69novels Chapter 396 Just Leaning Against the Wall
Chapter 396 Just Leaning Against the Wall
Chapter 396 Just Leaning Against the Wall
The mournful howl of the demon wolf as it died dispelled the dark clouds hanging low in the sky, and the vicious events surrounding the royal capital came to an end.
Lee followed the trail of the vampire patriarch Vlad, broke through the door of a warehouse, and found the entrance to the underground passage.
The underground passages throughout the royal capital provide convenient access for all kinds of scoundrels.
Vlad, who lived a long life and specialized in underground exploration, obviously knew the locations of these passages and entrances and exits better than Li.
If Lee had not placed a curse on Vlad in advance, the vampire would have definitely escaped again this time.
Li raised his hand to sense the location of his curse, and then found that Vlad had never moved since he hid underground.
Was it because he didn't have the strength to run, or did he know that he couldn't escape anymore?
Whatever the case, Lee must meet Vlad again and kill this troublesome vampire.
In a lighted passage, Li saw Vlad who had returned to human form.
Vlad leaned against the wall, silently watching Li approaching.
Vlad didn't want to run anymore. This time he had consumed too many of his own kind, and there were no replacement bodies for Vlad to waste.
This failure also dealt a severe blow to Vlad's heart. He suddenly felt that leaving this world and ending his long and meaningless life might be a good ending.
In order to see his enemy's face clearly for the last time, Vlad lit a candle, and the dim light of the candle illuminated Vlad and Lee.
The black smoke produced by the burning candle floated straight up to the top of the passage, looking for unknown gaps and dissipated in invisible cracks.
"Weize Li, I didn't expect that I would end up in your hands. If I had known this would happen, I would have been more sincere that day."
“…Even if you smile at me, I will not cooperate with a lunatic like you.”
"Mad? If I am a madman, I am driven crazy by this damned world! I am only trying to find a way out for the vampire clan. What have I done wrong?"
The vampire clan has made so many sacrifices, why can't they have a place?
Looking at the angry Vlad, Li stretched out his fingers and dug into the cracks in the wall beside him.
After picking off a handful of dirt with his fingernails, Li responded to Vlad's words calmly.
"You should fight for a way out for the vampires, but you have committed too many murders along the way. Aren't those humans or other creatures that you have disposed of so arbitrarily just as innocent?"
When Li thought of the human skeletons that were sucked to death in the ruins, he was filled with disgust for Vlad in front of him.
Vlad looked up in disbelief, as if he couldn't understand Li.
"You shed tears for those poor civilians? I thought you were a tyrant who wanted to control everything like me, but I didn't expect you to be just a fool who gained great power!"
After Vlad saw through Lee's inner thoughts, he laughed at himself.
"I really didn't expect that I would fall into the hands of a foolish young man like you. Perhaps there really is such a thing as fate, and it is destined that our vampire clan can only survive in the dark cracks..."
"No, it's because your thoughts have always been shallow that you led your race into the dark cracks. A race that can survive in this world for a long time must have faith in light and justice in their hearts, but vampires lack these."
All kinds of conspiracies and tricks, even if they can bring benefits to the ethnic group, cannot be made public in the sun.
The vampires' style of behavior destined them to become rats in the gutter.
"Faith? Light and justice! Listen to how ridiculous what you said is. I think you should know very well what the cathedral is!"
"No, the faith I'm referring to is not the temple, but the cohesion of working hard for the common goal of the tribe!"
Vlad fell silent for a moment. Selfishness had long been ingrained into the bones of vampires. Even the vampires who sacrificed themselves for the future of their tribe today did not actually do so sincerely.
It was Vlad who forced them, and the vampires were forced to merge with the demons.
Vlad did not consider them as real relatives, and those sacrificed vampires were just consumables.
"…Whatever you say makes sense. You are the winner. Kill me. I am tired of all this."
Li didn't have much contact with Vlad, but he could understand the feeling of powerlessness in Vlad's heart.
However, understanding is one thing, and Li Ke will not let this dangerous guy go just because he understands the other party's thoughts.
"I have a question for you."
Li would talk so much nonsense with Vlad just to get the information he wanted from him.
"You led people to excavate the ruins. Are you trying to get the artifact inside? How did you know there was an artifact inside?"
Vlad narrowed his eyes when he heard Lee asking about the ruins.
Lee saw a dangerous emotion in Vlad's expression.
"I can't just let you ask me questions, I have questions for you too!"
Vlad wants to exchange questions for other questions, which conforms to the principle of equivalent exchange.
Li shrugged, indicating that you can ask if you want.
"Why am I cursed by you?"
This is something that Vlad couldn't figure out no matter how hard he tried. If Li really had the ability to curse others from a distance, then Vlad's loss this time was not unfair.
However, the answer Li gave made Vlad vomit three liters of blood.
"You know, besides being a necromancer, I'm also a cook."
"Cook? Food!"
It turned out that Li secretly cast a curse on the grain being transported into the city. Doesn't this mean that Li directly cursed everyone in the capital?
Li's methods are really amazing!
Taking advantage of Vlad's surprise, Li asked decisively.
"It's your turn to answer my question."
Li thought that since he had revealed the secret of the curse, Vlad should tell him the answer honestly.
However, Lee, who increased his concentration, was ridiculed by Vlad.
"You have no idea what you are up against! I have no responsibility to answer your questions. If you want to kill me, then kill me. If not, I will leave."
Vlad propped himself up and tried to step away, but his thigh fell off and he fell to the ground.
Lee watched Vlad rot and stink, and finally all traces of the vampire disappeared completely.
Vlad died silently like this, and until the moment he lost his life, he did not answer Li's questions.
About relics, about artifacts, time and space, and gods.
Li had more and more questions, but none of them were answered.
“…Is it over?”
From the passage behind him came Lei's soothing voice.
Li turned his head and saw Lei staring at him silently.
Lei was paying attention to the communication between Lee and Vlad from beginning to end. This was both a protection for Lee and a kind of surveillance.
Lei didn't participate in today's battle at all, and he looked in very good condition.
On the other hand, Li fell to the ground all of a sudden because of continuous overdraft of magic power.
"Lei, you don't even know to come and help me."
"Okay, I'll support you."
Lei pulled Lee up from the ground and picked up the candle left by Vlad for lighting.
Before leaving the passage, Lei took a special look at the wall that Li had dug with his fingers.
"…Lee, is there something wrong with this wall?"
"No, I was just a little tired. If I don't lean against the wall to relieve myself, I might be killed by the vampire."
In the dull passage, Lei's silence dissolved into the darkness underground.