In the research institute, Edison had hired a team comprised of engineers, mechanics, and physicists, among others, with fourteen core members.

They were responsible for research and experiments, and Edison was responsible for coming up with ideas, liaising with clients and investors, and dealing with the media.

The famous inventor of alternating current, Tesla, had once worked in this team.

Li Changzhou followed Edison on a tour of his laboratory and watched with his own eyes as Edison lit the lamp.

"Franklin captured lightning, and I captured light," Edison announced with grand ambition.

His future was as bright as a lamp and was about to possess the lifespan of a vampire; nothing could be better, not even being a king.

"Captured lightning and light?" Bi crossed her arms and spoke with utmost contempt.

Edison's gaze shifted to her and then to Li Changzhou.

"She is a superpower user who looks down on ordinary humans and even more so on great commoners; you should understand such matters," Li Changzhou explained.

"I—" Bi began to say something but was silenced by Li Changzhou covering her mouth—symbolically.

Bi said nothing more but spit symbolically into the palm of Li Changzhou's hand with a "Pth!"

Although there was no spit, Li Changzhou still wiped his right hand on his left arm—still symbolically.

Well, strictly speaking, Franklin capturing lightning and Edison capturing light were also symbolic.

"Superpower user?" Edison did not get angry at the mockery but instead became interested in Bi's identity.

"Goebbels will handle her," Li Changzhou said.

"Who is Goebbels?" Edison asked, puzzled.

"A werewolf."

It didn't matter to Li Changzhou whether the other party genuinely didn't know or was pretending not to.

After the tour of the laboratory, the time just happened to be noon, and Edison invited the two to lunch.

"Changzhou, this is the best apple cider and brandy of the year."

The drinks were chilled in a bucket with ice cubes, accompanied by some grapes with green leaves. Just looking at them was enough to cool one off in this weather.

Bi directly plucked a grape and started eating it.

Edison poured brandy for Li Changzhou and himself, then said to Bi, "Miss Bi, I won't pour for you; please help yourself to whatever you like."

"Where are the servants?" Bi instinctively looked for such presences.

Edison picked up a glass filled with brandy and hesitated for a moment before explaining, "Regarding the vampire matter, I don't want the servants to know."

"It's fine, don't mind her," Li Changzhou tried a slice of smoked pork.

Edison nodded, took a sip of brandy, and then eagerly said, "Mr. Changzhou, the thing is, I've only met Mr. Morgan once and received his funding, but I don't know much about vampires."

"Hmm," Li Changzhou also took a sip of his drink to wash down the taste of the smoked pork in his mouth.

"Recently, I've read a lot of material on the subject," Edison glanced at Li Changzhou and continued, "The material says that vampires die when a wooden stake is driven through their hearts; is that true?"

"Even God would die if a stake was driven through his heart," Li Changzhou picked up a piece of cornbread and poured maple syrup on it, "It all depends on how you perceive the heart."

Edison, somewhat troubled, swirled the brandy in his hand, "Mr. Changzhou, you know that's not what I meant; I just want to know if vampires can really be killed with a wooden stake."

Li Changzhou took a bite of the cornbread, chewed while looking at Edison.

"Do you want me, a vampire, to tell you whether a wooden stake can kill a vampire?"

"I... okay, let's change the question. I also found out that in America, there's a blood-sucking animal called the chupacabra. Are there any connections between it and vampires?"

"Coincidentally, I know of a creature called a mosquito in Asia, and a woman named Summer who also drinks blood. Honestly, the last time I lay in a Chicago cemetery, I lost sleep over this thought, and by the time I came to my senses, I already saw Chicago's sky as blue as a mockingbird's egg—"

Li Changzhou took a sip of brandy.

"—my eyes almost went blind, so Mr. Edison, let me give you a piece of advice a female philosopher once gave me: don't dwell on things that don't lead to any results; it's bad for sleep and for the eyes."

How would he know anything about vampires, even though he himself was now a vampire.

"Alright." Edison raised his glass.

Bang!

The glass rolled off, brandy quickly soaking the white tablecloth, Edison's eyes turned pale as his face smashed into the corn porridge in front of him.

The condensed milk also spilled over.

His eyes were rapidly losing their sparkle, hurtling towards death at high speed.

"Um..." Bi held her head with one hand and covered her stomach with the other.

Her head spun as if someone was shaking it hard, and her stomach spasmed repeatedly.

Li Changzhou showed no abnormalities, but his expression darkened.

"Hiss—" The king cobra slithered out of the void, raised its upper body, quickly licked some brandy, then bit down on Edison's neck, who seemed already dead.

Bi, slightly out of breath, made it through the fierce outbreak of the poison.

Edison slowly regained his breath, but he still remained unconscious.

"What's going on!" Bi's face was full of fury, intimidating-looking.

"It was my carelessness." Li Changzhou picked up a napkin and meticulously cleaned his hands.

He stood up and walked toward the kitchen; Bi jumped off her chair and followed him closely.

"Hiss—" In the living room, the four-meter-long body of the king cobra coiled around Edison like a nest, not allowing anyone to approach.

In the kitchen, blood was everywhere, a servant lay in a pool of blood, his head missing, and on the ground was a black viscous substance, as if someone had eaten the head and spit out the hair there.

It was indeed head hair that had been spit out.

Li Changzhou lifted his head to look at the wall, where it was written in blood:

"With light comes darkness, with darkness comes light, I am the last Satan, I am here to accentuate the light!"

"Psychopath, lunatic." Bi disdainfully glanced at the floor.

"Kill Edison, to increase the difficulty of spreading electric lighting? Is this my own thought, or a mission from the game?" Li Changzhou pondered.

The servant, whose head was gone, rose from the ground.

Grabbing the wet, chewed-over hair, he lunged at them.

Bi immediately hid behind Li Changzhou.

Li Changzhou: "..."

Why don't you use telekinesis to block it? Using me as a shield, what's going on? I find it disgusting too!

He reached back, grabbed Bi, and pulled her to the front, shielding himself with her.

"Ah!!" Bi's face changed instantly, emitting a child's shrill scream, extending her hands.

Boom!!

The massive telekinesis, like a tangible wall, seamlessly rolled over the kitchen.

Kitchenware and headless servant corpses were all squashed against the wall like pancakes, dust mixing with blood mist, rippling outwards in circles.

Li Changzhou put down Bi.

"Ugh!" Bi, supporting his body, couldn't help dry heaving, almost smacked by the saliva-drenched hair on her face, which nauseated her.

"Do I look cool?" Just in case, Li Changzhou asked.

Bi snapped, "You cool my—"

A ghost floated out from the flattened corpse, rushing toward Li Changzhou as if to possess him.

The White Bone Scythe traced a phantom in the kitchen.

Ah!!!

A silent scream suddenly exploded.

Glass shattered, walls cracked, and Li Changzhou staggered, his head feeling like it was about to explode.

"Shut up!" Bi scolded angrily, her telekinesis shaking the kitchen up and down like a giant hand shaking a water cup.

Like wind blowing over bluish smoke, the ghost, cut in half by the White Bone Scythe, slowly dissipated under the impact of the telekinesis; a white Identity Card fell down.

The sensation of his head exploding slowly faded from Li Changzhou.

"You're cool my ass! If you're cool, you're the ugliest in the whole world! World's number-one freak! How dare you use this princess as a shield! You're my human shield, did you know that? Hmph!"

"Sorry, I promise it won't happen again," Li Changzhou said earnestly, massaging her delicate, petite shoulders with both hands.

"Hmph!" So much force, she nearly blew her own nose off.

The Identity Card flew up, landing in her...

Li Changzhou caught the Identity Card.

[Nickname: Satan]

'So, naming myself 'Lord' wasn't wrong at all.' Li Changzhou thought immediately, blaming those who had accused him of various crimes.

He really picked the name casually.

[Name: Chris Taylor]

[Value: 0]

[Instinct: Ghost]

[Skill: "Possession" (D-rank), "Ghostly Poison Claws" (C-rank), "Chewing Memory" (C-rank), "Breathing Life" (B-rank), "Corpse Leap" (B-rank), "Unlearned"]

Instinct·Ghost: Immediately die and become a ghost. (Effect: immune to all physical attacks, penetrate ordinary solids, immune to most poisons, all attributes halved under direct sunlight)

"Possession": Attach oneself to a corpse one has personally killed to perform simple actions.

"Ghostly Poison Claws": Concentrate ghostly aura on fingertips, inflicting damage on living creatures.

"Chewing Memory": By eating a brain, taste someone's memories as if savoring a dish.

"Breathing Life": Nose to nose or mouth to mouth, breathe using the life of a living creature to restore one's own 'ability'.

"Corpse Leap": Transfer between corpses within line of sight.

Only the skills "Chewing Memory" and "Breathing Life" could be used, but these two skills...

"Let me look at the jellyfish's Identity Card," Li Changzhou said to Bi.

"Why?" Bi looked at him suspiciously, "One card each, that's fair."

"I want to swap for one."

"No way!" Bi immediately refused, "This one is filthy dirty, take it."

In fact, Identity Cards couldn't get dirty, Li Changzhou had picked up countless such cards from pools of blood, none of them were ever blood-stained; it was purely psychological.

"This one was killed by you, the jellyfish was killed by me, I tend to care about these things."

"Either give them all to me, or you choose."

"... how come you're more overbearing than my Miss Yang?"

As they walked to the living room, Li Changzhou cajoled and finally persuaded Bi to give him the jellyfish's Identity Card.

[Nickname: Squishy]

[Name: Flower Hat Jellyfish]

[Value: 0]

[Instinct: Split]

[Skill: "Long-beaked Whale Style·Swimming" (E-rank), "Giant Squid Style·Vision" (D-rank), "Lion's Mane Jellyfish Style·Hearing" (C-rank), "Lion's Mane Jellyfish Style·Poison" (C-rank), "Air Ocean" (C-rank), "Mola Mola Style·Growth" (B-rank)]

Instinct·Split: In the face of certain attacks, can split to mitigate damage, strength evenly distributed among splits, can recombine (if a split entity is destroyed, overall strength is reduced).

"Long-beaked Whale Style·Swimming": Long-beaked whales are among the fastest swimming whales, with a top speed of 40 kilometers per hour.

"Giant Squid Style·Vision": Even in pitch-dark seawater, it can capture prey.

"Lion's Mane Jellyfish Style·Hearing": Can sense the approach of a storm hours in advance.

"Lion's Mane Jellyfish Style·Poison": Coats the tentacles, thoroughly dissolving food into absorbable liquid.

"Air Ocean": Treat the air as the sea.

"Mola Mola Style·Growth": Upon reaching adulthood, the body size increases 1200 times and the body weight increases 60 million times, the older the age when acquiring this skill, the poorer the effect, ineffective after adulthood.

1200 times and 60 million times...

Human infants are born at 50 centimeters, after 1200 times and 60 million times... no, this matter still needs to be discussed with Miss Yang, after all, it's not his child alone, and it must be paired with a skill that reduces size.

That's what he thought, but how could an infant have an Identity Card, and if they did, it's unlikely they would survive in the Game of Value.

Li Changzhou looked at Bi beside him.

She was six years away from turning 18, the youngest player he had met—by age at least, as the Little Radish is an adult dwarf marmoset, otherwise, she wouldn't be complaining about being snubbed by the male marmosets, not mating with her.

But for Bi, she might prefer to remain petite her entire life rather than become a giantess, tall and immensely heavy.

Li Changzhou felt the same.

He wasn't interested in any skill that altered his body; he was full of confidence in his own physique.

"Air Ocean" might be worth further research.

Paired with a swimming skill, one could freely navigate through the air... Hmm—, does it make sense? Why not just learn to fly?

Thinking about all these messy matters, Li Changzhou and Bi walked back to the living room.

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