Chapter Twenty: The Strange Antique Shop

  Walking on the crowded street, I lowered my head and took out the note given by Lǐ Shì Zhǎng. With so many things, it's indeed better to find someone to help... But the people from the Night Department are too eye-catching, making it difficult to move things back home. Ling Er... It's not convenient now.

  "Ah!" The body stumbled and fell to the ground, slowly getting up with a numbness in the arm. Looking down, there were some scattered glass shards stuck on the arm... Who threw glass debris on the street, damn it.

  I looked up and saw a little kid lying on the ground, I must have just knocked him down...

  Remove the glass shards, stand up and pat off the dust on my body, can't bother with the bleeding arm, it'll heal automatically after a while, right? "Sorry, I shouldn't have been looking at things while walking, are you okay?"

  The boy in front of me slowly sat up, and what surprised me were his eyes. They were a pair of heterochromatic eyes, one red and one blue, looking incredibly charming yet strange. A pair of heterochromatic eyes... I felt like I had seen them somewhere before.

  Jiu Lan Li's body sprang up in anger, once again complaining about the weakness of this body. Just as he was thinking of making the person who knocked him down his next meal, a faint scent entered through his nose, even more alluring than the blood of a pure-blooded vampire. He lifted his head, and what entered his line of sight was... Tree?! No, it seemed that the aura belonged to just an ordinary human girl. But she looked so similar to Shu Li from when he was younger, how interesting~

  Li Tu's mouth curved into a slight arc, pulling the girl's slender arm to his lips. If this weren't a deserted street, they would have been surrounded by onlookers by now.

  "It's bleeding... I'll help you clean it up then." A soft, slippery tongue licked at the person's fresh blood. The moment the blood touched the tip of her tongue, her body stiffened involuntarily. Her blood had a fragrant scent like that of trees...

  Looking down at the boy in front of me, licking his own blood, he seems to be enjoying it... Let's give him a snack, after all, I was the one who knocked him down, and he's quite cute.

  "Is that a vampire......" He loosened his grip, and with an unfinished expression, he licked his lips. I stretched out my hand and touched his small fangs with my fingertips.

  "Are you not afraid of me?" He didn't resist when I touched his fangs with my fingers, instead he raised his hand to grab mine and gently licked the fingers I had placed in his mouth, a sly and charming smile spreading across his face.

  "Hmm, there are many of your kind at the school I attend." Nodding slightly, I glanced at the wound that was slowly healing, and they were all unaware that I too was a blood relative.

  "My name is Li Tu, Shu Li..." He let out a meaningful hum and slowly started saying his own name, but the words that followed were very light and couldn't be heard clearly.

  "My name is Kurenai, Kuroba Kurenai." He took a glance at the cute-looking boy, Rito... seemed to have heard that somewhere before, even those heterochromatic eyes were...

  He picked up the note that Lǐ Tǔ had given him, glanced at the boy and said "I still have things to do, you should also head back, Lǐ Tǔ."

  "Hmm, I'll go find you... Miss." He slightly narrowed his eyes and smiled, looking cute but also a bit eerie. Surprisingly mature for his age, his parents must not have spoiled him much.

  "Alright, it seems like my blood is quite tasty for you. Next time we meet, I can give some to you as a snack."

  "The lively index is above the tree." Li Tu looked at the girl walking away slowly, and smiled with relish. With a fragrance like the scent of trees, a spirit similar to that of trees, can I possess you again, Tree...

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  Tomorrow is Yitiao's birthday, but after visiting many specialty stores, I still can't find a suitable gift. Yitiao really likes comics, but his collection is so vast that I estimate it's impossible for me to find something he hasn't read yet...

  I happened to see a store next to me that looked like it was from an ancient era, is this an antique shop? What an old house... Let's go in and take a look, maybe there are some good weapons and antiques.

  As soon as I entered, I felt a strong musty smell of old books. The door creaked open with just a slight push... Wow, this old lady is so eerie. Sitting in an old wooden chair, her white hair almost completely covered her face, and it fell to the ground like a curtain, she was as still as a wooden puppet, had she already died?

  "Welcome, it's been hundreds of years, finally a guest who can make it here has arrived. I didn't expect it to be the descendant of that person, and as it happens, this place just so happens to belong to you." The old woman suddenly stirred, opening her mouth to let out a witch-like voice, involuntarily giving me goosebumps.

  For hundreds of years... the business of this store is really not good, silently ignoring the old lady, walking towards the depths of the store. If possible, I really want to turn around and leave, but... everything here looks like a rare treasure.

  There are many types of weapons here, such as Western swords, knives, iron hammers and so on. In the corner of my vision, I saw a Japanese sword with beautiful patterns and extremely sharp edges, with sharp lines mixed in the blade. I heard that one of them likes Japanese swords very much, so let's give this sword to him.

  Put the knife back in its sheath, feeling a chilly gaze behind me that made my hand tremble uncontrollably, I pretended to be nonchalant and walked to the dead angle of the bookshelf where the old woman couldn't see.

  I inadvertently swept a glance, and I suddenly had the idea of rushing out to report to the police. This is not an ordinary antique shop at all... On the shelves are some old books on witchcraft, divination, magic, and even summoning spirits.

  A row of dark-colored leather-bound books, only one of which stood out particularly. Reaching out to pull the book out, it was a combination of dark red and gold, with a snow-white double-winged lion in the middle, on top of which was written THECLOW. The meaning was unclear, but this one seemed relatively normal, and the cover looked good too.

  Holding a book and a knife, I walked to a row of cabinets that seemed to be decorative, everything looked very beautiful and delicate, with many different styles of rings, brooches, head ornaments, etc.

  Only one ring caught my eye, with sunflowers and cherry blossoms alternating with crimson petals that were surprisingly transparent. When I picked it up, it emitted a faint glow, but it didn't seem to be crystal.

  "I want to buy these three things." Taking out my wallet, these three things look very expensive, I wonder if I have enough money... Looking at her staring at the ring with a slight tremble, this reaction makes me think that I must have picked up one of the most expensive items in her store...

  "A demonic sword, Muramasa, a book of forbidden magic from Cthulhu, and... a ring of Sakura with the tainted blood of Satan and Archangel Michael." She manipulated the beautiful ring with her dry fingers, the ring emitted a faint glow as if electrified, and her hand left the ring.

  Devil... angel... she's not kidding, right? But if there are blood clans, then there should be such creatures too. Maybe she's just talking nonsense to raise the price of goods.

  "Because you and I have a good affinity, I'll give you this seal that holds the power and proof of the Blood Clan's King. This is the symbol of the Blood Clan's King. It's said to be a personal item left behind by our ancestors, but now it's been passed down to me. You should be able to return it to its rightful owner."

  She bent down and took out a jet-black ring from the small cabinet, looked at it deeply with profound meaning, and slowly placed it on the table.

  "Is it Cain, the ancestor of vampires?" I've heard that the earliest vampire was Cain, but this seems to be a legend, and I've never heard anyone else mention it.

  "I don't know who you are, but you will definitely come in here and take away this blood-stained ring. All of this is fate, you can't escape it, no, all of you." She looked at me and then shifted her gaze to behind me, I curiously looked back, but there was nothing, and with a confused expression, I stared at the eccentric old lady in front of me.

  After paying the money, I received a dark-colored bat ring. It felt unusually heavy in my hand... This is an ancestral thing...

  "Put your blood on this sunflower cherry blossom ring, you can accept the power left in the ring, this is the power that originally belongs to you." The old voice prompted me to bite my finger and drop blood onto the ring. A strong light enveloped me, a huge power burst out from the ring and entered my body.

  When I opened my eyes again, I found myself back on the street from before. However, that strange antique shop and the eerie old woman had vanished into thin air. The only thing left was the echo in my ears: "Your wish... will be fulfilled this lifetime."

  Shaking my head, a blood-colored sakura ring somehow ended up on the ring finger of my left hand... no matter what I do, I just can't pull it off...

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