Chapter 24: Chapter Twenty-Three: You Don't Want to Lose the Happiness of the Latter Half of Your Life, Do You?

The sun quickly set, and the moon slowly rose.

Su Qing and Selinna walked out of the abandoned factory and headed toward the nearby forest where horses were tethered.

These days they had been traveling on horseback; even though Su Qing's body had been strengthened by vampire bloodline, his buttocks were starting to feel sore.

He had considered buying a car for the journey, but considering that the route to the ever-changing Hungarian mountains and rivers had places with no roads at all, he had no choice but to continue on horseback.

"Ah, my butt." Su Qing sat on the horseback, feeling as if his buttocks no longer existed.

"Don't complain." Selinna flicked the reins, tossed out that sentence, and rode ahead leading the way: "Keep up."

"Could master-level riding skills also protect the buttocks?" Su Qing watched her receding figure, sighing inwardly; before automobiles were invented, these death-walkers like Selinna who went out to hunt werewolves had no transport other than horses.

Thus, after years of accumulation, death-walkers were almost all skilled riders.

Su Qing rode his horse to keep up, holding a torch, and proceeded forward by moonlight.

Along the way they first passed through forest, then a mountain trail, and finally crossed a small stream, arriving silently outside the prison at midnight.

Along the way the horse galloped, and Su Qing's buttocks suffered further; he rested a while before moving again.

"This is it!" Su Qing stood behind a tree, peered ahead at the ancient stone castle protected in the middle by a wall, and faintly smelled a strange odor.

He was very familiar with this smell, which only werewolves have; therefore he could be certain that Tai Lis had already colluded with the Wolf Clan.

Su Qing could notice, and Selinna, this century-old hunter, naturally also noticed the anomaly.

He saw her take a bag from the horse beside her, open it, and pour out three M1910 pistols, ten magazines, and several grenades.

How to put it? No submachine gun, no Barrett; Su Qing felt disappointed, but realizing that these guns hadn't been invented yet in this era, he thought they were still usable enough.

Next they divided the equipment: Su Qing took two pistols, Selinna one; they split the magazines evenly, and Selinna didn't take all the grenades, giving the rest to Su Qing.

"I'm very capable; you don't need to worry about me." Su Qing, shouldering a bag of weapons, looked at the still-unreassured Selinna, feeling both moved and helpless.

Before sunset today, the master-level martial arts program downloaded smoothly, and Su Qing installed it on the spot.

At the moment he thought of installing it, he only felt that his mind gained much martial arts experience and insight, even seeming to enter a god's-eye view in a daze.

In this vision he saw himself fighting Selinna.

At first he knew nothing, only able to throw a clumsy punch and be knocked down by Selinna in one move; but he was like an indestructible cockroach, each time getting up to continue fighting her, and after who knows how many knock downs and get-ups, he finally defeated Selinna.

With that, his spirit returned, and Su Qing suddenly felt different.

Looking at Selinna resting nearby, his mind instantly presented dozens of ways to subdue her, and his body's muscles were also ready to act at any moment.

In the blink of an eye he turned a combat novice into a battle-hardened martial arts master, truly deserving the title of "golden finger."

However, Su Qing did not tell Selinna about his instant transformation into a martial arts master.

Because there was simply no way to explain it.

Regarding the golden finger, he found it inconvenient to say and had no intention to, after all it was the foundation of his livelihood.

Of course, given Selinna's personality, telling her would be fine.

But Su Qing didn't want to bring trouble upon himself.

So the best approach was to remain silent.

"Stay close to me; if the situation goes wrong, throw a grenade." Selinna looked at Su Qing and still anxiously urged him.

"I understand." Su Qing nodded repeatedly, promising to stay close.

Since preparations were complete, they didn't delay and began sneaking toward the gate.

When they were still a short distance from the gate, Su Qing suddenly remembered there was a trap underground ahead, and hurriedly whispered: "There's a trap under the ground in front of the gate; be careful."

Selinna heard him, said nothing, just nodded, and stepped more carefully.

At this time surveillance probes had not yet been invented, so the two proceeded cautiously all the way, smoothly scaling the wall and entering the prison interior.

Then they discovered that the spot where they had climbed over the wall happened to be right beside the cage where Tai Lis kept his werewolf slaves.

Although the sound of their landing was soft, it had already awakened the sleeping werewolf slaves.

"Damn."

Seeing the werewolf open its eyes, Su Qing cursed silently and, without thinking, raised his hand and fired.

"Bang!"

The silver bullet pierced the werewolf's ear directly; in pain it let out a miserable "ow-wow" cry.

As it let out that cry, the originally dead-quiet prison castle instantly became lively.

Only the sound of metal clicks was heard; the surrounding walls opened, and five chained werewolves surged out.

"Huh... ow..."

Merely, these werewolves had foul-smelling saliva dripping from the corners of their mouths, their whole bodies filthy, as if they had just crawled out of a cesspool.

Obviously their usual living environment was extremely poor.

"I was actually aiming for the brow." Su Qing looked at the werewolf missing a corner of its ear, then at the other werewolves, shaking his head inwardly, thinking that Lu Xi En had sent his own kin to vampires as dog food, and wasn't afraid of losing face as the Wolf Clan's wolf king.

"Stay close to me." Selinna turned her head to stop Su Qing's complaints, sternly saying to him, "Remember what I just said; if something's wrong, throw a grenade immediately."

"Got it." Su Qing nodded while holding his gun.

Immediately, Selinna sprang forward, wielding a gun in one hand and a knife in the other, single-handedly taking on the two werewolves charging head-on.

As for Su Qing's side, he naturally displayed great prowess.

Although his marksmanship was terrible—shooting east while aiming west—the title of martial arts master Su Qing certainly wasn't just for show.

Using the same method as Selinna—one hand gun, one hand knife—he rushed at the werewolves and gave them a wild barrage of blows.

Then, after Selinna disposed of three werewolves and turned around, he also successfully dealt with another three werewolf slaves.

"You……" Selinna was at a loss for words, not knowing how to describe it.

"I told you so; you don't believe me, blame me!" Su Qing shrugged, wearing an innocent expression.

Upon hearing that, Selinna gave him a sideways glance, asked nothing more, and simply led the way toward the castle interior.

Afterward, they encountered no further obstruction; following Selinna as they walked and turned, five minutes later the two stopped outside a door.

Then, Su Qing heard some indescribable sounds coming from behind the door.

The sounds were of one man and two women.

"Damn, they really know how to play…… Suddenly I feel a bit envious of him." Su Qing's heart stirred, and then he felt the surrounding air turn a bit cold.

He turned his head and saw Selinna staring at him, her pupils ice‑blue, and she lightly asked: "What were you just thinking about?"

Su Qing shivered, and at the same time thought, "Is this women's sixth sense? How terrifying."

He hurriedly explained, saying: "I wasn't thinking anything; I just felt that this guy, clearly exiled, lives so carefree—it's surprising, yes, surprising."

Selinna listened to the explanation, said nothing, merely watching the ice‑blue in her eyes gradually fade back to their normal color.

Afterward, she opened her mouth as if to say something.

At that moment, a voice came from inside the door: "Who's out there?"

He arrived just in time.

Feeling grateful in his heart, Su Qing shoved the door open and blurted: "Tailisi, you don't want to lose the happiness of the second half of your life, do you?"