Chapter 243 Secret Room Murder Case
According to Yin Hong's memory, his previous master was named Zhu Jing, a vampire who lived in seclusion in the federal capital. He should have a deep relationship with the Scarlet Dinner Party. He was a wealthy and powerful boss who kept a group of vampires under him.

This can be seen from the place where Zhu Jing lives. The residents of such high-end communities are either rich or noble. If you don't have a net worth of more than ten small goals, don't even think about living here.

Ordinary people have to make an appointment to enter the community. Once you dare to break in, you will see what a retired urban soldier security guard is like.

Shen Cheng parked the car nearby, then used mind magic to cover his tracks, strolled into the community, and soon arrived in front of Zhu Jing's villa.

The door of the villa was closed. Shen Cheng had no intention of visiting directly. Instead, he summoned the demon armor and sensed the energy inside the villa first.

The result of the perception was that there was no energy reaction in the villa, not even a living person, it was empty like an uninhabited haunted house.

In fact, Shen Cheng had long suspected that the Eternal Blood had been absorbed by Zhu Jing.

He came here now, just holding a little hope like buying a lottery ticket in his heart - what if Zhu Jing did not absorb the Eternal Blood, but stored it?
Unless he tries, he won't be able to let go of the hope in his heart.

Now is undoubtedly a good opportunity. Zhu Jing doesn't seem to be at home, so Shen Cheng goes to his house to search.

If Zhu Jing really hid the Eternal Blood and I took it away secretly, I wouldn't have to have a head-on conflict with him. This would be the best outcome.

If you can't find it, you can just let your heart hang in the balance.

The doors and windows of the villa were locked, but this did not pose a problem for Shen Cheng. He easily entered the villa.

The interior decoration of the villa was as luxurious as the manor arranged for him by Tianxuanxing. He used infinite fission to create more than a dozen split bodies at the same time, and explored the entire villa separately.

Ten minutes later, all the split bodies gathered together again in front of a door and became one person.

The exploration yielded nothing, and many rooms were even empty. Judging from the traces of life, it seemed that Zhu Jing was the only one living here.

According to Yin Hong's memory, Zhu Jing should have had dozens of servants taking care of his daily life, and at least five servants who were related to him by blood.

Could it be that he had moved away? Then my trip would have been in vain.

In the entire villa, only the last door was not searched.

In Yin Hong's memory, behind this door is the access to the basement, where he stole Zhu Jing's eternal blood.

Shen Cheng pushed the door open and saw a staircase leading to the basement.

Walking down the stairs, the voice-controlled lights gradually lit up with the sound of his footsteps.

At the end of the stairs, there was another closed door.

The door was locked, but Shen Cheng smelled blood through the crack in the door.

He immediately pushed the locked door open with force.

boom!
The lights came on as the door was pushed open, and what appeared in Shen Cheng's eyes was an extremely spacious round study.

The study is surrounded by circular bookshelves filled with thousands of books. It is surrounded by potted plants, handicrafts, sofas, coffee tables and other furnishings. In the middle of the study is a spacious desk.

There was a dead body lying on the desk, it was Yin Hong's former master Zhu Jing.

He was already dead, his blood was all over the floor, and the strong smell of blood filled the entire study.

"A closed room murder?"

A thought emerged in Shen Cheng's mind, and his expression was slightly surprised.

He had imagined many possibilities before coming here, but he never thought that he would actually break into a secret room and commit murder.

It was obvious that Zhu Jing had been murdered, and it must have been not long ago because the blood on the ground had not yet coagulated.

If I had come earlier, I might have been able to meet the murderer.

Taking a deep breath, Shen Cheng calmed himself down from the shock.

The good news now is: there is no need to worry about a head-on conflict with Zhu Jing.

But the bad news is: Zhu Jing’s collection of eternal blood was most likely also stolen.

Come on, brother, I came here from far away, at least leave me some hair.

Shen Cheng hurried into the study and came to Zhu Jing's body, only to find that there was a hole on his chest that went through from front to back, as if someone had ripped out his heart and killed him.

However, Zhu Jing is a vampire, and there seems to be no signs of fighting in the study. How powerful must the murderer be to be able to kill him instantly?

Or maybe the study wasn’t the first crime scene?

Fortunately, these puzzles are not difficult for the famous detective Shen Cheng.

He reached out and touched Zhu Jing's body, absorbing the white light flickering on the body.

Zhu Jing's memories began to surge in Shen Cheng's mind.

Unlike what he guessed, Shen Cheng originally thought that Zhu Jing had only some relationship with the Xianhong Dinner Banquet. However, after seeing the memory, he realized that Zhu Jing was actually one of the top leaders of the Xianhong Dinner Banquet.

The headquarters of the Scarlet Dinner is located in the federal capital, with one president and five vice presidents.

The president is an ace vampire and the founder of the Scarlet Dinner. However, due to pressure from the federal government, the founder retired a long time ago and lived in seclusion behind the scenes.

The remaining five vice presidents jointly manage the affairs of the entire Bright Red Dinner, and Zhu Jing is one of them.

Zhu Jing has a lot of memories, but most of them are useless memories from his long life, or memories that Shen Cheng is not interested in. He can only pick out some useful ones to read and watch.

The most important thing is the Eternal Blood.

The existence of eternal blood is no secret to vampires of Zhu Jing's level.

Not only him, the president and five vice presidents of the Scarlet Dinner Party all knew this very well. Whether openly or secretly, they had been collecting the Eternal Blood everywhere.

One of the reasons why Zhu Jing was able to become vice president was because he found a large amount of eternal blood and handed it over to the Scarlet Dinner, thereby gaining huge credit.

But this was not because Zhu Jing was acting out of public interest, but because he knew very well that he could not keep so much eternal blood, so he chose to hand it over.

In fact, he only handed over most of it, keeping a small part for himself. Later, Yin Hong stole some of it, and finally only about a goose egg-sized amount of Eternal Blood was left.

Unlike those country bumpkins like Yin Hong, Zhu Jing knew early on that the Eternal Blood could not be absorbed directly, and from the very beginning he tried to find a way to clear the chaotic consciousness in the blood.

Over the years, he relied on the Eternal Blood to secretly absorb the source blood of other vampires to enhance his own strength, and his strength has reached the top master level.

Zhu Jing knew that he was not the only one doing this, other vice presidents also did the same in private.

After all, eternal blood can enhance one's strength, and absorbing more can get rid of the curse of source blood. Which vampire doesn't like it?

However, there is nothing perfect in this world, and the same goes for Eternal Blood.

Tianxuanxing said that the more eternal blood there is, the higher the quality will be.

But what she didn't know was that after the Eternal Blood was absorbed to a certain extent, it would slowly begin to affect the absorber, changing the absorber's personality and consciousness, and eventually completely turning him into another person. Moreover, the affected absorber would have an extremely morbid desire for other Eternal Blood.

If there are two absorbers of the Eternal Blood, no matter how good the relationship between them is, even if they are husband and wife or father and son, under the influence of the Eternal Blood, they will eventually kill each other and seize the Eternal Blood in each other's bodies.

Zhu Jing absorbed too much Eternal Blood and was also affected. He recently discovered that his personality had changed unconsciously and his thirst for Eternal Blood had increased a lot.

No one would like to become someone else, and Zhu Jing is no exception.

However, as one of the top leaders of the Scarlet Dinner, Zhu Jing was well aware of the aftereffects of the Eternal Blood. Before absorbing the Eternal Blood, he had already prepared to fight against such aftereffects.

The method he adopted was to turn himself into a dual personality, using a secondary personality to bear the influence of the eternal blood, while the main personality remained independent and sober.

He drove away all the servants and locked himself in the basement of his home to try it out.

However, the attempt failed.

If this sequelae is so easy to solve, it would not have remained until now without anyone solving it.

Zhu Jing actually knew that his method had a very low success rate, but the moment he absorbed the Eternal Blood, he had no other choice.

The temptation of eternal blood to vampires is as great as the temptation of JK girls to fat otakus. Even if they know it is a trap, they will jump in with their eyes closed.

After the attempt failed, Zhu Jing's secondary personality turned into another person affected by the Eternal Blood. The two sides began to fight fiercely for control of the body, even to the point of death.

Before the two personalities could decide the winner, a third person suddenly appeared. He was the murderer who killed Zhu Jing.

The murderer wrapped himself tightly and wore a mask on his face, so it was impossible to tell his identity just by looking at his appearance.

But Zhu Jing knew that the murderer could only be the other vice presidents of the Scarlet Dinner.

Because there was a secret passage in his basement that led directly to the Scarlet Dinner Party headquarters, but it has now been closed by him, and he has also sent people to guard the other side.

The murderer came out from the secret passage, and only the other vice presidents had the ability to force open the secret passage.

In addition, Zhu Jing is a vampire who escaped from the Eternal Empire, and has irreconcilable regional conflicts with the other two native vice presidents.

The two sides have had many conflicts before, but they have not yet torn their faces apart.

"who are you?"

While Zhu Jing was trying hard to wrest control of his body from the secondary personality inside him, he was also looking at the murderer who was coming with ill intentions.

"Are you Bi Lei or Gong Ye Si?"

These two names are the other two vice presidents, who have had conflicts with him many times and are the enemies most likely to murder him.

"How dare you care about who I am? You should first pay attention to your own situation."

The murderer chuckled: "You are actually affected by the Eternal Blood at this time. I can only say that you are very unlucky."

His voice had been specially modified, so Zhu Jing couldn't tell who it was.

"I am indeed unlucky, but aren't you also affected?"

Zhu Jing stared at the murderer's eyes with burning eyes: "At least I can still resist, but you, I'm afraid you have already been transformed into another person by the eternal blood, right?"

Each vice president has absorbed a large amount of Eternal Blood, and has reached the critical point of being affected, and dares not continue to absorb.

The murderer in front of him was obviously coming for his eternal blood, and he must have become a different person under the influence of the eternal blood.

Only then will they ignore the side effects and want to absorb more.

"Is there a possibility?"

The murderer's eyes were filled with smiles, and even his voice revealed obvious joy: "I have found a way to overcome the sequelae of the Eternal Blood."

"This is impossible!"

Zhu Jing blurted out in shock.

He believed that his talent and ability were no worse than anyone else's, but he was helpless in the face of the aftereffects of the Eternal Blood and could only resort to the method of dual personality, which had a very low success rate.

He doesn't believe others can overcome it.

In the excitement, Zhu Jing was almost completely suppressed by his secondary personality, and his whole body was twisting on the chair like a fish.

"I know it's hard for you to believe, but it's true."

The murderer spoke in a relaxed tone, walked up to Zhu Jing, and looked down at him: "In fact, I am very grateful to you. If it weren't for you losers who are struggling with the sequelae of the Eternal Blood, constantly looking for a way out, and constantly trying and failing, I would not have found the correct answer. I want to thank you for your dedication."

The murderer raised his hand and pointed it at Zhu Jing: "I will make your death very easy, without any pain at all."

"Impossible... This is simply impossible..."

Zhu Jing still couldn't believe that the murderer had found the correct answer, especially now that he had failed so miserably.

Under the threat of death, Zhu Jing wanted to rise up and resist.

But his other irrational and insane secondary personality has completely suppressed him, making him unable to control his body and abilities.

"farewell."

The murderer took action directly, stabbing his arm into Zhu Jing's chest and sucking out all the source blood and eternal blood in his body.

Zhu Jing's memory ended here. After reading the memory, Shen Cheng had a purple card in his hand.

On the front of the card there is a finger pointing at a round stone, which is emitting golden light.

The four-star chaos-type ability, called molecular reconstruction, also known as turning stone into gold, can convert any object into another substance.

The simplest example is turning stone into gold, and this is a permanent change that will not return to its original state after a period of time.

In other words, he was afraid that if he produced too much gold, he would be beheaded by the federal government. Otherwise, Zhu Jing alone could bring down the entire federal economy.

Zhu Jing's ability allowed Shen Cheng to see a future of financial freedom. At least he no longer had to be supported by rich women like Tian Xuanxing or Ruan Qingsha.

However, Zhu Jing's last wish was not to kill the murderer to avenge himself, but to find out whether the murderer had really solved the sequelae of the Eternal Blood.

It seems that this incident had a great impact on Zhu Jing, causing him to completely break down before his death. He would rather not seek revenge than not get to the bottom of the matter.

Shen Cheng absorbed the ability card, but his attention was completely focused on Zhu Jing's memory.

In this memory, he obtained a crucial piece of information—the Eternal Blood actually had side effects.

(End of this chapter)