1982: Small Town Bloodline Records

Snow falls on skin...

On a moonless night, there were painful wailings everywhere. Carl dragged his heavy body and walked in it with difficulty. Mr. Morrison held his hand firmly beside him, and his rough and hot breathing became the only thing he had in this purgatory on earth. hope.

Unlike the ones in Wilbert Manor, the semi-finished products here are all slow-moving and can barely hunt the living people around them. But even so, if Mr. Morrison hadn't reacted quickly, they would have been almost killed by those wandering people many times. Monster caught.

——Newborn vampires will have a period of extreme thirst for blood. The difference is that we will learn to restrain ourselves under the guidance of "father" and "mother", but this group of semi-finished products will not, they will only kill all living things around them. shredded.

"Dad, leave me alone and go find Mom first." Carl swallowed, "I'll find a place to hide and wait for the sun to rise."

It is now eight o'clock in the evening, and there are still ten hours before dawn.

"Carl, I will send you out first," Mr. Morrison interrupted him, "If I can't find your mother, I have to ensure your safety first, not to mention it's hard to find your mother with you now... ..." Before he finished speaking, a hand stretched out from the dark and grabbed his ankle.Fortunately, he climbed onto the wall in time, pulled his foot back hard, and kicked the monster twice before barely getting away.

Staring at his father's flushed face, Carl had never hated himself so much: why should he compete with Ronald and Rooney?If he had told them from the beginning that the treasure was in the basement of the Wilbert Manor, then he wouldn't have gotten hurt and made his parents suffer in this hellish place.

They've searched three places, but they haven't seen mom moaning. Where was she taken?

Could she have been killed, could she have been infected by those terrifying blood-sucking monsters... Karl scratched his palms vigorously, forcing himself to wake up and calm down.

The previous commotion attracted monsters wandering in the distance, and they rushed towards Karl and the others with a strong stench.

Karl still doesn't know why things turned out like this?Why did the small town that was quiet and beautiful just a few days ago become like this now?

The exorcist... Recalling what Edgar said, he never expected the legendary exorcist like this.

——I beg you, anyone, save my family, save them...

Seeing that their figures were about to block the road ahead, Karl made a very bold decision—he decided to use his own flesh and blood to fight for some room for his father to escape.

He closed his eyes, trying to push his father in another direction with all his strength, but he waited for a long time, and the expected pain did not come.Maybe being eaten by vampire fangs is not painful, just as he was thinking this way, the sound of flesh and blood being torn apart attracted his attention, he quietly opened his eyes a little, and saw what he would never forget scene.

Edgar's pupils turned scarlet like blood again.In the state of vampire hunting, Karl was distracted and recalled what was said in the book.

The blood-sucking monster in Edgar's hand had a big hole in its chest, and an endless stream of dark liquid gushed out and splashed all over him, making him look as if he had just been fished out of a pool of blood.

"Edgar..." Carl wanted to reach out to touch his cuff, "Is that you?"

Edgar threw away the body that had lost its heart, "Why are you here?"

"It's more complicated..." Carl leaned against the wall and gasped, "I'll explain it to you later. Edgar, can you please take my dad out of here?"

He wanted to ask Edgar to help him find his lost mother, but he didn't dare to push forward-if Edgar refused him, then they really were finished.

The corpses of the same kind were lying at their feet, and the blood-sucking monsters, feeling a certain deterrence, dared not take half a step forward, hesitating whether to continue hunting or leave.

"Carl?" Mr. Morrison stared at the guy in front of him suspiciously, then turned to look at the son who obviously knew the scary red-eyed monster, and finally said tremblingly, "You...you know my son, right? You... …Take Karl and go. He is my child and I must protect him...”

Carl never imagined that his father would react like this.

"I'm fine!"

Edgar lowered his eyes, as if sweeping across the bald and fat middle-aged man with emotion.

"I will guarantee your safety, but your wife, I haven't seen her all the way here, I hope you are mentally prepared."

Mr. Morrison's face changed instantly, he covered his mouth and panted, "It's okay, thank you. I... I know, if we really encounter misfortune... we can only say that our luck is too bad, thank you for your willingness Save my child."

The moment he looked Edgar straight in the eye, he lost his mind and fell—Edgar caught him easily before he fell.

With Karl showing the way, Edgar led the two of them outside the hospital, and easily found the half-worn car.

In the dense snowy light, Carl could barely see Edgar's appearance clearly.

"Why are you like this?" Edgar asked softly.

I don't know if it's Karl's illusion, but Edgar tonight is far gentler than he has ever seen before.

"I had a fight with some bastards in school." Carl was silent for a few seconds, "I lied to them that Wilbert's manor had treasure. Do you think I did something wrong? If they encounter these monsters... ..."

"I don't know your human morality, but for dark creatures, we have revenge."

Edgar leads them to the car, Carl takes the key out of Mr Morrison's pocket to open the door, and Edgar helps Carl get him in.

"He will wake up in ten minutes, and then leave this place quickly." After speaking, Edgar turned around and prepared to leave, "Remember to close the door when you get home, and don't open the door if anyone knocks."

He still has to find the loathsome traitor.

"how about you?"

"You'll recognize me."

Carl was almost at the limit, but he still smiled, "I know I will recognize you. Thank you, Edgar, thank you for saving my dad and me." He could hardly see Edgar in front of him. Plus, a few swaying shadows gave him even more headaches.

"Go to sleep, Karl. I will help you find your mother, and if...at least bring out her remains." Edgar's cold hand brushed his eyelids, "The nightmare will be over when you wake up. "

"You..." Karl pulled his cuff, "find another person for me."

"Who?"

"A blond, tall, lanky boy with freckles." Carl's sanity is already unclear, and he is very, very weak from the concussion and excessive shock. "He's my best friend. I'm afraid of him. Become that monster."

Blonde parents can't have brunette kids no matter what.

When I was young, Carl saw such a sentence in a book.

His parents moved to the town of Brodika when he was six years old, and he has no memory of living in a big city before the age of six - I don't know why there are only photos of him after the age of six in the photo album of his parents , the previous things are completely blank.Until he saw such a sentence in the book, he looked at his parents' brilliant blond hair, and then at his messy black hair, and naturally thought of such a question - "How did I come here?"

Mom was baking cakes in the kitchen at that time.Her hands were covered with flour, and the air was filled with the sweet aroma of milk, eggs, and sugar. "Huh?" They all grow out of the mother's stomach. After nine months, the doctor will take out the baby and give it to young mothers when they are mature." She gestured, "My little Carl is too."

She rinsed her hands under the tap, then dipped a little flour and applied it to Carl's face, "Why do you ask this?"

"Nothing." He shook his head, "I just saw this in a comic."

"Put down the comics first, and help mom. Mrs. Croft will be visiting our house later, and I haven't baked the snacks yet." Mom carried him to the cooking table, holding his immature little hand Stirring the batter in the bowl, "I hear her baby is your age, a boy. You're going to like him, and I hope you'll be your first friend."

He listened ignorantly, and then saw his mother pour the prepared batter into a paper cup, and swallowed subconsciously.

In his memory, cake is the most delicious thing - I heard from his mother that he had a serious illness a while ago, and after recovering from the illness, he didn't remember much of the past. As compensation, she always baked some snacks for him put it in your pocket.

At two o'clock in the afternoon the warm sun was brightly illuminating the drawing-room, and Mrs. Croft called on time.

Her only son, a pale and thin boy, was held in her arms, timidly looking at everything around him, his hands and feet were tied, and he didn't dare to move his hands when he saw the cupcakes on the table.

Carl didn't know how to communicate with him at all, and felt his gaze, and quietly pushed the paper cup towards him.

Todd Croft - Mrs Croft said he was called - stared at the cake for several minutes before hesitatingly put out his hand.

"Is it delicious?" Carl plucked up the courage to ask him, "I made it with my mother. If you like it, there are many more."

Todd was so scared that he almost dropped the cup, and finally said hesitantly, "It's a little burnt, but it's... okay."

Carl glared at him.He didn't allow others to say that his mother's food was unpalatable, even the poor boy in front of him.

"Carl, don't bully Todd." Mrs. Morrison stuffed a small bag of biscuits into Todd's hand, "Don't tell your mother."

Afterwards, Todd explained that because Mrs. Croft always burned the cake, the burnt smell was the one he was most familiar with.

todd...

Karl shed two lines of tears in his dream.

The feast of blood-sucking creatures had reached a crescendo, and there were bloodstains all over the floor.

Smelling the thick smell of blood in the air, even Edgar couldn't help being in a daze for a moment—fortunately, he had already eaten before coming here, otherwise he couldn't tell what would happen to him.

He cut off the necks of several semi-finished products, but he still didn't see the person he was looking for.He promised that Carl would find his mother and friends and he would never break his promise.

Ignaz was not here. He walked quickly through the halls and corridors that looked like a medieval dungeon, and walked towards the second floor of the hospital. Suddenly, his eyes rested on a hand sticking out from the corner of the stairs. A premonition came to my mind immediately.

It was a woman's hand, the skin was a little loose due to years of housework, and there was a ruby ​​ring on the ring finger that looked quite old.He recognized the ring.

"..." He easily dealt with several monsters lying on her body sucking blood, and led her to a relatively secluded corner.

The massive blood loss caused her to be in a trance, and she barely opened her eyes to look at her savior.

Even in this hellish environment, the blond vampire was handsome as a god—time hadn't left a mark on him, and he still looked exactly the same as when she first saw him.

"You... are you here to take that child away?" Her eyes passed through Edgar's face, returning to that snowy night ten years ago, "I have always regarded him as my own son, he A very, very good boy ... thank you for having him with me."

"I will not take him, ma'am, he is your child." Edgar let the frail woman lean against him.

Her body was as cold as ice, and he couldn't give her any warmth.Dark creatures are just that.

"Carl, is he okay?"

"He's safe." Edgar took her hand, trying to give her some strength.His lips moved twice, but in the end he could only say, "Your husband and son, I sent them to a safe place."

None of the spells Ignatz had taught him helped the situation.

"Really?" A small smile bloomed on her pale and dry lips, "Thank you."

On a snowy night ten years ago, Eugene took him on his way in a weak state.

He was too weak, and would turn to ashes when he touched a little sunlight, so they could only move forward in the darkest night.

Unfortunately, a heavy snowstorm began to fall in the evening, and the road ahead was blocked, so Eugene decided to take him to a nearby small hotel to hide for two days before going on the road.

The stove of the small hotel was burning vigorously, and the thick leather curtain was lifted, and the heavy heat wave rolled in.Eugene claimed that he was a foreigner who came to the local area for business, and his companion was sick on the road, so he hoped to stay here for two nights.The shopkeeper took Eugene's gold, and of course he welcomed them in with great joy, and gave them the best two rooms--what a strange party they looked, two men with a comatose Boy, there were several people looking at them oddly along the way.

They met a haggard young couple in the lobby. The man was tired and the woman was gray. The only luggage was a worn-out small suitcase.

She looked very young then, and she didn't have so many wrinkles around her eyes.She stopped Edgar, "Excuse me, are you the boy's father?" She had a ruby ​​ring on her left ring finger, which did not match her ragged clothes at all.

Eugene looked like he was going to tell her to go away and mind her own business in the next second, but Edgar winked at him, "I'm not, his parents are both dead, and we're just his temporary guardians."

"I'm sorry, I just see that the child's condition is not very good..." She obviously thought of something bad, her eyes flickered, "Is he sick?"

Edgar took the opportunity to access her memory and learned that she had just lost her child.

"Actually, I don't know what's wrong with him." He felt a burning pain in his chest after he said a few words, "If you don't mind, you can come to my room with your husband, I have something to discuss with you .”

The young wife and husband followed them upstairs after whispering a few words.

Once in the room, Eugene lit the oil lamp for them, put the unconscious boy to bed, and went out.

Edgar looked at the boy's sleeping face, "Well-meaning lady, I know my request is very presumptuous, can I ask you to adopt this child?"

"What?" She couldn't believe what he just said.

"Adopt this child. I will pay you a large sum of money to ensure that you and this child have nothing to worry about." Edgar felt that the place where he was burned by silver hurt more, "My friend and I, we are not Suitable for raising children. This child should live with people like you, okay?"

He made sure no one else was watching, and slowly bared his fangs, "I'm a vampire, and I can't raise a human child, but I don't want to turn him into my own kind, and ruin his whole life. "

She looked stunned, but Edgar saw that she was running without turning.

"I know you'll never have children of your own again."

By the time Eugene came back with warm blood, the young couple had already left with the sleeping boy.

"Do you think this is okay?" Eugene asked him quietly, "Is it really okay to just leave this child to a stranger like this?"

"He should live with humans." Edgar drank the blood, drowsy, "I don't even want to hand him over to the exorcist family, God knows what they will do to him. After all, he is..."

Late at night, in the hellish hospital, the screams of half-finished vampires were everywhere.

Edgar let the dying woman lean on himself, "Do you want to be a vampire? Karl loves you very much, and he will be sad if you leave him."

The dying woman took off her ring little by little and put it in his palm, "...I like being human." She gasped, "People will always die. Tell Karl, just say... I'm sorry. Help me... protect him..."

She closed her eyes.Edgar knew that she was dead and would never open her eyes again, and he had to bring her remains back to Karl.

In the ward on the third floor.

Todd Croft struggled to open his eyes.

This world is completely different from what he used to know.He could clearly see tiny stains on the mottled paint on the ceiling and walls, and he could hear distant noises—all tiny movements magnified a thousand times to the point of pain.

There was a sweet and seductive aroma in the air, and he felt his gums swell, as if something was about to grow out.He tore off the adhesive tape and needles on the back of his hand, touched it tentatively, and found that it was sharp and long canine teeth.He looked anxiously at the chair beside the bed, and found that there was no one there.His gut told him something terrible had happened and he had to find her in time.

"I didn't expect such a surprise to be left here for me."

Hearing the sound, Todd raised his head alertly, but saw no one.

"You... who are you?" His voice was trembling.

"Here, my child, I have come to see you."

A shadow appeared in the darkest place.The shadow gradually condensed into a solid body, turning into a tall and handsome man.

The man had a typical Eastern European face, carefully curly brown hair and cloudy turquoise eyes.He stared feverishly at Todd on the hospital bed.

"Good boy, tell me what's your name... oh don't talk, let me guess, your name is Todd Croft, isn't it? You want to know what's happened to you, where your mother has been... You still want to know what happened here, why no nurse came to round the ward for half a day... It’s okay, my dear, I will answer everything for you.”

Todd was speechless.The hairs on his back stood on end, and his throat felt as if it was going to burn.

He knew this man was dangerous—for he had seen this frantic, cold light before in the eyes of another, a serial murderer who had hanged seventeen whores and kept their skulls in his chest. Under the bed as a glorious keepsake.

"You became a vampire, or something very close to a vampire. I don't know why you can still keep your sanity, but who knows? Maybe you will go crazy in a second. Your mother, that woman, is probably somewhere I was sucked dry of blood waiting to die. Oh yes, this place has become my paradise, my paradise..." At the end, the man unconsciously raised his voice, "Tell me, Todd, how do you feel right now? How about it?"

"Go away, I don't want to know..." Todd waved his arms, but he was too weak, and his oversensitive five senses had already damaged his nerves.

"You really make me sad." The man sighed exaggeratedly. "As a gift, please accept this. But this can only help you solve the immediate urgent problem but not the root of the problem."

Todd received what he threw, a delicate brass pipe.He subconsciously pulled off the cap and found that it was about 5 milliliters of black liquid.

"Drink it, don't force me to drink it for you." The man reached out and stroked his cheek, "Trust me, I won't hurt you for a while."

"Who are you?" Todd asked with difficulty, on the verge of being driven mad by everything, "Why are you...in this place? My mother she...really...really..."

The black liquid flowed into the throat, like a good medicine to cure all diseases.

Todd felt the thirst in his throat quenched a little.

"Give Old John a penny." The green-eyed vampire leaned into his ear, breathing out a cold breath, "Remember this, you'll need it someday. By then, you'll know where to find me. "

The green-eyed vampire left the ward with leisurely steps.

He was happy to admire the purgatory he created: Hanger Willard was more capable than he thought, he not only attacked the patients in the hospital, but also infected countless nurses, what was even more surprising was that he actually saw A boy who has retained his human sanity.Even if the boy refused his help now, he was sure that it would not be long before the boy would be begging for mercy.Not for long, as long as he remained the blood father of the child.

"Where do you want to go, Ignatz?"

Hearing the sound, Ignaz looked up to find the speaker.

"Oh, Edgar, you're here, are you satisfied with what you've seen?" His lips curled into a fake smile. Those days spent in the bar, countless blood, and beautiful wailing, and the night at Medal Manor, the farmer's wife cried and begged me not to transform her six-year-old daughter, what did you do...you Breaking her neck just because her face reminded you of that woman. You looked so cold and cruel back then and I miss you like that. What about you? Will you miss me?"

The heavy snow gradually stopped, and the thick clouds drifted away, revealing the silver moonlight, illuminating the dark corridor.

Edgar approached him slowly.His face remained unchanged, and he said coldly, "Really? Ignatz, I miss you all the time, even when I'm asleep. According to common sense, vampires don't dream when they're asleep. We slept as if we were dead, unconscious, but strange, and even then I always thought of you, how I always wanted to break your bones, tear off your hideous head, and take you The dark heart was dug out and thrown into the furnace... I do miss you very much."

The cold snow light illuminated his beautiful platinum hair, and in the next second, his blue eyes like polar glaciers turned blood red.

Ignatz took a step back.His left hand was hidden behind his back, not knowing what he was doing, while his right hand was actively stretched out, as if inviting Edgar.

"Fate made us meet again. I thought I would never see you again. You are such a monster of fate. My former friend, I miss you very much, but definitely not the weak and incompetent you now." His eyes swept over the dead woman who was placed aside by Edgar, "You are really depraved, you actually brought this unlucky thing to reminisce with old friends."

Edgar snapped at his hand.

"Don't play tricks, I know what you want to do."

Ignatz's left hand was exposed. It turned out that he had drawn a scribbled magic circle on the wall behind him, and almost painted blood on it to activate it.

With the crisp sound of bones breaking, Edgar crushed his finger bones.

Ignatz approached Edgar as if he didn't feel pain at all.

"Traitor, you traitor is still alive. Let me guess how you survived? You gave up your dignity and pride, and begged for mercy from humble humans, right? You were not tied up by them and sent to the sun to bask Turn into ashes, you are really powerful...you lowly trash, I really should kill you with my own hands!"

By the end he was already roaring, "You betrayed me, you betrayed me to those bastards of the Wayne family, they ruined everything I worked so hard for so many years! My blood, my workshop, my count Obscure research results, you traitor..."

Edgar strangled him and silenced him.

After a few seconds of silence, Edgar said without emotion, "I have fallen into the hands of Daybreak."

"..." Ignatz laughed wildly, "Do you think I will believe it? Lixiao is full of people who hate us the most in this world, and you actually said that you survived Lixiao? He laughed sharply, and when he had laughed enough, he changed into a coaxing tone, "Just take it as me. Poor Edgar, didn't those guys at Daybreak teach you the cruelty and madness of human beings? If you and I If you admit your mistake, maybe I can accept you again..."

The moment Edgar was about to crush his neck bone, Ignatz's body turned into a limp skin—empty with five sense organs but no inner filler.The skin slipped from Edgar's hand and landed on the dirty floor.

"Do you think I don't know that you are here to seek revenge from me?" The mouth of the leather pocket was still opening and closing, and the words he said were leaking, "Goodbye, Edgar, I hope you like me your present."

Countless gray dust floated in the air, forming a vague figure.

"Don't try to escape! Ignatz, I have something to ask you..."

A black blood line emerged from Edgar's palm, and the blood line pointed in the direction of the gray mist, but passed straight through without touching anything.

"Edgar, we will meet again."

Let Ignatz run away again.Edgar lowered his eyes, making it impossible to see what was going on in his heart.

The smoke drifted out of the window and went to a direction that Edgar could not reach with the wind.

Edgar turned around and found a small head protruding from the corner of the wall.

"Are you Todd Croft?" Edgar stared at the fangs that could not be retracted freely on his lips, "Karl asked me to come to you, but looking at you..."

"Do not kill me!"

The moment of rejoicing when he heard the name of his good friend disappeared, and Todd pleaded softly, "I... I don't know what's wrong. I didn't hear anything, I didn't see anything, so don't kill me."