[Comprehensive British and American] vampires modern daily life

Ah Luo’s footsteps were different when he came down the mountain. This time, his footsteps were brisk, and his excitement could not be concealed until he walked through the noisy city. Eunice then withdrew her attention and looked up at the stars again.

Orpheus was torn to pieces by the fanatical female followers of Dionysus and scattered all over Thrace. His mother, the epic goddess Calliopa, traveled all over Thrace to collect his body. , was buried at the foot of Mount Olympus, and Zeus was entrusted by his father Apollo to decorate his lyre on the starry sky.

When Eunice was a child, it rained heavily on the day she learned the ending of the story of Orpheus, so she had to lie on the window sill and look out the window and sulk.The next day was a sunny day, just before nightfall, Ah Luo dragged her up to the palace wall of the palace, then pointed to the starry sky, and told her that the combination of those stars was the lyre of Orpheus.

She was still a little strange at the time, and asked him: "How do you know?"

Ah Luo, who was still young at the time, blinked and said, "I went to ask our lyre teacher yesterday. I think when the weather is fine, I must bring my sister to see the stars."

Eunice now knows that if she replays the details of getting along with A Luo in her mind one by one, she will find that, in fact, from a very early time, A Luo's eyes when looking at her have already contained A lot of extremely complicated things, but she took it for granted that he attributed his feelings to being young and ignorant. She only knew how to rely on her sister, but she never thought that love is not limited to age from the beginning.

She smiled and stood up, the wind made her skirt flutter, she pulled her hair behind her ears, and then put on the hood to cover her face, revealing only a pointed jaw.

She had been walking forward for too long, and occasionally stopping to wait for him would make him overwhelmed with excitement, but now, she decided to go back to him, hold his hand, and bring him back.

The city of Corinth was full of noise. The young people in the carnival held hands and danced neatly to the cheerful music, singing songs praying for a good harvest this year. Not too curious, just wanted to hold the other person's hand and join the carnival together, but that person hastily withdrew his hand and took a few steps back.

"Are you a foreigner? Today is Dionysus' Carnival, come on, let's dance together!" Several young girls said enthusiastically.

Eunice shook her head. She wanted to look up at the dancing crowd, but she lowered the brim of her cloak, turned around, and quickly rushed into the alleyway, leaving only a few girls looking at each other.

Compared with the bustling city, the Corinthian palace was much deserted. She jumped up the palace wall and found that there was no celebration ceremony held in the palace, except for a few attendants who were usually on good terms with each other drinking under the grape arbor. It's no different than usual.

Presumably it should be the old king's new funeral, and the palace canceled this year's Dionysus Festival celebration.

She jumped off the palace wall and walked towards Aro's dormitory. On the way, no one noticed that when she passed Didemi's dormitory, she could still hear Didemi asking her mother Celia in a childlike voice. , Why is this year's Dionysus Festival not lively at all.

She stopped, and then heard Celia answer softly: "Because father is not far away, and he will feel lonely when he sees us singing and dancing."

Didymi said: "Father feels lonely, why didn't he come to see me, I miss him so much."

"Because he can't," said Celia. "Go to bed, dear boy."

Didymi didn't seem to be reconciled to going to bed so early, and continued to hum: "When I saw General Botis and the others come into the palace to look for my brother, I thought there would be a celebration today..."

And Eunice frowned when she heard Bertis's name.

Botis was the number one general in Corinth. Although he was old, his prestige in the army was unparalleled. At that time, Aro proposed to attack Sparta, but Botis opposed it alone, and other generals followed suit.At that time, when Ah Luo mentioned this name every day, his eyes became darker.

What did he come into the palace to find Ah Ro?

Eunice clenched her fists, and ran quickly towards A Luo's bedroom. Before she entered the courtyard, she smelled a strong smell of wine, but her brows frowned even more tightly. Not pure, it seems that there is something mixed in the wine, but none of the attendants that should have been around A Luo's bedroom disappeared, and this corner of the palace was empty.

Her footsteps paused in front of the door, and smelling that there should be someone guarding behind the door, she gritted her teeth and pushed open the courtyard door without even turning over the wall. At the same time, she heard Ah Luo Angrily shouted: "Botis, you actually put drugs in the wine, you are trying to rebel!"

At this time, the soldier guarding the gate of the courtyard had already raised the sword in his hand towards her. Out of the corner of her eye, she only caught a glimpse of the blade of the sword shining coldly in the night, and she only reflexively wanted to cover herself faintly. The pain in her lower abdomen, when the sword edge approached her neck, she woke up as if shivering, and faced the sword edge with her palm, holding the blade firmly, when the soldier was surprised, turned to the Behind him, another hand covered his mouth.

The young soldier struggled for a while with his eyes wide open, and then found that he couldn't get rid of the seemingly thin young woman.

Eunice didn't want to hurt any Corinthian, so she just clamped the young soldier firmly, and then turned her head to look in the direction of the bedroom.

After Ah Luo shouted angrily, she heard a few chaotic footsteps, and then a slightly old but powerful voice said: "I did not rebel, I will always be loyal to Corinth, I can't just watch you The Athens boy sent Corinth to be trampled under the iron heels of Sparta, so I would rather kill you, and then commit suicide, and go to Hades to apologize to the old king."

Eunice's shoulders trembled slightly, she gritted her teeth, lowered her voice, and said in the ear of the young soldier: "Hasn't the king canceled the plan to attack Sparta?"

The soldier shook his head quickly.

"No?" Eunice's voice became even lower, "He...is still determined to attack Sparta?"

The soldier grunted a few times and nodded emphatically.

At this time, another younger voice said: "Queen Celia told us that if you have gone astray, then we can kill you, power cannot be a tool for your revenge, and Corinth cannot go your own way because of your will." and was utterly destroyed.”

Eunice's hand holding the blade trembled, her eyes widened, and she shook her head slightly.

Celia, did you really say that to these generals?

"You're lying! Mother won't let you kill me!" Ah Luo roared, but this sound seemed to exhaust all his strength, he gasped and said, "You, Botis, look at When my sister grew up, you used to say that my sister was the loveliest and best-looking girl you ever saw; I died in Sparta for no apparent reason, any of you would like to go over and ask for a reason... No, you are afraid of death, all of you are afraid of death..."

"Ah Luo! You have really gone astray. Queen Celia was entrusted by the old king on his deathbed. She must watch over you. Who knew you were so stubborn. We will never tolerate a king like you ruining Corinth! "Bettis scolded angrily, followed by the sound of a sharp knife being unsheathed.

As soon as Eunice heard that voice, her mind went blank. Before she had time to think about it, she pushed out the soldier who was restrained by herself, then quickly ran to the front of the bedroom, jumped into the room from the window, and the moment she landed, , she saw everything in the house clearly.

The lights were flickering, Ah Luo was sitting in front of the couch with his head down, unable to see his expression clearly, and standing in front of him were two generals in armor, the leading sword had been pulled out of its sheath, it was the veteran Botis , and at the farthest corner, curled up a maid holding a wine glass tray. She seemed to be terrified, trembling all over, and tightly closed her eyes.

Eunice's heart sank when she saw her.

She is Celia's close maid.

No wonder there was no one around Ah Luo's bedroom. It turned out that Fendel was right. The current king's mother was among the participants in this assassination attempt.

At this moment, the candlelight in the dormitory coincided with the violently beating flames in front of the Spartan tomb that night, and the face of Leonit seen in the shadows before the coffin was closed came to her mind again. middle.

She and Ah Luo, both were abandoned by those closest to them.

She gritted her teeth, clenched her fists, and held Potis in her arms before the blade fell on the back of Aro's neck, and then rushed to the window. All this happened in an instant, even Both Botis and Fendel, who are generals, did not react, they only saw that Aro was no longer on the couch, only the old lyre that was tightly protected by him before was left.

Eunice brought Ah Luo to that hillside, where the stars were still shining, the night wind made the leaves rustling, the carnival in the city below the mountain had come to an end, the music was getting low, and the gathered crowd was gradually dispersing.

A Luo was laid flat on the grass by Eunice, his face was pale, his eyes were half closed, he was groping for something in his arms with trembling hands, then he raised his chin with difficulty, looked at Eunice's face: "Sister... Qin ...I didn't bring it back."

Eunice looked down at him, stroked his cheek with her cold hand, and said, "It's okay, it's enough for me to bring you back."

"But... Am I going to die..." He said weakly, "I took the violin and was about to come back to you, and my mother's maid brought Botis over... She said that Mother heard that I and Botis The general had a misunderstanding recently, I hope we can have a drink and have a good talk...I didn't expect...I didn't expect..."

"There are so many unexpected things in the world." After Eunice finished speaking, she realized that her voice was choked up a few times. She covered her eyes with her other hand, and felt a slight warmth in her palm.

"Yeah..." Ah Luo said, "I thought I could protect my sister all my life... vent my anger on her... but I didn't expect to..." He coughed, "It's just one kiss, one kiss... Not enough, I have loved you for 15 years..."

As he spoke, his voice became smaller and smaller as he got older, until finally, he couldn't hear him anymore.

Eunice's body froze, and then wiped away her tears with the back of her hand, she stared at Ah Luo's pale face, and said, "I won't let you die, Ah Luo, I won't let you dead!"

She held Ah Luo's shoulders with both hands, bent down, exposed her fangs, and bit down on A Luoshan's still warm side neck, the fangs pierced the skin, pierced the artery, and blood gushed out into her mouth.

At that moment, she felt as if she had returned to years ago, when she had a carnival night with her family at the Dionysian Festival, drinking to the fullest, when her father was still alive, Celia held his arm and leaned on his shoulder, Smiling and watching her fight with Ah Luo.

After they finished drinking, they laughed and threw away the wine glass. Ah Luo picked up the lyre beside her, and she held up the hem of her skirt, playing music and dancing with the strength of the wine. The palace people surrounded them and played for them with a smile. The beat, the pulse of the moonlight, the dots of starlight, and the warm candlelight engrave everyone's shadow on this land.

She swallowed her tears together with Ah Luo's blood, whimpered, bit her own wrist, put her cold blood in her mouth, leaned down, kissed Ah Luo's lips, and put these Blood crossed into his mouth.

As she kissed him, she grabbed the fabric of his body with one hand.

She doesn't know if this method will work, but she can only take a gamble at this time.

It's just that she never knew that the process of waiting for the result was so tormenting.

"Wake up...open your eyes..." She choked up and said, and simply touched the wound on her wrist that was still dripping with blood to Luo's lips, "Wake up, Luo...don't you still Do you think one kiss is not enough..."

As if she had lost all her strength, she fell on his stiff and cold shoulder and cried.

This is the coldest Dionysian festival she feels, without music, dance, and delicious wine, and there will be no last person in the world who cares about her.

As a dead person, she once again felt as cold as falling into an ice cellar.

Until, something cold and greasy gently licked the wound on her wrist.

She froze for a moment, then raised her head, facing a pair of blood-red eyes.