Chapter 38: The Bell Tower

"Then guess why Dracula put the angel's name on our heads?"

Van Hersin is at a loss for this question.

First of all, as a Catholic, Van Hersin knows Gabriel and Michael very well, so he can't understand why he has something to do with him, and Dracula's very familiar expression makes him even more confused, not only Van Hesing, but even Zhang Yang can't understand.

"Van Hersin is Gabriel's reincarnation, who killed Dracula (a normal person before the vampires) four hundred years ago, and Dracula knows Van Hersin understandably, but what does this have to do with me?"

Zhang Yang guessed the reason, but he still couldn't understand it, it is certain that Michael and Gabriel both represent God, and it is unlikely that they will be in the same league as Dracula, otherwise it will not be Michael, but the fallen archangel Lucifer.

Because of the different sects, the interpretation of angels is also slightly different, so Zhang Yang could not get an exact explanation, so he could only temporarily suppress this idea and consider the next plot, Van Hesin and Anna escaped from the rain to the cave where Frankenstein was hiding and found each other.

But there is a problem here, Zhang Yang is not clear about Van Hesing's position, whether it is the same as in the plot, if it is a guy who can't rub sand in his eyes, then he is likely to be killed by Van Hesin on the spot after seeing Frankenstein, then his side quest cannot be completed.

After thinking about it, Zhang Yang decided to confirm Van Hesin's position first, and pretended to ask casually.

"Van Hersing. What do you think of these evil creatures of darkness? ”

Van Hesin glanced at Zhang Yang with a slightly strange look, as if he didn't understand how he could mention this question, and hesitated for a moment before answering.

"The priest taught me the view. It is a qiē dark creature that should be destroyed, because darkness represents evil, but I always feel that darkness and evil are not necessarily the same thing. ”

"Oh? Tell me about it? ”

Van Hessing's answer made Zhang Yang quite satisfied, and continued to listen to Van Hesing's answer.

"For example, a dark creature does have a dark aura on him, but this guy has never hurt anyone. Nor has he ever intervened in human life, so such a creature does not represent evil to me, but a human being who claims to be a savior. I can't count the ugly deeds I have done. ”

"Aside from the rules, in my opinion, only those who I think are evil will go back and destroy it, of course. The priest certainly disagrees with me. ”

Van Hesin shrugged his shoulders. He mentioned this idea to the cardinal, but the cardinal severely rebuked him as a heretic, and if he had been in the early years, he would have been thrown into the inquisition as a heretic and burned alive.

This is similar to Copernicus's heliocentric theory, which eventually provoked a strong backlash from the Pope, although he was not burned to death. But Bruno, who insisted on and promoted heliocentrism, was burned alive in the end.

Van Hersin looked at the flamboyant expression. He didn't know why he was a little nervous, and he hoped that someone would accept his point of view. In his gaze, Zhang Yang nodded thoughtfully, agreeing with his thoughts.

"My point of view is similar to yours, so you don't have to worry."

Zhang Yang smiled, then looked at the scenery outside and considered something, and finally made a decision.

Under the warm fire, Anna also woke up, she had been frozen in the water before, and after Zhang Yang saw that the two of them had almost recovered, she suddenly got up and said solemnly.

"We can't go back to the family for a while, but we can't stay here forever, Dracula can't find us downstream, there will definitely be a search upwards, we have to move places. Anna, you're familiar with this place, are there any sparsely populated places you can take a break from it? ”

Anna and Van Hersin agreed with Zhang Yang's words, and Dracula could naturally think of it, so it was necessary to transfer, and with Dracula's hatred, they couldn't hide in a densely populated place, so they could only do the opposite.

"Let me think about it...... by the way, on the other side of town, there's an abandoned bell tower, which was abandoned a year ago, and no one is going to go there, and I think we can go and take shelter for a while."

"We'll go right now."

Zhang Yang nodded, understanding that the abandoned bell tower should be the place where Frankenstein hid in the plot, I don't know if it was due to the inertia of the plot or luck, Anna took the two of them there directly.

After the fire was extinguished, the three of them left quietly, although it was dark night, but led by Anna, who was familiar with the surrounding terrain, the three of them circled and circled back to the other side, and the shadow of a ruin faintly appeared at the end of their eyes.

Anna whispered as she walked: "The owner of Frankenstein Castle, who robbed the tomb, was burned there a year ago, so the people of the town regard it as an ominous place, and few people will go there. ”

"Ever died? That's safer. ”

Van Hersin didn't care if he was dead or not, and he hadn't seen it anyway, so naturally he wouldn't believe in any ghosts.

Anna glared at Van Hesin and said, "Don't be too careless, no one has been there for a year, maybe there are poisonous snakes or something like that, it's better to be careful." ”

Zhang Yang listened to the bickering between the two, and he was thinking about the next plan, what to do after coming into contact with Frankenstein, and about a few minutes later, an abandoned bell tower with a broken waist appeared in front of the three of them.

The bell tower is the most common form of wood, and it looks desolate because of the desolation and erosion of wind and rain, and the ground is scattered with blackened ruins.

"In a place where birds don't lay eggs, I'm afraid even crows won't live in it, because it's too dark inside."

Van Hesin told a bad joke, but found that there was no one himself, and immediately scratched his head in embarrassment, and walked up.

Like an invisible watch, not far from the front of the bell tower, it rained heavily again in the sky, and the three of them hurriedly hid inside, blocking the rain with the wooden planks above their heads, although it would be troublesome to rain in such cold weather, but it also caused great trouble to Dracula's tracking work.

"The good outweighs the bad for us with this heavy rain."

Zhang Yang picked up the raindrops dripping from the wooden plank with his hands, and then quietly tested the softness and hardness of the ground with his feet.

Like any canine, werewolves have an excellent sense of smell and hearing, and under the washing of the river and heavy rain, the smell of the three of them became lighter and weaker, almost nothing, and under such a rain curtain, the vision was also greatly disturbed, and in the case of rain, the three vampire brides probably did not want to come out in the rain to find them.

"I think the rain is too troublesome, the clothes on my body haven't dried yet, and the sticky ones catch colds easily, which is not good news for us."

Van Hesin muttered, clearly not satisfied with the rain.

After a while of the fire, the clothes on the three of them were already half-dry, and now they suddenly felt slimy when it rained, and Van Hesin was most worried about getting sick in this bad situation, and being sick at this time was no less than a critical illness notice of death.

"Huh?"

Zhang Yang's feet moved, and there was a soft touch from the soil under his feet just now, which seemed to be covered with a thin layer of soil on the surface, and he looked down without a trace, and several thick wooden rafters were piled up on the ground, vaguely forming a simple lid, which seemed to be unintentional but intentional.

"This is it!"

Seeing these things, Zhang Yang was almost certain that Frankenstein was living below, and was just about to make a reminder, when he was tapped on the shoulder by Van Hersin and handed over a green bottle of wine in his hand.

"It's absinthe, it's strong, I just found it under that plank, so it looks like no one has ever been to this place."

Van Hesin still had a bottle in his hand, and he didn't look like he was going to hand it to Anna, which made Anna raise a delicate eyebrow.

"Van Hesing, won't you invite the lady to taste it?"

Van Hesin glanced Anna up and down, then looked at the absinthe in his hand, and sneered: "Princess Anna, it's not that I don't give you a drink, but this wine is very cheap and strong, it's okay for us men to drink, but not for you women......"

Before he could finish his words, he was glared at by Anna fiercely, and then he decisively slashed his hand much stronger, unscrewed the lid and took two sips, then frowned, but still insisted on swallowing the wine.

"Ahem, who said I can't drink it?"

"Okay, I'll take back what I just said, but Princess Anna, this wine is not drunk like this, it is easy to choke on it, you should drink it slowly like this, I will see if I can find any wine glasses ......."

Van Hesin took the wine back, and then stooped around rummaging through the planks, as if he were about to find some containers for wine, which must have been inhabited before the bell tower collapsed, and if there was wine, there must have been something for it.

Seeing Van Hesin's movements, Zhang Yang shook his head, and then tried to take a sip of absinthe, and suddenly felt a relatively strong bitter taste, mixed with the not too strong fennel flavor, and then felt a dizziness, it seemed that the strength of the wine rushed straight to the brain, but after feeling it carefully, it seemed to be a drug-like effect.

This green vermouth is produced in Czechoslovakia and is of high purity, so the bitterness is relatively heavy, Zhang Yang only took a sip and then stopped drinking, feeling that it was not quite in line with his taste, so he was ready to return it to Van Hesing, but it turned out that Van Hesin grabbed a piece of wood and pulled it hard, revealing a glass-like thing underneath.

"Hey, there's a cup, I'll get it right away......."

Bang!

As the wood was pulled out, Zhang Yang's feet shook slightly, and his face suddenly changed.

Van Hesin's face was still puzzled, and then the wood under his feet suddenly dispersed, revealing a huge hole, and the three of them fell directly with a pop.

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I went out temporarily during the day, but I'm sorry for the temporary shift today. (To be continued......)