Shadow of the Beautiful World

You got into trouble yourself!

In the grand duke's luxurious reception room, Merlin's expression was very indifferent. He looked at the legendary vampire in front of him, and said:

When something goes wrong in that experiment, you should take measures instead of treating it as if nothing happened, and then tell us everything when the situation is beyond control a year later.

It's you!

Merlin pointed at the Grand Duke with a slightly rude gesture, and he said:

You caused this trouble! You are responsible for solving it!

I did not shirk my responsibility, Your Excellency Merlin.

The Grand Duke said:

I've made a decision, and I'm on your side.

The most elite blood knights in my family are ready to go. My daughter Nissa will lead them and assist you in the first phase of the battle. As for myself... I will break my oath and join you and Degu La fight.

I'm not standing by, Mr. Merlin.

Don't act as if you sacrificed something important, Mr. Makinos.

Merlin said bluntly:

These are what you should do! Now, tell me, what happened to that mutant r? Tell me exactly, don't hold anything back.

Let me tell you this.

The Grand Duke's daughter, Miss Nissa, who had outstanding temperament, face, and figure, walked into the living room with some documents and photos. With her father's tacit approval, she handed the documents to Merlin and Elsa.

Merlin looked at the photo in his hand, it was a dead body, but the body looked very frightening.

Under the blue light, the entire chest of the corpse was opened, as if the bones had been cut open in a cruel way, exposing the internal organs.

But what made Merlin feel weird was not the horror of the corpse, but the heart that was protected by a strange bone plate in the open wound.

The twisted mass of flesh and blood was obviously abnormal.

Merlin has seen a vampire's heart, and he has dissected a few of them himself. This is not a normal vampire's heart, and the bone plates around the heart should not exist.

And, the mouth of this corpse...

Its jaw was separated from the center, forming a more terrifying three-piece mouth, and in the distorted mouth, there were all kinds of curved teeth, which looked like a strange shape.

Merlin finally understood why the Grand Duke of Makinos called this kind of infected person Resident Evil. This thing is indeed very similar to the walking corpses described in those human zombie movies.

Just like the daywalker's blade who is not afraid of the sun, silver and garlic, the genes of the orthodox blood will mutate under certain circumstances, and they will evolve into forms that we are not familiar with due to various reasons. ..In the current blood lineage, the strange forms of those marginalized families are derived from the mutation of this gene.

Nissa stood in front of Merlin and Elsa, like a commentator, and explained to Merlin and Elsa:

The biological research laboratory established by my father in Europe is based on the principle of this gene mutation, trying to find a way to alleviate or even eliminate the hemophilia of the blood group. Of course, it is not to simulate the mutation in nature. The probability of that is too small , we use various methods to actively stimulate the experimental subjects to undergo biological mutations.

Merlin nodded, he had heard of similar concepts.

In fact, not only vampires, but also humans have been trying to create better individuals through genetic mutations.

Captain America Steve Rogers, and even Merlin himself, are the product of this kind of biological mutation. The witcher mutation experienced by Elsa Bloodstone next to Merlin is the most representative of this kind of biological mutation one of the examples.

These experiments...

Merlin looked at the horrifying, weird, and curious pictures in his hand, and said:

I guess none of them volunteered to join your experiment?

No, they are voluntary.

The Grand Duke said softly:

Never underestimate the influence of a legendary vampire in the minds of lower-ranking vampires. In Europe, as long as I send out invitations, my weak compatriots will flock to them. A chance to make a good impression, even if it costs them their lives.

But the customs and forms of the vampire society are not the focus of today's discussion... Nissa, let's continue.

Okay, father.

Miss Nissa continued:

Experiment R is the most special one among all the subjects undergoing mutation experiments. He is a pure-blood. In fact...he is my brother, the son of my father.

???

When Merlin heard the shocking news, he couldn't help but look back at the Supreme Grand Duke. The latter didn't have a special reaction, he just whispered:

If my son wants to inherit my status, he must make sacrifices for the race... His strength has been stuck at a high level for hundreds of years. If he does not take risks, he will not be able to break through the shackles of legend.

You don't need to look at me with such strange eyes, Your Excellency Merlin, this is Chad's own choice, this is a great sacrifice, it's just that he is not very lucky.

My brother was indeed genetically modified voluntarily.

Compared to Furui Wubo's father, Nisha had a trace of unconcealable sadness on her face, she said softly:

He is a good brother, he is braver than me, unfortunately, that experiment destroyed him, the cursed power burst out in his body, twisting his will and thinking, he killed the guards in the laboratory, and then Fleeing, we have been looking for him, but then we learned that he met Dracula and became Dracula's follower.

The descendants of the shadows, that is the most elite group of fighters under Dracula's command.

The Grand Duke said:

Dracula gave them his own blood, allowing them to break through the shackles and make them stronger, but the price is that they must serve Dracula for life, until their bodies collapse, until their souls perish.

This is your family business.

Merlin says:

What I'm more curious about is, what kind of mutation did poor Chad accept? Will his blood infection ability decline with the dilution of the hemophilia virus?

At present, it seems that it will not.

Nissa said in a tone full of worry and fear:

Chad's mutation allows him to feed not only on human blood, but also on the blood of blood races, and the virus he carries has a nearly 100% infection conversion rate, and the conversion rate will not decrease with lower-level infections, but luckily Unfortunately, the mutants he creates are no more powerful than commoner vampires.

The vampire lady was talking, and handed Merlin a picture of Chad's mutation. In the picture, the man with the hood was in a very dim environment, but in the dark background, the guy's ugly face was still clearly visible .

Nissa says:

The r mutant itself is powerful. Due to the biological mutation, he has parasitic mutant organs like flesh and blood tentacles in his body. This mutant organ can regenerate super fast, so Chad's self-healing ability is more than ten times that of ordinary vampires. , we discovered in past pursuits that he is no longer afraid of silver bullets and garlic essence.

So in theory, your biological experiment was actually partially successful?

Elsa said coldly:

You have successfully created a monster that is immune to multiple fatal injuries from vampires.

No, Chad's experiment didn't work, and the most important trait we wanted to see didn't show up.

The Grand Duke took up the conversation and said:

As the price for this terrible predatory ability, Chad, my handsome son himself became extremely ugly. His hair fell off all over his body, his mandible also fell off a few days after the experiment, and his jaw split like a stitched wound. A part of the sharp teeth, the tentacle-like suckers are hidden inside, and every drop of blood carries a mutated virus.

Even with the most relaxed aesthetics of the blood race, he has become a real monster. The painful mutation not only distorted my child's body, but also made his spirit sensitive and aggressive.

Grand Duke Makinos sighed and said:

Chad's thirst for blood is growing day by day. Although he is immune to the threat of silver bullets and garlic essence, the damage to him from sunlight is multiplied, and the weapons of ultraviolet rays can also cause multiple damage to him. In addition, he The heart is still fatal, but it is protected by the strong bone plate in the chest, so it is difficult to be injured.

But none of that is the scariest.

The Grand Duke raised his head, stared at Merlin, and said:

I suspect that even at this stage, Chad's biological mutation may not be over, especially after receiving Dracula's source blood with endless vitality, he may continue to mutate...

It's getting trickier the more you listen.

Merlin and Elsa looked at each other, and he said:

Maybe in addition to the bad news, you should tell us some good news. Let me confirm, there should be good news, right? After you told me that there is currently a monster in the underground of New York that can create a mutation crisis that is sweeping the world alone, You should at least tell me some news that will reassure me a little bit, right?

have.

Nissa says:

I said before that the lower-level infected bodies created by Chad are not more difficult to deal with than civilian vampires. I'm not just talking nonsense.

She took out a few photos from the file in her hand, and waved her hand to suspend them in mid-air with blood magic. The photos showed a few distorted and mutated vampires being ignited in the sun.

She said to Merlin:

First of all, the lower mutants infected by Chad will lose most of their sanity. They are white-skinned and skinny, like beasts, and only obey Chad's orders. They will only act according to instinct, and this alone makes these mutants a threat Much less, as long as Chad isn't there to direct them, they're easy to lure into a trap.

Secondly, these creatures we named 'Vampire', although they inherited part of Chad's super self-healing and brute force, and the silver bullets are less lethal to them, but they also inherited Chad's weakness , and that weakness has been magnified.

Nissa pointed to the sky and said to Merlin and Elsa:

As long as they are exposed to sunlight or strong ultraviolet radiation, they will be burned immediately or even burned to death within a short time.

The most important thing is that these lower mutants do not have a complete mutant gene. Their metabolism in the body is too fast, and they can only move at full strength for a few hours. If they cannot find supplementary blood, they will consume their own blood and then quickly die.

Nissa said to Merlin and Al confidently:

The Blood Knights under my command are completely sure to clean them up in a short period of time. As long as Chad's influence is excluded, that's what my father and I want you to do.

We are here to deal with the vampires that are spreading rapidly in Sulfur Port. We will join hands with other forces in Sulfur Port, but we need the sharpest knives to pierce the hearts of Dracula's followers. De, we hope that you can solve it.

Merlin didn't answer this request right away, he looked at the information in his hand seriously, and Nissa and the Grand Duke are also very patient people, their long lives have made them adapt to this waiting time.

The living room became dead silent for a while because of Merlin's silence, until a few minutes later, Merlin finished reading the last page of information, and he said:

Before r-type low-level mutants die or are killed by sunlight, even if their brains are destroyed, their bodies will still actively hunt. This is almost exactly the same as the zombies in film and television works. They are very fierce one-time fighters. Once they appear in the Even one or two in New York City would spark a round of social panic.

I can promise you that we can cooperate, but there is a premise... These mutants must be completely cleaned up in Sulfur Harbor! Not even one can be missed!

I will apply to my superiors to dispatch troops to assist you, so information about the route to Sulfur Harbor and that city... I want all the information you have about that city!

As expected of Mr. Raven.

Grand Duke Makinos clapped his hands and praised:

You can accurately find opportunities in any bad things. Are you planning to use this to reach into Sulfur Harbor?

We monitor outliers.

Merlin said blankly:

We also protect the aliens. The current situation has proved that the aliens in Sulfur Harbor cannot protect themselves. In this case, isn't it normal for us to intervene?

good!

The Grand Duke agreed to Merlin's request without hesitating for too long.

Merlin nodded in satisfaction. He put down the documents in his hand, glanced at Elsa, and then said to the Grand Duke:

One more thing, a colleague of mine, a brilliant master witcher, tracked Dracula into Brimstone Harbor a few months ago, but I lost touch with him after that, maybe you can Tell me something about him.

Witcher?

A hint of doubt flashed across the Supreme Grand Duke's face, he turned his head to look at his daughter, and asked:

Nisa, has anyone from us in Brimstone returned any news about the witcher?

No, no, father.

Miss Vampire says:

Sulphur Harbor is a place where demon hunters are forbidden to enter, and there has been no news of demon hunters appearing there for several years.

There was a trace of regret on Nissa's face, she said to Merlin:

Even if a demon hunter really sneaked into that city, under the current circumstances, Dracula has risen strongly, which also proves that your friend is most likely in danger.

Elsa's fingers tightened at this moment, and Merlin shook his head, saying:

No, no, I firmly believe that he is still alive and well... Tell me the route and method to that city.

Before the operation begins, I will go to investigate myself.