Castle Banquet

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After the other party calmed down, Jiu Lanshu took a step back and relaxed the confinement.

Ling Ban hung on the wall, coughing violently, "I, am you a carefully selected 'toy'?"

"Well, you can understand it that way." Jiu Lanshu licked his wrist, and the wound gradually healed under the amazing resilience.

"So, you don't allow me to escape, you don't even allow me to have my own thoughts, and you use your blood to control me?"

Jiu Lanshu completely cleaned up the blood stains on his hands, "Control? The vampires don't know magic, and you are thinking too much. If you mean the out-of-control state just now, it is a physiological effect. The disorder caused by incomplete blood fusion, rather than control."

"That's not what I'm talking about!" Zero regained some strength, pulled his hand out of the confinement, and a large wall collapsed.

"Your blood has a connection with you. Even if it is injected into my body, it will still be drawn by you. It controls my thoughts and actions, and makes everything revolve around you. This is your purpose! "

The person on the opposite side was stunned for a moment, then chuckled, "Cone Shengling, I don't know what caused you to have this illusion, but I have to declare that apart from the assimilation effect of the blood of the blood race, it is also compatible with the blood of human beings." There is no difference in blood; the blood race is originally a kind of human being, and you can understand it as a kind of person with a special digestive system and a long life span. For example, a human being is also a kind of animal, a kind of language and thinking. animal."

"So, you plan to go deep into the crowd, pretend to be human, and even plan to let more people approach the castle full of vampires?"

Zero suddenly changed the subject.

Shulan Jiulan was slightly surprised, "So, you have been paying attention to my actions? And, do you think this is the effect of my 'blood'?"

"I just accidentally saw a report about you on TV! A vampire actually intends to do business with humans? Cooperate? Buy human blood?" Zero said eagerly.

"Oh, whether it's intentional or not, it's your business, it has nothing to do with my blood or me. However, since you care about it, it's okay to tell you. That castle is not mine, but, my snatched it."

"Two years ago? You killed the owner there?"

"Huh? It turns out that Mr. Zhuisheng cares about me so much, it's really touching." The words were accompanied by a charming smile.

"Shut up!" Zero roared, and subconsciously punched the wall beside him.

Seeing that half of the wall collapsed with a roar, Jiu Lanshu tilted his head, the ends of his hair covering the corners of his lips, "Fortunately, this is not a hotel, is it?"

He was speechless, he didn't understand why his emotions were always at the mercy of the person in front of him, if the blood of the blood race couldn't control him, what could be the reason?

"I did kill the original owner of the castle," Jiu Lanshu stared into Zero's eyes, with a light tone, as if telling a fairy tale to a child, "It's just that he is also a vampire, and he is also a hunter who is keen on hunting. He, About 200 years older than Yiyi, he was opportunistic in the chaotic age when Yiyi was born, and gained some sweetness, so he actively disguised himself as a human being, moved among the crowd for more than [-] years, and built that castle. One of the most important activities among the crowd is "hunting". As a soldier, mercenary, killer, anyone can freely kill with his own hands. The castle was completed more than [-] years ago. After that, he stopped traveling far and started hunting at home. Clean up, as you can see, it's a no man's land."

"So, you killed him to represent justice?" Zero said sarcastically.

"No, I came here because I heard that a blood race raised humans. I think this is a feasible direction."

"What did you say!" Sure enough, he wanted to raise humans to livestock? !

"Your thinking is very active, which is a good thing, and I like it very much, but it's not good to over-understand." Jiu Lanshu raised his hand to signal him to calm down, "Nowadays, you are also a member of the blood family. As my direct descendant, you have Need to know something."

"I don't need it, I never want to be one of you!"

"Transformation is irreversible. What's more, if you must become the enemy of the blood race, why don't you take the opportunity to learn about the enemy's situation?"

Jiu Lanshu took a few steps back, found a cleaner corner, and sat down on the spot.

"In the era of cold weapons, blood races have an absolute advantage over humans. Even if the number is scarce, it is not a problem. However, the situation has reversed in recent decades. If blood races want to continue to survive, they must learn how to coexist with humans without being Extinction. Raising a small number of human beings is a way. The original city owner practiced it. I just came to see the results. The result is regrettable. His approach is just pushing the blood race into a more dangerous situation. Well, actually It’s not that breeding is not advisable, but that the way he obtains live bodies is not advisable; random hunting is too ostentatious, and it is too easy to be discovered and targeted. It would be much more effective to buy the part that they excluded from the crowd. I don't agree with his method of increasing blood races in large quantities; those who are selected for assimilation need to be carefully selected, otherwise there will be failure of assimilation, blood devourers without self-control ability, or unrestricted descendants of successful assimilation. Leaking the information of the vampires will bring disasters. Although most of the human legends about the vampires are false, the "vampires" in the mouths of humans are actually people who kill their own kind, and even those who are innocently killed; 'Defined as the worship of 'vampires', turning around and labeling those who want to be excluded as 'vampire servants' and slaughtering them, this is the process of forming the legend of 'vampires'. However, the real vampires may become 'murderers', For example, the original city owner, but this kind is always a very small minority, and most blood races are more likely to become 'excluded'."

"Ridiculous!" Ling walked quickly to Jiu Lanshu, looked down at Shu, and only gave a two-word evaluation, because for a while, he didn't know what else to say, how much did he know about the blood race?The beast that killed his family and this enigmatic and beautiful creature before him.Contradictory, difficult to classify as the same kind of existence.

"Is it absurd? It is indeed absurd to do such an act. However, what you call absurd is because you have never seen it. A person, a pair of eyes, and what you see is the whole world. This is not impossible. In fact, every Individuals do it, but, why not try to broaden your horizons, young people."

Zero tried his best to ignore the aloof and prophetic appearance of the other party, and reorganized his thinking. He should solve his own doubts here, what is the creature in front of him, and how true or false are his words and deeds?Mere hatred can't solve any problems, killing the other party requires equal strength and understanding.

"You said you don't agree with increasing the number of your kind. What are the people in that castle now? There are hundreds of people living there, half of them are your kind; and the other half are domestic animals. What you said has nothing to do with what you did It really doesn’t match. You also said that the selection of assimilated objects should be carefully selected, but it is completely persecuted to me, isn’t it?”

"You're right," Jiu Lanshu was still sitting, looking straight at the broken bricks, "because I like you very much, it's like the first time a child has a toy that he particularly wants. ', you have to get it no matter what."

"Ha, it's rare that you, who have lived for so many years, would compare yourself to a 'child'?"

Jiu Lanshu paused, supported the floor with his hands, leaned his upper body back, and raised his head slightly, "I'm not a child, so I didn't assimilate you from the beginning, I let you stay in the castle like Yuki and the others. Life, but your mind is always 'escape'; Later, I agreed to let you go, it was you, appeared in front of me again, and, on the verge of death, with my blood, you can Rescue you, but also complete assimilation, kill two birds with one stone, why not do it?"

Zero looked away, and Jiu Lanshu still looked up at the other party.

"As for the people in the castle, almost all of them are left over from the original owner."

"In this way, your responsibility can be pushed away completely?"

"Don't stare, this expression doesn't suit you at all." Jiu Lanshu pointed out the other party's anger jokingly, and then returned to the topic, "There are 211 people in the castle, well, after you and You Ji left, there are 209 people, 36 Among them, my son is Yiyi and Lantang, and the son of Yiyi is one person. Lantang just transformed two years ago and has no descendants. The remaining 173 people are human, all of them are under 49 years old, of which 50 The number of children, together with You Ji, was exactly 30 people. I think Yu Ji should have told you that until two years ago, she was locked in the house by herself. This is the raising strategy of the former City Lord. Completely imitate the way humans keep other animals in captivity. Before they mature, they can be raised in closed doors, and they can be released for mating and obtain offspring; but the city owner feels that it will not taste good if it is kept for too long, so he will not let any One person lived for more than [-] years."

"So, what happened after you came? What did you do?"

"Cone Shengling, don't be so aggressive when asking other people questions. Besides, you are my descendant now, I will tell you. Before I came here, there were 267 people in the castle, 73 people of the blood race, and 194 people of the human race. 24 people. After my negotiation with the former city lord broke down, 17 blood clansmen were killed, 19 people escaped, and [-] humans died in the chaos. A lady took the initiative to accept a piece of blood after being seriously injured and became the only Speaking of a female blood race, the former city lord was unwilling to assimilate human females, as if he felt that assimilated females would lose their ability to reproduce, which was very uneconomical."

"Then what about you? What happened to those blood races who escaped from the castle? You probably hunted down those guys who disagreed with you to the end."

"Well, you're right, all of them were cleared up within half a year. Because their 'opinion' is that the vampires have the right to prey freely without restraint."

Zero said nothing.

Jiu Lanshu stood up suddenly and wrapped his arms around Ling's shoulders, "I'm sorry, it was two of those 17 blood clans that killed your family."

The embrace is cold, and there is no sincerity in the words.

The apologetic person has no apology in his heart, but only comfort.

The person receiving the apology also knows very well that they don't need it, whether it is comfort or an apology.

But they didn't push each other away, a loose hug, the same blood flowing in the body, pulling silently, weird emotions.

Time ticks every minute, tick, tick, beating on the atrium.

After a long time, Jiu Lanshu's voice rang in Zero's ears, "I plan to cooperate with the rulers of the human race to acquire the people excluded by them as food, for example, death row prisoners. The exchange price I offer is Part of the land in that area, maybe the entire castle in the near future, or even the experimental subjects of the blood race; however, I will not agree to the latter. As for the reproduction of the blood race, if anyone is very eager to have offspring, they can adopt those abandoned by their parents There are many orphans, especially in some areas, there are a lot of healthy female babies who are abandoned or even killed, which is tens of millions of times more than the total number of blood races in history. Why not adopt and assimilate them? In addition, blood races can participate in the same way as humans Work, as long as they don't get caught."

Zero suddenly broke away from the other party's embrace, "No matter how nice you say, the blood of the living is still an indispensable food, and it is the same for me, right?"

Jiu Lanshu took two steps back following the opponent's push, "Actually, that's not the case. The blood of almost all animals is food. It's just that human beings with the same blood family are more delicious. As long as you want, never go Trying human blood is also possible, you don't have to worry about it."

Ling glanced at Jiu Lanshu's face, and clicked his tongue lightly.

"You don't believe it?" Jiu Lanshu easily guessed the other party's thoughts from Zero's small movements, "Most humans don't eat cats and dogs, because they are pets; if blood races form a similar relationship with humans, wouldn't it be the same Is it? Comparing human beings to pets, you may feel dissatisfied again. However, this is the truth. Whether it sounds good or not, the essence of a thing will not change. On the contrary, the audience has different expressions. All kinds of needs are really troublesome."

"Put down your high-spirited talk. That's right, for you, I'm just a pet. You raise it to play with. When you're in a good mood, you turn me into the same kind. If you're in a bad mood, you should abandon or simply kill me?"

Jiu Lanshu laughed abruptly as if he had heard a very funny joke, and stepped forward to try to rub the silver hair, "It's not a bad thing to have self-awareness; then, Mr. Pet, would you like to stay by my master's side?" ? Or do you need me to hold a rope so that you can squat obediently? Or, you are a wild cat yearning for freedom, and you would rather die than submit?"

Slightly terrified, he waved away Jiu Lanshu's hand, and quickly stepped back a few steps to open the distance, "Why are you crazy?"

"That's all for you. You have doubts about whether my blood will control you, don't you? Now, let me tell you clearly that it doesn't exist. If you insist on leaving, I can't stop it. Unfamiliar pets , if you are reluctant to kill it or tie it up, then the only option left is to return it to the forest."

Jiu Lanshu stared at his outstretched palm, as if talking to himself, he hesitated for a while, then took out something from his coat pocket, Ling immediately recognized that it was the pocket watch he had been carrying with him not long ago. When did it go back to its original owner.

Jiu Lanshu put the object on Zero's neck carefully, with very light movements, like a slow-motion replay, slowly went around the neck, fastened the buckle, and slid his fingers down the silver-white chain all the way, stopping at Zero's neck. Chest, "This is the rope on which the pet is tied, but the other end is no longer in my hands, so you can take it back to the field you think is free; if you still need blood, you can Come to me, just like a cat that comes home after going out to play and feels hungry, the owner will not mind."

Ling stood there dumbly, depending on the opponent's movements, whether he should push away or embrace, two thoughts appeared in his mind at the same time, entangled into a knot, and solidified everything.

"You are free, little wild cat." The kiss was like a feather, and it fell on the forehead. The brown hair and silver hair fell apart at the touch of a touch, and there was no time to feel it.

When I came back to my senses, there was no one in the dilapidated building.

The author has something to say: Is this probably the unfinished ending in the legend? (⊙v⊙)?The following episode is the main text...