Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 242 7. Merlin's Invitation

Wait until Merlin arrived at the dark alley at the edge of Hell's Kitchen a few minutes later.

He saw that beside the dim street lamp, the antique grocery store that had disappeared for several days reappeared between the two buildings on the street.

It was still the familiar, slightly worn-out signboard with two words written on it.

"Blood Stone"

He walked forward familiarly, stretched out his hand and pushed open the quaint door.

"Ding Dong"

With the sound of the wind chimes, Merlin walked into the House of Blood, only to see Elsa lying behind the counter just like before, resting with half-closed eyes as if taking a nap.

This girl came back from Romania?

Is she so fast?

Merlin turned his head and took a look. The stunned pure-blooded vampire Quicksilver was being tied to a high-backed chair in the shop in a trapped posture.And Victor, the spirit of the raven, was standing on top of that chair, like a jailer guarding a prisoner.

The ugly raven tilted his head, looking at his belated master.

"woooo"

It let out an ugly cry, and then disappeared into the air amidst the flickering light.

"I was going to kill this hapless bastard."

Elsa's tired voice came from the counter.The vampire hunter girl propped her chin with her left hand and said curiously:

"But when I saw the raven trying to stop me, I guessed that this vampire must have become the prey of another hunter. But I didn't expect that the hunter was actually you."

Elsa's beautiful and flexible eyes looked up and down at Merlin, as well as the weird but unusually beautiful retro outfit on Merlin's body. She chuckled lightly and said:

"It turns out that I underestimated you last time. You are very good at being able to hunt such a pure-blood alone without any injuries... Merlin."

"I know."

Merlin shrugged immodestly, he glanced at Elsa, and said:

"I'm busy with business first, let's talk later."

"up to you."

Elsa waved her hand generously, and she said:

"That vampire is your prey, but I warn you, if you want to interrogate, take her out... My house of blood is good for everything, but it is very troublesome to clean, especially after the floor is stained with blood ...the house likes to be clean, it doesn't really like to have blood on it."

"Do not worry."

Merlin stretched out his left hand, and lightly touched Quicksilver's delicate chin. He said:

"I have a special interrogation method that won't be stained with blood."

The dementor's kiss came into contact with Quicksilver's slightly icy skin. The next moment, Quicksilver felt like she had a terrible nightmare. She suddenly woke up from a coma, like a drowning person sticking his head out of the water.

But the moment she opened her eyes, what she saw was Merlin's eyes shining with a strange light.

"Legilimens! (Instigmatism)"

"Swish"

In the next second, Merlin entered Miss Mercury's memory.

It stands to reason that pure blood vampires should have strong willpower.But Mercury itself is just a "baby" who was born less than 70 years ago, and she was seriously injured, and she was constantly robbed of hope by the dementor's kiss.

Her will to resist Merlin's insanity is already very weak.

After Merlin slightly deepened the magic power injection, the resistance of Mercury's thinking was declared to be completely disintegrated.

Merlin easily entered her mind, and he began to browse the memories related to Dickon Forrest.Speaking of which, this female vampire really has deep feelings for that radical vampire. Most of the memory fragments that Merlin found in Quicksilver's memory are related to Dickon.

But of value, to be honest, not much.

Dickon, the mysterious vampire, did not have a long family history. He was just a young businessman in the suburbs of New York 50 years ago. Because of his handsome appearance, he was photographed by a pure blood vampire. Granted the power of vampires.

But the pureblood lady soon got tired of the young man and threw Dickon out of the house, leaving him to fend for himself.

In order to survive from death, Dickon had to unite all the civilian vampires he had seen, that is, half-vampires, to form a small force, and began to struggle to survive in the era just after the war that year.

Because of its superb organizational thinking and management style, it was looked at differently by the pure-blooded Getaro who was still the heir of the family a few years later.

In order to deal with the supreme family that migrated from Poland to New York, Gaetaro used Dickon as a secret, providing it with enough resources to let it gather the commoner vampires and help the elders of the blood clan deal with some shady black jobs. By the way, secretly prevent the expansion of the supreme family in New York.

Mercury also knew it at that time.

In Quicksilver's memory, Dickon has always been submissive to the elders of the blood clan for more than 50 years. Although this half-vampire of humble origin is very ambitious, he conceals it well.

But in recent months, things have changed.

A vampire family migrating from South America to New York brought a legend about the first batch of vampire pioneers who migrated to North America that year. The legend about "Blood God" fascinated Dickon very much.

It is said that the blood god is a secret related to the origin of vampires, and any vampire who gets it can gain the power comparable to the blood ancestors.And the blood god has a very powerful characteristic, it can transform half-vampires with impure blood into real pure-blooded vampires.

This is exactly what Deacon's heart desires the most.

Although Dickon is currently in command of most of the civilian vampires in New York, this kind of command is more like a "coercion" of interests. Dickon uses the many underground blood supply stations he established underground in New York to control the lifeline of civilian vampires. , forcing them to follow him.

But Dickon himself is just a lowly "civilian". In a civilization with a strict hierarchy like vampires, it simply doesn't have the capital to let other civilian resources follow!And never won the respect of other pure-blood families.

So for the legendary "Blood God", Dickon is bound to win.

The worst thing about Quicksilver is that it is a mysterious woman who commands the South American vampires and brings the legend of "Blood God" to Dickon.

In Quicksilver's cognition, that mysterious woman seduced Dickon with obscene methods, constantly inspired Dickon's ambition, and provided Dickon with enough resources, and even used some kind of secret technique to convert Dickon's original The weak strength has been raised to an exaggerated level.

Unfortunately, Mercury only saw that woman once or twice.

In Quicksilver's memory, that woman... no, she was too short, more like a girl.

That girl always wore a black hood, covering herself tightly, with a mysterious look.And those South American vampires under her command also called her strangely.

They don't call her Patriarch, or Chief.

Instead, he called her a "witch".

It doesn't seem like respect or admiration at all, but rather like fear of that mysterious girl.

Merlin still wanted to dig out more secrets in Quicksilver's mind, but his exploration was interrupted the next moment.

"Hey, stop."

Elsa's voice reached Merlin's ears:

"She's dying!"

"Ok?"

Merlin frowned and withdrew his will. In front of his eyes, the vampire Quicksilver, who was tortured by multiple pressures, was already in a dying state.

Her vitality was weak like a candle in the wind.

"You shouldn't have interrupted me."

Merlin said with some regret:

"This Miss Mercury has the blood of ordinary people on her hands. She is a villain, and she is not a pity to die."

"Yeah, she's a villain, and she's damned."

Elsa nodded knowingly. She looked at Merlin and asked:

"But are you?"

"I remember your organization is a security organization... Shouldn't it be handed over to your legal trial?"

Merlin frowned again, Elsa yawned, and she said boredly:

"Of course, it's your business if you want to kill her. I mean, if you want to kill her, take her out and kill her...I'm in a bad mood today. I don't want to see someone die in my shop. It's too bad luck."

"makes sense."

Merlin nodded:

"You are the master here, you have the final say."

After finishing speaking, Merlin no longer cared about the dying Mercury. He walked to the other side of the house of blood, opened the window, and looked at the pier on the other side of the sea in the distance. In Merlin's vision, he could see It was clearly seen that a flame had already ignited on the pier.

"Sharon's efficiency is high."

Merlin sighed, and he looked at the watch on his wrist:

"It's been less than 30 minutes since I sent the message? The battle on her side is over."

"What are those people doing?"

Beside Merlin, Elsa, who was drinking from a quaint wooden cup hooped with copper bars, was also lying on the window, looking at the burning pier with Merlin in the distance.

She blinked and asked curiously:

"Those people are setting fire... do you know them?"

"They are my subordinates."

Merlin replied:

"They're not doing bad things. Recently, a drug mixed with vampire blood has become popular in New York. That pier is where those drugs originated. In fact, I'm still running outside at this time tonight because of this incident. thing."

Having said that, Merlin picked up his phone, sent Sharon a message, and then looked at Elsa with her eyes closed, blowing in the wind.

He felt a sense of loss and sadness from this girl.

After a few seconds, he asked softly:

"This trip is not so satisfactory, is it?"

"Yes."

Elsa took a sip of wine with her eyes closed, and said in a desolate tone:

"I went to Romania to look for my father and found nothing. It would have been nice to have a body... but there was nothing. He just disappeared. It felt terrible."

"It's a good thing."

Merlin persuaded:

"That means your father may still be alive."

"That would be worse."

Elsa drank another sip of wine, she opened her eyes, and there was a sadness in those beautiful blue eyes, and she whispered:

"If he is still alive, why didn't he come back to see me and my mother during these 8 years? It's like, like we were completely forgotten by him, like we were abandoned."

"Hey!"

Seeing that Elsa was about to drink again, Merlin reached out and snatched the glass from Elsa's hand.

He looked at Elsa with a serious look, and said:

"Don't think about your relatives so maliciously, especially if he is your father...I have learned a lot about my father recently..."

Merlin shook his head, and he said to Elsa:

"Believe me, girl, a father will never abandon his children. Your father must have something to hide, maybe he is trapped somewhere, maybe he didn't contact you for the sake of your safety, maybe he was involved What's worse...I mean, be optimistic, you've gone to that fucking place in Romania and come back unscathed."

"Where else in this world can stop your footsteps?"

"Are you saying I should keep looking?"

Elsa glanced at Merlin, she snorted, snatched back her simple and exquisite wine glass from Merlin, and said to Merlin:

"Also, what you're doing is obviously bloody hands, and you've been exposed to a dark world of aliens. How do you keep yourself so optimistic?"

"Of course you should."

Merlin leaned against the barrel on the edge of the room, folded his arms, and said to Elsa:

"Although I don't know your father, I know that no matter what the ending is, a person like him will not remain silent. Maybe you are very close to the final truth, so close that you are only one step away."

"As for me, I'm actually not optimistic."

Merlin turned his head to look at the darkness outside the window, and said:

"I just saw too many tragic things and was just looking forward to seeing something different."

"But I can't go on."

Elsa said sadly:

"I sneaked out without telling my mother. This time, in order to go to Romania, I took the initiative to contact several senior masters. My mother ordered me to go back. She is... how should I put it? That kind of very old-fashioned person, she Born in an earlier ancient era, things like rules are very important.”

"She allows me to inherit my father's career, but she won't allow me to run around aimlessly outside, and my trials haven't been completed yet."

The girl shrugged, and she said to Merlin:

"Unless I find a legitimate job that she can approve of...but being a shopkeeper certainly doesn't count."

"Wait a mininute."

Merlin reached out and interrupted Elsa's confession, and he said:

"My subordinate is here to pick up the prisoner. I'll go out and negotiate with her. It will be fine in a few minutes."

After finishing speaking, the expressionless Merlin walked out of the House of Blood carrying the unconscious and dying Miss Mercury.Elsa looked at the night scenery outside the window with nostalgia on her face. After she returned to the Bloodstone family's manor, she would no longer have such a free life for the past few months.

Unlike her own mother, she doesn't like being bound by those ancient traditions.

She opened her hand, and in the palm of her hand, there was a delicate, ferocious pendant made of black steel, similar to the head of a raptor. She looked at the pendant, and she whispered:

"Father...are you waiting for me somewhere in the world?"

"Next time...next time, I will definitely find you!"

A few minutes later, Merlin returned to the House of Blood, and Elsa was already back behind the counter, sorting out the gadgets she used to deceive laymen.

It was an unsuccessful witch hunting item that she made herself, and it was also her little hobby.

"this..."

Merlin put something in front of Elsa, and he said to the girl in front of him:

"I can't help you much, but I think we get along very well, so if you're willing to accept..."

Elsa froze for a moment. She picked up the thing Merlin handed over, put it in front of her eyes, and read it word by word:

"The Land Strategic Defense Attack and Logistics Support Bureau, directly under the Supernatural Affairs Defense Observation and Logistics Department, the first-level consultant for special affairs...Miss Elsa Bloodstone..."

When reading this, Elsa raised her head with a hint of surprise, and she looked at Merlin.

Merlin shrugged at her and said softly:

"Take this and go back to your mother, and when she asks who you work for, you won't have to stutter."

"Master Ulysses Bloodstone is the last special affairs consultant, and you can be regarded as a daughter-in-law...I think your mother should agree."

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