Ember Gun

  Chapter 374 Ending

   925 years in the English calendar.

   "So... what kind of guy is that?"

  Shrike was sitting at the desk enjoying the wine and music, and asked lazily.

  As the secret force placed here by the cleansing agency, Shrike appeared in the Xiacheng district as a gang boss, cutting out a piece of space, and this was the second month after he led the little brothers to establish their status.

  With the help of the decontamination agency, the power of Shrike crazily infiltrated the Xiacheng District and temporarily stabilized these violent foreigners with various gray industries.

  I thought that those gangs would be a little afraid of this newly emerging power, and Xiacheng would usher in a superficial peace, but this hypocritical peace was broken after two months.

   "It's so fierce! Several people have been killed by him, but he didn't continue to kill, just said that he wanted to see you." The little brother on the side said.

"see me?"

  Shrike was taken aback, a little confused.

   "A stranger suddenly came in, killing so many people just to see me? What are you doing!"

  He is a little bit confused.

   "We don't know, but he is now nearby... It was someone else who revealed the location of this place, what should we do?"

  The little brother said again, his voice trembled a little, obviously panicked.

Shrike’s power is still not stable at the moment. On the surface, it is a long-term secret fight with other gangs. From the eyes of this little brother, this sudden arrival of strangers is obviously the means of other gangs, maybe under this guise. , And a group of people will surround their stronghold in the next moment.

   "What to panic!"

   Shrike scolded, even so, he still involuntarily picked up the silver revolver.

   "Has it been nearby?"

   "Yes, our enemy is showing him the way."

"damn it."

  Shrike pondered for a while, and finally decided to go out and have a look.

  With the expansion of the old Dunling, the problem of foreigners in Xiacheng has become more and more serious. The city needs a place to discharge garbage, but the tumor cannot be harmful to the city itself.

  Through the efforts of Shrike and the support of the decontamination agency, the steady development continues and it is only a matter of time before Shrike controls the entire Xiacheng district.

  After staying in Xiacheng for so long, such things as rifling and weapon fighting have happened from time to time, but this time Shrike always felt a strange anxiety, and he couldn't help but want to see the mysterious guy in person.

  Walking out of the basement, there is a magnificent casino under the rubbish. Of course, the scale is not very large. Shrike will have to take over the business of other gangs a little bit in the follow-up time.

  I have to say that Shrike feels that life as a gang boss is more exciting than working in a cleansing agency.

  As soon as he walked out of the dark tunnel, the rising melody in the casino stopped. Looking at it, the gamblers stopped, and the guard held his hand on the gun bag with a vigilant face.

  Shrike looked towards the end of the red carpet. At the gate, the stranger turned against the light, and his figure was pitch black.

  He has many wounds on his body. Many of them have begun to heal. They seem to be left from elsewhere. His clothes are in tatters, his cheeks are covered by messy hair, and the whole person is smelly.

Foreigners like    are very common. He smuggled into Old Dunling in various strange ways, just like a tramp.

  The difference is that this stranger is carrying a heavy box on his back and holding a blood-stained shotgun in his hand.

  Shrike looked solemn and felt a little pressure.

  Foreigners are like having just walked from a certain battlefield, exuding violent murderousness and malice. The shrike in a trance even feels that he is not facing a human, but some kind of monster with a human form.

  "Everyone, give in, let me have a good talk with this gentleman."

  Despite the great pressure, Shrike remained calm. He clapped his hands and signaled the others to leave. In a blink of an eye, only him and the stranger were left nearby.

   Shrike pulled a chair and sat down.

   "They said you want to see me."

  The stranger stood in place, nodding stiffly.

   "See me after killing someone? It's funny."

  The shrike under the table has grasped the death knell. As the boss, he needs to remain calm and elegant, and he also needs cunning to protect himself.

   "They wanted to kill me... so I killed them."

  The voice of the stranger was a little hoarse, with pauses from time to time.

   "Then what do you want when you see me?" Shrike asked again.

  The stranger suddenly fell silent, and a little pain suddenly appeared on his face. He clutched his head and tried to think, but his shattered consciousness brought incomparable confusion.

   "Life, a new life, they say that only you in Xiacheng can give others a new life."

  After a long time, he seemed to remember the reason, and said slowly.

  This is another person’s wish. He has always longed to come here and live a fantasy life in the old Dunling.

  So he ran over all the way just for this?

  Shrike wanted to scold him loudly. He thought that someone had hired him to kill him. He was ready to fight hard and wait for reinforcements, but it turned out to be such a thing.

  But it can also be seen that this strange stranger is really obsessed with this matter.

  "A legal identity living in Old Dunling? Indeed, only I can do it in Xiacheng."

  As the gang boss backed by the decontamination agency, Shrike is an expert in this regard. Unlike what other people can do, Shrike gives all formal identities that can be approved by the government.

  Shrike became calm, and when he learned what the stranger wanted, the next conversation was much simpler.

   "Then can you pay the price? A new life is very expensive."

   "I can help you kill people, I am very good at it."

  The stranger replied with murderous aura. He had no money and nothing worthy of exchange. All he could do was to kill, killing endlessly.

   "Killing? This is really exciting."

  Shrike hesitated, he really needed a group of assassins to deal with those **** enemies, only in this way could he completely control the Xiacheng District.

  Thinking about it, then carefully observe the stranger.

Judging from his ability to walk here unharmed, he does have a decent lethality, but he has seen many shrikes like this. Most of them are the tools of the shrike, and when they are exhausted, they die like wild dogs. In the sewage ditch.

  Shrike smiled.

   "Um... yes, but in a new life, you have to say goodbye to the past. Can you do it?"

"Say goodbye?"

   "Yes, new life, everything is brand new, everything in your past will be swept into the corner, and you will survive as another person."

  The stranger was slightly startled, and recalled all the chaos in his mind, the broken bodies of the burning fire, and the fallen figures one after another.

  All this is so bad and sad, he tried to forget, but he couldn't stop thinking about it.

  If you can forget the pain.

   "Of course it does." He replied.

  "Then I can ask what you want to do in Jiudunling? It is not always here to experience some life, right?"

  Shrike was quite interested in this stranger, and then asked.

"do what……"

  The foreigner became confused for a while. He only remembered that he was going to Jiudunling. Yes, why did he come to Jiudunling? He couldn't remember, and vaguely remembered that this seemed to be someone's wish.

  As for what to do... the memory gradually became clear, and he answered in a ghostly manner.

   "Detective, I want to be a detective."

   "Well, it's quite interesting."

  Shrike was a little surprised. He never thought that the stranger in front of him would want to be a detective. According to Yi Shrike’s brief observation of him, this guy was a natural killer, and he couldn’t get along with the detective.

   "So, what's your name? A stranger."

"name?"

   "Yes, names. Everyone has a name. You don't have a name."

  "Name..." A few numbers flashed in the mind of the stranger. He didn't know the meaning of these numbers, but he still read them out.

   "0……42."

   "Numbers? What is this? Numbers are not a name, stranger."

   "Doesn't it count? Then...what's the name?"

The stranger tried his best to think about the meaning of "name", but as his thinking only caused severe pain, and his consciousness was constantly split, he remembered that he seemed to be a person named 042, but then another familiar face and He overlapped, and gradually he couldn't distinguish himself.

  【I want to see that beautiful era, an era without sadness, an era without demons. 】

  The sudden voice recalled in my mind, the stranger saw a golden sky vaguely, and everything was soaked in sacred golden gold.

  But the roar of monsters and the crackling of sword blades sounded in his ears, as if he was listening to a war from hell.

  【A detective agency, are you interested in being my assistant? 】

   Another familiar voice sounded, and he asked with a smile, planning a future that did not exist.

  This is a simple and small wish, hidden in the deepest part of the soul of a stranger.

  All the chaos swallowed him like a torrent, and the broken edge was repeatedly cut.

  Anger, panic, grief...

  If you say...There must be a wish.

  He remembered his name, looked pained, and reluctantly opened his mouth, like a beast with open fangs, and like a child learning to speak, his voice was awkward and hoarse.

   "Luo...Lorenzo."

"what?"

  Shrike was a little bit confused.

"my name is……"

  The shattered consciousness was pieced together again, and his gray-blue eyes gradually glowed. He looked at the shrike, behind him against the afterglow of the setting sun, the golden fireworks burning in the sea of ​​clouds.

  The stranger's eyes were filled with joy and sorrow, and he squeezed Winchester in his hand, like a child at a loss.

   "Lorenzo Holmos."

  　 The third volume, deep in the soul, finally finished! (This volume is finished, and the fourth volume is being conceived...

  (End of this chapter)