Natural enemies

The climbing team walked for more than two days, and the witchers arrived a day later.

But here, the footprints are hard to find.The wind has brought snow, and the ground has been filled, and it looks like any other place.

"Are we going in the right direction?" Andy finally spoke.

There were eight people in their team. As the vanguard, they selected young demon hunters with abundant physical strength and outstanding abilities, and Andy was among them.He kept a straight face along the way, but he didn't squeeze between Tang Ji and Gu Yi. He put on an appearance of "I'm just for work" from the beginning to the end.But until this time, it was still broken.

Tang Ji didn't answer right away.He wandered around, and everything he saw was white, and he couldn't distinguish it at all.

"It should be right." Gu Yi said suddenly.He took a few steps forward, and the tip of the umbrella in his hand suddenly poked into the snow, kicking up a large block of snow, and the fragmentary snow foam was blown by the wind, scraping Andy's head and face head-on.

"You—" Andy suddenly wanted to raise his eyebrows, but halfway through, he forced them down again.

"There's someone below!" The sharp-eyed demon hunter next to him saw a little corner of his clothes protruding from the snow.

The corpse was quickly dug out, but the demon hunters frowned. It was obvious that they had been stabbed in the throat with a knife, and it was not like the killing method of the vampires.Although a corpse is worthy of attention, for them, there are more important things than the corpse. If they follow the wrong direction, it will be a big trouble.

"No, look at this!" Tang Ji suddenly pawed a few times in the snow, revealing a few black things, which were trekking poles broken into four pieces.

"Look at the broken place." The demon hunters present all had a wealth of experience, and someone immediately asked, "Did it get cut off by a nail?"

"Very likely!" Although Tang Ji only said it was possible, everyone knew that they should have caught Louis by the tail.But after all, the time has been delayed for several days, and no one knows how far Louis' plan has progressed.Even now, it is difficult for them to continue chasing.

"There is also a bracelet here." Gu Yi turned around on the snow, picked up the gypsy-style bracelet that had been covered by a layer of light snow, "it points straight ahead."

Straight ahead... The demon hunters looked up together, and it was the direction that went deep into the Alps.

Two hours later, the demon hunter stood on a mountain pass. There were no traces left by the mountaineering team here, but in front of them, there were still continuous mountains, seemingly endless.

"In this way, we won't be able to catch up with them." Gu Yi stood beside Tang Ji and said softly.

"The mountaineering team are all ordinary people, we should be able to catch up." Someone raised a different opinion, and most of the demon hunters agreed.They are all well-trained, and their forward speed is much better than those amateur college students.

Gu Yi shook his head: "First of all, we don't know how far they are. It may take three or four days to walk, but it may only take a few hours to reach them."

Tang Ji's cheek muscles twitched slightly, but he didn't speak.But the rest of the demon hunters looked at each other because what Gu Yi said made a lot of sense.If those people are really only a few hours away, then they really can't catch up.

"Secondly—" Gu Yi said softly, "Louis must be constantly giving the first hug to this team. The simplest first hug can be completed once every 12 hours, and then the newborn blood can have the first hug again...or else How long will it take for the entire team to become blood races, and at that time their speed will only be faster than ours."

At this moment, all the demon hunters changed their faces, and Andy said in a low voice: "Only 12 hours? No, no, first embrace..." Although they are not blood clans, they have been demon hunters for so many years. It is also quite understandable.The first hug is a very troublesome thing, and the newborn blood race is also relatively fragile and needs to be carefully cared for. How could it be possible to give someone else the first hug immediately?

"That's a serious first hug, a method of first hug that complies with the laws of the blood clan, but there are still illegal first hugs, just like making fake and shoddy goods." Gu Yi said lightly, "What Louis needs now is only the quantity and the quantity." It's not quality, he doesn't care what kind of inferior vampires this sloppy first embrace will create."

"Why does he want so many new bloods?" Andy asked.It's reasonable to say that Louis needs living people. Even though he is already a five-generation vampire, blood sucking is no longer necessary for survival, but the blood of living people can undoubtedly enhance his physical strength.

"You saw it too." Gu Yi nodded to the corpse on the ground, "He was not sucked blood to death."

The corpse was kept very fresh in the snow, and there was no trace of blood sucking except for the stab wound on the neck.

"Louis doesn't need to suck blood now, he can hunt at any time after he escapes from the repair shop." Gu Yi's voice was a little low, "He wants to hunt, it's too easy..." He had seen how Louis approached those boys and girls, sometimes He didn't even need to speak at all, and some young people, like him back then, still yearned for becoming a different species...

Gu Yi shook his head, throwing away his chaotic thoughts: "In short, Louis should have recovered. So now he is not acting alone but looking for a mountaineering team, because he needs new blood, the more the better. He What is needed is not their ability, but their blood."

"Blood?" a witcher asked inexplicably, "What does he want the blood of the same kind?"

"Open the seal." Gu Yi said slowly, "He found a three-generation vampire that was sealed, and the seal needs to be opened with the blood of the vampire."

This can be regarded as Cain's intentions.If the seal needs human blood to open, then the vampires who find the seal will never hesitate at all, but if a large amount of blood of the same kind is needed, then many vampires will hesitate -- of course, Louis is obviously not among them.

"We have been delayed for too long, there is no time to delay any longer." Gu Yi looked at Tang Ji, "We have to catch up."

"So?" Tang Ji finally said, "What do you want to do?"

"Give it to me." Gu Yi held out a hand to him.

Two blue veins suddenly appeared beside Tang Ji's temples: "What?"

"Soul stone." Gu Yi said calmly, "There is no time. Give me the soul stone. We can gamble once. I will chase them, and you follow my locator signal. Even if he has already started to unblock, I can also stop it first."

"How did you stop it?" Tang Ji suddenly raised his voice, "He is your father!"

"I have a way to counter him." Gu Yi looked directly at him, "You know that. I can still tease him one more time."

Tang Ji tightly closed his lips, not knowing whether it was because of the low temperature or some other reason, his lips were a little pale.Gu Yi suddenly raised his hand—he was the only one in the whole team without gloves—and gently stroked Tang Ji's lips with his cold fingers: "Besides, I'm not alone, you will rush over immediately, you will come to rescue me ,right?"

"...Yes." After a long time, Tang Jicui squeezed out a word between his teeth.He took out the half soul stone from his close pocket and put it in Gu Yi's hand, "Don't forget, you still owe me one."

Gu Yi held the bright red and cold stone, smiled lowly: "I will let you in the future."

Linda stared blankly ahead.They stood on a mountain pass again, and there was a huge glacier below. I don't know if it was her eyesight. circular pattern.

The diameter of this circle is about one kilometer, and the twisted lines inside seem to be squirming slightly, but upon closer inspection, they are still.And around the circle, there seemed to be a lot of people gathered...

"Sir——" a group of bats flew up from below, and when they landed, they turned into a man in black. He bowed to Louis, his eyes swept over Linda and the others, "The time is coming."

"Then take them down." As soon as Louis walked up the mountain pass, his eyes were fixed on the circular pattern, and he didn't look at the climbing team at all.

"Come with me." The man in black straightened up and signaled the team members to follow him down.

"Mr. Louis—" Nina, the girl who was excited when she heard that Louis was a vampire, looked down with great interest, "What is this? What do we want us to do?" Of course, she is already a vampire now, Louis personally gave her a first embrace, and the process was not as painful as Peter's first embrace, and Nina even enjoyed it very much.

"Just follow Harvey down." Louis said lightly, without looking at her.

"Let's go." The man in black Harvey urged again, his eyes fell on Linda and the others, "Sir, these—"

Among the 32 people in the team, except for one who was killed, there are still five people who have not been embraced, because it only took them a day and a half from the place where the dispute started, and the newly created vampires, such as Nina, seem to be They are still unable to give others first hugs in a short period of time. Only Jessica and Mike, who were transformed first, are slightly more capable.Louis didn't seem to be struggling, but he didn't know why, he seemed to have reservations, and he didn't turn all the rest of the people into vampires.

However, among the five people, George and Mary were still in a daze until now, while the remaining two were scared out of their wits, and now they didn't even have the thought of running away.Only Linda, although she was scared to death, still held on to the last bit of hope—although the body was buried by George, if someone found the bracelet she dropped...

"It's too late." Louis looked at the sky, "Then let's add a meal for everyone."

With a bang, a boy had already fallen down, and there was a faint smell of urine in the cold air.Louis frowned in disgust.At this moment, he didn't have the gentle and gentle manner when he first met him. He just waved his hands with a sullen face, and Harvey immediately picked up the stunned boy with one hand: "Follow me."

Linda didn't want to go.For the word extra meal, it is not difficult to understand what it means by contacting the vampire's recipe.But before she could react, Mary stepped forward and grabbed her, and George grabbed the other boy, pushing them after Harvey.

"What's wrong with you!" Linda couldn't help shouting even though she knew something was wrong with these two people, "Didn't you hear what he said? He was going to kill us and eat us Ah! Sober up!"

But her cries had no effect.Harvey didn't even look back, and Mary and George didn't respond at all, like two puppets.

Linda's heart sank.The further down she went, the clearer she could see.There are at least 600 people on the glacier, some standing, more lying down, lined up along the circular edge of the pattern.

With the afterglow of the setting sun, she found that all of these people were pale and their lips were particularly red. Needless to say, they were all vampires.But the difference is that those lying down are bound by some silver chains, with painful expressions on their faces.Some seemed unable to speak, but others were still yelling.

"This is an extra meal." Walking to the edge of the circular pattern, Harvey simply said something, which immediately aroused excited laughter.

There were actually only three people standing here, but as soon as Harvey finished speaking, George was the first to be pulled over.Although the vampire was good-looking, he was small and thin with dark circles under his eyes. He looked like a drug addict, even the smile on his face was a bit similar.With that psychedelic smile, he bit George's neck.

This is not a first hug.In the past few days, Linda, who had been forced to watch dozens of first hug scenes, could tell that the vampire was just eating.And even after being sucked dry a little bit, George still had that blank expression on his face, but his body twitched instinctively a few times.

The smell of blood spread, and Linda felt her arm loosen, and someone dragged Mary over, so she turned around and ran away without even a second's delay.

A series of laughter came from behind: "Run, let's see how far you can run..."

Linda knew she couldn't run very far.She was already exhausted and frightened, and those vampires could catch up to her with just a teleport.But she was still running, plodding up the hill.

A deep roar suppressed those laughter.The last rays of the setting sun sank from the mountain pass, leaving only a smear of crimson on the horizon.There were dots of light all around, and Linda couldn't help but look back in horror, and saw that the vampires who were laughing and eating just now had all returned to the periphery of the circle, and Louis had moved to the edge of the circle at some point, raised a hand.

When the hand fell, there was a chaotic sound on the glacier, and someone shouted loudly: "Why? We are all blood, why kill us!"

"Liars! You are all liars! Murderers! Other clans know and will not let you go!"

"Damn comeback plan!"

"Help, help me, I don't want to die!"

However, there were more screams.

Linda watched with trembling legs, watching the vampires lying on the ground, having their throats slit by their own kind.The crimson blood flowed out, flowed on the white ice surface, and then—following the lines formed by those shadows, began to extend toward the middle.Looking down from her position, it looks like a pen is painting those gray lines into red one by one; it also seems that the dry blood vessels have been injected with blood and given vitality again.

The blood kept pouring out, and the screaming on the glacier became less and less.The drugged vampire killed the last of his kind at his feet, looked up and smiled at Linda.In the next second, his figure disappeared in place, and then appeared in front of Linda.

"Where are you going?" He said in a sticky voice, "I'm not full yet."

Linda only felt a blur in front of her eyes, and felt a little coolness on her neck.In a blink of an eye, she realized that it was her neck that had been bitten.

I'm going to die, or I'm going to die in the end--this thought has not completely passed away, the pressure on Linda's shoulders suddenly eased, and the vampire fell on his back and let out a scream.

Linda sat down on the snow, stretched out her hands in shock and touched her neck, feeling a bit sticky on her fingertips—the vampire's fangs had pierced her skin, and if she was half a second slower, they would pierce her skin. Through her carotid artery.

And the vampire is not dead yet, he is lying in the snow, still struggling.But no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't stand up, because an umbrella was pressing against his chest, pressing him firmly to the ground.

The sun had completely sunk, and only the dots of white light were still on, but this was not enough for human eyes to see clearly, so Linda could only vaguely see that the vampire's struggle was getting weaker and weaker, as if all life was dying. It seems to be gradually disappearing.His screams quickly turned into muffled gurgles, which grew louder and lower in his throat.

But this sound was enough to startle the vampires below, Linda heard someone exclaiming: "The Nameless One!"

"Francis!"

Linda didn't know what the nameless person was. From her position, she could only see the back of the person who appeared suddenly.He was dressed in black, and standing in the snow looked like a shadow, but it was a good-looking shadow with broad shoulders, thin waist, long legs and long legs.He held the umbrella in one hand, raised the other hand, and waved it down: "Louie, we meet again."

On the ice below, the crimson blood had already outlined the outer circle and about a third of the pattern, and Louis also walked into the circle as the blood extended.Linda couldn't understand what he was going to do, but following Louie's sharp whistle, all the vampires standing below rushed towards the "unknown man".

"Stay still."

Linda suddenly heard such a sound, and then waved her hand away from the person who turned her back, and a blue mask fell on her, covering her underneath.Then, the man twisted the handle of the umbrella, pulled out a long silver sword from it, and rushed down the hillside.

Linda couldn't see anything clearly at a distance, only heard those shouts, shouts, curses and screams that suddenly sounded, as if a glass of cold water was poured into a boiling oil pan.

In the midst of this chaos, she saw the vampire, still pinned to the ground with the umbrella, twitching and reaching for her foot.However, as soon as the pale and convulsed fingers touched the blue mask, there was a sudden snort, and the two fingers suddenly became scorched.

The last of the vampire's strength was broken by the mask, his two scorched fingers grasped reflexively, and then stopped moving.And Linda, who originally wanted to climb out of the mask to find a chance to escape, immediately changed her mind, curled herself up into a ball, and didn't dare to move under the mask.

Linda couldn't see it, but all the vampires alive on the glacier could see it clearly—the one who appeared suddenly, carrying a silver light, rushed down the hillside like a black arrow and crashed into the first place. Among the group of vampires who rushed forward.

Countless bats enveloped the unknown person like a black cloud, so that some vampires who only heard the name but never saw the person did not have time to see what the other person looked like.But it was only a short ten seconds later, with a bang, the bats scattered away again, revealing the person inside.

Ah no, of course it's not a human being, he's also a vampire.

Like all the blood races—not counting Nofiler—the nameless one is slender and handsome. Although the faces of oriental people are not sharp and sharp, they have a kind of elegance, just like the difference between diamonds and beautiful jade.

But at this time, the vampires couldn't care less about admiring the beauty of the nameless man, and their eyes fell more on those bats—the dead bats that fell to the ground at the feet of the nameless man, while the rest of the bats fell down and turned into two Three vampires covered in wounds.

When they went up to meet them just now, there were as many as ten of them...

Louis' face was cold.With a sweeping glance, [-]% of the bound sacrifices on the ground have been killed, only those closest to Gu Yi, because the killers rushed up to intercept Gu Yi, so there are still some people who have not had time to kill.

That's about it, though.Louis blew his whistle, and the rest of the vampires moved in an instant, all kinds of attacks rushed towards Gu Yi like rain, as if they were going to drown him again.

Dots of white light floated in the air, illuminating Gu Yi's movements.He didn't seem to be very fast, he was just holding on to the slender butcher's knife with both hands, and he was moving unhurriedly among dozens of vampires.

Take a step, draw the knife, turn around, draw back the knife and turn back, and then take another step...

It was a seemingly simple movement, but he made it seem like flowing water, and the rain-like attacks could not interrupt this beautiful rhythm at all. Rhythm and cadence-like.

One by one, the vampires were injured, retreated, and fell down.Louis stared closely at the figure in the black military uniform until he broke through the encirclement and walked out from the blood clan that rolled all over the ground.

"You have grown better than before." Louis said slowly, "I really didn't expect that none of these people could stop you. But, can you still come to me?"

Gu Yi raised his head.It wasn't until this time that it was clear that his face was covered with cold sweat, and his legs were trembling slightly, as if there was a mountain pressing down on him, and it seemed that he could be crushed to the ground at any time.

When he spoke, his voice trembled slightly: "No, don't try, why, you know..."