The Record of Unusual Creatures

Chapter 24: Useless blood magic

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Vivian was a little unbelieving, so she squeezed out another drop of blood and smeared it on Hao Ren's hand. Then the two of them stared at the situation together, and even Lily who was next to him came over curiously. The drop of blood with a golden-red halo visibly vibrated on Hao Ren's skin and spread for a short while, about a few seconds, then shrank and disappeared in the three people in front of you.

"It seems to have absorbed it," Hao Ren scratched the back of his hand curiously. To be honest, seeing the drop of blood wriggling on his skin like a living thing was really scary. If he didn't know that Vivienne didn't mean anything to him I almost threw it away subconsciously. I didn't pay attention to it for the first time, but now I see it is really scary. "I don't feel it, it's just a little itchy at first, and it's a little cold."

"The body temperature of the blood race is a little lower than that of you humans, which is normal," Vivienne looked at her fingers hesitantly. The small wound she bit on had healed to the point where it was almost invisible, and then she gritted her teeth, as if she had made up her mind Usually squeeze out the last drop of blood, "This... one last try, it won't work anymore, my heart aches."

Lily immediately found an opportunity to ridicule: "Look at your stingy face, it's just a drop of blood." "What's wrong with a drop of blood! A drop of blood is also blood!" How about living by sucking blood? I’m so unlucky that almost every time I catch a prey, I’m caught by a demon hunter. I can’t afford to raise a few blood servants by myself. When I was the poorest, even my aunt was not willing to die. You This is not knowing the price of oil and salt without weathering the wind and rain, and you will know when you come from hard times... "

Hao Ren couldn't listen anymore, and quickly stood up to smooth things over before the topic got out of control: "Okay, okay, don't bring up the past again, Vivian, please pay attention, we are all age-oriented—and don't put your own The miserable life is so detailed, I can't listen to it... "

Lily suddenly became happy: "Then, the landlord, will you waive my one month's rent?"

"... It's none of your business if I talk to Vivian!"

After the three of them quarreled, Vivienne finally remembered the business. She tried it again, and this time whispered a few ancient spells in a very strange tone while smearing the blood. Hao Ren felt that the surroundings were once again There was that cold and bloody atmosphere, but the blood that came into contact with his skin was still the same as before. It squirmed a few times and then quickly lost its firepower, disappearing without a trace in the blink of an eye. "The connection with the blood is also broken," Vivienne frowned, "This has never happened before, there is a fixed connection between the blood race and your own blood, unless you take the initiative to 'abandon' part of your blood Otherwise the connection would not have been interrupted."

"Then what should we do now?" Hao Ren scratched his face, "I was still counting on your blood to ward off evil spirits."

"Would you like to try Lily's blood?" Vivian turned her face to look at the werewolf girl, "Her blood should also be able to ward off evil spirits."

"Eh? Werewolves can do it too?" Lily was even more surprised, "So I'm so good!?"

Vivienne chuckled: "No, I heard an old man in China say that the blood of a black dog can ward off evil spirits..."

Then the two supergirls started fighting again in the living room. Hao Ren was powerless and in no mood to stop him. He could only sit on the sofa in a daze and watch a vampire and a werewolf jump up and down in front of him. When he couldn't help it, he shouted One sentence: "Hey, pay attention, if you break something, you have to pay for it—Lily, think about it, and you still owe me a coffee table, Vivian, think about your wallet..."

This sentence had a remarkable effect, and the two supergirls calmed down in an instant, and began to use guessing to decide the outcome...

Hao Ren looked down at his ordinary hands, wondering why they could absorb the blood of vampires. He had learned from various movies and novels that the blood of vampires is very powerful for ordinary people. It can dissipate bone and flesh when it touches the body, but let alone special effects on his side, it is not even as good as ordinary blood-it was absorbed directly? Although Hao Ren is now sure that the descriptions of vampires in movies and novels are mostly unreliable, but the fact that "strigoi blood has special power" is definitely true. Among other things, human blood will not tremble or crawl come and go...

"It seems that using the blood mark won't work anymore." Vivienne and Lily quarreled for a few minutes and finally got down to business. She looked Hao Ren up and down, but still didn't give up. "You have to trust me, I'll try with the blood spell. I am a high-level blood race, and I can cast spells without the medium of blood—there is no possibility of being absorbed without the medium, right?"

Hao Ren chuckled: "There's nothing you can't believe, just try."

"Ordinary people really can't trust us," Vivian spread her hands, "You are actually a minority who are so talkative. Unless normal people are short-hearted, how could they be so happy to accept spellcasting? The face of people in Europe more than 300 years ago They still can't resist my blood magic, and I don't know why they are so stupid."

Hao Ren murmured in his heart: Could it be that this vampire girl has been with humans for so long that she has forgotten how normal vampires use magic to deal with humans

Vivian asked Hao Ren to sit still, and then used his fingers to draw weird and distorted characters in the air. Hao Ren stared at all this, knowing that this was the first time in his life that he really saw What is the so-called "magic"? Needless to say, I was curious and excited, and it was really eye-opening to see that someone could draw blood-colored shimmering trails out of thin air with their fingers, but after a while he I found it quite boring: Vivienne just kept drawing lines of text in the air, and waved away what she wrote before writing. To put it bluntly, this process is just a kind of high-end endorsement, except for drawing bloody text. Except for the special effects during the process... He didn't feel any special power or more spectacular phenomena at all.

But Vivian frowned slightly, she wrote faster and faster, and erased what she wrote before more frequently, almost writing and erasing a line, Hao Renxin said that this must be the critical stage of casting spells, At first he didn't dare to make a sound, but after waiting for a long time, he didn't find anything new, so he couldn't help asking in a low voice: "Then what... isn't it alright?"

"Wait a minute, maybe I made a mistake, I'm correcting it..."

Hao Ren: "..."

Dare to feel that this guy made a typo by erasing it just now! Doesn't this vampire girl have a reliable place

"It's not quite right," Vivian didn't notice the subtle expression on Hao Ren's face. She finally stopped after modifying the rune several times in a row, and shook her head in confusion while saying, "It stands to reason that there can be no mistake. , I have changed three effective sentence patterns, but there is no reaction at all... Do you feel particularly sleepy, landlord? Feel particularly calm? Or relax or something like that?"

"No." Hao Ren stretched his arms, "I feel quite calm, but it should have nothing to do with your words."

"That big dog over there," Vivian turned to look at Lily, "don't move there."

After the words fell, Vivienne waved her hand and blew the bloody text into a trembling mist. The mist floated in front of Lily, who plopped down on the table, and then there was an even grunting sound.

"... the effect is too strong, how low is this guy's resistance?" Vivienne frowned, then looked at Hao Ren, "I don't know what's going on, my blood magic doesn't seem to be useful to you. .”

When Hao Ren heard this, he suddenly became energetic, and looked at his hands in disbelief: "Could it be that I'm actually a very powerful person?! Hidden settings are born to avoid magic or something?"

Vivian told the truth: "It may also be that the nerves are too slow, for example, fools are immune to all mental confusion magic..."

Hao Ren: "Ahem, be careful, you owe me money."

Vivian stuck out her tongue awkwardly: "Okay, I'm not kidding, but it's probably impossible to be born with magic immunity or something. I'm very sensitive to creatures. You should be an ordinary person, and you are not immune to my creation. Is it air-conditioned—you can ask that Raven 12345 for the specific reason. I always feel that it is not that simple for you to sign an agreement with the so-called God. Maybe something will change after you come back from her. As for now... you still use My talisman."

The final development is still the same as it was said at the beginning: all spiritual blood and magic are nonsense, Hao Ren got a magic weapon to ward off evil spirits from vampires: it is said to be a gossip plate obtained from Mount Wutai, which wards off evil spirits and clears the heart...

When Vivienne handed the gossip tray to Hao Ren, she was very careful, for fear that her treasures would be damaged. It can be seen that this strange vampire girl cherishes her pile of magic treasures, which makes Hao Ren especially move.

But does that stuff really work