"The hall is cleared."
Hel walked up to Deathstroke who was moving house, and she thrust the spike in her hand directly into the ground, wiping the pungent blood off her face.
"Let's go, ballroom."
Su Ming dropped the small bag in his hand, which contained the female vampire's cosmetics, all the valuables were already taken.
The backpack has limited capacity, so you have to choose the right things to take.
There were this many vampires in the hall; there should be more in the ballroom, right? This clan's strength seems decent.
Satanah picked up what Deathstroke had just discarded, removed the cosmetics, and stuffed them into her own pocket. Vampires think the paler the better, their cosmetics have an excellent whitening effect, she wants them.
Palham dismounted; the castle hall could accommodate them, but if he rides into the ballroom, he might hit his head.
When the group passed through several rooms and arrived at the ballroom, they found a group of vampires waiting in a defensive formation. Not only were their clothes visibly better than those outside, they also seemed stronger.
The beautiful wooden floor and shoe soles made a crisp contact sound, while fresh red blood flowed wantonly.
"Which one of you is Giovanni?"
Su Ming stepped forward to shout, directly dealing with the clan leader, and everything would be over.
However, no one responded, instead, they launched an attack and a series of Dark Magic flew over.
"Really, not at all elegant," Su Ming sighed, tilting his head slightly, "Just like Werewolves, lacking a gentleman's grace... kill them all."
So Palham and Hel engaged in another battle with the enemies, while Su Ming continued his looting journey.
There weren't any decent enemies, having the underlings handle them would suffice, though over on Earth there are hardly any opportunities for Little Fortune Ape to take action, what enemy could be weaker than the Black Ape?
The vampires managed to hold out a few more minutes with their formation and coordination, even disrupting Su Ming's looting several times, but faced with a huge disparity in strength, ultimately they perished on the spot.
Looking at the ashes and headless bodies strewn across the floor, Su Ming tucked a pair of Golden Bat Ornaments into his backpack and sighed deeply, "There's something off about these vampires, they're a bit too crazy."
Hel sank all the black spikes back into the ground, merely nodding slightly. She didn't know much about vampires; they were unique to Earth, best not to express opinions.
Satanah had her own view; she patted the black ash on the corner of her dress, "I also feel something's wrong. At times like this, there should be vampires who surrender and demand noble treatment befitting their status, instead of rushing forward like werewolves and howling."
Su Ming pondered for a moment, then cast his gaze towards Palham, "What do you think?"
"I haven't dealt much with the Blood Race, but just as the Female Demon said, advanced vampires should be more inclined to negotiate and trade."
Hel went to the sofa next to her, leaning on it diagonally, "Could it be that they mistake us for Inhumans? I remember you mentioned they're secretly at war with a force called Inhumans, so if this is a fight to the death, there's really no room for negotiation."
Su Ming thought for a moment; he hadn't acted, so the other side couldn't discern his strength. As for the other three, they did slightly resemble Inhumans.
However, if there were older vampires, they wouldn't fail to recognize the Evil Spirit Knight; the inheritance of the Evil Spirit Knight, one could say, began around 12,000 BC, and the burning skull is their signature.
Su Ming was reluctant to believe this; he sorted through the heap of corpses and personally dragged out a body.
Godslayer transformed into a dissection knife, and he used it to cut open the vampire's belly; the head of the corpse's owner had already flown off, clearly Hel's handiwork.
Hel leaned in, being quite knowledgeable about corpses.
In the bloody abdominal cavity, Deathstroke first coiled out the intestines and then removed each internal organ, placing them on the carpet, and then he seemed to have found something.
"Have you found the problem?" Hel glanced at those organs; she didn't see anything amiss.
"Their internal organ structure is exactly like humans'." Su Ming clapped his hands and stood up, searching everywhere for the vampire's head, "That's the biggest problem."
Upon hearing this, the other two leaned in to examine the organs.
However, Palham was just watching the entertainment; his background as an old-era soldier wouldn't provide dissecting knowledge. Back then, as long as they could shoot, ride horses, and slay, they were a qualified soldier.
It was Satanah who pointed at the heart and lungs, using her nails to lift this set of organs, even approaching to smell them, revealing an expression of disgust.
"Vampires don't need to breathe; their blood doesn't circulate either. Their lungs should be withered, and their heart shouldn't be this large."
Strangulation, using the difference in the scent, found the head of this corpse and offered it to the host as a favor.
A vampire that has its head severed is just like a snake, won't die immediate unless a weapon used is silver, otherwise, it can survive for a short while.
Su Ming also didn't mind its resistance, instead turning Godslayer into a guillotine, slowly slicing the head like a watermelon into two halves.
"Ka…"
As the watermelon was cut open, a very strange insect could be seen on the brain, desperately writhing because it was severed.
This insect was not large, but at least as thick as a human middle finger and as long as a small leg. It lurked beneath the skull, wriggling like an eel burrowing into tofu.
"Sure enough."
Su Ming grabbed the green insect out. Its color was fluorescent green, appearing semi-transparent and seemingly weightless, as if it could fly away at any moment.
"What is this?" Satanah now hated these things that looked like tentacles the most, especially since it had more legs and suction cups than regular tentacles.
She took a few steps back, rubbing her arm in displeasure.
"'Steam' brain bloodsucking creature."
Su Ming released one hand, and that segment of the insect floated like a balloon towards the sky. He reached out and grabbed it back.
"Every word is understandable, but when combined, it doesn't make much sense." Palham shook his head, flames spouting from his eyes.
Su Ming handed the other segment of the insect to him, while he squeezed the segment in his hand like beans: "Simply put, it's a Blood Race biological weapon, a special parasite fused with Vampire genes."
The Steam series has many products. Su Ming didn't know the specific plan names, but it was a scientific plan to transform all humans into bloodsucking monsters.
Steam brain bloodsuckers are also called V1 organisms. In the future, Blood Race scientists will still develop new products, like Steam respiratory bloodsuckers V2, Steam digestive bloodsuckers V3.
This parasite manipulates bodies that have brain death to continue moving, maintaining physical activity and combat power through blood consumption.
"Simply put, it's a parasitic Vampire, and the parasite, due to its special nature, transmits through air, droplets, blood, drinking water, and various other means, creating Vampires at a speed far faster than the primitive embrace method."
Su Ming answered Evil Spirit Knight's question.
Although the Blood Race created by the Vampire Bug isn't as strong as Advanced Vampires, the quantity makes up for everything.
When the host drinks fresh blood, the parasite residing in the brain will extend its head into the mouth, drinking blood together and growing together.
Like some sort of Symbiote...
Su Ming suddenly had a thought.
If in the past a Symbiote had fallen into Kama Taiji's hands, it's hard to avoid similar spores falling into Blood Race hands. If their host was a Vampire, this trait might evolve, and their descendants could reproduce through spores.
The Vampire Bug has intelligence and can even control the host to live normally. These are all characteristics of a Symbiote.
Those it parasitizes are unafraid of sunlight and appear no different from ordinary people, with heartbeat and breathing, able to eat and drink normal food and beverages, perfectly integrating into human society.
They just need to drink blood to sustain life. The stronger the parasite inside, the greater the food consumption, and gradually losing reason, leaving only worship and obedience to High-tier Blood Race, becoming very handy thugs and tools.
The V1 size is relatively small, with minimal enhancement to the host's body, while the future V3 version will make the host stronger than a Super Soldier, able to tear apart any lower-tier Blood Race.
The Strangulation living in Su Ming showed disdain, stating that Symbiotes never rely on quantity for victory. If this truly is a fellow Symbiote, the split into so many sub-bodies is doomed to cause internal conflict.
Strangulation is now very strong, even if another Symbiote is hosted on the Vampire Ancestor, it and its host have a 100% chance of winning.
The chosen color, semi-transparent fluorescent green, clearly was not serious. Even if it could fly, it's not fast, nothing remarkable.
By now, Su Ming had figured it out; this was the Vampires' plan.
Patients with brain damage parasitized by the Vampire Bug are both consumers and providers of blood, able to coexist with the existing blood races.
And humanity's large population ensures the food supply.
If these parasites spread, over twenty billion new Vampires would appear on Earth, almost like the end of the world.
They want to capture Mutants and Inhumans, presumably for experiments, because their unique constitutions would surely create more powerful new Vampires.
No wonder Vani dares to call himself King, relying on the army that this biotech could bring, and the special abilities of new blood races originally being Mutants and Inhumans, it was his confidence to challenge Dracula.
This isn't a plan to farm humans; that's old news. Vampires now aim to conquer Earth by assimilating everyone.
Seeing the three standing before him, Su Ming had to use limited power to solve this issue in secret.