Chapter 7
On the cigarette that still emitted smokes, a circle of bright red burning marks gradually moved closer to the end as the lips of the vampire opened and closed, and the gray cylindrical cigarette ash finally could not bear its weight, and broke away from the burning place and fell.
The man who had been like a dead man before suddenly moved. The closed eyelids opened instantly, and in the brown eyes, the pupils constricted, both hands were immediately lifted up, and grabbed Zach’s left arm forcefully, and pushed it towards his mouth! His posture has changed from being supported by Zach to holding Zach’s wrist tightly, as if the people in the desert have finally found the water source, greedily sucking the bleeding left wrist of the vampire!
Zach frowned. His light green eyes looked at the wounds on the man’s body, the cracked skin began to heal, and the new skin was in sharp contrast with his original skin that was covered with muddy soil.
“Enough!” Zach leaned his head, spat out his cigarette butt, and snorted. With his right hand holding the man’s head, he pushed it away, withdrew his arm, and the wound was healed in the blink of an eye. Zach twisted his wrist and watched this somewhat greedy man look at his hand with horrified eyes!
“What, what happened?” There were traces of blood on the man’s fingers, it was Zach blood. He seemed to have just realized what he just did. Wiping his lips with the back of his hand, the remaining blood painted a bright red mark on the back of his hand! “What, what did you make me drink!”
The man looked up and saw two ‘people’.
“You, you…” He looked at Benjamin, “You, you…” He looked at Zach again. Obviously he was confused.
The vampire and the werewolf glanced at each other, Zach put on his glove again, took out the cigarette from the coat pocket, and lit one up. This vampire during the day was a heavy smoker. Because according to himself, smoke could dispel the lethargy caused by the sun.
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Amazing, right? I think so too.
The man sitting on the ground jumped up sharply with his eyes looking around, seemingly looking for weapons?
Benjamin glanced at Zach with dissatisfaction. After this stringy vampire confirmed that this human would not be able to escape from them, he didn’t want to use any more of his energy, not even his hypnotizing eyes.
After failing to find a weapon, the man turned around and started running. Zach stood in the shade of the tree, blowing out smoke rings without any intention of moving. Benjamin shook his head helplessly and pounced forward, yes, it was ‘pounce’. This werewolf was like a beast that locked on its prey, with its legs bent and its body leaning forward, using both his hands and legs moving fast on the ground.
The soft land soil was kicked up by the werewolf, and in the morning light, a vague figure slammed into the running man!
Pfff…
“Let me… Ah! Let me go, you monster!”
Benjamin arched his arms, and the palms that were two times bigger than the ordinary people grabbed the man’s two elbows and pinned him down on the ground. The two lower legs were pressed on the man’s thigh, with knees and brown leather boots against the ground, firmly fixed the man’s two legs.
The werewolf pressed his head against the back of the man’s head. The man, whose half mouth was buried in the soil, cursed in a muffled voice.
Benjamin growled in low voice, and he was suppressing his wolfish instinct.
Pressing his head against the opponent was the only humanized action in this short hunt. As far as instinct was concerned, this should be the moment when Benjamin bit off the prey’s carotid artery or trachea.
“You saw me last night!” Benjamin’s husky voice sounded with a low beep growl like a beast, “Give me a reason not to bite off your neck now!”
Of course, this was just a threat. After all, with Benjamin’s neatly arranged two rows of teeth and human-shaped jawbones, it was a laborious and ugly thing to bite off any creature’s neck.
The man’s stopped resisting, but his eyes turned to the person, who pinned him down on the ground, with his face filled with mad and anger! Benjamin raised his head, but lowered his body, approaching the man in a deterrent manner, with the cold green light in his brown eyes.
“Kill me! I have no ability to kill you. You can kill me now! You monster!”
The werewolf’s eyebrows frowned, and his eyes moved to the vampire, who was standing in the shade. There was also a trace of doubt in Zach’s eyes.
‘Kill him? Can this man not tell that it was us, who saved him?’
Benjamin eased his power to suppress the man, but his voice was still full of barbarism and deterrence, “Why do I need to kill you!”
Zach lowered the brim of his hat and finally stepped out of the shade, but he still raised his arm to block the sunlight that escaped through the leaves. “Enough, Benjamin. There is no need to deepen the impression that ‘we are monsters’.”
The vampire made no secret of mocking the werewolf’s brutal style.
The werewolf’s brows were pressed even closer, and he was now trying to figure out why he, as a werewolf, would become friends with a vampire.
In fact, it also makes me, an ‘ordinary’ human, curious about the reason why these two would become friends!
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“Mister, I think you have misunderstood something. We saved you. You should thank us instead of using insulting words to define your savior.” Zach said it gently.
When he approached, Benjamin had already stopped pressing the man down and pulled up the man, who also looked very strong in the eyes of ordinary people. His whole body and half of the face were covered with mud. It was a complete mess.
But his expression has become a little confused, or dull to be specific.
Zach looked at the man again. He was about twenty-five years old. His shoulders were wider than those of ordinary people, his body was muscular, and his fingers were covered with calluses from weapons practice. Judging from the short search for weapons and the movements he made during the escape, his thinking and reaction were faster than ordinary people.
Zach made the judgment that this man was from the army.
“Let me introduce myself first. My name is Zachary Grande. You can call me Zach. This is my younger brother, Benjamin Grande. How may we address you?”
Brothers? The confusion on the man’s face became even more obvious. Was this bearded, tall muscular man, who could turn into a bear-size wolf the younger brother of a fair-skinned man of medium height man, who used his blood to make the scars all over his body disappear?
Well, this problem also troubled me for a while, until I learned their secret. Believe me, the process of knowing the truth was not pleasant. As an ‘ordinary’ human, I am deeply envious of this man because he knew from the beginning that those two guys, who claimed to be brothers in front of him, were not humans.
The confusion disappeared instantly, and the man’s thoughts began to regroup.
“You, you saved me.” The man started to calm down, as his eyes moved between those two ‘brothers’, “Yes, you saved me. You didn’t attack me last night, and earlier, earlier, you healed my wound with your blood. You are not the monster that attacked me…”
When the man finished, there were doubts in his eyes, and it was the same for Zach and Benjamin. Because the man had just said something that attracted their attention. In the city of Barton appeared a monster that attacked humans.
Louise’s face appeared in Zach’s mind for a split second. It was because of her unusual vigilance.
The man pushed away Benjamin’s hand that was still restraining him, and his gaze became vigilant. He stepped back and asked, “what exactly are you?”
“I seem to have introduced myself already,” Zach said coldly. His concern now was not the identity of the man, but their safety in Barton City. Red color started to spread in the vampire’s eyes.
Benjamin reached out and stopped Zach, “Wait, we need him. We need to find the guy who attacked humans.”
Zach looked at Benjamin and thought for a moment. Louise would come over today to answer the questions he asked last night. Judging from her unusual vigilance, she may say the same thing as this man. But this guy was obviously trained in the army, and apparently he had escaped the attack, so he should be able to provide some practical clues. Zach agreed with Benjamin’s idea, the red color that had just appeared in his eyes disappeared. He then spoke to the man, who was still watching them vigilantly.
“What are we? You have seen it. Believe me, if I said that we can take your life at any time, you would not have any chance to resist.” Zach stared at the man and continued, “But now, we and you are both very concerned about the ‘monster’ that attacked others in Barton City, are you interested in a cooperation?” Zach’s squinted eyes were very tempting,” Mr. Anonymous? ”
The vigilance in the man’s eyes was shaking, he was thinking about the possibility of ‘cooperation’.
From Zach’s words, he felt that the two ‘things’ in front of him didn’t have malice toward humans. On the contrary, they seemed to want to protect Barton City.
“Okay!” The man lowered his guard and reached out his right hand, “We will cooperate! My name is James… Jim! My name is Jim! Jim Grande! I’m your younger brother!”
Zach shook Jim’s right hand. He didn’t mind this man self-proclaiming to “be” a member of their Grande family. Instead, the eyes of the vampire and the werewolf squinted at the same time.
Jim Grande…
Another smart human!