Evolution game, nothing more than that!

After knowing that he could not keep the familiar with just small tricks, Dracula did not continue to attack, and even took back the flock of bats, allowing the golden eagle to fly back to its master with a great victory.

However, after laughing, he lowered his head and saw an ice coffin placed in front of the throne, and his expression became gloomy again.

He walked down from the throne, came to the ice coffin, brushed off the layer of ice chips on the surface, revealing the figure underneath.

She was a beautiful woman, lying quietly in the ice coffin like Sleeping Beauty.

"Wake up, my love."

He called out, and as if by magic, the ice on the coffin quickly melted, and the woman sleeping inside slowly opened her eyes.

She looked at the man in front of her, a hint of love in her eyes, but then it turned into a sad look.

"You've woken me up again. Are you still going to make me drink human blood? Then my answer will still be the same as before—No, I won't drink it!"

"I know I know……"

Dracula leaned over, hugged the woman, kissed her lips again, and said:

"Don't worry, since you don't want to, I won't force you."

"Then why did you wake me up? You know I can't stay awake for too long."

the woman said.

After being transformed into a vampire by Dracula, she refused to drink human blood. However, if she did not drink blood for a long time, the blood-sucking impulse in her blood would destroy her sanity and turn her into a mindless monster like a ghoul.

In order to prevent this from happening, Dracula, who couldn't bear to force her to drink blood, had to freeze her. She would only be awakened occasionally after decades or so, and they would talk to each other from the heart - of course, Dracula would also have to use human blood to persuade her time and time again.

The woman thought it would be the same this time, but Dracula gave her an answer that surprised her:

"I woke you up to invite you to watch a play about a brave exorcist and his companions challenging a terrifying demon king. What do you think?"

"Is...someone coming to attack you again?"

The woman looked sad.

"Yes, another group of courageous humans. As a rare diversion and embellishment in our long lives, I hope to appreciate all of this with you."

Dracula lifted the woman from the ice coffin:

"Come on, the guests are coming soon, and as the hostess of this castle, you should stand by my side and welcome them together."

"I understand."

The woman walked out of the ice coffin, looked at her lover with a hint of sadness in her eyes, and gave him a hug:

"I will. As your wife, I will stand by your side, no matter what the final outcome is."

The man and the woman hugged each other. The wind outside the window howled louder and the snow fell heavier.

……

On the other side, in the castle in Transylvania, Yi Shen hurriedly pushed open Van Helsing's door.

"I found it, Dracula's castle!"

He said so.

Chapter 93: Terrain Obstacles, New Uses of Airdrop Guns

"Oh?"

Van Helsing, who was maintaining his equipment, suddenly brightened up, put down what he was holding, and stood up.

"Where?"

As he spoke, he took out a map and asked Yi Shen to point out the location.

Yi Shen leaned over to take a look and found that it was a classic classical map, that is, there was no longitude and latitude, no contour lines, just vague drawings of mountains, streams, roads, and cities on the paper.

"Um, I can't mark it on a map like this. Mind if I project what I see into your consciousness?"

Yi Shen said as he took out the Five Visions Omnipotence.

Van Helsing raised his eyebrows, thought about it and did not refuse.

So Yi Shen put on the divine armor and activated the vision.

In an instant, the light and shadow before Van Helsing's eyes changed.

That was the perspective from the sky, he seemed to have transformed into a bird, flying high in the sky.

Looking down at the ground, swamps, forests, and mountains were rapidly passing by. Van Helsing realized that this must be the perspective of Yi Shen's "familiar".

This perspective that he had never experienced before surprised him, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart again - it's great to have a magician as a teammate!

In this perspective, he experienced the entire process of Yi Shen's clone "Familiar" starting from the small town, searching in the mountains, and finally finding Dracula's Castle.

Combined with the rough map, we can locate its location more accurately.

"In a place like this..."

After coming out of the illusion, Van Helsing rubbed his eyebrows, thought for a while, and then made a mark on the map where the mountains were marked.

Such a mark itself actually has no meaning. If someone else looks at it, they can't tell which mountain peak the mark represents.

But for Van Helsing personally, with this mark and the memories in his mind, he can draw a more accurate map in his brain.

When it comes to actual action, such a mental map can guide him to find the correct path and avoid getting lost halfway.

However, even if he knew the location of the enemy's lair, a problem still lay before Van Helsing.

"According to our reconnaissance, there's no direct road from here to Dracula's castle. To get there, we must first cross a vast forest and swamp, cross two rivers, and then find a path through the mountains that leads to the peak. This is no easy task!"

Although Van Helsing had no lack of experience in hunting monsters in the wild, and even had the experience of chasing a target in the wilderness for days and nights until he caught and killed it, he knew that this was completely different from the situation they were facing now.

In the pursuit and capture in the wilderness, for hunters and prey, the external conditions faced by both sides are basically the same. What matters is their patience and tracking/escaping skills.

But now they are going to attack a castle hidden in the mountains. Dracula, as the attacked party, only needs to sit in his castle and wait for the opportunity, while they, as the attackers, need to cut through the thorns and wade through the forest swamp to carve a path. Then when they really reach their destination, how much physical strength and combat effectiveness will they have left?

This problem also stumped others.

After Yi Shen and Van Helsing told everyone that they had found Dracula's castle, they were all stumped as to how to get there.

"If we had enough manpower and resources, we might be able to force our way through the forest, but right now... I don't think we have the conditions!"

Sakurajima Mai said this with an embarrassed look on her face.

"Forcibly opening a path?... If it were during the heyday of the family, perhaps it would really be possible, but now... Sigh!"

Anna, whose complexion had improved a lot, sighed and shook her head.

"If I were still a werewolf, I could probably walk directly through this forest and swamp, but... you know, I can't do that now."

Wilkan on the side said this.

"..."

Van Helsing looked at the helpless crowd, then turned to Yi Shen and asked:

"Can your familiar carry someone flying?"

——Since it’s difficult to travel by land, let’s travel by air. After all, that’s how Dracula’s minions move, right?

Van Helsing thought so.

"..."

Yi Shen was stunned for a moment, then shook his head with a helpless smile:

"Sorry, it's just an ordinary golden eagle. It can't carry anyone."

To be honest, he had thought about walking in the air, but unfortunately, neither his cellular force field nor his elemental force was enough to give him the ability to fly.

As for using his own flesh and blood to transform into a bird to carry everyone over... not to mention whether he can turn into such a big bird, even if he really did, there is a high probability that he would not be able to fly - increasing the size of a living thing cannot be done by simply enlarging it proportionally. It involves many aspects such as appearance, weight, body density, etc., and it is not something that can be solved with a snap of the finger.

"Isn't this even possible..."

Van Helsing frowned.

"It seems that I have to give up the idea of ​​taking shortcuts and move forward step by step with my feet on the ground."

"Maybe, I have a solution!"

At this moment, Yamasaki An seemed to suddenly remember something and said this.

"Oh? Do you have any ideas?"

Yi Shen looked at her, and the others also focused their attention on the girl.

"Well, you know, I have an airdrop summoning gun."

As Yamasaki An said this, she took out a red flare gun with a slightly sci-fi feel from her backpack.

"Is this... any use?"

Van Helsing, who was standing by, looked at the small pistol and asked in confusion.

"Actually, this is... a magical item that summons a flying machine that drops a supply box full of weapons and ammunition at the location where it's used."

Yamasaki An tried her best to explain in terms that others could understand:

"But the supply crate itself isn't the key. The key is the aircraft that dropped the supply crate. We can use it to cross the vast distance between us and Dracula's castle and land directly on top of him!"

"!!!"

Everyone looked shocked.

"This, is actually possible?!"

Yi Shen was the most surprised. He had never thought that this novice trial reward item from Yamasaki An could be used in this way.

"Actually, I only noticed it the last time I used it. This gun can be used to set the location and flight path of the airdrop transport aircraft."

Yamasaki An explained a little embarrassedly.

What is referred to here is naturally what happened in her previous mission world.

In that mission, in order to deal with the huge number of zombies, she did not have enough ammunition and had to use the airdrop summoning gun that could only be used once per mission to obtain a large amount of supplies.

However, although she noticed these setting functions when using the airdrop gun at that time, she did not care too much about it. She just thought it was a normal change after the game props became reality. After all, in some battlefields covered by air defense networks, if the flight route of the airdrop transport aircraft is not set, it may be shot down by anti-aircraft missiles before the airdrop is dropped.

But now, when she saw the difficulties that everyone was facing, she suddenly remembered the cool moves of a certain PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds up-loader she saw when she was watching videos with Yi Shen some time ago - using an airdrop transport plane to fly over the enemy's head and then bring justice down from the sky. It seems that her airdrop summoning gun can do something similar!

Chapter 94: Human "Skyhook", a Dilemma

"Is this...really possible?"

Van Helsing asked somewhat doubtfully.

"In theory, it's feasible. All I have to do is have my familiar carry this airdrop gun and fly near Dracula's castle. I'll set the route and pull the trigger, and the transport aircraft will pass overhead."

Yi Shen said:

"The question now is, how do we get on that craft?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone turned their attention to Yamasaki An again. As the owner of the airdrop gun, only she could answer this question.

"If we board the aircraft... maybe we can try to lower its altitude, have it crash into the balloon with the rope hanging from it, and then find a way to wrap it around it, like the Skyhook system?"

The "Skyhook" system mentioned by Yamasaki An, also known as the Fulton Surface-to-Air Recovery System, is a technology used by the CIA, the US Air Force and the US Navy.

The principle is to use a balloon connected to a high-strength cable, and then let an aircraft with a hook-shaped recovery device on the nose fly low, just to catch the cable and pull the people or materials tied to the cable back to the aircraft.

Yamasaki An actually didn't know about this thing, but the Ada Wong character card she obtained had related memories, so she thought of it first.

Of course, since the transport aircraft itself has not been modified, how to make it realize the function of the "Skyhook" system is another issue that needs to be considered.

However, Yi Shen shook his head and said:

"There's no need to go to such lengths. All we need to do is have the aircraft fly over us at a low enough altitude, and then I'll jump on it with the rope. I can drag you all up into the sky with me."

"I see... Indeed, with your strength, accomplishing this shouldn't be a problem."

Mai Sakurajima nodded, believing that Yi Shen could do such a thing.

"Wait, wait! You were just saying you were going to jump onto that aircraft and then use ropes to pull the others up?"

Anna on the side looked at Yi Shen in surprise.

She didn't understand the "sky hook" and other things in the beginning, but she understood what Yi Shen said later.

Although as a small lord struggling to survive in a remote area, she had never seen a real aircraft, but just by imagining it, she could realize how exaggerated what the other party had just said was.