Ember Gun

  Chapter 57 Long Night

The steam train   Guanghui once again ran up under the dark night, the golden light was released at the forefront, and the endless steam huffed, like a beast coming out of the white mist.

  The carriage shook slightly, and the girl looked at the dark world without knowing what she was thinking.

  As the commander of this operation, Shrike, after inspecting the weapons from Berhans, adjusted the weapons with the front of the blue jade.

The soldiers sat in the rest of the carriages, holding their weapons and preparing for the next battle. Lorenzo stayed with Eve because of his particularity, sitting in an unmanned cargo compartment. Open the car door and let the squally wind in.

  On the opposite side of the two is the Kestrel. Although he is responsible for looking after Lorenzo, if the detective wants to do anything, no one in this car should be able to stop him.

   "Originally, we decided to protect you, but after another thought, you are the safest with us. The weapons carried on this train can even easily destroy a small city."

  When facing Eve’s question, Kestrel answered like this.

Lorenzo didn't feel any tension at all. He collapsed on one side, with a cigarette in his mouth, and vomiting vigorously. The white smoke was blown away by the strong wind before it spread. It seemed that he felt a bit cold. Eve stood up, The door closed slowly.

   "It feels... so heavy."

   After a long pause, Eve said suddenly, lowering her head, unable to see her expression clearly.

  Kestrel was a little unsure of what was going on, he looked at the two of them completely clueless.

  "You have to get used to it. When the casualties reach a certain level, it is just a line of numbers."

  Lorenzo knew exactly what the girl was worrying about. Lorenzo had just burned hundreds of people dozens of minutes ago...Although they had become demons.

   "Yes, but we can't survive without killing them."

  Sitting beside Lorenzo, Eve realized the cruelty in the true sense, helplessly cold, and made one decision after another.

   "Don't you feel any guilt?"

  No matter how you describe it, it is an act of taking life. Eve didn't pay attention to it at first, but at this moment she felt heavier than ever.

   "Why do you feel guilty about doing good?"

  Lorenzo answered as if he could not understand Eve.

"what?"

  Eve was a little unacceptable for a while, doing good deeds, what was in the mind of this detective.

  The Kestrel on the other side suddenly felt a sense of drama, not knowing whether he admired Lorenzo's peculiar thinking, or what, the mood of the young man's sadness just turned into a conquest of Lorenzo's antisocial personality.

   "Aren't we doing good deeds? If we don't deal with these demons here, then they will spread and only a larger number of people will be contaminated."

  Faced with Lorenzo’s theory, Eve didn’t know what to say for a while.

   "You... don't you have any sense of good and evil?"

"Good and evil? What do you think is the so-called good and evil? I know the reason for your sadness. So many people die in such obscurity, but this is just like nature. When disaster strikes, what we can do is not pray or pray. I regret it. All I can do is to minimize the harm."

  Lorenzo said casually, good and evil can't restrain him, the only thing that restrains him is absolute will, which carries out the only purpose so far.

"Every day, countless cattle and sheep are brought to the table. In contrast, the relationship between demons and us is the same. The real world is not bound by good and evil. It is not so-called black and white. It may be a vain gray, black and white are immersed together and cannot be separated."

  Lorenzo looked at Eve, with a sad expression on the face full of loss.

  "Am I...somewhat so-called...weak?"

  "On the contrary, you have a deep empathy, and you will feel sad for the death of the same kind. This is a very good quality, which shows that you have not become a cruel adult like me."

  Lorenzo talked and laughed, opposite him, Kestrel had the same expression as him, and looked at the beautiful younger generation.

Eve is very good. She has not been polluted by this world. She is still a kind child. Unlike these two people, they have been extremely cruel by the world, killing so many demons who were once human, these two guys. I can't even think of it, cruel and cold.

   "But Eve, you said you want to be like your father, right."

  Eve heard what she said about her father, and couldn't help but wake up. She looked at Lorenzo, not sure what the detective would say next.

   seems to be admonition and life warning, Lorenzo said to the girl.

"The road to your goal is fragile, just like the floating ice on the sea of ​​ice. The stairs that can carry you can only bear a small weight. You will always leave something on the way to that goal so that you can step on it. Walking on that fragile ice floe."

  Seems to understand something, Eve asked.

   "What did you abandon?"

"Um…"

  Lorenzo thought for a while and then replied.

   "All, or nothing, just think about it, there will be more and more choices waiting for you."

  Lorenzo stood up as he spoke. Kestrel also stood up because of Lorenzo's rise, and he was responsible for monitoring Lorenzo.

   "Do you still have that communicator? Give me one."

  Lorenzo said and raised his hand for something.

  Kestrel did not hide it. According to Shrike, this thing was originally intended to be distributed to Lorenzo. Aside from the standpoint, Lorenzo was also among them.

  "Is this a device that can ignore distance communication?"

   Taking over the compact communicator, Lorenzo couldn't help but lament the power of technology. This thing is only used in a small area in the military field. The civilians don't even know that communication technology has reached this level.

  "There is a certain range limit, but it is enough. The only disadvantage is that it is easy to be interfered by signals."

"for example?"

  "For example, demons, they themselves have a certain amount of radiation. We rely on this to use Geiger counters to determine their location, but sometimes the radiation intensity is too high to affect communication."

  Lorenzo nodded, then asked.

   "Did you develop this yourself? When I was in the sect, I didn't have such a technique. Judging whether a monster exists or not depends on that mysterious intuition."

   "There is always a way to survive, isn't it? You can't give up fighting against demons because you don't have blood secret technology."

   "So you have found a substitute, right?"

  Lorenzo smiled slightly, but did not continue to ask anything, opened the iron door between the carriages, raised his foot and stepped over.

"Where are you going?"

   Kestrel couldn’t help but squeezed the pistol around his waist. He began to regret that he was watching Lorenzo alone. This was a lunatic who could light the whole train with a wave of his hand.

   "Go and see Shrike."

  Lorenzo turned his head and looked at the Kestrel, his eyes became solemn. I don't know when he had already pulled out the sharp sword, and the hilt of the sword came out of the suitcase slightly, with a fierce look ready to draw the sword at any time.

   "What...what's wrong!"

  Kestrel thought of a lot in just a moment, it was not that he was worried that Lorenzo would be violent and wounded. Although there was not much contact time, it was only a monster that could show this detective's serious eyes.

   "Something is wrong."

   "What's wrong?"

  Lorenzo did not answer his words for a while. He stood between the two carriages, and the wind was blowing on him. Suddenly the wind increased and swept his deerstalker hat into the dark night, and his pale golden hair was dancing wildly in the wind.

I cast my gaze to the end of the field of vision, the sky and the earth are connected together and merged into pure pitch black. The stars have been dimmed for some time, and it is clear that dawn is approaching, but there is still a heavy shadow under the horizon, and it seems that tomorrow will never be possible. arrival.

   "Don't you think... this night is too long?"

  Tonight is far from reaching the end.

  (End of this chapter)