The salty sea breeze swept Danielle Ferent's tanned, rough face, and it was the first time he had stood on the deck and looked out at the sea like this, but it was the first time he had waited so eagerly for the shoreline to come into view.

Seven years on, Danielle did not think of the last expedition of his life, and after such a long time and tribulation, he felt deeply tired. In the past twenty years of exploration, he has seen enough rich and magnificent worlds, but every inch of the road he has traveled is sprinkled with youth and enthusiasm.

Danielle Ferent was really tired, and he wanted to sink into the leather-tanned sofa in front of the manor fireplace, drink the best gin, find a gentle and beautiful woman to serve him for the rest of his life, or find a few more.

Jack was waiting in Victoria Harbour two days in advance, although according to the news that kept coming back, everything went smoothly for Danielle and his family, but this matter was the only thing James had paid attention to in recent times, and he also hoped that the well-informed Mr. Ferent could help Master James, after all, his recent situation was not very good.

"What do you say? James locked himself up! ”

After greeting Danielle, Jack and the others, he couldn't wait to open a bottle of gin in the carriage back to the manor, and he asked Jack with some puzzlement as he swallowed the wine.

Jack said slowly, "A lot has happened in the past few years, maybe you don't know, there are many things in this world that we can't imagine, and some people even exceed our understanding of 'people'. ”

"Ho!" Danielle then refilled the half glass and said in a strange tone: "Boy, what I have seen and experienced is far more complicated than you think... I was surprised that you would mention this. ”

Danielle was suddenly a little unsure of what had happened in the years since he was gone, and he had thought that the news he had brought back would shock everyone, or make people scoff at it. But looking at the current situation, it should be himself who may need to be mentally prepared first, he poured another mouthful of juniper berries and listened to Jack tell about the American Civil War...

Edmond, underneath the castle of Howlett Manor.

In the deepest part of the dungeon, the light of the fire lit in the quiet stone chamber flickered slightly, and James looked at the slightly caramel-colored pink steak fried on the plate in front of him, forcing himself to eat the last bite.

What was once a favorite taste is now so hard to swallow, and the medium-rare finest filet is the sloin of the Simmental cow on the Howlett family's ranch for his own enjoyment, and the cupboard is a French chef who has been on the estate for many years and has always understood James's tastes best.

But at this moment, James frowned like chewing wax, chewed hard one bite at a time, stretched his neck, pressed the base of his tongue, and swallowed hard.

How he wanted this steak to be a little raw, a little regenerating, and even with a full fresh blood juice, so that it tasted good.

Months passed, and James had shut himself up underground since he returned to Manor Castle in Joliette Town, burying O'Hara and Victor. Just told Vane Steward and Jack some things from a distance of more than ten meters, and then ordered someone to deliver food and news at regular intervals every day.

James's appearance has changed a lot now, and the few people who have seen it are too shocked to speak. This is also why Jack is unusually worried, he is worried that Master James has been affected by those vampires, and the deaths of Victor and O'Hara can only be explained in this way, fortunately, the young master's consciousness is still quite clear, but that dangerous aura seems to be aimed at everyone.

He forced himself to eat like this every day with great will, and he had to eat cleanly. On that day, James unexpectedly "plundered" all of Victor's power, including Adam's bloodline that Victor had absorbed.

The strength of Victor's saber-toothed tiger and the mutant genes in James's body are unusually perfectly integrated, as if they are one, which makes James's bone claws grow into a new form, and his body has also become as tall as Victor, his height has increased by nearly thirty centimeters, from the original height of less than two meters, to the appearance of a giant now, and the strong one is also like Victor.

In addition to the complete replacement of the whole body, James's skin, fascia, and muscle tissue have also been replaced, and the original body has been improved after years of training and entering the chemical strength, although it is extremely strong, and its ability to resist pressure is completely beyond that of ordinary humans, but it has not yet reached the scope of extraordinary ability. And now, although James has not done a detailed test, he can feel that the firearm bullets of the current era may be tightly left with the ability to damage the shallow layers of his flesh.

His beastly perception and sense of smell, as well as his many sensory abilities, have been further enhanced, and he even has an awareness of things that have positive or negative crises for him. Judging from his martial arts practice in his previous life, this is the spiritual cultivation of human beings to the so-called magical state of "not seeing and hearing, feeling danger and avoiding it", he didn't know whether this ability was true or false, but now he has obtained this similar perception through the ability of mutant genes.

And Adam's source blood, after Victor's absorption and his own re-absorption, has reduced a certain amount of blood traits and strength, and he has become a little disgusted with the sun, and touching the sterling silver will be a little stinging, like a slight metal allergy.

His speed and nerve reflexes have increased dramatically, he has some instincts for stealth, and he also senses that he has the ability to transform vampires through bites...

But the most troublesome thing is the bloodthirsty darkness of the blood power and the violent wildness of the saber-toothed tiger, which makes James's mental consciousness a little fragmented, and he constantly controls the tyrannical thoughts in his mind, as well as the physiological instinct for blood.

Due to his and Victor's strong mutant abilities, neither of their bodies has been changed into the structure of the Bloodline, that is, internal organs that can only absorb blood, but they both have an extreme craving for blood and an aversion to normal human food.

This meant that he and Victor were able to eat food normally and absorb energy from it. It's just that mentally and physically, every bite will disgust them like rancid rotten meat, and fresh blood will look so delicious and sweet that it will make people full of appetite.

Victor does not reject this desire, and even condones it. But James tried his best to control himself, and tried to solve the shortcomings of the blood power in his body, so he closed himself in the underground stone room, trying not to meet anyone, in order to control his bloodthirsty desire.

At the moment, James's skyrocketing strength and very unstable mental consciousness made him fall into the realm of transformation cultivation at the same time as the battle ended, and he could no longer control his strength lightly, and these days he often accidentally tore or broke the special steel equipment in the underground training room.

It was precisely because of this that Victor's uncaring wave of his hand caused the mortal O'Hara to lose his life.

After entering the dark strength, James began to boil his body, at that time his basic strength was only about five times his own weight, all the way to the strength plus the changes in the body after entering the body, he already had the strength and fist power measured in tons.

But now the many training equipment in this underground space have completely lost their effect on him, he doesn't know how strong his body is now, the heaviest special barbell plus two tons, but he can only feel some weight by doing simple arm curls.

The giant iron pile, which used to require a minimum impact force of three tons to move slowly, is now fought like an ordinary boxer striking a wooden stake.

The heaviest hollow mercury lead ball, which reached three tons, could also be manipulated and played with at will by pure physical strength, and it didn't even require the strength of the whole mind, and these two were the only toys he could play with now.

He doesn't know why he and Victor have such a strange connection and change, his understanding of the ability brought by the so-called X gene of mutants is too limited, in such an era when modern science is still in its infancy, everything is crossing the river by feeling the stones, and he can only consciously promote the progress of some scientific research through the capital he has accumulated during this period as soon as possible.

What needs to be solved urgently at the moment is the problem of vampire power entrenched in the body, and the root of James is confident that it can be solved is his own control and induction of qi and blood in the body.

Now he can no longer perfectly control the qi and blood, stimulate the heart, and burst out of the massive strength of the body, but he can still clearly feel a cold blood qi entrenched in his body, as long as his skill can be re-integrated and control the body, he can control this blood source blood, and even completely solve it.

This kind of inferior and side-effect power, James simply disdains to possess.

Bell bell bell ...

The bell hanging in front of the ashram rang coldly, a way that James had deliberately used to make it possible for the people of the manor to contact him in case of emergency. He slowly got up, and his terrifying figure slowly stepped forward, shaking another iron handle to show that he knew.

This was the first time Danielle had entered the underground corridor of the Howlett Manor, and the last time he returned, the renovation of the manor was in full swing, and although he had seen it many times, he had not seen what it looked like when it was finished.

At this moment, he had the feeling of entering the archaeological expedition of the pharaoh's mausoleum again, this deep corridor and underground space are very exquisite, which is the embodiment of the highest level of architectural skills of the current era, the air is fresh, there is no foul smell, and the lighting combination of oil lamps is also very reasonable.

But seeing James in such an environment still made him a little creepy, and Vane's housekeeper was also helpless to tell him that he could only go in to see the young master by himself, and said in a somewhat unthinkable way: "No matter what you see, don't be afraid..."

"Jen, Jen, James... It's me, Danielle, you're... Is it? ”

Mr. Daniel trembled towards the deeper stone chamber, his voice trembling uncontrollably, as if a cold and terrible aura was blowing on the base of his neck after entering the ground, and he felt like a little white rabbit that had strayed into a lion's den.

"Alright... That's it, Mr. Danielle... Long time no see, thank you for your hard work. James's voice came from the stone chamber, and Danielle could still hear it as James's voice, but it became hoarse and low, as if it had a faint whispering resonance in his chest.

He stopped suddenly, looked inside, and vaguely saw a figure sitting there, the shadow of the fire, but the figure was too large, even more exaggerated than Victor's size when he left.

"James! You, what the hell is wrong with you? Is there some strange disease? Danielle asked anxiously, wondering what had made him this if it was James.

"Sort of... Jack should have told you about the American Civil War and vampires... I'm affected a little now, but don't worry, I know it. James's voice became hoarse, he could smell the smell of the living, and he could even feel the rhythmic slight beating of Danielle's neck artery, and he tried to control his physical desire for flesh, but the four fangs instinctively grew out.

He hurried up and hurriedly asked, "Tell me about Wakanda, pick up the important ones, don't stay down there for long!" ”

"Oooh! Good. Daniel was excited, and hurriedly talked about his experience of searching for the Wakanda tribe in Africa.

“...... Jason and Blake were killed on the spot, and the rest of us were caught and locked up, and they stamped us with a red-hot iron, which I later learned was the mark of a thief and an intruder... It's been locked up for more than three years, and thanks to the black slave Kenyala on your estate, he rescued the other three of us on the night of the entire tribe's sacrifice ceremony..."

"You can make a note of the route and the location there." James seemed to be suppressing something, gritting his teeth and saying word by word.

Danielle hurriedly took out the inner pocket of his jacket and took out a roll of leather and a long flat black metal wrapped in the middle: "Write it down, write it down!" I also stole a piece of metal mineral that they deserved as life, and I gave it to you... I'll put you on the ground. ”

He put the leather scroll in his hand on the ground in a panic, not knowing what to do for a while, and was a little at a loss.

"Thank you, Mr. Danielle, you can stay in the manor from now on, do whatever you want, Vane will arrange for your... Let's go... I'll talk to you more when I'm better later......"

"Hey! Okay, okay, then I'll go up, James, you have to take care of yourself..."Danielle hurriedly retreated, couldn't help but care about James a few words, and ran onto the road.

As he was about to come out, Danielle faintly heard a heart-pounding roar from deep underground, a voice full of bitter pain and creepy.

He suddenly felt that the powerful god-like guardian of the Wakanda tribe was not so terrifying.

In the underground space, James slowly picked up the leather map left by Daniel, looked at the black and somewhat convex metal ore, and grinned, but his smile looked a little unfamiliar.