Villain? No, I'll catch up with the protagonist after passing the civil service exam.

Jinghai Central Blood Station.

The place was no longer deserted; two long lines stood neatly at the entrance, the order was outrageous.

Sitting at the most conspicuous blood collection window in the lobby was a man whose appearance was extremely out of place.

Count Alexandru wore a bright blue "Jinghai Volunteer" vest and a pair of dark sunglasses perched on his nose.

His signature long silver hair was casually tied back, and his face was still pale, but he exuded an eerie focus.

"Next, hurry up."

The count's voice was magnetic and elegant, yet it sent a chill down the spine of the burly man before him.

His excessively long fingers gently pinched the lancet, his movements precise, steady, and swift.

Without the slightest hesitation.

"Hiss—that's it?"

The burly man donating blood was stunned. He hadn't even felt any pain yet, and the transparent tube was already filled with bright red liquid.

The count ignored him, merely twitching his nostrils slightly, a hint of disdain flashing in his eyes behind his sunglasses.

"Sir, your blood is full of excessive saturated fatty acids and the smell of alcohol."

"If I'm not mistaken, you drank at least a pound of Erguotou (a type of Chinese liquor) and ate three pounds of lamb skewers last night."

As the count sealed the blood bag, he quickly checked off items in the remarks section.

"It is recommended to discard it or divert it to industrial blood supply channels. This quality of blood is simply a desecration of life."

The nurses next to them were stunned.

She held several newly released lab reports in her hand, compared them, and covered her mouth in surprise.

"My God, Mr. Feng, the error rate between your judgment and that of precision instruments is zero!"

"You can even smell the elevated transaminase levels in his body?"

The count let out a contemptuous sneer, his lips instinctively trying to curl upwards, but this aggravated the wound from where his canine tooth had been pulled out.

He gasped, his tone instantly turning resentful.

"That's called talent, little girl. My family had been studying blood for three hundred years before you humans invented the microscope."

"However, please address me as 'Volunteer Xiaoya,' as Director Lu has stipulated."

Just then, a steady and imposing sound of footsteps approached from afar.

Lu Jingyan led Zhao Tiezhu slowly into the blood bank's main hall.

The moment he saw Lu Jingyan, the Count, who had been so arrogant just moments before, suddenly shuddered.

His once upright spine collapsed instantly, and a fawning smile appeared on his face.

"Director Lu! Why did you come here in person? Are you here to check on my ideological awareness?"

Lu Jingyan walked to the window, rested one hand on the table, and his deep black eyes swept over the rows of neatly arranged blood bags on the table.

"Ideological awareness can be investigated gradually, but the work progress cannot be neglected."

Lu Jingyan reached out, his slender fingers tracing the blood bags marked "inferior quality," a playful smile curving his lips.

"I heard you became a 'top quality inspector' here? More efficient than the entire laboratory?"

"Not at all, it's all thanks to Director Lu's guidance that I understood the true meaning of serving the people."

The count wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, but inwardly he was cursing: If it weren't for the fear of being locked up 150 meters underground with that tiger, he would never want to be a human testing machine here!

"Boss, this foreign monster is really good at his job."

Zhao Tiezhu leaned closer and couldn't help but admire the Earl's skillful acupuncture technique.

"I've seen that none of the newly graduated nurses have his steady hand strength."

"Especially that shout of 'No waste of state assets!' He shouted it even louder than our bureau's instructor."

Lu Jingyan noncommittally pulled a transparent plastic bag out of his pocket.

Inside was a bag containing a dark red, somewhat murky liquid, with a "Discard Expired" label on it.

"Take this. This is your pay for today, and your only food."

Lu Jingyan threw the plastic bag on the table with a soft "thud".

When the count saw the bag of blood, his eyes instantly gleamed with a hungry wolf-like green light.

Although it's expired, although it's waste that humans don't want.

But for him, who hadn't eaten meat for two days, this was like the finest nectar!

"Thank you so much, Director Lu, for your kind words! I will definitely work even harder and strive to become a model worker as soon as possible!"

The count eagerly stuffed the blood bag into the drawer, his humble demeanor bearing no trace of a medieval nobleman.

"Remember my words."

Lu Jingyan leaned forward slightly, and his rule-level pressure instantly enveloped the entire window.

"This bag of blood is a recycled and reused state-owned asset. If you dare to covet those fresh blood bags, or dare to drool over the citizens donating blood..."

"It's not as simple as just pulling two of your teeth."

Lu Jingyan's voice was low, yet it carried a chilling coldness.

"I'll send you to Doctor Qin's cryogenic chamber so that you can achieve 'immortality' there even more thoroughly."

The count was so frightened that he waved his hands repeatedly, almost knocking his sunglasses off.

"No way! Absolutely not! I don't even look at people's faces anymore, I only check if they've paid enough social security!"

Watching this once arrogant vampire count being lectured like a grandson by Lu Jingyan.

The crowd around him donating blood couldn't help but let out suppressed laughter.

"It still has to be Director Lu. Even foreign monsters have to obediently do charity work when they're in his hands."

"Yeah, I used to think vampires were really scary, but now I see they're not so bad. They're not even as fierce as the aunties from our neighborhood committee."

Lu Jingyan ignored the discussions and patted the Earl on the shoulder, a gesture that was somewhat ironic but encouraging.

"Work hard, the future KPIs of Jinghai City Blood Center depend on you."

After saying that, Lu Jingyan turned around and led Zhao Tiezhu out of the hall.

Outside the hall, the early summer sun was a bit too bright.

Just as Lu Jingyan was about to open the car door, his phone suddenly vibrated violently.

It's Su Xiaoxiao.

Lu Jingyan pressed the answer button, and Su Xiaoxiao's shocked and anxious voice instantly rang out in the car's Bluetooth.

"Director Lu! Don't rush to pull your tooth! Something's happened at that popular forest park in the east of the city!"

"What's going on?" Lu Jingyan's eyes sharpened, and he instantly went into battle mode.

Satellite monitoring shows an extremely strong and anomalous biological thermogenic response around the artificial lake in the center of the park!

Su Xiaoxiao spoke very quickly, with the background noise filled with the clatter of keyboards.

"A group of young people camping on the lawn just called the police."

"Let me tell you about a muscular guy who was playing frisbee, and the instant he saw the moon rise, he suddenly... suddenly exploded!"

"It exploded?" Zhao Tiezhu's eyes widened. "Did it set itself on fire?"

"It wasn't a self-immolation! My clothes just burst!"

Su Xiaoxiao swallowed hard, her voice tinged with a strange fear.

"He transformed into a three-meter-tall monster covered in gray hair!"

"That monster is currently perched on a lamppost, howling madly at the moon, and has already smashed three 5.5-meter-tall municipal lampposts!"

"The nearby residents were terrified. The patrol officers had already fired warning shots, but that guy was thick-skinned and tough; the bullets were like tickles!"

After listening to the report, Lu Jingyan's expression was frighteningly calm.

He hung up the phone and coldly started the engine of the SUV.

"On a full moon night, his clothes burst open, and he likes to scratch streetlights."

Lu Jingyan jerked the steering wheel, and the SUV roared like a wild beast as it sped out of the parking lot.

"Tiezhu, bring out the 'Silver Alloy Animal Net' that we just confiscated from those witchers in Europe."

As Lu Jingyan watched the full moon gradually rise outside the windshield, a cruel, legalistic smile curled at the corner of his lips.

"We just got rid of a stowaway vampire, and now a werewolf has arrived who's vandalizing city facilities."

"Do they really think our Jinghai City's 'Public Security Administration Punishment Law' is just something to be printed for fun?"

Zhao Tiezhu excitedly pulled the bolt of the Gatling gun, his face trembling with tension.

"Boss, should we bring him back this time to be a trainer at the police dog base?"

Lu Jingyan sneered, his eyes fixed on what was ahead.

"Instructor? Judging from his rabies-like appearance, he's only fit to be a gatekeeper for our bureau at best."

"It has to be the kind with chains on."