Blood Queen

"Strange, why are there so few cars tonight?"

About two hundred meters from Golden River Club at a crossroads, Jiang Yan and Jiang Yao each held their phones, waiting by the roadside.

According to instructions Wan Yue had given to Zhao Peng, all Hyacinth members were now in Level Two alert status. This meant that unless traveling by subway or other places requiring security checks, everyone must carry weapons at all times, and no one was allowed to travel alone at any time.

As for who exactly Wan Yue was guarding against, perhaps only Zhao Peng and Jiang Yan had some understanding. No one else knew, they simply followed orders, showing absolute obedience to Wan Yue.

Jiang Yan still wore the black dress and white jacket she'd worn out of the club, but under her skirt hem, a dagger was strapped to her left thigh and a handgun hung on her right thigh. This weapon configuration was naturally most convenient with a skirt, while jeans would make carrying both weapons very difficult.

Jiang Yao wore an embroidered lace princess dress with a dagger on each thigh under the skirt hem. Her beautiful ponytail was gone, replaced by shoulder-length hair tied with a bow at the back of her head.

"There! An empty taxi is coming!"

An available taxi with its green light on turned out from a distant intersection. Jiang Yao's sharp eyes spotted it immediately as she waved, conveniently canceling the ride queue information on her phone app.

"Where are you two going?"

"J District, XX Street, XX Alley."

"Oh, that folk heritage old residence protection street? Vehicles are prohibited there, so I can only drop you at the intersection."

"Mm, no problem!"

Taxis were indeed more formal than regular ride-sharing cars. The driver wore a mask, and though his uniform was somewhat wrinkled, it was clean. The car had air conditioning running with a faint fragrance—probably air freshener.

After confirming the destination, Jiang Yan and Jiang Yao sat side by side in the back seat. The former closed her eyes to rest while the latter played mobile games.

In the enclosed taxi, the temperature was cool, but that fragrant smell grew increasingly strong. Combined with the rhythmic passing of streetlights outside the windows like breathing lights, both sisters felt drowsy.

"Something's wrong... it's an anesthetic..."

At some point, Jiang Yao had already leaned her head on Jiang Yan's shoulder, her phone fallen to one side, while Jiang Yan was also gradually sinking into extreme drowsiness in her confusion.

The last trace of clarity in Jiang Yan's mind detected something amiss, but she only managed to mutter half a sentence before also tilting her head and falling unconscious.

This was a special anesthetic inhalant specifically targeting Blood Clan, extremely expensive to produce. It was usually used by various national secret agencies to restrain high-level Blood Clan of Baron rank and above, forcing them to maintain high-intensity blood-boiling to reduce combat endurance and slow physical reactions.

This ace weapon of national secret agencies was now being used on a Mid-tier Knight and an Upper-tier Attendant, naturally achieving excellent results.

The driver turned the car onto a small road lacking streetlights, opening the window while pulling off his mask and lighting a cigarette. Through the rearview mirror, looking at the two unconscious girls with their heads leaning together, the driver's mouth curved into a smug smile.

Under the moonlit night, at an unfinished high-rise construction site in C City's suburbs, the taxi with its headlights on swayed over the uneven road surface to the bottom of the building.

"Brother Wei, I brought them! They're sleeping quite soundly. This drug is too powerful. Good thing I'm an ordinary person."

The driver got out and walked toward the first floor area of the unfinished building. In the center of a site piled with various construction materials stood a man and woman, while seven or eight black figures stood at various distances in the periphery.

A flame sparked as the young man lit a cigarette. In the momentary light of the lighter, it was revealed to be Wei Jun, the Hermit Alliance representative who had intruded during Jiang Yao's hibernation, along with Yao Li beside him.

"Simply incredible—a Mid-tier Knight and an Upper-tier Attendant... They've really only been blood-infected for over four months!? What kind of monsters are they?"

In their unconscious state, they naturally lost autonomous control of their bodies. Without hormone suppressant injections, Jiang Yan and Jiang Yao's pheromone auras permeated their entire bodies, causing all Hermit Alliance members including Wei Jun and Yao Li to show fearful expressions.

"Wei Jun, are we getting involved in something we shouldn't? What about Wan Yue..."

The Lower-tier female Knight beside Wei Jun was having second thoughts.

"Let's go, Yao Li. This is Elder Zhuang's will. Some things aren't for small people like us to understand."

The taxi's left and right doors opened simultaneously. Wei Jun moved toward Jiang Yao while Yao Li approached Jiang Yan, both leaning their upper bodies into the back seat to carry out the two sisters.

Instantly, a surging and fierce pheromone storm expanded within the small car compartment. Jiang Yan and Jiang Yao almost simultaneously opened their eyes, their crystalline pupils instantly turning into frightening blood-red under the moonlight.

Wei Jun's reaction was already fast. Just as he prepared to withdraw and retreat, he felt an arm grabbed tightly by the girl beneath him, then his chest and abdomen were struck by a hammer-like fierce force, stomach acid directly rushing to his throat.

Half a second later, Wei Jun was propelled out of the car by enormous impact force, along with the car door behind him, which was violently torn from the vehicle body like dried leaves swept away by a gale.

Under the moonlit night, a girl's figure carrying Wei Jun's body crashed like a cannonball into a pile of concrete prefab panels and steel reinforcement construction materials over ten meters away, stirring up clouds of dust.

The speed was so fast that blood-boiling hadn't even had time to activate before Wei Jun was already stuck among concrete blocks and steel reinforcement, unable to move.

Wei Jun suddenly spat out fresh blood, then his recovering body spread with a sensation of powerlessness like flesh and bone separation. His chest and ribs transmitted severe pain, likely from the several ribs that were broken.

In the dim night, what Wei Jun saw was a pair of cold blood-red eyes, a beautiful face with a cruel smile, and a silver dagger raised high. His throat was firmly grasped by slender fingers like eagle claws, impossible to break free from.

The aura of an Upper-tier peak Knight surged and spread like waves from the light golden-haired girl before him, so violent it was even more ferocious than Zhao Peng, representing strength with half a foot already in the Baron realm.

On the other side, Yao Li was also cornered against the unfinished building's wall by Jiang Yan, whose entire body emanated an aura approaching Mid-tier Knight level.

Yao Li's left arm had vanished seconds ago, the wound's cross-section still burning with the characteristic black smoke of silver ion penetration into flesh. Charred carbonized muscle tissue twisted around the wound like torn rags.

On her forehead, a handgun was pressed against it. Yao Li hardly needed to think to guess what that meant. If she dared move again, the silver bullet in the chamber would completely destroy her head.

Everything happened within seconds. Apart from Wei Jun and Yao Li, the seven or eight men and women standing sparsely around hadn't yet reacted.

"You... why aren't you afraid of anesthetics... you're not Apennine Blood Clan... this is impossible!"

Yao Li tightly covered her severed arm wound, face pale, not even daring to activate blood-boiling, just glaring at the cold-faced Jiang Yan before her.

"Anyway, in your eyes, we sisters are monsters, so what's surprising about this?"

Jiang Yan held the dagger in a reverse grip with her left hand while her right hand steadily pressed the gun against Yao Li's forehead. Her peripheral vision glanced at the slowly encircling figures around them, her voice kept very low. "Using underhanded methods against Hyacinth, the Hermit Alliance saying one thing to our faces and another behind our backs. Is this how you treat so-called family?"

"Sister, don't waste words with them. Kill them first! I never expected the Hermit Alliance to be so despicable!"

In the distance, Jiang Yao's powerful aura almost infinitely approaching Baron level pressed a Mid-tier Knight like a small chicken into the construction material pile, her raised silver dagger seeming long impatient.

At these words, the seven or eight Hermit Alliance Attendants surrounding them finally reacted, raising weapons aimed at the two sisters, including powerful firearms like VSS silenced rifles.

"Brother Wei!"

"Sister Yao!"

The Hermit Alliance members now didn't know what to do. Apart from tremblingly aiming weapons at the sisters, no one dared step forward.

These two mysterious women from Hyacinth were simply too terrifying, actually possessing extraordinary explosive abilities to break through their own realm limits after blood-boiling.

Even more terrifying was the speed and mobility they displayed, completely unlike what common Chinese Siberian Blood Clan or Altai Blood Clan could possess, almost comparable to the speed-renowned Caucasus Blood Clan!

Their own Mid-tier Knight and Lower-tier Knight had lost combat ability almost instantly upon engagement. Theoretically speaking, without Baron-level rescue, these two monsters could probably kill all Hermit Alliance members present in the next minute or two.

"Sorry... we were also ordered to invite you two to talk with the Hermit Alliance."

Yao Li's head gradually lowered, her tone becoming much more timid. Her peripheral vision swept over a certain corner in the distance, seeing her severed arm, and hearing Wei Jun's weak coughing sounds like a broken bellows.

Just after speaking, Yao Li showed a terrified expression. She sensed something wrong with the black-haired girl's aura before her.

Looking up, Yao Li discovered that Jiang Yan's blood-red pupils seemed to contain another intention, a kind of crazy, bloodthirsty killing intent that wanted to tear her apart continuously deepening in the other's eyes.

"Are you... Black Blood Clan..."

Yao Li began trembling. She could already feel Jiang Yan's undisguised malice and covetousness toward her body.

Jiang Yan's vision was also hazy. The other's breathing and pheromone-transmitted aura became like enticing delicacies, tempting her to bite the other's throat and flesh.

"Get lost!"

Jiang Yan suddenly bit her lip, a trace of fresh blood flowing down. Only then did her mind clear somewhat, so she stepped back several paces and put away the gun. "Xiao Yao, let's go. We still have proper business at home..."

"Sister! How can we just let them go like this!?"

In the dark night, Jiang Yao slowly walked out carrying a battered male body in her left hand. With a toss, she threw Wei Jun in front of Yao Li, but her expression was clearly displeased.

"Let's still take the proper path. Whatever matters there are, we'll wait for Sister Wan to return... We're all small people. There no need to fight to the death."

Jiang Yan walked to a pile of construction materials, picked up Yao Li's severed arm, and tossed it over.

"Thank you..."

Yao Li picked up her severed arm and bowed slightly in acknowledgment, then directed everyone to lift Wei Jun's battered body and slowly disappear into the depths of the unfinished building construction site.

"Xiao Yao, do you have little golden pills... quickly give me one... hurry!"

Only after no longer sensing Yao Li and the others' auras did Jiang Yan tremble and half-kneel on the ground, whispering urgently to Jiang Yao beside her.

"Ah? Wait! Wait!"

Jiang Yao also noticed something wrong with Jiang Yan's current state. She rushed to the back of the taxi in three steps, found her small bag from the back seat, pulled out a bottle, and rushed back. Too lazy to count, she directly grabbed several pills and stuffed them into Jiang Yan's mouth.

"I think I'm about to advance... so sleepy, I want to drink blood... quickly back to the club..."

After speaking, Jiang Yan closed her eyes, her body softly falling into Jiang Yao's embrace.

In the bustling city among brilliant neon flowing lights, atop buildings of various heights, a light golden-haired girl carried another black-haired girl, leaping and dancing through the moonlit night, stepping to light and chaotic dance steps toward Golden River Club.