Chapter 372: Prelude
The bar is built in the style of the underground and is divided into multiple levels.
The first floor is just an ordinary bar and performance stage, and the customers are mostly young urban men and women, who look more decent, no different from a normal bar.
The second floor is a favorite of thrill-seekers, offering a variety of businesses that ordinary bars don't do, so for the privacy of customers, it is not a large open space like the first floor, but is divided into separate spaces like private rooms.
As for the customers here, there are all kinds of things.
At this point, although this bar is different from ordinary bars, it is still within the scope of normal people's understanding. But when it comes to the third layer, it is completely beyond the imagination of normal people.
This layer is a forbidden area for ordinary humans.
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"Hey, buddy! Are there any new items recently? ”
The secret door to the third floor of the speakeasy was pushed open with a slight creak. Before the figure of the visitor could fully emerge from the shadows, a slightly tired voice floated through the doorway.
The bartender, who was wiping the glass in his hand, heard what seemed to be a familiar customer, so he stopped what he was doing, looked up and replied, "I guess I'm going to disappoint you, man!" ”
Looking in the direction the bartender's eyes were looking, a young man with a pale face and slightly red eyes was slowly pacing through the door.
The bartender glanced up and down at the visitor, his eyes lingering for half a second on his neatly groomed suit, which was a little pale and still neatly groomed, and then moved away as if nothing had happened.
“…… As you know, the group of lunatics in the Holy Note have been a bit active lately...... I haven't received a new item here for almost a week. ”
Hearing the bartender's answer, the man shook his head in disappointment, but he didn't seem surprised.
The new stuff in the mouths of the youth and the bartender refers to the various drinks made from the freshest human virgin blood, a thing that is equally loved by almost all bloods, regardless of rank.
"Okay then...... Old rules, bring me a glass of Bloody Mary! ”
"By the way, remember to ask for an O-shape."
I don't know if it's an illusion, but there was suddenly a faint lightness in the young man's words, as if this so-called "Bloody Mary" was the real goal he wanted.
"Wait a minute." As if he had been prepared for the youth's request, the bartender had already stopped his movements before the youth began to speak, and turned to tinker with something behind the counter.
Soon, a glass of scarlet liquid, which was different from ordinary alcohol, appeared on a tray in front of the young man.
"Thanks, buddy!"
Some of them enjoyed bringing their noses to the wine glass and sniffing it, and a drunken flush suddenly appeared on the young man's face.
"Shhh...... It's a taste that hasn't been seen in a long time......"
"Please take your time."
Seeing the young man's appearance, the bartender walked away from the young man with great eyes, and took a few banknotes on the tray with him as he left...... Well, it's a couple of dollar bills of different denominations, old and new.
But in fact, the most popular banknote used in this bar run by the Bloodline has always been the pound sterling.
Even though the blood clan has left Britain and continental Europe, the aristocratic plot hidden deep in their blood still makes them can't help but move closer to the traditional nobles in Britain.
However, the bartender seemed to know the situation of the customer in front of him, so when he saw that the banknote used by the young man to pay the bill was US dollars, he acquiesced without saying anything.
The young man did not react to the bartender's departure, his mind seemed to be attracted by the liquid in the wine glass in front of him, and he was somewhat oblivious to savoring the strange fragrance coming from his nose.
“…… The smell of blood...... Or my favorite blood type O ......"
After sniffing the glass for a long time, the young man finally came back to his senses, and some eagerly picked up the wine glass and took a sip gently.
Goo~
The liquor swirled around the tip of the young man's tongue for a while before it was gently swallowed.
"Ah~~"
As this sip of wine entered his stomach, the flush on the young man's face, which was already about to fade, suddenly rose again. A sense of satisfaction welled up from the depths of his soul and filled every cell in his body in an instant.
"This is the life that a vampire should enjoy!"
Even if the young man knew that the materials used in this so-called "Bloody Mary" were only expired blood that had been in the inventory for a long time, it was still much better than the artificial blood he couldn't afford to buy on a diet on weekdays!
It didn't take long for a whole cup of "Bloody Mary" to completely enter the young man's belly.
Some reluctantly put down the glass in their hands, and the young man's eyes quietly glanced around, and after making sure that no one was paying attention to him, he quickly stretched out his tongue and added a circle to the edge of the glass, until there was no trace of wine on the rim of the glass.
With a sigh of relief, the young man regained his calm appearance, but in the corner of his eyes, where no one was paying attention, a look of loneliness and loneliness flashed quietly inadvertently.
To be honest, as a blood clan, the appearance of being a young man is miserable enough. However, who let the young man become an official blood clan for such a short time, and his own strength is so weak.
In the blood clan, except for the extremely "rare" and "noble" pure-blood clan, the other members determine their status in the blood clan through their strength. The strength of the blood clan grows, but it is linked to age, and the longer the blood clan lives, the stronger the strength often becomes.
And as a low-level blood clan who unexpectedly got the first embrace half a year ago, and his strength is almost not much stronger than that of ordinary people, his status in the blood clan is only slightly higher than those half-finished blood slaves.
Almost any official blood clan with a little strength can summon and teach him a lesson at will.
This made the young man who had always had great expectations and fantasies about the blood clan before he was first embraced was naturally disappointed.
What makes the young man feel even more depressed is that his status in the blood clan also represents the treatment and benefits he can enjoy from the blood clan - it is conceivable that with the young man's status is only slightly higher than that of "slaves" and "cannon fodder", how can the treatment and benefits he can enjoy be so high!
If it is said that the blood patriarch who gave the young man the first embrace is still there, the status and life of the young man may be a little better, but who let the blood clan die in the fire between the blood clan and the group of madmen in the Holy Note less than half a month after giving the young man the first embrace.
After losing the care and guidance of the blood clan chief, it was not until two months ago that the young man almost stumbled to complete the follow-up transformation process of the blood clan and truly became a formal blood clan.
Until now, every time young people think of those days, they can't help but feel fear and horror in their hearts.
It was as if he had been sunk into infinite darkness and suffocation, and he never wanted to experience it again.
"Alas~"
As if remembering something sad again, the wrinkles between the young man's brows were added again.
He glanced at the dance floor not far away, where several Bloodborns who seemed to be just as "young" as him were dancing to the music, but the young man knew that the youngest of them could be his grandfather.
There was no intention of going over to have a lively time, and after sitting in front of the bar in a daze for a while, the young man planned to get up and go back. But before he could fully stand up from the chair in front of the bar, a violent explosion came from the secret door where the young man had entered.
"Boom!"
For a moment, not only was the young man, who had not fully stood up, so frightened that he sat back down, but even the other Bloods who were drinking wine or dancing on the dance floor looked at the location of the secret door with some surprise.