunset. The fog rose on the road. The colorful light reflected through the fine water droplets, the light reflected, psychedelic and frustrating.

After greeted briefly with Mrs. Van Lud, Lorenzo returned to his room, and then locked the door tightly.

Lorenzo took out the only information he had obtained in the underground palace that night, a bill. At that time, one of the reasons Lorenzo saved Eve was because of this bill. At that time, it left the underground palace with Eve and the boat, so It is well preserved and the writing is clearly visible.

  Human memory is unreliable. No matter how hard you try to remember, you may forget it in the end, and you will not even realize that the forgetting happened.

  So no matter what organization it is, it needs a bill, a bill that records expenses in detail, even if it is the Saab gang.

Swiping your finger on the account, looking back and forth, the things described above are very messy, it seems that the person in charge of the account is not very professional, and the respective expenditures are written in a mess and irregular. Some transactions may be more important, which is strange. The symbol instead.

Lorenzo looked for a long time and didn’t find a clue. After thinking about it for a while, he calmly took out a cigarette with bellaweed wrapped in it. Presumably the weird vision might be able to help him, but Lorenzo hesitated too. , His connection with darkness has undoubtedly deepened a lot, and now he consumes this herb, he doesn't know what will happen.

  But...what about him? It's just a cigarette in case of trouble.

  Thinking about Lorenzo, he lit the fire and opened the box brought back from the tomb. There were more things in it than expected, besides the sword blade, there were many bottles and jars.

   Picking up the reassuring blade, it feels like holding a cold frost, inhaling forcefully, sucking the psychic herbs into the lungs, staring at the bill, and then the whole world plunges into darkness.

  The familiar sound of sea tide sounded again, and the damp wind carried the smell of the sea, and the angry waves slapped the shore and smashed into white flowers on the rocks.

  Lorenzo lowered his head, his expression rare and solemn.

  The ground is soft underfoot, and the withered grass dies on it.

  This is such a clear and real environment. If Lorenzo hadn't been sober, he even thought he had come to this unknown place in person.

  The advantage is that he can see more clues through Lingshi, but the disadvantage is that he has a deeper connection with the darkness.

  The faint green light shined not far in front of him, like a burning green sun, and it seemed that some kind of huge pupils were staring at the world.

Looking up, it was the lighthouse that Lorenzo kept seeing. At this moment, he was right in front of him. The moist entity was covered with moss and vines. The top of the tower was emitting an unknown light. If nothing else, that mysterious at this moment The sacred coffin should be stored in it.

  This is the source of everything.

  Lorenzo calmed down after a brief surprise. He needed more clues. Inervig was everywhere on the coast. There were at least hundreds of such lighthouses. He had to find characteristics that could distinguish them.

  But as he looked around, a hoarse voice sounded, and the pitch black shadow enveloped him, the weird back facing the green light, and the warm air like a giant bear gushing out of the **** mouth.

  Lorenzo is not afraid. He has seen it many times. Although the things he sees are part of the reality, most of them are still illusions, only herbs and unknown powers.

So it can be said that everything in front of him is illusory, only the clue is real, but just when he thought so, the shadow in front of him launched an attack, like a temptation, drove away the flies in the air at will, and simply waved it. Down, hit Lorenzo.

   instinctively warned Lorenzo, without even thinking that Lorenzo directly raised the blade in his hand to cut down the illusory shadow, and warm blood was spilled on Lorenzo's face.

  The feeling was so real, it was so real that every fluff of Lorenzo could perceive the sensation of blood flowing across his cheek, and every nerve was surging with electricity.

This is true?

The shadow roared and hit the blade with great strength. The sharp claws left a blood mark on Lorenzo's arm. There was no time for Lorenzo to judge the truth. He immediately waved the blade again, but it was illusory. However, his shadow dissipated like ink under his sword, the entire dark world collapsed, and the familiar room reappeared in front of him.

   still kept the sword swing, but there was nothing in front of him.

  Unknowingly, the tobacco has burned out, and Lingshi is over.

  Lorenzo slumped on the chair in a cold sweat, slowly putting the blade on the table, and after a long pause, pain came from his arm.

  It was a shallow wound. The ghost wiped his face, but there was scarlet blood on the palm.

  Everything that Lingshi saw was real, and Lorenzo fought the monster in the Lingshi at that moment.

  This did not happen by accident, it has never happened before.

  Take a deep breath, and a terrible conjecture arises in Lorenzo's heart.

  He has a deeper connection with the darkness, so deep that Lorenzo can temporarily and truly stop in that world in the spiritual vision.

This is not good news, as he and Eve said, you and dark creatures live in the same world, but the two cannot observe each other, and now Lorenzo can see them, and they Lorenzo can also be seen.

   "Damn it..."

  Lorenzo cursed casually, thinking about putting the sword on the side by his side, trying to increase some sense of security.

  It is the standard weapon of the Demon Hunting Order. It is made of alloy and plated with holy silver. It is a deadly weapon for demons. Because it looks like a long nail, it is jokingly called a nail sword.

  In the beginning, Lorenzo used the sword to a large extent because it looks like this weapon, except for its weight and much less lethality to demons, other things are similar.

   "Lorenzo! What are you doing!"

  Ms. Van Lud's sharp voice sounded downstairs, and Lorenzo realized that his agitated sword had knocked over the bookcase just now, and the sound caught Mrs. Van Lud’s attention.

   "I fell, it's okay!"

  Lorenzo answered loudly. Mrs. Van Lud is so old, so she shouldn't have anything to do with the monster.

He lifted the bookcase up and looked at the books scattered on the floor. Lorenzo didn't have any mood to pack it up. He sat back in his seat, his eyes suddenly caught on the bill, and the thick pages turned to a new page, bright red. His blood stained it.

  Lorenzo seemed to have discovered something. He saw the blood stain one of the deals red.

  That is an address, Lorenzo directly turned out his map, but after looking for it for a long time, he did not find the address in the transaction.

  Stunned, Lorenzo remembered that with Inervig's amazing expansion speed, the city-states in the territory were changing every day, and his map was not timely enough.

As if thinking of something, Lorenzo strode out of her room with the bill and came downstairs. Mrs. Van Lude was sitting on the sofa and reading the newspaper. Seeing Lorenzo was so flustered, she took off the thick Thick reading glasses.

   "Are you stupid?"

   "No, I want to find something."

Lorenzo answered, and then stood in the center of the living room. It was a huge map. The mountains and cities were painted with ink on yellowed kraft paper, and all the information of the entire Inervig territory was drawn in detail. Some hidden things will be marked on it with symbols instead.

It was a military map during the Glorious War. Compared with Lorenzo's map, it recorded more detailed things. As for the timeliness, you can even find spare resources buried in the ground by the Inveriger Army at that time. Cities that no longer exist have records.

This thing was supposed to be sealed in the military warehouse, but when Mrs. Van Lud retired, she didn’t know how she did it. She smuggled a large map out and hung it in the living room. superior.

She said that this thing commemorates her military career more than a medal of honor. Sometimes sitting in the living room with her, Mrs. Van Lud would always point to the land on the map, and said to Lorenzo in a majestic manner, "Look. Has it happened? I shot everything from here to here on the map."

"What are you looking for?"

   "An address."

  Lorenzo’s line of sight looked back and forth along the coast of the sea area on the map.

It was a transportation deal. Sabo delivered a large amount of food to a small town called Ende. There were countless small towns in Inervig, but Lorenzo saw the lighthouse in his vision and narrowed it down. In a coastal town, he still couldn't find it despite this.

"No…"

  After looking at it for a long time, Lorenzo did not find the small town on the map, but at this moment Madame Van Ludder came over.

   "Ender?"

  Wearing the thick reading glasses, Mrs. Van Lud squinted her eyes slightly.

  "Are you looking for this town?"

   "Yes, a coastal town, but there is no..."

   "Coastal? Of course not."

  Mrs. Van Lud heard the two words coastal, and immediately gave the answer.

   "No? Why?"

  Lorenzo turned his head, he didn't understand why Mrs. Van Lud said that.

"Because of the Glorious War, there is a Shiraito Strait between us and Galunaro. In the century-long war, the fleets of the two sides fought many times. The coastal towns have long been transformed into military bases or moved. I entered the interior, and it was not until the end of the Glorious War more than a decade ago that there was a gradual return of population in the coastal areas."

  Mrs. Van Lud is a person who has experienced war, and she knows more about this than Lorenzo.

  Dry fingers slid across the map, she said.

"Military maps should be viewed with symbol books. We usually use symbols and numbers to represent a place, so that even if the map falls in the hands of the enemy, they can’t understand them without a symbol book. Look at the triangle symbols, they represent the town that was once a town. The place."

  There is no city name, there are only rows of triangles suffixed with numbers along the coast.

  Looking at Mrs. Van Lud, Lorenzo thought for a while and said tentatively.

  "Madam, which town do you think needs food from the outside world?"

  "Do you mean the supply line?"

   "Probably so..."

  According to the transaction record, Sabo invested a lot of money to transport food to this mysterious Ende Town, and mobilized directly from Rendona Port to the unknown Ende Town.

   "Um... probably here."

  Mrs. Van Lud's finger pointed to the extreme edge of the map, which is the west side of Inervig Island. For the western side of Inervig has not yet been developed, there are not even many railways.

"Because of war issues, Inverweg has very strict control over the places where he communicates with neighboring countries, except for the north and the west. Our north is the northern sea, and the enemy has to endure the ice and sea if it wants to attack. Floes and the group of Viking pirates, and the west is an endless ocean, and our main cities are concentrated in the center, where they can only eat hay when they land."

   "So there is only this direction, far away from major cities, no ports, even fishing boats will not pass by, food cannot be self-sufficient, and external supplies are needed."

   "Then why is it not north?"

  Lorenzo is still a little uncertain.

  Mrs. Van Lude gave Lorenzo a blank look, and then said.

"It's really a child who lives in the new era. It really hasn't suffered. The north of Inervig is covered with snow and ice for many years. Before the emergence of the new steam engine, the frozen soil there could not be developed at all, let alone the establishment of towns. The expansion of the port of Rendona in the year left no development value in the north."

Listening to Mrs. Van Lud’s words, Lorenzo nodded his head and focused his eyes on the west of Inervig, where the triangle symbols are not dense. Without much development, the symbols became thinner and sparser toward the west until they disappeared.

   Suddenly a symbol jumped into Lorenzo's eyes. It was a symbol that appeared outside the land, a small town built in the sea.

   "Madam, do you know what it is here?"

  Obviously there is a triangle symbol representing a small town, but it is on the sea. This is a military map. Lorenzo doesn't think this is caused by a drawing trial and error.

"Well... it's probably a small town swallowed by seawater. This is very common. Sometimes the water level will rise along the coast, submerging the low land, but it will show up when the tide is low, so the symbol will be there, right? ."

   "Is this..."

  It was a weird feeling. Lorenzo hadn’t been able to determine the location of Ende Town before, but after listening to Mrs. Van Lud’s words, he was sure that this was there.

  Suddenly remembered what the Shrike had said to him at first.

  Intuition...

  The sacred coffin is tempting me in front of me, pulling my instinct to pursue it.

   "So, are you planning to travel?" Mrs. Van Lud looked at Lorenzo curiously, and the west was considered a no-man's land.

   "Sure it."

  Lorenzo answered.

   "Hmm... Then I recommend you take this line."

  Mrs. Van Lud said, pointing to a dashed line running through the west, which was a railway.

"This is a military route. At first, everyone felt that they could not win the Glorious War. After the collapse of the southern coast, they were ready to withdraw to the west to continue their resistance. But as you know, we drove the enemy out of Jiudunling and won. After the war, the railway was stopped.

  But in recent years, someone has developed a tourism project to the west and restarted this route. I think you should use it. "

  Mrs. Fanrude sat back on the sofa and continued to read the newspaper. After thinking about it, she said again.

   "Lorenzo, there are a lot of weapons in the basement. If you don't get wet, you can use them. They are all military supplies. The quality is definitely better than those sold by profiteers in Xiacheng."

  Lorenzo was just about to go up the stairs, he staggered when he heard such a sentence.

   "What are you talking about?"

   "Huh? Do you think I will believe your nonsense?"

  Mrs. Van Lud raised her head and looked at Lorenzo, her turbid eyes seemed to penetrate people's hearts.

   "Traveling? You will travel? Who believes it! It was a shrike who introduced you to live here! Compared to traveling, you are going to kill people!"

  Lorenzo always thought that he was hiding well in front of Mrs. Van Lud, who would have thought that this shrewd old lady would have seen it through long ago.

   "No... compared to this... military supplies?"

  Lorenzo was a little dazed, meaning that he lived in an arsenal for six years and then didn't know it.

  The scene was a bit embarrassing, and Mrs. Van Lude cursed.

   "What's the matter? The medals I've won can be hung on the entire wall, but the pension is only a little bit per month. What happened to the few boxes of munitions I took to sell?"

  This old lady is no longer as simple as hell...I have seen Nina Woolen, and Lorenzo hasn’t seen Nina so confident.

   "I thought I could make a lot of money, but it sounded like military supplies. No one dared to take over the menacing bulls, ghosts and snakes in the Xiacheng district, so I put it here now."

   Turning her eyes, Mrs. Van Lud said at last.

   "By the way, Lorenzo, I said in advance, if you die, I will sell the things in that room for the rent."

  Lorenzo's face went dark, this **** old lady...

  (End of this chapter)