To most citizens who are familiar with Manhattan, this unassuming store with a dilapidated facade on the corner is just an ordinary nightclub. But for some specific people - or some specific things,
This is a lawless place.
Passing through the dilapidated facade and rusty escalators, hidden at the bottom of the nightclub is a surprisingly large dark space. The hall is crowded with people, and the dark figures are twisting their bodies one by one, dancing to some kind of ancient dance.
A ritual-like dance. Dazzling colored lights flashed over everyone's heads over and over again, and gothic-style music hovered in the air.
It's like a devil's feast.
A dozen or twenty haggard-looking, disheveled teenagers and girls were surrounded by the carnival crowd on the dance floor in the middle of the hall. Colorful spotlights flickered on and off in the middle of the dance floor, as if they were the theme of the carnival. Among them
Some are trafficked, some are smugglers, illegal immigrants...but these are not important anymore.
Here they have only one identity, and that is food.
This is one of the carnival places for vampires living in New York. Every once in a while, vampires will hold a feast with the theme of singing, dancing and eating here. The food for each feast is carefully selected by the organizer.
The young people brought in after careful selection may be regarded as "fine delicacies" in the eyes of vampires.
A human-looking vampire wearing a suit and tie slowly walked up the steps, showing off his sharp fangs and looking at one of the pretty girls with a ferocious smile. He stretched out his finger.
Slowly sliding down the girl's snow-white cheeks to her delicate chin, her hungry eyes were like looking at a sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
The girl's expression was dull, as if she was completely numb to her dark fate. In fact, everyone who was brought here was like this.
For them, there is no future for them.
boom!
A discordant muffled sound came from the back of the hall. Although the music was quite loud, vampires have hearing far beyond that of ordinary people, and everyone present heard the sound clearly.
All the vampires stopped dancing and turned their heads warily to look in the direction of the entrance.
The vampires in the Marvel world are not as prosperous as their counterparts in many other stories. It seems that vampires are much stronger than humans, but their own fatal weaknesses such as fear of sunlight and silverware are destined to confront the human race.
They are in a weak position. Moreover, in a system like Marvel, a mere vampire is really no big deal. Not to mention that most of the superheroes in New York can fight a group of vampires one at a time.
Therefore, the way of survival of vampires in this world is actually quite difficult. They rely on disguising themselves as humans, accumulating wealth and social status to seek living space for their race in the cracks.
Because of this, most vampires are actually quite insecure. They are afraid of being discovered and exposed, because once they are under the sun and forced to go to war with humans, they all know that they have no chance of winning.
The door of the hall was violently kicked open from the outside. Richard was dressed casually and stood casually in the open doorway, his eyes quickly sweeping over the large group of dark vampires.
Oh, I won the prize.
Before Richard came here, he thought there were only three or five vampires gathered here. Unexpectedly, he actually won the jackpot in a blind guess and bumped into one of the largest gatherings of vampires in Manhattan.
But that's bad luck for these vampires.
"Humanity?"
The vampires began to stir. Their natural sense of smell could help them quickly identify aliens. At the first moment, they all realized that the guy who suddenly broke in was just a pure-blood human.
A human being, isn’t that equivalent to food?
The vampires all began to show excited expressions, as if they saw fried chicken legs delivered to their doorsteps. Can you believe that there are extra meals for tonight's feast?
A female vampire who was standing closer to the door, wearing only lingerie and a rather hot figure, came over with a seductive smile on her lips. She smiled and twisted her waist and walked towards Richard.
Before: "This handsome gentleman, do you want to come and have a carnival together?"
Richard glanced at her sideways, and without saying a word, he silently took out the energy blast gun. With a blast of blue light, the female vampire maintained a charming smile and was hit by the blue light, and her entire body instantly disintegrated under the dazzling light.
It opened. Everyone could clearly see that her fair skin was gradually corroded and shattered, exposing her white bones, which were then broken down into flying particles in the next half second.
In less than a second, the female vampire was shattered into pieces under the gaze of all the vampires, with not even a drop of her body left.
The expressions of all the vampires changed instantly. They were not only surprised by the strange gun in the hands of this human, but they were also shocked by the strong light that erupted at that moment. The moment the gun released its light, all the vampires in the room were shocked.
Everyone felt a painful burning sensation, as if their skin and internal organs were being burned by boiling water.
As we all know, sunlight is the natural enemy of vampires. But to this group of vampires, the light that Richard possesses seems to be a hundred times more terrifying than the sunlight.
After a few seconds of shock, two more vampires shouted loudly and rushed up from the crowd. They were extremely fast, but their claws and teeth were exaggerated, and they were full of flaws from head to toe. Richard faced the upper half of them head-on.
Stepping forward, he grabbed the air with his free left hand, and the Evolutionary Truster appeared out of thin air like a dagger. He struck like lightning, hitting the shoulders and abdomen of the two vampires respectively. The power of light circulated, and the two vampires were immediately struck by their bodies.
The unbearable light tore apart and turned into powder.
At this moment, the vampires suddenly exploded, and the vampires in the room immediately began to rush towards the exit of the hall without their lives. Even vampires are actually just "civilians". Like humans, they have to deal with fatal threats.
The first reaction was that it was important to save one's life. After all, there were only a few vampires who would fight for their lives with their hot blood. When Richard showed off his explosive gun and killed the first vampire instantly, most of the vampires present were already intimidated.
But of course, militants also existed. Several vampires took out steel pipes, crowbars, and even a few submachine guns from nowhere, and rushed forward one by one desperately.
But whether they fight or flee, today is destined not to be a lucky day for these vampires.
None of them can escape.
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