Chapter 218: Vampire Count (End)
Under the pale moonlight, mechanical tentacles extended from behind the gentleman in a tuxedo and strangled the vampire who was still screaming in front of him.
Vampires are a powerful race. Even the lowest level vampire can easily kill an ordinary human, let alone a vampire lord?
But the once powerful vampire was like a wrung-out rag in his hands. Blood flowed down the twitching corpse, forming a blood-red lake on the ground that reflected the pale moonlight.
Luke looked calm, and didn’t look like he was killing anyone—and of course, this wasn’t a human either.
Since the vampires came to power, life has become extremely difficult for humans.
Vampires not only regard humans as food, they are keen on hunting and killing. At the same time, in order to ensure that their killing does not affect food storage, the current four ruling princes of vampires have built "breeding centers" in various places.
If the world outside the incubator can still be called the "human world", at least in order to ensure the vampires' superior status, they need a large number of workers to provide them with exquisite clothes and majestic castles. Then the world inside the incubator is the real purgatory.
Luke's duty was to hunt vampires. He had killed countless vampires, so killing a count was no problem at all...
He sensed something and turned around suddenly.
In the moonlight, not far away, a spotless person in a white dress looked at him in shock.
Jie Fangcheng's pupils were very black, and under the moonlight they looked more like two pure and clean gems.
“…”
Click.
The mechanical tentacles shrank back as if frightened, and the count's body fell into a pool of blood. The splashing blood soaked Luke's trouser legs.
Luke lowered his eyes and pushed his glasses with his bloody fingers. When he raised his head again, he was still as gentle as before.
"Why are you here?"
His voice was very calm, as if nothing had happened, as if someone else had just hanged the count.
There were just a few drops of blood on his cheeks, which made his calm appearance seem even more weird and abnormal.
"...Awesome." Jie Fangcheng opened his mouth and sighed sincerely after a while.
“…”
Jie Fangcheng came over and curiously went around to look behind him.
Just now, several thick mechanical tentacles stretched out from behind him, but now, even the clothes on Luke's body were intact.
As if knowing what he was looking for, the next second, the clothes behind Luke swelled up to become transparent like the mucous membrane of some marine animal, and a tentacle emerged from the mucous membrane, hovering cautiously in front of Jie Fangcheng.
Jie Fangcheng reached out and touched it, and the touch felt very strange.
This mechanical tentacle looks like metal, but feels like bone.
"…It's made from the bones of vampire wings," Luke explained.
Vampires are the most powerful species in this world, and their wings are light yet strong, making them very suitable for making these mechanical tentacles.
However, this kind of mechanical tentacle needs to be fused with one's own spine, and only people with strong mental power can survive the experiment.
From the time Luke led the experiment to the present day, there have been quite a few people who have volunteered to undergo the transformation, but currently he is the only one who can perfectly control the mechanical tentacles.
Even if many people can walk off the operating table alive, the test begins when they start using tentacles.
The mechanical tentacles directly replace the human spine. Every time they are used, it is as if the entire body is being peeled off. Although there is no pain, it is like fighting with one's own throat. The human body will instinctively resist such dangerous behavior.
Any touch would cause a tremor that was almost from the soul, let alone fighting with tentacles.
Only Luke, this freak, had such strange knowledge from nowhere, but he came up with the wild idea of "using the power of vampires to deal with vampires". Soon after, he led the first mechanical tentacle experiment - and the subject was himself.
The experiment was a success.
The extent of his use of tentacles made people suspect that his tentacles were not actually connected to his spine, otherwise it would not be enough to explain why he was not affected by the side effects of the mechanical tentacles at all.
But Luke himself knew better.
As the person who came up with the idea of mechanical tentacles, no one believed it at the time because the idea was too magical.
If there is enough time, Luke can bide his time. He believes that if he is not given too long, even just one month, he can find a more suitable experimenter.
If he personally conducts the experiment, it will definitely be successful.
But it was too late.
Although there was no evidence, Luke could vaguely sense that there seemed to be some problems within the world that needed to be solved urgently.
There are many times when opportunities pass by in a flash, and once you miss this time, the future cannot be reversed.
Luke could only step onto the experimental table as a subject.
To outsiders, the experiment seemed very successful, but only Luke himself knew that it was only 30% successful.
The experimenters who came after him were able to succeed in their experiments because of his experience.
When it comes to the side effects of mechanical tentacles on the human body, Luke's is the most serious.
His mechanical tentacles not only connected to his spine, but parts of them had even extended uncontrollably into his brain.
When the sensitivity of the mechanical tentacle is too strong, the energy required by the person controlling it increases a hundredfold, and the sensitivity also increases accordingly.
Luke had to rely on his own control to adapt to the mechanical tentacles. Fighting and the like were nothing to him. Instead, Jie Fangcheng's gentle touch seemed to cause him to tremble even more.
Jie Fangcheng had no idea about this. He just thought it was quite novel. After all, he had not been to many high-tech places. The mechanical tentacle exuded a cold metallic black and silver color, which was very cyberpunk.
No one can resist this cool metallic thing!
So Jie Fangcheng touched it again.
The tentacles wrapped around his wrists as if they had self-awareness, bringing a very comfortable coolness.
Jie Fangcheng was delighted: "That's amazing, Professor Zhang."
——Professor Zhang.
The tentacles slightly increased their wrapping force, and at this moment they were firmly clasped around Jie Fangcheng's wrist like handcuffs.
Luke pushed up his glasses, and a pair of red eyes looked at him from behind the lenses.
It was very strange. Although Xie Fangcheng couldn't fully understand what he was thinking, he subtly felt that Professor Zhang was not in a good mood at this moment.
"What's wrong?" Jie Fangcheng was at a loss.
Luke looked at him, said nothing, and just shook his head: "Nothing."
Jie Fangcheng didn't understand what he was thinking, and Luke didn't say much.
His eyes turned to the Count's body at his feet.
"If I kill him, it shouldn't have any effect on your 'copy', right?"
"No." Jie Fangcheng explained the conditions for passing the copy, and Luke nodded.
"But what's going on with you?" Jie Fangcheng gestured, "Why are your eyes also red? And what's going on with your tentacle?"
Luke paused, but didn't hide it from him.
"I am a combination of a human and a vampire, but I don't have the power of a vampire. Only my eyes and teeth are different from those of ordinary humans, and everything else is very similar."
Actually, Luke didn’t say it completely.
The bloodthirsty nature was passed on to him through the half-vampire genes. Although he is essentially human and does not need blood for nutrition, human blood has a very tempting taste to him.
Especially on Jie Fangcheng, that familiar, inexplicable fragrance that Luke had smelled somewhere before was extremely attractive to him.
When Jie Fangcheng asked about it, Luke just mentioned it in passing.
The tentacles behind him involve a lot of knowledge, but it is obvious that Jie Fangcheng is not interested in how to make tentacles.
So Luke just mentioned it, and then paused: "Of course, I had a reason for attacking the earl just now. I am not a bloodthirsty person."
Of course, Jie Fangcheng knew this, but when Luke explained it this way, Jie Fangcheng was stunned: "Ah? I know."
"Because Zhang Daoan is not a bloodthirsty person?" Luke asked.
Jie Fangcheng was even more confused: "Huh? Why do you say that? Aren't you Zhang Daoan?"
Luke was silent for a moment, but finally nodded.
Although this is true, Luke is very clear intellectually and even emotionally that "he" did have a past in which he interacted with the other party as "Zhang Daoan".
Whether it is Luke or Zhang Daoan, in the final analysis, they are just different names, they are the same person.
But no matter when...it's hard not to be jealous of this past self that is mentioned over and over again.
"Nothing." Luke changed the subject, "This small world is different from the previous small world. Humans and vampires are mortal enemies."
It’s actually easy to understand.
Although vampires have human appearance, they are not the same species as humans. Humans are their food.
Can people empathize with cows and sheep?
Vampires never think that humans are the same creatures as them, but before the Fourth Prince came to power, vampires adopted a conciliatory policy towards humans, and even babies born from vampires and humans could be taken care of better.
But after the four princes came to power, the vampires began to reject this peace for some unknown reason.
They want total domination and want to turn all humans into prey and slaves like cattle and sheep.
The war has been going on for many years. The vampires are strong, but their numbers are small. Humans are not strong, but their numbers are large.
The Holy See established a base in the north, and within the scope of its influence, humans can still be called human beings.
Where vampires rule, humans can only be called "animals."
"I am a member of the Holy See, and I am responsible for cleaning up vampires."
After Luke finished speaking, Jie Fangcheng exclaimed, “Ah!”
He really didn't expect that although Professor Zhang could not be considered weak in his eyes, after all, in "Don't Answer", Zhang Daoan still had some self-protection ability.
In this game, Professor Zhang in the previous world could get guns, and in this world he got mechanical tentacles.
In fact, he is not weak in terms of his own strength, but it depends on who he is compared with.
If Jie Fangcheng's strength is used as a benchmark, 99 percent of the players are noobs.
Seeing that he was about to do it himself, Jie Fangcheng felt a little sad for a moment.
When the two of them were clearing dungeons together in the past, Professor Zhang never had to use force himself, but now he has to act as a fighter himself.
Of course, Jie Fangcheng didn’t have to think about any problems before. With Zhang Daoan by his side, he only had to take action when it was time.
I really miss the time when we played dungeons together.
Jie Fangcheng was having wild thoughts.
Luke finished explaining and proved that it was reasonable for him to kill the vampire, then he said, "You're leaving tomorrow?"
Jie Fangcheng came back to his senses: "Yes."
After answering, Jie Fangcheng suddenly thought of something and said, "Oh, wait a moment."
After saying that, he picked up his skirt and ran away quickly. Soon, a sound was faintly heard downstairs.
Jie Fangcheng came back quickly.
"Give!"
Jie Fangcheng held a bunch of things in his hand and stuffed them directly into the hands of Luke in front of him.
Luke looked down and saw that those were the players' props.
"I can't leave the castle in this instance, otherwise I could help you kill the vampire prince." Jie Fangcheng said with some regret, "Take these items, maybe they can be of some use here."
The sponsor of the props is of course Liu He, who had previously promised to provide the props.
The injuries on Liu He's body had just been healed by the recovery potion, and the pain had not yet subsided. He lay on the bed, feeling lucky to have escaped death, while also thinking about how to trick Jie Fangcheng so that he would not come back and have his props taken away.
As a result, before he could think of any good solution, the door was suddenly kicked open.
Jie Fangcheng stretched out his hand in front of him and said simply and clearly: "Props."
Liu He quickly forced a smile: "Brother Jie, I don't have any particularly good props on me right now, and there's still a day left. If I really give you all the props, won't I die here tomorrow? But don't worry, I definitely won't dare to..."
“Pah.”
Jie Fangcheng kicked the bed under him and broke it into pieces.
You have to know that every piece of furniture in this castle, even the furniture provided for players, looks very sturdy.
As a result, when Jie Fangcheng kicked the bed, it collapsed instantly like tofu.
Jie Fangcheng said impatiently: "Don't talk so much, I'm in a hurry."
Instead of spending this much time chatting with Professor Zhang, he might as well do it.
Liu He finally faced the reality with a trembling face and began to take out props from his system backpack.
He was also careful. He didn't take any of the really valuable props. All he took out were some that looked very powerful, but a closer look would reveal that the props here were nothing.
Jie Fangcheng could have anticipated what Liu He would do, so he threatened him a few times. Liu He reluctantly took out two more pieces, and then refused to give them up no matter what.
Jie Fangcheng couldn't really beat him to death, and seeing that there were indeed a lot of props, Jie Fangcheng left with the props.
At this moment he stuffed all of it into Luke's hands. Luke understood what was in his mind at a glance.
Most of these props are auxiliary props, and there are very few offensive and defensive ones. Many of them look powerful from the outside, but in fact, after looking at the detailed introduction, you will know that they are not that strong.
The person holding the props is fooling Jie Fangcheng.
Luke doesn't really need these props, his own mechanical tentacles are already very powerful.
Although the power between humans and vampires is still unbalanced, humans will definitely be the winners in the end.
Because Luke is already developing technology.
This small world is indeed a spiritual world. It is generally believed that when there is spiritual energy in a small world, technological development will be suppressed.
It is actually very easy to explain, Reiki is something that strengthens the individual and can yield results in a short period of time.
However, the development of science and technology affects the entire ethnic group, and any world that wants to cross the threshold of "modernization" must go through a long period of accumulation and development. This kind of harvest is too slow, and it is difficult to strengthen individuals in the early stages.
When there is no spiritual energy option in a world, humans can only choose the path of technological development.
But when there is spiritual energy, almost all small worlds will focus on the development of spiritual energy, and technology will be suppressed.
Now, in the small world where Luke lives, humans are ready to completely abandon spiritual energy and instead pursue the path of technological development.
Luke, who has Zhang Siquan's memories, can shorten this process to a great extent. Just like a mechanical tentacle, humans will always find new hope.
These props are good, but they can't really affect the situation.
But no matter how useful they are, taking out such a pile of garbage to fool Jie Fangcheng...
Luke pushed up his glasses.
"Who gave this prop to me?"
Xie Fangcheng introduced: "Liu He, that's the Countess."
Luke nodded.
It was late at night, and after the two chatted for a while, Luke looked at the moon outside.
"It's getting late, you should go to bed early and see you tomorrow."
Jie Fangcheng was in a good mood, so he smiled and nodded: "Okay, see you tomorrow."
He went back to his room happily.
Luke stood on the terrace on the top floor. Not long after, a black shadow flew in from outside the castle, entered the terrace, and folded its large mechanical wings.
The knight in silver armor knelt on one knee, not daring to look at Luke.
This famous Grand Knight of the Holy See is the number one person under the Pope... no, "Pope" is like a label he deliberately created. Although in the eyes of outsiders, it seems that everything in the entire Holy See is based on the Pope's orders, but in fact, any order from the Pope must first be approved by him.
The most terrifying thing about this great knight commander is not his fighting power...
"Don't worry about this body. We won't need it."
When players like Jie Fangcheng complete the dungeon and leave, everything about the Earl will disappear.
Memories, castles, corpses...
Probably only Luke would remember.
"But... there are some things we can use."
Luke said.
.
The next day, Jie Fangcheng woke up early and went out happily. However, when he opened the door, Liu He, who lived opposite him, was also opening the door to come out.
Yesterday, Jie Fangcheng asked him to hand in his props. Although he kicked his bed and broke it, he definitely did not hit him.
Moreover, Jie Fangcheng could see through Liu He's little trick.
It was indeed painful for him to use those props, but it was definitely not to the extent of causing serious injuries.
But now, when Jie Fangcheng saw him for the first time, he couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with you?"
Liu He looked like a deflated balloon, visibly haggard and shriveled.
He looked a little dazed. He looked up at Jie Fangcheng blankly, his lips moving.
The next second, two clear tears rolled down from his eyes.
Oh my god!
Jie Fangcheng didn't say anything, just pretended he didn't see it and ran away quickly.
This kid can't tell, are those props I gave him yesterday really his most precious treasures? Otherwise, why would he act like he's dying?
Jie Fangcheng had no idea what was going on. When he reached the lobby on the first floor, everyone had already arrived.
No one knows yet that the Earl has died, and the players are still curious why there is no breakfast today?
Jie Fangcheng wanted to go to the kitchen to get some bread as if he knew the place well, but at that moment, the castle gate opened.
Luke changed into a black suit, with a white rose pinned to his chest, and appeared in front of Fang Cheng.
He walked over gracefully with a lunch box in his hand and placed the box directly in front of Fang Cheng.
The two smiled at each other, and Jie Fangcheng didn't bother to be polite. He opened the lunch box and enjoyed the most delicious breakfast since entering the dungeon.
The players around me looked at each other, my CPU was about to burn out and I had no idea what was going on.
But Liu He knew about it.
After all, he had just comforted himself after being robbed by Jie Fangcheng yesterday, and was ready to stay in a corner for the night and barely get through this miserable time.
As a result, just as he closed his eyes in a daze, the door was opened again.
Before Liu He knew what was going on, he was carried directly to the top floor.
On the attic, he saw the count, who had been drained of blood.
Next to the Earl, the NPC named "Luke" was looking at him.
"'Countess'? What a nice title. But the Count is dead, so there is no need for the Countess to continue to exist."
In the end, Liu He took out all the props on him, and the other party let him go.
The Count is dead, is there any danger in this copy?
...Oh, there really is one.
Liu He was trembling all over and quietly moved away from Jie Fangcheng and the others.
But there is really no danger anymore.
[Ding——Congratulations on clearing the instance. The instance is being settled. Please wait.]
[Ding——The copy rating is successful.]
[Your copy rating is: S]
[Ding——Your dungeon rating is the highest among all players in this dungeon, and you will receive additional item rewards.]
[Ding——Your copy is rated S-level, and you will receive additional item rewards. ]
[Ding—You and your companions have achieved a 100% clearance rate in this instance, and you have received a special reward.]
【bite……】
Another long string of dings.
The copy settlement rewards can only be obtained after you exit, but the rewards after the copy clearance rate reaches 100% can be claimed now.
However, such props are uncertified and cannot play their maximum function.
Jie Fangcheng didn't care about that. He stuffed everything in his system backpack into Luke's place.
Professor Zhang is not very good at beating people... Although he strangled a vampire lord to death last night, there seem to be many powerful vampires in this world.
What a pity, it would be great if he could get out of this castle.
If Jie Fangcheng can get out of the castle, he will help Professor Zhang kill all the powerful vampires.
I don’t know if he will be in danger in the future.
As if knowing what he was thinking, Luke smiled.
"Don't worry, I'm not that weak."
"Not really... Alas."
Xie Fangcheng sighed.
If only they were both still gamers.
Luke held out his hand: “This is for you.”
"What?" Jie Fangcheng looked down and saw a small mechanical tentacle in his hand, which was obviously torn off from Luke. He was stunned for a moment, "Ah, this has no effect on you, right?"
Luke shook his head: "It's okay."
Only then did Xie Fangcheng accept it.
Before leaving, Jie Fangcheng waved his hand and said, "Goodbye, Zhang..."
He paused and smiled brightly: "Luke."
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