Xue Ni hated the smell of garlic, and Giovanni did too. Even though the meatballs were beautifully arranged and smelled delicious to ordinary people, he stayed far away from that dish.
Simeon seemed completely unaware and placed the charcoal-grilled crab in the center of the table. Pomona and Severus exchanged a glance, but neither commented on it.
Every vampire had a different style. Some liked to hunt in the streets, while others preferred to be kept at home.
As a vampire researcher, she knew of a mysterious "vampire" tribe in Africa. The people there lived by drinking livestock blood. Whenever they needed food, they would cut open an animal's vein and draw out some blood to drink directly. However, they did not kill the livestock outright. Instead, they waited for the wounds to heal before drawing more blood. They were the "vegetarians" among vampires. They protected camels and gave them food and water, while the camels gave them blood—a symbiotic relationship.
Blood contained abundant nutrients, but its calories were limited and difficult to convert into stored fat. That was why all vampires looked so thin.
Every 100 grams of pig blood contained 55 calories, while every 100 grams of pork contained 143 calories—more than twice as much as the same weight of pig blood. A 100-gram fried chicken drumstick contained around 260 calories. In other words, the calories a vampire got from drinking blood once were not even as much as a human got from eating a piece of fried chicken.
A normal person's heart beat about 120 times per minute, whereas a vampire's heart beat very slowly, causing their blood to circulate sluggishly.
It was not that they could not eat human food; they simply digested it very slowly. Like snakes, they needed several days to digest a single