Volume VI: The North African Lion

Chapter 1

After more than half a month of hard work, the castle was almost restored to its original appearance. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

That night, while watching TV, I noticed a blurry nighttime video on the news, which took place on the outskirts of Munich, Germany. The video shows a madman who looks like a drunk man suddenly pulls a passing pedestrian on the street and bites the victim's neck to death, the madman runs to another street, and half an hour later, an ambulance arrives at the scene, carries the victim on a stretcher into the ambulance, and takes him to the hospital. The news then reported that the madman was shot dead by police while trying to attack someone else on another street.

This video caught my attention, and I replayed it several times in a row, carefully examining every detail, and the more I looked at the madman in the video, the more I looked at it, it became less like a drunk and more like a vampire, which made me think directly of the sixth desire. Anthony and Walker may not have known about it, but it was a problem that could not be ignored, so I called them into my room and asked them to work on this terrifying video. We kept playing back the video, watching every detail in detail, and doing a lot of analysis.

After careful research, it was finally determined that the madman on the video was a sixth desire patient, fortunately he had been shot dead by the police, otherwise, it is unknown how many people would have contracted the virus. In order to prevent us from contracting this virus, Anthony specially prepared two syringes with vaccines for each of us, which can be easily loaded on the body, and once attacked by the virus, the vaccine can be injected into our bodies immediately.

We must act now to stop the situation from deteriorating further, to find out the inventor of the Sixth Desire, and to take down him, with catastrophic consequences for the world if the Evil Spirits' plans succeed. Lucifer's purpose in giving me strength is to let me do my part to save the world.

The next night, Anthony, and Volcker went to the outskirts of Munich, Germany, to learn about the situation, hoping to gain something. We asked some local people and asked some questions about the new virus. Accounts vary, with some claiming they saw vampires and others saying that the vampires were nothing more than some terminal rabies. Whether it's a vampire or a rabies, we all have to think of it as the sixth desire at work.

We inquired around several small clinics and hospitals and saw pictures of some rabies patients. Other than that, we didn't even notice a vampire. Could it be that the madmen in the video are really just some terminal rabies patients? The answer is no, Anthony, with his years of medical experience, can easily see that the patients in the photo are not ordinary rabies patients, and he is very sure that the sixth desire is at fault.

We need more people to work with us to investigate this matter, and we must draw personnel from Elias, and we must not let the plan of the Evil Soul Party succeed, this time we must not allow the virus to spread further, we must let these viruses disappear from the face of the earth completely, and kill the leader of the Evil Spirit, Baroque Truy, who is missing a hand, but he is still alive after all. Our next actions could determine the fate of the world.

In the dead of night, Anthony and Volcker and I went to the site of the vampire attack in Munich. Night cats weave through the frighteningly quiet streets, and we crouch high above the buildings and look down, hoping to be lucky enough to run into some strange vampire or sixth desire sufferer.

The breeze was gusting, the leaves rustled, and the occasional car or two drove over the silent road.

"Wait. Anthony said, pulling out his cigarette and asking Walker and me, "Would you like one?"

"No thanks!" I said.

Walker shook his head as well, and while taking out the wine bottle, he said, "No need, I'll just drink." ”

Anthony lit a cigarette and waited patiently.

After waiting for more than an hour, there was still no suspicious person appearing. "Shall we change places?" I asked.

Anthony puffed out a cigarette, "Wait, maybe as soon as you leave, an uninvited guest will come." ”

"Oh well. ”

After about a quarter of an hour, a man came from under the dim street lamp not far away, his figure became thin and long under the street lamp, and he looked back from time to time, as if on guard, could it be that someone was chasing him from behind? This is a suspicious man, we are going to keep an eye on him, if I am not mistaken, he is probably one of the members of the Evil Ghost Party or the Black Gold Maniac.

The suspicious man sat on a recliner on the side of the road, looked at the ends of the road, looked up to the sky and sighed, then lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth. In the dim light, you can clearly see the white smoke coming out of his mouth.

A police car with low beams slowly approached from the far end of the highway, and the police must have seen a man smoking on the side of the road, but the police car drove to the next intersection. The man who smoked stared at the police car until the car was out of his field of vision, then he let out a long breath and threw the cigarette butt into the trash can on the side of the road, ready to leave. Just as he was about to leave, the police car that had just passed him went back the way it came, and I guess the police had already suspected him. Two policemen got out of the car and asked him to show his ID. The man pretended to have an ID card, searched his pocket, and said, "I'm sorry, I forgot to bring it." ”

A policeman looked at him carefully and asked, "It's so late, why don't we take you home?" ”

"No need, I can go by myself, thank you!"

Another policeman saw that he kept one hand in his trouser pocket and asked, "What do you have in your pocket?" The man took his hand out of his pocket and pulled out a syringe by the way. The policeman then asked, "What is this?"

The man replied, "Do you want to know?"

At the same time, Anthony subconsciously said, "It's over." ”

"What is this?" the policeman looked surprised.

The man smiled and said, "You'd better try." As he spoke, he injected the liquid in the syringe into the necks of the two policemen as quickly as possible, and he shot so fast that the policemen didn't have time to react, he was definitely a vampire.

The two policemen who had been infected with the virus became numb in their limbs, fell to the ground and began to convulse, and soon passed out. The man said to himself, "You sent this to the door on your own initiative." ”

While the man was unprepared, the three of us came up behind him in an instant. He jerked his head back and saw at a glance that we were vampires too, and he took a few steps back, looking wary, "Who are you?"

Anthony examined the wounds of the two policemen, who were indeed injected with the Sixth Desire, and he quickly took out a syringe full of vaccines from his body and injected the vaccine into the veins of the two policemen. After the injection, Anthony breathed a sigh of relief, "It's okay, they woke up soon." ”

"Who the hell are you?" the man continued.

"You'll find out with us first. Walker said as he stepped forward and grabbed his clothes.

When he saw Walker's fierce face, he was stunned for a moment, then pushed Walker's hand away, turned and fled. We chased after us, sometimes running sideways against the walls, sometimes leaping on the rooftops. In order to catch each other faster, we decided to split up in three ways, with me keeping an eye on him and Anthony and Walker outflanking.

After I had chased him for some distance, there was a T-junction ahead of me and Anthony and Walker suddenly appeared from both sides and we had surrounded the man. Anthony also pointed a gun at him and said, "Don't be afraid, we won't hurt you, as long as you come with us." ”

The man looked terrified, "Who the hell are you, and why are you arresting me?"

"Come with us and you'll know. ”

Walker also took out his pistol and aimed it at the man's eyebrows, "Take out the virus you have on your body first." ”

The man pretended to be calm, but in fact, he was already terrified, and he deliberately delayed time, "Do you want to kill me?"

"Didn't you hear? I'll tell you to take the virus out. Walker approached him, put the muzzle of his gun to his forehead, "If you don't hand it over...... the man took out the two remaining syringes containing the virus. Walker took the syringe, "That's what it sounds like." ”

Since he had the virus in his body, it was very likely that he was also infected by it, so in order not to be surprised, Anthony took out a syringe with a vaccine and plunged it into his neck without saying a word.

The man groaned, "What do you want to do? What is this?"

After Anthony injected him with all the vaccines in a syringe, he lied to him with a serious face: "This is our latest virus, and within a week, you will ulcerate all over your body, and you will end up as a living dead, and you will lose any memory." ”

"What?" he stared into Anthony's eyes in horror.

In order to stabilize his mood, Anthony continued: "We have the vaccine here, but we don't have it with us, as long as you behave well and answer our questions well, I promise you will live well." ”

The man looked reluctant, "Okay then, what do you want me to do?"

"We don't know your name yet. ”

"Thomas Vane. ”

"This is not the place to talk. I said, "Take him back to the castle first." ”

We covered Thomas's face with a hood, then took him back to the castle and escorted him to the interrogation room. This interrogation room is very soundproofed and has only one door. The guards outside the door can clearly see Thomas's every move through the bulletproof glass, but Thomas can't see anything outside.

Anthony and I went to the glass outside the door of the interrogation room, looked at Thomas, and we spoke to him through the microphone outside. "Thomas Vane. I said.

Thomas immediately became alert, "Who are you?"

"I want to ask you a few questions, can you answer them truthfully?"

He pondered, "As long as I know, I'll tell you all." ”

"If it's half a lie, you don't want to get a vaccine. ”

"What do you want to ask?" he sat in his chair, looking calm.

"What organization are you?"

"The Evil Spirits. ”

"Why are you spreading the virus?"

"This is my task. ”

"What task?"

"They're all gone, leaving me behind, and letting me spread these viruses in the interior of Europa with my meager strength, and then rallying my compatriots who have been separated on the continent for so long. ”

"I reckon you've been abandoned by the Order. ”

"No, they didn't abandon me. ”

"How many of those viruses do you have with you?" asked Anthony.

"Only those few syringes have been taken away by you, I wanted to inject the virus into some people, and then let the virus spread automatically, so that more people can join our evil spirit party, but I didn't expect that I overestimated myself too much, and I underestimated you. ”

"What are your accomplices doing?"

"They were going to the United Kingdom with all the virus. ”

"Who is your leader?"

"Yes......"

"Say it quickly. ”

"Baroque? ”

"I knew it was him, so what was your course of action?"

"Yes......"

"Say it quickly. ”

"The North African Lion is preparing to go to St. London, United Kingdom, where all the viruses are on board, and the captain of the North African Lion is a member of the Italian Black and Gold Maniac named Zola Montiano, who has formed an alliance with us in order to survive. ”

"I remember the leader of the Black Gold Maniac was Ralph George, and I heard about it when I was in the United States. ”

"You're too clever to hide from you. ”

"What's that Zola?"

"Well...... Do you really want to hear it?"

"What do you say?"

"Alright then, I'll tell you about it. Zola Montiano is the hundredth generation of the Montiano family, the founder of the Montiano family, Count Conti Montiano, a famous Italian nobleman in the late 14th and early 15th centuries. In 1412, the Montiano family began to prosper with the support of the Italian royal family, and the family's honor spread especially in Naples and Sicily, and the family's wealth came mainly from the silver and leather goods trade at sea. By 1800, the family's business had reached dozens of countries and regions in Europe and the United States, and the family's economy and honor had reached its peak. At that time, no vampire family in Europa dared to compete with the economic power of the Montiano family. At that time, the highest-ranking member of the family was Count Bruno Montiano, but unfortunately, the Montiano family began to decline during the Bruno period, because the war launched by Napoleon plunged Europa into war, and the family business was forced to suspend in various places, and the business was reduced from a maximum of a few dozen countries and regions to twenty regions in two countries. By the middle of the 19th century, the family economy had lost 70 percent of the total economy, and the Montiano family was powerless, and in desperation, the entire family members were forced to go to the American Federation to find a way out, hoping to turn the tide. After arriving in the American Federation, all members of the family joined the black gold fanatics. It was not until the 20th century, when two world wars broke out, that the Montiano family lost so much of its fortune that many regions had forgotten about it. In the half century after the Second World War, the most prestigious person in the family was now Zora Montiano, who did not hesitate to buy a large amount of the family's wealth into weapons and equipment, and the only wealth of the family was a large cruise ship called the 'North African Lion'. Now, the North African Lion is the only maritime vehicle in the Black Gold Bandwagon. ”

"Is the North African Lion used to transport viruses?"

"It's not just viruses, there's other prohibited goods. ”

"Do you know where the North African Lion is now, and when it will depart?"

"The North African Lion is moored in the port of Naples, four days before departure. ”

To prove that what he said was true, I stared into his eyes and used my superpowers to enter his memory. In his memory, I saw a large cruise ship moored in the port of Naples at night, the so-called "North African Lion", and the members of the black and gold fanatics boarded the ship one after another, loading a large number of wooden boxes into the cabin, which should contain the sixth desire. Oddly enough: the crew were all black gold fanatics, and none of them were members of the Evil Soul Party. I then left Thomas's memory, "You're right, but I still want to ask you a question, and you have to answer me truthfully." ”

Thomas pondered, "Okay, I'll tell you. ”

"Why isn't the Evil Ghost Party on the North African Lion?"

"Because their mission is to fly directly to St. London, the virus and weapons can only be transported to the United Kingdom of England by the North African Lion, Baroque and Ralph will lead their men to wait in St. London in advance, and the North African Lion and the cargo on board will be transported by Zola to St. London. ”

"We can try to get on board. ”

"No need, as long as you can blend in. ”

I wondered, "Is that possible?"

"There are a lot of idle people in the Black Gold Maniac Organization, and Zola can't go to order them one by one, there are many people in it who don't know, they only know to work for Zola. ”

"Thomas, I need your help. ”

"How can I help?"

"Do you know Zola?"

"Of course I do. ”

"He won't suspect it when you board the ship, will he?"

"If you want to board the ship, the fewer people the better, because the more people there are, the more suspicious of him. ”

"I have my own arrangement. ”

All we had to do was intercept the North African Lion and make sure the virus on board didn't spread elsewhere, and in this moment of great urgency, I thought of Lucifer, and if he had been there, he might have come up with a quicker solution to this virus crisis, and now it's up to us.

I quickly gathered all the members, Frank, Isabel, Walker, Arthur, and Wiñola were the five people who were going to board the "North African Lion" with me, and the others were Anthony who arrived in St. London on the red-eye flight, and they were very numerous, and I was relieved that they would secretly establish our base in St. London, and they could monitor the whereabouts of the Baroque and Ralph who were about to go there.