Chapter 6: The World in the Shadows
An old meeting room that has existed in an old castle for centuries is the same age as this castle, but it is even more significant because the castle has been renovated and expanded many times, but the furnishings and decorations of this room have never changed. Even if something is damaged, it will be replaced with the same thing immediately. The reason why this room is so expensive is because its owner is the Bloodline.
This room has witnessed so many things about the Bloodline, and almost all the decisions that can affect the history of the Bloodline's development are issued from here. It was even the site of the first outbreak of several blood wars. Despite all the heavy history, this room is still in its original appearance, which can only show one thing: the Bloodline's quest for tradition and nobility has been soaked in their marrow. Or they never seek tradition and nobility, because they think they are traditional and noble.
The structure of this meeting room is somewhat similar to today's lecture theatre. On the lowest level is a huge round table, behind which are 15 steps of 1 foot each. These 15 steps are followed by two 6-foot-high steps. These 17 steps represent the first generation of vampire Cain and his three bearers and the thirteen descendants of the three bearers. In the hearts of the vampires of later generations, these 17 ancestors of theirs are ancient, noble, and powerful.
Their birth can be traced back to the origins of humanity.
In their veins flowed the noble blood of God.
Their bodies possess powers that rival those of the gods.
They are the descendants of God, or they are the living gods.
An ornate throne sits on the top of the staircase, on which sits a statue of the Blood Ancestor Cain. The statue is carved very expressively, *really. It was as if it were not a statue at all but an incarnation of Cain, who sat there as a king looking down, coercing, ruling over his people.
On the steps of the lower level there are three ornate thrones, on which also sit three statues. They were the three second-generation blood ancestors of Cain's lineage. Shelah, Eliah and Enoch. Although these three carvings are also so true and expressive, they are less majestic and intimidating than Cain terms of momentum.
There are 13 seats on the stairs below, but there are no statues on these 13 seats. These 13 seats originally belonged to the 13 inheritors of the three second-generation blood ancestors, but because the blood ancestor Cain and the three second-generation blood ancestors have disappeared in the long river of time, and the 13 clans established by these 13 third-generation vampires have continued to this day, so now these 13 positions belong to the patriarchs of the previous 13 clans. The seats of the 13 patriarchs correspond to the seats on the steps below, and the seats belong to the members of the parliament in each of the 13 clans.
For thousands of years, what has not changed is the appearance of this conference room, but the will of the race contained in this conference room is changing with the change of rulers. Sometimes flamboyant, sometimes forbearing, sometimes crazy, sometimes thoughtful......
But it wasn't a high-level blood meeting in this room, because there was no one in the council.
A large group of people were arguing fiercely around the round table on the lowest floor, and the table in front of them was still passing folders and flying papers from time to time, and their fierce quarrel was about to shatter the surrounding walls and spread into the silence of the night.
Suddenly, the door was gently pushed open. A young man in a crisp suit appeared in the doorway. His pale yellow hair was neatly combed back behind his head, and his fair face was dotted with delicate features. With his presence, the noise in the room instantly fell silent. Everyone was watching him. Their eyes flashed with a mixture of admiration, yearning, fear, and so on. The young man opened not as if a door, but a black hole that could swallow everything. It swallowed up the noise in the house, leaving only silence. It devours people's agitation and hubris, leaving only fear and surrender.
"My dear friends." A magnetic voice slowly spat out of his mouth. "What are you discussing?"
"Prince Film, we ......"
"Shh The young man made a gesture to stop the person who intended to answer his question. "I haven't asked you to answer yet!"
The young man closed his eyes and took a deep breath. It was as if he was enjoying the silence he had brought.
He opened his eyes suddenly, but what was completely different from before was that his eyes, which were originally blue as the sea, had now turned bright red as blood. Disappointment, contempt, and anger swirled in those bright red pupils.
"You are discussing how incompetent, how cowardly, how frightened you are!" As he roared, a circle of visible qi waves emanated from his body, rippling out of all directions. The wave of air blew over the goblet on the round table, and the crimson liquid in the cup flowed on the table. Drop by drop, they jumped from the table to the ground, colliding with the ground and making a "da, da" sound. At this moment, this "click" sound is the only sound in this room.
The young man, known as "Prince Filin", looked up at the parliamentary seat, where there was nothing but statues of the four ancestors on the high platform behind. But he saw and saw a lot of things......
He raised his hand to signal the crowd to look over to the legislature as well, and their eyes followed his fingers.
"What do you see?" His voice was magnetic again, it was so pleasant, it sounded so intoxicating.
No one answered.
"Look! What do you see? Can't you really see it? He started shouting at the crowd again!
"Then let me tell you! At this moment you should see victory, you should see reunification, you should see the future! ”
He suddenly scurried to the edge of a patriarch's seat, but the speed was so fast that most people saw only a dark shadow. He stood there, gently stroking the velvet and gems on his seat. Whispered, "Lilith, can you tell me who this seat belongs to?" ”
"Back to the Prince, that's General Oyes' seat in the council." A trembling voice replied.
"Hmmm! Right! You remember it very well! Of course, I also remember that you liked him. What a pity! Pity! He just won't join us. Still, Lilith, I'm going to tell you that Oyes is still alive! Isn't it? Dean"
"Prince, it's the subordinates who are not doing well! Please give me another chance! I'm going to get Oyes back. No! It's to bring General Oyes back! A man rushed out of the crowd and fell to his knees.
"So many of you haven't even gotten a hair from Oyes, and if I had told you to find little Nicholas, would you have been thrown to the moon by her?"
"Prince! You know the strength of General Oyes! We can't beat him! ”
"Shut up, Dean! I certainly know how strong Oyers is. Although he is strong, he has not yet reached the level of being one against a hundred! Let me tell you why! Bring her in! ”
A secret door suddenly opened on the wall covered with the mural, and a man stepped out from behind the secret door, carrying a woman with a hood on her head and her hands and feet tied. The man lowered the woman to the ground, and Filmin walked over to the woman and gently pinched the hood covering the woman's face with his fingers. But he didn't take it off immediately, because he was staring at Dean intently. Dean's face had turned ugly when the woman was carried in, as if he had guessed something. But just as Prince Filin ripped off the hood, his worst suspicions were confirmed.
"Anna!" Dean turned into an afterimage and rushed towards the woman on the high platform. The man who brought the woman in also instantly turned into an afterimage. Two afterimages collided in the air. However, the difference was that one returned to Prince Firin's side according to its original trajectory, while the other was knocked out. Dean landed on the circular conference table, which was reduced to a pile of broken pieces of wood because it couldn't withstand the force of his impact.
"Dean!" Hearing Film's voice, he quickly crawled out of the pile of broken logs. He looked up at Prince Filin, his eyes full of pleading.
"Dean, stand up!" Hearing Filin's order, Dean hesitated, he knew that a mistake had been made, and he now wanted to beg the prince for leniency.
"Stand up, Dean. I haven't got you on your knees yet! Filmin raised his voice, not tough but not disobedient. The meaning of Filmin is obvious: if you kneel because of this human, then you don't have this opportunity.
"Dean, tell me! Is this beautiful girl your newly found blood bag? ”
"Yes, yes. Prince. Dean's voice trembled.
"However, when I examined her whole body, I found not a single wound that could bleed! Well? Dean, I don't think you need to explain it. Filin's gaze looked past Dean, who was kneeling and trembling, to the trembling crowd. I have told you not to have any relationship with human beings other than that of the eater and the food. Because the moral standards, values, and ideals they summed up in that limited life are completely different from ours. They will not make you noble, wise, or courageous. On the contrary, they will only make you vulgar, stupid, and cowardly! So, I'm going to save you now, Dean! ”
Filin gestured to the man behind him, who walked up to the unconscious Anna, crouched down and whispered something in Anna's ear. Anna, who was unconscious, slowly opened her eyes.
"Come on, Dean. This is your last time! Am I merciful? With that, Florin mentioned that Anna and threw her at Dean.
In Anna's exclamation, Dean caught her steadily.
"Dean, where is this? Who are they? Why did you arrest us here? ”
Dean hugged Anna tightly. He stroked her hair, sniffed her breath, felt her temperature.
"It's all right, Anna. It's okay. ”
"Dean, do it! Complete the task I want you to complete. Prince Film's voice rang out at an inopportune time.
At this time, Dean was already crying, and he hugged Anna. Say softly, "Anna, I love you."
"My dear, I love you too. But what did that guy tell you to do? ”
Dean didn't answer Prince Filin, just hugged Anna and cried.
"I knew you couldn't do it. I learned a Chinese proverb from Princess Nicholas, which is called 'Help people to the end, send Buddha to the west' and I will help you to the end today! He turned to the man who had been standing behind him and said, "Go and bring my darlings, they haven't eaten lunch yet!" ”
The man disappeared into the tunnel. After a while, the corridor outside the door of the conference room heard the clash of chains. The man returned to the conference room with the other two men. When the crowd in the conference room saw them, they all gasped. It wasn't the two people who had just come in that scared them, but what they were carrying. It was a human-like creature, and they knew it was Prince Filin's peculiar pet, a toy he had a soft spot for! The thing was originally human, but unlike humans, Filin had been sending people to inject them with vampire blood at regular intervals since they were babies. Vampire blood can't transform them, but it can make them manic and bloodthirsty. Like vampires, they have a fanatical thirst for human blood. And they have been living like beasts in dark dungeons since they were born, so they have no intelligence at all. When Prince Filin was extremely bored, he would put a living man in the dueling arena of his palace and put two of these creatures. Here's what happened as they would first subdue the living person together, and then they would fight over food until one of them was killed. Prince Filin enjoyed the event and invited other vampires to join him on several occasions. Every time he finishes reading, he says, "Something like that!" It's supposed to be a real human being! ”
Dean watched as the crawling "man" on all fours was brought in, and of course he knew what it was! He picked up Anna and turned and ran backwards, he knew that there were secret passages behind the four thrones on the high platform, he chose a throne farthest away from the film, so as to bypass the film's interception and quickly ran up the platform, the moment he touched the mechanism, Prince filmin ghostly appeared behind him. Flynn grabbed Dean and threw him into the air, jumping into the air on his own. In a split second of aerial contact, he snatched Anna from Dean's arms and kicked Dean to the ground. As soon as Dean landed, he was restrained by Film's henchmen. Dean was desperate, he didn't expect him to be so weak in front of Film. He didn't expect that because of his own reasons, the young and beautiful Anna would have such an ending in life.
Filin landed steadily with Anna in his arms. He looked at Dean, pointing at the four monsters, and a finger ran a finger over Anna's cheek.
"I call them 'human dogs' and I love watching them eat the most. Because they tend to fight when they eat, they bite each other and get bruises all over their bodies! And the air will be filled with the smell of blood. ”
After saying that, Filin suddenly bit Anna's neck.
"Don't!" Dean screamed, struggling to ask for control, but to no avail. Dean could feel Anna's life ticking by.
Filin jerked her head up at Anna's neck, blood running down the corners of his mouth.
"It's my baby!" As he spoke, he ran the dying Anna towards the four monsters. The men who were leading them also let go of the chains. The four monsters rushed to Anna's side like crazy, biting at her body and sweetening her blood. In Dean's desperate howl, Anna was quickly cannibalized.
Filin gave a color to the man who controlled Dean. He let go of Dean and nudged Dean in Anna's direction. Dean, who found himself in action, appeared behind a monster in an instant, and the monster was trying to use its lunch without the slightest danger in its arrival. Dean pulled the monster's head off its neck with a single move. Then the other three were solved in the same way. Now Dean's body is soaked in blood, and there are monsters and Anna's! Now it's really like what Filmin said, the air is already filled with the smell of blood.
Dean fell to her knees beside Anna and lifted up her mutilated body, which had been torn apart. He let out a heart-rending howl like a beast.
Filming walked up behind Dean lightly and said in the kind tone of a father telling bedtime stories to his children, "Dean, see what's on your hands?" It's blood. See what's on your body? It's blood. See what's in front of you? It's a human being bleeding all over! She's alive, enjoy her! ”
Prince Film's words seemed to remind Dean. He was still so grief-stricken when he saw Anna just now, and now he actually had the urge to go up and bite her. As soon as the urge appeared in Dean's brain, he came to his senses again, and he began to try to control it. He knew it was a plot by Filin, and wanted him to reveal his cruel nature in front of blood.
He kept telling himself, "I can't do that, she's Anna, I love her!" She's Anna ......."
"Dean! Do whatever you want! You smell it! This smell in the air! ”
Dean knew that everything that Filmin asked him to do right now wasn't doing him any good. But he just can't control himself. Because he himself wanted to smell the blood that filled the air. His consciousness had begun to blur, and all his eyes could see was the red liquid running over the mutilated body. Gradually, he forgot that it was Anna in his arms.
Filin still hadn't stopped his demagoguery.
"Dean, suck it up! Fast! That's going to be a lot of fun! ”
Dean finally slowly lowered his head! Warm blood ran down his throat, and the exhilarating sensation woke Dean. He wanted to stop, but he couldn't bear to let go......
Finally, Anna is sucked dry. Dean began to shout. "Ah......" There was despair, remorse, and fear in the cry......
Prince Filin enjoyed the shout, for what he heard was victory, unity, and the future.
Let's turn the camera back to the uproar, who finally ended his day at 7 p.m. He walked out of the classroom with Pei Ling. On this day, I was thinking about one thing, that is, did Pei Ling still go to live at "Xiao Qiong"'s house tonight?
"Pei Ling, are you going home tonight?"
"Shhhh You're going to die? What do my classmates think of me? ”
He glanced around and noticed that no one was paying attention to the two of them. Then he lowered his business and said to Pei Ling: "Don't worry! And no one heard. Are you going home tonight? ”
"Of course! I can't look at you every day. It's up to you to realize when you're at home! ”
"Why don't you believe it, I really don't have anything to do with her. It's all her nonsense to be angry with you. You have to trust me. ”
"Alright, alright! We don't dwell on that anymore. Send me home! ”
Xuan Ran knew that Pei Ling didn't really believe Nicholas's words, she was just "making trouble" with Xuan Ran. In the midst of laughter, he sent Pei Ling home. He himself returned to the car and lit a cigarette. He sat there quietly, his eyes becoming more determined as the smoke rose. Suddenly, he snuffed out the cigarette butt with his fingers. The fiery cigarette butt burned his skin, but the pain made him more sober. He took out the phone and skillfully pressed a string of numbers.
"Dongdong, are you all ready?"
The voice on the other end of the line came from someone he trusted absolutely.
"Our people, Diao Sinan and I have all arranged. I also greeted the captain, who agreed to help us. ”
"Okay, just wait for me there."
"Hmm. No problem! ”
He hung up the phone, started the car, and disappeared into the darkness in the distance.
Rushing home, he went straight back to his room, still thinking about what topic he should talk to about in order to carry out the plan he had been planning for the day. But suddenly he felt a palpitation, and his limbs began to become weak and tremble. He screamed in his heart, "Damn it! Actually had a seizure at this time. ”
He walked to the edge of the bookshelf with all the strength he had and shuddered to take a book from the shelf. It wasn't a book in the ordinary sense of the word, because there was another secret hidden in that book.
He eagerly opened the book, but he didn't see what he was looking for. The hollowed-out position in the pages of the book is empty. Uproar slammed the book to the ground.
"This stinky bitch ......"
As soon as he began to curse Nicholas, there was a knock on the door. Xuan Ran knew that she must have come to see him laugh now, so he really wanted to see her in his own state. But Xuan Ran also knew very well that what he needed was there for her, so he could only endure it.
"Come in the, you!"
Nicholas pushed open the door and walked in, still playing with a small glass bottle in his hand. jokingly said to Xuan Ran: "It seems that you really have a lot of hobbies!" ”
Shaking and pounced on Nicholas, trying to snatch the small glass bottle. But Nicholas easily dodged him, and fell to the ground in an uproar.
"You hurry up and give it to me, I really need it."
Nicholas didn't say anything or give anything to the uproar, just stood there quietly, watching the uproar.
"Hurry up and give it to me! Give me! "Uproar is already shouting. And Nicholas noticed that his eyes had begun to redden, and he was about to cry. Nicholas looked at the current uproar a little sad, because in the more than a month she had known the uproar, the boy had not lost his temper so much because of anything. She tossed the bottle to Xuan Ran, and then she opened one of the drawers at the bottom of Xuan Ran's desk, expertly uncovering the hidden compartment inside. Inside the compartment were brand-new syringes and a tourniquet. She took out a syringe and a tourniquet and walked to Xuan Ran's side and sat there.
"Are you sure you really need it? And it's going to be like this forever in the future? ”
Trembling, he replied, "I'm sure I need it now!" ”
Nicholas quickly rolled up the sleeve of Uproar's left arm and tied a tourniquet to him. Then the liquid in the glass bottle was aspirated with a syringe. When the blood vessels of the uproar bulged slightly, she plunged the syringe in. As the liquid was slowly pushed into the body, the uproar gradually quieted down. He closed his eyes and his body stopped shaking.
When he opened his eyes again, he saw Nicholas's beautiful face. But he also saw something else in Nicholas's eyes. It was a mixture of emotions, a hint of disappointment, a hint of sadness, and a hint of worry.
"Looks like you really know everything about my home!" The silence was broken first.
"I drink your blood every day, and of course I know you have it in your blood. And the purity of the one you use is still very high! Is it number 4? ”
"Yes, high purity. Yes, I'm on drugs. But you don't know that it was this thing that helped me survive. During the time when my parents had just died, all I had with me was pain and drugs. Every time I use it, I can forget about myself for a moment, forget everything that happened......"
"Needless to say!" Nicholas interrupted the uproar. "I can understand that. But does Pei Ling know? ”
"There are some things I'll never let her know. Like something about you will never let me know either. Right? ”
"There are some things you still don't know."
"Alright! I don't ask about your past, you can live here indefinitely. In exchange you have to help me keep it a secret, especially Pei Ling. ”
"Deal! However, if I don't want to go, you can't get rid of me! Right? My sweet little junkie,"
Nicholas began to "flirt" with the Ann again, but the Celestial had long been accustomed to the speed of this woman's emotional changes. Nicholas got up to leave. It suddenly occurred to him that there was one more important thing to do tonight.
"Nicholas! Are we friends? ”
Nicholas looked back at him, she seemed to be thinking about something. Suddenly, she smiled. She is so beautiful when she smiles, and she is just as attractive.
"Of course, we're friends."
Uproar was still immersed in that sudden smile, and in his memory, although this woman often laughed with him, only this time was the real laughter, the real happiness. He hesitated, hesitating to do what he had planned, but he quickly let go of that hesitation. Because there were things he had to figure out.
"How about we go out and have some fun? You're so young and beautiful, isn't it a waste of your youth to stay at home all day? Oh! By the way, you're not young anymore, you just look young. ”
"What? You're going to take me out to fish for Kaiko? ”
"That's right, you go fishing for Kaizi and I'll go soak the horses. And then let's compare whose prey is of higher quality, how about it? ”
"Since there is a comparison there will be a win and a loss, so what does the loser need to pay the winner?"
He thought about it for a moment, and then seemed to have made a lot of determination.
"The loser will serve the winner for a week!"
"A month!"
"Two weeks!"
"Three!" Nicholas apparently still felt that two weeks of uproar in his service was a bit too little and not enjoyable enough.
He gritted his teeth and said, "Deal"
"Okay, you wait for me for a while, I'll go change my clothes." Nicholas went back to his room to change his clothes. Uproar also got up suddenly. Now that everything is going according to the plan he designed, there seems to be nothing to worry about.
He simply cleaned up and went downstairs to wait for Nicholas, as far as he knew, it took a long time for a woman to prepare before she went out. He could use this time to sort out his thoughts and see if there were any flaws in tonight's plan. But before Uproar could sort out her whole plan, Nicholas suddenly appeared in the co-pilot's seat.
"Let's go!"
"Oh." He responded in an uproar and started the car. As he drove, he thought, "Why is this woman so efficient?" Could it be that I haven't been close to a man for too long and I'm a little anxious? So much so that you didn't dress up properly? He glanced at Nicholas secretly, and it was clear that his assumption was not valid, for Nicholas had been carefully dressed. Although her makeup is very light, it is delicate. The combination of an apricot trench coat and black high-heeled boots makes her reveal a hint of youth in her maturity. Her long, burgundy hair reflected the neon glow outside the car window......
The car drove quickly on the road and soon arrived at the destination of the uproar.
Nicholas got out of the car in an uproar, and was greeted by two words with flashing colored lights - shadows: "This is what you call having fun?" ”
"Yes! It's at least a good place to have a drink and talk. With a "please" gesture, Nicholas smiled at Roar and walked into the bar called Shadows.