"Since then, there has been no more bad boy in town who is notorious for making trouble," said the old man, "and I have never played any more mischief, I have stayed in her house, and we are both poor, so I found a mat to lie on the ground, and we lived together in that little house." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"So you have a good life," Lyle looked at the old man, who was smiling and smiling as he drank slowly, "and it's good." He also laughed, this beautiful story called the encounter is like a healing breeze for anyone, you walk alone on the unknown road, waiting in front of you is the invisible shadow and haze, suddenly the wind blows, so you feel that the flowers and plants in front of you are blooming all over the ground, even if you can't see the end of the road, you are no longer afraid.

"Most of the time we were in that room, she was reading, I was literate, or napping, and we talked and talked about all kinds of things, and sometimes we fantasized about all kinds of strange things like children, like writing a novel," said the old man. She loves that kind of book the most, she said that fantasy stories have indescribable magic, it has stories that do not exist in reality, destined encounters, and after the encounter, there are twists and turns and magnificent encounters, people know each other and then fall in love, holding hands and carving the deepest bonds. ”

"Encounters are always the most beautiful, and it makes you feel the infinite tenderness of the world. The old man raised his head and drank the wine in the cup, not the kind of rude drinking, but letting the slippery and cold liquid slowly flow into the body and turn into a warm fire, soft as if you were walking in the crowd and suddenly saw a person, she made you turn back for no reason, and then she also turned back, so your eyes collided.

"Plath," said the old man suddenly, "in the years we have lived together, we have had countless imaginations, we have imagined people, things, places, legends, into a complete story, of course we are not professional writers, we have created our own story, but it is only our story, we have saved it, that is our memory." ”

"Then Plath is ......," Lyle asked.

"The hero of that story, Plath is his name, and we came up with it together," said the old man, "and then it was my surname, and I had no father or mother, so I could not inherit it." ”

"That's why Nien is the name of the heroine in it. Lyle immediately thought.

"Yes, we use ourselves as prototypes," the old man smiled, "the name Dracula is actually a character in the novels she has read, it is her favorite book, in that book, Dracula is a brave and strong person, he sticks to his beliefs, protects the important people around him, at the beginning, he was also a lonely and confused little boy, she gave me this name, hoping that I will be as strong and brave as that boy, out of the past, towards the future, and with the people around me." ”

"Plath, I have left this surname to posterity," the old man reached out and patted Lyle on the shoulder, "this is what this surname has inherited, and what has been celebrated, may all of you all get a beautiful encounter that belongs to you." ”

Lyle's thoughts flew away, for him, the most unforgettable thing was that night after all, that night he accidentally fell into Suzu's house, that was his encounter, even if they went through so many hardships together, had a time of relaxing and laughing together, and had hugged each other and cried, but they couldn't overpower the intensity left on Lyle on the night of the first meeting, that night he and the girl who was squatting on the ground with a surprised look on his face, and that scene was frozen in the deepest memory of his life.

"Thank you, old man, I have received your blessing," Lyle patted the old man's hand as well, "Plath, I have never liked my last name so much as I do now. ”

"I know what you're confused about, what you're afraid of. The old man said suddenly.

Lyle was stunned for a moment, then hung his head.

"I'm just being poured in too much stuff at once, and I can't get used to it all at once," Lyle sighed, holding his forehead, I just came back from the moon and night realm, and all kinds of unexpected encounters followed, first about the mysterious Chase, Suzu and I went to investigate for this, but we encountered the encirclement of the beasts and the pursuit of the militants in the back mountain, and they can belong to the power that should not belong to the human world, I feel that the beasts released, those people's weapons emitted, that kind of thing is blood, and blood should not be the unique power of our vampires......"

"And the most important ......," Lyle said a little more.

"That blood shadow, thanks to her blessing, the consciousness of the Yaqi Blood Demon that was originally suppressed by you resonated and reawakened in advance," the old man said, "You are afraid of the true identity of that blood shadow, because of the contact with her, you already have your own guess in your heart, but for you, if that is the truth, it will be a very terrifying fact, right?" ”

"That's right," Lyle was silent for a moment, and finally nodded, "Old man, you said resonance, so is that really the power of our vampires, that blood shadow, is it also a vampire?"

"Yes," said the old man, who was silent for a moment, "she is now a vampire, a real vampire, unlike us. ”

"What do you mean? Are there any different types of vampires? What are real vampires, and we are still half-vampires?" Lyle frowned.

"You misunderstand what the term vampire really means, it's true that vampires are a name given to us by the outside world, but I think I told you why we are called vampires, the reason why the name vampire appears. ”

"I remember that it was because the power of the Yaqi Blood Demon was too strong, and if you used this power too much, you might not be able to control and lose your mind and become a monster that only knows how to kill, and with this kind of rampage, the biggest manifestation of the impact on the outside world is bloodthirsty, and our power is also bloodthirsty," Lyle recalled, "In the eyes of others, it is a devil who manipulates blood to release power, so it is called a vampire." He froze.

"Is the current state of the blood shadow the way the power of the bloodline is out of control," Lyle suddenly realized, "she failed to control the power of the bloodline, so she was eroded by the bloodline. ”

"Yes, strictly speaking, vampires are those who have gone berserk through their bloodlines, or that they are no longer human beings at that time, they are ghosts, so they can only be vampires," said the old man. So unlike us, if you have to distinguish it, it can be said that the power we use is Plath's blood, which is the power refined through our clan's secret arts, and the real vampire is already covered in the blood of the Yaqi Blood Demon, and through your contact with her, I feel that the proportion of blood related to the Blood Demon in her body has been as high as more than 80%. ”

"Now she is at the maximum limit of the vampire category, but she has lost her will and cannot resist, and if she continues, she will probably end up on the road of vampires. The old man sighed, with helplessness and pity.

"Vampire End, what's it. Lyle asked dumbfounded, though he already had the answer in mind.

"Either they can't withstand the death of a stronger force, or they can break away from the category of vampires and become the new Yaqi Blood Demon, although the original Yaqi Blood Demon will never appear on the earth again, but even so, the Blood Demon who has inherited part of its power, it is enough trouble to fully recover it. ”

"If she really turns into a Yaqi Blood Demon, Red Leaf City, or the Human Realm, will usher in a disaster," Lyle's head hung down again, he felt something invisible pressing on him, and he couldn't breathe, "It's understandable why the leader of the Moonnight Realm sent the leader of the research institute to personally take charge of the reinforcement of the sealing technique." ”

"But, old man, I do understand that she is dangerous, but I just feel that there is something blocked in my heart that cannot be discharged," Lyle hugged his head, scratching his scalp vigorously, tearing his head big, he was irritated as if his head was about to explode," I also know that since the end of the war, there is no one in our Plus family who has survived, only our family has survived, and the gate of time and space connecting the two worlds was developed a few years after the establishment of the Templar Research Institute, when I was born, my parents died when I was born, and after that, only my sister died, or rather, the news is unknown. ”

"I don't know about my parents' deaths, but I don't know about my sister's deaths, I haven't even been able to see her body, and as a family member, isn't it natural to see her buried, but I don't understand why my sister's death is just a verbal message, no written death certificate, no funeral, no whereabouts of her body, even though the family cemetery is next to my parents to build a monument to her," Lyle said. I was just suspicious, I always felt that something was being hidden, and when I met the blood shadow, I saw the overlapping shadows in her, the way she made moves and habits, the familiarity she gave me, everything she brought me was turned into a thing that hit me. ”

Lyle looked at the old man with a tired face, and the old man just sat in the night breeze and did not speak.

"Old man, this black knife you boarded, before it was passed into my hands, was originally my sister's saber, and this knife is a certificate from the parents of the past generations, so it was originally inherited by the eldest sister according to the process, but the will that came back with the news of my sister's death was to give me this black knife," Lyle said, "Old man, what do you know about my sister's death?"

"Even if I knew, I wouldn't say," the old man raised his glass and took a slow sip, "you're in a terrible state right now. ”

"I know I'm terrible right now, I'm so anxious right now, my heart is so clogged like someone has stuffed me with a rock that I can't breathe," Lyle suddenly frowned and roared, "I just want to know the truth, my sister is the only person I loved in the past, and there are many mysteries about her death, why can't I know," he patted his chest, "I want to know!

"Even if you know everything now, what can you do!" the old man clenched the cup and put it down, the bottom of the cup fell the top of the fence, making a loud noise, and the wine inside spilled a large spill, his face was serious, and the old but energetic voice said in a low and stern tone, "Can you settle everything, only to fall into more confusion, and the person who has already stumbled into the mud still wants to jump away from the whole huge quagmire with one foot?"

The old man's sudden momentum made Lyle stunned.

"Yes, I'm sorry," he said, turning his head back, "I thought I was conscious enough, but I was a kid who only had a temper. ”

"No, you have indeed changed a lot compared to the past, it's just that growing up is a matter of an instant, but growing up is not, I live in the knife, and I can be regarded as accompanying you all the way with your experience, from when you were still that cowardly and timid crybaby who took the knife, to you who has been isolated from the outside world without words, then when you met your friends, and finally you now," the old man put away the majesty of that moment, he looked at the dejected Lyle, and said earnestly, " I said congratulations, you have changed, during this time, you have indeed grown up, from the original crybaby to a sense of responsibility, just about your sister's death, you already want to understand, want to solve, instead of hiding in the house and crying, crying your swaddling clothes that are no longer there. ”

"But even if it's growth, it's slow step by step, I didn't mean to hide it, this is a promise with your sister. The old man said.

"And my sister's?" Lyle jerked his head up.

"I won't tell you anything now, but what I can tell you is that your sister has always loved you, and finally she made a will to leave this knife to you, and asked me to make an agreement with her to help you instead of her," the old man smiled lovingly, "If you want to know anything, go find it yourself, and you will be more aware in the future, many things you don't sit and wait for others to help you solve everything, many of them, you have to catch them yourself." ”

"Go find it yourself... What should I do..."

"Look for it yourself, and think for yourself, but I think you should be able to understand this kind of thing now," said the old man, "I said that you are in a bad state now, not what you are in in a bad mood, what you can't do alone, why should you hold it in your heart alone." ”

Lyle was stunned for a moment, but suddenly understood what the old man meant, he smiled bitterly, and then laughed out loud.

"Old man, it seems that I am just as stupid as you," Lyle patted his head vigorously, "You obviously just said, yes, I now have more important people, people I love." ”

"Actually, I want to tell you the story, and there is a follow-up, but wait until the next time you come in to me, and take your answer as a farewell gift for you, and the boy will eventually grow up," the old man also opened his mouth and laughed boldly, he grabbed the cup and waved his hand to fill it with bubbling wine, and stretched it to Lyle, "We are all fools, and what we have in our bodies is Plath's blood." ”

"You're right, I'm Plath's people," Lyle also learned to grab his glass and fill it with bubbling Coke, "I love the word encounter, good encounter, long live!"

"Long live the encounter!" said the old man, exclaiming.

Under the bright starry sky, the night breeze swayed, and the two glass panels collided with a crisp sound.