The night was slightly cool, and even the vampire Joseph felt goosebumps on the back of his hands.
Facing Yin Xiu's proposal, he thought about it for a long time, and finally asked hesitantly: "Can you make a guarantee?"
"Okay."
Yin Xiu smiled and said, "I will use my conscience as a guarantee. My conscience is much whiter than the tablecloths on the countertops of the most expensive restaurants in Dunling."
"If you say yes, then it is."
Joseph helplessly spread his hands.
At the moment, he has no bargaining capital with Yin Xiu, and Yin Xiu's guarantee is completely untrustworthy because his bloodline is not "noble."
However, everything has changed now. Even if Joseph is more willing to make a deal with a vampire noble, it is no longer possible at this moment.
So he could only sigh and hesitate on the spot.
It was Yin Xiu who reached out his hand first, "What should we do, cooperate, or die now?"
Joseph paused and finally held Yin Xiu's hand.
"I know where Count Nicholas is, but I don't know if he is still alive."
……
On the outskirts of Xidunling, Yin Xiu and Luo Wei stood under a stone house that had been abandoned for an unknown period of time, drinking wine and chatting.
"I thought the whole Dunling was so magnificent."
Yin Xiu sighed: "I didn't expect that Dunling also has a countryside."
"Suburban."
Luo Wei corrected him. After all, he had been in Dunling for a while.
"This is considered a suburb. We have to go further to the countryside. Don't be poor. I'm quite touched by your coming here."
"Moved?"
Yin Xiu gave him a strange look.
"That's right, it's touching."
Luo Wei nodded and said: "I originally thought it would take half a year for you to receive the letter I sent and pack your things and come over. I didn't expect it would arrive so soon.
So when I saw that Five Emperors Coin, I was only moved. ”
"It's like guarding the pond. When you're roasting wild boar, someone suddenly comes to see you?"
"I don't eat wild boar, but it's almost the same emotion as meeting an old friend in a foreign land. Yin Xiu, do you have such an emotion?"
"Absolutely."
Yin Xiu said perfunctorily, "It's all thanks to that ace pilot Wright."
"Is that guy very powerful?" Luo Wei asked curiously.
"His Mandarin is very good."
Bastard, Dun Lin can be heard as Dun Ling. He came from Nanyang to the West. Brother Xiong, you are really easy to introduce.
Yin Xiu crushed the brick at hand.
Luo Wei didn't notice, only thinking that Yin Xiu had calculated that he was in danger using the same method as Ziwei Dou Shu, so he rushed over here.
In this way, he sincerely felt that Yin Xiu had changed.
Yin Xiu asked him: "By the way, do you believe that Nicholas is seriously ill? Isn't the vampire itself a representative of immortality?
Is there really any disease, like a terminal illness in humans, that would cause a vampire count to die in a hospital bed like a human being? ”
Luo Wei scratched his head, "I'm not a vampire scholar, I'm just a vampire hunter.
But we've all killed so many vampires, and vampires really have nothing to do with immortality, right?
Regardless of whether it is a human or a ghost, as long as it is killed, it will die. ”
"Just talk nonsense."
Yin Xiu glanced at him and said, "I'm asking you, are there any vampires who died of illness?"
"I know I'm starving to death."
Luo Wei answered him, "I recently heard someone in Dunling say that a vampire was trapped in a crevice in a mountain somewhere and couldn't move. As a result, he starved to death and looked like a mummy when he was discovered. .”
Yin Xiu was not very interested. He just said lightly: "So, we still don't know whether a vampire count will contract some kind of incomprehensible and incurable disease and eventually die of it?"
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Luo Wei nodded calmly, "After all, we don't really know many vampires, do we?"
Yin Xiu could only agree reluctantly, "You are right."
While they were chatting, a small door in the ancient castle outside the woods suddenly opened.
Joseph held a lantern and several people walked out behind him.
"It seems like he is still not convinced and has brought his brothers to deal with us."
Rowe licked his lips.
Yin Xiu smiled and said: "I feel like he brought someone to welcome us."
"Oh?"
Luo Wei didn't believe it, "Then with this situation, we look like distinguished guests?"
"I don't know if he's expensive or not, but he's definitely not unpopular." Yin Xiu said.
Luo Wei only thought that Yin Xiu was joking, and when he was about to take action, Joseph had already led someone to the two of them.
Several vampires had strange expressions on their pale faces.
After a pause, Joseph whispered: "Count Nicholas invites you both in."
"We?"
"We."
Yin Xiu patted Luo Wei on the shoulder and motioned for him to follow her inside.
Luo Wei hesitated for a moment, then remembered that if he and Yin Xiu were attacked together by several vampire counts, they could escape.
Is it possible that this ancient castle of the Nicholas family can really set up a dragnet?
So Luo Wei felt relieved and followed Yin Xiu inside.
This castle should be one of the many properties of the Nicholas family, and it is not a particularly important one.
Its walls are covered with ivy, and a section of the old tree protruding from behind the wall has withered, like a mummy, and is filled with lazy crows, looking listless.
Everything carries the meaning of death, warning outsiders that this is a place that cannot be easily entered.
When Yin Xiu and Luo Wei passed through the inner wall, the eyes of the gargoyle statue carved on the wall suddenly lit up, and their eyes glowed red, as if they were watching them.
"Are these real or fake?" Luo Wei asked him in a low voice.
"It's probably true."
Yin Xiu couldn't help but think of his previous experience at the Lonely Hearts Club. It didn't seem surprising that a legendary family like the Nicholas family had several gargoyles as gatekeepers.
The two of them followed Joseph and the others, and after twists and turns, they walked into the largest of several houses.
The ground was covered with a red carpet that seemed to be able to bleed, and when you step down, you will find a shallow pothole.
After walking around the corridor a few times, Joseph took a few steps forward and opened a door.
"Please come in." He gestured.
Yin Xiu glanced at Luo Wei and walked in first.
Luo Wei was one step behind him and followed behind. There was only one light burning inside, like the street lamp at the entrance of the village, right next to the big bed in the middle.
As for other furniture, perhaps they were originally placed here, but they have all been removed at this time. This is to make Count Nicholas's death appear more solemn and solemn, and also to let him rest in peace.
Count Nicholas was lying on the bed, separated from the outside world by several layers of white woven gauze curtains, hazy, so that people outside could only see his vague figure, which was not real.
Yin Xiu and Luo Wei stood still in the room, following Joseph.
Joseph's face was ashen at this time, but he still whispered softly: "Count, I have brought the two Easterners over."
After the words fell for a long time, a dry and thin hand stretched out from the gauze curtain, like a withered birch branch.
That hand waved in the direction of Yin Xiu.
"The count invites you to come over." Joseph whispered.
"Invite us over?"
Luo Wei was a little confused, calling them over in this situation?
Joseph was also confused, but the count did mean this.
So Yin Xiu and Luo Wei walked forward and came to the bedside, a few steps away and separated from Count Nicholas by a few gauze curtains.
But the count still stretched out his hand, gesturing for them to come closer until they could lower their ears to the side of his head and listen to him.
Somehow, Yin Xiu felt a vague feeling of uneasiness in her heart.
It wasn't that he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to defeat the dying earl, or whatever.
But he always felt that as long as he got close and put his ear to it, the count would suddenly rise up, bite him on the neck, and suck out his blood.
This kind of plot often appears in novels and movies, and Yin Xiu can already subconsciously think of it.
In a long-circulated story, a beautiful woman pulled up her long hair and exposed her neck during a date in order to seduce her vampire lover to bite her.
Although the vampire cherished her, seeing her white and beautiful neck, he couldn't help but bite her in one bite.
Yin Xiu now felt that she was the beautiful woman in the story who put her neck to the vampire's mouth.
But Count Nicholas did seem to be dying, especially after getting closer, this feeling became more and more profound.
Like Joseph, he had a high nose and blue eyes. However, at this moment, the blue eyes were deeply sunken in the sockets. Count Nicholas's face was haggard and old, like a dead tree that had been thirsty for a hundred years.
This is a situation that will never occur in a normal vampire. Even if he is beaten badly by others, whether it is burned or frozen, such a change will not occur in a "healthy" vampire.
"It's [sepsis]." Count Nicholas said.
His voice was hoarse, as if there was phlegm stuck in his throat and another liter of sand and glass had been poured into him.
Just hearing the sound of his vocal cords stirring these things makes people want to cover their ears.
"Sepsis?"
"It's not the kind you think human sailors get from not eating oranges, but it's pretty much the same."
There was a strange light in Count Nicholas's eyes, and he didn't know whether he thought it was funny or sad.
"I don't know what went wrong, but I'm definitely going to die.
Bloodletting, blood transfusion, antibiotics, spells, fire, chopping, freezing, none of these could save me. My body seemed to have been eroded by some kind of germ and began to rot from the inside.
The first thing I lost was my power, then my spells, smell, and taste. Now that you are so close in front of me, I can hardly see you.
Death is covered with a black veil in front of my eyes, looming, although it is thin, it is despairing. ”
"No big deal."
Yin Xiu said lightly: "Everyone is bound to die, and you have spent a long time, enough to cause the rise and destruction of three or four dynasties. This is enough."
"But I heard another saying."
Count Nicholas' eyes flashed, "Life only depends on meaning, not length."
"So you want to say, do you think the meaning of your life is not enough? Not important enough?" Yin Xiu asked him.
"Of course I feel so."
The Earl sighed, "Many people think that their lives are successful, but in fact, at the last moment, they will inevitably feel regret.
Especially at such an important moment, I did not die at the hands of the Red Emperor, but died on the hospital bed. This seemed a bit cowardly. ”
"Birth, old age, illness and death are also normal."
Yin Xiu looked at him, "What, you think you can't defeat the Red Emperor?"
"That's a scary guy."
The earl's eyes shone brightly, "The strong fortress of the Blood family has been breached by him. Soon, the entire vampire world will fall into his bag.
Not bad..."
"What's okay?"
"Fortunately you two showed up."
The earl looked at Yin Xiu, "I don't know whether you are sent by God or Satan, but I have a hunch that you will end the Red Emperor's rule in this dark world."
"Premonition?"
"Yes, a premonition coming from a dying blood descendant may also be a delusion before death."
The count smiled lightly, "However, if I say this, it will actually be good for everyone. Whether it is the remaining vampires or you two guests from the Far East, this will be more or less helpful to you. ”
"Psychological and spiritual comfort?"
Yin Xiu nodded, "Earl, you are indeed a competent family leader."
"I always hope I deserve this evaluation."
The earl took a long breath and said, "In fact, if the four major blood families had not made concessions to the Red Emperor, things might not have reached such an irreparable situation today.
No matter what, I can only ask you two to help me with the rest. ”
"Help?"
Yin Xiu touched his chin, "This is why you want to see us."
"That's right."
Count Nicholas waved to the side again, and a servant came forward and fed him a spoonful of blood.
The fresh blood couldn't help him at all, but the count's spirit seemed to be lifted a little, and the sound he made was enough for people in the room to hear.
"It's time to elect the new heir to the Nicholas family, the new Count Nicholas."
The count's voice moved the hearts of everyone in the room.
Apart from the slaves, the rest here are members of the Nicholas family, as well as some vampires who are closely related to them.
Yin Xiu could feel that everyone's eyes were turned to the bed, waiting for something.
Faintly, he also realized the significance of himself and Luo Wei being here.
"So, do you want us two to be witnesses? Earl."
"It's more than that."
The Count smiled.
"Not only a witness, but also my client, because the next earl of the Nicholas family is not here, but in Berlin. I would like to ask you to pick her up and bring her here."
As soon as he finished speaking, the room was filled with the sound of gasping. (End of chapter)