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"You're right." Xu Taiping put the paper down with a smile.
"How could you be Xu Long? How could you be so different!" Vanessa excitedly said, as if she still couldn't accept the fact that Xu Taiping was Xu Long.
"The difference is too great. Otherwise, we would have been recognized long ago." Xu Taiping laughed.
"Oh my god... No wonder I felt that your battle method is almost the same as Xu Long's. So you're actually the same person, but I actually didn't see it at all, my god. " Vanessa excitedly said.
"To be honest, I also have a question for you!" Xu Taiping said.
"What problem?" Vanessa asked.
"Why did you set me as your target that day? What did you want to do that day? " Xu Taiping asked.
"This..." Vanessa hesitated, then said, "Do you really want to know?"
"Of course, why else would I ask? However, if you feel that there is a secret, then you don't need to answer. " Xu Taiping said.
"If you asked me before, I would definitely not have said it, but now, we are companions, and you even saved me, and you are even Xu Long. It's not impossible for me to say it to you, it's actually related to a very embarrassing fact." Vanessa said.
"What facts?" Xu Taiping asked.
"Money." Vanessa awkwardly said.
"Money?" Xu Taiping looked at Vanessa in surprise. He had actually guessed a lot earlier, but he had not been able to guess anything from the money.
Our clan's financial situation has always been bad, because it's very difficult for us to integrate into society. We use our clan as a unit, and all expenses of our clan are handled by our leader, my father, but very few of us go out to work, so our economic conditions have always been poor. In order to allow our clan to live a better life, the strong members of our clan would go out to the outside world every once in a while, kidnap one or two very rich people, extort some money, and then bring that money back to our clan so that our clansmen could live a better life for a while. Vanessa said.
"Eh …. And you guys are part-time kidnappers? " Xu Taiping asked with a strange expression.
"It's all forced by life." Vanessa helplessly shook her head and said, "With so many people in our clan, the daily expenses are always a huge sum of money. As you can see, our clan lives in ordinary wooden houses, not because we want to get close to nature, but because we don't have the money, with thousands of people in our clan, every person has to have their own living quarters, every person has to have animal blood to improve themselves, and every day's consumption is at least 100,000 dollars, and every year, it will be close to 40 million dollars. Besides kidnapping, there are no other ways for us to earn that much money in a year."
"Why don't the Strigoi go out to work?" Xu Taiping asked.
"Only a small portion of the Strigoi are willing to go out and do things, but these people are not in our country, because it is very easy for people in our country to recognize us and are very wary of us, so they all went to some distant countries, they can't do too conspicuous jobs, because that would also attract attention, and they would only become the lowest workers in society, earning low wages and only able to support their own wages … Our Strigoi life is not easy, at least not while Zhao Tie-zhu is here. Therefore, after Zhao Tie-zhu left, there were many radicals in our Strigoi. These people actually want to have a better life, and to our Strigoi, the way to a better life is actually very simple — plunder! If you hadn't come, we might have become a true robber family! " Vanessa said seriously.
"I thought Strigoi were like the vampires on TV, each of them leading a noble life!" Xu Taiping said.
"It's all movies, and it's all about vampires, not us Strigoi. We Strigoi aren't vampires, and vampires live off blood, but we can eat normally. Blood is just a means for us to replenish our energy, and it's also a tool for us to become stronger." Vanessa said.
"Understood!" Xu Taiping nodded.
"Actually, I'm very grateful to you." Vanessa looked at Xu Taiping and said, "You sent us a huge amount of cash, enough for us to live a leisurely life for many years. You gave us back land, and you gave us materials, that way, we don't have to kidnap anyone anymore.
If you want to fundamentally solve the problem of the Strigoi, it's actually very simple, it's just a sense of identity. If you make the entire society recognize the Strigoi, then the Strigoi can normally integrate into the lives of ordinary people, and completely support themselves, not needing other people's help, but to gain recognition, you will have to pay for the society, and the more people see, the more people will recognize you, just like how I was a killer in the past, a killer who made people afraid of me, but later on I hid away and did a lot of things as a security guard. Xu Taiping said seriously.
Hearing Xu Taiping's words, Vanessa stared straight at him with her beautiful big eyes. Xu Taiping could even see his own reflection in her eyes.
"Do you really think so?" Vanessa asked.
"Of course, because I am a beast race myself, I also wish that you, who are a beast race, and the others in the third world can be fully integrated into this world." Of course, because I am a beast race myself, I also hope that you, who are a beast race, and the others in the third world can be fully integrated into this world. Xu Taiping said.
"Don't you think that we, the Blood Tribe, are scary? They eat blood. " Vanessa said.
"How could that be? As long as it's not human blood, it's fine as long as it's not human. Back then, I also have a special hobby towards blood, as long as I smell it, even if the other party has already traveled a few kilometers away, I would be able to track him. To be honest, in terms of talent in blood, even your Blood race might not be as talented as me. " Xu Taiping said with a smile.
"What did you say?" You can track the smell of blood? " Vanessa asked in surprise.
"Of course, you have left a drop of your blood here. Even if you were to leave for a kilometer, I will be able to smell your remnant scent and catch up to you!" Xu Taiping said.
"How is this possible … Even we Strigoi can't do it like that. We Strigoi are naturally sensitive to blood, just like sharks, but our largest olfactory sense of smell is only at a hundred or two hundred meters away … How could you. That's impossible, right? " Vanessa shook her head in disbelief.
"Do you want to give it a try?" Xu Taiping asked.
"Let's give it a try!" Vanessa nodded her head before putting her hand into her mouth and biting on it.
Blood flowed out from her arm. After that, Vanessa walked in front of Xu Taiping and placed her arm in front of him.
Xu Taiping leaned over Vanessa's arm and sniffed.
A thick smell of blood entered Xu Taiping's nose.
The smell of blood was much stronger than the blood of anyone Xu Taiping had ever seen before. The blood of that year could not be compared to this at all.
"Is it done?" Vanessa asked.
"Alright!" Xu Taiping nodded.
"Then I'm leaving, I don't believe that you can find me!" Vanessa turned and walked out of Xu Taiping's room.
Xu Taiping sat on the sofa with his eyes closed.
The smell of Vanessa's blood remained in Xu Taiping's nose. It was so thick that it did not dissipate at all.
After about ten minutes, Xu Taiping stood up.
In the air, the scent of Vanessa's blood had already thinned out, but Xu Taiping could still accurately smell the scent of Vanessa's blood.
Xu Taiping walked out of the room and followed the scent.
Xu Taiping left the hotel and walked out onto the street.
People came and went on the streets, and cars came and went, giving off all sorts of complex smells, but these complex smells did not disturb Xu Taiping, who continued on his way, passing through the busy streets, past a cake shop that was baking cakes, and past a slaughterhouse filled with blood.
In the end, Xu Taiping passed through half of the city and arrived at the seaside.
There was no wind, and the air was slightly salty.
It was night and the beach was empty.
Xu Taiping walked along the shore until he reached a cliff.
Here, Xu Taiping saw Vanessa.
Vanessa was sitting at the edge of the sea, looking out at the calm sea full of ice.
Xu Taiping walked to Vanessa's side and sat down. Then he grabbed Vanessa's arm and placed a Bundy against the wound on her arm.
Vanessa looked at the wound on her arm, then back at Xu Taiping.
"I found you." Xu Taiping said.
"Unbelievable." Vanessa said, shaking her head.
"So, in this world, it's not just the Strigoi who are mutated. There are many other people just like you." Xu Taiping laughed.
"I want to fight you." Vanessa said.
"We haven't recovered yet. There's no need to fight, right?" Xu Taiping said.
"I'm not talking about that kind of beating... Do you still remember what you said after you fought with me? " Vanessa asked.
"What do you mean?" Xu Taiping asked.
Vanessa let out a smile that could overthrow the world, and immediately turned around, pressing Xu Taiping down below.
The waves washed over the shore, and the clear sunlight of a beautiful night captivated everyone.