Castle Banquet

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At noon, the traffic in the city was not congested, but the cemetery was built in a remote suburb, and it still took a considerable amount of time to reach the destination.

The taxi pulled over more than ten meters away from the cemetery, and the two got out of the car and walked, Shu walked in front, Ling deliberately fell behind two steps, looking at the buildings in the cemetery.

The cemetery is beautifully built. It looks like a park from a distance, with a half-person-high carved wall, and a wide variety of plants can be seen over the top of the wall.

It's just that the trees in February haven't sprouted yet, and the bare branches reveal a desolate atmosphere, which is commensurate with the cemetery.

Shu led Ling into the cemetery, crossed rows of vegetation, stone monuments, and finally stopped.

The names of the parents are chiseled on the blue-gray stone tablet, and there is a strand of stone tablet separated by a place.

Zero only glanced at the stele, then turned to face the vampire beside him, and asked silently.

Shu seemed to have never noticed the other party, and looked intently into the distance. After a while, he turned around and walked back, leaving only one sentence, "I'll wait for you outside."

For Shu, death is a distant and long-awaited word, and the time is too long for him.

For thousands of years, he was tired of watching people repeat life and death, repeat killing and mistakes, repeat construction and destruction.

What a boring life, they - people and vampires, perhaps not as good as the grass and trees in this cemetery.

The grass and trees repeat life and death just like them, but the grass and trees don't have so much evil and desire, greed and sin.

Simple repetition, independent of the world.

If you want to ask, if this is the case, why do you still maintain a stubborn life for so long in this world?

Shu couldn't answer either, probably because he wasn't dead yet; he wasn't dead, so he was alive.

There is only this line of difference between life and death.

But at this moment, the young man standing in front of the stele of life and death, staring at the familiar inscriptions, felt so ethereal.

Just under this land, his parents and brothers are sleeping?This piece of soil, which they have never stepped on before, is their eternal resting place after death?

No, after death, can they still be regarded as a kind of existence?It is no longer possible.What is buried in the earth is nothing but burned bones.As early as a year and a half ago, his family members disappeared from this world. If there are any traces of existence, standing here is the only proof of their existence.

The silent stele never heard their voices, couldn't reflect their faces, and couldn't record their deeds, all of which could only be left in the memory of Zhui Shengling, only him alone.

Zero just stood there for a while, then left towards the back of the cemetery.

He didn't need such a stele to commemorate his dead relatives, he finally understood-everything about the past was over long ago.

The wind is cold.

Outside the main entrance of the cemetery, Jiu Lanshu looked at the desolate land in front of him and smiled.He felt that this is what the earth should look like, or in other words, this is the world he is used to seeing—barrenness is the real life.

Because people always use whether there is no human habitation to define whether it is barren or not, but they don't know that that is the most authentic appearance of life.

But human beings have to live, and can only survive in places that have been transformed and are crowded with people.

Humans are against nature, but they cannot do without it; vampires also cannot do without human beings, so they need to cooperate with human beings.

The electronic sound of jingle bells broke the peaceful reverie, and Jiu Lanshu took out his mobile phone—this is also a tool that a human being needs in today’s life—and the caller was Mr. Mayor of this city.

"Hello, Mr. Laws."

"Oh, hello, Mr. Jiulan, I am very sorry for the inconvenience caused to your work schedule due to the wrong meeting schedule, but fortunately everything has passed."

"You don't have to worry about it, sir. It's just a few days of waiting. I believe that the content of the next cooperation is worth the waiting."

"Yes, that's true, and I'm very glad you think so. Then, let's meet and talk again. I believe this will be a major meeting that will benefit all mankind."

"Looking forward to meeting you again."

After finishing this meaningless phone call, Jiu Lanshu turned around and walked into the cemetery, but there was only a lonely stone tablet waiting for him, and the boy had disappeared.

Cone Shengling left through the side door of the cemetery.

Facing the cold stone tablet, the beautiful vampire chuckled silently. The disobedient kid needs to be punished. Let him use his own experience to figure out the status quo. The current Cone Shengling cannot do without the blood of the vampire, and he I have no idea.

Not in a hurry to recover the boy who 'run away from home', Jiu Lanshu returned to the hotel alone, sorting out the documents needed for the second day's meeting——

At this time, the boy who left home was heading for another small town.

After a day and night of trekking, the boy finally arrived at his destination, and at the same time was completely defeated by the terrible hunger, and fell down on the bench in the park.

It's just that he hasn't eaten for a day, but Zero feels unprecedented hunger, and even loses consciousness in his hands and feet, and his whole body is out of the control of the brain, as if he will faint in a second.

The eyes are obviously wide open, but the field of vision is getting narrower and narrower. It is dim and unclear. Is it dark?How did it get dark so fast today?

At 06:30 in the afternoon, Gu Lisha, who came back from get off work, took a shortcut and walked through the park to go home as usual. In the small park that was always empty, today there was a handsome silver-haired boy. He seemed to be unwell, sitting on a bench. Struggled for a while and couldn't stand up.

Out of enthusiasm and love for beauty, Gu Lisha extended a helping hand to the boy. When Gu Lisha first touched the boy, the boy resisted strongly, but soon lost his strength and fell into a coma.

The park was less than 5 minutes away from Gu Lisha's residence. Gu Lisha simply carried the boy back to her home, called a doctor she knew nearby, and went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

The elderly doctor came to check the boy with his medical kit on his back. After confirming that he was just fainted from hunger, he gave him two bottles of glucose. After giving Gu Lisha a few words, he left quickly.

Gu Lisha stared at the infusion tube, and then looked at the boy's neat and beautiful clothes. 'Dizzy from hunger' was really a puzzling cause.But this is not a question that Gu Lisha needs to think about. When the guest wakes up, he will naturally know what's going on.

Gu Lisha brought the hot meal to the table, waiting for the strange boy to wake up.

Perhaps because of the transformation that had just been completed, Cone Shengling's blood successfully received the two bottles of glucose for human use, and his body gradually woke up from the feeling of powerlessness.

Opening his eyes, he saw the snow-white ceiling again. For a moment, Zero even thought that he had never left the hotel room where the vampire was.

Turning your head - the walls are scattered with exquisite flower and color stickers, the light gray writing desk is full of books, and there are a few pens standing crookedly in the small squirrel-shaped pen holder.

It was finally certain that this was not the room where the vampire was.

Zero breathed a sigh of relief, propped up his body and tried to leave the bed, only to find that the needle was still stuck in his wrist.

As soon as Gu Lisha pushed the door open, she saw the boy pull out the needle neatly and throw it aside.

Gu Lisha looked up at the infusion bottle reflexively, and immediately called out disapprovingly, "Friend, boy, there is still half a bottle left, where are you going in a hurry?"

However, apart from expressing dissatisfaction, she couldn't stick the needle back, so she could only walk back and forth angrily.

Seeing strange girls coming and going in front of him, he finally gave up and began to pack up the infusion items beside him. Then he remembered that he fainted in the park, and it was the person in front of him who forcibly moved him away. There.

"Thank you, I've recovered."

Zero's voice was not loud, but it was enough to calm Gu Lisha's anger.

Gu Lisha neatly packed the medicine bottle, infusion tube, and medical tape into a plastic bag, and then turned to look at the disobedient patient picked up by herself.

Although she had many questions, Gu Lisha felt that she should be gentle and kind when faced with a patient who had just passed out from hunger. "Let's eat first. Let's chat while eating."

Zero didn't refuse, he really hadn't eaten all day.

On the glass square table were two sets of bowls and chopsticks, three plates of stir-fried side dishes, and a small pot of rice porridge mixed with red dates.

As soon as Ling walked into the table, Gu Lisha pushed the small pot in front of him, "The doctor said that you are dizzy from hunger, and you haven't eaten for a long time. Have some porridge first. This is specially made for you, I myself I never drink porridge, if you don’t drink it, then you have to waste it.”

Zero didn't think that his loss of consciousness was caused by being hungry for too long, but he couldn't figure out where the problem came from, let alone explain it, so he could only obediently took over the full pot.

It is said to be a pot, but it is not much larger than an ordinary bowl, with thick sand and porcelain walls, rough and warm.

I took a sip of it, but it tasted like wormwood.

Looking up at the ancient Lisa's questioning eyes, Ling frowned and swallowed the rice grains in his mouth.

"Unappetizing."

It is better to say that it is very unpalatable and hard to swallow.

"Ah, maybe I really don't know how to cook porridge. Otherwise, you should eat vegetables. I can guarantee the taste!"

Gu Lisha didn't try the porridge herself, but sat down on a chair and ate it by herself, while taking the time to ask a few questions, such as why she fainted in the park, where she lived, how to call her, etc. gossip.

Putting the pot aside, Zero just chose the appropriate answer to Gu Lisha's question.

Gu Lisha could tell that the boy's answer was half-truth and half-false, so she turned on the TV and watched the news without further questioning.

The conversation was interrupted, Ling took the bowl and chopsticks, and took a bite of the food; it still had a strong herbal smell and was unbearably bitter.

At this point, Zero has understood that his body has been separated from his original cognition, he is no longer a human being, and even warm meals will only be difficult to swallow; but he is not reconciled, unwilling to become like this, and refuses to admit own new identity.

As if he didn't realize anything, Zero swallowed the food in the bowl one bite at a time, and expressed admiration for Gu Lisha's craftsmanship for the first time, even though he couldn't recognize the original taste of the food at all.

The author has something to say: I always feel that the painting style of the content summary seems to have changed suddenly (⊙o⊙)?