Secret: The undead do not die in the fire

Chapter 219: Knowing Yourself Is the Most Important Thing

late at night.

The clouds in the sky are light and thin. The crimson moon hanging high in the sky and the myriad of bright stars complement each other, covering the earth with a layer of crimson gauze.

Lilith sat silently beside the campfire, adding the dry grass she had picked up into the fire.

On the campfire was a simple barbecue grill made of fresh bones. Lilith was adding firewood and turning the bones to ensure that the wild boar thighs on the grill were evenly heated.

Smelling the aroma of barbecue, Lilith licked her lips, opened her rosy little mouth, took a big bite, and chewed slowly.

Completely different from the smell of meat, wild boar meat is very tough and dry, and even has an unpleasant fishy smell.

But for the girl who hadn't eaten for a long time, this was a rare delicacy.

Yu Jin looked at the girl who narrowed her eyes slightly and asked:

"Have you ever heard of elves?"

Lilith chewed it in small bites and tried her best to explain:

"Sister Dorothy said that at the end of the continent in the east is the sea, and at the end of the sea is another continent. It is said that continent is the home of all giants. But giants are not the only rulers of that continent. Elves born in the east compete with giants."

Yu Jin hesitated for two seconds, then asked:

"Have you ever seen any extraordinary race other than dragons? For example, giants, phoenixes, or elves?"

Lilith recalled and whispered:
"I have only seen giants. They have human appearance, but are much larger than humans. Their skin is blue, and they have a huge vertical eye... Sister Dorothy once tried to communicate with them, but they are as brutal and irrational as dragons, and they have killed many of our tribesmen..."

"As for the Phoenix, it is said that they are in the distant southern continent, but I have never seen them..."

Yu Jin's answer to Lilith was not surprising. The oldest giants were contaminated by extraordinary characteristics from different channels, and their essence was closer to monsters than intelligent creatures. They were cruel, violent, and crazy. But even such giants had the instinct to mate and would give birth to offspring.

Occasionally, some "aliens" with intelligence would be born among the offspring, and these "aliens" would reproduce, making the number of "aliens" become larger and larger, and making the entire giant clan increasingly move away from the category of monsters.

Of course, just like giants, so are dragons.

Chaos and madness are the main themes of this era.

Compared with these crazy supernatural creatures, the vampires are actually an outlier.

Because according to Lilith, vampires rarely lose their minds. Even if they do occasionally, it is because some vampires do not listen to advice and use the "blood essence" of other species without authorization.

"Hehehe, what did I find quietly? A poor little thing that has strayed from the group."

As she was speaking, a teasing voice suddenly came to Lilith's ear.

The girl suddenly woke up and looked to the right vigilantly.

In the darkness on the right, three figures slowly appeared under the crimson moonlight.

They are all males, and without exception they all have blood-red pupils, which is the iconic feature of the vampires!
"Outliers!"

Lilith's heart suddenly became nervous, and her face turned slightly pale.

Just like she said just now, taking the 'blood essence' of other extraordinary races without authorization will cause the vampires to lose control and go crazy, but the 'blood essence' belonging to the same vampires will not!

This discovery inevitably caused a period of internal strife within the blood clan. Those blood clans who pursued power kept killing their own people, collecting and devouring their extraordinary characteristics. But fortunately, this chaotic phenomenon was quickly stopped by the blood clan's top leaders.

After all, the top leaders knew very well that if things continued like this, the vampires who had managed to survive the threats of dragons and other supernatural creatures would be destroyed by fighting among themselves. Of course, those vampires who were thirsty for power would not surrender, which led to a fierce war between the two sides!

Eventually, the power-hungry vampires were wiped out by the vampires who opposed cannibalism, and cannibalism was listed as an absolute prohibition.

But there will always be vampires who take risks, and there will always be vampires who will do anything to gain power. These vampires know that if their deeds are exposed, they will die, so they often quietly leave the tribe before their deeds are exposed, becoming "strays".

For most vampires, these stragglers are often more dangerous than dragons!

The three stray vampires stared at Lilith and kept approaching the fire, laughing lewdly:
"Little sister, did you accidentally get separated from the other tribesmen? Why are you alone? What's your name?"

"How pitiful! You don't even have blood to drink? Come, let your brother hug you."

"Brother, brother, I really like this, let me go first!"

"Hahahaha, Sis, why are you in such a hurry? Fine, then I'll let you come first. I'll give you the first sip of blood to drink, but the first child born must be mine!"

"Okay, thank you, brother!"

The three vampires discussed as if they were sure of victory, what to do with the girl in front of them.

As for Yu Jin, none of them had ever looked at him twice. After all, Yu Jin did not have the red eyes that were the hallmark of the vampires, and they only regarded Yu Jin as Lilith's blood food. The vampires mainly ate blood that was rich in spirituality, and human blood was the best, so every vampire would raise some blood food in case of emergency.

Although they found it a bit strange that Lilith didn't drink blood but ate meat instead, they would only think that Lilith was too soft-hearted and couldn't bear to kill a human being, and would not associate it with other aspects.

After all, humans are just blood eaters, so who would think that a blood eater could pose any threat?

"What...what should I do?" Lilith tried to move closer to Yu Jin, her lips trembling slightly.

"Cold salad."

Yu Jin glanced at the three vampires who were approaching and said calmly, "It's the same as before. I believe you can handle it."

"Even if you say so..."

Lilith's spirit was still tense, and she was obviously quite unconfident about this.

This is not surprising.

Not long ago, she was just an adult vampire, and had always lived under the protection of her sister Dorothy. Anyway, the current situation was a bit too much for her, after all, there were three people on the other side!
Yu Jin looked at Lilith's lack of confidence. Although he could understand it, he couldn't help but shook his head.

According to the classification of vampires in later generations, adult vampires correspond to Sequence 7 Beyonders. Lilith and the three vampires in front of him are all at this level. Above Sequence 7, there are vampires from Sequence 6 to Sequence 2, which are divided into five levels of nobility: Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, and Baron.

Lilith has now consumed the Beyonder properties purified by the embers and is a genuine Baron, a Sequence 6 Beyonder. Facing three Sequence 7 vampires, she can crush them directly.

But in the Second Age, when the divisions were not yet clear, the classification of the blood clan was quite vague. There were only titles such as patriarchs of different families and leaders of different regions. Because of this, they did not have a clear understanding of their own strength, or to put it bluntly, they had no self-awareness.

So, even though she was a Baron, Lilith was still afraid of the three outliers, and the three Sequence 7 outliers treated Lilith as their prey... This behavior was really courageous.

"I……"

Lilith looked at the embers still sitting motionless beside the campfire, realizing that she might have to rely on herself this time, and she couldn't help but pursed her lips slightly.

"call!"

The girl took a deep breath, stood up and walked towards the three stragglers.

This seemed a bit 'abnormal' to the outliers, and it made the three of them stunned for a moment.

But one of them reacted quickly and said with a lewd smile:

"Little sister, you are really proactive... cooing..."

The claws of corrosion scratched his throat, causing hot blood to rush into his trachea and drown out his voice.

This kind of injury is undoubtedly fatal to ordinary people, but to vampires, this injury is nothing at all. The tenacious vitality of these extraordinary creatures is enough to allow them to ignore most fatal injuries.

Lilith also understood this, so she didn't intend to give them time to recover.

click!
The two claws crossed and pierced into the rogue's neck, which was bleeding, and tore it violently to both sides.

Stab it!

The flesh on the neck was pulled out by the roots, and even the bones were completely severed by the claws of corrosion. The head with a shattered trachea fell down and rolled on the ground twice with an obvious look of astonishment, allowing the blood and gravel to be fully "mixed".

The remaining two stragglers finally reacted at this moment and were filled with shock and anger:
"What did you do, bitch?!"

A cold light flashed in Lilith's wine-red eyes, and her petite figure flashed by under the crimson moonlight. When she appeared again, she had already stabbed her corrosive claws, which were dozens of centimeters long and like Wolverine's steel claws, into the opponent's heart.

stab.

The claws of corrosion pierced through the vampire's heart from bottom to top, while also cutting the opponent's neck, completely tearing the stray's body into pieces!

The outliers were not defenseless. As hunters, they understood the principle of "a trapped beast will still fight". Their frivolous words did not mean that they were careless in their hearts. But even if they were on guard, it would be useless because Lilith was too fast, so fast that they could not even react!
Lilith withdrew her hand and glanced warily at the dismembered stray.

Heart trauma is fatal even to vampires. But as an outlier, the other party might have some unexpected means, so she must be on guard.

After making sure that the other party's body was completely lifeless and there was no sign of resurrection, Lilith turned her attention to the last straggler.

The blood of the outcast soaked her dress, and even half of her fair face was stained with blood. This made her look a little desolate, like a lonely homeless person, weak, pitiful and helpless...

"Damn it! Is this a joke?"

The pupils of the only remaining stray suddenly shrank, and he took a few steps back in fear. What kind of monster is this? !
They clearly just wanted to have a quick bite, why did it turn out like this?

Lilith was surprisingly calm at this moment. The death of two outliers made her realize a reality - what? Am I not strong enough? Maybe she should have a little more confidence in herself. This is not a bad thing.

Because she knew she would become stronger and stronger, if Ember hadn't lied to her...

Thinking of this, the girl turned her gaze back to the stragglers across from her.

This is the last one.

The outlier looked at the girl's cold eyes and suddenly realized his situation, and his pupils shrank sharply.

He suddenly lunged to the side, and a thick black gas spread out from behind him, forming a pair of illusory bat wings.

He didn't want to escape, because he knew very well that he could not be faster than Lilith, otherwise he would not even know how she killed his two companions!

His target is the human being who is still sitting in front of the campfire, knowing nothing!

Because he could see that Lilith took the human blood food very seriously, and even asked for the other party's advice before taking action -

The strong pay too much attention to the weak, this may be the so-called "love" in fairy tales.

In the past, he might have sneered at this naive girl's love.

But now this has become his only chance of survival!
As long as we can kidnap that human, we can force Lilith to let him go!

Sure enough, when Lilith saw that his target was Ember, her originally calm face changed color slightly.

Lilith straightened her knees and kicked her feet, rushing forward at high speed, almost leaving an afterimage. In the process, black mist quickly spread out from behind her, condensing into a bunch of bat wings to help her speed up!
"Don't come here!"

The Stray's expression suddenly changed, and he stretched out his claws towards the embers, trying to threaten Lilith with them, and warned her sternly.

There was still a long distance between Lilith and him, but he was already very close to the ember. He was confident that he could hold this human blood food hostage before Lilith made a move, so that the other party would be afraid to act rashly!
Lilith's eyes turned cold, and the illusory wings behind her instantly turned into diffuse black mist again, and then transformed into palm-sized illusory bats, which gathered in groups to form an airtight net to block those who strayed from the group.

prick!
The sharp claws easily pierced through the large web formed by the bats, but eventually got stuck in it and could not move.

This discovery made the outlier's expression change drastically, and he subconsciously wanted to withdraw.

But taking advantage of this opportunity, Lilith had already come to him.

Stab it!

In front of the corrosive claws that were powerful enough to pierce dragon scales, the vampire's body seemed extremely fragile and was torn into pieces in an instant.

The big net formed by the black bats also fell apart at this moment, and the bats flew back to the girl and disappeared.

The blood-soaked girl carefully glanced at the embers beside the bonfire, as if she was afraid of being blamed, but also seemed to be expecting something...

Seeing that Yu Jin did not say anything, Lilith's eyes dimmed, and she silently walked to the body of the Stray and picked up a fist-sized object from the pool of blood. It was bright red, like a heart, slightly expanding and contracting, and the surface was translucent, with liquid faintly flowing inside.

This is the essence of the blood of the vampire race. If it were in the future, it would have a more professional name -

The extraordinary characteristics of Sequence 7 'Vampire'.

(End of this chapter)