Castle Banquet

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It was mid-September when Zero and Yuki left the castle, they fled all the way, and stayed in Dr. Yazawa's small clinic for more than three months, and it was deep winter when Zero went on the road again.

His goal is very clear, which is to kill vampires; however, before that, he still has one place he wants to visit.

The first stop after leaving the clinic was the home that had been vacant for a year and a half. It was a bungalow area built on the edge of the city, and all the buildings in it were dilapidated buildings that did not meet the urban planning standards.

That was his home, a home that was already empty at this moment.

When Zero returned there, there was no obvious change in the surrounding scenery. The high and low bungalows were crowded together irregularly, and the garbage was piled between the houses, everywhere, emitting a sour smell. smell.

The Zhuosheng family's house is on the outskirts of the civilian area.

After a year and a half, when Zero had finished and found nothing, it was unexpected that the house was still there, neither destroyed nor occupied by others.

Pushing open the unlocked door, one sees an empty wall—everything in the house has been removed.

Relying on my memory, I came to the room where the vampire was killed. The ground that was once filled with blood was clean and flat, and even the cracks left by the machete on the ground were repaired.

Someone is trying to hide the fact that there was a fight here.

It is not difficult to guess who that person is, and the mastermind who wants to cover up the vampire's wounding incident is in that castle.

Raising his hand, he touched the pocket on his chest, which contained the pocket watch that that person gave him. Zero didn't know the intention of that person, and he didn't worry about whether there would be a positioning device in the pocket watch.He chose to keep it until he killed the man with his own hands.

Only then will he be truly free.

Zero stayed in the empty house for a week, and he spent seven days recalling every detail of his family's life here, and then forgot all the memories.

He doesn't intend to bring these memories to the battlefield, he wants to keep the warmth of the past here, and he is not eligible to have those memories again until he returns from victory.

Now, leave these memories in this house.

Zero walked out of the house and met an old man outside the door, an old man who had settled here all year round.

The old man's original house was forced to be demolished due to official demolition, and he has been living in this civilian area that is not yet under the jurisdiction of any locality.

The elderly living alone are keen to greet their new neighbors. Although most of them are just a greeting, it is enough to prove to themselves that he is not alone.

"Oh? Isn't this the kid from Zhui Sheng's family? Why did you move back?"

The old man is very enthusiastic about the boy he hasn't seen for a year. For an old man, a year is just a moment.

The word 'move back' told the teenager that the disappearance of their family was nothing more than a sudden move in the eyes of those around them.

Zero looked back at the empty house, "No, I just came back to pick up something that was left behind."

"Hasn't it all been emptied? What else can be left behind." The old man teased half-jokingly.

"Yes, it has already been vacated."

There is nothing left, except that he is still alive, there is nothing left.

What else to think about other than killing that vampire.

Zero strode forward, and the old man who stayed in place looked at the young man's back, which revealed a determination to move forward, but he clearly couldn't see the way forward.

The old man shook his head and walked back slowly.

At this moment, the boy who has gone away is thinking about the next stop.

Of course he knew where the vampire's stronghold was, but he wasn't so reckless that he dared to single-handedly attack the opponent's lair without making any preparations.

His immediate targets are those vampires who are running around unruly. These vampires usually act alone, and at most they are only in groups of three or two.

During the day, most of them found a place to multiply, and they came out to kill people at night-in their words, it was called foraging-it was really a group of wild beasts.

Like beasts, these guys will avoid crowded city streets and pick areas with little traffic.

There are many places where there are few people and easy to attack. Not every place is haunted by vampires. What Cone Shengling needs to do now is to find these places.

The first step is to collect intelligence: Where did the missing cases occur.

The first way to collect information is to ask someone directly——Zui Shengling is not happy.

The second way of gathering information is to collect news and newspapers——the money brought out from Mr. Yazawa is basically used up as the travel expenses to go home.

Therefore, Zhuo Shengling chose the simplest form—to listen to gossip.

In other words, Cone Shengling is now mixing in the crowd as a standard homeless tramp listening to gossip.

However, this activity didn't last for a few days, and he couldn't hold on any longer, because there was really no news worth hearing.

Zero couldn't help but slander, this group of people are chatting about some messy and boring things every day.

It seems that this method is not feasible. It is really stupid to think of this way of collecting information!

Zero sat down against the wall, ready to take a break.

These days, he was stationed in squares, restaurants, bars, stations and other crowded places, but to no avail.

It has been more than a month since I left the clinic, and I spent most of the time sleeping on the street, and the black coat on my body was almost turning gray.The weather is cold, and he can't take a cold shower in the moat every day. In short, he looks like a complete little beggar now.

Although it is strange for a young man in his twenties to beg outside, but looking at his blank eyes, maybe there is something wrong with his mind; passers-by who thought this way expressed sympathy for the young man who was meditating in the corner gaze.Someone even gave generously, placing 100 or 500 yen coins gently in front of him.

Zero didn't know that the other party had arbitrarily defined him as a poor demented boy abandoned by his family.

Looking at the coins at his feet, Zero was annoyed, but finally succumbed to his hungry stomach - he decided to accept it.

Pick up the coins, get up, and prepare to buy some warm food.

When I reached the corner of the street where people could not see, a few homeless men quietly surrounded me.

There were three people in total, and they underestimated him too much.

After thinking about it for a while, Zero understood what was going on. He probably robbed the other party's business unintentionally.

Although his target is vampires, he doesn't mind practicing with these dregs of society at all.

Stuffing the coins into his pockets, he warmed his frozen hands by the way.

Zero took a step forward, slightly away from the wall behind him, and then looked motionless at the three people surrounding him in front of him.

"Brat, hand over the money!"

"Has no one taught you how to behave?"

"This is Suzuki-san's territory!"

Seeing the young man's dumb look, those few people took the initiative to shout and waved their fists to demonstrate.

"Humph."

The threatened young man snorted, bent his knees and rushed forward, and instantly came to the homeless man on the right corner, hit the opponent in the abdomen, and kicked his forehead while the opponent bent down; the guy flew away like a rubber ball Going out, it was hitting the companion in the middle position.

Zero rushed over, kicked the hit guy in the chest, and at the same time caught the attack from the far left, and then knocked him down to the ground.

Neat.

Zero turned around a few steps away and glanced at the three homeless men lying on the ground whining. His speed was indeed fast for ordinary people, and his attack was almost deadly, but it was still far behind vampires.

The battle with Yi Yi proved that in that battle, he was still unable to keep up with Yi Yi's speed.And if you want to kill a vampire, you must not only keep up with the opponent's speed, but also exceed their speed.

High-velocity weapons seem to be necessary, like guns or something.

Where to get a gun is a bit difficult to solve, so let's train your body's reaction speed for the time being.

As for the question of how to exercise, someone soon came to answer it for him.

About a week after the three vagrants were brought down, Zero was sleeping under the overpass - patrolling around looking for vampires every night, collecting information everywhere during the day without a clue, and the 'information' was too boring to give up collecting , began to rest—someone woke him up from his dream with pointed leather boots.

Zero opened his eyes in a daze, and before he saw who the guy who attacked him was, he got a sap - an unruly guy walked around behind him and gave him a slap.

Now Zero is completely awake.

He grabbed the stick that hit his back with his backhand and threw it upwards over his head. The sneak attacker was thrown out and smashed towards the person who kicked Xingling.

The man kicked out his foot suddenly, kicking the flying companion aside, and his vision finally widened.

Ling stood up with a stick in his hand, and roughly counted the number of people who came to besiege this time. There were about [-] people-this is a recognition of his ability.

"Hey." He gritted his teeth and let out a chuckle, then accept the challenge.

Seeing Ling put on a fighting posture, the other party was also very sensible and didn't say much more. The leader waved his hand and shouted "Go", and the crowd around waved their weapons - there were sticks, knives, and others. Decent bricks - swarm.

A scuffle is inevitable, but fortunately, it is far from the urban area, and no one passes by on the overpass in the evening.Or people who originally wanted to pass by saw the situation under the bridge and ran away in a hurry.

The chaotic fight lasted for more than half an hour. Although the opponent's combat strength was successfully halved, Zero's own situation was not very good; if the fight continued, he was not sure that he would win.

Supporting his body with a stick, Zero stepped back a few steps, trying to distance himself from the crowd.

When there is no chance of winning, running away is not a shameful choice, fighting recklessly is reckless.

At this time, the leader of the opponent suddenly raised his hand to stop the companion who was about to step forward to intercept him.

Zero didn't know what the other party's plan was, so he didn't move for a while.

Pointed leather boots—that is, the leader, took out a cigarette case from his jacket pocket, opened it, took a breath while staring at the cigarette that had been twisted during the fight, and threw the cigarette case by the side of the road.

Then, the pointed leather boots took two steps closer to Zero, and Zero clenched the stick in his hand, without moving his feet.

The other party stared at Zero with interest for a while, raised his hand and made a shoulder movement, but was blocked by the stick.

The boys next to me stood obediently and did not move, and one or two of them shouted 'Brother Suzuki! '

The pointed-toed leather boots ignored the loyal little brothers, retracted his hand indifferently, and made a motion of pinching a cigarette—even though he didn't have anything in his hand.

"The vigilance is good, and the reaction is quick, but I really don't know how to read people's faces."

Zero didn't know the origin of this so-called 'Brother Suzuki', but he vaguely remembered hearing this name, and the three guys who blocked his way that he killed a week ago seemed to be trying to use this name to threaten him.

In fact, this so-called 'Brother Suzuki' is nothing special, it's just the leader of a gang of gangsters.

Zero let out a disdainful 'tss' in his heart, and kept his face calm.

"I don't need to live by looking at other people's faces."

"Hahahaha!" The pointed leather boots smiled and clapped their hands, "Very good, young people should have this kind of momentum. We are short of talents in our group, if young people have nowhere to go, why not follow me? Well done, definitely not will treat you badly."

The big brother's words caused a commotion among the younger brothers below, especially those who were beaten badly just now. The murderer became a companion, so they were beaten in vain.

"Ai!"

The pointed-toed leather boots quickly suppressed the uneasiness of the younger brothers with an unintelligible voice, and then looked at Cone Shengling with a smile on his face.

"Join you, and you can-"

Zero waved the stick in his hand, "Is it killing?"

He didn't specify what to kill, and let the group of people imagine for themselves.

The surrounding minions seemed to be very dissatisfied with his speech. They were just a bunch of gangsters, but they pretended to be righteous at this time. They probably thought that Ling was talking about killing ordinary passers-by, because they themselves wanted to to do so.

The pointed-toed leather boots appreciated Zero's answer very much, laughed and decided to accept him as a general on the spot.

general?

A group of gangsters who dominate the public places of the city?

Of course Zero disdained to be with them, but he didn't refuse. His idea was that before finding the vampire, it would be nice if he could get rid of the gang.

Zero followed the pointed leather boots to their so-called 'headquarters' - that's what the other party told him, but Zero was not stupid enough to believe everything the other party said.

Looking at the dilapidated warehouse-like place in front of them, if this is their 'headquarters', then they are a group of real beggars.

The other party's move is obviously saying that we don't fully trust you, so Zero will let them make small moves, and he is not in a hurry for the other party's trust. What he needs now is rest; the fight just now, although it will not be broken, There are many skin injuries.

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