Vampire Family: The Empress's Growth Story

Chapter 57: The Underground City
Li Mu always thought that Lawrence would take him to a store or restaurant near the Colosseum.Unexpectedly, when he opened his eyes, he found himself standing on the square of Constantine's Arc de Triomphe, with the Colosseum beside him.Although there is still light rain in the sky, tourists are still in an endless stream, adding a lot of lively atmosphere to this desolate historic site.Among them, the Chinese tour guide explained loudly to everyone: "This triumphal arch was built in about 315 AD, and it is one of the best preserved artifacts in that time period and area. The Constantine Arc de Triomphe is used to commemorate Constantine. Defeated Emperor Maxenti in the Battle of Wei Bridge. The sculptures and inscriptions are still well preserved, everyone will follow me, and take a look at the relief on my left.”

Li Mu couldn't help but asked Lawrence: "Didn't you say that the place we went to is very warm and we don't need to get in the rain?"

"It's not there yet, I'll take you over to identify the door. Let's go this way."

Lawrence took Li Mu and turned around and entered a church building far away from the scenic spot.The building looks unremarkable from the outside, and even if someone passes by occasionally, they won't take a second look at it.As soon as Li Mu came in, he could clearly feel that this place was different from other places, and there was an inexplicably familiar and friendly feeling.

There are no people in the church, and there are no reliefs and seats. There are only Baroque pillars supporting a huge space.Lawrence took Li Mu and stopped beside a pillar. Li Mu looked at this bare pillar, but he couldn't see any tricks, maybe there was some mechanism?
"You need a drop of your blood to open this door," Lawrence said.

"This is the door! What door?"

"Elevator doors."

"elevator?"

Lawrence didn't answer Li Mu again, but carefully bit Li Mu's finger with his teeth, and then motioned her to press the blood on the pillar in front of her.Li Mu did as he said, and saw the blood quickly sinking into the pillar, and then a red light flashed, and a square space appeared in the middle of the pillar, which was indeed very similar to an ordinary elevator.

Lawrence took Li Mu's hand and stood in the elevator. As soon as the two stood still, the door in front of them closed.The elevator started to run automatically, and a cold girl explained: "Welcome to Licaster Mall, and the Bloodline Trading Center welcomes you home."

Li Mu said in disbelief: "The blood clan still has a trading center?"

Lawrence said with a smile: "Of course there is. Licaster Mall is the largest blood trade center in the world. Of course, since it was rebuilt in 1956, it has mainly been the living area of ​​the Secret Party. Members of the Devil Party are like crossing the street." Everyone shouts and beats like a mouse, so they usually don’t come here.”

As soon as he spoke, the door wall opened again.Lawrence led Li Mu out of the elevator and said with a smile, "Welcome to visit the underground world of the Colosseum."

Li Mu never imagined that the world-renowned Colosseum actually had such a strange and modern underground world, and it was equally prosperous.Streets paved with cobblestones, merchandise shops, and trading halls. If it weren't for some glowing stones on the top of the head instead of common lighting lamps, Li Mu almost thought that this was an ordinary underground shopping mall in the human world.However, if you take a closer look at the signboard description at the entrance of the store, you will find that there are still some differences:
"Sell blood packs of various blood types: dine-in/take-out"

"New books on the list: "The Contributions of the Vatican Clan to Human Beings", "100 Cooking Methods of Panda Blood", "The Collection of Fitness of the Bruhe Clan""

"New favorite to the store: Imported vampire bats from South America"

"New runestones: buttons, watches, scarf buckles, brooches"

Li Mu felt that he was like Diagon Alley, where Harry Potter first entered the wizarding world. Everything around him felt very fresh, and eight eyes were not enough.

As a result, I accidentally said it after thinking about it.Hearing Li Mu's emotion, Lawrence couldn't help laughing and said, "Magic bazaars are what wizards need. Strigoi and human society are highly integrated, and most needs can be found in human society, so there are not so many tricks here. It’s nothing more than food, pets, and runestones, and the others are not on a scale. If you like to be lively, I’ll take you to the magic market in Mexico if I have a chance.”

Li Mu nodded and walked around like a curious baby.

"Are those glowing stones also runestones? Why isn't the place illuminated with electric lights like the elders?"

"This market has existed since 1843. The last renovation was in 1956. The famous architect Oswald Matthias Ungels presided over the reconstruction. The whole building also maintained the original Baroque style. There were no electric lights at that time. , and it’s too big here, and it’s hidden so deep underground. If the circuit is used to transform, firstly, the amount of work will be large, and secondly, the huge power consumption will be easily exposed to humans, so the habit of using runestones for lighting has been used all the time. to date."

"It's just the size of a Colosseum, so it doesn't look very big."

"Little fool, we are now on the 3rd floor underground. In fact, there is another floor below that is twice the size of this place. There are 7 exhibition halls and 3 trading halls. Thousands of people are active in it every day. Think about the power demand. how many."

"There are four basement floors? Let's go down and have a look."

"The following is not suitable for you, and the event is about to start, you have more important things to do."

"Activity? What activity?"

Lawrence played a riddle mysteriously, and dragged Li Mu to the door of a shop selling runestones.This store is extremely lively and crowded with people. It can be seen just through the window that this is probably the largest and busiest runestone store in the mall.When I walked into the store, I heard a customer ask: "Is there a bigger green runestone?" "I have been waiting for you to engrave for 10 minutes, why is it still not ready?"

As soon as the busy waiter saw Lawrence coming in, he immediately put on a warm smile and greeted him: "Elder Lawrence, why did you come here to pick up the runestones in person today? I'll send you directly to the square in a while."

Lawrence nodded and said, "Choose one for Her Royal Highness."

"His Royal Highness?" The waiter looked at Lawrence in surprise, then at Li Mu, and immediately responded, "You are Her Royal Highness? You are really beautiful! Welcome back, my name is Dodo, I am honored to be You serve. It's too messy outside, please follow me to the VIP box for a while."

(End of this chapter)