"Dad, are these people really not terrorists?" Joe quietly asked his dad beside him, looking at the fully armed X Squad.
"I trust my intuition, and they have all their documents…" Van, who looked to be in his fifties or sixties, with garlic hanging around his neck and a Crossbow in his hand, answered his son's question.
These two were precisely the auxiliary members of the X Squad gathered by Mike.
Though Van and his son Joe looked ordinary, they shared a unique surname—Van Helsing.
During the medieval period of Vampire and werewolf unrest, a demon hunter named Van Helsing once suppressed Vampires and werewolves.
Even now, Van, who should have retired, still continued his ancestors' will, never stopping his fight against dark creatures.
Unfortunately, his young son Joe, living in an era of peace, did not believe in the existence of Vampires and werewolves.
He even at one point thought his dad was "crazy."
Joe was dragged into this X Squad operation by his dad.
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"If the intel is correct, it's here," Needy stopped by the Fifth Avenue garbage station.
Next to the garbage disposal station was a dilapidated container house, which was the target of Needy and the others this time.
If the intel was correct, two Vampires lived in that broken house.
"We'll know once we go inside." Mike covered his nose with one hand and grabbed the doorknob with the other.
With a slight pull, the doorknob came off.
Unlike the garbage stench outside, this broken container house was surprisingly cozy.
It had warm-toned decor and a faint scent of perfume in the air.
Plush toys, a dressing table, cute ornaments…
If not for the two prominent coffins in the living room, it would look more like a girl's bedroom.
"Thump thump… thump…"
Mike knocked on the coffin lid.
If the intel was correct, two beautiful Vampires of the lawful alignment lived here.
"Is it dark yet?"
The coffin lid was pushed open, and a beautiful blonde woman sat up groggily.
Then, she saw the X Squad members and their various weapons.
"Who are you?" Goody clutched her ruffled skirt, messed up from sleeping, with a "panicked" expression.
On the other side, a young, black-haired beauty also sat up from a coffin, silently and blankly.
"X Squad registration," Mike looked at the two beautiful Vampires and said, "Goody and Stacy, your cover is blown. If you don't want to be eliminated, confess honestly."
One of these two irregular Vampires was over three hundred years old, and the other had only been turned for a little over ten years.
They had one thing in common: they had never "harmed" humans, which was why Mike was willing to give them a "chance."
Only then did the two Vampires realize that Mike and the others in front of them were here to "cause trouble."
After exchanging a glance, they simultaneously used "hypnosis."
Goody and Stacy were Vampires transformed by Cisserus, who possessed powerful "hypnosis," and as blood descendants, they also had some hypnotic abilities.
Hypnosis (Pseudo) * 2
Unfortunately, their hypnosis was not very powerful. Even an ordinary person with strong willpower would not be hypnotized.
In the X Squad, only Wesley's mind wavered for a moment.
After his dad, Cross, smacked him on the head, his eyes immediately cleared.
On the other side, Van, the demon hunter descendant, was also unaffected.
However… "I don't care what department you belong to, but they are clearly just two innocent girls. You can't do this to them…"
The only one hypnotized on the scene was young Joe, the demon hunter descendant.
At this moment, he stared blankly at the two Vampires, then shielded them with his body.
As expected, he must have been enchanted by the beauty of the two Vampires.
Just as the X Squad members were about to act, Mike slightly shook his head, signaling them to step back.
Although Van and his son Joe were only peripheral members of the X Squad in the plan, if they couldn't even pass this simple test, peripheral members could be replaced.
Van clearly realized this, and he also hoped to reveal the true faces of the two Vampires to make his son inherit the demon hunter bloodline.
"Let go of my son!" Van shouted, raising his peach wood crossbow, and stepped forward, pulling his son behind him.
Then he took off the string of garlic from his neck and threw it at the two Vampires.
Goody and Stacy had no intention of harming anyone, and seeing Van's agitated state, they were immediately scared and retreated.
And due to the pungent smell of garlic, the two Vampires were triggered into a stress response, and their hypnosis failed at that moment.
"How could this be, there really are Vampires…" Joe, now clear-headed, looked at the fangs revealed by the two Vampires and fell to the ground in fright.
But very quickly, this young demon hunter descendant got back up, as if having made some kind of decision, and raised the axe in his hand.
The medieval demon hunter Van Helsing not only left behind experience for dealing with dark creatures but also left behind several "artifacts." For example, the crossbow in Van's hand and the axe in Joe's hand.
These unique legendary weapons have a strong suppressive effect on dark creatures.
In no time, the two Vampires were cornered.
"Alright, you can confess now!" Seeing that the situation was settled, Mike once again came before the two Vampires.
At this point, the test for Van Helsing's descendants was considered preliminarily passed.
"Don't kill us! Although we are Vampires, we have never harmed anyone…" Goody, who was relatively bolder, spilled her information like a torrent.
Although this Vampire was over three hundred years old, she had never actively harmed humans, only catching mice to feed on when hungry.
Stacy's situation was similar.
This was also why the two Vampires lived next to a garbage dump.
"I don't want to know that." Mike interrupted the Vampire's self-narration and directly asked, "Who are your other companions? And have any of them done bad things?"
These two Vampires, despite having abilities, lived a "messy" life, which sufficiently proved their kindness.
"Companions?" Goody thought for a moment and said, "Avery and the others are all good people, and none of them have harmed humans."
Goody, having lived for over three hundred years, naturally had her own social circle, but it seemed she still considered herself "human."
Avery and the others she mentioned were also "kind" Vampires. These Vampires, due to similar experiences, formed a club and would even occasionally discuss the benefits of not drinking human blood.
"As expected, there are still accomplices." Mike stated his purpose: "I need you to gather all the Vampires you know. If they are truly 'good people' as you say, I can guarantee their safety…"
Next, Mike also explained the X Squad's mission to the two Vampires.
Finding Goody, this "old" Vampire, on their first operation was an unexpected gain.
After all, after the last Deacon incident, some less powerful Vampires hid even deeper, making them hard to find.
"You really won't kill us?" Stacy, who had been silent all this time, looked cautiously at the man in front of her.
In the impression of ordinary people, dark creatures like Vampires deserved to die.
Even though Stacy herself was a Vampire, her thoughts were pretty much the same.
"Yes, the X Squad's mission is to register and manage Vampires. Vampires who haven't harmed humans are within our scope of management…" Mike gave the black-haired Vampire a positive answer.
Of course, Vampires who had consumed human blood were not within this scope.