"Mr. Edison—he—"

"He went to New York, to start the electric light company at the end of the year," Li Changzhou told Mary.

Mary was Edison's first wife, and the couple married in 1871. Soon after, on the evening of August 9, 1884, Mary passed away from illness.

In fact, starting from now (1880), Mary's health would deteriorate, and it is recorded in history that she often couldn't get out of bed due to illness.

"Going to New York now?" asked Mary's sister—Alice.

"Yes," Li Changzhou, his eyes on both women, repeated, "Edison went to New York."

"Really, why leave without saying anything, and in such a rush too?" Alice complained.

She and her sister Mary quickly accepted this explanation, with the help of hypnosis.

Li Changzhou took another look at Alice, whose English word choice was a bit odd. It could just be his imagination, perhaps she was naturally a delicate-minded woman.

"Then I will arrange accommodations for you, Mr. Changzhou," Mary said politely.

"Yes, thank you," Li Changzhou bowed in return.

He decided to experiment on Mary.

Edison was about to become a vampire, and as his wife, Mary should stay with him, hiding together in the cellar during the day, roaming at night, and together drinking human blood to live a prolonged life.

It could also cure diseases.

She might also be killed outright by the vampire virus, but this would spare her from four years of painful illness.

Li Changzhou felt he was practically an angel, not a vampire.

Of course, all this was just a fleeting truth; once the player left, history would reset to its original course: Mary would continue her battle with the illness for four years and die on the evening of August 9, 1884,

and then on February 24, 1886, Edison would marry his second wife, Maina Miller, who was twenty years his junior and only sixteen years old at the time.

Mary and Alice walked ahead, Li Changzhou and Bi followed behind, the King Cobra slithered out of the void, quieting its hiss, silently flicking its tongue.

Bang!

Mary and Alice both fainted and collapsed to the ground.

"What are you doing?" Bi asked Li Changzhou, puzzled.

"In Edison's laboratory, my desire to experiment was also ignited."

"You want to—" Bi looked incredulously at the collapsed sisters, "sleep with them?!"

"...I should have prefixed that with 'experiment'."

"Right, you mean to test if your 'abilities' have enhanced, right?"

"Oh, right, there was that incident on the train," Li Changzhou remembered the speculation.

"No, no!" Bi suddenly shook her head, "You've never tried it before, how would you know if you've gotten stronger?"

She felt very smart, having thought of that.

"Oh, right, that did happen," Li Changzhou still bore an expression of newly dawning realization.

"Are you playing with me?" Bi's expression turned fierce.

Li Changzhou's gaze shifted to the King Cobra; the next issue was how to infect it with the vampire virus—if vampire was a virus.

Might as well give it a try.

He rolled up his right sleeve, revealing his sturdy forearm, and the King Cobra bit into it.

Copying everything that could be classified as venom.

Three seconds later, the King Cobra released its bite, writhing its body, hissing with its tongue, slithering towards the sisters lying on the ground.

Bang!

Smoke exploded on Alice.

Li Changzhou narrowed his eyes, his vision piercing through the smoke, he saw only a piece of wood left inside Alice's clothes.

Substitute Technique?

Bi's right index and middle fingers joined together, hooking backward, just as the "Alice" trying to leap out the window flew back.

Bi pressed her palm against the right wall.

With a thud, dust sprayed, "Alice" was pressed against the wall by invisible telekinesis.

Truly A-grade instinct, impressive and versatile.

Li Changzhou looked at "Alice," who now wore black ninja clothes, her hair turning black, and her features softening, her body becoming slender.

A player from Japan?

"What is your mission?" Li Changzhou asked.

"Wait!" Bi suddenly shouted, tilting her face to challenge Li Changzhou, "Why does it look like I'm the servant here?

"Now isn't—"

Bang!

Smoke exploded again on "Alice," pressing a wooden dummy against the wall.

Bi immediately looked around, but this time she couldn't spot the person's figure.

"Where did she go?" she asked instinctively.

"Since there's the Substitute Technique, there must also be a Transformation Technique, first squeeze that piece of wood—"

"Wait a second!" Another bang, and the pressed wood on the wall turned back into "Alice."

"She's really here!" Bi felt amazed, then humiliated, and scoffed disdainfully, "Little tricks!"

"My mission is to protect Mary," the female ninja quickly said.

"Protect Mary?" Li Changzhou was perplexed.

Edison invented many things, considered significant historical events, but did Mary need protection?

"Yes," the female ninja said, "when Edison transforms into a vampire, he'll need a lot of human blood, and Mary is the one to provide that blood."

If that's the case... Mary getting sick during this time might be because of this.

Edison's second wife was also a sixteen-year-old girl, and legend has it that vampires particularly crave the blood of young girls—Li Changzhou didn't know much about vampires to confirm the truth, but he did think a 16-year-old girl was better than women of other ages.

Except for Yang Qinglan, but if someone said she was sixteen, no one would doubt it.

"What should we do, should we kill her?" Bi asked Li Changzhou.

"Let's conduct an experiment."

The king cobra slithered over, its golden vertical pupils cold and bone-chilling, ruthlessly staring at the female ninja.

"Wait, I'm willing to assist you, I'm willing to... Ah!"

The king cobra raised its neck and bit the female ninja's waist, injecting everything that could be classified as poison copied from Li Changzhou into the female ninja's body.

Her heart began to pound violently, even emitting wisps of self-igniting white smoke like that from a machine before it explodes.

Her body convulsed, and mucus, tears, and saliva uncontrollably flowed out.

The whole person's status reminded Li Changzhou of a pressure cooker that was accidentally left on for six hours, worrying that it could explode at any time.

"What's wrong with her?" Bi couldn't help but step back, also worried that the female ninja would explode and splatter blood and flesh on her clothes.

The screams grew more and more tragic, finally resembling the desperate pleas of a dying person, urgent and mournful.

At one moment, the female ninja suddenly dropped her head, dead.

The Identity Card emerged from above her head, lightly drifting to the ground like paper.

"Lift her head," Li Changzhou said to Bi, staring at the female ninja and speaking from the side.

Bi's fingers lightly hooked, and the female ninja's powerless head was lifted.

On that face, the mouth couldn't close, the two sharp fangs opposing each other, the scalp slightly pulled back, making her resemble a bat or a primitive human.

The eye sockets contained ashes of burnt eyeballs that fell in disarray.

The skin around the eye sockets was charred black, looking like the ultimate dark circles of someone who hadn't slept since birth, the color even deeper than dark circles.

Apart from that, blood flowed from her entire body.

"Tear open her clothes," Li Changzhou said again.

Bi, as if asking for confirmation, glanced at him; Li Changzhou nodded affirmatively.

Bi's right index finger formed a hook, slowly coming down, like opening vertical blinds.

The ninja's clothing ripped from the neckline, the ninja clothes opening on both sides.

The body was clearly molded, showing an unnatural state of enhancement, almost like a Heavenly God's Body dyed with blood.

If it wasn't for the chest, the figure would look a lot like Li Changzhou.

Just as Li Changzhou was studying, Bi suddenly said, "Does that stinky woman know you're this cruel?"

"Cruel?" Li Changzhou paused, "She's a player, players seeing players is like seeing a mosquito at home, isn't swatting it to death an instinctive reaction?"

"True, but... um—, you can swat a mosquito, but not like this, no, I mean, anything goes for a mosquito, but this player is a person, I have no objection to killing her, but... never mind, do as you please."

Li Changzhou was somewhat surprised and laughed, "I didn't expect the Czar Princess who once casually leveled a civilian area to say such things."

"Bullshit, there was no one there, just one piece of Black Card trash!" Bi reluctantly replied, even kicking Li Changzhou.

"Fine." Li Changzhou patted her head, "If you don't like it, I won't do this experiment. Now that I think about it, turning people into vampires doesn't really benefit me."

If Yang Qinglan and Qian Xia were here, they probably wouldn't like this either.

Wait, he genuinely didn't know being bitten by the snake would result in this, he hadn't even intended to kill her.

He was wronged.

Bi removed his hand, her delicate doll-like face looking at him suspiciously.

Then, she asked, "You're not falling for me, are you?"

"..."

"I'm sorry, Mr. Li," she suddenly lifted her skirt slightly, curtsying for the first time in a princess's manner, "Your baron title is just too low. Come back when you're a Prince."

I could become a Prince directly by marrying you—That was what he wanted to say, but Li Changzhou didn't want to joke about this issue.

"Anytime, anywhere, anyone asks me who I like, my answer is only one: I only like Miss Yang."

"That's good, that's good." Bi patted her small chest, a relieved expression on her face, "I will bless you two, definitely dying together, dying side by side."

Li Changzhou's gaze shifted to the female ninja's black Identity Card.

Bi spread her hands, making a gesture as if the Queen were allowing someone to rise, and the Identity Card floated up, flying towards him.

Li Changzhou reached out to catch it.

[Nickname: Kanagawa]

[Name: Lei Banying]

[Value: 0]

[Instinct: Back Attack]

[Skills: "Mulberry Silkworm Moth Style·Spit Silk" (Grade E), "Fringed Sandpiper Style·Gender Mimicry" (Grade D), "Tree-Kangaroo Style·Agility" (Grade D), "Small·Transformation Technique" (Grade C), "Small·Substitute Technique" (Grade C), "Small·Five Elements Ninjutsu" (Grade B)]

Instinct·Back Attack: Approach an enemy from behind, within three meters, and instantly strangle the enemy's neck.

"Mulberry Silkworm Moth Style·Spit Silk": Capable of spitting a strand of silk one kilometer long.

"Fringed Sandpiper Style·Gender Mimicry": From a sensory perspective, induces other life forms to mistakenly perceive one's gender.

"Tree-Kangaroo Style·Agility": Possessing this skill, one can jump nine meters in one step, and even if they jump from an 18-meter high tree to the ground, they will remain unharmed.

"Small·Transformation Technique": After killing an enemy, consume 1 point of ability to transform into the opponent's appearance.

"Small·Substitute Technique": Leave a wooden stake in place, and if the original body is not bound, it can transfer to any nearby one-meter position.

"Small·Five Elements Ninjutsu": Capable of using the most basic Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth Ninjutsu.

After reading the "Back Attack" instinct and the "Small·Transformation Technique", Bi no longer thought Li Changzhou was cruel, this woman deserved it.

From a person's instinct, you can roughly tell what kind of person they are, such as Qian Xia's "Twins".

This female ninja's instinct was "Back Attack", the effect is to strangle someone else's neck; clearly not a good person, and attacking from behind, indicating a preference for sneak attacks.

Li Changzhou felt a bit more at ease inside, yet it was a pity that the Transformation Technique wasn't as convenient as he'd thought.

"Small·Five Elements Ninjutsu" could be given to Yang Qinglan, with her affinity to nature, maybe it could produce some exaggerated chemical reactions.

"What's next?" Bi asked.

"We wait for night," Li Changzhou put away the Identity Card, "We'll rescue Edison after dark."

Meanwhile.

"We can't wait until night," Yang Qinglan said softly yet firmly, "We must make use of the daylight, when the monsters are weak, to kill Edison."

"Yes!" Li Qianxia nodded, "If we can't beat them even then, I'll just call my brother."

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