Silver Blade and Rose

To be honest, Zales didn't know how long he slept.

When he woke up, he was already on the bed in the suite, only a dim wall lamp was lit in the room, and the dark night was outside the window.

Zals moved, and just about to get up, he felt a sharp pain in his chest.He looked down and found that he was shirtless and naked. The place where Mrs. Winnie cut him with a dagger had been wrapped with thick gauze, so that half of his body was tightly wrapped by the gauze, and he felt Like an insect in desperate need of a cocoon.

There was a person lying on the bed, who seemed to be asleep. Judging from the curly hair, it should be Muen.

But why is Mun here?His last memory was downstairs, seeing Edwin coming in through the back door...

Probably awakened by his action just now, Mu En moved and looked up at him in a daze: "Are you awake?"

Having learned from the past, Zars didn't dare to move casually anymore. He kept this stiff posture lying on the bed, and while expressing his powerlessness with his eyes, he asked, "Why did you come here?"

"Boss is downstairs communicating with the police station and the association, and told me to take care of you." Mu En yawned, got up and stretched out his hand to touch his forehead, and said with satisfaction, "I don't have a fever, it doesn't look like a serious problem .”

"I am..."

Zars glanced at the tight bandages on his body, trying to get him to explain the situation in front of him.

"Oh, the doctor gave it to you. He said you should not move around for 12 hours, so the boss placed you here." Mu En took the medicine and water from the bedside table, and put them into the water glass thoughtfully. After inserting a straw and feeding him the medicine, he said, "But you have been sleeping for so long, 12 hours have passed."

Zales: "..."

He actually fell asleep for half a day?

Mun would never lie to him, so even though the wound was still hurting, Zals endured the pain and got out of bed to go to the bathroom—he was a little impatient after lying on the bed for too long.

When he came out of the bathroom after solving his personal problems, he happened to see Edwin push the door open.

The man was wearing the coat he had when he came here, and his expression was a little tired. He looked dusty and dusty. It didn't look like he was just talking to someone downstairs, but he just came back from the wild.He saw Zals come out of the bathroom, first looked at the other's face and the gauze wrapped around the wound, he seemed to be slightly relieved, and said, "How do you feel?"

"It's not bad, but it hurts a little." Zars replied honestly, "It's not like he hasn't been stabbed before, but this time it seems to be particularly serious."

"Normal." Edwin didn't care much about the abnormality he felt, and said in a tone as if he just fell while walking, "After all, it's a dagger with a curse on it. It's pretty good that you can be alive and kicking now."

"..."

Zars was speechless.

He didn't know what kind of cursed dagger he picked up, but it could explain why the wound was more difficult to heal than ordinary knives.He still wanted to continue asking, but Edwin looked very tired, and threw him something casually. While taking off his coat, he said that he was going to take a bath and rest, and then went into the bathroom.

Zals looked down at the thing, and found that it was the dagger he had snatched from Mrs. Winnie.

It was also the one that cut him.

Now it was neatly stowed away in the short scabbard, and looked like nothing more than a finely crafted decorative dagger.The sheath was engraved with patterns that he couldn't understand, reminiscent of those strange sculptures in the room, Zals looked at it for a while, and put it on the bedside table.

Muen said that he went out to find something to eat when he was hungry. He stayed alone in the room for a while, heard the constant sound of water in the bathroom, and unconsciously fell asleep again.

When he woke up again, he and Edwin were the only ones left in the room.The latter was wearing a nightgown and leaning against the bedside to flip through a book. When he saw him open his eyes, he closed the book and looked at him: "Wake up."

Zals nodded, and fell asleep again before he could figure out why, so he said, "Get up and get ready, we'll be back at ten o'clock."

Zals looked at the wall clock on the wall, it was almost nine o'clock, and there was really not much time left for him.

He got up from the bed and dressed, and was surprised to find that the wound was no longer painful.I don't know who changed his medicine while he was asleep. The gauze wrapped around his body has been greatly reduced, and the thickness has become a comfortable level, and his movements are much more convenient.He dug out a loose David overcoat from the box, accidentally tore the wound, grinned in pain and continued to look for the coat—it was raining outside, so he needed to wear more.

It was clear that the weather had been sunny yesterday, and the night was comfortable and neither dry nor wet, but today it suddenly started to rain.After putting on his coat, he opened the curtains and glanced downstairs, and found that there were several cars parked in front of the door, not to mention the police car, there were also two pure black low-key RVs, and Sanchez's car that Zales had seen.

"Is Sanchez here too?" He turned to Edwin.

Edwin was slowly putting on his tie when he heard the words: "Yes, he is now in charge of the case related to No. 179."

This time, the commission they received was strictly a private matter, and they did not communicate with the police station and the Exorcist Association in advance, so Sanchez, who rushed to the scene after receiving the report, was also baffled when he saw Edwin.After asking what was going on, he reluctantly informed Edwin of the situation outside: "You guys have caused trouble. Mrs. Winnie's private worship of the evil god Beritan has been leaked. I don't know who sent an anonymous letter to the newspaper. Now there is a lot of buzz outside."

Edwin didn't care. Anyway, it was the mayor himself who entrusted them, and the other party always had a way to suppress the news.Now that Sanchez was here, he didn't bother to spend more time dealing with the police, so he directly told the other party all the information he knew, and then went back to his room to see how Zales was doing.

To be honest, Zarles was not expected to be stabbed.Although he found out that something was wrong with "Irene" during dinner that day, and directly saw through the other party's identity, he never thought that Zals would send himself to the door because of this alone risk.After he finished taking care of Mrs. Winnie, who was obviously deeply influenced by Beritan, he went out to find Zals, but the latter fell to the ground in a daze in front of him.

Edwin caught Zals before he was facing the ground, and realized that the other party was in a bad situation. His face was pale, and even his body began to feel cold. After he fell down, he had no intention of opening his eyes again.

"God," the maid next to him covered her mouth, pointed to the blood on his body that was rubbed by Zals, and said tremblingly, "he lost too much blood and passed out."

With her help, Edwin, who had absolutely no knowledge of first aid, laid Zars flat on the sofa, fed him some sugar water at the suggestion of the other party, and warmed his body with his own hands to prevent him from losing blood. How frozen.

Edwin thought this action was funny, but he still touched Zars' cheek with his own hand.

A little cool.

His body temperature was already low, and now Zals's skin was colder than his. Edwin had to admit that the maid was right.

The dagger that Zals snatched was thrown on the ground next to the sofa. He reached out to pick it up, took a look at the dagger, and confirmed that there was indeed a curse attached to it.

Beritan's strength is not very strong, this dagger can at most make the person stabbed unable to stop the bleeding, in fact there is no major problem.Edwin held the blade of the knife in one hand and the handle in the other, and gently snapped it off——with a "ding", the dagger snapped.

After it was broken, Zars' complexion became much better with the naked eye.Edwin asked the maid to help take care of him, and then glanced at the unconscious girl lying next to him, and decided to talk to Mrs. Winnie, who was locked in the room by him.

When he opened the door, Mrs. Winnie was lying on the carpet, still wearing the blood-stained dress, with a dazed expression on her face.Hearing the sound of the door opening, she turned her head to look at Edwin, and asked softly, "Sir, where am I?"

"In your manor, this is your secret base for imprisoning and abusing girls." Edwin said.

Responding so violently to the words "captivity" and "abuse," she sat up suddenly, looking very surprised: "I... imprisoned and abused young girls?"

She didn't seem to know what she was doing, she got up and walked around the room, even frightened by the torture equipment in the corner, her voice trembled.

"I don't remember doing it at all...how could these things be mine?"

Backing away while muttering to herself, she accidentally knocked over a statue of Beritan lying on the table.

The statue was exquisitely carved, with a roughly human female appearance engraved on it, with ankle-length curly long hair, a good figure and a gorgeous face, and the overall temperament was charming and charming, but at the same time it was very uncomfortable.If you look closely, you will find that the ends of this woman's limbs have sharp claws, and there are faint scales on her calves, and her smile is weird. No matter how you look at it, she doesn't look like an ordinary sculpture suitable for placing at home.

Edwin recognized it immediately, it was the beautified statue of Beritan.

He had once seen this evil god of the water. The other party took the appearance of a beautiful woman to participate in the banquet, but had to change back to her original form and leave in a hurry before dawn, because she could not change her figure during the day and could only show off her original appearance to the public.

Beritan's main body is a crocodile, which is not a very beautiful creature, so her followers will beautify it when they carve the statue, showing her most moving appearance, and at the same time add some original elements, so as to It is confirmed that these statues are all enshrined as the legendary Beritan.

It is really not easy.Edwin was somewhat gloating. It had been a long time since he heard of Beritan's believers appearing on the mainland. He never thought that her believers were quite capable. They could actually coax Mrs. Winnie into becoming a new believer and listen to their words. blood.

Naturally, the result was insanity, and even produced the personality of "Irene" who was a devout believer, and committed several murders.But after recovering, he has no memory of the dirty things he has done, and he doesn't know whether it is good luck or bad luck.

If she is lucky, she can continue to be the wife of the mayor because of this. If she is not lucky, she will feel guilty for the rest of her life and pay her own freedom as the price of believing in Beritan.

After Zals struggled to get dressed, Edwin and he went downstairs together.

Contrary to Zals' expectations, Edwin took the initiative to pull his suitcase along the way, and he only needed to walk behind him with his hands empty.

"Actually, I can pull boxes myself—"

He tried to do it himself, but the wound was affected, and a new round of subtle pain came. After meeting Edwin's eyes of rejection, he had to withdraw his hand embarrassingly, and honestly played the role of an injury that could not be carried by the shoulder or hand.

Honestly, it still feels a little new.

He walked behind Edwin and watched Edwin's back pulling two boxes, and suddenly laughed foolishly.

"What's wrong?" Edwin asked without looking back.

Zals still had a camera hanging around his neck, so he picked it up on a whim and took a picture, then walked a few steps to follow him, and entered the elevator side by side with him.

"Nothing," he said.