Natural enemies

Las Vegas, night, 11 o'clock.

At this time, the nightlife of the whole city has just begun.

In a casino on one side of the Las Vegas Strip, a pale man walks silently back through a row of slot machines.

This person was wearing a black coat, which made his face pale and bloodless, even his lips seemed to be a little purple, but for some reason, his eyes seemed to have some dark red in their pupils.Especially when he looked at other people from time to time, it seemed like a hungry person saw a big meal.

If it was in another place, and suddenly faced this person under the light, he would probably be startled by him.However, here, even if someone saw it, they would just glance away and then look away. After all, gamblers in this casino always look like this. Light, maybe it doesn't look as human as he does.

The man in black walked around two corners and entered a small room.

There was also a gambling table in the room, and there was a man at the table playing a few cards boredly. The man in black stopped behind him and bowed slightly: "Sir."

The man turned his head, and it was Louis' face that was revealed under the light: "Huh?"

"The last batch of goods has arrived in Germany, and the number of 3000 people is enough."

"Finally enough." Louis threw the poker aside casually, with neither joy nor anger visible on his face, "This time has really been delayed for long enough!"

The man in black lowered his head: "It could have been faster, but those demon hunters found our people in the refugee camp a few days ago, so they started to investigate, which caused the last group of people to arrive late..."

What he said was true, but that was only two weeks ago, when most of the "goods" had arrived at the expected location, and the last batch was only a few days late.

In fact, he knew very well that this was not what Louie meant by procrastination.

The return plan was officially launched eight years ago, but at that time, because of the failure of the Hallows Project 60 years ago, Louis triggered a wave of "distrust" among the Secret Party.Although the nameless person has never obtained a formal identity, there are still many people who know that he is a member of the Fanzhuo clan. If it weren't for the Fanzhuo clan who also lost the dead hand of the holy weapon, Louis would have removed the head of the Fanzhuo clan and The position of the secret party leader.

Although Louis tried his best to make amends, he still encountered so many doubts that he could not get 2000 people directly, but had to find another way to start this return plan and use the untouchables to make up the number he needed.

Three thousand, this number doesn't sound like a lot, especially when there are billions of people in the world, those untouchables who don't have official blood status are definitely more than this number.However, it is a huge project to find them out from the vast crowd and bring them back.Not to mention, there are some here who are reluctant to return.

Thinking of what to say next, the man in black bent his back a little further: "But—"

"What?" Louis asked coldly, with some impatience already in his tone.

"But among the first batch of people who were sent there, several were restless and kept asking to go back..." Most of the untouchables lived a life of panic and exclusion, but some of them lived well, and even more Some don't want to accept their blood status at all, and of course they don't want to return.Especially after they came and found that they couldn't go back to the original place, they started to make trouble.

A cold light flashed in Louis' eyes: "Then kill him." Success is close at hand, and he does not allow anyone to make trouble.

The man in black hesitated for a moment: "However, there are a lot of people..." Among the few people, there was one who was particularly eloquent. He seemed to have sensed the danger and had already incited dozens of people to quit, including several middle-level .It is conceivable that generally those who can get along well are blood races with higher generations. At least they are not afraid of the sun like snakes and scorpions, and it is easier for them to gain a foothold in human society.

Blood clans with higher generations have higher energy contained in their blood, and a ten-generation blood clan can be worth three, four, fourteen, or five generations of low-level blood.But when they get together to make trouble, naturally the trouble is even bigger.

There was a trace of blackness in Louis's eyebrows: "Could it be that you can't even control them?"

The head of the man in black was almost buried in his chest: "The matter of the Asian Institute has been publicized, about the mixing of multiple bloodlines - the devil party made a big fuss about this, and many people in the secret party are also questioning, Especially Bruhe and McAvey..." The blood of werewolves and devils mixed with the blood of the vampires for experiments is absolutely intolerable to the vampires.The demon hunters did not look for others, but only searched several properties of Louis, which was like blatantly showing to the blood clan that it was Louis who did this!How could it not arouse doubts within the blood race?The reason why Louis hid in Las Vegas was also related to the blood clan.

"A mess, and a group of lunatics." Louis squeezed a few words through his teeth, "They are always the ones looking for trouble!" Bruch seems to be born to challenge the "leader", as for McAvey, that It can't even be measured by common sense.

The man in black didn't dare to raise his head: "Because McAvey lost his soul ring, he has been..." McAvey's group of lunatics are unreasonable, not to mention they have lost their clan's sacred artifact, so how can they agree? Let it go?It can be said that in the past few decades, the McAvey family has almost ignored or even resisted Louis, and the hidden alliance with a relatively loose structure has almost collapsed, and only one form has been retained.

Louis took a breath: "The Demon Hunters Union is willing to publicize this matter?" After all, it is their demon hunters who cooperate with alien species. Is this something glorious?If we really want to publicize it, what impact will it have on them, don't they know?

"It's the Tang family..."

With a bang, a corner of the solid wood gaming table was smashed by Louis.The man in black shivered with the sound, and tightly closed his lips.Don, now is one of the words that the husband is least willing to hear, and another word that will make him angry, of course, is Francis.

However, these two names really have to be mentioned.Not to mention the betrayal 60 years ago, not to mention the extremely unsuccessful trip to Asia two months ago, not even to mention that Louis had to go to Las Vegas to take shelter because of several property raids in France Head, just talking about this opening right in front of you, you have to mention these two people.

"Right now, demon hunters are active in several countries that receive a large number of refugees. And it seems that this matter was proposed by Tang..." God knows what's going on, that guy should be acting for his sweetheart now Running around, he paid attention to refugees who had nothing to do with him, and brought them new troubles.

"They found it?" Louis raised his eyes abruptly, the sapphire-like color was illuminated by the light, and had an amber-like luster, like the eyes of a beast that wanted to choose people and devour them.

"From the current point of view, they should not have discovered the place where the seal is, but they are just suspicious of the refugees. But this may prevent them from reaching the seal place on time..." The man in black did not dare to lift his head, "Actually It's not just this problem, those refugees—" Those refugees themselves have caused a lot of trouble and attracted the attention of all parties, even if there is no demon hunter, there is no way to escape if they lead more than a hundred refugees to the designated place All attention.

"Bastard!" Louis murmured.In the end, the number of untouchables found was not enough, so he thought of a way to temporarily create offspring.But in today's society, it is not easy to quietly transform a person into a blood clan. Everyone has their own identity and their own social circle. The more orderly the place, the more difficult it is to do.In contrast, refugees who have left their hometowns and are in turmoil are good choices.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of receiving refugees from various countries, he asked his confidantes to quickly transform a group of blood races, and dispersed them into several countries around the sealed place. It would be much easier to bring them back to the sealed place.But who knew that these refugees would cause so much trouble themselves!

"Those who should be killed must be killed." Louis squeezed a sentence through his teeth, "We can't let them cause chaos. Before everyone is here, there can be no problems!"

"But if you kill too much..."

Louis slapped the table again: "Kill it, kill it! If it doesn't work, create a new batch of blood!"

His eyelashes lowered slightly, hiding the ferocity in his eyes: "The Alps is a good place, and there is never a shortage of people. If there are only a few hundred people missing, the tourists there alone are enough."

The man in black was startled, and raised his head involuntarily: "Sir—" There are indeed many tourists in the Alps, but if nearly a hundred or even hundreds of people disappear all of a sudden, how could they not attract attention?What's more, the current situation is so sensitive, and the Alps are in the fiefdom of Mr. Francis. If such a problem arises, Francis will definitely be the first to become suspicious.

Louis laughed deeply: "Indeed. He is so smart, and now he has forced me to hide here, so he must be the first to connect this matter with me."

"However—" he leaned back and crossed his long legs, "as long as the seal is successfully broken, even if the whole of Europe—no, even if all the demon hunters from all over the world gather in the Alps, so what?"

"...You're right." The man in black thought for a while, "If there is indeed..."

"It can't be wrong." Louis said in a low voice, took out his phone, opened the gallery, and called up those photos that he had seen countless times.

The photo shows a white glacier.Although it is said to be an ice "river", the surface is actually not smooth, and is full of protrusions and depressions, which leads to the distinction between light and dark in this piece of white.

If you look carefully, the ups and downs on this glacier vaguely outline a huge circle.One of the photos was taken at dusk. I don’t know which angle I chose. The afterglow of the setting sun from the opposite mountain pass casts on the glacier, making the boundary of the circle clear, as if drawn by a compass.

Such a circle can never be formed naturally.Not to mention, as can be seen in other photographs, the center of this circle is covered with curved lines, forming an eerie complex pattern.And in the center of this pattern is an inverted cross with a long top and a short bottom. Below the inverted cross is a faint shadow.

Compared with the circular pattern, the area of ​​the shadow is not worth mentioning, and the color is not deep. If it is an ordinary aerial photo, if you don’t pay attention to it, you will completely regard it as a common impurity inside the glacier.But if you pull the camera very close, you can find that the shadow is rectangular and regular in shape. It doesn't look like a stone or sand, but it looks like a coffin.

That's right, if it is an ordinary person, even if they find the shadow is rectangular, they may not think of the coffin.But for the blood race, their most commonly used coffins are about this size.Notably, above this shade, is an inverted cross pattern.

The inverted cross, some people say it is "Satan's redemption", but for the blood race, it is the symbol of the ancestor Cain.At the entrance of the blood mist maze, there is a tall inverted cross. Some blood races privately say that this is because the ancestor likes to look at the cross upside down, so the cross in his eyes is normal.This approach represents that the ancestors actually longed to be forgiven by God and return to him.

But such legends are private.After all, if the ancestors were eager to get rid of the identity of the blood clan, then what happened to them?Once you see yourself as a sinner, where does the arrogance of being a vampire come from?Without this arrogance, what would the blood race become?This is too detrimental to the existence and development of the race.

The man in black suddenly realized that he was thinking too far, and hurriedly pulled back his wild dog-like thoughts, and said cautiously: "Sir, this matter—should we be more cautious, after all, we can't Make sure, this is indeed a coffin..." If the sacrifices were really selected from the tourists in the Alps, and then things got serious, and all the demon hunters came, only to find out that they made a mistake, it would be a big joke .

"It can't be wrong." Louis traced the lines in the photo with his fingers, "Didn't you also read the information? This pattern is the seal of the ancestor, which is very similar to the mark on the boundary gate of the Thirteen Clans, especially It’s the inverted cross in the center, but some details are different. Presumably those marks serve the function of communication and fixation, while this mark means isolation and suppression, so it’s different.”

Of course, the man in black followed Louis to read those materials.In order to interpret this imprint, Louis turned over almost all the ancient books of the blood race, and checked them with those imprints on the gate of the realm, and finally confirmed that this imprint is the handwriting of the ancestor Cain, and it is a seal.As for those who can be sealed by the first ancestor, at least among the ancient books of the blood race, the thirteen blood races of the third generation are the most recommended.

"I don't know who it is..." Thinking of the legendary thirteen three generations, the man in black swallowed involuntarily and murmured.

"It doesn't matter who it is." Louis's eyes were shining, as if he wanted to pick the coffin out of the glacier with his eyes, "For the power close to God, as long as there is one!" Where are the thirteen and three generations sealed? It was only by accident that he saw a piece of work for a photography competition, and found a clue from it.

"This is God's will—" Louis murmured, "sealed on my territory..." and it was revealed because of the melting and shrinking of the glacier, so he discovered it.If this is not God's blessing, what is it?

The man in black hesitated for a while, and still asked the question he had been worrying about all along: "But if this third-generation adult doesn't want to..." It's not because he's worried that the third-generation blood doesn't want to occupy the world, but because he won't obey Louis. of.And Louis—he knew his master very well—what Louis wanted was not a master over him, but a weapon that would allow him to unify the blood race and even the human world!

"Besides, if this lord is not from our Fanzhuo clan..." Even if he is rescued by Louis, this three-generation blood clan will definitely favor his own clan. At that time, Louis has worked so hard, don't give it to other clans Made a wedding dress.

The excitement in Louis' eyes gradually faded, his fingers clenched the phone, and after a long time he slowly said: "You're right..." He slammed the half of the gambling table with a bit of dejection and anxiety, "Damn it, I still need to find the soul ring!"

"Francis is..."

Louis waved his hand: "I suspect that the soul ring may not be in his hands. He escaped from me several times and even used the butcher knife. If there is a soul ring, he should have used it long ago. If On that bridge, he used the soul ring and the butcher knife together, then it may be difficult for me to come back."

"But—maybe he didn't wear a soul ring at that time..."

"No." Louis said affirmatively, "After I thought about it carefully, he obviously set a trap for me. Since he came prepared, why didn't he bring a soul ring? It's so inconvenient for him to bring a butcher's knife. Come on, is there any difficulty in bringing another ring? So he said that he lost it, which is very likely to be true."

"Then where can we find the soul ring?"

Louis' face contorted for a moment, but he didn't speak.He really couldn't answer this question.

The man in black's cell phone rang suddenly, and he looked down: "The magic eye wants to talk to you."

"What are you talking about!" Louis waved his hand impatiently, "It's nothing more than bargaining with me with that little pine. Takahashi has already said that the success rate of that kind is too low. If you want to break through the generational restrictions of the blood clan like that, look at it." It’s too difficult to come, and I don’t know how long I’ll have to wait.”

"Besides—" Louis showed a trace of sarcasm, "I guess the magic eye is looking for us now because he wants us to help. He probably can't hide his affairs."

The man in black froze for a moment: "But now it's rumored that it's the vice president, Ke En—"

Louis sneered: "There are quite a few people involved in this matter in the Demon Hunters Guild, but the Magic Eye is dealing with Francis face-to-face this time, and there must be a flaw in his eyes. Francis—" he reluctantly said Admitted, "He's always been clever, and the magic eye can't fool him."

"Then what do you mean..." The man in black looked down at the message on the phone, "The magic eye mentioned Francis and said he could be found."

Louis snorted through his nose: "It seems that he really couldn't make it through, so he increased his weight again. It's a pity——I originally wanted him to help bring Francis back. Now that the soul ring is not with Francis, there is no need for it." He's gone. You can perfunctory him and say that I'm struggling with the cooperation leak and I'm afraid I can't help him. After all, as long as our plan can succeed this time, there is no need to cooperate with the magic eye again. gone."

"Yes—" the man in black just answered, and the phone rang again. He picked it up and listened for a while, his face changed, "Sir, our people found Francis!"

"Huh?" Without the soul ring, Louis was no longer so urgent to Gu Yi, "Where is it?"

"In a small park in New York City. Our people found him appearing there. Although we couldn't catch up with him, but—where he appeared, we found a boundary gate!"

"Boundary gate!" Louis stood up, "Where does the gate lead to?"

"Blood-red plateau! We never knew about that boundary gate before. Our people entered the boundary gate, followed the traces found, and found that a piece of ground had been excavated."

"Excavation..." Louis repeated in a low voice, his face darkened a little, "Soul ring!"

The man in black froze for a moment: "You mean..."

Louis slapped the gaming table with a slap, and shattered the other corner: "No wonder he said he left the soul ring on the blood fog plateau! I said, under my suppression, he shouldn't have lied. Yes, He didn't lie, he did put the soul ring on the blood fog plateau, and this time, he went back through the gate and took the soul ring again!"

The more he talked, the more annoyed he became: "No wonder so many people chased him back then, but he just escaped. It turns out that he found a new gate! No, I'm afraid he didn't find it, but got it in the blood mist maze. What clues!" At that time, he sent people to guard all the gates, but Gu Yi still disappeared under the eyes of a group of high-level blood clans, so it was because of this gate that he didn't know about!

What a good calculation.If it hadn't been discovered by accident, he would really have thought that the soul ring would never be found again.From this point of view, maybe even the dead hands are hidden in the blood mist plateau, and the secret about the world may still be there...

"Contact Magic Eye!" Louis squeezed out a few words through his teeth, "As long as Francis is caught, I will try my best to satisfy his request!"