Blood race, and commandments
Xia Yuzhou felt that he had been of mixed blood for the past 20 years, as if he was not of the same race as others.
He Yu sighed softly: "Of course there are. As a race that is far from human beings, self-restraint is necessary to survive in human society."
Fortunately, in ancient times, after all, the information was underdeveloped, and the news of the blood race has always existed in various anecdotes. It's different in modern society. The blood race must be cautious in words and deeds, otherwise it will make social headlines every minute.
Xia Yuzhou agrees with the point of being cautious in words and deeds, otherwise he would not wear a mask every day: "However, we are not far from human beings, it's just that the recipe is different."
And it's not particularly different, except for the need to drink blood every day, other foods are also eaten the same.
He Yu didn't speak, just looked at him with a smile. Xia Yuzhou raised his hands in surrender, indicating that he shut up, and signaled him to continue.
"About the Oriental species, my family doesn't have many records, so I don't know much about it." He Yu hesitated, and took a sip from the bone china teacup, "You are now frankly confessing your identity to me, because you are planning to give up the seclusion ?"
Xia Yuzhou: "It doesn't count as giving up the hidden world, after all, our family never knew that we were in the hidden world..."
It's not that I hide from the world, but the world hides from me.
In the past twenty years, he has always thought that there are only a few blood races in this world, so naturally he has no idea of contacting other blood races. Now that we know that there are other blood races, it is necessary to get to know them. Vampires also need to socialize, need contacts, and need to buy breakfast milk for their children.
"Na Si..." He Yu was very surprised when he heard this situation, and suddenly swallowed what he wanted to say, "Then what are your plans?"
Xia Yuzhou pretended not to hear the word "si": "Chen Mo's immunity is very low, and the doctor recommends drinking pasteurized blood. Is there any way to buy this blood?"
He Yu: "This one is only for blood alliance members and cannot be resold."
Xia Yuzhou: "Then do you know the recipe?"
He Yu shook his head: "The process is very complicated. It is completely different from milk sterilization. It needs the assistance of factory machinery and some special materials."
In short, individuals cannot be made.
Sure enough, Si Jun didn't lie to him. If he wanted to buy breakfast milk, he had to join the underworld. Xia Yuzhou was a little melancholy: "Then how do we join the blood alliance?"
He Yu didn't answer, but asked him: "Do you know that the blood alliance is based on the clan?"
"Yeah." Si Jun said this, and Xia Yuzhou nodded.
He Yu put away his smile a little, and said seriously: "If you want to join, you must use the name of the clan. I can't make the decision to merge the clan. You need your patriarch to come forward to discuss with the elders of the blood alliance. Where is your clan's territory?"
"Ah? What territory?" Xia Yuzhou didn't understand.
"Ding—" The elevator rang suddenly, and someone came to this floor. The two stopped talking immediately and looked towards the elevator. The little assistant who took the reporter out for a visit went downstairs at some point and picked up a man.
The man was wearing a suit and leather shoes, a white shirt and a black suit, wearing a pair of sunglasses so black that his eyes could not be seen, and holding a black umbrella with a straight handle in his hand. After getting out of the elevator, he nodded slightly, thanked the little assistant who led the way, leaned the umbrella on the pillar of the elevator entrance, and walked straight to the tea table.
Seeing the person coming, He Yu immediately put down his teacup and got up.
"Professor, Mr. Zhan came here suddenly. I just sent you a message, but you didn't reply, so you just brought it up." The assistant trotted over to explain.
Obviously, this is not the first time this kind of thing has happened, and the assistant handled it according to past experience. He Yu had no objection, and nodded to signal the assistant to continue working. The assistant picked up the suit jacket that He Yu had just taken off, and ran away as if he had been granted amnesty. The corridor returned to the state of no one in the surrounding area, and the sunlight shone on the three of them through the sloping glass, casting long shadows.
The man in the sunglasses stood two steps away from the tea table, with his right arm bent, his forearm across his chest and abdomen, and bowed in salute: "Second Master He."
He Yu returned the salute with the same gesture: "Why is the great knight here?"
The man in the sunglasses didn't speak, but turned to look at Xia Yuzhou beside He Yu. After He Yu signaled that it was okay, he took out a letter from his suit pocket. The letter was only the size of a palm, and the outside was a golden hard leather envelope, and the interface was sealed with silver wax paint. There seemed to be another pattern on the wax seal, which Xia Yuzhou couldn't see clearly from a distance.
"The lord invites you to come over tonight." The man in the sunglasses said in a cold tone, which didn't sound like a good thing.
He Yu's complexion changed slightly, he took the letter, glanced at the pattern printed on the sealant: "I see."
This is the first time Xia Yuzhou has seen such an old-fashioned way of inviting people. The life in the West is really ancient and mysterious. Stretching his neck curiously, he tried to read the letter in He Yu's hand clearly, but he didn't know what was written inside. If the son was there, he would definitely ask, "Is it an ancient spell in it, the kind where blood splatters three feet if you don't arrive on time."
The man in the sunglasses bowed again and saluted Xia Yuzhou on the way. Before Xia Yuzhou hurriedly returned the salute, he turned and left. He came and went in a hurry, obviously just sending a letter.
He Yu put the letter into his trouser pocket, and didn't intend to open it. He raised his head and smiled again, asking Xia Yuzhou to sit down: "Let's continue."
Xia Yuzhou couldn't help asking, "Who was that guy just now?"
He Yu: "The great knight of the lord of Yanjing."
"I know the eight characters separately, but I don't understand them together."
"..."
He Yu had no choice but to explain from the beginning.
Each clan has its own exclusive territory, some are an entire area, and some are scattered parts. In the past, when the blood alliance was not established, all blood clans could only stay in their own clan's territory. If they stepped into other clan's territory to hunt, they would be strangled on the spot. After the establishment of the blood alliance, keeping up with the pace of modernization, the clans are friendly to each other, and ordinary blood clans can also go to the territories of other clans, but there are still clear boundaries.
"So, where is your clan's territory? Who is the patriarch?" He Yu looked at him expectantly.
"Uh," Xia Yuzhou stretched out a finger and scratched his chin, "Xia family, my brother and I are the only ones left."
He Yu was obviously stunned. He probably didn't expect that the legendary hermit clan had withered so far: "That is, there is no territory?"
Xia Yuzhou nodded heavily.
He Yu lowered his head and took a sip of tea to calm down: "Then, how did you survive all these years?"
With no territory, the clan died out, and the last Eastern species survived on the blood bought in the vegetable market.
He Yu took another sip of tea after hearing about Xia Yuzhou's usual living conditions: "In this case, you'd better join a clan. Otherwise, if you accidentally violate the territorial law, you will get into big trouble."
Joining a clan, is this probably the "recommender" that Si Jun said
Xia Yuzhou finally understood, asked his senior to be his recommender, and borrowed a few bottles of Pap blood for emergency.
"Do you want to join our clan? It's okay..."
Although these Western species are foreign, they have more red tape than Chinese people. To join the blood alliance, it is estimated that there will be a set of cumbersome procedures, such as writing a letter to the patriarch to stamp, and then dripping blood and reciting spells and the like. These three delays and two delays, I don't know when it will be done, so let's make sure my son has something to eat first.
He Yu got up, went to the laboratory, took out a woven bag with the logo of the institute, and handed it to Xia Yuzhou. Open it and see that there are three glass bottles inside, which are separated by canvas dustproof bags, and there are red blood drop marks on the bags.
"This is for you. Chen Mo has become a blood race. My teacher should also give me a gift. After drinking, don't throw this bottle away, and don't let humans see it."
"I know that." Xia Yuzhou nodded, thanked the senior, and got up to leave.
"Aren't you going to join? Let's register first," He Yu held him down, "I just happen to be going to meet the lord at night, so you come with me."
"How to register?" Xia Yuzhou rolled up his sleeves and got ready for blood collection.
After waiting for a long time, He Yu took out his phone, unlocked it, turned around and pointed to an app to show him: "You download this first."
It was an app with a blood drop logo called "Blood Alliance Online Business Hall".
Xia Yuzhou: "..."
Open the app store and search, and there is such a thing. It's just that the rating is very low, only 1.5 stars, basically all bad reviews.
[Spicy chicken software, it cannot be used after downloading.]
[You can fill in the recommender when you open it, and you can't register even if you enter your phone number, what the hell?]
[I suspect that this is a pornographic software, and I need an internal recommendation number. Reported, unless you send me a referral code.]
After downloading, open the app, and a window will pop up to fill in the referral code. He Yu took it and fiddled with it twice and returned, the interface jumped, and bright red thorny roses instantly covered the screen, which was very beautiful.
At the same time, a gorgeous dialog box with a rose pattern pops up:
[For new user registration, please enter your mobile phone number for verification]
Xia Yuzhou numbly entered his mobile phone number and filled in a bunch of basic information, including name, date of birth, gender, education, and work unit. Let there be a clan column, if you don't know what to fill in, just leave it blank.
The simple registration is successful, the page jumps again, and comes to an interface similar to China Mobile's handheld business hall. The page header is divided into several modules:
[Points Redemption] [Task Receiving] [Noble Zone] [Social Zone] [Ticket Inquiry] [My Wallet]
The top asks to select the belonging area, the GS is located in Yanjing, and the system asks whether to choose Yanjing.
"Choose Yanjing." He Yu guided beside him.
Xia Yuzhou was speechless for a while, and chose Yanjing, and the system suddenly popped up a prompt:
[New user Xia Yuzhou, it has been detected that you are in the Yanjing area, do you need to meet the lord? Select Appointment.]
"Let me make an appointment for you. Each area has its own ownership, and the lord has absolute execution power. If you want to join our clan, you need a temporary license issued by the lord to hunt in Yanjing." He Yu took the phone. , to make an appointment for him.
Xia Yuzhou held back for a while, unable to bear it any longer: "Since it is already so modernized, why don't you send a WeChat message when the lord sees you?"
He Yu: "... a sense of ritual."