I didn't know you were such a vampire

This is a rather dark and airtight space. The only lighting is the quietly burning candle. The candlelight only covers a square inch. Qiaoya doesn't know where she is now and when.Her memory still stays in the volcanic island of Thira 2000 years ago. She may have been drifting on the sea for several months, but she still feels dizzy in her head, as if she is floating between the waves and cannot land.

Cassandra still has a shiny black braid hanging in front of her body, and the armor she wears is closer to this era than the mercenary outfit of 2000 years ago.She seemed to have rested in one place for a long time, and she was quite relaxed.

She stood in front of the candle, looking at Qiao Ya softly.

Joya's consciousness followed Cassandra 2000 years ago for a long time, but it was the first time she met Cassandra's eyes, which made her a little dazed. She raised her head and looked at Cassandra for a while After that, he wrinkled again, raised his hand, and looked at his hand with some doubts.

This hand is slightly delicate, the wrist is not strong, and there are only thin calluses on the fingertips that have grown slowly after practicing martial arts for a year. It is not as rough and strong as Cassandra, who has been licking blood for several years. .

This is her own hand.

"I..." Qiao Ya opened her mouth, and when her voice came out of her throat, her throat felt dry due to not speaking for a long time. She paused, and then continued, "Didn't I fall into the Tiber River?" ?"

Although Cesare did not stab the vitals of her body, the Tiber River was heavily polluted, and during the winter flood season, she fell into the river with injuries, and she was basically lifeless.

"Of course I saved you."

Cassandra, who was standing across from her, said.

Joya froze for a moment, then raised her head and looked forward. Cassandra squatted down halfway to look at her with a smile in her eyes, and she looked a bit mischievous when she looked carefully.

"But...but..." Although Qiao Ya couldn't see her face, she felt that her brows could almost be tied into a very complicated knot at this moment, "Did I arrive at 2000 years ago?"

"No." Cassandra answered her very decisively.

"Then, then..." Qiao Ya couldn't speak clearly.

"Then why am I here?" Cassandra kindly finished the rest for her.

Qiao Ya shut up, then nodded sharply.

She saw the word "Falconer" for the first time in the diary of her biological mother Martina in this life. She only knew that the Catane family was the descendant of this "Falconer", and the reason why Rodrigo named the "Falconer" Nosa brought back to the Vatican and forced Martina, all in order to give birth to an offspring with the blood of the falconer.

Joya didn't understand at the time why Rodrigo wanted offspring of falconer blood so urgently, but now she sees Kashan, the falconer who has lived from the Peloponnesian War 2000 years ago to the present Della, she had a not-so-scientific idea.

And Cassandra's answer also confirmed her assumption: "Because of the Rod of Hermes, I have lived until now."

Cassandra also sat on the ground with Joya, and the candlelight was quietly burning behind her, coating her body with a layer of golden light, but unlike Rodrigo, she was not so intimidating in the backlight. Coercive, but like a close sister who dimmed the lights and sat on the bed with her sister to talk about some tacit topics.

If you haven't seen how this confidant sister assassinates the enemy with an ancestral broken spear, the atmosphere is indeed quite warm.

"Your consciousness should be that you followed me to the temple underground on the volcanic island of Thira, and saw my biological father." Cassandra asked.

Joya nodded.

Cassandra smiled and said, "My biological father, named Pythagoras, should have passed away decades ago in my time, but he is still alive and well."

The corner of Qiao Ya's mouth twitched slightly. In her previous life, as a scumbag in mathematics, she felt her scalp go numb when she heard the name of Pythagoras, but she never thought that her consciousness would go back 2000 years in this life. My ancestors saw the father of mathematics who had been dead for thousands of years.

And... Pythagoras is actually the ancestor of this life.

I don't know if this ancestor knew her academic level in mathematics, would he be so angry that he would beat her up...

Thinking of this, Qiao Ya's eyes immediately became serious. She looked behind Cassandra, and was slightly relieved when she saw that there was no other ancestor following her ancestor.

"My biological father passed away after he passed on his responsibility to me," Cassandra said.

Qiao Ya nodded, oh, that ancestor must have passed away... But this world is so fantastic, it is impossible to completely deny the possibility that the ancestor would be so angry at her academic level in mathematics that she would come alive and beat her up.

After begging for forgiveness from her ancestors in her mind for a while, Qiao Ya looked at Cassandra again, her eyes met the smiling brown eyes of the other party, and suddenly recalled what she said just now.

"My biological father passed away after handing over his burden to me."

She exhaled, and asked tentatively, "Is that 'heavy duty' the reason you have lived to this day?"

Cassandra raised her mouth and nodded with a smile: "Yes."

It was only after Kassandra found her biological father, Pythagoras, in the underground temple that she knew that in this world, apart from humans, there had once been an ancient race living in ancient times, named Isu, also known as Forerunners, the era in which the Isu lived is called the "Isu Era".

The Isu people were tens of thousands of years earlier than the earliest human civilization. They created powerful artifacts and weapons—the Pieces of Eden. They used these artifacts to expand their abilities beyond mortals, and created the human race. Among them, some Isu people intermarried with the human beings they created, and the children they gave birth to were called hybrids, also known as "stained blood".

As intelligent beings, human beings are not willing to be ruled by the Isu for a long time, so under the leadership of two blood-tainted men—Adam and Eve, they launched a protracted war with the Isu.Various natural disasters occurred during the war, and both the Isu people and human beings suffered devastating blows. However, the Isu people were not very productive. Soon, the rulers of this world became humans.

Although the Isu are no longer active, they have left many traces in this world and have become myths in the human world for thousands of years. The Pieces of Eden created by the Isu have also influenced the development of mankind and become It became the focus of competition between the Knights Templar and the Brotherhood of Assassins, two organizations with completely different beliefs.

And Pythagoras is a person with the blood of the forerunner.

"He guarded the entrance of Atlantis, studied the knowledge left by the forerunners for decades, and used the immortal life given to him by the Hermes scepter to silently guard the peace of this world." Cassandra After saying that, he paused, "Also observed me silently."

Qiao Ya thought of the gray-haired old man she saw when she followed Cassandra into the underground temple. He stood alone in the center of the temple, holding a golden scepter in his hand, facing the intruder The people in his world just said gently in a smiling tone: "You found me, Cassandra."

As Cassandra said, although he never fulfilled his responsibilities as a father, he was always watching her.

"I lived in a time when there were no Knights Templar and Brotherhood of Assassins, but the two diametrically opposed beliefs of absolute order and absolute freedom already had many fans." Cassandra said, looking at Qiao Ya smiled and said, "Then Qiao Ya, what did you choose?"

Qiao Ya froze for a moment, then said, "Freedom."

"Why?" Cassandra asked.

Qiao Ya said: "Because in this era in this world, freedom is so precious."

"The more precious you pursue, the more you will pay."

"Didn't you see it?" Qiao Ya smiled bitterly, "I gave my life."

Speaking of which, Qiao Ya didn't feel the tension she felt when she saw Cassandra for the first time when she woke up. She exhaled and said, "I have lived in this era for more than ten years, and I have gradually forgotten that I still have free choices. Right, and left my life and future to my father to decide, until my biological mother asked me what I want, but I found that I couldn't find the answer to this question, I just realized that I have lost my freedom."

"So what do you think about freedom?" Cassandra asked next.

"...is free choice." Joya replied.

"What if you want to kill someone?" Cassandra moved closer to her, looking into her eyes, "If it's because of your own reasons, you want to kill a Ordinary people, and at this time, no one is stopping you, because they fully respect your freedom."

"If the people around you are burning, killing and looting all kinds of crimes, you can't stop them, because you must fully respect their freedom." The smile on the corner of Cassandra's mouth gradually disappeared, and her eyes became serious, "Then what will you do?" ?”

Qiao Ya was stunned: "I won't..."

"You wouldn't kill an ordinary person? And the people around you wouldn't do that either?"

Qiao Ya lowered her head, and she realized that, just as the end of order is the control of the common people by the superiors, the end of freedom is chaos.

"That's why I chose you." Cassandra said, "You thought you chose freedom, but in fact, you chose the balance between freedom and order."