Chapter 410 Ailisi'an Weike

The woman looked at me with surprise at my address.

Zhang Keying, standing next to me, said sternly, "Are you not going to speak? Do you think we can't do anything about it just because we don't know your identity?"

The woman clasped her hands together, forming a diamond shape with her ten fingers. At first, I didn't understand what she meant, but in the next second, as she spoke to us, we felt as if she were under some kind of psychological suggestion.

"I am searching for this symbol. In certain corners of Guangming City, there are such symbols. This is the symbol on Duke Herbert's forehead. Some say it's a mark left after he was baptized by moonlight. Others believe this symbol should be yellow and crescent-shaped, but I saw this diamond-shaped symbol!"

"Are you sure? Where did you see this symbol? When did it start?" Zhang Keying asked, looking at the vampire lady with keen interest.

"A long time ago. Not long after I was born, I seemed to be guided by Duke Herbert and received salvation under the moonlight. Afterward, my entire body was cleansed, and now this body has been reborn. I possess the great power of a vampire!"

Hearing the woman's incoherent and eccentric words, Zhang Keying and I exchanged glances. What was this all about? Did she really think she was royalty of vampires?

I suddenly became very serious, my grip on the pen tightening. "Tell me your name!"

"Elizaveta!"

"You..."

"Eliza??" Zhang Keying exclaimed, looking at me.

I quickly explained, "The legend of vampires originated from humanity's worship of and fear of blood. Some believe blood is a symbol of the soul and life, an omen of ill fortune. Some believe Lilith was the first vampire, the most powerful of the bloodline. Others believe vampires are descendants of Cain, Cain, the son of Adam and Eve, who was punished by God for killing his brother and became the first vampire (some say Lilith taught Cain to live by drinking blood). 'And I said to you, You shall not eat any blood with its life, that is its life. All flesh is yours, for food, as is the green plant, I have given you everything.' (Mosaic Law, Old Testament, Leviticus). The earliest image of a vampire is hard to determine, but generally, there are the following arguments: Cain, for killing his brother Abel, was punished by Jehovah and turned into an immortal, bloodthirsty monster, the ancestor of vampires."

"I see. Hesheng, you know quite a lot. Even though I read books often, I can't compare to you!"

"It's just that you haven't seen these things. There's so much knowledge in the world, can you read it all?"

"That's true!" While Zhang Keying and I were deliberately chatting, the woman became a bit impatient. She looked at us with annoyance and said, "Hey, hey, officers, why are you chatting amongst yourselves? Isn't that unprofessional?"

"Hahaha, Miss Vampire, I don't even know your name yet. How can we interrogate you? You weren't cooperating in the first place!" I deliberately relaxed, put my hands behind my head, leaned back in the chair, and looked comfortable.

"You... I already told you my name is Elizaveta."

"We already investigated that name. Do you think we'd believe it? There's no such person in the household registration records. And you look like a Chinese person. You give us such a name and expect us to believe you?" I held up a tablet, showing her the information He Xin had sent me.

The woman looked at it but still insisted she was Elizaveta. She claimed she wasn't from this world, didn't know how she got here, and was a vampire royal from a thousand years ago. She said she had participated in the highest-ranking wars in the "Americas," a new continent, and her leader was the progenitor of vampires, Duke Herbert. Finally, she told us, "My mother is Lady Lilith."

Looking at this woman who seemed to believe she had time-traveled, Zhang Keying and I immediately treated her as mentally unstable. However, her behavior seemed normal, and her life skills were fine. I left the interrogation room and called He Qing for advice. He told me, "This person likely has severe paranoia and has been psychologically influenced by someone. Perhaps she escaped from a vampire nest, I mean, a nest of porphyria patients!"

"But are there so many porphyria patients in Guangming City?"

"It's hard to say. If there were 10 people, and they gathered together, capturing people nearby and instilling in them beliefs and theories about lineages or vampire royalty, others might become like this woman, believing they are descendants of the bloodline. Isn't this similar to the pyramid schemes we see? It's just a different method of brainwashing. But this woman is interesting. She claims she's not from this era. I need to see for myself if she's faking it or truly brainwashed!"

"Alright, you can come over now!"

Twenty minutes later, He Qing arrived at the provincial department. I had already arranged a room for him, and Elizaveta was locked inside with him.

We all waited anxiously outside, unsure how long this process would take. I initially thought He Qing would finish in about 30 minutes as usual, but this time, it took over two hours, and we still hadn't seen him come out. We didn't dare to disturb him. Before he went in, He Qing had told us not to knock under any circumstances until he came out.

Three hours passed. Xiahou, outside, couldn't help but say, "How much longer do we have to wait? I'm worried another victim might appear. This matter is a bit questionable. If Elizaveta isn't a porphyria patient, then the bloodsucking wouldn't be her doing. So we haven't caught the real culprit?"

"No, the person who drank blood is definitely her. This is a psychological issue. Even if Elizaveta doesn't have porphyria, she would do this. If I'm not mistaken, she should find blood extremely delicious right now. If you don't believe me, test her stomach acid, and you'll find many red blood cells there," said Zhang Keying beside me.

Xiahou fell silent. When the room door finally opened, we eagerly rushed to He Qing's side. I saw Elizaveta lying quietly in the room, appearing much more relaxed.