She is not an investigator.

Besides these, Igris also has her own questions.

"However, why are you so sure your sister is still alive? Since you know how dangerous the lower city is, you shouldn't have any hope for it. Of course... I'm being blunt, so I hope you don't mind."

"..."

He paused for a moment, then gently placed a finger next to his eye socket.

“I was a test subject. I don’t know if they showed you those unstable reagents, but I was one of the test subjects. Naturally, I survived and gained some incomprehensible abilities. I can see souls, and I can see every soul that is unwilling to leave after death.”

He lowered his hand and looked at Igris, or perhaps at Igris's back.

Those who still have attachment to this world will become souls, accompanying and protecting their remaining loved ones. I've never seen her, never, so she must still be alive…

"You can...see? Are you sure it's a soul, and not some disguised spirit?"

“I can see it. Not just mine, but yours too… I can see the figure that has always been protecting you.”

"..."

Igris instinctively turned her head to look at the empty street behind her, then suddenly turned her head to look at the man.

"...What's behind me?"

"The one behind you..."

Of course he could see them, just like his parents, loved ones who could never bear to leave.

He could hear it too, hear everything they said, those words that lingered deep in their souls.

"Shhh."

"%龄迩印.III 0（八）Please, don't tell her."

"..."

What did you see?

He snapped out of his reverie and looked at Igris's calm yet slightly curious question.

She seemed indifferent, but that was only an appearance.

"…nothing."

"...?"

"In short, I would be very grateful if you could help me, even if it's just providing a clue, I would pay you for it."

The man took a deep breath and waved to Igris.

"I wish you all the best."

Igris looked suspiciously at the man who was slowly leaving, and a strange feeling suddenly welled up in her heart.

A kind of indescribable sadness.

“New tasks have been added.”

The bizarre stage play—The City of Gluttonous Bloodthirsty Fools: Chapter Eighteen, I suspect you're going a bit too far.

Following the man's directions, Igris soon arrived at the dark alley he had mentioned.

The alley lived up to its name; it was indeed very dark, frighteningly dark, with almost no light able to penetrate.

Logically speaking, such a place should be a very good hiding place for vampires, but it is much cleaner than expected. Not only are there no vampires hiding here, but there is not even much garbage.

Igris slowly stepped into the darkness and put on the rose brooch.

The moment I put it on, a sudden feeling of hunger welled up from the inside out. Although it wasn't intense, it did cause a little discomfort.

However, Igris got used to this level of hunger quite early on; after all, she had always gone hungry before, and she would eventually get used to it.

"It is said that if we continue forward, we will reach the lower city."

Igris stroked her chin and slowly walked down the stairs into the deeper part of the building.

Unexpectedly, Igris did not encounter any obstacles along the way, and the expected attacks and traps did not occur.

When she reached the end of the stairs, everything before Igris finally became clear again.

A completely dark underground city.

It was bigger and darker than Igris had imagined, and there wasn't a single light source in sight, probably because vampires don't like light.

If outsiders were to arrive here, they would likely find it difficult to move without lights.

However, Igris doesn't have this problem, since her eyes are much better than lights.

"stop."

Just as she stepped onto the streets of the underground city, a shout made her stop in her tracks.

Soon, two tall, ugly, and bloated vampires who could indeed talk rushed over and blocked Igris's way.

"You came from up there? What were you doing up there?"

Vampires from the lower city rarely go to the upper city, so vampires from the upper city rarely travel to the lower city. Unless it's for some special missions, there are probably very few vampires traveling here.

Although Igris looks almost indistinguishable from a human, thanks to the rose brooch, she currently gives the impression of being a vampire who looks almost exactly like a human.

This might not be uncommon in the lower city, so they didn't question Igris's vampire identity, but simply asked her why she came down from up there.

Logically, they should be the gatekeepers here, and their job is to determine whether people entering through this entrance have the right to enter the lower city.

So the answer Igris can give now is quite simple: if they are just censors, then Igris only needs to demonstrate that she does indeed have the right to live in the Lower City.

The most direct way would probably be to carry someone in and tell them she went up there to hunt.

There is another method that is relatively simpler, but it may be a bit crude.

However, for now, neither of these two methods is a good idea for Igris. The former is because she hasn't actually caught her prey, while the latter is because she can't cause too much trouble or attract too much attention as soon as she enters the door.

The infiltration mission didn't go too smoothly right from the start...

Hey! I'm asking you a question! Are you mute?!

One of the burly men spoke up angrily, and his colleagues began to scrutinize Igris seriously, trying to glean something from her attire.

"I am an outsider vampire. I heard about what happened here, so I came to see if I could join you."

Igris's attitude was sincere, though it was feigned, but the two vampires exchanged glances and fell into confusion.

Perhaps they've never encountered this situation before, so they don't know how to handle it?

"You wait!"

One of the vampires shouted and quickly ran away, leaving only the other vampire watching her warily.

Igris had no intention of making a move, so even though there was only one vampire, she still pretended to be very curious about everything around her, looking like a foreign vampire who had come to surrender.

A short while later, the vampire who had just left quickly ran back, followed by another vampire.

Compared to the two large, ugly vampires, the one that came later looked much more regular; it was a humanoid female vampire.

"It's her!"

"From outside?"

She moved closer to Igris, looked her up and down suspiciously, then frowned and sniffed around Igris before taking a half-step back with a puzzled expression.

"It does smell like a vampire, but I've never heard of a race like ours existing outside... Hey, what's your name?"

"?"

Igris blinked, about to answer, but then suddenly remembered something and changed her mind.

"I don't have a name yet. I only became like this after I came to this city, and I haven't had time to choose a name yet."

"Oh—so we're from the same kind. I thought we were really from elsewhere."

The female vampire nodded in satisfaction, then waved her hand, signaling the other two large men to step aside.

"Welcome, newcomer, to the vampire's paradise. You probably don't know anything since you're new here, but that's okay. See that big house in the distance?"

She pointed to a building in the distance, about three stories high, the tallest building here, and it looked quite unusual.

“Go there, they will test you and assign you a corresponding identity. Once you have your own identity, you can truly integrate into this city. Go, I believe in you.”

She waved to Igris in a very enthusiastic manner.

It's highly likely that the title is what makes even vampires who meet her for the first time feel a certain degree of goodwill towards her.

But that's not necessarily a bad thing; at least Igris is definitely ready to explore this brand-new vampire city.

This was her first time visiting a place like this, and it would be a shame not to explore it properly.

"You might as well just kill those vampires; that way, no one will know you came in."

The administrator's voice suddenly popped into Igris's mind, expressing her opinion.

"But if people find out that the vampires guarding the gate are all dead, they'll definitely discover that the lower city has been invaded immediately, right? That would be too risky."

Igris still felt that method was not quite right, after all, infiltration work is not something that can be done easily by killing a few people.

"Then why not just kill them all?"

"...I'm here to infiltrate and gather information, not to exterminate the entire clan. Let's not be too conspicuous."

Compared to Igris, the administrator was indeed a bit too extreme.

A bizarre stage play—The City of Gluttonous Bloodthirsty Vampires: Chapter Nineteen, If I'd Knew Vampires Had to Go to School Too…

According to the established plan, Igris should have gone to find out some information about this place, but the problem is that Igris didn't have any established plan at all.

She knew absolutely nothing about this place, so naturally, she didn't even know where to go.

When Igris tried to enter a store but was told she couldn't go in without an ID, she had to go to that very tall building to get her own identification.

At least for now, she is still a vampire.

Soon, Igris arrived at the very tall building.

The first floor was empty but clean, and there was only one vampire dozing off in the huge hall.

Igris slowly approached the dozing vampire and tapped on the table in front of her.

"Hmm... Oh! Hello, is there something you need?"

She woke up almost in a daze, still drooling on her face, and looked at Igris with a serious expression, getting into work mode.