Kapitel 40: Are you okay, princess?

The familiar scent wafts into Huang Qiuyan's nose. It smells like peaches rich with juice. A line of drool forms from the corner of her mouth. Her feet move in the direction of the scent without a second thought.

[Dear Host, this scent must belong to Fu Mian.]

The system's voice awakes her. "Fu Mian."

[Dear Host, it's dangerous to go near her if she's bleeding. If a drop of blood -]

Huang Qiuyan is already running in that direction, ignoring System's annoying utterances. Whooshing through the corridors, she reaches the lab where Fu Mian is being held. She can hear Fu Mian's pitiful cries. When she reaches, she sees a woman holding Fu Mian by her shoulder and an old man in a white coat trying to inject a needle from Fu Mian's left arm/

"It will be over in a heartbeat." Doctor Oh tries to appease the young child. They need more blood to use it against the vampires. The child is small. So, they can't take much. If they increase the rate of production of blood cells in this child's body, they can take more every day. In these dire times, these actions must be taken.

"Waaaaaaaaaaa~" Fu Mian bawls loudly with her eyes closed. This is the second injection. Her right arm already hurt.

"Horrible." Huang Qiuyan grabs Doctor Oh's wrist before he could push the syringe. The sound of cracking shocks Doctor Oh. It is his wrist that's been broken. She launches a kick on his face, sending him flying toward the wall.

"Vampire!" The woman lets go of Fu Mian and summons the enchanted wooden weapon. The dagger is small. Huang Qiuyan dodges the attack and pulls the woman's leg. She grabs her by her throat. The woman stabs her arm.

"These woody things can't hurt me." Huang Qiuyan glares at the woman. "I want to see if it can hurt you."

The woman widens her eyes in horror when Huang Qiuyan grasps the wooden dagger. She stabs the woman's arm. The woman lets out an agonized scream.

"Hurts, right?" Huang Qiuyan smirks at her. "Did you even think once about this young child? I will never understand how a woman can be this cruel. You are a freaking human, but you are worse than the monsters or the purebloods that I have seen so far."

The woman snarls at her. "You, do you think that you can escape from this place?"

"If I can come here, I can leave too." Huang Qiuyan wonders if she should just kill this woman. She decides against it. She gives her a hard punch to knock her out. She looks behind. The white-coat doctor is lying with a bloody head. The scent of human blood wets her mouth. She licks her lips. Her eyes become black as the night. If she drinks a little, it shouldn't be a problem. She's starving.

"Mommy..."

She turns to Fu Mian. The child raises her arms. Heavy tears are running down on her cheeks. Huang Qiuyan realizes that she shouldn't have shown such violence to the little girl.

"I am sorry that you had to see that." She takes Fu Mian in her arms. "Are you okay, princess?"

"You came." Fu Mian sniffles, still trembling in fear. "I was scared... "

This is the second time when Huang Qiuyan saved her.

"It's okay. I am here." She pats her back gently. "Let's leave this place and find your father."

Fu Mian calms down when she hears her soothing voice. Huang Qiuyan's impression is even better than before. She is sure that there's no better mommy than Huang Qiuyan in the world. The fear in her eyes is replaced by happiness. She has a mother now.

[System: Dear Host, you should thank me for installing all those fighting skills in your body and -]

[Host: Can you check what did they do to her?]

[System: Dear Host, it's already done. They took some blood from her body. They were going to inject steroids that is a little harmful to a child's body. You stopped it before they inject it. It's better to leave this place before anyone else comes.]

Huang Qiuyan stares at the doctor. She should crush that man's brain. Then, she doesn't want to show such violence to Fu Mian. Patting Fu Mian's head, she runs out of the lab toward the exit.