Chapter 40

"Are you a vampire hunter like the Blade Warrior?" The vampire girl was not stupid; Zhou Yi's behavior along the way had already made her suspicious.

"Not just that!" Zhou Yi nodded and then shook his head. He didn't want to deceive this poor girl.

"I knew it!" The girl smiled, revealing an unusually resolute expression. "Kill me."

The girl tilted her head back and closed her eyes. Although her body was trembling slightly, she still held Zhou Yi tightly.

Why did she think of this? Zhou Yi found it hard to understand the girl's thoughts. However, he felt even more pity for her.

He stroked her hair and whispered in her ear, "No, my good girl!"

The girl silently buried her head in Zhou Yi's chest. After a moment, Zhou Yi felt the dampness on his chest. Novels in the secular world often said that vampires had no tears because their blood was cold. But at this moment, Zhou Yi felt the tears of a vampire. He extended his fingers and gently wiped away the girl's tears. In his heart, he began to silently plan for the girl.

At this moment, a slight noise came from behind the wall. In this old-style apartment, there was always a considerable space between the walls. Some could even hide things that should not be seen. During the Prohibition era in New York in the last century, people secretly hid alcohol in the walls. But now, it was mostly rats.

However, what was hiding behind the wall at this moment was certainly not a rat, but a much larger creature. The mutants had already found this place.

Through his super vision, Zhou Yi had already seen the creature behind the wall and the encounter between the Blood Clan Guard and the mutants. To be honest, apart from Snowman's performance being somewhat noteworthy, the others were just average. If it weren't for the inherent strength of vampires, they might not even match human special forces. Could these creatures really be the ultimate defense of the vampire empire? Zhou Yi was very skeptical. A cunning and experienced existence like Makinos would not be just this.

A punch landed on the wall, and the power of light shone through the wall onto the mutant behind it. Despite its remarkable vitality and resilience in front of the Blood Clan Guard, the mutant could not escape the vampire's shackles and turned to ashes in an instant.

Zhou Yi slightly curled his lips. Creatures that cannot face the sun, no matter how many, are irrelevant. His gaze began to wander, and he noticed that Chadnomas, the so-called mutant carrier, had not yet appeared. Zhou Yi always felt that he was the key, not the key to solving these mutants, but the key to understanding the vampire grand duke's plot.

Soon, he found Chadnomas, who was with Nissa. He had already subdued Nissa but had not harmed her, whispering something in her ear.

Zhou Yi's gaze roamed over Chadnomas, trying to find something unusual or suspicious.

Soon, Zhou Yi found what he was looking for. It was a ring with a crest. Such things were usually only possessed by European nobles, symbolizing status and seals. Zhou Yi had seen an identical one in Nissa's possession.

The appearance of two identical rings on two seemingly unrelated people naturally raised suspicions in Zhou Yi's mind. Already suspicious of everything, Zhou Yi felt even more that he was getting closer to the truth.

However, he still needed to find the person involved to ask what exactly was going on.

Gently pushing the girl in his arms, Zhou Yi kissed her forehead and said, "Stay here, my good girl, I'll be back soon."

The vampire girl wiped the tears from her face and suddenly looked up, her face serious. "My name is Serana, and I will wait for you, no matter whether you come back or not."

"I will come back," Zhou Yi promised again. The girl's words made him feel a bit heavy. A small play had led to such a precious discovery, and Zhou Yi felt both fortunate and worried about how to protect such a girl. Unlike Charys, whose mutant identity would only attract human hostility, and humans were the easiest to deal with.

Those who could not be conquered ideologically could be destroyed physically.

But the greatest enemy Serana faced was the sun, an unconquerable opponent. Zhou Yi, who was almost like an incarnation of the sun, naturally understood the vastness and greatness of the sun. This problem was destined to be unsolvable.

Taking a few steps back, Zhou Yi looked at the vampire girl who was still staring at him, smiled, and activated a wristwatch.

Black mercury began to surge, forming in an instant. When the equally black cloak fluttered out, Zhou Yi had already transformed into the superhero—Dawn Knight—right in front of Serana. This was a form of comfort, revealing his most secret identity to reassure the girl.

Seeing Zhou Yi's magnificent transformation, Serana was surprised but also calmed down a lot. It was clear that Zhou Yi's actions were indeed effective.

Since it was vampire territory, Zhou Yi had no intention of preserving public property. After making sure Serana was out of harm's way, he charged out in the most violent way possible.

Whether it was walls, beams, or corridors, whether they were wooden, concrete, or steel, anything that stood in his way was destroyed by the Dawn Knight. His goal was only one: Chadnomas, the so-called carrier.

At this moment, Chadnomas was holding Nissa from behind. His gaze on Nissa was strange, warm, jealous, and hateful. Complex emotions flickered across his face. If he were an actor, there would be no doubt that he would be a top-notch performer.

Unfortunately, he was not. As a real person, such an expression only indicated that he must have a compelling story behind him, one that didn't need to be fabricated.

Chadnomas pinched Nissa's cheek, his cloudy gray eyes staring at the woman in his hand. After a few breaths of silence, he spoke in an abnormally hoarse voice.

"I know you, Makinos' most beloved daughter. I really want to see if he would shed a tear for you if I killed you."

"Monster, I will never submit to you," Nissa glared at Chadnomas with anger. If she had Zhou Yi's abilities, Chadnomas would have been nothing but ashes by now.

"Monster?" Chadnomas laughed bitterly, his jaw splitting open. He pointed to his strange mouthparts and said to the woman in front of him, "I also think I am a monster, but do you think I wanted this, to suffer from pain all the time?"

As he spoke, his words became more and more resentful, his anger unable to be vented, and he punched the wall hard. The concrete wall offered no resistance, and Chadnomas' arm pierced through it. From the condition around his arm, only broken concrete debris remained.

This strength made Nissa gasp. In terms of strength alone, Chadnomas had already surpassed the vampire race and was even more powerful than other mutants.

Seeing the commotion he caused, Chadnomas laughed, but his laughter was filled with sorrow.

"This is what he wants, do you know? We have the same blood, maybe I should turn you into someone like me."

Hearing this, Nissa immediately began to struggle. Just looking at Chadnomas made her feel terrified. If she were really turned into such a monstrous form, for a beauty-conscious woman, it would be better to be killed.

A woman's determination to protect her beauty could not resist the brute strength of the mutant king. Chadnomas had already opened his mouthparts and was about to bite Nissa's neck.

His movements were fast, and the transformation could be completed in less than a second. Unfortunately, among those who wanted to disrupt the scene, there was someone who could arrive in less than a second to save the day.

The wall collapsed, and a black shadow mixed with flying bricks and stones appeared beside the two. At this moment, Chadnomas and Nissa could finally see who had arrived.

Black armor and a cloak, this attire made Chadnomas both shocked and terrified. He shouted, "Dawn Knight," but before he could finish, he was punched away.

Zhou Yi's punch landed directly on Chadnomas' face, sending him flying. Although Zhou Yi did not use much force, it still exceeded Chadnomas' limits. Even though Chadnomas' strength had surpassed the vampire limit and reached a new realm.

But to put it bluntly, what were vampires in this world? This world had unimaginably powerful and diverse mutants, the Aesir who left myths on this planet, even aliens, and various superpowered heroes.

In front of these beings, the vampire race was completely insignificant. In the end, they might not even match humans. Humans had a large population, various technologically advanced individuals, and even the existence of superheroes like Zhou Yi. Vampires, apart from slightly better physical attributes than humans, were virtually useless.

Chadnomas, who was thrown away, had his neck twisted at an exaggerated angle, and his body flew out like a cannonball, piercing through several walls. Zhou Yi could clearly see the multiple bone fractures and severe internal injuries on his body. He was even a bit worried that he might have killed him instantly.

Zhou Yi was so worried not because he was afraid of accidentally killing someone, but because he was afraid of losing a clue. He was eager to know the truth behind the events, and Chadnomas was the only clue he had found.

It turned out that his worries were somewhat unnecessary. Because Chadnomas was already staggering to his feet from a pile of rubble.

He first straightened his neck, and with a series of sparse bone-cracking sounds, he had already twisted his neck back to normal. Then he began to shake his body irregularly, looking a bit like an epileptic patient.

But in Zhou Yi's eyes, he could see the broken bones in Chadnomas' body rapidly healing, and the parts that could not be repaired seemed to form an additional layer of armor, automatically attaching to the repaired bones to provide extra protection. The so-called internal organ ruptures seemed to be no problem at all, disappearing after a few breaths.

Such injuries could be healed in such a short time, which was almost unheard of even among the diverse mutants. Except for a pair of nearly two-hundred-year-old immortal brothers who had roamed various battlefields, almost no one could reach this level.

This level had already exceeded the biological system and seemed to have reached the state of cancer cells—endlessly reproducing and endlessly repairing. If it weren't for the fear of sunlight, even Zhou Yi would be curious about how to eliminate these mutants.