Blood Queen - Chapter 2 Part 2

Slowly walking up to the dead female vampire, Gu Yao’s face turned slightly pale.

Although he had undergone a year of secret training and received a wealth of knowledge about vampires, seeing a young and beautiful woman from just seconds ago turn into a twisted, fully carbonized monster made bile rise from his stomach. He managed to avoid embarrassing vomiting only by taking several deep breaths.

Such ambushes occurred almost simultaneously in multiple corners of the factory ruins.

Some were violently resolved with daggers, while others were taken down with powerful blood-dissolving tranquilizer darts. Soon, more than a dozen lowest-level Thralls on guard in the outer perimeter were cleared out by the combat members of the Black Armor Squad.

At this time, neither Meng Huai nor Xia Yan chose to stay on the ground. Instead, they acted as commanders of the first and second squads respectively, working together to break into the central area of the abandoned factory and enter the underground workshop. The third squad, consisting almost entirely of members with less than a year of squad experience and less combat experience, lagged slightly behind in the entire assault operation.

Just as they rushed into the interior of the factory area, they saw the body of a team member at the forefront suddenly fall to the ground in a silent and invisible impact. Blood flowed from his eyes, mouth, and nose, and even bits of internal organs were mixed in the blood spurting from his mouth.

In the darkness, the high-energy infrasound waves directionally released by the high-level vampire cut through the sound-absorbing bulletproof suits of the Black Armor Squad warriors like invisible knives. Under high-energy resonance, bones, muscles, and internal organs were shredded.

“It’s a Knight!”

Xia Yan also felt dizzy, and his sound-absorbing bulletproof suit emitted a scorching heat as if on fire. He quickly bit his tongue, then used all his strength to bump into Gu Yao beside him, pushing him away.

Gunshots rang out, and several semi-automatic shotguns fired a web of flames at close range. A bulky but incredibly agile black shadow darted back and forth between the golden lines traced by countless high-speed shotgun pellets.

Aiming at the nimble black shadow less than 50 meters away, moving at a speed that made one’s tongue numb, Gu Yao desperately pulled the trigger, firing 12-gauge shotgun shells one after another, while secretly glancing at Xia Yan who was focused on shooting in front of him.

The semi-automatic shotgun was a close-range killing machine for dealing with fast-moving targets. The shotgun shell, after leaving the barrel, split into even more small silver pellets, forming a dense barrage. Like a huge fly swatter, it knocked down the vampire knight who had charged to within 10 meters of Xia Yan.

Lethal silver ions entered the vampire’s body, burning and carbonizing everything at a blood temperature far exceeding the boiling blood state. The critically wounded vampire knight’s entire body burst into eerie smoke, like a desiccated corpse drained of moisture by high temperature, hunched over by a broken machine tool.

“There are Knights on guard outside, and the entrance has been blocked. The Embrace ceremony may have already begun. Let’s charge in together!”

The ambush had already been exposed. Xia Yan, staring at the underground passage entrance in the distance, saw that Meng Huai’s first squad had already begun blasting operations, and also issued a strong attack order.

As soon as he finished speaking, the fully armed team members behind Xia Yan quickly formed a new formation and rushed towards the underground passage.

Just as a team member passed by the vampire knight’s corpse, the charred and carbonized skinny vampire suddenly leapt up. Its twisted limbs wrapped around the team member like an octopus, and it opened its mouth like a burnt skull, revealing sharp fangs, biting fiercely towards the team member’s neck.

The attacked Black Armor Squad member let out a scream, then collapsed to the ground as if all strength had been drained from his body.

A gunshot rang out, and a silver pistol bullet accurately shattered the vampire knight’s charred skull at extremely close range.

Xia Yan crouched beside the bitten Black Armor Squad member, adjusting the direction of his tactical flashlight while lifting the member’s eyelids.

“How many fingers?”

Luckily, there was no change in the color of the victim’s pupils. Xia Yan made a hand gesture and asked urgently.

The injured team member spat blood, struggling to utter a number. Xia Yan’s face finally relaxed, and he pulled the member behind a low wall: “You, wait here for the support team!”

With that, he grabbed his weapon and led his subordinates to continue the assault.

…

In the crowded underground passages of the factory area, Thralls or Servant-level vampires constantly leapt out from various corners, attempting to block the Black Armor Squad’s advance.

No matter how agile or bizarre their movements, they were interrupted by the dense firepower of the Black Armor Squad. Silver bullets tore through vampire bodies, igniting flesh and blood in an instant.

In the deepest part of the underground workshop, inside a vast enclosed space, a huge blood pool was emitting a stench unbearable to ordinary people. Dozens of completely naked male and female Thralls, wearing strange ecstatic smiles, were walking into the blood pool one after another.

A blood and flesh tentacle extended from an indistinct mass in the blood pool, piercing into a Thrall’s body. The latter visibly shriveled and curled up, then fell into the blood pool.

On the outermost edge, more than a dozen men and women, young and old, silently watched the scene before them, each with an expression of intoxication and nervousness on their face.

A young girl in a beautiful summer dress was surrounded by a group of high-level vampires like the moon among stars, wearing an expression of arrogant self-satisfaction.

“Clan Leader, Grandmother’s revival is even faster than we anticipated. Look how good her appetite is!”

A middle-aged man spoke respectfully to an old man in front of him, while casting a slightly envious glance at the girl surrounded by the crowd.

“Yes, it’s time for our Tang family to prosper. Let the girl prepare to receive Grandmother’s blood seed. Haha, nobody knows that this time Grandmother has two blood seeds in her body!”

The old man’s expression was relaxed, but his slightly trembling hands betrayed his true emotions at the moment.

“Clan Leader, will we be alright secretly taking away the blood seed like this?”

Looking at the increasingly twisted, disgusting giant meatball in the blood pool, the middle-aged man’s eyes were very intense, but also somewhat fearful and uneasy.

The old man smiled slyly and shook his head slightly: “Of the two blood seeds, only one is mature. We’ll take one, and hand over the remaining one later. No one will be able to tell… This is a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity for our Tang family.”

At this moment, an attendant approached with a panicked expression, whispering something in the middle-aged man’s ear, causing him to suddenly shudder.

“Cl… Clan Leader… I think we’ve been exposed… The Dark Arrow has come.” The middle-aged man’s excitement quickly ebbed, his face beginning to turn pale.

The old man was stunned, his expression struggling for a few seconds before he muttered, “The Dark Arrow’s nose is indeed like a dog… We’ve come this far, we can’t stop now! Send more people, delay them for another half hour. As long as Grandmother completes the seeding, we’ll retreat!”

“Tell everyone, the Tang family has no way back now. Whether our family business can prosper in the future depends on this one time!”

…

Vampires appeared endlessly like ghosts, but they no longer emerged in a disorderly swarm. Instead, they seemed to be entering the fray to delay time.

The assault team members responsible for the advance were consuming enormous amounts of energy under tension and high fever. They had already rotated several waves, but the long underground workshop passage before them still seemed to have no end in sight.

A team member swayed and leaned crookedly against the wall, clutching his chest and gasping for air.

“Squad Leader, his temperature has exceeded 40 degrees Celsius, and his heart rate is close to 180! He can’t fight anymore!” Tao Qiao’er felt around for a while, then walked to Xia Yan, who was still shooting, with a grave expression.

“Establish a temporary containment point. Those with temperatures above 39 degrees Celsius should withdraw from the battle and stay here waiting for the support team!”

As he spoke, Xia Yan turned his head to look at Gu Yao beside him, his expression somewhat hesitant: “Xiao Yao, why don’t you… stay here and watch over them.”

“No, I’m staying with you, brother. Otherwise, the second squad will have even fewer people.”

Again, he continuously pulled the trigger, the semi-automatic shotgun turning a deformed Thrall leaping in mid-air into a charred mist of blood, then ejecting the empty magazine and reloading a new one.

Gu Yao, who had gradually gotten into the rhythm, actually showed a hint of a veteran’s demeanor.

During a lull in the battle, another round of temperature checks resulted in more than ten team members with excessive body temperatures being forced to withdraw. Among the three squads, only 58 people remained, though fortunately, ammunition was still relatively abundant.

Meng Huai and Xia Yan huddled together looking at the map, realizing they were not far from the final mission coordinates, so they didn’t want to give up halfway.

Under the leadership of Meng Huai and Xia Yan, the 58 assault team members mustered their courage once again and launched an attack towards the final passage.

With a violent rumble and tremor, high explosives directly blasted apart the barricade blocking their path. The so-called isolation wall, piled up with countless old machines, shattered into pieces.

As the slowly settling dust cleared, the true face of this mission was finally revealed, a spacious underground enclosed space that looked like a storage area for dangerous industrial materials.

Including Meng Huai and Xia Yan, the assault team members who emerged from the dust gradually came to a halt.

Before their eyes was a huge blood pool, and in the center of the blood pool was a massive, disgusting meatball covered with dense, variously sized tentacles.

In the distance, they could see a naked young girl standing in the blood pool beneath the giant meatball, with two blood-dripping fleshy tentacles swaying slowly in mid-air.

“Damn it, what kind of monster is this!”

An old team member, second only to Xia Yan in seniority, immediately turned pale and couldn’t help but curse in a trembling voice.