Chapter 89 Blackrock City "Yes, after tonight, tomorrow will be new..."
As the shadows outside the door receded, Kirby breathed a sigh of relief; only now was their necessary deployment truly complete.
Walls have ears, but Kirby brought up the auction to Xie Lu so that the eavesdroppers outside would know that they were only there for the auction, and in reality... He turned his gaze to Jiang Yang, his eyes shining with anticipation, and asked, "How did it go?"
Jiang Yang handed over the blood bag. "Is this it?" Kirby took the bag, leaving bloodstains on his hands that he didn't know when he had gotten them. Ji Yang naturally grabbed Kirby's wrist and took his hand over, then took out a tissue and carefully wiped it clean.
Nan Ke asked curiously, "What is this?"
Kirby first held it up to the light. The blood plasma, lacking proper storage conditions, was as soft and slippery as a piece of clay. Some kind of active tissue could be barely seen flowing within it. Then he tore open a slit, and the moment it came into contact with the air, the contents rushed out.
It gradually twisted, as if it were being artificially distorted, and finally a human face could be vaguely discerned from it, along with fangs like those of a vampire, capable of instantly biting through a person's throat, revealed behind the wide-open mouth of the face.
"Holy crap! What is this thing?!" Nan Ke exclaimed in horror.
Xie Lu carefully considered his words before saying, "It looks like it was extracted from a vampire..."
Kabi said with certainty, "Yes," which was also the part he really asked Jiang Yang to confirm.
At that time, sensing that Blackrock City was sealed off, Kirby returned to Blackrock City. Sheru fell into a coma due to the sealing off of Blackrock City, and people in Blackrock City were in a state of panic.
Just when Kirby thought this was just an attack on Sheru's Judgment Card, he suddenly discovered, based on the situation in the Fourth District, that someone in the city was conducting an experiment related to superpowers.
That's an ability inherent to vampires. Kirby can distinguish the differences in abilities between each vampire, so after noticing that there were many failed combinations of humans and vampires in the Fourth District, he traced the source directly to the Bat Hotel.
Beset by internal and external troubles, he had to find out the terms of their deal with the No Man's Land and what had led them to betray Blackrock City.
But Blackrock City, which should have been closed off, was suddenly activated and became a trial.
Fortunately, Xie Lu woke up and said, "You can just hand me over."
No! He is the young prince of Blackrock City. He will not allow anything to happen to his people. He can protect them.
If Xie Lu can use the power of the vampires to see all things as invisible, then Kirby, as the source of that power, can not only cross a wall, but even pass through a line, as seen in the phone call he made with Jiang Yang.
The first thing he entrusted to Jiang Yang was to find the bat and the traitor who had allied with No Man's Land. But when Kirby's power was released along the telephone line, he discovered that the call had been tapped, and the tapper was none other than Mr. V.
So he played along, revealing some of the information to Mr. V, causing Mr. V to misunderstand, while meeting Jiang Yang in person with the rest of the information.
He needs Jiang Yang to find a testing site.
Unfortunately, due to Carl's interference, Jiang Yang gained nothing except for the bag of blood plasma. However, Jiang Yang suddenly remembered the elevator in the blood bank and Mr. V who walked out of the elevator.
Jiang Yang said, "I think we can go to the tenth floor again."
Kirby nodded. "That's fine, but I can't go with you. There are restrictions on vampires at the Bat Hotel."
Ji Yang, who had been silent until now, added, "There's another issue: Blood Hunting."
Two of the toolbox location markers on the panel have disappeared, meaning someone has already obtained them and become a member of the Blood Hunters.
Wait... "How could it be so fast..." Kirby wondered.
Seeing that no one else understood, Xie Lu explained, "Blood Hunters cannot go through the gate to the First District. If the Hanged Man and the others want to become Blood Hunters, they can only complete the identity transformation within the First District. However, judging from the timeline, they should not have arrived in the First District yet."
"The key point is that once you enter the first zone, human abilities, including the talents you use, will be restricted," meaning that as humans, there is no chance to escape midway. Especially after the contract is formed, the blood servants will not have the opportunity to kill their master. Kirby's expression was solemn. "I suspect that the blood hunters in the first zone are not just players."
...
"Wow, wow, wow, overtake them!" The obese duke sitting next to Xiong Bingxin was gesturing wildly. The tires were slippery on the snowy ground, but under his urging, the driver still stepped on the gas pedal hard.
Noisy.
Xiong Bingxin pressed her ears down and placed her hands together in front of her. Her mood had already turned sour the moment those hands touched her thighs.
"Hahahaha!" The car shook off the other speeders, and the obese duke excitedly kicked the back of the seat in front of him. "Open the window, open the window, let me see which bad boy dared to cut me off!" The car window rolled down, and the wind carrying snowflakes blew in, making Xiong Bingxin's hair messy.
Suddenly, the Duke shoved her away with great force, his massive body compressing Xiong Bingxin's space, squeezing her against the back of the chair. In her ears was the Duke's piercing and frantic scream as he leaned out the window. Xiong Bingxin's clenched fists turned white at the tips, and finally, she couldn't bear it any longer and spat out, "Idiot."
"What did you say?"
"I'm telling you, you're an idiot."
"I hate it when people call me a pig!"
The sudden braking of the car in front caused the car carrying the Hanged Man to crash straight into it. Murphy, who was with the Hanged Man, slammed his forehead against the seat and cursed angrily, "What's that dead pig doing now! Go tell him that if I see him playing around with women outside, I'll chop off his dick."
The car came to a stop and the driver got out. Murphy lit a cigarette, took a deep drag, turned around, and put her arm around the Hanged Man's shoulder. As she leaned closer, smoke drifted from her bright red lips onto the Hanged Man's mask. She said, "I'm a little curious about what you look like under that mask."
Murphy's fingertips touched the mask, then traced a path down the Hanged Man's rolling Adam's apple. Finally, his palm brushed past the Hanged Man's heart, and he lightly closed his fingers. Thump...thump...
"Did you choose me because of this heart?" the Hanged Man asked.
Murphy raised her hand to mid-air, and in that unseen palm, it seemed as if there was a truly beating heart. She said, "Your heart is beautiful, and I am very pleased."
The Hanged Man calmly opened the observation room and then asked, "What about Jiang Yang? How is he feeling?"
"Him?" Murphy recalled. "He has no heart."
"Who the hell is it again!" The car swayed twice, and the sudden movement of the car to one side interrupted Murphy's attempt to descend. Murphy angrily let go, his heart, which had been pulled apart, was put back into his chest. The Hanged Man suddenly felt a lingering sense of relief as he struggled to break free. The waters of Blackrock City were too deep, and the power of the No Man's Land could not get too involved. He was somewhat worried about this trial plan.
The car behind was the one Zhang Qing was in. The driver was a sleazy but cowardly old man, the lord. Seeing the conflict ahead, he wanted to sneak away quickly, but he still ended up colliding with someone by accident.
One by one, the other auction participants drove past the group. The Hanged Man glanced at the panel; most of the Blood Hunter's toolbox had been taken, and it was almost time.
...
"Jiang Yang and I will go to the tenth floor, you guys go to the first section."
"Split up and be careful."
"Wait, what about Mengjiang and Shaqiu?"
Three minutes later, Sand Dune and Meng Jiang, who had almost escaped, were crammed into the car. Meng Jiang was in the driver's seat, Xie Lu was in the passenger seat, and Kabi, Nanke, and Sand Dune were squeezed into the cramped back seat. Kabi bared his fangs in front of Sand Dune and threatened, "Behave yourself, or I'll find an old man to bind you to a contract, and you'll never be able to escape for the rest of your life!"
Sha Qiu was on the verge of tears. He was clearly with Meng Jiang, so why was he the only one being frightened?
The car stopped in front of a public telephone. Kirby got out first, and the vampire power was released from the phone booth and then transmitted into the First District. At the same time, all the vampires received this call about the life and death of Blackrock City. While Murphy and his group were surrounded by the surging human blood hunters, the vampires bravely and fearlessly surrounded them to protect their home.
"Use holy water! Sprinkle holy water on it!"
"Ahhh, why aren't you...why aren't you afraid of the cross?!"
"Foolish and ignorant humans, you think you can resist with this?"
The voices rose and fell, and the last one was Murphy's. Holy water was poured on her face, and her originally fair skin was now covered with a scorched groove. She wanted to bite that lowly commoner who dared to disfigure her to death!
On the first day, Xiong Bingxin sneaked into the first district, shot and killed the fat pig, and then went back to Mengjiang and Sand Dune, leaving Nan Ke with an extremely arrogant note. It is said that Nan Ke was so angry that he jumped up and down on the spot, but this also greatly boosted the morale of the human camp, and they all followed her example and sneaked into the first district.
The next day, the vampires drove the humans back to the sanctuary in the fourth district. The holy light of the church prevented them from approaching. Nan Ke followed suit and went to the sanctuary for help. In the end, he set the church on fire and kidnapped Sand Dune.
On the third day, they met Mr. V, and more test subjects emerged from the church.
[Blackrock City progress is 90% complete]
The group gathered at the castle, and Nan Ke asked somewhat impatiently, "Still no news about Jiang Yang and Ji Yang?"
After parting ways that night at the auction, Jiang Yang and Ji Yang seemed to have vanished into thin air. The Bat Hotel was deserted, and Nan Ke searched the entire city. No matter how intense the fighting was outside, there was no trace of the two in Black Stone City. Even when Nan Ke infiltrated the church, he found nothing. In a fit of anger, he simply set the church on fire.
Xie Lu gently coaxed, "Rest for a while, you haven't slept for almost two days."
Nan Ke responded, his foot stomping angrily over a pebble, then he turned and went into one of the tents. They didn't dare gamble on whether the last 10% of the time they were in the castle; they had been sleeping outside for the past few days.
Watching the man's back disappear, Xie Lu and Kirby went into the tent they used as an office. Kirby handed him a note, which one of the test subjects had given him that morning, and the contents of it looked like they were written by the Hanged Man.
The Hanged Man said, "If you want Jiang Yang and Ji Yang to live, exchange them for the Judgment Token."
Both sides knew that continuing the fight would not benefit either of them. Xie Lu could close Blackrock City again and slowly wait until he could turn the tide, but he couldn't bear to watch these familiar guys die one by one. The Hanged Man could slowly drag things out until Blackrock City became a trial, but the people he wanted to save might not be able to wait until then.
so...
Kirby asked reluctantly, "Are you really sure?"
The answer is obvious; he has made up his mind.
Xie Lu asked softly, "Is it almost Chinese New Year?"
Kirby sniffed. "Yeah, after tonight, tomorrow will be the new year."
In the past, Blackrock City had never had the custom of celebrating the New Year in the human world, except for Halloween. It was only after Sheru came that he felt the city was desolate and started to celebrate the New Year in different ways every year.
Xie Lu said, "Tell the Hanged Man that I will give him the judgment plaque after tonight."
"Oh, right, there are a few boxes of fireworks in the basement."
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