Bloodline Survival Guide

Chen Zhen could no longer deceive herself.

He recalled the beginning of his memory in a trance—the incomplete images in his mind at that time, those floods, blizzards, fires, destructions...all came from this seemingly real and fake world.

He woke up in the new world, he didn't remember who he was, and lived in a daze for many years.He really has no troubles and pains, but he always feels that he has lost something.It turns out that that painful and beautiful memory has long been pulled out by Wali and thrown to the ground, making him a person without a past.

Those pasts belonged to Vidal, the god of the forest, and belonged to him.

He thought: maybe he is Vidal, but not all Vidal.The self is a part of him, belonging to him and apart from him.

He really wanted to deny that he wasn't that Vidal—if it wasn't as good as it should be, then he wouldn't have killed that wolf.

Wally is so right, why should he remember it?Such a painful memory, why let him go through it again?

Like a wandering soul, Chen Zhen followed the eight people in front of him, watching them lead their kinsmen, wandering up and down in the sea of ​​blood, until they reached the ground and began to survive in the world.

Because of Wall-E's curse, they began to use the blood of the sea of ​​the world as food, drink blood to live, and they began to call themselves blood race.All the creatures around the sea of ​​the world are afraid of this race, because they are cruel and cold-blooded, possess powerful power, and hunt all creatures.

After the blood of the sea of ​​the world was almost drained by them, they began to look for other food—they drank the blood of beasts and birds, and when they became very hungry, they began to drink the blood of humans.

Sometimes people call them vampires.

Chen Zhen saw that they were divided into classes.The eight people who ate the most Vidal's body at the beginning became the leader.The ones who ate more and were slightly stronger were later pure-blooded species.The ones who ate less were slightly weaker, and they were later common blood species...

Chen Zhen saw them continue from generation to generation.He saw that the eight ancestors began to embrace a descendant with death, entrusted their life to the next desperate person, and let the evil fate continue...

But the only one who knew the whole story was the first ancestor who held the golden headband in his hand, that is, their... Great Elder.

The first generation elder, that is, the one who made a promise to Wali - he always believed that all this was caused by himself.Because if he hadn't asked Vidal: Can we eat you?Then nothing will happen.

This secret was only known to him at the beginning. The other seven ancestors were not enlightened at first, and did not understand what he did... But when the same clan really enlightened, the first generation of elders dared not tell this secret Someone else—

He was afraid that his clan would not want to guard with him, and he was also afraid that his clan would eat Vidal's body again.

Of all the vampires, only he ate Vidal's heart and head.Perhaps because of this, he continued the compassion in Vidal's character.He really respected Vidal, that was his inescapable fate, but what about the others?Can other people protect Vidal as desperately as he does?He can't be sure of other people's hearts.

So he chose to let only himself know about it.

He made a decision, and he made this task the only one for the position of Great Elder.This task will be passed down from generation to generation and will become their eternal shackles and burden.

The Great Elder has the most rights and the strongest power, but once he is embraced as a blood by the previous Great Elder, he can only spend his whole life guarding this heavy mission.His whole life can only be dedicated to that mission, which is the whole reason why he became the Great Elder.As long as he is alive and exists, his whole life can only be used to wait and guard, waiting for Vidal to wake up, turning him into a vampire, and allowing Vidal to live his life in peace.

Chen Zhen saw that before each elder first embraced the heir, he would hand over a box, a headband, and a rusty key to the other party.

"The box contains fragments of God's memory, and it is a precious thing." Chen Zhen saw the strange elder say to the blond man in front of him, "This hairband is a token left by the entrustor, and it is a gift from God." , we need to wear it at all times. This key is the only key to open the twelve underground layers of ice coffin. In that ice coffin sleeps our guardian god for generations. He is the true ancestor of our blood race. The meaning of the Great Elder's survival... ...It is to wait for Vidal to wake up, protect him from passing through eternity smoothly, and not let Vidal or anyone know...Now, are you willing to carry this mission forever, Raphael?"

Chen Zhen saw the blond man took the box, headband and key, nodded solemnly and said, "I am willing."

……

Chen Zhen watched all this in a trance, his headache was splitting, and he didn't know whether to cry or laugh for a while.

He knelt down/hugged himself, and when he felt that his headache had eased, he suddenly heard singing.

Chen Zhen opened his eyes.

This time in front of me is the forest.

Wall-E sang the hymn of the forest while digging the dirt under his hands...

Following his singing, all the creatures in the forest were attracted by his call and gathered in front of him.

Wali dug and dug, and finally found a scattered wreckage from the soil.

It was Fenrir, who was long dead.

For some reason, Fenrir's body was not corrupted.Maybe Vidal did something, this body is still like what Chen Zhen has seen before.

Wall-E took Vidal's other eye out of his bosom.

He put that shining eye on Fenrir's chest.

The wreckage began to change.Vidal's godhead represents new life and hope, and his divine power is also new life and hope.His eyes can resurrect any dead thing in the world, even Fenrir.

Wall-E watched as Fenrir's body that had been torn in two slowly recovered, and the scars on his body also slowly healed, and even the scar on his back that seemed to never heal had grown intact. fur……

Wall-E watched Fenrir slowly recover, and then he opened his amber eyes.

After Fenrir woke up, the first thing he said was: "Where's Vidal?"

Wally said: "He died because of you, because of that war, he has died."

Fenrir felt the beating of his heart...

That heart merged with Vidal's heart and became the source of his breath, the beginning and end of his heartbeat... He could see everything in that eye, all the pain and struggle Vidal had experienced, suddenly For a while, Fenrir was a little at a loss.For a while, I didn't know what to say or what to do next.

After all, he did a lot of things wrong.He killed Vidal, he's always made Vidal miserable, he's always been a dilemma for Vidal, and now...

Fenrir finally asked Wally: "Vidal is dead, why do you want to save me?"

Wall-E had no expression on his face: "To make you suffer."

"I've had enough pain," Fenrir said.

Wali sneered: "Fenrir, let me tell you. You messed up everything, you swallowed the main god, and together with Loki, you messed up the fate of the gods, messed up all the order... you go to provoke Vivian Your Highness Dar, let His Royal Highness Vidal cry and feel guilty... What do you think is the reason why His Royal Highness chose to die because of self-destruction of Godhood? It's all because of you! I thought I could challenge fate and God! Now everything is ruined... His Royal Highness Vidal is also dead, don’t you love His Royal Highness Vidal? Then I will let you come back to life and let you taste the pain of His Highness Vidal... "

Fenrir looked hard to accept. He held his heart and repeated in a murmur, "I'm in enough pain..."

"It's not enough!" Wall-E said viciously to Fenrir, "Your pain will continue endlessly! You now have His Highness Vidal's eyes, you will never die, you will live forever, Living in a world without His Highness, suffering from longing and guilt... His Highness has entrusted the mission of guarding the forest to the wolves, and I have entrusted His Highness's body to the blood-drinking monsters on the seashore of the world. They will guard His Highness to wake up in the new world! You will never have any intersection with His Highness again, and the wolves and blood clans will become eternal enemies... Fenrir, as long as you still have a little bit of shame and awe, you You should know that you live to make atonement, and you will live in regret forever..."

Fenrir didn't answer, he lay on the ground, his forelimbs tucked in, and he hugged his heart tightly...

Wall-E is still talking: "You will continue to live and die in the world, but nothing can really kill you... unless your heart is dug out. If you still have a little conscience, I think you should understand, you You shouldn't bother His Highness Vidal who woke up after a thousand years. Think back to the things you did before, you can only bring pain and despair to His Highness... So, I curse you, I curse you, giant wolf Fen Lear, you will fall into endless waiting and pain..."

In fact, Wali himself is not sure whether Fenrir will disturb His Royal Highness Vidal who wakes up after a thousand years.But those didn’t seem to be that important anymore. He had deep resentment towards Fenrir in his heart, and he knew that letting Fenrir live in self-blame and regret forever was the cruelest punishment for him...and, maybe Vidal I also hope that Fenrir can live.

Wall-E concludes: "You will live in pain forever. Endless! Never ending!"

Chen Zhen was stunned by Walina's resentful tone.

endless...

never...be still...

Chen Zhen looked at Fenrir with his head buried. He hugged his heart and lay his whole body on the ground, not knowing what he was thinking.After a while, he dug out a pair of boots from the soil, pressed them tightly in front of his heart like precious ones, and opened his mouth to the forest and let out a long-lasting cry.

That wolf howl was too loud.Chen Zhen was very close to him, and he was so shocked that he covered his ears for an instant... But the voice was loud and strong, even if he covered his ears tightly, it still pierced into his head and heart, echoing the collision of his heartbeat... Chen Zhen for a moment Falling into the misty illusion again, he had heard this wolf howl in the Golden Palace, heard it in Ragnarok, and heard it in countless dreams in the forbidden room where he was imprisoned...

The last few words of Wall-E also linger...

endless waiting

pain……

endless...

Chen Zhen saw that Fenrir's chest was getting brighter and brighter. The light echoed the past, reflected the present, and projected/into the future, drowning everything and stabbing him so hard that he couldn't see everything in front of him...

In that ray of light, Chen Zhen finally realized why Shen Mingguang said his heart was his own.

That's not a word for love, not a romantic-sounding vow.Shen Mingguang's heart is actually...

—Own...eyes.

Chen Zhen was surrounded by the dazzling light, and there was a loud bang in his head in the next second——

Chen Zhen was pulled back to reality by the light.

He opened his eyes, and in front of him was a familiar place.Both body and consciousness returned to this 'new world' again.This was his and Shen Mingguang's home, the bedroom was dark, and it was raining outside the window.He has returned to this small southwestern city in China, which is also a world with Shen Mingguang.

Chen Zhen was in the dark, the room was quiet, only the sound of rain outside the window could be heard.

Shen Mingguang had been lying on the edge of the bed, but Chen Zhen just moved casually, and he immediately raised his head.His first reaction was to turn on the bedside lamp, but Chen Zhen interrupted him in a panic: "Don't move!"

Shen Mingguang's tone was still sleepy: "I'm afraid you're afraid..." After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand to hug Chen Zhen, but Chen Zhen felt sad and embarrassed, and avoided the hug.

In fact, he never mentioned to Shen Mingguang that he was afraid of the dark.After all, it's too ironic. An heir of the blood of the ancestor, would be afraid of staying alone in a dark place?Ever since Chen Zhen accepted her identity, she had carefully buried her weakness.Thinking about it now, maybe this body itself is also resistant to darkness?At that time, he and Lilith became good friends precisely because they both had this kind of weakness that could not be explained to outsiders. As vampires, one was afraid of blood and the other was afraid of the dark, which was simply absurd.

Shen Mingguang didn't know how he could see that he was a little afraid of the dark, but since he found out, as long as the two of them were at home, Shen Mingguang paid great attention to this problem, and he would definitely leave a light for him when he was not around Chen Zhen.

Chen Zhen said, "Don't leave, I don't want to face you."

Shen Mingguang froze for a moment, his hands froze in mid-air.

At this moment, Chen Zhen suddenly felt a coldness on his face.

He stretched out his hand to touch it, only to realize that at some point... his face had already burst into tears.

He stretched out his hands and wiped his face indiscriminately, tried his best to keep his voice steady and said, "I already know, you don't have to lie to me anymore."

According to their usual way of getting along, Shen Mingguang would usually compromise with Chen Zhen's request, but this time he didn't.

Chen Zhen refused to give in, so he turned around and turned on the desk lamp at hand forcefully, letting the hazy yellow light shine on their faces, and revealing all the embarrassment of each other at the moment.

Shen Mingguang just looked at Chen Zhen like this.His eyes were pious and desperate, but also carried some indescribable despair and panic.Looking from Chen Zhen's position, Shen Mingguang's face is bright on one side and dark on the other... It fits well with Shen Mingguang himself. He lives in a world that is half light and half shadow, with himself on one side and full of things on the other. Chen Zhen.

The gentle tones of the lighting formed a very different contrast with his tough and sharp facial contours. He had obsidian-like eyes and hair, and he looked strangely handsome under the light.

He said, "I never lied to you."

Shen Mingguang wanted to reach out to hug him and wipe his tears away, but Chen Zhen was so defensive and tired, so he hesitated.

Chen Zhen shook his head: "You lied to me from the beginning to the end. You came to me, pretended not to know me, made me fall in love with you, and then wanted to leave me... Let me ask you, if I don't kill you on the Mid-Autumn Festival , will you never show up?"

"I..." Shen Mingguang closed his eyes, "I have no choice... I don't know what to do, I can't help it, but if you know that I am a werewolf..."

"So?!" Chen Zhen yelled at him with tears, "So you can treat me like this? You answer my question, do you plan to leave me later and never see me again?!"

His emotions began to fluctuate again, and the pain in his chest also turned into nameless anger, "I'm so easy to handle, right? You just assumed that I would like you, anyway, as long as I get close to you, I will feel familiar and want to get close, Smelling your blood will make me lose control because my eyes are your heart, I can't refuse you at all, you know this clearly..."

Shen Mingguang has calmed down, he pressed Chen Zhen's shoulder, and said calmly: "I never thought of leaving you, I approach you because I can't help it, and I will leave without saying goodbye because if you Knowing that I am a wolf clan, I will definitely not be able to accept it... My original plan was to wait for a while, write to you, confess everything, or use other methods to make you less disgusted with the wolf clan... I have thought of many ways , I think about it every day, but I didn't expect..."

"Do you also know that I will definitely not be able to accept it?" Chen Zhen interrupted him emotionally, "Or do you think I can accept it now?"

With the ups and downs of his emotions, the whole room began to shake slightly again.

When Shen Mingguang heard what Chen Zhen said, he seemed to have given up communicating.He only hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward to hold the struggling Chen Zhen, and hugged him tightly into his arms.

"Whatever you think." He lowered his head to kiss the crescent-shaped brand on Chen Zhen's neck, "I thought a lot when you passed out, wondering if you would not be able to accept me when you woke up, would you Still want to leave me... Anyway, no matter what the reason is this time, I won't let you go... I don't think it's too late."

Chen Zhen was so kissed that his hands and feet became weak. The strange thing is that the moment he was hugged by Shen Mingguang's smell and body, he calmed down involuntarily, and his anxiety gradually receded, followed by numbness. of pleasure.

Too.Together, they are truly complete.

"I really don't want to face you now..." Chen Zhen's voice was a little crying. He felt that Shen Mingguang's current state was a bit strange for no reason, which gave him a bad premonition, "Leave me alone for a while first ...Let me go to the Great Elder first...or go somewhere else..."

Chen Zhen still had a lot of questions in his mind that he didn't understand, and a lot of tempers that he didn't lose, but Shen Mingguang's attitude seemed...

Shen Mingguang answered quickly, and his tone was very firm, "Impossible."

Chen Zhen was about to say something, but Shen Mingguang suddenly touched the brand mark on his neck with his fingertips, and then said to him: "You may not see it now... Let me tell you, the brand mark on your neck It's a moon, it's curved on normal days, but it's full on special occasions... Only when we love each other can I complete the branding ceremony for you, Vidal, you love me that much, right?"

"It's not the right time..." Shen Mingguang didn't know what he was feeling. He sighed, "But I think it doesn't matter whether you accept it or not. Anyway, I don't intend to let you go. Anyway, I always Mess up everything, it was before, it is still now...then it is better to be a complete lunatic, whether you love me or hate me, I will keep you by my side, anyway, I can at least have you. "

Chen Zhen was so surprised by his tone that he didn't know how to answer. What made him even more panicked was that the next second he found that something was wrong with Shen Mingguang and his body... His waist was poked hard, and his body The place touched by Shen Mingguang is also soft...

Chen Zhen didn't even have the strength to struggle anymore, because his hands and feet were so weak from the thicker and thicker forest atmosphere in the air, his only desire now was...that the person behind him could touch him, touch him, or kiss him, Just touch.

Shen Mingguang took off the hair band on his wrist, and helped him tie up his long silver hair.It was just a hair tie, and Chen Zhen's whole body was itching to tremble with his fingers moving through.

He tied up his hair, then lowered his head and kissed the full moon brand on Chen Zhen's neck.

While helping Chen Zhen take off his nightgown, Shen Mingguang said, "Whether you accept it or not, you are my lover. If you don't accept me, I will lock you up, tie you up, and lock you up. You can't go anywhere, you can only see me alone, forcing you to accept it."

Chen Zhen: "You... what did you say?"

Shen Mingguang had already taken off the last piece of clothing on Chen Zhen's body, and he covered it with his hand, with a tender tone:

"Vidal, I'm sorry, this is my first estrus as an adult. It came very quickly, just like the one in Asgard...but this time, I hope to spend it with you."