A common tavern that connects all fantasy worlds

In the fading sun, black carriages were driven across bridges by shaggy men.

On the seat in the carriage, the silent Charlotte was still sitting next to the coffin, looking out through the window.

A majestic viaduct is built over a majestic rift valley, with a raging river directly below and mountains on either side rising like razor blades.On the other side of the mountain range directly behind the carriage, a faint line of smoke rises from the road and is rapidly approaching here.

Before she could see what it was, there was a loud "boom" from right in front of the carriage, the bridge deck trembled violently, and the four draft horses were suddenly reined in, yelling rhythmically, He took a few steps back anxiously, if he hadn't been pulled back by the hairy barbarian, he might have been frightened and fled in all directions.

Charlotte in the carriage also let out a short scream and almost fell to the ground.

"Hand over the man..."

Pokov stood in the middle of the bridge with a cigarette in his mouth.In front of him, a special bomb blew up a big hole in the middle of the bridge. Concrete blocks were scattered around, and the solid steel structure under the bridge deck could already be seen.

The power of this bomb is not so great that it is not enough to blow up the entire strong bridge, but Pokov's bomb is more than this one.

He raised the wireless detonator in his hand and said arrogantly: "Don't move, there are already several bombs installed under the bridge. If you don't want to be buried under the valley with this bridge, then don't do anything that will make you suffer." My misunderstanding. Kyle!"

"I know, big brother."

The red-haired Kyle climbed up from the bridge behind, smiled and walked towards the carriage.

At this moment, the last remaining barbarian guard on the carriage suddenly stood up from the seat.

"Oh? Did I tell you not to move?" Pokov's face darkened, and he compared the detonator in his hand.

However, the hairy guard was unmoved, just staring at this side.

Pokov clicked his tongue, he hated this situation the most.This kind of stupefied young man can do anything. If he rushes over in a flash of his brain, will he really want to blow up the bridge?

Of course the bomb was real, but the task he received from Lord Elbon was to "bring my daughter back", and there was no money for blowing people and cars down below. 1000 million, enough for him to upgrade the chariot as a whole, but of course he won't get a point if he doesn't save the girl!

Sure enough, the guard gritted his teeth tightly and rushed towards him without saying a word.

Pokov didn't answer, and quickly drew the arrows from the quiver behind him. At this moment, he opened the crossbow on his arm and used all his strength to speed up and shoot several arrows. .

The barbarian guard had already rushed forward, but he couldn't resist the power of the crossbow after all. He wailed in pain, staggered and struggled a few times, and finally fell off the side of the bridge.

"Hmph. Kyle!"

Pokov put away the crossbow arrows in his hand, and with a pale face, he shouted at his brother behind the carriage.

"It's coming, it's coming!"

Just as the red-haired Kyle took out his weapon to help, he couldn't help curling his lips when he saw that the elder brother had already dealt with the last guard.

This is much easier to handle than the guy who played with shadows before.

Only the nobleman and the woman he kidnapped were left in the car.

The sunset has not yet set, and our own advantage is now infinite. It can be said that we have achieved complete victory.

At this time, Kyle didn't mean to make a dramatic appearance. He didn't want to waste any more time, so he opened the car door, grabbed the arm of the girl inside, and said, "Hey, come out, we will take you go back!"

"I don't want to go back...no, don't!"

Charlotte screamed, but was pulled out by Kyle's arm.She, a young lady, was completely inferior to the hunter in terms of strength, and was dragged out of a short distance, no matter how much she struggled and cried, it was useless.

But at this moment, Pokov, who was standing opposite, changed his face, and shouted at Kyle: "Hey, come back quickly, Kyle!"

"What's wrong?" Kyle looked back as he said so, only to see a hand with sharp nails stretched out from the carriage.

"What, what!" Kyle could only make an unbelievable voice, because he saw a nobleman walk into the sunset with his own eyes.

Meyer Link stepped out of the car, every inch of his bare gray skin burned under the sunlight, billowing white smoke.

But this guy is still walking towards this side step by step, slowly but resolutely, his eyes are full of blood, and his fangs protrude from his lips, until his body and face are even ignited, he doesn't take a step back.

"Fuck, is this guy crazy!" Kyle, the red-haired young man who was pulling Charlotte, was almost startled. When had he seen such a ruthless guy?The fire on this nobleman can be seen even several kilometers away!

Just on the cliff two kilometers away, Leila, who was riding a motorcycle, stopped and took out her binoculars to look over here.

She had just heard the explosion, so she decided to check out the situation on the bridge first... It wasn't the first time the Marcos Brothers had used this tactic, so she knew almost immediately what they were up to.

But what happened next was a bit horrifying. A nobleman, a vampire who was rejected by the sun, actually walked into the sun by himself... What kind of pain was that, as a human being, she couldn't imagine it.

"Why do you have to do this. Why do you have to work so hard for that innocent human girl!"

Faced with this situation, no one can not feel a strong shock, Leila certainly is the same.

Especially, she just discussed her life with D... At this moment, she couldn't help feeling a little jealous towards that girl.

Ahh... so this is the feeling of being loved desperately.

She could somewhat understand why D was merciless. At this time, even her heart had a thought that was not suitable for the identity of a hunter: let this pair of people who love each other leave, they can go wherever they like, how they want to spend For the rest of my life... just let them go!

The hunters on the bridge obviously didn't think so. With a wave of Pokov's hand, several silver crossbow arrows shot towards the opposite side, penetrating Mayer Link's body that had become weak due to the sun.

"Damn it, damn it!" Pokov gritted his teeth and beckoned Kyle to bring the girl over quickly.

Get rid of that nobleman?It is better to bury the carriage directly here, and let it fall into the abyss together with the passengers on it.

When the girl left the scope of the explosion, he didn't care what the nobleman was going to do, he just blew up the bridge

But before he could move, a black shadow suddenly jumped out from the other side of the bridge.

The figure hurled itself at Kyle, knocking Charlotte aside; before the red-haired man could say anything, it bit the other man's throat.

Pokov watched helplessly as his brother was bitten off the neck, and blood spurted out like a fountain, with a horrified expression on his face, he could only growl angrily: "No——"

Lying on top of him was a werewolf with gray hair and a strong body. From the image, it clearly looked like the barbarian guard who had been shot by him several times and fell under the bridge just now.

This is his true strength, just one face-to-face, sent another brother of Pokov into the embrace of death.

Now that the matter was over, he was so angry that he didn't care whether the girl was alive or dead, he directly pressed the button to detonate, and he also jumped to the side, fleeing towards the valley below.

But... the bomb under the bridge was torn off by the werewolf who took the opportunity to jump off just now, and threw it under the bridge pier.Pokov, who thought he had chosen the only way to escape, opened his eyes wide in surprise, but he could only be swallowed by the shock wave when the bomb he planted exploded.

Anxious, Charlotte had already run over to hug Meyer, who was powerlessly kneeling on the ground, endured the burning of his skin from the flames rising from his body, reached out and pulled out the arrow on his body, and pointed it at his throat .

"I will not leave you alone...never!"

At this moment, Meyer raised his hand and held Charlotte's wrist: "The sun is setting."

On the hillside, Leila set up the storm pulse rifle on her motorcycle and aimed at the nobleman next to the carriage who was still smoking, but she didn't pull the trigger until the afterglow of the setting sun disappeared completely.

The legendary city of Seyit is within sight.

Chapter 28 The Dead City

Regarding the city of Seyit, many people in this era have only heard one or two fragments of legends.

The real history of this city can only be known in detail by people at the level of old monsters, such as D's left hand.

While galloping towards the castle on a two-horned horse, the left hand still took this opportunity to say to him: "D, you may not know Seyit well... that was one of the core areas ruled by the aristocrats before. , where the ruler is a countess who once possessed power comparable to that of the vampire king.

"That was the real golden age. The nobles were no longer satisfied with the ground under their feet. They built a city of eternal night in the depths of the starry sky. There were space stations with intricate patterns floating in low-Earth orbit and portholes with high light filtering properties. ;Nobles don't even need to touch their prey, the "blood animals" that have been "genetically blended" can completely provide enough blood for nobles to consume or even waste. But after all, that era has passed.

"The first thing to collapse is the nobles' own will... They have nothing else to ask for in this world, but they can never end their own lives... Every day that passes, it will add more pain.

"The blood supplied by the 'Blood Beast' can't play the same role as ordinary humans at all...the vitality contained in it is getting less and less, and finally the nobles have to admit that the things they ignored at the beginning are blood The most important ingredient in human beings. Only those who are intelligent and know how to resist have the value of being predated.

"Maybe those old guys like the current world more? Because at least there is a little bit of fun...

"But Camilla is not like those old guys. She was reclusive from the beginning, and few people have seen her real face. There are even rumors that her existence itself is almost as old as the origin of the word 'vampire'. She The city of Seyit was once inhabited by nobles a long time ago, but as the war of resistance unfolded and the population of nobles decreased, it became empty.

"All we know now is... Whether it's humans or nobles, everyone is hiding from that city."

As soon as the story of the left hand was finished, D suddenly slowed down slightly.

Beyond the layers of rocks, at the end of the ridge, the outline of the city appeared in the darkness.The spiers of the buildings cast shadows, and there was no light in the entire city... The dark shadows pressed towards this side like fallen mountains.

"What kind of person is Camilla?"

he asks.

The left hand replied: "How would I know that kind of thing? Besides, she can't be considered a human... She is an old woman who is contemporary with the king of vampires. So, let me tell you an unproven legend Well... Some people say that in order to maintain her youth and beauty, she has been bathing in the blood of a pure girl, and she has to drink at least half a liter of blood before bathing; her beautiful appearance has become more and more breathtaking because of this , even just appearing in social occasions can fascinate all the male nobles and humans present.

"And so, before the time of the nobles was over, the King of Vampires himself descended upon the city, and nailed Camilla with his sword in her golden bath.

"Of course, I haven't seen this kind of thing with my own eyes. It's up to you whether you want to believe it or not..."

After saying this, the left hand suddenly closed his mouth.

D reined in his horse, raised his head and looked at the platform protruding from the cliff.

The hairy barbarian was standing there watching him.

"...It's you, Hunter D. From this point of view, everyone else is dead." The man said.

This is already quite northward, and the wind at night is somewhat icy, but it's not as cold as the man's words.

D stretched out his hand and slowly pulled out the knife, allowing the blade to reflect the moonlight and sprinkle a piece of white snow on the ground.

"You... want to avenge them?"

"No, no, no... I don't have that ability." The man just shook his head, long gray-black hair gradually grew on his chest, his entire face began to protrude, and his voice became deeper and deeper: "But I must Stop you here, even if it only buys Master Meyer Link a minute..."

In front of this terrifying hunter, he had completely lost his confidence.But whether you have confidence is one thing, whether you want to do it is another thing, and whether you should do it is of course another matter!

Under the moonlight, his human skin was torn apart, and was torn apart inch by inch by the beast hidden inside his body, revealing his strong, bloodthirsty, sharp claws and teeth.

D jumped off the horse, and raised the knife towards that side without any emotion.

In the cold and humid air of the night, Xuehan's knife flashed and disappeared; almost instantly, he appeared a few meters away again, swung the knife, and retracted the bright and clean blade bit by bit in the back sheath.

Behind D, the savage grabbed his throat and chest in shock, trying to squeeze back what had flowed out, but it was impossible...Blood gushed out from the wound on his chest, and spilled water on the ground. big beach.

As he wished, he died outside the gate of Seyit because of the carriage.

D stood up, walked back to appease the horse that was scared back by the sight, and was about to cross the bloody scene and continue to the castle, but suddenly saw lights flashing on the road in the other direction.

With his superhuman eyesight, even from such a distance, he could see clearly...it was a full metal armored tank.

In the chariot of the Markos Brothers, Pokov, who was covered in injuries, sat in the driver's seat himself.The wound on his face was still dripping blood through the gauze, but he didn't care about it at all, he just stepped on the accelerator hard with a sullen face.

"Brother..." Gropp in the car cabin behind him propped up his arms and body on the hospital bed, and said to him with staring eyes: "Don't chase any more... There are only two of us brothers left. Leila doesn't even know where she went, and this mission can no longer be completed."

Pokov didn't completely lose his mind, he had seen too many life and death, and he fully understood that what he needed most at this time was not the bloody anger, but complete calmness.

He forced himself to think about Gropp's words before answering:

"In that case, the meaning of our existence will be lost... Grop, do you want to be tortured by illness in the ruins, under the bridge hole, or even in the wilderness, and finally disappear without a name? Unlike the nobles, we will all die .Instead of being squeezed out by this world and losing our place, we might as well die in the hunt and as hunters!"

Gropp closed his eyes in pain, he knew he couldn't persuade his eldest brother.I have never been able to persuade...

Forget it, if he decides to gamble everything here, then he can accompany him.

The chariot rumbled across the road, along the direction of the other two ruts, and entered the envelope of Seyit City.

On the other side of this dead city, Leila, whom the Brotherhood thought she had disappeared, stopped her car near the river gate.

She didn't respond to calls on the radio anymore, not because anything happened to her, but simply because she didn't want to go back to the team.

It can't be said that she is cold-blooded... She still has a little nostalgia for the time they spent together all these years ago.But when she saw Mayer Link burning her body and soul in the setting sun, she suddenly didn't want to continue this job as a hunter.

She realized that even if she had to find a direct cause for her mother's tragedy...it could only be blamed on that particular nobleman.

The deeper reason is fate, or rather, the world that allows this fate to befall man.The life, will and desire of a single individual can be ignored here.

The only way to prevent such a tragedy from happening again is to change the world.

But Leila still came to the city.If there is one thing she has to accomplish in the rest of her life, it is to use her own eyes to personally witness the end of the interracial lovers... Where will their "love" go?Does the world allow such a luxury?

She parked the car outside the city, unloaded her various weapons from the car, and mounted them one by one on the weapon positions of the battle suit.

[101. No. 101]

Putting the Storm Pulse Rifle behind her back, she raised her head, took a deep breath, drew out her claws, and fired towards the city wall above.

Yes, Seyit is walled... and all the buildings are within the walls, not like a modern city at all.It seems that there has never been a so-called "population" here. After all, the nobles lived in it and built it according to their own needs. Back then, there were only a few hundred residents in such a large city.

There are many spiers of buildings in the city, and rows of flying buttresses are arranged around the buildings like human ribs.Remnants of automated facilities can still be seen everywhere, and the technological level spans several eras. There are tram tracks and holographic projection devices that are no longer playing; there are buildings built of huge stones and large expanses of light-filtering glass curtain walls.

On the front of the castle in the middle, the metal door with a height of several tens of meters is equipped with automatic traction devices on both sides, otherwise it cannot be opened at all with this weight.

Apart from that door, there are only a few slender windows around the castle, and it is completely impossible to see the situation inside.The carriage stopped at the door, and it seemed that Meyer and Charlotte had already entered.

Of course Leila couldn't have entered through the main entrance...she was an unexpected visitor.

But when she found an unobtrusive window, used a torch to remove the iron gates, and entered the castle, she found that this route was not much better...

I don't know where I entered, but there was a pungent rancid smell in the dark room, and there were human bones around the place where I stayed and around the room.

There are even the remains of those heavily armed warriors, from armored knights using cold weapons to human soldiers in the technological age wearing combat uniforms and holding gunpowder projectile weapons in their hands, all that remains are only bones.

Every time you take a step, you have to step on someone's skeleton; you can land directly under the window, and the mountain of bones here is at least one meter thick.