358: Infiltrate the floating island! Uncover the secrets hidden by the vampires!

"Master! You must come and save me!"

Lin Lu knelt and kowtowed three times, looking back at Su Lie with every step.

After Su Lie disappeared into nothingness,

she then transformed into a swarm of bats and flew back to the Blood Fortress.

Su Lie had not left.

Based on the intelligence he had previously obtained, he teleported to the transit town in the area where Lin Lu's Blood Fortress was located.

Buzz!

A few seconds later,

Su Lie arrived at a bustling town managed by a Blood Fortress.

This was the territory of Saladin, the Vampire Count.

It was also a town under the control of Saladin Blood Fortress.

The town covered an area of a hundred kilometers.

Two-thirds of the area had already become ruins.

The remaining one-third was currently under reconstruction.

And the aura within the Blood Fortress was extremely weak.

Su Lie moved freely and eavesdropped using his Invisibility Cloak.

He also gathered some intelligence.

"Deer Demon Calamity? How interesting!"

After leaving Saladin Blood Fortress, Su Lie continuously teleported northward.

Currently, the Vampires in the Blood Secret Realm referred to the rebellion initiated by Lin Lu, the Goddess of Deer, as the Deer Demon Calamity.

This calamity, as Lin Lu had said, indeed caused great damage to the Vampires and their vassal races.

However, according to the self-narration of the new Count who inherited Saladin Blood Fortress,

as long as the Vampire Royal Capital remained intact,

even if the Vampires and their vassal races in other areas of the Blood Secret Realm were annihilated,

the Vampires would not suffer much loss.

The main reason Lin Lu truly provoked the Vampires to kill was that she recruited a large number of rebels to mine dragon blood carbon.

This caused a permanently irreparable area to appear in the Floating Stone Domain of the Blood Secret Realm.

Therefore, the Vampire Royal Capital issued new laws, strictly prohibiting any life form from secretly mining dragon blood carbon.

Once discovered, the miners would suffer the extermination of nine generations and their souls would be burned on the Red Lotus Karma Fire for a thousand years.

"It seems this dragon blood carbon is linked to the fate of the Vampires!"

Su Lie's investigation this time had yielded an important piece of intelligence.

He then looked at the map in his hand.

This was a map he had obtained from the room of a caravan manager under Saladin Blood Fortress.

The map detailed the information of various islands in the Flying Land Island Domain.

Among them,

Doronas Blood Fortress was located on the seventh largest island of the Flying Land Island Domain.

The entire island domain and the surrounding one hundred ninety-three auxiliary islands were the territory of the Doronas family.

This territory was primarily responsible for producing blood bat rice, a grain consumable by Vampire nobles!

According to the information on the map,

Doronas's Vampire Royal Guard Legion was stationed there.

"Huh? Something's not right! Shouldn't the Vampire Royal Guard be stationed in the Royal Capital? Why are they in the Doronas family's territory? This isn't Doronas's private Legion, is it?"

Su Lie discovered a problem.

Unfortunately, this business map did not contain detailed records.

An hour later, Su Lie teleported to the edge of the land approximately 15,300 kilometers away from Saladin's territory.

There was a floating stone avenue here.

Through this floating stone passage, one could directly reach the Flying Land Airspace tens of thousands of meters high.

Su Lie continuously teleported along the floating stone avenue.

He did not dare to continuously teleport over large distances.

Because this area was too close to the death membrane wall of the Blood Secret Realm.

If the teleportation distance exceeded the range of the Flying Land Air Island, he would directly jump into the death membrane wall.

At that time,

Su Lie would be killed by the power of the death membrane wall.

Even if he possessed the Talent of Borrowing Strength to Escape,

the back and forth would be particularly troublesome.

It was better to be careful.

Just like that,

Su Lie quickly arrived at the first Flying Land Air Island.

This Air Island was called a transit station.

It was also the first Air Island.

It was the territory of Vampire Marquis Dinsell.

Although the trade in this territory was prosperous, and there were no less than a hundred thousand airships at the port on the edge of the Air Island,

however,

the vassal races living here lived worse than dogs.

They were almost naked, covered in whip marks.

And their eyes were dull, numbly obeying the leader's arrangements.

Any Vampire could directly take a member of a vassal race to a "rest house" on the roadside to have fun if they fancied them.

The area outside the Blood Fortress had no order for the vassal races, like hell.

Their living places couldn't even be called shacks.

Su Lie found an airship going to Doronas's Air Island and sneaked in.

Since he was constantly in Invisibility, none of the Vampire nobles on board discovered him.

Su Lie flew with the airship for 5 hours.

Finally, he arrived at Doronas's Air Island.

This Air Island was far more prosperous than Su Lie had imagined.

Not only were there many terraced villa-style buildings, but there were also various manors.

There was not a single life form from a vassal race in the entire Air Island area.

All who lived here were Vampires.

Entry and exit of airships were subject to strict scrutiny.

There were even magic arrays specifically designed to test Invisibility arranged at the dock.

Su Lie used a vampire incarnation pill to transform into a wandering Vampire royal descendant, and with the help of his Friendliness, Persuasiveness, and Charm Aura, he successfully entered the main island of the Doronas Air Island group.

"Interesting!"

Su Lie investigated the surroundings.

He found that

vassal races were prohibited from entering Doronas's Air Island.

The Air Island had over 100,000 Vampires.

70,000 Vampire Farmers.

Among the remaining population, 10,000 were the Vampire Royal Guard Legion.

They were stationed on an unrecorded Air Island near Doronas's Air Island.

That Air Island was close to the death membrane wall and looked unremarkable.

But it was heavily guarded.

Doronas was stationed in the military camp on the island year-round.

Standing on the main island's peak, one could clearly see the situation of the surrounding islands.

Su Lie learned this information while playing, when he ascended the peak with a prince's granddaughter from the Royal Capital, listening to the narration of other Vampires around them.

What a pity!

These Vampires did not know why Doronas was stationed there.

After wandering around Doronas's Air Island for two days, Su Lie stealthily infiltrated Doronas's Blood Fortress.

He had received news that Doronas had returned to the Blood Fortress today.

In front of a granary in Doronas's Blood Fortress.

"My lord! This month's blood bat rice is 30% less than before!"

Kolon, a Level 50 Vampire grain official, respectfully reported to Dos Doronas, a Level 40 Vampire.

Dos sighed after hearing this: "There's nothing we can do! Who knew the Deer Demon Calamity would come here, causing the destruction of farmlands on several Air Islands!"

"This is already very good!"

"Father expected it to be 50% less than before!"

After speaking,

this grain warehouse management official was Doronas's eldest son and the heir to Doronas's territory.

Dos asked Kolon, the grain official: "By the way! Have this batch of blood bat rice seeds been delivered?"

"They have already been stored in the warehouse, a total of 20 million seeds! Each Air Island will receive an average of 100,000 seeds!"

Kolon reported respectfully.

Dos nodded: "You arrange for your subordinates to quickly survey the condition of the farmlands on each island domain, and then uniformly distribute the seeds in three days!"

"Also, the grain transport team from the Royal Capital will arrive in about 5 days!"

"You arrange the banquet preparations, try to make it as lavish as possible!"

"By the way! The leader of this team is the son of the Bloody Prince. This guy is only transporting grain as a detour; in reality, he wants to go to Father's place..."

At this point,

Dos did not continue speaking.

After he finished making arrangements, he directly sealed the granary.

Su Lie, who was standing invisible beside the two, heard their conversation and became even more certain that there was a problem with Doronas's side.

He remembered the location of the granary and then went to other parts of the Blood Fortress: "The blood bat rice seeds cannot be replaced by harvested blood bat rice; it seems these seeds were developed by the Vampires!"

A short while later,

Su Lie arrived in a Garden in the Blood Fortress.

"Lord Doronas! The High Priest of the Elder Council asked me to tell you that the Demon Deer is not dead; she has hidden among the Vampires!"

A blonde middle-aged man in brocade clothes and a tall hat solemnly asked a blonde young man: "On behalf of the Royal Capital, I ask again, do you know the purpose of the Demon Deer coming here? Does the Demon Deer know the secret intelligence on this Air Island?"

"Oh? This young man is Doronas! They are discussing Lin Lu! This is a good opportunity; once I get the intelligence... hehe! I'm going to play big!"

Seeing this, Su Lie's eyes lit up. He slowly walked to their side, stopped, and remained still.

Doronas turned to look around. He said to the middle-aged man in front of him: "Duke Malone! Please expand your domain!"

Malone was startled, then smiled.

Buzz!

A ripple spread out.

Then, a power covering the entire courtyard was fully unleashed.

Standing within this power, Su Lie felt a sense of deadly crisis.

[Buzz!]

[Exploration Hint: You are currently within the domain of Duke Malone, the Duke of Death. All movement, spatial fluctuations, and dimensional fluctuations within this domain will be perceived and instantly confined by Duke Malone!]

[Exploration Hint: Please do not take any action! Until the domain disappears!]

Su Lie looked at the Exploration Hint that popped up in front of him and said indifferently: "Anyway, I've already reached them, so if I don't move, I don't move!"

At this moment,

Duke Malone was heard saying: "Lord Doronas! You truly live up to your reputation for caution!"

Doronas's brows gradually relaxed: "Just now, I sensed something unusual. Since you have already expanded your domain and found nothing, it seems I was overly cautious!"

After explaining,

Doronas then answered Malone's question: "The Demon Deer does not know the intelligence about that Air Island! But she knows that this is the main grain producing area for the Royal Capital's nobles, so she wants to destroy the Royal Capital nobles' food supply!"

"This cannot be blamed on me, after all, the Doronas family's reputation has long been known throughout the world!"

"Also!"

"In the past ten days, many noble young masters and ladies from the Royal Capital have come to the island, using the guise of tourism and trade to land!"

"But they are secretly investigating the Doronas Air Island group!"

"There are also some audacious fellows who dared to trespass into Dragon Skeleton Island!"

"I know that the Royal Capital is currently in a critical period of power struggle, but my Doronas family does not serve any particular prince, but is only under the command of the Blood Ancestor himself!"

... "The dragon skeleton ore cave on Dragon Skeleton Island is a secret among secrets!"

"If we let them continue like this, this secret will eventually become known to all!"

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