A strange world

Chapter 983 Section 214. Vampire Vaccine

Annan learned from Little Smo the reason for their depression: not only did they betray their trust, but many residents were seriously ill due to the dual pressures of plague and escape.

Annan told them that the former was not important, and the latter was also simple, just let the Punishment Corps work part-time as priests.

"Remember, you are the heroes of Liberty City. When the war is over, everyone will remember your name."

Annan stirred their emotions with just a few words.

"I will be proud of the people of Liberty City!" Little Smo said hoarsely.

"No." Annan smiled and shook his head, "It is Liberty City that is proud of you."

The patient was still waiting, so Annan opened the portal first and took over the Punishment Corps in Xinger City.

They went into the cave where the patients were placed, and soon came out with bad news: they were not simply sick, but cursed, and only priests could remove the curse...

Annan, who had cast several protective spells, walked into the cave. The cave was crowded with people and was full of coughs and the stench of decay. The numb and desperate eyes told Annan that they were waiting for death.

"Is there no other way?" Annan asked Black Widow.

Black Widow's eyes moved away from Maria: "You can find epics or legends, but the remaining few died of illness before they were cured."

Annan first asked the Skeleton King for help and opened the portal.

The Skeleton King stayed in its tomb to do experiments, with a pair of glasses on his nose.

Annan was slightly stunned: "Are you nearsighted?"

"No... just a friend told me that this would make me look less sharp." The Skeleton King's hand bones pushed the glasses.

"Indeed, you look full of wisdom after wearing glasses." Annan praised and told it the situation here.

The Skeleton King was not angry because Annan asked him to save a group of civilians. He waved his hand gently, and the cold and fresh air poured into the cave, while the turbid and poisonous air turned into a group of ominous bacteria on his bony palm.

"Hmm... the smell of curse and evil energy, a very clever spell..."

"Even you can't do anything?"

The soul fire in the Skeleton King's eyes jumped: "I am good at curses, but not good at removing curses... I have to kill them first before I can treat them. Do you need me to resurrect them as undead?"

"No..."

However, the Skeleton King's words reminded Annan to let Xiao Smo bring in the vampires.

Vampires, self-proclaimed noble undead creatures, are mainly regarded as "evil magic creatures" in the Alan Continent - just like elements and demons, with the prejudices of the main races.

Magical creatures cannot be exempted from curses, but I have never heard of any water element or demon catching a cold or fever - so they are naturally exempt from the plague spread by ratmen.

Annan was thinking, can vampires give patients the first embrace and turn them into vampires?

In this way, the vampires got blood servants, Annan got vampire residents, and the patients got treatment. It was a win-win situation for all three parties!

The vampires resisted the urge to poke a hundred holes in Annan's body with their fangs. They first saluted the Skeleton King who was watching quietly behind the portal, and then rejected Annan's proposal righteously.

They said that the first embrace was extremely important to the blood clan, just like humans looking for a partner, it was impossible to be so frivolous.

"I will compensate you?" Annan didn't want to give up just like that.

"That won't work either!"

"Please don't say such things anymore."

"We are blood clan, not blood beasts..."

"What's the benefit?"

The vampires talked at once, and then looked at the dissenting vampire at the same time.

"I... I'm just asking." The vampire laughed.

"Okay, but I still have to thank you for your help all the time."

They couldn't help, so Annan could only try his luck with Wood.

"Can you do the First Embrace? Do you have a follower?"

Wood, who was chatting with guests in the tavern one second ago and was summoned the next second, was stunned for a while, and nostalgia emerged - he was summoned by Annan like this three years ago.

"What did you say?"

"I said, you can do the First Embrace, do you have a follower?"

"Of course, but I haven't found a suitable target yet."

"Then you are really lucky!" Annan put his arm around Wood's shoulders and pointed at the people in the cave: "Look at these diligent and hardworking people, I will leave them to you!"

"What?"

Wood finally understood that Annan wanted him to do the First Embrace for everyone in the cave. Instead of picking a few people for the First Embrace...

Are there hundreds or thousands of people here? Even if he were to capture them, it would take three days and three nights...

"Including those old people?"

Annan whispered helplessly: "You can't let the old people die, can you?"

"I can't do it..." Wood shook his head faster than the wine, "Open the portal and send me back."

Annan tempted: "Don't you want to be a vampire executive?"

"What vampire executive?" Wood suddenly found that he couldn't walk and said

"It means commanding a group of blood servants who obey your orders... Where your fangs point, their swords point."

Wood was a little tempted, but still shook his head: "I'm just a vampire who's not even a lord. I can only embrace one... two... at most three! It's better to kill me than to let me embrace hundreds of people--"

It seems that relying on Wood to save people is a bit unrealistic...

"I can come to help."

The Skeleton King, who had been watching for a long time, suddenly spoke.

"You have a way." Annan said in surprise.

"It's a good idea to turn patients into vampires, but even the prince can't give the First Embrace to hundreds of people. If we just want to exempt patients from the plague, maybe we can try to disperse the power of the First Embrace..."

"It's equivalent to using Wood's blood as a vaccine?" Annan immediately thought of a word.

"A vaccine to treat the plague? If that's what you mean, yes."

"Then let's get started! But are there any side effects?"

"A lot. The 'vaccine' is equivalent to a weakened First Embrace, and the characteristics of fear of sunlight and love of blood may be reflected..."

"It doesn't matter. There is less sunlight in the winter in the North, and there is a specialty dish in Liberty City called blood soup."

"Your vampire friend will also have to suffer a little."

"I don't..."

"It doesn't matter, he can eat!"

Annan covered Wood's mouth in the envy of the Black Widow.

The Skeleton King continued, "And most importantly, I'm not sure if the weak vampire bloodline can be exempted, and all our efforts may be in vain."

Annan let go of Wood and scanned the residents in the cave who never raised their heads from beginning to end, tortured by pain and didn't care about the outside world: "At least we tried..."

The Skeleton King did what he said, released the wizard's hand, and put the scattered tools into the magic ring: "Prepare an alchemy room for me."

"Empty cave?"

"Yes."