Marvel: Awakening the Universe.

Chapter 257 The Birth of Vampire George

Chapter 257 The Birth of Vampire George (A 5K-word Chapter!)
Well known.

Humans need to drink blood after being transformed into vampires; only by drinking blood during the transformation period can they become true vampires.

But drinking blood is still drinking blood.

Blood transfusions are also made of blood.

Moreover, it's an intravenous transfusion, just like taking medicine versus receiving an IV drip; the two are not comparable in terms of efficiency.

and so……

"Thank you so much!"

"God!"

Gwen followed Hawke's strange expression to the blood bag, instantly realized what was happening, exclaimed in surprise, pulled off the blood bag, and then threw the half-empty blood bag on the ground as if it were a hot potato.

But it's no longer of any use.

At this moment, thanks to the intravenous blood transfusion, George was sprinting towards the vampire at an incredible speed.

But Helen was stunned when she saw Gwen pull out her father's blood bag right after seeing the doctor off!
"Gwen!"

"Mother……"

Gwen looked at Helen, who had called her name and was walking towards her with a twitching smile, and quickly said, "Wait, Mom, it's not what you think."

Helen glanced at the blood bag that Gwen had thrown to the ground, then looked at the panicked Gwen and took a deep breath.

"You'd better have a very good explanation, little girl."

"..."

Hawke, standing to the side, twitched slightly at the corner of his mouth upon hearing Helen's words, but dared not speak.

Although Gwen is already twenty years old, she can no longer be described as a little girl.

But in a mother's eyes, no matter how old her daughter is, she will always be a little girl.

at the same time……

Helen was really angry.

Hawke thought to himself, then looked at his fiancée who was looking at him for help, and gave her a helpless look.

He can't help with that.

If he dares to make a sound, Helen will scold him too.

No joke.

and so!
Hawke dared not utter a sound.

But George dared.

As George sat on the hospital bed, a bloodshot vein instantly appeared deep in his pupils the moment Gwen removed the blood bag and threw it to the ground. He stared blankly at the blood that began to seep out after the blood bag hit the floor.

A strange, irrepressible longing suddenly welled up in my heart.

It seemed as if a voice was screaming at him.

"Drink blood!"

"Drink the blood quickly!"

"Drink them all!"

However, George was only lost in thought for a few seconds before regaining control of himself thanks to his strong self-control, which had allowed him to remain steadfast in his position within the police force for so many days.

But it's obvious.

He's in trouble.

Thinking about the case he was secretly investigating, and the 'vampire' thing Hawke had just asked him directly, a terrible thought appeared in his mind.

and so……

George snapped out of his daze and looked at his serious-looking wife, saying, "Helen, I had Gwen pull it out. Go over to the operating room and keep an eye on Mahoney and the others."

Helen frowned as she looked at George.

“George…”

"I'm fine, go ahead."

George interrupted Helen, speaking with a smile.

Seeing this, Helen looked at Gwen, who had already wrapped her arm around George's arm when she wasn't looking, and shook her head with a slight smile, then looked at George: "Just spoil him."

Hawke remained silent.

However, Helen did not let him off the hook.

Before leaving, Helen gave Hawke a reproachful glare.

"And you, you all just spoil her."

"..."

Hawke watched Helen's departing figure, blinked, and then said to Gwen, "What does this have to do with me? I didn't say a word."

Gwen smiled as she looked at Hawke.

Don't you pamper me?

"What do you think?"

Hawke looked at Gwen with a mixture of doting affection and helplessness upon hearing this.

Gwen smiled brightly.

Sitting on the hospital bed, George looked at the two people gazing at each other with deep affection, his face darkened, and he coughed twice.

Gwen realized what was happening and looked at George with a nervous expression.

"dad."

"What's wrong with me."

George looked up at Hawke.

Hawke didn't speak, he just looked at Gwen.

George understood and looked at Gwen as well.

"What's wrong with me."

"dad……"

"Gwen."

"You are being transformed."

"Transform what?"

"Vampire... vampire."

Gwen spoke up, glancing cautiously at George.

She also saw George's eyes at that moment; because the blood transfusion had stopped, a few streaks of blood red had appeared deep in his eyes.

Upon hearing Gwen's words, George instinctively wanted to refute them.

but……

He looked at Gwen's expression, then at Hawke's, and fell silent.

quite a while.

George took a deep breath.

"As expected, there really are vampires."

"father!"

Gwen listened to George's murmur and looked at him nervously, comforting him, "Actually, becoming a vampire isn't so bad. Caroline is a vampire."

George turned to look at Gwen.

"Caroline?"

"Yes, my cousin, the one from Waterfall Town."

"I know."

George nodded, Caroline's image also appearing in his mind: "She's a vampire too."

Gwen nodded: "Yes, I only found out after I went back to Fallstown with Hawke this time."

At this point, Gwen seemed to have thought of something.

"By the way, Dad, when did you drink the vampire's blood?"

"what?"

"Vampire blood."

Gwen gave George a simple and direct description of how humans can become vampires, then looked at George and asked, "So, Dad, which vampire made you drink his blood?"

George didn't answer, but looked at Gwen with a strange expression.

Gwen blinked at George, who was staring at her.

"dad?"

"Gwen, you're not a vampire, are you?"

"of course not."

“That Hawke…”

George instinctively glanced at Hawke, who was standing to the side.

Hawke smiled.

"No."

"That's good."

Upon hearing this, George breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at Gwen, who was standing to the side with a tense expression, and said with a smile, "Humans are good. Having children is the meaning of life, Gwen."

Gwen nodded: "I know, Dad. I was just telling Mom that I also want a daughter and two sons, and then we can live happily together."

George smiled and nodded.

Hawke looked at George thoughtfully.

George then took a deep breath and looked at Hawke: "So, if I don't drink blood in the next 24 hours, I'll die, right?"

Gwen, standing to the side, stared wide-eyed.

"dad?"

"That's how it works in theory, but you can't do it."

"what?"

"You've already drunk it."

Hawke's gaze fell on the IV line in George's arm: "Clearly, the guy hiding behind the scenes isn't going to give you a choice; he just wants you to become a vampire."

After all, George had no other choice.

Other newly born vampires at least have a 24-hour cooling-off period, but George didn't. He chose to become a vampire immediately after his resurrection because he was receiving a blood transfusion.

and so……

Do you remember what happened during the shooting?

“…I remember now.”

George was silent for a moment: "I arranged to meet BU at 9:30 a.m. in the multi-level parking garage, but he didn't come. I know him; he's very punctual. Sure enough, just as I was about to leave, someone attacked me."

For some reason, his mind was unusually clear at that moment.

Even when recalling it, it feels like I'm back at the scene.

He waited until the appointed time but BU didn't show up. Just as he was about to leave, a gunshot rang out, and someone suddenly appeared in front of him, shooting him in the abdomen.

The sudden pain made him instinctively bend over.

Then came the second shot.

The bullet pierced his shoulder, the crisp sound of bones shattering clearly audible. But it was this single shot that caused him to instinctively shift his body, dodging the fatal third shot aimed at his neck. Even so, he staggered backward, crashing into a car behind him, while simultaneously drawing his sidearm with his other hand to return fire.

He did not dodge.

"All three of my shots hit him."

"but……"

"He seems perfectly fine."

"Then a patrol officer heard the noise and ran in."

"His speed was like a ghost; he vanished from his spot in an instant."

"I wanted to warn them, but he appeared behind the two patrol officers and dealt with them swiftly and decisively."

"I was almost unconscious at that time."

"At that moment, I felt like something had gone into my mouth, and I was already unconscious."

"Now?"

"The smell was very fishy. Now that I recall that smell, it must have been his blood."

"He must be a vampire."

George recounted the scene with uncanny clarity, glancing at Hawke as he spoke.

Hawke shrugged.

"should be."

"its not right."

Gwen frowned and looked at Hawke.

"The gunman has been found; he committed suicide out of guilt."

"A scapegoat, huh."

Hawke chuckled and looked at George on the hospital bed: "Just like the scapegoat who voluntarily surrendered in the 'Bloody Apocalypse' case."

George met Hawke's gaze, paused for a moment, and then chuckled.

"You found the files I kept in the safe in my study?"

"The password Gwen entered."

"Hey……"

Gwen looked at Hawke, speechless, as her fiancé betrayed her without a second thought: "Really? You just sold me out without even thinking? You're my fiancé, shouldn't you have stood up for me?"

But that was just a joke.

Gwen wasn't angry. After making a comment, she looked at George and said, "Dad, who is this BU? Hawke and I have been thinking about it for a whole day."

George smiled and looked at Gwen.

"you know."

"I know?"

Gwen paused for a moment, then quickly recalled what she had seen before looking at George.

"Who?"

"Ben Ulrik!"

George uttered BU's name, and seeing Gwen still looking somewhat confused, added, "My mentor."

Gwen blinked, and after a while, an image of a disheveled middle-aged man who liked to wear a cowboy hat popped into her mind.

next second.

Gwen remembered.

"Uncle Ben, your first partner?"

"Yes."

George nodded.

BU.

B is the original.

U is Ulik.

Ben Urick, ten years older than George, is sixty-two years old this year. He was George's mentor when he joined the New York Police Department, and also his first partner.

Gwen frowned again, looking at George with some confusion: "But didn't Uncle Ben retire?"

George chuckled.

“He’s retired, but he’s still young at heart. He’s a journalist now. After the journalist case happened, he contacted me and warned me not to delve too deeply into the case because it was dangerous. I didn’t listen and kept pressing him to tell me what the dangers were.”

“Until last night, Ben called and asked if I was still investigating the Crimson Apocalypse in secret. He told me to stop investigating, saying that continuing the investigation would not yield good results.”

"But who am I!"

George chuckled. "You want me to stop investigating? Fine, just fire me as sheriff. But as long as I'm sheriff, I'll fight crime to the death!"

George spoke with absolute confidence.

Although he might follow the crowd on some minor matters, such as family cards for the police station.

But on matters of principle, especially when it comes to criminals, he has never wavered.

“I told Ben directly that if he was someone sent to act as a lobbyist, he could hang up now and never call again.”

"Ben then sighed and told me whether he believed in vampires."

Later, Ben Ulric told George that "Crimson Apocalypse" was indeed a shoe cult, but not in the ordinary sense. It was an organization affiliated with a certain vampire organization in New York City.

The primary mission of Crimson Apocalypse is to recruit young and beautiful girls, especially those who have left their hometowns to come to New York City for their dreams. They are then recruited to become playthings and blood bags for New York vampires.

Well known.

For vampires, the blood of a teenage girl in her prime, eighteen or nineteen, is a rare and delicious treat.

Ben also told George that he knew this because he had investigated the organization before he retired.

So Ben knew about this organization and had been secretly investigating it for years, and then he discovered a terrible truth.

There exists a blood servant among vampires, and even some people in the New York Police Department are vampire blood servants.

Blood servants are human, but they worship vampires and their greatest wish is for vampires to turn them into vampires as well.

Although Hawke and Gwen know how to transform into vampires.

But most people in the world don't actually know this, and some even still believe that being bitten by a vampire will lead to assimilation.

But, once again.

Vampires are not zombies. You only become a zombie if you are bitten by a zombie. If you are bitten by a vampire, the most likely outcome is that you will be drained of your life force and become a corpse.

Anyway...

After retiring, Ben became a senior journalist, partly to have an excuse to travel around New York City without arousing suspicion. He even successfully interviewed a vampire and became good friends with him.

But this vampire is the kind of good vampire who goes to the blood bank to buy blood to drink.

It was precisely because of this that Ben learned from this vampire friend that George had officially closed the case, but was secretly applying to the court to access the IRS's tax records for this Blood Apocalypse.

Well known.

In the federal government, only death and taxes are not exempt.

Shoe education is no exception.

The only reason they are legal is that they pay taxes, so George wants to get their tax return from the IRS.

Sure enough, the moment George made a move, it was immediately known to others.

Ben's vampire friend also found out, and said that rumors had already spread in the industry that they were planning to deal with George, just like they had dealt with the reporter, Master, who had filmed their party.

That's when Ben contacted George.

But George certainly wouldn't believe Ben's nonsense.

vampire?
This is New York City, not Los Angeles. Here there is Broadway, not Hollywood.

George is very stubborn.

Ben was quite helpless. To prevent George from suffering the same fate as the journalist who was burned to death, Ben said he could testify.

He has evidence that vampires actually exist.

Ben was much more careful and cautious than George, and seeing that the stubborn George was determined to stick to this case, he could only arrange to meet George the next morning.

He hoped that George would believe him and stop investigating the case.

after all……

They've already given the NYPD a suspect.

This is why George has no stains that they can exploit; otherwise, they wouldn't have identified a murderer, but would have simply removed George from his position as sheriff.

Ben was well aware of the methods these vampires, who had been hiding beneath New York City for countless years, used.

The murderer in question is the last chance the vampires are giving George.

If George doesn't take this opportunity, only God knows what those vampires might do.

But now it's clear.

"They turned you into a vampire."

"Now you're one of them too. If you keep pressing this issue, they'll probably expose you before they expose them."

Hawke picked up where George left off, then chuckled: "And if you accept your fate, they'll have one more sheriff vampire, which will help them better conceal their identities."

This plan could be perfect.

one stone two bird.

Hawke thought to himself.

George glanced at Hawke, who had revealed the vampires' plans, and said in a low voice.

"I will not let them..."

"Jingle Bell!"

Just as George was about to speak, the cell phone on the bedside table rang.

It's George's phone.

Gwen grabbed the phone, looked at the caller ID 'Ben', and handed it to George: "Dad, it's Uncle Ben."

George's eyes lit up, and he reached for the phone Gwen handed him.

next second.

Boom!