George froze.
Gwen, standing not far away, also froze at the sight of the female Vampire trying to pull her father's pants down.
The next second.
Gwen instantly bristled and tried to rush forward.
Hawk quickly stopped her.
"Wait, what are you doing?"
"She's trying to pull my dad's pants..."
Gwen said subconsciously, then suddenly reacted, blinked, and looked at Hawk who was holding her: "Wait a minute, Hawk, did you guess this all along?"
Hawk didn't speak.
He shrugged.
"Sort of."
After all, the methods of blackmail, from ancient times to the present, have always been only a few.
And for George Stacy, a man in a mid-level position at the New York Police Department and of unyielding integrity, the best blackmail method was a video.
A sex video.
When Hawk saw the bearded Black man take out the portable camera, he had already guessed it in his heart.
But he hadn't guessed that it would be a female Vampire who came in.
Hawk had thought it would be a human woman.
The bearded Black man would have George suck the human woman's blood first, and then have George perform a sex act on the spot.
But... this made Hawk subconsciously pause for a moment.
Gwen gritted her teeth, trying to break free from Hawk's grasp, and after realizing she couldn't, she looked at Hawk.
"You wouldn't really let my dad do that, would you?"
"No, I just want to confirm if you're really going out to stop it."
"Of course!"
Gwen raised her eyebrows without thinking, her eyes wide: "God, Hawk, Mom is only faking her death, she's not really dead."
Hawk received confirmation, a slight smile on his face.
"Then let's talk about my appearance fee."
"Wait, what?"
Gwen's expression was startled: "Appearance fee?"
Hawk shrugged: "If you go out to stop it now, this is a Vampire stronghold. Do you think, if I don't get involved, you and George can leave here? And once you appear, the mastermind hiding behind the scenes will know things have gone wrong. So, I'll still have to get involved, right? Therefore, the appearance fee, starting next month, one month of non-repeating uniforms, and I won't move."
The dagger was revealed at the end of the scroll.
Hawk directly made an exorbitant demand.
Gwen instantly gasped, listening to Hawk's offer, her thoughts racing, with a look of sudden realization but also disbelief, she lowered her voice.
"I knew you wouldn't bring me here for free. I even thought I had really misunderstood you, and you told me to have some faith."
"I did say that, but you didn't have faith in yourself. You should have trusted your intuition."
Hawk's lips curved upwards: "Anyway, my condition is this: one month of non-repeating uniforms, and I'll provide the uniforms."
Gwen gave Hawk an annoyed glance.
"You're dreaming, ten days at most."
"No, one month."
Hawk shook his head, refusing to budge.
Gwen's eyes warned Hawk, as she gritted her teeth: "Aren't you worried that after a month, you won't even be able to get into bed? You're enjoying yourself now, but you'll pay the price later, Hawk, I advise you to be kind."
Hawk shrugged: "We'll see after a month."
How does that saying go?
Ten thousand years is too long, seize the day.
A man of integrity, do not be timid in anything you do.
Do what you want to do.
Just do it!
Gwen looked at Hawk, who would rather not get into bed later than enjoy a month now, her gaze shifted to her father, George, who had pulled up the female Vampire, took a deep breath, then chuckled, no longer struggling, and stood back next to Hawk.
"Alright, I'm not going. I trust Dad."
"..."
Hawk raised an eyebrow, glanced at the scene on the sofa, then looked at Gwen, chuckled: "You know me, the conditions I propose the first time are always the most favorable. If you don't accept this time, next time it will be two months."
Gwen immediately covered her ears.
Seeing this, Hawk stopped talking and looked back at George.
George had also snapped out of it by now, holding down the female Vampire's hands that were trying to pull down his pants.
The female Vampire, squeezed by George's subconscious force, couldn't help but let out a soft moan.
"Ah!"
The sound was extremely seductive, and any male creature who heard it would involuntarily feel a desire to protect.
Except for Hawk.
Hawk had been able to maintain his composure even with the actions of Vampire Queen Katherine in the crypt.
Let alone a mere seductive woman in front of him.
Once again.
He, Hawk, had never been swayed by beauty in his life.
Of course, George was also unmoved.
After all, George was a proper man, otherwise, the Vampires wouldn't have prepared such a gift for him.
George ignored the female Vampire's moan, his face dark as he looked at the bearded Black man.
"What does this mean?"
"A gift."
The bearded Black man put down the camera in his hand and looked at George with a smile: "Sheriff Stacy, our lifespan is very long, long enough to enter the next century, and even the century after that. Alia is the most beautiful and charming among us, and she is our gift to you. After all, the road ahead is long, and it's important to have someone who understands you and can always be by your side, isn't it?"
George was expressionless.
"Thank you, but I don't need it."
"No, you do."
The bearded Black man's expression remained unchanged, he chuckled: "Sheriff Stacy, I know you love your wife very much, but your wife is now deceased."
George looked at the bearded Black man expressionlessly: "Once again, I don't need this gift."
Gwen also glared at the bearded Black man.
"I hate this guy."
"Do you want me to get involved?"
Hawk seized the opportunity, inserting himself: "The price is still the same, one month of uniforms."
Gwen glanced at Hawk, but didn't speak.
Hawk didn't get discouraged, he chuckled, then looked at the bearded Black man, giving him an encouraging look.
Signaling these bearded Black men to be more energetic, not to lose points.
Indeed.
The bearded Black man did not disappoint Hawk's eager expectations, still maintaining the smile on his face, looking at George with a smile.
But his voice now became somewhat sharp.
"Sheriff Stacy, I will tell you again, this is our gift to you, a gift you cannot refuse."
"Heh heh."
George sneered.
"What if I don't want it? What will you do, kill me?"
"No, no, no."
The bearded Black man still smiled and shook his head: "Killing you, that's not what we hope to see, and I don't have that authority. Once again, Sheriff Stacy, I'm just following orders. The task given to me from above is to make you accept this gift, so, help us out, Sheriff Stacy."
George was expressionless, he glanced at the female Vampire who was still kneeling in front of him, looking at him with watery eyes, then looked back at the bearded Black man.
"I! Don't! Need! It!"
"Then we'll just have to kill Ben Urich."
"What!"
"You heard me."
The bearded Black man now also put away the smile on his face, replacing it with a gloomy expression as he looked at George, who remained impervious to his pleas, his voice low and filled with chilling threat.
"I don't have the authority to kill you, but I do have the authority to kill your partner, Ben Urich, if you don't accept this gift."
As he spoke.
The bearded Black man clapped his hands.
The next second.
The frosted glass in the private room facing the corridor instantly became one-way transparent.
As George's peripheral vision caught the glass, his body stiffened, he shot up, and then he appeared in front of the glass.
At the same time, the black-haired female Vampire also appeared in front of George.
But... George did not look at the black-haired female Vampire, but instead looked through the glass in front of him, at Ben Urich, with his graying hair, who was outside, directly above the dance floor, tied up like a pig and suspended above the dance floor.
His first partner and mentor!
Ben Urich, suspended above the dance floor, was dripping blood from his limbs, sending the Vampires gathered below into a frenzy.
"Put him down!"
"Drain his blood!"
"Eat him alive!"
Screams of frenzied Vampires came from the dance floor. These Vampires looked at Ben Urich with no sympathy, only the greed for food.
Gwen also looked at Uncle Ben, who was suspended above the dance floor: "Uncle Ben!"
Hawk, standing to the side with his hands in his pockets, glanced indifferently at Ben Urich, who was a complete stranger to him.
He was no saint.
To him, this was just a game, and whether he would intervene depended solely on his fiancée.
Let alone Ben Urich, even if George were torn to shreds by the Vampires here, as long as Gwen didn't speak, he wouldn't get involved.
George spun around with a whoosh, once again ignoring the black-haired female Vampire who had also moved in front of him, and angrily stared at the bearded Black man.
"What exactly do you want to do?"
"Be friends with you!"
The bearded Black man leaned back on the sofa, ignoring the furious George, a smile returning to his face as he gestured towards the sofa George had just risen from: "Please, sit."
George glared at the bearded Black man with a grim expression.
Their eyes met.
The bearded Black man looked at the unmoving George, not angered, but chuckled and snapped his fingers.
"Snap!"
"Awooo!"
"Oh yes!"
"Put him down, put him down."
Following the bearded Black man's snap, Ben Urich, who had been suspended above the dance floor, still some distance from the Vampires below who were craning their necks with hunger in their eyes, suddenly began to descend.
Almost simultaneously, George, whose peripheral vision caught the scene, quickly spoke up.
"Stop!"
"Snap!"
"Thud!"
With another snap of the bearded Black man's fingers, Ben Urich, still tightly bound like a zongzi and descending towards the dance floor, halted once more.
Once Ben Urich's descent stopped again, the bearded Black man looked at George with an unchanging smile.
"Sit!"
"…"
George took a deep breath, then expressionlessly sat back down on the sofa.
As for the voluptuous black-haired female Vampire, upon seeing this, she smiled alluringly and once again naturally knelt before George.
Then… George once again restrained White's hands, which were attempting to remove his pants, and expressionlessly looked at the bearded Black man.
If looks could kill, George would guarantee that the bearded Black man before him would have been killed many times over.
Though he greatly valued procedural justice.
But… he wasn't pedantic.
In New York, openly threatening a police officer, hehe, that was clearly asking for trouble.
Wishing for death!
Any police officer, when feeling endangered or threatened, can open fire directly without needing any authorization.
George was no exception.
The bearded Black man ignored George's icy gaze, his expression still smiling, but his tone held a hint of impatience: "Sheriff Stacy, we have shown you considerable sincerity. Although we accidentally killed your wife, we bestow upon you the ability of eternal life, and we will compensate you with a more gentle, more beautiful, even more captivating wife who can accompany you until old age. Don't refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit."
Well done.
Hawk, standing to the side, looked at the bearded Black man and once again gave a mental thumbs-up.
The next second.
Clack, clack, clack!
Hawk heard the sound of grinding teeth from beside him, raised an eyebrow, and looked at his fiancée, Gwen, who was also watching the bearded Black man, but with an enraged glare, clenching her teeth and emitting continuous grinding sounds.
More gentle?
More beautiful?
More captivating?
Her?
Could this cheap hussy who tried to strip people the moment she met them even be compared to her mother?
Gwen clenched her fists, staring intently at the bearded Black man who dared to compare her mother to a Vampire hussy, wishing she could punch him directly in the face.
It just goes to show they were father and daughter.
Their thoughts were identical.
George listened to the bearded Black man's words, which contained an implicit, somewhat impatient warning, and likewise suppressed his anger, looking at the bearded Black man expressionlessly.
"Release Ben first."
"Hehe."
The bearded Black man was amused by George's words.
His smile broadened even further on his dark face, like a blooming chrysanthemum, and then he raised his hand again to snap his fingers.
Ben Urich, suspended above the dance floor outside, plummeted again.
George's eyes constricted.
"Stop!"
"Snap!"
"Thud!"
In just that instant, Ben Urich was now only five fingers' distance from the Vampires below, who were looking up and reaching out their hands, eager to tear him apart.
George shot up from the sofa with a grunt, roaring, and let out a huge sigh of relief as Ben Urich stopped once more.
The bearded Black man also stood up from the sofa at this point.
"Sheriff Stacy, it seems you haven't recognized your position yet."
"At the 21st Precinct, you are that decisive, imposing, and incorruptible righteous Sheriff."
"But here, you are not."
"And even in the future, you won't be."
"We offer you the chance to become one of our family because we respect you."
"But…"
"If you don't want to be family with us, then I'm sorry, you can only be our dog."
"So."
"Last chance, Sheriff Stacy!"
"Anyway, your wife is already dead. Frankly speaking, she wasn't particularly attractive."
"A plain, unremarkable small-town girl."
"And she was already so old."
"Even if she hadn't died, with the passage of time, in front of you, who would be eternally immortal, she would only grow older and older, until she became ugly and unbearable to look at."
"…"
The bearded Black man's voice was eerie, and he completely failed to notice that Gwen, who was standing right behind him, no longer had anger in her eyes, but was staring at the back of his head with a cold, deathly gaze.
Hawk clearly felt the surge of murderous intent emanating from Gwen at that moment.
The bearded Black man's words continued.
"So…"
"Accept this gift from us."
"I promise."
"As long as you accept this gift from us, you can leave here safely with your new wife and your partner."
"After all, once you accept this gift, we will be family."
"Family doesn't trouble family."
The bearded Black man's voice carried a final hint of enticement, then his tone shifted, becoming sinister: "But if you still don't accept, then we can only assume you don't want to be family with us. In that case, we can only make you our dog."
George's heart sank as he listened to the bearded Black man's sinister words, and he looked at him expressionlessly.
His mind raced, quickly trying to find a way out of the situation.
But the bearded Black man didn't give George much time.
After he finished speaking, seeing George still unmoved, he scoffed lightly and made to snap his fingers again.
George's eyes narrowed. Almost the instant the bearded Black man was about to raise his arm, George's hands, which were holding down the female Vampire in front of him, loosened.
The bearded Black man smiled at this sight.
He stopped speaking, instead picking up the camera again, turning on the recording function, and preparing to film George and the female Vampire consummating their marriage.
The alluring female Vampire, who had also risen after George but remained standing in front of him, also smiled.
Then, with an alluring smile, the female Vampire knelt again.
Gwen also smiled.
She smiled in anger.
Her mother was still alive, and this Vampire dared to arrange a new wife for her father, and furthermore, constantly belittled her mother.
After smiling, Gwen clenched her teeth tightly.
"Hawk…"
"Two months!"
"…"
Gwen whipped her head around to look at Hawk beside her, her eyes wide.
"What?"
"It's two months now."
"You just…"
"My initial conditions are always the best, you know that."
Hawk smiled brightly, raising his price, while his peripheral vision caught the female Vampire who had already pulled down George's pants.
"Hurry up, time is running out."
"…"
Gwen's gaze shifted, looking at Hawk, then at the female Vampire who had already laid hands on her father's crotch.
The next second.
Gwen completely lost her composure, closed her eyes, and yelled.
"Fine!"
"Deal!"
"…"
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