"Was it you... who saved me?" the girl asked cautiously.
"Who else could it have been? This time, I really took a heavy loss..." Chen Luo said with a pained expression.
If the blood he had fed Yuexia had been placed in the Collective Network, it could have circulated at least several million Paradise Gold Coins.
After all, every drop of blood represented a chance at Soul Materialization.
"Sorry... but I want to ask, how did I draw your blood?" Once she realized the young man was still alive, the girl asked anxiously despite her relief.
"By biting, obviously."
"Oh no!" The girl struggled out of Chen Luo's arms, then began carefully examining his body with her cold little hands—his neck and wrists, the places most convenient for a vampire to drink from.
"I'm sorry, but anyone I bite becomes half-human, half-Honkai Beast. But... where is your wound? Let me see it. Maybe there's still a chance to save you." She sounded as though she was about to cry.
For a simple-minded girl like her, being saved by someone only to drag that innocent person to their death was unforgivable.
"My regenerative ability is strong. Even if there was a wound, it would heal quickly. But if you insist on seeing the wound... why don't you touch your own neck?"
"My neck?"
"Yeah. Maybe this will be more convenient." Chen Luo handed her a small mirror.
The bewildered girl, looking especially pitiful beneath the moonlight, blankly accepted the mirror. Then, under the sliver of moonlight spilling into the alley, she used its reflection to look at her own neck.
Then...
She saw two small holes on her neck, slowly healing shut.
She had seen wounds like those countless times. Everyone she had bitten bore marks like them, but this was