Chapter 68: The Half-Hung Vampire and the Monster Scholar (Part II)
When the little bell cat didn't dare to take a breath behind Ah Qiu, Kazuhiko was intently observing the two vampires' every move. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
There weren't many opportunities to watch the life-and-death battle between youkai from such a close distance, so Kazuhiko didn't dare to be distracted at all, and even a blink of an eye was too much to delay time. He wanted to imprint the process of this battle in his mind and store it forever as a valuable experience.
On the surface, Nalan stood proudly, looking down on his foe with the eyes of an ant, while his opponent was on the verge of a deep ravine, tensing his muscles and lowering his center of gravity to meet the strong foe.
The momentum of the two is high and low, and anyone with a discerning eye can easily distinguish which is strong and which is weak. However, before deciding the winner, Kazuhiko didn't dare to make a judgment easily, after all, demons and monsters are often inconsistent.
The one with strong momentum may just bluff, while the one with weak momentum is accustomed to being cautious. Kazuhiko doesn't have the eyes to see through the bottom of the two, so he just waits for the results to be produced and then carefully analyzed.
The outcome of the battle did not surprise him, but it did surprise him.
He could barely see the strange man's surprise attack, and Nalan Twilight's counterattack was far beyond his comprehension. In the blink of an eye, the victory was decided, and the man in the black mask lost his arms and fell to his knees, handing over his life and death to his opponent.
He guessed Nalan Yu's victory, but he didn't expect this victory to come so easily, so one-sided. If you have such strength, you are indeed the capital of arrogance.
"Good...... Good...... It's amazing!"
Kazuhiko was so excited that he was about to jump up, and shouted loudly as if no one was around:
"It's a great youkai of Rank A, a vampire! This level of power is unheard of!"
"Kazuhiko, you calm down, you haven't ...... yet"
Aqiu tried to hold him away from the two vampires, but before he could reach out, the guy was already running away.
"It's another ...... that doesn't make people worry"
"Mr. Nalan!" Kazuhiko asked, running to Nalan Twilight's side, tugging at his sleeve, "those two broken daggers...... How exactly did you do that?"
"Ah, that ......," Nalan looked back at the boy behind him, "it's just a little trick." β
"Tricks?"
"Well...... It's cumbersome to explain, but you can understand it as a superpower anyway. β
"Amazing...... Awesome!"
Kazuhiko's eyes are about to pop out of the stars.
"What's the matter?, you're starting to worship me?" asked Nalan Twilight with a smile.
"Of course, it's super adoring! Can I write you down in my notes?"
"Notes?"
"This is it!"
Kazuhiko took out a very poorly bound manuscript from his clothes and handed it to Nalan Twilight.
Nalan Yu took the notebook, looked at it a few times at random, and found that it was full of drawings and notes of some monsters, and each page recorded a monster, so he wrote a whole book densely, and a page was not empty.
"I've written several of these monster notes!" said Kazuhiko proudly.
"Little brother, you want to be a monster expert!"
"Where, where...... I'm just a monster scholar, and I'm still far from being an expert. Kazuhiko scratched the back of his head, looking a little embarrassed.
"I don't see it, you're quite capable!"
After reading it hastily, Nalan Hui handed the note back to Kazuhiko, and praised him two more sentences by the way.
"It's nothing, this kind of talent...... It's nothing compared to what you're capable of. If I could be as strong as you, I would ......"
Halfway through his words, Kazuhiko suddenly lowered his head and stopped talking.
"What would you want to do if you could become as strong as me?" asked Nalan Twilight, following his intentions.
"I didn't ...... Nothing...... Hehe......" Kazuhiko smiled a little shyly.
"Huh, isn't it nothing?"
Nalan looked at the boy in front of him thoughtfully, and then smiled evilly:
"And what if I had a way to make you stronger?"
"What...... Solution?"
Kazuhiko swallowed a mouthful of saliva and waited for an answer. Nalan Twilight could already hear the restless heartbeat in his chest clearly.
"That's the method, it's ......"
"Stop!"
Barnyard Aqiu stepped forward, grabbed Kazuhiko's arm, pulled him behind him, and then reprimanded with a serious face:
"Do you know what you're doing, Kazuhiko?"
"Huh!"
Kazuhiko slapped his brain and immediately realized his mistake.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I just ...... on impulse."
"It's not that kind of problem!" Ah Qiu said with a straight face, "Do you know, in this Gensokyo, there are some taboos that must not be touched, one of which is the fact that humans in people are turned into monsters!"
"Kazuhiko, I advise you to break this thought as soon as possible. If that conversation just now is heard by the shrine maiden of Hakurei, you will be in bad luck. β
After saying this, Ah Qiu turned his head to Nalan Yu who was smiling evilly and said:
"Don't laugh, you're guilty too!"
"Do you blame me again?" Nalan spread his hands and said lightly, "After all, it's not us who thirst for power. I'm just pushing the boat with the current, the beauty of adults. β
"Stop quibbling! If Reimu knew that you were trying to persuade humans to become vampires in Gensokyo, you would know who the people who would be walking around when the time came. β
"I'm just saying, don't take it seriously! Besides, I don't have any extra blood to give to this little brother right now. If you force me to transform him, I can't do it!"
"It's good that you know it in your own heart. β
Ah Qiu glared at him, and then stopped talking. And Kazuhiko, just shrugged his head, looking like he was angry, standing behind her, and he was about to cry.
"Okay, okay, let's put these bits and pieces aside for now, we still have serious things to do!"
Nalan rubbed his hands together and turned to face the undignified loser.
The guy was still kneeling on the ground, but his severed arms were unknowingly connected, probably while he was preaching.
However, even when his wounds healed, he did not resist or run away, but chose to stay where he was, and resigned himself to his fateβit seemed that he was fully aware of the absolute difference in strength between himself and Nalan Twilight.
"Oh, it's very good!" Nalan Yu saw that he was so knowledgeable about current affairs, and his heart was also a lot more comfortable, "Since you also know that it is completely useless to fight me, then we can talk to each other." β
Nalan tucked the mask off his face and threw it aside, revealing his face in front of everyone.
"Looks ...... It's so ordinary......" Xiao Ling covered her mouth lightly and exclaimed.
The guy has the face of a passer-by that can be seen everywhere on the street, and to put it simply, it is completely featureless, and it can be forgotten by the eye. It is conceivable that Kazuhiko may also be this virtue when he grows up.
Originally, Xiao Suzu's impression of vampires was nothing more than two kinds, either Nalan Twilight, who was beautiful but very dangerous, or the kind of monster depicted in the book, which was extremely hideous from the inside out. It turns out that there are such ordinary, such ordinary vampires in this world, which really refreshes her perception of vampires.
After a long time, she realized that the vast majority of vampires looked like ordinary people, and guys like Nalan Twilight were very few, but that was all for later.
"The rules are very simple, I ask, you answer, don't be clever, understand?" Nalan Du ordered in a tone that could not be ignored.
"Okay......
"First question, your name?"
Suzuki ...... Goro Suzuki. β
"The second question, age. β
"Twenty-five years old. β
"Oh, you're pretty young!"
At the age of twenty-five, he is not even a baby among vampires. No wonder this Suzuki Goro was thrown to the front line, I'm afraid that for his superiors, he is just a cannon fodder on the same level as the living dead, who can be discarded at any time.
"Yes, I became a vampire three years ago ......"
"I told you!" Nalan interrupted Suzuki Goro rudely, "I asked, you answered, I didn't ask, you shut up, understand?"
"Good, good ......"
"Very good, then the third question ......"
Nalan Yu said, squatting down, staring into Goro's eyes, and asked:
"You're the one who hunts youkai around Gensokyo, is that you?"
"No...... It's not!"
Beads of sweat ran down Goro's forehead, but he didn't look away. He was under the pressure of looking at Nalan Yu like this, trembling slightly, and said:
"These things were done by the commander of the advance force, Mr. Nikolai himself, and I was just an inquirer. β
"In that case, why did you take the initiative to attack me?"
"It's for...... Obtaining information ......"
"Hah...... Haha!" Nalan Hao couldn't help laughing, "In other words, that chief of yours threw such an outcast out of yours, and wanted to test my strength?"
"You're really pathetic, Suzuki Goro, if you advance, you will die, and if you retreat, you will die, so you will kneel on the ground and beg for mercy?"
"Yes, because I want to live. β
In this case, this is also a viable approach. β
Nalan Yu stood up, clapped his hands, and said:
"Originally, if you lied, or simply admitted that you killed those monsters, I planned to tie you up and send you to the mountain of monsters as a welcome gift. But since you didn't do that......"
"Then we're left with one last question: where is the advance force commander now?"
"On the south side of the woods there was a hill, and he hid there. I don't know exactly where it is, because it's usually the living dead who deliver the instructions, and to be honest, I haven't met him in person......"
"That's enough, stand up. β
"Mr. Nalan, may I ask you a question?" said Goro Suzuki as he stood up, looking puzzled.
"Just ask. β
"Don't you care about the condition of the Hakuri Reimu?"
"Of course I care, but what's the point?" said Nalan Hui, "I can't break through this great barrier by my own strength alone, and the people who can help me are one outside, and the other is dormant, so I can't count on it." β
"That's why I'm going to trouble your chief. Since he can get in, there must be a way to get out, and I will use some means to 'ask' him to send me out. β
The word "please", Nalan Yu bit very hard. Goro Suzuki hasn't been in the blood clan society for a long time, but he can still guess what is about to happen to Nikolai.
Based on the information gathered during the actual battle, Goro could conclude that the probability of Nikolai defeating Nalan was zero, which was the fundamental reason why he made up his mind to defect to the enemy camp.
"But that's all my job, and now, I have a job to hand over to you. β
"Huh, leave it to me?"
Before Goro Suzuki could ask more questions, he suddenly couldn't make any sound. He looked down and saw that the five fingers of Nalan Twilight's right hand, like five sharp cones, had pierced into his abdomen.
"Hmm...... For...... What ......"
Nalan Twilight pulled out his hand, and Goro fell to the ground with it, his round eyes full of unwillingness.
"Don't be afraid, you can't die!" Nalan said with a smile, "Do you remember how your hand was broken? β
"In this world, everything I can touch, I can't connect with, or cut without it. So I poured my own blood into your body, so that I could always be aware of your whereabouts, and if you disobey my will, ......"
As he spoke, he rested his hand on a large tree next to him. In the next moment, the tree was neatly cut into countless square pieces of wood by some unknown force, and it fell to the ground like rain.
No, actually, it wasn't cut open by an external force. The way it shatters is more like the parts of its own body are actively dividing. Although this statement sounds very funny, it is the most intuitive feeling of Goro Suzuki at this time.
"Anything that is stained by my blood, even if it is only a drop, is equivalent to holding it in the palm of my hand, even if you flee to the ends of the earth, don't want to get rid of it. β
"Don't blame me, we are all mixed social people, who can trust whom? As long as you are sober and don't do stupid things, we can happily cooperate, and you can live as long as you want. But if you want to betray me......"
Nalan Yu kicked a piece of wood that had fallen to his feet in front of Goro's eyes, and said:
"That's what happens to you. β
Goro stared blankly at the piece of wood, unable to say a word, but nodded mechanically, agreeing that it was not a fair covenant.
In the end, this is all self-inflicted, and if he doesn't do this, he won't even be qualified to continue to be used as a prop.
All this is to survive.
"I'm glad we came to an agreement, and now, I'll give you the first assignment......"