Chapter 20 The fifth volume of the kingdom under the sea is lost

When I regained consciousness again and opened my eyes, I saw a white house standing quietly by the blue Aegean sea.In my impression, I have only seen such vivid blue and white in Santorini, Greece. The singing and cheerful laughter from not far away pulled me back from my daze.I turned my head, only to find that a couple of newlyweds were holding a Greek wedding there. The people attending the wedding were happily singing and dancing, toasting and drinking, throwing rose petals and rice to the newlyweds... I pursed my lips.I almost forgot that Santorini is a world-famous wedding holy place in the world, and countless newcomers come here to hold weddings every year.

"Hi, are you here on vacation?" A young man approached me with a smile as bright as sunshine on the Aegean Sea. I nodded and asked in Greek: "Is there still a boat to Athens?" As far as I know, there is no train station on this island. He seemed a little surprised, and then smiled with regret: "The last boat to Athens has left. If you want to go to Athens, you have to wait for the boat at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning." I frowned.So am I going to stay overnight in Santorini tonight? The man looked at me with a smile and warmly offered the invitation: "Since you are here, join our carnival! Everything tonight will definitely become the best memory of your trip!"

Just when I was hesitating, the beautiful bride came over and pulled me enthusiastically towards the crowd: "Come on! Come on!" At first I was a little uncomfortable, but the enthusiasm of the Greeks was beyond my imagination. Driven by their body language, I gradually let go, and followed them in a brisk dance step in the melodious Greek music... … Laughing...jumping... As if only in this way, I can remind myself - the mission is over! I have returned! It seems that only in this way can I temporarily forget what happened in Crete and the smile of the Minotaur before he died. When the killing and glory of the past are sealed in black and white in the book, history has actually become pale and dull.I always thought I could keep my cool and stay out of it forever.However, when I am in it, I will still be shocked by it, feel heartbroken by it, follow its footsteps unknowingly, and be immersed in its joys and sorrows involuntarily—I will never be able to become An outsider, sitting detached and calm watching the turmoil.

"Xiao Wan, let's have a glass of wine." Nick handed me a glass of wine.When we chatted just now, we already knew each other's name. This man named Nick is the younger brother of the bride. I happened to be so thirsty from dancing, I took a sip from the glass and drank it dry.This wine is different from the wines I have tasted before, with some extra fresh slightly sweet and special aroma. "It's delicious." I smiled. He looked at me happily: "Of course, this is brewed by my mother herself. There is a unique secret recipe that cannot be bought outside." Seeing that I like it, he thoughtfully gave me another glass, "By the way, this ..." His eyes fell on the sword hanging on my waist.

"Ah!" I glanced at the sword, "That's a tourist souvenir I bought, isn't it pretty good?" He nodded: "Which places in Greece have you been to?" Before I could answer, he seemed to think of something again, "When you come to Greece, you must go to Crete! There is Knossos The ruins of the palace are the legendary labyrinth where the monster Minotaur was imprisoned. However, you’d better not go there alone, maybe Minotaur is still there waiting to eat people.” The color of the sunset glows from light to deep, from light to thick, the blood-like color renders the sky in full swing, and even the sea water is reflected red.I looked ahead, my breathing seemed to stop at that moment, it seemed that there were countless entanglements in my heart, choked in my chest, and the pain was unbearable.

In this case, I will not go. "I forced a smile and drank the wine in the glass. "I can be your tour guide if you want." He flashed a bright smile. "You need a reliable Greek man like me, and I'm more than willing to work for a beautiful woman like you." I smiled lightly.I chatted with him without saying a word, until I felt a little dizzy and realized that I had drunk too much wine unconsciously. "I'm going to find a place to rest." As soon as I stood up, I shook slightly. He supported me quickly with his eyes and hands, and looked into my eyes with infinite tenderness: "Maybe we can spend a romantic evening together."

Please, I'm just dizzy from drinking, I'm not confused yet, it's not that I don't understand what he means. I was about to refuse, when a familiar voice came from behind us: "That's not acceptable." Almost at the same time, my body was pulled by some force, and I fell into a cold embrace in the blink of an eye. The sky is not yet dark, but the twilight has encroached on it.I looked at his silver-purple eyes that seemed to be filled with shards of starlight, and suddenly I couldn't speak, and a feeling that even I didn't understand surged in my heart. Ashley, he did appear again.Also, I don't seem to hate seeing him.

"Who are you?" Nick was startled. Ashley evoked a charming smile: "That's none of your business." As soon as he said that, I felt a purple light flash in front of my eyes, and when I opened my eyes again, I was already in an elegant and chic room. inside. "You put me down..." My tongue has already begun to curl, and that kind of wine has a lot of stamina.Although I am safe from all poisons, I still get drunk. With a smile in his eyes, he gently put me on the bed. "This, where is this?" I continued to roll my tongue. "This is the hotel under my name." He glanced at me, "If I don't show up, are you really going to follow that man?"

"I, I'm not that stupid...I want to go out..." I rubbed my head, which was getting more and more dizzy.It's too dangerous to be in the same room with him. "I didn't expect you to be drunk." He seemed a little amused, "That's why half of the human blood flows in your body. Pure blood will never get drunk." "I, I'm not drunk! I'm very sober, if you..." I glared at him and didn't continue. He smiled softly, walked up to me, bent down and put his lips close to my ear, half teasing, half seductive: "If I—what?" The cold breath brushed over my earlobe, numb and itchy, and I felt like my face was about to burn again.

"Don't worry, you young child—" He showed an evil smile, "I can't arouse my impulse." I couldn't help but snorted.I should be relieved when he said this, but why do I feel even more depressed! "Aren't you convinced? If you want to seduce me, I won't mind." He moved closer to me, his silver-purple eyes half bright. Although I really want to refute him a few words, but my head is getting heavier and heavier, I can only fight back with my tongue: "I'm not interested in uncle!" He stood up with a smile, poured a cup of coffee, sat on the sofa by the window, and pressed the CD player, and a tune I was familiar with came out of the player:

where did you come from beautiful exotic girl You are an elf in the sky or on earth beautiful bird of paradise why are you here ... cocoa edit! I sat up suddenly and pursed my lips until his erratic voice came along with the wind: "What's wrong?" Tears suddenly flowed down my cheeks without any warning... "I, I didn't save the person I wanted to save, I was really useless! He still died, why? Why is fate so difficult to change? I can obviously change the fate of those clients..." I muttered incoherently.I don't know if it's the effect of alcohol, but I can't say these words in normal times. He stood up and looked out of the window: "All living things will be controlled by fate and cannot escape. Although he is dead, at least you will cry for him." The glass of the floor-to-ceiling windows reflected his lonely eyes. There was a slight smile, as lonely as his eyes, "But if I die, no one will cry." As he spoke, he turned his head slightly, his silver-purple eyes surpassing the brightest starlight in the sky.I looked straight into its depths, where loneliness and sadness were hidden deepest. Ashley... Does he have an unknown past? In fact, until now, I have no idea what kind of person he is... Like the legendary violin Gordanini, he is the glass-transparent treble, He is the gentle alto voice like clouds, and it is also him who is weird and cold like a devil. "Ashley is a vampire and can't die." I whispered. He lowered his eyes: "That's not necessarily the case. Since I cooked curry rice for you and treated you to Japanese food, if one day I die, you will shed a few tears anyway." "Ashley is not going to die!" I repeated stubbornly.There is only one thought in my heart, I don't want to see someone I know die again. The corners of his mouth raised slightly, he came to my side, and hugged me in his arms.His long hair fell down, gently rubbing against my cheek. "You have tried your best, haven't you? If you still can't change after hard work, then you can be willing to attribute it to fate. After all, you have tried your best." I don't know if it was my illusion, but I actually felt his body temperature, just like the body temperature when I just woke up from a dream and greeted the dawn. I looked up at him in surprise, and he was looking at me too, his eyes intertwined with mine.Suddenly, he lowered his head, gently and predatorily took my hair, and put it gently on his lips.The brilliance of the smile on his lips was dazzling, and inexplicable emotions flowed in his deep eyes, at every intertwined moment. The wind blows through the window screens, and the moonlight is dim. He maintained this posture for a long time.Just a little closer and he could touch my lips. Everything is just ambiguous. "Ashley, you're not a pure vampire, are you?" I finally struggled out of the "temptation" web he wove, and hesitated to express my doubts, "You have a sense of taste, You are not afraid of the sun, you still have body temperature." He didn't deny it, but his face changed slightly. "Are you the same as me, father is a vampire, mother is..." I asked tentatively. His reaction was not as strong as last time, he just looked at me with a cold light in his eyes, like a crystal hidden deep in the ground, even if he sees the sun again, it still radiates cold rays to the surroundings. "I don't have parents." Under his calm face, there seemed to be scars that would never heal. I didn't ask any more questions.Everyone has something called a secret hidden in their hearts.Some people may make it public one day, while others will choose to bury this thing in their hearts and wait for it to rot slowly-rotten things often become the deepest scars in their hearts. It's like—Ashley. "You can rest here, and take a boat to Athens tomorrow morning." As soon as the words fell, his figure had disappeared outside the room. Lying on the soft bed, thinking of his fleeting and lonely eyes, I felt an indescribable feeling in my heart.I want to know what kind of man he is, want to know his secret... just like that, in a strange emotion that I don't understand, I slowly fell asleep. When I woke up in the morning, I looked out the window.In the distance, the sky is a soft light blue, the sea is a soft sapphire blue, and the volcano is a soft navy blue; nearby, the white houses turn light yellow in the sun, and the flowers on the balcony turn bright orange in the sun. . I took a deep breath of the salty air.I don't know why, every time I see the blue sea, it makes me calm down, as if I have an inexplicable sense of intimacy. When he and Ashley had breakfast on the balcony, he seemed to have completely forgotten about yesterday and was in a good mood.When I noticed the glass of red liquid in front of him, I couldn't help but think of the horror scene when we met for the first time, and I couldn't help but frowned and said, "It's so old, and you still use the method of directly sucking human blood. Like my dad, he bought a hospital directly, and soon everything was solved." His eyes narrowed slightly, the corners of his lips were raised to an appropriate angle, his eyebrows were slightly stretched, and his thin lips were slightly parted: "Do you still remember that Nick's man from yesterday?" I was taken aback: "Could it be him..." His smile became more and more evil: "What do you think?" Looking at my suddenly frozen face, he suddenly smiled softly, and drank the blood in the cup in one gulp.Before I could react, his face was already in front of me, and the faint smell of blood came over me. I subconsciously turned my head. "Hate blood?" His icy breath blew in my ears, "This is the most disgusting thing you have ever loved." I was... startled, and blurted out: "Before?" "Yes, a long, long time ago, so long that I can't even remember when it was." There was a strange light in his eyes, "Xiao Wan, You'll know all about it soon. " I didn't quite understand what he said, so I glanced sideways at the bottom of the balcony, and suddenly saw a familiar figure, the man with the bright smile like the Aegean Sea, isn't it Nick? "You didn't kill him." I felt a little relieved in my heart. He raised his eyebrows: "Who said I killed him, I just asked him to donate a little blood." "But why did you choose him?" This guy dared to mislead me. "Because, he hugged you." The golden sunlight fell on the corners of his brows and eyes, obviously gentle and infinite, but with a trace of cold cruelty, "I don't like letting people hug you except me." Time seemed to stop for a moment, and at that moment, I couldn't even hear my own heartbeat at all. What, what does this mean? After breakfast, Ashley sent me to the cruise ship bound for Athens.Before leaving, he said to me meaningfully: "We will meet again soon." It was almost noon when we arrived in Athens.When the Acropolis full of vicissitudes came into my eyes, although the Acropolis more than 2,000 years ago was still in front of my eyes, the various damages and dilapidation of today did not give me the slightest sense of sadness, but made me feel inexplicably kind and nostalgic .The destruction of war, the desecration of religion, and the plunder of culture, none of these can weaken its charm.The ideals of the golden age of Greece, the philosophy of Socrates, and the geometry of Pythagoras are buried in the ruins of the Acropolis... Seeing that the time was still early, I simply sat under the stone pillars of the temple, staring at the blue Aegean Sea under the cliff and the houses with strong Greek characteristics in the urban area of ​​Plaka around the hills, and a mysterious and peaceful feeling suddenly rose in my heart. Feel.Just when I fell into reverie, I suddenly heard the sound of flapping wings and the familiar bird cry: "Owner!"