Welcome to Bloodline Unicom [Entertainment Circle]

The moment the wooden door was opened, a gust of alcohol rushed towards the sky, and the three of them suffocated and held their breath in unison.

Lin Yuzhen thought to himself, the smell in this tavern is very strong, but how did Team Zhou smell it when they were two streets away?

The drunk man wobbled on the door frame, and when the three of them had all entered, he closed the door without delay and inserted the latch.

He picked up the wine bottle that had just been placed on the bar, leaned against the wall, and drank again.

Zhou Ruiyao pretended not to see the wooden door that was inserted, and pointed to the large and small wine barrels on the shelf and said to him, "Thank you. Which barrel is the rum in?"

The drunk gulped down the remaining liquor at the bottom of the bottle, glanced over there with a drunken eye, and muttered, "Whatever, you can find it yourself."

After finishing speaking, he stopped looking at them again, and walked towards the stairs unsteadily.

The first floor, which is not ample space, is half occupied by the bar, and there are all kinds of wine barrels piled up in a disorderly manner on the wall. is empty.

"Mr. Keith," Lin Yuzhen suddenly stopped him when he was about to step up the stairs, "can you tell us how to get to Rose City?"

Combined with Du Fei's previous description, this drunken bar owner is most likely the man who used fake invitations to mix in the queue for entering the city.It is not difficult to know this title. On the wall, a photo of a man with eyebrows and eyes that are [-]% similar to him but with all white hair reads: Parker Keith.

The tavern owner hiccupped, and after hearing this, he showed a smile uglier than crying, shook his head and said intermittently: "Impossible, you can't get in, without an invitation, no one... hiccup... anyone Don't even think about it."

Lin Yuzhen asked: "Have most of the residents in the town received the invitation?"

"How is it possible," Case murmured with erratic eyes, "the lucky ones are destined to be only a few."

In front of the shelf, Ellis took out a row of barrels with only a little liquid at the bottom for the Nth time, lifted the lid and smelled them one by one, and finally decided: "This."

Zhou Ruiyao winked at Lin Yuzhen and signaled him to look for an opportunity to approach the door and wait for the opportunity to leave, but the tavern owner Keith sensed his intention and interrupted coldly: "If you don't want to die, you can stay here honestly tonight." Here, tomorrow morning, wherever you like to go."

Zhou Ruiyao turned around in embarrassment, looking at Case whose eyes suddenly became sharp: "...why?"

Case pinched the empty wine bottle with heavy eyes, and smiled vaguely for a while: "Just wait and see, after dark, the town will not be what it is now."

In the city, the central square.

Shao Ting and Du Fei lingered in front of the city gate, dialed the team communication again and again, but still couldn't get through.

"Damn! What's going on?" In desperation, Du Fei said the modal particles that Hong Qiao had mentioned many times, and looked out of the foggy city, anxious.

Shao Ting pursed his lips and said nothing, but his eyes were full of anxiety.

"Forget it, don't try it," Du Fei stuffed the wooden box in his arms to Shao Ting, "I'll go out and look for it."

"Stop." Shao Ting grabbed him, with a bit of reproach in his tone, "No one knows what's going on outside the city now, the three of them can't handle things, you can do it alone?"

Du Fei said anxiously: "What if the three of them are trapped somewhere, just waiting for us to rescue them?"

Shao Tingsheng smiled angrily: "Okay, then let's go together, if we don't come back, it's a big deal, so let's think of it as a contribution to charity, okay?"

"..." Du Fei was hurt by him without any dirty words, and the blood on his head slowly cooled down. He turned his head and was about to say something, when his eyes suddenly froze, and he pulled Shao Ting hard with his backhand. Predictably, he ran wildly in a certain direction.

Shao Ting was staggered, and was about to scold him for his fuss, but looked in that direction, shut his mouth for a moment, and then ran to that side——

Among the several customers who had just walked out of a shop on the street, there was a dark-skinned man who was exceptionally tall and burly, walking among the crowd like a giant, his face and figure perfectly matched Lin Yuzhen's description!

Isn't this the man who has been chased away by the gatekeeper?How could it appear in the city again?Before they had time to think about these questions, the two instinctively rushed forward to stop him.

From an angle they couldn't see, above the fountain pool surrounded by four statues, drops of thick black ink were falling silently from mid-air, and black roses emerged from the clear water, slowly spinning towards Spreading around, a pool of bottomless spring water was gradually dyed an ominous black blue.

It was getting dark.

After Case uttered the gloomy words, he stopped making a sound. He took out a wine barrel whose original color was no longer visible from the nearest shelf, lifted the lid and threw it away, and raised his neck as he went upstairs. Pour hard.

Just by smelling the smell of alcohol on his body, I don't know how much he has drunk. Seeing his posture as if he was going to drink up the wine in the store, Zhou Ruiyao suddenly whispered: "You said, that wolf let us Is it really a barrel of ordinary wine that you come to find outside the city?"

Who is the Earl of Hollins?No matter how much he loves desserts, seems thoughtful and pays attention to etiquette, it can't compare to the fact that he is a blood clan.The sandwich of this souvenir, should it be wine or blood?

Lin Yuzhen understood what he meant, and it wasn't that she hadn't considered this possibility on the way to the town: "It's possible, but I still think that the information this town can provide us is far more important than the raw materials of the souvenir itself. "

Ellis was still holding the rum from the wine rack in his hand. After listening to it, he lifted the lid and sniffed it. He frowned at the unpleasant smell: "It's about to go bad, but there's only this."

Zhou Ruiyao thought for a while: "Well, you take the wine back and give it to Fan Lang to see if it can be done. We will stay in the town and continue looking for clues. Be careful on the road."

Ellis nodded expressionlessly, and moved as gently as possible, slowly pulling the wooden latch across the door with the back of his hand behind his back, while Lin Yuzhen stepped on the stairs that Case walked, on the one hand to attract Case's attention, To cover up the sound of the door opening, on the other hand, they also needed to go upstairs to find something useful, but they still did not expect that this drunken man would be extremely sensitive to the friction sound of the door bolt being pulled. Lin Yuzhen had just stepped on the last wooden step. Looking at the whole attic where he lived, a wine barrel flew directly above him, slamming on the door of the tavern, and at the same time there were furniture overturned and Case yelling: "Madman! Don't you understand human language?"

In the deep drunkenness, the ending sound trembled imperceptibly, extremely angry and frightened, and the precise smashing of the wine barrels was all based on the instinct under stress.After he got up and saw the bolt that had been pulled and Ellis' leaving back, he roared in that direction again: "If you want to die, don't pull me! Quickly plug the door! Plug it! Damn it!"

Zhou Ruiyao hastily pushed back the latch, and withdrew his worried gaze from the narrow crack of the door.

Lin Yuzhen took a step forward, put his feet on the floor of the attic, lowered his eyelids slightly, looked at Case calmly, and asked, "What will happen in the town after dark?"

After yelling a few words, Case seemed to have exhausted all the strength in his body. Like a deflated ball, he leaned against the wall in despair. When he heard the question, he showed a miserable smile: "What happened? I live in the town. For decades, I have not been able to figure out what the hell I saw on this night every year."

"First things in the house disappeared inexplicably," Case said, "and then there were gunshots fired from nowhere. Everyone waited in panic at home, praying that the god of death still chose which hapless neighbor this year."

"How could it be?" Zhou Ruiyao said, "How could things at home disappear out of thin air?"

"But it just disappeared by itself," Case stared blankly at the window in the attic that could only let in a little light-a row of wooden strips firmly nailed it from the inside, "there is an invisible thief ...No, it should be a ghost..."

Lin Yuzhen interrupted his trembling murmur: "Only those who are invited to the Rose City to participate in the ball can escape the catastrophe?"

"Yes."

Lin Yuzhen recalled the desolate scene of the town along the way, and couldn't help frowning: "The people who went to the dance in Rose City will come back the next day?"

"Of course not," Case said. "Getting the invitation letter to enter the city is equivalent to getting the key to get out of Wright Town. Who wants to stay in this ghost place that doesn't know what curse has been cast on it? Whether you were born in Wright Town, or a long journey from Baxiluo, into the town of Wright, there is no other way to go out, and the only way to leave is to go through the Black Rose City."

Zhou Ruiyao: "Who told you this?"

A moment of blankness appeared on Case's face: "Who told me? This is the consensus of the whole town, and I've known it since I can remember."

Lin Yuzhen thought for a while, and told Case four names: "Pink Wolf, Gray Rabbit, Norman, Aiden, have you heard of them?"

"I know Aiden." Case's expression did not seem to be fake, "the wizard who cursed Earl Hollins decades ago, saved the whole town, and then died a miserable death."

According to the memory of the tavern owner, decades ago, Wright Town was a bustling town, but it could not escape the shadow of Earl Hollins.

At that time, Hollins still had a pair of blood teeth that were longer than other vampires, and he flew to the town from time to time to hunt and eat, causing panic.

One day, a wizard named Aiden came to the town. Since he couldn't get out of this strange town, he had to stay and live. But he brought a magic mirror and used witchcraft to have a fight with Hollins. After a difficult negotiation, Hollins no longer went to the town to prey, but every year on a fixed day, all the townspeople gathered in Wright Square, and the stone mirror would show the image of a certain resident, as the enshrinement of that year. sacrifice.From then on, until this day of the next year, the townspeople will not be disturbed in any way.In other words, every year, a townsman trades his life for a year of peace for the whole town.After several years of this, finally on the one-year Sacrifice Day, the face of the wizard Aiden appeared in the mirror.

Under everyone's amazed gaze, Aiden struggled frantically, and was slowly sucked into the mirror by an irresistible force. Then, the mirror returned to calm as usual.

The townspeople did not bow their heads and turn away as they did in the past. They stood there watching in disbelief as if they had been immobilized.Soon, the mirror surface changed again. Earl Hollins, who had lost his blood teeth, covered his bleeding mouth and howled in pain, even the mirror trembled endlessly——Aiden gave him the last moment of his life. At the same time, he used a curse to build a permanent barrier for Wright Town. From then on, Hollins, who led the Rose City, could no longer drink blood, and was forced to become a gentleman who obeyed etiquette, and the vampires of the Black Rose City would never die. Can't enter Wright Town, can't hurt the lives of the townspeople.

"But in fact, the curse can't completely eliminate Hollins' threat to the town," Lin Yuzhen looked at Case, "The curse is only effective for the vampires in Black Rose City, if he invites other vampires to the banquet, he will receive The townspeople of the invitation will still be in danger."

He believed that when Case mixed into the queue in the city, he could notice the identities of most of the guests in the queue.

Unexpectedly, Case shook his head firmly: "Received the invitation, which means that you are the earl's guest, and ensuring the safety of the guests is also an important etiquette."

Zhou Ruiyao asked him about other things about the wizard Aiden, but Case didn't know anything about it, so he asked instead: "Do the townspeople who have been chosen to sacrifice have any common characteristics?"

"At that time, I was not born yet, and I heard everything from my father. I only heard... At that time, there were many black-blooded people in the town. Compared with us, they lived longer and had weirder tempers. Very annoying." Case tried to remember, "No one knows how many years they will live, but they are almost dead now, because Earl Hollins obviously prefers them."

Zhou Ruiyao: "How many people are left in the town now?"

"Eight, or nine?" Case shook his head, "Ten at most, I don't know, and I don't want to care about it."

Zhou Ruiyao continued to ask: "You just said that every year on this day, things are inexplicably lost. Is there a certain pattern for things that disappear out of thin air?"

"It's just me...my gun," Case smiled wryly, "every year, and... the next day it will always appear next to the body that was shot."

"Who else in town has a gun?"

"No, there's only one gun in the whole town of Wright," Case replied. "It was left to me by my father."

"So, they all suspect that you are related to the dead townspeople."

"It's ridiculous," Case said, "but it's true."

"There are many ways to prove your innocence," Lin Yuzhen said lightly, "If you persist in picking up the gun, it will only increase your suspicion."

"That's right," Case sighed, "although it's uncomfortable to be suspected all the time, I...do have a reason to do so."

As if to confirm his statement, the light that poured in through the gaps in the wooden slats suddenly disappeared.There was still a faint afterglow of the setting sun on the side of the stage just now, but in the blink of an eye, it was completely dark outside.

Case's expression suddenly became terrified, and he almost rushed to the closet, tore off a row of neat clothes without hesitation, snatched an old wooden box from a hidden corner, and opened it——

There was a dull and loud crashing sound outside the window, like the sound of a bird or other creature's body hitting the glass heavily, and the gap between the wooden slats was too small, so it was impossible to see what was going on outside.And sometimes, not seeing is more frightening than seeing.

The darkness lasted until after the first pounding sound, there was a brief pause, and a swaying black shadow was cast on the window sill, and then, a second burst of violent knocking followed.

Zhou Ruiyao turned his head: "What's outside!?"

There was no response, and Case fell to his knees dejectedly, looking at the empty wooden box and screaming a few times: "Bullets, my bullets are gone! And the gun! It shouldn't have disappeared so early!"

For a moment, Lin Yuzhen missed the see-through ability that he had shut down for a long time, but it was only for a moment, because the next moment, he suddenly guessed what was outside.

There is no sound of flapping wings, but the strength of the impact shows that it has a similar body shape to a bird.It's bats, and it's swarms of bats beyond count.