Soul echo

Chapter 346 Hunting Vampires ([-])
When Zhong Ye and Lilian returned to the village where the team stayed overnight, night had already fallen.

Everyone else went back to the borrowed farmhouse except for the two of them.

The witcher Wade, who was cooking soup, looked up at them, scooped up the soup, and asked casually, "Did you find anything?"

"Have."

Zhong Ye's answer made everyone stop communicating and moving, and turned their heads to look over.

Wade squeezed the spoon subconsciously and took a light breath.

Before Zhong Ye could speak, Lilian chattered about their previous discovery.

After listening, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

Then, an adventurer asked, "How big is that village?"

Zhong Ye thought about it for a while, and replied: "It seems that there are more than 20 houses, and the population may be between thirty and forty."

Hearing this, Wade frowned.

He looked at the disapproving expressions of other people, sighed in his heart, and said, "You may not know what this concept is - not all vampires have the ability to control others, only a few vampires have better luck because of their innate soul. , the transformation process is relatively smooth, and only then can one gain the ability to control others after being transformed into a vampire, and proportionally, only one out of five vampires can appear with this ability."

Wade is usually taciturn, but at this time, he also has to explain these things to others.

After a pause, looking at the astonished expressions on other people's faces, he continued: "A vampire can probably control four people, because this kind of influence is not permanent, it needs to be exerted continuously, and this ability cannot be controlled with time. Their strength becomes stronger and stronger, even a legendary level vampire can only control five or six people.

"If that vampire clan doesn't have legendary vampires, then the number of this vampire clan may be more than forty, and the population of that mountain village can't satisfy their appetite."

Listening to Wade's narration, everyone present only felt creepy.

That's a 'vampire', even the weakest vampire is not something ordinary people can deal with.

As undead creatures, they have almost no vitals. Apart from their heads and hearts, even if they are cut in half or their limbs are cut off, it will not cause much loss to their combat effectiveness - because they do not have 'pain perception'.

Only holy water and holy blessed weapons can make this kind of monster feel pain, other than that, there is almost nothing that can affect them too much during the battle.

Just imagine, a human will feel pain when there is a wound on his body, but a vampire, even if he chops off one of his hands, will not feel pain.

In the battle with vampires, unless you can guarantee that you will not receive any damage, once you are injured, your movements may become sluggish, and your brain will also be affected. Just a momentary mistake may lead to death.

Of course, newborn vampires may not dare to trade injuries for injuries, but vampires over three years old probably have adapted to a life without pain, and they will not cherish their bodies so much, and will not be afraid of pain.

Not all the people present had come into contact with vampires, but they learned about the dangers of vampires from the church, and at the same time, they also knew how dangerous vampires are.

Zhong Ye knew that Wade still had something to say - not all vampires have the ability to control others, and by the same token, vampires at the extraordinary level or even the legendary level may not have it either.

Wade only raised the possibility of 'legendary vampires without the ability to control others'. In fact, that vampire clan does not necessarily have no legendary vampires.

However, if there are no legendary level vampires, how can so many vampires gather?
Zhong Ye always prepared for the worst, so he thought that there might be a legendary vampire in that vampire clan.

"Of course, the premise of all this is that the mountain village is indeed the hiding place of the group of vampires."

Zhong Ye spoke to ease the fear of others, "And it's not necessarily that everyone has been controlled. It may also be that the group of vampires only controlled a part of the people, and the rest were imprisoned by them."

Hearing this explanation, the faces of the others looked a little better, and Wade was slightly taken aback. He really didn't think of this possibility.

The worst possibility is that there is a legendary vampire among the group of vampires... I still hope that the mountain village is not the hiding place of the group of vampires!
After finishing speaking, Zhong Ye sat next to Wade, pointed to the iron pot in front of him, "Can I have a bowl for Lilian and me?"

"Please."

With permission, Zhong Ye and Lilian took out a bowl from their backpacks, wiped it with a rag, filled it with soup, and drank it.

In this cold time, it is very comfortable to have a mouthful of hot vegetable soup, even if the soup is not delicious.

"Go to rest early, Lilian and I will go over there to investigate the situation tomorrow morning, and I hope you can find something there."

Wade, who was stirring the vegetable soup with a spoon, nodded. He also didn't want the group of vampires to be hiding in that mountain village.

After finishing a bowl of soup, Zhong Ye closed his eyes.

Suddenly, a doubt popped up in my heart——

How did the church in Luzelburg know that the vampires had come here?

…………

call!call!
The howling cold wind made the cloak wrapping Lilian's body flutter. If she hadn't tied the hem of the cloak to her legs, the cloak might have been lifted.

Hearing the howling of the air, Lilian turned her head to look at Zhong Ye, "Teacher, it's snowing, should we continue to investigate the situation?"

Thin snow fell down with the cold wind, hitting Zhong Ye and Lilian.

Although it didn't hurt, the ice crystals dripping on her face still made Lilian tremble.

Not long after leaving the farmhouse, she felt that her face no longer belonged to her.

The others had already stopped moving, only Zhong Ye and she left the room that was not warm but could shelter the wind and snow.

"We must go." Zhong Ye raised his head and took a deep breath of the cold air.

"If those vampires are really hiding in that mountain village, they will definitely have vampires at the legendary level, or even more than one legend!"

Hearing this, Lilian was taken aback for a moment.

"Why?" she subconsciously asked.

Zhong Ye didn't answer, but asked instead: "How did the church in Luzelburg know that the vampires came here?"

Lilian's mouth opened slightly, and then she was taken aback again.

She didn't know the answer to this question, and the reason why Zhong Ye would ask such a question, then he probably didn't know either...

"...The bishops of the two churches in Luzelburg can swear that 'the vampires are hiding here' must be an information channel they trust!" Lilian frowned and said after thinking hard for a moment.

She looked at Zhong Ye's back solemnly, waiting for her teacher's answer.

Zhong Ye didn't say anything, just shook his head.

Lilian pursed her lips tightly and asked, "Teacher, do you suspect that this group of vampires deliberately released the news?"

"If that mountain village is where the vampires are hiding, then the answer is 'yes'."

After Zhong Ye said this, there was a long silence between the two of them.

They walked forward quickly and came to the vicinity of the mountain village.

However, this time Zhong Ye did not continue to observe in secret, but went directly to the gate of the mountain village and knocked on the gate.

"Is anyone there? We are adventurers passing by!"

They waited a moment outside the door, and then the door opened.

"Adventurers? Why are there adventurers at this time?" The middle-aged man who opened the door asked doubtfully, "Why are you here?"

The corners of Zhong Ye's lips curled up slightly, and he said, "We came here after a group of vampires, because it suddenly started snowing, we had to find a place to take shelter, and then we happened to find a village here, and we wanted to come in and take shelter from the snow. "

He glanced at the sky, "It doesn't look like the snow will fall for a long time. We will leave immediately after the snow falls, and there are only two of us, so we won't cause any harm to you."

The middle-aged man frowned and looked Zhong Ye and Lilian up and down.

Sensing his gaze, even though she didn't know what Zhong Ye wanted to do, Lilian chose to cooperate and pulled her hood down.

Seeing that it was a woman, the middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief and moved away.

"come in."

(End of this chapter)