Anomalous Creatures

Weilili, somewhat unwilling to admit defeat, squeezed out another drop of her blood and applied it to Kevin's hand. The two of them stared intently at what would happen this time, and even Lily beside them curiosly leaned in to take a look.

The droplet of blood, shimmering with a golden-red aura, trembled and spread across Kevin's skin visibly for a brief moment, perhaps just a few seconds. Then, like a water droplet touching a hot iron, it quickly contracted and disappeared from their sight.

"It seems to have been absorbed," Kevin scratched his handback curiously. To be honest, seeing that drop of blood wriggle on his skin like a living thing was really startling. If he hadn't known that Weilili meant no harm, he would have instinctively shaken it off. He hadn't noticed it the first time, but now that he saw it clearly, it was truly...unsettling. "I don't feel anything, just a bit itchy at first, and a little cool."

"Vampires have a lower body temperature than you humans, it's normal," Weilili hesitated as she looked at her finger. The small wound she had bitten had already healed almost unnoticed. Then, gritting her teeth as if making a great decision, she squeezed out the last drop of blood. "This... is the last try. I can't do more. It hurts me."

Lily immediately saw an opportunity to mock: "Look at your stingy self, it's just a drop of blood."

"What's wrong with a drop of blood! A drop of blood is still blood!" Weilili slammed her hand on the table and stood up. "When I wasn't too accustomed to human food, I survived by drinking blood. Almost every time I hunted, I was targeted by demon hunters. I couldn't even afford to keep a few blood servants. At my poorest, I wouldn't even let my menstrual blood flow. You don't know the value of money until you've been through hardships. One day, when you've lived through tough times, you'll understand..."

Kevin couldn't listen anymore and quickly stood up to smooth things over before the conversation got out of hand. "Alright, alright, let's not bring up the past anymore. Weilili, watch your language, this is for all ages - and don't go into such detail about your miserable life. I'm too soft-hearted to listen..."

Lily immediately cheered up: "So, landlord, can you exempt me from rent for a month?"

"...What I'm saying to Weilili has nothing to do with you!"

After the three of them had finished their commotion, Weilili finally remembered the main task. She tried again, and this time, while applying the blood, she chanted a few ancient incantations in a creepy tone. Kevin felt that cold and bloody atmosphere appear around him again, but the blood that touched his skin was the same as before. It writhed a few times and quickly lost its power, disappearing without a trace in the blink of an eye.

The connection with the blood has also been interrupted," Weilili frowned. "This has never happened before. Vampires have a fixed connection with their own blood, which cannot be broken unless one actively 'abandons' a part of their blood."

"So what do we do now?" Kevin scratched his face. "I was counting on your blood to ward off evil."

"How about we try Lily's blood?" Weilili turned to the werewolf girl. "Her blood should also be able to ward off evil."

"Eh? Werewolves too?" Lily was even more surprised. "So I'm this powerful!?"

Weilili chuckled. "No, I heard from old people in China that black dog's blood can ward off evil..."

Then the two superwomen started fighting again in the living room. Kevin was powerless to stop them and had no mood to do so. He could only sit on the sofa with a dazed look, watching a vampire and a werewolf jump around in front of him. When he couldn't bear it anymore, he shouted, "Hey, be careful! You have to pay for anything you break - Lily, remember you still owe me a coffee table, and Weilili, think about your wallet..."

This sentence had a significant effect. The two superwomen immediately quieted down and started deciding the winner by rock-paper-scissors...

Kevin looked down at his ordinary-looking hands and wondered why they could absorb vampire blood. He had learned from various movies that vampire blood was extremely powerful to ordinary people, sometimes capable of dissolving bones and eroding flesh upon contact. But on his side, there were no special effects at all - it was even inferior to ordinary blood, which was actually absorbed directly! Although Kevin was now sure that most of the descriptions of vampires in movies were unreliable, the point that "vampire blood has special power" must be true. At the very least, human blood doesn't shiver or crawl by itself...

"It seems that using the vampire mark won't work," Weilili finally remembered the main task after fooling around with Lily for a few minutes. She looked up and down at Kevin and didn't give up. "If you trust me, I'll try using vampire magic. I'm a high-ranking vampire and can cast spells without a blood medium - without a medium, it shouldn't be absorbed again, right?"

Kevin chuckled. "Why wouldn't I trust you? Go ahead and try."

"Most people wouldn't trust us," Weilili shrugged. "You're actually in the minority for being so reasonable. Normal people, unless they're idiots, wouldn't accept a spell so cheerfully. More than three hundred years ago, people in Europe resisted my blood magic to the death. I don't know why they were so stubborn."

Kevin thought to himself: Has this vampire girl been around humans for too long that she has forgotten how normal vampires use magic against humans?

Weilili told Kevin to sit still and then traced strange and twisted characters in the air with her fingers. Kevin stared at everything with wide eyes. After all, this was the first time in his life that he had truly seen what so-called "magic" was like. Needless to say, he was curious and excited. Moreover, seeing someone draw trajectories with a bloody glow in the air with their fingers was indeed quite eye-opening. But after watching for a while, he found it quite boring: Weilili was just constantly writing lines of text in the air, waving her hand to disperse what she had written before. This process was simply a high-end and atmospheric recitation. Excluding the special effects in the process of drawing the bloody text... He didn't feel any special power or more spectacular phenomena at all.

However, Weilili's eyebrows had already slightly furrowed. She wrote faster and more frequently erased what she had written before, almost writing a line and erasing it immediately. Kevin thought that this must be a critical stage of the spell casting. At first, he didn't dare to speak, but after waiting for a while and not seeing any new situation, he couldn't help but whisper, "Uh... Is it not done yet?"

"Wait a minute, I might have written it wrong. I'm correcting it..."

Kevin: "..."

So this guy was erasing and writing because of mistakes! Isn't there any reliable place for this vampire girl?

"Something's not right," Weilili didn't notice the subtle expression on Kevin's face. After continuously modifying the runes several times, she finally stopped and shook her head in confusion, saying, "Theoretically, there shouldn't be any mistakes. I have already used three effective sentences, but there is no reaction at all... Landlord, do you feel particularly sleepy? Do you feel particularly calm? Or relaxed all over?"

"No," Kevin stretched his arms. "I am pretty calm, but it should have nothing to do with your words."

"That big dog over there," Weilili turned her head to look at Lily, "Stay there and don't move."

As soon as the words fell, Weilili waved her hand and blew the bloody text into a constantly shivering mist. The mist floated past Lily, who immediately fell onto the table with a thud, followed by a uniform snoring sound.

"... The effect is too strong. How low is this guy's resistance?" Weilili frowned and then looked at Kevin. "I don't know what's going on, but my blood magic doesn't seem to work on you."

Upon hearing this, Kevin immediately perked up and looked at his hands in disbelief. "Could it be that I'm actually a very powerful person?! The hidden setting is something like innate magic immunity?"

Weilili spoke the truth: "It could also be that your nerves are too dull. For example, fools are immune to all mental confusion magic..."

Kevin: "Cough cough, be careful, you owe me money."

Weilili stuck her tongue out embarrassment: "Alright, no jokes. But being born with magic immunity is probably impossible. I'm very sensitive to living beings. You should just be an ordinary person, and besides, you're not immune to the cold I create either—ask that Raven 12345 about the specific reason later. I always felt that your agreement with the so-called god won't be that simple. Maybe you've changed in some way since you came back from her place. As for now... You might as well use my talisman."

The final development was still the same as what was said at the beginning: all the talk about spiritual blood and magic was nonsense. Kevin received a talisman for warding off evil from a vampire with mixed feelings: it was said to be an eight-trigram plate obtained from Mount Wutai, which could ward off evil and purify the mind...

When Weilili handed the eight-trigram plate to Kevin, she repeatedly warned him, as if afraid that her treasure would be damaged. It was evident that this strange vampire girl cherished her own treasures very much, which made Kevin particularly touched.

But does that thing really work?