Chapter 1
"Hey, wake up."
In her uneasy sleep, Gu Si vaguely heard a clear, slightly hoarse, slightly impatient voice from a young man, coming from far away, bringing back her hazy consciousness.
Dry throat, sticky thirst.
Before her brain had restarted, her body reacted first. She drooped her heavy eyelids, lowered her head in obedience to her instinct, and sipped the water in the bowl in small sips.
Maybe it was an illusion, but Gu Si felt that the person opposite was looking at her vaguely, and the water bowl was tilted out of her reach.
Gu Si moved her lips weakly, as if trying to remember his name.
"...Tsk, what are you doing?"
Her blond hair covered her green pupils and was tied into a pigtail on the back of her head. He stepped on the tree trunk behind her with his leather boots and leaned down like a bad guy, speaking in a very unfriendly tone.
Beautiful and strong, even if he does rude behavior, he can't make people feel disgusted. He is like a leopard-like boy.
"Ah..." In the past few days, Gu Si had heard her saviors calling each other while half asleep, but it was the first time for her to actually pronounce the name of one of them.
"Okay, Archer."
Another clear and smiling male voice fell into her ears.
"As a hunter, you have to be patient with the people in distress."
The silver scabbard collided slightly with the toe of the boot. The person squatted down in front of her, raised his arm, and touched her neck lightly with his slender fingertips, causing a warm feeling of numbness through the bandage.
That's where she was bitten by the wild animal.
Gu Si couldn't help but wince.
"I'm sorry, does it hurt you?" the red-haired man asked casually. The scene in front of Gu Si gradually became clearer, and she saw that his eyebrows were slightly raised, his features were sharp, and he was so handsome that he was a little evil.
He was wearing a long black trench coat, with a silver cross hanging in front of his neck, and several ear studs under his red hair. Under the open skirt was a close-fitting combat uniform. Hanging next to his girdle were two long swords and daggers, as well as weapons that Gu Si couldn't figure out the use of.
Although she dressed casually and uninhibitedly, in the past few days, Gu Si could occasionally feel him coming to change her dressing while she was sleeping. The other person seemed to be the only person in the team who knew some medical skills.
——This is rare in the entire "Hunter" team with a cold style.
Do the "hunters" in this world still have the obligation to rescue civilians?
"Wow, this is the first time in the past few days that you have been awake for such a long time." The red-haired man smiled, untied her bandage with one hand and changed her dressing, and stretched out his right hand to wave in front of her eyes, "How are you? Do you still remember the details before the attack?"
Gu Si recalled that this was the first week of her time traveling, and it was also the third day that she was attacked by a wild beast outside the village and was seriously injured and on the verge of death.
Gu Si lingered on the bedside in her previous life, and was reborn after her death. Even though she traveled to a small town similar to the Western Middle Ages and became a homeless orphan, she didn't complain at all and just wanted to live a good life.
However, fate played another joke on her.
Before she was injured, Gu Si observed a corner of the world through this small boundary.
——Although they wear medieval clothing, farm tools and farming methods are also quite ancient, but even in a border town, the people here have a very strict sense of hygiene, and the residents seem to have religious beliefs related to mysticism.
Work at sunrise and return in the afternoon. At dusk, not even the smoke rises from the kitchen stoves in the entire village, and the chickens and ducks in the livestock sheds become eerily quiet.
It's like a frozen oil painting, with dark colors and the aura of death in the tomb.
She was originally a street child with no fixed place to live, and naturally could not integrate into this village. Some kind-hearted old people would give her one or two pieces of unpalatable black bread after night, but most of the time the villagers regarded her as a wandering ghost.
People avoid and fear some kind of nocturnal monster.
It was not difficult for Gu Si to realize that, in fact, she had clearly experienced the fear of being preyed on three nights ago.
The human brain automatically filters out pain. Her mind went blank, and many of the details at that time were blurred.
The only thing I remember is that when my neck was pierced by fangs, and the blood burst through the thin flesh, it gushed out. With the loss of temperature and blood loss, what was deeply imprinted on my nerves——
...Happiness?
Isn't this right? She didn't have any special hobbies in her previous life!
However, it was true that she was bitten by a wild beast, and a lot of blood was lost. Now Gu Si only hopes that the world will have good sanitary conditions and that there will be no infectious diseases such as rabies.
Gu Si had just woken up. The information in her mind was too messy and the more she thought about it, the more headache she got. Her thick eyelashes were half-closed, her skin was so white that it was almost transparent, and she was as delicate and beautiful as a doll in the window.
When changing the dressing, she kept shaking, either out of pain or itching.
After realizing this, the man weakly raised his fingertips without touching her skin again.
"Can you tell us your name, miss?"
The red-haired man looked at her expression steadily, knowing that her condition was not suitable for questioning. He raised his hands and made a harmless gesture with a handsome smile.
"We are not bad people, you probably realize that, right?"
Gu Si nodded. No matter what their purpose was, she barely managed to save her life. Following them was the only way to survive.
"...Si." She made a weak breathy voice.
The universal language of this world is not Chinese. Her memories with her original body have not yet been fully integrated, so she blurted out her real name.
"sissi, your name is Sisi?"
Loki scratched his chin with his knuckles and chewed the two syllables with interest, "I am Loki Bytram, that guy is Archer, and there are two others who are on a mission. I will introduce them to you later."
Gu Si didn't have the strength to speak, so she closed her eyes with a slight breath, nodded, and a few strands of weed-like blond hair fell in front of her sharp white chin.
It was almost dusk again, and the bloody sunset in the sky drowned out the halo of light at the end of the horizon. Only one or two crows flew sporadically over the dead, bare woods.
The temperature difference between day and night here is huge. She hugged her knees with her hands and huddled into a small ball to ensure that her body temperature was not lost.
After finally getting a chance to live, she wanted to live.
While half asleep and half awake, Gu Si vaguely heard their whispered conversation.
"Archer, put your clothes on her?"
"Get lost."
"Why are you being stingy? You are still wearing a hood anyway." Loki laughed.
"The only way to keep warm is horse straw." Archer's reply was still unkind.
Loki was silent and sighed: "Okay, why did you avoid her just now?"
"I hate pathogens," the young man said coldly, "We brought her with us to guard her, not to praise her as a noble lady. If she is transformed, I will be the first to kill her."
"Don't be so hypocritical. Do you think you are helping her?"
After saying these words, Archer stepped on the branches, carried a bow and arrow on his back, and jumped to a high place.
Their dispute did not escape Gu Si, who seemed determined that even if she heard it, she would not be able to escape the surveillance of the "hunters".
The noisy noises faded away like running water, and the sound of boots approached her again.
Loki knelt down on one knee and observed her closely for a while, then casually took off his windbreaker and covered her thin back.
The soldier's coat was strong and warm. Gu Si tightened the clothes by the corners, her face turned red, and she slowly let out a sigh of contentment.
In her sleep, she became defenseless, like a small animal with its fluffy, buttery belly open.
Loki reached out and poked her hair. Gu Si chased the heat, tilted her head, and put the tip of her nose close to his half-fingered glove, slightly smelling the smell of leather and blood.
She couldn't get used to the smell and frowned slightly.
The man chuckled, seeming very happy.
"Don't be afraid."
Loki pushed her tangled hair to the other side, away from her wounds, and pressed his knuckles slightly against the thin, warm veins under her skin.
The muscles and veins beat, and the fresh vitality surged under his palms.
Or human body temperature.
As if she was aware of the danger, she began to tremble slightly again.
"As long as you keep behaving like this, we will keep you by our side." Loki smiled and patted the back of her head, comforting her.
…
Gu Si realized that the beast that bit her might not be an ordinary beast.
I learned the truth late that night.
Gu Si lay on the man's muscular back, with the large windbreaker covering her thighs, keeping her a little bit warm in the rapidly moving cold air. The scene in front of him quickly retreated, the rich blood energy overwhelmed the sky, and the branches and leaves of the trees surged wildly.
Gu Si's hair was messy by the blow, and she rubbed her eyes, thinking that it was her imagination that Loki and Archer were stepping on branches and climbing over walls.
Is this still human?!
The sound of frightened horse hooves followed them closely. It was the hunter's means of transportation, and it was also the mount that carried Gu Si these days. It was like a beast that had encountered a natural enemy. A frightened scream suddenly came from below, and then there was the sound of heavy objects rolling to the ground, and the predators that had been watching for a long time swarmed up.
Gu Si glanced back in fear, only to see high sprays of blood mist.
At that moment, what remained in the retina was a pair of vertical pupils glowing with blood. The pupils were as thin as needles and the skin was bluish white, like a nocturnal zombie.
Two similar black shadows surrounded them from the left and right!
There was the buzzing sound of a bow being drawn next to him, and the silver sharp weapon emitted cold light, breaking through the strong wind and hitting the heart of the monster coming from the right.
Because of the neat killing movement and the power that cannot be underestimated, the bow was returned in Archer's hands.
"Fifteen subspecies," he narrowed his green eyes and looked at Gu Si with cold and wary eyes, "Did you attract them?"
Gu Si was not stupid enough to notice the boy's targeting, but the information she had was limited and she was a little frightened, so she kept her mouth shut and didn't speak.
"Archer," Loki helplessly called his companions and snapped his fingers. Another monster that was about to approach them was engulfed in flames that ignited under their feet.
"The low-level subspecies have no IQ, but they have a premonition of crisis. It is their instinct to avoid the smell of silverware."
Archer crossed his arms and sneered: "Then they want to take back their "kind". Otherwise, how can we explain the anomalies of these vampire subspecies that go against their nature?"
Gu Si lacked experience in dealing with people, and she slowly realized that although Loki's words were just an explanation, they were actually inducing her to prove herself.
She had been attacked by these monsters before and was at risk of being infected. Archer's trust in her was already in jeopardy. If one mistake was made, she would be left as bait.
She shuddered at the thought of what had happened to the horse.
...what to do?
Fortunately, Archer and Loki were very powerful and easily eliminated seven or eight monsters while waiting for her reply. They joined their returning companions while moving at high speed and eliminated all the monsters in a short time.
Gu Si finally met all the Vatican hunters when she was awake.
But Gu Si's crisis has not disappeared.
However, what she was about to face was an interrogation from the hunters.
