As A Vampire, I Am No Longer A Human Being.

"Do you need a drink? The old rules?"

"No, I have something to do tonight and need to patrol, so I won't drink today."

"Okay, I know a sea salt lemonade."

At six o'clock in the afternoon, it was also the bar counter of the night bar.

At this time, it was nearly two hours before the bar opened, so there was not a single customer in the lobby.

No, that's not quite accurate. There should be only one uninvited guest.

There were only two people in the empty hall, and the other one was Wen Zhilin, the owner of the bar.

"What kind of trouble have you been in recently? You look worried."

Wen Zhilin took a highball glass from the bar and wiped off the remaining water stains on it with a clean towel at hand, knowingly asking questions.

"Some things have indeed happened recently, don't you know?"

Wen Zhilin held the cup upside down and rolled the mouth of the cup around in the container where the sea salt was stored.

A handful of snow-white particles stuck to the rim of the cup.

After carefully observing the number of sea salt particles on the edge of the cup, Wen Zhilin replied.

"How could I know about Captain Wen's troubles?"

Tuk-tuk-tuk——

Wen Lin tapped his fingers rhythmically on the bar, staring intently at Wen Zhilin's movements.

When Wen Zhilin put fresh lemon slices into the cup, Wen Lin suddenly spoke.

"Two people are dead."

Wen Zhilin paused slightly while pouring lemon juice into the cup, causing a brief interruption in the smooth flow of water.

"Oh? There's another murder. But you shouldn't be responsible for normal murders, right? A person with superpowers did it? Then you'll be busy."

"With ice?"

Now that there was a fault, Wen Zhilin also stopped pouring and asked.

"Add a little less, it's still quite hot here!"

After receiving a reply, Wen Zhilin took out three pieces of crushed ice from the ice machine under the bar, put it into the cup, and then continued to fill it with lemon juice.

Looking at the ice cubes floating on the water, Wen Zhilin felt that something was missing.

The last time I personally bartended wine was the last time.

"You should know what I'm talking about. I just want to know if the last two cases have anything to do with you. Or if you have any clues here."

Wen Lin was a little impatient.

Wen Zhilin suddenly realized it. She took out a small piece of mint from a small box on the bar and placed it on the floating ice cubes.

After doing all this, Wen Zhilin nodded with satisfaction and gently pushed the lemon juice in front of Wen Lin.

"It's too rough and not beautiful at all. We don't need to do this and cause trouble for ourselves."

Wen Lin picked up the cup and held it up to the light. He couldn't see anything. He took a sip of the cold lemon juice.

very sour.

"Oh, you really know. Does that mean it's definitely from outside?"

Wen Zhilin nodded imperceptibly.

"Any clues?"

"..."

Wen Zhilin quietly looked at Wen Lin drinking lemonade, smiling without saying a word.

"Alas~"

The two looked at each other like this for two minutes. Wen Lin sighed softly. This time he was defeated again.

"I don't want a third similar case to happen in Montreal this year. After those two cases, I will find a way to deal with the follow-up."

"make a deal."

Wen Zhilin raised the corners of her mouth slightly.

"What do you want to ask?"

"What clues do you have about this new vampire?"

"Actually, you should have noticed that both cases occurred in Dongcheng District, and the two places of death are not far away. The residence and activity range of the other party are most likely within Dongcheng District."

After receiving the benefits, Wen Zhilin no longer was secretive in answering questions and became much more straightforward.

"Why? We have also made this conjecture, but the other party should not be so stupid."

Wen Lin frowned slightly, there were some joints that he hadn't figured out.

But it was precisely these puzzled joints that he came here to solve today.

"frequency."

"What?"

"The frequency of killing! It's too high. In two days, he has sucked the blood of two people."

Wen Lin frowned deeply, feeling like he was trying to catch something, but he couldn't put it into words.

"You mean the other party sucks blood too frequently, or that the other party shouldn't suck so much blood within a certain period of time!?"

"That's right, I told you before that a normal vampire's stomach is only that big and its digestion capacity is there. It doesn't take much blood to drink every day to meet its daily consumption."

"But this vampire sucked two people dry in two days." Wen Lin's eyes widened as he rushed to answer.

"Yes, a normal adult, even a woman, has more than 4,000 ml of blood in the body. Take me as an example. Saving so much blood is enough for me to eat for a month. Even if my appetite is increased, it is enough for half a month. Needed.”

Seeing that Wen Lin was deep in thought, Wen Zhilin did not interrupt, took out a clean cup from the sink, and slowly started wiping it.

"Then under what circumstances would a vampire need to suck such a large amount of blood in a short period of time?"

Wen Lin finally knew what he lacked, an understanding of vampire habits.

It is precisely because of the lack of this knowledge that I feel that the whole thing is wrong but cannot explain it.

"As far as I know, there are only two situations that would cause a vampire to need to drink a large amount of blood in a short period of time...serious injury and breakthrough."

Putting the cleaned cups upside down on the table one after another, Wen Zhilin continued.

"When our cultivation reaches a bottleneck, we need to absorb enough blood and provide enough nutrients to help us achieve breakthroughs in cultivation. Especially when we are making breakthroughs in major realms, the blood of superpowers is the best."

Speaking of the blood of superpowers, Wen Zhilin glanced at Wen Lin and couldn't help but lick her lips.

Wen Lin looked so panicked that he couldn't help but shudder.

"The second is serious injuries. The law of conservation of energy still applies to superpowers, and the same applies to vampires. Although vampires have strong recovery capabilities, repairing physical damage is not out of thin air.

Recovery during battle is a kind of overdraft. It may also be a matter of demolishing the east wall to make up for the west wall. I don't know the specific details. Anyway, you need to suck a lot of blood afterwards to get enough nutrients to make up for it.

The greater the damage suffered, the more 'nutrition' that needs to be replenished afterwards. Of course, there is an upper limit to all this. If the damage is too great during the battle, the vampire will die, but it is very difficult. "

Wen Lin tapped the wall of the cup gently: "From your professional perspective, which situation is the other party in? A breakthrough or a serious injury?"

Although it was a question, Wen Lin actually already had the answer in his mind, he just needed confirmation.

"Severe injuries! Very serious injuries, serious injuries that neither of us can recover from."

On the word 'two people', Wen Zhilin's tone became a little more serious.

"Two people, seriously injured, East District..."

Wen Lin raised his hand and took another sip of lemonade.

After sorting out the known information, everything becomes much clearer.

How could ten Second Grade vampires enter the country unscathed?

The border defense line is not just a decoration. Even if there is a loophole in the war, it will not be easy to enter.

This vampire from Mengcheng must have been seriously injured when entering the country and would not recover for a while.

In order to heal his wounds, the other party killed two people in the East District for two days in a row.

"Do you think the other party will take action tonight?"

Wen Lin still knew too little about vampires, and he didn't quite know what the two people's concept of a vampire's 'eating capacity' was.

"Yes, definitely." Wen Zhilin nodded affirmatively.

"Judging from the fact that the other party only killed one person a night, the other party is still very cautious. If the blood of two people can recover the injury, the other party does not need to be so anxious and can "slowly" select the right candidate.

But the other party did do this, which means that the injury suffered is not serious, and may have shaken the foundation, causing the other party to have no energy to keep changing areas and play the "cat and mouse" game with you.

So if two people are not enough, there might be a third or fourth victim. "

When Wen Zhilin said this, Wen Lin was also a little anxious. Doesn't this mean that the other party will take action tonight, and the location is in the East District.

Wen Lin finished the lemon juice on his hand in one gulp and was about to gather people.

But he should seek his own government in his position and perform his duties according to his duties.

There was a time when he had been captain, and he could no longer be the boy who acted impulsively.

What he needs to do is to make a decision and then act.

"Do you have any clues here?"

Wen Lin sat back again and looked at Wen Zhilin.

The other party looked at him again with a smile but without saying a word.

The corner of Wen Lin's mouth twitched, with this expression again.

"What conditions."

"My parents called me yesterday and asked me to go back this weekend. They said they wanted to introduce me to a blind date."

Wen Zhilin had a sweet smile on her face.

The smile was beautiful, but Wen Lin got goosebumps again and noticed that the cup held by Wen Zhilin had cracks on the wall.

"Ah - I know, I know, I will do the work for my parents."

After ruffling his hair a few times, Wen Lin waved his hand.

"However, sister, you are already quite old, so you can't let me fool you every time. You should find another excuse next time. Or you can just find someone to fake your marriage."

Click——

The glass held in Wen Zhilin's hand was finally overwhelmed and shattered into a table of dregs.

Wen Lin swallowed his saliva quietly and did not dare to say any more.

He flicked off the remaining shards on his hands and swept them away. All the remaining glass shards on the table flew into the trash can not far away.

Taking the document bag that had been put aside for a long time, Wen Zhilin slammed it in front of Wen Lin.

"You don't need to worry about my affairs. You should worry about yourself. You are not much younger than me."

"It contains the information you need. My people have investigated it. Targeting the foreign population, temporarily living in the East District, and resting during the day and activities at night. After excluding some 'familiar' faces, there are not many people left, only three There are only thirteen people. If you check them one by one, you should be able to find the person you are looking for soon."

"Thanks."

Picking up the document, pinching the thickness, Wen Lin said goodbye and left.

I slipped away and accidentally stepped on a minefield.

If you don't leave, you'll probably explode.