Vampires live by drinking blood, and over time, they naturally have a certain smell of blood on them, much like how butchers who slaughter pigs for long periods also carry a similar scent.
Ye Qiu was watching there, and after drinking that glass of beer, a young woman walked over to him.
Clearly seeing a young man of Chinese appearance sitting there, the young woman seemed very puzzled.
"Sir, are you alone?"
"Is there anyone else here?"
Ye Qiu’s accent carried a London tone, yet the woman had no idea how he got in.
"Care to dance?"
"You have a very unpleasant smell, I don’t want to dance."
"You!"
The young woman seemed infuriated and gave him an angry glance before leaving.
This is an enormous underground world, several meters deep beneath this castle, and it’s all filled with such underground chambers.
Ye Qiu got up and walked alone inside.
He walked far, not knowing where he had reached, but it was getting increasingly quiet.
Suddenly, he heard the sound of flowing water.
Ye Qiu stopped and looked over, noticing a lot of steam rising.
This is Scotland.
This area is now part of Northern Europe, and beneath Northern Europe, there’s a lot of hot springs, probably related to the number of dormant volcanoes here.
In this kind of weather, if there are hot springs, then these white mists will rise.
Ye Qiu heard the sound of flowing water.
Walking over to look, he discovered a woman soaking in the hot spring.
She had her back to him, but based on her silhouette, she appeared to be a beautiful young woman.
Her skin was extremely fair.
It looked so fair that there wasn’t a single blemish.
Ye Qiu watched for a while, and the young woman seemed to notice.
"Who’s spying?"
Ye Qiu did not hide.
The young woman in the hot spring was startled, and when she wrapped herself in a robe, she unexpectedly saw a completely unfamiliar young man there.
She didn’t know Ye Qiu at all, nor how this young man of Chinese appearance ended up here?
Could it be that he was captured and brought here?
"Who are you?"
Adeline asked.
She had lived for who knows how many years, and had never been looked at like that by anyone before. Did this young man not fear death?
"Who I am is not important. The important thing is I know your vampires’ lair is here; if I reveal it, do you think you can still live freely here?"
Westerners have always believed in the existence of vampires, although few have encountered them.
And this time, if it weren’t for that Emma being out there draining noble young men of blood, Ye Qiu wouldn’t have thought these vampires actually existed.
"Do you think you can escape?" Adeline asked.
"Since I could come in, I can certainly leave easily. As long as I set a fire, I could burn this place down; after all, you creatures of the dark won’t be missed if you’re burnt down."
"You, you!" Adeline seemed frightened.
In reality, from the time Ye Qiu was at Count Charley’s castle to the notes he read in Jin University’s library on Middle Ages texts, he knew vampires definitely existed.
Moreover, when the Black Death emerged back then, this batch of vampires appeared as well.
These vampires had transformed from Black Death victims.
Of course, the probability was very low, perhaps less than one in ten thousand.
That means, among a million people, there might be only a hundred vampires, perhaps even fewer.
This is why these creatures are so rare.
"What do you want?" Adeline asked.
"Some of your people committed crimes over in London a few days ago, nearly draining two nobles of blood. I think if this continues, even if I don’t come knocking, you’ll be discovered sooner or later."
Actually, they’ve been hiding here for thousands of years, maybe even longer, without being discovered, not because it was impossible.
But it hasn’t spread out, definitely because of their reasons.
Actually, as long as they don’t directly feed on human blood, they can live like ordinary people but only in darkness.
"So what do you mean?"
"I’m not here to kill you, there’s no benefit in killing you. I’m just here to understand your community."
So that’s how it is.
Adeline had already put on her robe, then led Ye Qiu away from there.
Ye Qiu knew the beauty before him was not a young beauty, but perhaps an old witch.
After all, having lived for hundreds of years, what else could she be but an old witch?
While following Adeline out, Ye Qiu discovered a place where he saw an area resembling a manor from the outside world.
However, this was definitely not the outside world, but underground.
Many trees and flowers were planted here.
If it were above ground, these trees would have long shed their leaves, and the flowers wouldn’t survive.
But here they could, clearly related to the geothermal energy below, keeping the temperature around twenty degrees Celsius.
"Your Majesty, here is the tea."
A young maid came over and said.
The young woman in front of him was actually a queen?
Doesn’t that make her the leader of these vampires?
Actually, not necessarily.
There are actually ranks among vampires.
Like dukes, earls, viscounts, these are quite similar to the current European peerage.
As for being referred to as a queen, her status within this vampire organization is certainly not low.
When the maid delivered the tea, Ye Qiu asked, "Aren’t you supposed to be bloodsuckers?"
Actually, this isn’t necessarily true.
The higher the rank, the greater the cultivation, the less they ordinarily need to consume human blood.
As to how their cultivation is done, Ye Qiu doesn’t know if it’s truly like the information he understands.
The maid brought tea and pastries.
But Ye Qiu did not partake.
He stayed there until after five in the afternoon, then prepared to leave.
Adeline had someone escort Ye Qiu up to the surface.
As he reached the surface inside Windsor Castle, Ye Qiu saw an old man waiting there.
This old man was nominally the owner of this castle, but in reality, it was vampire property.
The old man did not look like a vampire.
"Are you human?"
"Aren’t you human too?"
The old man escorted Ye Qiu out of the castle.
Seeing Ye Qiu walking away, the old man was still very surprised.
Living people coming out from underground is rare; they either become dried corpses or end up as companions to vampires.
When Ye Qiu returned to the hotel in the small town, Louise and Ma Wenwen had been waiting there.
Upon seeing him return, Louise hurriedly asked, "Ye Qiu, did you enter that castle?"
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