Although it's a little sudden, have you heard of Contash?
This was the beginning of Lamborghini's classic image. The super sci-fi body design, gull-wing doors, and the 25th anniversary edition used a 5.2-liter V12 engine with a top speed of 295 kilometers per hour. It was a cool and fast sports car.
To sum it up in one sentence, it would be …
"Put me down!!!!"
Accompanied by the piercing screech of the Misty Branch, the red sports car sped across the road like a hurricane, like a red bolt of lightning shuttling through the winding mountain roads.
"What a shame. You're a vampire. Are you afraid of racing?"
Holding the steering wheel in his hand, Yi Tianyi curled his lips at the Misty Branch of Fire who was sitting beside him. The latter's face was pale and she looked like a dead person.
"Is this a problem with racing? Of course I'm not afraid of death, but I'm afraid that you'll drive! Ahhhhh, put me down!!! "
Of course, she wasn't afraid of racing. After all, with her reflexes and physique as a vampire, even a truck wouldn't be a problem for her.
But the problem was that his driving skills were frightening!
To what extent could it be said that it could even arouse the instinctive fear of a human that had long been forgotten by Mist of Chaos as a vampire? It was just like how humans used to feel fear when they looked down from the sky. After being a vampire for three hundred years, Bonfire Mistbranch thought she had forgotten the fear of being a human. But when she sat in Zhui's sports car, speeding through the mountain path, Bonfire Mistbranch's sense of powerlessness and helplessness as a human erupted once again. She couldn't even speak coherently.
"You really can't. As a vampire, you're actually afraid of this …"
Only when the silhouette of the village appeared in front of them did they slow down, allowing Misty Branch to heave a sigh of relief.
"Really, it's just a letter written by a child. You actually took it seriously?"
What Smoke Wuji was referring to was the letter that was previously sent to the Difficult Case Investigation Firm. The letter was written by a child named Tanaka Akira. According to him, since the beginning of summer this year, there had been a series of deaths in his village, including his sister's good friend Shimizu Megumi.
The adults thought it might be some kind of epidemic, but Tanaka Akira said he suspected that all this had something to do with the Kirishi family who had just moved to the village. He swore that he had seen the big brother from the sawmill, who was supposed to be dead, sneak into the strange house of the Kirishi family.
But none of the grown-ups believed him, so he wrote the letter to the Mystery and Mysteries office, even attaching the obituary in the local paper and some related news.
"Children are usually more sensitive than adults when it comes to these kinds of things."
At the same time, he glanced at Bonfire Mistbranch, who was leaning against the window with an unsightly expression.
"Moreover, the information he sent is indeed true. No matter what, it won't be wrong to go and take a look."
"Ugh … Actually, I hate kids."
The Misty Sea Branch complained helplessly.
"As you said, they will always discover things that they shouldn't have discovered out of curiosity …. By the way, doesn't this child live in this remote village? How did he know the address of the firm? "
"Because I spent money to advertise in newspapers all over the country."
"… … ….."
Faced with this rich and willful answer, the Misty Sea Branch was completely speechless.
As they spoke, the car had already approached Outfield Village. At the same time, the Misty Sea Branch frowned.
"I smell the stench of corpses."
"Me too."
Listening to the Misty Sea Branch's words, Hayashi nodded, then his expression turned serious.
"It seems that the child wasn't just talking nonsense."
Outfield Village was a remote village surrounded by mountains, not much different from Mount Yomi. Or rather, because Japan itself was mountainous, most villages and towns were located in the mountains. In such a place, interpersonal relationships were close, so it was naturally much easier to find people. Hayashi's car would attract attention even in the city, let alone in the countryside. After greeting the Obama-san who were chatting in front of the shop, Hayashi quickly found out where Tanaka's house was. He then drove to Tanaka's house and met with Tanaka Akira and his sister, Tanaka Kaori.
Tanaka Akira was a lively teenager who was still in his first year of high school. His sister, Tanaka Kaori, was 15 years old and in her third year of high school. Both of them were quite surprised by Hayashi's arrival. Even Tanaka Akira did not expect that the other party would actually come to investigate after he wrote a letter with the intention of just giving it a try ….
"I'm really sorry. It's all my stupid brother's fault that brought you two here …."
Tanaka Kaori looked quite uneasy in front of Hayashi and the Misty Sea Branch. She kept bowing her head and apologizing to the two. After all, she was just a country girl born and raised in an ordinary village. She had never seen such a scene before. The dress Misty Sea Branch was wearing was enough to prove that she was not an ordinary person. There was also the car parked in front of her house. Even if Tanaka Kaori did not know much about cars, she knew that it was definitely not something the trucks and tractors in her village could compare to.
The fact that such a person came all the way here because of her brother's nonsense was enough to make Tanaka Kaori panic.
In contrast, Tanaka Akira was quite excited.
"What do you think, sister? I was right, wasn't I? There are still people who believe in me!"
"But …."
"Anyway, let's do a preliminary investigation first."
Bi interrupted the two people's words, and then took out a notepad.
"May I ask, when did the continuous deaths in this village start?"
"Well …."
Hearing Hayashi's question, the siblings looked at each other, then the elder sister, Tanaka Kaori, said, "It should be around summer.
"If I have to say, it should be during the beginning of summer. In the beginning, we also attended a few funerals, but the deceased were all elderly. Because of the hot weather and the fact that many elderly people here live alone at home, we hold a few funerals every year. It's nothing special. But …. "
Tanaka Kaori lowered her head with a gloomy expression.
"Megumi … she's dead."
"Megumi?"
"Megumi Shimizu …. She was a good friend of mine. Although she always talked about leaving the village, she was a very good child …."
"Did she die of illness?"
"That …. I don't know."
"You don't know?"
"Yes."
Tanaka Kaori's face turned a lot paler.
"I still remember chatting with Kaori that day. She seemed to be interested in the new family that moved to the village, so she went up the mountain along the slope. I didn't think it was a big deal, but at night, when her family called me, I found out that Xiao Hui hadn't come home. Later, everyone went to look for her, and in the end, they found her unconscious in the mountains. We brought her back, and then … "
Tanaka Kaori lowered her head and covered her face with her hands.
"I …. I saw her once. At that time, Megumi's face was ashen and her voice was weak. She was completely different from her usual lively self. I didn't expect that in just one day …. "
"Cause of death?"
"The doctor said it was anemia …."
"Doctor? Is he the doctor here? "
"Yes, Doctor Ozaki. He's the director of Ozaki Hospital and the only doctor in our village. Almost everyone goes to him when they're sick."
"…. Did the others die of the same cause of death as Megumi Shimizu?"
"I don't know about that …."
"Then, what do you think about the new family that moved to the village?"
"…."
Tanaka Kaori and Tanaka Akira looked at each other in the face of Hayashi's question.
"Everyone thinks that there's something weird going on with that family."
"Strange in what way?"
"Because they moved in in the middle of the night, and the house they live in feels completely different from the Outpost Village …."
Just as Tanaka Kaori said, Hayashi and Sea Mistbranch had seen the building when they entered the village. It was a western-style building on the hillside. It was indeed incompatible with the traditional Japanese style of the village.
After a series of questions, Grizzly and the Misty Branch of Wind bid farewell and left, intending to investigate elsewhere. Tanaka Akira also excitedly expressed that he would also ask about the situation in the village and inform the two immediately if he found anything.
After walking out of Tanaka's house, Hayashi looked at Bonfire Mistbranch beside him.
"What's wrong? Mistbranch? Why are you pulling a long face? "
Ever since they arrived at the Outpost Village, Bonfire Mistbranch's face had been gloomy, as if she was here to ask someone for a debt. But Hayashi knew very well that although Bonfire Mistbranch would usually put on a cold face in front of outsiders, she would not show her disgust so obviously.
"Something like that."
Hearing Hayashi's question, Bonfire Mistbranch frowned and showed a rather unhappy expression.
"If my guess is correct, this might be the work of those blood thralls."
Then, she opened her mouth to answer.
According to Bonfire Mistbranch, blood thralls were low-level vampires. Just like the legends said, high-level vampires could give their blood to others and turn them into vampires. But there was a certain probability that low-level vampires would appear — that is, blood thralls.
The characteristics of these vampires were basically the same as what humans said about vampires. They were afraid of sunlight, afraid of crosses, afraid of garlic, and unable to cross rivers.
However, the most dangerous thing was their need and desire for blood.
For high-level vampires like Bonfire Mistbranch, the blood they sucked was not enough to be fatal. But blood thralls were different. Their greed for blood was like that of starving beasts. Every time Bonfire Mistbranch hunted, the most she could do was make the other party slightly anemic. However, blood thralls would tirelessly crave for blood until the other party died.
Therefore, high-level vampires called these failed products blood thralls — in other words, slaves to blood.
Not only that, according to Misty Branch of Aura, the vampires had always hunted blood slaves.
The reason was also very simple. Blood thralls sucked blood without restraint and were no different from wild beasts. In addition, they had a strong sense of kindred and would often choose to create a large number of them. For vampires, this was tantamount to suicide. Vampires did not want their existence to be exposed to the eyes of humans, but this method of blood thralls was simply equivalent to taking the initiative to jump onto the stage to show their existence to humans.
Therefore, many high-level vampires would choose to hunt blood thralls, and they used a variety of methods.
Some vampires pretended to be scientists, using all kinds of nonsense to confuse the characteristics of blood thralls and their victims, as much as possible to make the world think that it was a rare disease and not a real vampire.
Some vampires simply disguised themselves as priests or paladins, and personally led a group of people to exterminate blood thralls — in the era when vampires were the most rampant, in fact, many of the leaders of the knights were high-level vampires.
In the modern era, due to the development of science and technology, the speed of information transmission had become faster, so the vampires' encirclement and extermination of blood thralls had become more stringent.
But what Bonfire Mistbranch did not expect was that she would actually encounter a group of blood thralls here.
(End of this chapter)
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