Winnie’s Doubts

‘Su Ran shouldn’t have had the opportunity to learn about things like magic formations, but her actions did indeed create a perfect chance for me.’

If the magic essence being transported to the formation’s core hadn’t been frozen, it would have taken Winnie quite some effort to break it.

“Manager, what on earth just happened?”

Su Ran’s eyes flashed with confusion, her expression dazed, as if she still hadn’t grasped the situation she had just been in.

‘Go on, keep acting. Since you want to put on a show, I’ll naturally play along. Let’s see how long you want to keep this up.’

Winnie scoffed inwardly at the thought but still answered her patiently.

“I rushed over as soon as I noticed your auras had disappeared. It turns out a vampire had set up a magic formation here. This formation seems to be able to send people to a pre-set space, and breaking it is no easy task.”

As Winnie was explaining to Su Ran, the Blood Hunters who had entered the processing plant with her also gradually began to understand what had happened to them as they listened to Winnie’s explanation.

“If it weren’t for Manager Winnie’s intervention, we might have been done for in there.”

Remembering what they had encountered in that space just now, they couldn’t help but feel a lingering fear, and they all nodded in agreement with their companion’s words.

If it weren’t for Winnie’s rescue, they would have been trapped inside the magic formation, with no telling when they might have a chance to escape, or if they would ever be able to escape at all.

“I have already dispelled this magic formation. You all go search the vicinity to see if you can find any clues. The mission you received from Shirui this time is canceled. We thought we were trapping a turtle in a jar, but it turns out…”

Faced with the Blood Hunters’ gratitude, Winnie waved her hand, signaling for them to continue searching for useful clues inside the factory.

Winnie hadn’t expected the discovered vampire to be a trap.

Deliberately leaking the vampire’s whereabouts in Jiangbei City to lure a large group of pursuing Blood Hunters, and then capturing them all in one fell swoop.

But what was their purpose in doing this?

A warning, or a threat?

The magic formation used this time could be easily broken by someone like Winnie, who knew a little about setting up magic formations and had a certain Sequence level.

To threaten a city’s Blood Hunter branch? It seemed a bit too simple, didn’t it?

A few kilometers away from the food processing plant, in a deserted, abandoned building, a red ball of light that had been suspended in the air suddenly fell to the ground.

A pale hand picked up the object, which had lost its red glow.

It was one of the few things that could be identified as a pendant.

From the shape of the pendant, it should have been inlaid with several exquisite gemstones.

Now, the places where the gemstones should have been were filled with injected silver instead.

“A pity. If there had been more of the god’s power left, I could have done a better job of devouring.”

A pair of crimson eyes opened.

If an observer were present, they would have noticed that his pupils were vertical slits, indicating that he was a vampire.

“If I had known things would turn out like this, I would have used the god’s power to kill that woman who suddenly appeared! That useless Li Ming…”

Li Ming was a tool he used to kill ordinary people.

Li Ming’s body was a bit lacking.

What angered him was that he hadn’t expected the carefully selected target to have just absorbed a newborn…

If it weren’t for the fact that only he knew the plan, he would have almost thought there was a mole lurking by his side.

Since Li Ming’s body had been discovered, he was now a little worried that he might be exposed because of it.

“This body is a vampire baron, just the right rank. If I meet that woman again, I won’t let her off so easily.”

As he spoke, the vampire shifted his gaze to the pendant in his hand.

“I just tried using the trapped superhumans as test subjects. Now, even with a larger number of people, I don’t have to worry about the effects of obtaining magic essence through sacrifice, thanks to this thing.”

Compared to before, when he had to secretly kill a person for magic essence, now, even with a group of people in front of him, as long as he had enough time to absorb the magic essence obtained through sacrifice, he would dare to do it.

“But now, both the security officers and the Blood Hunters are keeping a close watch on Jiangbei City. I’ll need a meticulous plan to take the next step.”

Gradually, the vampire closed his eyes, allowing his aura to become completely still, like a cold corpse.

“Manager Winnie, we’ve found the vampire!”

Sun Daqiang’s loud voice came from the second floor of the food processing plant.

After being rescued by Winnie, he was the most active Blood Hunter in searching for clues within the factory.

At this moment, he was standing at a window on the second floor, waving his hands vigorously to get Winnie’s attention.

“Let’s go up together.”

“Oh, okay.”

Su Ran’s hand was held by Winnie’s slightly cool one, and she didn’t let go no matter what.

The two of them walked up to the second floor of the processing plant together.

This magical incident had almost scared Winnie into a cold sweat.

For a short while, she considered whether she should accompany Su Ran during her activities.

However, this was just a fleeting thought for Winnie.

After calming down, she knew her idea was unrealistic.

Unlike the vampires she had encountered in the past, the one captured this time wasn’t shouting or screaming.

Winnie was already frowning as she walked up the stairs.

Passing through a pile of unknown processing machinery, Winnie and Su Ran arrived one after the other at the spot on the second floor where the vampire was discovered.

Su Ran, dressed in her maid outfit, looked like Winnie’s exclusive maid.

However, there was another maid who had arrived before them.

Yuan Shirui was already squatting on the ground.

“Dead?”

Yuan Shirui was squatting down, and Winnie raised an eyebrow.

Although she asked, she was already one hundred percent certain in her heart that the discovered vampire was dead.

“Comparing him to the vampire in the photo, the one we found is him.”

To facilitate the examination, Yuan Shirui had taken off her gloves and sleeve covers.

The flow of magic essence could be felt on her fair, jade-like arms.

“What’s strange is that all the blood in his body has disappeared, and his time of death should have been last night. Why did he still appear in our photo today?”

“With just a little bit of magic essence, Yuan Shirui could determine the specific condition of the vampire’s corpse.”

When Winnie heard her words, the first thing that came to her mind was puppet magic.

This corpse had been controlled by puppet magic!

And unlike Li Ming, who was controlled while alive, this vampire corpse before them had been directly controlled after death.

There was only one thing Winnie had to do now: confirm the identity of this vampire to obtain more clues.