"Wait... Horse..."
Suddenly, at this moment, Bernice inexplicably realized something else unusual.
That is... she seemed to only hear the sound of the wheels rolling, but not the tapping sound that should have been made when the horse's hooves trampled the ground.
It was as if the horses pulling the carriage had disappeared at some point.
——Then, what is driving the carriage I am in now? !
A large number of extremely abnormal phenomena exploded in her mind almost at the same time. The violent impact made her body stiff and her back cold, as if a bucket of ice water was suddenly poured over her from head to toe, making her unable to move.
"Ms. Bernice Rose..."
The next second, Alacart's hoarse and rough voice floated gloomily from behind.
Bernice's heart was beating wildly in her neck, and she turned her head around. She saw that Alacart had slightly turned his body to the side at some point, staring at her with cold eyes.
Looking down, Bernice clearly saw that he was holding a crooked, snake-shaped dagger in one hand.
The tip of the dagger was not pointing at herself, but was held casually by Arakart.
But the deep purple spiritual luster flowing on the surface of the blade indicated that this weapon... was enough to threaten his life.
Arakate said slowly:
"We have a commission for you, and we hope you can cooperate."
Chapter 323 A fishing guy will never be in the air force!
"…We have a commission for you, and we hope you can cooperate."
Alacart's rough and somewhat harsh voice came gloomily into Bernice's ears.
Faced with the strange twisted dagger, her whole body suddenly stiffened, her spiritual intuition flashed wildly, sending out a warning, causing her mind to buzz.
But this confusion lasted only a fraction of a second. After the hidden and invisible risk turned into a real and tangible threat, the initial fear and panic quickly cooled down.
At an extremely fast speed, I calmed down and became calm, and my thoughts became more rational than before.
In his mind, he quickly recalled what 105 had told him before the early morning operation:
"...I will be nearby observing the entire process, and if there is any danger, I will take action immediately. But if you think the time is not right, you can find a way to recite the following code, and then I will continue to wait and see.
"The code is..."
Staring at the treacherous Alacart in front of her, Bernice turned her mind and carefully considered the current situation:
"Although this guy has revealed his true intentions, he is definitely not the only one involved in this incident. There must be more accomplices involved behind the scenes. This man named Alacart may just be a pawn responsible for the conspiracy...
"If I use that seconds now, I will definitely be able to capture this person, but it is very likely to alert the real mastermind behind the scenes, thus losing the opportunity in vain...
"If we want to uncover the truth, truly solve the problem, and rescue my mother who is likely imprisoned by them, it is far from enough to just kill a few pawns. We have to eradicate these people completely... at least seriously injure them.
"The current situation has not really begun to endanger my life. There is no need to rush. I can wait a little longer. When these bad guys gather in large enough numbers, I can catch them all in one fell swoop...
"Wait a little longer, no rush..."
These thoughts only lingered in Bernice's mind for a short time, and she soon made up her mind.
The red eyes that had regained their composure were suddenly filled with panic and fear again. To outsiders, it seemed that she was just dazed for a short while because of the great shock.
"me……"
Bernice's lips trembled, tears welled up in her eyes, and she leaned back on the chair with her hands, as if she wanted to get away from Alacart who was so close to her:
"I will cooperate. Don't hurt me...%#%#%@?..."
Arakart held a special dagger containing spiritual power in his hand. He looked casual and indifferent, but in fact he was tense and focused as he stared at the panicked vampire girl in front of him. Suddenly, he heard the other party seem to whisper a series of syllables that he could not understand at all.
He subconsciously thought that this was some kind of spell or incantation, and instinctively tensed his whole body. The thick and hard muscles under his suit bulged out, and all his strength was ready to be unleashed.
But the next second he discovered that nothing seemed to have happened. His inspiration neither detected any unusual spiritual fluctuations, nor did he see any strange vision in his field of vision.
So he quickly shifted his attention from that aspect, treating it as meaningless nonsense babbling by a person in extreme fear, and breathed a sigh of relief:
"This job is really scary. The higher-ups don't send more people..."
Although he appears cold and indifferent on the surface, he is actually quite nervous.
After all, this seemingly delicate and beautiful girl in front of him, no matter how cute she was, was essentially a "budding" vampire whose level was equivalent to that of a regular mage!
Although he is also a righteous warrior, he was also given the spiritual equipment "Chaos Talisman Blade" specifically for vampires and other dark creatures. He has considerable advantages and a greater chance of winning in a head-on fight.
But first of all, facing this kind of conflict involving life and death, anyone would be nervous.
Secondly, the strength of the vampires cannot be equated with that of a mage. Comparing the budding vampires with the true mages is just for the convenience of understanding. The concepts of the two are completely different in essence.
A wizard's extraordinary abilities are more like "skills acquired through practice."
Magic is essentially similar to the various fighting skills, swordsmanship, and gunmanship that fighters practice hard. It is an effect produced by mastering and honing one's own skills and combining them with the effects of "external objects."
The extraordinary powers of the vampires are more like some kind of innate talent. They are a "degraded superior race" and their blood contains powerful forces that transcend the mortal world.
For them, the so-called improvement of realm is nothing more than a process of constantly "digging out" the power that is already hidden in the body.
In other words, when dealing with vampires, one must never judge their strength based on their level and realm as one would do with a mage.
No matter how experienced a True Mage is, he will never be able to cast a magician-level spell; but a vampire in the budding stage may not necessarily have no possibility of releasing higher-level abilities...
As a professional executor and a cold-blooded killer, Arakart quickly gathered all his scattered thoughts and focused on the present.
"Don't move, and don't talk," he said coldly, his voice neither too loud nor too low. "As long as you keep quiet, I won't do anything unnecessary."
After saying this in a tone that concealed a warning, he stopped talking and just maintained his original posture, staring at Bernice without moving his eyes.
Bernice felt a little uncomfortable with this statue-like gaze. She turned her eyes away and didn't meet his gaze. Instead, she turned her head and looked out through the gap in the curtains that had been opened earlier.
She wanted to confirm where these people were taking her.
Arakate did not organize such behavior, so she looked at the scene passing by quickly outside the window in silence.
The scene outside was first the familiar Twilight City wilderness, and then the vegetation on the land became denser and more lush.
Industrial cities have brought traces of erosion to the surrounding environment, which are gradually fading over time, and the vibrant greenery of nature is gradually replacing the lifeless, deserted wasteland.
Trees appeared in the field of vision one by one, and the frequency began to increase. The distance that the line of sight could extend was suppressed and shortened. The gray mountains shrouded in mist on the horizon were hidden and disappeared among the trees and reeds.
Their location...is getting more and more remote.
If Bernice hadn't trusted Qi Ji and believed that this mysterious and powerful extraordinary person was protecting her safety at this moment, she would definitely be scared to tears now.
In the suffocating atmosphere of oppression and silence, Bernice waited for nearly half an hour.
At this time, the original wasteland outside the window no longer existed, replaced by a continuous forest, the treetops almost connected to each other, and the clear blue sky was cut into irregular pieces.
Suddenly, she felt her body moving forward, and the speed at which the scenery outside the window was sweeping backwards suddenly slowed down.
After a while, it became completely still.
"Here we are."
After saying this, Arakart pushed open the right door and jumped out of the car:
"Ms. Bernice Guigo, please get out of the car."
Chapter 324 A long-heard name
Watching the tall figure of Arakate getting out of the car and walking towards her, Bernice took a deep breath, calmed herself, reached out and opened the left door, and walked down the stairs.
"rustle……"
The soles of my shoes made a rustling sound as they stepped on the ground covered with weeds and fallen leaves.
Feeling the soft and rough touch under her feet, Bernice looked around and found that the carriage was now on a rather narrow forest path.
The road had long been overgrown with weeds and covered by various vegetation, making it unclear what was on the road. The old wheel tracks were also very dim and almost invisible.
It is obvious that this path has either been abandoned for a long time or is rarely visited.
Whatever the case may be...it's a perfect place to do something lawless.
Her eyes wandered to the front of the carriage where the horses should have been tied.
The two horses and the driver who was originally sitting in the driver's seat had disappeared at some point.
Instead, there was a ball of light that rippled and twisted like water waves, revealing a faint purple-black glow. It was like the interface of the abyss, with an extremely terrifying aura that filled people's hearts.
This strange purple-black halo replaced the horses, pulling the entire carriage with some invisible force and bringing them here.
Bernice just glanced at it and quickly looked away.
This halo exudes a special aura of madness and pollution all the time. If she doesn't do this, she will not be able to ensure that her normal mind will not be damaged.
After she calmed down a little, she said to Arakate with a gloomy face:
"What on earth do you want to do?"
Arakart did not respond. He walked to a place four or five steps away from Bernice, turned his head and looked somewhere in the woods, and said expressionlessly:
"I brought people here."
Just as he finished speaking, at the end of the direction he was looking, which was in front of the trunk of a big tree... there was a sudden spatial distortion.
Flat, irregular planes emerged out of thin air, all with dark red and black flowing on their surfaces.
They fly in the air with great speed and swiftness, and if you look closely, they look a bit like abstract bats in a stick figure style.
These strangely shaped flat black blocks quickly gathered in one place, and soon the outline of a person was vaguely formed.
"……this?!"
Seeing this scene, Bernice suddenly widened her eyes, and her red pupils revealed deep disbelief.
Before she could make any other reaction, the red and black block that had condensed into a human shape not far away suddenly faded its original color and a new color emerged.
The next second, a man wrapped in a black cloak appeared there.
He looked to be in his thirties, tall but thin, with a sickly pale complexion and a chilling gloom between his brows.
Under the neatly combed black hair are a pair of blood-red eyes.
"Blood, blood clan?!"
Bernice recognized the visitor immediately.
She realized this possibility long before the other party officially showed up, when the bat-like red and black block emerged out of thin air in the shade of the trees.
Because this way of appearing is an ability that only the upper vampires above the late "germination" stage have.
"Stealth in the dark night"!
It allows the user to instantly jump into shadows where there is no sunlight. If it is a night when the sun does not exist, the user can even escape directly into the darkness, making it difficult for people to detect.
Why... would a high-ranking vampire who had at least reached the late embryonic stage suddenly appear here? !
"Mr. Drey," Alacart looked straight at the suddenly appeared vampire man and nodded slightly, "I have completed your commission."
Facing a superior vampire who could be considered a noble even in the Moonlight Empire, his demeanor and tone of voice did not contain much humility, and were closer to equal communication.
It seems that there is no subordinate relationship between the two, but just a temporary exchange of interests.
Faced with the fact that someone whose realm was lower than his dared to look him in the eye, the vampire named Drey frowned slightly, as if he was dissatisfied.
But in the end he didn't say anything. He just raised his chin proudly, nodded slightly, and didn't say a word.
After receiving Drey's signal, Arakart jumped onto the carriage. The purple-black halo in front of the carriage suddenly twisted, and then it seemed to come alive, pulling the carriage away.
The speed was much faster than that of an ordinary horse, and it disappeared from sight in a short while.
After Arakart and the carriage left completely, the vampire Drey turned his gaze to Bernice, and a hint of coldness flashed across his red eyes.
He snorted coldly and said without beating around the bush:
"Guige, there are only two paths in front of you."
As he spoke, he raised one hand, spread out his five skinny and bloodless fingers, palm facing up, and shook it violently.
"brush--"
With a dark red flash, a strange object appeared in his hand.
It was a sphere the size of a fist, with a bumpy and uneven surface covered with circular pits and bumps.
Its color is a mouth-watering red like blood, which is particularly eye-catching.
