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Chapter 99 Give Me a Drop of Blood 2 "Did he touch you just now?"...
099 Give me a drop of blood 2
As soon as Lu Jiu raised the silver fork in his hand, he stopped abruptly.
……What?
My heart had already started beating faster when I stepped onto this floor, and at this moment, it was beating silently in a rapid and chaotic rhythm.
...How could that be?
The fingers resting on his chin were as cold as dead matter, so strange that he was extremely uncomfortable.
However, the touch of the fingertips, the lifting movement and angle were so familiar that he instinctively relaxed his tense muscles.
...How could that be?
Lu Jiu's breathing also became rapid.
His eyelashes trembled slightly, and his eyes slowly opened wide. Facing the moonlight, he carefully distinguished the appearance of the man in front of him.
Pale complexion, straight nose and thin lips.
The narrow dark grey eyes stared straight at him, and his handsome features were exactly as he remembered.
"You..." Lu Jiu's head was buzzing, and his throat seemed to be blocked. He took a few deep breaths before he managed to speak with difficulty, "...Why are you here?"
...Shouldn't it be in the basement of the Hunter Bureau?
The hand holding the silver fork was grabbed.
Five cold fingers slowly inserted into his finger gaps, and the silver fork fell to the ground with a slight impact sound.
The man raised his hand to his lips.
She lowered her head, touched his with the tip of her nose, and pressed her lips lightly against his, as if she was feeling his body temperature.
“I’ve always been here.”
111 suddenly shouted: "——Jiujiu, be careful!"
The world was spinning.
When Lu Jiu reacted, he had been pressed heavily into the sofa.
The man leaned on him, still holding his hand, but the tip of his tongue had already stretched out and gently licked his fingers, from the base to the tip: "What's your name?"
"Jiujiu, he is not your boyfriend!" 111 shouted in fear.
Lu Jiu was surprised and confused.
I got goosebumps all over my body, not because of fear, but because of the sense of surprise that comes from meeting the person you want to meet in an unexpected place and at an unexpected time.
He heard 111's warning, but his brain was unable to process the information for a moment, and even his body was unable to resist.
Lu Jiu tried hard to regain his sanity.
No, something is wrong.
"...Before you ask me, shouldn't you introduce yourself first?"
The man's eyes turned and met his again.
The answer was quite straightforward.
"I am Cen Lanyan."
Cen Lanyan?!
The prince-level vampire who lives in Yinlin Castle? !
"It's your turn," Cen Lanyan tilted his head, "What's your name?"
"...From the tone of your voice just now, I thought you knew me."
"Yes, I do know him," Cen Lanyan put down his hand, lowered her head, and touched her nose to his, very intimately, "But I have been asleep for too long, and my memory has not yet fully recovered. I need you to help me confirm the answer."
Lu Jiu's mind was still very confused.
“…My name is Lu Jiu.”
Cen Lanyan's eyes darkened noticeably.
"...Finally I've waited for you." He murmured, turned his face to the side, leaned close to Lu Jiu's neck, opened his mouth, and revealed his fangs.
"Jiujiu, get out of the way! He is really not your top!!" 111 was almost scared to death.
The next second, the door of the room was knocked open!
"——Cen Lanyan, did you see——"
Yin Lin's roar suddenly stopped.
He looked at the scene outside the window in astonishment.
The two of them huddled together on a small sofa.
Lu Jiu was pressed under the man, his face buried in the crook of his neck, but his mouth was tightly covered by him.
The two of them stared at each other in an explosive atmosphere. After a moment of dead silence, they turned their heads and looked at him.
"...Ha!" Yin Lin held the door handle with one hand, raised the other hand, pushed his hair back, and laughed in disbelief.
There were two vampires following behind him, and when they saw the situation in the room, they all showed shocked expressions.
"What's the matter?" Cen Lanyan spoke with her mouth covered, and her calm voice became a little unclear.
"…I heard something happened on this floor so I came up to check it out, and I saw those two idiots in the hallway."
Yin Lin stared at Lu Jiu and said.
"Then?" Cen Lanyan asked calmly, "Are you going to continue to bother me like they did?"
Yin Lin: “…”
Lu Jiu: “…”
Yin Lin smiled wryly: "I want to ask you if you have seen a human named Lu Jiu. I heard that he came here to look for his friend, but his friend has been found by us, and he is still missing. Now, hey, he is fine now."
Yin Lin was about to close the door when Lu Jiu raised his voice, "Is Li Yang okay?"
"He passed out, he's fine!"
The door was slammed shut with a loud bang, filling the air with unhappiness.
The room fell into dead silence again.
...From the tone of his voice, it seems like everything is really fine.
Lu Jiu and Cen Lanyan looked back at the same time and looked at each other in the moonlight.
One second.
Two seconds.
The door was suddenly opened again——
“I said, Lu Jiu, you rejected me just now because you think I am not worthy of my level?!”
Cen Lanyan narrowed his eyes: "Did he touch you just now?"
Lu Jiu: "...No, didn't he say that I refused?"
Yin Lin: "You treat me like air??!"
The two younger brothers behind him were trembling with fear, looking as if they wanted to persuade him not to stay here but were afraid to do so.
Cen Lanyan didn't look back: "Get out."
Yin Lin froze, then sneered, "Cen Lanyan, how long has it been since you last sucked blood? You bite someone without even a little blood bag. Do you want to kill someone here?"
Then he said to Lu Jiu: "I'll give you one chance. If you want to leave now, I can still take you out."
Lu Jiu was a little surprised and turned to look at him.
The next second, his chin was pinched and his face was twisted back!
Cen Lanyan looked at him quietly.
111 desperately advised in her mind: "Jiujiu, please leave quickly. There is something wrong with the person in front of you! He is definitely not your ex. Don't be fooled!"
...Lu Jiu looked at Cen Lanyan in silence.
His hand was still covering the man's mouth, and his cold breath kept spraying on the back of his hand.
Everything is strange, yet everything is familiar.
His body, every cell in it, was clamoring, trembling, and excited for this familiar embrace at this moment.
After a while, Lu Jiu spoke in a hoarse voice: "Thank you, Yin Lin."
The breath spraying on the back of his hand paused noticeably.
"But I have something to ask him."
…The shallow breathing continued.
Just as Yin Lin let out an incredible laugh, the door slammed shut in front of him, leaving him no chance!
The room became quiet again.
I could only faintly hear the conversation between the three people outside the door.
"Brother Lin, let's go!"
"Cen Lanyan has lived longer than you, so he must know more about bloodsucking than you do. Nothing will happen. Stop thinking about that boy..."
“…”
…
The moonlight shone between them, making Cen Lanyan's skin look as silvery white as snow.
For a moment, Lu Jiu was in a trance and even wanted to touch the man's lips to feel whether even a kiss was so cold.
"Not willing?"
the man asked him calmly.
Lu Jiu's heartbeat was still fast.
His hands slowly loosened.
"... Tell me first, what do you mean by memories that have not yet been fully recovered?"
"You in your past life, and me in my past life."
Lu Jiu's breathing trembled.
wrong.
There was a voice in his heart that kept telling him that something was wrong.
But he still asked calmly.
"Be more specific."
This time, Cen Lanyan did not answer directly, but asked: "Even if I tell you, will you remember it?"
He raised his hand and gently stroked Lu Jiu's cheek.
"You are a human being. Every time you reincarnate, you will not think about the past."
No, that's not right.
Lu Jiu tightened his hands and asked persistently: "If you don't try, how do you know I can't do it?"
Cen Lanyan tilted his head to look at him. After a moment, he lowered his head, took out something from somewhere, and handed it to him.
It was a ring... made of thin dead branches.
I don’t know how long ago it was made, but it looks very old, but perhaps some special technology was used to prevent it from completely rotting.
When Lu Jiu saw this thing, an expression appeared on his face.
Cen Lanyan saw it and propped himself up.
"You don't remember."
Despite this, his expression remained calm.
"This is something you gave me five hundred years ago. At that time, you said that when we meet again next time, this thing will remind you of me. Jiujiu, sometimes you can be very cruel."
Lu Jiu shuddered.
"But," the man turned around and looked at him, "it doesn't matter. We can start over, just like every time in the past."
At this moment, Lu Jiu slowly closed his eyes.
He raised his hand, clenched it, and pressed it against his forehead.
“Jiujiu, he’s really not your old top…” 111 stammered, “The system told me that your old top has always been in the Hunter Bureau, and his position has not changed. This person… he, he just has your old top’s face.”
"…His lover has the same name as mine. Is it such a coincidence?"
"I don't know why this happened... but there must be something wrong. The memories he shared don't match your past. You, you should calm down and stay away from him."
Cen Lanyan looked at him quietly, and Lu Jiu could feel that gaze.
He clenched his teeth.
"I have a very familiar feeling about him, and my intuition tells me that this person is him."
"But, but," 111 was a little confused, "Could it be that he used 'bewitchment' on you? He is a prince-level vampire, so he must be more powerful than Yin Lin, right? Maybe you have been tricked?"
Lu Jiu clenched his hands tightly, and the blood vessels on his wrists were bulging.
"Jiujiu, let's think of another way. Let's go meet that prince-level vampire in the Hunter Bureau. Maybe we can get the answer after meeting him!"
“…”
A minute later, Lu Jiu suddenly let go of his hand and opened his eyes.
Cen Lanyan kept looking at him.
"...Sorry, I really can't remember." Lu Jiu said hoarsely.
"It doesn't matter."
The man said it again.
"Stay? You can get to know me again."
"……Feel sorry."
Lu Jiu finally calmed down.
He took a deep breath, sat up, turned around, put his feet on the ground, and stood up from the sofa.
"I think I should go, you..." He said softly, then turned his head and glanced at Cen Lanyan.
The man sat in the moonlight and kept looking at him.
My heart seemed to be grasped by a hand.
Lu Jiu forced himself to look away.
"...You haven't sucked blood in a long time? Are you hungry? Do you want to... drink some blood to fill your stomach?"
"I'm not a low-level vampire. I don't need to eat regularly," Cen Lanyan said calmly, "I only need you."
"..." Lu Jiu clenched his hands, "Sorry, I need to figure out some things, then... I will come to you again."
"Goodbye...Cen Lanyan."
He walked out of the room.
The man didn't stop him.
*
Li Yang fainted from fright.
After resting for a while, he woke up and came out, and happened to meet Lu Jiu who came down from the West Tower.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry for causing you trouble," Li Yang apologized desperately, his face full of guilt. "They said that the vampire had gone downstairs a long time ago. I didn't know, and I didn't dare to go out."
His neck was wrapped in gauze, and some blood could be seen faintly from under the gauze on the left side.
"I'm glad you're okay," Lu Jiu's voice was a little hoarse and absent-minded, "You should avoid participating in such gatherings in the future. I think there are more than one or two vampires there."
"Hmm..." Li Yang was a little depressed. "This kind of party will indeed develop into this. I was always very careful in the past, but I didn't expect this time..."
Seeing him like this, Lu Jiu asked, "Why do you have to come?"
Li Yang curled his lips: "Because I really want to be converted."
Lu Jiu didn't ask any further questions.
Huailu and Ashan disappeared and did not reply to messages. Lujiu and Li Yang ignored them and took the bus back to the school dormitory after leaving the castle.
At nine o'clock in the evening, the lights in the dormitory were bright.
Li Yang was taking a shower in the bathroom, the sound of running water was continuous.
Lu Jiu sat at his desk with his laptop open, the "Dark Night" forum page displayed on the screen.
He put his fist to his lips and scrolled the mouse wheel.
Chaotic post titles rolled down from his eyes line by line.
What does it feel like to be transformed?
[There will be a party at the usual place in Dongcheng District tonight, if you want to come, hurry up! 】
[My roommate always told me that his distant relative became a vampire and his life was miserable. It was so annoying! ]
[So has anyone ever seen a prince-level vampire? ]
[The full moon will come in ten days, are you ready? ]
[The Fangs faction in the same city has expanded! 】
…
"Jiujiu, I just checked and there is no bug in the system. Your old attacker's coordinates are correct. I was wondering, if your old attacker is really the prince-level vampire in the Hunter Bureau, is there a possibility that your old attacker's death is related to Cen Lanyan?"
111 racked his brains, "He is exactly like your husband. There must be something wrong. The only possibility I can think of is that he killed your husband and took it from him, or copied it? Copied your husband's appearance, voice, memory...?"
Lu Jiu frowned and did not answer.
"Jiujiu, what do you think...?"
Lu Jiu browsed for a while and suddenly asked, "What if the quick-through game is to confuse you and me?"
111 seemed to be stunned.
It was frightened by the idea.
"Maybe Cen Lanyan is him. The quick travel game deliberately gave you a wrong coordinate, and the 'previous life' that Cen Lanyan mentioned is the previous life of me and him in this world."
“…”
After a short pause, Lu Jiu opened his mouth again and began to analyze.
"If he is not 'him', but a copy of 'him' from head to toe, inside and out, then the part of his past life he mentioned might be his own memory. After all, he still has the ring in his hand."
"Of course, it is possible that he stole this ring from 'him'. But if not, and this is indeed his own memory, then why was the person in his memory replaced by me?"
"I searched for a long time and didn't see any information on this. There is no evidence that a vampire can copy another vampire's appearance after killing him, and even his memory will be disordered."
Of course, there is another possibility - this is a special case unique to prince-level vampires.
No one has ever seen a prince-level killing another prince-level, so no one knows this secret.
Or maybe someone has seen it, but the news has been blocked and is not known to the general public.
111 seemed to be at a loss, but Lu Jiu was still thinking.
He paused, put his hands on the keyboard, typed quickly, and entered the keyword "reincarnation" in the search box.
After clicking confirm, dozens of posts suddenly appeared in front of him.
[Do people really have reincarnation? ]
[Today I met a vampire. He said that humans really have reincarnation. He has seen a person's past and present life! ]
[Humans have no way of knowing whether reincarnation exists. Only vampires know. But who knows...are they fooling us?]
[It’s confirmed, the photo of a person’s past and present lives taken by a vampire that went viral these past few days was photoshopped! The reincarnation party has been deceived again TAT]
[If people really have reincarnation, I might not be afraid of death...]
…
In this world, do humans really reincarnate?
There doesn't seem to be an exact answer.
Lu Jiu clicked on a few posts, browsed quickly, and then exited.
After thinking about it, I typed "hunter" in the search box and pressed Enter.
Among the countless messages that popped up, his eyes quickly locked on one of the posts.
It was sent a week ago.
[I am a former hunter and can provide all the information I know in exchange for Cen Lanyan's accurate information.]