S.C.I.谜案集 (Special Criminal Investigation) Book 2

Case 2. Love Murderer: Chapter 30. The Ending (Final Chapter)

Zhang Ying described in detail the difficult pursuit she and Xu Tian experienced... That vampire was very cunning and haunting. Back then, communications and media were underdeveloped, so Zhang Ying and Xu Tian asked people for information everywhere and then looked for clues wherever possible.

"You guys found him?" Zhan Zhao thought for a moment and asked, "but what about the theft from the museum?"

"It's a long story." Zhang Ying sighed, "things are complicated."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang nodded as they waited for Zhang Ying to continue.

"A'Tian and I first studied about the vampire culture. Later, we coincidentally found that the other party was also studying the same thing." Zhang Ying said. "We followed this clue little by little, and in the end, killed the vampire and settled the case."

"Then why are you and Xu Tian's abilities different from ordinary people?" Zhan Zhao asked in confusion.

"That's right." Bai Yutang also wondered, "you don't seem to feel pain."

"It's because when we were hunting the vampires, there was another group of people chasing them as well. It was them who had done something to me and A'Tian."

"What did they do?" Zhan Zhao frowned and asked. "Is it... like in the videos sent by Zhao Jue?"

"Yes." Zhang Ying thought about it, as it seemed like she was finding it difficult to continue. "How should I put it? At that time, there was a force chasing the group of vampires. As far as I knew, that group of so-called vampires were just a group of failed experiments."

"Failed experiments?" Bai Yutang frowned. "Experiments again?"

"Mmhmm." Zhang Ying nodded and continued, "at that time, in addition to framing the Bathory family and robbing the property, the church was also very interested in the mystery of the Bathory family's immortality. So they secretly set up an organization to study this secret."

Zhan Zhao frowned slightly and said, "they believed that the Bathory family really sucked blood?"

"Humph..." Zhang Ying smiled disdainfully and said, "those in power at that time were extremely corrupt. They believed the greatest medicine was witchcraft... It was impossible for an ignorant group like them to think of any other ways to stay young."

"That's true." Zhan Zhao nodded. "Did they raise vampires?"

"Yep." Zhang Ying took a sip of water and said, "with the masks they invented, which were used to make people think it was the Bathory family, they began to commit crimes... At first, they used adults to do the experiments, but they were unsuccessful. Afterwards, they found some of the descendants of the Bathory family, and began to study them."

"What about those who were burned to death?" Bai Yutang wondered.

"They were just scapegoats." Zhang Ying said. "At that time, there was a disagreement within the church, and there was a man, everyone called him Father Matthew, who put forward some different views. Back then, society was complicated, and war was about to break out, so... The power of the church was split in two. Father Matthew was being hunted down. He only took his own research materials and a few people with pure Bathory bloodline with him. They flew far away to America, far from the flames of war. The rest of the organization continued to nurture their so-called vampires. Then the war broke out, but the organization continued to exist. They had been acting secretly, and began to train young children."

"Children?" Zhan Zhao frowned. Everyone realised that those vampires were used to sucking blood to survive because they were cultivated at a young age.

"They began to suspect that lineage and race also had an impact on these experiments." Zhang Ying said. "It's because the only difference between the Bathory family and other European aristocrats was their love for eastern civilization... Also, the blood of the Bathory family had been mixed with eastern blood for generations."