Along with the severe pain in his mind, the dusty door of the Memory Palace flashed in front of Lorenzo's eyes. In a daze, Lorenzo heard the sound of the friction of the stone, the old dust fell, and there was a dazzling thing behind the gap. The light comes on.
It was almost there, Lorenzo stretched out his hand, and he was about to touch the open door, but in an instant everything became calm again, sweat flowed down his cheeks, he sat on the chair, and firmly grasped the armrests with both hands.
The machine was still roaring nearby, but judging from the constantly flashing red light and the constantly beeping Geiger counter in my ears, the results of this test looked a little bad.
"It's really interesting. According to the test results, you are now in the third stage of erosion, the irreversible third stage. According to this, you should have become a monster now." Abigail said.
Medical staff removed the electrodes from the back of Lorenzo's head and disinfected his wounds.
"What kind of existence are you demon hunters? It's so strange. Sometimes I even have a strange guess."
Abigail observed Lorenzo's appearance carefully. In his eyes, this man was divided into countless pieces of flesh. His eyes seemed to be able to penetrate the skin and see the organs hidden behind the bones. .
"Are you interested in talking about it?"
Lorenzo asked. He was still wary of all this, but he also believed that these people might really be able to help him find the answer.
"You are no longer a human being. To be precise, you are a higher existence than humans, or...evolution."
"evolution?"
"Yes, I can think of this from one of our enemies. He is called the epidemic doctor. His specific name is unclear and his whereabouts are strange. But every time he appears, he is accompanied by the death of a large number of people, and those people are basically It was used by him for experiments... He seemed to be studying demons as well.
The Purge Agency almost captured him, but still let him escape, but we found some of his experimental notes, and this theory is based on his notes."
Abigail recalled those things and then said to Lorenzo.
"He believes that demons are a kind of evolution. They are so powerful, they are creatures superior to humans, and they are also the inevitable next stage of human evolution."
"Lost your mind? Evolved into a monster?" Lorenzo couldn't believe it.
"Who knows? Even now, we still don't know the whole story of monsters, right? Who can guarantee that such weird creatures are really irrational? Or maybe monsters are also rational, but we haven't discovered it yet."
Listening to Abigail's words, Watson's face suddenly flashed in Lorenzo's mind.
"Sane...monster."
"And Mr. Lorenzo Holmes, in what form does the false Holy Grail exist in your body?" Abigail asked again.
"Come on, try to think about it. The so-called scientific research means thinking and action coexist. Please think about it carefully. In what form does the unknown pseudo-Holy Grail exist in your body?"
"The form of existence, what do you think the pseudo-Holy Grail will be?" Lorenzo asked.
"It all depends on you. Obviously you don't have any 'extra' parts on your body at the moment." Abigail walked around Lorenzo and looked at him carefully.
"Is the False Holy Grail an artifact? Or is it some kind of alchemical matrix, or something more special?"
"It...may be a concept...a memetic contamination, but as long as I don't pass it on, it will remain trapped in my consciousness..."
Lorenzo tried to think about that, but it was all empty and empty, and he had forgotten it.
"In other words, the Pseudo Holy Grail does not have a specific material form, right? How about we assume that it is some kind of nihilistic existence, something that is invisible and untouchable," Abigail said,
"But it always exists by your side, following you closely..."
"Like a ghost..."
Lorenzo said mysteriously, and then he raised his head, with a little surprise in his eyes.
"Perhaps, this is another way of existence of demons, ghosts...or it can be called spirit bodies."
"The spirit body that carries the will."
Lorenzo repeated it again. He was vaguely touched by something, but he couldn't think of it clearly. Too much information was rushing through his mind, as if it was tearing his brain apart.
Just like cognitive hazards, he realized too many things in a short period of time, and his will could not be maintained.
But...but what kind of information is this? It's just a new understanding of monsters.
"Spirit?"
Abigail said with some uncertainty.
"Spiritual body, spirit, will, in the final analysis these things seem to represent the same thing."
As a rational scholar, she never believed in the theory of ghosts and gods, but at this moment, when she doubted the existence of the false Holy Grail, she seemed to have thought of something.
"Perhaps... human beings really have souls? It's like a ghost that resides in the body of flesh and blood."
…
"Arthur, you need to come."
Someone was knocking on the door, it was a woman's voice, it sounded like Lan Jade, she was now Arthur's deputy, responsible for assisting Arthur.
"Wait for me a moment."
Arthur was about to leave when he heard Blue Jade's voice, but before leaving, he glanced at Ovis and asked him.
"I have no problem. It's very safe here, at least for now." Owes said.
Arthur was still a little worried. Although the scientific research area was heavily guarded, they were dealing with monsters after all, and anything heck could happen.
"Okay, wait for me."
Arthur said as he stuffed the pistol into the gap of the wheelchair, then opened the door and left.
Through the gap between the door and the door, Lan Jade saw Owes inside the room. He was like a glass doll, sitting in a wheelchair.
"Who is he?" Lan Jade asked curiously.
Lan Jade knew that the information inside the purification agency was blocked. She wouldn't know if she shouldn't know, but she was still a little curious that the child who looked so pitiful was actually here.
This is the scientific research area of Black Mountain Hospital. Very few patients who can come here can leave alive, and most of these people are knights of the purification agency. They will only be sent here when the erosion cannot be reversed.
He made his final contribution to the study of monsters, so this place is also regarded as a cemetery by the knights.
Joey was lucky enough to come here. After undergoing hellish treatment, he left. But when he returned here after many years, Lan Jade was curious about what happened to this boy that led him to come here.
Not only that, although there was only one face, Lan Jade felt vaguely familiar, as if she had seen this boy before.
"You have no right to know yet, Blue Jade." Arthur said, "Tell me what happened."
"You'll know it when you see her," Lan Jade said.
"Hmm... okay, I probably guessed it."
Arthur sighed helplessly and rubbed his temples vigorously. This busy feeling was really uncomfortable.
…
"We caught her at the elevator on the ground. She seemed to be trying to sneak into the scientific research area." Lan Jade said to Arthur.
According to the rules of the purge agency, anyone who does this will definitely be punished by the criminal law. Unfortunately, the girl locked in the room is Eve Phoenix.
Although she appeared very calm on the surface, Arthur knew what kind of character his daughter was, and she must be thinking of some strange countermeasures at this moment.
This girl was born with a kind of wildness, and Arthur tried his best to tame it all through the education he acquired. However, with the encounter with the monster, the wildness could not be suppressed.
"You violated our agreement, Eve. If you don't continue to investigate these, I will let you become a police detective." Arthur said.
"Encountering a demon is something I can't control myself, and isn't it because of your order that I'm locked up here?"
Eve didn't feel like she had done anything wrong at all. In fact, in her eyes, she was not wrong at all. She just wanted to know the secrets hidden by Arthur.
As humans swallow the forbidden fruit brought by snakes, humans have an uncontrollable desire, just like a stubborn desire for knowledge.
During the days in Black Mountain Hospital, Eve felt that she was approaching something. It was an indescribable feeling. Under this strange and unknown hospital, Eve had a vague feeling that she had been here before, and
Weird dreams became more and more frequent.
In the blurry picture, a woman was wailing and wailing. She was in pain, and when the pain reached its extreme, sharp claws penetrated her abdomen, and blood was spread everywhere.
Eve felt very uneasy, but also felt inexplicably happy. It seemed that she was about to find the answer to all this before she knew it.
"There are still a few days left in your observation period, and you can leave after it's over." Arthur said, "Then I will send you away from here."
"Where to go?" Eve felt something was wrong.
"A place without monsters, maybe."
Arthur didn't want to say anything more. With a series of demonic incidents, their already unfriendly father-daughter relationship became even worse. He stood up directly and motioned to the doctors to take Eve back.
The girl's face changed. She knew exactly what Arthur was going to do. He was going to send herself to some hellish island, learn the unlucky etiquette, marry a man she didn't know, and finally have several children with Phoenix flowing through her eyes.
The bloody brat spent his whole life being dominated by others... although he thought it was good for him.
"You bastard!"
She angrily wanted to hit Arthur, but was stopped in time by Lan Jade.
After closing the iron door to isolate the girl's curses, Arthur's eyes were full of exhaustion. He lowered his head slightly but soon the gray robe came into view.
The alchemist looked at the embarrassed Arthur, and his stiff face curved into what looked like a smile.
"This is the file you need, the final record of Project Rangers."
"To be honest, if I could, I really don't want to see this again."
Arthur took the file and pulled out a few pages at random, and familiar information came into view.
He is considered the last product of the Ranger Project. He has witnessed the project from its inception to being sealed in a filing cabinet. It can be said that Arthur is one of the few people who are most familiar with this thing. Now it has been re-unsealed in order to solve the King's Curse.
Looking at the yellowed paper, there was a line of familiar names on it.
"I thought she would live an ordinary life."
He whispered that name softly, a familiar and warm name.