CHAPTER 550: CHAPTER 516: GOING HOME

"Never harmed anyone?"

"You’re telling me a vampire family has never harmed anyone?"

Jiang Xiao laughed.

But the Earl replied with a cold sneer, "What are you laughing at? Is it funny?"

"Yes," Jiang Xiao nodded. "The idea that vampires have never harmed anyone is the coldest joke I’ve heard this year."

"We indeed never harmed anyone!" the Earl’s wife also retorted with red-flushed eyes. "You pour out my fine wine, destroy my castle, injure us... If we are not as skilled, we have nothing to say, but what right do you have to slander us!"

Slander?

Jiang Xiao casually picked up a piece of meat that had fallen to the floor earlier.

"Are you claiming this is animal meat?"

"This..." The color drained from the Countess’s face.

"I won’t deny, this is human tissue," the Earl said coolly.

A look of disgust crossed Jiang Xiao’s face; he had just taken a bite.

But oddly, it felt like zombie flesh, not human meat, right?

"Although it’s human meat, we haven’t harmed anyone. These... we procured them from the funeral home."

Jiang Xiao: .....

"And from the hospital morgue," the Countess added.

Jiang Xiao: .....

No...

So, what he just ate, was it the meat of someone who died of illness or an accident?

Ugh~

Disgusting.

No wonder it had absolutely no taste; it was far from fresh.

Ignoring Jiang Xiao’s face that looked as if he had eaten a dead child, the vampire couple continued to explain.

They bought the meat with real money, a mutual agreement.

However, the human control over their kind had become stricter recently, and they hadn’t gone out to buy meat in a long time.

"As for blood... Haha, we used to be able to buy some plasma when the controls weren’t so strict, but now... the plasma has turned black, very thick, all with high sugar and cholesterol levels; we haven’t bought blood packs from hospitals for ages."

Jiang Xiao: ....

This vampire family seems to be doing quite miserably, huh?

To put it accurately, it’s a bit humiliating.

But then again.

What now?

Initially, Jiang Xiao’s main argument was combating a menace, but now, it appeared the situation was entirely different.

He was worried about how to handle this.

The Countess’s wail drew Jiang Xiao’s attention.

"Our family of three has such a hard life!"

"It was just... just enticing our son to lure a girl, that doesn’t warrant a death penalty, right? At least our little Giles deserved her, right? At least we took good care of her for several months, right?"

"Some people even poured out our treasured centuries-old wine; how do you compensate for that? The thousand-year-old castle destroyed... the servants suffered heavy casualties..."

"Heaven! Earth! How could I have been so blind to marry Giles, this useless fool! The home is smashed, and he can’t even fart! Wuu wuu wuu...."

Jiang Xiao: .....

What to do?

His conscience felt a substantial rebuke...

"Uh... Shi Shi, Shi Shi? Maybe you could explain? After all, they took care of you for so long; look..."

Shi Shi kept hiding behind Jiang Xiao.

How could she explain?

"Dad, you beat the person, you smashed the house, you injured the maid, and you poured the wine; don’t shift the blame to me."

Oh bloody hell?

Shi Shi was indeed clever, and if it had been Bai Yi or the pink-haired girl, they probably would have already borne the brunt.

What to do now?

Seeing Jiang Xiao’s hesitation, the countess cried even louder, her hair disheveled and her face smeared with snot.

Where was there any trace of her initial stunning beauty?

"Little Jesse, you cry too!" the countess whispered into the young count’s ear.

"Mother, I can’t cry anymore..." The young count had already exhausted his emotions.

"Cry!" The countess pinched the young count’s arm with the nails of her index finger and thumb and twisted it 720 degrees.

Well, the young count cried too, crying loudly.

Seeing the mother and son’s forceful fake crying, even the old count was almost moved to tears.

Seeing the count’s family crying so miserably, it would be unreasonable if the maids didn’t cry, right?

So, in a moment, there was a chorus of sorrowful wailing.

Not to exaggerate, but Jiang Xiao felt that these people had potential to be professional mourners; they were naturally cut out for this job.

"Well, Shi Shi, shall we just let it go and not kill them? Their home is gone now..."

It seemed to prove Jiang Xiao’s point. Just as he finished speaking, the last lingering piece of the ceiling also fell.

At that moment, a familiar summoning feeling came from the outside space.

Could they leave now?

Jiang Xiao immediately picked up Shi Shi and fled from the ruins of the broken castle...

Only when he returned to the white spatial barrier did Jiang Xiao finally breathe a sigh of relief.

"How was it? Didn’t enjoy playing?"

Analog Horror teased. Jiang Xiao could feel that everything was within her expectations!

"Shit, are you playing me?!"

"Not really, come on, you didn’t lose out, did you? How was the power just now?"

Jiang Xiao was about to explode, but when he heard about the power, he was taken aback.

"Did I become so strong because of your tampering?"

"Otherwise, what do you think, just watching you get killed by them, then have your blood drained and your body eaten?"

No wonder...

He was so powerful just now.

"But why would you do that?"

"I..."

There was a pause before the female voice continued.

"I had a friend once who entered the Vampire Castle Kaidan and was killed by them in the end."

"They said they haven’t killed anyone, right?"

"Do you believe that? Just because they don’t kill now doesn’t mean they never did; humans were very weak at the start."

Jiang Xiao scratched his head, feeling deceived.

"You could have told me earlier. Had you told me you had a grudge against them, I would have helped you take care of it earlier and saved myself from their lies... but sorry, if I had known earlier, I would have killed them."

"Ha ha ha, actually, no need to say sorry. Not killing them is actually better."

"Better? Why?"

Kaidan did not answer Jiang Xiao’s question but merely urged him to hurry home with the curious Shi Shi.

"The woman and the two children are getting anxious."

After saying that, Jiang Xiao and Shi Shi were forcibly ejected from the space.

A while later, Kaidan’s lingering voice could be heard.

"Better because now you can control your own power and not become addicted to it, better because you can control your emotions..."

"Mom!!!"

As soon as they appeared in the courtyard of the mental hospital, Shi Shi sprinted into Sun Wei’s arms like a 100-meter dash.

No matter how tough she was, it didn’t change the fact that she was still a little kid.

Aside, Bai Yi and Mu Xitang were about to approach to catch up, but Shi Shi’s next words made them grit their teeth.

"Mom, where are my second and third sisters?"