Embers of Embers

Chapter 196 Story
"What you just said is very similar to that kind of idealism."
Robin said slowly.
"Isms and all that are just 'labels'."
Lorenzo interrupted the robin directly. He looked at the man in front of him and continued.
"Precise, silent, devout believers... In fact, these things are just what we use to show others' first impressions. Some people use them in exchange for trust, and some people use them to deceive."
Lorenzo stopped smiling, his eyes kept evading, and his hands kept changing positions, as if he was uneasy.
After a brief switch, Lorenzo looked like a cowardly and timid guy, but this was only a very short moment, and he changed back to his previous appearance again, a look of indifference.
“But this is still a prototype.”
His mind jumped, and he quickly brought the topic back here.
In fact, this feeling is quite strange. Lorenzo felt as if he had touched something in his random thinking, which seemed to be the truth of this weird world.
But it is not the time yet. The door of truth is still tightly closed. This is not the time for it to be opened.
"There's something missing here."
Lorenzo scanned the room, where different objects are piled up, their meanings are covered in the known world, and they are constantly intertwined, extending the history of mankind.
From the past to the present.
But it's the only thing missing here.
Lorenzo found its location. Behind the steam engine, there was a blank space among the piled hills, which seemed to be a place reserved for something.
This is its place, beyond the past and the present, the future of nothingness, the power that will change the status quo and exist in the future.
"The past, present and future, I'm afraid this is what Merlin wants to build here."
Lorenzo said, "Please worship me, you are now among the miracles of mankind."
The robin took a deep breath. He was a devout believer. Although Lorenzo didn't know what the evangelical church's ghost doctrines were, judging from the robin's normal behavior, it was indeed the case.
"Is it a miracle? Sometimes people always ignore these details of life." He said somewhat self-deprecatingly.
People always ignore these things that are within easy reach, just like the residents walking on the streets of Old Dunling. Sometimes they never think about the greatness and miracle they are in. Even the robin is with them. Same.
This really broadens the robin's horizons. From another perspective, even an ordinary currency is of great significance.
Compared with the words in the teachings, everything here can be actually touched, and the miracles are embodied.
"Are you here?"
A confused and tired voice sounded, and Kestrel stood outside the gate panting.
The three of them looked back at him, it seemed that the unlucky ghost had finished writing his report.
Kestrel glanced at this strange warehouse, like a passer-by with poor taste, he didn't even ask what these three people were doing here.
"We don't have enough firewood. If you don't want to freeze to death, come here and help."
What great power and miracles, those luxuriously decorated things were beaten to pieces in the face of food and clothing.
This place is located in the outskirts of Old Dunling. The steam pipeline does not extend here. Daily life is just like a hundred years ago. If you put it nicely, it is called retro, but if you say it badly, it is called backward. Lorenzo was very impressed with the life here in the first few days. Life is so uncomfortable, like arriving at some damn farmhouse.
The solemn atmosphere just now was swept away, and the four of them walked down together feebly.
Merlin regarded this castle as a warehouse, which did not require servants or maintenance, and only required a minimum of manpower. This situation resulted in the operation of the castle being disrupted when these four people appeared out of thin air. Problems arise and many things need to be solved by themselves.
This place is indeed suitable for short-term isolation, or vacation, as there is no one around, and the only way to communicate with the outside world is the trains that pass by from time to time, and they will not stop here because it is not marked on the map.
The manpower of the demon hunter is endless, and the menial work of chopping wood naturally falls on Lorenzo. At first, Lorenzo was very uncooperative, but for the sake of the burning fireplace, he had no choice but to give in.
After they were busy until the sun went down, a new round of survival supplies was ready. The four of them nestled by the fireplace, found a comfortable position among the chaotic piles of goods, and picked up the few servants that had prepared for them. After dinner, I ate it slowly.
In fact, Lorenzo's mental state has not been very good these days... To be precise, since he came back from the dead, his mental state has become strange.
At first, Lorenzo himself was surprised when he heard Arthur's description of the scene and couldn't believe it.
He remembered that he finally broke through the critical value and entered demonization, but Lorenzo knew very well that in his current state and the continuously melting silver bolt, he was just hanging on and had no chance of surviving. .
But he still survived. The Black Angel, which activated itself without anyone's control, had a final fight with the flesh and blood of the Holy Grail...
Lorenzo looked down at the palm in the firelight. The body was familiar but never unfamiliar at this moment. He had already guessed something.
It was Watson, and it was Watson who saved him at the last moment and reborn himself with the flesh and blood of the Holy Grail.
In fact, this is not considered rebirth. It is impossible for people to come back from the dead. Once they die, they are dead, and there is no way back.For Lorenzo, he was on the verge of death, and was finally brought back by the powerful healing power of the Holy Grail.
The other three people were busy eating, and only Lorenzo looked at the fireworks in the fireplace with a sad face.
"Ugh……"
Thinking of this, Lorenzo sighed, and the strange things in his body increased again.
But what can be done?
In Lorenzo's own opinion, he has been living at the mercy of death. According to the fate of shit, he should have died in that burning night, but Lorenzo not only survived, but also came to Old Dunling alive, and This time he was supposed to die with Lawrence, but he survived again and kept winning time in front of the god of death.
It reminded Lorenzo of the crazy gambler.This is the gambler's favorite moment. Not only did you win everything on the gambling table before the death's scythe fell, but you also flicked the dark robe, stained with the breath of death.
I'm afraid only those whose lives are meaningless will love that moment. Only in that moment of intertwining with death can they feel that they are truly alive.
The atmosphere was like a warm afternoon, except it was pitch black outside the window.
Lorenzo put the dinner plate aside and curled up lazily on the soft sofa just like he had done for many days in the past.
Although boring, Joey and others enjoyed this rare leisure time, as if monsters like demons had been temporarily deleted from their world.
Lorenzo wasn't quite used to it, and his busy life suddenly calmed down, which made him a little at a loss.
But no matter what the situation, people can always survive, and leisure is not bad.
"that's it?"
Lorenzo suddenly spoke up.
The few people around cast a vigilant look. After these few days of contact, they have deeply felt the power of Lorenzo's bad words.
If Lorenzo were to develop some kind of cult, he would definitely be able to drive a group of people crazy with his damn aura of mental retardation.
The most vigilant among them is the robin. In his opinion, Lorenzo is like a demon, possessing some kind of spreading pollution power. People around him will be involuntarily affected by him. The kestrel next to him is extremely affected. It was already difficult to detect, but unlike the robin, he kept a safe distance from Lorenzo.
"What's going on?" Joey asked.
"I said, isn't this kind of life boring? Anyway, it's also a paid vacation. How come it's like a penance."
"This is much better than the ascetic environment." said the robin.
"Then what do you want to do?" Kestrel didn't even realize that he had become as crazy as Lorenzo.
Lorenzo gave a thumbs-up gesture to the kestrel. He was waiting for someone to answer the question.
"Anyway, the night is long, how about telling a story? I'm very curious about how everyone got into the purification agency!"
Lorenzo looked at everyone excitedly. Since he came back from the dead, his mental state has become strange.
But Lorenzo himself didn't realize this. His eyes fell on Kestrel first. It was obvious that Kestrel was different from the other two... To be precise, these people were all different.
Kestrel said that he was once a gangster who got the appreciation of Shrike and infiltrated the purge agency. Lorenzo the Robin didn't know, but judging from his pious look, he probably had a very strange origin.
The last one is Joey, his codename is Xuanfeng, but unlike the others, he doesn't care whether the name he is called is a codename or his real name, and judging from his behavior and temperament, he can at least be regarded as a scion of a wealthy family. , I just didn’t expect that he would come to the purification agency.
It seems like what Arthur said is true. They are people connected by will. They don't care about identity, class, or the past. They gather in a war machine called the Purge Agency.
It's like a weird trash can, everything is put in it.
"What is there to talk about?"
Kestrel was a little confused, "That's it. I need a job to ensure that I don't starve to death, so Shrike gave me a job."
Joey nodded too.
"Family business, I'll be here just because of my family's arrangements."
"Origin? I want to find the true meaning of faith among demons." Robin's words were obviously much higher quality than the previous ones.
Lorenzo looked at everyone with confusion.
In his imagination, he thought it would be a group of old men licking blood from their knives sitting around the fireplace and talking about the deep past. The atmosphere was solemn and silent, opening the scabbed wounds, but now it seemed like It's as easy as the doorman checking which household you live in.
"No...wait a minute."
Lorenzo began to organize his thoughts, first looking at Kestrel.
"You found such a job because you didn't want to starve to death?"
This is not a serious job. This is fighting with monsters. It's like a person is about to starve to death, so someone gives him a knife, and the two of them go to fight with a lion... In fact, it's like robbing someone. I'm so hungry!
Then Joey, Lorenzo asked.
"Family business?"
Joey nodded and said seriously, "Although it is not a famous family, the Joshua family has established a tight connection with the purification agency since its establishment."
So it's not enough to die alone, but also to die with future generations?Lorenzo screamed in his mind.
In the end, the reason for the robin became serious, but he did not explain anything, but looked at Lorenzo and said with a bit of curiosity.
"Actually, I'd like to ask you something, Mr. Holmes."
"what's up?"
"Are you interested in talking about your time in the Demon Hunting Sect? Apart from these, I'm actually very interested in the mysterious Demon Hunting Sect."
asked the robin.
(End of this chapter)