Chapter 7: 'Brothers'
On the cigarette roll, which was still smoking, a bright red burning trail gradually approached the end between the vampire's pursed lips, and the gray columnar soot finally could not bear its weight and broke from the burning place and fell.
The man who had been like a dead man before moved. His closed eyelids opened suddenly, his brown eyes constricted, and his hands lifted and grabbed Zack's left arm that he placed next to his mouth! His posture had changed from being supported by Zack to holding Zack's wrist, as if the desert had finally found a source of water, greedily sucking the vampire's bleeding left wrist!
Zach frowned, his pale green eyes looking at the wound on the man's body, the cracked skin began to heal, and the new skin was in stark contrast to his original mud-contaminated skin.
"That's enough!" Zach tilted his head, spat out the cigarette butt, and snorted. Holding the man's head with his right hand and pushing it away, he withdrew his arm, and the wound healed in a blink of an eye. Zach turned his wrist and watched as the somewhat greedy man looked at his hands with horrified eyes!
"Fa, what's going on?" the man had a trail of blood on his fingers, it was Zack's blood. He seemed to have just reacted to what he had just done, and wiped the back of his hand to his lips, and the remaining blood stains pulled out a bright red strip on the back of his hand!
The man looked up and saw two 'people'.
"You, you......" he looked at Benjamin, "You, you ......" he looked at Zach again. Apparently he was confused.
The ghost and wolf glanced at each other, and Zach put his gloves back on, pulled a cigarette out of his coat pocket, and lit one. The vampire during the day is a big smoker because, according to himself, smoke dispels the lethargy of sunlight. It's amazing, I think so too.
The man sitting on the ground jumped up violently, his eyes looking around as if looking for a weapon?
Benjamin glanced at Zack with some dissatisfaction, this miserly vampire didn't even have any intention of wasting a trace of energy and using the Charm Pupil after confirming that this human couldn't escape the grasp of the two 'people' no matter what!
When the search for the weapon failed, the man turned and started running. Zach stood in the shade of the tree, puffing on smoke rings, not moving in the slightest. Benjamin shook his head helplessly and threw himself forward, yes, just pounced. The werewolf was like a beast locked onto its prey, with its legs bent, leaning forward, and kicking the ground with both hands touching the ground!
The soft ground was lifted up behind the werewolf, and a vague half-human-tall figure crashed into the running man in the morning light!
Burst!
(Let go of me, you monster)
Benjamin's arms were arched, and his palm, which was one size larger than the average person, grabbed the man's elbows and pressed them to the ground. The two calves kneel on the man's thighs, and the knees and brown leather boots are pressed against the ground, firmly holding the man's legs in place.
The werewolf head pressed against the back of the man's head, and the man with half of his mouth buried in the earth let out a slurred curse!
There was a low buzz in Benjamin's throat, and he was suppressing his wolf nature.
Pressing your head against each other is the only humane action in this short 'hunting' action. Instinctively, this should have been the moment when Benjamin bit off the other person's carotid artery or trachea.
"You saw me last night!" Benjamin was hoarse, with a low, beast-like humming voice, "Give me a reason not to bite your neck now!"
Of course, this is only a threat, after all, with Benjamin's two rows of teeth and humanoid jaws, it would be a difficult and ugly thing to bite the neck of any living being.
The man's resistance stopped, but his eyes turned upwards to the man who was pressing him, a look of madness and anger! Benjamin raised his head, but lowered his body, and approached the man menacingly, with a cold green light shining through his brown eyes.
"Kill me! I don't have the power to kill you, you kill me now!
The werewolf's eyebrows furrowed, and his eyes moved to the vampire who was still standing behind. There was also a hint of doubt in Zach's eyes.
Can't this man see that we saved him?'
Benjamin relaxed his power to suppress the other party, but his tone was still full of savage and intimidation: "Why should I kill you!"
Zach lowered the brim of his hat and was finally willing to step out of the shade, but he still raised his arm to block out the sunlight shining through the leaves, "All right, Benjamin." There's no need to reinforce his impression that 'we're monsters'. ”
The vampire makes no secret of its mockery of the werewolf's savage style.
The werewolf's brow furrowed even deeper, and he was now reflecting on why he, as a werewolf, would become friends with a vampire.
Notice that the werewolf used a different measure word when he told me what had happened! This made me, an 'ordinary' human, even more curious about why these two would become friends!
"Sir, I think you misunderstood something, we saved you, and you should thank us. Instead of using insulting words to define your savior. ”
When Zack approached, Benjamin had already let go of the man who was being suppressed, and with a light mention, in the eyes of ordinary people, the man who was also a strong man was pulled up by Benjamin, and his whole body and half of his face were stained with mud, looking very wolf. But his expression had become a little confused, and he could be said to be sluggish.
Zach looked at the man again, he was about twenty-five years old, his shoulders were wider than normal, the muscles on his body were clearly lined, and his fingers had calluses from long-term use of weapons. Judging from the brief search for weapons and the act of escaping just now, the thinking and reaction are faster than ordinary people. Zach made a judgment that the man was from the military.
"Let me introduce myself, I'm Zachary Grande, you can call me Zach. This is my brother, Benjamin Grande. Excuse me, what should I call you?"
The confusion on the man's face was even worse, this man with a full beard and a full 1.9 meter size who could turn into a wolf like a bear was the younger brother of the man with fair skin, medium build, who used blood to make his body scars disappear?
Well, this question also bothered me for a while until I learned their secret. Believe me, the process of learning the truth was not pleasant, and as an 'ordinary' human being, I had a deep jealousy of this man, because he knew from the beginning that the two guys in front of him, who claimed to be brothers, were not human.
The misplaced doubts disappeared in an instant, and the man's somewhat confused mind began to regroup.
"You, you saved me. The man's breathing began to recover from his previous excitement, and his eyes moved over the 'brothers', "Yes, you saved me, you didn't attack me last night, just now, just now you healed my wounds with blood." You're not the monster that attacked me......"
In the end, there was a new doubt in the man's eyes, and Zach and Benjamin were the same, because the man had just said something that they cared about, and in the city of Barton, a monster appeared that attacked humans.
Louise's face appeared in Zack's mind for a moment, only because of her unusual alertness.
The man pushed Benjamin away and took his hand, his eyes became vigilant, and he took a few steps back, "What the hell are you guys!"
"I seem to have introduced myself. Zach said coldly that now he was not thinking about the identity of this man, but about their safety in Barton City. Red began to spread in the vampire's eyes.
Benjamin reached out and stopped Zach, "Wait, we need him." We're going to find out who attacked humanity. ”
Zach looked at Benjamin and thought for a moment. Louise would come over to-day to answer the question he had asked last night, and judging by her unusual alertness, she might be able to tell the same story as this man. And this guy, who is obviously trained by the army, apparently escaped an attack, should provide tangible clues. Zach agreed with Benjamin's thoughts, the red in his eyes dissipated, and he spoke to the man who was still looking at him warily.
"What we are, you've seen some, believe that if I say, 'We can take your life at any time,' you won't have anything to contradict it. Zach stared at the man and continued, "But now, we and you are very concerned about the 'monster' who attacked people in Barton City, are you interested in cooperating?" Zack's slightly narrowed eyes were seductive and confused, "Mr. Anonymous?"
The vigilance in the man's eyes was wavering, and he was thinking about the possibility of 'cooperation'.
From Zack's words, he sensed that the two 'things' in front of him had no ill will towards humans, on the contrary, they seemed to be protecting the city of Barton.
"Okay!" the man lowered his guard and stretched out his right hand, "We're working together!" My name is James...... My name is Kim, and Kim Grande is your brother!"
Zach took Kim's outstretched right hand, and he didn't mind the other man taking it upon himself to 'become' a member of their Grande family. Instead, the eyes of the vampire and the werewolf narrowed at the same time, Kim Grande......
Another intelligent human being!