[Ding!]
[Analyzation Complete!]
[System/Host Compatibility: 99.99%]
[Installation: Complete!]
[Binding: Complete!]
[System: Dear Host, Congratulations!!! Apocalypse Assistance System has been installed successfully. With Apocalypse Assistance System, surviving in the Apocalypse is as easy as taking a stroll with your dog in a park. The top priority of the Apocalypse Assistance System is the host's survival in any situation.]
[Ding!]
[Host Stats!
Name: Huang Qiuyan
Age: 28 Years (Frozen)
Species: Vampire (Convert)
Level: 1
Rank: Red
Survival Chances: 0.3% ]
[System: Dear Host, your survival chances are dangerously low. Kindly find food. I do not want to die with you.]
[Host: Where is the uninstall button?]
While Huang Qiuyan is observing the foreign entity in her head, Fu Mian couldn't help but feel uneasy. Huang Qiuyan is staring at her blankly for about fifteen minutes. She called her out many times, but Huang Qiuyan didn't respond. On top of that, Huang Qiuyan is turning paler with each second like she is watching a horror show. Fu Mian is young, but not stupid. Her IQ is high for her age. Though Huang Qiuyan couldn't harm her, Fu Mian doesn't like getting bitten.
Fu Mian waits for a minute. Her patience is running out. She has been unlucky recently. First, the vampire hunters kidnapped her from the school bus when she was coming back home from the school. Then, the rogue converts found her by her scent. The hunters and the rogues fought. One of the rogue converts managed to kidnap her and ran away. When the hunters didn't stop following the rogue vampire, he threw her at the mall and run away. Then, a female human found her and asked her some questions. Fu Mian didn't like humans. So, she didn't answer her questions. The female human left her in the children section to play with other kids and went away. The kids were also humans, ugly and loud. So, she hid in the playhouse. She spent the rest of the day hiding and waiting for her daddy to find her inside the playhouse. When she heard a lot of screams, she was scared. She didn't dare to come out. She covered her ears and closed her eyes. She didn't know when she fell asleep. When she woke up, it was this ugly converted vampire who found her before her father.
"Aunty, are you okay?" Fu Mian throws candy on Huang Qiuyan's face in annoyance. The candy hits right between her brows and then, falls into her lap. Huang Qiuyan is finally awoken. She widens her eyes.
"Did you hit me with a candy?" She asks.
"I wanted to throw the tray, but it is heavy for me," Fu Mian replies seriously.
Huang Qiuyan doesn't look happy or amused. "Little Doll, what was in that candy?"
Fu Mian cocks her head and crosses her arms. "Ugly Aunty, did you not taste blood before? What kind of vampire are you?"
The system interrupts Huang Qiuyan with a loud warning.
[Ding!]
[Scanning Complete!]
[Scanning Results:
Name: Fu Mian
Age: 6 Years
Species: Human
Level: Zero
Rank: Red
Nutrition Level: Null
Danger Level: 99.99% ]
[System: Dear Host, kindly run away as far as possible from this creature. This creature is found to be extremely dangerous to host. The creature has been fed the blood of a pure-blooded vampire to increase its survival rate. The creature is found to contain a type of passive magic in her blood that is highly dangerous for you. You are likely to combust into ashes if you accidentally drink her blood. ]
[Host: You didn't tell me where is the uninstall button.]
[System: Dear Host, I can't be uninstalled. We are stuck for life.]
[Host: How did install yourself in my head?]
[System: Dear Host, Apocalypse Assistance System was designed and built by Dr. Jane Doe from the alternate world number 5KV09. World 5KV09 is a parallel dimension. Dr. Jane Doe designed the Apocalypse Assistance System to help the people survive during the apocalypse. To test out the system, she released the prototype of Apocalypse Assistance System in your world through the psychic dimension to test the system. You are the first chosen test candidate for the system. If you fail to survive, I would be wiped out completely.]
Huang Qiuyan rubs her forehead. Her head is throbbing with pain. She only found out yesterday that vampires were real. She even turned into a vampire. Now, there is a foreign system software in her head. Is she a computer now?
[System: Dear Host, you were chosen by Dr. Jane Doe because your survival chances were extremely low. During an apocalypse and post-apocalypse, children and women are most vulnerable. Since you have low IQ and physical strength, you were one of the perfect candidates. However, she overestimated the humans of this world. Last night, I couldn't activate myself in time and you died too easily. I tried to keep your heart beating despite the odds. I used the vampire venom and the mana from the arrow to manipulate your body. You are currently the only sane converted vampire in the whole world. I couldn't formally activate myself because of your low strength. When you took the blood candy, I received the energy to properly install myself in your mind.]
[Host: So you saved my life?]
[System: Dear Host, that is my job. I don't want your thanks. Kindly run away from this dangerous child or kill her without letting her blood out.]
Huang Qiuyan stares at the little girl who is eyeing her with curiosity. The system is a psychopath. How could anyone kill this child? Look at her round eyes. Her round cheeks. Her chubby fingers. She is so cute. Huang Qiuyan wishes to adopt her as her own daughter.
[System: Dear Host, please do not get distracted by her cute looks.]
She ignores the tensed system and decides to ask the little doll herself.
"Little Doll, where is your home?"
Fu Mian raises her brows. This vampire doesn't know her. Where did this vampire come from?
"I don't know." Fu Mian really has no idea where her home is. Her home is far from the bus station. Usually, her father would drop her at the station since it is mandatory to take the school bus. Then, they would wait for the school bus to arrive.
"Who is your father?" Huang Qiuyan doesn't find it unusual that the little doll had no idea where her home is. The child is young.
"My father is the vampire king. You know who he is," Fu Mian replies without batting her eyes.
[System: Dear Host, this information is wrong. Her biological father cannot be a vampire. I have looked into her history. She was kidnapped by the pure-blooded vampire after she was born. She was supposed to be killed, but the vampire king decided to adopt her and raise her as his daughter on a whim. Her real parents were ordinary humans. Her mother died in the grief of losing her only daughter. Her father died after a few years.]
[Host: So, she is orphan now?]
[System: Dear Host, her adopted father is a pure-blooded vampire.]
"Where does he stay?" Huang Qiuyan doesn't know what to say. This little doll has gone through some bad stuff.
"He lives in a castle."
"Where is that castle?" Huang Qiuyan is having second thoughts. This little doll's adopted father doesn't look like a good person. He might have ulterior motives to keep her alive.
Fu Mian pauses for a while before she answers, "It's somewhere far away."
Huang Qiuyan sighs.
"Little Yue, do you remember your father's phone number?"
"He doesn't like phones."
Huang Qiuyan exhales and inhales loudly. She really wants to know what kind of person doesn't like to keep phones in the twenty-first century.
The scent of warm blood fills her nose. She hears voices. She puts a finger in front of her lips and signals the little doll to keep quiet. There are three males with guns. They are heading toward the food section of the mall.
"I don't think that it's a good idea." It is a male voice, somewhere in his mid-twenties.
"Do you want to starve? We have been hiding for hours. The children need food. We need to go in." The second male's voice is haughty and mature.
"But...what if those monsters are here?" The first male asks timidly.
"Didn't you hear them? They said that it was okay to come out as long as we do not go to dark places. Those monsters are hiding in dark places because they cannot tolerate the sunlight." The third male speaks this time. He pauses for a moment. "It's just like in the movies. Vampires can't walk under the sunlight."
"Why should we believe them anyway?" The first male is rather suspicious of whoever is helping them.
"Lu Yuan, do you even remember what happened last night?" It is the third male. "Those monsters won't die whether you stab or shoot them. They are the only one who can deal with them. We have to leave the city soon. They were saying that the city became the nest of these monsters. I heard them say that those monsters will come out again at night now. In the future, these monsters will even come out at daytime."
There are survivors. They are hiding somewhere. She turns to look at the little doll. What should She do with this girl? Should she send her away with these humans? She doesn't trust her adopted vampire father. She wants to keep the little doll to herself, but this child is human. This child should be living with humans.
"Hey," She leans toward the little doll. "There are humans below. You should go with them."
The little doll shifts her eyes in annoyance and says, "Don't send me with them. I don't like humans."
"Why?"
Fu Mian straightens up in her chair and looks into Huang Qiuyan's eyes.
"I am Fu Mian. I am a noble vampire princess."
Huang Qiuyan could hear the sound of Fu Mian's erratic heartbeats.
[System: Dear Host, the apocalypse started due to rare celestial events. These events harmed the converted vampires most. The converted vampires have lost their sanity and turned into mindless blood drinking beasts. The celestial energies have also physically changed the converted vampires and their venom. These newly converted vampires cannot be killed by the enchanted woods or cultivate. Currently, you are the only new converted vampire who has sanity. If you do not start cultivating or drink blood, you will die soon. I suggest that you steal the blood candies and kill the girl to avoid future complications.]
[Host: Vampires are not immortal?]
[System: Only pure-blooded vampires are naturally immortal. A convert like you have to work hard to level up and survive in the apocalypse.]
Fu Mian sees that the vampire woman is lost in her thoughts again. She rubs her forehead like an adult and frowns at her.
She climbs off the chair and says, "We should leave now."
"Where are we going?" Huang Qiuyan stares at Fu Mian.
"If you send me home, my daddy will reward you heavily." Fu Mian is a little disappointed because her daddy couldn't find her already. Why is he late? This ugly woman is too weak to protect her, but she is also her only option at the moment.
[System: Dear Host, reject her offer and kill her. Take the candies.]
"Little Doll, I think that you should go to the human survivors' hideout." Huang Qiuyan ignores the system suggestions. She concentrates on the humans who are still in the food section. They are talking about heading toward this section.
"Aunty, I have decided. You will take me home." Fu Mian looks up at her. "I will teach you how to cultivate and become strong. Then, you can protect me until we reach home."
Huang Qiuyan is thinking about other things. Leaving her at human survivors' hideout alone is risky. The child is too cute. One could never trust human nature during tough times. Keeping the little doll with her is the best solution.
"Alright, I won't give you to them," She tells Fu Mian with a smile.