As Yin Xiu expected, in the early morning, after their carriage drove onto the wide deck of the steamer, those who had originally followed them followed them not far away.
At this time, there was no longer any cover from the trees, and those people hid among the passengers on the boat, or simply stayed close to other vehicles to avoid Yin Xiu and the others' sight.
"These guys don't want to fight with us right now." Luo Wei sighed.
"They're waiting."
Yin Xiu burped, "I guess these bastards won't show up until we find Laura Fana."
Luo Wei was not as calm and calm as him, but he just said dissatisfied: "Then we just let these bastards follow us like dog skin plaster?"
"I didn't say that either."
Yin Xiu suddenly took out a piece of talisman paper from his pocket and raised it to Luo Wei, "In "The War of the Three Kingdoms", there is a scene called Burning Red Cliff. Have you heard of it?"
"Yin Xiu."
Luo Wei frowned, "Set fire to the boat will kill many people. If we do such a thing, what is the difference between it and evil spirits?"
"I didn't say we were going to have such a big scene."
Yin Xiu looked relaxed and pointed at his feet, "It won't be enough to burn the deck, but it would be easy to cause the ship to break down before it enters the port."
"The ship's captain and sailors are in trouble."
Luo Wei's tone became more relaxed.
"The insurance will pay for it, so what are you afraid of?" Yin Xiu didn't care.
After all, it was just destroying the engine room and it would not affect others. With Yin Xiu's skill, he could do it even if he was given a wrench.
And using fire, just to be a little more thorough and make it look more like an accident.
"When will it start?" Luo Wei asked him.
"Wait until we get closer to the port."
Yin Xiu shook the bottle and found that not a drop of gin could be poured out.
"Excuse me, is there any more wine?"
The groom heard Yin Xiu's inquiry outside, paused and said, "Under the cushion on the left, there is a bottle of sherry."
"Oh!"
"With added ingredients," the groom reminded.
"Oh..."
Yin Xiu retracted her hands and straightened up, "I'll leave it to you. Don't drink too much. Drinking is harmful to your health."
The groom said cheerfully: "Thank you for your concern. By the way, maybe you two will take the first step later?"
Take the first step?
Yin Xiu only felt that this question seemed to mean that the two of them were about to die.
"That's right, I don't need you to lead the way."
"Okay."
The groom's figure under the cloak nodded slightly, "Miss Laura Fana is a good person. If you two find her, she will definitely be able to help."
"Good guy?"
Yin Xiu was noncommittal and just asked: "Is she beautiful?"
“Very beautiful.”
The groom's voice became a little happier, "Seven years ago, I met the lady east of Dunling, and I still can't forget it."
"What a long life."
Yin Xiu sighed: "Seven years is one-tenth of our life. For many people, seven years is longer. After surviving the last seven years, whether there will be another seven years, it doesn't matter. It’s not certain.”
"Perhaps it's because it's so long that we don't pay attention to many things.
For us, war and separation are just short-lived fragments. Only love is eternal. Vampires are keen to fall in love and stay true to it for hundreds of years. ”
"I've heard of such a thing."
Rowe nodded in agreement: "It is said that there was a count who had a wife when he was not a vampire, and they loved each other very much.
Once the count participated in an expedition and fought a protracted war with an empire in West Asia, which was very arduous.
When he finally won and returned to the territory, he found that his wife had committed suicide in grief because she had believed the rumor and thought the Earl had died in the battle.
Because of this incident, the earl was so distraught that he turned his back on his grandfather and became a vampire.
But he has been looking for the reincarnation of his wife until four hundred years later, when he finally met the reincarnation of his wife. For this reason, the earl returned to Dunling to find her, which triggered the long-silent dark forces to attack him. Chase..."
"That should have been compiled by a novelist, sir."
The groom tried to sound serious, "I have never heard of such a thing, so this should be a story, not a deed."
"Really?"
Luo Wei coughed twice in embarrassment, "But that's at least a beautiful story, isn't it?"
"Of course."
The groom also became happy, "Such a story makes people happy to hear it, doesn't it? Hundreds of years of love is really a romantic thing."
"Really?"
Yin Xiu was a little drunk at this time and thought of Ma Xiaoyu again.
The two of them combined would not live for four hundred years, let alone even if they could live for a hundred years, when they met, one-fifth of their lives had quietly disappeared like running water.
In this case, compared with the hundreds of years of love between vampires, it is indeed short-lived and a bit ridiculous.
But is time really such a critical thing?
If one year, one month, or one day is missing, will it not count as a lifetime?
Maybe when two people are together, even if their eyes only meet for a moment, that's enough.
With these questions, Yin Xiu's drunkenness gradually rose, and then he heard the groom shout outside.
"Two gentlemen, you can already see the port from here."
"Okay."
Yin Xiu loosened his fingers, and the talisman paper in his hand was flying in circles, floating out quietly, passing through the gaps in the wheels under everyone's feet, and getting into the engine room.
"Thank you for your hard work."
Yin Xiu and Luo Wei adjusted their clothes, "When you go back, tell Joseph that we have died in the fire."
"Fire?" Luo Wei hesitated.
"It's all the same. Maybe it's just a screw missing or something cracked, but when the news reaches the town from the port, it will be a fire and a lot of people will be burned, so just say that."< br>
"Joseph wouldn't believe it."
"It doesn't matter if he doesn't believe it."
Yin Xiu fastened the buttons on her windbreaker, "Just let others hear it."
"Yes, sir," the groom responded.
At this time, the engine noise that had been rumbling and making people's eardrums tighten suddenly disappeared, along with the vibrations coming from below the deck.
"It smells like something is burning!"
"Grilled fish?"
"It's on fire!" someone shouted, and then there was chaos on the deck, with women screaming and men yelling.
The boat stopped at a place where the outline of the port could be vaguely seen, completely turned off, and did not take a step forward, just swaying with the waves.
Luo Wei followed Yin Xiu out of the carriage and once again confirmed that the fire was indeed within control. At most, the innocent passengers and sailors would be trapped here for an hour or two, and he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
"Don't worry," Yin Xiu blinked, "I'm always as precise as doing surgery when it comes to destroying things like this. I never touch places that shouldn't be touched."
"That's not necessarily the case."
Luo Wei curled his lips, "When I was a child, I was sent to the hospital to have my appendix removed. It was fine when I went there. When I woke up, I found that my brother was also wrapped in gauze, which made me walk with my legs crossed for a week." br>
Poof!
Yin Xiu couldn't help but laugh out loud, "What are you doing repairing something that you can't even use?"
"You!"
Luo Wei turned back angrily, but before he could say anything, Yin Xiu put a hand on his shoulder, and the two disappeared together.
To the panicked passengers, they did not realize that there were two missing people.
However, for the spies who followed closely, the situation was not good. They were only briefly blocked by cars and people, and the two people disappeared without a trace.
Is it a spell or is there some mechanism here?
Or maybe it's another conspiracy.
The spies turned their attention to the coachman who was still sitting at the front of the car.
The coachman was silent and still sat.
Finally, when the spies couldn't hold it any longer, the coachman moved.
He jumped off the carriage and walked to the railing. The black robe still covered his figure tightly in the sunlight, like a shadow rising from the ground.
The spies approached him silently.
"The Nicholas Family."
The coachman murmured softly.
"I have served the Nicholas family for a hundred years, and I have always regarded myself as a tool connected with the carriage. I just need to eat and drink.
I don't expect anything, because I am a blood slave, not a member of the noble vampires. Whether passively or actively, I am isolated from the world.
Until one day, Miss Laura Fana walked in front of me, she was like a ray of sunshine...
Oh, even if sunlight is harmful to vampires, I would still like to describe her this way. ”
The spies listened to his whispers and had no intention of answering.
Some of these guys are hidden under black robes like the coachmen, while others don't care about the sun at all and just wear a felt hat.
These people surrounded the coachman, forming a circle from a distance, making a vague vacuum around him.
However, the coachman didn't care. He stretched out his hand from under his black robe and held it on the railing.
As soon as the pale hands came into contact with the sun, white smoke emitted, like a barbecue.
But the coachman still didn't care, as if it wasn't his hand.
"Actually, my unrealistic thoughts are really offensive to Miss Laura Fana.
I shouldn't even mention her name, but I'm really not a mute. It's okay to keep my mouth shut for a year, but if I don't speak for a hundred years, wouldn't I be a stone statue?
But I am also glad that I can help Miss Laura Fana, dear lady, there is not much I can do for her. ”
The spies listened to his few words, trying to decipher something from his words, but in the end they could not analyze anything. They only felt that the coachman was stalling for time and talking crazy things.
Until the coachman took out the bottle of spiked sherry from his robe, took a sip, and started pouring it on himself.
I don't know when he bought this wine. The aroma is refreshing as soon as I open the bottle. From a distance, I can smell the aroma of flowers and fruits, as well as the weight of time.
The spies looked at this scene and were stunned. Then someone finally remembered something and shouted.
"This guy wants to kill himself!"
"Stop him!"
The group rushed forward.
However, the coachman ignored them and just pulled off the black robe that seemed to have become one with him for hundreds of years and threw it aside.
He opened his arms and embraced the sun.
The sun also welcomed this friend who had been separated from him for a hundred years with warm gestures and enthusiasm.
The sun and Lauravanna were both beyond the coachman's reach and beyond his reach.
But today, at least the sun, the coachman has embraced it in his arms.
The raging flames surrounded the coachman, making him feel warm and hot.
The blazing tongues of fire shocked the other spies and forced them back, making them almost unable to open their eyes.
The people on the boat were frightened by the pillar of fire and screamed again. However, the blood slave who had turned into the pillar of fire did not say a word. He just maintained the posture of embracing the sun and did not lower his arms for a long time.
The stars have changed!
Yin Xiu and Luo Wei landed at the port and almost fell into the sea.
Looking back, I saw little bits of firelight flickering on the ferry in the distance.
"Didn't you say that the fire will be very small?"
Luo Wei covered his eyes with one hand, "Why is it that when I look at it now, there is a ray of fire soaring into the sky?"
"That's because you saw it wrong."
Yin Xiu wiped the sweat off his face, and used Dou Zhuan Xing Shift to bring one more person with him. Every time the distance lengthened, the amount of mental energy he consumed doubled, and he was inevitably sweating profusely at this moment.
"Perhaps there is a fire coming out of the steamer's chimney? This often happens when the coal is damp or of poor quality. Sparks shoot out from it. When you look at it from a distance at night, it looks like fireflies flying out. .”
"You even know about this kind of thing?" Luo Wei was a little surprised.
"What's so strange about this?"
Yin Xiu smiled and said, "After working the night shift in the factory, before dawn, I would sit on the edge of the pier drinking and watching the sea."
"It's so dark, what can you see?"
"You can only see things when it's dark. You can see the lights of steamships, the stars in the sky, and the sea. Everything is clearly visible."
"Oh, I can't understand you." Luo Wei shook his head.
"Understanding or not understanding are trivial matters."
Yin Xiu sighed, "That period was the most uncomfortable time for me in the factory. I just felt that everything was gloomy and dull, as if tomorrow the world would change drastically and become even worse.
However, I later understood that the world will not change, only us will change. ”
"Us? How do we change? For worse? Or for better?"
"I'm not a philosopher or a prophet, how could I know this?"
Yin Xiu patted Luo Wei on the shoulder, "Let's go, Yongtan, we still have things to do."
"Going to find Laura Fana?" Rowe asked again.
"Of course, go find Laura Fana now."
Yin Xiu glanced at the sea. The firelight had gradually dissipated, and it seemed that it had really turned into stars in the sky. (End of chapter)