Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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As Ye Qing dropped Li Yuebai off, Li Yuebai, after careful consideration, made a serious request:
“Xiao Ye, Master thinks we should live together.”
“Live together?”
“Don’t get the wrong idea! It’s just a simple, war-ready approach,” Li Yuebai said righteously.
No matter how you look at it, the world is too dangerous now. Vampires could appear from anywhere, and there are only the two of them in the world who can fight against them. In such a situation, living alone would likely mean being killed by vampires in a matter of minutes.
Just like in primitive times, when humans chose to live in groups.
“Oh,” Ye Qing nodded calmly.
“So… you agree? Okay, okay, I like straightforward men like you.” Li Yuebai had never asked a stranger to live with him, but seeing Ye Qing’s straightforward agreement, he suddenly lost the sense of struggle for survival and felt as if he were looking for a companion for an outing.
After pulling Ye Qing into the house and taking photos of every corner of the room with his phone, Li Yuebai finally felt relieved.
As soon as he felt relieved, he began to feel tired. He couldn’t remember how long he hadn’t slept.
“Take turns to keep watch?” Li Yuebai asked.
“Dear host, please don’t be too nervous or too pretentious. The system believes that there is no need to keep watch.” The system popped up to remind him.
“The system said there is no need to keep watch. Why? Isn’t that too careless?” Li Yuebai asked Ye Qing in confusion.
“Indeed, there is no need.” Ye Qing searched his memory and nodded.
“How can you be so careless?”
“You’ll know after you try to sleep.”
Not knowing why his only ally and the system had such mysterious confidence, Li Yuebai was still half-believing and half-doubting. But he could no longer hold on. So he waved his hand and yawned: “You said it, I’m going to sleep.”
Without changing his clothes, he lay down on the sofa and fell into darkness, losing consciousness.
Ye Qing looked at his peaceful sleeping face and counted the seconds silently.
Three minutes later, Ye Qing casually grabbed two toothpicks from the table, one in each hand, and threw them in different directions. The sharp toothpicks flew silently through the air, heading straight for Li Yuebai’s throat.
Li Yuebai, who had been sound asleep, suddenly opened his eyes, his vision clear. Then, like a taut bow, he leaped from the sofa, his long sword unsheathed. A flash of silver light flashed, and before anyone could see clearly, he had already moved two meters away, and the two toothpicks had already been effortlessly slashed in mid-air.
With another clang, the long sword returned to its sheath.
“Huh?” Li Yuebai finished the entire set of moves, then, as if waking from a dream, raised his hands and strained to see. “This…”
“Yes,” Ye Qing nodded. “That’s it.”
“I knew Gu Xisha’s martial arts skills were high, off the charts, but I didn’t expect them to be this high!” Li Yuebai, who had no idea of his own martial arts skills, was overjoyed and tears streamed down his face.
The thought seemed to boost his confidence.
Despite the dangers lurking in this vampire-infested world, his own martial arts prowess was more than adequate, not to mention his incredibly powerful, second-generation-rich, face-dead apprentice. He had money, factories, weapons, computers, intelligence, good looks, a great figure, and a refined demeanor…
“Xiao Ye, what’s your real name?” Li Yuebai lay back on the sofa, his arms tucked under his head, eyes closed, chatting.
“I don’t remember,” Ye Qing said calmly.
He couldn’t even remember something so important. And this kid, surprisingly, didn’t panic at all; he looked like someone who could accomplish great things.
“Do you remember anything about the world you came from, too?”
“Yeah.”
Li Yuebai wanted to comfort the child, but he wasn’t sure if he needed it. After a moment’s hesitation, he remained silent.
“The system emphasizes rules,” the system popped up. “Dear host, please note: If the mission is completed and the character is successfully rescued, you will receive a reward and leave this world for the next. If the mission fails, you will remain in this world forever as your current character.”
Sure enough, the rules were exactly as Li Yuebai had guessed. It was the same as last time: if the rescue succeeded, the character would be returned to its original owner and they would leave.
If the rescue failed, they would die along with the character.
“System, can I still return to my original world?” Li Yuebai asked casually, annoyed.
“It depends on your performance,” the system replied programmatically.
Damn, that answer sounded like a complete conspiracy.
Ye Qing’s system was similar to his own, and the rules were similar. If this mission truly failed, Ye Qing wouldn’t lose anything. He wouldn’t be as miserable as himself. He would simply survive in this world as a lonely hero, a solitary vampire hunter.
Thinking about it this way, Ye Qing didn’t seem to have much reason to follow him into this battle, and no reason to win.
The character of Gu Xisha was indeed an important and precious treasure to the original owner, Ye Qing. But to the current time traveller, Ye Qing, he was just a stranger, not to mention that he wasn’t even Gu Xisha.
“Xiao Ye,” Li Yuebai rubbed his forehead irritably. “Do you really want to win this battle?”
“Of course,” Ye Qing nodded, his gaze unwavering.
“You don’t want to win as much as I do, do you?” Li Yuebai said guiltily. “After all, even if you lose, it won’t matter.”
“The world is boring,” Ye Qing smiled, saying seriously, “Only winning is even remotely interesting.”
What was the point of this overachieving, middle school student-turned-secondary-schooler statement?
“This world is so exciting, and you still call it boring?” Li Yuebai was almost in tears. “But fortunately, you’ve found a reason to want to win. As an ally, I’m very pleased.”
“If we don’t consider the plot changes we’re about to make, this world has its interesting aspects,” Ye Qing thought carefully. “For example, your future adventures will be very interesting.”
According to the original plot, Gu Xisha’s subsequent experiences could be written into a full-length dark and forbidden film.
Imprisoned in the castle basement by the very people he loathed and despised the most—vampires—he was subjected to all kinds of torture and humiliation, his body cruelly cut and altered piece by piece, his mind and soul gradually infected and controlled, and then forced to kill the very people he cared about most.
Li Yuebai felt a sense of unease just reading the description of such a depressing, desperate, and bloody plot.
And this kid actually said it was interesting.
“No way.” Li Yuebai stood up, put his hands on Ye Qing’s shoulders, and looked him in the eye helplessly. “You really think it’s interesting?”
“Yes.” Ye Qing nodded, and a smile broke across his previously expressionless face, the corners of his mouth curling up slightly, a beautiful sight.
What kind of protagonist is this? He’s clearly a bloodthirsty demon!
Li Yuebai sighed and slumped back on the sofa, feeling his situation grow increasingly precarious.
The only thing to be thankful for was that, for now, Ye Qing’s mind didn’t find a “dark, forbidden film starring Gu Xisha” as interesting as “wanting to win”. “Wanting to win” still came first.
In short, please, gods, make this kid’s desire to win stronger!
After a quick wash and rest, Ye Qing once again opened his computer and began a frantic search.
Li Yuebai had a rough idea of what had happened in Xu Lili’s case, but he still lacked a solid theory.
The first vampire claimed to be Countess Karnstein, the second, the maid Ampusa. Who were they?
What was that silver ring that was both a necklace and a ring?
How did vampires actually hibernate, and how were they awakened? How did they control the human mind? How did they possess a human?
….
Why hasn’t anyone written a textbook like “Vampire Probability” or “Elementary Vampirism”?
Li Yuebai brought a cup of tea and stood behind Ye Qing. He watched as his bony fingers tapped the keyboard, and a vast amount of information appeared before him. Very little in Chinese, but mostly in English, German, Romanian, Latin… All the text scrolled rapidly across the screen, windows opening one after another.
Half an hour later, Li Yuebai finally couldn’t help but speak.
“Ahem, Xiao Ye, don’t hold back on the information you’ve learned. Tell Master, or you’ll forget it later.”
“There’s zero useful information,” Ye Qing said.
“Huh?”
This didn’t make sense. Li Yuebai watched Ye Qing access the databases of major research institutions and top universities, tens of thousands of reliable and serious papers. How could he not find information?
Then he thought, the existence of vampires was unscientific to begin with, so using such a scientific method wouldn’t necessarily lead to finding anything.
Half an hour later.
“If you can’t find anything in the official databases, why not try a less serious search engine and search for something less serious,” Li Yuebai finally couldn’t help but remind him.
Ye Qing’s back stiffened. “You come.”
Li Yuebai put down his teacup, embraced Ye Qing from behind, and placed his hands over his. He typed in a URL and launched Soumao.
Twenty minutes later, a webpage with ten thousand entries and millions of words appeared.
The page was simple, the text crude, and filled with a lot of shocking descriptions.
But the content miraculously matched vampires, and not just one feature, but every feature matched.
“Could it be a coincidence?” Li Yuebai began to doubt himself.
“The overlap in key points is too high to be a coincidence.” Ye Qing calculated the probabilities in his mind and quickly came up with an answer.
“That’s it.” Li Yuebai tapped the screen. “This author is an insider on vampires, and he knows much more than any of us.”
“What exactly is this webpage?” Although Ye Qing was a computer genius, he had never seen such a style of writing before.
“Online novels, online novels, haven’t you read them?” Li Yuebai was at a loss for words.
This was a horror and suspense novel for men, completed three years ago, with over ten million hits. It contained all sorts of monsters and demons, village ghost stories, and the tales of a charming widow, full of gory horror and thrills. While many readers followed it closely, the vast majority quickly forgot about it. The novel was so long that by the end, even the names of the characters had become indistinguishable.
Perhaps the author himself could not have imagined that a piece of writing, frantically updated daily for the sake of profit, would become the key to saving humanity.
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