At the edge, there is a gap that accounts for about one-fifth of the whole, like a broken and damaged porcelain.
"First," he looked down at Bernice, who was half a head shorter than him, with contempt and arrogance, "draw out all the grace of the great 'Ancient Moon' in your body, complete this 'Original Moon Corona', and open it."
"Forehead?"
Bernice's mind was in a mess at this moment. She could never have imagined that the one who instigated Alacart to "kidnap" her was actually her compatriot, and a very powerful upper-level vampire!
Moreover, this strange vampire named Drey wants him to draw out all the divine favor from his body?
As a "favored one" who enjoys a trace of favor from the "ancient moon", that trace of divine favor is completely bound to Bernice's own vitality.
Just like the two sides of a coin, if you flip one side, the other side will definitely be affected. It is impossible for them to be independent of each other.
In other words, Dre's request is equivalent to asking Bernice to commit suicide!
If she really did that, she would surely die, and even the "ancient moon" itself would be powerless to save her!
As a fellow vampire...what was his purpose that made him want to kill her, a rare "favored one" among all the vampires?
what is happening?
"second……"
Without giving the other party a chance to ask for it, the upper vampire Dray said:
"We use our own method to open it. You don't have to do anything, so you can survive for the time being. The price is that Lilith will die."
"what?!"
Hearing that name, Bernice felt as if she had received an electric shock. Her whole body trembled violently, and her face instantly darkened. Her eyes seemed to condense frost.
"! What did you do to my mother!?"
Lilith Guige, the "Blood Councillor" of the "Guige" bloodline of the Moonlight Empire, is also Bernice's biological mother. She is a high-level vampire who is in the "Out of" realm and is roughly equivalent to a magician.
After disappearing without any signs for more than a month, Bernice heard news for the first time... about her!
Chapter 325 Reasoning
"You have no right to ask any questions. The only thing you can do is make a choice."
Obviously, this high-ranking vampire named Dray had no habit of explaining his evil plans to his opponents, and he said indifferently without any nonsense:
"First, draw your own divine grace and open this 'Original Moon Corona' to keep Lilith alive and let you die. Second, we can find a way ourselves. You can stay alive for now and Lilith will definitely die... Or, I can help you choose."
"Damn..."
Bernice stared at the blood-red moon with a hole in it in Dre's hand, feeling confused and angry.
She had no idea about this so-called "original lunar corona". She didn't know its function or origin, and she couldn't sense the spiritual fluctuations on it.
In fact, this was the first time she heard the term "primitive lunar corona"... In short, it was a completely unfamiliar thing.
She also couldn't figure out how this inexplicable object was related to her long-missing mother Lilith, and why she needed to draw the grace of the "ancient moon" to "open" it - and what would happen after opening it...
Anyway, she was almost completely confused about the current situation, her mind was in a mess and she couldn't make sense of it.
"I'll only give you three counts to think."
Drey's expression remained unchanged as he stood in the shadow cast by the treetops. One side of his face was stained blood red by the deep red light of the "Original Moon Crown" in his hand:
"three."
Hearing the other party's heavy counting sound like beating a drum, Bernice's heart sank. She knew she had to make a decision immediately because the other party would not give her too much time to consider.
Of course, the so-called "decision" is not to choose one of the two options mentioned by Dre, but...
Should I read out the secret code immediately and let 105 hiding in the dark take action?
Obviously, Dre knew the whereabouts of his mother. If he was caught, he would be able to get information about her current situation through torture, and then he could devise a follow-up plan such as rescue or revenge based on it...
However, if you do this, there is a hidden danger that is difficult to avoid.
That is, if Dre is not the only planner of this incident, or if there is someone higher up and more secretively directing the incident, then arresting him would be tantamount to alerting the enemy.
In this case, if mother Lilith is still alive, she will be pushed into an extremely dangerous situation, being killed by her own daughter...
Bernice's heart immediately fell into a great struggle. All kinds of thoughts were like a battle between heaven and man, which made her almost bite her teeth. Her pretty face turned red, but she couldn't make up her mind no matter what.
"two."
However, Dre's announcement was still cold and emotionless.
"You guy..."
Bernice clenched her fists tightly, forcibly suppressed the urge to beat up Dre, and tried her best to think.
Think, calm down...
Only by thinking can we solve problems...
"Humph……"
Seeing the anger and confusion on her face, Dray seemed to see through her thoughts. He sneered and said disdainfully before reading out the last number:
"Don't even think about fighting. Your realm is not as good as mine, and I made all the necessary preparations before coming here. Even if you are a recipient of the great 'Ancient Moon's' favor, you are no match for me."
"Besides..."
As he spoke, the corners of his mouth curled up in a cruel arc, and the hand holding the broken red moon shook:
"I need to remind you that Lilith's life now depends on my thoughts."
"Gudong..."
Bernice stared at the red crescent moon called the "original lunar corona" and swallowed nervously, realizing that her mother's disappearance and whereabouts, as well as the essence of the whole incident, were hidden in this strange thing...
"No, I can't completely believe what he said... He has no reason to tell me the truth... Maybe it was just misleading, or partially misleading..."
Suddenly, her mind broke through a certain established track and thought of more possibilities:
"Wait, why should he let me choose?"
"one."
Dre maintained a gloomy and arrogant look, counting down without stopping, like a death knell approaching step by step.
Bernice's mind suddenly became active, and various ideas popped up one after another:
"If it is true as he said, that he has an absolute advantage over me in terms of strength, then there is no reason for him to make me 'choose'...
"Why doesn't he defeat me with his absolute strength, and then bring me to their territory and slowly figure out a way to use some forbidden spells to extract the grace from my body...
"It's entirely possible. I've seen similar forbidden techniques in my family's library, and they're not too difficult to pull off... As long as you're willing to give up your bottom line...
"That is to say, he is lying, at least part of what he said is false... What is it?"
Looking into Dray's sunken eye sockets, Bernice narrowed her eyes slightly, and the two pairs of scarlet eyes stared at each other in the air:
“Two choices… Let’s assume for a moment that the consequences of these two choices are real: only one of me and my mother can survive.
"Put yourself in his shoes. If I believed everything he said, then as Lilith's daughter, I would be more likely to sacrifice myself in exchange for my mother's survival... Could it be that he is trying to trick me into doing this? What's the reason?
"Wait a minute, he also said that if I choose to live, then they will use 'their own method' to open the 'Original Moon Corona', and the price will be the death of my mother... The credibility of this statement is unknown, but let's assume it is true.
"That is to say... the results of those two choices are not equal for them?
"They want me to choose one rather than the other... Combining the previous speculation, they want me to commit suicide and sacrifice my own divine gift?
"But... why? Why don't they just do it themselves, instead of just handing the initiative to me? What if I'm not so noble and refuse?
"Think, think hard, Bernice..."
"zero."
After a short interval, Dre ended the countdown completely.
Seeing that the other party still didn't say anything, but just lowered his head as if he was still struggling with something, his face turned cold.
With one hand behind his waist and the other hand slightly holding up the "Original Moon Crown", Dray's eyes were filled with shadows and he said coldly, like a judge pronouncing a verdict on a prisoner in the audience:
"When the time is up, if you continue to remain silent, I will choose for you."
At this moment, Bernice suddenly raised her head, and her eyes became extremely clear and firm at this moment.
"Why, have you made a decision?" Dre smiled coldly.
Bernice looked at him and said without emotion:
"I reject."
"Reject?" Dray frowned, a puzzled look on his face, "Reject what?"
“Refuse to choose.”
Bernice said this with her arms folded across her chest. For some reason, there was a condescending tone in her voice, as if the one who was in control of the situation at this moment was not Dre, who had the advantage in terms of strength and bargaining chips, but her.
"you……"
Dre's eyelids twitched slightly, and his voice became much colder, carrying an undisguised threat:
"You mean you don't care whether your mother lives or dies?"
Bernice neither explained nor argued, but just stood straight and stared at Dre quietly, maintaining absolute silence.
Dre stared back.
It may have been a long time, or it may have been only a moment, the air between the lush trees froze to freezing point.
Bernice couldn't discern any emotion from Dre's bloodshot eyes.
Dead silence.
Even the whistling sound of blood rushing through the blood vessels can be clearly heard.
After a long while, Dre broke the silence first:
"When...when did you see it?"
The mocking and arrogant smile on his face had completely disappeared at this moment, leaving only extreme seriousness and solemnity.
"call……"
Bernice suddenly let out a long sigh and stroked her chest with relief:
"I wasn't 100% sure before... but now, I am sure."
"You're trying to trick me?" Seeing the other party's reaction, Dre's mouth twitched slightly, and he was obviously unhappy, but he didn't seem too surprised. "Ha, interesting."
He put down the "Original Moon Crown" in his hand and held it in front of his lower abdomen. With his other hand, he swung his cloak hard, making a "swish" sound and covered it:
"Go ahead, tell me your thoughts. I'm very interested."
"It's nothing particularly complicated, it's just that you have too many flaws."
Bernice laughed a few times, with a smug look on her face:
"I won't mention the obvious loopholes. The most important thing is that you are too impatient."
"Oh?" Dray raised an eyebrow, looking interested. "What do you mean?"
"You shouldn't push so hard, it's abnormal."
Bernice spoke in a tone similar to that of an elder disciplining a younger person:
"If your situation is really as you said, then you could have arrested me if you were able to do it easily, instead of inducing me to commit suicide immediately as you did just now.
"This means that your time is actually very tight, so you don't have enough time to perform the forbidden technique and extract the divine gift from my body. I have to do it myself.
"I don't know the specific reason, but at least the pressure you are under now is by no means as easy as it seems."
"So what can you do?"
Dre didn't deny or confirm it, but just shrugged indifferently, as if what Bernice did was meaningless:
"Run away? Or fight me to the death?"
"I don't have to do anything."
After Bernice finished saying this, she suddenly changed her mouth shape and recited a short sentence quickly and with some difficulty.
It was an ancient language that had never appeared in this world, filled with a strange, ancient, and mysterious atmosphere. It was the code that Yao Lingwu gave her -
"What do you want to do?!"
Drey immediately noticed something unusual. Although he did not sense any unusual spiritual fluctuations, as a sophisticated and cunning upper-level vampire, his extremely rich combat instincts made him alert immediately.
