Republic, Eli's home, it's noon, but Eli isn't sleeping. He came out of the bathroom as smooth as a porcelain man. When walking towards Louise, Eli said firmly to Louise, "Come on!"
Louise just rolled her eyes and said, "Lie down." At the same time, she picked up the spiked stake that she had prepared.
Yes, Eli is going to undergo a blood exchange ceremony. If everything goes well, Eli will become a real Toledo after a while.
Eli did not lie down on the 'operating table' as Louise asked. He counted the objects placed beside him with ink: the burning candles, the fragrant incense, the cross representing the faith of the Holy Lord, the Vampire Maker,
Neatly arranged clothes, as well as the blood of the deceased used to completely destroy the vampire's original bloodline.
Eli took this blood exchange very seriously, to the point of piety. Louise has repeatedly emphasized that he does not need to bathe or change clothes. The blood exchange ceremony is a very messy and disgusting process. The point is simply to clear out the blood representing a vampire's attributes and replace it with new blood to complete rebirth.
Any symbolic act that has nothing to do with blood is meaningless. Instead of creating a pilgrimage-like atmosphere here, it is better to pray that Louise’s hands will not shake later and accidentally end Eli’s bumpy eternal life.
Louise held a wooden stake, and her patience was running out. Louise didn't want to spend the whole day here. In the early morning, Eli suddenly said that he was ready, and Louise had already given up her original schedule and was ready. For the blood exchange ceremony, I didn't expect that Eli had made a lot of messy preparations. The sense of ceremony was there, but it didn't get to the point at all. It wasn't until now that it started officially.
"I said, lie down! Get down!" The wooden stake in Louise's hand stabbed Eli's vest.
"Hey!" Eli finally lay on the operating table. Don't worry, Eli's combat strength is much stronger than Louise's before being replaced. There was no way Louise could stab him. He looked at Louise, "Relax! Don't point around with the things in your hands, okay? I have put my life in your hands, and you are not ready for me to do some psychological training... Ouch!! "
Louise raised and lowered her hands, and the wooden stake had been driven into Eli's shoulder. "You talk a lot!" She turned around to get a new wooden stake.
The new wooden stake was already in her hand. Louise's brows furrowed on her impatient face, staring at the wooden stake that had pierced Eli's shoulder, and said gloomily, "Eli, the point of using a wooden stake is just that. I want you to bleed." With that said, Louise put her hand on the wooden stake on Eli's shoulder and began to stir.
Eli began to cry out in pain.
It wasn't Louise who was teasing Eli, but Eli... Tsk, the instinctive blood control of this first person of vampire blood who created the blood control technique, resisted the most lethal weapon to vampires! The wooden fibers on the wooden stake pierced into the shoulder showed no sign of being soaked in vampire blood!
"Stop stirring it up! Just insert a few more! My body's instinctive resistance will collapse sooner or later! And you making me hurt will only make my body's resistance more focused!!"
Louise twitched her lips and said, "As you wish." Snap, the new wooden stake in her hand was inserted into Eli's other shoulder. After waiting for two seconds, Eli still had no intention of actually bleeding. He curled his lips and continued to get a new stake, snap, snap, snap, snap...
This is a situation that both Louise and Eli have considered.
Eli's bloodline is very special. He doesn't even know what type of vampire he is. The reason why he created the blood control technique is because he can.
When the blood control technique was taught to the Federation, Eli also made it clear that any vampire could use this technique, but only Eli's bloodline was most suitable.
It can be roughly understood that every vampire has a charm eye that can change a person's memory, but when others only change short-term memory, only Toledo has a charm eye that can completely change a person's self-perception like Toledo. One family. And if we ask Zach how he convinces others that one plus one equals three, Zach's answer is just "I can do it."
Therefore, both Eli and Louise considered the upper limit of Eli's ability to control blood. If blood control is no longer as simple as a skill for Eli, the very foundation of the blood exchange ritual will be threatened.
For this reason, Louise also specially selected wooden bloodletting tools that are more dangerous to vampires. Remember, for weapons against vampires generally used to control and cause bleeding, ordinary metal objects are sufficient. Woody substances will cause the vampire's blood to misunderstand that it is meant to heal dead plants and will be actively absorbed, causing the vampire to lose a lot of blood.
As for why the two didn't choose silver items, the reason was a bit embarrassing. Eli couldn't afford it and Louise had no money. Originally, thanks to Zagel's relationship with the Secret Alliance, money was not a problem, but Zagel refused to help Eli do this because the reason was: If I want to use the Secret Alliance's money to buy a bunch of silverware, , also made into a weapon (cone) against vampires, Vandro would question my loyalty.
This reason is quite reasonable, considering that Louise is also asking Zagar to cooperate with Assamat in instigating the Mokavi clan to attack Fanzhuo's dominance, and Bruch's clan has joined the battle in the Secret Alliance. The situation in the Secret Alliance is actually quite tense, and it's not appropriate to let Zagar take risks on such a 'little thing'.
In addition, be careful. In the Republic, don’t mention using the super powers of aliens to commit crimes. Don’t forget, the republican government is a government that personally stands up to clear out the alien races that disrupt the progress of human civilization. These alien races include gods! In the Republic, there is no double standard between aliens and human society like Zach taught James. Don't break the rules, the Republic will not be used to it.
More than a dozen wooden stakes had been inserted into Eli's body, and Louise was disappointed to find that there was only a little bit of red blood spreading on one of the wooden stakes.
"Why stop!" Eli was clearly in pain and could be allowed to yell, "Keep going! I can still stand it!!"
But Louise stopped moving and said speechlessly, "The meaning is to make you unbearable. Uh." Louise brushed her hair a little irritably, "This road won't work. At this efficiency, even if I put you Even if it’s full, it won’t be able to release much of your blood.”
"Louise! Don't give up!"
"I'm not ready to give up." Louise glanced at Eli, speechless but actually inspired by him, "Zach said that your bloodline needs to disappear from this world. And I will make it disappear."
Eli, who was fixed on the operating table, stiffened for a moment, and then began to struggle. This is probably just an instinctive reaction to danger.
After struggling for two seconds, Eli saw Louise lost in thought. Briefly relaxing Louise was not ready to kill him. So, “What are you thinking?”
Louise answered, "I'm thinking of directly using the blood of the dead to contaminate your blood. Since your blood refuses to come out on its own, let it be destroyed in your body."
"No!" Eli objected. If you still remember the blood transfusion process, you can understand Eli's reason, "You don't have enough Toledo blood to support the replacement of the contaminated blood in my whole body! You only have the blood that can teach me a lesson about Toledo's heart, so that I came back to life as Toledo after a blood transfusion! The blood of the dead can only be used last when my blood only exists in the heart that keeps me alive!"
Louise glanced at Eli, "That's right, but our problem now is that we can't drain your excess blood at all, right? We can't get to the last step at all. Then we have to adapt. The immediate goal is to make your blood disappear, and Blood of the Dead can do that."
"Then I will die!" Eli glared at Louise, "And if you are so crazy that you want to give me all the blood in your body, then we will definitely die together!"
Regarding the blood of the dead, everyone knows that blood contaminated by poison is contagious and continues to contaminate new blood. Therefore, in order to save a vampire threatened by the blood of the dead, a large amount of blood must be consumed. Applied to the current situation, ordinary blood is of no use to Eli, because this is a blood exchange ceremony. All new blood flowing into Eli's body can only be Toledo's blood, otherwise all this work is meaningless.
Eli's meaning is obvious. Now, here, the only one who can provide Toledo's blood is Louise.
Then judging from the visual alone, we know that the reality of Louise's female body here is absolutely unable to meet Eli's blood transfusion needs.
"I don't intend to give you all my blood." Louise glanced at Eli, "I am not the only Toledo in the Republic."
"You mean..."
"Yes, I am saying that we need Zach's help from the Descendants of the Republic. In other words, we should take the initiative to find Papa Midnight."
After a brief silence, Eli said: "If Zach knew that you contacted Papa Midnight on your own initiative, he would be very angry!"
Louise tilted her head, "If he will be angry, then we won't tell him."
"That Zager will tell Zach too."
Louise shook her head and looked at Eli with some sympathy, "I won't tell Zager either. Unless you tell him, no one will know how this blood exchange ceremony is completed, and there will be no way to verify it. Louise patted Eli's forehead, "You won't shed a drop of blood anyway, so I'll send all the blood to your brain. Think about it."
Eli probably said, "Why didn't I tell Zagar?" and asked why he wouldn't reveal the process. This at least means that Eli agrees with Louise’s plan to find Midnight, right
"What's the point of telling him? I remember when you first came to the Republic, you relied on Zagel to be the 'created Zack' and prepared to have both sides of the Republican forces. But look at it now, Zagel has already deeply cultivated the power of the Republic. The relationship between Fanzhuo and the Secret Alliance is inseparable. What’s the point of telling Zagel that we need to contact Papa Midnight?”
Eli was stunned for a while. This guy's IQ was indeed at this level. Otherwise, in Zach's origin story, he would have ridiculously given Zach eternal life while he was still a slave. "That's what I meant! You We already know that Zagel is deeply engaged in the secret alliance, how can he still make a move to contact Papa Midnight? Aren't you putting Zagel in crisis?"
Louise glanced at Eli, "Eli, do you 'love' Zach or Zagar?"
This is a good question!
Louise saw that Eli's brain had stopped and shook her head, "I don't care about Zagar's life or death. He will always be just a 'dummy' in her eyes." There's no need to sugarcoat it, tell Zach about Zagar Well, Louise also needs to consider Zach’s feelings and be gentler to Eli? Speaking directly is more effective. Louise continued, "I don't care about the Secret Alliance. When we came to the Republic, I discussed the situation in the Republic with Zach. The Secret Alliance would have embarrassed Zach and me as Toledo. Exist. If it weren't for the Assamite clan that merged with the Toledo clan, and some people who are greedy for Zagar's free secret alliance information, do you think I would be willing to stay here with you? I have long represented the real Toledo , In the Republic, we are dealing with angels, Papa Midnight, and the God of the Republic.”
Louise suddenly had an expression of a loss that was not worth the gain, "Tsk, it turns out that I was wasting my time staying here with you. Not knowing what happened to the Federation, Zach delayed the return of the Assamite clan to the Federation. "Unhappily," he said, "I didn't get the little white secret about Fan Zhuo's downgrade; I don't know the purpose of Papa Midnight in the Republic; I don't know the situation of the angels; the God of the Republic, uh, I won't tell you. That is. Say, I stayed here with you and didn’t accomplish anything for Zach or our Toledo clan!”
Frustration is the core of Louise's words now, and then driven by this core, "Since in the current secret alliance, Fanzhuo huddles behind the ancestors of the Bruch clan to deal with Mokawi's attack, the situation of the Assamaite clan There is nothing I can do about stability." Louise concluded, "Zager and the Secret Alliance are not worthy of me wasting another second. Eli, don't forget, you and Zagel have no real substance. As for the sexual relationship, now you have to become a real Toledo, follow me back to Zach's 'embrace', or continue to spend time with that dummy (Zager), choose one."
This choice is so good.
"You don't have to sound so disgusting." Eli curled his lips, "I choose the real Toledo."
"Finally, I picked up the IQ you lost four centuries ago." Louise nodded with satisfaction, "You know, Eli, I will never really hate you." The inexplicable topic, accompanied by Louise was pulling out the stakes from Eli's body, freeing up Eli's mobility.
"Why?"
"Because it's you, Zach, a human being who died four centuries ago, who has survived to this day and allowed me to meet him." Louise really smiled at Eli, "Can you imagine, if I Where am I now if I haven’t met Zack, who started immortality because of you?” If you’re lucky, you’re swinging your own money tree on the street, but if you’re not lucky, it dies... Or is it the other way around
Eli accepted Louise's kindness, "You don't have to go out of your way to win over me. I will follow you and Zach. I am a member of Toledo." There's nothing wrong with it. This is what Eli has done for four centuries. Chasing 'Toledo'.
"Very good." Louise pulled out the last wooden stake from Eli, "Then you heard clearly, what we have to do next is to ask Papa Midnight for help, and Papa Midnight is not a philanthropist, he Will ask for something in return." Louise, smiling, "And once Papa Midnight asks us to do something for him, that will be the first step for us to understand Papa Midnight's purpose in the Republic~"
ah! This is Louise’s purpose! She doesn't mind showing her weak side in the Republic, and the reason why she needs Papa Midnight's help is Louise. What she wants is to use her weakness to lure out the strong man's desire~
Dangerous, but very efficient~ Haha, Louise hasn’t appeared in this story for a long time, we almost forgot, this is Louise~ This is what Louise is best at!
Well, but Louise will be disappointed this time. Papa Midnight, hey, is really a philanthropist.