A common tavern that connects all fantasy worlds

And the immortal warriors they created became their own bodyguards, guarding their temples forever.

The content of the wall carvings ends here, and the front is already the residence of the King of Snakes, the pool of blood inside the pyramid.

Judging from these murals, the "Nine Kings" are brave and benevolent, brilliant and great figures who saved everyone on this land and are like saviors.

But... this temple was also built by themselves, and the records on the murals are nothing more than higher-level self-boasting.

They are still alive today, still feeding on human flesh and blood, maintaining their disgusting immortality. Doesn't this show their hypocrisy?

Even if it is engraved on a stone wall, a lie is a lie after all.

On the way down, D still kept pressing his left hand on the wall. At this time, the monster residing in his body was also reporting: "On the outside of this building, there is an empty cave...you should have killed it just now. Lost a lot, master. I can still feel human souls weeping in the air, conveyed here with the wind, these guys should have killed many people in these years.

"The shape of this temple is a square cone tower. We entered from the front just now, so we couldn't see its back...it was completely exposed to the air, and inside were...human bones. Judging from the measurement, it is at least a noble The result of hundreds of years of hunting.

"It's coming, that guy is right ahead."

The sound of the monster gradually disappeared, and D walked into the center of the temple, the sleeping place of the King of Snakes.

In addition to the strong smell of blood, there are bits and pieces of light here. I don’t know if it is a special device, or there are vents, so that the lights have room to burn, or it is simply the "milk whirlwind" from above. "A call came from the bar.

The hiss of the poisonous snake sounded in the shadows, adding a bit of horror to the core of the temple.

Such a scene can scare anyone away, except for D... He didn't seem to care about these strange smells and sounds at all, the tip of the knife pointed at the ground in front of him, and walked in silently.

Chapter 13 Before Dawn

As soon as he stepped into this room inside the pyramid, D immediately felt that he stepped on a pile of slippery things.

After looking down, he was sure...they were all the shed skins of various snakes, piled up along the walls around the room, and it took years of accumulation to get to the current scale.

Above the dome of the room is a shallow blood trough. The blood dripping from above merges into a small stream along the blood trough, then flows into the underground blood pool, and finally gathers under the central stone slab.

The trajectory of the stars is engraved on the stone slab, and a stone seat is placed in the center, but there are no other objects around it.

If the "King of Snakes" has really squatted here for hundreds of thousands of years, then he must be very boring... What entertainment can there be here?Seeing snakes crawling up and down, listening to them hiss?

It's impossible to think about it... The king of snakes can receive the information from the bar above. For example, he went up to execute Santa Nicole just now, so he should know what happened above.

If he was this guy, he'd spend most of his time on the surface, even pretending to be a normal Mexican, only coming back here when he needed his life force and soul.

This is obviously the case now, the man is sitting on the stone seat crookedly, his arm hangs from the outside of the armrest, and clusters of granulation protrude from the neat fracture cut by the cold blade, absorbing the surrounding blood.

Fortunately, only D walked in and saw this scene. Those wriggling things like maggots are really disgusting to humans.If he hadn't seen something more disgusting than this in the long years, and even broke the limit of normal creatures, he would definitely frown.

"Who the hell are you? Why is there a guy like you in the world?"

The face of the King of Snakes was hidden in the darkness, and his voice was extremely weak... In order to avoid this man's knife that seemed to be able to cut the soul directly in the bar, he had to temporarily give up his physical body, and of course he gave up at the same time. The half of his arm that was cut off.

Therefore, at this moment, he needs to hide back underground, using the vitality and soul here to recover his severed limbs.

The recovery ability of blood-sucking creatures is very strong, but the premise is that there is a sufficient amount of blood to ingest "nutrients"... At this time, he is the weakest, but if he does not recover, the consequences will be more serious; If you can't escape the pursuit of the man with the long knife in front of you, the other eight people will be happy to swallow his share and lock him up until the end of the world.

"I'm a hunter." D answered his question.

Although I don't know if the hunters in the two worlds are the same thing, the Snake King still showed an expression of enlightenment, and started talking nonsense to himself: "Hunter... your family has always existed, but I didn't expect these guys There will be such a strong offspring. Isn't the mixed blood of mortals and demons definitely weaker than demons?"

D, who heard the key words, paused, then wisely did not make any statement, but silently clenched the knife in his hand.

He felt like he was finally going to hear what he wanted to hear.

Sure enough, the King of Snakes continued: "... When you captured my servants back then, I was very relieved... But I didn't expect that you would really do it, and there would be blood more powerful than snakes. The birth of a strong hybrid! That is... the realm of the gods."

I don't know why, but this so-called "King" doesn't have the calm attitude developed after a long time, but seems a little too restless.

Under such circumstances, "nobles" will definitely not take the initiative to reveal their own situation. These guys are all old foxes who have experienced various situations, met various people, and dealt with their own race, humans, and hunters for many years , Their words are always flawless, every time I deal with them, it seems that I am engaged in some kind of espionage, and my nerves are always tense.

But a guy like the King of Snakes is not bad, at least it's easier to get information... This guy's intention to delay time is too obvious, making D almost feel like he's bullying a child.

He knew that it was time to say something cliche, so he said ambiguously with his usual attitude: "Such a god should not exist."

"Haha, haha, naive, naive, hunter!" The Snake King suddenly poked his head forward, exposing a face full of snake scales to the light, and the signs of decay on that face were extremely conspicuous.

He smiled sullenly, and he didn't know whether it was excitement or fear, and he narrated vividly: "You people haven't gone through the process of gaining power, so you don't know how terrifying he is. Even one ten-millionth of his power is nothing. Can create an eternal life, if He really comes again, then you will definitely die... He really hates the kind of people who take His blood without consent."

Hearing this, a flash of inspiration flashed in D's head, and he suddenly raised his head to stare at the "King of Snakes", his eyes glowed with blood, and he raised his voice and said, "As long as you all die before me."

Sure enough, the Snake King continued: "It is true... His resentment will be directed at us first, but if God's resentment can be so easily dispelled, can he still be called a god?"

Speaking of this, D has already guessed thoroughly what the King of Snakes and even the "Nine Kings" in Santa Nicole's mouth have done.

They didn't get what God bestowed through sacrifice...they "stealed" power from God!

Only in this way can the dialogue between the two just now be established.

The Snake King continued: "Even before all of us existed, He was already wandering in the depths of the jungle and swamps, devouring human souls. He has never been a god who is easy to talk about. Your actions will only invites greater reprisals and swifter destruction."

The tip of D's knife also hangs down slightly, as if he is really thinking about what the King of Snakes said.

Seeing this scene, the other party couldn't help showing a slight mocking smile on his face.

"And...you don't know anything about the real mysterious power and the price you need to pay."

He said suddenly, and saw a large group of snakes suddenly fall in midair in this closed room.

Snakes of various sizes and colors are mostly poisonous snakes, and if the hunter really uses the blood of snakes, he will also receive the curse of God: Once the venom of other snakes touches the body, it will lose all strength .

He spent a lot of effort and pulled the skin for so long before he used his own ability to summon this group of vicious poisonous snakes from the surroundings, and took advantage of the hunters on the opposite side to approach from the shadow above, and he hit them as expected. success.

Large groups of poisonous snakes had already landed, hitting the hunter's body directly, and completely enveloping his body.

Just now, he seemed to be holding up the cloak with his other hand. Could it be that this layer of black cloth can stop the attack of poisonous snakes?

The snakes controlled by the King of Snakes are extremely aggressive now, and they have torn apart the obstacles in front of them, like a well-known wave of reverse spewing, and are drawn into the space under the cloak.

Soon, there was a crash, and the hunter seemed to be finally unable to hold on and fell to the ground. Together with the large group of poisonous snakes, they all slapped and fell on the stone steps leading from the main entrance to the central stone slab.

"Hmph... Hunter... Do you really think you can take the life of 'King' here..."

The Snake King's expression became gloomy, and he turned his head and continued to draw blood from the blood pool, recovering his broken arm...but in the next second, the tip of a knife was placed on his other shoulder .

He didn't dare to turn his head, otherwise he would have seen the unscathed D standing behind him, even the black cloak on his body was not damaged in the slightest.

"...One last question." The man behind him who was colder than a blade said, "Why did you create the 'vampire' race?"

This is also the main reason why he came here and the question he wants to ask the most.

Why do blood-sucking species exist? This man who is barely a creator should be able to give him an answer, right?

"I used to be a king... All the blood on this land should belong to us." The Snake King calmed down and replied, "And I have to ask why, didn't you see clearly just now?"

——In order to get more blood, continue to exist!

"Then your 'eternal life' ends here."

D didn't say any more nonsense, and with a movement of his arm, the knife light brushed across the neck of the "King of Snakes".

After a few seconds, the head slipped from the cut in the neck, rolled off the stone seat, spun around a few times, rolled into the pool of blood around the stone slab, and fell into it with a plop.

But at the next moment, the entire temple suddenly vibrated, and the blood below seemed to be boiling, bubbling and bubbling.

A great sense of crisis rose in D's heart, he rushed to the door of the room with one stride, put away the knife and rushed upwards.At his speed, it would take less than three seconds to climb these steps with all his strength, but within these three seconds, the surrounding walls had already started to climb cracks, and the stones on the ceiling were also collapsing. , so that he had to raise the knife again, while running, he chopped up the things in front of him and patted them aside.

While Santa Nicole was still wondering on the ground, she saw a black cloud-like figure suddenly jumping out from the underground passage, picked her up by the waist, held her under her arm, and rushed out of the "milk whirlwind" "bar.

The east had already risen a little white, and when the dawn was just around the corner, the bar suddenly collapsed, rumbled down together with the pyramid-shaped building below, and fell into the huge pit full of bones.

D threw Santa Nicole on the Fowler family's RV, stretched out his foot and kicked the car far away, and then stopped under the action of the handbrake; The avalanche of the ground engulfed a large area of ​​trucks and locomotives that hadn’t left the parking lot in time, and then billowed dust and smoke...

Chapter 14 The Immortal Prisoner

Time will not stop because of human will. No matter what happens on this land, the sun still rises as usual.

When dawn came, Kate brought out her family and the two brothers as agreed, and the owner of a tavern who had read books all night and finally came to an important conclusion.

However, as soon as everyone stepped out of the RV, they were immediately shocked by the scene before them.

"D, what have you done?"

It was Boss Xue who asked the question that everyone wanted to ask first.

The place that was supposed to be a bar has now collapsed, and together with the huge pothole in the valley behind, it has become a tiankeng with a square of one or two kilometers on the ground.The boulders that made up the pyramid collapsed and fell to the bottom of the tiankeng together with many waste vehicles parked around the bar, mixing with the layers of human bones inside.

D was just silent and didn't answer.

According to the wall inscriptions inside the pyramid, this temple is not supported by any supernatural power, but is built by the people who used to live in this land, stone by stone, even if they live here The King of Snakes should not have collapsed after his death...

It's a pity that the so-called "Snake King" is no longer alive, and even if you want to ask him, you can't get an answer.

"The temple has collapsed, the King of Snakes... has completely disappeared..."

On the other side, Santa Nicole, who was cowering in the RV and avoiding the sun, said so, turning a blind eye to the wary and contemptuous gazes cast by brothers Seth Gekko and Ricky Gekko.

It would be nice if her human image wasn't so beautiful... The brothers wouldn't feel so sad because she was actually a half-rotten vampire, it's the kind of vampire that was delicious and enjoyable, and suddenly found that there was something in the bowl. The feeling of only cockroaches is the most disgusting.

Since D had already assured her that she would survive, the humans present would not be happy to settle accounts with her now.

Since everyone is still alive and has not suffered any injuries, it is not a bad idea to spare her.

Looking at the rising sun in the east, the two brothers Seth and Rich first proposed to leave.

"The guy who came to pick us up should be here, we're leaving now," Seth said.

Rich, who had recovered a little bit of energy, also chimed in: "Not only that, but we also have to settle accounts with Carlos... He even made an appointment to meet in the vampire's lair. This guy almost killed us!"

Jacob here also nodded, and replied, "Thank you for keeping your promise... I hope we won't run into each other again in the future."

"Speaking of this..." Seth thought for a while, and opened the box in his hand directly on the RV.

Kate also said that she hired D to ensure the safety of her family... So strictly speaking, the two brothers have to thank him for not killing him.

He took out 5 wads of green dollars from the box, and after thinking about it for a while, he took out another wad.

"Hey, Seth..."

His younger brother wanted to say something, but he had to stop under the serious reprimand of "Shut up, Rich".

Seth clapped the money in his hand, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

People like him and Rich, of course, always think that money can solve all the problems in the world... the truth is that in most cases, it is true, but the vampires in "Milk Whirlwind" don't think much about money.

At that time, what he thought in his heart was that if he could buy the lives of himself and his younger brother with money, he would be happy even if he spent all the money he earned.

The price of 5 yuan is really not expensive, especially compared to the lives of the two brothers.

He stuffed the box and the rest of the money into his brother's arms, and handed the wads of money in his hand to Jacob.

"It can be regarded as compensation for the fright you suffered...Of course, the hunter also saved our lives, and you can also take this as a reward." Seth said.

Jacob took the money, nodded in surprise, and didn't say anything like "we shouldn't take this money"... He should take this money too much, if it weren't for these two violent madmen, the whole family How could you come to such a place?

He just stretched out his hand to shake hands with this man who had become acquainted for no reason, and said concisely and forcefully: "Then we owe each other nothing. I wish you the best of luck..."

"There's nothing wrong with it."

As Seth said, he called Rich, and the two walked along the periphery of the giant crater towards another road.

They have already seen Carlos' car parked there... The convertible sports car in the back should be the car that the two brothers asked him for, but because the bar is gone, the local officials have also started to target this time in the morning." "Natural Disaster" emergency rescue, the group of goods did not dare to come over, they just got off the car from a distance and looked at this side, looking at each other, not knowing what to do.

As he walked there, Richie said, "Why should we give them money? Also, can't we go to that tavern again? Although the boss is a bit strange, he still wants to Trying to rob us, but the chick there is still good...”

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"Ricky..."

Seth, who turned around after walking a long way, was sure he would not be heard, finally answered: "The boss didn't want to rob us, but let's stop thinking about going to that tavern. We're just mortals, and we don't want to be vampires or vampires." Isn't it enough to be a hunter with money? Why do you want to do something you can't do?

"In this world alone, life is hard enough for money. Want to go to that kind of place? Stop thinking about it and ask yourself, Rich, are we worthy?"

Rich just replied: "I didn't think about that, but you gave them the money that should have been given to Carlos, so what do we do..."

"Don't talk about it, I'll be fine if I don't punch Carlos when I see him! ... But we still have to rely on him to gain a foothold in this place, so we can't kill him now. So put your gun away, Even if we fight for a while, don't intervene. Just watch how I blackmail him."

Seth said.

His younger brother nodded, but didn't shut up, just continued: "So you really still think I'm sick and will shoot people without any reason."

"...Isn't your performance all the way obvious enough? In Texas, at that small gas station on the side of the road, they obviously didn't signal the police, and the police were about to be tricked out, so you insisted on saying They fought, ended up in a shootout, and were shot through. The bank clerk in the hotel, you insisted that people wanted to call the police, do you think I'm fucking blind? She's lying on the bed disheveled. Do you think I Can't see what's going on?"

"It doesn't matter if you don't believe it, I really saw it anyway."

"Damn it, the doctor said that mania can cause hallucinations. Do you know what hallucinations are? It's the kind of thing that you think exists but doesn't actually exist..."

The two brothers quarreled and walked towards Carlos.

Among the people who stayed where they were, D, who had completed the task, was also preparing to return to the tavern...but the Fowler family was a little confused.This trip they were going to vacation on the American side of the US-Mexico border, but after being hijacked by the two brothers, they ran all the way to Mexico, and now they don't know what to do.