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Chapter 277 - 54 The Sword of Holy Water Emerges, Evil Demons Beheaded (4K for Monthly Pass)

Chapter 277: Chapter 54 The Sword of Holy Water Emerges, Evil Demons Beheaded (4K for Monthly Pass)

The first floor of the inn at this moment resembled the poorest, shoddiest slaughterhouse imaginable, as if crazed cattle, horses, pigs, and sheep had rampaged through and turned everything upside down.

Limb parts lay scattered, the stench of blood was thick in the air, and there was an abundance of fresh blood and the limbs of corpses.

Those who died peacefully were, to some extent, better off, missing a piece from their necks resembling a small, straw-like hole, their bodies presenting a ghastly pale color, shriveled and withered, but at least they were whole.

Those who had struggled before death, on the other hand, had their bodies torn apart, intestines dragging along the walls, across doors and windows—everywhere.

As everyone knows, what’s usually inside the intestines of a person?

Moreover, it happened to be just after dinner time when digestion was at its peak, so the smells in the hallway and on the staircase were particularly unpleasant.

Xu Shu moved sideways, pressed against the wallings, of course trying his best to avoid these nauseating yellow and white substances.

He inadvertently kicked what seemed to be the bald head of some unlucky fellow, sending it rolling with a "gulu gulu~" to one side, eyes still filled with terror, and the neck torn jaggedly, clearly ripped apart by sheer brute force.

At a glance, there were no fewer than ten people who had met violent deaths, and there were surely more unseen.

"So many dead? These vampires are incredibly bloodthirsty and savage, not quite like the Baron and the maidservants outside."

Xu Shu was now extremely cautious.

In this reality, death was true death, there would be no "You have died, your journey ends here," nor a "Victory and defeat are common in war, hero please try again" kind of outcome.

One moment of negligence could mean death of both body and soul, bidding farewell to the world forever.

As such, Xu Shu was alert to all around him, not allowing the sight of too many corpses to stir up feelings of pity or rage, losing his sanity in a passionate fury to clash desperately with the vampires.

He was very calm.

He had always been like this; the more dangerous the environment, the calmer he could become, almost to the point of cruelty. This was why he had managed to survive through many dangerous situations, managing to stay alive through hardships.

Before long, Xu Shu found the first vampire on the second floor in one of the rooms, a male.

It had broken through the door, the thick doorway tearing like paper from the middle.

On the floor lay a man and a woman, already turned into deep eye-socketed, desiccated mummy-like corpses.

The only other survivor was a girl who looked to be about fifteen or sixteen, in the bloom of her youth.

She lay under the bed in her nightgown, eyes closed, pretending to be dead, seemingly in a vain attempt to escape this calamity.

However, her trembling toes, the hair standing on end, and the fine goosebumps raised on her skin all betrayed her.

"Hee hee hee~" The male vampire let out a lewd laugh.

Its primal instincts had already kicked in with a conspicuous bulge.

Clearly, it intended to indulge itself before enjoying its meal, to do some unspeakable things to this poor and tender girl that were rare sights in the Wasteland.

"Hee hee hee, are you dead? I don’t eat dead people, hee hee hee~"

The vampire made exaggeratedly loud laughter while intentionally sniffing around the girl’s armpits and between her legs, licking with its tongue.

Hearing this, the girl tensed up, her eyelids twitching as she decided to maintain her feigned death.

Nevertheless, the vampire, giving hope through words but yet not leaving, was clearly enjoying the trembling terror of the skin, quite despicable.

It was precisely because of this overjoyed mood that it was caught off guard when Xu Shu got close.

Finally noticing something was off, it felt something behind it.

It turned its head from under the bed and locked eyes with Xu Shu for a few seconds. Its mouth, almost subconsciously, muttered to itself, "Oh, there’s another living person here, hee hee hee..."

"Fuck your mother, damn it!"

Xu Shu grabbed the vampire by the neck with one hand, and with a clang, flipped the entire bed over.

The vampire tried to struggle, only to find that the hand holding it was unexpectedly strong and that it could hardly move.

"Gah?" Before it could react, a blade covered in glistening Holy Water slashed down like a whiplash.

Ssslash!

Amidst a sound like cutting paper, the vampire’s head, filled with a look of shock, was immediately chopped off and went tumbling away with several rolls, much like the bald head that Xu Shu had kicked earlier.

The neck was cut with a smooth, round finish yet blackened on the edges. What should have been regrowing flesh appeared completely scorched, utterly obstructing its regenerative abilities.

"Heh~ Heh~" The vampire looked at Xu Shu in disbelief, then drooped its eyes to its own body, no longer able to make a sound.

It died unwillingly, and its entire head along with the body dissolved into a puddle of black pus.

A green, thumb-sized Erosion Crystal lay at the center of the pus, green and lush.

Xu Shu picked up the Erosion Crystal and cleaned it off. He briefly glanced inside to see nine faint, thread-like spirals, causing his eyes to narrow slightly.

"A mere ninth-level green-name elite monster dares to go out and kill people? Ha, I’m a level sixteen red-name."

"Appearing at night, vanishing during the day, it sounds a lot like those monsters that lurk outside the safe zones around the walled cities at night."

"But actually, there’s a difference; they drop crystals, so they are naturally not quite the same... According to Matthew, vampires are a different kind, just happen also to dread sunlight... But why no corresponding materials drop when they die?"

"Could these be it?"

Xu Shu pondered, placing the crystal into a small pouch at his waist.