It was midsummer, yet the nights in the northern suburbs were still quite cool. A group of people had gathered in the empty lot behind the house, lighting candles, drawing a magic circle, and laying out offerings—the whole scene looked like some kind of evil cult gathering. Watching Lily bustle around, Hao Ren could not help sighing. "If outsiders saw us messing around with this stuff, which do you think would arrive first—the psychiatric hospital or the police?"
"The psychiatric hospital," Nangong May said, lightly swaying her upper body in place while standing on one foot, as though turning human had not rid her of all her habits from when she was a snake. "Anyway, if I were an ordinary person and saw a bunch of adults solemnly performing a Vampire summoning, I'd definitely call the psychiatric hospital first..."
Nangong Wudi suddenly sighed. "Who would have thought that I, a distinguished Demon Hunter, would actually come along to participate in something like this? In the past, this would have been considered a monster or evil spirit."
"Why are you bringing that up?" Lily turned around and bluntly mocked him. "You already married a monster or evil spirit, so stop acting so high and mighty."
As she spoke, Lily continued fiddling with the Summoning Ritual. She had somehow obtained some quicklime and drawn a crooked pentagram on the ground. The more Hao Ren looked at it, the less reliable it seemed. "Do you think this thing will work? Four of the five points you drew are crooked... and the last one is rounded?"
"As long as it gets the idea across," Lily said happily. "The offerings are already in place. Then we just need two people to bleed!"
Hao Ren suspiciously examined the offerings Lily had placed at the points of