Chapter 66 Vivian's Blood

Vivian didn't quite believe it, so she squeezed out another drop of blood and smeared it on Hao Ren's hand. Then, the two of them stared intently to see what would happen this time. Even Lily curiously crowded over.

The drop of blood, glowing with a golden-red halo, quivered and spread on Hao Ren's skin at a rate visible to the naked eye for a short while, about a few seconds. Then, it rapidly contracted as if a drop of water had touched a hot iron and disappeared before the three of them.

"It seems to be absorbed," Hao Ren said, scratching the back of his hand curiously. To be honest, seeing the blood wriggling on his skin like a living thing really gave him a shock. If he hadn't known that Vivian didn't mean him any harm, he would have instinctively shaken it off. He hadn't paid attention the first time, but now that he saw it clearly, it was truly creepy. "I don't feel anything. It was just a little itchy and cool at first."

"Vampires have a lower body temperature than you humans, it's normal," Vivian said hesitantly, looking at her finger. The small wound she had bitten open had healed to the point where it was almost invisible. Then, she gritted her teeth as if making a huge decision and squeezed out one last drop of blood. "This… is the last time I'll try. Any more, and it won't do. I'll feel the pain."

Lily immediately found an opportunity to mock her, "Look at how stingy you are, it's just a drop of blood."

"What's wrong with a drop of blood! A drop of blood is still blood!" Vivian slammed the table. "When I wasn't used to human food, I relied on sucking blood to survive, okay? I was unlucky enough to be targeted by demon hunters almost every time I caught prey. I couldn't even afford to keep a few blood servants. When I was at my poorest, I couldn't even bear to lose my… you don't know the value of things until you've been through hard times. One day, when you've come out of a difficult life, you'll know…"

Hao Ren couldn't listen anymore and quickly stood up to smooth things over before the topic got out of control. "Alright, alright, let's not talk about the past. Vivian, be careful, this is for all ages - and don't talk about your miserable life in such detail, my heart can't take it…"

Lily immediately became happy. "Then, Landlord, can you waive my rent for a month?"

"…What does my talking to Vivian have to do with you!"

After the three of them made a fuss, Vivian finally remembered the matter at hand. She tried again, and this time, when she smeared the blood, she also chanted some ancient incantations in a strange tone. Hao Ren felt the cold and bloody atmosphere reappear around him, but the blood that touched his skin was still the same as before, wriggling a few times before quickly losing its power and disappearing in the blink of an eye.

"The connection with the blood has also been severed," Vivian frowned. "This has never happened before. Vampires and their blood have a fixed connection. Unless they actively 'abandon' a part of their blood, this connection will not be severed."

"What do we do now?" Hao Ren scratched his face. "I was counting on your blood to ward off evil."

"Why don't we try Lily's blood?" Vivian turned to look at the werewolf girl. "Her blood should also be able to ward off evil."

"Eh? Werewolves can too?" Lily was even more surprised. "So I'm so amazing!?"

Vivian chuckled. "No, I heard the old people in China say that black dog blood can ward off evil…"

Then, the two superwomen started tearing at each other again in the living room. Hao Ren was unable to stop them and didn't feel like stopping them. He could only sit on the sofa with a dazed expression, watching a vampire and a werewolf jump around in front of him. When he couldn't bear it anymore, he would shout, "Hey, be careful, you have to pay for anything you break—Lily, remember that you still owe me a coffee table, Vivian, think about your wallet…"

This sentence was very effective. The two superwomen immediately quieted down and started to decide the winner with a rock-paper-scissors game…

Hao Ren looked down at his unremarkable hands, not understanding why they could absorb the blood of a vampire. He had learned about it from various movies and novels. Vampire blood was extremely powerful for ordinary people, sometimes even dissolving bones and flesh upon contact, but on him, there were no special effects, not even as good as ordinary blood—it was directly absorbed? Although Hao Ren was now certain that the descriptions of vampires in movies and novels were mostly unreliable, the point that "vampire blood has special powers" shouldn't be wrong. Putting aside everything else, at least human blood wouldn't tremble or crawl around on its own…

"It seems that using the vampire mark won't work," Vivian finally remembered the matter at hand after fooling around with Lily for a few minutes. She sized Hao Ren up and down, still not giving up. "If you trust me, I'll try using vampire magic. I'm a high-level vampire, and I can cast spells without a blood medium—without a medium, it shouldn't be absorbed again, right?"

Hao Ren chuckled. "What's there not to trust? Go ahead and try."

"Most people really don't trust us," Vivian spread her hands. "You're actually one of the few who are so easygoing. Normal people wouldn't accept spellcasting so happily unless they were crazy. Three hundred years ago, people in Europe refused my blood magic to the death. I don't know why they were so stubborn."

Hao Ren muttered to himself: Could this vampire girl have been with humans for too long and forgotten how normal vampires use magic to deal with humans?

Vivian told Hao Ren to sit still, then used her fingers to outline strange and distorted characters in the air. Hao Ren stared wide-eyed at everything. After all, this was the first time in his life that he had truly seen what so-called "magic" was like. His heart was filled with curiosity and excitement, and seeing someone able to draw a faintly glowing, blood-colored trail out of thin air with their fingers was really eye-opening. But after watching for a while, he found it quite boring: Vivian was just constantly drawing lines of text in the air, and while writing, she would wave her hand to dissipate what she had written before. To put it bluntly, this process was just a high-end and impressive recitation. Excluding the special effects in the process of drawing the blood-colored text… he didn't feel any special power or a more spectacular phenomenon at all.

Vivian's eyebrows had already furrowed slightly. She was writing faster and faster, and erasing what she had written before even more frequently, almost erasing each line as soon as she wrote it. Hao Ren thought that she must have reached the crucial stage of casting the spell, and he didn't dare to say anything at first, but after waiting for a long time without seeing any new developments, he couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "Um… is it not done yet?"

"Wait, I might have written it wrong, I'm correcting it…"

Hao Ren: "…"

So this guy had been erasing and rewriting because she had written it wrong! Was there anything reliable about this vampire girl?

"Something's not right," Vivian didn't notice the subtle expression on Hao Ren's face. After modifying the runes several times in a row, she finally stopped, shaking her head in confusion. "Logically speaking, there shouldn't be any mistakes. I've already changed three effective sentence patterns, but there's no reaction at all… Landlord, do you feel particularly sleepy? Do you feel particularly calm? Or relaxed all over?"

"No," Hao Ren moved his arms. "I do feel pretty calm, but it shouldn't have anything to do with your words."

"That big dog over there," Vivian turned to look at Lily. "Don't move."

As soon as she finished speaking, Vivian waved her hand and blew the blood-colored text into a trembling mist. The mist floated past Lily, and the latter plopped onto the table, followed by a steady stream of snores.

"…The effect is a little too strong. How low is this guy's resistance?" Vivian frowned, then looked at Hao Ren. "I don't know why, but my blood magic doesn't seem to work on you."

When Hao Ren heard this, he immediately perked up, looking at his hands in disbelief. "Could it be that I'm actually a very powerful person?! Is my hidden setting natural magic immunity or something?"

Vivian told the truth, "It's also possible that you're just too slow-witted, for example, idiots are immune to all mental confusion magic…"

Hao Ren: "Ahem, be careful, you owe me money."

Vivian stuck out her tongue awkwardly. "Okay, I'm not kidding, but natural magic immunity is probably impossible. I'm very sensitive to living beings, you should just be an ordinary person, and you're not immune to the cold air I create, are you—ask that Raven 12345 about the specific reason later. I always feel like you've signed some kind of agreement with the so-called God, it wouldn't be that simple. Maybe something changed after you came back from her place. As for now… you should still use my amulet."

The final development was still the same as what she said at the beginning: all spirit blood and magic were bullshit. Hao Ren got a warding-off-evil treasure from a vampire in tears and laughter: it was said to be a Bagua disc obtained from Mount Wutai, to ward off evil and clear the mind…

Vivian gave the Bagua disc to Hao Ren with a thousand instructions, fearing that her treasure would be damaged, which showed that this strange vampire girl really cherished her pile of magical items. This made Hao Ren particularly moved.

But did that thing really work?