Chapter 18 Waking Up To A Nightmare Like Reality
[Host! Finally, you're awake! XiaoXiao misses Host very much, huhuhuhu...]
The moment Hua Meili opened her eyes, she was met by her System's loud wailing inside her head as it cried out how it misses her and how scared it was when it saw she was still not waking up.
"XiaoXiao, don't cry..."
Hua Meili comforted her System after she heard it cry, her System is really such a baby.
Smiling helplessly, she then noticed someone sitting beside her bed.
"Good morning, Miss Meili. I'm sure you're thirsty after sleeping for so long."
Du Hexi who was waiting for her patiently to wake up handed her a glass of water, she stared at him for a while before accepting the glass of water.
She then quickly forgot to ask why he was there and happily drank the glass of water since it is true that she is indeed thirsty.
"How long did I sleep?" Hua Meili asked Du Hexi while taking a sip of water.
"2 weeks long, Miss Meili."
Hua Meili was surprised when she heard what he said.
But she also immediately recovered since waking up after 2 weeks is a good sign of having a strong ability, long sleepers tend to be more powerful than short sleepers as what the novel said.
"What about the other two?"
When she asked this question, she unconsciously held her breath praying that the two people would be fine.
She prayed that not even one of them would turn into a Zombie or else the other would surely follow.
"Your two friends have also woken up."
Hearing the great news, Hua Meili sighed in relief knowing that they did not turn into a zombie.
"Prepare breakfast and have them come down and eat after they finished changing."
Du Hexi waited on her for a minute, took the empty glass in her hand, before going out of the room to do as she ordered.
Mu Hexin on the other hand who was unnoticed until now prepared her bath and waited upon her outside.
When Hua Meili was drying her hair, she noticed that her once-black hair turned silver with golden streaks which surprised her a bit.
"XiaoXiao, what's happening?" Hua Meili quickly asked her System.
[Host, your hair was forcefully changed by the Apocalypse evolution process to the way it should have been before.]
"What do you mean?"
[Host hair was originally silver but because the body Host occupied should not have much difference to how it used to be, it stayed the same before the Apocalypse. But when the Apocalypse started, the Host body had so many changes forcing your hair to turn silver just how it should be.]
"So, it means that my real hair color followed me here? That's fantastic!"
Hua Meili found the situation absurd but funny at the same time.
She did not expect that her hair color would like her so much to the point of following her through dimensions.
If it was a man, she would call it romantic.
But since it's her hair, she found it amusing.
This is truly funny!
"It's not like I don't like it, I like my silver hair more than the dark one the original has. But now my hair turned back to silver, Apocalypse starting, then I can only blame it on it."
Hua Meili looked at her hair in the mirror in a daze, she touched the silver locks of hair with streaks of gold.
Seeing the golden streaks at the tips of her hair which should have not been there, she just thought that it was because of the Apocalypse and shrug it off.
[Yes, Host]
"Well, it's not that bad."
Hua Meili looked at her hair for the last time and got out of the bathroom.
Mu Hexin who had been waiting upon her passed the dress he especially picked for her to change into for the day.
The dress was a white sleeveless dress that went down to her knees paired with white doll shoes and a white strap necklace.
Mu Hexin combed her hair and let it freely fall down to her back but not forgetting to put the golden butterfly hairpin on her hair making it look even more gorgeous on her silver hair.
Hua Meili quickly went downstairs after changing so she could start the meeting. She is sure that the two have so many questions they needed to ask her.
While she was walking down the stairs, she could already see the two lovebirds waiting for her.
Arriving in front of the two, she greeted them and sat down.
"Xiao Mei, your hair..." Guo Zhongcheng said shocked.
"Uh... yes, isn't this just wonderful? I know my hair changed color but maybe it was because of the Apocalypse..." Hua Meili trailed off.
The two of them look at her in puzzlement and she only smiled awkwardly.
"What are you saying? But that doesn't matter, I want to ask you something. Xiao Mei, can you explain why you told us not to go out yesterday and made us stay inside until the sun was up?" Guo Zhongcheng asked curiously.
"...." - Zhongcheng Qingren
He also looked at her wanting to know her reasons as to why he separated himself and his ChenChen when the two could have a lovely time together.
'Whew... I'm glad they did not pursue the matter about the change in color of my hair.' Hua Meili thought and wipe her imaginary sweat away.
"Hmmm.... As you can see, no, can you feel it? The place is so quiet now like the whole world is quiet. Can you feel it, things have changed." Hua Meili mysteriously said while eating her breakfast.
"What do you mean?" Zhongcheng Qingren asked her first before Guo Zhongcheng could.
Smiling mysteriously, she took a sip of her tea before answering.
"I can explain it to you two but before that, I need you to take a look at this first."
Hua Meili looked at Du Hexi and he brought a big flat-screen tv connected to a laptop to the room.
After connecting some wires and stuff, he played a video, and the room was filled with different kinds of noises and the two were silent.
"Groar!"
"Noooooo..... please don't! D-Dont ackkkkkk...."
A man shouted while running away from a figure that was running after him but then he was intercepted by another figure and was knocked down and eaten.
"H-help!! Ack!!"
"Nooo..."
"Roar!"
"Huhuhuhuhu... I don't want to die!!"
Watching the video play, the two men were dumbfounded as they look at their little miss with confused faces.
They really do not know what was going on!
What on earth is happening?!