[Ke Fei]Shanghai Knights

The silver-haired man quickly shuttled through the narrow underground corridor. The air current brushing his cheeks and the violent bumps made it almost impossible for the girl caught under the former's arm to open her eyes.It is clear that there is a dark underground around, but this does not seem to affect the vision of the silver-haired man. He keeps going around various obstacles, and several times Gu Xiaoman can even feel that the stone wall is dangerously close to him. And the strong wind passed by.

At this moment, Gu Xiaoman felt a wave of heat coming from behind, so he took advantage of the situation to look back, and could faintly see an orange-red light at the corner of the staircase corridor.

"Hey, that angel is here."

"It seems to be like this~ It's faster than expected."

"What should I do if I'm caught up?"

"We're done. In that heat, everything would be reduced to ashes."

Ferid's smiling voice made the girl even more anxious, "Then think of a way!"

"That depends on Crowley's performance."

As soon as Ferid finished speaking, Gu Xiaoman felt a shock different from being led away by a silver-haired man.This was a vibration from the ground. Accompanied by the sound of something collapsing, the girl cried out nervously: "The underground space is beginning to collapse."

"Well, it's true if you think about it, the masonry in the lower layer is probably about to turn into lava."

Gu Xiaoman's heart trembled, and before he had time to think about the consequences of the complete collapse of the underground building, he felt a sharp pain in the waist surrounded by Ferid's arms - the silver-haired man suddenly stopped his running steps.

The girl raised her head subconsciously, not knowing when there was no passage in front of them, replaced by huge falling stones, as if a moat of despair lay before their eyes.

"Oops, there's no way. Couldn't the Templar building be a little stronger?"

Ferid's tone was still frivolous, but Gu Xiaoman couldn't share his calmness.The girl could feel the heat wave approaching behind her, and her originally neat cheongsam had already been changed beyond recognition due to continuous running and unstoppable sweat.Clenching five fingers subconsciously, the girl asked in a shy voice, "The angel is catching up, are we really alright?"

"We should be more worried about what will happen to the fragments of the ark below. If it is buried in the ground like this, it will be even more difficult to dig it out and destroy it." Ferid turned around and looked at the angel chasing after Even in the face of desperation, he still has a smile on his face.He twitched the corner of his mouth and muttered, "Crowley, you are really unreliable."

The suffocating temperature made the surrounding air seem to be steaming, Gu Xiaoman felt as if he was in a stove, every breath brought in hot gas, his lungs were almost on fire.Not only the lungs, but at the moment when the angel's white wings could be faintly seen in the orange-red light at the other end of the corridor, she felt that she was about to turn into a puddle of blood like the buildings below.

"Aha...it seems a bit bad this time..." As the angel became more and more clear in the vision of the two, tiny beads of sweat ooze from the corner of Ferid's forehead.

There were several crashing roars and violent vibrations from the lower floor. I am afraid that the hall with debris on the lowest floor has long since ceased to exist, so facing the invincible angel, all they can do is wait for death.

As if knowing that the target could no longer escape, the light shrouding the angel's body became even more dazzling, and the high temperature distorted its holy figure.The dazzling light and the high temperature that seemed to have evaporated tears made Gu Xiaoman have to close her eyes tightly, but even so, the orange-red light cluster broke through the barrier of her eyelids and was vaguely reflected in her vision.The surrounding sounds also seemed to be annihilated in the high fever, and the girl could only hear the sound of her own heart beating.

"Pounding, pounding".

Gu Xiaoman quietly counted down the countdown to death.

Then, as if the pause button was pressed, everything disappeared.There was no red light piercing her eyes, no steaming heat waves, and no angels representing heaven's punishment. The girl opened her eyes, and only the residual heat and the darkened underground space remained before her eyes.

"The angel...disappeared..."

"Looks like Crowley caught up."

As if in response to Ferid's words, footsteps from far to near sounded from the other end of the corridor, and then a man's voice came: "Hot, so hot! Oh, Ferid, the angel disappeared?"

The girl felt the arms around her waist loosen suddenly, and when her body fell to the still warm ground, Ferid's artificial and exaggerated voice gradually moved forward.

"Oh, isn't this Crowley? You really have lived up to my trust in you. Of course, it would be better if you could be a little faster."

"Come on, leave this kind of work to me, you just want to watch me play."

"How come? I entrusted my life to you without hesitation. You should thank me for my unquestionable trust in you."

"Yes, yes." After Crowley replied helplessly, the vibration under his feet became more intense, "Oh, there's no time to talk nonsense, I don't want to be buried here alive. Get out of the way."

The sound of metal cutting stones rang in his ears, and the next second, a bluish-white moonlight shone into Gu Xiaoman's eyes. Unexpectedly, there was almost only a wall between them and the ground.

Drilling through the gap between the opened stones, Gu Xiaoman realized that the ground was not peaceful.There was a lot of people around, and accompanied by the beating of gongs and drums, the shouts of "fire!" came one after another.Looking behind, bursts of flames have already burst out of the public school building, billowing thick smoke straight into the sky.It appears that heat from the subsurface reached the surface and ignited the school.

The girl looked away in a daze, and lowered her head to realize that her cheongsam had already been completely ruined by stains. Fortunately, no one noticed her impolite attire under the cover of night and the chaos of the fire.And Crowley, who went to destroy the angel statue alone, was not much better than her. Most of the priest's uniform was burned due to the high temperature of the angel, and strands of it were hanging on his body in tatters. The red hair was curled up under the roasting of the angels, and his distressed image was comparable to that of a beggar on the side of the road.And Ferid, who only got a little dust in his escape, was obviously the neatest and most well-dressed of the three.

The silver-haired man also noticed this, he covered his belly and laughed without gentlemanly manner, pointed at his red-haired companion and mocked: "Hahahaha, Crowley, I must take note of your appearance, as my Happiest memory for the rest of my life."

"Hey, why didn't I turn you into ashes?" Crowley rolled his eyes towards the sky, then narrowed his eyes slightly and cast a questioning gaze on Ferid, "Speaking of which, you didn't even tell me this Angels are so hard to break."

"Everything will be fine in the end." The silver-haired man turned a deaf ear, tapped his palm on his chest and glanced at Gu Xiaoman with a smile, "The angel experiment was destroyed, and the research materials of the Freemasonry were also destroyed when Miss Gu distracted the enemy's attention." Once we get it, our mission is complete.”

"Sure enough, you came here for a mission," Crowley said.

"Huh? Did I say something?" Ferid just put a fake smile on the corner of his mouth, "Ah~ I'm tired, I think we can go back and change clothes first, and then take a good rest."

The bickering between the two made Gu Xiaoman finally accept the fact that everything was over, she let out a light breath, a slightly sad arc appeared on her lips.Although her brother is no longer there, she at least found his whereabouts and prevented the Masonic experiments to avenge him, not to mention letting the angel destroy the city on the ground...Suddenly, the smile froze on the corner of the girl's mouth, and she Stretching out his finger to the light orange night sky reflected by the flames, he asked hesitantly, "Isn't that... the direction of your home?"

"No, no, before the fire burns, move all the important things out." After hastily opening the door, Ferid called out, "Crowley!"

"Let me change clothes first." Passing by the silver-haired vampire, Crowley went straight to the bedroom on the second floor, turned his head and replied indifferently, "Anyway, you don't lack these things, burn them Is it okay to buy it again?"

"What are you talking about? Everything here carries good memories of this place." As Ferid's voice fell, Crowley could hear the chaotic sound of "ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping," coming from the living room on the ground floor came.

"As you say." Crowley shrugged, and continued to walk slowly towards the closet.

When he finished changing his clothes and swayed down the stairs with the same leisurely pace, he met Ferid who was troubled by several sets of exquisite tableware.

"Well, what should I do? I like this set very much, but I also want to take that set away..."

And beside Ferid, there has been a large pile of items that "carry memories" and must be taken away.Gu Xiaoman, who followed them to the mansion, stood stiffly at the other end of the living room, speechless.

Crowley raised his eyebrows, and sat down on the sofa diagonally opposite Ferid.

"Crowley, don't sit there, come and help me..." Ferid raised his head when he heard the sound, stared at the red-haired vampire complainingly, then turned his head to look at the girl as if he suddenly remembered something, " Ah, Miss Gu, I almost forgot, do you want to go upstairs and change your clothes?"

"You..." Crowley subconsciously said, and then stopped the conversation the moment his eyes met Ferid's deep red eyes.

The girl hesitated for a moment before she heard the words, but she nodded. She must have been embarrassed by the scantily clad outfit, so under Ferid's guidance, she stepped up the stairs leading to the bedroom on the second floor.

The high-heeled shoes stepped on the narrow wooden stairs, making a "creak, creak" sound. Gu Xiaoman stood in front of the bedroom door and turned the doorknob to the right under Ferid's urging. With a "click", the door opened, but the scene that appeared in front of the girl left her stunned.

In the center of the bedroom, where the bed should have been, there were two coffins.The thick black coffin exudes the breath of death, lying abruptly in the magnificently furnished bedroom, like an absurd drama, but it makes people unable to laugh.

"What are you... exactly?" The girl dryly asked the question she had asked in the underground.

Ferid stepped forward gracefully, just like the aristocrats when he first met the girl.The silver-haired man's beautiful and monstrous face was reflected in the girl's terrified wide-eyed pupils, and sharp canine teeth were exposed between the parted lips.

"Vampires, in other words, are what you call zombies." Ferid whispered close to the girl's ear, whispering in an intimate gesture, "So what do you want to do, Miss Exorcist?"

The girl's stiff body moved violently, her right hand stretched towards the straps on her thigh as fast as lightning, but before her fingers touched the talisman paper, the silver-haired vampire's palm was already on her wrist.

It was obviously a slender hand, but it was like a steel bar, making it impossible for the girl to move at all.The image of the Freemason's head being torn off like tofu by this slender hand flashed in her mind, and she had never realized more clearly than at this moment that the man in front of her was not a human being.She should have suspected it earlier, but it was a pity that the life-and-death crisis when they faced the angel together made her forget her vigilance for a moment, and subconsciously classified the two as her companions.

"This is not possible, you are too slow and too weak." Ferid said slowly, pinching the girl's fingers with a little force, leaving a bright red mark on her wrist, "Besides, I am your savior, Is it what you human beings do to repay kindness and hatred?"

There was bone-piercing pain from her wrist, but what made the girl's face pale was the cold fear welling up in her heart, "You're using me...you knew my brother's whereabouts from the beginning, and you're just using me to find your target ..."

The silver-haired vampire turned his head and looked like he was thinking a little, "Well, it's exactly what you said. But without me, you would just step out of the trap set by the Freemasons without knowing it. Become a puppet like your brother. And I not only let you meet your brother, gave you a chance to end his pain with your own hands, but also let you take revenge, so you have to thank me, right?"

"...What do you want to do?!" Under the gaze of those scarlet eyes, the girl found herself unable to move like a prey being targeted by a poisonous snake.

"I will become your unforgettable fear in this life, and will always appear in your nightmares."

Accompanied by Ferid's murmur of a chuckle, the sharp teeth that do not belong to humans gradually approached in the girl's field of vision.

The third suitcase had just been filled, and just as Crowley reached for the two sets of cutlery that the silver-haired vampire had been struggling with before, Ferid, who had changed into clean clothes, calmly descended the stairs.

Glancing at Ferid's satisfied expression, Crowley raised his eyebrows and asked, "Have you finished eating?"

"Ah, indeed, the blood of human beings when they are in fear and despair is the most delicious."

"I didn't leave a sip either."

"If you want, you can go now, she is still angry."

Crowley showed a slightly surprised expression when he heard the words, "You didn't suck her dry? This is really not your style."

The silver-haired vampire squinted at Crowley, and snorted softly, "Don't you think it's interesting for a descendant of an exorcist family to live in fear of zombies and vampires forever?"

"Bad interests." The red-haired vampire commented, curling up his lips.

Ferid smiled and said nothing, and asked in a tone that seemed puzzled after a while: "Are you still planning to leave? Whether it is about the prison or the Freemasonry, we will be investigated soon, Shanghai This city can no longer stay."

"Huh?" Crowley was taken aback for a moment, subconsciously looking at the half-packed luggage.

Following the sight of the red-haired vampire, Ferid sighed softly, "These things are fine anyway, anyway, you can buy them again at any time." Then he glanced at Crowley with the disgusted eyes of looking at a fool , and then walked to the door first.

"Fine, fine, it's up to you." With a long sigh, Crowley threw the third suitcase in his hand on the ground, followed Ferid out, and closed the door behind him.

——Let these things "carrying memories" be sealed behind this door forever.