Not to mention how public security is in this country in reality, just speaking of American TV shows: which supernatural thriller episode doesn't have people dying? Which sci-fi action episode doesn't have people dying? Even in daily drama genres, murder is not uncommon and happens from time to time.
The land is vast and sparsely populated. Prosperous big cities are better with sufficient police force. But in remote small towns like this, police force is insufficient, everyone has a gun, and a disagreement might lead to murder and body burial. Monitoring equipment is so scarce that even highway speeding requires manual detection. As long as one isn't discovered and there's no obvious evidence, it's very easy to escape legal sanctions.
Shane wasn't a saint, nor was he cowardly. He certainly wasn't the type to worry and dare not kill when someone actively came to provoke and bully him.
Anna dragged the drunkard into the room to prepare for turning. If luck was good and the Evil Sealing Method succeeded, the drunkard would be considered to have picked his life back up. If luck was bad and the Evil Sealing Method failed, and he turned into a vampire, Shane could only regretfully earn the kill reward. Although it was only 1 point, many drops make an ocean. Waste utilization, right?
The turning process was simple. First, let the drunkard drink Anna's blood, then let Anna kill him and wait for him to revive. After reviving, the drunkard would have hallucinations, loathe sunlight, crave fresh blood, and a series of other reactions. As long as he drank human blood, the turning ritual would be completely finished.
In the room, Shane, having set up the Evil Sealing Method formation, came to Olivia and Anna's side, waiting quietly together for the drunkard to revive.
The drunkard had his neck snapped by Anna. At this moment, his head drooped, and he sat shirtless on the seal formation.
Over ten minutes later, painful groans rang out. The drunkard lifted his head, subconsciously touching his face. He spoke somewhat blankly with a mouth leaking wind: "What happened to me? Where are my teeth?"
"Teeth are on the floor."
Shane instantly activated Byakugan, dashed behind the drunkard, and rapidly formed hand seals.
Palm pressing on his shoulder, Evil Sealing Method activate!
Boom!
The runes on the ground surged, drilling rapidly towards Shane's palm and the drunkard's shoulder.
A miserable scream followed. The drunkard tried to get up with a painful and ferocious expression, but was firmly pinned down by Shane's hand.
A moment later, the runes disappeared. Shane let go. The drunkard hung his head, supporting himself on the ground with both hands, gasping for breath like a survivor of a disaster. The cursed seal of the Evil Sealing Method appeared on his shoulder, sending waves of scalding stinging pain from time to time, making him groan in agony.
Olivia and Anna looked at Shane: "Did it succeed?"
Shane nodded heavily, unable to conceal the joy and excitement on his face: "Success! Theoretically successful! The foreign power in his body, which is Anna's vampire power, has been sealed within the cursed seal of the Evil Sealing Method. As long as the cursed seal isn't broken, this power won't affect him."
The vampire turning ritual was interrupted!
This was almost an impossible occurrence. Vampire turning is irreversible, and the ritual is impossible to interrupt. Under normal circumstances, the drunkard should be considered half-human, half-vampire at this point. His body had already been changed, waiting only for the final blood feeding to complete the transformation thoroughly.
The impossible happened. Shane, relying on the Evil Sealing Method, forcefully interrupted the ritual, even reverting the ritual's semi-alteration of the drunkard.
What did this mean?
Humans bitten by vampires no longer had only two choices: death or becoming a vampire!
Shane's success with the Evil Sealing Method could be said to have broken the long-standing survival path of vampires, or the Kindred, breaking the rules that had been set since the moment the Kindred were born.
Although all this happened in a dilapidated motel room, although no one else witnessed this scene, Olivia and Anna—especially Anna—knew very well that from this moment on, common sense regarding the Kindred would be redefined!
"What... what are you talking about? What vampire? What seal? You... what did you do to me?" The drunkard stumbled backward to the edge of the room, looking at them in horror.
The Evil Sealing Method succeeded, and the drunkard survived as a human.
How to handle him?
Olivia touched her gun. Anna revealed her vampire form.
Splurt.
Shane cut his wrist, flashed in front of the drunkard, grabbed his neck with one hand, and lifted him up. Raising his wrist, drops of fresh blood dripped into the drunkard's mouth. The drunkard immediately twitched and screamed miserably.
Under the observation of the Byakugan, the cursed seal on the drunkard flickered faintly and became hot. After Shane's blood entered the drunkard's body, the vampire power originally suppressed in the cursed seal suddenly became restless, wanting to break the seal.
Unfortunately, the seal was very strong, at least very strong against vampire power. It let the power ram left and right, rage and fidget, without any intention of being affected. It even seemed dissatisfied with its naughtiness and increased the intensity of the seal.
A few minutes later, the cursed seal quieted down, and the drunkard quieted down too.
"Now we can be sure it really succeeded!" Shane let go of the exhausted, nearly collapsed drunkard and signaled to Anna: "Erase his memory and let him scram."
Anna snorted. "Count him lucky."
Walking over to pick up the drunkard, Anna hypnotized him to forget what just happened, then carried him to the door and threw him out directly.
Bang!
Closing the door, Anna asked Shane, "What else can that seal just now do?"
"Too little experimental data. Other things are uncertain for now. The direction I initially thought of was sealing the vampire or werewolf bloodline, turning those already transformed back into humans." Shane shrugged.
Anna said, "Your purpose in taking me in was to test these, right? Why didn't you do it?"
"You saw the process. It requires taking off the shirt."
Anna was speechless. "Just that? Although I know you're not interested in me and treat me as a friend, compared to the significance of a successful seal, this requirement is nothing, right? I really don't mind."
Shane shook his head. "That's only one aspect. The more important reason is that I can seal, but I haven't figured out how to undo the seal yet."
"..."
Anna blinked. "Pretend I didn't say anything."
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