Sara Town, Vampires

New York State.

On a country road leading to a small town.

Xu Mo sat casually in the passenger seat of an ordinary Ford sedan, slowly closing the dossier in his hands.

"You don't seem surprised at all?"

Hill, who was driving, looked at Xu Mo's composed expression and asked in confusion.

God knew how shocked she had been after reading what was recorded in the file.

"These are legendary vampires!"

Xu Mo smiled at Hill beside him.

"Believe me, among the enemies you'll encounter in the future, these things won't even make the top ten in terms of danger!"

The dossier in his hands contained records about vampires.

And the reason the two of them had appeared here together was naturally because Xu Mo was fulfilling his promise to help S.H.I.E.L.D. once.

Starting half a year ago, tourists had begun disappearing one after another in a small town in New York State.

By now, more than a hundred tourists had vanished.

S.H.I.E.L.D. had sent several agents here to investigate, but every one of them had vanished mysteriously, just like the tourists.

Even a Level Eight agent sent last week had likewise lost contact.

Left with no choice, Nick Fury could only use up the one opportunity Xu Mo had promised him.

After receiving the news, Xu Mo had set out with Hill.

The agents who had fallen here had not come up entirely empty-handed.

Before disappearing, one agent had sent out one final message. It contained only three words: vampires!

Xu Mo knew very well.

The vampires of the Marvel world could only be considered a bunch of weaklings.

Not only did they have the two major weaknesses of fearing sunlight and silver.

Even their combat ability was only slightly stronger than that of ordinary people.

An ordinary person armed with a silver longsword could probably hack several unarmed vampires to death if they fought desperately.

With that level of combat power, they were nothing but cannon fodder in the Marvel world, where superheroes were everywhere.

Given Xu Mo's current strength, even if he stood there and let them bite him, they could exhaust all their strength without harming him in the slightest.

On the other hand, these vampires represented a massive amount of points to him.

If he could find their lair and wipe them out, he would probably make a huge haul.

Very soon.

The car stopped in front of an inn in a place called Sara Town.

Sara Town was located in the northeastern part of New York State.

Its old castles and hundreds of historic buildings had made it a famous tourist destination.

As the number of tourists increased year by year.

It had gradually grown into the prosperous town it was today, with a permanent population of nearly several hundred thousand.

Xu Mo got out of the car, removed his sunglasses, and looked at the conical old castles in the distance and the historic buildings around them, a faint smile appearing on his face.

"The scenery isn't bad. It really is a good place for tourism!"

Hill got out of the car, then laboriously pulled two long, narrow cases from the trunk. She shot Xu Mo a speechless look.

"Do you really think we came here on vacation?"

Although she was a highly trained Level Nine agent, she still felt somewhat uneasy when facing legendary vampires.

She simply could not be as relaxed and casual as Xu Mo, as though he really were on vacation.

Xu Mo gave her a reassuring look.

Then he examined the slightly rundown inn before them.

"Is your budget really so tight?"

"Even if you can't stay in a star-rated hotel, isn't this a little too halfhearted?"

Xu Mo reached out and pushed open the weathered front door, its paint peeling away, then turned to glance at Hill, who was carrying the two cases behind him.

"Want to consider changing bosses? I can offer double the salary!"

Although Hill was an ordinary person, her management and logistics skills were among the best. Taking her on as a subordinate would hardly be a loss.

"Sure. If I ever have that idea, I'll definitely contact you first."

Hearing her perfunctory response, Xu Mo did not mind.

The two arrived at the counter.

"Boss, one room!"

A short while later, the two entered a room on the second floor with their belongings.

Several S.H.I.E.L.D. agents had disappeared here in succession.

The other side was clearly already highly vigilant.

Naturally, the two could not come here using their real identities. Instead, they had disguised themselves as a couple on vacation.

Naturally, they had only booked one room.

Hill placed the two cases in her hands on the bed.

She entered a password on the keypad atop the cases.

"Pssht—"

After a burst of depressurization, the cases slowly opened.

Xu Mo looked inside.

There was no need to guess that they contained weapons meant for dealing with vampires.

"Whether they work or not, weapons always give people a sense of security!"

After saying that, Hill handed one of the cases to Xu Mo.

Xu Mo took it and looked at the pile of weapons inside.

First was a silver longsword.

It looked as though it had been forged from some kind of alloy mixed with silver.

Xu Mo gave it a light swing, and one corner of the wooden bedside table slowly slid off, leaving behind an exceptionally smooth cut.

It had to be said that S.H.I.E.L.D. really had some impressive equipment.

With a slight movement of his hand, the longsword vanished from his grasp, and he continued looking through the case.

Seeing this, Hill's eyes widened round.

She stepped forward, grabbed Xu Mo's right hand—the one that had just held the sword—and looked around, but found no trace of it.

Still unwilling to believe it, she rubbed her eyes.

"Was I seeing things? Where did it go?"

Xu Mo lightly moved his right hand.

The longsword suddenly appeared in his hand, then vanished again.

"You can think of it as some sort of special ability!"

After seeing Xu Mo demonstrate it again, Hill finally recovered her senses.

"Oh my God, that's incredible. Could you be a mutant?"

"Uh, you can think of it that way!"

Too lazy to explain further, Xu Mo gave her a casual answer.

Then his gaze fell back on the case before him.

Besides the longsword, there were three other things in the case.

A specially made pistol that fired silver bullets, along with more than a hundred rounds.

Several grenades emitting a faint violet glow, as well as something that looked like spray-on sunscreen.

The pistol and bullets were nothing unusual, so he put them away directly. The grenades were easy enough to identify as well; they were probably specially made grenades that released ultraviolet light.

But Xu Mo could not make sense of the final bottle that looked like sunscreen spray.

He turned to Hill beside him.

"What is this?"

Having recovered herself, Hill hurriedly explained.

"This is skincare spray. It contains silver particles. According to them, after spraying it on your body, vampires won't have any interest in you at all!"

"Then what's the difference between this and garlic water?"

Hill froze at his words. After thinking for a moment, she finally said, "The only difference is probably that after spraying this on yourself, ordinary people won't treat you like a freak!"