What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Professor Nass smiled very kindly and said in a seductive tone: "It is actually a lot easier to get familiar with the Germanic languages ​​first, and then learn the Romance languages. The main thing is the way of thinking. You need to block your mother tongue thinking first, and use English first. Thinking about the Germanic languages ​​mastered by humans..."

The lady sitting next to me listened thoughtfully, as if she really understood how to learn Spanish well.

She met this Professor Nass by chance when she was visiting clients in a province in southwest China. She knew that this professor was from the UK and spoke extremely fluent Chinese. Although some of his words and sentences sounded a bit old-fashioned, traditional and "textbook" "", but it is very difficult for a foreigner to speak to this extent.

Professor Nass told her that she came to China this time to do research on some special plants, saying that they can provide clean energy for mankind and may become the answer to mankind's fight against environmental degradation in the future. Although she didn't quite understand many of the terms and principles he said, and was a little confused, she still believed in her own judgment because of her rich experience and believed that everything Professor Nass said was true. Sincerely admire.

So after learning that Professor Nass planned to go to Yangcheng, which was not far from the city where her company was located, the lady took the initiative to invite him to take her car and go back together.

On the way, the lady continued to communicate with Professor Nass. This old British gentleman was not only good-looking and very temperamental, but also humorous and knowledgeable. In addition, his fluent Chinese lowered the communication threshold. She already had a crush on Nass. From admiration to worship and admiration.

In fact, if you look at it from a completely objective perspective, put aside the conversation scene and the conversation process between the two people, and analyze only the actual content of their conversation, nine out of ten people will find it a bit strange - that foreigner's Chinese is very slippery , but the content of the chat is all nonsense, there is no logic and reason at all, and it is clearly deceiving people.

But in the car, whether it was the lady who already had a lot of money and had been in shopping malls for a long time, or the middle-aged driver who was driving, they all believed in Nas's words, whether it was his identity or his "special" There is no doubt about the rhetoric of "plant research".

So, after the car entered the boundaries of Yangcheng, the lady still willingly directed the driver to go where Professor Nass wanted to go, as if she were his assistant or secretary.

After walking around the city of Yangcheng City, under the command of Professor Nass, the Mercedes-Benz stopped by the side of the road.

Nas got out of the car, stood on the side of the road and frowned at the road for a while, then closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

The lady also wanted to get out of the car, but Nas suddenly raised his hand and said to her: "Don't get off!"

The lady was stunned for a moment, but she did not get out of the car as she was told. She and the driver stayed in the car, looking through the car window at Professor Nass lying directly on the road, sniffing something.

He even climbed out of the roadside guardrail, went to the field next to him, lay down and observed, and seemed to pick a piece of grass and lick it.

"Professor Nass worked really hard to do research!" The driver sighed when he saw Professor Nass's behavior outside through the rearview mirror from the driver's seat.

The lady who was leaning against the car window and looking out also expressed sincere admiration: "I really envy the UK for having scholars like Professor Nass. No, Professor Nass should belong to all mankind."

Of course, they didn't see that Professor Nass, who was leaning over in the grass by the roadside, protruded a "mouthpart" like a straw from his open mouth, and spit out a tube of green long sticks. shaped viscous substance.

Those sticky substances quickly turn into liquid after contacting the surrounding green plants, and then penetrate into them.

Professor Nass got up, closed his eyes again, and sniffed the air deeply with his nose, as if there was something around him that attracted him.

After more than ten minutes, Professor Nass got back into the car and asked the driver, "What's that place in front of you?"

"Over there?" The driver glanced: "That should be the entrance to the highway, right?"

Professor Nass took out his mobile phone again, called up the electronic map and asked a few questions. Then there was no driver on the highway, but he asked him to drive him back to the city.

Professor Nass said goodbye to the lady and the driver on the Mercedes-Benz, but half an hour later, he got into another car and drove on the expressway, but he did not go to Pengcheng City where he had asked the driver about the location of the map. Heading to Liushi.

A few hours later, it was already evening when we arrived in Liushi. After the car was parked in a relatively remote area, "Professor Nas" got out of the car and said goodbye to the young man who was driving.

Of course, in the young man's perception, this gentle, blond old man was not an English professor who came to China to study special plants, but a daughter who went to a foreign country to find a married woman, but lost her wallet after getting off the plane Uncle William, who had a passport, offered voluntary help out of the spirit of internationalism and drove him to this place to find his daughter.

The blond old man now called "Uncle William" was walking on a remote road with few pedestrians.

Not long after, he walked around the botanical garden at the foot of the mountain, stopped in an undeveloped and remote open space, and began to frown and observe.

Just like in Yangcheng City earlier, he occasionally closes his eyes and sniffs deeply, occasionally lying on the ground, spit out green liquid with the straw-like mouthparts in his mouth to combine with the surrounding plants, as if he is looking for something.

He is not "Uncle William", nor does he have a daughter married to China, nor is he "Professor Nass", he does not study any special plants, and he is not even from the UK.

His name is Joel, or in other words, for those who really know his identity, the name Joel is an accurate code name. As for his "real name", after he became a "blood clan", it was no longer used.

Those who knew him well called him "Old Earl", "Count Joel", or "Lord of the Forest".

In "Red Rose", he has always been one of the highest-ranking "blood clans".

Yes, he is the Joel who has reached the stage limit and has to seek other pure-bloods as the "blood source". At the beginning, Guo Tianxiang was the "blood source" he "raised", John Cavendish Xu followed his order and went to China to find the missing Guo Tianxiang.

But what I didn't expect was that John who was sent lost contact not long after, and even the "holy blood" he left in John's place was swallowed up. It doesn't take much to know that there is a very powerful and terrifying existence here, Whether it is Guo Tianxiang or John, there is a high possibility that both have fallen into the hands of the other party.

If he followed his usual habits, he would definitely not dare to take risks.

But now, for Earl Joel, under the persecution of the stage limit, he continued to stay in Slovakia, and he could not escape death. He might even have to take the initiative to become the "Red Rose" old buddy before his self-disintegration. Blood Source", performing the so-called "Pure Blood Internal Circulation".

In fact, Joel has thought about his own ending countless times. He once thought that he would accept the method of "pure blood internal circulation" calmly and become the blood source of other old guys. After all, he himself can live for so long and can not die until now , It is also achieved by the dedication of many "predecessors" when they reach the stage limit and cannot obtain a qualified "blood source" breakthrough.

But when the real thing came to an end, when he felt that death was approaching, he still couldn't fully accept everything, he was still afraid and shrank in the end.

He wanted to fight for his life again.

So he decided to go to China alone. The great danger also heralds a great opportunity. Maybe he can find a way to obtain a qualified "blood source" by himself.

After all, in his opinion, he was much stronger and more experienced than Guo Tianxiang and John.

Of course, his idea was unanimously opposed by other members of "Red Rose" - they were all afraid that he would die outside.

A "blood race" like John who has undergone a few stages of transformation, even if he dies outside, the loss will be lost, but Earl Joel is different. One of the biggest beneficiaries of "Reincarnation", if he died outside, it would be an almost unbearable loss for all the remaining "Red Rose" blood clans.

So this time, in order to come to China, Joel had a big fight with two old buddies.

Fortunately, he is old, and he has never taken much action. He has a bunch of unknown tricks, and he has a "plan" long ago, so he took the lead. Return.

We are all smart people, and when the cost outweighs the gains, and the risks and benefits are out of proportion, we will naturally make the "right choice".

Joel, like the previous John, sneaked in through the southwest border, and then used the best hypnosis method to move between cities, relying on other humans as cover.

Whether it is him, John, Guo Tianxiang, or even the other blood clan members of "Red Rose", although there are differences in the realization of specific abilities, they basically all have the ability to interfere and affect ordinary people's thinking, cognition, and sensory judgment. Also known as "hypnosis".

But even with this ability, he is still cautious and cautious. For example, when transferring from Yangcheng to Liucheng, I changed another hypnotized subject and a different car.

Although far away in Slovakia, the two small porcelain knives he gave to Guo Tianxiang and John contained part of his "holy blood", which can also be said to be "prosthetic tissue fluid", which can help them deal with other "bloods", "Blood Beast".

Usually, there is no way to use these "prosthetic tissue fluids" for detailed positioning, but when they are consumed, when he is close to the destination, he can have some faint perception, and can find the specific location where the "prosthetic tissue fluid" disappeared, as if those When interstitial fluid disappears, it leaves a mark in the void.

This ability is obtained from a special "blood plant" that he devoured in the early years, but he always claimed in "Red Rose" that it was condensed by himself, and named it "Holy Blood". Otherwise, his pure-blooded persona would not be able to stand up.

Of course, in fact, everyone knows what happened. In the current "Red Rose", almost all members have drank the blood of "Blood Plant" and "Blood Beast", so it's just a secret.

In addition to the "prosthetic tissue fluid" in the small porcelain knife, Earl Joel actually secretly manipulated Guo Tianxiang and John. If they drink blood and have a staged transformation, they will have a very strong special effect. Mark, after he got close to a certain distance, he was able to determine the location of the staged transformation between the two people.

It was also because he noticed that John had undergone staged transformations twice in a short period of time, and realized that there might be huge opportunities in this country and this land amid danger.

If even John's level can achieve two stage transformations, then he should have an easier time.

Whether it is joining a new organization or hunting other targets, he has stronger capital than John.

What's more, his target is actually John himself.

After finding the location where the "prosthetic tissue fluid" disappeared from the small porcelain knife in John's hand in Yangcheng, he used special means to determine that at the moment it happened, John was sitting in some kind of high-speed moving enclosed space, filled with metal, leather and gasoline. The smell, of course, is definitely the car too.

And he was able to determine that the locations of John's two subsequent stage transformations were probably in Pengcheng City. The specific location would need to be found later.

But he did not enter Pengcheng City immediately. Instead, he turned around and went to Liucheng City, where the "prosthetic tissue fluid" in Guo Tianxiang's small porcelain knife disappeared.

Because this place is the starting point of all changes, and it is also the place that John will definitely investigate after entering the country - John can use the small porcelain knife in his hand to sense and determine the position where the liquid in Guo Tianxiang's small porcelain knife disappeared.

Maybe, the accident that happened to John also started from this place.

Joel lay on the ground for a long time, and after exhausting various methods, it was basically certain that the "prosthetic tissue fluid" in his small porcelain knife had played a lethal role and had the effect of inhibiting the recovery of the "vampire".

But the strange thing is that he did not feel that Guo Tianxiang had undergone a phased transformation. In other words, either the injured vampire ran away, or Guo Tianxiang did not drink blood after killing that vampire. The former is very unlikely, and the latter is also unlikely.

Joel thought of another possibility: the target injured by the small porcelain knife and the effect of the "prosthetic tissue fluid" was not other "vampires" or "blood beasts", but Guo Tianxiang himself.

but why?

He couldn't have committed suicide, could he?

Joel, who found no other clues, was about to leave when he suddenly noticed a stone not far away that seemed to be moving.

The movement was very small, and an ordinary person would definitely not be able to detect it, but his hearing was far superior to ordinary people, and he was able to capture it keenly.

He stopped and listened for a while, feeling a little strange, so he walked over and lifted up the stone.

The moment he lifted it, he saw dozens of big black ants burrowing into the ground that had been dug full of holes, he couldn't help being startled, and subconsciously took half a step back.

He was not afraid of bugs, nor were ants, but these ants gave him a very special feeling, making his scalp tingle instinctively.

But he didn't think about it. First, those ants all got into the ground and ran away. Second, he didn't feel the breath of "blood beast" from those ants. No matter how weird they were, they were just ordinary ants. Li was attracted by several vague carvings on the stone.

Those notches are several letters, and the first four can be vaguely judged to be: help.

And the last one should be: J.

The scratches were crooked, as if they were dug out with fingernails. It was impossible to accurately judge the handwriting, but instinctively, Joel thought it was left by John.

One is that this is an English word, and the other is the "J". John's initials are J, and his initials are also J. This can be John showing his identity, or asking him for help—because John is sure I know, if he finds it, he will definitely find this place.

Joel's expression was dignified, but his heart was a little excited. He bent down, carefully inspected the stone and its surroundings, and even dug up the ant nest with a branch.

The ant nest was very deep, and he didn't find a single ant. Obviously there was another world underground, but he saw a restaurant receipt half buried in the ant nest.

The words on it are almost unreadable, and there are many holes that look like they were eaten by insects. It is obvious that this small ticket has been here for a long time.

Fortunately, the above date and the name of the restaurant are still there. Judging from the time, March 16 is one day before the "prosthetic tissue fluid" in the small porcelain knife in John's hand disappeared.

As for that restaurant, he checked the location with his mobile phone, and it was in Liucheng.

Joel couldn't help being a little puzzled. Whether it was him or John, there was no need to eat normally, and there was no need to go to places like restaurants. Even if they went there for some reason, it was impossible to check out and still have a receipt. They have plenty of ways "Eat free food" without leaving traces.

Or this small ticket was not left by John, it appeared here, and the date is so coincidental, is it just a coincidence?

Or, did John go to that restaurant for some special reason, and even pay the bill?

Hesitating so much, George's eyes were suddenly bloodshot, and he bent down and directly hit his forehead on the stone with "help J" engraved on it.

Once, once, after another, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and he gritted his teeth and moaned with each impact.

After a while, Joel's head was rotten, and the bloody Joel was lying on the ground, gasping for breath, while the wound was slowly healing.

The strange thing is that after he self-mutilated with a head stone, Joel's face turned into a very handsome blond guy in his early twenties with red lips and white teeth.

After a long time, Joel got up from the ground, shook his blond hair, and after some of the gray powder dispersed, his forehead had returned to its original state without any blood stains, and his face had become old again, returning to the appearance of "Professor Nass" .

Realizing that there is not much time left for him, and although he still has a lot of doubts, Joel finally decides to check out the restaurant.

When he found the restaurant, it happened to be past seven o'clock in the evening, which was the best time for business.

He didn't go there immediately, but observed the surrounding area for a long time. This restaurant looked very high-end, mainly Western food, and the business was very good, and the people who entered and exited were all well-dressed people.

He used many methods, but he did not notice any traces of "blood clan", "blood descendants" and "blood beasts" activities in the restaurant or nearby. However, he still felt a little uneasy and uneasy in his heart. He did not know where the danger was or where his opponents were. Wow, the more frightening it is.

After observing for a while, Joel walked into the restaurant after eight o'clock, when there were many fewer customers.

He directly found the manager of the restaurant and introduced himself as William from the UK. He came to China to find his missing son. Then he showed the receipt and said that his missing son seemed to have eaten at this restaurant and he wanted to see it. Look at the restaurant’s surveillance.

His fluent Chinese, good appearance, decent dress, and strong "persuasiveness" made the manager instantly believe his words and take him to the office to watch the surveillance.

March 16th was exactly three months ago, and the surveillance video from that time was still saved. The manager helped open the surveillance video from March 16th, and moved forward according to the checkout time on the receipt to locate the time.

Joel quickly found John on the surveillance video. Although the quality of the surveillance video was a bit low, he could still confirm that the blond man was sitting in the corner of the hall, drinking water from time to time, and the dishes on the table were not touched. , was John Cavendish who was sent by "Red Rose" to look for Guo Tianxiang.

Joel fast forwarded the video and quickly saw that at around 8:30 pm on March 16, a cute little girl wearing a white princess dress walked over and said something to John, who immediately got up and got married. Then he nodded and bowed and followed her out of the restaurant.

What's happening here?

Who is that little girl?

Is it China’s “blood clan”?

John took the little girl to the place where Guo Tianxiang disappeared?

Does he want to betray "Red Rose"?

Joel was a little shocked. He watched the video several times in a row, and then he discovered a strange place. He could see the little girl leaving the restaurant with John, but he could not see where the little girl entered the restaurant and appeared in front of John. of. Is it monitoring a blind spot, from the back door?

After making an excuse to get the video on his phone, Joel was about to ask if there were other secret doors in the restaurant when he suddenly noticed that on the surveillance screen that had returned to the real-time view, from the perspective of the lobby, there was a woman in a white princess dress. The girl stood in the middle, looking up at the monitor, as if looking at him through the screen.

He was stunned for a moment, turned around quickly, and walked towards the hall, but when he got there, there was no one where the little girl was standing. He quickly asked the waiter next to him: "Where is the little girl who was standing there just now?"

The waiter was stunned for a moment: "What little girl?"

"It's the little girl wearing a white skirt." Joel said. The little girl's dress and temperament felt incompatible with the restaurant. She was very conspicuous. He didn't believe that the people around her didn't notice.

"No." The waiter was still a little confused and looked around in confusion. He did not see any little girl.

Joel judged that he was not lying, so he asked the guests dining next to him, and the answer he got was that he didn't see any little girl.

He immediately returned to the back office and asked the manager who had just stood next to him: "Did you see a little girl in the hall on the surveillance camera just now?"

The manager was stunned for a moment: "I didn't pay attention to the surveillance camera just now. What little girl?"

So the two called up the surveillance video they had just recorded, but were shocked to find that there was indeed no little girl looking up at the surveillance video in the lobby just now. There was no one in that position.

what happened?

Even though it was difficult for Joel to sweat, a trace of cold sweat broke out on his forehead and flowed down his forehead.

He did panic a little.

Joel didn't ask about the secret door of the restaurant anymore. After saying goodbye to the manager, he walked out of the restaurant door directly.

But as soon as he went out, he heard a female voice speaking English with a strong London accent: "Do you want to explore the secret of life? You can't find the answer by just trying hard. You need to make a choice and see what you can give. cost……"

This sentence made his heart skip a beat. He suddenly looked up and followed the source of the sound, only to find that it was a huge screen above a shopping mall across the street, playing an advertisement for Ping An Life Insurance. A dignified-looking woman was speaking. , while pointing your finger to the left.

For an ordinary person, at this distance and in such a noisy environment, it would be difficult to hear the sound of the advertisement on the big screen, but Joel's hearing was different and he could hear it clearly.

The reason why this passage made him particularly sensitive was that he and John had said similar things.

He once said to John's question about "eternal life": "Do you want to explore the secret of eternal life? You can't find the answer by just trying hard. You need to make a choice and see what price you can pay."

Of course, he is not really answering John's questions, he is just trying to find a way to make John his confidant in "Red Rose" and stand on his side.

But... why is this sentence put in the advertisement? Although eternal life has been changed to life, this statement still does not fit well with life insurance advertisements! What's more, why do outdoor advertisements in China speak English but don't have subtitles?

Is this for him?

Or...am I hallucinating?

Joel, who often hypnotizes others and affects their minds and cognitions, the first thing he thought of was that he was hallucinating and misjudged the sound and image information from the outside world.

His muscles all over his body tensed subconsciously, and he carefully felt his own situation and surrounding environment, trying to find evidence that he was hypnotized, and find a way to "wake up" himself.

For a moment, the "Earl" of "Red Rose", the "blood" known as the "Lord of the Forest", was so nervous that he stood there and did not dare to move.

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