By the time Merlin arrived in a few minutes at the edge of Hell's Kitchen.He saw that by the dim street lamp, the antique grocery store, which had disappeared for days, appeared again in the gap between two buildings on the side of the street.It's still the familiar, slightly worn signboard with two words written on it."
BloodStone" he stepped forward with familiarity, reaching out and pushing open the quaint door."
Ding Dong" At the sound of wind chimes, Merlin walked into the House of Blood, only to see Elsa lying behind the counter as before, as if she was napping, resting with her eyes half-closed.The girl came back from Romania?
Is she so fast?
Merlin turned his head to see that the stunned pure-blooded vampire Mercury was being tied to the store's high-backed chair in a trapped posture.And Victor, the Raven Spirit, was standing at the top of the chair, like a jailer guarding the prisoners.The ugly raven tilted its head and looked at its belated master."
Woohoo" it let out an unpleasant chirp, and then disappeared into thin air in a flicker of light."
I was going to kill this unlucky guy."
Elsa's slightly tired voice came from the counter.The vampire hunter girl, holding her chin with her left hand, said curiously, "But when I saw the raven that tried to stop me, I guessed that this vampire must have become the prey of another hunter."
But I didn't expect that the hunter to be you. ”Elsa's beautiful and flexible eyes looked Merlin up and down, as well as Merlin's weird but unusually beautiful retro outfit, she chuckled lightly and said, "It turns out that I underestimated you last time, you are very good at hunting such pure-bloods alone without injury...
Merlin. ”"I know."
Merlin shrugged his shoulders without modesty, he glanced at Elsa, and said, "I'll get down to business first, and we'll talk later." ”"Whatever you want."
Elsa waved her hand generously, and she said, "That vampire is your prey, but I warn you, if you want to be interrogated, take her out...
My Blood House is good for everything, but it's a hassle to clean, especially after the floor is covered with blood...
This house loves to be clean, and it doesn't like the feeling of getting bloody. ”"Don't worry."
Merlin stretched out his left hand and lightly touched Mercury's delicate chin, and he said, "I have a special method of interrogation, and I won't get bloody." ”The Dementor's kiss made contact with Mercury's slightly cold skin, and the next moment, as if Mercury had a terrible nightmare, she jerked out of her stupor, like a drowning man sticking his head out of the water.But the moment she opened her eyes, she saw Merlin's eyes that shone with an eerie light.
“Legilimens！
(Dementor Spell)" "Huh" In the next second, Merlin entered Miss Mercury's memories.It stands to reason that pure-blooded vampires should have strong willpower.But Mercury herself is just a "little cub" that has been born for less than 70 years, and she is also seriously injured, and she is constantly robbed of hope by the Dementors' kisses.The will she used to resist Merlin's dementorship was already weak.After Merlin slightly deepened the magic infusion, the resistance of Mercury's mind was completely disintegrated.Merlin easily entered her thoughts, and he began to browse and Deacon.
Memories of Forrester.Speaking of which, this female vampire's feelings for that radical vampire are really deep, and most of the memory fragments that Merlin found in Mercury's memories are related to Deacon.But valuable, to be honest, not much.Deacon's mysterious vampire family history is not long, he was just a young businessman in the suburbs of New York City 50 years ago, because of his handsome appearance was photographed by a pure-blooded vampire**, after a few spring breezes, he was given the power of a vampire.But the pure-blood lady soon got tired of the young man, and kicked Deacon out of the house, leaving him to fend for himself.And in order to survive the death, Deacon had to unite all the civilian vampires he had seen, that is, half-vampires, to form a small force and begin to struggle to survive in the era just after the end of the war.Because of its superb organizational thinking and management style, it was looked at differently by the pure-blooded Gataro, who was still the family heir at the time, a few years later.In order to deal with the High Family who migrated to New York from Poland, Gaitaro used Deacon as a shadow and provided it with enough resources to collect civilian vampires, help the Blood Elders deal with some shady black work, and secretly prevent the High Family's expansion in New York.Mercury also knew it at that time.In Mercury's memory, Deacon had been deferential to the Elders of the Blood Clan for more than 50 years, and while the half-vampire from humble beginnings was ambitious, it did a good job of beguising that.But in recent months, things have changed.A family of vampires who migrated from South America to New York brought with them a legend about the first vampire forerunners who migrated to North America, and the legend of the "God of Blood" fascinated Deacon.It is said that the Blood God is a secret related to the origin of vampires, and any vampire who obtains it can obtain a power comparable to that of a Blood Ancestor.And the Blood God has a very powerful trait, it can transform a half-vampire whose blood is not pure into a true pure-blood vampire.This is the greatest desire in Deacon's heart.Although Deacon currently commands most of the civilian vampires in New York, this kind of commander is more like a kind of "coercion" of interests, and Deacon uses the many underground blood supply stations he has established in New York to control the lifeblood of civilian vampires and force them to follow him.But Deacon himself is just a humble "commoner", and in a civilization as strict as the vampires, it has no capital to let other civilian resources follow!
They will never be able to earn the respect of other pure-blood families.So for the legendary "blood god", Deacon is bound to win.And the worst thing for Mercury is that it is a mysterious woman who commands the South American vampires and brings the legend of the "God of Blood" to Deacon.In Mercury's cognition, the mysterious woman seduced Dickon with obscene methods, constantly encouraged Deacon's ambitions, and provided Diacon with enough resources, and even used some kind of secret art to raise Deacon's originally weak strength to an exaggerated level.Unfortunately, Mercury had only seen that woman once or twice.In Mercury's memory, the woman...
No, she's too short, more like a girl.The girl always wore a black hood, hiding herself tightly, and looked mysterious.And the South American vampires under her command call her strangely.They don't call her head of the house, or the chief.Instead, he called her a "witch".It wasn't like respect or worship at all, but like a great fear of the mysterious girl.Merlin also wanted to dig into more secrets in Mercury's mind, but the next moment, his quest was interrupted."
Hey, stop."
Elsa's voice reached Merlin's ears: "She's dying!
”"Huh?"
Merlin frowned and withdrew his will, and in front of him, the vampire mercury, who had been tortured by several pressures, was already in a dying state at this time.Her vitality is as weak as a candle in the wind."
You shouldn't have interrupted me."
Merlin said with some regret: "This Miss Mercury has the blood of ordinary people on her hands, she is a villain, and it is not a pity to die." ”"That's right, she's a villain, she deserves to die."
Elsa nodded knowingly, she looked at Merlin and asked, "But are you?"
”"I remember your organization was a defense organization...
Shouldn't it be handed over to your legal trial?
”Merlin frowned again, and Elsa yawned, and she said with some boredom, "Of course, it's your business to kill her."
I mean, if you want to kill, take it out and kill...
I'm in a bad mood today, I don't want to see someone die in my shop, it's too unlucky. ”"That's right."
Merlin nodded: "You are the master here, you have the final say." ”After saying that, Merlin stopped paying attention to the dying mercury, he walked to the other side of the blood house, opened the window, and looked at the dock on the other side of the distant sea, and in Merlin's vision, he could clearly see that a flame had been lit on the dock."
Sharon is efficient."
Merlin sighed, and he looked at the watch on his wrist: "It's been less than 30 minutes since I sent the message, right?"
The battle on her side was over. ”"What are those people doing?"
Beside Merlin, Elsa, who was drinking from a quaint wooden cup made of copper bars, was also lying by the window, looking at the burning dock in the distance with Merlin.She blinked her eyes and asked curiously, "Those people are setting fires...
Do you know them?
”"They are my subordinates."
Merlin replied, "They're not doing anything bad, there's been a poison X mixed with vampire blood in New York lately, and that dock is where those poison X's originated."
Actually, I'm still out running around this time tonight because of this. ”Speaking of which, Merlin picked up his phone, sent a message to Sharon, and then looked at Elsa beside him with her eyes closed and the wind blowing.From this girl, he felt a sense of loss and sadness.After a few seconds, he asked softly, "This trip wasn't all that good, was it?"
”"yes."
Elsa took a sip of wine with her eyes closed, and she said in a gloomy tone, "I went to Romania to look for my father, but I didn't find anything.Even if it's a corpse...
But nothing.It was as if he had vanished into thin air.That felt terrible. ”"That's a good thing."
Merlin advised, "That means your father may still be alive." ”"That's even worse."
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Elsa took another sip of wine, she opened her eyes, and in those beautiful blue eyes, there was a sadness in the air, and she whispered, "If he is still alive, then why hasn't he come back to see me and my mother in these 8 years?"
It's as if we've been completely forgotten by him, as if we've been abandoned. ”"Hey!"
Seeing that Elsa was about to drink again, Merlin reached out and snatched the glass from Elsa's hand.He looked at Elsa with a serious gaze, and he said, "Don't be so malicious about your relatives, especially if he is your father...
I've learned a lot about my father in recent times..."
Merlin shook his head, and he said to Elsa, "Believe me, girl, a father will never abandon his children.Your father must have something unspeakable, maybe he's stuck somewhere, maybe he's not contacting you for your safety, maybe he's being involved in something worse...
I mean, optimistically, you've gone to that place in Romania and come back with a bang. ”"Is there any other place in the world that can stop you?""
Are you saying I should keep looking?"
Elsa glanced at Merlin, she snorted, snatched her quaint, delicate wine glass back from Merlin's hand, and said to Merlin: "Also, you obviously did things with blood on your hands, and you were in contact with a strange dark world, how did you keep yourself so optimistic?"
”"Of course you should be looking."
Merlin leaned against the barrel at the edge of the room, crossed his arms, and said to Elsa, "I don't know your father, but I know that people like him, no matter what the end, will not be silent.Maybe you're so close to the final truth that you're just one step away. ”"As for me, I'm not optimistic."
Merlin turned his head to look out the window into the darkness and said, "I've just seen too many tragic things, and I'm just expecting to see something different." ”"But I can't go on."
Elsa said sadly: "I sneaked out without telling my mother, this time in order to go to Romania, I took the initiative to contact several senior masters, and my mother ordered me to go back."
She was...
How so?
The kind of person who is very old-fashioned, she was born in an earlier ancient era, and she takes things like rules very seriously. ”"She allowed me to carry on my father's business, but she wouldn't allow me to run around aimlessly, and my trial wasn't done yet."
The girl shrugged her shoulders as she said to Merlin, "Unless I find a proper job that she can approve of...
But being a small shopkeeper certainly doesn't count. ”"Wait a minute."
Merlin stretched out his hand to interrupt Elsa's confession, and he said, "My subordinate has come to pick up the prisoner, I'll go out and negotiate with her for a few minutes." ”After speaking, Merlin, who was expressionless, walked out of the house of blood with Miss Mercury, who was unconscious and dying.Elsa looked at the dark night scenery outside the window with a wistful expression, after she returned to the Bloodstone family's manor, she would not have such a free life for these few months.Unlike her mother, she doesn't like to be bound by old traditions.She opened her hand, and in the palm of her hand, there was a delicate, black steel cast, ferocious, pendant that resembled the head of a bird of prey, and she looked at the pendant, and she whispered, "Father...
Are you waiting for me somewhere in the world?
”"Next time...
Next time, I'll definitely find you!
”A few minutes later, Merlin returned to the House of Blood, where Elsa was back behind the counter, sorting out her knick-knacks that she had used to fool the layman.It was an unsuccessful demon hunting item she had made herself, and it was also her little hobby."
This..."
Merlin put something in front of Elsa, and said to the girl in front of him, "I can't help you much, but I think we are very well here, so, if you are willing to accept it..."
Elsa.
Miss Bloodstone..."
Elsa looked up with a hint of surprise as she read this, and she looked at Merlin.Merlin shrugged at her, and he whispered, "Take this thing and go back to your mother, and you won't have to stutter when she asks who you work for." ”"Ulysses.
Master Bloodstone was the last Special Affairs Advisor, and you can be regarded as a female heir to your father's business...
I think your mom would agree. ”()