Chapter 757

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Main Character:

Shen Yao

The longer Shen Yao spent with Weilan, the more she could understand Weilan's disgust toward the vampire race, including himself.

Weilan was a very strange vampire, or rather, there wasn't a shred of a vampire's shadow on him; if it weren't for his physical condition preventing him from leaving and requiring him to drink blood, he would be more human than ordinary people.

Mm

Putting it that way might be a bit absolute, but for those who can understand, it just means Weilan's danger is relatively controllable; as long as one doesn't trample his bottom line at will, this person won't do anything too outrageous.

Things like large-scale capture and imprisonment of humans, randomly attacking on human territory without cause, having no moral bottom line, not caring about external image... in short, vampires are just a group of beasts wearing human skin, but Weilan happens not to be one.

Having finished the book in her hand once again, Shen Yao stood up and walked to the bookshelf not far away, casually flipping through its contents with a raised hand, picking out what interested her and taking it to the side to read.

Weilan was handling the matter in his hand, and quite unfortunately crushed an ornament; it wasn't shattered into several pieces, but rather turned into powder in a scattered, sparse manner.

Shen Yao:...

"Weilan"

Out of concern for her lover, Shen Yao had to attend to Weilan's mood.

"Something happened on the Sins Empire side; quite a few people from the Hunter Association died this time.

Oh, it's that group we met before; only one girl managed to escape by a hair's breadth."

Shen Yao:...

Truly not surprised in the slightest; although the system hiding in her head started clamoring again, Shen Yao actually became even calmer after hearing the news.

Mm

Because from the conversation between Teacher Night Wing and Weilan, one could tell these hunters' situation wasn't good, not to mention the mad dog Xize'er was right beside them.

But only the female lead escaped alone? Was the killing a bit too ruthless?

"Plans can't keep up with changes; originally the Hunter Association's purpose was to maintain stability, and conveniently consolidate the Hunter Association's status while weakening Xize'er's faction's power."

As a twist of fate, what they waited for wasn't Xize'er's side, but another faction that had a grudge against Xize'er — the last vampire noble of the Sins Empire, one even more insane than Weilan and Xize'er combined.

To tell the truth, a slip through the net actually managed to escape and survive? Weilan felt this was pure dog shit luck.

"What to do next? The squad dispatched by the Hunter Association can be said to have suffered total annihilation; the Hunter Association itself is also severely weakened," such a Hunter Association will likely shrink its lines in daily vampire hunting, and might even provoke a vampire counterattack, putting their own side in a precarious position.

Weilan shook his head, "The Hunter Association hasn't given a definite statement yet, but they can't endure the word 'endurance'," after all, the Hunter Association has the worst foundation, yet wants to overthrow two vampire nobles right out the gate, not even looking at what identity they themselves possess.

The Hunter Association was impure from the very start of its establishment; its difficult survival was entirely because vampires and werewolves needed a balance and a buffer; in recent years, because contradictions between the two races of vampires and werewolves grew larger, the Hunter Association seized the opportunity to expand a wave, leading to today's various situations.

But these are all things seen on the surface; once one actually flips the table and looks, the Hunter Association is still something that can't make it to the table, fundamentally impossible to suppress these two great Buddhas of vampires and werewolves.

"If they endure, there's plenty of suffering to be had," what's so good about eating bitterness and suffering? Anyway, the more the Hunter Association endures, the more it makes people unable to muster even a shred of fighting spirit.

To say the Hunter Association has no talented people to cultivate?

Of course there are, and not a few.

Relying on these exceptionally gifted talents, the Hunter Association was able to continuously grow, letting their reputation successfully spread across the entire continent.

But the Hunter Association, in the final analysis, is still too cowardly (possibly related to confidence; no confidence, no matter how tough they act it's all outer strength inner weakness), causing these talents to perish and a generational fracture to appear internally.

Until today, even if the dispatched squad is wiped out, the Hunter Association doesn't dare utter a peep more, only able to silently swallow the bitter fruit into their bellies.

Weilan raised an eyebrow, "I've said before their plan was very likely to come to nothing, but the Hunter Association people seemed to think this was a very good opportunity for suppression," that hunter named Night Wing once had very many intersections with Weilan.

Sigh

Didn't expect he'd just die in the Sins Empire like that; shows the Hunter Association is no good no matter when, whether brains or capability.

Shen Yao:...

"What does this matter have to do with us?" Or rather, do they need to do something to recover the interests they might lose.

"The Hunter Association and us belong to the same camp, but the Hunter Association still decides for itself in the end," Weilan shrugged helplessly, "We can only send some courteous words back to help persuade them, hoping they can seriously listen."

Mm

There's no schadenfreude, nor any sad indignation; what Weilan says is more a kind of mockery, a posture of standing aside and hanging high.

Shen Yao can understand this too, because it was the Hunter Association's own people who wouldn't listen to advice; Weilan had already fulfilled the obligations he should have long ago; the remaining result, whatever it may be, is something they themselves should bear.

'Afraid that the Hunter Association can't bear it, and in the end triggers a chain reaction, causing trouble for the Toweier Family, affecting Weilan's situation in Saint Tiana.'

The system's string of idle chatter was well said; after all, the butterfly effect comes about just like this — a tiny little matter triggers a whole series of storms and troubles; how else would there be the saying 'pull one hair and move the whole body'? These are all precedents that appeared long ago.

Shen Yao rested her chin on her hand, 'Some things, even if considered, might not be timely; this news has already been delivered before Weilan, a done deal that cannot be resolved.'

'Just leave it at that?' The system was greatly shocked.

Shen Yao walked to Weilan's side, bowed her head to glance at the letter not yet put away, 'For now, most likely it is so.'

As for whether they'll make up for it later, that depends on how much fight the Hunter Association still has left.

After all, those who died are all vampire hunters; the aggrieved party is the not-very-justified Hunter Association; if they want to retaliate, the Hunter Association has to speak up.

But according to Weilan's guess, the Hunter Association will most likely still choose to admit cowardice, letting this matter pass quietly without a word, and even more impossible to mention it to others.

After all, they don't really occupy the side of reason either; moreover, making a big fuss would easily lose the little family fortune the Hunter Association has scraped together; those councilors of the Hunter Association have been penny-pinching all their lives, fundamentally reluctant to squander like this.

The topic came to a pause; Weilan put away this delivered letter, and turned to open another letter from the Toweier Family.

Mm, compared to that previous not-so-great letter, this one appears very normal.

Why say it like this?

Because the contents of the letter are all some quite ordinary trivial matters; it's just that these trivial matters, placed within the Toweier Family, appear excessively common and ordinary.

Shen Yao had no intention of being a bystander; before, it was merely because she saw Weilan's complexion was bad that she came over to sell a smiling face, to make this person happy.

Now Weilan's emotions had long since returned to normal, so Shen Yao naturally hugged the book she had fetched and returned to the chair to read seriously.

The words inside the book looked familiar yet strange; they composed one unusual passage after another, spreading into people's hearts through knowledge, triggering people to produce thought, and understand the meanings these knowledge represented.

Crash—

For the entire holiday, Shen Yao spent her time reading at Weilan's place, occasionally going out for a stroll, but such opportunities were truly few, because both of them were rather lazy, and going out would always run into all sorts of trouble; better to stay at home, relaxed and at ease.

Another new year, another new semester.

Shen Yao saw her returning maternal cousins again; they had grown quite a bit taller, and their words and actions were no longer as annoying as before.

It might have a thousand-thread connection with the departure of her cheap cousin Lily; the two of them kept an especially low profile at Saint Tiana School, practically transparent people.

"Perhaps the family instructed them something, otherwise how could they be this honest.

When they came before, weren't their words still barbed, every sentence choking people?" If not for Shen Yao's good temper, she really would not be willing to deal with the two of them; who knows, the relationship among the three might have become even more terrible.

"Definitely, they should have discovered something; still remember Phil's matter?"

Even Phil went to learn hunter methods, let alone the Kain family.

The maternal cousin brother and maternal cousin sister were the only two children left of Shen Yao's cheap eldest uncle; it wasn't that the eldest uncle had no other children, only those children's birth mothers had issues, and in the Kain family they fundamentally did not count as normal people.

The Kain family would not directly expel them or make them disappear as slaves, but this did not mean they could inherit the Kain family's property and power.

"Being sensible isn't bad; no need to pay attention to them, we won't go back, and we'll have even less contact with them in the future."

At least in Shen Yao's plans, she always revolved around Weilan; even if she wanted something, it would be through Weilan's hand.

The Kain family's two cheap maternal cousins, she hoped they could continue like this; it saved her trouble, and the two of them could also live freely.

With one sentence, Shen Yao completely excluded these two cheap maternal cousins from her life circle; future contact was visibly nothing more than a nod-and-greet relationship upon meeting.

System: ……

What could the System say about this? After all, it also did not want the Host to have a relationship with these two; the Kain family — inside, the only ones good to the Host were that elderly couple, but they currently still lived on their own turf, with absolutely no place needing the Host.

As for letting the Host take this opportunity to extend favors to other juniors, impossible, because the Host simply wasn't the kind of person who liked transferring favors.

Shen Yao moved back from Weilan's dormitory and continued her daily life of attending classes and leaving classes.

New friends appeared around her coming and going; she never associated deeply with people, yet she also did not feel lonely.

Anyway, some people value quality over quantity; moreover, everyone gathering at Saint Tiana School was only for better education and future prospects; those truly coming to make friends were basically none.

Spring passes, autumn comes; cold comes, heat goes.

Time kept walking forward; Shen Yao's age grew bit by bit.

Until she passed her coming-of-age ceremony, with not even one year left until graduation from Saint Tiana.

"Time really passes fast."

Shen Yao stood at the window side, moved; not far away was an especially bright scenery; she had already moved dormitories several times, and because of studies, the classmates around her also constantly changed coming and going.

Among them there were indeed people with good relations with Shen Yao, but more were still mere acquaintances; daily meeting at most a nod and a greeting, they would not say extra words.

"Host, Weilan has come."

The System recently liked staying by Shen Yao's side to observe, because Weilan planned to return to the Sins Empire to hold a wedding after Shen Yao graduated.

Mm

It was just this rapid, and there wasn't even a bit of intention to delay.

Shen Yao naturally knew Weilan's plan, but marriage to her was not a bad thing; moreover, going to the Sins Empire with Weilan had even less harm; she fundamentally would not refuse.

Even occasionally Shen Yao would chat idly with the System, saying the wedding time could be moved forward a bit; their main mission wasn't completed yet.

"Vampire and human combine, the child born — is it vampire or human? Or a half-breed?" The System was curious.

"There is no half-breed concept; vampire and human combining, the child born is of course a vampire," because vampire gene influence is heavier.

Only this kind of impure vampire, their abilities mostly cannot compare to the older generation, and in vampire society they also suffer a certain degree of discrimination.

Of course, if this kind of vampire's birth status is high enough, then everything has no relation.

Speaking to the bottom, vampire society and human society have no great difference; both are bloodline and ability determining individual status.

"Host, will you become a vampire?" The System was worried.

Vampire lifespan is overly long; Weilan is still a vampire noble, possessing innate thousand-year life and an appearance that will not age.

If the Host is just an ordinary person, in a few decades she would become a handful of yellow earth; then the offspring she leaves behind might also have difficult survival.

"Weilan has this idea, but he is seeking my opinion."

Shen Yao is a Tasker; whether she lives long or not has no great relation to her, after all death to her is not the end; the System is her greatest cheat.

The System was curious when the Host would nod, but the Host used actual action to tell it: after marriage.

System: ……

"Is there any especially profound significance?" Would before-marriage and after-marriage have a difference?

"Purely feel it's troublesome; before marriage doesn't matter, after marriage, facing the Toweier Family's problems, Weilan can righteously block in front of me," and at that time, having become a vampire, she would also have some self-preservation power; then no matter what Weilan does, he wouldn't need to be as careful as now.

The System didn't feel Weilan acted carefully; it felt this person's moves were still decisive and clean; these years, those who dared cause trouble at Saint Tiana have all died until they couldn't be deader — that is the best proof.

Thump thump thump—

The room door behind was knocked; no need to think, it was Weilan coming to find her.

Smilingly turning around and opening the tightly closed room door, Shen Yao placed both hands behind her back, waiting for Weilan to speak.