DLWAV CH124

It was just a pity that in the end, the Secret Service still let Zongzheng Ge escape.

Because Zongzheng Ge held a holy-level artifact rewarded to him by the Brujah Prince.

But fortunately, all of his subordinates were eventually caught.

Soon, this matter spread throughout the entire Huaxia high society.

Because Zongzheng Ge originally lived in the wealthy district of Geng Province, the Secret Service had mobilized almost all available manpower to capture him, so the commotion was by no means small.

“Good.”

Many people on the spot clapped their hands and laughed aloud.

“I told you, the Secret Service must have been tied up with something. Once they freed up their hands, they definitely wouldn’t let those bat freaks return alive.”

“Aren’t those bat freaks unable to fly now?”

Then, upon hearing the series of jokes—how the Yan family finally forced Zhang Qingyan and Yan Qi to break up, how Yan Qi turned around and prepared to pursue Qian Shanjing to gain Zongzheng Ge’s support, only to immediately receive a slap in the face from Qian Shanjing, who superficially seemed devoted to him but secretly harbored deep resentment towards him, and how Qian Shanjing hadn’t even been smug for three seconds before receiving the news that her backer, Zongzheng Ge, was being besieged—they instantly laughed even more happily.

But what they never expected was that three days later, on the very day of Huaxia’s National Day, just as tens of thousands of Huaxia citizens woke up early and rushed to the Central Square in the capital to watch the flag-raising ceremony, they saw a dozen corpses hanging densely on the slender flagpoles.

And the second corpse hanging on the flagpoles was shockingly the Huaxia Vice Premier, whom the citizens often saw on TV.

As the news spread, the entire world was practically in an uproar.

The people of Huaxia were naturally furious.

“Revenge, this is naked revenge!”

“Damn it, those vampires all deserve to die—”

“None of this matters anymore. What matters is what we should do now?”

……

Meanwhile, foreign countries were reveling in schadenfreude.

“What else can the Huaxia people do? If they were a match for those vampires, their Vice Premier wouldn’t have been killed just like that.”

“And the corpse was even hung in their country’s most solemn place.”

“Didn’t Huaxia always boast about being some ancient civilization, some global superpower? What a slap in the face, hahahahaha.”

“Huaxia is finished.”

……

One could easily imagine how satisfyingly Zongzheng Ge laughed upon seeing these comments in the conference room of the central Brujah Castle, located in a cluster of castles at the extreme edge of Europe.

Because this was precisely his handiwork.

However, because of this, the very next second, he couldn’t help clutching his chest and coughing violently.

Because although he had luckily escaped the pursuit of the Huaxia Secret Service, he had still suffered many injuries, so the slightest exertion tugged at his wounds.

Thinking of this, the excitement at the bottom of his heart was instantly swept away.

He immediately stepped forward again and dropped to one knee: “Your Highness the Prince, I believe we can directly begin the next step. Only in this way can Your Highness’s glory be spread across the entire world in the shortest amount of time.”

One could imagine how complex the expressions of the Dukes and Marquises of the other twelve clans present became upon hearing this.

Because since ancient times, the Brujah clan had been the most powerful of the thirteen clans, and the Brujah Prince was an existence that crushed the princes of the other clans. Adding his warlike nature, extreme thirst for power, and his repeated public defiance of the Elder Council’s orders, the other twelve clans had always been extremely guarded against the Brujah clan.

Precisely because of this, when the Brujah Prince was besieged by the Holy See back then, they all chose to stand by and watch.

In the end, the Brujah Prince was indeed killed by the Holy See.

But what they never expected was that less than five hundred years later, the Brujah Prince would actually be resurrected, while the princes of their own clans had all died in that decisive battle with the Holy See.

Although the generation of vampires who plotted against the Brujah Prince had almost entirely died out, there was no guarantee that the Brujah Prince wouldn’t harbor resentment toward them.

To make matters worse, even if they combined their forces now, they might not necessarily be a match for the Brujah Prince.

Therefore, they could now only submit to the Brujah Prince, and even flatter him, in order to seek his forgiveness.

Thinking of this, they immediately all knelt down: “May Your Highness the Prince’s glory spread across the entire world!”

Seeing this scene, the Brujah Prince on the throne revealed a somewhat satisfied expression.

In truth, he no longer hated these clans, as long as they remained as obedient as they were now.

After all, he was indeed in dire need of manpower at the moment.

Moreover, if these clans hadn’t refused to lend him a helping hand back then, causing him to die at the hands of the Holy See, he wouldn’t have accidentally escaped that decisive battle and successfully resurrected in this era where the Holy See and all other races had fallen silent—

He was about to become the sole emperor of this world, and thousands of races would tremble at his feet.

The next second, he directly opened his arms, as if he were already standing in that very scene.

Seeing this, how could Zongzheng Ge not understand his intentions?

He bowed his body once again, then directly retreated.

Rumble!

Outside the window behind the Brujah Prince, heavy rain poured down.

It was precisely under these circumstances that Governor Wu and the others, accompanying Deputy Director Li of the Secret Service and his team, arrived at the urban village.

Peering through the curtain of rain, the people brought by Deputy Director Li sized up their surroundings and couldn’t help saying, “Governor Wu, is that Mr. Zhang really as formidable as you say?”

Just this morning, several major domestic social networking sites were completely hacked.

Only a piece of white stationery was left on the interface, with words written on it: Have you seen the thirteen corpses hanging on the flagpoles at the Central Square in the capital? That is the return gift bestowed upon you by the noble vampires!

You have two days to hand over the vampires you captured and our allies. Otherwise, in two days, we will definitely bathe all of Huaxia in blood!

By doing this, they were not just demonstrating against Huaxia; they were announcing the descent of the vampire race to the entire world.

At this point, the Huaxia government, which had originally wanted to cover things up a bit, completely lost control of the situation.

Needless to say, when the news spread, the whole world was naturally in an uproar once again.

However, while the public could vent their anger wildly on the internet, the authorities didn’t have the time or the mood for that, because they had to quickly come up with a way to resist the vampires—after all, anyone could imagine what would happen once the vampires invaded Huaxia.

All 1.5 billion citizens of the entire Huaxia would be reduced to blood slaves kept by the vampires.

How could they dare to surrender?

They could only fight with all their might.

But how did the Secret Service still have the ability to fight against the vampire race—

Why did those vampires only hang the corpse of the dignified Huaxia Vice Premier in the second highest position on the flagpoles?

It was because the corpse hanging in the highest position on the flagpoles belonged to the Director of their Secret Service.

Although he had frequently used his power for personal gain in the past and ruined many young talents who might have threatened his position in the future, the fact remained that prior to this, he was Huaxia’s most powerful cultivator.

But now, he was dead.

So now they could only go around recruiting civilian cultivators, hoping to rely on a numerical advantage to resist those vampires.

And Ao Ruize was precisely the target they intended to recruit today.

Prior to this, they had already heard of Ao Ruize’s great name.

Because it was said that the news of the Brujah Prince’s resurrection, as well as the news that Zongzheng Ge and his subordinates were spies planted in Huaxia by the vampire clan, were all deduced by him.

It was precisely because of this that they had dispatched Deputy Director Li, the fourth-in-command of the Secret Service, to personally invite him this time.

However, after obtaining all of Ao Ruize’s information, they hesitated.

Although the most taboo thing on the path of cultivation was to judge a book by its cover.

After all, what this world lacked the least were cultivators who had restored their youth after achieving great success in their cultivation.

So they originally assumed that Ao Ruize was also a hidden master who had secluded himself from the world.

But as it turned out, he was actually only twenty-four years old—

Even if he had experienced fortuitous encounters in the past, his cultivation time still hadn’t exceeded six years.

Even hundreds of years ago, it would have been extremely difficult for those once-in-a-century peerless geniuses to successfully complete their apprenticeship in a mere six years.

Let alone the fact that it was now the Dharma-Ending Age.

Most importantly, before this, they had already encountered over a dozen similar cases, all of which ultimately proved that the individuals were either swindlers bluffing their way through, or their actual strength was even inferior to the cleaning ladies in their headquarters.

Therefore, they couldn’t help suspecting that Ao Ruize might have merely stumbled upon the discovery that Zongzheng Ge was a vampire spy by accident. After all, because of Zhang Qingyan, he and Zongzheng Ge had some grudges. So if he had suddenly decided to divine Zongzheng Ge’s weaknesses and ended up discovering that Zongzheng Ge was a spy sent by the vampires, thereby finding out about the Brujah Prince’s resurrection, it was a perfectly normal occurrence and wasn’t particularly difficult.

However, since they were already here, and these were all just their guesses, they ultimately still followed Governor Wu and the others over.

But looking again at the environment where Ao Ruize lived, they couldn’t help becoming even more suspicious.

The environment of an urban village was even harsher than that of ordinary deep mountains and old forests.

After all, there weren’t trash cans and stinking ditches everywhere in the deep mountains and old forests.

So even if a typical master wanted to live in seclusion, they wouldn’t run to an urban village.

Unless the other party simply lacked the ability to find themselves a better place to live.

Governor Wu and the others had no idea that in just this short while, so many convoluted thoughts had arisen in their minds.

Most importantly, they had heard similar remarks countless times before, so they only said, “You will understand this matter once you meet Mr. Zhang.”

Seeing this, Deputy Director Li and his team could only continue to follow.

While praying on the side that Ao Ruize was truly a bona fide master, just as Governor Wu and the others claimed.

After they arrived, they found the Zhang family’s front door tightly shut.

They knocked on the door for quite a while, but there was no movement inside.

Sun Jianhong: “What’s going on?”

“I remember I already sent Brother Zhang a message saying we would come visit him this afternoon, didn’t I?”

He took out his phone to check, only to find that Ao Ruize hadn’t replied to him yet.

Governor Wu: “Then I’ll just call him directly.”

He immediately took out his phone and dialed Ao Ruize’s number.

But unexpectedly, five seconds passed, then ten seconds, and the call automatically hung up without connecting.

He immediately dialed again.

This time, the call finally connected.

Only, the voice coming from the other end was an unfamiliar one: “Hello, you’re looking for Zhang Ruize, right? He’s in the shower right now. If you have anything important, you can tell me first…”

Deputy Director Li and the others: “……”

Taking a shower in broad daylight, and the one answering the phone is a man?

Why did they suddenly feel that this so-called Mr. Zhang was even more unreliable?

Sun Jianhong’s brows also instantly furrowed.

Of course, he wasn’t doubting Ao Ruize’s abilities.

He just felt… wasn’t the voice on the other end of the phone a bit familiar?

But right at that moment, Deputy Director Li’s phone suddenly rang.

The second the call connected, his expression changed: “What did you say? Traces of the vampire army have been found in Hai City, and they are slaughtering their way toward Geng Province…”

The expressions of Governor Wu and the others also changed instantly.

After hanging up, Deputy Director Li hesitated for only a moment before saying directly, “The situation is critical, we must go intercept those vampires immediately. As for Mr. Zhang here, we’ll visit him later when we have time.”

He thought, since this Mr. Zhang looked so unreliable anyway, they might as well just forget it.