"Squeak-"

With a screech that made people's scalps tingle, the iron door slowly opened.

Unlike the previous dead doors with lead filled in the keyhole, the last door on the top floor was not sealed, in fact, it was not even locked, it only opened with a slight push.

The dim light of the torch poured through the hallway through the open door, bringing a faint glow to the outstretched hut. The three of them stepped into it, and what appeared in front of them was a rather simple bedroom.

A bed, a table, a chair, a cabinet, four walls of white stone, that's all, so shabby that it doesn't look like a final room hidden behind layers of iron locks. There are no windows in this room, so it is pitch black day and night. Normal people will definitely go crazy if they stay here for a long time, even Nalan Twilight, seeing this environment, will inevitably feel a little depressed.

"The basement where Fran was imprisoned for four hundred and fifty-nine years is almost like a presidential suite compared to it. He thought.

This thought lasted only a moment, and the next moment, his gaze was taken away by a young girl. Not only him, but even Remilia and Yanhua, who were traveling with him, couldn't help but gasp when they saw her figure, their eyes widened, and they stood in place, speechless.

She looked to be only fourteen or fifteen years old, short and slender, wearing a pure white bubble dress, white suspenders wrapped around her slender legs, and a pair of long lace gloves on her arms. Her large silver wavy curls were waist-length, gently tied with only a thin ribbon and a few inconspicuous small hairpins, which looked fluffy and soft, giving people a feeling of light and fluttering like clouds.

In addition to this, she wears a white gold ring on the ring finger of her left hand. This gave her white dress a bit of "wedding dress" flavor.

This girl has white and smooth skin like ice and snow, and red eyes like flames, like spring flowers and autumn moon, beautiful like things in the world. She just sat there quietly, silently, motionless, and didn't even look up at anyone from outside, like a white porcelain doll with exquisite workmanship, and at a glance it was impossible to tell whether it was true or false, dead or alive.

A pure-blooded white-haired Persian cat was hunched on her knees, staring at the three uninvited guests in front of her with its pair of red and blue eyes, its long furry tail swaying restlessly from side to side.

"Ahem......"

Nalan Yu coughed dryly, dragging Remilia and Yanhua, who had been stunned, back to reality, and at the same time, waking himself up. It is true that the girl in front of her in this dark castle is a morning star in the dark night, and it is impossible to look at her without looking at her. Even so, Nalan Twilight has to remind himself all the time:

"You still have business to do. ”

"Excuse me, Miss Catherine Pagos. Nalan Twilight took a step forward, bent down and saluted, and said with a smile, "I am Nalan Twilight, the Second True Ancestor, the son of the 'Killing Angel' Sheila. Seniorly, I should be your cousin, and of course, you don't admit it, that's not what I'm here for. ”

The silver-haired girl, Catherine Pagos, sat quietly, caressing the white cat's back, without even looking at him. Her eyes were blank, as if she had wandered into the world, and she did not hear a word.

Nalan Yu didn't care about this, and continued to himself:

"I'm here to take you out of here. ”

"Meow!"

As soon as the words fell, the white cat was startled, broke free from the girl's palm, and jumped to the ground. Like a loach, it wriggled past the feet of the three of them, scurryed into the hallway behind them, and ran away in a puff of smoke.

Then, I saw Catherine slowly raise her head and look at Nalan Twilight with an expressionless face. Seeing this, Nalan Yu didn't show weakness at all, his eyes widened and he glared back. In this way, there was suddenly an invisible pressure in the air, which made Yan Hua and Remilia behind them unable to breathe.

If the two tigers face each other, the fox and weasel on the side should not have the leisure to watch the excitement.

After a moment of silence, Catherine Pargos bowed her head first. She sighed softly, and Yanhua and Remy breathed a sigh of relief.

"Please go back, I don't want to leave. Catherine said.

"Are you willing to be locked in this deep palace and forgotten by the world?"

Nalan Twilight's attitude was a little aggressive, and Catherine did not avoid anything, and said bluntly:

"I think you're mistaken, I'm not 'locked', no one can lock me up. I stayed here of my own free will, and as for 'forgotten', I'm sorry to tell you that that's exactly what I wanted. ”

"Don't you want that to change?"

"I just hope you leave. ”

"Hehe......"

Seeing that the other party was so resolute, Nalan Yu actually laughed. He took a step, took a few more steps, stood directly in front of Catherine, and then fell on one knee, looked her in the eye, and said:

"Do you know what I saw, sister?"

"I see in your eyes the fear, the fear of the past, the fear of the future, the fear of death, the fear of survival. You are so timid that with every step you take, you die of a heart attack. So you can't go forward, you can't go back, you can't live, you can't die, you can only hide yourself and tremble in the darkness forever. ”

"Your eyes resemble mine, and unfortunately, in your eyes I don't see a powerful vampire, I can only see a fragile soul, trembling with fear. What are you afraid of? I'm curious......"

"Enough!"

Catherine slapped the arm of her chair and stood up. She looked down at Nalan Twilight, who looked up and met her with a smile on his face. For the first time, her porcelain-like delicate and cold face had an expression.

It was an undisguised look of anger.

"Now, get out of here!" she shouted, her image of Tranquil Sven shattered.

Nalan Twilight knew that she had touched the softest and most vulnerable part of this girl's heart.

That's why he can't give up halfway. If you want to be a bad person, you have to be to the end.

"I refuse," Nalan said, standing up, "unless, you leave with me." ”

"It's not good...... Yan Hua whispered.

As soon as Nalan said this, the anger on Catherine's face disappeared in an instant, and she turned back into the immobile poker face.

Yan Hua knew that this was the manifestation of anger beyond its limits and reaching new realms.

Immediately after, as if to verify her hunch, Yan Hua's body suddenly lost the strength to stand and fell to her knees. Out of the corner of her eye, she found that Remilia, who was beside her, had also fallen with her, her arms propped up on the floor, gasping for breath.

It was an indescribable feeling, as if the body had been emptied all of a sudden, and all the power had disappeared in the blink of an eye. The heart was still beating, but the blood had no temperature, Yan Hua seemed to have fallen into the Arctic Ocean, wrapped and squeezed by the cold and bone-crushing seawater, unable to breathe, unable to resist, and could only sink deeper and deeper in the dark.

"Is this magic, or is it ...... something"

While thinking hard, Yan Hua raised his head with great difficulty, glanced at Nalan Twilight, and found that he was still standing, so he was a little relieved. Because she could only see the back, she didn't know that Nalan Yu was also pale at this time, and cold sweat broke out, and she barely managed to maintain it by relying on her strong will.

This ...... "power" seems to be different from those gorgeous magic. But what is the difference, Yan Hua can't say for a while. At this time, she heard Remilia beside her mutter:

"Damn...... Magic in the body...... It's all gone......"

Remilia's magic is much larger than hers, so she is much more sensitive to changes in this area, which is a wake-up call......

"That's right, disappear!"

Yan Hua had an idea and almost stood up, but unfortunately, he didn't. In fact, if she weren't a vampire and had great physical strength, she would have been lying dead on the ground by now, and it would be impossible for her to speak.

"It's to disappear...... This power is not the power that 'releases' energy like magic......" Yan Hua said without breathing, "but ...... The power to 'destroy' the existing energy......"

Raising his head again and glancing around, Yan Hua found that the skin of the white stone wall had become as if it had been weathered for hundreds of years, turning into fine sand and dust, peeling off layer by layer. The wooden furniture was aging, shriveling, crumbling, and finally turning to dust before her eyes at an alarming rate.

Seeing this, Yanhua got a little better news and a bad news.

The good news is that she was right.

The bad news is, she's right.

The power of this girl is indeed to wipe out the energy to some extent. Those substances that have lost their most basic energy cannot even maintain their own existence, and they collapse one after another and return to their most primitive state. It won't be long before her and Remilia's vitality will be wiped out, and they will both turn into dry bones and even dust, and disappear with the wind.

Without fancy lights, complicated procedures, or even any outward manifestations, Catherine didn't even need to move her fingers, and with just her thoughts, she could reduce everything to nothingness. This force is so simple, so unpretentious, and so deadly. That's the real reason why the hostile vampires still don't dare to touch her hand to this day.

"Na...... Lan Yu ......"

After only a few seconds, Remilia didn't even have the strength to hold herself up. She lay on the ground, her voice so faint that she looked like a terminally ill patient with half a foot in a coffin.

"You...... You'd better have some hidden tricks left...... Otherwise......"

"Of course I have ......"

Nalan Twilight's voice was also weak, except for the fact that he was still standing, he was really not much better than those two.

He took out a piece of pale yellow rune paper with a six-pointed star pattern from his pocket, pinched it in his hand and tore it in half. In an instant, a strong golden light burst out from the rune paper, flooding the entire room.

Although this golden light was strong, it only flashed for a moment. Yan Hua's vision turned from black to white, and then gradually returned to pitch black, and after a short period of blindness, there was a long-lost warmth.

The physical strength that had been lost was not recovered, but the fatal loss of physical strength was stopped. Feeling the gradually rising temperature in his body, and watching Remilia next to him get up from the ground, Yan Hua confirmed a fact:

Catherine Pagos's power was suppressed, or rather, she stopped using it.

Yan Hua raised his head and saw Nalan Yu, who was still standing well, but at this time, he was kneeling on one knee, panting, and couldn't even lift his head. In fact, he had been pushed to the limit a long time ago, but only now did he show this unreserved tiredness.

This means that he is convinced that he holds the key to victory. With Nalan Yu's character, if it weren't for the victory, he would never let go of this breath.

Catherine Pagos was still standing in front of him, behind him a field of black cinders—there used to be a chair.

She's hurt, if, that's a "wound". Cracks appeared in her snow-white skin, which became like cracked porcelain bowls, and they were broken artistically. Tiny shards of white porcelain fell from her face, scattering into crystal dust in the air. The flowers are scattered, and it makes people feel distressed to watch.

"Magic...... That's a good thing, magic!"

Nalan Twilight wiped a handful of sweat with his sleeve, raised his head to look up at Catherine's chin, and said with a smile:

"This is a magic prop I borrowed from a witch, no extra magic is needed, just tear it open and it works, it's quick and easy, suitable for all ages. Its only function is to store and then release sunlight. ”

"A few minutes in the sun can be full of energy, and when you tear it off, it will become like a flashbang, in addition to flashing blind dog eyes, it can also restrain vampires a little, simple and practical, isn't it?"

That's right, that burst of golden light is the brilliance of the sun. Yanhua and Remilia, like Nalan Twilight, are some "special" vampires, so they were just flashed. If it's a vampire in the traditional sense, it's still quite painful to encounter this trick, right?

It must be painful, right?

"But, what's the point?"

Looking at Catherine's appearance, Yan Hua only had this sentence in his heart.

Shock at first, then calm. As the cracks and chips on Catherine's face gradually returned to their original state, her countenance became more and more hideous.

It was an irrepressible rage. The little girl who was like a puppet had now turned into a manic beast. Looking at her face, Remilia couldn't help but think of Fran who was out of control.

Just a moment of light, let alone killing a vampire, can't even hurt her, the only effect is to bring her a tingling pain, and ......

"If you've come all the way here just to me off, you've done it. ”

And outright infuriated her.

"Haha...... Ahem, ahem, ahem......" Nalan Yu smiled a little embarrassed, he really didn't panic at all, "Makes you angry, why am I doing this, is it good for me?"

"Take a look, Catherine, take a closer look, haven't you found anything when you're smart with ice and snow?"

Hearing him say this, even though she was almost out of her mind with anger, Catherine still glanced at it hastily. When she caught a glimpse of Yanhua and Remilia not far away, her gaze froze, and the anger in her heart was swept away. The angry white lion turned back into a docile white cat, and everything just now seemed to have never happened.

"How did you do that...... she whispered, "why aren't you hurt?"

Yes, unlike her, who was burned by the sunlight of that moment, Yanhua and Remilia did not have a single scar on their bodies. Forget about Nalan Twilight, how did these two people get out unscathed?

They were indeed vampires, and there could be no mistake about that, and Catherine could clearly feel the aura of "kindred" in the two of them. But in the midst of that breath there was something very strange, something that Catherine Pagos had never encountered in her life.

"If you're willing to go out with me for a late-night snack, I'd love to share with you our experience of overcoming the sun, but before I do that, I have to ask you a question, Catherine......"

Nalan Yu held his knees, staggered to his feet, and said with a serious look and tone that was quite rare for him:

"Do you crave 'change'?"

"Change...... What?"

"Change everything. ”

Catherine saw the long-lost brother standing in front of her, and there seemed to be a light in his eyes. She heard him say:

"Your fate, your past, and the fate of the entire vampire clan. Don't ask me how to change all this, you just need to know that I can do it. ”

"You can kill me and bury me here forever. Maybe thousands of years later, when you rot in the dark, you will remember that there was once such a person, who gave you a chance to step out of the shadows and embrace the sun, but you did not cherish it. ”

"Now, it's time to make a choice. ”

With that, Nalan took out two small capsules, one red and one blue, from his pocket, one in each hand, and placed them in front of Catherine.

"Red represents the sun, and eating it means saying goodbye to your old self and welcoming a new day. You will gain new strength, a new life. ”

"Blue represents the moon, and eating it means the coming of a long night. You will continue to sleep in the dark, forgotten by time. ”

"Choose red, you'll have to go more, choose blue, and I'll disappear from you, never again. ”

"What the hell are you ......" Catherine's voice trembled, "what do you want from me......"

Just now she was still a tyrant, and now, her momentum was completely overwhelmed by Nalan Twilight, and she became like a helpless child...... In fact, she was a helpless child.

"That's not the point, the point is, what do you want?" Nalan said, "Whatever you want, you have a chance to get it now." I've got the opportunity in front of you, just reach out and you can grab it. The question is, will you reach out this hand, or will you continue to run away, like you've been doing?"

"Don't look for answers from me, Catherine Pagos, look for them from yourself, from the bottom of your heart, what do you want?"

Listening to his words, Catherine fell into hesitation. Her gaze bobbed back and forth between red and blue, unable to make a choice for a long time.

"I want to ...... What I want is ......"

Finally, she made her choice, and in a whisper, she slowly reached for the blue pill.

Self-abandonment, self-exile, that's what you're after, or rather, you've always been doing, isn't it?

"That's right...... That's right......"

Then what are you hesitating about? Why don't you just kill this little ghost in front of you and crush those two broken pills? This is your castle, and no one wants to make trouble here.

"Yes, I understand, but ......"

But you don't really want that, do you?

"I ......"

If it's going to be a wedding, I'd like to do it in the sun, and I'm going to laugh! I love you, Catherine......

"I choose ......"

Catherine's hand stopped on top of the blue pill, but it didn't fall after all. After a moment's pause, she moved her hand to the other side, to the red pill.

"I choose red. ”

As she spoke, she finally made up her mind, picked up the red pill, swallowed it in one gulp, swallowed it into her stomach, and then, with a resolute gaze, looked up at Nalan Twilight.

"The phoenix is not a caged thing after all. Nalan smiled deeply, both eyes narrowed, "I knew you would choose this way." ”

With that, he held out his hand to Catherine:

"Come on, come with me, let's find a place to have a drink first. Do you prefer tea, or coffee?"

"Coffee. ”

"Then I just know that there is a place, but I don't know if they can open the door at this point...... Well, when you get to the city, it's probably dawn!"