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The northern border is chaotic and free.

As well as the merchants and residents, there are also thieves and drunken scoundrels.

The streets are messy, and you can hear jokes and dirty words everywhere.

Lyons shuttled through it like a ghost at midnight.He is tall, but he will not meet passers-by in crowded streets.

Andre was wrapped in an inconspicuous cloak, hiding his pale skin and dark golden pupils under the hood, and leisurely followed the hunter who was speeding ahead.

The market stretched all the way and stopped abruptly in front of a building, leaving a quiet area.

Across an empty street, a European-style building stands alone.

The reliefs of crosses and vampires on the quartz pillars are solemn and eerie, completely different from the opposite street filled with the sour smell of malt fermentation and the smell of fireworks from human activities.

Lyons cut his palm, dripping blood onto the carving on the door.

Dark red blood spread throughout the pattern like paint.Shotguns and stakes on circular carvings come to life stained with blood.

There was a heavy friction sound from the stone door, and the sound of metal collisions caused by the mechanical operation sounded one after another.

A row of silver guns protruded from behind the stone gate, crossed Lyons, and aimed directly at Andre behind him.

The handcuffs hang loosely on Andre's wrist, and the hood has slipped off, revealing his pale complexion and sharp fangs, "Is this a greeting gift to me?"

"The risk factors of the suspects related to the Sunwalker in the North District have been checked." Lioness took out his ID and lifted Andre's cloak, revealing the silver handcuffs inside.

Safety was confirmed inside the door, and the gun was retracted.

Lyons walked to the door, turned around and showed Andre a half-official and half-provocative smile, "Reciprocity, my advisor."

The Blood Hunt branch is comparable to the castle in the black pine forest.The hall is empty, and walking in it echoes.

Andre shook off the cloak from his first step into the blood hunt, and unceremoniously stepped on the badge on the back of the cloak when he stepped into the gate.

The hall is lit only by candlelight, and the walls are hung with portraits of famous hunters of all ages, as well as several famous wars.

"It's still a group of old guys who are afraid of death. When can you reform and reform? It's better to arrange some welcoming decorations in the hall. Otherwise, you may think you are in the cemetery." Andre rubbed his wrists, and the handcuffs made a crisp sound as they fell to the ground. Mocking echoes echoed in the hall.

Lyons followed him and picked up the cloak and handcuffs and replied: "The ones who can enter here are either our own people or prisoners. Compared with welcoming guests, a funeral is indeed more appropriate. No one is allowed to enter the archives room. You go to the interrogation room and wait for me. The case code is Daywalker 01."

"Let me act alone here, and the beard of your boss will be angry." Andre had no objection, and walked skillfully to the third candlestick at the end of the hall, resting his slender fingers on it and pulling the mechanism under the candlestick.

In the roar of the mechanism starting, Lioness looked at him and said seriously, "If you want to sleep in the cell again, I don't mind arresting you at this moment."

"Just try." Andre replied bluntly, walking down the stairs.

The interrogation room and cells are in the basement.Two full floors.

The whole space is built of stones and lit by candles.It is very suitable for holding prisoners.On the walls on both sides of the stone steps are paintings of hunters beheading vampires.It is in line with the unique aesthetics of this group of hunters in Andre's impression.

Bloodhunt does not have a separate interrogation room.Each cell has two parts, separated by a barred window, where one is held and the other is interrogated.

The person in charge of guiding is a newcomer, who is passively sabotaging his work at the moment, lying on the workbench and pointing to the cell number, before dozing off again.

Andre didn't care.Follow the guide to find the corresponding cell.

There are many kinds of blood hunting cells.Some are covered with iron railings, covered with straw, and some are closed with special transparent materials.

The former imprisoned rogues and murderers, and the latter imprisoned vampires.

Andre sniffed, and looked through the iron railing at the trembling girl curled up on the straw pole.

The girl sensed that someone was coming, and looked up for a moment, her pupils suddenly narrowed, staring at Andre as if she saw a hungry wolf.

Andre smiled at her, his dark golden pupils turned red, "Hello, my kind."

The child who was curled up quietly jumped up suddenly, hit the railing, and let out a fierce and trembling roar.The girl had flaxen hair, and her pupils, which should have been brown, shone with a dark red light.Although the two fangs at the corners of the mouth are fiercely exposed, they are too small, and in Andre's view, they are as cute as the canine teeth of a human child.

The movement disturbed the jailer, who beat the railing with a stick to wake him up.

Interested, Andrei asked the approaching jailer, "What did she do?"

His tone was gentle and elegant, but his eyes were still strangely red, and his fangs were slightly exposed.

"Suck... a vampire!" The jailer was so frightened that he put on a show, raised his stick, and hurriedly reached for the silver gun in his pocket with his left hand.

"Are you blood hunters so slow now?" Andre frowned, pointed his gun barrel and made a crisp sound, and rolled on the ground, "Remember to ask your captain for reimbursement."

The jailer stared blankly at the broken pistol, lost his voice for a moment, and began to howl for help.

The sound disturbed the patrol team. Seeing the rescuers crawling and hiding behind, the jailer pointed at Andre and shouted, "Report to your superiors, the blood race has invaded the interrogation room! Hurry up!"

"This is the second time you have pointed a gun at me." Andre was a little unhappy.

When the patrol team saw him move, they pulled the trigger reflexively, and for a while, the cell was filled with flames.The girl in the cell was disturbed and screamed.And the sound of terrified urging to shoot.

The gunfire ceased.

A group of people looked around, and there was only a messy wall and a violent little girl in front of them.

"What about people?"

"Ran away?!"

"Gun!" Someone screamed, "Gun! The gun is broken!"

Only then did the patrol notice that the gun in his hand was broken neatly, and the barrel fell off the ground with a crackle.

"Andre." Lioness followed the patrol team members who went to report, frowning and reproachfully shouting at the man leaning on the railing behind the patrol team.

Lioness waved the jailers and patrols out, and then said to the unrepentant vampire, "A gun costs four bucks. Next time just hit someone."

"This girl is the daywalker I told you about. She didn't have any symptoms before. She bit her uncle to death six days ago and sucked up the blood. She was found by the returning grandma and reported to the night watch team." Lyons approached the cell , handed Andre a file.

Girls don't have names.The file name line is empty.

Before this case, the child was a ghost in the North District, there was no record, and he lived in a house in a certain alley.

According to the dossier.The girl's home is very close to the black pine forest, which is regarded as the border.The family makes a living by cutting trees and selling firewood.There are grandma, uncle and two younger brothers in the family.The family had a hard time.

The family is full of old and weak women and children. The girl's parents died of serious illness a few years ago, and she relies on her uncle to support the family.Grandma takes care of the children.

On the day of the incident, grandma went out to make beer for her uncle. When she came home, she saw the uncle with his neck cut open lying in the room, while the girl beside her was covered in blood and her eyes had a strange red light.

The file is very thin, maybe it is impossible to find out too much, so there are only a few sentences.After reading it, Andre asked: "Is there a sign of the Sunwalker before?"

"No." Reins replied, "I'm not afraid of the sun, so I don't like raw food. We also checked her parents. She died naturally, and she didn't have any visions before she was alive."

"Take a look at this too. The best matching blood in the blood bank is you." Lyons said as he glanced at the girl, and his eyes fell on a small burn on her right hand, "But this child doesn't look like a real blood... "

"Not as powerful as the real blood." Andre took the words, "First of all, she is not my child."

Andre crouched in front of the railing, and the girl immediately retreated defensively.Andre smiled gently at the girl, and defined, "Secondly, she is not a descendant of any blood race. She is just a low-level monster. If she is not nourished by blood, she will be confused and attack living things indiscriminately." people."

"Her smell is very mixed." Andre looked at the girl who bared her teeth at him, showing an interested smile, "Interestingly, I smell a lot of the same kind of smell on her."

Until the girl whimpered unconsciously, Andre stood up, facing Lyons and said: "But unfortunately, she is not even considered a low-level blood race, she is just a Day Walker who failed to transform."

Daywalkers, a group of people who have appeared in the past hundred years.Some said it was a disease, some said it was a curse, and others said that this group of people were God's chosen messengers.

And Andre knew that the so-called disease, be it a curse, was just the price of greed and indulgence.

The bloodline created by the high degree of fusion between blood race and human beings is not superior.

People with some bloodline genes may hate sunlight and crave raw food.They can touch the sun and live like normal people, but there are time bombs buried in their blood.

These people are called day walkers.

Lyons is not satisfied with such a conclusion.

The bloodline of the Sunwalker can be a godsend medicine or a deadly poison.But the awakening conditions and conversion rate are very low.In the past ten years, the number of cases that Blood Hunter has received and finally identified as daywalkers can be counted on the palm of one hand.

As if the suppressed plague was raging again, he had to be more vigilant.

"True?" Lioness stared at Andre, as if wondering if he was lying.

"The truth." Andre said calmly, and he didn't seem to be hiding anything.

Lynes was silent.When he was thinking, the lines of his face became tougher, and his frowning eyebrows looked too serious, "What do you mean by many of the same kind?"

"Literally." Andre turned his head and his tone sank, "It means that on this girl, I smell a lot of old guys who have lived as long as me."

"The blood race has been hiding from the world for more than a hundred years." Lyons' eyes narrowed.

Andre was noncommittal, put his hands in the gilded pockets of his jacket casually, raised his head and squinted at Lyons: "So I mean."

"A blood-sucking bat has come out."