It's like there are countless mosquitoes whispering in your ears. The harsh and anxious sound consumes Eve's calmness. Uneasiness, panic, panic and various negative emotions are trying to devour her reason.
Eve wanted to scream loudly, but she was held by Lorenzo. This psychotic scumbag felt an indescribable sense of reliability at the moment. He held Eve's hand to maintain her final sanity.
The two of them ran desperately in this dark secret passage, but it seemed that there was no end, and they could never see the end of the road. Although the red tide of death behind them had disappeared, the murmur that kept echoing in the darkness warned them.
Man, it's still chasing after me.
"Don't be afraid, that thing can't catch up with us!"
As if to comfort the girl, Lorenzo said suddenly.
"A group of combinations of human bodies. Although it is beyond common sense, it still follows the laws of reality to a certain extent. For example, if you are too fat, you cannot run fast, and if you are too big, you cannot squeeze in."
As he said that, he picked up Eve, and Eve was completely frightened at the moment, like a doll, being played with at will by him.
It was a road higher than normal people, and it was extremely hidden in the darkness, but his senses became more acute in the crisis. Without thinking, Lorenzo threw Eve onto it, and then he also climbed in.
This is the secret passage of the underground palace. With Sabo's vigilance, it must be connected in all directions. Maybe one of the roads will lead to a hidden exit. If there were not those weird monsters, Lorenzo would have time to try them one by one, but now he can only use this
Everything depends on luck.
I really hope that the goddess of luck is still favoring me.
Fear and death followed the two of them. Eve couldn't understand why the detective could remain calm under such circumstances. Why didn't he feel fear?
His calmness and perseverance are far beyond ordinary people. If you think about it carefully and put aside this person's bad personality, he is simply an invincible genius. Whether it is his cunning strategy or swordsmanship, he can crush ordinary people.
Eve was about to ask, but she felt that Lorenzo's hand holding her tightly was shaking slightly. Although it was very weak, Eve still clearly felt it.
He was also scared, this damn detective was actually scared, but Eve knew very well that he was different from her, he was forcing himself to calm down, only in this way could they get out alive.
As for death? Lorenzo doesn't care about that kind of thing. He is the kind of madman who dares to pull out Winchester and shoot at the door even if death is knocking on the door.
Lorenzo wants to live, he must live. He has arrived in Old Dunling, and the wonderful new life is already in his hands. He can feed the pigeons in the square with a cigarette in his mouth, or he can ride a steam tram around the square.
The entire mechanical city.
No one can take away his life, not even the monsters that dig graves in his own memories.
"Don't worry, fear is normal. That kind of thing will oppress the spirit and force you to have negative emotions. Once you lose, you will become a puppet of fear!"
Lorenzo explained to Eve as if he had faced something like that before.
Enjoying the taste of tobacco vigorously, Eve could only see the flame of the cigarette butt in the darkness and smell the smell of smoke lingering on the tip of her nose.
Eve couldn't see Lorenzo's face clearly, but she could feel another strange emotion welling up.
"We must leave quickly. If possible, we need to notify Su Yalan Hall who comes to the rescue. Ordinary people are just facing death when facing something like that."
The voice was very calm, but beneath that calmness was anger and self-blame.
This was Lorenzo's fault. He should have realized this problem when he saw Wall's mutated body. Wall didn't know why he had started mutating in the direction of the demon at that time.
It's just that I killed him in time, and he hasn't completely mutated yet.
Presumably this was why Wall begged himself to kill him at that time. He had already realized that he was different and he didn't want to become one of those monsters.
I should always be vigilant, but it was the life in Old Dunling that made me lose my vigilance. The strange changes in flesh and blood were obviously so obvious, but I didn't think about it in this direction.
"Then...what exactly is it?"
Eve calmed down her breathing, tried to calm down, then clenched her weapon and asked the figure in the darkness.
The question seemed to bring back bad memories for him, and he answered in a difficult voice.
"demon."
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"God said let there be light, and there was light."
This is the first sentence from the beginning of the Gospels. Believers usually use this to understand the power and holiness of God. However, what is not recorded in the Gospels is that when there is light, there must be darkness.
Some philosophers understand it this way, just like the opposition of all things in the world, only with cold can people understand what warmth is, only kindness becomes precious in the face of sin, and only death can reveal the beauty of life.
God seems to be testing mortals, bringing light while the darkest and deepest abyss rises in its shadow, where monsters called demons are born.
Originally, the word demon came from the Evangelical Church's "Book of Isaiah" to describe those "enemies" who are enemies of God. They are different from the mortals who bathe in the glory of God. They crawl out from the shadow of God.
It lures mortals into the abyss of depravity, accompanying them in sin and violence, and then they are abandoned by heaven and live in hell.
Eve was a little dazed. Of course she knew the meaning of this word. The Romans originally established Old Dunling. They not only brought the glory here but also brought faith, although the influence of the Evangelical Church on various countries was reduced to a minimum.
, but it still has a large number of believers, and Eve's mother, who has long since died of illness, is one of them.
When her mother was still alive, she told Eve these stories and even gave her a Christian name, so Eve knew these things that were close to theology very well, but she was also frightened by the knowledge.
"How can this be……"
The entire world's cognition was overturned at this moment, and Eve's finally stable heart began to beat violently again, as clear as a bell in this deep tunnel.
Eve has always scorned the so-called mythological beliefs. She felt that they were just things fabricated by the authorities in order to stabilize their rule and plunder their interests. But what was originally a myth now really existed in front of her, just like Lorenzo
As you said, it is by no means a so-called hallucination, but a real thing.
"Nothing is impossible. We must escape as soon as possible. Although we don't know how the demon appeared here, there are at least hundreds of people in the underground palace now, and they are the kind of people who have lost the ability to move due to hallucinogens. Those people are its
Grain, it's just getting bigger and bigger and scarier."
Lorenzo's voice came from the darkness ahead.
"...How do you know this, Lorenzo!"
Eve stopped following closely, and the whispering in her ears continued to intensify, as if a strange monk was listening to her ears. The effect of the hallucinogen and the impact of the demon on the spirit made the girl's condition very bad.
She has trouble trusting anyone.
The muzzle of the gun was pointed at the figure in the darkness. It was Eve's own gun, filled with bullets.
"Don't give in to Eve, you've already been affected by it."
Lorenzo's voice remained calm, not caring that Eve was pointing a gun at him.
Cold sweat slid down the girl's cheeks, her breathing gradually became heavier, various thoughts were rolling in her mind, and Lorenzo's doubts in front of her became bigger and bigger, catalyzed by this negative emotion.
Why does this detective know so much, and why does he choose to be with him? Is it really for the rescue plan? Of course, these doubts are not fatal enough. The most fatal thing is Lorenzo himself.
A detective who is proficient in combat skills and secret knowledge, the existence of Lorenzo himself is the biggest doubt.
"Don't be afraid Eve, I can understand you. When I faced the demon for the first time, I was the same as you... I almost killed my friends. That's how they are. They will directly destroy a person's mind and the person who fights against them.
Not only do you have to guard against monsters, but you also have to guard against teammates who go crazy."
In the darkness, Lorenzo comforted him, but his hand had already tightened his grip on the staff and sword. This was a dark tunnel with very low visibility, and Lorenzo and Eve were also very close. As long as Lorenzo drew the sword fast enough, Lorenzo
Confident that Eve would shoot and kill the girl first.
There is no so-called inner dispute at all. From the time Lorenzo first swung his sword at the monster a long time ago, he knew one thing. There is a price to pay for fighting against that kind of weirdness. It can be a person's goodwill, or
It could be the restraint of one's own principles, or the warm blood could become cold.
"Eve, calm down and don't let your ancestors down."
The voice became stern. Lorenzo was now like a rigid teacher admonishing his incompetent students. But even as he spoke, the staff and sword were already raised above his head in the darkness. With Lorenzo's arm strength, he could
In an instant, Eve was cut into two pieces.
Confusing emotions entangled Eve, and the hand holding the gun was trembling. The two faced off in the darkness for nearly a minute. During this long silence, Eve finally put down the gun in her hand.
"I...what's wrong with me..."
Eve knelt down weakly, her pupils were bloodshot, her beautiful face became pale, her previous youth and vitality were no longer there, she looked like a sick woman.
"Demons are very weird things. They are not even living creatures. Everything they come into contact with will be dyed with weird properties, just like a vessel that has been touched by it. Ordinary people will have nightmares if they touch it.
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Similarly, once an ordinary person looks at it, hears it, smells its scent, etc. and can observe its existence, its behavior will be affected, and the effect is 'craziness' depending on the strength of the contact."
Lorenzo put down his deadly staff and sword, and while helping Eve up, he put away her gun to prevent the girl from doing anything stupid again.
"You can't even read the words about it. This means not looking at it, not being able to touch it, not being able to understand it."
Eve turned her head with difficulty, Lorenzo still looked calm in the strange atmosphere, as if he was not affected at all.
"Then why aren't you...scared?"
Lorenzo helped Eve forward, answering her as he walked.
"There are many factors, just like being with a tiger every day. The first time you see it, you will be scared to death, but if you see it every day, then you will just think of it as a ferocious big cat."
There is light shining in front, which seems to be the exit.
"So you think that damn thing is just a big cat?"
Seeing the light in the endless darkness, the girl's mood finally eased a lot, and she even wanted to laugh when she heard Lorenzo's description.
"When fear becomes normal, it will just become a common emotion. As I said, I used to be a priest, Florence from the Holy Gospel Papal State. I know very well that the devil is an unknown thing, and the same
We need something equally unknown to fight against.”
Lorenzo lifted up the Winchester, hooked his fingers on the retaining ring and swung it up hard. The shotgun rotated gracefully and was loaded during the rotation. The cigarette was exhausted, and it was stepped on by Lorenzo with its remaining fire and ashes.
destroy.
"The unknown that protects us was called God and Faith hundreds of years ago, and now its name is Machinery and Energy."
Lorenzo took off his mask. It felt really uncomfortable to wear this thing, and through the corner of his eye at the exit, the girl saw Lorenzo's appearance clearly.
I always thought that Lorenzo was also afraid, but the detective had a strong psychological quality and could force himself to calm down, but the real situation was that his face was full of rage. This is not what a person who should be afraid should look like.
The hand holding the gun could not stop shaking. This was not fear, it was just that Lorenzo was too excited.
He knew very well why he was like this. Just like the hunter who sealed up his shotgun, all the trees were burned into charcoal, the hunting forest disappeared in the long river of history, and the so-called hunter was abandoned far away by the new era.
But suddenly one day, as you were living in a hazy state, you discovered that the dark forest still existed, and it was filled with weird things that should be burned to death.
So you picked up the dusty shotgun and welcomed the new life.