Chapter 9: Inhuman
Adam endured his discomfort and walked into the block, almost picking a place to get his feet.
Although they are all made up of feces, there is a difference between dry and wet ones.
Once in the slums, follow-up became difficult, after all, the smell was too big, and Adam felt that his nose was going to go bad in order to desperately search for a hint of the smell of potion here.
Fortunately, Adam was not clueless, and some of the man's characteristics had been remembered by Adam, especially when it came to clean hands.
People of this era thought that water was unclean, and they rarely washed their hands and drank very little water, and if they wanted to replenish water, they drank wine if they could, beer if they didn't, or all kinds of soups.
There are multiple reasons for this, one of the main reasons being public health concerns.
The water here, except for a few wells, the water quality is not good, and the people of this era have not formed the habit of boiling water and drinking boiled water.
Once the idea of water is unclean, most people don't even want to wash their hands, so in general, you rarely see clean hands.
Adam's frequent cleansing of the body, although the people of the Boku family did not say much, but they also thought it was a strange problem.
"I can only say that I am still not ruthless enough...... Adam is a little self-deprecating, really ruthless, not only to others, but also to himself.
He could eat the holy bread as if nothing had happened in order not to arouse suspicion, and endure the pain, so that he would not show his flaws in front of the chief monk, but he still couldn't accept that he was like falling into a dung pit, and his whole body stinked.
On the contrary, most of the monks in the church were clean, and they used holy water.
There are also several types of holy water, the simplest one is the clean water extracted from the well under the church bell tower, and the bell of the Holy Sound Church may be one of the few items in the church that is related to the extraordinary, so these waters also have a little bit of holy power.
The water used for rituals such as worship and hand cleansing is this type of holy water.
As the xenomorph pilgrim washed his hands, he pulled out a wooden thorn from his fingernail and some sawdust, which were so new that they didn't look like they had come out of any wooden artifact.
Generally speaking, people who have so many wood thorns and sawdust in their fingernails are either carpenters or lumberjacks.
Adam prefers the latter, as the edge of the other shoe's shoe is covered with moss, and of course all this is just speculation.
Along the way, Adam didn't dare to let go of his sense of smell with all his might, and as he approached the direction of the slum near the forest, he finally found a new clue after quietly wandering around for a few laps.
It's not the smell, it's the sound.
In the silence of the night, Adam heard a voice from a remote cabin near the forest, like a mad beast, wanting to bark wildly, but under the effect of fear, he suppressed his emotions and did not dare to really make a sound, but could only roar.
In Adam's letting go of the perception, the other party was like a powder keg that exploded at a moment, and as he got closer, Adam also heard what the other party was whispering.
"Blood~Blood~" This answer made Adam frown, as far as he knew, werewolves did not have pica, and among most xenos, only vampires were particularly favored for 'blood'.
Pure vampires are beings who study werewolves by sorcerers and transform themselves through some kind of ritual.
But when you think about it, you know that this one in it is definitely not a pure vampire.
Some werewolves can spread wolf venom through bites to transform ordinary people into non-pure-bred werewolves, and vampires transformed from werewolves seem to have similar abilities, and can somehow transform ordinary people into non-pure vampires, which can also be called blood slaves.
It's nothing that this xenomorph is a vampire, the question is how he transforms into a blood slave.
"Could it be that there was once a pure vampire in Roya, or was this man converted somewhere else and fled to Roa?" Adam couldn't help but think.
Adam doesn't want to kill the other person when he sees a vampire, as is generally rumored, and for Adam, this is no good, and he basically won't do anything that is not good.
But Adam had to think about what kind of threat the pure vampire would pose to him if he were still in Roa.
A pure vampire must be a sorcerer, and a sorcerer with a deep understanding of werewolves, Adam will not hate vampires for no reason, but he cannot guarantee that vampires will not catch him on a whim for experiments.
"The situation in Loya is getting more and more complicated. Adam frowned, but decided to go with the plan.
Quietly came to the door, but Adam did not intend to enter, but entered a state of perception, and began to perceive everything around him in all directions.
The blood slave inside is caught in an endless thirst for blood, which is his eating instinct, and there is only another instinct that can suppress this instinct at this moment, the survival instinct.
As Adam had analyzed, Adel was so frightened that he fell into a deep state of fear after the witch doctor was burned at the stake.
Even out of fear, he did something stupid.
Adam didn't bother the blood slaves in that state, but quietly came to the side of the room and used his claws to directly pick the lock of the cellar.
Covering his mouth and nose, Adam gradually came to the cellar, although he had dim vision in the state of transforming into a werewolf, but the cellar was too dark to see clearly, following the smell of the oil lamp, the oil lamp was lit, and the whole cellar was reflected in his eyes.
Despite his expectations, Adam felt a slight discomfort with the tragic situation in the basement.
Several wooden pillars propped up the cellar, and there were some wooden cabinets in which some bottles could be seen, some of which were empty, and some of which were left.
Not surprisingly, those were potions.
But the potion wasn't the most eye-catching thing right now, but a stinking, twisted corpse.
From the shackled ropes, the strangulation marks on the pillars, and the feces piled up in the corners, it is not difficult to analyze what happened here.
Vampires and Blood Slaves don't have the same problem with the moon as werewolves, but they do have their own problem - a sick thirst for blood.
In Loya, even in the slums, if someone is often attacked and sucked blood, it will attract the investigation of the church monks, on the contrary, it is difficult to attract the attention of the church when a person disappears, because for the slums, disappearances are too common.
Imprisoning a person in a cellar to become a steady source of blood is not surprising for a cautious blood slave.
"Is there an irrepressible anger out of fear?" said Adam in silence at the man's death, whose twisted body showed that he had suffered unimaginable torture even after death.
"Didn't you wake up before you died?" Adam looked at the wooden pillars that were still scratched at first, and then all that were left were messy bite marks, and he judged that the man who was being held here had gone crazy before he died.
Don't think of vampires as elegant, they are all alien in nature, and sometimes more like a beast than a werewolf, and even more so a blood slave infected by it.
Adam made no secret of his dislike for the blood slave, Adam knew very well that he was a scumbag, but this blood slave was just a piece of garbage that was not even as good as a scumbag.
"I'm a scumbag!" Adam recognized himself again.
Instead of turning around to give death to the humanoid garbage, he tapped a few times on the wooden cabinet on the side and pulled out a book from a mezzanine.
After a little flipping, Adam put it away, popped out his paws, and began to write on the cabinet.
After writing the words he had prepared earlier, Adam hesitated slightly, and then continued: bury the corpse quickly, you don't want to go to church with the smell of corpses and be discovered by the monks!
After doing all this, Adam snuffed out the oil lamp with his hand, quickly left the slum with the book, came to a clean river, put the book on the bank, jumped directly into the river and washed his body, everything about the blood slave made him sick.
Looking at the first quarter moon hanging high in the sky, Adam resisted the urge to roar, picked up the book, and disappeared into the night.