At 7:50, the two arrived at the entrance of the castle. The carefully decorated entrance of the castle was guarded by soldiers in armor, which was full of ritual.
The two of them walked in from the entrance, crossed the wide courtyard, and headed to the hall. On the way, Lin Yan actually saw a large rose field in the courtyard. Large patches of roses spread from the ground and grew all the way to a window sill on the second floor of the castle. It was quite spectacular.
"Look, it's so beautiful." Lin Xi pointed at the roses on the wall and exclaimed, "I don't know if they are real flowers or fake ones."
Lin Xi had never heard that roses could be planted on walls, let alone roses that bloomed so brilliantly, so she subconsciously thought that it might just be a decoration made by the owner of the castle for tonight's ball.
"It's a real flower." Chen Chu said.
"They are actually real flowers. Odin Island is really generous." There are at least tens of thousands of flowers on that whole wall. Not to mention the manpower and resources spent on the arrangement, these flowers alone cost a lot of money.
"That's not a decoration, the flowers are growing on it." Chen Chu said.
“Can roses grow on walls?”
"It's not difficult. A little wood-related ability can do it."
The surprise in Lin Xi's eyes was instantly soothed by Chen Chu's plain explanation. Ever since she came into contact with super powers, her world seemed to have lost its surprises, as if all magical things could be explained by super powers.
"What about vampires? Could they also be a kind of superpower?" Lin Xi asked suddenly.
"Yes." Chen Chu nodded.
"It's true." She was just letting her thoughts run wild, but she didn't expect it to be true. She couldn't help but ask, "Do vampires really exist? No, are vampires' powers powerful? What kind of powers do they have? Are they really like in the movies, immortal, needing to suck blood, sleeping in coffins, and afraid of sunlight? And, there won't be real vampires at this vampire ball, will there be any?"
Chen Chu chuckled twice. "Vampires are a species that is the result of human gene mutation. Most of the descriptions are very similar to those in the movies. The direction of their mutation is quite special, and it is a blood-related gene mutation. Vampire blood has a strong metabolic and regenerative capacity, so vampires have a long life and strong self-healing ability. They crave blood and hate sunlight. As for whether they sleep in coffins, it depends on personal preference."
Chen Chu told everyone he knew about the characteristics of vampires.
"Will they really be tanned into ashes in the sun?" Lin Yan recalled the plot in the movie.
"Of course not. Vampires hate sunlight because a mutation in their blood makes their skin overly sensitive. The strong stimulation of sunlight will cause stinging on their skin. In layman's terms, their skin is sensitive and they are more susceptible to sunburn than ordinary people." Chen Chu said.
Lin Xi sighed and couldn't help but said with envy: "This ability is so enviable, it can make you immortal."
"Their lives are longer than those of ordinary people, but they are not immortal, and their strength is very weak. In the world of superpowers, this is nothing to envy." The world of superpowers is a world where the strong prey on the weak.
"Weak?" Lin Xi's eyes widened. This was so different from the vampires she knew.
"Don't be fooled by the movies. Most vampires are very weak. Unless they awaken for the second time, they are just ordinary people with a long lifespan. Vampires are of a relatively low level among Western supernatural beings. It is said that..."
"What was heard?" Lin Xi asked Chen Chu curiously.
Chen Chu looked into the girl's clear and soft eyes but was too embarrassed to say that in the Western superpower system, young and beautiful vampires are the favorites of many female superpower men.
"It is said that there are vampires here." Chen Chu gestured to Lin Ping to look ahead.
Lin Xi raised her eyes and saw a handsome gentleman with blond hair and blue eyes standing at the entrance of the hall to greet guests. She recognized him at a glance. This man was Viscount Bloomduncan who had invited her to the ball not long ago.
This guy really is a vampire.
"Good evening, beautiful lady. Your beauty makes this six hundred year old castle pale in comparison." Bloom Duncan saw Lin Xi and hurriedly went to greet her, praising her in an exaggerated tone.
"Good evening, Viscount Duncan." Knowing that the other party was a real vampire, Lin Xi's tone became much more enthusiastic.
"My beautiful lady, you still remember my name. Please allow me to express my gratitude with a kiss on your hand..."
"Can we come in?" Chen Chu, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke up, interrupting Bloom Duncan's actions, and stared at the vampire who was half bent over with a cold gaze.
The faint energy fluctuations in the air made Bloom Duncan tremble instinctively. He took a step back and said, "Of course... Come in."
"Let's go."
Chen Chu took Lin Yan into the hall. Bloom Duncan kept wiping his sweat behind them. Then he thought of something, took out his mobile phone from his pocket and sent a message.
"He was the one who gave me the invitation letter before." Lin Yan whispered to Chen Chu, "I suspected at the time whether he was really a vampire, and it turns out he really is."
"Is that how he spoke before?" Chen Chu asked.
"What?"
"Your beauty makes this six hundred year old castle pale in comparison." Chen Chu repeated expressionlessly.
"Yes, yes, yes, what they say is so interesting, just like a movie." Although it was all nonsense, Lin Xi was very happy to listen to it.
"You're also using the hand-kissing ritual?"
"This does not."
"That's good."
"Um?"
"Many vampires use physical contact to determine whether the other person's blood is suitable for their own." Chen Chu said calmly.
"So he just..." Thinking of a possibility, Lin Yan felt a chill, "He couldn't have invited me to be his dance partner because he thought my blood tasted good."
"possible."
"No wonder, I was wondering why I was so lucky today, so that's why." Lin Xi suddenly felt at ease. What was this sudden good luck? It was just a steady bad luck. This vampire invited her to the dance because he was attracted by her blood. She thought it was really her beauty that amazed the vampire. Sure enough, men's words are deceiving!
"I suddenly want to beat up a ghost." Lin Yan gritted her teeth.
Compared to Lin Yan's anger, Chen Chu seemed to be in a very good mood. He looked up and looked around. The ball in the castle was arranged completely in accordance with the court banquets of the Middle Ages, with luxurious interiors, melodious music, and even in order to create a medieval atmosphere, except for a few dim lights above the head and at the door, there were no other lights in the room, but countless candlelight was used to illuminate the ball.
Chen Chu raised his eyes and looked towards the second floor of the castle, and saw a brown-haired man in a white tuxedo. The man's eyes collided with Chen Chu's unexpectedly, and he took a step back in fright.
However, Chen Chu acted as if he saw nothing. He withdrew his gaze, took a glass of red wine from the waiter and took a sip.
The man in the shadow took a step forward, revealing a fair and handsome face that looked no more than thirty years old. The man had the same brown hair as Tours Daniel, but his hair was longer and was neatly tied behind his head with a rubber band. Under the eyelashes of the same color were a pair of emerald green eyes, which were dark and deep, like the finest jadeite. He was dressed exquisitely, and even had an old pocket watch hanging on his chest. He wore a emerald green gem ring on his finger that was holding the railing, and he looked down at the entire banquet hall.
"That's the Oriental man next to the dessert table." Tours Daniel pointed in Chen Chu's direction again.
In fact, there was no need for Tours Daniel to guide him. In the banquet, the oriental face with black hair and black eyes was eye-catching. The man looked over, but he was not looking at Chen Chu, but at the oriental girl beside Chen Chu.
"Dracula, one month from now, during the Odin Island Sea God Festival, an oriental girl with black hair and black eyes will appear in your castle. Capture her and bring her back."
This was the prophecy given to him by the leader of the organization a month ago. The leader did not tell him what the girl looked like, and Lin Yan was not the only oriental girl at the banquet at that time, but his intuition told him that the person the leader was looking for was the girl in front of him.
"Grandfather, I want to suck his blood!" A hint of greed flashed in Tulsi Daniel's eyes.
"It's just an invitation letter. Besides, you are not as skilled as others because you are too weak." Dracula didn't want to get involved in this matter.
"That's because I just awakened for the second time, grandfather. His superpowers are very strong, should be A-level. As long as I can suck his blood dry, I can be promoted to A-level immediately." Vampires suck the blood of ordinary people just to survive, but sucking the blood of people with superpowers can enhance their own superpowers.
"If you don't want to die, don't mess with him." Dracula gave his descendant a final piece of advice and turned back into the shadows.
Tours Daniel stood there in a daze, not moving for a long time.
What does grandfather mean? Could it be that the grandfather couldn't beat that man
At this time, the music suddenly stopped, and an English gentleman in a tuxedo and with a cane stood on the platform and began to speak to everyone: "Welcome to the castle, I am the owner here, Count Vampire..."
The brief opening remarks ended with applause, the music started, and the dance officially began.
Chen Chu took the opportunity to invite Lin Yan to dance with him.
"I'm not very good at dancing." Lin Yan was a little stage-frightened. She had never attended a dance during her college years.
"It's okay, it's very simple, just spin around, I'll lead you." Chen Chu said.
Lin Yan was also a little moved, and took Chen Chu's hand and walked into the dance floor. She was not very good at dancing, and she stumbled while dancing, but fortunately her skirt was big enough, and there was half a skirt's distance between her and Chen Chu. After a dance, she did not accidentally hurt Chen Chu, but just twisted her foot.
"It hurts so much." Lin Xi limped on one leg and was helped by Chen Chu to sit on a chair outside the field.
Before Chen Chu entered the dance floor, he had already prepared himself to be stepped on by Lin Yan, but in the end, he was not hurt at all, and Lin Yan twisted herself. Such an illogical thing could happen, and it can only be said that Lin Yan's bad luck is really not covered.
"Swelling?" Chen Chu frowned and looked at the redness and swelling on Lin Xi's ankle.
I was just dancing, why is my skin so swollen
"Did you use a lucky hairpin?" Chen Chu suspected that the mold was a sequelae of making a wish with the hairpin.
"Of course not, the bad luck with the hairpin is over." Lin Xi said.
Chen Chu's eyes flashed: "How did it end?"
"It was on the island. I was hit on the head by a coconut and now I have a bump." In fact, this bad luck is not serious. It should be related to the wish she made. Her wish at that time was that Chen Chu would not die. Now it seems that Chen Chu would not die at that time, so the price of the wish was relatively small. If it was really a life-and-death wish, and the hairpin was fulfilled, how could it be the price of just a bag.
Chen Chu was stunned. It turned out that Lin Yan was not resting under the shade of the tree, but was knocked unconscious by the coconut. For some reason, when thinking of that scene, Chen Chu felt sad and wanted to laugh.
"Don't move here. I'll get some ice. We'll apply it and then go back." Chen Chu said.
"I just arrived and I'm leaving now. I haven't eaten much of the food yet." This dance party was quite interesting and Lin Xi was reluctant to leave.
"What do you want to eat? I'll get it for you. You'll need to stay here for half an hour at most." Half an hour of cold compress is enough.
"Please give me another portion of that dessert. I also want to eat the main course, but it seems that there is only steak over there." Lin Yan wished that time could fly and she could travel directly to one and a half months later.
It would be great if the owner of this wooden fish was old Jigong, so that she could "have meat and wine pass through her intestines, while Buddha sits in her heart".
"I'll go see if there's any vegetarian food." Chen Chu said as he stood up and walked towards the dining table. He met a waiter on the way and asked him to get some ice cubes.
Across half of the banquet hall, Chen Chu was serving food to Lin Yan on a tray while waiting for the waiter to bring ice cubes, and at the same time, he glanced in Lin Yan's direction from time to time.
Not long after he left, people kept inviting Lin Xi to dance. Since Lin Xi had a leg injury, she naturally refused any of them. After a while, a familiar-looking vampire approached Lin Xi with a glass of red wine.
Chen Chu recognized him. It was the blond vampire who had used sweet words to trick him into a kiss at the door just now.
Chen Chu frowned and was about to go over when the blonde vampire bowed to a white lady next to Lin Yan and invited the lady to step onto the dance floor.
"Sir, here's the ice you ordered." At this time, the waiter brought a small cup of ice cubes on a tray.
"Thank you." Chen Chu thanked her and took a napkin from the table, poured the ice cubes into it and wrapped it up. After doing all this, Chen Chu looked in the direction of Lin Yan, who was still sitting in the chair, watching others dance quietly.
Chen Chu stood up and walked towards Lin Yan, holding the wrapped ice cubes in one hand and food in the other.
At the same time, on the second floor of the castle, Dracula stared at Lin Xi in the corner from afar, his lips moving up and down, muttering a spell that only he could understand.
Suddenly, a man and a woman came out of the dance floor and walked past Chen Chu. Because they appeared suddenly, they almost bumped into the plate in his hand. Chen Chu hurriedly stepped back and made way, but when he looked at Lin Yan's position again, there was no one there.
Where are the people
Chen Chu frowned, quickened his pace, and ran towards Lin Xi's position.
At this time, on the second floor, Dracula suddenly had an exquisite puppet in his hand. It was a palm-sized puppet wearing a Gothic-style long skirt, with black hair and black eyes. He held the puppet in his palm, without even looking at Chen Chu who was running through the crowd, and jumped down from the window sill on the second floor of the castle that was full of roses, and left the castle.
(End of this chapter)