Chapter 19 The Mysterious Stargazer

In the alley next to the warehouse, a tall man with dyed yellow hair cornered a pretty girl.

"Please, let me go."

The little girl begged for mercy with a horrified look on her face: "I'm still a student."

The yellow-haired man chuckled and reached out to touch the girl's fair face: "Uncle, I like students the most."

The little girl felt a lump in her throat and tears started to fall.

The yellow-haired man was about to continue when he suddenly felt someone grabbing his shoulder. He turned around suddenly and saw a strange man behind him and a fist swinging at him.

boom!
Shen Cheng knocked the yellow-haired man unconscious with one punch, and removed his limbs. Then he turned around and said to the little girl, "Go home quickly, don't hang around outside in the middle of the night."

The little girl nodded with tears in her eyes, and stretched out her little hand to grab Shen Cheng's sleeve: "Brother, I'm scared, can you take me home?"

"Sorry, I have something else to do. You can go back by yourself."

Shen Cheng gently pushed her hand away, turned around and prepared to leave.

"Brother, thank you for saving me, but you disturbed my meal. How are you going to compensate me?"

The little girl's voice gradually became gloomy and sounded behind him.

Shen Cheng turned around and saw that the originally pretty and cute little girl had expanded to more than two meters tall, with a head like a lizard, and she squeezed out a "cute" smile: "Brother, stay and play with me?"

Shen Cheng sighed, then reached out and wiped his face, and the evil ghost mask wrapped in ghostly aura covered his face.

He opened his scarlet eyes and smiled grimly.

"That depends on how much patience you have."

Twenty seconds later, Shen Cheng pulled his hand away from the neck of the dead demon, and absorbed some of the resentment left by the other party after his death.

Demon Mask: 6%
This world is really dangerous for ordinary people, even yellow-haired people have become prey.

Shen Cheng put away the evil ghost mask, turned around and left the alley, and came to the warehouse nearby.

In addition to a large door, the warehouse also has a small door next to it.

Shen Cheng used his shadow ability, turned into a shadow, and crawled under the door.

The warehouse was pitch black, with a large number of boxes piled up, forming a complex environment like a maze.

Shen Cheng moved in the darkness. Even with his hearing ability that could now hear cockroaches crawling, he could not hear any movement. There was not even a living creature in the warehouse.

"You came."

A strange sound suddenly broke the silence.

Shen Cheng was slightly startled and realized that his every move was being monitored by others.

He stopped hiding, cancelled his shadow ability, and walked towards the direction where the sound came from.

After bypassing the box blocking his way, what appeared in front of him was not a mystic, or even a person, but a monitor on the table.

The monitor was dimly lit, and a person in a white coat appeared in it, with his face blurred.

Seeing Shen Cheng appear, he waved and greeted Shen Cheng on the monitor: "Hello, I left a message on the map, knowing that you can see it."

His voice was synthesized, his face was blurred, and his body was covered by a loose white coat, making it impossible to tell his gender.

Obviously, this person is the mystic scholar who works with Zhang Zhiwen.

Shen Cheng asked in confusion: "How do you know I will enter the hospital's research base?"

“It’s a question of probability.”

The mystic shrugged and replied, "I already knew that Zhang Zhiwen had tampered with those experimental subjects. Their sudden rampage means that something happened to Zhang Zhiwen. So the first person to enter the research base is most likely the one who defeated him. Since you are here, I guess Zhang Zhiwen has already told you everything about his cooperation with me."

"He did tell me."

Although it is passive.

Shen Cheng stared at the person on the monitor: "You invited me here, what's the matter?"

"This is a simple question, but I have to ask you in return: why did you accept the invitation?" The mystic scholar chuckled, "It's because of the curse of the source blood, right? This is the topic I have been studying. I have made some progress recently, but I am still a long way from success."

Shen Cheng frowned slightly: "You know I'm a vampire?"

Only vampires care about the issue of blood curse.

The occultist explained, "Because Zhang Zhiwen told me that he is obviously not a vampire who can keep a secret. Don't get me wrong, I am an outsider and have never been involved in your conflict."

He paused, and then continued, "You should have guessed why I invited you to meet me. After Zhang Zhiwen's death, I lacked a partner and could not continue my research on the Source Blood Curse, so I wanted to invite you to work together. I believe you would also be happy to see the Source Blood Curse being cracked."

Shen Cheng didn't rush to agree: "Then what should I give? Help you find the experimental subject?"

The mystic scholar said helplessly: "From your tone, I can hear that you have a lot of misunderstandings about me. The research on the source blood curse does not require extra test subjects. You only need to provide some blood samples and physical data regularly. Other research projects require test subjects, and my attitude towards test subjects has always been to adopt the principle of voluntariness."

Shen Cheng didn't believe it: "There are so many experimental subjects in the hospital, do you dare to say that they are all volunteers?"

"correct."

The mystic scholar nodded: "Those test subjects are all dead, and they didn't say they were unwilling."

What kind of joke are you telling me here?
Shen Cheng thought for a few seconds and asked, "It is still unknown whether the source blood curse can be broken. What can I get by cooperating with you?"

The occult scholar did not answer directly, but instead brought up another topic: "Let me tell you something that is not so secret. The Scarlet Banquet requires its members to regularly offer demon blood because demon blood can enhance the physique and strength of vampires."

Shen Cheng was startled, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant.

If I can kill demons and absorb their resentment to strengthen the evil ghost mask, and if I can also suck the blood of demons to increase my strength, wouldn't it be like stepping on my right foot with my left foot and spiraling directly to heaven?

"I guess you must be thinking about hunting monsters everywhere now."

The mystic scholar's eyes seemed to be able to see through people's hearts: "But I want to remind you that although demon blood can enhance the power of vampires, demon blood itself is also poisonous to vampires. Many vampires died of poisoning after drinking too much demon blood."

Shen Cheng asked in confusion: "What is the purpose of collecting demon blood at the Red Banquet?"

"The Scarlet Dinner Club has the ability to detoxify, and they will provide antidotes to their members regularly."

The mystic scholar put forward his own conditions: "If you cooperate with me, I can help you remove the toxicity of the demon blood and let you enjoy unlimited drinking."

Shen Cheng was not distracted by this generous temptation: "You didn't tell Zhang Zhiwen about this?"

In Zhang Zhiwen's memory, there was no such thing as demon blood being able to increase strength.

The mystic scholar explained, "Because Zhang Zhiwen is a peripheral member of the Scarlet Dinner Party, I don't want to reveal too much to him, so as not to cause displeasure to the Scarlet Dinner Party. But you are different. You are a new vampire and have not yet joined the Scarlet Dinner Party. You can cooperate with me more deeply."

Seeing that Shen Cheng was still thinking, he advised: "Think about my proposal carefully, and don't worry that I will do you any harm. I am a kind person who only focuses on research. I don't care about worldly affairs, and I don't participate in any struggles."

Shen Cheng sneered: "You developed a drug A that can turn people into monsters, and you still say you are a kind person?"

The mystic shook his head: "You misunderstood. I am not the developer of Drug A. I just restored it through reverse engineering."

Shen Cheng didn't know whether what the other party said was true or false, but he had to admit that the conditions he offered were really tempting.

Shen Cheng himself is not a law-abiding good guy. If he can really break the blood curse, he doesn't mind cooperating with this guy of unknown origin.

"There is plenty of time. You can take your time to think about it. I'll be waiting for your news here at any time."

The occultist wanted to end the conversation, and finally reminded: "If you decide to join the Scarlet Dinner Party, then I will have to find other vampires to cooperate with."

Shen Cheng looked up at him: "What should I call you?"

The occultist placed his hand on his heart and bowed slightly.

"You can call me Stargazer. Tianxuanxing."

As soon as the words fell, the entire display went black.

Shen Cheng stood there motionless, reviewing the entire conversation between the two parties in his mind from beginning to end.

Suddenly, the cell phone in his pocket vibrated. He took it out and saw that it was Xiao Qingque calling.

Shen Cheng put the phone to his ear and answered: "What's the matter?"

Xiao Qingque's nervous voice came from the phone: "Help, I'm being watched by the Public Security Bureau, I'm not kidding."

(End of this chapter)