I didn't know you were such a vampire

Before Ares was born, his grandfather had passed away, and his father and his 17-year-old elder brother also went to the battlefield one after another, leaving only his mother and elderly grandmother at home.Not long after he was born, his elder brother died in battle, and when he was ten years old, his father died under the spear of the Syracusans during the Sicilian expedition, leaving no bones.In the same year, his grandmother passed away, and only he and his mother, who had been in poor health year after year after giving birth at an advanced age, were left in the Athens family.

Since he joined the army, he has not seen his mother for four years.

"She is a very independent and strong woman. Her father is a famous democratic politician in Athens, and her husband is a prestigious commander in the army. Therefore, she has always been proud of the glory of the city-state of Athens and supported her family in the war. It's just that her husband After being sacrificed on the battlefield with her eldest son, she inevitably became vulnerable. She strongly opposed Ares joining the army, and even said cruelly before Ares went out that if he insisted on joining the army, then he would not return to Athens in the future. said Caius, "so for four years he never set foot in Athens again."

At this time, it seemed that because the thief who sneaked into the Lord's Palace had not been found for a long time, the light and noise outside the window gradually weakened. Caius' voice became clearer in Joya's ear, but his face gradually disappeared. In the dark.

"After he left the Athens coach's tent with Alcibiades, he suddenly thought of his mother who stayed alone in Athens. With such a strong character, would she not be able to accept the result after Athens lost the war? Extreme. So he chose to stay and participate in the Battle of Yanghe."

The Battle of the Sheep River, the last battle of the Peloponnesian War, this battle was really as Alcibiades said, the terrain of Athens was ignored, and the command was improper, the Athens navy was defeated, only the naval commander Conon led Nine warships fled in a hurry. Among the nine warships, the Balaros sailed to Athens to report the battle situation, and the rest of the warships fled to Cyprus under the leadership of Conon.

At this time, the war had basically come to an end, and the balance of victory was irreversibly tilted towards Sparta.

Scarred and dying, Ares did not want to wander around with the defeated chief, but chose to return to Athens with the Balaros.

His purpose is simple, to meet his mother.

The atmosphere on the defeated ship was extremely gloomy. There was no loud chatting, laughing and singing of the sailors before the battle on the deck. Everyone had large and small wounds on their bodies, and the same despair appeared on their faces.Ares curled up at the corner of the deck and drifted on the sea for several days. When the warship sailed to the port of Athens, he held the side of the ship tightly with his hands, supported his body and stood up, overlooking the city center mountain. Acropolis on the hill.

The emotion he hadn't experienced in four years of wandering away from home suddenly rushed into his eyes.

He rushed down the ship with the soldiers whose faces gradually became more lively, and then saw the indifferent eyes of the Athenians on the port.

A defeated soldier is not eligible for forgiveness.

Athens, the former maritime overlord, completely lost control of the war after the Battle of the Sheep River, and handed over the hegemony of the Greek world to Sparta.

And Ares dragged his seriously injured body, walked step by step through the street in his memory, and then stopped in front of that familiar door.

After hesitating for a long time, he finally stretched out his hand. When he was about to knock on the door, the door was opened from the inside. After seeing him standing at the door, a strange middle-aged woman asked strangely, "Who are you?"

"I... I'm looking for the mistress of the house," he said.

"I am." The middle-aged woman said, then paused, "You mean the previous mistress, right?"

Ares froze.

"She has passed away." The middle-aged woman's eyes showed some regret, "Her son fled with Alcibiades after the defeat in Nottingham, leaving an elderly mother here. She is sick No one helped her find a doctor, and even her family spurned her because she raised a deserter who lost the war. After her father passed away, her elder brother refused to see her. When her nephew thought about it, he came to see her and found her Lying in my own bed, I have been dead for a long time."

Ares was silent for a long time, and then asked: "Then... where is she buried..."

The middle-aged woman said: "It's miserable to say the least. When her relatives held the mortuary ceremony for her, they didn't choose a place in the main hall of the house because of their perfunctory attitude. That afternoon, the sun shone in and shone on her corpse. On, defiled the sun god, so..."

So the original memorial ceremony ended hastily, and the voices of people singing dirges stopped instantly. Those people hurried away in fear that they would be charged with blasphemy, and then shifted the blame to the dead.In the end, the lonely woman whose husband and son both set foot on the battlefield and never came back was transported out of the city overnight and burned, and it was unknown which land she drifted to.

After Caius finished speaking, he fell into silence until the noise outside the window completely disappeared. Then he turned his head and looked at Qiao Ya, with a cold smile on his face, and said: "Human beings cannot do without spiritually. Belief, even though the god they believe in is just an illusory legend, they will still trample other compatriots under their feet and crush them a few times because of this legend." His words suddenly stopped, the tone in his tone The sarcasm faded a little, he lowered his head slightly, and said in a muffled voice, "I've already said that this story is very boring."

"I also said earlier that no story is boring." Qiao Ya replied, "I read it in Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War". A statue of Apollo in a temple was destroyed."

The corners of Caius' lips curved slightly: "Ares did it."

"Why did he destroy the statue of Apollo?" Qiao Ya asked again.

"It will make human beings severely punish human beings themselves. What's the need for such a god to exist." Caius sneered. After all, human beings hope to have an illusory thing to enslave and control themselves.”

"Not necessarily." Qiao Ya said, "Faith has various forms of existence. Some people believe in gods, and naturally there are others who believe in other things."

Caius quickly turned his head, staring at her with ruby-like eyes, but this pair of eyes that usually make the servants of the Medici family look at each other, but at this moment, in Qiaoya's view, it brings Got a little childish.

"Are you here to listen to the story, or to provoke me to kill you?" he said angrily.

Qiao Ya couldn't help but smile a little, she made a pause gesture, cleared her throat, and said, "I'm here to find out about that puzzle that has troubled me for so many years." She said slowly , "When you glimpse a corner of history by accident, you naturally want to lift the veil completely, and now, I know."

"What do you know?"

Qiao Ya tried her best not to raise the corners of her mouth too high: "I won't tell you."

Caius narrowed his eyes and threatened, "Miss Joya!"

"Even if Mr. Volturi says 'I'll kill you' again, I won't be afraid anymore." Joya turned her face to the side and looked out of the window, avoiding the other party's eyes, "because Mr. Volturi said But, don't let me die."

"I told you that you misheard."

Qiao Ya continued to talk: "Since I am not afraid of Mr. Volturi, then I will not be afraid of Mr. Volturi's red eyes, cold and hard skin, and..." She paused , turned his face, looked into Caius' eyes, and smiled softly, "Mr. Volturi's sharp teeth."

She saw Caius' pupils shrank suddenly, and his whole body froze as if the pause button had been pressed.

And she took this opportunity to open the window, and jumped onto the window sill nimbly.

After the guards passed, the quietness between the Lord's Palace and the loggia resumed, only a few lights were left with a few stingy lights, and the gaps in the stone slabs on the road were faintly visible. The smoke from the Arno River seemed to float here, making her vision It became hazy.

"You know my secret, and I know yours," she murmured, then laughed again. "Florence is such a wonderful place."

As she spoke, she let go of the hand holding the window lattice, and when she was about to jump down, Caius' cold hand had already grasped her wrist.

She raised her head in astonishment, and saw Caius standing in front of the window staring at her solemnly.

After a long time, he said, "You can't tell others."

Qiao Ya laughed: "Why do I hear this so familiarly?"

"If you don't want to die or someone else dies, keep silent and don't mention it to anyone." Caius said, paused, and then said, "Two years, and I will give you two more years."

Qiao Ya blinked her eyes, but before she understood the meaning of Caius' words, Caius had already let go of her hand, and she fell headfirst. Fortunately, she reacted in time and adjusted her posture. After receiving a roll, he quickly stabilized his body.

She stood up and looked back, Caius was still standing in the window looking at her, his face was expressionless, but his eyes were firmly fixed on her body like nails.

At this time, Qiao Ya suddenly understood that the word "handsome as a dog" fits Caius so well. He is really handsome, but a dog is also a real dog.

She really wanted to use this body under 15 to make a face at Caius standing in the window on the second floor, but the soul over 15 in the 30-year-old body restrained such a move, she pinched Nose, turned his head, and ran towards Totti's mansion along the way he came.

Maybe it was a sentence that she read in the history book several years ago and someone finally answered it, or it took her too much energy to go back and forth twice. When she returned to the room, she slammed her head on the bed, almost Without thinking too much about the problem, he sank into the soft pillow and fell asleep much later than the city.

In the dream, she was still running as hard as she could in Limbo Prison, the hot magma of Mount Vesuvius spewed out beside her, and the sea water of the Tyrrhenian Sea kept washing her ankles.

With all her strength, she could not escape the pursuit of the invisible devil.

Until the pair of pale and graceful hands embraced her waist from behind her again, imprisoning her in the embrace that was carved like marble, the cold breath blew her ears, and she listened to the voice saying .

"Two years," he said, "I allow you to live another two years."