Chapter 100 Give Me a Drop of Blood 3 "I am so heartbroken that I can't even eat or drink...
100 Give Me a Drop of Blood 3
Main Building:
What I know: Everything I know about hunter work.
What I want: Any information about Cen Lanyan, as long as it is accurate.
1L: Wow, hunters are coming to the Fangs forum [Shocked]
2L: I really want to know if there is really a corpse of the prince in the basement of the Hunter Bureau [face holding]
3L: You can find the work content of the Hunter Bureau online. The difficulty of Cen Lanyan's information is completely different from this. Brother, this exchange is not worth it...
4L: Let’s talk about Cen Lanyan’s information first [狗头]
5L: Damn, is the hunter going to transform into a real hunter to assassinate Boss Cen? [Secretly observing]
…
Perhaps it was because the exchange conditions offered by the poster were not attractive enough, and no one really knew Cen Lanyan's information, so after more than a dozen witty replies, no one responded to this post anymore.
Lu Jiu stared at it for a minute and clicked to enter the poster's personal homepage.
It was completely blank inside.
There is no self-introduction, no past posting record, and no avatar.
After thinking for a while, he clicked on the private message and carefully sent a message.
"Hello, I have some information about Cen Lanyan. May I ask if you have seen the prince's body in the basement of the Hunter Bureau?"
I originally thought that I might have to wait until the next day or the day after tomorrow to get a reply, but the other party replied before I went to bed.
"I saw it with my own eyes. Are you also in City A? Would it be convenient for you to come out and talk?"
——This person saw the corpse with his own eyes. If he is not lying, he must be one of the three: the bureau-level official, the captain, and the gatekeeper!
Judging from common sense, it is most likely a captain in the past.
Lu Jiu thought quickly while replying: "May I ask why you want information about Cen Lanyan?"
"We can discuss this later when we meet."
The other party was very cautious, probably wanting to judge the authenticity of his information through face-to-face communication.
Lu Jiu thought for a long time and replied: "Okay, how about tomorrow? You decide the specific time and place."
*
Communication was very efficient.
The poster made an appointment for tomorrow at noon, at a cafe in the city center.
Lu Jiu fell asleep with his head full of chaotic thoughts and did not sleep well that night.
When I woke up the next day, I didn't see Huailu and Ashan.
"It's normal. They always play all night and sleep until noon the next day," Li Yang sighed, "Just ignore them."
Lu Jiu browsed the "Dark Night" forum for half a day, and when it was ten o'clock in the morning, he got up and set off.
There is a direct bus from the entrance of that cafe.
After getting off the car, Lu Jiu contacted the other party, and the other party sent her the seat number. After entering the store, Lu Jiu saw the other party in the last sofa seat in the row by the window.
He was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties or fifties, wearing a black shirt and black trousers. He had a strong physique and sharp eyes.
Even if he is not frowning, there is a wrinkle between his eyebrows, making his face look particularly serious.
Perhaps because he didn't expect Lu Jiu to be so young, the uncle showed a look of surprise, and then began to observe him carefully.
Lu Jiu sat down on the sofa opposite without changing his expression, scanned the code and ordered a cup of coffee.
The uncle took the initiative to ask: "What information do you want to know about the body?"
Lu Jiu got straight to the point: "I want to see his face."
The uncle was stunned for a moment, then frowned immediately: "That's it? You're just curious about his appearance?"
There are many people on the Internet who are crazy about vampires, because none of them are ugly.
No matter how ugly a human being is, after being transformed into a vampire, he or she will become exquisite and gorgeous, and the higher the level, the better looking they will be.
Also, since almost no one has ever seen a prince-level vampire, the topic that comes up with it every time is "I really want to know how good-looking a prince-level vampire must be!"
This uncle obviously thought Lu Jiu was some brainless nymphomaniac.
This also means that trust in Chinese liquor has been greatly reduced.
Lu Jiu said bluntly: "I am not only curious about his appearance, I also want to know when and where you found him, whether he is really dead, and what you usually do with him - any information is fine. But most importantly, if possible, I hope to see the body with my own eyes."
The uncle was stunned for a moment.
"What about you?" Lu Jiu asked, "What information about Cen Lanyan do you want to know the most? What do you plan to do after you know it?"
"You asked me twice what I wanted to do to him," the uncle asked inquiringly, "What is your relationship with Cen Lanyan?"
Lu Jiu did not answer the question: "Before that, can we introduce each other first? My name is Lu Jiu, Lu for land, and Jiu for drinking."
"…My name is Zhao Lan, Lan as in reading."
Perhaps because Lu Jiu had subtly mastered the rhythm of the conversation, Zhao Lan finally put aside his doubts about him and started to act seriously.
"I'll be frank. Cen Lanyan and I have a personal grudge. You should be able to guess what I want to do. If you are unwilling to provide him with information under this premise, then our conversation today can end here."
Lu Jiu placed his hands on the table with his fingers crossed.
His expression remained calm, but the moment he heard these words, his hands quietly tightened.
"Can I ask how he and you became enemies?"
Zhao Lan confessed, "He killed my sister. Last year, there was an incident in the East District. You may have heard that in a vampire bar, five vampires suddenly went crazy and attacked the humans inside. More than a dozen people were injured and eight were transformed into abnormalities."
Lu Jiu's eyes moved slightly.
He had indeed heard of the incident.
Abnormal transformation refers to a situation where a vampire or a human does not follow the standard process for the First Embrace, causing the transformation to fail, and often results in one of the parties suffering serious physical damage or even death.
This kind of thing happens from time to time, but it is very rare to see it on such a large scale and of such a serious nature.
During that period, many vampire bars across the country were investigated, closed down and rectified. Both the vampires and the fangs became more restrained, but because there were no follow-up reports, the incident was quickly forgotten by the public.
Lu Jiu's eyelids twitched.
Zhao Lan's voice began to grow hoarse. "The media reports did not go into detail about why the five vampires suddenly went crazy, but the Hunter Bureau knew very well that the five vampires were mentally disturbed. They were unconscious and couldn't even remember what they had done afterwards."
"That was Yin Lin's bar, but Yin Lin was not there that day. The only high-level vampire who was there and who could exercise collective mental control over low-level vampires was Cen Lanyan, only him."
This small space fell silent.
"My sister died that night. I was the one who led the team and carried her body back. From beginning to end, Cen Lanyan never showed up. He had quietly left before we arrived."
Zhao Lan's words were full of hatred.
"After that, he never gave any explanation. The Prince-level vampire has a special status, so the Hunter Bureau suppressed the matter and only punished the five vampires, but turned a blind eye to the culprit. They didn't allow us to go to the castle to find him, and ordered us to forget about it. My sister never got justice."
Lu Jiu looked at Zhao Lan steadily, and his mind suddenly became very confused again.
All kinds of thoughts squeezed his nerves and made his body muscles stiff.
111 called his name worriedly. Lu Jiu froze for a long time and took a deep breath.
...Calm down, calm down, and think hard.
"Cen Lanyan was there that day... is that certain? There should have been quite a few people in the bar at the time, but the online discourse seems to be that no one has ever seen him." Lu Jiu questioned.
Zhao Lan immediately replied: "The surveillance camera captured him. Although his face was not captured, he was indeed sitting in the corner at the time. Not many people knew his identity, and he would not tell anyone that he was Cen Lanyan. But Yin Lin confirmed after watching the surveillance video that it was him."
"So you didn't see his face either?"
"No, no one took a picture of him at the scene."
"…How did Yin Lin explain this matter at the time?"
"That interrogation took place in a high-level interrogation room, and my clearance was not sufficient for me to hear their subsequent conversation."
At this point, Zhao Lan looked at him directly and said, "You don't seem to believe that Cen Lan would do such a thing at the banquet?"
Lu Jiu was silent for a moment, then opened his mouth and said, "...What is his purpose? The power of the prince-level to suppress the low-level vampires is overwhelming. If he wanted to conduct mental control, why did he only control five?"
Zhao Lan said sarcastically, "I also want to know the answers to these two questions, but unfortunately he didn't give me a chance to hear his answers."
Lu Jiu was silent for a while.
This time, he clenched his hands.
"I've seen him... I'm sorry, I don't really believe he would do such a thing, but it's also possible that I don't really know him. I want to confirm what you said, okay? If it's confirmed that he did it... I will provide you with all the information I know about him."
Having been together for four lifetimes, Lu Jiu knew very well that the man was not a good person, but he would not do such a thing for no reason.
So, if this is true, if Zhao Lan’s sister was really killed by Cen Lanyan, and there is no reasonable explanation... then, Cen Lanyan must not be him.
Zhao Lan immediately revealed a wolf-like look.
Lu Jiu then said, "What about my request? Can you do it?"
"Take you to see that prince-level vampire? Sure," Zhao Lan agreed readily. "I know the gatekeeper, and I can ask him to take us in. The Hunter Bureau has long been leaky, so this won't be a problem."
His words were filled with disdain for the Hunter Bureau.
"I can also tell you something first. The prince-level vampire is not dead at all. He was pierced by a cross in his chest and has been in a state of suspended animation ever since."
111 instantly became excited: "Jiujiu, you guessed right!!"
Lu Jiu's hands tightened.
Zhao Lan: "The Hunter Bureau put him in the bureau for the captains of each team to visit and learn. Every new captain will be taken to take this course. In theory, it is to enable everyone to deal with prince-level vampires in their daily work in the future. But in fact, we will never encounter such a level. Even if we do, you know that we can't do anything about their affairs."
"In addition, to be honest, I think the Hunter Bureau must have some other purpose for keeping this prince-level vampire. At least legally, they do not have the authority to detain a vampire who is not truly dead. Although this kind of thing is unreported and no one will take care of it, they must have a purpose to take this risk."
Lu Jiu moved his lips: "I heard...they are the only ones who can kill prince-level vampires?"
"That's the theory," Zhao Lan leaned back on the sofa, his posture somewhat relaxed, "but if a vampire really wants to commit suicide, they can't use a cross. They also know that this thing can't kill them. They can die in the sun, or use a mahogany sword, but a cross must be stabbed into their chest by someone else."
The direction of things seemed to suddenly become clear, and 111 became even more excited.
Lu Jiu tried to stay calm: "...So what do you think?"
"It should be done by another prince-level."
111: "Jiujiu, look!!"
Lu Jiu: "Wait, there is another contradiction in this matter."
He said to Zhao Lan: "...same question. All vampires know that the cross cannot kill them. If that prince-level vampire wanted to kill the one in your bureau, why did he use this weapon?"
This was also a contradiction that he thought of last night after thinking along the lines of 111.
Zhao Lan spread his hands. "Perhaps this was the only thing that guy had at the time, and something unexpected happened afterwards. He escaped without actually killing the prince-level vampire. There is a piece of evidence that can indirectly confirm this - vampires kill their own kind, either to take revenge or to level up. To level up, they have to suck the other's blood. The one in the hunter bureau did lose a lot of blood."
Lu Jiu was stunned: "Can the prince level be promoted further?"
Isn't it already the highest level?
"Ancestral level," Zhao Lan tapped the table with his fingers, "Legendary level."
Lu Jiu was shocked.
There is a well-known legend - seven original vampires were born into this world.
They were born with sins sent by God, each of them corresponding to one of the seven deadly sins, and all subsequent vampires are their descendants.
But people talk about this matter as if it were a myth, and no one takes it seriously.
Zhao Lan also said: "Anyway, there are many people in the blood clan who believe that it is possible to ascend to the ancestral level, but the higher the level you want to ascend to, the greater the difficulty will definitely be."
"From D-level up, to C-level, B-level, A-level, noble-level, prince-level, and then to the ancestor-level, they need to suck more and more blood from their own kind, and the level of the same kind they need is also getting higher and higher."
"To leap from the Prince level to the Ancestor level, I don't know how much blood I need to suck from the Prince level. Even if I suck enough, I may not be able to leap up. After all, no one has ever seen an Ancestor level vampire. This kind of vampire only exists in legends!"
Lu Jiu's heart started pounding.
Zhao Lan added, "The prince-level vampire was brought back by the Hunter Bureau five years ago. It was said that he was found in the western suburbs. At that time, a developer wanted to build a villa complex there and dug him out from the ground. Later, the development was stopped for this reason."
"I can take you to see the prince right away, and you can also verify whether what I told you is true or not. As long as you confirm that your information is accurate, even if I misunderstood Cen Lanyan, I will admit it! Every wrong has its perpetrator, and what I want to find is the real murderer who killed my sister."
"But you must prove to me that you have the ability to confirm the answer. If the real murderer is Cen Lanyan, you have the ability to let me find him."
Lu Jiu and Zhao Lan looked at each other.
After a while, he slowly opened his lips and said, "Okay, I will prove it to you."
*
They exchanged contact information and parted at the entrance of the cafe.
After Lu Jiu got on the bus, 111 muttered in his mind: "How can I prove it to him? Should I ask Cen Lanyan for the token? If Cen Lanyan knew who this thing was for, would he give it to him?"
The scenery outside the window kept receding, and Lu Jiu was secretly thinking about this question.
When I thought of that man, my heart seemed to tighten.
Countless questions swirled in my mind.
The scenes from last night kept flashing before my eyes.
The man's face, his eyes, his touch...
Lu Jiu rubbed the corners of his eyes, forcing himself to dispel these images and look at the problem objectively and calmly.
Just like 111 said, the answer became clear after meeting the prince in the Hunter Bureau.
And as long as he gives Zhao Lan proof, Zhao Lan will take him to the Hunter Bureau.
So the most important thing now is what token he can use to make Zhao Lan trust him.
He can't go to see Cen Lanyan for the time being, at least not now... let's go find Yin Lin and try.
*
Lu Jiu called Li Yang and asked him where else Yin Lin usually appeared besides the castle.
"You want to go find him? Why?" Li Yang seemed shocked. "Didn't he go find you yesterday? Didn't you exchange contact information with him?"
"……without."
I didn't expect things to turn out like this last night...
"If you go to the castle now, he should still be there. Sometimes they don't go to sleep during the day and close all the doors and windows to stay indoors."
"I don't want to go there to look for him," Lu Jiu asked, "Doesn't he own a lot of bars? Doesn't he go to those bars to play at night?"
Li Yang thought for a moment and said, "Today is Sunday. He will appear regularly at Sharp Fang on Sunday nights, around 8pm. I've been there a few times and I only saw him after 8pm."
Lu Jiu searched on the map on his phone and found that the "Fang Fang" bar was in another city district.
He was too lazy to go back to the dormitory, so he got off the bus halfway, found an Internet cafe, and sat down to continue collecting information related to the vampires.
There was one thing that concerned him.
It is said that during the process of transformation, humans will encounter a multiple-choice question born in their subconscious mind.
Death or immortality, your choice.
If you choose death, then the transformation will fail and you will die truly.
If you choose immortality, then you will be transformed successfully and achieve immortality, but you will have to become a nocturnal creature that cannot be exposed to sunlight.
It is difficult for every vampire to describe the feeling at that moment. They don’t know who gave them this choice.
Is it the invisible and intangible God?
Or is this a question that their lives themselves throw at them?
In response, 111 said: "Well, the three thousand worlds are all under the control of the Quick Travel Bureau. The Quick Travel Bureau generally does not allow small worlds to form such a powerful individual consciousness as 'God'. I think this should be just a simple legend."
In the Internet cafe, sometimes someone walks back and forth behind you.
Lu Jiu concentrated and said in his mind: "But humans will indeed show symptoms of the seven deadly sins in the early stage after being successfully transformed. If it is a high-quality transformation, the symptoms may be very mild, lasting half a day or a day before disappearing. If it is a low-quality transformation... Such symptoms may kill the transformed person."
In fact, this is common sense, but before Zhao Lan mentioned the original vampire, Lu Jiu had not thought about this issue carefully.
If the seven deadly sins are real, and the original vampires who were born with the seven deadly sins are real, then what about God? Is he real too?
So what kind of existence is this god in the quick-travel game?
111 fell into deep thought.
After a long time, it said somewhat dejectedly: "Jiujiu, I really don't know. There is no such information in my knowledge base."
All its knowledge comes from the quick-pass game.
But now, all things are moving in a direction that it does not understand.
111 is very confused.
Lu Jiu said: "It's normal that you don't know. If you knew everything, they wouldn't let you tie me down now."
111 said in a low voice: "But as I listen to you, I am increasingly afraid that my existence will accidentally hurt you one day... Jiujiu, if you ever think that something is wrong with me, you must destroy me, okay?"
Lu Jiu paused and changed to a relaxed tone: "Why is it so serious all of a sudden? It hasn't come to this point yet. We are just chatting casually now."
"No, no, no, you must think of the most serious consequences!" 111 thought for a while, "Or you don't have to destroy me. If I'm gone, what if no one sends you back to the original world? Yes, you don't have to destroy me. You can execute the forced stripping procedure! This is actually a bug in the fast-travel game, and it hasn't been fixed yet. I'll tell you how to do it..."
111 started teaching in a blah blah manner.
Lu Jiu listened in silence.
…
It's getting dark.
At seven o'clock in the evening, he left the Internet cafe and headed for "Fang Fang".
He arrived there at 7:30, ordered a cocktail, sat down at the bar, and dealt with five vampires who came to flirt with him. At exactly 8 o'clock, he waited for Yin Lin.
A little different from last night, Yin Lin was feeling lazy tonight and sat down in the booth as soon as he arrived.
The waiter took the wine over, opened the bottle and poured it for him.
Yin Lin picked it up and drank it, showing a fearless attitude - alcohol really could not kill the vampires, and it could not even paralyze their nerves. It could only let them taste it and quench their thirst.
Lu Jiu put down his glass and walked over.
Yin Lin was already surrounded by women, a man on the left and a woman on the right. The scene was very debauched.
Just after teasing the person in his arms, he noticed a figure appear in front of him and slowly raised his eyelids.
Seeing Lu Jiu, Yin Lin froze for a moment, but quickly adjusted his facial expression and spoke sarcastically: "Cen Lanyan is not here, did you go to the wrong place, Lord Lu Jiu?"
He pronounced the last four words in a very sarcastic tone.
The humans on both sides of him raised their heads immediately after hearing his words: "Cen Lanyan?"
"Has this person seen Cen Lanyan?"
Yin Lin's face darkened and he withdrew his hand: "You two should leave, leave quickly."
"Ah, what are you doing!"
"Why are you suddenly unhappy?"
"If you don't leave, I'll have people drag you away and throw you out. From now on, don't even think about stepping into the door of my bar again." Yin Lin gritted his teeth.
A man and a woman felt depressed and quickly got up and left.
After they left, Lu Jiu asked softly, "How was Cen Lanyan's banquet?"
"How is it?" Yin Lin sneered, "Being cruelly abandoned by the lover who has waited for hundreds of years, what else can I do? Of course I am heartbroken, I don't want to eat or drink, and I look forward to the stars and the moon!"
"..." Lu Jiu was originally feeling a little depressed, and now the corner of his mouth twitched, "Why don't you read some good literary works?"
"Oh, a cold-hearted lover still has the mood to be a teacher outside!"
“…………”
Lu Jiu stared at him, suddenly laughed, raised an eyebrow and asked: "Does he know that you said that to him outside?"
"So what if you know? Come and hit me!"
"Just beating you is not enough. I have to drive you out of the castle, right?"
Yin Lin froze violently.
Lu Jiu smiled and said, "There's no reason for him to live in someone else's place, unless it was originally his place."
"…………" Yin Lin gritted his teeth, "You do understand him."
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