Trafford’s Trading Club

They were eating a kind of cake made from blue algae ground into powder. They didn't speak, making the cave seem so quiet.

They are [Norman] and [Silk], the expelled men and women.

"She is a monster." The man suddenly said: "Just like her brother or even more terrifying."

The monster... who is it?

"I can't remember what he looked like." The woman lowered her head and said softly, as if she was blaming and resenting: "I didn't even meet him once, but you snatched him away! And then killed him!"

She suddenly became excited, and her voice sounded like thunder in the small cave.

"Keep your voice down, do you want to wake her up... this monster?" the man said urgently. He even stepped forward, covered the woman's mouth with his hand, and stared into her eyes.

Who is the monster?

"Her!" The woman looked aside subconsciously with a hint of horror: it was made of hay and some skins and algae, like a small bed from Nestlé.

The monster... who is it?

On the small bed, a pair of eyes covered by animal skins, curved like crescent moons and not like human eyes, were looking at them in the cave.

"What do you want to do? No...Norman?!" The woman suddenly became frightened.

The man suddenly stood up, with a cold expression on his face, and walked in front of [her]. He raised a bone ax that was ground with bones in his hand.

She knew what the man was trying to do and screamed, "You're crazy!"

"We will die!" the man replied in a low voice, "She is a monster!"

As soon as the voice fell, the man gritted his teeth, reached out and took out [her] from the animal skin quilt, and lifted it up.

"Look clearly, this is what it looks like! This is a monster!"

[She] has gray skin, a split mouth, clearly visible teeth like jagged crescents, crescent-shaped eyes, and even no nose like an ordinary person...

The monster... turns out to be me.

"Do you see clearly?" The man's voice became louder again, and he lifted [her] high... His arms were trembling at the same time.

He was actually afraid, afraid of things that even he himself didn't know.

Finally, the man raised the bone ax in his hand again.

"No!"

The woman's voice sounded sad, frightened, and even anxious. She hugged her man, shook her head violently and said, "That's not the case, Norman... look at it clearly! Please look at it carefully! Look at this child clearly. She is not a monster at all... Look, look!"

"Crazy." The man felt sad in his heart, thinking that the woman could no longer think normally... But he loved her after all, otherwise he would not be willing to leave the place where he lived and still stay with her.

He could only force himself to raise his head to take one last look at [her]...the last look, as the last apology for the name he could not bear: [Father].

Just look at this last glance, and after that... you will forget.

He slowly raised his head and looked at the person who was holding the back of his neck...[her].

"This is...our..." He was surprised by the scene he saw in front of him. In an instant, it seemed that all the true and false things were mixed together, "Our child!"

He directly threw away the bone ax in his hand and hugged [her] in his arms. He looked at the woman excitedly, "Look! Si! This is our child, she is not a monster! She is It’s normal! Hahaha!! It’s normal!”

The woman cried with joy.

They hugged each other, and [she] in their arms slowly opened her mouth full of jagged teeth, which looked like a smile.

It turns out that you can make others like you...

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…

When the girl regained some of her consciousness, she no longer saw Donnie.

It was just that the murderous weapon that had slashed her countless times was thrown to the ground casually... The girl was a little hesitant as to why she could wake up.

She suddenly felt something strange coming from every part of her body... She looked up and saw a scene that she couldn't understand until now.

She saw a heart that was no longer beating very much, hanging upside down above her head... From the blood vessels in the atrium of the heart, dark red muscle fiber-like things like blood vessels grew.

These fibers were like weaving a spider web, and Buzby's heart was at the center of the spider web. Then more muscle fibers grew from the other atrium and spread to the girl's own body. .

It covered all the wounds on her body made by Tang Dao... The muscle fibers adhering to the wounds even grew many flagella, which seeped into her body bit by bit.

The blood spattered when she was hacked could no longer be seen on the ground.

The blood that flowed out was absorbed back bit by bit, and then sent back to the girl's body... The vampire has the ability to control blood.

But this is not the girl's ability, but the last bit of strength of this heart that is about to stop beating.

Not only was the blood lost by the girl collected, but the most essential essence of the heart was also injected into the girl's body.

It no longer beats very much, as if the heart of an ordinary person has left the refrigeration effect, turning into dark red. It is no longer fresh, it even smells slightly, and perhaps it has even begun to rot inside.

But it makes people squeeze out the last drop of its original blood.

Like a drop of water on a stalactite...a drop, at the bottom of the atrium, swells little by little.

The girl watched this scene quietly... She didn't have a normal face, so even if she knew what expressions she should make to express her mood at the moment, she couldn't do it in the end.

Maybe, but you need to use someone else's appearance... There is no way to use the original appearance, because [she]... is a monster.

It is a monster that not only sucks human blood, but also sucks vampire blood and cannibalizes other people's happiness.

When the last drop of blood from her atrium was squeezed out and then dripped down, the girl subconsciously stuck out the tip of her tongue, and she instinctively accepted it.

The last drop of essence and blood fell on the tip of the girl's tongue, and the heart was completely rotten...the muscle fibers adhering to the wall were also peeled off. With the passage of the last bit of essence and blood, this heart will completely die and nothing of Buzby will remain.

It cannot even draw on the blood pool of the clan to be reborn.

He is truly dead now.

The girl stretched out her hands to catch the fallen heart...but it suddenly turned into a pus-like substance in her palms, and finally fell from her fingers.

[She] finally slowly swallowed the last drop of blood in her mouth without saying a word.

It seemed like a long time passed.

The girl slowly stood up and walked out of the room silently. From here on, she didn't use anyone else's appearance.

[She] walked into this world again with her original appearance when she came into this world... The streets were deserted, and there were traces of destruction everywhere.

Vaguely, it seemed that some sounds of fighting could be heard.

Those are the descendants of the ancient race who came out from the other side of the wall when humans began to resist vampires. They are now chasing the remaining vampires.

Whether it is the lower-level or even levelless vampires in the inspection team, or the elite patrol team... they are actually retreating steadily at this time.

They lost the support of the superior nobles... The superior nobles had already died under the flames of Mei's revenge. Even Lord Buzby, who was temporarily in charge of the clan's power, had disappeared at this moment.

They were like headless flies, without any effective command. However, the ancient races across from them had increasingly terrifying weapons in their hands... various powerful weapons emerging in an endless stream.

And Mei... this woman who looks like a god of death is constantly harvesting their lives in the dark night.

Some naturalized humans who were originally working on the [Farm] had already had the idea of ​​defecting due to the speech of the woman named Amanda.

In fact, this is the reality for them, because they have tried their best to survive adulthood and experienced the impact of [the truth]... Most of them have the same thoughts as Renas.

But the kids...[crops] are different.

They have not experienced this, and they don’t know what the difference is from going from [dedication] to just [food]. They don't even know what [Mating Farm] does, but they know what [Slaughterhouse] means, but they don't know that what is being slaughtered is actually one of them, a few...some, maybe a certain batch. all.

The [crops] began to wander absentmindedly on the dilapidated streets... They cried or laughed, or took steps absentmindedly, but they didn't know where they were going.

The girl walking on the street in her original appearance... just passed by these children silently.

No child paid attention to her presence... and [she] did not stop for a moment because of that child... The sound of fighting gradually became fainter, which meant that the scale of resistance among the vampires of the [Toridor] clan had already Fewer and fewer.

As you can imagine... vampires are an extremely difficult species to produce and their numbers are not very large.

But humans are different. Many humans have been liberated from the [Mating Farms], and even more humans have been liberated from the [Slaughterhouse].

In this war, humans have an absolute numerical advantage and they have magical weapons that can fight vampires.

But who cares about these things... the girl thought silently in her heart.

[She] was still walking forward, as if she was looking for something... [She] always felt like she was about to find it, but something was missing.

Not long after, the girl saw Donnie again, and [she] stopped slightly.

But Donnie didn't seem to know [her], didn't remember [her], she just laughed and ran happily on the street, just like her usual active self, she would tell [the farm]...everyone in the town Give a cheerful greeting.

But she was completely dirty at this time, her favorite nightgown was covered in dust and blood, and her hair was messy.

But her laughter was like some kind of infection... It seemed to be the only sound that could be heard by those children who were already abnormal.

So they began to follow Doni... Gradually, there were more and more people.

Doni's laughter was like that of a shepherd boy playing the flute from some mythology... They began to form a group behind Doni.

They were laughing and wandering on the dilapidated streets, talking about things they often talked about on weekdays, as if nothing had happened and everything was as usual.

[She] watched them follow Doni, just go away, and then gradually disappear on the street... [She] suddenly felt that this would be the last time she saw these children.

They have disappeared now, that is to say, they have really disappeared...disappeared into some falsehood that is more real than reality. Finally, the last figure is no longer visible.

[She] did not take a step this time, but slowly turned around.

The girl once again saw Luo Qiu, who had disappeared not long ago... He seemed to have been here waiting for [her] arrival.

In other words, [she] took the initiative to find him this time.

This time the girl didn't call Boss Luo a noble lord. [She] even became very quiet, without a trace of the naughtiness or innocence of [Mina].

Maybe it's because it's back to its original appearance.

"What...is this smell called?" [She] raised her head, and her completely bent eyes looked like they had no eyeballs, just two curved lines.

Boss Luo walked into [her] side. He glanced at what the girl was holding in her hands. It was a pile of residue that couldn't even be called rotten meat.

He said slowly: "The [crops] raised by the superior nobles, the [characters] they used, and when they sucked the blood of the [crops], what do you think...they need?"

"The taste of happiness." [She] almost didn't think about it at all...because [she] knew this too well.

Because [she] has had many strange abilities since she was born... [She] is like a human, with human things, but also like a vampire, and also has vampire things... [She] is a monster.

Boss Luo shook his head, "I think it should be called the real taste."

[She] immediately retorted: "But this is all false, everything is just fiction."

"Fake things can be more real than real things." Luo Qiu said softly.

"It's like them...Doni?" [She] thought thoughtfully, looking once again at the children and the end of the street where Duny disappeared... nothing could be seen anymore.

Boss Luo nodded: "For Buzby, even if you are not the real Mina... but what does it matter. For him, you are no different from the real Mina... For him, you are no different from the real Mina... To him, you are already real. So it’s not that the taste has changed, but... this is the taste it should have. It’s not replaced, substituted, or even stolen, but it exists for you. the taste of."

"It's delicious..." [She] raised her head, opened her jagged teeth slightly, and made an extremely unpleasant sound.

Luo Qiu asked softly: "Name?"

[She] shook her head, "No... never."

"Then let's call her Mina." Luo Qiu suddenly said.

[She] was silent for a moment, then slowly picked up the heart residue in her hands, put it to her lips, and chewed it bit by bit, "It's the real taste..."

And then she...Mina laughed and shed tears.