The Transaction

“Talk?”

The monstrously beautiful girl with silver hair and blood-red eyes tilted her small head as if deep in thought. After a long while—just as Jiang Xun was beginning to feel he could no longer withstand her charm and was on the verge of surrendering—she finally spoke again with a smile: “What would you like to talk about?”

Phew!

The young man exhaled heavily. He hurriedly collected his emotions and suppressed his restless body, trying his best not to let his gaze fall on the figure in front of him. Only after slightly lowering his eyes was he finally able to speak slowly: “I can act as if I never saw you. In exchange, you need to let my companions go.”

“Just that?”

A sweet fragrance wafted toward him. Jiang Xun’s pupils constricted as he realized she had silently walked right up to his face!

The Succubus was very tall, but she was still half a head shorter than him. At this moment, she looked up at him from below, her head tilted slightly. Because the distance was so close, he could even count every single one of her eyelashes!

Jiang Xun wanted to step back, but he found his feet were as if rooted to the spot. The flame-like radiance surrounding his body flickered unsteadily, like a candle-flame being buffeted by a gale.

“You…”

The young man stared intently at those blood-colored eyes that were mere inches away. It wasn’t actually that he wanted to look; rather, just like his immobile body, he was similarly unable to move his gaze away.

The more he looked, the deeper he felt himself sinking. Only a final shred of clarity allowed him to react.

Thud!

Jiang Xun suddenly punched himself. Using the pain to stimulate his spirit, he also used the momentum to successfully pull back a distance. It wasn’t until he had retreated several steps that he stopped and began to pant heavily.

The girl stood in place, still with her small hands tucked behind her back, looking at him with a light smile.

However, the young man knew he couldn’t let this continue. A High-Ranking Succubus was simply too terrifying; he had to settle this quickly.

So, he took a deep breath to calm his violently thumping heart, and his expression instantly became serious. The turbulent flame radiance around him immediately stabilized and expanded. His eyes, which had turned completely golden-red, looked directly at the Succubus not far away, and his voice became sharp: “Stop trying to test my patience. If you don’t agree, then I can only take action myself!”

“Alright.”

Seeing that the man truly didn’t seem to be joking, the Succubus also seemed to lose her interest in playing. She shrugged slightly and said: “I wasn’t very interested in them anyway; they were the ones who barged in themselves. Oh, that’s right…”

As she spoke, she snapped her fingers. Not far away, the Eye Hunter, who had been frozen in place all this time, walked over with a wooden, numb expression.

“Since you are police officers, if I hand this person called the Eye Hunter over to you, is there a reward?”

“…”

Jiang Xun fell silent. He wasn’t surprised that the Eye Hunter was in the girl’s hands, but was instead pondering how to answer this question. Normally, if a wanted criminal like the Eye Hunter was handed over to the Bureau, there would definitely be a corresponding reward. But the problem was that the person in front of him was a Succubus—was what she wanted truly just an ordinary bounty?

Jiang Xun didn’t know how to respond for a moment, so he could only look directly at the girl.

“What do you want?”

Before his voice had even faded, he saw those onion-white fingertips point at himself. He couldn’t help but freeze for half a second: “What do you mean? You want… me?”

“Yes.”

The girl nodded lightly. “I want you to use your own blood to trade.”

“That is impossi—” Jiang Xun reflexively refused, but he quickly realized something was wrong. After reacting, he said somewhat unnaturally: “Oh, just blood!”

He breathed a sigh of relief, yet for some reason, he actually felt a hint of disappointment. He hurriedly shook his head to rid himself of that strange atmosphere.

The Succubus standing not far away seemed to be amused by his embarrassed look, and the smile on her face became increasingly bright.

“Besides fresh, power-filled blood, what else could it be?”

As she spoke, she intentionally or unintentionally glanced at the man’s lower body, making him feel increasingly uneasy. He quickly suppressed his restless emotions and nodded: “Fine, I agree to your request. But how much do you need? It’s impossible for me to contribute all the blood in my body, right?”

In Jiang Xun’s view, if using just a little bit of blood could avoid clashing with a High-Ranking Succubus and also secure the Eye Hunter they were currently hunting, then this deal was quite worthwhile.

However, he wouldn’t step forward so easily. After all, trading with demons made it very easy to be tricked. They had to have a strict agreement; otherwise, it would be bad if he were deceived or even attacked by her.

Fortunately, the Succubus was in a good mood today and truly didn’t think of making things difficult for him. She reached out her fair and tender small hand, gestured a bit, and said with a smile: “Five hundred milliliters will be fine.”

Five hundred milliliters—that wasn’t a small amount. One should know that every blood donation at a hospital wouldn’t exceed four hundred milliliters. However, this was indeed not much of a problem for Jiang Xun; he even felt that this amount seemed a bit low for a High-Ranking demon and appeared quite cheap.

Furthermore, she was clearly a Succubus, so why did she want his blood?

Though he was confused, he didn’t think too much about it. Since the other party had made this request, he naturally wouldn’t refuse. Thus, the young man finally took a step forward.

“Fine. I can draw it for you right now. Will you wait here for a moment, or…”

“No, I’ll do it myself.”

What?

Jiang Xun was stunned, but the Succubus had already leaned in once more. He instinctively wanted to retreat, but in the end, he endured it. Under that immense pressure, he opened his mouth to say: “Alright, it saves trouble.”

“So, where do you want me to bite you?”

The girl blinked her eyes as she looked up at him.

The man fell into another period of silence. His thoughts ran wild uncontrollably because of that sweet fragrance and those words so close at hand. After taking another deep breath, he slowly raised his arm and pulled down his sleeve: “Come on.”

“What a pity. I thought it would be biting somewhere else.”

“…Shut up.”

Out of sight, out of mind. Jiang Xun decisively chose to close both eyes, mainly because those blood-red eyes so close by were truly too deep and enchanting; looking at them for long really made it easy to fall deep within and be unable to extricate oneself.

However, after closing his eyes, his other senses became even more acute.

First, he heard the girl’s slight laughter, like soft feathers scratching at the tip of his heart. Then, that indescribable sweet fragrance seemed to become even more obvious, making one want even more to sink into it.

Jiang Xun struggled to maintain his original heart, relying on extremely exaggerated willpower to stop himself from having stray thoughts.

Until the next second.

He felt a slightly cold small hand grab his arm, followed by warm heat being sprayed onto his skin. That instantaneous contact gave him a whole body of goosebumps, and he nearly couldn’t resist directly pulling his hand away.

But before he could think, something light and soft licked gently across his arm several times. Then came a momentary pain—the pain was very light and disappeared exceptionally quickly—followed by a numbness that was hard to describe. His entire arm began to become burning hot!

No, what was becoming burning hot should be his entire body; even his spirit was boiling.

Is this fellow actually not a Succubus, but a vampire?

This wonderful blood-sucking process made Jiang Xun highly doubt this girl’s true identity. But as the blood was continuously drawn out, he didn’t have much time to think about these things anymore. It wasn’t because it was too uncomfortable, but rather because… it was completely the opposite. He was afraid that if he didn’t focus his attention, he truly might be unable to control himself!

The blood-sucking process wasn’t considered long, but for Jiang Xun, it felt like a hundred years had passed. To the point that when the girl licked the corners of her lips and slowly backed away, he was stunned for a long while before he could react.

And when he did react, the Succubus standing not far away had already used her tiny tongue to swallow the last trace of blood into her stomach. Her originally bright red lips, perhaps due to being moistened by blood or saliva, had now become incomparably alluring and plump.

She revealed a sweet smile.

“Thank you for the treat. You taste even more delicious than expected~”