Chapter 152 The Last Heart

[Failed Man: Cultural person, I suggest you don’t come to meet us recently. ]

【Anti-dog: Why? 】

[Failed Man: Gastro used an item and found out that there was a player next to the vampire he was looking for, so he wanted to find that player to lead the way for him.]

[Anti-dog: Isn't that you? What does it have to do with me? ]

[Failed Man: It's me, but I don't trust him, so I'll let you take the blame first. ]

[Anti-dog: Oh, you really know how to cause trouble for me. ]

Ke Mingye was reminding Anti-Dog through his mind on the chat panel when Gastro's voice interrupted his thoughts.

"What does the 'anti-dog' look like?"

He answered casually: "I wear glasses, look like a smart guy, like to wear a black windbreaker, and occasionally wear a deersteck hat."

"I've got it in mind. Next time I meet him, I'll try to confirm his background." Gastro said, and suddenly changed the subject, "Of course, it's possible that you're lying to me, and you're actually the 'player' who has a vampire hidden in your home."

There was a hint of childishness in her voice and her eyes seemed to be able to penetrate people's hearts.

But Ke Mingye remained calm. He was silent for a while and said, "Let's not talk about who that player is. Let's talk about more important issues."

"Go ahead," Gastro said.

"First of all, why are you looking for a vampire? Also, what exactly is this 'prophecy' you mentioned, and why do you know that there is a...white-haired vampire in this city?"

"It's really rude to ask two questions at the same time. I'll start with the first question."

Gastro clasped his hands together, placed them on his chin, and said slowly, "The reason I looked for vampires was to save myself."

"Save yourself..." Ke Mingye raised his eyebrows and asked in confusion, "What do you mean?"

Gastro said: "Since I came here, my body has been engraved with the 'blood clan mark'."

"What is the blood clan mark?"

"That was something a vampire left on me many years ago. It didn't kill me, but it left this mark on me. Every month since then, this mark has regularly drawn fresh blood from my body and passed it on to that vampire. Perhaps only when I die will it stop drawing blood from me."

Gastro paused for a moment and said, "In short, this body has been branded with the blood by that nameless vampire since I was three years old. It has been thirteen years now."

She held her chin with her hand and said calmly, "As far as I can remember, this body has been supplying blood to the owner of the brand every year. To it, I am like an automatic blood-drinking machine. No matter where it is or how far away it is from me, it can draw a mouthful of fresh blood from me every month."

"Although you think these are 'memories that don't belong to me', it is still painful to recall them, and my body also retains the traces of years of torture."

Ke Mingye remained silent, quietly waiting for her to explain the whole story.

"Then just half a month ago, the blood hunters killed the nameless vampire... But despite this, the mark on my body has not disappeared, and the power of the mark is even getting stronger day by day."

Gastro lowered his eyes and spoke calmly.

"If I don't find a way to remove the brand, I will most likely be drained of blood in a month and die inexplicably."

Hearing this, Ke Mingye slowly asked, "Then what is the relationship between this white-haired vampire you are looking for and the mark on your body?"

Gastro replied: "Half a month ago, I found a note in the base camp of the vampires. The note said that in order to remove the vampire mark on me, I must collect the hearts of three different types of vampires."

"And now we have two types of vampire hearts in our hands. We are only missing the last one, which is the most important and rarest one."

She paused and emphasized: "The last heart must come from a white-haired vampire - this is the rarest type among the blood clan, and there are only a handful of them. It is even possible that there is only this one white-haired vampire left in the world. But we can't find her location for the time being, because there is no tracking method for this kind of vampire." She wants the heart?

If what the player with the ID "Gastro" said was true, then without Bai Ziling's heart, she would die. No wonder she looked so persistent.

Without a heart, even a vampire cannot be reborn... Then if Bai Ziling's heart is taken away by a blood hunter, she will definitely die.

Ke Mingye lowered his head, thinking and asking: "Then how can you confirm that the white-haired vampire is in this city?"

"Those vampire hunters gave me a book. The system determined that this book was a quasi-A-level item. The effect is that once a month, you can use this book to predict a specific event. So I used the power of this book to predict the location and whereabouts of the white-haired vampire."

Having said that, Gastro raised his eyes slightly and met the gaze of the trickster puppet.

"According to the picture given in this book, the white-haired vampire is hiding in this city. And the prophecy also told me that there is a player next to the vampire. This makes the clue obvious - I need to find the player and ask him to lead the way for me to trick the vampire out so that I can take her heart."

Ke Mingye pondered for a moment.

"I see. So if you don't get this heart, you will really die?"

"Of course." Gastello said calmly, "Believe it or not."

She lowered her voice and continued.

"Anyway, based on what I understand, it's not just the 'Anti-Dog' you mentioned. Every player in this city could be the person I'm looking for, or even... that person could be you."

At the end of his speech, Gastro stared at Ke Mingye motionlessly, observing his expression.

The expression of the trickster puppet remained calm. He said, "I still can't trust you completely, especially since you used a puppet to meet us. What if you are actually threatened by the authorities and want to recruit all of us players and catch us all in one fell swoop?"

"Then what do you have to do to believe me?"

"Let me meet you in person and the vampire hunters behind you." Ke Mingye said.

"Are you sure?"

"very sure."

"Okay, let's meet some other day."

"Actually, I still don't quite understand what the benefit is for us to help you." Ke Mingye asked, "Will you let the vampire hunters around you cooperate with us to exterminate superhumans? It would be better to say that these vampire hunters themselves are superhumans, right?"

"Well first, let me ask a question."

"what is the problem?"

"How do you confirm that the player who has a vampire at home will not betray you?"

Gastro paused and said calmly, "What's more, he has been lurking among you for a long time, but he didn't tell you that there is a superhuman in his family... Doesn't this just mean that he is very likely to have compassion and want to protect his family from you players?"

After saying that, she lowered her voice slightly and said, "Let's catch him together. It will be good for both of us."

Ke Mingye lowered his head and was silent for a while. He then said calmly, "As far as I know, based on my familiarity with these players... no matter who the player you are talking about is, he should not attack his companions just for the sake of feelings and memories that do not belong to him."

"How can you be sure?" Gastro sighed. "Human nature is very complicated... He has a superhuman at home, and his mind is filled with memories of being with this superhuman day and night... Do you think he can really tell the difference? When other players want to attack his relatives, can he really stand firm?"

She took a sip of lemonade and then asked.

"Don't you think a person like this sounds dangerous?"

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