I get stronger by sunbathing, just like Superman.

On the main roads on the city's outskirts, there were numerous cars and pedestrians fleeing the city...

suddenly

A dark shadow fell from the sky and crashed into the intersection! It made a deafening noise and caused the road surface to collapse instantly, creating a deep pit tens of meters in diameter!

The sudden accident immediately caused a traffic jam! Vehicles that couldn't avoid it collided one after another! People screamed and scattered in all directions! Chaos reigned!

"Roar!!!"

A roar, inhuman and furious, echoed from the deep pit! Then, a monster, its entire body a deep crimson, leaped out…

Just rose to mid-air!

Whoosh... Boom!

Another, even larger figure fell...slamming him back into the pit.

But soon they jumped out of the pit and landed on the road, scanning the sky with their huge yellow eyes!

Among the fleeing crowd, some of the braver ones glanced back and were instantly terrified! They sped up again in an instant!

Suddenly, the two demons opened their blood-red maws to the sky! White steam billowed from their nostrils and larvae, their chests turning a deep red, as if their bodies were filled with magma that spread all the way to their throats…

Roar!

The next second... two fire dragons as thick as thighs shot into the sky, carrying extreme heat!

But a figure swiftly pushed it back!

Despite the extreme heat of the two pillars of fire, Lei Ming charged straight down! In the blink of an eye, he was in front of them, grabbing the two demons' enormous heads with both hands and slamming them hard into the ground!

Boom!

The already crumbling road surface collapsed even further, and spiderweb-like cracks quickly spread across the road's perimeter...

"Uhhhh!!!"

Two demons, several times larger than Lei Ming, were pinned to the ground, unable to move, by a figure less than two meters tall! Their skulls cracked as they were gripped! They both let out painful howls! The shockwave shattered the windshields of all the cars on either side!

Lei Ming fixed his gaze on the tall demon, his eyes gleaming with golden light...

call out……!

Suddenly, a point of light appeared in the distance, trailing a flame, and flew rapidly toward the three of them...

Lei Ming's attention had been focused on the two demons, but he only noticed them when he glanced at them out of the corner of his eye...

There is a missile…

Chapter 45 No way!

Somewhere on the outskirts of the city, a small mushroom cloud slowly rose…

A few minutes later, the dust settled, and Lei Ming slowly stood up, the cloak covering his front sliding down to his back.

A little girl's innocent face was revealed; her eyes were closed, as if she were asleep.

She was nearby when the miniature missile exploded, all alone, huddled behind a car, trembling, clutching a Barbie doll in her hand…

Although Lei Ming rushed over at top speed and used his cloak and bio-field to protect her entire body, she still suffered some aftershock and fainted.

However, there was no danger to his life.

Looking around, the street was a complete mess...

Lei Ming carried the little girl to the epicenter of the explosion, only to find that the two monsters inside were still alive...

Their bodies were charred black, their crimson skin burned away, revealing the muscle tissue underneath.

His face was so blurry that his features were indistinguishable, but his heart was still beating strongly, and his injuries were healing, though at a much slower pace than before.

The only part that's still intact is their horns...

The smaller demon suddenly moved, and then its exposed yellow eyes looked at Lei Ming, who stood unharmed to the side, and the little girl in his arms…

"you……"

The demon's vocal cords were already charred, but he still managed to squeeze out a few words from his throat...

"You are... the real one."

monster…"

"Maybe."

As Lei Ming spoke, golden light burst forth from his eyes, burning the two monsters from head to toe until not even ashes remained.

I refuse to believe he can come back to life like this...

He no longer needed to extract any information from them. As their tattoos burned away with their skin, he was already able to read their memories telepathically. Just as he had suspected, these tattoos had the effect of blocking external perception…

These two monsters... were once human, one named Buster and the other named Saine, both mercenaries.

Lei Ming had figured out everything that had happened between their initial hiring to search for the gems and how they ended up like this.

Now I understand who the 'he' the monster was referring to was...

Dracula, a vampire who only exists in movies and novels.

However, this Dracula was somewhat different from what he had imagined…

A vampire so weak that he could be shot dead by a human... Although he can be resurrected in the form of a bat, he needs to drink the blood of tens of thousands of people to turn back into a human.

How ridiculous...

The recent surge of vampire bats attacking humans around the world was orchestrated by him and several other so-called second-generation vampires, with the aim of resurrecting an even more ancient being...

One of the two sons of Adam and Eve in legend, the ancestor of all evil people, and the first generation of vampires.

Blood Ancestor... Cain.

These two mercenaries were creatures he created using Cain's blood, Anko's genes obtained from the Russian Federation, and the blood of a demon.

Even if Lei Ming did nothing, they would automatically turn to ashes in a few days.

Because the three substances in their bodies are incompatible, Dracula used some method to forcibly fuse them together, which gave them extremely powerful strength, but also shortened their lifespan to less than half a month.

Their mission was simply to draw Thunder's attention during the time Dracula was resurrecting Cain... Their true purpose remains to be seen.

Anyway, they did it.

Lei Ming carried the little girl and slowly rose into the sky. He saw armored vehicles and tanks a kilometer away, as well as a large number of soldiers advancing towards them.

He ignored them, carried the little girl to the outskirts of the city, placed her among the crowd of ambulances that had come to the rescue, and left under their watchful eyes…

As for the person who ordered the missile to be fired at himself…

I'll settle accounts with him once he's finished with what he's doing.

...

Deep in the mountains near a village in southern Dorset, there is a castle whose age is evident from its appearance alone.

As soon as Lei Ming arrived in the vicinity, he heard the sound of a piano coming from inside the castle. Someone was playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

In the castle's hall, Dracula sat on the piano bench with his eyes closed, his long, slender fingers dancing gracefully across the keys.

His performance of Moonlight Sonata was masterful; if an expert were present, they would have found that he played it even better than the original composer…

Because he composed this piece himself…

boom!

A large hole appeared in the sky above the castle, and a figure landed heavily in the center of the hall.

The music continued unabated, without ceasing for a moment…

Dracula seemed not to hear him and continued playing, without ever opening his eyes.

Lei Ming slowly walked towards him, looking at the corpse at Dracula's feet...

A naked white man, of ordinary appearance, was no longer breathing; perhaps he was some unfortunate soul whose blood he had drained…

"Just a moment, I'll be finished playing soon..."

Seemingly sensing Lei Ming's gaze, Dracula spoke while playing his piano.

Zhi! ! !

The heat vision swept across, and the piano in front of Dracula was chopped into a pile of burning wreckage...

……

He immediately opened his eyes, looked at the pile of garbage on the ground, his hands still frozen in mid-air, and a trace of heartache appeared in his eyes.

He sighed helplessly, stood up, straightened his collar, smoothed out the wrinkles in his suit, then gave Lei Ming a perfectly gentlemanly smile and extended a hand…

"Hello, Mr. Superman, I am Vlad Tepesh Dracula..."

Lei Ming stared expressionlessly at Dracula, who was all smiles, slowly raised his right hand, and then…

Slap him hard across the face!

With a loud crack, the entire hall trembled, and dust settled on the floor…

Dracula had completely vanished from the spot.