Chapter 1413: Evil Deeds

Chapter 1413: Chapter 1413: Evil Deeds

"Is it all over?" Xia Yu asked, smelling the thick scent of blood in the air. After personally taking care of a few Vlad family members who had fled frantically, she looked at Ye Ruozai who was walking out of the town and inquired.

Ye Ruozai shook his head and looked back toward the town, "I don’t know! You should ask Pei Yan." Saying this, the two of them looked toward the town, and before long, they saw Pei Yan and Gu Shenghui walking out with grave expressions on their faces.

"Is there a problem? Did someone escape despite your encirclement?" Seeing their expressions, Ye Ruozai asked in confusion. With their strength, it shouldn’t have happened! Even if someone did escape, they could just hunt them down later, why show such a resentful expression? ℴ

Pei Yan, whose mask was off, held his forehead with his hand, looking as if he didn’t want to speak. Gu Shenghui sighed and said in a troubled tone, "No one escaped, but there are many people in the town with the Vlad family bloodline aura, yet they clearly aren’t from this family."

"What does that mean?" Ye Ruozai exchanged a glance with Xia Yu, utterly confused by the contradictory statements.

"You’ll understand when you see it yourself." Pei Yan said as he took out a cigarette and placed it in his mouth, trying to calm down. Seeing this, Ye Ruozai handed the child on his shoulder to Xia Yu. As he was about to follow them inside, Gu Shenghui reached out to stop him and advised, "You better not go!"

Being stopped made Xia Yu even more puzzled by their behavior. At this moment, seeing that everyone had walked outside the town’s range and there was no longer any possibility of an ambush, Zheng Jia Ru and Du Guangyuan, who had been hiding on the outskirts, also gathered around. Zheng Jia Ru looked at the child in Xia Yu’s arms and asked, "Is this the child?"

Pei Yan nodded, answering on Xia Yu’s behalf, then looked at Du Guangyuan, whose eyes lit up and whose body trembled slightly, saying, "This is your son. You seem very excited. Maybe wait until you’ve completely calmed down before reuniting with him. When we return, I also need to remove all the Blood Race spells planted in his body, which might take at least two or three years for him to recover fully."

"Alright! Alright!" Du Guangyuan, who had lived through many ups and downs, couldn’t hold back the tears in his eyes when seeing his long-sought biological child appear before him, unsure how to express his emotions.

At this moment, Ye Ruozai also walked out with a gloomy face after checking the situation in the town, and he asked Pei Yan, "Are you sure these people are also from the Vlad family?"

"If I were sure, they would be dead!" Pei Yan exhaled the smoke and flicked the ash, saying awkwardly, "They carry the Vlad family bloodline aura. If it weren’t for their body condition and living environment being so inconsistent with the target, I almost killed them."

"What exactly is going on?" Xia Yu couldn’t suppress her curiosity any longer and pressed for answers.

Ye Ruozai pondered for a moment before responding, "Besides the people of the Vlad family, there are many civilians in this town, a large part of whom carry the Vlad family bloodline aura."

"Uh~!" Upon hearing this, Xia Yu didn’t know how to respond. Normally, the bloodline offshoots of non-cultivators shouldn’t be listed as targets for extermination, yet the Blood Race is special. Even if they’re ordinary now, over time, they might awaken and understand the hidden legacy within their bloodline, becoming high-level blood races. Considering the consistent practices of the Vlad family, the investigation unit had already decided to completely cleanse the Vlad family.

With this thought, Xia Yu hesitated, "Are you hesitating about whether to kill them?"

"That’s not it! The target is set, and for the future safety of our family, I won’t go soft-hearted! I’ve killed enough people, I don’t mind adding a few more lives from another world." When Pei Yan said this, he was very straightforward, but as he got to the end, he seemed troubled, "It’s just that these people’s conditions make it hard for me to associate them with the Vlad family. They, they look like...."

At this point, Pei Yan was at a loss for words, so Ye Ruozai picked up where he left off, "They look like lambs to be slaughtered, lifeless and soulless."

"Exactly!" Pei Yan nodded in agreement with Ye Ruozai’s description and helplessly said, "Their living conditions are terrible, and their physical conditions are even worse. Their homes are barely better than pigsties. Some have slightly better situations, but they are no better off mentally, like walking corpses. When they saw us attacking the Vlad family members, they didn’t react with excitement or fear, just watched us numbly. They didn’t avoid my killing intent and even seemed a bit expectant, as if being killed by me was a form of relief." Saying this, Pei Yan exhaled long, tossed his cigarette onto the ground, stomped it out, and swore, "I thought I was twisted enough, but asking me to kill people like this is still hard. What kind of madness is this? Is the Vlad family insane too? Being so harsh with their own people?"

"They might not necessarily be from the Vlad family!" From the moment he arrived, Du Guangyuan, who had been staring at the child in Xia Yu’s arms, finally looked away after hearing Pei Yan’s description and asked, "Can I go and see their condition?"

"Go ahead!" Pei Yan waved his arm, wanting to figure out what was going on.

After a moment, Du Guangyuan came back after glancing around the town. Faced with a few people’s inquisitive gazes, he replied, "As I thought, they’re the lowest level of Blood Servants. These people were not originally from the Vlad family but were marked with the Vlad family’s imprint for consumption. You can rest assured that the lowest level of imprints will never awaken into the Blood Race, as they figure why let their food turn into their kind."

"Consumption?" Xia Yu pondered and said, "Do the Blood Race need to drink blood like in the legends to survive?"

Du Guangyuan shook his head and chuckled, "No, only the lowest level Blood Race needs to drink fresh blood regularly to keep their bloodline active to perform Blood Race spells. At higher levels, it’s unnecessary. They see it more as a necessity of life, like how a drinker is addicted to alcohol. Blood is always tempting to the Blood Race. It invigorates them immediately after drinking. The stronger their vitality, the more satisfying their blood is. That’s why these Blood Race families enclose some ordinary people as sources for their blood. They grant their family’s traits to enhance the people’s physical condition to prevent them from dying too soon, as ordinary people can’t withstand such frequent blood draws."

Du Guangyuan, showing anger, touched his son and said discontentedly, "They also implanted such a mark in my son’s body!"