The Original Vampire

When the first ray of sunshine in the morning shone on Greycastle, the fire in Colin's bedroom had been put out.

Fortunately, most of the building materials in Graycastle were non-flammable rocks, otherwise the fire probably wouldn't have only burned down this one room.

In a messy room, the housekeeper Aemon stood with his hands behind his back, staring at the charred corpse in front of him in a trance.

dong dong dong...

Amidst the heavy footsteps, a tall figure appeared in the room.

"Yamon, I have already blocked the castle, and all the entrances and exits of Greycastle Town have also been strengthened. Hmph, I don't believe that the murderer can escape this time!"

The visitor was three meters tall and as strong as a black bear.

His whole body was wrapped in heavy armor, but he didn't wear a helmet, revealing a big round bald head, with a face full of savage flesh, a fierce expression, and a huge battle axe with mottled blood in his hands, enough to kill Graycastle. All the children in the town cried.

"Thank you for your hard work, Knight Rego." Aemon didn't look back, his eyes were still fixed on the charred corpse, but the focus was a little loose, as if he was thinking about something.

Seeing this, Rego thought that the old housekeeper was sad about the death of the young master, so he sighed: "Hey, let's sort out the body of the young master and bury it after the master comes back."

Aemon didn't respond.

Rego touched his big bald head, thinking that the old butler was blaming himself, he took a few steps closer to Aemon, and whispered: "Aemon, I didn't see Knight Carter today, I doubt..."

Hearing Carter's name, Aemon's sloppy eyes instantly condensed, and then turned to the servants who were still cleaning up the mess in the house and instructed: "You don't need to clean up here, you all go down."

"Yes."

After the servants left one after another, Aemon raised his head slightly to look at the tall Rego and asked, "I remember, three years ago, you and Carter competed in the Knights Championship held by Earl Uman?"

Rego was a little puzzled. He didn't understand why Aemon suddenly mentioned the previous Cavaliers Championship, but he still replied: "Is that three years ago? It seems to be. Hehe, I beat him so badly that time!"

Aemon smiled: "Yes, he was shot off the horse by you, broke his arm, and lost two teeth."

"Hey." Rego was a little embarrassed when he mentioned his glorious record, but at the same time, he was also very puzzled, "Why are you talking about this now?"

Aemon did not answer, but continued to ask: "Do you remember, are the two teeth that Carter lost, on the left or the right?"

"How would I know this!" Rego was a little anxious, and Aemon's reaction made him very puzzled and dissatisfied.

Aemon didn't care about Rego's attitude, but showed a mysterious smile and pointed to the charred corpse on the ground: "If you can't remember, now you can go and see for yourself."

Rego frowned and stared at Aemon for a while with copper bell-sized eyes. Seeing that he didn't seem to be joking, he finally crouched down and stretched out his hand to open the corpse's mouth.

"Crack!"

Aemon watched as Rego, who was thick-handed and thick-footed, broke off the corpse's chin, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

Rego was also startled, and then frantically tried to put the dropped jaw back on...

"Okay, don't mess with it, take a closer look at his teeth." Imon looked at the clumsy Rego, and was really speechless.

"Oh, good... Hey! There are really two gaps in his lower left jaw!" Rego turned his head with glowing eyes, and asked eagerly, "Did Carter lose his left tooth?"

Obviously, this reckless man also realized that something was wrong with the corpse.

Unfortunately, Aemon shook his head: "I don't know which two teeth Carter lost."

Rego frowned, and just as he was about to speak, he heard Aemon say slowly again: "However, I know that Master Colin has never lost his teeth.

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"That's right!" Rego stood up suddenly and shouted excitedly.

But then, he seemed to realize that his voice was too loud, and quickly lowered the volume: "So, this corpse is not Master Colin at all, but that bastard Carter!"

"No." Aemon shook his head with a smile, "The young master has been killed by Carter. You must take someone to capture this evil betrayal now."

"What?" Rego's eyes widened again, "Are you stupid?"

Aemon sighed and explained patiently: "You think about it, why did the young master set this fire? Why didn't you say goodbye?"

Rego touched his round bald head and seemed to understand: "You mean, the young master deliberately charred this corpse to make others think he is dead?"

"Yes."

"Why do you want to do this, Master?"

"Maybe I want to see who is behind Carter? What is the purpose? It may also be that I want to hide myself... In short, since the young master has his own plans, what we can do is to cooperate with him and take this situation. Do it."

"Okay, I understand." Rego walked out sullenly, "I'll order the arrest of that bastard Carter."

Aemon watched Rego's tall back disappear outside the door, and silently added in his heart: "It may be that the young master no longer dares to trust us..."

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"How can I not trust you?" Colin said to the old mercenary in front of him with a smile, "I mean, I will pay you half of the commission first, and the rest will wait for you to introduce me to a mercenary. I'll give it to you after the caravan in Eagle City."

"Then what if you refuse to pay the rest of the money when I introduce you to the caravan?" The old mercenary was obviously not satisfied with this method of paying the deposit first and then the final payment.

"Do you think I'm the one who lacks that money?" Colin took out a gold coin and tossed it up and down in his hand.

The old mercenary stared at him instantly, his eyes moving up and down with the gold coin.

No way, for the bottom of the society like him, copper coins are the daily currency, silver coins are rare, and as for gold coins, those are only things that nobles and big businessmen have.

"Then I want thirty copper coins!" The old mercenary realized that there was a fat sheep in front of him, and immediately began to increase the price.

"Twenty. Any more and I'll find someone else."

"Deal!" The old mercenary happily took the ten copper coins thrown by Ke Lin and began to lead the way.

After a while, the two came to the western district of Greycastle Town and walked into an old tavern.

"The Beard Tavern."

After entering the door, Colin found that the name of this tavern really lived up to its name, and almost all the drinkers in it were beards.

The old mercenary was obviously very familiar with this place. While greeting everyone, he led Ke Lin inside.

The two came to a long table in the corner of the tavern. The old mercenary bowed and muttered for a moment in the ear of a bearded man sitting on the main seat.

The bearded man looked at Colin a few times in the direction of the old mercenary's fingers, then beckoned for Colin to go over.

"This is the head of the Firefox mercenary group - Lord Saru. Lord Saru is a second-order soldier, and he is going to Fall Eagle City. You must be safe with their team!" The old mercenary told Ke first. Lin introduced the beard.

Then he turned to the bearded man, his attitude was obviously more attentive: "Sir Saru, this is my nephew, don't think he is not strong, but his martial arts are quite good..."

"Is he your nephew?" Saru sneered, interrupting the old mercenary.

"Yes... yes!" The old mercenary suffocated slightly, a trace of panic flashed in his eyes.

Then he quickly explained: "Don't think that he doesn't look like me, it's mainly because the boy's appearance is the same as that of my brother-in-law, and after all these years, I've been running around outside, and this old face has long since lost its appearance. You know, I was handsome and handsome when I was young, and I had an extraordinary temperament..."

Saru sneered and interrupted the old mercenary again: "Your nephew is a knight?"

Hearing the word "knight", the old mercenary seemed to be strangled by the neck suddenly, and the bragging words immediately choked in his throat.

Colin's pupils shrank instantly.