Chapter 124 True and False Chaohu City

  Chapter 124 True and False Chaohu City

  Chapter 123

  "First of all, we must make sure that we don't confront each other head-on."

  Rosen set the first rule in his mind.

  The spiritual realm level of Blood Clan Glory is as high as Sequence 4, which means that this spiritual realm must have Sequence 4.

  The cause of death of those nobles who died in this spiritual realm must have been closely related to this.

  Then you must go to church, but you don't have to go there in person.

  Rosen's real body instantly hid in the Void Gallery, and his self-portrait clone went to the church under the identity of Xi Lei.

  As he was walking, Rosen noticed someone approaching from behind and holding his shoulder with a hand.

  "Xi Lei, I know where Farah is!"

  A low voice came from behind, and Rosen immediately turned around only to see a hunched back.

  He immediately followed. The hunchback was moving very fast and was almost left behind by Xi Lei's speed.

  Rosen followed the hunchback to a dilapidated two-story building, which was less than a hundred meters away from Xi Lei's home.

  He knew very well who the hunchback was. It was old Peter, the ragpicker who lived nearby.

  "Old Peter, you really know Farah's whereabouts."

  Rosen said excitedly after following Old Peter into the house.

  He also wears an actor's mask, which gives him instinctive mimicry abilities.

  So the Xi Lei he imitated was no different from the real Xi Lei.

  "Don't go looking for her, or you will die..."

  Old Peter told his story in a decadent tone.

  It turns out that when he was young, old Peter had a very happy family.

  My parents are still alive, I have a virtuous wife and a lovely son.

  Suddenly one night his wife and children disappeared, and even his parents didn't remember old Peter's wife and children.

  But old Peter discovered that although the person was gone and no one else remembered him, the things left by his wife and children were still there. After old Peter's repeated insistence, his parents believed what he said, and the family began to find ways to find their missing wife and children.

  Peter Sr.'s older father, who had a lot of life experience, convinced Peter Sr. to pretend that he didn't remember his wife and children.

  The one who truly remembered old Peter's wife and children was his elderly father, and it was also old Peter's father who went out to inquire.

  Although young Peter didn't understand, he was filial and obedient and did not refute.

  As a result, his father slipped and drowned that day, and old Peter couldn't even see his father's body.

  The surviving mother and son knew that their father's death might be related to the search for his missing wife and children. The frightened mother and son dared not continue to look for the truth openly, but just lived in grief and continued to look for the truth in secret.

  Many years later, old Peter accidentally discovered a church nun who looked exactly like his missing wife.

  However, the ages didn't match, so old Peter didn't doubt it at first.

  But he couldn't help but get in touch with her, and gradually discovered that this nun in the church was exactly the same as the wife in his memory.

  He couldn't help but tell his mother, and the next day his mother also died unexpectedly.

  Only then did old Peter realize that his mother must have gone to the church to verify the facts, and ended up dying in an accident just like his father.

  Old Peter wanted to know the truth and wanted revenge even more, so he couldn't bear it anymore and went to question.

  As a result, the nun in the church admitted that she was his wife and even admitted to killing his parents.

  Even their children were killed by her own hands.

  She was smiling smugly when she said this, but her eyes were filled with tears of pain and despair.

  Old Peter understood instantly that the woman in front of him was his wife but also not his.

  She still has feelings, but these feelings are suppressed by evil forces.

  Old Peter is just an ordinary person. He doesn't know what he should do or what he can do.

  He was so angry that he wanted to go and question the bishop of the church, but his wife broke his spine.

  Old Peter was paralyzed in the house, from anger to despair and finally to numbness.

  It was not until he completely gave up the search for the truth and revenge that his spine healed on its own and gradually recovered his health.

  This made old Peter realize that he, an ordinary person, could not resist the legendary murderer who possessed extraordinary powers. Gradually, old Peter lived on numbly, except for occasionally going to the church to see his still living wife from afar, he lived numbly every day.

  But people are not stone after all, and old Peter likes Xi Lei's sister Farah very much.

  The young and energetic Farah has a personality very similar to the kind-hearted wife that old Peter remembers he grew up with.

  So after hearing that Xi Lei was asking about Farah's disappearance, he finally couldn't help but come to warn Xi Lei.

  Farah might die or turn into a monster, and he didn't want to see Xi Lei die in the church as well.

  After listening to Old Peter's story, Rosen realized that Old Peter's wife must have become a vampire or a blood slave.

  He should be a blood slave. If he becomes a vampire, it is impossible for him to retain his self.

  Becoming a vampire means becoming a brand new life, and past memories are just like watching a movie.

  Only blood slaves can retain some of their own self, but they cannot escape the control of their blood masters.

  If it were Xi Lei, what would he choose after hearing this warning from old Peter?

  Just like old Peter, give up numbly and continue to go to the church...

  Rosen looked at old Peter who was immersed in painful memories, thought for a moment, then stepped forward and knocked old Peter unconscious.

  Xi Lei is not a good character. The two orphans were able to survive and their sister Farah grew up innocently and happily. This shows that Xi Lei is not a person who is easy to bully. It is not an exaggeration to describe him as a dark and cunning person.

  But even if Xi Lei is not a good person, he will not show his true self in front of Farah.

  He was even very friendly to the neighbors around him and didn't want to affect Farah because of himself.

  However, in other places in Chaohu City, Xi Lei did a lot of bad things.

  This is considered the dark history of the Simmons family. I don't know why they don't mind other nobles knowing it.

  Rosen moved old Peter to the basement of an abandoned house, tied him up carefully, and set up a timed killing mechanism.

  Then he tore off a treasured copper ring from old Peter's neck, put it on and went to the church.

  If he had not replaced Xi Lei, the real Xi Lei would have made the same choice.

  Half an hour later, Rosen, who had been sitting in the church for a while, felt someone approaching.

  This was a strange nun, who was staring at the ring on his hand and reaching out from behind to press on his head.

  Rosen did not resist and pretended to be unconscious when he was hit on the back of his head.

  When his arm was pierced by sharp nails and a blood vessel was pulled out and his blood was sucked alive.

  Rosen pretended to wake up from the pain and looked at the nun who was grabbing his veins and sucking his blood in anger and horror.

  "Where's old Peter?"

  The nun asked through gritted teeth.

  "Where's Farah?"

  Rosen growled, "Old Peter can only live if Farah lives. Give me back my Farah."

  The nun's face looked even uglier. She was just a blood slave and did not possess any strong supernatural powers.

  It's easy to kill Xi Lei, but it's not so easy to force him to tell where old Peter is.

  But it was even more impossible for her to hand over Farah, because Farah faced a completely different future from her.

  The difference between vampires and blood slaves is just one word, but their status is totally different.

  "Fara has become a vampire..."

  The nun tried to persuade him helplessly, "A new vampire is equal to a new life..."

  "The Farah you knew no longer exists!"

  "Even if you find the reborn Farah, you will be turned into her blood slave if you are lucky."

  "If you're unlucky, you'll just turn into a mummy. I don't think this is the result you want."

  Faced with the nun's earnest persuasion, Rosen remained unmoved.

  The nun had no choice but to suggest that he let old Peter go, and then she would take him to find Farah who had turned into a vampire.

  "Do as you say."

  Rosen said fiercely with an unwilling look.

  Under Farah's leadership, Rosen soon saw the true face of Chaohu City.

  In addition to the Chaohu City on the surface, there is another Chaohu City belonging to the vampires in the shadow of this city.  

  Chaohu City is backed by mountains on the left and a lake on the right. The whole city is crescent-shaped without the lake, and full-moon-shaped with the lake. The rivers extending from the lake surround the entire Chaohu City.

  The main part of the vampire city of Chaohu is located on Chaohu Lake.

  That is the vampire castle built on the lake, and another church can be seen in the shadows.

  According to the nun's explanation, in all places where there is water flow in Chaohu City, the vampires in the vampire castle can freely pass through these water flows to the surface of Chaohu City to eat. All people are blood food raised by the vampires.

  On the way to the vampire castle, Rosen saw with his own eyes that vampires were capturing real humans through water currents.

  After the hunt is over, a special blood magic is cast and the people around immediately forget about this person.

  That was just a Sequence 9 vampire, it would be impossible for him to achieve this level normally.

  Rosen roughly figured out that it should be a powerful member of the vampire clan who used the water system around Chaohu City to form a huge magic circle. At the same time, he might have done something to the drinking water in Chaohu City, and then used the power of the magic circle to manipulate the memories of ordinary people.

  Along the way, vampires kept seeing the nun with Rosen, but no one was nosy enough to stop them and ask questions.

  Rosen asked quietly, and the nun gave an unexpected explanation.

  Normal humans cannot enter the Chaohu City in the shadows. The humans who can be brought into the vampire castle by blood slaves are basically vampires of some status who are too lazy to go out hunting, so they order the blood slaves to capture humans and bring them to the vampire castle to eat directly.

  There are hundreds of thousands of blood-eaters in the entire Chaohu City, and dozens of vampires would never lose their dignity for a piece of food.

  Rosen followed the nun into the vampire castle and was brought to Farah by her.

  At this moment, the once simple-dressed, innocent and lively Farah disappeared.

  The newborn Farah was wearing an elegant long dress, adorned with spiritual jewels. She looked noble and dignified. When she saw the nun and Rosen appear in front of her, she even threw a red gem to the nun as a reward.

  The nun knelt on the ground in gratitude to thank for the gift, then left Rosen behind to rescue old Peter.

  Just after entering the castle, Rosen had already revealed old Peter's hiding place.

  "I'm not Xi Lei's sister Farah, and you're not Farah's brother Xi Lei."

  Farah said calmly while looking into the mirror with her back to Rosen.

  Rosen's pupils contracted instantly. As far as he knew, only divine perception could see through the disguise bestowed by the spiritual realm.

  Farah had just transformed into a vampire, and a Sequence 9 had mastered divine perception?

  This was obviously impossible. Could it be that Farah before him was not a newborn vampire at all, and that the consciousness in her body did not originate from Farah at all, but rather that a vampire demigod had bestowed his divinity upon Farah, just like what the Gray Squirrel did in the Battle of the Spiral Sea.

  Rosen was just about to strike first, but suddenly he felt that Farah, who was facing away from him, was gentle, generous and charming.

  For the first time, he even felt what it was like to fall in love at first sight, and was willing to kneel down and offer his loyalty to Farah.

  At this moment, Rosen himself in the Void Gallery was the first to notice that something was wrong with his self-portrait clone.

  It is obvious that the spirituality of the self-portrait doppelganger is polluted.

  Rosen came to the wall of the studio, and immediately the self-portrait consisting of a bone frame, human skin and paper appeared on the wall.

  At this moment on the drawing paper, Farah, wearing a crown, was gradually walking out from the depths of the drawing paper.

  Rosen finally understood that the Sequence 4 in the spiritual realm of Blood Clan Glory was Farah.

  After the Simmons family's ancestor Xi Lei obtained this spiritual realm, he perhaps used some means to give Farah an independent self and life, allowing Farah, who had become a vampire and disappeared in history, to live again in this spiritual realm.

  Therefore, the entire spiritual realm might be under Farah's absolute control.

  Whether all outsiders who come to this spiritual realm can get out alive probably depends entirely on Fara's mood.

  It was obvious that Farah was deeply hostile to him.

  Rosen instantly dispersed the self-portrait clone outside the Void Gallery, and then activated the emblem lock condensed by the blood seal of glory in the painting.

  Then a nightmare chain condensed, removing the entire picture frame from the wall and wrapping it up layer by layer.

  Whether it is the emblem lock or the nightmare chain, both have a sealing effect.

  However, this is just a drop in the bucket and is not enough to resist Farah's invasion for a long time.

  Seeing that there was no other way, Rosen quietly opened the mysterious study and threw the self-portrait in.

  In reality, Farah's real body in front of the dressing table suddenly felt that the spirit that invaded the Void Gallery had lost contact.

  She picked up a needle in surprise and flicked it lightly towards the Void Gallery deep in the void.

  The Void Gallery that could defend against Sequence 5 was easily pierced through the outer layer by this needle.

  However, he was unable to penetrate the gallery maze, which surprised Farah again.

  She finally got serious, and a scarlet sword flashed in her hand and stabbed towards the Void Gallery.

  At the same time, he chanted the blood clan's sealing technique, which could make a Sequence 4 spend time chanting slowly, and it could have a certain effect even on demigods. In this way, no matter how special the Void Gallery was, it would not be able to escape from Farah's palm.

  Seeing the surface of the Void Gallery being torn apart by swords, Rosen immediately hid in the mysterious study and took back the Void Gallery.

  Farah's sealing magic was in vain, and she was completely unable to capture where the Void Gallery had gone.

  No matter how hard Farah tried, she could not find any clues.

  At this time, Farah finally realized the seriousness of the situation.

  The little painter whom she didn't take seriously actually mastered a hiding method that even Sequence Four couldn't do anything about.

  If that bit of spirituality were captured, the secret she was hiding would immediately become a fatal weakness.

  At this moment in the mysterious study, Farah's figure in the self-portrait was trying her best to break free from the double seal.

  Rosen is the owner of the self-portrait. Previously, Farah continuously injected spiritual power into the painting. Naturally, the Sequence 4 self-portrait could not resist Farah's erosion. But now that it has been disconnected from Farah herself, the little spiritual power that has seeped in has become a bird in a cage.

  On the wall next to the self-portrait, a bone frame and human skin paper appeared.

  The nightmare chain locked the frame in advance, and Rosen began to paint Farah's portrait.

  Rosen now deeply suspects that Farah herself is the person in the painting.

  Even if he was a Sequence 4 vampire, in theory it was impossible to instantly erode his self-portrait through his self-portrait clone and the Void Gallery.

  Unless Farah has mastered the painter sequence, or she is the character in the painting drawn by the advanced painter sequence.

  Rosen spent two days painting Farah's portrait, then infusing the painting with Farah's spirituality.

  Only then did he use the Lord God's computer to identify the properties of this spiritual painting.

  Sure enough, his analysis was correct. Not only was Farah the person in the painting, but the entire Vampire Glory Realm was a painting.

  This should be a spiritual painting commissioned by Xi Lei by a demigod painter.

  That's why it is such a coincidence that the story of this spiritual realm is closely related to Xi Lei.

  This is why Farah can easily invade his self-portrait.

  In addition to these, the Lord God Computer also extracted a little bit of Farah's memory from Farah's spirituality.

  Through these few memories, Rosen actually knew how to control the spiritual painting of the Glory of the Vampires.

  You only need to find the original body of the spiritual painting to control it.

  And this real body is actually hidden in Xi Lei's house.

  This is also considered as the darkest place under the lamp. All the foreign nobles who came to this spiritual realm, after obtaining Xi Lei's memory, must have tried to follow Xi Lei's plot to go to the church. Who would go to Xi Lei's house to find a painting?

  However, within the limited memory, there happens to be a fatal weakness.

  No matter how you think about it, this seems like a trap.

  Rosen looked out the window and saw that two days had passed and Farah was nowhere to be found.

  Although his extraordinary intuition can sense danger, it obviously has little effect on Sequence 4.

  Rosen sensed all the dreams in Chaohu City through the mysterious study and quickly locked onto an ordinary person living near Xi Lei's home. Relying on Freddy's ability to control nightmares, he easily hypnotized this ordinary person.

  However, the moment this ordinary person approached Xi Lei's house, he was caught by the vampires who suddenly appeared.

  It was just the vampire, not Farah, who knew that the painting was a weakness but didn't take it away.

  Rosen immediately realized that if it wasn't a trap, Farah would most likely not be able to get close to the Xi Lei family.

  So he could only command the vampires to deal with any threats that wanted to approach the Xilei family.

  Luo Sheng once again targeted a person and invaded his dream, but this time he sent his self-portrait clone into the person's nightmare.

  Freddy's ability is that he can completely enter other people's nightmares.

  Although Rosen is not yet able to make the human body spiritually integrated into dreams, the self-portrait clone has more advantages in this regard. As long as it does not deviate from the maximum control distance, the self-portrait clone can come into reality from other people's nightmares.

  Relying on the concealment of Shadow Escape, the self-portrait clone quickly approached Xi Lei's house.

  However, under the observation of the God Hunter's Demon Eye, the entire Xi Lei family was blocked by layers of magic barriers.

  Breaking these magic barriers would inevitably alert the guarding vampires.

  The only good news is probably that the highest level of vampires discovered by the Godhunter's Demon Eye is only Sequence 7.

  Of course, it is also possible that the Godhunter's Demon Eye cannot see vampires above Sequence 7.

  After considering it, Rosen decided to try to force his way in.

  Anyway, it's just a self-portrait clone. Even if he dies here, it will only take some effort to rematerialize it.

  (End of this chapter)