Natural enemies

The higher the climb, the lower the temperature. Even these energetic boys and girls gradually feel exhausted, and they no longer have the interest in talking, laughing and enjoying the beautiful scenery.

Linda slipped and fell into the snow nest.Lying there, she felt that all the bones in her body seemed to be broken, and she didn't want to stand up at all.

"Get up." A hand stretched out beside her and lifted her up.

That's right, just carry.Linda didn't use any strength at all, and this hand lifted her up with the backpack easily.

"Jessica..." Linda murmured, with faint fear in her voice.

"Let's go quickly." Jessica smiled at her, "Be careful, don't fall again, we have to walk a long way before dark."

Linda swallowed nervously.Jessica is of mixed race, so her complexion is darker, a healthy wheat color, with green eyes and jet-black hair, she looks like an energetic wild cat, with a passionate personality and hot body, Attracted at least half of the boys in the climbing team.

Before, Linda was envious of Jessica.She herself is a pure Nordic, her skin is as white as snow, and she can't get tanned even in the sun, so she likes Jessica's complexion that looks very healthy and energetic.Just because she likes it, she always pays attention to it, so now she realizes that Jessica has turned white.

Yes, Jessica's skin tone has lightened, from wheaten to a pale color.Linda was sure it wasn't the color filter of her snow goggles, or something wrong with her eyes—Jessica had indeed changed, at least when the mountaineering team first gathered, she didn't have so much strength. You can easily lift more than 100 kilograms of things with one hand!

Jessica was still smiling at her, but Linda couldn't look her in the face anymore.After her complexion turned white, Jessica's black hair and green eyes suddenly changed against the background of her skin. She was still so beautiful—no, it should be said that she was more beautiful, but she was not as flaming as before. The bright and gorgeous, but a little more cold and bewitching, so beautiful that it can be cold to the bone...

"George..." Linda turned her attention to the default captain of the mountaineering team for help, because George was the one who called this event, and he is indeed capable of organizing, so although there is no official title of "captain", everyone subconsciously will obey his command.

However, since the photographer Louie joined, the situation has changed.It was his suggestion to leave the Aletsch Glacier, and it was also his suggestion to go here.But at the beginning, he said that the new scenery is only a day and a half away from the tourist area, but now, it is the third day since they left the tourist area, and even more than half of the supplies in the backpack have been consumed, but Louis seems to have not stopped yet the meaning of.

Of course, the scenery along the way is indeed very beautiful, but Linda has completely lost interest in admiring it now. She just wants to know when she can return.

George turned his face around. Through the snow goggles, Linda couldn't see his eyes, but he always felt that his expression seemed a little blank: "Go on."

"Still, still going?" Linda wanted to protest loudly, but the words were as small as mosquitoes, "Our supplies are running out, and I can't go anymore... Us, when are we going back?" ?”

"If you want to go back, you can go back by yourself." George said without emotion, and turned his head back again. "We still have to go forward to see a better scenery."

Linda's mouth was half open, not knowing what to say.She turned her head to look behind her, and at a glance, it was a vast expanse of whiteness, with no edge in sight.Let her go back by herself?It's scary just thinking about it!

She had to drag her heavy steps and keep going.After more than ten minutes, she found that a boy who had been walking in front was getting slower and slower, falling from the middle of the line to the end of the line, until he was next to her.

Linda glanced at him, and barely remembered that his name was Peter. His name was inconspicuous, his appearance was inconspicuous, and he was relatively silent. If they hadn't been on the same train when they came, maybe she wouldn't have paid attention to this at all. people.

"You don't think it's right, do you?" Peter seemed to be walking hard, but suddenly said something in a low voice.

"What?" Linda's heart tightened, and she quickly moved closer to him.

"Look, there are a few people, they didn't wear snow goggles..." Peter said softly.

Trekking in the ice and snow, there is a white light everywhere. If you don't wear snow goggles, you will easily hurt your eyes and suffer from snow blindness.Everyone in this mountaineering team has some experience, and of course they are all equipped with snow goggles.But now, Louie wasn't wearing it, and Jessica wasn't wearing it, and neither was another boy named Mike.However, they all walked freely, patrolling the surroundings and the team from time to time, apparently their eyes were not hindered in any way.

Linda really didn't notice Mike's strangeness.Because Mike is a Swede, his skin is already very fair, even the color of his hair and eyes is very light, so his changes are not as obvious as Jessica's.It wasn't until now that she heard what Peter said that she realized something was wrong.

"I, I think George also..." George was still wearing goggles, but Linda felt something was wrong with him.

"George is different from the three of them." Peter exhaled whitely, looked up cautiously, "he is the same as Mary."

Mary is the oldest of the six girls, probably because she is used to being the big sister at home, and it is natural for her to take care of those younger than her in this team.For example, now, she walks at the front of the line, and George walks at the back, so that no one gets lost or left behind.

"Mary, what's wrong with Mary?" Linda asked with a trembling voice.

Peter took another breath, obviously already very tired, and after he said a few words, it seemed as if his oxygen was not enough: "Just now someone said that they were too tired and wanted to go back, but Mary didn't allow it, she said there was a road ahead. Better scenery, we want to see together."

He murmured: "I was listening to her when she was talking, her voice didn't fluctuate at all, just like a robot that had been set up, no matter what others said, she just said to go forward, go See a better view...”

Linda shivered violently: "This, this is the same as George..."

"Yes, I wanted to come to discuss with George just now, but when I came back, I happened to hear you talking." Peter smiled bitterly, "Now, there are five people who are not right."

"Then what should we do?" Linda bit her lips, "Let's go back by ourselves? After all, there are only five of them, and there are more than 20 of us."

Once she had this idea, Linda felt that she didn't want to take a step forward: "Let's gather other people, and if the five of them still want to go forward, let them go by themselves! You come from the front, what do you think?" , have the others changed, too?"

"Probably not yet." Peter raised his hand and wiped his face, obviously very nervous, "But I always feel that they won't let us go easily. They, they are very weird, especially that Louis..."

"Are you talking about me?" A magnetic voice sounded beside the two of them. Every syllable sounded so elegant and impeccable, but Linda shivered suddenly, and the hairs on her back twitched. Instantly stood up.

She turned her head with gritted teeth, and saw that Louis had arrived next to them at some point, smiling at them, that smile was still beautiful, even dazzling against the backdrop of the blue sky and white snow, but Linda was not there now. In the mood of admiration, I couldn't speak at all for a while.

"We're going back." Peter was a boy after all. Although he was taken aback, he still raised his head and even raised his voice, "We don't want to see any glaciers anymore, we're going back to Aletsch!"

When he yelled out this voice, even the people in front were startled and turned their heads one after another.Peter looked up, Mary and George looked blank, but Jessica and Mike looked interested. These weird reactions made him more nervous, but then someone responded to him: "I, I I also want to go back."

Someone started, and someone responded. In fact, except for George and others, the rest of the people didn't want to go anymore. As soon as Peter made a sound, everyone stopped, expressing loudly or softly that they wanted to go back. .

In this way, Peter became more courageous, and simply turned around directly: "Since everyone wants to go back, let's go back. If anyone doesn't want to go back, they can continue to move forward."

"Yes, yes!" There were a few echoes from behind, and someone, like Peter, had already walked back.

However, Peter didn't take a step forward, because Louis had already stretched out a hand and put it on his shoulder: "Do you want to go back?"

He didn't seem to be exerting any strength at all, but Peter seemed to have a huge boulder on his shoulders, and even his body was tilted: "You, what do you want to do?"

Louis smiled, took off his snow goggles with the other hand, and looked at his face: "To be honest, you don't really suit my taste." He frowned, as if talking about a dish. As if not beautiful enough, "You are too ugly."

Suddenly, a chill like an electric shock passed across Linda's back, and she subconsciously raised her head and looked forward.The two people without snow goggles were also looking at this place. Needless to say, Jessica, although Mike was a bit albino, but his facial features were quite perfect. Compared with them, Peter was indeed not good-looking...

"But there's nothing I can do." Louis sighed, and said reluctantly, "I need offspring now, so I can't be too picky. Anyway—" He spoke the last half of the sentence very lightly, only Linda could vaguely hear it: " It doesn't need to exist for too long..."

Louis' voice is very moving, the combination of deep and magnetic of a mature man is impeccable in him, especially when he speaks softly, it is like a lover whispering in the ear, which can make everyone who hears it slightly distracted.

Just when Linda was a little dazed by the voice, Louis suddenly lifted Peter's face up with one hand, bowed his head and bit it.

Linda let out a scream and fell backwards.Louis bit Peter's neck, and even smiled at her with half of his face exposed.

Caught off guard, Peter also uttered a painful cry, and then struggled desperately.

When vampires suck blood, they usually use anesthetic saliva to make their prey lose their ability to resist.But this time, Louis did not use this kind of saliva. Instead, he held Peter's hands tightly around his side and sucked up his blood forcefully.

This process is quite painful and terrifying.Peter resisted kicking and beating at first, but later he could only cry out in pain, and his body twitched non-stop.

Linda's screams drowned out Peter's, and there were more than one or two of them.Jessica and Mike also grabbed a young man each as Louie started sucking blood, pinning them to the snow.

Some of the rest of the young people screamed, and some were too frightened to scream. Only two of them reacted and hit Jessica and Mike with their trekking poles.But those two people didn't even raise their heads, just waved their hands casually, and the trekking pole was broken in two.

The trekking poles they use are made of carbon fiber, which are not easy to break with a knife, but Jessica and Mike just casually... At that moment, sharp-eyed people have already seen long nails protruding from the ends of their two fingers , seems to be sharper than a steel knife.

Of the two boys whose trekking pole was broken, one of the boys reacted more quickly, turned and ran.But he had just taken two steps when he bumped into Mary head-on.The gentle girl rushed forward with no expression on her face, and the two of them bumped into each other's arms. Then, due to the reaction force, they both took a few steps back and fell down on the snow at the same time.The difference was that Mary stood up right away and the boy didn't.

A girl near him covered her mouth with her hands, whimpering but not daring to cry out loud.A knife was stuck in the boy's throat. It was the knife that Mary used to peel fruit for everyone along the way. It was not long, but it was deadly enough when it was inserted into the throat.

"Tsk—" Louis let go of Peter and sighed regretfully, "Why did you kill him? What a waste."

The two fangs protruding from the corners of his lips hadn't been retracted yet, and Peter's blood was still stained on them, making this smile look weird and hideous.He looked around and asked leisurely, "Anyone else wants to go back?"

Linda's teeth were chattering, but her eyes were fixed on Peter's face and she couldn't take her eyes off.Peter was pale all over, and his face was a little sunken, as if his whole body had been sucked dry.However, on this pale skin, black blood vessels gradually emerged, like rapidly growing vines, crawling all over his face, and extending down his neck into the collar.

With the emergence of these black blood vessels, Linda suddenly discovered that at some point, Peter was breathing again!

Maybe she was wrong?While comforting herself in her heart, Linda couldn't help taking off her snow goggles and staring at Peter closely.You know, she saw clearly just now that when Peter was let go by Louis, he was already completely dead!

But she was not mistaken, those blood vessels continued to grow like life, Peter's sunken face gradually plumped up, his nose flapped slightly, and after a while, even his eyelids moved slightly.There is no doubt that after he was sucked dry of blood, he came back from the dead!

A thought suddenly flashed in Linda's mind: "You, you, a vampire!" Being sucked blood, and then resurrected from the dead, no matter how you look at it, it is like a legendary vampire story.But, but isn't that all just legends?

"Yes." Louis smiled again, "You are very smart." He asked again slowly, "Now, who else wants to go back?"

No one dared to speak.Louis looked very satisfied: "That's right. Obedient children can always live longer. Like that—" He pointed to the young man stabbed to death by Mary, "What's the benefit? You guys Say it right?"

Still no answer.Words such as eternal life, blood-sucking, and first embrace were messed up in Linda's mind, and suddenly she noticed that Peter's body had changed again: "He, his face—" The place where the sun shines, floated up. A series of tiny blisters.

"Oh——" Louis sighed, "It's all your fault. The first hug should have been at night, so that he wouldn't be burned by the sun before he woke up. But now..." He spread his hands, "You guys These naughty children. But there's no other way, let's just leave it at that, it's just that he will suffer a little more."

"When they wake up, will they be vampires?" Suddenly someone uttered a voice, and Linda only felt that the girl's voice seemed to be filled with excitement instead of a little fear, "Is this the first embrace? Becoming a vampire , you can live forever, right? Then you, Mr. Louis, how many generations of blood are you? Do you have a title?"

Louis turned his head and looked at the excited girl. His fangs had been retracted, and now he smiled softly and handsomely: "You know a lot. Me, I have the title of duke."

"Duke—" the girl's voice was trembling with excitement, "So, are you going to turn us all into vampires?"

"Yeah——" Louis smiled, "Will you accept my first hug?"

Linda's ears buzzed and she stared at the girl in disbelief.But someone has already shouted out: "Are you crazy?"

"I'm not crazy!" the girl exclaimed excitedly, "I've always liked vampires! Haven't you seen "Interview with the Vampire" and "The Twilight Saga"? My God, Mr. Louie is better than the movie The one in the movie is even more handsome..."

Louis laughed: "Very good. Since you are looking forward to it so much, I will personally give you the first hug. But now, we have to move on. Because of your naughtiness, these three who have not yet passed the first hug People, you need to carry it. Now, let's go."

Linda watched dumbly as the boys, under the urging of Mary and the others, had to work in pairs to lift Peter and the other three who had just been sucked blood, and climb up the hill again.And the excited girl ran to Louis, asking around, as if the exhaustion and fear just now disappeared all of a sudden.

She is crazy.Linda thought blankly.But I'm not crazy, I want to go back, who can save us?

While thinking, she touched her body subconsciously, took off a gypsy-style bracelet on her wrist, and quietly threw it on the snow.

God, I hope someone will see it...

When Linda was forced to move on, perhaps God had heard her prayers. In the visitor area of ​​the Aletsch Conservation Center, several people were asking for news.

"There is no such person among our tourists, but—" the girl at the front desk looked at the photo and pondered, "I should have seen him..."

"Then can you recall it?" Gu Yi said with a sad face, "He has a little mental problem, and this time he ran out by himself, I am afraid that something will happen to him..."

It was Zhang Liang's whim to find Aleiki here.

Although after Wu Peng and Shen Jingyan, demon hunters in several places sent back news that they had found clues to the movement of refugees and pointed their targets at the Alps, the Alps are 1200 kilometers long and 130 to 260 kilometers wide. Among them, the area is 22 square kilometers. To find a group of vampires in such a large area, it is really... like finding a needle in a haystack.

However, at this moment, Zhang Liang suddenly had a flash of inspiration - he programmed a search program to search for Louis' face on the Internet, and of course, added a search scope "Alps".

What he searched for were photos or videos taken by tourists in the Alps.

In modern society, Weibo, Twitter, and so on, etc., have really shrunk the world a lot.Two hours later, Zhang Liang found a photo, which was sent by a woman: When he came to the Aletsch Glacier, he found a handsome gentleman—the photo behind him was Louis.

I'm afraid Louis himself didn't expect that his whereabouts would be spread like this.Why did he refuse to cover his face and still think of using charm to capture a batch of prey?

"Spiritual problems?" The little girl at the reception was taken aback, "No way? He—I remember, he is a photographer! The photos he took are very good. He also went deeper into the mountains and took pictures of some glaciers Photo……"

"Yes, that's his problem." Gu Yi lowered his voice, "His, his boyfriend, was in the process of exploring with him..."

"Boyfriend?" The girl's tone was mixed with disappointment and excitement, "So he is...then you are—"

"His relative." Gu Yi sighed, "He lost his memory after that, and always thought that his boyfriend was still busy with work, so he always wanted to take some photos and show him back. On the surface, he looks normal, but— — he would take risks for a photoshoot, and he was always alone, in case something happened..."

"Oh oh oh——" the girl looked understanding and sympathetic, "but if I remember correctly, he should not be alone, there is a climbing team—it seems to be spontaneously formed by some college students—they may go together Well, I said I want to see the Aletsch Glacier first, and I don’t know where to go after that..."

"When did they leave?"

"Ah, it's been three days..."