Chapter 44: A Wisp of Obsession
On the other side of the blood and darkness, the owner of the red eyes is watching.
Roth recognized her, she was Lijielit, and she wasn't Lijielit.
The woman in front of her was no different from the one Roth had encountered in her vision, but her whole body was covered in blood-colored thorns, not only wrapped around her black dress and skin, but also buried deep in the flesh and moved at a slow pace.
Blood continued to flow from her wounds, turning into blood-colored food around her.
But blood and darkness are still evenly matched.
Is she fighting against the darkness here?
How long can she last like this?
"Ah, I guessed wrong. She looked at Roth, "It's the third one, but those experiences aren't yours, so you haven't fully mastered them...... No, is it a rejection of outright acceptance?"
Roth was shocked.
He thought that the person behind Castle Black was a defected pastor, but he didn't expect it to be Lijliet herself.
If she is really alive, then the vampire can indeed be said to be not extinct, no wonder it is the last hope......
"No, I'm not alive right now. She seemed to be able to see through Roth's thoughts directly, "I originally came here for your suspicious future, but I didn't expect to have an unexpected gain." ”
She held out her finger at Rot, and he didn't dodge.
A sticky sensation suddenly appeared on Roth, covering him from his face to the knee of his left leg, and Roth found himself clinging to a wriggling lump of flesh.
It wasn't her who did it, this disgusting thing had always been on her, but Roth himself had never been able to find out before!
"The smell of blood is from this thing. She looked curiously.
Didn't I just get bloodied by that unrecognizable man before? How did I become the way I am now?
"How do I know that. She laughed, "But just in time, we can make a deal." ”
The piece of flesh stuck to Roth's body suddenly let out a scream!
When he came to his senses, Roth had returned to the mountain road, and he was still being patted on the head by Lijielit.
Realizing that the battle was over, Jieli cautiously walked over and asked, "Miss Lijielit, I was a little far away from hearing Hu clearly, but is there something wrong with the village?"
She didn't want to think so, let alone ask, but she deliberately had the courage to say it.
"I don't know exactly what they did. "But the villagers should be taken hostage, so at least they have to make sure that the villagers have the value of being hostages." ”
Jieli bit her lip and ran to the village.
Lijielit didn't rush to follow, but asked Roth: "It seems that the girl can't receive you Roth, this matter has nothing to do with you at this point, what are you going to do next?"
There are so many things that Roth needs to think about right now, and it's a bit messy.
He asked, "Why did the vampires only send such a person in the crisis of extermination?"
Lijielit didn't mind Rot's way of coping, and replied, "Because if the flesh was a little heavier, even if I was as weak as I am now, I would have been able to detect it in advance." Even if I feel like I owe Jieli a favor, I'll still run if I can't do anything, and if you want to catch me, you can only take advantage of the fact that I don't have time to resume and ambush now. ”
Roth used the conversation to contain his thoughts and said, "Are you weak...... Legend has it that the ritual of resurrecting a vampire always requires a lot of blood and sacrifices, and you woke up on your own, so you're weak?"
Lijielit sighed: "Strictly speaking, I was stimulated by the blood that Jieli dripped on my head, and the only blood I can use now is those three bandits, shabby to death!"
"What about the zombies?"
"Even if it's great, I can't take life force out of zombies, okay! I just woke up and didn't know how to do it, and all I had to do was the magic with the smell of decay, and I was sick to death!"
Roth thought for a moment, shook his head, and said, "It's still strange, since they can all calculate in advance that you will appear in this village after you recover, then why don't they just take you away while you are still awake? Is it because of that small church?"
"There's nothing unusual about that chapel, it must be the people who live in it. Lijielit sneered, "I guess it's Jieli's godfather." I don't know exactly when I do it now, but it feels like I've been asleep for at least a hundred or two hundred years, and that person can't be still alive. It's a shame that they were able to pass down a mantra exactly that......"
Lijielit replied, a little impatiently, "I still have to go and see Jieli, lest she be frightened." For the sake of you helping me deal with that Kosei, if you have something to ask, you have to go quickly!"
"Don't worry, let's go see her first. Roth said.
Lijlitt crossed her arms and said, "You're still nosy?" I don't recommend you do that, you'd better think about it later." ”
After saying that, she walked to the village, just in time to bump into Jieli who rushed out anxiously.
"Miss Lijielet, what to do, everyone in the village is gone!" said Jieli, with tears in her voice.
"Gone?" Lijielit's eyebrows raised, "I thought I would put a curse on the whole village at most, but I didn't expect to take it all away?" ”
"I ...... Everybody ......"
"Jieli!" Lijielit grabbed Jieli's arm and said, "Thanks to you, I can wake up early, I won't let you go until I pay off this extra time because of you, with me, you don't have to worry too much!"
Roth also walked over and said: "This matter seems to be very involved, and it can't be solved overnight, Jieli, you have to calm down first." ”
“...... Well, ahem, ahem, ahem, then, come to my house first......" Jieli said as she tried to hold back her tears.
With the help of Lijielit, Jieli, who was so shocked by the disappearance of the whole village that she could barely stand still, reluctantly led the two to her home.
The village seems to be quite affluent, with many of the houses being two-storey, and many of the designs that are more decorative than practical, and a cursory glance at Roth shows that the second floor of the three houses has balconies.
But Jieli's home is one of the few one-story buildings in the village, and there is a sense of oldness, and when you enter the house, Roth finds that the lighting here is not very good, and it is a little dark in the morning.
As Lijlitt and Jeri sat on the only two chairs in the house and talked, Roth listened intently as he walked to the window where the sun was supposed to be shining in, and sure enough, the neighbor's second floor was supposed to block out the sunlight, so that the house could not see the sun at least an hour a day at night.
And when you think about it, Jieli's work seems to be a day when you stay alone in a small church on the hill and look at a cemetery that is rumored to be haunted.
Isn't this family ostracized in the village?
But this girl is the only transcendent person in the village, who is her godfather?
The communication between Lijielit and Jieli at this time was not smooth, and the disappearance of the whole village was too impactful for Jieli, who had never been out of such a large village, causing her to fall into a panic completely.
"Jieli, you're too tired, let's get some sleep first. Lijielit's eyes glowed faintly red, and she said to Jieli.
Jieli nodded dizzily and said, "Okay...... Miss Lijielet, I wish it was just a dream......"
She said this as she slowly walked to the bed herself.
After watching her fall asleep, Lijielit walked up to Roth and patted him and said, "Hey, since you haven't left yet, then help me with a consultation, I'm hesitant now." ”
"I'm probably going to ask a lot of questions," Roth said. ”
"And I've always liked to answer questions, and I seem to know a lot. Lijliet sat back in her chair.
"I wondered why Kosher came out during the day, and you said that you didn't beat you like a vampire at night, even in your current state?" asked Roth, leaning against the wall by the window.
"Who do you think I am, if it's night, I'll just do that!" Lijliet said, snapping her fingers, "except for the vampires who are not as great as me and a few who are worse than me, all the other vampires will be sucked to dry by me." ”
Roth thought for a moment before he realized what she meant - except for vampires with the strength of the duke and the strength of a few marquises, the other vampires were no different from mortals in front of her!
Even if Roth was prepared, he was still frightened by Lijielit's statement, you must know that the vampires of the duke's strength According to the records he has seen, they basically have the legendary strength of the new standard, and in the old era, it was necessary to dispatch an army or several human legends to be able to crusade.
When she said this, she leaned down on the table, and her chest and table created a visual forbidden area that Roth didn't dare to look at, "But didn't Jieli say that my castle was occupied by demons? Kosher also said that as long as I go home, everything will be understood, obviously those bastards have cooperated with demons in order to deal with me!Oops~ If you want to fight demons, you have to rely on real hard power, which annoys me a lot~"
Demons, as the true gods who oversee hell as the angels who guard the heavenly realm, have a kind of suppressive power beyond their strength when facing mortal species, and it is not just hard power that is needed to fight them.
And while people in the old days generally regarded demons as evil beings, and it should seem normal for them to mingle with vampires, Roth is different.
He knew that in a few hundred years from the time of this illusion, the filth would erode the world, and the true gods would resist and exterminate the vampires.
Considering that the precursors of the modern United Kingdom Church, the Valhalla, the Hand of God, and the Omniscient Eye, were already active at this time, the true God may have been preparing for this world at this time.
Then the vampires' move to find the devil to cooperate is tantamount to falling into the mouth of a tiger.
However, these things will only be regarded as crazy by the inhabitants of the illusion now, Roth thought and asked, "Are you having a hard time recovering?"
Lijielit glanced at Roth with a strange smile, "You believe what I just said?"
"That's because the vampire named Kosie can also ...... behavior."
"Okay, okay, no need to explain, I don't care. "It's not hard to regain strength, if it's extreme, I'll let Jieli continue to fall asleep now, find a big city and suck all the people inside to dry up, then go and clean up the demons and those old stubborns, come back and wake up Jieli and tell her 'Congratulations, it's really just a dream!', isn't it good." ”
Roth didn't know what to say for a moment, but said, "...... I don't want you to do that. ”
"Don't want to? If you're scared or don't care, you should shut up and play stupid, if you want to take advantage of me, you should come and kneel and lick me, if you're driven by a sense of justice, you should think about how to kill me, or stop me righteously for the sake of fighting side by side. Why don't you want to, why don't you want to?" asked Lott with a narrow question.
"I don't want you to do that, either. A deep male voice interrupted Lijlit's entertainment, causing her to look back with an incredulous expression.
She looked at the real and illusory man in front of the door in surprise, and said, "Van Helsing, it's you!?
The man known as Van Helsing, whose body was almost translucent, walked into the room with a smile, looked at Jieli and said, "Don't be too surprised to accidentally unhypnotize Jieli." This kid finally accepted my departure, and he would definitely not be able to bear it if he did it again. ”
"What the hell is going on with you? I can barely feel your life!" said Ligerlit, frowning.
Van Helsing looked at his translucent body and said, "Because I don't have much life left, I gave the rest of my life in exchange for this opportunity to witness the end of the vampire." I still have to take my last breath to witness that day with my own eyes, so it is impossible to continue teaching Jieli. ”
"I'm probably here because of you?" Ligeret snorted, "Your obsession is terrible, the vampire who killed your lover has been killed by your own hands, hasn't it?"
"That's not enough!" Van Helsing reached for the weapon at his waist, but he couldn't pull it out, his hand and weapon had already turned into a shadow, "That's not enough! After you slumbered, I searched everywhere for the hidden organizations with mysterious powers in order to find a way to exterminate the vampires, because none of the methods known could make me do what I wanted!"
"Looks like you've found it?"
"It's different from what I imagined, but it's not bad. Van Helsing laughed cruelly, "I received a prophecy from an organization called the All-Seeing Eye that the vampires would be extinct! I confirmed it myself, and their power is unquestionable!
Lijliet thought of something, and asked with a complicated expression, "Do you want to tell the vampire that the person who prophesied is you?"
"Tell them, no, no, no! How could I spare them so simply!" Van Helsing's illusory eyes burned with a prohibitive glint like substance, "Under my careful planning, the most hateful old immortals among the vampires obediently sacrificed their original power in exchange for this unchangeable cold reality!ah~ Every useless struggle they made was like a drop of nectar that nourished my soul!"
Lijielit didn't expect that people's obsession could reach such a point, and she shook her head, but then slapped the table again: "Oh no! If you take revenge, you will take revenge, what are you tossing me for? What is the last hope, didn't you also say that the prophecy is unchangeable?"
"You're different, Lijliet, you're different...... Van Helsing said, somehow turning his gaze to Roth, who hadn't interjected, "I can't think of you as a vampire, so I don't want you to do the kind of behavior you just mentioned, and if you can, I hope your hands don't get the blood of innocent people again." ”
Lijielit put her left hand on her cheek, spread her hand with her right hand, and said, "Then what should I do? I can't find any other way to rescue the villagers, and only when I regain the strength of my heyday can I guarantee the value of the villagers as hostages." I calculated, Jieli woke me up so that I could move more than ten years earlier, so I plan to live for her for the extra ten years, but that's it, I can't let myself be someone else's experiment for hundreds of years for the sake of ten years! They also know this, so there must be other arrangements in my castle, once I fall into their trap, then the villagers' value as hostages will be lost, even if it is just to anger me, those bastards will definitely kill the villagers in front of me!"
Van Helsing shook his head and said, "It's just a village, and Jieli will accept it sooner or later." ”
"Listen to what you say? Ligeret looked disgusted.
Van Helsing was amused and laughed: "Then you plan to sacrifice the people of a city in order to save the people of a village, is it human words?"
"I'm not human, I'm a vampire. Lijliet put her right hand on her thigh, "You haven't answered yet, why are you tossing me, the vampires are going to be extinct, then extinction, let me live the last days freely, isn't it?"
Van Helsing stopped laughing, pulled out a ball of light from his bosom and said, "Because you're different, Ligerlit." If you're willing to believe me, bring this with you, and it will come in handy when you meet that demon. You see, in determining whether the prophetic power of the All-Seeing Eye is genuine, I ...... Well...... Habitually doing a little more. ”
"Your hands have never been clean...... Ligilet reached for the orb of light, but it vanished as soon as it touched her hand.
"Huh, nothing happened to me?" said Lijlit.
Van Helsing's body became lighter and lighter after taking out the ball of light, and he put his finger to his lips: "I can't say yet, we will meet again in the future, although I should not be able to recognize you by then......"
Before the man disappeared, his voice suddenly rang in Rot's ears: "Could it be you? Isn't it you?"