It was completely dark.
In the vast land of China in the Eastern Realm, people in most areas can look up and see the beautiful meteor shower in the western night sky.
So rare, so breathtaking.
Most of them had no idea what was going to happen.
Although Wu You had warned the Liu family beforehand, it took all the major local forces only a short time to receive the news.
Whether you believe it or not is one thing.
Even if one has complete faith, there's not enough time to mobilize and prepare. One can barely manage one's own loyal forces and territory, let alone the rest of the population.
The imperial court immediately issued orders to officials in all prefectures to relocate people to major cities, but most of the messengers were still on their way.
Liangzhou, Anyuan Town, is located 100 kilometers outside Wuhong City.
Because the world has been in general chaos in recent years, large cities are usually under martial law at night.
Anyuan Town is just a small town, located in a relatively barren area, neither on a trade route nor rich in resources.
It was neither a strategically important location nor a particularly fertile land.
This, on the contrary, has enabled the people here to be self-sufficient and content.
There are hardly any bandits in the vicinity. In this world where martial arts reign supreme, bandits are all quite skilled, and most of them consider themselves outlaw heroes.
They mostly robbed wealthy households and merchant caravans; it was rare for them to rob ordinary people of their grain. Most of the bandits who did such things were ordinary people in disguise. If they encountered a "knight-errant" who knew some martial arts, they would be eliminated.
This made the town a paradise in the hearts of the locals, and there was no curfew at night.
Although there were tax officials from the imperial court in the town, there were no soldiers stationed there.
Several militiamen, carrying rifles, stood at the town gate, somewhat mesmerized, watching the meteor shower streak across the sky, while the rest of the townspeople were already asleep.
"Squad leader, is this a meteor shower? I heard it happened once a while ago?"
One of the young men pointed to the line of fire streaking across the sky and asked an older man in the group a question.
The squad leader scratched his chin, which was itchy, and answered with a smile.
"You guys are really lucky. This kind of meteor shower is very rare. I've lived to be this old and never seen one before, but I've seen it twice in a row recently."
Other militia members also chimed in to join the discussion.
"When I was a child, my great-grandfather told me that there was a meteor shower a long, long time ago."
"I've never seen anything like it in my life, not even a single meteor that's so clear and so close."
"I've heard that each shooting star represents a dead person. How many people have died because of all these shooting stars?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? If so many people died a few years ago, wouldn't the sky have collapsed?"
"That shooting star was so close, so incredibly close."
As they discussed this, the group watched as many shooting stars streaked across the sky and disappeared from sight.
Soon, a red glow appeared in the sky in the direction the meteor fell.
What's above your head?
One person's shout drew everyone's attention back to the sky.
A dark shadow flapped its wings and flew toward the red light on the horizon.
Because of the darkness, they looked like a flock of large black birds flying at high speed, with two of them suddenly leaving the main group and descending.
"They're coming down! They're coming down! Two of them are coming down!!"
The militiaman who had shouted first started yelling again.
The others watched with curiosity as well.
But gradually, his expression turned serious.
I couldn't understand it just now because of the height.
Now it appears that the two birds that came down were much larger than they had imagined, and the lower they went, the larger they looked, and the more bizarre their shapes became.
When they landed, two vampires were already in front of the militia.
The militiamen raised their rifles, looking at the two monsters with tense expressions.
"What are you? Don't come any closer!"
One of the vampires twitched its wings and smiled at the crowd.
“I think your vigilance is misplaced. If I were you, I would pack my things and run to a big city right now, and I would be in big trouble soon.”
The crowd looked wary and disbelieving, while cold sweat poured down their faces.
What could be more trouble than these two monsters? I wonder if they'll eat people.
As Visi walked forward, he turned his head and spoke to his companion.
"It's no use saying that."
Then it turned its head, and its eyes turned completely crimson, visible even in the darkness.
Its fleshy wings spread wide, its sharp teeth gleamed coldly, its red eyes were bloodthirsty, and its face was ferocious.
He opened his mouth and emitted a high-pitched whistling sound.
"Get out of here now! If you can get to a big city, you'll survive. Otherwise, we'll eat you all when we come back!"
The loud howling not only terrified the militiamen in front of them, but also spread throughout the town, waking up countless people.
"Hehehehe..."
"I will only say the same thing once, so don't test whether it's true or not."
As soon as Visi finished speaking, a wing blurred for a moment, and the tips of all the steel guns in the militiamen's hands fell off.
By the time everyone realized what was happening, a young militiaman had already been grabbed by Visi, his sharp teeth piercing his neck.
The militiaman did not struggle at all, and his skin and flesh visibly withered away.
"Bang!"
The militiamen were left on the ground, their fate unknown.
Then, the two vampires flapped their wings, took off in the strong winds they created, and quickly flew westward and disappeared from the militia's sight.
"Wh...Squad Leader, what should we do?"
The militiamen didn't dare to move until the two monsters disappeared from sight, at which point one of them finally dared to speak.
The squad leader quickly went to the side of the fallen militiaman.
"Small package, small package..."
He touched the person's chest and found they were still breathing. He raised his head and shouted at the person who was in a daze.
"What do we do? Quickly tell everyone to run! I'll go tell the mayor, you guys take the small package to the doctor, then split up and tell everyone, hurry!"
Soon, the group seemed to wake up from a dream and scattered in different directions.
The once dark town slowly began to light up with scattered candlelight, and within an hour or two, every household had lit candles.
In the air, Visi and another vampire were chasing the large group of vampires ahead at high speed.
"Remember that movie we watched together last time that was about gambling? I really liked one of the lines in it."
Wei Xi imitated Long Wu's voice.
"To get rid of people, you should use the most direct method."
His companion gave him an "I give up" look, and then he and Visi sped away.
They are going to hunt down low-level aberrations emerging from the outer clusters of small meteorites.
The larger creatures are managed by high-ranking silver beings.
...
The area where the meteorite fell was now shrouded in dark clouds, and the rainfall was unprecedented anywhere else in the world.
On the outer edge of this rain cloud, a plant with an alarmingly fast growth rate has already surrounded the entire crash site.
It is a vampire-sucking demon vine, a silver-grade demon vine.
The growing vines resemble ferocious giant snakes, growing thicker and thicker with the roar of the plant.
The power of the Demon Vine exceeded Wu You's imagination.
To be honest, given the current situation, apart from Kun, if no weakness can be found in the short term, the other silver creatures he currently possesses would have a hard time dealing with it.
Wu You still remembers the moment just a few hours ago when the magic vine was planted in the ground.
The moment when a common vampire vine was upgraded using materials from the Transcendent Energy.
It created a vast desert directly at the edge of the encirclement, where all the nutrients in the land were drained by the frantically sucking them dry by the demonic vines.
The vampire vines, as strong as superalloys, swayed and shot into the sky to absorb lightning.
Amidst the lightning and thunder, the scene in the night was like a hellish chapter of demons dancing wildly.
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