Pendulum Rider

△tea party△

As soon as Mrs. Xiang spoke, the room was quieter than before. Lilith put down the knife and fork, wiped her lips with a napkin, and quietly listened to what Mrs. Xiang had to say next.

"Last Christmas, I was approached by a pure blood German. I was alone at my place in the UK. After spending Christmas Eve with my sons, I left. After all, I am the prince of the area, so I came from abroad The vampire who came must see me. I didn’t ask him the purpose of coming to England, and received him according to the etiquette. He stayed in England for a while, and later he came to my residence. I thought he came to say goodbye to me. I didn't expect him to change his ways to pursue me every day, and he couldn't drive me away like a fly, so I simply agreed to him, and then he stayed by my side for a long time, and he didn't seem to have any plans to return to China."

Mrs. Xiang felt as if she was talking to herself to a bunch of dolls, and only his voice could be heard in the room.

"The other party asks me about my past every day, and I don't seem to get tired of listening to it. I started talking about the time I remember, and picked out a few things that impressed me deeply. Gradually, telling the past to the other party became my daily pastime. He While listening, he interrupted me and asked me some questions, and in retrospect, his questions all had his own personal purpose."

△Memories△

As soon as the second hand turned to the early morning of December 2016, 12, Mrs. Xiang's relatives said goodbye to him and left one after another. Her younger sister Ziyuan was the first to leave because she had an appointment with a blood clan far away in China to have supper together. Then there was the second son, Xueliu, who was fine and left around 25 o'clock in the morning.Immediately afterwards, the eldest daughter Baihua went to the airport to catch a plane at four o'clock in the morning. The last ones to leave were the eldest son Fei Han, her husband Huoji, and their daughter Wei Wei. Because Wei Wei was afraid of the dark, the family of three It was only when the sky started to turn white that it left.

After all the relatives left, Mrs. Xiang felt a little bored, but he was not afraid of loneliness, he was used to living alone. Of course, in the huge villa, he was not alone, he had many attendants.

Mrs. Xiang was just about to take a nap, when a servant came in and reported that a pure-blood from Germany wanted to see him, so Mrs. Xiang tidied up her clothes and came to the reception room.

In the reception room, a male blood race sitting on the sofa got up to show his respect after seeing Mrs. Xiang. He had slightly graying blond hair, curving like a bird's nest, and was wearing a dark blue jacket. Mrs. Xiang nodded her head at him before he sat down on the sofa again.

"I'm going to stay in your territory for a while."

"Do you need to help you solve the housing problem?"

"No, I have a friend who is also in England now."

"Since you're here, I'll treat you to a meal. There's a lot left on Christmas Eve."

"Then it's better to be respectful than to obey."

Later, during the meal, Mrs. Xiang learned that the pureblood called himself Solo, because he doesn't like to be in groups, whether it's foraging or traveling, he always moves alone, although he likes the freedom of being alone However, it does not mean that he has few friends. No matter which country he goes to, there will always be many friends who are willing to provide accommodation.

After Solo left, Mrs. Xiang went to her bedroom. The sleeping habits of modern vampires are different. Some vampires still move at night and sleep during the day; On the other hand, it is extremely irregular, and its work and rest time is just like that of Internet addicted teenagers among human beings.

And Mrs. Xiang doesn't need much sleep time, he simply has nothing special to do and wants to lie on the bed and relax.

He has gone through several long centuries, and the road ahead has no end in sight. Although he feels that eternal life is very boring, he has no intention of committing suicide. The so-called long-lived life can see everything, so he Will continue to live and witness the earth-shaking changes that will take place in the next century. Maybe in the next century most humans will be born through medical equipment, and unmarried people will become the mainstream. In the same way as the Marriage Law, the future "unmarried people" may ask the government to amend the law in order to marry artificial intelligence robots, and the government that passed this law stipulates that in order to prevent human extinction, the taxation of such people must be collected. Genes, and then use high-end medical equipment to create newborns.No one can say for sure about the future, even Lunmei, who is called Regret Diary, can predict various futures, so he doesn't have an accurate answer for the future.

Perhaps, in the next century, Mrs. Xiang will meet a new love, and then their family will have another newborn.

Perhaps, he will walk alone on this road with no end in sight.

Perhaps, one day the earth is about to be destroyed, and they will take advantage of human technology and go to another planet to continue to survive. There, they will teach the newborns of the blood race a very long history lesson of various countries on the earth.

One picture after another flashed in Mrs. Xiang's mind. He had already entered the stage of half-dream and half-awake. When he gradually sank into the dreamland, the pictures imagined in his mind were no longer under his control, and his cerebral cortex automatically Various pictures were combined and displayed in his dreams.

In a dream, he was put into a coffin by his relatives. He seemed to have finally ushered in the end of his life. The coffin was buried in the garden of their territory. After he died as a prince, his eldest son replaced him identity of.But his body didn't decompose with the passage of time, and he felt as if he had turned back into a seed, ready to break out of the ground.

Although his body is dead, his mind has not stopped.After an unknown amount of time, the coffin he was in was opened, and he saw that he had turned into a bright and blooming rose, and then a strange-looking man pulled him out of the dirt. and dedicated him to a young woman with the same strange appearance.

He has never seen such a human being. Could it be that with the development of the times, human beings have also evolved?

He heard the man say to the woman: "I finally found the legendary sacred rose, eat it quickly."

"Can I really become a man if I eat it?" The woman doubted, "It won't be a fake again this time, right? You have already eaten a lot of roses for me."

"I promise, the information bought from the witch with a lot of money this time should be true, eat it quickly and see how it works."

So the woman broke off the rose petals one by one and stuffed them into her mouth, asking the man if he saw any change in himself.

Before the petals are eaten by the woman, Mrs. Xiang learns that the woman is a person with a gender identity disorder, and the man is her lover. They have been looking for the whereabouts of the legendary rose all over the world for a long time.

As the woman swallowed the last petal down her throat, her voice first changed. As she asked the man questions, she found her voice had deepened. It's as sharp as before.

Mrs. Xiang suddenly heard another very familiar voice, which was the voice of the witch Lilith, but he could only hear the voice but not see the person.

Lilith's voice seemed to be played through the air with a trumpet, as loud and clear as the sound of an air defense siren.

"Congratulations to player XX, you have successfully changed your gender."

Mrs. Xiang was woken up by the ringing of her mobile phone. When he woke up, he repeated the sentence that clearly emerged in his mind several times. He didn't know why he dreamed of this strange sentence.

Although Mrs. Xiang is a blood race several centuries ago, he is also very good at accepting new things. His mobile phone is placed on a sofa seat in the room. The mobile phone was turned off, and he didn't pay attention to who made the call just now. After turning off the mobile phone, he lay on the bed for a while. After feeling tired from lying down, he got up and walked towards the study. Many of them are old antiques, and if they are sold in the human market, they will definitely make a lot of money, but he is not short of money, and he has no special ideas about money, so he has never been able to understand why Lilith likes to make money so much.

During the days when Mrs. Xiang was not traveling, her daily life was pretty much the same. During the day, she would take a nap on the bed for a while, and then read books for entertainment. He would occasionally use the ipad to watch news and videos. When watching TV series, I can't help but sigh that human imagination is really rich. One can tell that it is not professionally filmed. If it is a blood hunter who understands their ethnic group, it will definitely be made into an educational film from the perspective of blood hunters. Educate newcomers blood hunters, what is the correct posture for hunting blood races.

And at night, Mrs. Xiang will go out to look for food and take a walk under the moon.In fact, modern vampires like to be lazy just like human beings. They don’t need to look for targets, and they can also eat a big meal in a restaurant specially opened for vampires. As an older generation of vampires, Mrs. Xiang prefers to enjoy foraging However, he occasionally goes to a restaurant for leisure. His favorite is Lilith’s chain of cafes around the world. These cafes will provide food for blood races at night, except for Lilith’s. There are chain stores, and there are many large and small blood restaurants.Mrs. Xiang also ate overnight food stalls on the streets of Fukuoka, Japan last winter. The street stall he visited was called "Night Cat". A burst of appetizing fragrance wafted out from the inside. At that time, he thought that the name of the store refers to owls, and opened the thick windshield curtain, and walked in.

The store is opened by a Japanese woman in a kimono. The woman looks like she is about 30 years old. She is cooking oden and chatting with the guests sitting around. The oden soup is blood red. It seems that a lot of spices have been added, but the bubbling soup smells like blood in the air, and this smell has attracted many blood race guests.

That woman treats every guest equally, whether it is a regular visitor or a new visitor for the first time, she will warmly entertain the guests, and she does not distinguish between high and low, regardless of whether you are a pure-blooded high-blooded race or a mixed-race mixed with human blood , as long as they come to this small shop of hers, their status is the same.

The woman is not a blood race, nor is she a human being. She has never revealed her true identity to the guests, but she has a son with a German blood race. Usually, the newborns of the blood race will develop very slowly, but mixed blood may be the case. At first her son developed faster than normal human beings, from a baby to a young boy within a year, and then his body stopped developing suddenly, maybe he will always maintain this appearance, maybe he will be the same The other vampires continue to grow slowly.

The woman also sent her son to a nearby elementary school to start studying directly from the fourth grade. Xiao Zhengtai has a strong ability to accept and soon became an excellent student in the eyes of the teachers, but he didn't get along well with other children in the class. He always gets all kinds of pranks. He just sneers at these pranks, and then ignores those boring humans. However, the boys in the class are very dissatisfied with his deliberate ignorance, so they bully him even harder. He called him to a hidden place in the school, and wanted to give him a break, but he gave him a break instead. Afterwards, the boys in Xiao Zhengtai's class kept him at a respectful distance.

Thinking about it now, the father of that little Zhengtai must not be the pure-blooded German who called himself Solo that he saw this day?

***

After Christmas, Mrs. Xiang and the other blood servants in the house ushered in the new year. Although the year has changed, his routine and daily plan will not change.However, his mechanical life lasted for a while, and because of an opportunity, it ushered in a change.

Solo, who came to the UK alone, came to Mrs. Xiang's residence again, as if he had finished business and was about to return home, but Mrs. Xiang guessed wrong. Solo suddenly knelt down on one knee in front of Mrs. Xiang, put Mrs. Xiang's hand in his palm, and kissed the back of her hand.

"Madam Xiang, can I live with you?"

"You are my guest, so it's nothing to prepare a place for you. If you want to stay here, I'll ask the attendant to clean a guest room for you right now." Although Mrs. Xiang was a little confused by Solo's behavior, she He still answered calmly.

"Then please, if possible, I would like to visit your dormitory."

As soon as these words came out, Mrs. Xiang immediately pulled her hand from the opponent's hand vigilantly.

"Mrs. Xiang, I didn't mean anything malicious. It's just that you have been lingering in my mind since I saw you at Christmas a few days ago. This feeling is rare. I didn't react at first Come on, the last time you fell in love with someone was centuries ago."

"In any case, inviting someone into the dormitory of the vampire has special meaning. Even if it is a guest's request, it cannot be agreed."

This German pureblood is not as strong as his predecessors, but he is much bolder than Mrs. Xiang's predecessors. Madame was dozing off, but he wasn't defenseless.

When Solo approached his sleeping bed, Mrs. Xiang would always open her eyes suddenly and stare fiercely at the uninvited guest.

"Mrs. Xiang, I'm still looking forward to seeing you in pajamas, but it's worth seeing your casual clothes." The other party's voice was very frivolous, completely different from the impression I had when we first met.After he was kicked out of the dormitory, he would still barge in repeatedly. Even if guards were arranged at the door, he could still avoid the guards' sight and enter the room quietly.

Since Solo lived as a diner, Mrs. Xiang not only cannot sleep well, but also will be disturbed no matter what she does. When he is reading in the study, Solo likes to stand behind him and play with his hair. Just this hair, Solo Can play all day.

When Mrs. Xiang was preparing to go out at night, she changed clothes in the changing room, and saw Solo's figure in the mirror.

"Sure enough, Mrs. Xiang is the same as all blood races. There is nothing special about you. According to the rumors in the world, you are very mysterious and inviolable."

Solo and Mrs. Xiang's eyes met in the mirror. He approached Mrs. Xiang while talking, and knocked on the mirror with both hands.Madam Xiang looked into the mirror and looked as if she was surrounded by two Solos.

"Could it be that you want to be deported back to your country?"

"You are neither the leader of the country nor the Queen of England, what right do you have to drive me away?"

"Don't get involved in human laws at this time, don't forget what we are, don't you remember the laws of the blood race?"

"Of course I remember, but you can't be afraid to pursue love just because you have to abide by the rules?"

What Solo said seemed to make sense, and Mrs. Xiang couldn't refute it for a while.

Mrs. Xiang silently put on the black clothes for going out, and Solo went out beside him.

△tea party△

"Mrs. Xiang, please make this part of the long story short. I'm going to the bathroom, and I'll listen to your detailed explanation when I get back." Lilith suddenly interrupted Mrs. Xiang's memory, and suggested, "I think everyone needs to be in the middle." Let's take a break, and let's go to the bathroom happily together, shall we?"

"That's right, I drank too much tea." Ziyuan stood up first and stretched, "Miss Witch, let me take you to the women's bathroom."

"Okay, sorry to trouble you." Lilith also followed Zi Yuan out of the room where the tea party was held.

After the two most casual people left, there was an instant silence in the room.

"If you also want to go to the bathroom, you don't have to report to me." Mrs. Xiang thought that if they were half as bold as Solo, the atmosphere of the tea party would not be so dull. That's why Shion didn't care about the absence of her grandniece in the first place. complain about it?However, it is not convenient for granddaughter Weiwei to be present for the matter to be discussed at this moment.

As soon as Mrs. Xiang's words fell, other people present got up one after another, even if they didn't go to the bathroom, they had to go nearby to relax.

"I'm going outside to smoke a blood (cigar), Pyracantha, let me light the fire." The big-mouthed reporter Yuyi pulled Pyracantha and walked towards the garden. When Pyracantha was by his side, Yuyi always let Pyracantha use it His own fire attribute helped him ignite the fire.

Although they are a pair of good brothers and their relationship has lasted for centuries, they were still rivals in love in the past. Yu Yi also fell in love with Mrs. Xiang's son Fei Han, but after Huothorn and Fei Han got married, the two still maintained their relationship. friendship.

When they came to the garden, they caught a glimpse of a figure that looked exactly like Lilith among the flowers, but that figure disappeared in the blink of an eye.

At this moment, Lilith should follow Shion to the bathroom, right?So who was the figure in the rose bush just now?