Embers of Embers

Chapter 40 The Dark Gate
Eve revealed her white wrists, and several wounds were slowly healing at a speed visible to the naked eye. It was a strange recovery like Lorenzo's. Her face looked horrified, although it was unclear how Lorenzo did it. , but she knew very well that it was something ominous.
"I... am I polluted?"
The girl was a little scared. She shouldn't have told Lorenzo. Once she was really polluted by the monster, Lorenzo would kill her directly with his character. But Eve also knew the danger of the monster. Between the two, she Still chose to be honest.
"It's not..."
Lorenzo stared at her and spoke slowly after a long time.
"It takes many conditions for a demon to contaminate a person, and the contaminated person will directly distort and mutate like Sabo, but you don't... your state is very stable... just like me."
"Like you?" Eve asked tentatively.
Lorenzo did not speak. He stood up and walked towards Eve, his eyes gradually lit up with fireworks, and the power called secret blood awakened in his body.
After a long time, the fireworks went out, and Lorenzo sat down again, only this time with puzzled eyes.
"There are only so many consequences after contact with demons, so your condition is actually pretty easy to judge, but..."
After hearing this, Eve panicked and sat upright like a student.
"Eve, you know there are some things that once you come into contact with them, you can never leave them, such as monsters.
There is such a criterion in my knowledge, which is called a psychic. Most people do not have the ability to be a psychic, so even if something dark approaches them, most of them will be fine. In this regard, use two It is more appropriate to describe the world. You can understand that we and the monsters live in the same world and the same city, but usually the monsters cannot see us. We are just a vague mist in their eyes, but Likewise I can't see them. "
Lorenzo's voice became magical, something seemed to fill the room unconsciously, it was everywhere and yet indistinguishable.
"But if you understand too much dark knowledge, then this will deepen your connection with it. You will become clearer in the eyes of those monsters, and you will also see them."
Having said that, Lorenzo smiled.
"Just like myself, I am a human-shaped psychic. With the help of a little herbal medicine, I will open my spiritual vision to see things that living people cannot see."
"Eve, if you want to understand your own state, then you must understand that knowledge, you will fall into the darkness little by little, and those monsters in the fog will become clear to you, and you will gradually change. Become a psychic, pursued by darkness all day long."
Lorenzo looked at her seriously.
"So, the decision is yours. If you want to understand all this, you will inevitably deepen your connection with the darkness. Maybe your connection will be severed after many years, but no one can guarantee what will happen next. I need It’s your decision, the door to darkness is right in front of you, it’s up to you whether to step through.”
Listening to Lorenzo's words, Eve fell silent. She knew very well what Lorenzo meant. It was taboo knowledge. Once she understood it, she was destined to fall into the abyss.
"I have a few questions, am I going to turn into that?"
Eve asked.
"As long as you don't come into contact with demons, the possibility is very small. After all, your condition is very stable."
"Did this anomaly happen tonight?"
"No, the cause of tonight should be a secret blood of low purity, which caused all the chaos, and the abnormality in your body should have come from a long time ago."
long, long ago?In other words, he had an encounter with this thing called a demon a long time ago?
Eve clenched her hands unconsciously, her finger bones turning white from the pressure.
The girl stared at Lorenzo intently. The detective had returned to his previous state at some point. He no longer had the feeling of cold-blooded killing embryos. He was nestled in a comfortable sofa like a social scum.
The decision is right in front of you. The so-called crossroads of life are roughly like this.The girl thought a lot for a while, and finally answered seriously.
"tell me!"
The girl's eyes were firm and serious as never before.
Lorenzo was stunned. He had not seen this kind of look for a long time. He remembered that the last time he saw him, he was still working as a priest in Florence. Those children looked like this when they talked about what career they wanted to take in the future. They were full of persistence. Stubborn and naive.
"I...can I hear the reason? If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't decide my origin, I wouldn't want to deal with these monsters."
Having said that, Lorenzo unconsciously thought of Sabo who died in his hands not long ago.No one can determine their own origin.
Eve's expression dimmed slightly, but after thinking about it she still said it. She looked very calm, or terrifyingly calm.
“I’ve been having nightmares since I was very young, and I don’t actually know what they are. I just always dream about a scene, and I keep dreaming about it over and over again.
A woman was sleeping soundly on the bed, I couldn't see her face clearly, but I always felt very close, but suddenly something came out of her stomach, just like the demon I met, it came from the woman's body Crawling out of my belly... I can't see that thing clearly, and every time I try to see clearly, I wake up with a fright. "
"Actually, I stopped dreaming about these a long time ago, but I dreamed about them again the day before my mother died of illness, and she died the next day. I was still young at the time, and I didn't know whether it was curiosity or what. My mother was lying in a coffin full of flowers, and I lifted her clothes when no one was looking."
Eve curled up on the sofa with her head in her hands, muttering to herself.
"Just like some strange coincidence, I opened a corner of my clothes. There was a hideous scar on my mother's belly, as if some monster had crawled out of her belly."
"Actually, I have almost forgotten these, but just like the connection you said, as the connection continues to deepen, those things that I have forgotten have come back. I think if I go deeper, I may be able to know something. .”
It was a nightmare that had been surrounding Eve. She thought she had forgotten it, but sometimes she would suddenly remember it. As she grew older, it became clearer and clearer, as if the god of death crawled out of the scar and took away her mother's soul. .
Eve always thought that this might be her imagination, but after tonight, everything strange was covered with the shadow of a demon.
Lorenzo took a deep look at Eve, everyone is like this, Eve thought she had a chance to make a choice, but in fact, the weird darkness was like a swamp, and no one who set foot here would be easily let go. People, she thought she had the chance to refuse, but just like fate, there would always be a reason to push her to take action.
"I hope you won't regret it."
Lorenzo said as he began to recall the things he had sealed away in the depths of his memory.
(End of this chapter)