[Ectotherm·Cold-blooded animals]
In south London, along the road from Winchester to Chichester, there is a green area of low hills and dark forests that stretches for more than 100 kilometers.
The time is 4 a.m. on January 11, 2025.
Downing boy drove from London - to take his girlfriend Martha to Portsmouth for a holiday.
The weather in January is not very good, perhaps because of the Tonga volcanic eruption in the past few years. The whole world has become cold. The summer is rainy, and spring is coming, with a biting late spring cold.
The Ford sedan was speeding on the road, and God seemed to be listening to the riddles left by the old lynx on this land, and looked like he wanted to cry or not.
A few mottled raindrops fell, hitting the windshield, and then stopped immediately.
The abnormal air pressure made the men and women in the car feel restless.
Fortunately, Tangning is a pistachio——
——He is a very cheerful person, healthy, upbeat, mentally determined, and strong-willed.
"I have already thought about it. We set off at four in the morning. We can see the sun in Portsmouth at half past eight in the morning."
"The weather has been like this these past few days..." Martha was not energetic, and she lowered her eyebrows and looked sideways out of the dark window: "Really? When you drive to the beach, you can see the sun?"
Tang Ning grinned: "Sure, I asked my uncle. He worked at a weather station when he was young. He has seen this kind of weather before. The air pressure at sea is different from that on land. If you want to see the sun, go to the beach and wait for the sun. We can see it when it first comes out, and if a storm must come, we can at least get an hour or two of sunshine.”
Martha flipped up her red hair and looked worried.
She heard the raindrops hitting the glass from time to time, but it couldn't turn into a dense, continuous and reassuring white noise. She was really a little irritated, so she inserted a CD into the old Ford car stereo.
The music drowned out all the anxiety and restlessness.
Tangning's best attribute is that he looks straight ahead and is not distracted while driving - this is something that Martha cares about very much. Although this boy is smaller than her, he makes people feel at ease inexplicably.
When she heard the music, Tangning said, "Are you worried, Martha?"
"A little..."
"Is it because of this trip?"
"Yeah...I don't understand..."
"We haven't seen the sun for four months. Even cold-blooded animals need to be warmed up, right?"
"Um."
"How about I tell you about the arrangements for this trip?"
Martha didn't answer, she just tilted her head and looked at Tangning's side face.
To be honest - this young and strong boy is not bad looking, but this maturity that does not match his age makes Martha feel weird.
She resisted this journey in her heart, thinking that the rainy days that lasted for several months might be a good thing.
She doesn't like lively places, and it is her habit to live in isolation. She is a travel photography blogger and does not need to communicate with many people.
Living alone in an old villa far away from the city, next to a sparkling silver lake.
Tangning, wearing nothing, climbed out of the lake onto her dock and onto her bed——
Only once during a school summer camp event, Tangning went swimming in a lake and made a bet with someone to swim a round trip. As a result, she swam to the door of Martha's room, but she didn't have the energy to swim back.
——That’s how they met, very suddenly.
It was Martha, the travel photography blogger, who clicked the shutter on the second floor.
I just happened to take a picture of a blond guy with a great figure climbing onto the pier. Just like the legendary mermaid.
Tang Ning broke into her life, and it was as sweet and happy as a glue.
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let me guess? !
You must be thinking that this young couple in the off-screen scene might encounter something weird next, right?
Take a break and don't rush.
This story can be told in one chapter.
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Between the winding mountain roads, dense woods on both sides fly by with street lights.
Downing talked about the painstaking travel arrangements: "We first went to the Portsmouth Naval Base. My uncle was there and took you to see the sun at the ferry terminal. There was a chicken restaurant fifty meters away."
Martha: "Yeah."
Tangning: "Then get on the Ironclad Warrior and go to the Isle of Wight."
Martha: "Yeah."
Tangning: "Go to Robin Hill Adventure Park and Monkey Paradise Zoo."
Martha: "Well..."
Tangning: "I'm going to the Goldshill Campground for a barbecue party. I brought a gun. I can kill wild boars! Martha, are you listening to me?"
Martha: "Listening."
"Are you listening?" Tangning just continued to watch the road and drive. The young man was a little worried: "But you seem to be full of resentment? Is it because of me? Is it because I woke you up from bed at four in the morning? I have discussed it with you a lot. This time, you personally agreed and agreed to complete this journey with me!"
Martha: "It's one thing to say yes..."
Tangning casually pressed the pause button on the CD player and turned off the music: "My dear, the reason why I fall in love with you is to make the two of us happier. If you don't want to be happy, why would you do it?"
The speed of the car also gradually slowed down, as if it was about to stop on this lonely and cold rainy night road.
"Don't stop the car." Martha couldn't explain clearly. She didn't understand why she was so anxious. She turned on the CD player again: "I don't know...I don't know. You have the final say in everything anyway. I I don’t mean to disobey you, but I just can’t be happy and I feel very bad.”
Tangning: "Very bad?"
Martha: "I vaguely feel that there is something on this road that has been following us."
Tangning's expression froze. The young man looked at the rear view mirror and slowly slowed down the car.
He slowly focused his eyes on the rearview mirror——
——Martha followed her boyfriend’s gaze, trying to see something strange in the rearview mirror, but she didn’t see anything.
Martha asked nervously and quietly: "What's wrong? Did you see anything?"
Tang Ning swallowed hard and began to sweat on his forehead.
Martha then asked: "Don't be silent... Is it a ghost? Or some kind of monster? In the car? Outside the car? Why do you have to slow down? I'm afraid... Tangning!"
"I saw..." Tangning's tone was trembling, as if an electric current had passed through her body: "Nothing!~ There's nothing in the back seat! It's really scary!"
Then the young man became playful and smiling.
"Who do you think would go out to run in the mountains at four o'clock in the middle of the night? Fujiwara Takumi?"
He was joking with his female companion, Martha, while still looking straight ahead, showing no signs of slacking off.
"The most powerful thing at night is the gray wolf or bear. We have guns, don't be afraid! Martha, I'm with you! Even if it's a vampire, I will be like a cold-blooded animal and use my beloved big shotgun to blast him away! "
Martha was angry and funny, and she just felt that this young man was full of energy.
"What is going on in your head?"
Tangning: "Did it scare you?"
Martha nodded, her face turning red and white: "It's scary."
Tangning: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have set the departure time at four in the morning. But you know - if we come during the day, we won't be able to see the sun on the Portsmouth coast."
Martha smiled and shook her head: "I don't mean to blame you...Don't do this again, I have a bad heart."
"Your order! Your Royal Highness!" Tang Ning took the time to extend her hand and salute: "Your knight Tang Ning will protect you!"
Hearing this, Martha didn't know what to say. In the end, I just lowered my head to scroll through my phone to write messages, update a news on Instagram, take photos of the scenery outside the window, and write a new travel diary.
Tangning asked again, "Martha, what is that vague uneasy feeling you mentioned?"
Martha immediately replied: "I can't tell, it's like... we will suddenly be quiet, just like now."
A full five seconds passed, and neither of them spoke.
There was only the quiet mountain road surface, and occasionally there was the sound of stones being crushed and flying by the wheels.
In addition to the melodious music in the CD player, the drowsy classical music.
In old vehicles, dust is projected under fluorescent light.
There are also the lower half of the faces of the two people illuminated by a blue cold light source.
There is nothing else.
Martha finally said: "That's the feeling. I always feel that there are other things on this road..."
Tangning said carelessly, "I won't scare you again, don't worry! Don't think too much."
Martha was serious, showing off the red spots on her arms.
"Maybe it's just random thoughts. I have a skin disease, and the doctor said it's neurodermatitis... If you're not healthy, you'll also have mental problems, that's how it should be."
Tangning nodded immediately: "Yes, you can just watch less TIKTOK. Recently, I have been secretly looking through your viewing records. They are all about gods, ghosts and the like. It's so scary!"
Martha pouted and immediately turned on her phone——
——Show the works of the Mimir Hot Springs Fair Orchestra or the passengers.
"This is not a mythical ghost! It's a series! Look at these green screen special effects! And this dragon, how real it is!"
The video happened to play to the scene where Wen Bucai fell from the sky.
Tangning sneered: "Hey! It's so fake! There is no dragon like this. It looks like it's dead. If someone grabs its neck, it won't move or resist."
Martha was worried: "Now that we travel photography bloggers can't produce anything as exciting as the special effects team, we don't know what to do in the future. What kind of job should I find to support myself..."
Tang Ning cheered for her lover: "Fake is fake, it can never be as good as the real thing! My dear, what you take is the best!"
"Although..." Martha gestured to her phone: "The views and likes don't lie."
Tangning whistled, smiled and joked: "Oh my God! Appear soon! Let's get some werewolves, vampires or something! Let my lover's INS account follower increase!~ If not, a ghost will do!~"
Martha was not happy at all when she heard the joke.
She said with some sullenness: "You are just teasing me! I also want to scare you!"
Tangning: "How to do it?"
Martha: "Fake suicide."
Tangning: "You did this last time, lying in the living room pretending to have a heart attack. I kissed you for a long, long time before you [hahahahahaha] got up."
Martha: "What about cutting your wrists and bleeding them?"
Tang Ning: "Don't waste ketchup!"
Martha: "I don't care, I want to scare you anyway!"
[Pain And Lus·Pain And Lus]
The words have not yet fallen——
——Tang Ning’s pupils narrowed slightly.
Ahead of the road, the car lights illuminated a blurry black shadow.
At the critical moment, Martha pushed the steering wheel hard!
Then there was a screeching sound of brakes, and the old Ford car rushed towards the guardrail.
Martha felt her body being pulled hard and bouncing between the seat belt and the seat.
Tang Ning's mind was confused, but this guy was very reliable. Before he lost consciousness, he grabbed the short-barreled shotgun in the car's glove compartment.
In just ten seconds, the young couple immediately regained consciousness. Thanks to Tang Ning's good driving habits, he was able to maintain the vehicle's posture even in the big crisis of trying to grab the steering wheel while driving at high speed, and finally stopped it steadily.
"My dear, don't play like this next time..." Tangning put down the gun.
Martha's face was covered in cold sweat: "Didn't you see it?!"
Tangning: "What did you see?"
Martha: "Looks like we almost hit something!"
Tangning: "What is it?"
Martha: "Looks like a human!"
Immediately afterwards, Tangning fell silent.
Another five seconds of eerie silence passed.
Tangning said, "Should I get off the car?"
Martha shook her head: "Don't!"
Tangning said seriously: "I have to get out of the car and take a look. If I hit someone, I have to save him. It's so late at night, you can't even see the moon - this guy ran into the middle of the road without saying a word. I absolutely must We cannot sit idly by and do nothing.”
Martha pursed her lips and looked unhappy: "Who would come to this ghost place at this time? We came here with the lights on! Turning on the music! No matter what, this guy should stay out of the way!"
Tangning said stubbornly: "This man might have been attacked by a wild beast in the forest. He would lose consciousness when he lost blood. He finally saw us and had no time to think about so many things."
Martha didn't understand: "How can you let down your guard at this time? What if we see it wrong? What if it's not a human being, but a wild boar? Is it a bear?"
"You have to check it out, I have a gun." Tangning insisted on her idea: "Music and lights will drive away wild beasts, only people will be attracted to these things."
"Okay! Okay! I don't know who is crazy!" Martha said so, but she still held Tangning's arm: "Please, my dear... don't go."
Tangning gently touched Martha's face.
There was only tenderness and love in his eyes.
"I love you and I will come back. Just to take a look. No matter what, I also want to see if there is anything wrong with the car. If its brakes or water tank burst, we will call the police immediately. This is not only to protect the strange shadow we just ran into , but also to protect ourselves.”
Martha was so frightened that she almost shed tears: "Don't... please, you seem to be possessed recently... bought a lot of strange things on the online shopping platform, and then asked me to follow you to Portsmouth." ...What's wrong with you? Have you been possessed by some evil spell? I'm scared! Tangning!"
Tang Ning unbuckled his seat belt.
Martha cursed: "I'm scared! Can't you hear? Are you fucking deaf! Let's go now! Get out of this place! No matter what you hit! No matter if it's a human or a ghost! Leave right now!" "
Tang Ning opened the car door and went to check the vehicle without hesitation.
Martha finally calmed down, because anger was useless.
Tangning has always been this kind of person.
Like a cold-blooded animal——
——Never care about her feelings.
In front of the bright headlights, Tangning walked around the vehicle in the rain.
From the look of the bumper, there was no trace of blood.
I walked around to the bright red taillight with my gun, but no blood was seen.
Looking into the dark, wet road, I couldn't see any so-called "dark shadows"——
"——Come back! Tangning!" Martha screamed, almost hysterical, engulfed in fear, "I'm scared! I'm so scared!"
Tang Ning turned on the flashlight on his phone and carefully explored the road.
Finally he found three broken bones stained with blood on the wet road.
These bones were soaked in a pool of viscous blood, and there was a lot of sticky liquid in the blood, like snot and saliva.
Martha: "Come back! Don't go forward!"
Tangning still refused to give up, he could identify the appearance of the bones——
——Much like human canine teeth and part of the nasal cartilage.
When he came to the iron guardrail next to the road, he found that the iron guardrail was deeply dented, as if it had been hit hard by some ferocious beast.
There was some black cloth hanging on the railing, which was scratched from the iron railing. There was a strange document stuck in the cloth.
That means——
——Someone did roll down the short slope in the forest just now.
You can tell from the smell of the clothes that this is a woman wearing Gucci perfume.
She was so badly injured that her whole mouth and nose were rotted away.
After hitting the iron railing, she lost consciousness and walked onto the road in a daze. She was almost hit to death by Tang Ning.
There was nothing else around -
——Tang Ning stepped back step by step, with great fear in her heart.
He didn't know what these things meant, but he knew that this woman who could wear clothes and dress up with Gucci perfume was definitely not dead, and she was not a monster - a monster would not care about himself on a cold rainy night. smell.
But this is beyond his control. It was hard for him to imagine how terrible the impact the iron fence had been to undergo such a violent deformation.
He stepped back step by step, looked into the distance with his gun, and returned to the car.
Martha breathed a sigh of relief and immediately put her body over the gear lever.
They hugged each other tightly, as if they were escaping from death, and kissed each other fiercely.
Tangning: "It's okay, my dear."
Martha: "Let's go."
Tangning started the car: "Don't you want to ask me what I saw?"
Martha rolled her eyes: "I don't want to know! I! I don't want to know at all!"
Tangning just put the teeth and nasal cartilage into a plastic bag and prepared to hand it over to the police instead of scaring his girlfriend.
The vehicle restarts and the music starts again.
Martha was still uneasy——
——She felt that little Tangning seemed to have changed during this period of time.
He began to tinker with some mysterious magic props, researched various alchemical instruments, brought back a lot of silverware, and turned the silver into small beads. He didn't know what to do with it.
Tangning put down the gun and grabbed her lover's hand.
"Don't worry, Martha."
Martha gradually calmed down, and little Tangning's palms were hot and very warm.
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On the B106 mountain road——
——In a simple public toilet.
9527 was covering his broken arm. He had just finished stopping the bleeding and was hiding next to 3301.
3301 was completely changed beyond recognition, half of his face was gone, his teeth and mouth were exposed, and his body was shaking and convulsing in pain.
Two best friends are hiding in a room, avoiding the pursuit of monsters.
Ninety-five-two-seven lost a lot of blood, his face was pale, and he said in a low voice: "Where did these beasts come from? Do you have any clue?"
3301 has no nose, leaky teeth, and whines: "It is said to be a virus artificially synthesized from holy blood and rat kidney cells. More than 500 years ago, someone used this formula to transform mortal bodies into Become a vampire.”
9527: "Can you still smell them?"
3301: "My olfactory glands are broken, I think you are just trying to make things difficult for me."
9527: "How to kill them?"
3301: "We don't have disinfectant ammunition, we need silver bullets! We need silver bullets!"
9527: "I didn't expect that the price of a long vacation would be this kind of field mission... What bad luck!"
3301: "Do you still have any panacea? Give me some?"
9527 shook his head: "It's used up."
3301: "Why did you only bring two?"
9527: "It's better than you not taking one at all."
3301: "After reading the mission briefing, I thought it was a very simple job... As you know, I drink medicine lavishly... so..."
The two of them originally wanted to make up for their vacation performance. When their employer went to the Mimir Hot Spring Market, they took on a seemingly simple field task under the arrangement of the station.
The mission location is not underground, but in the suburbs of Winchester, London——
——A passenger discovered a mysterious bat-shaped flying object here.
The results of DNA sampling show that there are artificial blood from rats, earth dragons and some ancient creatures, as well as many molds and microorganisms that mutated due to this blood, and have the characteristics of Vita imprint - probably similar to the crazy butterfly. It’s related to the Holy Religion and the legend of vampires.
9527 and 3301 thought they were going to improve their performance. Their schedule was to investigate during the day and go back to Tianqiong Station to sleep at night. They just walked around twice to collect some evidence and then went back.
Unexpectedly, these bat-shaped beasts were very cunning and found an opportunity to break Teacher Sansan's nose.
In the continuous rainy weather, these non-human and ghostly things can even swagger through the market. When they went downstairs to buy soy milk and drink coffee together, they had a fight. They fought for two days and two nights, and used weapons and vehicles to block the blockage. Roads drive station attendants from complex cities to isolated and helpless suburbs.
"Where is it safe? We have to take a breather..." 3301 covered his tongue and stuffed it back into his mouth, finally stopping the bleeding.
9527 was so angry that his blood pressure rose, and his broken arm began to spurt blood again: "My mobile phone was caught in the rain and broke. My employer, Xiangxiang Ruanruan, and I were chatting on the phone! Who knew that suddenly..."
3301: "Don't, don't, don't... cover it!"
The two sisters stared at each other in the narrow toilet stall.
3301 and 9527 tied their arms.
9527 and 3301 cover their mouths and noses
"Qi...Are we going to die here?"
"It's impossible, I'm so good-looking! According to the stereotypes of villains in movies and TV shows, those with big breasts and good looks will generally live a long, long time!"
"But we are not villains, and besides, this is not a movie."
"Don't be discouraged."
"Will someone come to save us?"
"I don't know. Now we don't have weapons that can kill them. We can only hide and hope that the rain can wash away the smell on us."
From the top of 3301's head, two furry spiritual wolf ears suddenly appeared, and a voice was heard, "Shh! Don't make any sound!"
The crisp sound of high heels hitting the pavement sounded from outside the toilet door.
9527 was so angry that he didn't dare to take a breath when he saw a tall woman with a swaying gait passing by outside the crack of the toilet door.
Brother Qi met her in the hotel elevator.
We went downstairs to make soy milk and eat toast. The beautiful woman was talking about the sisters' clothes and perfume just a second ago.
As soon as she walked out of the door, she revealed her terrifying split lips, transforming from an elegant woman into a vampire—she immediately started shooting at the slightest disagreement.
There was no warning, very very sudden.
I still remember that time, but I just finished talking with Jiang Xueming about the station cafe.
The woman took out her gun and called three or five of her companions, who gathered around her.
The two sisters chased and fought with these monsters, running for their lives and hiding.
Two days and two nights, no rest.
9527 felt like his brain was going to explode——
——She was very tired, and only her strong will to survive closed the open door of death again.
They held their breath for fear that the hunter outside the toilet would become suspicious.
The sound of high heels became urgent, as if I smelled a strong odor next to the toilet door and wanted to leave immediately.
They didn't feel at ease until the distant noise of flesh and bone separating, cavity deforming, and flesh membrane vibrating the air could be heard.
-The monster left.
"Let's go, Sansan!"
"Where to go?"
"Change your clothes and go back to the BOSS to report your work."
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Ford sedan parked on a deserted beach in Portsmouth.
Martha and Tangning stood side by side on the pier——
——They waited quietly for the sunrise.
Martha held Tangning's hand: "You make me feel very warm."
Tang Ning held up the cold gun and said, "Yes. Martha, we have finally arrived at our destination."
Martha: "You found out? Right?"
Tangning: "The first time I kissed you, I discovered that your body temperature was horribly low."
Martha: "You want me to bask in the sun, do you want to break up with me?"
Tangning: "I love you."
Sister Martha’s body began to deform——
——Her back stirred, and her clothes were torn, and two twisted flesh buds emerged, and a pair of pink bat wings suddenly opened.
Her nose protruded, her face became deformed, and her eyes became blood red.
The fangs and claws suddenly popped out, and the mouth was divided into four parts.
Little Tangning didn't speak, she just watched everything quietly.
Martha's voice became hoarse and wild, asking: "Do you still love me?"
Little Tangning looked at her lover who had changed beyond recognition, as if nothing was appropriate to say now.
He was just waiting, waiting for a golden chicken egg to slowly emerge from the sea in a far, far away place.
There are many questions without answers.
for example--
Why would a monster be willing to fall in love with a human for so long?
Why would a human be willing to live with monsters day and night for so long?
They looked out for each other, joked with each other, and scared each other.
Until Martha's body began to show traces of Vita's brand, it was like the hometown of the underground world, which had been reminding her with this fatal call to return to the underground world.
Until the sun rises over the sea in Portsmouth.
Little Tangning finally said, "I love you even more now."
Sunlight can kill 90% of bacteria and viruses in nature.
Martha turned into fragments in the warm light, and Mrs. Bai burst out from her body and died quickly with her twisted body, unable to survive for more than a few seconds.
Perhaps it was the moment of [pain and pleasure] that moved Martha's heart.
To change from an immortal vampire to an ordinary girl who is as gentle as water and has the door of death wide open.
Little Tangning stamped her legs and swept all the dust on the dock into the sea.
Then he picked up the gun and wiped away his tears. He opened the document, took out the ticket from the folder, and embarked on an unknown road of suffering.
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The ancient and mysterious Nanhai City.
Take advantage of the sunshine and hide in the clouds——
——Lady Mary and her retinue just flew back to the castle wall and entered the deep spiral staircase.
Four hundred meters underground - at another platform zero, the train with the crazy butterfly mark had just left the platform.
Mary took off all her clothes, uncovered her blood-red curly hair, and talked to her good sisters in the bathhouse about the strange things that had happened recently.
"It's a shame to let two little girls run away."
"You went with the retinue, how could you miss it?"
"I can't help it. They are hiding in the toilet. I will never touch this kind of filth! It makes me sick when I smell it!"
"You should have cured your mysophobia long ago! Sooner or later, it will become your death!"
"Being dirty means becoming ugly. If I become ugly, I will die soon! Beauty is powerful! And I like the clothes of those two little girls very much. Such beautiful people should live longer. If more people die, The bad aesthetics of this ugly world will become more and more outrageous.”
"Well...Sister Mary, I don't know what to say about you. These are just your minor problems, but our sister Martha was really moved and she died."
"How did you die? Maggie? Can you tell me in detail?"
"There are surveillance cameras on the pier in Portsmouth. I think she must have loved that little child very much. Without any resistance, she stood frozen in the sun and died, shattered to pieces."
"Huh, stupid."
"She originally had hundreds or thousands of years of life, and there are so many good-looking and interesting men in the world. Why would she throw away her life for just one person?"
"Emotions can make a person weak and helpless, leading her to the door of death."
"That's right! It's time to cure the Vita brand on Ichigo! Sister!"
In the bathhouse——
—Lady Mary tugged at the brass shower-head hose.
Immediately, bright red blood sprayed down, washing away the red spots on their skin.
The two sisters held hands and jumped into the large bath on the terrace from the rain of blood.
She is a beauty in the world with skin like gelatin and slim waist and buttocks.
He is a cold-blooded and ruthless killer who uses human blood as an appetizer.
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