Chapter 2 The Commencement Ball
The year 2000 has arrived at the turn of the century, and apart from the great celebrations seen on the television news, the reality of life has not changed at all. The weather in February is still unusually cold, there are only a few lonely pedestrians on the street at night, a lonely bus stares at the headlights without energy, drives slowly on the road, turns a few corners, enters a secluded road, the elongated light of the headlights and taillights is swallowed up by the dark road, and the whole car disappears into the darkness.
The bus driver stared at the last passenger in the car from the rear view window, a figure curled up in a black jacket, seemed to have his head down, and seemed to be staring at himself, his body swayed slightly with the constantly shaking bus, and it was not real to see through the rearview mirror, the world in the dark was empty, and the whole road was left with this car driving alone, and the vehicle came to a straight avenue without any buildings, and the miserable white moonlight was projected on the ground, shining with silver brilliance, illuminating the entire body, The silver-white light was transmitted from the rear of the car to the front of the car, the driver turned his head sharply, and saw the passenger running towards him quickly, a ponytail fluttering in the air, and took out a weapon from the tightly wrapped coat, and instantly arrived in front of him, the driver only had time to stretch out his right hand to cover it, and was taken out by the figure.
The sound of the sirens tore through the silence of the night, and several police cars roared into the family area of St. Heaven's High School, and in the night, the lights of many homes were turned on, and the police officers went in and out of a residential house, and entered one of the bedrooms of the room, where a young girl was lying on the bed in her pajamas, her eyes staring at the ceiling with empty eyes, and there was an opening like a baby's mouth at the major artery at her wrist, from which a large stream of blood spurted out, piling up a thick layer on the ground and solidifying into a ball.
This year's opening ceremony of St. Paradise High School began in a gloomy mood, and the shadow of the suicide of a female student in the third year of high school at this school loomed over everyone's hearts. High school students in their youth do not have a more intimate sense of death, but just a familiar person, who has since disappeared into their lives forever, and inevitably spreads sentimental sadness.
The school's leaders also noticed this sentiment and insisted on holding the New School Year Dance as scheduled, hoping to sweep away the gloomy atmosphere. Zhang Xinyi wore a down jacket with a black stand-up collar, walked silently in the school, and walked to the class of the girl who committed suicide, in the third class of Zhang Haiquan's senior high school, Zhang Haiquan's classmates thought that Zhang Xinyi was here to find Zhang Haiquan, and pushed Zhang Haiquan in front of Zhang Xinyi.
"What's the matter?" Zhang Haiquan asked with squinted eyes.
"How much do you know about the girls in your class who committed suicide?" Zhang Xinyi's face was calm.
"You're still studying these sinister things?" Zhang Haiquan asked.
"Yes, I'm still working on it." Zhang Xinyi was unmoved.
"I don't know, I don't have anything to do with this girl." After Zhang Haiquan finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Xinyi and walked into the classroom.
A few boys on the side came up and talked to Zhang Xinyi for a while, Zhang Xinyi responded coldly and walked away.
Zhang Xinyi walked around the school for a while, arrived at the school's administrative building, went up to the second floor, found the information of the girl who committed suicide in dozens of large iron cabinets in the archive room, took the information, and went downstairs while walking.
The infirmary was replaced with new daylight lighting, and the original dim scene was swept away, and the ground floor was paved with new white tiles, which were warm and delicate. Zhang Xinyi sniffed hard, there was a familiar smell in the air, she squatted down, and carefully rubbed back and forth in the gap between the tiles with her hands, as if there was a reflection on the ground showing a picture, reflected in her mind, Zhang Xinyi said to herself, "This is its canteen!" ”
Out of the infirmary, Zhang Xinyi tightened the down jacket on her body, tugged her ponytail into the down jacket, and walked out of the campus with her hands down. On the street after school, there are lively students everywhere, Zhang Xinyi walked quietly on the road on the side of the street alone, when she passed by a used bookstore, she stopped, and saw an unsheathed elongated military thorn hanging on the wall of the used bookstore, which was very well maintained, and the handle of the unsheathed military bayonet was shining with silver light, and the cold light was shining, Zhang Xinyi took a few glances and continued to walk forward.
"Zhang Xinyi, this girl is good, why did you share it with her?" On the way out of school, a group of people asked Zhang Haiquan.
"She's a very dangerous person, and she often gets involved with things that can't be explained." Zhang Haiquan replied.
"Yes, thorny roses, your hands bleed when you touch them." A companion said.
"I've found you very strange these days, always speaking such poetic language." Zhang Haiquan glanced back.
"Really?" The companion blinked and did not answer.
Preparations for the school's dance party are in full swing, with the stage set up and the lights up. Students carrying speakers come and go, this year the school was originally prepared for the pot dance, in order to highlight the relaxed and happy atmosphere, changed to a masquerade ball, I hope that with the convening of the ball, we can sweep away the haze atmosphere as soon as possible.
On the day of the prom
"Isn't it, what did you eat last night?" Zhang Haiquan asked a companion together.
"I don't know, anyway, my stomach hurts, you help me. Let's go to the infirmary. "This companion has been set up by another person.
Zhang Haiquan went over and helped the companion up, and the three of them walked towards the infirmary slowly.
The entire campus was full of students who were happily rushing to the auditorium to attend the ball, running past the students around the three people, looking at the three of them curiously, and running away without stopping.
After a period of chaos, Zhang Xinyi walked over and glanced at the three of them coldly. "Where are you going?"
"Infirmary, this guy ate bad yesterday!" Zhang Haiquan did not answer, and another companion answered her.
Zhang Xinyi stood in place and watched the backs of the three disappear from her gaze.
When he arrived at the infirmary, he helped the classmate to lie on the bed, there was no one in the entire administrative building, and the cold wind in winter rolled up a huge echo outside the window, Zhang Haiquan moved his body, "The doctor is not here yet, I'll show you what medicine is there for stomach pain." With that, he turned around and went to open the medicine cabinet hanging on the wall.
The moment he opened the medicine cabinet, through the glass window, he saw the companion who was lying quietly on the hospital bed, sat up at ninety degrees suddenly, looked at himself gloomily, and just wanted to turn back, "Ping-pong!" The door of the infirmary was pushed open, Zhang Xinyi rushed in, I don't know where to take out a golden javelin, rushed to the companion on the hospital bed, a diagonal stab, the javelin with lightning, drew a beautiful arc, fiercely pierced into the big artery on the companion's neck, "snapped" a large stream of blood spurted out, white sheets, beige curtains were suddenly decorated with bright red patterns.
Zhang Haiquan's mind was blank, and he turned his head mechanically, only to see that his companion lying on the bed had a layer of skin left on his neck connected to his body, his head tilted and lying on the pillow, his tongue sticking out for a long time, and his eyes were wide looking at him.
Zhang Xinyi walked over to him with a murderous face, Zhang Haiquan intuitively felt that his legs were weak, as if he saw a cold stranger walking towards him.
"Get out of here!" Zhang Xinyi said to herself coldly.
After saying that, he ignored himself, turned to the other companion and said, "Hurry up...... You? Zhang Xinyi glanced at the huge shadow cast by this companion on the ground, her eyes were round, she took out her javelin and stabbed at this companion fiercely, the companion screamed, and the fluorescent lamp in the infirmary shattered to the ground with a "bang". The light dimmed instantly, and then, the companion stretched out his arm, trying to block the javelin that stabbed him, the javelin was without lightning, and the power was much less, and it was blocked by the arm, and the companion roared again, raised his arm and shook it violently, throwing Zhang Xinyi to the opposite wall, and the javelin was broken into two.
Rao is like this, the javelin has pierced his arm, blood sprayed all over the ground, the companion covered his arm, and fled in pain, Zhang Xinyi immediately got up and chased out. Zhang Haiquan was left alone to stand in the same place.
In just a minute, one companion was killed in front of him, and the other companion also became strange, the smell of blood permeated the air, like the smell of a dismembered carp in the seafood market, smelling too much, there will be a feeling of drunkenness, when you are drunk, you want to vomit, Zhang Haiquan wants to vomit, her stomach already has a cramping feeling, but her brain is still running rapidly, why did she kill my classmate? Why, my companion has become so weird, Zhang Haiquan once again looked up at the companion who died on the hospital bed, but this time he only saw a huge humanoid creature, lying on the hospital bed in a pool of blood, the whole body was red **, a huge claw hung weakly on the edge of the hospital bed, and the original familiar face has now become a monster head with a wolf's mouth and red hair.
Zhang Haiquan really didn't understand what was going on, there was only one thought in his mind, catch up with them, catch up with that companion, catch up with Zhang Xinyi, and ask what happened, Zhang Haiquan's mind was blank, and he staggered out of the infirmary.
Zhang Xinyi hurriedly ran out of the campus, came to the used bookstore, rushed in, and if no one else took off the elongated military thorn from the wall, she was about to run out of the bookstore, a fat boss chased after her, and pressed Zhang Xinyi's shoulder, Zhang Xinyi turned around, and shouted with a fierce expression, "It's too late!" ”
"I know, this time I can let you try it first, and next time I will introduce more people to buy it, I have all kinds of magic weapons here." The boss wore gold-rimmed glasses, said with a smile, and handed Zhang Xinyi a business card.
Zhang Haiquan carefully stared at the ground and searched all the way, and finally, he found a little blood at the door of the auditorium, and looked up, the banner that was originally hanging at the door was torn off by whom, and along the bloodstains, Zhang Haiquan walked into the auditorium, and the auditorium was crowded with people, and it was very noisy. Dressed in Venetian masks and gorgeous evening dresses, the girls march forward and backward to the beat, dancing gracefully. The boys are all unconventional, dressed as robot cats, white prodigals, and red madmen running around the venue, dancing like monkeys being played.
Zhang Haiquan walked alone in the noisy auditorium, staring at the bloodstains on the ground, a heart hung in his throat, the bloodstained road was spotted and led straight to the deepest part of the auditorium, and the surrounding figures became fluttering in the dance music, like a floating humanoid balloon, through the floating crowd, to the end of the bloodstained road, a back wrapped in a red banner appeared in front of him, Zhang Haiquan stood in place, the back turned around, under the projection of the colorful spotlights overhead, A pair of green eyes looked at Zhang Haiquan coldly, and a long sharp mouth grinned. Showing his sharp canine teeth, he hissed and roared at Zhang Haiquan.
A black figure rushed towards this monster from Zhang Haiquan's side with a strong wind, only to hear the sound of brushing, the figure pulled out a snowy elongated military thorn from his arms, drew a semicircle in the air, and slashed towards the monster!
The monster's body suddenly swelled, and he retreated sharply backwards, and fell short with a knife, the monster stretched out its thick arm and swept towards Zhang Xinyi with a slap, Zhang Xinyi, who had taken the posture, hurriedly blocked with a military thorn, and a huge black palm slapped on the military thorn, making a buzzing echo, and under the blow, blood splashed. The monster tightened in pain, gathered its body, wrapped its banner tightly, and rushed out of the side door to the auditorium.
Zhang Haiquan looked at Zhang Xinyi again, she received the military thorn, under the high bridge of her nose, two nosebleeds gushed out, it seemed that she was injured by the attack just now, Zhang Haiquan hurriedly walked over, wanted to help her, but was pushed away by Zhang Xinyi, Zhang Xinyi wiped the nosebleed with her cuffs, and shouted at Zhang Haiquan, "It's too late, these monsters are vampires, and those who have seen their real bodies will be killed by them!" ”
"What? Two of my classmates are vampires? Zhang Haiquan looked surprised.
"Remember your female classmate who committed suicide, your two classmates are just like her, just their shells." Zhang Xinyi sat on the ground, taking the opportunity to recover her strength.
"What is a shell?" Zhang Haiquan was puzzled.
"See for yourself!" Zhang Xinyi threw over a manual, with "Ten Words to Know Vampires" written on the cover, and when she opened it, it read:
1. Vampires are a noble bloodline from Cain ancient times.
2. It is also possible to be infected by a virus and cause a mutation in the gene.
3. Feed mainly on human blood.
4. After several generations of evolution, they have been fully integrated into human society.
5. In order to facilitate the sucking of human blood, they will enter the bodies of humans killed by them, usually disguised as humans.
6. Once you need to suck blood, transform into vampire form.
7. The host's shell is destroyed over time.
8. At this point, the vampire will cut open the artery in the host's wrist and come out of its shell.
9. Whoever sees the true body of a vampire will be killed by a vampire. Whenever, wherever.
10. Kill a vampire and reward ten kilograms of gold for the world.
"So what's going on now?" Zhang Haiquan asked.
"When I'm rested, I'll kill it," Zhang Xinyi looked at the joyful crowd around her.
"It's a shame to say that we haven't danced together." For a moment, a trace of loneliness crept up Zhang Xinyi's cheeks.
At this moment, a roar that resounded through the sky broke through the fog of dance music in the auditorium and clearly drifted into the ears of the two, Zhang Xinyi's expression tightened, "It's not good, the fleeing vampires are calling for their companions, if there are a few more, it will be difficult to do!" Zhang Xinyi stood up and walked towards the door with a cold expression.
"What should I do?" Zhang Haiquan asked.
"You find a place to hide and wait until this is over. You...... Don't die! Zhang Xinyi walked out of the side door and walked out of the auditorium.
Zhang Haiquan looked at Zhang Xinyi's back and disappeared in his eyes, stood blankly in place for a while, and walked out of the auditorium aimlessly, the cold wind blew in his face, Zhang Haiquan was excited, and suddenly remembered that the current infirmary is full of blood, if it is discovered, it will be a big trouble, he should go to the scene now, what should I do after the scene is blocked? Alarm? said that Zhang Xinyi killed two of her classmates? His classmates have long ceased to be his classmates, but have become vampires? No! said that he happened to pass by the infirmary and saw someone dead inside, no, many people saw themselves and those two monster classmates go to the infirmary...... Zhang Haiquan trotted all the way to the infirmary, and the thoughts in his mind had turned a thousand times countless times.
Walking into the administrative building, the whistling wind stopped, the world suddenly quieted down, the fluorescent lamp overhead decorated the deep corridor into black and white sections, the flickering light swept across Zhang Haiquan's sweaty face, and the whole space echoed with his heartbeat, just when Zhang Haiquan couldn't hold on and wanted to run back, the infirmary arrived. Zhang Haiquan took a deep breath, and was just about to step in, suddenly! A huge black shadow pasted up, grabbed Zhang Haiquan's neck, lifted Zhang Haiquan in the air, and pressed it against the wall at once, a pair of green eyes emerged from the darkness, and a big mouth full of sharp teeth emitted a strong fishy smell, and came towards Zhang Haiquan's face. Zhang Haiquan felt that he was about to suffocate, his legs kicked around hard, the vampire sniffed hard, let go of Zhang Haiquan, Zhang Haiquan fell to the ground, coughing violently, and when he came to his senses, he saw a young man who was about the same as himself standing in front of him, looking at himself coldly, "You, take me to find that blood hunt!" ”
Zhang Xinyi walked out of the side door of the auditorium, took out an old pocket watch from her arms, carefully looked at the pointer stopped in one direction, and hurriedly ran to the direction of the pointer, and after a while, ran to the school parking lot. Walking to the front of one of the parking garages, the cold wind was blowing, and the clouds were slowly lowering towards the earth, making the entire skyline more and more gloomy.
Zhang Xinyi pushed the door and walked into the parking garage, it was pitch black, and she touched the switch along the wall next to the door, and with a "snap", the entire garage lit up, and a black Santana sedan was parked inside, and a pungent smell of gasoline came to her face, Zhang Xinyi pulled out the elongated military thorn, slowed down, and slowly walked to the depths of the garage. Zhang Xinyi hurriedly jumped out, but it was still too late, a large red curtain sticking to blood came down from the top of her head, enveloping herself, and all her sight was closed.
Zhang Xinyi did not hesitate, closed her eyes, raised her lengthened military thorn with both hands, and stabbed out hard towards the direction of her right front as she wished.
With a "poof", Zhang Xinyi clearly felt the feeling of the military thorn penetrating the musculature and piercing the internal organs. His hands did not loosen in the slightest, and he continued to exert himself vigorously, stabbing the army deeper. The hot liquid sprayed her hand, smelly and sticky. After Zhang Xinyi held this position for more than ten seconds, she heard a dull sound, Zhang Xinyi let go, hurriedly took off the red cloth that covered her, and saw a huge vampire lying on the ground.
Zhang Xinyi stepped on the vampire's chest, and was about to pull out the long military thorn, when suddenly, there was a loud noise behind her! Hurriedly turned around, but saw the garage door that was still wide open just now, I don't know what force slammed it shut, and quickly pulled out the military thorn, but the military thorn was stuck in the bone, and there was no reaction at all.
With a "snap", the skylight glass on the top of the garage suddenly shattered, and a huge black shadow fell from the sky with the glass slag in the sky, and after landing, it let out a huge roar at Zhang Xinyi.
Zhang Xinyi saw this black shadow clearly, it was a huge vampire more than two meters tall, but it was all black, with white Sensen's bone helmet on the chest, elbows, and knees, the nails on the limbs were thick and hard, a head of red hair was draped over the back, a pair of big green eyes looked at herself fiercely, and Zhang Haiquan was sandwiched under her arms, but she didn't know whether she was dead or alive.
As soon as the vampire lowered his head, he saw that Zhang Xinyi's weapon could not be pulled out, and he threw out Zhang Haiquan and pounced on Zhang Xinyi, Zhang Xinyi hurriedly retreated, retreated to the door of the garage in three times and two times, pushed hard, but did not move at all, his eyes wandered around, and he saw a shovel standing next to the door, and hurriedly went over to pick it up, the vampire had already pounced, Zhang Xinyi lowered his head, and the vampire pounced, taking advantage of this moment, Zhang Xinyi hurriedly stabbed the vampire's ribs with the shovel, But it was the egg that hit the stone, and the vampire didn't react at all, except for the shock that made his mouth numb.
Zhang Haiquan regained consciousness and sat up in a daze, what happened just now? After the boy finished speaking, he suddenly turned into a huge vampire, sandwiched himself under its armpit, his head was dizzy, he felt like he was climbing up and down with this vampire, the surrounding scenery was constantly changing, he seemed to have fallen into a dream that would never wake up, this dream was painful and cold, his familiar classmates were killed, dead corpses, innocent faces were distorted into monsters, he was being run all over the street with a knife by Zhang Xinyi, and kept shouting "Zhang Haiquan, Zhang Haiquan ......"
Zhang Haiquan slowly saw clearly, Zhang Xinyi was sweating profusely and squatting in front of her, anxiously shouting her name, this must be a dream, I want to sleep again, as soon as I wake up, the world will be normal.
Zhang Xinyi looked at Zhang Haiquan's confused eyes, and slapped him twice, making Zhang Haiquan's face flushed.
"Wake up!" Zhang Xinyi shouted anxiously.
Zhang Haiquan, who felt the pain, came to his senses and saw that the vampire at the door was ignited by Zhang Xinyi after being poured with gasoline, and was jumping around in the fire. Zhang Xinyi took advantage of this moment to fan herself awake.
"If you don't want to die, get me up quickly." Zhang Xinyi's gaze was anxious and hateful.
Zhang Haiquan struggled for a while, his head was lightheaded, his legs were weak, he couldn't stand up, I saw that the vampire extinguished the fire on his body, and pounced violently, Zhang Xinyi carried a shovel and met it, the vampire slapped it down with a strong slap, and split the shovel in half with a "snap", and pounced on Zhang Xinyi with the head of the shovel, and was pierced into the ribs by the vampire's claws, letting out a painful scream.
This scream aroused Zhang Haiquan's blood, and his whole body was energized, and he finally staggered to his feet.
"Go start the car and slam the door open!" Zhang Xinyi shouted.
Zhang Haiquan was a fierce man, and he plunged into the Santana car, so he didn't die, the car was temporarily parked for refueling, and the key was not pulled. The trunk was wide open, and two barrels full of gasoline were placed inside. I just got my driver's license during the winter vacation, hit the car, changed gears, and went down with one foot on the accelerator, and the car hit the garage door straight up, "Kala" There was a loud bang, and the thin garage door was hit and opened, and wood chips flew all over the sky.
Hurriedly stepped on the brakes, opened the door, ran out of the car, wanted to save Zhang Xinyi, suddenly remembered that he didn't have a guy, touched his pocket, the lighter and handkerchief were there, quickly took it out, picked up a barrel of gasoline from the trunk, clicked open, soaked the handkerchief, stuffed half into the gasoline barrel, and hurriedly ran to the garage, only to see that the vampire's big mouth had been pasted on Zhang Xinyi's face.
Hurriedly lit the handkerchief, saw that the fire was just right, and threw it out in the middle of the vampire's wide back, "Huo" to the ground, the flames flew high, and the vampire was burned and jumped.
Taking advantage of this moment, Zhang Xinyi rolled and escaped from the vampire's attack range, stood up, and motioned for Zhang Haiquan to hurry up and get into the car, and the two hurriedly got into the car, started the car and escaped from the garage.
"Why can't you burn to death?" Zhang Haiquan asked
"It's the bloodline of the vampire ancestors, and it's not that easy to kill." Zhang Xinyi took out the gauze she was carrying, took off her coat and began to bandage the wound.
"That's if you can't kill it, where are we going?" Zhang Haiquan asked, his gaze resting on Zhang Xinyi's exposed snow-white skin.
"If you don't want to be killed, drive well." Zhang Xinyi's eyes were cold.
Zhang Haiquan swallowed his saliva and returned his gaze to the steering wheel.
"As long as it's a vampire, you can kill them with any sharp weapon, stab them at once, and make them lose a lot of blood!" Zhang Xinyi quickly bandaged the wound and put on her coat.
"What instructions?" Zhang Haiquan asked.
"Go to the tool room, and then go to the power distribution room" Zhang Xinyi regained her cold look.
The car swayed around the school and drove to the side of the artificial lake, the sky was already dark, and the icy lake water was shining, reflecting the backs of Zhang Xinyi and Zhang Haiquan.
"You're getting stronger now." Zhang Haiquan said.
"It's not that I'm strong, it's that you haven't grown!" Zhang Xinyi replied.
"What is it that makes you strong?" Zhang Haiquan asked.
"If you don't get strong, it's a matter of minutes to hang up." Zhang Xinyi's eyes drifted into the distance.
Zhang Haiquan looked at Zhang Xinyi's side face, and suddenly felt that she was also a weak woman who needed someone to protect her, and a feeling of pity rose rapidly, and he hugged Zhang Xinyi's shoulders in the past, "Let me do my best to protect you, just like when we first met." ”
Zhang Xinyi didn't react, and her tone became empty and distant, "If life is only as it was when I first saw it, what is the autumn wind and sad fan." What you can never go back to is the first time. It's hard to chase and recall. With that, he gently broke free of Zhang Haiquan's arm and sighed, "It's coming." ”
A little green light lit up in the dark, from far to near, Zhang Haiquan got into the car and turned on the headlights, two strong lights lit up, the vampire appeared in the light, Zhang Haiquan opened the trunk, put forward a miniature generator, started it, the engine made a sudden sound in the quiet night, Zhang Xinyi wore rubber gloves, took out a long iron nail for digging stones from the trunk, and waited for Zhang Haiquan to connect the generator with a wire, and connected the iron nail to the wire, and suddenly there was a blue and white current swimming in the iron nail, making a sizzling electric sound.
The vampire jumped on the roof of the car and roared at the two, Zhang Xinyi raised the iron nail and threw it out, the vampire didn't know what was powerful, he pounced on Zhang Xinyi regardless of it, and took the blow hard, and his whole body convulsed in an instant, and the iron nail easily penetrated its belly, and the wound exuded a strong burnt smell. The vampire rolled over and fell in front of the two, and the two quickly retreated, staring at the vampire, who jumped violently, spread a bunch of huge wings, and flew into the air, moving away in the opposite direction of the two.
"Not chasing?" Zhang Haiquan asked.
"No, it's so badly injured, the other Bloodhunters will easily kill it." Zhang Xinyi watched the vampire disappear into the sky.
"How did this whole mess end?" Zhang Haiquan asked.
"Someone will clean it up, and you shouldn't tell anyone about today's events, no one will believe it." The pager on Zhang Xinyi's body rang.
"Then I'll act like nothing happened? My classmates didn't die? I haven't seen a vampire? Zhang Haiquan didn't know what he wanted to say.
"For your own good, for a peaceful life, you act as if nothing happened." Zhang Xinyi looked down at the pager, her face tightened.
When she came to a phone booth, Zhang Xinyi paged back, and there was a strange sound on the other end of the phone, as if someone had put her head in the water and was talking on the phone, which was muddy and seemed to be bubbling up.
"Zhang Xinyi, within two days, there will be a murder in the toilet in the northwest of the school, if you want to save people, pay attention to this matter!"
"Who are you?" Zhang Xinyi is not in a hurry.
"Dut...... Honk...... ...... beep "The other party hung up the phone."