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Chapter 1158 - 523 I Have Connections Above!

Chapter 1158: Chapter 523 I Have Connections Above!

"Are you bullying me just because I can only see the text?" Mu You was speechless. If he had encountered such an idiotic option elsewhere, he might not have thought much of it, but in this artificially designed scenario, he couldn’t help but suspect that the options had been deliberately limited.

Here, he could easily escape unscathed with attributes far beyond those of ordinary people, without exposing himself; yet bafflingly, there was no such option available. Either he got beaten up, admitted weakness, or had to go on a killing spree.

"Could it be another plot-driven trap?" Mu You thought. From the perspective of game design, he could only understand this as intimidating the player at the start, making them aware of the fact that they were at the bottom of the ladder.

As Mu You was still hesitating about how to handle the situation, a new text suddenly popped up in the game.

["Sorry for the inconvenience! An Asian man suddenly squeezed through the crowd, came up with a pleasing smile to the hoodlums around, and reached your side: ’Little brother, so you’ve run off here. Listen, I’ve found that DVD you were looking for, let’s go watch it at my place!’"]

[After he finished saying that, the man began pulling you away, while also addressing the surrounding hoodlums, "Sorry guys, this is my friend, he’s new here and doesn’t know the rules yet, give us some face."]

[The surrounding hoodlums looked at each other, and after a moment of hesitation, none tried to stop him.]

[As the man approached, you had already detected that he too was a vampire. Would you follow him and leave?]

"Yes."

Someone suddenly appeared out of nowhere to save the day, and Mu You didn’t know whether it was part of the plot or if it was just a coincidence, but either way, he decided to go along with the man for now and see what he was up to.

[Without further obstruction, you followed the Asian man and left the underground black market, ending up in a deserted alley on the surface.]

["Are you out of your mind? Just arrived here and you dare wander alone? Do you have any idea how many people are watching you right now?" Once he was certain there was no one nearby, the man looked at you frantically.]

["Who are you?" you asked.]

["I’m Tianzaki Genzhong, and I belong to your clan!" the man said.]

Mu You was startled, Tianzaki? Coupled with the ’East Asian face’, could this be a Japanese man?

["Clan?" you inquired.]

["Yes, you’re a descendant of Alex, right? I used to be affiliated with the same shadow clan as Alex. We were good friends."]

["But after Alex left the City of Enoch, our clan leader died from a strange illness, and our clan disintegrated. Over thousands of years, other members either died or disappeared. Now, I’m the only one left from the original shadow clan members, and without a desire to join any other clan, I’ve only been able to identify as a ’Wanderer’..."]

"Alex..." Mu You pondered. The name did seem familiar; it seemed that the ancestor of the Blood Clan from the Star Spirit World had this surname.

Did this mean the man had recognized him as the descendant of that ancestor, and that’s why he intervened?

However, that ancestor died over two thousand years ago, so his power dating could be traced back to the dawn of the era!

This implied that this man had been living in this city for over three thousand years, retaining his memories throughout all these years?

Thinking of this, Mu You asked in the game,

["When Alex was here, did this city already have the advanced technology it has now?" you inquired.]

["Of course, the City of Enoch that I remember has always been like this, never changed," Tianzaki Genzhong answered.]

Upon reading this, Mu You knew that it was impossible for this man to have lived from three thousand years ago, as three thousand years ago, Earth was still in the Bronze Age, without any trace of modern technology.

So, either this man was lying, or some admin had implanted fabricated memories in him without his realization, and he believed them unquestionably.

["You just said that many people are watching me? What do you mean by that?" you asked the man.]

["Yes! Since you are a descendant of Alex, you must have inherited Alex’s ’Talent Absorption’ Blood Rhythm, right? That Blood Rhythm is considered a ’Royal Family must-have’ because it’s the only one that can combine the talents from various major clans, thereby becoming the true king of the Blood Clan!" ]

["Unfortunately, I didn’t inherit this Blood Rhythm from our clan leader. After his death, the Blood Rhythm was lost. The ’Talent Absorption’ in your bloodline is currently the only one among the entire Blood Clan! Such an important Blood Rhythm, naturally, all nine major clans want to keep it for themselves, so now, almost all the Blood Clan members who got the message are tracking your whereabouts! And yet you still dare to wander around!"]

"So that’s how it is..."

After reading this explanation, Mu You finally understood why, despite being a frail ’newborn’, three clan heads competed to invite him to join, and even the Regent King received him in person.

At first, he thought it was just the way the story was designed, a tutorial all players would go through, but now he realized they were all after his bloodline talent, hence their enthusiasm.