- >>The doorbell of 121a Cork Street rang again. Mrs. Fanlu opened the door, looked at the smiling man, hesitated for a moment, and then asked.
"Lorenzo?"
Joey nodded, and Mrs. Fanlu stepped out of the way. Looking at the back of the man walking up the stairs, she couldn't help but feel that Lorenzo had finally expanded his social circle after so many years.
Yesterday's pursuit caused a certain degree of commotion, but under the control of public opinion by the cleanup agency, this was turned into a pursuit of fugitives.
The demon was forced into the steam well by Lancelot. Then the pipe burst due to Lancelot's slash, and the hot steam overflowed. Everyone judged that it should have died under the high temperature, but after the scavengers followed up,
During the cleaning, they failed to find the body. They went deep into the steam well, but found nothing.
This is another suspicion. Judging from the reform index, the demon is indeed dead, but no one has found its body.
After knocking on the door, Joey pushed it open and walked in. He was assigned to be responsible for contacting Lorenzo and the purification agency. Originally, this job was a shrike, but he had to manage the interest disputes in the entire downtown area, and he was really busy.
He had no time to deal with Lorenzo, a troublemaker.
The air in the room smelled faintly of tobacco, Lorenzo was sitting on the sofa by the window, and there was still a cigarette butt that had not been extinguished in the ashtray.
He didn't seem to notice Joey's arrival, and just stared out the window blankly. The winter frost covered the window, blurring his vision.
"Mr. Holmes, this is the final report on this case. If you confirm that it is correct, it will be filed away."
Joey said as he took out a document and placed it on the low table in front of Lorenzo, and then sat across from Lorenzo.
Although he has only been in contact with Lorenzo for less than a few days, Joey seems to have become accustomed to Lorenzo. This detective is full of unreasonable qualities from beginning to end. Sometimes he is like a bird without purpose.
Wild dogs will stick out their tongues and laugh heartily even when they are running wildly into the wind, but sometimes wild beasts will grow sharp fangs and never waver in order to kill monsters.
This is an uncontrollable man, and it's hard to guess what he will do next.
However, Joey still likes to guess and guess what he will do. In his opinion, being able to guess the trajectory of such a person's actions is like winning a jackpot.
After a while, Lorenzo seemed to wake up from a daze. He looked at Joey and then at the documents in front of him. In Joey's opinion, he should talk to him first and then look through the documents, but
Lorenzo really exceeded his guess.
Lorenzo was seen tightening the blanket around him, and then picked up a bottle of wine from next to the sofa.
"Want a sip to warm yourself up?"
"..."
"Oh, what the hell, when I came back yesterday, the heating pipe on Cork Street broke due to aging. The maintenance workers failed to repair it even though they rushed to repair it overnight. Now the whole street is without heating. I almost froze to death in the night."
Lorenzo thought to himself as he picked up the wine bottle and took a sip.
"Ah, that damn old lady won't let me sleep on the first floor, even though the fireplace is so warm..."
Joey nodded while keeping a smile as much as possible. Indeed, he came in from outside, and the temperature difference was not big and did not attract his attention. Now listening to what Lorenzo said, he felt that the temperature in the room was indeed very low.
"Then Mr. Lorenzo, please take a look at the follow-up to yesterday's case. If it is correct, we are ready to file and close the case."
Lorenzo reached out and picked up the document, and asked curiously before turning two pages.
"What's the use of asking me? I'm not a member of the purification agency."
"But you are an experienced witcher, and you also participated in the hunt."
This is true. The purification agency's understanding of demon hunters is still too superficial. Even if it obtains Ed's body and conducts dissection, analysis and research, it will only expand the mystery.
The power of the demon hunter is too unique. With the blessing of secret blood, he has power and senses far beyond ordinary people, not to mention the mysterious power named after an angel.
Lorenzo did not continue to say anything. Arthur had always been full of curiosity about the power of demon hunters. It would be unusual if the purification agency's attitude towards him became cold.
"In other words, you attribute all those murders to it? That's correct."
Lorenzo wanted to continue asking something, but before he could ask, he found the answer for himself.
It was written in that document that before yesterday’s tragedy, similar cases occurred in different places in Old Dunling. Cruel killings and blood-lettered revenge could basically be attributed to the hands of the demon yesterday, but Lorenzo
There are still some things I don't understand.
"This is not the first time this monster has taken action. The first case was half a month ago when he killed a gang member in a small town. The last time was yesterday, and the deceased was just a worker."
Lorenzo noticed something unusual. He put the wine bottle aside and stared at the document closely, piecing the different words together, and a complicated and confusing story slowly unfolded.
"What's wrong?"
Joey couldn't help but feel secretly happy when he saw Lorenzo's increasingly serious expression. Sure enough, he could find more information in this demon hunter.
"I think you also discovered it inside the purification agency. This monster's hunting target is a bit strange."
Lorenzo said.
"Strange? But... aren't demons just like wild beasts, without any rules?"
Joey was a little confused. In his opinion, demons were a group of corrupted creatures, monsters that came from nowhere and tried to attack the existing stable rule of mankind. It was their instinct to kill living creatures when they saw them.
"No, beasts also have rules."
Lorenzo directly denied what he said, then took out the old Dunling map from the cabinet and unfolded it in front of his eyes.
"This is the location where it first appeared, the chaotic lower city. This would be a perfect hunting ground, but it did not stop again. It kept going deep into the old Dunling, and even said that the last hunt was on the other side.
The fringe zone.”
"If a beast is there to feed itself or to kill, it should not leave the Lower City... It has a purpose, for revenge written in blood."
Lorenzo suddenly realized the information gap between him and Joey. He looked at this severely labeled man and asked seriously.
"Joy, has your purification agency encountered any sane monsters?"
"The demon of reason?"
Joey was shocked by Lorenzo's question. Demons are a group of disordered beasts, but why are they called rational?
He didn't answer Lorenzo's words for a while, but there was no need to answer. Lorenzo had already read the result from his shocked expression.
"Sane demon, what do you mean?"
Lorenzo thought for a while, tried his best to organize the knowledge in his mind, and expressed it in a way he could understand, and then he slowly explained to Joey.
"A demon with reason can maintain a certain level of reason despite being demonized... To put it another way..."
Lorenzo shook his head. Joey didn't know the story of the Demon Hunting Order, and there was no need to know so deeply.
"You can understand the so-called rational demons as those who are unstable, can be completely eroded at any time, are not controlled by any safety equipment, and use weak reason to drive their violent bodies to act.