The man is in the Ark, a blood demon scientist

【"Longmen Security": According to the in-depth investigation of the Imperial Guards, the detectives unexpectedly discovered that the large-scale explosion of the source stone heating pipeline on Gray Rat Street in the Lower City on the night of May 1094, 5, and the disappearance of foreign personnel, were caused by human factors. The Imperial Guards have filed a case and the suspect has been arrested by the police. 】

【"Longmen Safety": When Governor Wei inspected the headquarters building of the Guard Bureau, the top floor of the building collapsed unexpectedly. After the fire department intervened to investigate, it was confirmed that it was caused by the shoddy workmanship of the engineering contractor. The company has now been fined more than 5 million Longmen coins. 】

Accardo lay on the sofa, watching the news with an expressionless face.

Quill was still in her room, working hard on the homework that Akado had given her.

The Blood Demon looked at the sunlight outside the window and then looked at the date, [May 5th]. Penguin Logistics will soon deliver the equipment to Longmen, right?

Bang, bang, bang, the door was knocked, and a familiar voice sounded outside the door.

"Acardo! Open the door quickly!"

The Blood Demon got up from the sofa and slowly opened the door for the Emperor Penguin standing outside.

The short and fat penguin swaggered into the living room.

"You'd better be okay." The Blood Demon threw him a new wet towel and asked him to wipe the dust off his flippers.

"Hey, man, staying in your room all day watching the news and calculating formulas... How can this be called life? Can you learn to enjoy yourself a little bit?"

The emperor jumped onto the sofa and sat down, and the gold chains hanging on his body rustled.

"Scientific research is my life now," Accardo threw the remote control to him, saying that he didn't like watching TV.

"Oh, okay, okay, you love research and invention..." The emperor used the remote control to turn on the entertainment program and watched with relish as the host refuted the dark politics of other city-states in the form of a talk show on the stands, and then boasted about how wise and brave the Governor of Longmen was and how politically far-sighted he was.

"?" Acardo glanced at the screen on the TV, "Is this your life?"

"Entertainment comes first, man!" The emperor turned off the TV and flapped Akado's arm with his wings. "To be honest, I also think there's nothing good to watch on TV... Well, I've been feeling this way recently. The main reason is that the programs produced by those TV stations have become monotonous for some reason, and the quality of the actors is not good. They can't even read the lines clearly. After all, the only thing worth watching is talk shows."

"I suggest you get to the point," Akado took out a medical blood bag from somewhere and weighed it in his hand, "kindly" indicating that he did not intend to waste time on nonsense.

"Ahem, here's the thing...my employees have all gone to Columbia to move the equipment for you. I'm almost going crazy from being bored, so I'm going to have a party today."

"No," the Blood Demon said concisely.

"Hey!" The emperor shouted angrily, "Are we brothers? When you attended your daughter's parents' meeting, I came to support you!"

"I remember I didn't call you."

"Tsk," the penguin smacked his lips and couldn't help but sit back down. "You old pink-eyed person can stay in your room all day long, but can you bear to let your precious daughter stay in the room with you without seeing the sun all day long?"

"......" Akado raised his eyebrows, "Scientific research is a boring journey and exploration."

"I hate researchers," Penguin raged.

"But..." The Blood Demon changed the subject and said, "Accepting new ideas is also a necessary requirement for participating in scientific research."

Penguin immediately smiled and said, "The researcher is really good."

"Haha, what are we waiting for? Let's go! My baby sports car has been parked downstairs for a while. It's hundreds of times cooler than your blue toy car!" The emperor couldn't wait to take out a bunch of car keys from his pocket and waved them in front of Akado.

......

The Land's End bar.

In the hall filled with streamers and balloons, a large table was placed in the center.

The Emperor, Akado, and the Emperor's "butler" Is sat at different positions at the table.

Miss Quill holds 5 boxes of playing cards and acts as the dealer.

"What you call a party is this... a gathering for gambling?" Akado took a playing card from the quill pen hand. He was lucky because it was the K with a king's head on it.

"This is just an appetizer to verify whether you are qualified to participate in the bliss." The emperor took out an antique wooden box, opened it, and took out a bottle of red wine that looked expensive. "Is, fill the glass."

"......" Is took out three glasses and filled them with wine. He glanced at the quill that was shuffling cards, took out another glass and poured her some apple juice.

Akado put the King in his hand back into Quill and asked her to shuffle the cards again.

The Blood Demon looked at the Emperor and said, "Let's begin."

"Hahahahaha," the penguin let out a stinky laugh, "Look, today I'm going to pocket all your research funds!"

2 hours later.

The emperor looked at the pile of chips in front of Akado, then looked at the empty desks of himself and Is, feeling lost.

"This...this...this doesn't make sense..." the penguin muttered to himself.

"Boss, I've already lost three months' salary." Yis calmly delivered the fatal blow.

"I'll make it up to you later!" Penguin waved his hands angrily, then looked at Akado in disbelief, "Haven't you ever played this game? This is Yan Country's new "Battle of Behemoths"!"

"Fighting Giant Beasts" is a three-player card game based on the historical story of the Yan royal family in ancient times, who used the whole country's strength to kill the rising beast that was causing chaos on the earth. (For specific rules, please refer to Fighting Landlords)

"A simple math reasoning problem," Akado casually picked up two chips and played with them. The handmade metal chips were exquisite and beautiful. "Also, you still owe me 6 Longmen coins."

"Oh, damn, I hate researchers."

Penguin checked his current debt at the gambling table, angrily took out a bulging wallet from under the gambling table, grabbed a handful of Lungmen coins and threw them in front of Akado.

"Thank you," Akado nodded happily and motioned to Quill beside him to help collect the bills and chips on the table.

"Don't run away if you have the guts! There's still a lot to play with later!" The penguin seemed to have thought of something and suddenly let out a strange laugh.

The weather has been warming up recently and it's been quite hot.

When Feather Pen went out, she changed into a white dress and wore small black round-toed leather shoes.

A pair of white socks with lace trims wrapped around the girl's slender ankles, forming a sharp contrast with the shiny black uppers, making the beautiful white calves from the ankles even more eye-catching.

The glass door was suddenly opened from the outside, and a gust of warm wind slightly lifted the hem of Quill Pen's skirt.

"Boss, we are back~"

Cheerful and energetic sounds filled the air.

"Hmm? The boss isn't here?"

The Sakota girl with long red hair skipped into the bar and called out to a penguin, but got no response. Her eyes rolled around a few times, scanning the entire space, and then she saw the blood demon sitting opposite her.

"Boss?! Boss? Old..."

The Archangel was petrified on the spot.

014. The Collared Wolf

The two people from Penguin Logistics unloaded plastic boxes wrapped with sponge pads from Rhine Life's land vehicle and moved them into their large truck that had been parked in the parking lot for almost half a month.

(Landrunners are small to medium-sized vehicles on Terra that are used for traveling on the road and are powered by Originium. They can overcome steep and rugged terrain to a certain extent and are the best partners for messengers in areas outside the city-state.)

The truck was bumping along the road.

The sunlight swept along the end of the sky to the earth, leaving a rippling halo on the retina.

The Angel flicked the dust off his shoulders, looked out the window at the familiar view of Longmen city, and tears welled up in his eyes.

Sure enough, the wilderness is not a place for people to stay.

Due to the influence of natural disasters, extreme climate, infectious organisms and other factors, the countries and even city-states of Terra are isolated from each other, and communication between cities must rely on the most primitive human power.

A profession called messenger came into being. They traveled through the dangerous wilderness to deliver letters to distant foreign countries.

When Penguin Logistics was first founded, it adhered to the principle of "everything can be delivered and everything can be delivered". Croissant and Angel Exia are naturally not afraid of the wilderness.

But...it's really not easy to travel long distances in the wilderness.

Wild beasts infected by Originium, even wandering Sarkaz mercenaries and vagrant robbers would often attack the land vehicles. Whether it was the researchers from Rhine Life or the two people from Penguin Logistics, they were all on edge along the way, always prepared to deal with emergencies.

Finally, I arrived at Longmen and stepped onto the bustling city streets. For a moment, I felt relaxed and... safe. Then, I was exhausted from the half-month journey. My hands and feet felt weak. I just wanted to take a hot shower and then curl up in bed to sleep soundly for a day and a night.

"Where should we go now?" Croissant yawned.

"Let's go get our wages from the boss first, then we'll go get some pizza, um, and a plate of hot apple pie, then buy some newly released game discs, and then go back to the dormitory?"

"Good idea," the girl from the Fengti tribe searched for the "End of the Earth" bar in the navigation.

It has been so long since I last drove on Longmen Road that Croissant almost didn’t recognize the road anymore.

The large truck twisted and turned its way into the busy city of Longmen.

Ten minutes later, Angel opened the passenger door and jumped out of the car.

"Shall I go and ask for my salary first?"

"Hurry up, I'm starving." Croissant lay on the steering wheel, mumbling weakly.

......

Then time returns to the present.

The Archangel froze at the door, not daring to move.

The education she received since childhood has always described how brutal and terrible the Sarkaz are, and how bloodthirsty they are.

There is a booklet that the children of Latlan jokingly call the "Little Yellow Book", which records in detail various countermeasures when encountering Sarkaz.

The full name of the booklet is "Self-Defense Manual for Traveling to Other Cities-States around Lateran and Intermediate Areas", abbreviated as "Self-Defense Manual".

When it comes to "encountering the blood demon", damn, there is no mention of any countermeasures at all, only a suggestion: if the aim is not good, the guard gun is not a medium-to-long-range type, and it is not equipped with a lot of ammunition, then... then why are you flipping through this booklet? ! Run quickly ! ! !

There are even three red and bold exclamation marks at the end, which shows how dangerous it is.

While Angel was having wild thoughts, her boss finally showed up.

"Aneng, you came at the right time."

"Gu..." Archangel swallowed and looked at his boss tremblingly.

The other party patted Akado's shoulder with his wing and introduced, "This is your employer, the director of Rhine Life Engineering, Akado."

"Hello," the Blood Demon nodded as a greeting, "Thank you for your hard work."

The tone was very flat and the words were very cold. If it wasn't for the emperor's sake, he would not even bother to pay attention to this Sakota.

"Yes... hello," Exia's calves were trembling. Just kidding, it's like you watch horror movies every day. If a zombie really runs into your face one day, peeing your pants would be the least of your worries.

Quill considerately opened the shoulder bag she was carrying, then half-knelt down so that Akado could touch the banknotes and metal chips inside without having to stand up - the chips were actually modified bank cards and could be swiped in any ATM machine to withdraw money.

Akaduo paid about 20 Dragon Gate coins and gave them to the Archangel. "Remuneration."

A certain penguin also jumped off the bench and stuffed one of his wallets...to Sakota, "Salary."

The emperor would not be stingy in giving money to his subordinates, especially after she made commensurate efforts.

"What's next? Your party." Akado stood up, walked behind the bar counter, and looked at the emperor's collection next to the wine rack.

"Fast and Furious," Penguin suddenly laughed sinisterly. He jumped to the corner of the bar and pressed the needle of the record player onto the vinyl record that had been put in place. A thrilling and cheerful song started playing. "It's time to show you the strength of Longmen's strongest biker."

*

A large parking lot dedicated to land vehicles and land ships.

"Joyce?"

"Miss Olivia?"

Two colleagues who were considered to be close in Rhine's life met.

"Well, I'm here to assist Director Accardo in the development of the project," Miss Joyce said.

"Me too..." Olivia Hemer covered her forehead, "What a coincidence."

The Lupo girl got off the landspeeder and saw Joyce having a pleasant conversation with a Liberian woman, who was standing quietly at a distance, carrying two long swords.

Texas took out a cross pendant from her pocket. She looked up at the sky, pursed her lips, and her thoughts drifted involuntarily to the time in Syracuse.

The shackles called family could no longer restrain her.

"Freedom..." Her eyes were blurry and slightly shaking.

This is obviously not freedom. She escaped from the shackles of her family, but was also put on a collar by a blood demon.

015. Texas will call out its master

Buzz...buzz.

The Originium Engine roared a few times weakly, then symbolically blew out a puff of black smoke and stopped running completely.

Akado and the Emperor stood on the side of the road, looking at the dim moon and stars in the sky, then looking at the motorcycle that was leaving in the distance, in silence.

The Blood Demon repeated what the Emperor had said nine hours ago.