Bab 8: Accused of an assassination attempt

Huang Qiuyan's head is heavy. She feels like someone has been mentally pounding her. Her head is throbbing with pain. She couldn't register her surroundings for several moments.

[System: Dear Host, can you tell me what is two plus two?]

She wants to kill this system in her head. When someone is having a headache, the last thing that the person wants is a loud system inside the skull.

[System: Dear Host, did you turn dumber?]

[Host: You dare to speak to me after hurting me like this?]

[System: Dear Host, I am relieved. That was a necessary action to keep you from exploding into bits and pieces. You drank too much immortal blood.]

Huang Qiuyan recalls what happened earlier.

She wanted to bite his finger, but she ended up...doing something else. What's wrong with her? Why did she suck his finger like a lollipop? She even drank his blood. Ah, it was too delicious to be blood. No! Blood can't be delicious. She can't accept it. Blood is delicious to vampires. She is a vampire. It makes sense, but she doesn't want to be a bloodsucker.

[System: Dear Host, you are in deep trouble right now.]

[Host: What trouble?]

[System: Dear Host, can you look around?]

It's dark, but Huang Qiuyan can see. These are one of the perks of being a vampire. There is nothing in the room. The walls are rough to touch and cold. There is no door either. She seems to be in a stone room with no freaking door or window. It's good that she isn't claustrophobic.

"What is this?"

[System: Dear Host, this is a prison. You have been accused of an assassination attempt.]

"Who did I assassinate?" She doesn't remember doing anything to harm anyone. Did she walk in her sleep? If she suddenly starts walking in her sleep, it wouldn't surprise her. She is a freaking vampire and likes to drink blood. Coming to term with the food choices of a vampire is hard.

[System: Dear Host, you killed no one. You are just unlucky and dumb.]

[Host: Why don't you uninstall yourself, System? You are an apocalypse assistance system. But, you are not assisting me so far.]

[System: Dear Host, you refuse to listen to my words. I advised you to drop that girl and run. You didn't listen to me. The girl was trouble. The pure-blooded vampires found you and her together. You even drank the blood of the vampire king. It was good for your progress, but you were too greedy and nearly died. The vampire king brought you here along with her. When the maid was changing your clothes, she found the hunter arrow that you hid under your dress. She showed it to the pure-blooded vampires. They naturally labeled you as an assassin who wanted to use the vampire princess to assassinate their king.]

[Host: You heard and saw all this?]

[System: Dear Host, I can still stay conscious when you are unconscious. The pure-blooded vampires realized that all the converts have changed into a new type of vampires. You are not a pure-blooded vampire. They do not know what you are. But the arrow and your ability to touch the arrow without coming to harm are already enough to label you as dangerous. Now, they think that you are someone sent by the vampire hunters to kill them.]

[Host: I wonder who I offended in my past life.]

[System: Dear Host, I wonder that too.]

[Host: How do we escape?]

There is no response for a while.

[System: Dear Host, I have been trying to scan these walls. This is advanced technology. I have not been able to scan it or find any weakness. My suggestion is that we run for it when they let us out.]

She must have offended heaven in her past life. She is stuck with a useless system in her head. Loss of privacy. Loss of food choices. Loss of future. Loss of a potential husband. How will she face her mother?

How is her family doing? Are they alive? Did her mother become a vampire? For some reasons, she finds that image to be too horrifying.

Huang Qiuyan feels like crying. She gets up and paces around. She becomes so frustrated that she thrusts at the wall with her full strength and bellows in anger.

[System: Dear Host, are you okay?]

[Host: Am I? Can't you guess whether I am okay or not?]

She hits the wall again and strips off her image of a sophisticated lady. She starts abusing the vampire king, the vampires, the converts, the system, and even her ex-fiance. The system is amazed by her colourful choices of obscene words.

[System: Dear Host, Your vocabulary for obscene words is quite good. I used to think that you had exceptionally low IQ.]

System's words are akin to throwing an entire petrol pump at a fire. She starts punching the walls in anger. The system realizes that the wall is actually breaking bit by bit. Soon, there is a big hole in the wall.

Huang Qiuyan falls on her face on the ground when there is no concrete left to endure her punches.

[System: Dear Host, you are remarkably strong (*_*) ]

[Host: I couldn't do it before. Am I a superwoman now?]

[System: Dear Host, it's because you drank a lot of pure-blooded vampire's blood. Your current rank is Green Level 3.]

[Host: I wish I could drink his blood now. I feel hungry.]

She seems to have forgotten that she has been whining about drinking blood a while ago.

[System: Dear Host, I don't think that it is a good idea. Let's run away from here.]

Huang Qiuyan agrees. She has to run. What's the punishment of assassination attempt? Assassination attempt sounds like a serious crime. She can try to tell them that it's a misunderstanding. These people are real vampires.

For the first time, she decides to listen to the system.