"Sir, your physical stats are dropping rapidly. Your injuries are difficult to treat yourself; please get someone to help clean them."
Noah's tone was also a bit anxious. Today's situation was really unexpected. If they were not careful, either they would be ejected from the world, or the vampires would suffer heavy casualties, causing the mission to fail.
Qin Chu ignored Noah's rambling.
He stood in front of the mirror and took off his coat. The white silk shirt underneath was now a bright red stain, covered with a layer of congealed silver, and blood was gushing from the unhealed wounds on his shoulders and back.
The shirt was stuck to the wound. Qin Chu turned his head to look at it, then forcefully tore the shirt off.
Even Noah, an artificial intelligence, felt the pain just watching this, but Qin Chu didn't even flinch.
Looking behind him, Noah was right. The wounds were all on Qin Chu's shoulders, back, and the back of his arms, places he couldn't reach himself.
His back was now a bloody mess, with some molten silver that had been poured onto his body and solidified, embedding itself directly into the wounds. But as long as these things remained, the wounds would not heal, but would continue to burn.
Noah glanced at himself in the mirror and felt a deep wound to his soul. He was frantic with worry, but then he saw Qin Chu stare at his wound and chuckle, genuinely praising, "This weapon is quite good."
Noah: "...Aaaaaah, you're about to die, you know that?!"
Qin Chu casually wiped the blood off his back and pulled on a shirt. Hearing this, he complained, "What kind of body did you choose? You're going to die from such a small injury?"
Noah clutched a non-existent chest, feeling like he was about to have a heart attack.
Seeing Qin Chu put another black robe over himself, Noah's alarm bells went off, and he immediately jumped up and asked, "Where are you going!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Qin Chu open the window and jump out into the bright sunlight.
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Qin Chu, wrapped in a black robe, leaped onto a horse from the stable and rode towards Duke Tess's castle, pulling on the reins.
Although what happened last night was unexpected by Qin Chu, it also resolved his doubts to some extent.
The hunter's gun won't wipe out the vampires in war, but last night's weapon could.
While vampires were indulging in their race's talents and living a comfortable life, they never imagined that humans already possessed such a weapon of mass destruction against vampires.
"Are you going back to Duke Tess's castle?" Noah recognized Qin Chu's route and burst into tears. "Couldn't you have finished what you were doing there before coming back? Why do you have to rush back in broad daylight!"
"It has to be during the day," Qin Chu replied briefly, and then said nothing more.
This person has been taciturn since his injury. Noah was already used to this kind of ridiculous personality and adjusted the data with a long face.
Qin Chu sat steadily on his horse. He did not stop at the gate of the Duke's castle, but circled around and stopped at the side wall.
Before leaving, he had seen the entire layout of the castle, and if he was not mistaken, this walled area was where Duke Tess kept humans.
Qin Chu dismounted and tied the reins to a tree.
Just as he was about to leave, Qin Chu turned around and saw two carriages parked not far away.
He frowned, walked closer, and took a closer look.
There were no markings on the carriage, indicating it wasn't left by last night's guests, and the carriage was empty; there was no one inside.
Qin Chu was somewhat puzzled, but time was of the essence, so he did not investigate further.
The three cannonballs the humans fired last night were both a sneak attack and a test. If Qin Chu hadn't been present, the vampire elite would have suffered heavy casualties, and things would have quieted down for a while.
But by sheer coincidence, Qin Chu was also at the banquet, and the vampires suffered almost no losses.
The vampires are still shaken and resting in their coffins. But tonight, the enraged vampires will surely slaughter the humans in the castle to vent their fury.
When large numbers of human corpses pile up outside the city, a war between humans and vampires will be inevitable.
If yesterday's weapons could be mass-produced, the vampires would not have fared well.
Qin Chu jumped onto the wall. He was right; below the wall was a fence and low thatched huts.
Through the cracks in the thatched hut, one could see no fewer than twenty people sitting together. Their condition was not much better than that of the little girl who appeared at the banquet yesterday; each of them was skin and bones, and several were extremely weak, lying on the ground with only very shallow breathing.
Apart from a very few children, all of these people were young adults; there wasn't a single elderly person among them.
This means that almost none of the humans used to draw blood lived past middle age.
After glancing around and confirming that no other vampires were present, Qin Chu jumped off the wall.
Noah finally figured out Qin Chu's purpose. There was nothing he could do but weakly advise, "Sir, please make sure to hide your identity so that no one can see it. That way, your public image can still be salvaged."
"Furthermore, I must remind you that your injuries are already quite severe, so please finish this quickly."
"knew."
Qin Chu went straight into the thatched hut. The humans inside, who were already cowering, were startled when he entered and quickly hid against the wall.
Qin Chu ignored these reactions and instead looked at the children sitting in the corner. The girl who had been holding the ball last night was among them, and she had several scars on her body, probably from the gunfire the night before.
Without dawdling, Qin Chu walked straight to the corner and picked the person up.
These children were so thin they looked like dry twigs, posing no burden to Qin Chu at all. He could lift two in each hand and one under his arm, carrying them all out in one trip.
Reaching the center of the hut, he turned to the trembling adults inside and said, "Come with me if you don't want to die."
Hearing this, Noah couldn't help but say, "You don't seem to be here to save people, you seem to be here to rob them."
The people inside the house were already terrified by the blood-taking last night and the ensuing artillery fire. Now, seeing Qin Chu come to arrest them, they didn't care whether it was day or night and treated him as a blood-sucking vampire, kneeling down on the ground with a thud.
"Sir, please give us two more days..."
Qin Chu clicked his tongue impatiently: "I'm not here to collect blood."
The people inside looked at each other, clearly not believing it at all.
No one followed Qin Chu, so he could only turn around again and emphasize, "I'm not a bad person, follow me."
After he finished speaking, the people in the room shrank back in fear.
Noah couldn't help but almost burst out laughing: "Sir, that's what bad people say."
Qin Chu took a deep breath to calm his temper.
However, his attempts to appease him failed, and he kicked the door so hard that a section of the hut collapsed with a loud crash.
With that stomp, the air fell completely silent. Qin Chumu spoke, his face revealing a question: "Are you leaving or not?"
Now all the people who had been cowering up stood up, trembling.
Noah: "..." He came to rescue people, but he made himself look like a robber. No one but Qin Chu could do that.
At times like this, he would miss the smooth-talking adjutant of the First Legion. Although he was a bit fat, his words were much more effective than Qin Chu's.
Leading a group of frail humans out, Qin Chu disregarded the noise and kicked open the nearest fence. It was daytime, and the vampires had been attacked again last night, so they wouldn't suddenly appear.
But time was still short, so Qin Chu decided to send the children over the wall and settle them in first.
Just as Qin Chu turned around, a figure suddenly flashed out from the shadows of the thatched hut and pounced on him at an extremely fast speed.
Qin Chu was still holding the child in both hands when he was pinned against the wall before he could react.
"Tsk, a competitor? Trying to steal my business?"
A familiar, teasing voice came from inside the hood. Qin Chu rolled his eyes and kicked the person who had come.
K dodged the kick and exclaimed, "Not bad!"
Qin Chu instinctively wanted to yell "Get out!" but Noah stopped him before he could finish: "Sir, character! Character! How do you explain a vampire prince like you going to someone else's castle to steal humans?"
"..." Even at this point, Qin Chu didn't forget to clarify, "It wasn't stealing, it was saving."
Noah covered his face: "Then there's even less explanation."
Finding Noah's words reasonable, Qin Chu remained silent and instead broke free from K's restraints.
He put the child down first, then gestured for K to follow.
K wasn't annoyed by this mysterious person. He put on a robe to shield himself from the sun and helped move all the humans out of the hut.
Once all the humans were brought outside the wall, K walked to the two carriages not far away and drove them over.
Seeing Qin Chu's horse tied to a tree halfway through, this guy chuckled with amusement: "You're quite something, riding a horse to rescue over twenty people?"
Qin Chu glanced at the humans around him, then at the two cramped carriages, and sneered. The meaning was clear: the two carriages couldn't even hold twenty people.
K perfectly sensed his sarcasm and immediately lifted his hood to look at him: "Oh? That's still more useful than your horse, you little mute."
Qin Chu was successfully provoked by the address, so he got up and climbed over the wall again. A moment later, two horse neighs came from inside the wall, followed by the creaking sound of the castle gate being opened.
After a while, K heard the sound of horses' hooves. He looked up and saw two four-wheeled carriages stopped on the main road.
K laughed, then took off his hood and squinted at the driver with his amber eyes.
I've never seen anyone so brazen, not only stealing people but also stealing cars.
After sending all the humans onto the carriage, Qin Chu jumped directly onto the carriage frame.
Just as he was about to set off, pulling on the reins, he suddenly felt a heat near his ear; the hunter had somehow gotten close behind him.
K was so close that Qin Chu could feel his breath almost next to his ear through the hood.
“Hey, did I say…” K suddenly spoke up, “that the smell of blood on you is familiar?”
Qin Chu remained silent and motionless.
The next second, everything suddenly brightened as Qin Chu's hood was pulled up.
The hunter rested his chin on Qin Chu's shoulder as he looked at him: "Arrogant Prince, does anyone know that you went to someone's house during the day, robbed them and their carriage?"
Seeing that things were getting out of hand, Qin Chu decided to go all out and kicked the man down: "Aren't you going to go back now? Are you going to wait here to get arrested?"
Qin Chu offered no explanation for his actions, and K didn't even ask.
He watched as Qin Chu skillfully drove the car, not only seizing the Duke's castle but also plundering every castle he passed along the vampire territory.
Despite his cold demeanor, this prince was bold and arrogant, initially climbing over the wall before entering directly through the main gate.
It must be said that Qin Chu's actions today were indeed beyond K's expectations.
Based on Qin Chu's previous actions, K had only vaguely sensed that this vampire had an unusually kind nature towards humans.
But K never expected that the prince who single-handedly saved all the vampires last night would be rushing to save the humans in the vampire territory during the day.
In the end, Qin Chu did not bring these humans back to the castle, but instead settled them in a secluded courtyard.
This area also belongs to the prince's territory, so no foolish vampires will come here.
K, who had been watching from the sidelines until the very end, couldn't stand it anymore and exclaimed, "You've gone too far! I saw several doors that you didn't even close?"
"They're all thieves, so what difference does it make whether they're locked up or not?" Qin Chu skillfully tied up his horse, pushed open the gate, and entered his castle.