Ember Gun

   Chapter 54

Lorenzo was sitting on a chair with his hands behind his back. Eve sat with his back to him, and all around him were soldiers holding a thermal rifle. The lighter on the muzzle was burning slightly. This deadly weapon was In a state of firing.

Although Lorenzo was sitting in the dark platform, the tall walls obscured his vision, but the sound of the machine roaring and running came from under the dark night, so heavy and distant, just the sound Lorenzo could detect To the huge size of the machine.

  Sure enough, something is going to happen tonight.

   "So, this is your true identity, right."

  Looking at the shrike in front of him, Lorenzo heard his voice the moment he spoke. This detective is really keen in some aspects.

  "Don't talk, let me guess."

   Lorenzo dazzled his skills generally, he was thinking, everything from the past of Shrike was spliced ​​into one piece in his mind, finally revealing his original appearance.

  "To a member of the goblin organization, the owner of the Xiacheng District, the secretary of the nobles..."

  Thoughts flew in his mind, he was only one step away from the truth.

Lan Jade beside    felt a little uncomfortable. She pulled out the iron rod from her waist, and as she shook it, the blade popped out of the gap in the steel. This was actually a slightly longer folding knife.

   "No need, he will guess it sooner or later, what we have to do now is a secret exchange, we must know that this detective is really valuable."

  The moment Lorenzo saw him, Shrike was very clear that many secrets would become clear before Lorenzo's eyes, just like everything under the sun, without shadows.

   "So what name did that queen give you?"

  Suddenly Lorenzo raised his head, his eyes seemed to see everything through, and he already knew everything.

  "These arms and weapons are not made by gang bosses. Whether it is raw materials, production processes, or even research and development, this requires a very strong foundation to be bred...only a machine called the state can do it."

  It seemed that he had thought of something in general, and Lorenzo realized it all.

"In other words, is your true identity like that of Shrike? You are not a noble secretary. You are the queen's secretary. The evidence of those nobles in Xiacheng is in your hands. As long as the queen needs it, it will strangle them. Iron hand."

   "Lorenzo people are too smart to die very quickly."

  Lorenzo was able to guess these in Shrike’s expectation, or it seemed wrong that Lorenzo could not guess these.

   "So I have a sufficient price in exchange for trust."

   "Our trust? You are an uncontrollable stranger. What you said is really unreliable."

   "At least we now have the same goal."

"what?"

   "The Holy Coffin."

  That is the nightmare deep in the nightmare, creating the center of this chaos and illusion, the source of everything.

Shrike’s pupils shrank slightly. He didn’t know how Lorenzo knew about its existence. He obviously didn’t tell him. At that time, Lorenzo seemed to him to be just a detective with a reputation, not a sect with the Demon Hunter. Group of people with affiliations.

  "Don’t be shocked, you commissioned me to investigate the case, isn’t it? So it’s normal to find some key information, isn’t it?"

   "So this is your price?"

   "Yes, so let's exchange existing information and work hard together?"

  Lorenzo was completely unaware of being held on top of a gun. Fired so many aluminum thermal rifles could melt him in an instant, but he seemed to have not seen him, and he shook the chair vigorously while speaking.

   "And, shrike, you need me. Those people don't want you to get the sacred coffin, as you can see from the monsters on the train."

  The demon hunter has killed many monsters in his short career, and his professional experience is much richer than everyone here.

  "We still don’t know where the demons came from, but we know very well how humans become demons."

  Lorenzo began his analysis.

"When I was on the train at first, I thought it was a group of demons pretending to be humans and sneaking into the carriage, but when I calmed down, I realized that was not the case. It is not realistic for so many demons to gather together and ride a car. The only result is an abnormality. This process of becoming a monster takes place in the car."

  The words seemed to have touched something. Shrike looked at the detective in front of him, and had known him for almost six years, but Shrike suddenly discovered that he had never really understood this mysterious detective.

   "You were there that night in the underground palace, right."

  Lorenzo looked at the look of the shrike. You can read a lot from the look of a person. Although the shrike did not speak, Lorenzo already knew the result.

  "They have the technology to raise demons, and even say that things with high pollution can make people become demons in a short period of time."

  Lorenzo is like a salesman, finally revealing his true intentions.

   "So Shrike you need me, a professional."

  "...Compared to this, I still think it’s better to kill you directly or lock you up."

The shrike mentioned by Lorenzo also understands that at the same time that Inervig is surging up, the cleansing organization is also expanding rapidly. It is no longer the organization hiding in the shadows. It is after the disbandment of the Demon Squad. The only torch.

   "Wait... Are you... Eve?"

In the gap between this conversation, Lan Jade, who had been surrounding him, cast his sights on the girl behind Lorenzo. Her small face was dirty, but she had a sense of familiarity. When Lan Jade approached, she realized that it was actually Eve.

"you know me?"

  Eve raised her head, and the woman in front of her was wearing a domed iron helmet, and she was heavily armed, and she couldn't remember this person in her memory.

  At this time, Shrike also came over. To be honest, this name was more troublesome than Lorenzo. Looking at the girl, Shrike felt like he was going to blow his head.

"Why are you here?"

   "She is entangled by a demon."

  Lorenzo spoke first before Eve could speak.

   "Her connection with the darkness is deepening... I think you should also be aware of this concept, right, fighting a monster is like fighting in a swamp, the harder you work, the more you will fall into the swamp called darkness."

   "She was discovered by the demon, so she entrusted me to protect her."

   "Your protection means taking her on this **** train?"

   Turned around, Shrike was angry.

   "She came to find me."

  The two looked at each other, with unexplainable meaning in their eyes, like a lion roaring at each other, meeting each other in a narrow path.

  Eve sat on Lorenzo's back. She didn't even know what was going on, but even though there were so many people holding weapons, she was not afraid at all. Compared with demons, these humans were really kind.

  "I need to ask my superiors for instructions."

   "Then I recommend you to be faster, after all, you look like you are in a hurry."

  Shrike took a deep look at Lorenzo, and then the figure disappeared into the darkness. Blue Jade held the folding knife tightly, and the blade was under Lorenzo's throat. No matter how vigilant this detective was, it was not enough.

  About five minutes later, the end of the dark shrike came back, looking unhappy, and even said it was a little serious.

   "It looks like we are going to cooperate briefly."

   "Oh, then let's meet again."

  Speaking of Lorenzo, he stood up, the chain that was holding him off did not know when he fell off, and he stretched out his hand with a look of kindness.

   "Former Demon Hunter, Lorenzo Holmes."

  Shrike was slightly shaken, and this detective had already escaped the shackles, so what was his conversation just now, expressing kindness?

  "Clean the organs, high-ranking knights, shrikes."

  The two hands were held together. The last time Lorenzo arrived at Old Dunling for the first time, it was also after this handshake that Lorenzo began his new life.

  Suddenly Lorenzo pulled Shrike over. In the eyes of Lan Jade, the two were just trusting intimacy, but Lorenzo whispered in Shrike’s ear during the close process.

   "You...your superior changed his mind because of Eve, right, but she doesn't know you...you should know what happened in her body, right."

  The secret blood that had been lurking in Eve's body for an unknown period of time, the only thing that could be connected with was the cleansing mechanism that fought against the demons in the shadow of Inervig, but this girl was connected to it because of what.

  Shrike did not intend to answer this question, he asked instead.

   "The new life has to abandon the old past, so what are you? Lorenzo."

   There was a hearty smile on Lorenzo’s face.

   "No matter what has a prerequisite, just like a principle or something, demons must be driven to extinction."

  The Demon Hunter said so.

  (End of this chapter)