Chapter 353

Now the news about Raphael in Glowing City is everywhere. It is said that Raphael left a long time ago. Some say he went to this country and some say he went to that city. Each of them is very detailed, which has led a large number of adventurers away from Glowing City. The remaining ones are all old hands.

They dare not offend the church. They just want to find an opportunity to investigate the truth. If they find that it is Miss Thunder Sword Master, they can get a lot of rewards by directly bringing the news to those guys in Meteor Empire.

The wheels of the carriage rolled over a stone, and it suddenly bumped up and down violently.

Lin suddenly woke up, rubbed his eyes and looked around blankly. After a while, he asked: "Where is the poor swordsman?"

Qiyu pushed the head of the useless cat aside again and explained: "She felt that the carriage was too stuffy, so she went outside to ride a horse."

"Oh."

Lin stretched and touched Iris's head.

Xiye, this idiot, really doesn't like and rarely sits in a carriage. It may be caused by some trauma in his childhood.

Although he doesn't have claustrophobia, he is still quite repulsive to such a small space.

A sword master of over fifty levels can withstand the heat and cold, and running around outside is no problem at all.

Lin's eyes fell on Raphael again, and his expression changed and he immediately put on a disgusted face.

"I said, why are you as timid as your heart? Are you afraid of the group of ants behind you?"

"Who is afraid?" Raphael raised his voice, "I'm just worried that they will chase us relentlessly when we get to Shengdao City!"

"What are you afraid of? Shengdao City is my territory. If I want you to leave, isn't it just a matter of a word?"

Raphael rolled his eyes; "Aunt Ophelia will also catch me back."

"Just don't let her know. When we get there, I'll find a merchant ship to send you away."

Lin said casually, and then took out a bottle of sparkling water and drank it in big gulps.

Raphael opened his mouth, but in the end he said nothing, snorted coldly and ignored Lin.

Lin's eyes swept over Qiyu, thinking that there was actually a better way, that is, to let the Demon King disguise himself.

Unfortunately, the wild boar is just an outsider after all, and Qiyu is now pretending to be Xingli, so he doesn't want to reveal too much, and he is even more lazy to take action.

After drinking a bottle of sparkling water, Lin breathed a sigh of relief.

I still remember that when he was at home, the floor heating at home was very hot in winter, and he liked to drink some iced drinks, which felt more refreshing than in summer.

He opened his pocket watch and saw that it was already afternoon. Lin hurriedly shook Iris awake.

You can't sleep too much in half a day, otherwise you won't be able to sleep at night, except for the useless cat.

"Little Lin... Good morning."

Iris was drowsy, and her voice was soft and very cute. Lin couldn't help but kiss her on the corner of her mouth, and then pretended that nothing had happened, with a look of disgust.

"It's still early, you're sleepy, right? It's already afternoon."

"Uh-huh."

Iris made a sticky sound, and then her head fell into Lin's arms and rubbed it.

"Don't rub your shit on my clothes!"

"I don't have that."

The silly roe deer raised his head and said coquettishly, then lifted the curtain and looked around, and shrank his neck when the cold wind blew in.

"Xiao Lin, you are so bored."

"If you are bored, just read a book."

"I have been reviewing well, only the stupid Emilia doesn't study well."

Rin thought about it, and simply woke up the useless cat and prepared to make up lessons for the poor student.

The poor student was unwilling to get up, and kept lying there pretending to be dead. In the end, Rin could only take out the cards and shouted Raphael to play games together.

At this time, the useless cat suddenly got excited and sat up to join the battle.

There was nothing to do on the road, so this was the only way to entertain himself.

After Iris finished playing the deck of cards in her hand, she said with concern: "I wonder if Lina will miss us over there."

"Heh."

Qi Yu's slender fingers gathered two cards from the queue, put them on the table, and said lightly: "Then you have to ask your little Lin."

"Huh?" Iris was confused.

Rin coughed lightly: "Play your games, don't talk nonsense all the time."

He also secretly ran to see Lina last night, and his whereabouts must not be hidden from the Demon King.

But... this fox usually likes to act alone, and this time he actually stayed with them all the way without running away halfway, which is also quite strange.

"Ah! Why am I the last one again!"

Seeing that the others had finished playing the cards in their hands, and he still had half a deck in his hand, Raphael shouted a little collapsed.

They played all kinds of games in the past three days, and she was always at the bottom every time. This... this is so unscientific.

Lin said with disdain; "Bad luck is fine, but your brain is not working well. If you don't come last, who will?"

"You..."

Miss Lei Jianshi was very angry, bit her lower lip, and said unconvincedly: "Let's play Hero Fighting Demon King this time!"

It's hard to say about other games, but she is still very confident in this game.

"Tsk, wild boars really don't give up."

Lin sneered, took the cards off the table, took out a small and simple board game and spread it on the table.

"This time I'll let you know that luck, like brains, are unbearable burdens for pigs."

The evil young man didn't notice that he also mocked his own sword saint sister.

Of course, the human sword saint is at least self-aware. Knowing that he is not good, he tries not to make a fool of himself, unlike Raphael, who is not good and loves to play, and loves to open boxes even if he is not good at black.

Several people were playing games with great interest. Before the game was over, Xiye's voice rang out from outside the curtain.

"We'll be at the village soon."

Everyone was delighted when they heard this.

They chose to take a shortcut instead of the official road.

The official road passes through several cities, and the total route is actually much longer. Taking a shortcut is equivalent to the shortest straight line between two points, which can shorten the journey by nearly half.

The last time they came to Huiguang City from Shengdao City, they also took this road.

There are few towns near the shortcut, and they are waiting for this village located halfway.

Not long after Xiye finished speaking, the carriage began to accelerate, and Lin was eager to find a house to take a good bath.

The accelerated carriage slowly stopped. Lin was wondering how it arrived so quickly. As soon as he lifted the curtain, he saw Xiye looking ahead with a vigilant face.

"Be careful, brother."

"?"

Rin was surprised and got off the carriage with Qiyu.

They were in a higher position, and the outline of the village in the distance was clearly visible.

I saw a large ball of fire rising in the center of the village two or three kilometers away.

Qiyu used the Thousand Miles Magic Eye, looked around, and said: "The villagers in the village are burning things in large numbers."

"It turns out that they are not robbers."

At first, Rin thought that there were robbers burning, killing and looting when he saw the large area of ​​fire, but then he thought it was strange.

"I don't know what is burning, but it looks like a large scale."

The knight captain respectfully asked: "I will take two people to check the situation."

"Okay."

For the sake of caution, Rin nodded. This burning behavior is indeed suspicious.

After a while, three knights came with their horses whipped anxiously, and one of the horses had a middle-aged monk sitting on it.

He was wearing ordinary monk clothes and a small badge on his chest that symbolized the identity of a priest. He was a priest on the payroll.

After the knight dismounted, he helped the priest off the horse, and the latter saluted Rin.

"Welcome, Your Highness, I am Chang Bei, the priest of Huosi Town..."

After listening to his introduction, Lin asked; "What is the priest of the town doing here, what happened in the village?"

Chang Bei looked solemn: "Something strange happened."

Rin nodded, motioned the knight to continue, and said: "Let's talk while we walk."

Chang Bei looked around at the silver-armored Templar Knights, and was excited. He followed and told Lin everything.

He served as a priest in the church of Huosi Town, and the village was also under his jurisdiction, about 26 kilometers away from the town.

This morning, after he finished the prayer ceremony as usual, the local baron sent the sheriff to come to his door, saying that someone in the village came to report that a family had died tragically.

The priest has the duty to pray for the dead people and can also assist the sheriff in investigating this case, so he naturally followed here.

When they arrived at the village, they explored the scene and the body and found that the deceased had died in a very miserable state, with his body being eaten and festering everywhere, and a lot of blood was lost.

"Blood loss?"

Lin stopped and said in a deep voice: "Did a vampire do it?"

"Well, I found a canine-shaped tooth mark, it should be a vampire."

Vampires belong to the undead race. Unlike the folk legends of the Blue Water Star, they are not handsome or beautiful, and they can also transform into bats. Their main image is similar to the original vampire version.

Their face is as blue as a corpse, their eye sockets are sunken, their canine teeth are hideous, they have a pair of huge bat wings, their vitality is extremely tenacious, they like blood and can rely on blood to heal their lives.

After breaking up with the demons and parting ways, the living environment of the undead has always been bad. In the current peace period, they have been driven to a deserted place.

Without blood to rely on, they can only hunt monsters to maintain, and occasionally break into the border area to attack humans.

The reason why it is said to be a strange thing is that this is not a border, and vampires should not be seen at all.

"Have you found his trace?"

"The villagers who witnessed it saw the guy fleeing to the forest. It was dawn, and vampires could not move during the day. No one was seen flying out of the mountain. He should still be hiding in the mountain. The sheriff is searching the mountain with guards."

Rin's eyes fell on the hill behind the village. The hill was not big, and it was only a matter of time to find it.

As the group talked, they had already arrived at the village.

The village was quite prosperous, and there was a hotel specially prepared for passers-by.

Rin asked the knight to go to the hotel to get a room, and at the same time, Pure Raphael followed into the room.

When Raphael heard that it was a vampire who was causing trouble, his sense of justice exploded, and his hands were itching. However, when he thought of a group of bounty hunters following behind him, he had to leave reluctantly.

Rin came to the center of the village. At this time, there were only some residues left in the fire.

"It turned out to be burning corpses."

People bitten by vampires will also become vampires, so burning them is the best way.

"And all the things of that family. Everyone is very taboo about the undead. It is unlucky to be contaminated by them, so everything except the property should be burned."

Chang Bei said, sighing: "It's just pitiful for that family. Six people, men, women, old and young, died. Only the youngest son is still alive working outside."

Iris felt very uncomfortable when she heard it. She stared at the fire in a daze and silently chanted the requiem.

Xiye suddenly asked: "Didn't you say before that there were traces of gnawing on the body? If it was done by a vampire, how could it eat people?"

She had killed many undead people under her, and she was a little confused about this.

Chang Bei thought for a moment and said, "To be precise, it's like a wild beast biting everywhere but not eating. I think this vampire should be a pervert."

On this point, everyone else present nodded in understanding.

They have really encountered perverts, like the Wendigo last time, and have heard of such horrifying things. Humans can have perverts, and of course the undead can also have perverts.

Only Qi Yu did not comment, looking down at the ashes, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a while, the sheriff came back with the guards. The last two soldiers were carrying a corpse wrapped in cloth one after the other.

"Priest Chang Bei, we have found the vampire. It was already dying at the time, and we killed it without any effort."