A feather
“Huh--Huh--”
The sound of the wind was like the roar of a wild beast, tearing at Ye Linghan's ears.
Running forward in the darkness, the road ahead is pitch black, seemingly endless -
He gradually became exhausted and tired, so he stopped, supported his knees with his hands, bent over and gasped for breath. He raised his head slightly and looked around. He had run on this black road more than once, but each time it was like running into a ghost wall and he couldn't get out.
There was nothing around, it was empty, like an isolated space, full of nothingness. The only light was a beam of light shining from behind him.
Ye Linghan turned around and watched the halo getting smaller and smaller. According to common sense, most people would choose to yearn for light and walk towards the light, but he was the complete opposite, because there was a voice that seemed to have magic, attracting him to fall into the endless abyss.
"Han'er, come closer--"
The woman's ethereal voice echoed in Ye Linghan's ears.
Should I go further? He turned around and looked at the light that should have been there, feeling confused.
"Who are you?" Ye Linghan narrowed his eyes and asked tentatively.
Although he knew that he had asked this question countless times, he never got an answer.
The ethereal female voice kept repeating that sentence.
Ye Linghan continued forward following the sound, but suddenly his feet felt empty.
"ah!!!"
The feeling of weightlessness washed over my whole body, and I broke out in a cold sweat.
Ye Linghan sat up suddenly, his forehead covered with tiny beads of sweat. His thin lips parted slightly, he gasped, his chest heaving violently.
But he was not that frightened because he knew that the scene around him had already become concrete.
And he also knew that what he had just experienced was just a dream.
In his memory, his experiences before the age of nine were almost blank, so he didn't know when this dream started to haunt him.
He had experienced this process of his mind escaping from dreams countless times and had long been accustomed to it.
Ye Linghan picked up his phone from beside his pillow and checked the time. Sure enough, it was just 3:30 in the morning. He often woke up at this time.
He got up from the bed and went to the living room to pour a glass of water. He often felt dry mouth after being haunted by nightmares.
The cold water slid down his throat, and Ye Linghan felt a little more comfortable. He turned around and looked at the study. The crack in the door was pitch black.
He didn't come back today...
Because he was distracted, the glass was placed on the coffee table unconsciously. The crisp sound of the glass colliding echoed in the empty room. The harsh sound reached Ye Linghan's ears and startled him.
Ye Linghan, who had completely sobered up, forced himself to withdraw his inappropriate thoughts and fantasies. He smoothed the sweat-soaked hair on his forehead and casually pushed it back, making him look even more intriguing.
At the turn of day and night, a faint light from the stars was shining in the sky of East City, trying to penetrate the clouds. People were immersed in dreams that were either sweet or heavy. The road was peaceful and silent, with only the occasional sound of one or two cars whizzing by, which were then swallowed up by the dark night.
Ye Linghan was walking on the street wearing a thin white shirt. Since he was no longer sleepy, he planned to go out for a walk.
However, the nights here are not peaceful. In a world where humans and vampires coexist, disputes are inevitable. But fortunately, the Blood Hunter family is there to check and balance the situation, so the vampires will not cause even greater trouble.
Ye Linghan lowered his head, kicking the gravel on the ground with the tip of his shoe, counting the days in his mind. It seemed that person had been gone for three days...
He didn't know why he had such thoughts. When he was young, his emotions were ignorant and naive, but recently they became stronger and stronger, almost like missing her, or even a little dependent. He couldn't help thinking about her when they were not together.
This feeling is really strange, Ye Linghan wondered why he had such feelings towards that person, or perhaps he shouldn't have such emotions.
"Uh..." Suddenly a muffled groan came into Ye Linghan's ears, breaking his thoughts.
What's that sound? He looked around.
It wasn't early. Apart from him being awakened by a nightmare and wandering the streets because he couldn't sleep, or the Ghost Fire Boy racing on the road, who else would be hanging out at this time?
The voice only uttered once, and then there was no more sound.
Just when Ye Linghan thought he was hallucinating, the muffled groaning sound came again, and he keenly remembered the direction from which the sound came.
He raised his legs and walked quickly towards the sound, finally stopping at the entrance of a deep alley.
There was a rustling sound, accompanied by low gasps.
Could this be the true meaning of open-air play? Such extravagant play? At the same time, Ye Linghan's mind immediately flashed to that person's face, and his Adam's apple unconsciously rose and fell.
After realizing this, he originally wanted to turn around and go back the same way, but driven by strong curiosity, his legs were faster than his brain and he chose to walk straight through the alley, but as he passed by, his eyes subconsciously glanced into the gray alley.
But with just one glance, Ye Linghan realized something was wrong, because that was not the open-air play he had imagined, but it might be related to whether the two ethnic groups could continue to live in harmony.
There were two black figures in the alley. One of them was lying on the ground, struggling with his legs to escape, while the other was on top, trying his best to suppress the person under him.
When Ye Linghan saw this scene, coupled with the slight smell of blood in the air, his cerebral cortex exploded instantly. Because of his special identity, he was extremely sensitive to the smell of blood. This was clearly a vampire sucking human blood.
Although this process is not fatal in theory, if the user does not take good care of the vampire, it will be very painful for the person being sucked. If the user encounters a vampire with bad intentions, there is also a risk of death.
But no matter what, the vampires and the blood hunters had signed a treaty hundreds of years ago. Unless the person being sucked willingly agrees, the vampires cannot harass ordinary people who have no attack power and self-protection ability.
Of course, from what Ye Linghan saw, the person lying on the ground did not look like he was willing at all.
With the belief that one should help others when seeing injustice, a sense of empathy arose naturally, so he suddenly changed direction and walked towards the alley lightly.
Not far behind the two of them, Ye Linghan was about to speak, trying to scare the vampire away. Just as his words were about to come out, footsteps suddenly came from the distance, accompanied by the sound of people talking.
"Quick, over there!"
It was a boy's voice, and he didn't sound very old.
"good."
Then came a female voice's response.
Ye Linghan paused and heard the footsteps getting closer to him, so he thought about hiding first. After all, if there was no one around, at most he could scare away the vampires who wanted to harm people, but now that someone was around, if he meddled in other people's business, it might cause trouble.
But just as he was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly felt an abnormal sound of wind behind him, and then he felt his collar tighten, as if someone was grabbing fate by the neck.
He turned his head with difficulty in surprise and found a face that was covered tightly and whose features could not be seen clearly was very close to him, and at the same time, he heard a voice in his ear.
"Sorry, since you're the only one here, I'll have to ask you to take the blame for me~"
The man spoke in a low voice, so soft that only Ye Linghan could hear it clearly.
When Ye Linghan heard what he said, his hair stood on end. He was not scared, but disgusted.
"You..." He was about to ask why you are so slow, but before he could finish his words, he was thrown back by the man. It all happened so suddenly that Ye Linghan had no time to react. At the moment when the two of them passed each other, he instinctively grabbed the man's arm, leaving two blood marks on his arm, and at the same time, he was tightly clutching a piece of cloth belonging to the man in his hand.
"Whoosh--" Ye Linghan flew past like a shadow.
He curled up with difficulty in the air and stuffed the piece of cloth into his shoe.
Because he knew that he would have to take the blame.
"Bang--"
"Damn..." Ye Linghan felt dizzy, his vision went dark, and a warm feeling came from his nose.
He was a 1.83-meter-tall adult male, but the vampire threw him out like a chicken, bumping into the man who was originally pinned to the ground and was trying to get up, causing him to bleed from the nose.
The man was knocked unconscious due to the huge impact and anemia caused by the blood being sucked out.
Ye Linghan took a long time to recover, then staggered to his feet, covering his nose, with a few drops of blood dripping onto the palm of his hand.
What is going on here?
Before he could stand firm, he heard the sound again from behind him, and at the same time, in the dimly lit alley, a flashlight beam shone directly on him.
"Don't move, squat down, and put your hands up!"
Judging from the voice, it was that boy who was not very old.
Ye Linghan was helpless, a little angry and aggrieved. He should have minded his own business earlier. "No, I..." He was about to turn around and retort when he suddenly felt a cold touch on the back of his head.
"Don't move!"
Of course he knew what it was.
"Yeah, okay." Ye Linghan was quite straightforward. He held his head with both hands and squatted down under the gaze of the black gun muzzle.
A hero never suffers a loss in front of him. It is better to surrender appropriately than to lose his life. If the other party loses control of the gun and the gun goes off accidentally, it will be difficult to deal with.
Ye Linghan lowered his head and glanced in front of him. A girl walked up to the man lying on the ground in front of him, squatted down, and reached out to feel his breath.
"Brother, you're still breathing." The girl looked up at the boy behind Ye Linghan.
"Hurry up and call to send him to the hospital first."
"Okay." The girl responded.
"You, put your hands down." The boy tapped the back of Ye Linghan's head with the muzzle of the gun.
Ye Linghan did as he was told, and then his hands were handcuffed by the boy.
The boy put away his gun, walked around to Ye Linghan, and shone the flashlight in his face. Because the beam was too bright, Ye Linghan subconsciously turned his head and dodged backwards.
"Huh, you're so high from smoking that you're bleeding from your nose, right?" The boy's tone was not very good, and was filled with some resentment.
Ye Linghan frowned, "What did I smoke?"
But when he looked at the man lying on the ground in front of him, he understood that he seemed to have mistaken him for a vampire.
The boy pursed his lips and said, "Aren't you a vampire? Are you sucking this person's blood?"
Ye Linghan couldn't help but laugh when he heard this. He probably guessed the identities of the young man and woman, but how could a member of the vampire clan be caught so easily?
"Where's the evidence?" Ye Linghan raised his eyebrows and asked back. Anyway, there was no gun pointed at his head at this moment. Besides, a man with a clear conscience has nothing to fear, so he had nothing to be afraid of.
The man replied confidently: "I saw it with my own eyes!"
"Is seeing it necessarily the truth?" Ye Linghan asked again.
The boy was speechless for a while. After all, the whole story had not been investigated clearly, and it was not responsible to draw conclusions so easily.
Moreover, under Ye Linghan's strong counter-question, he actually felt a little unconfident.
But the boy was young after all, and he was a little arrogant in his heart, so he was still unforgiving. "If you have anything to say, come back with me and explain it. If you can't explain it clearly, don't even think about coming out again."
Ye Linghan was brought by the two men to a place that looked like a residential building, and followed them up to the second floor. The layout of the house was decorated like an office, but it looked very new, with no obvious signs of work, and even few people. It seemed that it should be deserted on ordinary days.
Ye Linghan looked around. Although his hands were cuffed from behind, he acted like an old man taking a stroll in the park, with a calm expression. He had already guessed what was going on here.
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