Embers of Embers

Chapter 234 Partner
It was like a strange meeting. In the narrow kitchen, among the pots and pans, there were two people and a mouse.
Camu was still mopping the floor, the water washed it again and again, and finally washed away the blood, just like the kind of thing that is often done in the lower city, he strenuously picked up the dead people and threw them into the Thames River not far away I don't know where they will land, but they won't be an eyesore here.
From time to time, gunshots were fired, killing those who were still alive and then throwing them into the river. Judging from Kamu's skillful movements, this happened not once or twice.
In the back kitchen, Lorenzo looked at the excited Hercule. After a brief hesitation, he stretched out his hand and shook it.
This is a harmless guy. As he said himself, Hercule has to take a few breaths even when running, but at the same time he is so dangerous. With his weird calculation and control, he can deduce the events. From the beginning to the end, it is not relying on extraordinary power, but only strong enough memory and deductive ability.
"Then how did the other bad rats do it? What are your organization's connections and the preservation of data?"
"It's very simple. Train rats. Different colors represent different situations and signs. As for data and intelligence, this kind of memory is not irreproducible. As long as there is certain training, ordinary people can become like me. Of course. You may not be able to reach my level."
He pointed to his head again and said seriously.
“Train yourself to build your own archive and memory palace in your mind, and put everything you need into it.”
"Want to learn? Mr. Holmes, I can see your curiosity. With your wisdom, you will learn quickly."
Lorenzo didn't rush to reply, he just observed this somewhat excited man, and he began to find the incident interesting.
He has experienced too many extraordinary events. He even said that Lorenzo himself is the incarnation of the extraordinary, with secret blood flowing in his body. Therefore, when many things exceed the logic of ordinary people, he will think of monsters, or something more complicated. Something, but Lorenzo never thought that the final truth would be so simple.
All of this is just the interpretation of one person. He integrated one story after another from the huge amount of information, and finally discovered the loopholes between them.
If Lorenzo hadn't seen those outrageous things, no one would believe Hercule's words, and everyone might think that his mental illness had relapsed and send him to a sanatorium.
"You made me re-understand the upper limits of mortals."
"But the upper limit of mortals has always been immeasurable, isn't it? Just like this city." Hercule replied.
"Too many people live in this city where steel and miracles coexist. The longer they live, the more awed they become, but they have never thought that every inch and every piece here was built by the mortals of the past."
Lorenzo said nothing, but today's conversation with Hercule had made him think too much.
"So you've done all this, searched for 'us' for so long, and confessed everything now. What do you want?"
Lorenzo asked again.
"Knowledge, thirst for knowledge, curiosity, too much, too much!" said Hercule.
"Under that morbid desire to control, the more I know, the more curious I become about the fog of old Dunling. Just like there is another invisible roommate living in your room, you are first afraid, then Endless curiosity.”
he said to Lorenzo.
"Who are you? What do you want to do? For what?"
"But you have never been in contact with us before, and now you suddenly jumped out. Why?" Lorenzo did not answer those questions and asked other questions.
With the cleansing agency's style of conduct and the casualty rate, once they find someone like Hercule, they will either lock him up in the Perpetual Pump to study his brain slices, or join the work and work on his job. Fight wits and courage with demons until you die.
"Because I have never been sure who you are before?" Hercule said, "I don't know your position or your purpose. Maybe I will be killed by you as soon as I show up?"
"As for appearing now, it is because we have the same interests. In some respects, we are consistent. If I hadn't found this consensus, I might have been hiding from you all the time, like a mouse in the gutter, eager for light but And afraid.”
Without waiting for Lorenzo to ask any more questions, Hercule rummaged for something from the cabinet on the side. After a while, he took out a row of reagents. Looking at those familiar things, Lorenzo didn't know what to say for a moment. rise.
It seems that Hercule really has some mental problems. Such a dangerous thing is placed in the cupboard so openly.
"You should be familiar with these things, right? Hallucinogens."
Hercule placed a row of hallucinogens in front of Lorenzo's eyes. The styles were different, and the degree of surface wear was also different, but what they had in common was that they all contained strange and restless power.
"I discovered these special hallucinogens about a year ago. Different from ordinary hallucinogens, there seems to be devil's blood here. People who use these hallucinogens will become crazy and violent."
Hercule said while observing Lorenzo's expression carefully, no slight changes could escape his eyes.
I have to admit that he and Lorenzo are really similar, but the difference is that Hercule does not have as strong a fighting force as Lorenzo. All he can rely on is his brain, so he is more careful and vigilant than Lorenzo. , sharper and more cautious.
"So many kinds?"
Lorenzo had not thought there were so many types of these hallucinogens, but Hercule denied it.
"It's not the type, they are all hallucinogens made by the same manufacturer. He seems to be using people as experimental subjects. These different packages are just different iterations."
Hercule said, pointing to the labels on the hallucinogens, which had different dates on them, the dates when they were discovered.
"It can be seen that the producers' experiment was very successful. They made rapid progress and iterated quickly until this latest version."
Pointing to the end, the brand new glass is filled with gorgeous liquid.
"How did you find this out?"
The more they talked, the more surprises Hercule gave Lorenzo. This mortal body deduced the secret guarded by the purification mechanism.
"Damn rats, at first it was reported that hallucinogens make people crazy... This is very common. I have heard even more outrageous things from the rats. There was a person who used hallucinogens and took off his clothes under the hallucination. Escaped into the furnace.”
Hercule laughed. Under such a huge amount of information, listening to some nonsense news was a source of happiness for Hercule.
"I didn't care. After all, the data I want to count is too huge. I will instinctively ignore some until there is a problem with this variable. More and more bad rats reported these things. Later, I pretended to be a tramp and witnessed it with my own eyes. After learning this, I started to pay more attention to this weird thing."
"It evolves rapidly. In recent generations, it has been able to turn people into monsters, bloodthirsty monsters. But every time it appears, it will be killed and cleaned up by you, as if nothing has happened. Same."
Hercule's tone was strange.
Lorenzo asked, "Do you suspect us?"
"That's right, a mysterious force from the government secretly used people from Xiacheng District to conduct some kind of experiment. This is very consistent with the conspiracy theory. For a while, my sense of justice was overwhelming, and I even prepared to collect enough evidence to bring people from Xiacheng District with me. People rose up."
Hercule's voice suddenly stopped, and after a moment of silence he continued.
"But I found out later that you were not accomplices, and you were also pursuing these things. Sabo's death is a proof. I discovered early on that he was related to the circulation of these hallucinogens. Settled in and surrounded.”
Hearing this, Lorenzo's heart turned cold. Hercule had been paying attention to these things a long time ago, frighteningly early, and his mortal body gave him an extremely excessive warning.
"This is how you used me today, right?" Lorenzo asked. Behind all the coincidences was Hercule, who promoted this series of events.
"I found out that they were preparing to ship the last batch of goods. This was my last chance to take action. I took advantage of you. To be precise, it was a win-win situation. After all, you were also investigating the case, right? But more than ten hours ago, You are not trustworthy yet, Mr. Holmes."
Hercule continued, "I don't know your abilities. There are still risks if you work alone."
"So you called Su Yalan Hall?" Lorenzo asked.
He nodded and continued, "Chief Donas has been eager to be promoted for a long time. He needs to solve a big case, but if I give him information directly, it may arouse his vigilance. At this time, I found a new person. The case is also very interesting and full of motivation..."
"Did you use her to operate all of this?"
"Yes, in order not to attract attention, I deliberately released the news that the evil rat knew the information."
"She thought she had found the clue, but she never thought you had deliberately released it."
"When you have enough manpower, you can easily deceive someone. I think you and the mounted policemen of Suryalan Hall can solve these problems perfectly, but it seems that I still underestimated this hallucinogen. of evil.”
Lorenzo was silent for a long time, seeming to be thinking about something.
Hercule was so smart, if it wasn't for the fact that there was nothing unusual about him, Lorenzo even suspected that he was also influenced by the monster, but the influence was positive, he didn't go crazy, but became more rational.
After a long pause, he asked again.
"How much do you still know? In other words, if you have enough information, how far can you interpret it?"
"Um……"
Hercule picked up Poirot in Lorenzo's arms, thought carefully, then laughed and answered.
"In short, with your mobility and my interpretation, we will be limited omniscience and omnipotence."
Hercule was caught up in the carnival of finding his kind. He was a very strange man. Although he was fighting against the darkness, he had no lofty ideals or a tragic past.
He is just a person driven by primitive desires, excessive curiosity, and an abnormal desire for control, a pure human being.
Just like those navigators who are not afraid of death and raise their sails to face the heavy rain. What he desires is not wealth and honor. Hercule is just curious and curious about what is on the other side of the sea.
"Then let's get started quickly, Mr. Holmes."
Hercule said as he happily kicked open the kitchen door, but Lorenzo sat there and shook his head.
"Not yet, Hercule, I have much to do."
"Like going back to report on the mission?" Hercule was very aware of the behemoth behind Lorenzo. The conversation just now was not only to Lorenzo, but also to the organizations behind him.
"That's right..."
"Will you mention me to your boss? How will you judge me? Trust is very precious. I don't want to be arrested and put in a mental hospital just after you leave."
Hercule's tone became stronger.
"If you're afraid of this, you shouldn't be exposed."
"But I'm willing to take those risks just to satisfy my freakish curiosity."
The two looked at each other briefly, then laughed, and Lorenzo said slowly.
"No, I won't tell anyone that I've met you, but all the same, you impress me, Hercule, and I do need someone like you."
Hercule's eyes were filled with doubts, and then his rapidly running brain thought of something, and his smile became strange.
"You also have your own little thoughts, right?"
Lorenzo did not deny it, he nodded, "Of course, but if I can, I don't want that day to come. After all, turning against each other is still a bit hard to accept."
"A conflict between individuals and groups?" Hercule said in words that only the two of them could understand.
Lorenzo no longer responded, but pulled out the inserted pocket knife and left without looking back.
After Lorenzo left, Camu walked back cautiously. Although he was not present at the time, judging from the tragic situation of these thugs, it was all Lorenzo's doing.
"They sent another letter."
Camu looked at the direction Lorenzo left, and after confirming that no one was there, he took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Hercule.
"They really don't want to give up."
Hercule looked at the seal on the envelope. The melted fire paint was pressed into a strange symbol. In the triangle, a strange eye stared quietly at the world.
"Just burn them, I'm not interested in them."
Kamu was a little confused when he heard what Hercule said. Although he had only worked under Hercule for a few days, he had a rough idea of ​​what this letter represented.
"really?"
"Of course, my curiosity and desire for control are too abnormal, and they are a group of monsters with secrets. Do you think that after I join, will I be able to restrain my nature and not explore them, or will they relax and stop exploring them?" Be wary of me?"
Hercule continued.
"Deduction can not only deduce the secrets, but also seek advantages and avoid disadvantages."
Kamu nodded, which he agreed with.Although Hercule didn't look wealthy on the surface, he knew very well how terrifying the wealth accumulation of the guy in front of him was. Presumably those people only valued Hercule.
This tavern is indeed Hercule's property, but what was not mentioned in the conversation is that this is just one of Hercule's many properties. Unlike Lorenzo who spent all his talents on killing monsters, Hercule Kerry used his talents to their full potential.
"They have been established for too long. If they go to death, they are just shareholders. But this time it is different. Investing in this detective... I am a partner!"
(End of this chapter)