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Chapter 24 This is my last prayer

Lin Luo glanced at Laurentina with a calm expression. This nun must have smelled something similar.

"I want to visit Grolifa." Lin Luo's words were very flat, "I want to exchange a few words about some academic issues."

No matter when it is, Lin Luo has a habit of giving people a face.

If the other party is willing to be decent, then everyone is happy.

But if the other party is not very willing to face up, then Lin Luo can only help others face up.

For example, now, Lin Luo didn't rush in and turned the room upside down to find the governor.

"Governor Glorifa is not here."

The wandering doctor replied without much hesitation, nor did he seem to be lying: "He hasn't been here for three days."

Lin Luo and Laurentina glanced at each other, and when he was about to continue to say something, a hoarse and weak voice came from the room.

"Is there a guest, please come in."

The old man's voice is not full of energy, but it can be heard clearly.

"Then, I'm sorry."

You Doctor also stepped aside to open the door, giving up the space in the aisle.

Lin Luo put his sickle into his backpack, straightened his clothes and walked into the house, while Laurentina consciously stood on the corridor outside the house with her machete in her hand and whistled.

It was Agor's melody, but it was a pity that the wandering doctor didn't have any reaction to this melody.

This house has a long history, and both the layout and decoration have the style of decades ago-the space is limited, but all the places are used.

Lin Luo's steps were not too big, but he only took a few steps, and walked from the entrance to the hospital bed.

And just as the traveling doctor said, Grolyfa was indeed not here, because the house was too small to hide a single person.

"Hi, my name is Lin Luo, I'm..."

"An expert from Calaton, isn't it?" The old man's tone was gentle, "That child Xu Yu told me everything about her journey, and I can only hear some new things from her with my old bones. gone."

Lin Luo just nodded silently, and kept the name in his heart, and was going to send it to the group when he had time to see if the group friends had any opinions on her.

"I am the wife of Governor Grolifa, Loranta Friend." The old man spoke slowly, but it sounded like he was reporting something: "It seems that Grolifa is making trouble outside. There was a big commotion.

"You're looking for him now...don't worry, I'll tell you where he is."

Lin Luo was stunned by Loranta's words. He always felt that the old man lying on the hospital bed in front of him seemed to be waiting for his arrival.

However, it sounds weird to wait for someone else to trouble her husband, and to reveal her husband's current location.

"Heh, don't look at me now, I was also a model army of the empire before."

Loranta's arm was raised slightly, as if to make an arm bending movement to show off her muscles.

But now, apart from the slender bones, there seemed to be only a layer of loose skin covering her arms.

Model Army... Although Lin Luo didn't know what kind of power was behind this name, he was still driven to look around again.

This time, he did see things that he subconsciously ignored.

The cotton coats hanging on the wall covered an old photo. The faded photo showed a group of young soldiers ready to go.

At the corner near the entrance is a storage bucket, in which there are a broom, several umbrellas and a dusty rapier.

A piece of glass is pressed on the dining table of the part-time desk, and under the bluish glass are certificates and medals.

"He's always like this, thinking he's hiding it well."

While speaking, Loranta pointed to the drawer beside the bed with her finger: "But I have always noticed his changes.

"But what can I do? I'm old and sick, and I can't even slap him."

Lin Luo opened the drawer, and there were many sticky notes inside, all of which were written by Grolifa.

"On those nights, I heard him choking in pain beside my bed...but that was the beginning.

"Gro wanted me to live longer, but birth, old age, sickness, and death couldn't be stopped—and one day, he started talking about those creepy schemes.

"From the disgust at the beginning, to the hesitation later, to the helpless acceptance later, to the wholeheartedness in the end."

Loranta's voice stopped suddenly, and Lin Luo subconsciously looked towards the hospital bed, and saw the old man's deep eyes with undisguised anger.

"Young man, you know, I regret it."

The young soul seemed to return to this old body: "I regret not being able to dissuade him at the very beginning.

"I'm even more regretful because I don't have the ability to kill him now!"

Lin Luo paused slightly as he flicked the sticky note. The old man had already surprised him several times.

"This city was built by me and him. We once welcomed everyone who lives in this city at the gate of the city."

Loranta suddenly stretched out her hand, and her extremely old fingers grabbed Lin Luo's wrist.

She tried her best, but to Lin Luo, it was more like stroking:

"When I see him now, I just feel nauseous - an outsider spirit that has robbed my husband's body and set out to destroy what we've worked our entire lives to do.

"I...can't accept this humiliation."

Lin Luo was silent, as she said, if the old man was 20 years younger, no, even ten years younger, she would personally pierce her husband's body with the dusty rapier.

But she can't do it now.

"Help me, Mr. Lin Luo." The old man's tone gradually trembled: "This is our last request.

"I am willing to give everything for this. Maybe we can't give you this city, but we can give you everything else we have."

"...Phew." Lin Luo put away the stack of notes in his hand. He had already found the address he wanted on it:

"Can you lend me a sword?"

Loranta was stunned for a moment, but quickly responded: "You can take it... But it is the same as me, it is old and blunt, maybe it can only be stabbed with a sword before it will shatter."

"Can it still kill someone?"

"Of course." Loranta said without hesitation: "Even if there is only one chance to attack, it can complete its mission."

"That's good."

Loranta looked into Lin Luo's eyes seriously, and put down her palm after a while: "Okay...okay."

Lin Luo nodded slightly and bid farewell to the old man.

And when he was about to turn around, Loranta stopped him suddenly: "Mr. Lin Luo, there is one more thing I think I should let you know."

"what's up?"

"Pearl..." In Loranta's originally firm tone, there was a little confusion: "Gro said this word before.

"He told me that the witch named Sophia gave him a pair of pearls with forbidden power.

"She said that this pair of pearls could save his life at a critical moment."

Loranta shook her head slightly, as if she didn't quite understand the meaning of the pearls: "Gro said that he followed the witch's instructions and threw one of the pearls into a water column that continued to spew upwards, and made a A remote-controlled trap—and that's how that pearl saved his life."

Lin Luo was taken aback, and then immediately realized what the function of this device was: "Have you heard the full name of the pair of pearls from him?"

"Yes." Loranta did not hide any information. She was a veteran. She understood that even if she was lying on the hospital bed, she had already entered a war: "He said that Pearl The full name is - Ender Pearl."

"...where did he put the device?"

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Chapter 25 Hello, Goodbye

Before things got so bad, Grolifa and Lorenta had nothing to hold back from each other.

They are lovers who have been together for a lifetime. After decades have passed, the two of them have no secrets that they haven't told each other.

And after the arrival of that witch, all of this also turned into a passing cloud.

But when Grolifa built the life-saving device, he hadn't become so crazy, so he told his lover all these things.

Later, Lin Luo found two different addresses, and Laurentina made a choice - if Grolifa had not completely lost his mind, then he should be by his lover's side at this moment.

But in the end, Lin Luo didn't see Grolifa's figure here, but he knew Grolifa's backhand.

Perhaps for Loranta, this is the meaning of redemption.

"Then, good luck to you all."

The wandering doctor named Xu Yu gently closed the door. Loranta's condition was not ideal. Do some preparation.

Make some send-off preparations.

Lin Luo took a deep breath, raised his arm, and put the rapier in his hand before his eyes.

Just as the old man said, this rapier, like her, is too old.

This is not because the rapier has experienced irreversible aging. On the contrary, under Victoria's powerful industrial system, this officer's weapon still maintains its sharpness after such a long time.

And its oldness is reflected in the traces on its body.

Countless scratches and tiny gaps are all over the body of the sword, these are the traces left by Loranta fighting with this rapier when she was a model soldier.

This is an honor, but it also became the reason why the rapier was broken into pieces.

But even that is enough...

Lin Luo brushed a sword flower proficiently. The weapon mastery of the talent skill tree allows him to quickly master the weapon in his hand, not to mention that he has been using weapons such as stone swords before he got the sickle.

After putting the rapier into his backpack, Lin Luo looked at Laurentina and began to tell her about the next plan.

"We are divided into two groups."

Lin Luo handed Laurentina a note with an address written on it, which was the residence of local pharmaceutical developers where Grolifa often went: "Go directly to find Grolifa, if you can find it on the spot Don't miss any chance to kill.

"I will destroy that life-saving device. If time is right, maybe I can destroy that device before you kill him. If it's a bit of a coincidence, I might be able to bump into the escaped Grolifa."

Laurentina took the note, and she listened to Lin Luo's words, with a thoughtful look on her face.

"After everything is over, let's meet here." Lin Luo took out his sickle and nodded towards Laurentina.

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Maggie stopped and stopped along the way, the distance from the pass to her home was really far away, and she had to rest frequently on the way to complete the journey.

Maggie breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the door of Dushu's house appeared in front of her eyes.

It's clearly not a qualifying trip, although it's certainly impressive.

The ugly and bloody ticket inspector was the most disgusting existence she had ever seen, and the man who looked a little handsome turned out to be the same as the woman next to him in essence, not likable at all.

Maggie shook her head, she wanted to get all these memories out of her head, she wanted to take a hot bath to wash away the bad influence of this bad journey.

After pushing open the door, Maggie immediately heard a sound of talking, coming from the half-covered reception room door.

Maggie knew her parents' rules when receiving guests, and she was going to quietly bypass there and go directly to the bedroom upstairs.

But when she tiptoed around the door of the reception room, a low growl suddenly came from the room, making her movements subconsciously froze.

"I said...enough!"

The voice was a bit old, but it sounded familiar to Maggie. It was the man who started visiting her parents frequently a few months ago, that is, the city governor of Atyrau, Grolifa.

In Maggie's memory, Grolifa was a very good governor.

From her childhood to the present, for more than ten years, you can hear praise for Grolifa, whether in newspapers or in exchanges between classmates, relatives and friends.

And from the cognition formed during this period, Grolifa is indeed a gentle person, it is hard to imagine him making such a sound that is almost like a beast.

"No matter how you explain it, I don't want to hear that reason now."

Glolifa knocked on the table quickly and hard. He looked very irritable, and his overall appearance also looked very sloppy, which was far from his previous refined gentleman style.

Maggie's parents were sitting on the sofa with some trepidation. In front of them were several flat-bottomed test tubes containing pale pink liquid medicine.

"I gave you time, I gave you money, and I even gave you convenience for the research and development of pharmaceuticals, so that the materials that the company could not turn over due to economic shortages were sent to your warehouse.

"And this is what you give me in return?"

Even in his old age, Grolifa still maintains that muscular physique, which makes him look like an angry lion now.