Chapter 244: 240 Vampire

The conduit monster that Matsumoto Gin had transformed into let out a roar that no longer belonged to the human auditory range, and performed a distorted attack with movements incomprehensible to humans; a portion of the conduits on his body split off and coiled toward the Child-Snatching Bird crying out in the sky.

In response, the Child-Snatching Bird merely let out a roar, and those conduits rushing toward it turned into rotten wood one after another, shattering into charcoal-like substances that were all dispersed by the wind formed by its flapping wings.

The terrifying demonic wind was filled with a peculiar power; wherever it passed, all objects seemed to be forcibly shaved into tiny particles, drifting away with the wind.

"Does the Child-Snatching Bird have such abilities too?" He Jia'an's heart pounded; this Child-Snatching Bird was completely different from any he had seen before, at least in terms of ability, it was the most bizarre and powerful one he had ever encountered.

Just as the Child-Snatching Bird and Matsumoto Gin were fighting, He Jia'an caught a glimpse of a humanoid figure disappearing around a street corner; he immediately shouted "Stop!" and quickly gave chase.

"Matsumoto Gin couldn't have been attacked by the power of the Blessing for no reason; it must be the work of those guys hiding in the shadows who are spreading the Curse with the help of the Blessing's power." He Jia'an rounded the street, gave chase with all his might, ran a hundred meters to another straight street, and finally saw the mysterious person who had just stepped out from the corner.

He Jia'an pulled a fruit knife from his bosom—though it might be useless, it could at least bolster his courage—and coldly questioned: "Who are you?"

The other party did not answer him, but simply looked at him with that stiff, smiling face, slowly opening its eyes to reveal a pair of dark green eyes colder than an iceberg and murkier than a swamp...

No, in He Jia'an's view, those were not ordinary eyes, but more like a cluster of translucent biological eggs, like dragonfly eggs aggregated into a sphere; inside one eye, it seemed as if thousands of tiny eyes were hidden, staring crazily.

This thing is not human!

He Jia'an thought this clearly; he was all too familiar with that gaze, which seemed to come from a higher dimension than humanity. That was the kind of look usually revealed by an Abnormal race possessing a civilization far beyond that of humans; there was no emotion in those eyes, only incomparable rationality and indifference.

Just by being stared at for a moment, He Jia'an felt the hallucination of being watched by countless eyes return; the hair all over his body trembled, and his brain uncontrollably imagined a single eye like the mysterious person's sprouting from every pore, imagining those eyes filling his entire body until he became a hideous monster.

"The power of the Blessing, is that what you are collecting?" He Jia'an bit the bullet and continued to shout.

The mysterious person did not speak, but gently raised that arm which had almost no body hair, flicked its wrist, and extended an index finger to point vaguely at He Jia'an.

The next moment, He Jia'an felt an unknown sound pouring into his mind, but miraculously, he could understand this strange language; he soon realized that the mysterious person was communicating with him through a method difficult for humans to understand, something like telepathy or brainwaves.

The other party answered his question, admitting that it and the race behind it were responsible.

"What do you want to do?" He Jia'an said in a deep voice.

And soon, He Jia'an received the other party's reply; he repeated in shock and confusion what the other party had just said in his mind: "To invade and occupy this planet, an adaptive environment is needed, and only she can provide this environment."

As soon as the words fell, He Jia'an felt as if his head had been struck hard, and a large number of strange memory images flooded into his mind, as if some realistic movie were playing on a loop before his eyes.

Those images described a planet with a harsh living environment, but on that planet lived a large number of races that Earthlings could not understand; if one were to barely translate it into human language, it would be called the Vampire.

Only, this Vampire was completely different from the blood-sucking biological races in human literature; the Vampire did not need to suck blood to survive, but their own form of existence was similar to blood, and within their blood-like fluid bodies, structures similar to Earth biological eggs were constantly fissioning, but those things were not eyes, but their unformed embryos.

Yes, the Vampire was an Abnormal race that could reproduce by itself and had an extremely high number of offspring at one time; they had created a unique flesh-and-blood civilization on their planet. From the perspective of human technological civilization, their civilization was twisted yet primitive, but also an existence that was impossible for people to understand.

On their planet, natural disasters comparable to super-large-yield nuclear bombs were constantly erupting all over the world, yet they stubbornly survived disaster after disaster by relying on their peculiar "flesh-and-blood bodies" and developed a brilliant civilization.

But even the tenacious Vampire could not achieve the ability to survive and travel in the universe, and their peculiar flesh-and-blood civilization made it very difficult for them to develop to that point; logically speaking, their path of civilization would be an incomparably long development process to complete interstellar travel.

But there is a turning point for everything, until one day, an unidentified flying object from beyond the heavens crashed onto their planet. In that eerie flying object, they discovered various strange-shaped creatures that definitely had certain regular physical forms, as well as the dark, wretched creatures that led those weird beings, whose appearance looked to human eyes like a group of rats that could stand.

Later, the Vampire learned that those rat-men were a race from beyond the heavens called the Huogu; they had formed an interstellar fleet with the biological weapons they manufactured and intended to invade a planet, but encountered their mortal enemy race on their way through space. The two engaged in an unimaginably fierce battle in space, and this spaceship that intruded into the Vampire's planetary domain was merely one rescue ship among a massive fleet. In short, the Huogu fought with its mortal enemies, and this rescue ship carrying a large number of biological weapons and "Huogu refugees" accidentally fell into the Vampire's territory after being attacked and suffering an accident.

All of this was thanks to a certain Vampire who was later revered by the Vampires as the "Great Pioneer"; it was the first individual among the Vampires brave enough to try to eat and digest biological weapons and Huogu as food. The Vampire's strange physiological structure allowed them to read the genetic information and brain information of those "foods" while digesting them.

The Huogu, that race of rats, could never have dreamed that the brilliant biological technological civilization they had developed over countless years would be so easily digested, cracked, absorbed, and finally completely devoured by a group of strange life forms, as if they had done the work for someone else's benefit.

While obtaining the genetic information and civilization information of the Huogu, the Vampires also found the mysterious belief of the "Moon of a Thousand Illusions" in that spaceship.