They whispered something into his ear. This seemed to calm the silver-haired vampire down, because he then put down his axe and pulled Layla up from the ground.
With a hard shove, he pushed Layla towards us and spat, “Give us the hostages.”
Rufus gestured at Warren and the latter led the vampire captives here.
The hostages of both sides walked towards their respective groups simultaneously.
I clenched my fists and my whole body was on edge.
I could feel that there were many people lurking in the shadows around us. They all glared at us murderously. Perhaps the real slaughter would be launched as soon as the hostages were exchanged.
The air seemed to freeze at this moment. Everyone held their breaths, anxiously anticipating a fierce battle to break out at any given second.
Sylvia’s POV
The hostages from both sides walked very carefully, fearing that one wrong move could have disastrous consequences.
I stared at Layla and nodded at her, encouraging her to come over bravely.
Layla pursed her lips and looked serious. It could be seen from her trembling hands that she was also very nervous.
Soon, the hostages of both sides reached their own groups without a hitch.
I approached Layla and helped her untie the rope.
“Be careful. I can feel an ambush coming.” Layla warned me in a low voice.
“I know.” I looked up and winked at her meaningfully.
Suddenly, the silver-haired vampire spoke up again. “You should check on her carefully, lest later you say that it’s not the person you want.”
I pulled Layla behind me protectively. Glaring defiantly at the silver-haired vampire, I replied, “She’s the person we want. Why don’t you check your captives?”
The silver-haired vampire didn’t seem to take me seriously. He smiled and clicked his tongue arrogantly. “You’re dead meat, yet you still have the audacity to defy me.”
“Is that so? Who said we’re going to die here?” I shrugged nonchalantly, pretending to be clueless.
“This is our territory, remember?” The silver-haired vampire’s lips curved into an evil smile. He slowly raised his hand, as if to give a signal to his fellow vampires.
But before they could act, the vampire captives who had just walked over to them suddenly attacked the other vampires present.
Chaos broke loose on the other side.
“Let’s go.” I grabbed Layla’s hand and started running.
Warren was in front of us. He led the way, while Rufus stayed behind.
“What the hell’s going on?” Layla was confused. She glanced back while running.
The scene we had just left was a mess. Just then, two hooded people emerged from the crowd. It was Flora and Ashley.
They were running towards us quickly.
“Mission accomplished!” Flora said with a big, bright smile. She immediately threw her arms around Layla and cried, “I’m glad you’re alive!”
Ever since Flora found out that Layla had come to my rescue and fought off the vampires, she had no reservations about her anymore.
“What just happened?” Layla looked at Flora and Ashley in shock and bewilderment.
“Before the exchange, Ashley used her special power on the vampire captives. They’re all bewitched. If they can’t manage to see through the illusion at the very beginning, they’ll soon completely fall into her control and become her puppets. They will obey her orders unconditionally unless she stops using her special power,” I explained briefly.
“Wait, so this is all Ashley’s doing? Why would she help us?” Layla couldn’t seem to wrap her head around the whole situation despite my explanation. She narrowed her eyes at Ashley dubiously. “You were a slave to the werewolves and suffered endlessly. Don’t you hate us?”
Ashley didn’t answer. She simply looked at Layla helplessly, as though she didn’t know how to explain.
“Let’s talk about this later. Right now, we have to get out of here,” I said hurriedly.
“Yeah! What if they catch up to us?” Flora looked back nervously.
Sure enough, the vampires had regained their composure and were now calling upon their companions in the dark to chase after us.
Layla shot one last glance at Ashley but didn’t probe further. “Let’s go.”
Sylvia’s POV
It was pitch black now.
We tried to retreat along the same path we had taken, but many zombies attacked us along the way.
“These zombies are brainless monsters who don’t die.” Ashley, who was hiding in the dark with us, observed the zombies who were waving their arms listlessly outside.
There were a lot of zombies-too many to count. Back then, during the war between werewolves and vampires, the only reason why the vampires had the upper hand was because they had a zombie army.
“So what should we do now?” Flora wrung her hands anxiously.
The situation was more complicated than I thought. With countless zombies around, we were trapped.
Just then, Rufus’ subordinates rushed over from the other side. They had passed through another exit to avoid the zombies.
“You guys go first. I’ll deal with the aftermath here.”
Rufus ordered his subordinates to take out the flash bombs they had prepared in advance to counter the zombies.
Warren was protecting Flora while I pulled Ashley and Layla to the right.
Fortunately, although zombies were difficult to deal with, their attacks were nothing compared to real vampires, so none of us got injured as we made our escape.
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