Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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“Let’s go to the morgue.” Li Yuebai clenched his phone and winked at Ye Qing.
Ye Qing threw down his chopsticks and walked out.
A low-key Mercedes-Benz was parked in front of the barbecue restaurant. It took a total of five seconds from unlocking the door to rushing out of the dense forest of tables, chairs and barbecue grills that blocked the entire road.
Sitting in the car, Li Yuebai stared at the road ahead, but cold sweat had broken out on his hand holding the phone.
Liang Tian’s voice was too scary, as if he had seen something that was not human.
The morgue and the municipal bureau were not in the same place. So Li Yuebai also called the municipal bureau on the way and asked them to send someone over quickly.
But when they arrived, it was too late.
The door and windows of the morgue were wide open, the floor was covered with blood, and the strong smell of blood was everywhere.
Liang Tian lay on the cold marble floor, his body pierced by countless iron pipes—these pipes had been removed from the morgue bed and sharpened into sharp weapons by some mysterious force. Sticky blood continued to flow from the pipes… Liang Tian’s face was filled with fear, his eyes wide, his mouth open, and a pipe protruded from his throat.
Li Yuebai was not Gu Xisha, and he had no real friendship for Liang Tian, but witnessing such a tragic scene still filled him with sorrow.
He searched the area as quickly as possible, but there was nothing, no trace of the perpetrator.
Most importantly, Gao Chengyu’s body had also disappeared, vanishing without a trace.
Soon, the city police arrived, and upon seeing this scene, they fell into a deathly silence. A young intern immediately ran to the lawn and vomited. Several people who had been close to Liang Tian simply turned away, unable to bear to watch. Some even squatted on the ground, burying their faces in their arms.
As the tragic news broke, Director Yang arrived. Director Yang was the second-in-command of the Municipal Bureau, usually in charge of high-profile criminal investigations. A retired military officer, he was in his forties, of medium height, with a kindly demeanor, yet he handled matters with swift and decisive action. Upon arriving at the scene, his brow furrowed, his face thick with sorrow, but as a leader, he shouldered his responsibilities. Director Yang first offered a speech of condolence, then soothed the group, explaining that the case was extremely serious and that everyone should channel their grief into a thorough investigation, providing an explanation to their deceased colleague, the family, and the public. Following his instructions, everyone quickly got to work.
“Xiao Gu, there’s a call log with you on Liang Tian’s phone. What did you talk about?” Director Yang turned to Li Yuebai. Although Gu Xisha had been fired, he had been Director Yang’s subordinate for many years, and their relationship remained intact.
“At the time,” Li Yuebai replied, “Liang Tian was examining Gao Chengyu’s body.”
“Gao Chengyu…” Director Yang fixed Li Yuebai with a sharp gaze.
“While doing that, he said he noticed something unusual, saying the wound on the back of Gao Chengyu’s head was very small, not what a bullet would cause.” Li Yuebai repeated every word: “Then, he let out a scream, and the phone went dead.”
Liang Tian had promised to take a photo and send it over, but he was killed before he could, and there were no photos on his phone.
“Director Yang,” a colleague returned to report, “There were no obvious traces at the scene, and the surveillance camera was broken, capturing nothing.”
“How could the camera be broken?” Director Yang scolded, “Who’s responsible here? How could you let the camera break without fixing it?”
“It was working fine until the tragedy. There’s footage in the security room.” The colleague exclaimed in horror, “It’s working fine now too, except for the time of the tragedy!”
He then questioned the security guard at the door and other people in the building, only to receive the shocking answer: no one had entered or left during that time.
Who had so unnoticedly killed Liang Tian and then stolen Gao Chengyu’s body? What was the purpose? What was the method?
Not long after, the family members also arrived.
Liang Tian’s sister Liang Jing worked in the city’s biological research institute. Director Yang was afraid that she would not be able to accept the blow of the bad news, so he specially sent two female police officers to pick her up. Liang Jing had a slender figure and was usually very smart and capable, but after identifying her brother’s body, she burst into tears and remained silent after crying.
Then when she learned that this case was related to Gao Chengyu’s body, she almost lost her mind.
“Gu Xisha, you killed my brother.” She stood up, pointing at Li Yuebai and shouted angrily: “If you hadn’t shot Gao Chengyu to death without authorization, how could Liang Tian be involved in this matter? It must be, it must be Gao Chengyu’s accomplice, who killed Liang Tian in order to steal the body back! The whole thing was caused by you!”
Although she was angry to an unreasonable degree, she still maintained her restraint and did not go forward to fight.
Several female police officers hurried to comfort her. As she left, she would occasionally turn around and point at Li Yuebai, saying, “Don’t even think about getting away with this! If Gao Chengyu’s accomplices have taken this step, there will definitely be another!”
Li Yuebai, feeling upset, didn’t argue.
The Liang Tian case was discussed late into the night, but still no clues were found. It was already late in the evening when Li Yuebai and Ye Qing left.
They sat in the car in silence for a long moment.
Li Yuebai’s mind was about to burst with doubts—just now, they had ruled out all possibilities, leaving the only possibility being that the murderer wasn’t actually human.
When he woke up the system for the hundredth time, it finally came back.
The last time he travelled through time, the entire book was in Li Yuebai’s head, accessible at any time. But this time, the information was severely lacking. When he first arrived, the system only reluctantly provided the two people’s personal information, telling nothing else. And even from the time of the crime to its aftermath, the system remained dormant, providing no further information.
“Hello, is there anything I can explain?” The system’s voice was cheerful and light-hearted, but it was incredibly painful to Li Yuebai’s ears.
“Is this my real world?” Li Yuebai asked.
“No.”
“Are there… monsters and demons here?”
“Yes.”
Yes! Li Yuebai’s heart trembled.
“Who is the protagonist?” Li Yuebai asked a more approachable question first.
“Ye Qing.”
“Who is the white moonlight male god?”
“You, Gu Xisha.”
Li Yuebai tried to calm his breathing and control his heartbeat.
“Who will kill me?” Li Yuebai asked.
The definition of a white moonlight of the male god was: beautiful, kind, and dies young, leaving the protagonist with endless nostalgia and psychological trauma.
“You won’t die! Who said you would die?” The system’s smile widened: “You will just suffer torture until the end of time.”
Soon, a general introduction was given.
Ye Qing is the protagonist of this world. It is now his youth, and the story has not yet begun.
Vampires and humans have coexisted on Earth for millennia. Possessing immense magical powers, they can slaughter and enslave humans at will, simply by sucking their blood. Of course, in ancient times, life was exceedingly difficult, with humans savagely slaughtering each other and suffering widespread decimation from famine and plague. In comparison, the vampires’ casualties paled into insignificance.
However, with the passage of time and progress, more and more people have become aware of the dangers of vampires, and some spontaneously became hunters, fighting vampires and earning bounties.
In the final war centuries ago, the hunters, at the cost of their own lives, exterminated all the vampires—or so they thought. In reality, the vampires hadn’t perished but had become dormant. These palm-sized dormant forms hid within various magical instruments, stones, famous paintings, and other ancient artifacts.
In 2016, their dormancy period ended, and with the disappearance of their hunters, the dormant forms emerged, breaking free from their barriers and reappearing.
However, their bodies had grown too small and their strength too weak to survive independently. So they sought out humans as hosts, transferring their souls into their hosts, forming a symbiotic relationship—effectively half-human, half-vampire, but already possessing powers equivalent to vampires, possessing eternal lifespans and a unique method of reproduction. This precipitated chaos in the world, plunging humanity into an eternal struggle with vampires.
Ye Qing would suffer this fate later in 2016.
Afterward, he became tormented and lost, unsure of his true identity or the meaning of his life. He couldn’t decide whether to side with humans or vampires.
Not long after, he witnessed his master, Gu Xisha, tragically slain by countless vampires.
From that moment on, Ye Qing decided to become a vampire hunter, quickly becoming the most powerful.
Throughout his long and boundless future, he would frequently encounter an enemy he called “Knight.” Knight was a vampire, but Ye Qing had never seen him before. He was always shrouded in black robes, moving through the darkness, cruel and silent.
After countless exchange of blows with Knight, Ye Qing finally found a crucial opportunity and ripped off his black robe.
It was Gu Xisha.
Gu Xisha wasn’t dead, but he was no longer the same. His body had been ripped apart, then stitched back together. His once fair skin was covered in ugly stitches, and his face had become pale and emaciated. He had been completely controlled and enslaved by the vampire, with only a shred of self-awareness remaining. Unable to be awakened by Ye Qing, he quickly escaped from Ye Qing’s sight and vanished into the night.
From then on, Ye Qing’s entire life was to meet Gu Xisha again and awaken him.
The story continued.
Before Li Yuebai could digest the briefing, the system gleefully added,
“Do you know which vampire did all this? Who took Gu Xisha away, brutally tortured him, dismantled him, transformed him, and enslaved him forever…”
A cloud of gloom swept over Li Yuebai’s heart. “Gao Chengyu?”
“Yes, Gao Chengyu,” the system smiled meaningfully.
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