old dream

Chapter 114 Pursuit, Massacre
This fall also threw Giovanni into a mess.Thanks to the stimulus that paralyzed the pain, he didn't pass out on the spot.

Colin turned his head and looked out of the break in the carriage. The rear section of the wagon had slowly stopped due to loss of power, and quickly disappeared from sight.

The wilderness in this area meant they would be trapped for at least half an hour.

Giovanni rubbed his muscular neck, and there was a series of muffled crackling sounds in his joints. His fangs in his old age grinned at Colin:
"It seems that I have been targeted by him for a long time."

Colin nodded, and he stretched out his hand to Giovanni who was sitting on the ground. The hand was already stained by the blood oozing from the surface of the skin, and it was slightly slippery.

"Don't you doubt me?"

Giovanni sat on the ground and did not accept Colin's help.

Although Colin had already explained his attitude by bringing him to this carriage, he tried his best to avoid potential suspicion, which would destroy the cooperation between the two.

"You and I have the same interests," said Colin.

"And you really want to harm me, you can think of a more efficient method than this with your ass."

Giovanni hesitated for a moment, but still held Colin's hand and stood up with his help.

At this time, Colin was already walking towards the locked compartment door. He shook the doorknob, and it was indeed locked.

Colin closed his eyes for a moment, and the object-finding technique was activated and deactivated in an instant. He "saw" the tracking mark he had left on Julio's body, and was quickly moving away from him.

There are still about 10 minutes before the train enters the next station.

Colin knocked on the doorknob with his pistol, but did not rush to open the carriage door. He turned around and asked Giovanni:
"What do you think will be on the other side of the door?"

Giovanni had always been well aware of Arecio's style of conduct.He slowly grinned, and the deep scars on his face were also affected:

"hell."

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In fact, Arecio began to age a few years ago.For this era of backward medical treatment, his age has exceeded the average life expectancy by nearly ten years, but his hair is still thick and dark brown.The various organs are just like the full muscles on his body. Although they are going downhill, they are still strong and powerful.

There are never many passengers on this train, but even at this time when there is the least traffic, it is not completely empty.

Occasionally, there will still be innocent passers-by in one or two seats.They didn't know that the train had lost several carriages, and some people saw Alessio twisting Julio's arm, and even greeted a few nosy words.

It wasn't until they saw the large bloodstain on Aresio's right arm that most people followed their first reaction and started screaming in panic.

Alessio then shot them through the heads with a pistol.

Sometimes the bullet accidentally hit someone in the chest. Even though it was just as deadly, Alessio would cautiously put another shot in the brain of the deceased.

Occasionally, he would return to the back rows of seats specifically, squatting down and flipping the bones of the deceased's face to ensure that the memory in the corpse was completely destroyed.

According to the plan, Arecio will be able to leave Stade immediately.At this time tomorrow, he estimated that he had already entered the hinterland of the alliance with a new identity, so he no longer had to worry too much about the consequences when he did things. He just wanted to leave no traces as much as possible to prevent someone from tracing Julio's whereabouts.

Arecio tugged on Julio by the upper arm, pulling him all the way to the front of the train.Even when he shot people in the face, he didn't say a word.Obviously a little angry, he unconsciously exerted force on his left hand, pinching Julio's arm very painfully.

But Julio didn't dare to resist at all, and even related thoughts didn't emerge from his mind.Her legs were trembling all the time, and she was as fragile as when she was kidnapped by Colin, she lowered her head and staggered to follow Arecio's footsteps.

Sometimes Alessio would let go of her arm, to change bullets or examine the body.But she didn't seem to have thought about taking advantage of this gap to escape.It's not because of the gun in Alessio's hand, or because he has the witchcraft to take her life with a single gesture.

It's because Julio grew up under the authority of Aresio since he was a child.

When she was confused, it was Alessio who told her what was right and what was wrong.When she was in trouble, it was Alessio who helped her clean it up.

For more than ten years, she has been living according to the arrangement of the lamp keeper, and she has long been used to it.

So a few minutes ago, when she saw Alessio jumping off the roof of the car and entering the car, Giulio remembered for the first time the scene when he was caught by Alessio by the river after skipping class from the studio for half a day when he was a child. It was a trivial matter, but for some reason, she always remembered it deeply.

She suddenly realized that she hadn't progressed at all.For so many years, before Aresio's cold silence, she would always look like a child who was caught after doing something wrong.

All the efforts of the last three weeks had been like a farce, only adding new burdens to the old and tired man, and causing troubles that should have been avoided.Julio began to blame himself inexplicably, and he also knew that after everything was cleaned up, Arecio would be justified as in the past, insulting himself with good reasons:
"You really are a complete piece of trash."

I just walked away for a while, and I made things like this.

Compared with Nevio Capello, who was bedridden for a long time and made her vague impression, Alessio was more like the one who played her father role.

Julio lowered his head, looking at the blood flowing from the body of innocent passers-by. They soaked his women's shoes, the calfskin surface was gradually dyed dark red, and the toes felt slippery from time to time.

What Aresio did was to kill innocent people indiscriminately.

It is inconsistent with what he usually taught himself, or even completely opposite.He is a demon at all, that's why he has turned living human lives into props for consumption in more than ten years.

It's just that he hid all of this very well, not letting himself see it.

But just as Colin said, Julio thought.Everything Arecio does is to protect himself.

Kindness is a luxury, and since she is still receiving the favor of this evil deed, she is the last person who has the right to condemn Alessio.

"I never wanted you to see this side of the truth."

They walked through three carriages all the way, and after killing about ten passers-by, Alessio finally spoke, but it was not the insult and blame that Julio imagined, but a low apology:

"After you see what a dirty and contemptible person I am."

He said: "You can hate me, despise me. Whatever it is."

"But don't ever think that everything I've taught you is a lie."

Continue to accept and treat everything with pure kindness as in the past.

This is the way of life of the "Virgin with the Lamp" Valeria during her lifetime, and it is also the most beautiful way of life that I can think of.

Maybe it's ridiculously unrealistic.But a simple fact is: only gentle and innocent people can see a gentle and innocent world.

Facts are not important, if not forced by survival, not everyone has to accept this cruel reality.

This is why I exist.

"But you tell me." Julio whispered:

"Now that I have seen the truth, how can I go back with peace of mind?"

Alessio killed another old man. The expression on the dead man's face was not necessarily horrifying. That kind of panic can sometimes produce comic effects, which can make people laugh more than first-rate comedians.

Alessio put the muzzle of the gun to his forehead and pulled the trigger again.

"Just forget it," he said.
"Whether it takes five years or ten years. After leaving here, we have plenty of time to forget"

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Colin pried open the door lock of the carriage, and Giovanni entered the other carriage with a gun first, but Colin did not rashly follow.

Sure enough, Giovanni saw some dull people at the other end of the carriage.There are old and young among them, but what they all have in common is that they all have a dead fish-like expression, and there are inconspicuous scales where the neck meets the collar.

Because they have not been injected with inhibitors for a long time, they have been completely eroded by Vibrio carinii, and there is a phenomenon similar to reversion to their ancestors.

Seeing Giovanni come in with a gun, they, or "they," stood up, four of them.There is a volatilization device dangling around his neck. Once the spirit element reaction is detected, it will instantly turn into a monster.

"Sure enough." Giovanni held his breath unconsciously, and said with his back to Colin who was behind the door:
"There are four in total. Go back and stay away from this carriage."

This obstacle was specially set up for Colin.But with Giovanni present, there was no need to rely on brute force to break through.

Giovanni filled the bullets that had been consumed in the previous confrontation with Aresio one by one, then swung the bullets into the magazine, and turned the revolver with the palm of his hand to make it spin rapidly.

The four figures were still looking at this side ignorantly, not intending to leave their seats, and instinctively carried out the orders given to them by Aresio.

Giovanni did not choose to shoot at this distance, because there is no guarantee that they will not jump over after being stimulated, preventing them from entering an excited state due to their approach to Colin.

With his left hand, he pulled out the short knife that had been tied behind his back, and held it tightly in his palm. He held a weapon in each hand, fully armed, and calmly approached the four monsters.

They just stared at Giovanni numbly, their brains riddled with holes could no longer think about what this scene meant, and even instinctive reflexes no longer existed.

Giovanni thought that if he could not solve the inhibitor problem after Aresio's death, sooner or later he would end up like them.

Before you really get to this point, kill yourself, he smiled freely.

"Bang! Bang!"

Two very crisp shots knocked down the two people who were slightly behind.Then Giovanni cut their throats one by one with the dagger in his hand.

As if slaughtering livestock, he waited for their blood to drain from the arteries.

After confirming that each heart had stopped beating, Giovanni pulled the volatile device from their necks and threw them out the window.Then he turned back to Colin and made a gesture of safety.

It feels like defusing a bomb.

It is common sense to kill monsters before they transform.

Colin sighed, but did not take back the Shuttle Demon he had just released into the hearth.

Giovanni could not perceive the presence of the devil.Just like when they first worked together, Giovanni couldn't sense that the shuttle was right behind them.

It hovered quietly behind Colin, and a small emerald green flame shot up from time to time beside it.The slender head almost touched the ceiling of the compartment.

With a thought in Ke Lin's mind, it started to float towards the front of the carriage.Visually it's much larger than the carriage door, but it passes through unimpeded, as if a rough game had molded through it.

In the past few days, Ke Lin has confirmed his limit control distance to the devil: ten meters.That is, the range covered by one's own ether, the average value among ordinary adult males.

Let the shuttle demon hover ten meters in front of him, and Colin walked out from the rear compartment.

The mystery of the hearth is still running, powered by the Shuttle Demon's own spiritual essence. The devil's resistance has become extremely weak under Colin's torment, but it is still enough to trigger Arecio's flora detection.

"Come on," said Colin to Giovanni.

"Are you going ahead?" Giovanni seemed confused.

What if there are more of these monsters?
But Colin didn't answer Giovanni's question, but walked forward directly.Giovanni considered for a while, but still chose to follow.

Soon they saw corpses and blood everywhere.Arecio killed every possible witness.

Because there are few people on this line, there are only five passenger carriages, and the goods are pulled behind.

At this time, there was a sound of metal deformation coming from the direction of the Shuttle Demon.

Something is triggered.Colin focused his intentions on the devil, and invisible thorns pierced out towards the train shell beside it, without leaving many marks on the car wall, but those thorns pierced someone's palm.

There was the sound of something heavy falling to the ground.Colin looked out the car window, and saw a figure that had obviously swollen and deformed had fallen to the side of the track.

It appears that he has been hanging outside the car, and there are obvious traces of a corner being lifted by a sharp claw.

If he walked directly in front, he might have been torn to pieces by the monster that ripped off the car wall.

But the power of the Shuttle Demon was weaker than Colin expected.He glanced at his watch.

At the current time, at 45:15, the blue star has moved to the Mermaid Palace in these two days, and in [-] minutes, that is, at [-] o'clock tonight, the Mermaid Palace will move to the fruit palace in the fourth quadrant.

At that time, the shuttle demon will also enter the weakest two hours of the day.

Colin frowned, the choice of this time was not a coincidence.

Aresio has predicted the existence of the Shuttle Demon.

(End of this chapter)