The firelight stretched the shadows of the people inside the cave.
The air barely moved here, and the firelight hardly flickered, yet the shadows kept swaying nonstop—along with some mournful cries.
They were the cries of goats.
Suddenly, someone raised her head. It was Jessica. Her lips were smeared with blood, and two teeth on each of her upper and lower rows had become sharp fangs.
Beside her, Su Zijun also raised her head in the same manner—except that Su Zijun had been drinking the blood of a woman.
The woman was still wearing a rather distinctive combat uniform. Having once been born on Paradise Island, Jessica recognized it immediately. It was the combat uniform of Paradise Island's guards.
Several hours earlier, Su Zijun had once again destroyed a branch base of the club with ease, then calmly left with her spoils.
Jessica wiped the blood from her lips and slowly retracted her fangs. As she watched Su Zijun enjoy her lunch without a care, she felt that it was all terribly unreal.
About a month ago, when she had been on the verge of death, it had been this girl who looked only thirteen or fourteen years old who had saved her and bestowed upon her the power of an immortal race... turning her into a terrifying vampire.
Yet Su Zijun insisted that she was not a creature such as a vampire.
Jessica had no intention of arguing with Su Zijun... After accepting the blood of Su Zijun, who called herself Jiangshi, she constantly felt a sense of fear in her consciousness.
That feeling was much like when she had been forced to obey Paradise Island's orders: she had been afraid, and had had no choice but to submit.
But Jessica did not care. What she needed was power—the