Chapter 212: The Second Villager’s Personality (V)
The news that the priest who sheltered the vampire on Misty Mountain has returned has spread to the village at the foot of the mountain.
Now, the topic of conversation among the villagers after dinner is the vampire in the mountain and the priest.
"I heard that after being rescued from the stake, the priest moved into the vampire's castle. There's no doubt about it!" a villager said proudly, thinking he was well-informed.
Everyone saw with their own eyes that day that the priest was rescued by the vampire, so this logic makes sense.
"You're just bragging," someone said in disbelief, "Ajin also said that the human footprints suspected to be from the priest were very fresh, and he had never seen them before when he went up the mountain. He probably just came back in the past few days."
Blood Hunter's words do have some weight.
But Ajin is just a part-time blood hunter, and some people don't trust him: "Do you believe what the carpenter said? I have the inside information of the Paladin Order!"
This person is related to one of the knights, so he knows some information that has not yet been made public.
"What?" Everyone was intrigued.
That's the Order of the Holy Knights. If what they say is not accurate, then there is no accurate statement.
"Ahem," the man said calmly, "Ajin is right. The priest just arrived."
In fact, the news was leaked to the Paladins by the Blood Hunter.
But this has also been confirmed by the Paladin, so it is an absolutely reliable source of information.
"I told you, that person definitely couldn't have lived with vampires all the time, how could he still be alive?" A villager spoke up after the fact.
Although some people in the village have suffered from the fangs of vampires, there has never been a case of actual death from it.
Even though it cannot be compared to "being bitten by a mosquito", being sucked blood by a vampire is actually not a fatal thing.
Once they target you, you'll be in trouble.
It is enough to suck blood just to fill your stomach, but the rare and delicious blood is worth cherishing.
One hundred years ago, there was a villager whose blood was too delicious for vampires, so he was tied up in the castle and became their blood slave.
Everyone who has never been sucked by a vampire is more afraid of vampires than those who have been sucked by them.
Because they don't know whether their blood has "value" enough to be captured in the taste buds of those creatures.
A few children heard the adults chatting and joined in the discussion.
"There's someone over there with the vampires!"
"Ah? Who is it?"
"That's the one who was roasted last time!"
“So scary…”
"Shall we go and take a look?"
They had heard stories about vampires since they were babies, but no one had ever actually seen one.
The adults said that we couldn’t go up the mountain alone, and at most they had only been to the church halfway up the mountain with their families.
Those vampires live on the top of the mountain!
Misty Mountain cannot be called a towering mountain, but in the eyes of children, it is as high as the sky.
It must be fun to run up the mountain with an adult on your back!
So, the children chattered and "plotted" for a while, and decided to go up the mountain while the villagers were going to church.
"This is our secret," said the oldest child. "We must keep it a secret!"
"Okay!" Even some children who didn't understand what "keeping a secret" meant agreed.
vampire?
Let’s go find the vampire!
By the time a few little ones pretended they couldn't stand staying in the church and ran out to play, the way to the top of the mountain had already been found by the older children who had arrived at the church early.
"Why are you so slow? We were almost setting off." Everyone walked towards the higher place, chatting and laughing.
This place is quite far from the castle, so they are not yet nervous and just walk around like they are on a picnic.
Along the way, I saw small wild flowers blooming in the grass and picked one; I saw small berries on the bushes and picked a handful.
As they walked and played, the children gradually came to a place where they could see the castle.
The dark outer walls of the castle looked very cool in their eyes, causing everyone to exclaim “Wow!”
The children pushed each other, and no one dared to take another step closer to the castle.
When you can't see it, you won't think about how scary the vampire living inside is.
But when you really find that ancient building right in front of you, it’s a completely different feeling.
Even the child who first proposed it refused to go ahead.
"Vampires can fly! Even if you are behind them, they can still catch you!" When older children scare people, their stories are even more terrifying than those of adults.
"I, I don't want to play anymore!" The proposer who was pushed to the front was so scared that tears were streaming down his face and even snot bubbles came out of his nose. "I want to go home!"
This is too scary!
At first, the child was just curious and thought he was very brave, but when he really arrived at the vampire's territory, it seemed as if his courage was eaten away.
Woo woo, vampire, you won’t come to suck my blood, right?
Ye Xing didn't understand why every time he walked out of the castle he could see humans coming to "sightsee".
Do you regard this place as a tourist attraction?
And this time, the people who came were a group of children, without any adults accompanying them.
Is it stupidity to not care about one's life, or is it that a newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger?
But looking at their expressions, they don't seem to be fearless.
Every kid’s legs are shaking like a sieve, yet they’re still trying to be stubborn and refuse to go down the mountain?
He thought it was funny, but there were vampires living in the mountains near his home. Anyone with a little curiosity would want to take a look, right?
That's understandable, but even when he was a child he wouldn't do anything too dangerous.
The priest didn't know that these children actually came to see him in part.
The humans who were able to survive after being rescued by the vampires on the "grill" were all looking forward to what it would be like.
"That's the legendary priest!" He was clearly someone I had seen before, but he became a legend through word of mouth over a period of time.
The older children who were taken by their parents to see the burning scene recognized it at a glance.
“It doesn’t look like a barbecue…” A child kicked the stones at his feet in disappointment.
I thought I would be roasted black, but isn’t this whiter than me?
Seeing that they were staring at him, Ye Xing became a little uncertain about his appearance and their eyes.
Does he look like a vampire?
It should still look like a human, right?
He didn't have any of the defining characteristics of a vampire, and he had no idea what the kids were looking at.
Fortunately, the little blood came out at this time. After comparison, these children will definitely be able to tell who the vampire is!
"Sir, who are those human children?" The little vampire was a little hesitant as he looked at the little guy in the distance who was staring at the direction of the castle without any concealment.
The young of all creatures are basically very fragile, and their blood clans will not suck the blood of such children, because that may make people sick, which is not a good thing in the long run.
"They should be from the village at the foot of the mountain." The priest thought it would be bad if they were discovered by other vampires. "Should we send them down the mountain first? Otherwise, the Paladins will have a chance to attack them from the mountain."
The vampires in Misty Mountain don't harm people much now, so even if the local Paladins want to join forces with other groups to encircle and suppress them, they have no reason to do so.
But if a child got into danger in the mountains, even if it wasn't a vampire's fault, the child would be held guilty - the Paladins were trying to find evidence of the crime.
The blood clan leader had never done such a thing as escorting human cubs down the mountain, but since the priest said so, he had no objection.
"Okay," Xiaoxue agreed, "Sir, I'll put the tooth away right away, otherwise it will scare them."
Although the vampire patriarch usually retracts his fangs in front of the priest, this is the vampire's territory after all, and he is the patriarch here, so he still has to show some dignity.
At this time, they had just walked out of the castle, and his teeth were still at their most "arrogant" state.
Ye Xuan didn't expect Xiaoxue to think of this. He is truly a reassuring and good child.
After becoming the patriarch, he also grew a lot.
When they approached the children, they were so frightened that they froze in place and dared not move, unable to even cry.
The appearance of vampires and the legendary priest roasted by fire before him was tantamount to facing real strange stories.
The youngest child had already blushed.
Vampire! So close!
Some children held their breath, thinking that the vampires would not be able to detect them.
In fact, vampires have good eyesight. Although they all have "red eye disease", they can still see people clearly.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. We have no ill intentions." Seeing that the children looked like they were about to collapse, Ye Xing quickly explained his purpose. "We just think it's too dangerous for a group of you kids to run around in the mountains, so we want to take you down the mountain."
It was strange. When he was in college, he heard from classmates who also lived in the mountain village that every child was told by adults that if they got lost in the mountains, they might get help from mountain spirits. Why didn't it work here?
Is this a cultural difference?
Those monsters are said to eat people, but when encountering possible natural accidents, they become trustworthy beings.
The vampires in this mountain have never killed anyone, so why can't you trust them?
In order to appear more friendly, Xiaoxue squatted next to the priest.
Do you think that you scared these children?
I had good intentions, but it seems like I did something bad...
Thinking of this, the little vampire felt a little aggrieved, but was unwilling to say it out loud.
Even if I told him, it would only make him worry.
Ye Xuan could see Xiao Xue's inner thoughts clearly and smiled helplessly.
Well, it seems that we have to appease the children on both ends.
"Xiaoxue, these kids are not afraid of you, they are afraid of the scary vampires in the stories," he thought of the stories the other party had heard when they were young, "just like before you met the real blood hunter, you were also afraid of the ones in the stories, right?"
Seeing the other party nod, he also ruffled the little vampire's fluffy black hair.
Okay, coax one.
Next up is a group.
With the priest's gentle and careful explanation, the children also realized that the vampire in front of them had no ill intentions.
Before the adults came out of the church, they were all sent back without attracting the attention of the villagers.
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