In the darkness, Lawrence was lying on the bed holding his pistol tightly. At this time, only this cold weapon could bring him some comfort. Just as he was thinking about whether he should stay here all night and pretend to be nothing.
Knowing that it was better to walk out of the room now to explore what was going on around me, there was a sudden movement from the direction of the door.
"Knowledge." The man at the door quickly opened the door, and then Lawrence heard a familiar voice appear in his ears, as if someone was standing and whispering in his ears.
"Hard work." Lawrence muttered in a low voice and climbed up from the bed. The door opened, and Archpriest Arthur from the Faith and Catechism Department of the Knowledge Church walked in wearing a tight-fitting leather armor, with a belt hanging on his left hand.
There is a night hammer, and on the other side is a book made purely of steel tied with a long iron chain.
"Little guy, I'm glad to see you again." High Priest Arthur looked at Lawrence who stood up and said, "I didn't expect that you didn't get hit at this time."
"I have always been nervous. Even tonight I just took a few bites of the biscuits I brought and ate some fruit." Lawrence said with a slightly hoarse voice, "By the way, do you have water?"
"Of course." High Priest Arthur took out a kettle from somewhere and handed it to Lawrence. Seeing him take the kettle and drink it, the high priest comforted. "Don't worry, I brought a lot of water. I have to say to you
It’s right to be vigilant, as all the food and drinks at your bonfire party today contain some sleeping pills that are very effective.”
"The effect is very average?" Lawrence put down the kettle and asked with some confusion, "Then what is the use of this medicine?"
"Of course it works." High Priest Arthur pointed to the grapefruit tea placed on the coffee table outside the door. "There is another kind of sleeping pill in the tea, and the one that someone just blew in with a pipe is the third kind. These three kinds of sleeping pills are mixed in
If used together, the effect is no different from a strong anesthetic. But if used separately, it will make people sleepier step by step, so that even if you wake up tomorrow, you will not doubt what happened today."
"No wonder." Lawrence finally figured out why craft beer with a higher alcohol content was used at today's bonfire party, and why the barbecue smelled a little salty. Because people will be very thirsty after eating these things. Naturally,
Will drink the tea left in the room.
"Okay." After watching Lawrence drink almost all the water, High Priest Arthur began to ask about the business tonight. "Can you tell me what happened in the ruins today? We just lurked around the whole day.
, I don’t know what’s going on underground.”
"Actually, I didn't go deep into the ruins, but just set up a temporary camp with the doctor next door." Lawrence said honestly. After hearing this, the light in Arthur's eyes dimmed a little, but it was very clear.
Quickly, Lawrence's next words cheered him up. "But I treated a wounded man, and he told me what happened down there."
Next, Lawrence introduced all the information he had learned, from the discovery of the uniform tattoos on the shoulders of the workers to the news about the big lake he heard from the wounded man. In the middle, Archpriest Arthur
I interrupted him several times and asked for some details in detail.
"I think I may know something." After listening to what Lauren said, Archpriest Arthur's face suddenly became serious. "Now the situation may be worse than we imagined."
"What?" Lawrence asked doubtfully. "I don't see anything strange."
"That's because you are not an extraordinary person, so you only have a superficial understanding of the extraordinary world." High Priest Arthur said seriously. "Those fish-like things you mentioned that would lurk under the sand are simply not true.
It is not a normal extraordinary creature, but a demonized shark. The places where such demonized creatures live often contain great dangers."
Just as Arthur was explaining, there was a sudden sound of horse hooves outside. Soon four men wearing blue inlaid iron armor, with swords and large-caliber revolvers at their waists walked in. Lawrence recognized them as belonging to the
A member of the Knights of the Church of Knowledge.
After they entered the door, the six people in the room looked through the gaps in the curtains at the people who rushed to the construction site at this time. Soon, a carriage stopped in their field of vision. When the car stopped, the carriage got off.
There were four people wearing uniform leather jackets and cowboy hats, but carrying a variety of different weapons.
"Demon hunters." Arthur recognized who he was at once, "It seems that the two witchers you just said left at noon today also reported today's events to the witcher guild."
After saying that, he released a blue light at his fingertips, which formed a ball of light in the room in the shape of a blue quill and a parchment holy symbol. And the group of demon hunters sensed something at once.
He looked towards the house where Lawrence and the others lived.
At this time, Arthur walked to the window and opened the curtains and waved to the group of witchers who were looking over. Soon, the group of witchers also squeezed into the house.
The first thing everyone did after getting together was to exchange information with each other. From these demon hunters, Lawrence learned that people from the Church of the Lord of the Dawn had gone underground before.
"They are too impatient." An angry expression appeared on the face of High Priest Arthur. "We informed them before that we should let everyone enter the ruins together, instead of letting them go down alone without knowing what the situation is.
of."
"Ah, you don't have to worry about this, because we have also given them the information we obtained before, and they are not ignorant of the following situation." said the leading middle-aged demon hunter with two swords stuck behind his back.
"However, the Lord of the Morning Church has always been like this. When facing evil, they always attack head-on with such impatience. To be honest, it is a sign of patience that they can persist until night before rushing in this time."
"But whether it is to prevent them from falling into a lonely struggle, or to prevent them from completely wiping out those demonized creatures alone and making our trip in vain. I think we should take action now."
"You are right." High Priest Arthur nodded. "Lawrence, then you -"
"I'll go down with you, I'm not a person without resistance at all," Lawrence said, patting his pistol, "I'll wait for you outside the ruins, in case there is really any problem inside.
I can also run out and send you a message."
"Well - your proposal is valuable." High Priest Arthur thought for a moment and nodded. Then he took out a palm-sized strange alchemy instrument from behind his waist and handed it over together with his pocket watch. Then he pointed at the alchemist
A blue button on the instrument said, "Have you seen this button? When we enter the ruins, you will time it. If we do not come out in 15 minutes and the red crystal above does not light up, you will press this blue button."
button."
"Understood." Lawrence nodded, and then walked towards the entrance of the sewer with the Church of Knowledge and the demon hunters.