Chapter 13
1
The small town in the north is really comfortable. Even though it just snowed, it has added a lot of beauty to this place. Perhaps the people living here feel really inconvenienced, but we tourists love the scenery after snowfall the most.
Outside the transit station in the small town, I am half lying on Nofice, listening to her explain everything that has happened in the past two years.
In summary, after I entered, Gueye started chasing Tony. Before he left, he said: since he doesn't know when he will be able to come back, he wants to make efforts while he is still young, he wants to go in the direction of his brother, but take a different path.
What he means is that he wants to transform himself, in his own way.
Perra has always been weak. Now she has found a job at the hospital... oh, the blood at the hospital is donated for free. The blood of non-living beings lacks nutrients, so it seems to take some time to recover. Another way to recover is by biting me.
Nana has been keeping her promise and has been waiting in the border town for two years, becoming an officer in the border town.
Lilith and Elena returned to the imperial capital with the Duke because Elena's memories are confused and she needs treatment and care. Elena is a god and Lilith is a demon. They are probably fine. They have always been peaceful at the academy. I always thought it was because they have human genes in their bodies, not because the long-term racial hatred between gods and demons is not high. Now I suspect it is because of me.
As for Nofice, after the border war victory, she actually became a model! The reason... my mother took her there, saying that to celebrate the war, there needs to be a nationwide announcement poster, and my mother was a model back then. The photographer needed someone with a glamorous and high presence, so he took her away.
I lay on Nofice's thigh, gently stroking her cheek. Even when pinched a few times, she still remains expressionless. The contract between us broke during the journey between the human and demon gates, but it was fixed when we left the gate. Now it's broken again. Should I cancel the contract with the familiar? After all, we still have the contract with the Dragon Spirit. But without the contract with the familiar, Nofice won't act cute anymore. I'm really unhappy!
"You're stupid. Just go back and renew the contract. Endure it for a while!"
"Black, it's you who always holds the cute Nofice. Are you jealous?"
"Do you envy it? This kind of Nofice is the original version, actually not bad."
"Then you can do it!"
"Okay~"
My hair gradually fills with dark pigments. I take out my glasses from my pocket and sit on the bench. I, Black Qin Yang, have been sleeping like a dog for too long.
Nofice glances at me sideways, then looks straight ahead. It seems that nothing can shake her now. I can't understand if the Nofice before she was sealed as the "Seven Stars" was like this.
"White has been waiting. Why don't you go ask when the last bus comes, Nofice!"
"Okay!" Nofice stands up and walks towards the transit station hall.
I focus on my hearing, listening to the sounds of people coming and going around me, trying to see if I can hear anything interesting.
"Black, do you have to be so perverted? This is invading people's privacy."
"You like to see the scenery, I like to see people. Is there a problem with that?"
A few seconds later, I hear something interesting. Someone on the right side of the street is talking about vampires, and there are people in the distance discussing the recent incidents of innocent people being bitten to death in the town, with all their blood drained and two fang marks on their neck, resembling the work of a vampire.
However, if it was Perra who bit her, Perra would have already recovered.
The glaring light that came from the crowd at the transit station was probably the reflection of some metal.
I decided to follow and see. The refracted light turned out to be one of the two silver swords carried by a burly man. What can silver swords do? Legend has it that they can kill vampires. In reality, they can't harm a vampire with yellow eyes.
It seems that the man is following a woman ahead.
They walked into the alley where they were just talking about vampires. There was a grocery store in the alley, where they had a brief conversation with a few people and then went in.
"Miss!"
"Don't call me Miss, call me Big Sister!" The woman pulled out a chair and sat down domineeringly.
"Oh... yes, Big Sister! These past few days in town, the information, the body examination... we couldn't find anything." The grocery store owner took out a paper with a three-dimensional picture on it.
His companion said, "They say it's the work of vampires, but we don't really know for sure."
"The Imperial government sent us, don't they want us to find out?"
"Maybe... the Empire must have thought that after raising us hunters for over a thousand years, they finally have something for us to do, so they just gave us the order regardless of whether it's true or not."
I eavesdropped on them silently outside. Are they vampire hunters? Oh, it seems the vampire hunters in our empire are the Chen family, they must be them.
"Tonight, let's go and see, find someone to be the bait, it's a simple way, we'll know if it really is a vampire. After all, this town isn't big."
"Master." Nofice suddenly appeared.
"Shh... let's go."
After leaving, Nofice told me that the road ahead was blocked by an avalanche and there were no cars today.
"Nofice, let's find a hotel. I have something to do tonight." I definitely want to witness this tonight.
2
It was getting dark. I sat by the roadside stall, eating noodles and drinking soda, watching the hunters on the opposite side. The residents of the town hurriedly returned to their own homes, locking their doors and windows. Even the stall owner was afraid.
"Kid, I'm closing now. Aren't you going home?"
"Just give me one more bowl, I'll leave soon."
Before long, it had already become pitch black, without any light, not even a hint of moonlight.
I leisurely picked up the noodles with my chopsticks and only saw that big sister wearing a fur coat, exposing her neck, clearly baiting someone.
A vampire with a bit of intelligence wouldn't bite her, right?
Unfortunately, it didn't take long for me to hear strange noises.
No way, they fell for such a simple trap? Their intelligence is questionable.
But something's not right. The aura is similar to but not that of a vampire. Besides, from a thousand years ago until eighteen years later, there's only been one vampire, Perra. If Perra had bitten anyone, there wouldn't be any vampires appearing these past two years. What exactly is going on?
The aura is wild and powerful, comparable to the Green-Eyed Duke vampire. Their intelligence shouldn't be that low.
The street lamps flickered a few times, and the wild aura disturbed the energy fluctuations in the town. The closer to the energy fluctuation, the more intense it became. The owner of the noodle stall was so scared that he didn't even close the stall and ran away.
"Don't run!" This owner, I'm sitting here at this stall and they don't dare to come near. Going outside is just asking for trouble.
"Ah ah ah ah..." As soon as the owner went out, several dark figures surrounded him.
As soon as a few vampire hunters noticed that something was wrong, they immediately appeared. There were five of them, but the number of dark figures continued to increase. Are they clones? Why are there so many? Each dark figure showed long fangs, they looked more like some kind of animal rather than vampires.
The elder sister threw off her sweater and drew the dazzling silver sword from behind the man beside her, taking down one shadow with two swords.
If the shadow is so weak, it must not be the real body, and the fact that the burly man swept away a large group of shadows further confirms this.
In the blink of an eye, the boss was surrounded. This boss is not even a low-level Magic caster, just an ordinary person, which the hunters cannot handle.
I spread apart the two chopsticks in my hand and swung my arm across the chopstick holder on the table. One chopstick for each shadow, all piercing into their heads, causing all the darkness to dissipate, revealing... individual white bones, skeleton soldiers?
I held two chopsticks and swiftly passed through the skeleton soldiers, entering a small cottage. Here it is! The true form of the arrogant aura...