Chapter 84:
Although Opera Hound lost the fight, her physical fitness was really great. After a heavy beating, she was knocked from the top of the building to the bottom of the building. She fainted for only three to five minutes before she got up shaking her head. He spat out the two molars in his mouth along with the blood. The bruises and swelling on his face had begun to heal.
Of course, being beaten up in public must not be a good feeling. Leticia's hound was as dejected as a drowned dog at the moment. She probably had a broken nose, and there was blood in her nose. She didn't even pay attention to her luggage. The box had been tampered with and there was a pair of stockings missing. Without saying a word, I picked up the package dressed as a maid and squeezed into the subway to go back.
Li Pan was also unhappy and followed her behind. Damn it, you think you are more stable! After delaying for a few more rounds, Old Liu Tou would have gone to see a doctor himself, okay? Wave, wave, wave! Hurry up! Hurry up! It cost him four million! Four million! Oh my God...
The hound was also so restless that he didn't even notice that he was being followed, so he came to the center of the city dejectedly, entered through the side door of a huge palace-like building, and punched in with his iris identification to enter the employee passage.
Seeing that there were security guards and drone cameras everywhere, it was too eye-catching to break in like this, so Li Pan walked around to take a look.
Oh, Midnight Phantom Opera House.
Yes, there is still opera these days.
Although people at the bottom like to watch Explosive Ball Black Mewtwo and pass the time on the QVN network, those with a little spare money can at most just go to the dance hall to pick up corpses and take a bath in the sauna.
But the upper class circles are obviously out of touch with this low-level taste. Maybe they have to cultivate their cultural sentiments to be active. In short, places like the Opera House have always been a paradise for the elite to socialize and show off.
And every company has its own corporate culture. Just like the dogs in Gao Tianyuan like to sit together and drink tea, operas and dance parties are the most popular in the blood slave circle of the Ye Group.
It is midnight now, when the lower-level social animals return to their nests and the upper-level cadres go out to socialize. The main entrance of the theater is busy with traffic, and shuttles are coming and going. From time to time, pairs of people come out, all wearing formal dresses, suits and leather shoes, looking like humans and dogs. Elites and celebrities, including vampire elders, a large number of bodyguards, military police, and even night knights were on duty at the door. They began to check from afar, and invitations were required for entry and exit.
Seeing that he couldn't get in through the main entrance, Li Pan checked online and found that a ticket for a single game costs at least 3,000 yuan, which is equivalent to a month's salary of a salaryman! And even if you want to buy it, you can’t buy it. These plays are reserved in advance by banks and companies. They are considered social welfare for elite cadres. If you don’t reserve tickets three months in advance, you won’t be able to buy them!
Unable to find a way to sneak in, Li Pan had to stand at the door while observing the nearby terrain, and estimate where to set a fire and sneak in. While briefly recording today's report, I was about to send Leticia's hound information to K to see if she had any channels to sneak into the opera house for reconnaissance. I also reimbursed for tonight's losses. I'd like to mention one million first. One hundred and seventy to eighty thousand.
Suddenly, a faint fragrance penetrated into his nose. When Li Pan looked up, he saw Knight Commander Aemilius, whom he had dealt with before, coming down the marble stairs of the theater.
She was wearing a silk evening dress and crystal high heels, and she came up the stone steps from the high platform. The bottom of her skirt was looming, bouncing, and Li Pan was worried that she might miss the step and fall out.
"Isn't this Manager Li? What brought you here? Do you want to come and listen to the opera?"
After standing so far away for a while, you were caught by the security camera. The defense was really tight.
"Your Excellency, Knight Commander, I haven't seen you for a long time. I miss you so much. I was just walking around, but I didn't expect to make an appointment..."
This Emilia even put her hands on her face, and Li Pan, who was in the public, also gave her face. A light kiss on the back of the hand to show respect.
Probably because she was attending a formal occasion, Emilia also wore perfume today. Although she didn’t know what it was, it smelled quite good. The top notes were the fruity scent of pear and lychee, and the middle notes were the refreshing floral scent of jasmine and peony. , and the tail section is musk and laneige.
Every minute he stays by her side, he can feel the ever-changing unique flavor in the air. I don't know if it's because of the added spices, but Li Pan feels a little high now.
It's probably another five-figure item for an ounce, so you get what you pay for.
Emilia Wan'er smiled and said,
"I've wanted to treat you to a drink. There happens to be a performance tonight, and it's boring to be alone, so why not come with me."
Huh? Is it so easy to sneak in? Let's go then.
"A beautiful lady invites you, don't dare to obey."
Emilia smiled and came over, hit the ball with the ball and controlled Li Pan, and then entered the court holding his hand.
She is the knight captain of the Aemilius clan, a blood descendant of the ruling prince, and can be considered a popular figure in the Ye family. She has always been a company licker, nodding and bowing.
Li Pan took the opportunity to sneak into the theater, glanced around, and saw the corridor at the end of the garden.
Hey! No matter how hard you try, you won't be able to find anything, and it won't take any effort at all!
Isn’t it right here? The place where he was kidnapped by a werewolf last time and exchanged for blood!
I thought it was some kind of manor castle, but it turned out to be a theater.
No wonder there is a mistake. This place is a kind of cultural exchange center and museum of the Ye clan. It basically replicates the Vampire Clan's castle one-to-one, and can occasionally be used as a location for filming. It is also convenient for people to move around.
Werewolves are actually hiding under people's noses. This is darkness under the lamp, right? But to be able to sneak into a place like this openly, I'm afraid there are also 'werewolves' in the Ye family...
Now Li Pan couldn't explore independently, so she had to endure it for the time being and go upstairs with the knight commander to the theater specially arranged for her. Private room.
There were already two men and two women lying in the private room. The four of them were all blood slaves with good looks and slim figures. They only wore masks and silk nightgowns.
Judging from the teeth marks clearly visible on their limbs and torsos, they were obviously snacks specially prepared for Emilia by the theater.
Seeing that Li Pan didn't seem to be interested in these gifts, Emilia waved the four blood slaves to leave. The two sat down on the sofa, and the maid brought them blood plasma and red wine.
From this angle, you can have an unobstructed view of the performance in the amphitheater outside. Below, in the auditorium, men and women wearing makeup and masks are taking their seats. The sweeping robot on the stage is also sitting and preparing.
"Tonight's play is "Medea", which tells the story of the desperate revenge of Medea, the wife abandoned by the hero Jason."
Li Pan checked the Internet,
"Oh... oh shit? She even Kill all your own sons."
This is an opera from the Ye family. To put it simply, Medea's husband Jason was in love with someone else, was greedy for glory, and abandoned his wife and son.
However, Medea is not a gas-efficient lamp. She is a witch. In order to elope with Jason, she murdered her own brother who came after her and cut into pieces. Now after being betrayed, she also murders her love rival and also kills him. He took revenge on Jason by stabbing his two sons to death.
Emilia smiled and said,
"Don't worry, the Grand Knight Commander Cornelia won't chase us just because we watched a show."
Li Pan was also sweating, swallowed his saliva and forced a smile,
"Oh, I This man is kind-hearted and cannot bear to see these tragedies."
Emilia laughed after hearing this.
"How is this a tragedy? Didn't Medea get her revenge? Didn't Jason suffer? The princesses and kings who ruined other people's marriages were punished by God. The ignorant teenagers who became accomplices were also punished by their own. Betrayed by his mother, he atones for his sins with the blood on his hands.
This is a clean revenge story in which every guilty person is punished!
I don’t know about others, but in this drama, The Manager of Monsters Inc., I think You'll definitely like it."
Li Pan was stunned,
"What do you mean by that?"
Emilia smiled,
"There's no point in giving spoilers, please be patient, we'll get there later,"
she said . He picked up the wine glass, sucked on his red lips, and slowly tasted the blood wine in the glass.
Li Pan had no choice but to hold back his temper and observe the structure of the theater, looking for any signs of werewolves among the maids, while watching the opera singers perform with subtitles.
The heroine who plays Medea is a professional singer, and her singing skills are really good. Even though I can’t understand it, I feel that it is so powerful. The acting skills of other supporting characters are also excellent and superb. Li Pan couldn't help but be fascinated by it.
Suddenly Emilia grabbed his hand and said,
"Here it comes, this is it."
This scene?
In this scene, Medea's two sons, in order to ask the king not to banish them with their mother, presented the golden robe and crown of Medea's family to the princess.
Of course, all this is Medea's revenge plan, and the golden robe and crown are cursed.
So everything happened as scripted.
The princess put on her golden robe and crown, and suddenly a terrible scene happened.
Her face suddenly changed, her skin was pale, her whole body was trembling, she was screaming in terror, foaming at the mouth, her pupils rolled up, and she was crying and screaming in panic and pain.
At this time, the orchestra off the stage began to play passionately. In the climax of "Medea's Revenge", right in the center of the stage, in full view of everyone, the princess went 'boom'! Gotta burn!
The golden crown on her head emits golden light like the sun. The raging fire lights her beautiful face and brilliant blond hair into a torch. In an instant, her delicate skin and graceful curves are ignited into a burning person, and the golden robe But it shines brightly in the raging flames, as if the whole person is radiating into a bright torch.
After such a short performance of a few seconds, the movement stopped for a moment after a climax. In the silent silence, the princess, whose skin fat and muscles were burned like rosin dry wood, fell to the center of the stage with a 'dong' sound. But the golden crown and golden robe seemed to be as bright as new.
In the deathly silence of the entire venue, the king dragged his legs into the venue, whimpering, and humming softly. He turned around and walked over. It seemed that he didn't want to act, but he had to act, as if It looked like someone was forcing him with a gun behind his back.
The king didn't know whether he was too emotionally involved, or he forgot the words, and kept muttering intermittently,
"My poor...daughter...which god...is this kind of person...such a cruel person... Let me, let me, let this old man... go with you! Ahhhh! Ahhhhh-!"
The golden robe seemed to be unable to wait for him to finish reading the lines, and suddenly rolled it up. , with the princess’s burned bones wrapped in the king’s body.
The king screamed, and the skin all over his body was burned by the hot golden robe. His whole body seemed to be burned by a cannon, and there was thick smoke and dripping corpse oil. He wanted to get up but couldn't. Even if he tried to escape, he couldn't escape. The roasted flesh and blood stuck to his robe and was torn off piece by piece. He screamed and struggled for a few seconds before dying tragically on the spot.
And during the whole process, the two young men who presented the 'golden robe' and 'golden crown' stood aside and watched the two living people being roasted.
Their lips bloomed with charming and satisfied smiles, and their pupils emitted brilliant golden light. The figures behind them were intertwined in the glow of golden robes and crowns. In the strange light and shadow, there seemed to be someone whose face could not be seen clearly. The humanoid figure stood behind them.
At this time, the actor of Medea appeared. She was holding something in her hand, holding it in both hands like a dagger. It seemed to be some kind of wooden bayonet, or a slender spear tip, and she was trembling towards the young man in the field. They are close.
Because she was shaking so much, her lyrics were out of tune amidst the rich smell of burnt corpses. But Medea still approached the two teenagers step by step. Then, with their peaceful and even kind eyes, he rushed over with all his strength and stabbed each of them in the heart.
As the blood flowers bloomed, the two teenagers closed their eyes and fell into their mother's arms. The glow of the golden robes and crowns then disappeared like smoke, and the light and shadow behind them also disappeared in an instant.
The end.
The audience was silent for a moment, then burst into thunderous applause.
Li Pan turned his head and Emilia looked at him,
"You pinched me so much."
Li Pan stared at her,
"That step was not an act at all, was it?"
Emilia licked her lips,
"Of course it was. Performed by offering a sacrifice to the "Golden Robe and Golden Crown of Helios" once a year, allowing the Sun God to see his descendants in the world, the revenge of his granddaughter Medea, and begging him not to come to the world in person, in full accordance with Your request."
Li Pan narrowed his eyes,
"I want you to burn people like this? Oh, it's a safekeeping measure? Is there no other way?"
Emilia raised her legs,
"Then what do you want to do? Just let it go. No matter, let those two things fuse on the ground and ignite the atmosphere?
Or throw them into the vacuum and light up two more star-level objects in the solar system?
Throw them farther? How far can they be thrown? What if they expand until they are red? What to do with the giant star? What if it collapses into a black hole? Is this earth still uninhabitable?"
Li Pan had nothing to say. If you think about it this way, sacrificing only four people every year is really a super simple solution.
"So the golden crown and robe are the monsters of our company..."
Emilia corrected,
"They are not from your company, but from our company. You just gave storage suggestions.
There are some similar things, almost all of them. Weird 'rituals' and 'sacrifice'...
But it seems you don't know anything at all. Why, don't you have any internal handover procedures?"
"Are there any more...how many are there?"
Emilia smiled. ,
"I know what you want. If you can't buy it from Ye Shi, you'll find a way to steal it, right? It's like this every time, can you do something different?"
Li Pan looked at her, "I'll give you 30%?"
Knight The leader put his head close to Li Pan's ear and whispered,
"I want half."
Li Pan narrowed his eyes and sneered, "Haha, half, can you eat it?"
Emilia scratched the palm of his hand, "Would you like to try it?" Try it, I can’t swallow it.”
Blanch! Burning goods! I just watched Medea burn the mistress and seduce me! Do you have any tips?
Li Pan rolled his eyes at her, turned his head and looked at the stage.
"So besides burning people, what use do those two monsters have? Are they worthy of being kept like this?"
"Can't you see that? They are used to 'coronate' a prince who is thousands of years old and wears the Sun God's treasured robes and crown. , will also be burned to ashes.
Anything in this world that can cause fatal injuries to the Methuselahs must of course be strictly monitored, otherwise the Presbyterian Council will not be able to rest peacefully." That's right, the longer you live, the
better Afraid of death, this 'Sun God's Clothes' is a perfect match for vampires. It took five hundred years to survive. No one wants to be burned to ashes.
Emilia stretched out her hand, followed Li Pan's formal attire, touched his belt, and blew softly into his ear, "
You don't have to worry about these two. These are sacred objects that our clan is responsible for guarding. I She's not so stupid that she would steal on her own head."
Li Pan frowned and pulled her hand out of her belt,
"Hey, if you have something to say, please don't touch me."
Emilia wasn't angry either, she smiled. He stretched himself and
said, "Don't be embarrassed. I heard that you really please the great knight. She actually took you to the knight's castle for fun, right? It's really unheard of
. Oh, I really want to know what you are capable of!"
As she spoke, she hugged Li Pan like a hunting black widow and held Li Pan in her arms like a prey.
Just as Li Pan was about to throw this woman out, he heard the other party whisper in his ear,
"The Blood Holy Grail is hidden in the Cornelius family's castle. Hasn't your company been coveting that thing for a long time? As long as you Promise to give me the Holy Grail once, and I will help you steal it."
Li Pan was silent for a moment.
Emilia took the opportunity to rub off on him,
"Don't worry about your knight commander, she is in charge of field work, indoor security is not her responsibility, and she will not be implicated. Haha, maybe
she will help you. I don't believe she doesn't want to use it."
"What is that thing? You'd better not try to trick me."
Li Pan grabbed Emilia, his fingertips just a few centimeters away from her heart.
Emilia didn't care that Li Pan's right hand could break her body and pierce her chest, and even took the initiative to get closer...
"As long as the heart and head are not completely destroyed, our vampires are basically immortal. You can be cured and resurrected in the coffin. But eternal youth and immortality are just appearances.
If you are severely injured on the battlefield, you will still sleep on the verge of death. If you sleep in the coffin for too long and inject too much artificial blood for first aid, your abilities will be greatly reduced. Decline, or even lose past memories and skills, and it will take a long time to recover.
Even if you don’t lie down in a death coffin to hibernate, your body functions will continue to decline as you continue to live, and in some cases, you will suffer from drinking too much human blood. , trigger the 'Blood Mourning', and you will be treated as a vampire's cyberpsychosis.
Once it attacks, you will be swallowed up by the memories of others, and may even completely lose yourself and become an out-of-control rampaging blood beast. The older the vampire, , this risk is also greater.
But as long as we exchange blood with the Blood Holy Grail, we can activate our bloodline memories, cure the 'blood sorrow', and regain our lost power. In short, as long as you are a vampire, you will not refuse the gift of the Holy Grail.
It's just that the Holy Grail has always been exclusive to the prince, and was only given during the triumphal ceremony of the elders and the promotion ceremony of the Blood Warrior.
I am now the Knight Commander of the Aemilius family and have the authority to access the Holy Grail, and you are Cornieri The dependents of Ouse have the opportunity to take action. We cooperate and take advantage of the change of consuls to take action. It will be seamless."
Li Pan was a little puzzled,
"Aren't you also a knight captain? You will be promoted soon, right? Wait a moment. Isn’t it the end of the wait?”
Emilia gave him an angry fist,
“Do you think you can reach the position when you reach your age? How many people in the parliament are competing for a spot! And the promotion will only give you two or three sips! It’s not enough to cure me. 'Bloodmourne'!
My term as elder is coming soon. I will have to wait at least two hundred years for her to sleep! Do you want me to go to the streets to keep vigil like Catherine! If you touch my figure, I don't know how to do it
. It's not a fighting type, okay! I don't want to turn into those disgusting blood beasts!"
Li Panhan, too, she has a fighting figure in another sense...
"Okay, I'll think about it... "
Haha! You've gone through all the drama at this point! I want to see what you are capable of, how can you deceive K into being confused!" The knight commander turned over and rode up, showing his fangs, and pointed at him
. Li Pan bit it down.
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