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Seeing Felix's appearance, Cyril couldn't help taking a breath.He stretched out his hand to pull the other person up, but before he could speak, Felix urged him to leave again.

"Don't forget that I saved you last time!" Cyril was so angry that he couldn't choose what to say, not knowing why Felix always wanted to push him away.

Felix gave him a deep look.

"Don't take any more risks for me."

"If you want to worry, it's better to turn me into the same kind." Cyril raised his chin and provoked recalcitrantly. At this time, he had completely forgotten Teacher Bray's teachings.

He considered this, was embraced by Felix, and became a vampire.Then he'll be as strong as Felix, and nothing can hurt him but sunlight and silver.He will have a nearly eternal lifespan like Felix, and when time becomes abundant, it will be full of infinite possibilities.

But he also noticed that after hearing his words, Felix's pupils shrank suddenly, so small that it was almost the size of a pinhole.And his face suddenly became terrifying, like heavy dark clouds gathered on the originally peaceful sea, and a violent storm that could overturn mountains and rivers was brewing.

"You and I can't be the same kind." He coldly broke the young man's fantasy, walked out of the prayer room with the corpse in his arms, and walked towards the mountain behind the manor.

There was once a human being named Ayton who became the lover of a vampire and was transformed into the same kind by the lover.

The unhealed heart was pierced by the beloved again, and Cyril secretly took a deep breath in pain. Seeing that the vampire left him to leave, he gritted his teeth unwillingly and raised his heels.

The two of them didn't speak any more.In the summer night, the trees in the mountains and forests are full of shadows, the night birds sit on the high branches and stare at them, and the summer insects crouch among the trunks and weeds and sing endlessly.Cyril saw lights flickering among the weeds, and he distractedly looked there, it turned out to be a group of fireflies.Under the siege of fireflies, the two snails have turned into viscous liquid, and finally became the belly of this group of lovely insects.

Felix buried Jin Ti in an open flat by the lake.It wasn't until he lifted the cloak that shrouded the corpse that Cyril saw Jinti's death clearly—the neck was broken, the head was completely separated from the body, and the dead blood coagulated on the incomplete section of the wound without splashing, There is no overflow either.

He suddenly remembered the summer when he was 13 years old.The teenager witnesses the monster kill a horse.

He couldn't help but shudder.

But he still stepped forward, picked up Jin Ti's head and put it into the dug earth pit.

Ginty is Felix's friend.He dared not ask what vampires were thinking when they killed their friends.

Before filling the soil, Felix threw his cloak into the grave, bent down and pulled up the four corners to flatten it so that it could cover his friend's rotting body.

No one has erected a monument to this cemetery.

In less than two months, the place will be covered with lush weeds.

In two years, no one will know that there is a body that has been dead for many years buried here.

Before leaving, Felix read a prayer for the first time.Cyril guessed that Jin Ti might be a believer, and there is no priest willing to preside over the funeral of the heretic, but he still longed for God's blessing, so the monster replaced the priest and sent the last prayer for the old friend.

"The missing... have all the people been found?" Cyril's question broke the silence between the two when they descended the mountain.

"I don't know when they woke up one by one. Except for Jin Ti, four people were missing in front of me. I met the oldest Fei Le when I came here, and he has completely lost consciousness. The other three people are still unknown. trace."

Felix didn't mention how Fila ended up.Cyril guessed.

"It's inconvenient for you to travel during the day, so leave the investigation to me. At the very least, we must find out why they woke up."

Felix gave a faint "hmm".

"Next time something happens, don't act alone."

Felix said nothing.

Cyril grabbed him.

"I'd be worried if you disappeared."

Young people are always brave, knowing that they may be stabbed again, but still stare fearlessly.

"If you are injured, I will still go to rescue you without hesitation like last time."

"Don't take me too seriously." Felix finally responded, but he turned his face away from Cyril. He gently brushed the young man's hand away and continued walking down the mountain.

"No, Felix! You are very important!" Cyril chased and stopped in front of the vampire, grabbed his hem and pulled it towards him. The two were so close that they were almost nose to nose, he said with angry eyes , "Why do you always want to get rid of me? I didn't get in your way, I don't ask you to do anything for me, am I your burden?"

This time, Felix did not avoid it.He raised his eyes to meet Cyril's gaze.The human breath was too hot, he inhaled it into his nostrils, the inside seemed to be cut open and baked in the sun, the pain made him shiver unbearably.

"You make me uncomfortable," he sighed. "Don't make me so important, don't think of me as something you can't ask for. You will grow old soon, Cyril, and die soon. But I will Keep it the way it is now. You are my alien, no matter how beautiful, clingy and understanding a cat is, you are indifferent to it, aren't you?"

The vampire's words were so cruel that at this time Cyril finally remembered what the teacher had taught.

They look at humans like humans look at a dog or a cat on the side of the road. They may feel compassion, but most of the time it is only a moment of tenderness.

Human beings should not dream that they can become their own species, and that the gentle part of them can always be harmless to others, let alone that they can develop any unusual feelings with humans.

How right.

Almost a prophecy.

"So all you ever did was tease a cat?"

Cyril didn't want to believe it.

He still remembered Felix holding him behind him a few hours ago, as if afraid that Ginty would hurt him.

But after thinking about it, isn't this also a clause in the contract?A servant must not harm his master, but must also protect him well.

The sharp stabbing pain penetrated into the chest like tinnitus, and Cyril gritted his teeth so hard that his gums bled, and his mouth was full of bloody smell.He stared at Felix fiercely, as if he could force out the real answer from the bottom of his heart.But Felix still had that lukewarm expression, his originally constricted pupils had slowly dilated, and his eyes were like two deep wells, dry and silent.

"You would rather bear the pain of being backlashed by the contract to lie to me and let me leave. Is this also teasing the cat?"

"Did you misunderstand what I did?" Felix put on a regretful look, "That's nothing to me. Cyril, I was raised by humans, and my adoptive parents have Several children, they all died in the war in the end. You were too young when you came, too much like my younger brother. You were never Ayton's stand-in, but the younger brothers. I just want to treat you well Have a better conscience."

It was true at the beginning, and I couldn't let go of such a small child.Later, I picked up the boy in the snow and heard him say that I would give him my own blood, thinking that Aaron was resurrected.However, when it came time for Heken to cooperate with him in acting, he had fully recognized the reality that Cyril was not Aaron.He knew that no one could replace his family members in the past, and he knew that Cyril didn't have to rely on someone's substitute to occupy a place in his heart.

So he pretended to leave, and finally returned to the manor to take the book presented by Cyril.

To him, they are important.

But he didn't want to get close to Cyril any more.

So he mixed the truth with the lie, hoping to deceive Cyril with the half-truth and the half-truth, hoping that the young man believed that he was not important in his heart.

Contracts are just excuses.

It's the hearts and minds that want them to stay connected.

As the boy said back then, vampires know everything.

After living for so many years, what kind of people's hearts can't be seen through?

He sighed slightly regretfully, forcefully brushed away the human hand, and left the young man who was still shocked and saddened by his words behind him.

People are always easily hurt.Lifespan is obviously so short, but this life still has to experience so many joys and sorrows, as well as indulge in ecstasy and severe pain.Perhaps this is why humans are so crazy, they have accumulated too much energy in a limited time.

The two walked to the foot of the mountain one after the other, and Cyril behind caught up and told the vampire to take him back to the hotel.The vampire looked up at the gradually sinking moon. As dawn was approaching, he silently picked up the human being and let him hug his neck tightly.

At dawn the next day, Cyril was busy moving. He first sent the two people's things to the newly rented house. The landlady offered to help him tidy up, but he politely declined.After the work was done, the landlady had already made tea, so he was too embarrassed to refuse, so he stayed and drank tea with the woman for a while.On the way back to the hotel he remembered that Felix's cloak had been buried with Ginty, and he made a detour to the market.

When he went upstairs with the cloak in his hand, he was still secretly complaining that he was meddlesome. Felix’s words last night were so hurtful, and he revealed the camouflage of warmth. In the end, he was still just a stand-in for an afterimage, and Felix treated him well. At the same time, a heart is tied to a soul that has long since died.

He is clearly nothing.

But still complacent for so many years.

But he still wants to be another afterimage's stand-in.

it is ridiculous.

Cyril entrusted the hotel owner to hand over the cloak to Felix, borrowed a pen and paper from him, wrote down the address of the newly rented house, and asked the owner to hand it over to him.

Felix will definitely continue to go out tonight to find clues about the living dead. Since he is not allowed to follow, he doesn't have to be so cheeky.

Cyril left the hotel and walked alone to the fraternity branch.