A common tavern that connects all fantasy worlds

Those disgusting beasts had no power to resist in front of the death walkers, and the silver bullets tore their flesh like hot knives cutting butter, and soon today's task was completed.Yes, she lied to the people in the tavern, she does have precious metals on her body... Each of the bullets' bullets is made of sterling silver.

But she doesn't want to expose her details so quickly, who knows who they are?Why is that tavern so inexplicable?She just accidentally opened a door in the process of thoroughly searching the stronghold...

Thinking about it now, she had to believe what the boss said. His tavern really didn't belong to this world... The back of this door and this wall was at most one or two meters away from the street. How could there be such a large space?

"Selene, Selene!"

While she was thinking about it, a male of the same race called her name and came over: "Oh, you are here. Where did you go just now? Why are you staring at the wall in a daze? We have searched all other places, and there is no secret door. Or secretly, there are no werewolves still alive. You can go back and report."

Selene turned her head to look at him thoughtfully, and said to herself, "Wall?"

"Yeah, what's the matter?" the male vampire asked in confusion.

"No...it's nothing. You and the others go back first, and I'll look around to see if I can find footprints or something." Selene said immediately, and she had to send all her fellows away immediately, because the smell of meat in her mouth was rapidly increasing. Disappeared, replaced by the nausea and nausea of ​​eating human food by mistake, like being forced to swallow a large mass of burning ashes.

Only in the tavern, those things are "food" to her...

"Yes." Ordinary men of the same race could not disobey Death Walker's order, so he could only bend down, turn around and join the others.

Selene stared at his back until he disappeared at the stairs, then leaned on the wall and vomited out everything she had just eaten with a "vomit".

"Ha, it's free..."

She snorted, glanced at the wooden door on the wall again, bent down and vomited again.

"Tomorrow night...be sure to stay until everything is digested before leaving."

Chapter 2 Wildfire and Spike

On the second night, when Xue Li was fiddling with a small machine, Selene really walked into the tavern again.

This time she behaved much more naturally, maybe because she tried it last night and found that she really couldn't attack or hurt anyone, so she simply didn't think about it anymore.

She came to the bar and sat down, took out a Spanish silver coin from her cuff and put it on the table, and said to Xue Li, "Have a glass of wine. Any wine is fine."

"Ah, sorry guest, please wait a moment, I'm going to wash my hands first. This tape recorder is so difficult to get my hands dirty. ...Max! Where did you get this thing? It can't be Coal mines?"

Xue Li asked, and Max, who was sitting at his own table, drank wine and replied in a nonchalant tone: "...the second-hand ones are like this, who told you to buy a bunch of tapes? Why don't you just want to listen to songs?" smart phone……"

"...I can't discuss retro aesthetics with people like you..."

"Retro aesthetics? Then go buy vinyl records!"

"That was different, I don't remember it, but I obviously didn't grow up with vinyl records... I had no knowledge of this high-end product at all."

After a few quarrels, Xue Li smiled apologetically at Selene, and walked towards the corridor on one side.

Selene frowned, and simply stood up, reached out and took out a bottle of wine from the counter, unscrewed the lid and poured a glass.

This time the wine was a bit special, it felt very spicy, and just a small sip made her tongue numb.

It's not that she doesn't like it, any taste that can be tasted is a gift for a vampire... But let's talk about it after getting used to it for a while.

Out of curiosity, she sipped her wine while taking the things Xue Li was tinkering with just now.

Sure enough, it was a tape player with recording function. It was quite big. The back cover had been removed, and there were circuit boards and various leads inside.

After a few glances, she had an idea in her mind, put the tape recorder back on the table, turned her head and continued to drink her own wine.

Xue Li happened to come back after washing his hands. Seeing that the guest had already poured a glass of wine, he was not in such a hurry. He walked back to the bar counter slowly and took the Spanish silver coin to play with for a while.

Originally, this kind of silver coin would have a premium in the modern world... because silver coin is already a historical term, and it has long been withdrawn from circulation, and each one is considered a collectible.However, the premium of this Spanish silver coin is relatively low, and its circulation is too large. It is everywhere in the world, and it once became the most widely circulated currency in China.

Hmm... It's not a problem to change it to a few hundred yuan.

"Thank you for your patronage," he said, stuffing the silver coins into the under-counter drawer.

"...your tape recorder..." Selene suddenly said, "There is no major problem, just remove the transmission and the pressure belt structure and wipe it clean with alcohol. There is too much oil."

"what?"

Xue Li raised his head, vampires also know how to fix a tape recorder?

The lady on the opposite side had a reddish face, a tongue out, and a smile that had never appeared on this face before: "...you, what kind of eyes are those...human beings, you are just our food, don't be too serious. ..."

Before she finished speaking, she fell down on the bar counter with a thud.

The glass on the side was already empty. Xue Li took a look at the bottle and shook his head: "...rectified vodka? You really dare to drink it."

This thing is generally only used for mixing cocktails, and every alcoholic who tried it described it as "out of breath, and when you swallow it, it's like someone punched you in the stomach".

But at least it proves another thing... For vampires, the wine here is just as effective on a level other than "taste".

"Do me a favor, Max... lift this guest to the chair over there. Daiger, please get a cushion from your room, I see you bought it. Cheetos, can you get a warm A towel? We don't know how a vampire's liver functions compared to a human's, so I don't know when she'll wake up..."

Several people hurriedly lifted the drunk vampire to the chair on the other side, and asked her to lie down on the back of the chair. Daige even covered her with her own blanket, although Xue Li felt that vampires should not be afraid of the cold... …

Xue Li and Max went back to repair the tape recorder according to the customer's suggestion. Cheto hugged the hamster cage, fed it the peanuts, lettuce and meat scraps left over from last night, and asked Daige next to him: "What is a vampire? She sleeps Do you dream when you are awake?"

"I don't know... we can buy a few books about vampires when we go to Max's next time." Daige replied, looking at the sleeping Selene curiously.

It's just that vampires don't dream...even in this tavern.

The legends of vampires in many worlds are similar. They are walking dead, cursed creatures, and "soulless".How can the undead have the qualifications to dream?

On the other end, Xue Li and Max finally repaired the old second-hand tape recorder, and were going to play a tape in it and listen to it.

As for what music to play, it is obviously decided by Max, because Xue Li, who has lost his memory, only remembers the melody and not the band. Daige and Chito have only heard the kind of music that Old Joe likes, the vampire guest in a tight leather jacket ...Just let her sleep peacefully for a while, it's rare that she isn't lying in a coffin or hanging upside down from the ceiling this time.

Old men usually love nostalgia best, and Max is no exception, holding up a tape with gusto and declaring that cowboy music is "timeless."

"...There are no heavy drums that make your eardrums hurt, there is no babbling or ghost screaming, only melody and poetry, just like the calm wilderness of the west..." He tried his best to promote it, but unfortunately no one was present can understand.

Finally, he stopped his speech angrily, and put the tape into the tape recorder: "...well, let's listen to it, and you will understand."

Music started playing, one of Max's favorite songs, Michael Martin Murphy's "Wildfire."

Sure enough, as he said, the melody of the music is gentle and pleasant, and the sound of the guitar and the vocals complement each other, which is a typical American country music style.

"...Not bad." Xue Li commented.

"...Oh? Are you listening to music?"

A man's deep voice came from the door. After a few days, another regular customer finally came back.

"Max!" Daige and Chido immediately greeted him excitedly. Although it was only a few days apart, they received so much new knowledge and information in the past few days, it felt as if A century has passed.

"It's me." He came over and put a leather bag on the table: "Can you fill me with water, Xue? I'm not very lucky today."

"...It looks like it's not just bad luck..." Xue Li filled him with a bag of water from the bar faucet, pointed to his chest, and said.

Max glanced at his chest, stretched out his hand to pat it, shook his head and said, "This is not my blood... I found a group of mutated wolves in the ruins. I even broke a few teeth, you see... "

He took out a few canine teeth that were obviously too big from his pocket and put them on the bar, but before Xue Li and the others could see clearly, those teeth were caught by the female vampire.

Selene supported her forehead, resisting the dizziness that had not subsided, and grabbed the canine teeth and asked, "...where did you get this thing?"

Xue Li sighed and looked at the electronic clock next to him.

35 minutes, it only takes so long for a vampire's physique to metabolize a glass of wine.

He returned the water bag to Max and introduced them both: "Ma'am, this is Max, a guest from another wasteland world. Max, this is...Ma'am, what is your name?"

"Selene."

"Okay, Luna, that's great." He waved his hand, "Besides, as I said just now, Max comes from 'another wasteland world', and whatever he brings, it's unlikely to be you vampires. The imagined kind of..."

Max also raised his eyebrows. He noticed that Xue Li said the word "vampire" and his expression didn't look like a joke at all.

Unlike Daiger and Chido, he was born before the war. In his youth, various film and television literary works had not disappeared, especially those that included vampires.

But he never thought that he would see a living one in his lifetime... The magic of this tavern is really innumerable.

"...No...I want to see it with my own eyes."

Selene was so persistent, and her eyes began to flicker with that daunting and dangerous light again.

"This is not acceptable. We have confirmed that guests in the tavern cannot harm each other, but once we are in another world, will you treat us as prey again?" Xue Li still shook his head.

Selene approached and asked tit for tat: "You said he is your guest? After leaving the tavern, what does the personal safety of the guest have to do with you?"

"We have always treated customers as friends."

"...Then do you consider me a friend too?"

"As long as you want, of course."

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Max quickly stopped him: "Wait a minute. I said, Xue, have you forgotten that this matter should be decided by me. This 'Moon Goddess' wants to see that A bunch of mutated wolves, it doesn't matter, I believe her... As for my personal safety, this thing has never existed in the wasteland."

Max, who was listening on the sidelines, also stroked the beard on his chin, and said: "It's better to compromise your opinions. Ms. Selene, you must promise that you will not hurt everyone present at any time, and you must Accept that I'm watching you behind your back; Boss, if we can all three come back, and still be two ghosts, then you'll have to accept this new friend too.  … And I've got to be up front, no Max and I ...Madam, you will never return to the tavern no matter what, and of course you will not be able to return to your original world...you will only rot in the sunshine of the wasteland."

Selene tilted her head: "...I accept, I swear to my blood, the soul of my family, and my own honor."

What can Xue Li say?He can only agree.

Chapter 3 dirty blood

The night wind blows across the sand dunes, and the wind is mixed with fine sand, which makes people blind.

Max's car was parked in the leeward area, under the ruins of a building, avoiding the erosion of wind and sand... Otherwise, the whole car would be buried under the sand dunes when I woke up tomorrow morning.

Not far ahead is the former steel jungle, now the dark civilized cemetery, and the solid structure of reinforced concrete stands abruptly in the middle of the sand sea.

Many scavengers will go deep into such urban ruins to find usable materials, such as metal, plastic and wood.If you accidentally find a warehouse that has not been opened, you can even send a fortune... unless it is a food warehouse.

After so many years of the Great War, almost all food has passed the shelf life. When this kind of warehouse is opened, you will only see a lot of dead mold.

However, there are special circumstances... Some food warehouses happen to form an ideal dehydration environment, plus the strong radiation just after the war, there are still a lot of things that can be imported.

Of course, scavengers also risk their lives in this kind of place.These high-rise buildings are natural shelters, mutated creatures, and human colonies that rely on plundering for a living are staring at them. Unarmed humans are a more stable source of food for them.

Therefore, Max didn't rush to go deep at night, but just found a three-story building in the suburbs that was low but strong enough to resist the wind and sand, and planned to repair it here.

Unexpectedly, he ran headlong into the territory of the wolves.

Selene followed Max and walked into the battlefield not long ago.

She doesn't need lights, everything at night is clearly visible in the vampire's vision.

Every tiny trace, every piece of dried blood showed how fierce the battle was just now, and as a death walker and a master of combat techniques, she could even draw a rough picture of Max's battle in her mind starting from these.

The man was alert, as it should be in this environment.

When he entered the first floor, his steps were slow and his center of gravity was very low. Every step he took, he had to observe his surroundings; the wolves hadn't appeared at this time, so they should have been alarmed by the sound of his car's engine and had withdrawn from the house. Watching from afar.

But soon, when the man went up to the second floor, he found traces of the wolves' survival, including shed hair, wolf dung, bones and blood of prey, and so on.He must have a thermal weapon in his hand, so he quickly walked to a corner without windows, dragged a broken table over to make a simple cover, and minimized his blind spots and viewing angles.

The wolves came in through the broken window, but Max leaned against the wall on both sides and back, and it was impossible to sneak around behind him, so they circled around his front, leaving a scare hole on the ground. Unbearable paw prints.

There were ricochet marks on the wall, and a little blood and hair. It was Max who shot and killed a wolf, hoping to scare the pack away.

When she saw this place, she was sure that what appeared here was not the group of stinky werewolves.Conventional thermal weapons have a limited effect on werewolves. Their strong bodies and resilience are strong enough to resist small-caliber, low-kinetic firearms. The best way to kill them is silver or silver-plated bullets.

...Maybe it was because of being hungry for too long, the wolves did not retreat, and Max's simple bunker fell aside, and the battlefield extended from here to the corridor in the distance...

"Why did you leave the bunker?" Selene suddenly raised her head and asked Max.

"The mutation of this group of wolves was very successful... some of them doubled in size, and their teeth and claws were also harder. When these individuals appeared, I knew that the bunker would not hold up, and would restrict my activities instead." Mike Adams answered.

"Where are the corpses of those wolves?"

"It was thrown out of the window by me... it should be buried in the sand now. I don't want their bloody smell to attract more troublesome things. After their blood dries under the sand, I can dig them out and pick off the meat Baked and smoked thoroughly as a reserve grain."

With that said, he walked to the window and pointed Selene in the general direction in the dark.

"Something more troublesome?" Selene narrowed her eyes.

Max nodded: "...bigger mutant beasts, ant colonies, and humans."

"From your tone, human beings are more dangerous than other creatures?" Selene snorted coldly, "Go and dig out the biggest one, I want to see it."

Max was taken aback by her commanding tone of course, but after thinking about it, he jumped out of the window.

Max, who had been keeping silent behind the two of them, also shook his head, walked forward, leaned against the window with Selene, and whispered: "It seems that Xue's worries are partly right...you never You didn't treat us as equals to you, if it wasn't for your oath, wouldn't you have sucked us both into mummy?"

"No... I have always kept my promises, and I am not a lowly creature driven by hunger and thirst. However, it is really difficult to treat a race that is so much weaker than you and claims to be the ruler of the world, right? Do you treat pigs and cows equally?"

"Some human beings really do... But this varies from person to person. Some people are more cruel to the same kind. We are all advanced intelligent creatures. You should also know that everyone is a different individual. The way of thinking of two people is different. Often the differences between two races, two countries, two eras, two genders are greater than the average difference between two races, two countries, two eras, two sexes..."

Selene frowned and interrupted him: "...you don't need to treat me as another individual. I am a vampire, your natural enemy, and a death walker... I don't need to be anyone's, and I won't be anyone's. friend."

"Deathwalker...a good name." Max was not intimidated by her. He turned his back to light a cigarette amidst the wind whistling through the window, as if he didn't care that his carotid artery was exposed to the other party's view: "... …I guess the meaning of the title is werewolf hunter, so that would explain why you are a different person the moment you see a wolf's fangs."

"You're good at guessing, but it has nothing to do with you. I promised not to kill you, but I don't guarantee that your limbs will be intact when you go back..."

[8. No. 8]