The Death Knell

The sea breeze brought a salty smell, and on the beach below, there were many small animals moving frequently, such as crabs and turtles, which needed to return to the sea before the tide went out.

These animals are running for their lives, living a repetitive life every day.

Dracula is probably the same.

"I can probably understand your thinking." Su Ming blew out a puff of smoke: "Caught between myth and reality, living in an eternal body, looking at everything in the world from the perspective of a bystander but unable to change, just like It’s what the East calls an endless hell.”

Dracula stretched out his hand, fidgeting with the tobacco with his pale fingers, and stuffed the cigarette into his mouth: "Eternal torture, sometimes I think, if only I could really drink tomato juice... ..Do you have anything that’s a little hot? I want to try this.”

Su Ming took out a lighter to light a cigarette for him, and he took two strong sips. Although he had no lungs, vampires were indeed good at smoking.

But Dracula quickly shook his head: "There is no taste and no feeling. Things that can excite the brain to you are just smoking toys to me."

Despite saying this, he still had no intention of throwing away the cigarette. He just held it in his mouth, put his hands on the ground, and sat watching the sea.

Su Ming crossed his legs and sat firmly, the sound of the waves echoed in his ears: "You can't be like Varnai, who gives your power to someone and then dies?"

Dracula smiled and shook his head: "That's the crux of the problem. Varnai didn't teach me the secret technique of transferring power. He dumped everything to me and then walked away."

"But you were happy at first, right?" Su Ming looked at his face, and his youth seemed to be frozen hundreds of years ago: "Endless lifespan, ageless appearance, this is what many people dream of."

"But it's not what I asked for, maybe..." Dracula said calmly in the smoke, his eyes seemed to have lost focus: "I was really happy at the beginning, even though I was an ordinary vampire at the time. , I can already do the two things you mentioned, but the ancestor is more powerful and can do more things. However, 800 years have passed, and I have discovered that power and immortality are actually just illusions. I want to regret it, but there is no way out. ..."

"800 years? If I could only eat liquid food for that long, I would have gone crazy."

"I was once a human being, and I have tasted the deliciousness of various foods and experienced various human experiences. Losing what I once had is the most painful."

Dracula smiled bitterly. As a vampire, he couldn't even sigh. His lungs had already degenerated.

It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. Although vampires can distinguish the different tastes of various bloods, isn't it still all blood?

The taste of other foods still lurks deep in Dracula's memory, always popping up to remind him from time to time.

"There will be many masked people looking for you to play with in the future, so you won't be bored anymore." Su Ming flicked the ashes from his cigarette.

"I hope so, haha." Dracula replied in a charming voice, and he changed the topic: "How is Master Gu Yi doing recently? I am about the same age as her, she has probably lived enough, right?"

Su Ming rubbed his beard and looked at the darkness in the distance: "She is gone. Maybe she went on vacation, maybe she died, I don't know."

"Everyone is the same when they leave, suddenly leaving everything behind." Dracula smiled, shaking his head constantly, watching the sparks on the cigarette flicker.

Su Ming wiped the butt of his cigarette out on the rock and patted the stone chips on his hands: "Maybe they were just imitating ordinary people. After all, death is so sudden."

"Yeah..." Dracula stopped talking.

When the darkness came to an end, a golden light suddenly bloomed where the sea and the sky met. The sky turned red instantly, and the burning fireball gradually revealed its face.

Rolling and squirming, the moisture of the sea water made it seem to be trembling as it broke out of its cocoon.

In the vast expanse of the sea, everything seemed quiet, even the sound of the tide gradually faded away, and it seemed that only the light of the sunrise filled the world.

But beauty is always short-lived, as if in the blink of an eye, the bright fireball broke away from the sea and hung in the sky.

it's over.

Dracula rubbed his eyes desperately. Although he could survive in the sun, ultraviolet rays would still make him uncomfortable. Although he rubbed his eyes until they were red, not a single tear came out.

Vampires also don't cry. No matter what kind of sorrow they face, they can only laugh.

Su Ming had no idea about this. He just knew that Wilson Enterprises' sunscreen would need to increase in price in the future, as would sunglasses.

Nowadays, few vampires use this kind of method to fight ultraviolet rays, but in the future there will be more and more, and Dracula will have fewer and fewer opportunities to watch the sunrise alone.

As technology develops, the boundaries between vampires and humans will become increasingly blurred. Even if Su Ming no longer sells sunscreen and sunglasses, there will always be someone else who does.

It is impossible to require real-name registration to buy sunscreen, not to mention that even then there will be a black market that will take over the business, so it is better to slightly increase the price of the products with the best UV protection effect.

"I suggest you control the flow of blood from your tear ducts, which may make you feel better." Su Ming said lightly: "Of course, mix some saliva with it to prevent the blood from coagulating in your eyes."

"Thank you, but no, only pain can make me feel that I am still alive." Dracula stood up and adjusted his collar: "If there are no other questions, please allow me to leave."

"Do you know Dracula Hunter is looking for you?" Su Ming also stood up. The sea breeze blew by, and he took a deep breath of fresh air: "How did the feud between you and Van Helsing begin?"

Dracula glanced at him and threw away the cigarette butt that burned into the filter: "We all fall in love with people we shouldn't love, it's that simple."

"If you fight the Hunter Squad, Rachel Van Helsing will die."

"I won't kill her. Being a vampire would be too boring without Van Helsing, but she will probably die in the hands of her own people. If you want to save her, you'd better kill all her idiot friends."

Dracula bowed in an aristocratic manner, said goodbye with a smile, and then turned into a ball of black smoke and disappeared.

Hela walked over, and the sea breeze lifted her long hair and skirt: "Is this the end?"

"I was once told that pimps are the loneliest people in the world."

“I don’t know what pimp you’re talking about, but everyone tends to think they’re alone.”

"What about you? Have you ever felt lonely?"

"We are talking about humans, and I am God."

"Dracula's mood is very stable. He does not know about the plans of other families. I don't need to provoke an unkillable opponent, and I don't want to be the joy of his life." Su Ming patted the dust on the back of his butt, and his mask again Back to the face: "He is an interesting guy. Originally, I wanted to remind him to be strong in the future."

"What do you mean?" Hela squinted at the sea, the white waves glowing with golden light.

"It's nothing, it's just a cuckold." Su Ming gestured to Satana to open the portal.

"What is the green hat?" Hela looked at the green clothes on her body, then thought about the meaning of green, and found nothing wrong.

"Wilson Enterprise Headquarters, Satana." Su Ming did not explain the meaning of cuckold.

.....................

When Su Ming came out of the portal, he found Ginjiu pointing a gun at him.

"Relax, it's me."

After taking off his armor, he straightened his clothes, walked to the desk and picked up the bottle of wine.

"The color of this portal is not right." Gin put down the gun and looked at the people walking out behind Su Ming: "What did I see? Isn't this the goddess of the underworld?"

"Misty." Hela greeted Gin coldly: "You seem to be well adapted to life in Midgard."

"This has nothing to do with you, and it has nothing to do with Asgard." Gin replied with a smile.

Su Ming waved his hand. There was no deep hatred between the two of them. It was just that Hela had imprisoned Gin's sisters for hundreds of years?

"Go bring me some food. These friends and I have something to talk about." While assigning tasks to Gin and blowing a few sips of wine from the bottle, Su Ming wiped his mouth and picked up the phone: "Hamil, come here."

The golden portal opened, and the well-dressed Archmage walked out.

Karma Taj is used to meditating instead of sleeping, so he is also someone who can be on call 24 hours a day.

Satana immediately occupied the sofa. She threw herself upright on it, took off her coat, and wore only a lace bra underneath.

"Oops, the deal is over, but we're still good friends, right?"

Su Ming walked to the sofa opposite and glanced over her body: "Stop pretending to be an ignorant girl. Some people may have a misunderstanding of your external behavior and think you are cute and innocent, but among these people not including me."

"Well, people don't understand what you are saying." Satana showed a very puzzled expression: "Although I kill people, do drugs and run a brothel, I am a good woman."

"hehe."

Su Ming motioned to Hela and Parham to come over and take a rest in the dark room. He picked up the report that Gin had just left on his desk.

Gin appeared in his office at this time in the middle of the night. It should be that there was news from the vegetarian pie she was responsible for investigating.

Sure enough.

Most of the content and the intelligence obtained by Su Ming can be mutually verified, and several vegetarian families have not attacked mutants or aliens.

Combining the intelligence from both sides, it can be seen that although the vampires killed many people, they obviously did not attack those with super powers. Not even Giovanni, who had the highest possibility, and even less likely the other unprepared vampires.

After that, Su Ming also doubted whether it was done by some stupid young man on the street.

After all, people who have just been transformed into vampires are not only extremely hungry, but also unconscious.

However, Vegetarian Pie's report refuted this speculation, and Gin also brought news from the Daily Bugle. They were certain that in the past few years, there had been no corpses suspected of being killed by vampires in New York.

Someone threw the blame on the vampires and provoked a war between them and the aliens, even at the expense of implicating all humans. Why?

Is it the Dracula Hunter Squad?

Not quite, they don't have that level of vision and power, Jin and Quincy are not that smart, nor are they that stupid.

If it was really what they did and arranged a world war between the Inhumans and the Vampires, then there was absolutely no need for them to throw the body to Dr. Richards after that in an attempt to involve the SSR and the US military, because it was completely unnecessary. .

After provoking a battle between Ultraman and monsters, will you continue to work and try to get the little white rabbit to join the battlefield?

So after eating for a while, Su Ming had to go to Attilan again to observe the problem from the perspectives of aliens and vampires.

The Dracula hunters took out the photos and judged from the teeth marks on his neck that he died from a vampire attack, but King also said that at the time.

The blood in the corpse was not finished.

This should be an important clue. It may just be someone else imitating vampires and using preconceived notions to mislead the hunters.

As long as the person is killed and a rubber tube and a water pump are connected to the specially made metal dentures, the blood can be easily extracted from the human body.

But without the anti-coagulation factor in vampire saliva, it would be unrealistic to drain the blood from the two holes, so it would be difficult to drink as cleanly as a vampire.