Embers of Embers

Chapter 114 Believe in Something
"So why didn't you try to contact Su Yalan Hall in the first place? This demon acts with such purpose. It stands to reason that those police detectives will play a greater role, right?"
The carriage became Lorenzo's temporary office, where he and Joey sat. The small folding table was filled with information about the deceased.
"There are many reasons. Our purification agency has a special investigation team, but this is the first time we have encountered a rational demon. The reason for not using the Su Yalan Hall is very simple. Those crime scenes still have the influence of demons. Those ordinary people People will be affected.”
Joey said slowly, the most bizarre thing about the confrontation with the demon is the crazy corrosiveness, like an exotic monk whispering in your ear until it drives you crazy.
Most of the people who can accept the monster incident have been trained to keep their minds even when faced with the weirdness. Even more advanced are the specially trained knights like Joey. They are the ones who can really look the monster in the eye.
Absurd and abhorrent, mortals cannot understand or fathom it.
Lorenzo picked up the document, and the cold wind poured into the gaps in the carriage. He looked through it casually, and based on the identities and status of the deceased, a fragmented story was pieced together in Lorenzo's mind.
The first person to die was Luo Wei, a man in his late forties who came from a city outside Old Dunling. Like many people who came to work in Old Dunling, he initially had a good job in a factory. He was fired for drinking at work, and eventually fell into the downtown area and became a gang member. He was not a core figure, just an ordinary member.
He was found dead in his own home. He suffered tremendous torture before his death. The murderer left a bloody letter of revenge in his house. This was the first time the purification agency detected the demon's actions. Because of the remaining erosion, The Geiger index in the house remains high.
This is the cause of the matter, the first target of the demon's revenge.
Lorenzo pondered, in fact, a lot of hidden information can be deduced from the first dead person, just like Lorenzo once tracked down something. He must know something about the first person, and the demon got it from his Find the location of the remaining others in your mouth.
The name of the second deceased was Duolun, who was about the same age as Luo Wei. Judging from the documents, they were still friends from the same hometown and came to Old Dunling to work together. He worked in a shop and visited Luo Wei after he lost his job. Been to Luowei several times.
The cause of death was basically the same. He was found dead tragically at home. He was the second person to take revenge from the demon.
Sure enough, as Lorenzo guessed, the demon only knew the location of Luo Wei when he first took revenge. During the torture, he found the location of the others, and then took revenge one by one. There was also a connection between Luo Wei and Duolun. If they are from the same hometown, then the demon is most likely also from their hometown.
"They're from... Burhans."
Lorenzo was a little surprised when he saw the last page of the document. The hometown of these two people was actually Burhans, the largest industrial city in Invergweg, where the famous Burhans military factory was located.
But this made Lorenzo think of another doubt. It was an extremely huge industrial city, and there should be no shortage of jobs and opportunities to gain wealth. So why did these two people come all the way to Old Dunling?
With such doubts, Lorenzo opened the file of the next deceased.
The next deceased were the Ed couple, the case Lorenzo was involved in at the invitation of Suararan Hall.
Mrs. Ed was the woman who died tragically in that bloody house, and Mr. Ed was the deceased found by Lorenzo during the chase. They were originally a couple, but they were temporarily separated due to a quarrel, but they were not too far apart. This also explains why the demon continued to commit crimes after killing Mrs. Ed.
Finally, there is the deceased found today, Hughes, the gang leader in downtown.
Lorenzo felt a headache. What he had to do now was to piece together the connections between these people. Although they had different statuses and identities, they must have an intersection in some way, and this intersection was why the demon listed them. Reasons on the revenge list.
Lorenzo then asked.
"Are there no witnesses?"
After committing many cruel crimes, Lorenzo did not believe that the demon could do it perfectly and someone would definitely see it.
Joey shook his head in disappointment.
"This is the tricky thing about demons. We do have several witnesses who directly witnessed the demon, and the demon surprisingly did not kill them. The result is that those witnesses basically suffered a huge mental shock. Traumatized, currently recuperating in the hospital, no questions can be asked.”
The strange corrosiveness of the demon has been a huge resistance to fight against it until now.
"What about indirect ones? Could it be that there were no traces of it even observed after it left?"
Lorenzo asked again.
"No, it's strange. After it ended, no matter how we traced it, we couldn't find any trace. We couldn't even name a suspect."
Joey answered Lorenzo's question. The purge agency also had certain capabilities in investigation, but they still had no clues in the follow-up investigation. It seemed that the demon could appear anywhere in Old Dunling at will.
"Appearing anywhere will not alert anyone."
This is simply a ghost-like opponent.
In Lorenzo's vision, the whole world has become countless ghosts, and the red ghost is walking among them, like a monster hiding under the ice, it may appear from any point at any time and follow. Diving, and Lorenzo and the others couldn't trace him at all.
Lorenzo felt the difficulty of the incident for the first time.
"One more thing, why did the demon leave writings?"
After a short period of reflection, Lorenzo raised a new question. This is what Lorenzo couldn't figure out the most at the moment.
Why did the demon leave a handwriting...or did he want to show it to someone?Leave a message of revenge to tell someone that he is coming and he will be next?
"I think I have an idea."
Lorenzo said suddenly, then looked at Joey.
"Has your purging agency been blocking this case?"
Joey nodded.
"All matters related to demons are under the blockade of the purification agency. Even if there are some things that cannot be concealed, our public opinion guidance department will modify the incident, such as misleading people as to why the gas exploded."
"Does this mean that no one except you knows about this series of cases now?"
Joey nodded.
"We can't find the next unlucky guy. Of course, it's possible that there won't be another unlucky guy. For example, the demon has finished its revenge."
"We can try to spread the word, maybe attract the potential unlucky guy, and then wait and see."
Lorenzo's eyes lit up.
"And maybe it can connect the whole incident together."
Joey's expression became serious, and he said calmly.
"It would be very risky."
"Does it come with risks? Maybe before we take action, the potential unlucky guy will come to us."
"So Lorenzo, as you said, what if the demon's revenge is over? Aren't we just trying to scare the enemy away?"
Lorenzo denied Joey's words.
"My mind changed just now, and I have also considered this possibility, but no, if the demon's revenge is over, there is no need for him to leave any traces of revenge, right?"
"There is only one outcome, revenge is not over yet."
Lorenzo looked at the bloody field outside the car window, cruel scarlet everywhere.
"Of course, it's possible that we guessed wrong from the beginning. Maybe the writing left by the demon is just performance art? After all, all our current speculations are based on our own ideas."
Lorenzo is not a detective with a demonic IQ. He can only speculate on everything based on his own guesses and find the one closest to the truth among all possibilities.
Thinking of this, Lorenzo couldn't help but feel that it would be great if he were a demon hunter from the Shang Da Feng branch. Unlike himself, who can't be killed no matter how hard he fights, those demon hunters have the power to foresee the future for a short period of time. Think about it. That kind of power couldn't be easier to use to solve crimes.
Lorenzo once met a mysterious Shang Daban demon hunter. He was talking about a jadeite map, and with a random finger, he found the location of the next murder on the map.
"Are you sure you want to do this?"
Joey asked again, confirming with Lorenzo.
"Yes, and we don't need to reveal the specific cause of death. We just need to tell the other people on the revenge list that their friend is dead. They may find a way on their own, or they may come to us. Of course, no matter the outcome, if It will all have an impact on the demon's actions, and that's enough."
Lorenzo picked up the file again as he said, and then he will find out the connection between these people in the time he bought. He also knows that this trick is just a bad idea, maybe the unlucky ghosts on the list are not at all. Do you care about newspapers or something?
So the hope of solving the case still comes to the original starting point, the connections between these people.
"Joy, please get out of the car and stay for a while. You probably don't want to see what's coming next."
Lorenzo said as he took out a delicate iron box, which contained rows of rolled cigarettes.
"Huh? I've heard this, they say your cigarettes are like hallucinogens and will give you 'inspiration'."
Joey looked at it curiously, and Lorenzo nodded.
"You can't imagine what you haven't seen, so we need a little help."
Lorenzo said as he pulled out a cigarette but did not light it. He was stunned and then said.
"Of course, sometimes humans can't see, which is actually a protection for ourselves, because we shouldn't see, our brains can't accept those things, just like you are looking at a complex pattern, the picture at that moment The impact of it will make you unable to distinguish any texture at all, and there are countless nicks under each pattern, and this cycle will drive you crazy."
Joey felt an unknown chill. He looked at Lorenzo, not sure why he suddenly said that, but he seemed to understand a little, nodded, and walked out of the car with worried eyes.
"So there's always a price to pay for peeking into those things."
Lorenzo muttered to himself, lighting a cigarette.
In front of him, Watson was sitting with a smile on the spot where Joey had just been. Her appearance became clearer as Lorenzo smoked the mandrake, and then the light disappeared and everything fell into darkness.
"Lorenzo, you said you would never touch mandrake again to deepen your connection with the darkness, but you still can't help it."
Watson's voice echoed back and forth in the darkness, but Lorenzo did not respond. He held a cigarette in his mouth and looked at the document in his hand quietly.
Every time Lorenzo smoked mandrake, he would fall deeper into the darkness, but now was no time to hesitate. The appearance of the inferior secret blood had completely aroused Lorenzo's murderous intention.
Breathing hard, feeling the fishy taste in his throat, the woman's sarcasm kept ringing out, but none of this could disturb him.
In fact, he had many opportunities to look back. He could not care about monsters at all. With Lorenzo's power, he could live very well anywhere, but Lorenzo didn't because he believed in certain things. , he believed that something would happen if he persisted, so he kept holding the nailed sword, burning with white pure flames.
He believed this and was willing to fight for it, even if he fell into the deepest darkness.
Then the whole darkness shattered, and Watson's white hand seized the shattered corner, and handed it to Lorenzo.
Rowe, Doron, Hughes, the Eds...
Their faces were cut into countless pieces in the broken darkness, but there were slender threads that pulled them together. The words on the document seemed to come alive at this moment. They rose and rotated, in Luo Renzo's eyes were confused and then rearranged into a new shape.
The same words, but arranged in a different sequence, form a new story. In the gaps between the words, Lorenzo could vaguely see the blurred dots. Now there is only one key line to connect them. Together.
Duolun and Luo Wei, who are from the same hometown, the document states that they first tried to contact gang members in the lower city area, but for some unknown reason, Duolun finally quit and became an employee of the store, while Luo Wei became a worker in the factory. Joined a gang.
The gang they came into contact with is unknown...
Lorenzo looked fiercely at the other corner of the Shattered Veil. Some time ago, Hughes' gang was still a small group, but it has grown stronger recently...
An unknown thread connected the three of them, and finally turned to the Ed couple.
The darkness shattered, Lorenzo threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, and looked at the roof of the car with a tired look.
Both Doron and Rowe have connections with Hughes, and Hughes's business in the lower city is smuggling. It must be the same as the Ende Town operation that Lorenzo came into contact with before. These three unlucky guys may be smuggling something.
So imagine it this way, Rowe and Doron had contact with Hughes at the beginning and smuggled something, then Rowe and Doron made a vote and left Hughes... Then the Ed couple contacted here What's the position in it?
After coughing hard a few times, he felt really bad after taking it, and his movements seemed to be sluggish. Lorenzo opened the car door and shouted to Joey.
"Is he here?"
This incident happened in Xiacheng District. If anyone here is reliable, it must be him.
"I've arrived, when you were inspired just now."
Shrike walked out from the door and smiled at Lorenzo.
(End of this chapter)