Natural enemies

Andre's news came quickly.

"Zhang Heng is dead?" Gu Yi frowned.His injuries haven't healed yet - the blood race is originally pale, and now he's even a little translucent. His brows are frowning at this moment, which makes people think of the word Xizi holding his heart for no reason.

Andre didn't expect this idiom, but he still swallowed subconsciously: "Yes. I didn't find out the details, but with what you said, it is basically certain that he died in the institute. In the yard. At first Wu Zhanshan thought that he killed the people in the institute, but later it was found out that it was not. Moreover, Wu Zhanshan is investigating his financial sources, and he should have some unknown sources of money."

"Where are the others?" Gu Yi stretched out his hand to support his head.The consequence of refusing to drink a lot of blood is to suffer.Originally, falling asleep could also help the injury heal, but now he can't sleep again...

Andre glanced at him cautiously, and pouted his lips: "Are you asking about that Tang Ji? He's fine, but he's crazy."

Gu Yi couldn't laugh or cry: "It's the spirit, not the nerves. Don't you already speak Chinese very well? Why do you still make such a mistake?"

Andre rubbed against him: "Spirituality is mentality—illness."

Gu Yi smiled and shook his head: "What else?"

"They..." Andre hesitated to speak, and said after a long time, "They seem to have discovered your identity and are arresting you."

Gu Yi's face changed slightly: "How did you find out?"

"I'm not sure about this..." Andre whispered, "I'm only cooperating with Wu Zhanshan in terms of security. It's impossible for him to tell me the internal affairs of these demon hunters. These are also what I inferred from their actions. , said that your friend Zhang Liang also disappeared, so now both you and Zhang Heng are suspected. But Zhang Heng is human, but you—"

"Zhang Liang is missing?" Gu Yi sat up straight suddenly, dragging the unhealed wound under his ribs, and gasped.

Andre nodded: "Not only him, but even his mother is gone."

"This is wrong!" Gu Yi's face really changed.Zhang Liang disappeared, how could his mother also disappear?

"I don't know..." Andre shook his head, "But you must not go out. Although they don't know exactly what happened, they seem to believe that you are from that institute—by the way, they said you took They took away important information and robbed someone, so they are arresting you everywhere."

Gu Yi's face became even more serious: "Who was kidnapped?"

"I didn't find out about that." Andre shook his head again, "Anyway, it's very serious to see their appearance."

Gu Yi lowered his eyes.Andre grabbed him nervously: "Gu Yi, you must not go out now! Wait a minute, the exhibition will end soon, wait until I get the blood of God back, and you take it with you before going out. Besides, you Your injuries are not healed now, if you were hit by them, or you——by Louis, what would you do?"

Mentioning Louis, Gu Yi's face changed again: "Zhang Liang is also possible—it fell into the hands of Louis..." The research institute has been taken over, and there should be no energy to kidnap Zhang Liang, even if he wants to kidnap, Nor would he kidnap his mother along with him.So Zhang Liang disappeared, if he was not picked up by the Demon Hunters Association, he was kidnapped by Louis.

"Then he must be trying to force you to show up!" Andre said affirmatively, "No matter which side it is, if you go out now, you will definitely fall into their trap! If you don't show up, they will be safe for the time being."

Gu Yi clenched his fists.Andre's words are correct, but at the moment he can only blame himself: "I shouldn't have let Zhang Liang get involved..." And he should have thought that day that Louis would not let go of any chips that could threaten him, he should have done it earlier Make arrangements for Zhang Liang's mother and son.But—he was in a hurry to break the siege of Tang Ji...

"I can't blame you. If you want to blame, you can blame Louis—" Andre said angrily, "He used to deceive you and use you, why doesn't he let you go now! Just because you took the blood of God ? But what does he want God's blood for, does he want to turn back into a human too?"

Gu Yi slowly shook his head: "What he wants is a holy artifact. He doesn't know what the blood of God is, and he thought that the corpse really held secrets about the world..." And it seems that it's not just the corpse hand, Gu Yimi He closed his eyes, recalling what Louis said at that time, and murmured, "What he wants seems to be a soul ring..."

"Soul ring?" Andre was a little dazed, "He asked you for a soul ring? Could it be—" he opened his eyes wide: "Is the soul ring also in your hand?"

Gu Yi recalled it carefully.Louis asked the dead hand first, but when he answered that the dead hand was in the blood mist maze, although he was angry, he didn't pester him, but immediately asked about the whereabouts of the soul ring.As for the butcher's knife, which is also a holy weapon, he didn't ask about it at all.In other words, for Louis, the soul ring is at least much more important than the butcher's knife.

The power of the butcher's knife is to kill, while the power of the soul ring is to control.Moreover, the butcher's knife must be shown to show its power, while the soul ring can be carried quietly, exerting its power unconsciously.Could it be that Louis just needed the power to quietly control the soul ring?Who is he going to control?

Among the thirteen holy artifacts of the blood clan, the abilities of the soul ring and the ghost lamp are similar.But the latter can create hallucinations wherever the light goes, and has a wider range of control.But this kind of control relies on illusions, not direct control of people's behavior.For example, the ghost lamp can make you feel that there is sea water in front of you, and there is only one path to go, but if you insist on jumping into the sea, the ghost lamp can't force you to go on the road.

However, the control range of the soul ring is much smaller, but it can directly control all actions of a person by acting on the brain.It is equivalent to that although there are thousands of roads in front of your eyes, whichever one the soul ring wants you to take, you have to take whichever one.It's just that the soul ring can also arouse the evil desire deep in the heart of the person. If this desire is too strong, it will compete for the sanity of the controlled person.As long as the holder of the soul ring does not let go, the controlled person will either become a walking dead, or be swallowed by the evil in his heart, completely losing his mind.

Louis' greatest wish is to integrate the thirteen clans of the blood clan and become the true leader of the blood clan, not just satisfied with the loose organization of the secret party.If this is the case, the soul ring is indeed more useful, but the people it can control are limited. Instead of using it, it is better to return the soul ring to McAvey, and perhaps gain the support and gratitude of the McAvey family.

However, if it is to return the sacred artifact, the butcher knife should not be forgotten.The butcher knife belongs to the Giovanni family, and Giovanni is a free faction. Wouldn't it be better if they could be brought over?

"Gu Yi, how many holy artifacts do you have in your hand?" Andre's surprised question interrupted Gu Yi's thinking.

"Originally there was." Gu Yi replied somewhat absent-mindedly, "but the soul ring was lost."

"Lost it?" Andre's eyes widened, "How could it be lost!"

Gu Yi was in a daze for a moment: "That's not a good thing." Maybe it's not terrible to be able to control people's thoughts. What's terrible is that he can draw out the evil hidden in the heart of the person, and that evil will in turn affect the person who uses the soul ring. .

At that time, he used the soul ring for the first time outside the blood mist maze, controlling the five-member demon hunter team.I don’t know if it’s because the vicinity of the Blood Mist Maze will have some kind of influence on people, or if these five people have strayed into it for too long and have become very nervous. In short, he managed to control these people, and two of them rushed towards The captain hurled insults at each other, and the other two immediately refuted, and finally started fighting.That time, three of the five people died, but not because of being sucked dry by him, but because of killing each other.

At that time, Gu Yi felt the thoughts of all of them.Those two provocative people were jealous of the captain—he was just an ordinary bounty hunter, but because he was appreciated by the Thorn Owl family, he was going to marry a woman from the Thorn Owl family.Once accepted by the Thorn Owl family, the status will be different immediately.

And the other two rebuttals were not for the captain.One of them has a personal grudge, while the other feels that this place is very dangerous and hopes that everyone will leave immediately. If they want to fight, they can wait until they are in a safe place.

Even the captain is not a morally perfect person.He originally had a lover, but in order to enter the Thorn Owl family, he had decided to sever ties with her.

In that short quarter of an hour, Gu Yi felt that kind of malice almost hit his face, like pervasive poisonous smoke, surrounding his brain.If he was full of energy, this would not be a big deal, but at that time his energy was almost exhausted, and he was completely unable to resist. Instead, the desire deep in his heart resonated with him, breaking through the obstacles of reason.When he came to his senses, needless to say, the three killed each other, and the remaining two living people were almost sucked to death by his blood.

After that, Gu Yi found a place and buried the soul ring.He didn't want to carry this thing with him anymore, and he didn't want it to reappear in the world. It would be better if it disappeared forever, just like the rotten bracelet back then.

As for the two living demon hunters, Gu Yi ignored them.Thinking about it now, the blood clan chasing and killing him would probably come after him soon. Even if the two were still alive at that time, they would lose their fighting power and be killed by the blood clan behind them.

"But it's a sacred artifact!" Andre looked regretful, "If you hold that, maybe you won't be afraid of Louis, right?"

Use the soul ring to deal with Louis?Gu Yi couldn't help thinking about it, and found that it could really be implemented.The soul ring itself has power, even if his generation is lower than that of Louis, it is entirely possible to control him once he uses it.

"I've already lost it..." Gu Yi felt a little regretful in his heart.At that time, he only wanted to leave the blood race forever and become an ordinary person, so—if it wasn't because he still needed weapons, he might even throw away the butcher knife.How could he have thought that he had survived and was discovered by Louis again today?

"It's a pity—" Andre smacked his lips. "How can we lose it? If we don't lose it, maybe we will have a way to deal with Louis today."

Gu Yi sighed lightly: "Forget it, I lost it all, what else can I say..." He forced a smile, and made a joke, "Actually, the story you made up in the brochure was pretty good. , Louis knows a lot of things, but he has never entered the Blood Mist Labyrinth himself, so he is likely to believe that the ring is really the blood of the ancestors. Otherwise, let's trick him into swallowing the blood of God, and then he will become If I become an ordinary person, I don’t have to be afraid of him.”

Andre was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "Stop joking. What will you do if he swallows the blood of God?"

"Me?" Gu Yi suppressed his smile and sighed, "I can't use it now." In this situation, he has become an ordinary person, and he has become a fish on the chopping board.

Andre's eyes flickered slightly, as if something complicated passed by.But Gu Yi didn't pay attention, and just asked: "Should Zhou Dai and Xiao An arrive?" Zhang Liang disappeared, Tang Ji should have thought of going to Zhang's house to search, but fortunately he asked Andre to pick him up in advance, otherwise if the two of them Being bumped into by a demon hunter is even more troublesome.

"Oh, it's time." Just as Andre finished speaking, there were two beeps on the door, a bodyguard pushed open the door, and Zhou Dai appeared at the door with Xiao An in his arms: "Gu, Gu Yi?"

"Such a small child?" Andre looked at Xiao An in surprise.Vampires generally don't give such a young child a first hug, because after the first hug, they become undead creatures and their bodies will not grow again.Moreover, if you are too young, the success rate of first hug will be reduced, and your own ability will be limited, so it is basically useless to give young children a first hug.

"Let me introduce you." Gu Yi stood up and patted Xiao An's head, "This is Andre, my good friend, don't worry, he is also a blood race. It is safer for you to live here than outside. This is Zhou Dai and Xiaoan, I didn't tell you, they——all came out of the research institute."

Andre opened his eyes wide, staring at Xiao An: "He—he won't be..." Although he had heard Gu Yi talk about the research project of the institute, he was still inexplicably surprised by seeing a real finished product in front of him.

"Yes." Gu Yi nodded, "Let them stay with you for the next few days."

"Ah?" Andre heard something, "What about you?"

"They're here, so I can go out." Gu Yi stretched out his hand to Zhou Dai, "Where's the ring? Have you brought it?"