The road leading from the town to the sealing site has long been deserted in the blood-colored sky. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

A long convoy is driving towards the destination, pulling the cart is not the usual horse, but a specially trained giant elephant or lion tiger, the abnormal change before the awakening of the Yaqi Blood Demon, so that the nearby air is full of fluctuations that make creatures feel frightened, horses are more sensitive than humans to the fluctuations in nature, and they can no longer be used to transport, once they are close to the seal within three hundred meters, they will become flustered and restless, uncontrollable, and only the best of the beasts such as giant elephants can advance in such an environment.

A total of one hundred and twenty peters, each two side by side, formed this long convoy and left the town and shuttled through the mountain road. Five people are a petite, the hundred people who were selected as the body of the seal occupy twenty, sixty are riding a total of three hundred people for the ritual sacrifice, and the remaining forty are the knights who accompany the ceremony, responsible for the vigilance of the scene, and have been used as a vanguard to deal with the scene when the ceremony fails.

Dracula was in a car in the middle of the convoy, the most luxurious thing he had ever seen in his life.

But inside Jiaozi, the atmosphere is dead, he sits alone on a soft seat in one of the four directions, looking at the other four people, there is a rugged man with a strong face and a meaty face, there is also a middle-aged man with a calm and expressionless face, and even a handcuffed bearded uncle with handcuffs on his hands, still pretending to blow a whistle briskly, and sitting face to face with Dracula turned out to be a silent old man with closed eyes, wearing a coat and a cane on his legs.

A not too big coquettish child seems to be Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, all kinds of people, who are in the same room at the moment, but they are on the road to death together, and they can be regarded as the last people who accompany each other in life.

"Everyone, why did you get in this car?" Dracula looked at the various people sitting beside him, and suddenly became a little curious.

"Why, what else?" the beard smiled at Dracula, "Of course it's going to die?"

"Death, what death?" Dracula was stunned.

"What? Don't you know? There really is a naïve person like you, I thought even the most stupid person would guess it," the beard was a little surprised, "In this case, there may be you in other cars, at that time, I was coaxed by the knights' superficially nice language, but I couldn't think about why others would give you so many benefits for no reason." ”

"Where are these cars delivered?" Dracula still didn't quite understand, he just listened to the knight's words, thinking that this would give him a chance to meet Fina, and he really didn't think much about it.

"Hell, it's not a good place anyway, you also saw this sky, it's red like it's been smeared with blood, you look outside now, what is it like?"

Dracula lifted the curtain, the window was surrounded by a railing, but it did not prevent him from looking outside, the convoy was still moving at a fast speed, Dracula could see the red in the sky, which was becoming more intense at a speed visible to the naked eye, if the sky he saw at first was covered with a blood-colored curtain, then now, the main sky, as if it was soaked in scarlet pool water.

"The sky seems to be redder than before. Dracula sat back and told him what he saw.

"It's not that it's getting redder, it's that the sky here is so red, we're just moving towards the place where the red is the strongest," the beard shook his arms, and the thin iron chains on the handcuffs ping-pong, "You know, such a coquettish son is a rare high-class product in the entire moon and night world, and it should have been for the big guys to sit on, and it will not be our turn to play such a small role in a few lifetimes." ”

"It's just a kind of comfort to us from the people above, with the best treatment and the benefits of giving us gold, it is to appease us, because we are going to be dragged to death for them," Hu Hu leaned on the cushion on the seat, "why let people die for you in vain, not only will no one want to, but they themselves are afraid that they will not feel comfortable, so at the end they specially sent us candy, let us chew the sweetness and jump into the pit of bitterness to death." ”

"So, is it going to die?" Dracula felt empty and cold in his heart, as if everything that had temperature in his body had been dug up.

If you were to be the self of the past ten years or so, you would have been surprised at most if you were told that you were going to die soon, and then you might not be so scared and unwilling, so what could you do if you lived? After surviving the dim life day after day, I have long felt numb to being alive. But he met Fina, he liked to drink every minute of Fina's together, that kind of life, he couldn't give up, if there was only one reason why he wanted to live more, it was only this one.

"yes, I'm going to die. Dracula pursed his lips, as if accepting the result.

He compromised, even if he could live, but without Fina's life, there was no point in letting himself live, the knight said that as long as he traded, he would be able to meet Fina, and where he was going, Fina would also be there, and the two were going to the same place, so did it mean that Fina would also die? In this case, Dracula felt that he wanted to go to that place even more, not only to see Fina again, but he also thought that if something happened to Fina, he should be able to replace her if he was there, even if it was death.

"You don't know, but after listening to it, you didn't show any panic and fear," the beard looked at Dracula, "but you can keep some hope in your heart that you will survive, I don't know everything, and many of those just now are my own thoughts." ”

"Why do you think that?" Dracula looked up at him.

"You can't tell who I am," Beard raised his hand and shook his wrist to get Dracula to take a closer look at the handcuffs. I'm a criminal, I've done a lot of bad things, and even killed people, although I want to say that as a slum background, many things are in a last resort, but I'm still a big sinner after all, I want to open it myself, people do so much, isn't it just to let myself live in this world for a while, it's because I haven't lived enough to continue to live, but I have been squatting in the cell for so many years, and suddenly I feel that my life is meaningless, I really have nothing, and I have taken a lot of people's things, I think a lot, I feel that in this world, there is nothing that can make me have the obsession to live, and it is not bad to die, it is considered a reliefI should have died a long time ago, and those who have lost a lot because of me also wish I would die. ”

"When I was sent out, the prison guards said that I was sent to the most horrific execution ground, and I didn't question it, because I recognized where I should go in the end," the beard smiled bitterly and shrugged, "But it doesn't seem to be an ordinary execution ground or anything, just in this sedan chair, I look like a criminal." It was only later that I got the news that the state had recruited 100 people, and I didn't know what they were going to do. ”

"Someone told me that this place was about to face a catastrophe, and that they needed our help to save this place. Dracula recalled the knight's words.

"Then it should be," said the, "something is wrong on this day, even fools can see that we must be sent to a very dangerous place, maybe they are trying to save the town and save the country, and then we are one of the sacrifices, and in the end the crowd cheers the greatness of the Knights, but not many people will remember these hundred nameless people who were sent to give their lives." ”

"That's why I said, I'm going to die, I've seen the death or something, and I don't feel too sad, it's better to take advantage of this time to enjoy this soft seat more, and leave the feeling to the lower yellow spring and not forget. The bearded man closed his eyes and shrank into the cushion.

Dracula looked at the others again, except for the beard, the other three have been silent, if everyone is the same as the beard is ready to die, the beard is more like an anomaly, he said that he saw life and death, but everyone should be the same, otherwise how could they sit in this sedan chair, but everyone was silent as if they were half dead.

"I'm for my child," the middle-aged man suddenly spoke, he had been listening to the conversation between the two, "If you don't want to hear it, just think it's me talking to myself, there is nothing to tell others about this kind of thing, maybe I want to vent something." ”

"What's wrong with them?" asked Dracula, at this time he was especially grateful for the teaching that Fina had always thought he had been able to socialize with others normally, otherwise he would have been suffocated in this small carriage at this time.

"Seriously ill, my family is poor, I can't afford to pay for treatment, I only rely on the most basic drugs to delay, I don't have any ability, I can't make money, my parents died early, my wife also abandoned home a few years ago, and I was left alone with my two seriously ill children," the middle-aged man's face was tired, "You mentioned the meaning of living, say it's meaning, it's better to say, two children are the motivation for me to live, I want to earn money for them, so that they can live, if I am the only one left, I may have thought about death." ”

"Not long ago, the children's condition became more serious, and if they don't get the best treatment as soon as possible, they may not survive this year," the middle-aged man's face was bloodless, "I was desperate, and I got the news at this time, as long as I set foot on this convoy, the state will be responsible for all the medical expenses of my children, and even future child support, and I can also send them to school, and the state will help me raise them, even without me, there is nothing to be afraid of." ”

"It's just that when they grow up, they can still remember that they have a father, but I don't know if it's better, it will make them feel embarrassed to have a father like this......" The man lowered his head, "Don't say it, I'm a little tired, and I want to rest for a while at the end." ”

Dracula doesn't know what to say at this point, he has learned the most basic communication skills from Fina, but he doesn't know how to comfort others. He could only be silent.

"Where's Uncle?" Dracula looked back at the rugged man on his left.

"Repay the favor," the big man said, although his face was fierce, but it was surprisingly easy to communicate. He stared ahead, and didn't look at anything else, Dracula couldn't read the heart of this kind of person, he only felt that he had done enough to achieve some kind of awareness, "I can't say that I haven't had anything to do with the criminal tributary, I was once rescued by a certain high-level knight commander, and now he is old and laid off, and his home is in the city where we started, he is alone, and it is inconvenient for him to move, if there is really a disaster that hits there at that time, it is inconvenient for him to escape, my life is his, and it is time to play a role for him." ”

"Repay the favor...... Dracula muttered, he felt that his thoughts at this time could be regarded as repaying the favor to Fina, after all, she gave him a gentle world, and she saved himself.

"Where's Grandpa?"

The old man was silent, and for a moment, he didn't open his eyes, and slowly spoke, "It's for the country." ”

"For the country?"

"I am a young man with a higher position in the Knights, and I have never neglected to exercise since I retired, not that I exaggerate, even now, let a few of you young people go together, I have the confidence to fight against all of you," the old man said, "I became a knight to repay the country, but now I am an old bone, nothing can be done to me, this time is my last contribution to the country, I don't need any transactions to get a huge return, I am willing to step into this team." ”

After the old man finished speaking, he stopped making a sound, everyone spoke their hearts, the atmosphere in the car was once again dead silent, the middle-aged man hung his head, as if he was really asleep, and the beard leaned on the mat and seemed to fall into a deep sleep, the big man still sat upright with his arms crossed like a speechless statue, and the old man kept his eyes closed and silent posture never changed.

Everyone, indeed, is waiting for death to come, everyone has a different reason, or to die, or to sacrifice themselves for something, Dracula feels that these people are actually the same as himself, they are all because of something, they have no chance to get what they understand, the so-called ordinary life.

It turns out that there are so many people like himself, just like this convoy, which looks like the snake that surrounds the atrium, Dracula remembered the overhead creatures mentioned in the book that Fina had read to herself.

"What about you?" suddenly someone asked.

Dracula looked up, and all three of them had their eyes closed, but the big man had wide eyes, and although he didn't look at him, the rough voice was indeed this person's.

"You didn't know where this convoy was going at first, just heard the facts, but didn't show too much surprise and fear, I thought that you were like you, but also the kind of street gangster who had no money, was blinded by the surface of the gold and silver sea, and only embarked on this road of no return, and after hearing the truth, you will be afraid and want to escape. ”

"Of course I'm not going to run away, I have to go," Dracula shook his head, "because I want to meet someone, I should be able to meet that person if I go there, and I'm not a gangster, I have my own home." ”

"Yes. Dahan replied and said no more.

Dracula had nothing to do, hugged his legs, and closed his eyes, and as soon as his eyes were closed, all the memories of Fina's past came to light, and he silently recited Fina's name in his heart, waiting.

Waiting......

At this time, he suddenly wanted to hear Fina sing that song, in this place without her.

I don't know how long it took, but the car suddenly stopped.

"It seems that it has arrived. Dahan said, not deliberately looking at the others.

The old man also opened his eyes silently, clenched the crutches in his hand and prepared to get up.

"Ah, it's already here, it's a pity, I haven't had enough of it, the cell is full of hard floors and walls. The beard slowly got up from the cushion.

The middle-aged man still lowered his head, unable to see his expression at this time, and sat in his position without moving immediately, as if he was hesitating.

Dracula also slowly opened his eyes, his consciousness gradually re-engaged with the outside world, and he suddenly felt a cold chill crawling up his back, making him feel an indescribable feeling of discomfort, sweeping all over the world, from the outside of this proud car.

The door of the sedan chair was opened, and the big man was the closest to the door, and he was the first to get out of the car, followed by the old man who wanted to fully dedicate himself at the end, with a strong step with a cane, and looked at Dracula with a beard, as if to signal who would go down first, and the middle-aged uncle seemed to lack the courage to go down in the end.

Dracula didn't know when he would see Fina, so he replied with his beard and jumped out of the palanquin.

When he stepped on the earth again, he saw that the whole world was blood-red, and the wind was wrapped in a sweet smell.