Chapter 22

Dark and damp.

This is the dungeon inside the vampire castle, where a large number of human slaves are imprisoned. From time to time, pale vampire servants come to select those with better appearances and fairer skin. These people are assigned to serve the various noble classes within the castle, becoming their exclusive source of blood. As for those human slaves with poorer appearances, they are relegated to the lowest ranks, providing blood to the lowest-level blood slaves at regular intervals.

Zhao Futu heard a series of painful moans, all coming from the individual cells.

Although many of those imprisoned separately were infected with the werewolf virus, there were still a few lucky ones who did not encounter the 50% chance of infection. However, since they were not infected with the werewolf virus, they naturally did not have the werewolves' powerful regenerative abilities. Their wounds, inflicted by werewolves, could not heal on their own, and prolonged blood loss brought them to the brink of death.

However, the vampires paid no attention to them. These bloodline creatures treated them like pigs or dogs, chaining them up and leaving them to await death.

The first victim to die appeared.

He was in the second position to the right of Zhao Futu, a young man in his twenties. Two bloody wounds, deep and gory, ran across his ribcage. If they had been treated in time, they would not have been life-threatening. However, the vampires intended to use the wounds to test whether he was infected with the werewolf virus, so they did not treat him.

Due to excessive blood loss, the man's breaths grew weaker and weaker until his life finally slipped away.

With his death, two blood slaves with turbid white eyes and hideously pale faces like demons entered the cell. They first lay on the corpse, sucking blood like leeches, then carried the body to the lower level of the dungeon. All the prisoners watched in horror, and Cain and Butcher, the demon hunters who were Catholic believers, clenched their fists, emitting a shocking killing intent!

Below the dungeon was a larger animal cage. As the two blood slaves carried the corpse down, a series of low, wolf-like growls echoed.

After a night, Zhao Futu was all too familiar with this sound.

"They are werewolves!" He was startled and could not bear to imagine what would happen next.

He already knew what was about to happen. With a 'clang,' the heavy iron door of the lower cage was opened. The two blood slaves laughed maniacally as they threw the corpse into the cage, followed by the sounds of hungry wolves fighting over their food, growling, and the chilling sound of sharp teeth breaking human bones! All the humans imprisoned in the cage felt a mix of anger and despair, but the heavy shackles on their wrists and ankles suppressed all their resistance.

"May the Holy Light purify all sins here!" Cain bowed his head and prayed devoutly.

To be honest, Zhao Futu did not know much about Cain and the others. They were neither the main characters in "Underworld" nor powerful enough to ignore the strength of vampires and werewolves. However, Zhao Futu always felt that since he had met them so coincidentally and they had coincidentally accepted the task to clear out the werewolves in Rockton, they could not be just ordinary extras.

"What is Cain's true identity?" Zhao Futu wondered.

He only knew that they were bounty hunters on the surface and possibly demon hunters in secret. They had hunted werewolves multiple times and had some connection with the Crusaders. Additionally, Cain had the title of a knight and a small fiefdom. Beyond that, Zhao Futu knew nothing about them!

— "Clang!"

The heavy dungeon door was pushed open again. This door was specifically designed to prevent werewolves, opened with a winch, and was extremely heavy.

Sonia's proud and cold beauty appeared before Zhao Futu. Behind her were two fully armored vampire warriors with stern faces, exuding a bloody and murderous aura! She paid no attention to the others and walked directly to the cell where Zhao Futu was imprisoned. She lifted his chin, tore open his bloodstained clothes, and the cold wind blew over his exposed chest, making Zhao Futu feel a chill in his groin.

Just as Zhao Futu thought he would be brutally humiliated or bitten by the proud and cold vampire princess, she shook her head and took a half-step back.

"What a pity!" Sonia looked at Zhao Futu with a regretful gaze and said softly, "I wanted to make you my servant!"

The long life of vampires in this era lacked sufficient entertainment. Unlike the modern vampires who could play computers, games, go to bars, or take drugs, the vampires of this era were severely lacking in interesting activities. Thus, most of their lives were decadent, and even Sonia, the princess before Zhao Futu, was no exception. She would select handsome, fair, and strong humans from the captured slaves and turn them into her vampire servants, both for protection and to alleviate the loneliness of her long life!

As a vampire princess who could consort with werewolves, Sonia's proud and cold beauty hid a taste for the unusual and the rebellious! Unlike the later 'Goddess of the Moon' Selene, the werewolf Lucian, whom Sonia favored, was a lowly slave from birth, covered in the stench of the slave pen and the thick fur unique to werewolves. Lucian was under the control of the vampire prince Viktor from the start, and Sonia's decision to be with him was also a result of her rebellious thoughts born from loneliness.

Slaves did not bathe, especially werewolf slaves.

They were dirty, stupid, bloodthirsty, and stank to high heaven. Even a prince among werewolf slaves, like Lucian, could not avoid the stench when interacting with other werewolves. This era had no perfumes, and even if they did, they would not be used by werewolves. Zhao Futu even doubted whether Lucian had been forced to wash off a layer of skin before bedding Sonia.

After all, most vampire nobles had a certain degree of cleanliness!

...

Sonia was examining Zhao Futu's wounds. What disappointed her was that Zhao Futu's wounds, after so much time, showed signs of healing. This meant that the human she had intended to recruit had been infected with the werewolf virus, and the virus was already active in his body.

If Zhao Futu's wounds had not shown signs of healing, she would have taken him back for the first embrace.

Vampires also had powerful regenerative abilities, and his wounds would heal quickly after the first embrace. However, what Sonia did not expect was that Zhao Futu's body had been digitized by the mysterious nightmare space. The reason he could recover so quickly was not because he was infected with the werewolf virus but because he had been practicing breathing exercises during his transport.

"Your companion, I will make her my servant," Sonia said disappointedly as she turned to leave.

Since she believed Zhao Futu was infected with the werewolf virus, he could not become her servant. Vampire Prince Viktor would never allow bloodline creatures to consort with werewolves, and even as his daughter, Sonia could not defy this! Moreover, the werewolves of this era were extremely unintelligent, no different from beasts. No matter how beautiful a human became a werewolf, they could never return to their former appearance!

Therefore, she gave up without hesitation.