Chapter 348: Arrival
The afterglow of the sun vanished on the horizon, and the cold wind of the night blew again.
Around a dilapidated train station in the middle of nowhere, in the northwestern part of Budapest, rows of black limousines are parked around. The train station seems to be a bit deserted, with very few people. At this moment, when it was close to the wee hours of the morning, it seemed quiet and silent.
In the distance of the platform, Tang Bai, who hid himself in the darkness of the night, looked at this place from afar, with an unpredictable look on his face. With a top vampire nobleman like Klein as an undercover agent, he can indeed receive a lot of confidential information. Just like right now.
Lucien sent Tang Bai a definite message, the awakening ceremony was about to begin, and the first wave of Amelia's mission had arrived. Tonight is the date when Amelia will come in person.
According to the agreement and plan, Crane snatched Amelia's protection from the hands of Karn the Deathwalker and arranged him to be his henchmen and the part of the Deathwalker who were only loyal to him. And now, Crane's henchman Sauron is sitting in a limousine near the platform.
Through the black coated windows of the vehicle, Sauron looked silently ahead, his expression grim, as if he was waiting for something. Around the convoy, there were heavily armed security forces brought by Sauron on the left and right.
Tang Bai stood in the distance, the night did not block his vision, and the silence of the night also made his sense of hearing much sharper. The empty platform, suddenly from a distance, in a certain direction to the west, Tang Bai heard a rumbling sound approaching.
That kind of voice Tang Bai is very familiar, the kind of familiarity engraved in his heart.
The rumbling sound of a steam engine!
Leave aside a pocket watch that I made with alchemy. He looked at the time, and Lucien told him about the time of Amelia's arrival. Not a single point, not a single point, just on time.
This track, as well as the train station, is not abandoned, but it is also abandoned. From beginning to end of the year, it is rare for a train to pass through this track. And at this time. At this point in time, the only one who happened to break in was Amelia. And the train carrying the entire Blood Council!
Budapest is one of the most important strongholds of vampires, and it can even be said that they originated from the vampires, as well as the sleeping place of the elders. But that's not the political center of vampires on the surface.
The Amelia family.
The Victor family.
Two large vampire families take turns in power.
Each Elder wakes up and takes power, and re-forms his own Blood Council. Among them are the best of the vampires who are politically savvy. But it's more about some of the human powers. These humans work with vampires. In exchange for what they want when they retire.
Phoenix! Glory!
The awakening ritual is not just a simple awakening ceremony in which one elder wakes another elder from his slumber, but also a grand first embrace ceremony and a process of power transfer.
According to what Lucien heard from Crane, due to the awakening ceremony, the members of the entire Blood Council need to be brought together in person, so the escort around the elder will be limited by the space of the vehicle they take, and the number will not be too large.
Low-key and hidden. It's deep into the bones of the vampire race. They don't naturally like that kind of eye-catching pomp and circumstance because there's too much exposure and too much action. For them, it is extremely dangerous.
This world is a world that belongs to human beings.
The vast majority of vampires recognize and admit this in their hearts, and most of the laws of the vampire clan are also closely related to humans. So for thousands of years, they have become accustomed to hiding themselves and minimizing the possibility of being discovered by humans.
This is one of the keys to the vampire clan's ability to get along with humans so far and to cooperate well with many of their high-level leaders.
If you want to snipe a vampire elder, then the awakening ritual is an extremely rare opportunity.
Of course, achieving this condition is no less difficult than directly attacking a vampire elder. Because of the lack of guards, the whereabouts of the elders who participated in the awakening ceremony are a secret among the secrets. None of the vampires had access to this classified information, and they were stopped at the first step.
Without knowing the whereabouts of the elders, it is impossible to carry out an ambush.
It is not enough to achieve the first step, if you can achieve the second step together, the plan, and the final loss, you can achieve a perfection.
Deathwalker!
The elders who participated in the awakening ceremony were well aware of the weakness of the guards around them, and the centuries of confrontation with werewolves made them even more important about their own security. At each stage of the journey, a certain number of Deathwalkers will be arranged as escorts.
When the end is reached, the escort work is completely taken over by another large family in charge of the place, so as to protect the elders' safety to the greatest extent. This makes it necessary to have someone turn all these Deathwalkers who came to protect them into deaf and blind people, and let them obediently cooperate with them.
It is very difficult to achieve either of these two conditions. Lucien, however, had laid a fairly solid foundation centuries ago. He used the tattoo engraved on his body that belonged to the slave insignia of the Victor family to rip it off, and used the lives of a large number of werewolves and deathwalkers to cooperate with Crane, who was just a penniless little person at the time, to act in a play and make a deal.
In that battle, there were two sides, werewolves and vampires, and on the surface, only Crane walked out alive, Lucien never appeared in front of people again, and the werewolves never rebelled on a large scale. So Klein won Victor's attention and awards, and used his skills and scheming to gradually become Victor's trusted confidant over the centuries, and became the regent of the Victor family while he was sleeping!
The scenery is limitless!
But I was also nervous.
Klein knew very well that once the facts were exposed, all that he had easily grabbed in his hands would come to naught, not to mention that Victor and several other vampire elders, as well as the entire Blood Clan Council, would not forgive him. So he could only follow the path Lucien had arranged for him without hesitation.
Kill the three vampire elders, reorganize the Blood Council, and make yourself the supreme ruler of the entire vampire race. On this path, Lucien will help him. Will help him get rid of the three Vampire Elders, help him unify the two vampire races, and make a peace pact with him that will not invade each other between werewolves and vampires.
Klein had no way out, and once Lucien stopped keeping his promise between them and started to show up again, then Victor would be the first one they couldn't spare him. So he had to give up everything he could to help Lucian.
Help the werewolves build a research room, secretly provide some military weapons, help them cover their whereabouts and secrets, and pass on news and act as eyes and ears for them. Any one of these would have been exposed and would have put Klein to death ten times, if not a hundred.
A few seconds later.
A train that looked old and old-fashioned entered Tang Bai's field of vision with a rolling sound. The body is pulled by an old, outdated, 1930s-style locomotive. The train is old but impeccably maintained.
The pistons and connecting rods of the locomotives rattled with the old steam engines, and the privately owned trains entered the station in a clamor with the rattle of brakes and the steaming that came with it.
Sauron, who had been waiting for a long time, took out the laser pointer from his pocket and, as agreed, quickly sent three ruby-like electronic pulses towards the body of the train, and the train slowly stopped. The electronic pulse message was to inform Amelia's bodyguards that the station had been secured and vetted by Klein's security forces, and that it was extremely safe.
Sauron's signal was quickly confirmed and responded to the pulse, apparently passing through the train's forward, black, opaque windows that blocked sunlight and ultraviolet rays. Sauron looked directly at his counterpart on the train, and Amelia's entourage signaled that the platform was safe and sound. So far, the whole process has gone smoothly and everything is going according to plan.
Sauron wore a pair of sunglasses, and his indifferent face showed no signs of anything unusual, even when he saw the huge werewolves lurking around him, who had deftly jumped out of the darkness, he was still indifferent.
Hairy claws scratched through the evaporating mist, and climbed up the tall body with dexterity, crawling on the top floor of the carriage. In the direction of the front door, four huge and ferocious human wolves, their black fur erected from their strange shape in anger, and their human-like bodies rose like apes in the bright moonlight.
In order to succeed in this operation, Lucien almost made a desperate bet and arranged many of his elite high-ranking human wolves here. In order to ensure that there are no accidents, like Michael Curvin. Lucien couldn't afford such an accident.
Although Lucien informed Tang Bai of the time and place, Tang Bai did not choose to carry out the operation with them. He, like Sauron on the other side of the train, watched quietly as it all happened. The curtain had already opened, and there was no need for him to get involved at the beginning.
No matter how long the weak guard force around Amelia can last under the brutal attack of these elite human wolves, how many silver bullets are stored, and Amelia, who is on the verge of entering a dormant state, can have a few points of strength in her heyday at this moment, once the battle starts, at least in half an hour and an hour, it is impossible to really end.
What's more, with the windows of the train and the mirrors decorated with the interior of the train, Tang Bai did not need to be present at the scene to be able to clearly watch the situation on the field. (To be continued......)