Chapter 019: The Art of Immortality
"Is this little girl your apprentice?" Empress Eldest Sun couldn't tell Nanyue's true age, but she felt that it shouldn't be rude to call her 'little girl'.
Because every woman longs to be young, to be called a 'little girl'.
"Let's just put it that way." Aroben looked at Nanyue with satisfaction, as if he was showing off his daughter to others, "Her name is Nanyue. ”
Nanyue bowed skillfully. Long before entering the palace, Aroben told her that vampires are nobles, and they must always maintain the temperament of aristocrats, and they can't kneel down lightly.
So, just this bowing action, she practiced countless times, just to exude an aristocratic temperament.
Li Shimin ordered the rest of the hall to stand down, and he couldn't wait to find out about immortality.
"Are you old this year?" Li Shimin asked this question with great anticipation. He thought to himself that maybe this strange-looking man was two hundred years old, or more.
However, he was sure that the little girl named Nanyue next to him must be a veritable little girl.
"I don't remember, but I know the first time I set foot on this land in search of a wizard." Aroben recalls his story with a blank look on his face. It seems that he really doesn't remember anything that long ago.
"In the beginning, we were not afraid of the sun, but because some of our people were killing humans, the wizards united to spell us to be afraid of the sun forever."
"The ultimatum guò captures a wizard and gets the way to break the spell, which is to drink the blood of a wizard and make the spell disappear from himself."
Aroben took out the only remaining bamboo tube. Nanyue knew that it contained the blood of a wizard.
Li Shimin, who has a great strategy, felt unbelievable after hearing about Aroben's Arabian Nights, because he had never heard of such a thing. He even thinks that Aroben and Nanyue are just charlatans.
"Can you show us what you're capable of?" Li Shimin's tone was a little questioning.
Aroben didn't blame him, just smiled gracefully, and then pulled out a dagger with an emerald inlaid handle.
"What are you going to do?" Empress Eldest Sun was taken aback.
"Don't be nervous." Nanyue was afraid that she would call in the people who were guarding the door outside, so she hurriedly said, "It's going to be fine." ”
Li Shimin and the queen both cautiously took a step back.
When Aroben drew the dagger, Nanyue had already spread out his palms and held them chest-high.
When he was about to plunge the dagger into Nanyue's palm, he hesitated for a moment, then turned to Li Shimin and said, "Your Majesty, you should come." ”
"Me?" Li Shimin was puzzled.
"Yes, if you do it yourself, you may be more convinced."
"Okay." Li Shimin was eager to see what tricks they played. He took the dagger from Aroben's hand.
There was a biting coldness from the dagger, and he threw it away with a shudder. Fortunately, Nan Yue's eyes were sharp and her hands were quick, and she grabbed the dagger that fell from Li Shimin's hand.
She made a mistake.
Instead of holding the handle of the dagger, she held the sharp blade. Perhaps because of nervousness, she held it so tightly that blood was already pouring out of her fingers.
Li Shimin was both distressed and annoyed: he couldn't even catch a dagger, and he dared to tease me with such a disorderly ability.
"Your Majesty, look!" Nanyue straightened up and returned the dagger to Aroben, and then she spread her palms in front of Li Shimin.
The wound was huge, and blood was pouring out.
"Bandage it." Li Shimin was distressed. Even if Nanyue is just a charlatan, she is so beautiful that Li Shimin is willing to forgive her.
"It's fine!" Nanyue said proudly, "You have taken a closer look, is this a real scar?" If you don't think it's deep enough, you can add two more knives, as long as you don't completely cut off my palm. ”
"Don't talk about that, let's bandage it quickly." Empress Eldest Sun was also a little distressed.
"Wait." "Look at how she repairs her wounds. ”
It's ridiculous, Li Shimin thought to himself, could it be that this scar that is so deep that you can see the muscles and bones will heal automatically?
Nanyue brought her palm to her mouth and licked the wound with her tongue.
It turns out that drinking one's own blood is far less important than drinking someone else's.
She frowned slightly, vampire blood was bitter.
"Your Majesty, look." She handed her palm to Li Shimin, and saw that the blood on her palm had been licked clean, and the deep and large scar was slowly closed in front of Li Shimin's eyes like a mouth.
Then the scar disappeared completely.
"It's amazing." Li Shimin and Empress Eldest Sun were amazed.
"Believer Li Shimin, meet the two immortals." Li Shimin, who witnessed the miracle, immediately bowed his head and bowed, and the eldest grandson queen also knelt down.
Nanyue laughed when she saw them so funny.
"We are not immortals." Nanyue said, "The emperor and queen, get up quickly." ”
Li Shimin was skeptical, and only stood up after Nanyue insisted that he was really not an immortal.
"Then why did you just do that? Isn't it because of the spell? Li Shimin asked.
"Of course not. That's just a skill that every vampire can have. ”
"It's amazing." Empress Changsun sighed, "Your Majesty, if our army can also have such a ability, it will be an invincible surprise soldier." ”
Hearing the words of the eldest grandson empress, Aloben's brows immediately tightened.
"Never." "The number of vampires can only be as small as possible, and if some people are not right, they will kill innocents." ”
Nanyue consciously lowered her head.
"Do you mean that this method of immortality cannot be shared with others?" Li Shimin asked.
"That's right, Your Majesty. Vampires have to rely on blood to maintain their immortality. If everyone in the world becomes a vampire, where do vampires go to find blood? Aroben asked him rhetorically.
"Isn't animal blood okay?"
"Animals reproduce very slowly. And think about it, how long can the blood of animals last when everyone in the world has to suck blood? ”
Aroben's question silenced Mr. Lee.
"I used to try to immortalize the people around me, but then I caused many innocent human beings to suffer because of my wrongdoing. Even if I made a draconian treaty, I wouldn't be able to stop the vampires from killing humans, or the vampires from killing each other. ”
"But it's good to think about it." Empress Changsun said, "If everyone really becomes an immortal, then your position as emperor may be shaky." ”
Li Shimin thought about it carefully, and it was indeed the case. If everyone can live forever, then immortality will become cheap, and the qiē that an immortal person should enjoy will become worthless.