Zombie Bodyguard
Chapter 463 - 462 Just a Semi-finished Product

Chapter 463: Chapter 462 Just a Semi-finished Product

The Blood Angel came from the Xiao Family? Lin Tian was stunned. In his view, the Blood Angel was not a good thing; to put it more formally, the Blood Angel was something evil.

Although Lin Tian didn’t particularly like the term "righteous path," the Blood Angel definitely did not belong to it, but rather it was a crooked practice.

Because of it, the hybrid zombies all lost their sanity to varying degrees, and Lin Tian even believed that the Blood Angel was specifically concocted for those hybrid zombies.

"Miss, you must be cautious with what you say. I feel that concocting the Blood Angel is not a decent affair. Could it be that the Xiao Family has some sort of conspiracy?" Lin Tian asked with a frown.

In response to Lin Tian’s conspiracy theory, Xiao Manxue glared at him fiercely before saying, "My Xiao Family is just an ordinary business family; all it does is business, nothing more. If there’s any ambition, it’s to surpass the Li Family in the south and the Yun Family in the north. The three of us, mother and daughters, are women of the household; we don’t entertain thoughts of power struggles."

The Li Family of the south and the Yun Family of the north are respectively the wealthiest family and the second wealthiest in Huaxia. The difference between them and the Li Family is not very substantial.

Miss harbors the ambition to surpass the two major families, which Lin Tian could understand. After all, she is someone with high pride, not just a rich girl who covets pleasure.

However, Lin Tian felt she was still somewhat naive. To want the Xiao Family to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Li Family without engaging in power struggles was almost impossible. A pure businessperson wouldn’t last long, and that might be one of the reasons why the Xiao Family was still treading water.

This was the Miss’s matter, and Lin Tian didn’t want to interfere too much, but deep down, he harbored a sliver of hope that she would succeed. If society had more business people like her, perhaps it would be a bit better.

"If the Xiao Family just wants to do business peacefully, why would it concoct something like the Blood Angel?" asked Lin Tian.

The Miss turned around, walked to the window, and looking out into the vast night sky, she spoke softly, "That was just an accident..."

The night wind from outside the window swept in, lifting strands of her hair. From behind, the Miss looked every bit a quiet beauty, her exquisite figure and the silhouette that inspired wanderlust made her seem like a fairy descended from heaven. But this fairy seemed to carry a faint sorrow at the moment.

He took a few steps forward, wanting to take a closer look at this stunning fairy. But before he could say anything, the Miss subtly sidestepped, her bright eyes seemingly seeing through Lin Tian’s little thoughts.

Lin Tian had a thick skin and stood beside her with ease, avoiding any embarrassment of being caught.

"Actually, the Blood Angel is incomplete. It is because of its incompleteness that those who take it undergo bestial transformation and lose their senses," the Miss continued as she looked at him.

Incomplete? Lin Tian had not considered this aspect, thinking that the Blood Angel was inherently like that, designed to make people lose their sanity, become wildly aggressive, and ultimately turn into a beast only intent on killing.

"My grandfather passed down a very mysterious elixir recipe. Exactly how he came by it is no longer traceable. The Xiao Family’s research lab was established to study this elixir recipe. Grandfather said that once the recipe is perfected, it is bound to become a great aid in expanding the Xiao Family’s power," Xiao Manxue stated gravely.

"You’re saying that these Japanese and even vampires and other foreign forces, are all after this so-called Elixir Recipe? Then what use is this Elixir Recipe exactly?" Lin Tianqi wondered aloud.

"We haven’t figured that out either. Grandpa only obtained the recipe itself—there’s no method of concoction or information about its uses. Simply put, it’s just the formula," Miss explained.

Having only the formula and nothing else, the Xiao Family had invested almost all their financial resources into such a thing. The boldness of this mother and daughter duo was truly remarkable. If the research failed, the entire Xiao Group would likely crumble and disintegrate.

It was like the domestic automotive industry, where almost all of them were assembling parts from others and imitating the designs of others. Why is that?

Because independent research and development costs a tremendous amount of money, and few enterprises are willing to do it. After all, assembling alone can make a profit, so why bother with the thankless task of scientific research?

The courage of the mother and daughter of the Xiao Family to invest in establishing a research laboratory and conducting scientific research made Lin Tian admire them even more.

However, by doing so, the Xiao Family had taken a huge risk, because without the method of concoction, having the formula alone was in vain—they couldn’t produce anything. To put it in terms of modern industry, the formula and the manufacturing process are equally important; neither can be missing.

"However, our research lab still came up with some results, and we can basically confirm that the Elixir Recipe is for enhancing physical constitution and increasing strength in that direction, effective for both ordinary people and Ancient Martial Artists. The pharmaceutical company of the Xiao Family has benefited a lot from this and has developed many new drugs," Miss detailed.

"As for Blood Angel, it was developed inadvertently during the research process, using only half of the formula. But at first, Blood Angel wasn’t so powerful. The research data about Blood Angel leaked later, or to be exact, it was stolen by several Japanese. Therefore, Blood Angel must have been modified by them, which is why it became so wildly effective," Miss elaborated.

So that was it, but it seemed like the name ’Blood Angel’ was given by that so-called master, wasn’t it? Lin Tian posed this question.

Miss snorted coldly, "Hmph, the Japanese have always been shameless. The name was originally coined by Professor Xue because the accidental product’s effects were too bizarre. That’s why Professor Xue named it Blood Angel. But you’re saying that after the enhancement of its effects, those Japanese would go mad and self-destruct, which indeed makes the name quite fitting."

In that case, it made sense for the Japanese to be targeting the Xiao Family everywhere—they must be trying to obtain a more complete Elixir Recipe.

As for vampires, this kind of thing is fatally attractive to them. With such a substance, they wouldn’t even need to rely on drinking human blood to maintain their strength. This would completely overturn centuries-old beliefs and liberate vampires from the fear of being hunted by humans, allowing them to develop without any restraint.

Vampires and zombies alike consider humans as prey, or even as food, so humankind has an irreconcilable hatred towards both of them.

But this world is still dominated by humans, which indicates that vampires don’t have an easy life and must be surviving in the shadows. The Elixir Recipe could change their destiny, and its importance is self-evident.

"Miss, I have a question. Logically, if the Elixir Recipe is so important, and even foreigners are doing all sorts of things against the Xiao Family, wouldn’t the domestic families take notice? Like the Li Family, the Yun Family, or even those from the Ancient Martial World, or the reclusive families. It seems there’s not much movement from domestic forces," Lin Tian pondered aloud.

"Which do you think is the most powerful in Huaxia?" Instead of answering directly, Xiao Manxuan suddenly asked in return.

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