The day has finally arrived.

Voting will begin at 9 o'clock sharp, and the special detachment will set off at 7 o'clock. Leo drove, Dimmit was in the passenger seat, he had to get out of the car first, blend into the crowd, and then Leo put Akya in a farther away, less crowded place, and Akya walked to the backyard.

Leo hadn't gotten up so early except for work, and driving couldn't stop him from yawning one after another.

"Didn't the captain sleep well?" Akeya, who was inspecting weapons and NS, put down his pistol and asked.

"Sort of." Leo rubbed his eyes.

"Surely you're playing the game hypnotizing again, right?" Dimmit said disdainfully, "That will make it more difficult to sleep." ”

"Do you want to care? I can't sleep without playing. ”

"That's not a good habit."

Speaking of habits, Leo suddenly remembered Julie's words.

"Dimmit, ask something."

"Do you want me to teach you how to use EXP hypnosis? I won't. ”

"Who said that? I remember you said earlier that any part of the Pabaya's body can suck blood when it comes into contact with a wound, right? ”

"That's right."

"Then, biting people and sucking blood, does this matter have any special significance to them? Or is it just a habit? ”

Dimmit turned sideways, looked at Leo suspiciously, didn't answer his question, and his gaze drifted around his shoulder.

Caught off guard, Dimiit reached out and ripped Leo's collar open. Leo was taken aback, but he couldn't hide it anymore as he drove the car, and the bite was clearly visible in front of Akya and Dimmit.

"This, what is this?" Akeya leaned over, frowned, and immediately thought, "It's Julie?" Captain yesterday, you didn't look good because ......"

"Let her bite, but it's okay," Leo quickly pulled his collar back, "I asked Drake to help me transfuse some blood yesterday, and it's much better." ”

"So I can't get out of bed today," Dimmit said with a smile, "I thought you used Canglin to help her stop the bleeding, but it turned out that she was bitten, hahaha!" ”

"Why are you so happy?"

"What's the vampire's reaction?"

Leo thought for a moment, "Like, it's embarrassing." ”

"It's no wonder."

Dimmit leaned back in his seat, as if picking up a joke, and laughed from time to time, much to Leo's inexplicability.

"As for biting people and sucking blood?"

"It varies from person to person."

Leo guessed one thing correctly, biting and sucking does have some special meaning for the Pabaya people. The premise of sucking blood is that a part of the body is in contact with a wound, and biting and sucking can be effectively achieved in one go. Not everyone can fight, and anyone can bite someone, so this action can be said to be a sign of the Pabaya tribe.

The bite was ineffective in combat, but instead of being abandoned, it rose to the ritual. For example, large sacrifices to the gods (choosing living sacrifices to be bitten and bleeding by sacrifices), wild rituals (devouring the flesh and blood of wild beasts to gain strength), bloody sacrifices (having soldiers bite captives to kill before going on an expedition to please the gods or sacrifice flags), and so on. The brutal and savage bite represents the original meaning of "Ru Mao drinks blood" and is a symbol of the Pabaya's pursuit of wild power.

However, the most used bite and suck is not on these big occasions, but in marriage. During the ceremony, as long as both parties agree, the newlyweds will bite each other's necks and suck blood, representing the blood of the two people, and they will always be married, commonly known as "Broches", which means "kiss of blood" in Via.

Broches is not as mandatory as traditional ceremonies, nor does it have a clear origin, but it is born from one wedding to another, like a custom rather than a custom. There is literature that there were indeed Pabayans at that time who rejected the Broches, especially the male nobility, on the grounds that bites could only be used for sacred rituals. Later scholars, however, believe that they feared that Broches would give the female Assassins who had the courage to sacrifice their lives an opportunity.

After the Totamian Holy War, the Pabaya people opened up exchanges and intermarriages with natural and foreign people. In order to get rid of the "barbaric" impression of Pabaya to the outside world and better communicate and integrate with outsiders, many Pabayan nobles and common people gradually abandoned the part of the ancient ritual that required teeth and replaced it with other content.

Instead, Broches went from a habit to a small ritual. "I have your blood in my veins" sounds very romantic, especially for women. Later, the ritual expanded from newlyweds to couples.

For those Pabaya people who need to conceal their identities and integrate into the society of natural persons, if they meet someone worthy of entrusting them for life, they will boldly say their identity and show their wings to show their sincerity. If the other person agrees, they will take a small puff. This action is often completed at the same time as kissing, and it is a veritable "kiss to love".

Of course, no one can say anything about feelings. If the two still break up after the "kiss to love", then even if the Pabaya people find a new partner, they will rarely reveal their identities and suck blood to make love. The first time, anything with a sense of ritual, the first time is very important.

What's more, in modern society, unless they are seriously injured, ordinary Pabaya people will not have a situation where the blood instinct cannot be controlled, so there is basically no chance to suck blood. As a result, they paid more and more attention to the precious first Brogs.

"On the other hand, they will never bite people and suck blood, except for love. Not every vampire values this, but ...... Hehehe! ”

The more Dimmit talked, the happier he became, and he patted his legs, and he couldn't help himself.

"I didn't expect that woman to be quite innocent, hahahaha! If you say it's serious, you're defiling her! No, I'll have to laugh for a while, hahahaha......"

"Laugh six?" Leo said hatefully, "What kind of situation is this?" ”

Akeya listened quietly from behind, and suddenly tapped Leo on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, Captain, she didn't bite her lip, it shouldn't count. And that situation is force majeure......"

"Thank you, Akeya, you don't have to comfort me." Leo said helplessly, "It's not comfort at all. ”

"It's okay," Dimmit said with a wicked grin, "you go back and talk to that vampire, she sucked your blood to survive, and might be able to pick up a girlfriend for nothing." ”

At this, his mouth grinned even wider.

"It's a pity that Luna, but it's your granddaughter-in-law, who was handpicked by your grandmother at the dinner table. Oops, it's going to be a Shura field now! Hahaha! ”

"Shut up!"

The irritable Leo kicked the accelerator, and the car slammed out, and Akeya hurriedly told Leo to drive steadily, so as not to make a violation or accident, and call the police. Cleo didn't listen at all, and drove the car like a slippery fish, shuttling through the traffic.

"Troublesome heart!"

*****

There is still half an hour left.

The citizens surrounded the front yard of the city hall and gathered in an orderly manner under the arrangement of the police, forming a square box, each with a ballot box in front of it, a total of seven. When voting begins, everyone votes in order. In addition to the police, there are two teams of special police officers to help maintain order.

Behind the ballot box is a podium, where candidates make their final presentations for 10 minutes after the election begins, after which the candidates wait for the results in their designated rooms in the building before voting begins. On both sides of the podium, reporters and cameras sent by various media set up long guns and short guns, and behind them were the live broadcast vehicles of various units, and the signals had already been debugged.

Behind the podium there are five large screens, through which the polling stations, other than the city government, will be played. When voting at all polling stations is over and the counting of votes begins, four screens on either side show the status of the two candidates' rooms, and the middle screen shows the number of votes and the percentage of votes won by the two candidates.

Dimmitt is still in the same disguise, but the difference is that he has changed into the casual clothes provided by Drake. Wigs and sunglasses are still indispensable. He mingled with the crowd waiting to vote, plugging his headphones to his phone to make others think he was listening to music.

"It's pretty lively up ahead." He looked around for a moment and said.

"See a suspicious person? Someone suspected of being a Predator? "It's Akeya's voice.

"No, where do you look at this? People don't write iron and blood on their faces. ”

"Wait for Cullom to come out, and you'll see how they react."

"I'll try my best, how are you doing over there?"

"Nothing happened."

The backyard of the city hall is a spacious road that extends in all directions. Akya found a coffee shop on the side of the road, sat outside, and monitored the backyard with binoculars, a distance of a kilometer.

Everywhere you look, there are police, blocking all the roads leading to the backyard, barricades are all over the ground, and barricades are used. Not to mention people, even the cars parked nearby drove away. The view here is very good, and anyone or car does not need to come close to be targeted by the police.

Akeya thought and thought that what Tokar could do was to rush forward and be tough, but I am afraid that he would not do it before the election was over, which would lead to the election being suspended and re-elected another day. And as long as the election results are not in, Cullom will still be the legitimate mayor, and arresting him will cause a lot of chicken feathers, and there will be endless troubles. Predators wouldn't be that stupid.

He lowered his binoculars and began to stare at his watch.

The time came to 9 o'clock.

The official presiding over the election appeared on the podium and explained the process of the election. After a large chase finished speaking, Copenogin walked out of the building and went to the podium. The crowd, which had been silent just now, immediately erupted in warm applause and cheers.

"Thank you! Thank you! ”

Cpayoshi is 38 years old, he is not tall, but he moves with great confidence. His speech was very pertinent, addressing Cullom's failures from beginning to end and offering constructive adjustments. It was the core of his campaign platform, which had been refined several times and became almost unassailable, and became a source of self-confidence.

He spoke for almost twenty minutes, and no one urged him to go down or remind him. By the time he finished speaking, Cullom was already standing in the audience waiting.

Copenne stepped off the stage, shook Cullom's hand, smiled smugly, and went back first. Cullom walked onto the stage with a wry smile.

"Thank you for coming."

As Cullom walked up, Dimmit quickly looked left and right, not to mention, a few people really looked at each other, and slowly retreated from the crowd.

Voters are registered and have a voter card before they can vote, so those who are in the Predator will not go to the front of the line after the voting starts, but will go back. Dimmit secretly calculated, stared at one of them, and approached as if nothing had happened.

Cullom spoke for less than ten minutes before he hurriedly stepped down. Then, the voting officially began.

*****

"Good work, Mr. Cullom."

As soon as Cullom entered the house, Gaslius poured water for him. Ten minutes of speech was not a long time, but Cullom still felt a little dry, and took the glass of water and drank it down.

"You look nervous." Sandrey, who was beside Gasliu, said.

"Isn't it normal to be nervous on this occasion?"

"Are you talking about elections, or am you talking about my proposal?"

"Rob while it's hot, hum!" Gaslius said angrily.

"Don't be so angry, Gasliu, I can talk to the above, and let you go too."

Gaslius really wanted to grab Sandrey by the collar and spew his anger on the big fat face. But he restrained himself.

"I'm not interested!"

"Whatever, we're not interested in you."

At this moment, only Sandre and Gaslius were in the room to accompany Cullom, while in Copen's room, his family and colleagues were all seated. When the votes were counted, the scene of the two rooms would be shown to the public, and in order to prevent the citizens from seeing anything, Sandre informed several of his subordinates to come to Cullom's room later to prop up the façade.

Of course, it's more about keeping an eye on him. The more last moments, the more careless they are.

"I'm going to the bathroom." Cullom said suddenly.

"I'll go with you." Gaslius said.

Shandrey's eyes flashed: "Can't you two endure it?" ”

"People have three urgencies, and they still have to endure it?"

"Then count me in."

"You're going to go into the bathroom? You're not ashamed, we're annoying you! ”

It was true, but in Sandrey's eyes, Cullom was relieved only if she remained motionless in the room. The others hadn't come yet, and they had to see Cullom dead, and they couldn't give him a chance to make small moves.

"Then I'll wait outside, you two, let's go."

Gaslius glared at her fiercely, and followed Cullom out of the room and toward the bathroom. Sandre stared intently at the two of them, following them like a rattle to the bathroom door.

"Go and come back quickly, if it takes too long, I don't care about the difference between men and women." Sandre said, leaning back against the wall.

Cullom remained silent and stayed in the bathroom with Garth. The restroom has windows and enough for people to climb out, but Sandre isn't worried. Not to mention that this is the third floor, she called all the members of the executioners in Kogani City today, gathered in the backyard, and there were people patrolling the building.

After about three minutes, there was the sound of flushing and washing hands in the bathroom, and Cullom and Garth were out, and Sandre looked at them cautiously, no different from when they entered, and followed them back to the room.

From now on, she had to make sure that Cullom stayed out of her sight.

"Seems like a bit of time, Mr. Cullom."

"You also cut the time to go to the toilet?" Gasliu said dissatisfied.

"Where the duty lies."

The three of them entered the house and sat down, and in a short time the men called by Sandre also arrived, and each found a place to stay, and surrounded Cullom and Gaslius in the middle.

Sandrey was a little relieved, and then until the election results were in, Cullom didn't want to leave the room. She looked at the display on the wall, where citizens were orderly casting their ballots into the ballot boxes.

From voting to counting, up to two hours. As long as you survive these last two hours, you can be freed from the task of spying on Cullom and throw away the pseudonym "Sandrey".

Since taking over this mission, Sandrey's life has not been easy, and the executioners who entered the Kogani team, except for her and Nick, the other twenty or so people are all minions, trying to monitor Cullom in all directions, and at the same time grasp the anomalies in the city, so many people are very difficult. She reported several times to Nuro to ask for additional manpower, but Nuro always refused.

After several rejections, Sandre was inevitably dissatisfied, but she still insisted on doing what she had to do. Because after this mission, the boss will consider promotion according to her performance. At that time, she will no longer have to do these lowest-level tiring tasks, and she will be a little easier.

Thinking of this, she looked at Cullom with a bit of sarcasm, and the poor mayor stared blankly at the screen, not saying a word.

Little by little, time passed.

The counting of votes in the towns was over, and by this time, Cullom's vote share had fallen behind by at least 6%, and in the end, only the votes of the city of Kogani had not yet been counted.

The 6% difference was almost decisive, and on Cburn's side, his colleagues were high-fived or shake hands with him, and Copenne was also smiling and hugging each other with his family.

Looking at Cullom again, the room was lifeless, no one spoke, and Cullom still had a dull expression, like a wooden man.

That's pretty much it.

Sandre nodded to the others, and everyone went outside the room, giving Garth another gesture.

"Now it's a private conversation, let's get out."

I'm afraid I'll never see Cullom again. Gass knows it. He didn't say anything, just bowed deeply to Cullom and turned his head to go out.

Finally, it's time for the final step. Sandre looked at the screen, where the votes for the city of Kogani were being counted, and the numbers below the names of both candidates were increasing.

"The results are already obvious, Cullom, it's a bit early, but it's time for you to give me the answer."

Cullom didn't answer, just tilted his head and squinted at Sandrey.

"I'll cut it short. Reject us, and you will soon die, and you don't have to think that you will be able to escape, let alone expect to tell us about it. To tell you the truth, even if Gaslius says it everywhere now, no one will believe it, and it won't hurt us, and it will only bring your to the light! ”

Shandley accentuated her tone, she had been waiting for a long time.

"Join us and you will disappear from the front of people and say goodbye to those who know you forever. But then again, the wives are separated, and you don't have anything to worry about. There's nothing unacceptable about living a new life with the new identity we have given you. ”

Again, there was no response.

"It's better to die than to live, not to mention that with us, it's not as bad as you think. So, give me an answer, Cullom! ”

"Citizens, welcome our new Mayor, Mr. Cburn Sadwin, to his election speech!"

The screen erupted in cheers, interrupting Shandley's words. Copenne was elected, with a whopping 68.44% of the vote.

Sandre glanced at the screen and sneered.

"You can die this time, Cullom? Say, what do you want to do? ”

However, Cullom remained silent, his eyes straight. The impact must have been too great, Shandley thought.

"I understand your feelings, but it's about the same, we're very short on time."

There was another minute of silence, and the last of Sandrey's patience wore out, and his eyes widened.

"You mean ......"

Suddenly, an imperceptible glimmer of light flashed across Coolom's face, passing through Sandrey's eyes.

She froze, frowned, and took two steps toward Cullom.

It was at this time that an indescribable sense of disobedience sprouted in her heart, and it became bigger and bigger. Sandre stared straight at Cullom, his gaze as sharp as if he wanted to see through the skin.

Suddenly, she took a few steps back, with an incredible expression, drew her pistol, and pointed it at the person in front of her!

"Who the hell are you!?"