[Interview with the Vampire] Vampire Lewell

In the late autumn of 1978, Armand was still sleeping as usual.

Fortunately, the vampire didn't need to trim his hair and nails. In fact, the beautiful boy who had been lying on the bed didn't sweat much at all.But Lewell still insisted on bathing him every day.He always felt that after being soaked in hot water, Armand looked less lifeless at least.

Armand's dinner was Lewell's blood. Every night for 30 years, Lewell cut his wrist tirelessly and fed the blood to Armand bit by bit.During this period, Lewell could feel his appetite gradually decreasing.Although he still drinks a little every day, he always tastes it.He had a feeling that if he didn't lose some of his blood every day, he might only need to drink it once a week.He has done experiments and found that drinking too much blood does not make him much stronger.It's like eating for mortals. Hunger can make them feel unbearable, but eating too much will not do any good.

Since returning to the house with Armand in 1948, Lewell has hardly ever left his house.He must take care of Armand carefully just in case.This vampire, who was born more than 400 years earlier than him, sleeps day and night, and any servant with evil intentions or a small accident will bring him danger.

There was a time when Lewell tried everything he could think of to wake Armand up.All failed without exception.He even began to suspect that Armand's injuries were not all physical.If it wasn't for his mental trauma, he couldn't think of any reason to force Armand into a deep sleep.

For this reason, Lewell specially asked someone to help find Santino's whereabouts, because only Santino might know everything that happened at that time.Although he knew that this vampire might be extremely dangerous, he couldn't think of a second way except to find out the crux of the problem.

In the seventh year of Armand's sleep.Something that could be called good news happened.That day, Lewell went to the next room to answer a phone call and forgot to close the window.When he came back, he was amused to see a red bird the size of half a palm pecking at the button on Armand's chest.Lewell saw clearly, after the bird jumped back and forth several times, the beautiful boy's index finger moved suddenly.But unfortunately, after Lewell rushed into the room in surprise, Armand never moved again.

This at least shows that Armand is getting better!

In order to make Armand wake up early, Lewell bought more than ten kinds of ornamental birds.He brought the cages into the room, closed the windows, and let the birds out.In order to ensure that the birds would go around Armand, he also threw some bird food on the quilt.Fortunately, all he bought were grain-eating birds. Otherwise, Armand would probably be quite shocked if he woke up and found himself covered with a quilt full of caterpillars.

LeVert's "replay of the case" failed.

No matter how those birds tossed about in the room, Armand remained motionless.In the end, he had to catch the bird back with his bare hands.Fortunately, vampires have extraordinary strength and speed. This kind of task that is almost impossible for ordinary people is not difficult for him.For the next few days, Lewell was depressed, until Louis heard about his experiment, half-jokingly said that he hadn't replayed it thoroughly enough, maybe only 100% repetition of the scene at that time would make Armand react.

Lewell thought about it seriously, and agreed with Louis.Now it was Louie's turn to apologize on the phone, saying that he was just talking casually.

Anyway, as soon as Lewell put down the phone, he called for an ornithologist.He spent hours identifying hundreds of pictures of birds, finding the kind of red bird that might have been perched on Armand's chest.It was a relatively rare species in the United States called the red tit.

Lewell spent a lot of money to buy a pair of red tits.He put the bird in the room, and even opened the window a small crack, and he quickly dodged to the next door to make a phone call.He played for about five minutes, then crept back into the room.

This time, he was delighted to see that Armand was frowning!Although the bird closest to the beautiful boy is still one or two meters away.The bird was pecking at a glass bead on the table.

When Lewell returned to the bed, Armand's expression quickly calmed down.A flash of light came to mind.Lewell suddenly remembered that Armand had told him that the ancient vampires had the ability to resist foreign enemies even in their deep sleep.This is almost a defensive instinct. Armand must have sensed the presence of strange things in the room before he wanted to react.This also explains why Armand stopped immediately every time Levi returned to the room.Lewell's existence gave him a "safe" signal!

This conclusion made Lewell overjoyed.Instead of doing further experiments, he let all the birds he bought go away.He had a premonition that it was only a matter of time before Armand woke up.When the time comes, those charming brown eyes will surely open again.

Therefore, even though Lewell has been living a semi-reclusive life these years, and even Louis and David have repeatedly expressed concern about him, he actually feels that he is doing well.

His assets haven't grown much.More than ten years ago, he suddenly remembered the political catastrophe that happened in China.He spent a lot of money and secretly sent people into China in the name of the Viscount von Delt Foundation (does anyone remember this foundation?) and purchased an astonishing number of cultural relics.For some things that really couldn't be moved, he had to try his best to open up the joints and try his best to preserve them.Now, the situation in China has finally begun to stabilize, and he is slowly planning how to send these things back.Although this process made Lewell realize that buying antiques is a very expensive thing, but he really felt that it would be a pity to let these things be destroyed like this.He couldn't prevent hundreds of millions of people from falling into a chaos that wiped out humanity, and the only thing he could do was to preserve these dead things.

Another place where LeVert is throwing a lot of money is in charity.Although he never believes in a specific religion, he has a relatively simple superstition - doing good deeds can increase RP! (囧) If Armand's awakening lacks only one opportunity, he would not mind donating half of his annual gross income to various people who need more money.

Anyway, his current expenses are actually only a fraction of the money he earns, the largest part of which is the maintenance costs of the holiday villas scattered around the world.God knows he hadn't been to any of them for thirty years.However, he was still willing to listen to the intermediary's tricks and buy more, because just thinking about traveling there in the future and living in his own villa by the way made him feel a sense of pride unique to a local rich man.In addition to vacation villas (vacation villas around the world are usually used by Lewell to entertain his capable subordinates, and getting a vacation invitation from the big boss is often the dream of those executives under him), Lewell also owns a number of yachts, several planes, and more than a dozen champion horses.He didn't like horse racing or betting on horses. When he bought his first horse, he thought he had never seen Armand ride a horse.

LeVert's second largest remaining expense was the purchase of weapons.Fortunately, the United States has opened the door to convenience in this regard. Even if he wants to transform his house into an arsenal, it probably won't be a big problem.Lewell has always had a special liking for individual weapons. His collections range from the earliest weapons of mankind to weapons that are equivalent to the technology of 2050 that are completely absent in the market today.Even so, he's returning for new collections at an average rate of one every two weeks.For him, fighting is just about winning, but what kind of weapon to use is an art.

Another hobby of Lewell is reading newspapers for Armand.He felt that although Armand was asleep, he might be able to hear the voices of the outside world. If he woke up and found that he had missed 30 years of time, it would probably take a while to get used to it. It would be better to start adding knowledge now.

"Due to the increasingly serious inflation, the chairman of the Federal Reserve announced this afternoon to raise the discount rate to 18.00%. It is beneficial to reduce inflation, but many economists still hold the opposite view... Ha! The typical path goes to the dark, this Carter is not suitable to be president at all." Lewell put down the newspaper.

"I also think he's better suited as an orator."

"Uh...uh..." Lewell opened his mouth wide and couldn't speak.

The person who should have been asleep was looking at him with a half-smile.

A few minutes later, Lewell's dead brain restarted.

"Are...are you hungry?" Lewell looked at Armand eagerly.He wondered if he was dreaming.

Probably amused by Lewell's stupid look, Armand couldn't help laughing.He laughed so hard that it took him a long time to put on a serious expression again. "It's actually the opposite, I'm so stuffed. You know I don't eat much and you feed me every day. The part of the day I want to wake up the most is dinnertime."

"Sorry..." Lewell scratched his hair, "My God! Are you really awake? Armand, how much does one plus one equal?"

"Two." Armand replied simply.

A suspicious expression appeared on Lewell's face: "I'm still dreaming, right? How could Armand answer such a question."

"..." Armand suddenly regretted answering Lewell's question properly.His heart is not as calm as he shows.When he opened his eyes and saw Lewell again, he felt his whole body trembling slightly with excitement.Knowing that this person has been here all along, and actually waking up to see him are two different things after all.

Gray eyes, short brown hair, a scar on the corner of the mouth, and a muscular body wrapped in clothes... Armand felt that every part of Levi's body was so charming that it made him dizzy.He would naturally answer two seriously, because just now, he completely affirmed a question that he had been thinking about in his deep sleep.

He loves this vampire, loves everything about him, and is willing to give him all his trust!

Armand smiled and raised his arm: "Can you give me a hand? How many years have I not walked?"

The author has something to say:

Speaking of President Carter, he always made mistakes when making major decisions, but he was very good at negotiating, crisis public relations and speeches.He is the kind of male student body president that Americans have always admired (another type that Americans appreciate is the female cheerleader, that is, American Silly Big Sister or American Sweet Girl), but his ability is lacking.So much so that when the American people found that the money in their pockets was becoming less and less valuable, they decisively voted for Reagan. (Reagan was a master of economics. Unlike Carter, who only raised interest rates to curb inflation, Reagan adopted a series of measures such as lowering income taxes, lowering interest rates, expanding military expenditures, and increasing government deficits to revitalize the U.S. economy as soon as he came to power. ) However, after failing to run for re-election, Carter was still active on the world political stage. In 2002, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for opposing the Bush administration's attack on Iraq.No wonder Americans say that President Carter was more competent when he was not president than when he was president; Clinton was more competent when he was president than when he was not president.