Ring

Chapter 76

A black car is driving on the road.The visibility outside the window was not very high, so Rice didn't drive too fast.

The lights of traffic lights are very penetrating even in fog.While waiting for the red light, Rice observed Edgar and Wei Shenzhi through the rearview mirror—the one sitting in the left back seat looked out the window on the left, and the one in the right back seat looked out the window on the right. Nothing was said.Could it be that the last time Iska came to make a fuss, did it really cause some bad consequences?

"Rice." Just as the man driving was dazed, Wei Shenzhi reminded him, "The green light is on."

"Ah... sorry."

After a short language exchange, the atmosphere in the car fell into silence again.In the end, it was Edgar who broke the silence. He said to Rice: "Simply explain to Shen the current situation of the Bathory family and the blood race."

Mentioning this, Wei Shenzhi also had to cheer up.After he expressed his thanks to Rice, the man driving looked at the mirror and said to the Oriental man sitting in the back seat: "The five families of the blood clan, Bathory, De Lais ), Sevanovic (vic), De Moray (rieve), and Rutherwin, except for Bathory and De Rais, the other two families of Ruthervin and De Moray are all in the nineteenth century After the Florence Opera House incident, they no longer interacted with other families and the human world, so we haven’t heard from them for many years.”

Wei Shenzhi nodded - he had heard about the Florence Opera House, but he didn't expect it to be true.Around 1890, a fire broke out in a not-so-famous but very famous opera house in Florence, "The Emerald Rose", and the most famous female singer at that time, Betty Evelina died in that fire.But before that, there were many rumors about Evelina.It is said that she has had sex with the nobles and young men of the upper class many times, but all the men who have slept with her are weak, as if they have been sucked out of their energy.Therefore, some people think that Evelina is the embodiment of vampires.

"Betty Evelina's full name is Betty Evelina de Moray. She is a woman who married from the De Moray family to the Ruthervin family. She refused to listen to the persuasion of the two families, but she wanted to Doing this kind of thing in a place where humans are concentrated will lead to death without a place to die. The fire was planned by the Holy See. After the fire, they began to hunt for the blood race in the local area, giving De Moray and Ruthervin It brought about incalculable disasters. Therefore, after this incident, the two families have never had any contact with the human world, nor have they had any contact with other families."

Wei Shenzhi nodded, "What about Sevanovic?"

Before Rice could speak, Edgar chuckled slightly: "Since I handed over the inside story of the blood race to the Holy See, they have been the most severely injured—no way, who told them to be the closest to the Vatican?"

"Oh?" Wei Shenzhi squinted at him, "Does that mean they are nothing to be afraid of?"

After getting Edgar's consent, Wei Shenzhi snorted and looked at Edgar with folded arms: "This is different from the one in the movie? Shouldn't the blood race be more powerful? How could they be beaten by the Holy See?" Was it going to be defeated? When the Florence incident happened, the Holy See made two families withdraw from the stage of history; but 50 years later, they brought another family into a slump?"

"Because of faith," Edgar said quietly, "people believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and faith makes a man immensely powerful. Have you read "Jerusalem Liberated"? Why do Muslims and Christians Will it be a fight because of a city?"

Wei Shenzhi originally wanted to say, don't the blood race also have faith - they believe in Satan.But what Edgar saw in his dream last night made him give up the idea of ​​bringing up this matter.Ever since he knew Edgar's past, he had to be cautious, for fear of touching his lover's scar.

Unexpectedly, Edgar understood his inner thoughts again.What was even more surprising to Wei Shenzhi was that Edgar's reaction seemed to be far smaller than he imagined—this made Wei Shenzhi a little confused.It was clear that Iska could make Edgar go berserk with a few words before, why is he calm now?

I just feel relieved because you already know everything. ——Of course, it is impossible for Edgar to say such words in front of Rice.However, it is undeniable that since Wei Shenzhi knew what he had experienced, the heavy cloud covering his heart seemed to have dissipated a little.Sure enough, what Wei Shenzhi said is not wrong, he needs someone to carry it with him, so that he can...

...slowly get out of your own demons.

"The blood race doesn't believe in Satan." Edgar said, "What they believe in is their own powerful power. For them, Satan is just a means to improve their abilities. Christians worship and love God, but the blood race The attitude towards Satan is used. For example..." He paused, "Victoria."

"..." Wei Shenzhi knew that he had better keep silent at this moment, and then listen to what Edgar had to say.

Edgar rested his head on the back seat, looked at the roof of the car, and sighed, "Actually, I can understand how she felt when she fell into Satan's arms. What she must have thought was—"If such a pure dark power can For my use, my power will be unmatched'."

Wei Shenzhi said lightly: "Feminism is a manifestation of individualism, and so is masculinity. However, it is precisely because these two doctrines are manifestations of 'individualism' that they will not interact with each other all the time. Attack and denounce. And, for the insiders of the two minds, they still have to attack each other, because the slightest difference of thought leads to constant bickering."

"Oh, as expected of someone who has stayed in the United States." Edgar sighed with a smile, and then admitted, "You are right, this means that the Bathory family and the De Rice family are in dire straits. The reason. The Bathory feminists were angry that Victoria had chosen me to inherit her title, so they teamed up to frame her, thinking that she had betrayed the Bathory family tradition. The de Rice family was one side I hope that I can become the head of the family, so that I can slap those feminists in the face; at the same time, they don't want me to return. Because if I return and inherit the Bathory family, then the first targets must be dealt with. They cannot allow themselves to be defeated by a group of 'lower women', even though they are led by a man."

"...really a complex struggle fueled by dissonance of thought."

"Okay, let's talk about the specifics." Edgar said, "In short, let's go back to Bathory's house and kill the chief executive Isaiah Crane Bathory When he led his group of people to harm Victoria, I vowed to get it back from him. Then, we will subdue the group of women headed by Iska. As for the method of subduing...it's very simple, let De It is enough for the Rice family not to be able to hold their heads up. This is the first step, we can start with their patriarch, Darren de Rice..."

"Edgar." Wei Shenzhi interrupted him, "Victoria treats you like that, why are you so obsessed with her?" She threw herself into the arms of other people in front of him, trampling his sincerity on the ground .Wei Shenzhi felt that if he were Edgar, he would have wished for Victoria to die.

"Shen, I'm not obsessed with her. She treated me like that back then, and I've actually given up on her. I never wanted to compete with the Lord of Darkness and avenge Victoria, as you feared." Dejia looked at him quietly, not surprisingly seeing the thought of "how would you know" from Wei Shenzhi's eyes.He smiled and continued, "The reason why I returned to the blood clan was to repay her for saving my life. She saved me from the ruins of Normandy and gave me a second life. Although this second life There is endless pain in the world, but I met you."

Wei Shenzhi didn't speak, but gently held his hand.

Edgar shook his hand back, and said softly: "Therefore, just to repay her kindness, I must take revenge for her on those who once wanted to put her to death, but that's all. You Don't worry too much, I don't want to compete with the Lord of Darkness to snatch Victoria back."

When he said this, Edgar looked at him tenderly, and in a trance, his smile coincided with the smile he showed to Victoria in the dream.Wei Shenzhi stared blankly at the other person's face enlarged before his eyes, Edgar's brown eyes looked like deep amber.There are still reflections of dark clouds in his eyes, but these shadows are slowly dissipating.His smile became warm and sunny. If it wasn't for the cold body temperature, Wei Shenzhi would have thought that he was a person living in this world just like himself.

"Shen, you don't have to be so careful, for fear of touching my minefield." Edgar caressed his side face, his tone was sincere and full of gratitude, "I want to thank you for forcibly breaking into my memory and being with me. Let’s share the past together. In fact, I want to understand a lot of truths, but I’m too scared—I don’t want to step out of the glass cover, so I’m irritated by Iska’s simple words.”

"I also imagined how good it would be to step out of this glass cover, but I didn't dare." Edgar's tone seemed a little sad, "The things that have imprisoned me for decades are also what I have depended on for survival. If there is no hatred and obsession, I think I may not know the meaning of my existence. But... maybe with my current status, even God would not be willing to accept my thanks. Even so, I still want to say, thank God - let me meet you, so that I can let go of the haze of the past and start a new life in my heart."

It was Wei Shenzhi who firmly held his hand in response to his words.His lover held him in his arms and whispered in his ear.

"I won't let you get hurt again, Edgar." He felt his lover's fingers wrapping around his hair scattered on the sideburns, "I will definitely let you no longer be swayed by the past experience. I will not stay You are alone in the dark night... bearing the loneliness..."

Rice who was blinded and ignored: "..."