Duke of Herrington

Chapter 114 Vampire - Baron Tomato!

"Since Baron Tomato likes tomato products so much, here happens to be a special product from the north, I think you will like it more~"

Ted mysteriously took out another bag of soft plastic packaging from the box and put it on the table.

The bright red color scheme, and the plump tomato pattern, just looking at the appearance of the packaging bag, the Tomato Baron is already excited!
At this moment, the Tomato Baron pointed at the plump tomato pattern in front of him with trembling hands, and that spoonful of eye-catching words that were stronger than 6, he held his breath!

After a few seconds, he asked, "What is this?"

Whether it is from the packaging or the slogan, this shows that this product contains unimaginable power.

Ted realized that the atmosphere around him had become dignified, so he no longer had a playful smile on his face, but sat upright and introduced the bag of products gracefully: "This is a new product from our northern border, after several enrichment processes, There is no vinegar or sugar added, pure tomato concentrate, eating a spoonful is equivalent to eating six tomatoes raw."

After saying this, in order to show that this is an ordinary commodity and not a precious item, Ted combined the opinions of ordinary people in the territory and continued: "These things are just a very common item on the dining table of our northerners. When making soup or eating schnitzel fries, we will put some to make the taste more delicious!"

After saying this, Ted noticed Baron Tomato's eager look, and then pushed the boat along the way, raised his hand and pushed gently, and slid the whole package to Baron Tomato.

"Try it, I personally like it!"

Baron Tomato has no reason to refuse such a good thing!For him and the entire race, tomatoes are not too much to be called the source of life!
He took a deep breath, picked up this kind of package similar to a blood bag, put it in front of his eyes, observed it, and unscrewed the front cover according to the instructions.
In just a split second, the moment the lid came off the package, a stronger tomato aroma, like the purest energy between heaven and earth, quickly poured into his body!
"This taste!"

A red flame suddenly appeared in Baron Tomato's eyes!The ancient call from the blood is about to move, and besides that, another mysterious voice begins to echo in my ears!

"Drink! Just drink it! You can gain supreme power!"

Both mentally and physically, they are urging him to drink up the ketchup in front of him!The Tomato Baron couldn't refuse!

He immediately pressed his lips against the mouthpiece and inhaled with all his strength. In just one second, he drank half of it!
This strong smell, as well as the sense of majestic strength bursting out from his body, constantly bombarded his body!With every bombardment, his body gets stronger!
Immediately afterwards, his eye sockets became moist. He never expected that the formula that his ancestors had waited for thousands of years to find was actually researched by an ordinary human being!

In the next second, he raised his neck as if no one else was there, and squeezed the soft packaging bag with both hands, not letting go of a little ketchup!

Then, the tomato sauce in the bag was like a flood bursting a bank, containing the power of destroying heaven and earth, and hit Baron Tomato hard in the stomach.

Immediately afterwards, the thick lycopene was absorbed by the dry body immediately!The body that had been emaciated for many years was filled at this moment!From a shriveled sponge to a plump SpongeBob SquarePants!
Just five seconds!That fragile body, arms and body like dead branches and broken leaves, under the infusion of energy, turned into a thick trunk at a speed visible to the naked eye!

"Crack!" Due to the rapid expansion of his muscles, Baron Tomato's clothes were also squeezed away.

Steve sat in his seat, staring at Baron Tomato with wide eyes, carefully observing every change in him, until he realized it after a while, and couldn't help but muttered: "Is this the power of human beings? "

Wait until he understands that something is wrong, and then look at such a scene
It made him, the prince, panic like a dog immediately!But because of his royal face, he had to pretend nothing happened, just like a grenade blasted in front of his face and not moving!Nothing happened.

Besides, Ted's reaction beside him also gave me enough confidence!
At this moment, with that expressionless face, he looked at everything that happened in front of him calmly, as if he didn't take these inexplicable changes seriously at all!
And that confident look, probably already has a countermeasure!
"Crack! Pa!"

At the same time, there was a metal friction sound, and Steve realized that the soldiers behind him, with their keen intuition, were ready to fight!They switched off the safety on the weapon and pulled the bolt.

If something goes wrong, they can raise their guns and shoot immediately!
On the other hand, Ted was still not afraid, let alone put his hand on the gun, but touched the flash bomb hanging on his body?
"I'll go. It turns out that Ted's solution is this?" Steve silently took out his earplugs and sunglasses, just in case
Ted in front of him, at the moment Baron Tomato's body changed, he imagined [-] endings, and the flash bomb in his hand is the optimal solution after countless evolutions!

In order to make himself look natural, Ted changed his posture and decided in his heart: "If it is really a bat, then your hearing must be very good, and your eyesight will not be bad. If you want to get my attention, then you must first make you die of pain." !"

Time passed little by little. Steve thought that the battle would be triggered immediately, but after a full 5 minutes, there was still no reaction from everyone.

And at this moment!Baron Tomato's body stabilized. From the original height of less than 1.6 meters, he grew to 185 before stopping!Physical fitness has also improved a lot.

Ted dared to say that the person in front of him is now a certain danger. Although it is very limited, he must be careful!
Just like kittens, they are also dangerous. They look harmless to humans and animals, and their attack power is not much, but the probability of killing you must not be zero!

Realizing his change, Baron Tomato panickedly covered his body with his cloak, after all, his current appearance is very indecent! "Well, gentlemen, can you wait for me? I'm going to change clothes. Then, I have something very important to talk to you"

According to Ted's experience, the person in front of him is not hostile, at least from the tone of voice and expression, he will not pose a threat to everyone, so he smiled, leaned on the seat, and raised his hand gracefully. A gesture of 'please': "Coincidentally, I also have a very important thing to say here!"

"Then after I finish changing my clothes, I'll talk about it later? How about it?"

"No problem! Anyway, we have eliminated the cannibals outside, so there is no threat. We have plenty of time."

"Yeah, thanks to Earl Herrington for this, I'll be back as soon as possible!"

After greeting politely, Baron Tomato left through the side door wearing a cloak under the cover of his servants.

At the same time, Steve put the weapon on the table, pulled the chair over, and after confirming that Baron Tomato had gone far, he took Ted's arm and whispered in his ear: "Hey! Ted De, what's going on here? Are they going to recruit reinforcements? No matter how I look at it, this Tomato Baron doesn't look like a human being!"

Ted seems to have gotten used to it for a long time. After all, a large part of the population in the North is not human!So he put down the cup in his hand, and looked at Steve with helpless eyes like "looking at a fool": "Of course he is not human! Have you ever seen a human being who can grow 25 centimeters in a few minutes?"

Steve is used to the scorn from Ted, but he learns something new after every scorn!So no loss! "Then tell me, what kind of creature is he? Is it a mushroom essence that absorbs water and expands? Or a sponge essence?"

Seeing that Steve really didn't know, and his tone didn't sound like a joke, Ted went over to explain patiently: "None, he's actually a vampire, do you believe it?"

Steve had only heard of vampires, and knew that there was such a thing in the world, but he didn't believe it was real, and even thought it was a joke at one point: "I don't believe it, but if you say he is, he probably is. "

"Why do you say that?"

"Because you are amazing!"

Such seemingly yin and yang weirdness, but actually believed in Ted's tone, which made him flattered!Originally, this was the son's tone of trusting his father, but now Steve used it on himself!

But. Now that you say that, Ted is responsible! "Well he's a kind of vampire, I'm not kidding"

Since Ted wasn't joking, Steve raised his doubts one by one: "Huh? But if he's a vampire, why doesn't he suck blood? Logically speaking, they should be bloodthirsty!"

According to the literal meaning, he should indeed drink blood but everything has an accident: "Ahem. Steve, do you know what a vampire becomes?"

In this world, no one has actually seen a vampire, and of course Steve has never seen one: "How would I know that!"

Ted frowned halfway, raised his right hand and drew several circles in the air, and joked, "Isn't it written in your Bible?"

It is estimated that only Ted and Wazina dare to make such a joke in the whole world. If other people ridicule Steve about religion, the wrath of thunder will surely be ushered in!
"I don't believe in religion for a long time! Can you stop talking about religion when you have nothing to do? My wife doesn't like it! God, he is a barren man! If he dares to come, I will shoot his dog's head!"

After saying this, Steve leaned back on the armchair and looked at Ted with a 'fucking' face: "How is it? Are you satisfied this time?"

Ted gave Steve a thumbs up and gave Steve a 'funny' expression: "Satisfied, cough, do you have a cross that the bishop has consecrated on you?"

Steve almost raised his middle finger and cursed at Ted: "Where do I have it? I threw away all the religious stuff on me a long time ago!"

"Throw it away!? Throw it all away?"

"Ok!"

After receiving Steve's exact answer, Ted rolled his eyes again, slapped his thigh and accused: "Don't throw it all away, at least keep some, you can't use the cross when you return to the Imperial Capital to report on your duties in a few days? It's hard to explain without the cross." Ah! Hey. Forget it, I’ll help you find one later.”

Steve’s recklessness in doing things has improved a lot, but he still forgets when he’s excited: “That’s right, I do have to have a cross, otherwise the gang of gods will think I’m possessed by the devil, although they You can’t do anything to me, but I don’t want to be surrounded by a group of people naked to drive away evil spirits.”

Hearing the latter sentence, Ted's eyes widened and he made an expression of sudden realization: "Oh! It seems that you have had such an experience!?"

Steve seemed to have eaten a hundred heads of garlic and couldn't explain it. He could only recall the unbearable past and tell the truth: "Of course not, that's my elder brother Eddie. He couldn't walk. From the sticks’ point of view, the devil took his legs! In order not to let him continue to be corrupted, this ritual is held regularly! From the age of 3 until he was 30 years old, even if I was born late, I watched it Ten years! Almost every week."

Hearing about the royal mess, Ted stopped in time: "Forget it, I'm not interested in your family affairs. When the time comes, you'll be able to take over by shooting them all down with one shot!"

"I can't do this, you have to help me"

"Can I help you?" Ted raised his right hand and pointed at himself, and asked, "How can I help? I can help you destroy the church and the opposition nobles, but you have to do it yourself for the other princes!"

"Why is this?"

"This has been a tradition since ancient times. If I do it, it will be treason! It is the same as the crime of murdering the king and treason, and if you do it, it is a common act of seizing the heir, and it is not a big deal."

"This"

Seeing that Steve was still hesitating, Ted could only compare it with the previous cruel criminal law: "Stop dawdling! Just take a gun and blow it off. It's much easier than beheading before! You just have fun." Bar!"

At this point, Steve calmed down: "Okay."

For some reason, it took more than half an hour for Baron Tomato to go, and Ted could only continue to sit and chat with Steve.

According to his inference, he would not do anything outrageous to himself, but would respect him very much.

Because he also knows that the mysterious weapon outside may be aimed at this place now, and if he wants to do something to Ted, he must meet the anger from the northern border.

In addition to the gap in weapons, this group of vampires want to get enough ketchup!
Because the effect of this thing is obvious to all, swallowing a bag, accidentally activated all the special powers belonging to vampires!

They have been suffocated for so many years, and finally have such an opportunity. If they are buried in the hands of Baron Tomato, those ancestors in the basement of his house may really not be able to sleep!
Seeing Baron Tomato still not moving, Steve's late arrival of ADHD made him restless again: "Hey, Ted, you didn't say what these vampires became?"

"Oh, bats. According to records, there are three major families of vampires. One of them is fruit bats. They don't suck blood. Their power mainly comes from the lycopene in their food, that is, tomatoes!"

"What about the other two families?"

"One sucks the blood of the living, and the other only sucks the blood of pure daughters"

As a prince, a noble with nothing to do, the only joy in life is gossip!He is obviously interested in the latter family: "The latter one is so harsh? Can they find food? In the empire, girls get married at the age of 13! The later ones are only 15 years old!"

Hearing this, Ted spread his hands with a smile, and said the answer in the system: "So, the latter one died because they didn't have anything to eat."

"Hahaha, it seems that a wide range of recipes is beneficial!"

As soon as the words fell, Baron Tomato changed his clothes and walked into the banquet hall.

Along with them, there was also a frail old man.

At this moment, he was lying dying in a wheelchair, being pushed in by the servants behind him.

"Mr. Earl, since you know my identity, I don't need to introduce it anymore. This is my grandfather, who was also the Baron Tomato, but he has never found a way to obtain concentrated tomato sauce in his entire life."

Ted calculated that he would hear his conversation with Steve, but he still sighed: "Your hearing skills are really well-deserved. Since we have no malicious intentions, can we continue talking?"

Baron Tomato returned to his seat with a smile, and signaled the people around him to continue pouring wine: "Of course, Mr. Earl, our branch has nothing to do with the world, we just want to live and work in peace and contentment, and have no idea of ​​enslaving all mankind. We don't suck blood either, there are 55 residents in Blackwater City, and there are 22 vampires, they are emaciated, just because they don't have enough energy sources!"

Speaking of this, Baron Tomato lowered his head, looked outside and sighed: "Although our output is a lot, it is still not enough for our demand, and now we can barely sustain life, and even walking for a long time will hurt us." let the body weaken"

"Well, that's it." I roughly found out what he meant, and the system did not continue to send out alarms, which means that we can discuss future matters.

"Mr. Earl, may I ask, do you still have that precious ketchup? I want to buy some to wake up my sleeping fathers."

When negotiating, Steve would always insert his mouth inappropriately to show his presence: "Precious? This bag of tomato sauce is only 20 copper coins. Don't tell me that [-] copper coins are precious to you."

"." After hearing the price, Baron Tomato was startled for a moment, then made a small tactical backward movement, looked at Ted and confirmed again and again: "Are you sure? Only 20 copper coins can have this kind of tomato sauce?"

"I'm sure!" Ted nodded pretending to be serious, and then made a gesture of invitation to the empty food packages that had been eaten before: "These are also my invitation to you."

With that said, Ted waved his hand and asked the soldiers to continue bringing in a few products
After introduction and tasting, Baron Tomato has no idea about things without lycopene, only interested in things with lycopene, such as watermelon and carrots.
Feeling the power gushing out from him, Baron Tomato felt that the time was ripe: "Mr. Earl, I heard that you are here for something important?"

The meaning of the other party is already obvious. Baron Tomato has accepted his neighbor, so there is no need for Ted to beat around the bush: "In this case, then push all your uncles out. The supplies we brought this time It just happens to be spaghetti sauce and spaghetti, and some meatballs make for a nice dish”

"Thank you then"

After all the uncles of Baron Tomato arrived, the strong smell of tomatoes immediately awakened their consciousness!

They woke up!
After half an hour of cooking, Benjamin and the soldiers brought in a large and wide soup pot from outside.

"This is the tomato beef soup that Uncle Makarov and I learned. Seeing that you love tomatoes, I will make this appetizer first!"

Just this strong and mellow tomato flavor made their old bones move.

After a mouthful of tomato soup, the shriveled skin became plump at a speed visible to the naked eye!

With the infusion of lycopene, the eyes that are old and dull also become fresh and bright.

"Power. The long-lost power is back!" The oldest Baron Tomato stood up from his wheelchair without the help of his servants!

Feel the friction between the feet and the ground, as well as the intimate feeling from the outside world.!The speaker of the vampire family, who had been sleeping for thousands of years, shed hot tears: "I'm still alive!?"

Before the main course came, Ted specially asked someone to carry a whole box of ketchup to the temporary military camp outside the city, and at the same time, asked the radio station to send a series of messages to Valentine.
"Pull over ten carts of ketchup, and bring the rest of the stock tomorrow morning."

Ted remembers well that he had a lot of tomatoes on his property.

Because tomato sauce and tomato pasta sauce are easy, practical and convenient!Therefore, it quickly became a popular product in the city, and its sales volume was two streets ahead of the second-category product.

After counting the results from the city hall, Chris raised the priority of tomato production to the highest!
At the same time, due to the addition of the big mangroves, the speed of food collection has increased again, and the output has doubled under the premise of easy work~
In Valentine, the city hall received the news and thought it was a problem with Ted, and Chris asked people to confirm it again and again!After the final confirmation, they mobilized the trucks to prepare to pull the goods.

In the banquet hall, Ted saw that the atmosphere was ignited by tomatoes, and immediately snapped his fingers!

"Everyone! I have a gift for everyone. Each person has a bag. After unscrewing it, drinking it in one gulp will have a miraculous effect!"

After seeing the canned food in Ted's hands, they were all full of expectations for the next bag of food, and unscrewed the lid one after another!

After one bite, gray hair grew on the head, and after two bites, the hair turned from white to black!
After eating half a bag, all the wrinkles on my face disappeared, my eyesight and hearing recovered, and I also gained a lot of strength!

Finally, eat the whole bag!Sleeping eight-pack abs torn skin appeared on the stomach!There is also the power from the blood, which gradually fills the whole body, and the two missing canine teeth also grow back!
"Power! The power it used to be!"

After everyone recovered from the ecstasy of regaining power, Ted took the opportunity to express his main purpose, as well as his thoughts on the empire and religion
Regarding the territorial issue, Baron Tomato's ancestors directly gave Ted a few square kilometers of Gobi for nothing!

Some of the main problems of this trip have been solved, even if you disagree with the others, this trip is not in vain!

as for religion
These people are not humans, but vampires!
In Heishui City, from the lords to the citizens, a large part of the positions are filled by vampires, even the local priests are also vampires.

so!Don't they say they believe in God?It's very restrained not to scold him!

Ever since!On the issue of religion, everyone quickly reached a consensus!

The ancestor Tomato who recovered his strength put down half a bottle of Coke, and as a person who came here, he said earnestly: "Young man, God is considered a poor man! If he is very annoying, he will come and kill me immediately. I have lived for thousands of years I've never seen a wolf criticize God."

The Great Elder beside him immediately responded: "That's right! I was never afraid of him when I was lying in the coffin, let alone now."

After saying this sentence, a group of people still showed their strong biceps and mocked the non-existent God!
Everyone present is not a religious believer, so the subsequent actions will be much easier: "Since everyone does not believe in the current religion of the empire, then I have an idea, we plan to create a sun god religion."

"You want us to believe in your religion?" The Great Elder looked incredible!
Judging from the conversation just now, Ted is a wise man, and he wouldn't believe in such a ghost!
"Cough cough."

In order not to let his personality collapse, Ted immediately opened his mouth to explain: "Of course not to make you believe that your life experience has told you that religion is a complete lie made up by human beings for the sake of rights. There is no God at all!"

"There will be no pies in the sky! To make your dreams come true, you can only rely on your hardworking hands!"

"As for me, I also think about the common people outside. They are stupid and poisoned by theology. I can do a good deed and guide them out of the shadows little by little."

Watch Ted put the medicine in the gourd and put the lid back on!
Driven by curiosity, a group of people came over and asked the following: "How do you say this?"

The group of vampires in front of me have lived for thousands of years, and their experience must be richer than their own. It would be great if they could give their own advice: "It is impossible for them to quickly abandon God, but with the help of It is still feasible to let the 'Sun God Religion' rise up, gradually swallow up the territory of the original religion, and compress their power in this year of chaos!"

"Because God will exploit the people, and the sun god is me, and I will not exploit the people!"

The method is feasible, but people don't know what Ted means: "Then what are you doing?"

Ted put down his glass, pulled Steve and solemnly said: "Unify the Snowman Empire first! Let Steve next to me be the emperor, and prevent the people from starving!"

"And if you want to overthrow the empire, you must start with religion, because the Pope's power is too great, and they must be weakened!"

"At present, these three points are the only ones. Although we are very powerful now, we are not very powerful, so we need to develop like-minded allies."

"This." Speaking of this, Baron Keba closed his eyes and bowed his head in thought.
After communicating with several uncles on a specific frequency, he opened his eyes again: "Our branch does not intend to have too much contact with the outside world, but we are people who know how to repay you. The tomato sauce you gave today, For us, it is a great grace, no matter how we repay it, it will not be enough!"

"Besides, we have been dormant for thousands of years, and it's time to reappear!"

Speaking of this, the long-lost blood in everyone's body is poured into the whole body!
But in the next second, Baron Tomato thought of the differences between races: "It's just Mr. Earl, even if we don't suck blood, we are still vampires. Can you humans accept us?"

Ted looked back at Steve with a smile, and then the two shrugged together, then looked up at the vampire elder in front of them, and said, "What's the matter?" ' expression, doesn't seem to take the different races as one thing.
"It's just a vampire, and it's not a demon in the world. There are elves in my territory, and there are also large mangroves, and there are even a lot of dragons. The appearance of vampires is not unacceptable, and you don't suck human blood. , among the people, they were only chased and killed by religious bewildered people."

I heard there are other races in the North!The vampire elders were also ripped apart by Ted's knife!Eyes wide open: "What? There are other races in your territory!"

Ted nodded in agreement: "Yeah, so we won't be too surprised when the vampires come, and the citizens are all looking forward to what the next ally will be. And no one in our northern border believes in religion, not even a church .”

Without the last question of racial disparity, the leading ancestor Tomato directly took out a few blank sheets of paper: "If this is the case, then let's sign the agreement directly! Write the content now!"

"When the time is right, we will definitely be at the forefront!"

Xinxin Ted has taken the lead, but he will definitely not let others rush forward: "Hey, hey, you don't have to go forward, I just need everyone's support, and now I don't like hand-to-hand combat anymore. I'll take care of the rest with the cannon!"

"Okay! No problem! Today's favor, we will repay for generations! Don't worry! I will do it first as a respect!"

"cheers!"

Everyone raised their glasses and praised everything that happened today!
(End of this chapter)