A stalemate ensued between me and the noble daughter of the Blackwell family. Cold sweat oozed out from behind my ear. This little princess of darkness is really a little ancestor. Powerful yet let me think I have the upper hand in a confrontation just to see my Intentions.
Sure enough people groomed from young to be leaders can not be easily surpassed by simply being reborn. It's not like in my last life I was a strategist and dealt with complex political issues.
She played me good. I watch my bound limbs dark energy rapidly covering my body in seconds. Does she intends to smother me to death?
"Any last words?" She looked at me with a playful grin. I look at her with a bored expression but internally I am cursing. Curse my love for children, curse my need to help a couple obviously using me and not caring even a little bit for my safety.
"Boring. I guess you really don't have anything else up your sleeve." She tightened the whips of dark energy wrapping around my neck strangling me but the next second, the door opened and Huo Jun stomped his foot destabilizing the girl's power.
I felt ropes of dark shadows disappear around my body. I had been choked by her and my windpipe is disturbed quite a bit. She caught a glimpse of Huo Jun's expression and what she saw made her grit her teeth.
"Do you know this person?" She asked coolly. There is something in her tone, something dark and almost sinister.
Huo Jun retained a composed expression and sneered at her. "I know him. But not enough for you to take out your anger out on him. When are you going back? No one wants you here." His words harsh and piercing.
I had wanted to be angry at being called 'passing acquaintance' but after hearing how he is treating this dignified lady of the Blackwell family, I shall forgive and forget.
"It was enough for you to crawl out of your hiding pit wasn't it? I don't want to stay here for too long as well. Just give me what I want and I will stop messing around here and return home." She said lightly shaking off his grip from her arm.
"My brother will stay by my side. I don't care how many 'acquaintances' of mine have to die for you give up." He turned around without even giving me a glance leaving the welcoming hall.
I quickly bolted out the door first just as he is about to reach the door. I am headed towards the main gate in haste because of a call in my earpiece from April. Apparently there is a group of animals trying to bring down the fence around the road towards my base.
The problem is the bus carrying all the people rescued from the Blackwell lady are still on the way towards the base. I can't have them get hurt on the way like this.
As soon as I come out of the building I used he hover board to fly towards the direction. April has access to what is happening in the fence because I put cameras all over my property including the fence and the street lights near the fence.
When I made it there, a group of small animals are trying to climb out of the forest and into the road but they keep getting electrocuted by the high voltage fence resulting in a large hill of dead mice on the side of the fence.
As soon as I reached the place, I didn't hesitate to take out oil spraying it onto the incoming mice hoard and then lighting it on fire. It turned out there is already a rat king in the forest by this time and they are now anxious to move out and feast on the humans outside.
My decisive action killed thousands of mice but the rat king who is the real perpetrator is no where to be found. I used my spiritual energy to look for it but I didn't find it. When I came out through the hoverboard I found a crowd waiting for me.
She took the initiative to shoot me down with a stun gun. Luckily my skin is as hard as a rock when infused with adrenaline from my panicked heart.
I waved and hundreds of armed soldiers appeared and unlike before when they were there as a show of strength, they started shooting the enemy immediately.
The girl seemed caught off guard by my decisive response and turned into a black mist right in front of me. In less then two minutes the men who had come with the huntress all laid dead on the ground.
I sent my spiritual energy and found her nearby. Although she had managed to come out from my control before, she had felt the pain of being crystalized while being alive. As soon as I found her I sent out my power to make her feel the pain.
To her credit, she didn't scream this time but I didn't miss the hiss of pain and used this to fire my gun at the direction. Seeing I really mean to kill her, she disappeared without a trace.
I didn't drop my guard but carefully searched for her. This little bitch will meet its maker as soon as it shows up. In fact the girl wanted to kidnap Mikel after realizing he means something to Huo Jun after all. But looking at the things like this, it is obvious that Mikel is angry now.
This makes things awkward so when feeling the thick bloodlust from Mikel she decided to temporarily retreat, just like the hoards of mice.
The bus carrying those rescued soon reached Toy city. They are all allocated residence according to their age group. A day later the Mo family found me to thank me but I had found out they had exaggerated the abuse of those abducted children just to motivate me into helping them.
I don't know if that's the truth of the matter or I am just too suspicious these days. I gave them an empty building to continue their previous profession and make money for me. They moved out of the visitors floor and rented a family flat in one of the nine civilian flats.
After seeing the prospective income that will flow into my account in the future I decided to study the medicine book with formulas for the time being. I need to know the medical solution to drive away animals from the base as in the novel.
As I entered my space for a study session, the storm suddenly became stronger, no one could stand outside once it started.
Everything not rooted on the ground was swept up into the air. The entire country became somber even more than before.
The central base had just finished the wall and some of the gates were violently yanked out of their hinges. They ended up using heavy trucks and machinery to barricade the gates. Some of the buildings couldn't stand the violent winds and started getting swept into the air.
The city downtown had buildings already on the verge of falling apart long before the apocalypse and now it only took a little push and many fell apart injuring many people. ¹
While others had no choice but to run around outside trying to find shelter, some of them were whisked away by the strong winds being hurt by the hurricane their bodies twisting with the wind. There are other things inside the hurricane which will knock them and kill them on the spot.
The storm will sometimes mince a person inside spraying their blood and organs on walls and windows as it pass. The scene is very grim making everyone subconsciously close their curtains. The central base is a mess with everyone hiding away from the terrible storm outside.
There are people screaming and dying every now and then. As a result, everyone is hiding away praying that it is not their building that will collapse next. The families along with the military are busy trying to ensure their own people are safe to have enough man power during these times. They don't have resources for the civilians.
The Toy city is another story altogether. As as soon as the storm started, April released several commands which were previously agreed upon with the owner.
A while later, the base is surrounded by an invisible barrier preventing the strong winds from coming inside the base and messing up the structures.
As a result, inside the Toy city it is peaceful except for the occasional stones and even trees having been uprooted from outside will smash against the barrier scarring people to no end.
Just like this, the storm continued for over three weeks without stopping. Many have not been outside since the start of the storm and others were lost forever, either from the collapsed buildings or starvation now that it is impossible to make ends meet.
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"Interesting." Ben said. He had come from beyond the barrier to find slaves and vampires. The blood clan is preparing for the great war and need humans to turn into their low level soldiers for war.
Their connection said to only hunt for prey in this area because the higher ups are not paying much attention to this place.
"Be careful not to be seen by humans. We don't want them to start preparing for war so early." A blood clan member named Luke spoke in a hush tone licking his lips.
Ben frowned hearing this, he is a son of a great general of the blood clan while this Luke had just graduated from a vampire to a low level soldier a decade ago. What right does he have to tell him such things?
They traveled under the cover of the storm towards the buildings in the area they call down town.
"Lisa said this area has people who won't be missed. We can take as many as we want." Another blood clan member said with barey concealed excitement in his eyes.
Inside the base two people stood up simultaneously and rushed outside towards the location were blood clan members had gathered.
The lady cursed under her breath. "Had it not been for that little bastard I would still have my men here to take care of this." She turned sharply with a gun in her hand when she heard a sound coming from behind her.
She found Huo Jun there with a gun almost the same as hers with runes and a mysterious energy around it. One glance is enough to know this item is very powerful.
"Don't slow me down." She warned lifting her gun pointing in the direction where the small device is pointing.
They gave each other a knowing look. Without more words they headed towards the enemy.
As if smelling the enemy, the two guns vibrated slightly in excitement the closer they got. Soon, small bullets flew in the air headed straight for the heads of the would be kidnappers just as they are pulling some strugling humans into a large van.
Four died on the spot and the rest managed to scatter pulling out their own weapons.
The cursed blood of vampires and werewolves is like magnet to the gun. After all this weapon was specifically made to destroy the two clans.
The next round started soon after, this time both parties are shooting at each other. Like magic, two hunters managed to kill 8 blood clan members without suffering any injuries.
As soon as bullets left the gun its as if it has eyes, hunting for prey and hitting targets with deadly precision.
Seeing the situation, the blood clan members ran leaving the enraged Ben behind.
"You are going to pay for this!" He roared and pulled out a pistol that looks to be a modified magic device.
When the two saw this weapon both their expressions changed. They quickly aimed at Ben and fired successive shots. This man seemed to have been ready for it as he dodged and fired back Immediately.
For a while it continued this way until Huo Jun got shot in the chest dangerously close to his heart. Instead of retreating, he seemed to have felt nothing and pressured the enemy on one side while Miss Blackwell came from the other side.
Although the general son in the blood clan meant vigorous training and superior bloodline, one person is still less that two people. He inevitably received a bullet in his head.
When he died, Huo Jun also lost all his strength and fell on the ground, the Blackwell princess ran to him in a panic but Huo just smiled and told her to take him to Mikel in the Toy city before he fell unconscious.
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