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Xue Fan scratched his head: "Before, at your residence, I saw an empty pastry plate on your table with some crumbs on it, which looked a lot like this kind of cake, so I—"
As soon as Xue Xiaolin smelled the "fragrance" emanating from the pastries, she instantly perked up again:
"Brother, I want some too!"
Xue Fan said, "This is a thank-you gift for my older sister, what nonsense are you talking about?"
"Hiss... Awoo!"
"Hey! Stop fooling around!"
Suddenly, Xue Xiaolin bit her brother's neck, and Xue Fan frantically tried to deal with his sister.
Ludwig looked at the two of them and smiled.
"Then I'll bother you a little longer and eat with her."
Actually, Ludwig was just craving it, since Coco wouldn't make such delicious blood cake for her every day.
So she ate until she was completely stuffed today.
...
Meanwhile, at Ludwig's house, in the quiet courtyard, Coco received a distant phone call.
"..."
"..."
"Yes, I understand."
drop.
After hanging up the phone, Coco looked towards the direction of her front door.
"Young Miss, you don't have much time left."
Chapter 4 Ordinary Strange Night Tales
five years ago.
...
tata tao...
The girl's light footsteps echoed in the corridor, indicating that the owner of the footsteps was in a good mood.
That evening, in the deserted school corridor, a blonde girl hummed a tune and skipped along, preparing to go home.
"These students are so punctual these days! You can't even see a single one of them anymore. Are they all in such a hurry to leave school?"
Although she was muttering this to herself, she was actually eager to go home because the girls at home were waiting for her.
It just took her a little longer to complete the enrollment procedures today.
...
tread.
She was swaying as she prepared to go downstairs when, as she passed the mirror at the corner, she was surprised to find a figure standing behind her.
"what?"
The man behind me was standing at the corner of the dimly lit corridor, and I couldn't see his face clearly in the mirror.
The blonde girl fidgeted with the hem of her dress and calmly asked:
"Hey, is there something you need?"
The man spoke directly:
"You are... Yang Lingxi?"
The blonde girl's pupils suddenly contracted:
"This voice?"
She turned around and saw a man with black hair and brown eyes standing in front of her.
"You are... I... No, this can't be! Waaah!"
The man quickly grabbed her and dragged her into a nearby storage room.
"Woo! Woo——"
A strange light flashed in the storage room, and the girl's struggles soon ceased.
...
A moment later, the blonde girl walked out of the storage room alone.
She stopped in front of the full-length mirror at the corner and checked herself over to make sure her clothes were neat.
A smile played on her lips as she brushed aside a few stray strands of hair from her forehead.
"That's a really good physique."
"After all, it's 'me,' Yang Lingxi."
She raised her hand to look at her watch, then slapped her forehead.
"Oh dear, it's already this late, I need to hurry back and cook for them."
She left leisurely, as if nothing had happened.
...
...
Five years later, now.
In the western mountainous region, far from the Central Plains, nestled in a basin of towering mountains, lies a bustling metropolis—Chongchuan.
Over the past few decades, it has undergone changes that have transformed it into the complex and three-dimensional mountain city it is today.
New buildings are rising from the ruins of old ones, encroaching on the renovation space of other old buildings...
As a result, over time, in those hard-to-see corners of the city, there have always been some buildings that have been forgotten for decades.
Elderly men and women by the roadside lit lamps and played mahjong under the big trees. The chilly autumn wind kept these idle old people quite entertained.
"Old Zhang, have you heard? About that Western learning thing."
"Old Wang, he's a vampire. It's been years, don't tell me you've heard of him, I've even seen him!"
"Old Zhang, are you serious? Do they really eat people?"
"Yeah, yeah, Lao Zhang, why don't you tell everyone what you think?"
The thin old man, called Old Zhang, took a sip of tea and said slowly:
"Hey, I think those are all rumors. If vampires like her really ate people, then when I called her a 'vampire,' she wouldn't have given me such a disgusted look and corrected me by saying I should call her a 'blood clan.'"
"Her? You actually know vampires... ah, you know blood clans?"
Old Zhang said to Old Wang with a smile, "Hey kid, do you remember that little villa that's been abandoned but hasn't been demolished, at the corner of this street?"
"Of course I know! Do you think my title of 'Map King' is just for show? I know these neighborhoods... and even most of Chongchuan like the back of my hand!" Old Wang looked at him with a disdainful expression and quickly showed off his skills.
"You know nothing." Old Zhang's words were rough but true. "Let me tell you, old man Wang, that little villa has been inhabited for decades."
Seeing that his fellow card players all looked incredulous, Old Zhang chuckled and said:
"The girl living there is a vampire. She only came out to greet us neighbors a year ago, saying she was afraid of scaring us, so she prepared a lot of gifts for our visit... She really knows how to be polite."
"Look at your storytelling skills, they're as bad as ever."
Old Zhang was getting a little anxious:
"You old man, I, Old Zhang, never... Hey, look, isn't she here right now?"
Old Zhang waved to a young girl walking by with a parasol on the side of the road.
"Hey kid, you're unusually out today? Going out to run some business?"
...
The girl paused, then realized she was being called, and peeked her delicate face out from under the umbrella.
"Oh? It's Uncle Zhang from next door."
She waved gently and returned the smile.
"Let's talk later, I'm in a hurry to get home today."
She took a few steps out, then turned back and said:
"Oh, right, Uncle, the black tea you brought is really good. I often use it to mix with my blood. I've decided that next time I'll buy tea from your shop."
Then, the girl left with small, quick steps.
And what she muttered to herself after she left, of course, was not heard by the old men:
"I am much older than you all, who are you calling 'baby'? How rude of me."
She looked down at herself and pouted slightly in dissatisfaction.
"I wish my body could grow a bit bigger. At only 1.6 meters tall, I can't possibly look mature."
But she didn't actually realize that she had subconsciously called him "uncle."
...
After the girl left, all the card players at the table, except for Old Zhang, froze.
"...Hey, Lao Zhang, she just said 'dilute with water,' right? Not 'dilute with blood,' right?"
"Old Zhang, why do her eyes glow at night?"
"She's quite cute, but her hair and ears..."
Old Zhang remained calm: "Never seen a real vampire? Haven't you seen vampires on TV?"
Clearly, for most humans, seeing vampires in person is still quite shocking...
Watching it on TV news never feels real, but seeing it with your own eyes is just as visually impactful as actually seeing a ghost.
...
Ludwig returned home and carelessly tossed her shoes aside in the entryway.
"Alas!"
In the blink of an eye, she changed into a hooded, fluffy jumpsuit, looking like a plush doll, with her slender hands emerging from the wide, fluffy sleeves.
"Although the dresses I wear outside are pretty, it's definitely the most comfortable to wear at home."
Without saying a word, she grabbed a few bottles of blood cola and some "delicious" snacks from the refrigerator, went straight to the room, and plopped down in an ergonomically designed high-end gaming chair.
As the power came on, the screen lit up, and she was about to return to the virtual world.
...
Clearly, in the past, when vampires were not accepted by humans, how Ludwig spent the decades in this house was always a cosmic problem.
With the rapid development of information technology in the last decade or so, the only way for her to pass the time... after she got tired of all other forms of entertainment, surfing the internet was naturally all that remained.
Thus, this vampire, who had been bored for decades, was transformed into a thoroughly modern, lazy, and reclusive woman by the corruption of the internet over the past decade.
Looking at the jewelry and dresses that she had carelessly thrown on the sofa, and the messy entryway, Coco finally stood at her bedroom door, watching her adjust the microphone, and couldn't help but sigh in despair.
"This guy is the future vampire queen? Our vampire clan is really doomed."
hum...
Zheng!
Suddenly, Coco held a sickle to her neck.
"Miss."
Coco said, feigning indifference.
"Only one month remains of the one-year deadline. If you do not return to the vampire stronghold in Romania to inherit the throne as soon as possible, then I will have no choice but to forcibly take you back."
Ludwig turned her head slightly, put the microphone she had finished adjusting back on the table, and began to adjust the motion capture camera that was set up next to her.
"..."