Chapter 1 (1/2)

CHAPTER 1

When Qiao Er woke up, she was surrounded in darkness. All she could see in front of her was a pair of glowing firefly-like green eyes inches away from her.

She immediately raised her hand to touch them. She didn’t do this because she was a brave person – when she was a child, a powerful fever had affected her brain. She wasn’t dumb, but her reaction speed was much slower than a normal person.

As her hands caressed the face of the foreign creature, she could vaguely tell that it was male. Its skin had a cold and hard texture, lacking any sign of life.

Her fingers brushed past its lips, briefly touching the icy fangs that were extremely sharp.

Qiao Er withdrew her hand quickly, only now did the various problems with this situation hit her. The main issue was – Where was she? Who is this man?

Before she had the time to figure it out, the pair of fangs shrunk back. The man slowly bent over her, skin to skin, the temperature inside the coffin also dropped.

Qiao Er’s brain was still attempting to decipher the current events. She tried to widen her eyes and take a good look at the creature in front of her, but truthfully it was so dark she couldn’t catch even a glimpse.

In contrast, the humanoid creature seemed extremely curious about her. It toyed with her head, s.h.i.+fting it from left to right while seemingly enjoying it.

Qiao Er wanted to ask who it was, but unfortunately when she opened her mouth, it discovered her chin can be moved. It pried opened her mouth, its fingers brus.h.i.+ng past her teeth, carrying with it a fishy scent. Qiao Er used her arms to try to push it off, but why would it let her?

It caressed her teeth, but seemed to find the tongue more interesting, so it began to play with it.

Qiao Er couldn’t see what was going on, but she was terrified that her tongue would be ripped out. Her entire body froze up, not daring to make a single move.

Eventually, it grew bored. It removed its fingers, not minding the drool on its hand, and began to search her body. Qiao Er was stricken with fear, after a long while did she gather her courage and asked: “Who are you?”

Just as she spoke, the movement of the creature stopped, its attention s.h.i.+fted back to her mouth. The fingers once again pried her mouth open and tried to a.n.a.lyze the innards.

The fingers went uncomfortably deep, only stopping when she was on the verge of gagging. Qiao Er swung out her arms and started trying to grope it back. This was definitely the stature of a male, and furthermore it was a very tall and big man. Only thing was that its body felt as hard as stone, as if it was a statue.

“Who are you? Why am I here?!” Qiao Er was scared. But it seemed like the creature couldn’t understand her, as it only bent down towards her neck.

Qiao Er tried to push it off again — but it was way too heavy: “Get off, seriously who are you?”

The humanoid creature seemed to be annoyed about being bothered, it began to growl softly through its teeth in a threatening tone. Qiao Er quickly stopped making a ruckus. The darkness was making her worried and terrified, her courage was quickly diminis.h.i.+ng: “You are hurting me…”

She softly whispered.

The humanoid once again bowed down and lied on top of her, its long fangs sometimes lightly touched her neck, but then always slowly shrinks back.

Qiao Er didn’t dare to move an inch, it also didn’t make any move, only quietly lying on top of her, as if slowly falling asleep.

Just as Qiao Er felt like she was going to suffocate, the coffin was abruptly opened. Two people was preparing to pull her out, but seeing her surprised eyes they themselves were startled: “Master, she is still alive!”

Qiao Er wagered everything and pushed the humanoid monster off herself, utilising all her strength to climb out of the coffin. Unexpectedly, she was quickly caught and detained by the two people.

“Master, this vampire didn’t suck her blood, could it be that even vampires turn vegetarian?”

Only now did she see it clearly, the two people in front of her both wore Taoist robes, but their eyes didn’t contain a trace of peacefulness. The older man had a dark expression: “Only when the Qi from heaven and earth is insufficient do vampires suck human blood. Here the Qi is abundant, of course it doesn’t need to consume blood and yet still survive.”

“Ha ha, it didn’t suck her blood but still clung so tightly to her, could it be that even vampires like this kind of thing?”

“What do you know!” The elder Taoist coldly rebuked: “Vampires are attracted to Yin Qi, while virgin girls exude this Yin Qi very strongly, so naturally it would take a liking to her.”

Finished speaking, he evaluated Qiao Er from top to bottom: “Fine, if it likes her, we might as well keep her. We can also avoid the future trouble of her being talkative to the other villagers. Little Fourth!” He pulled Qiao Er and threw her back into the coffin while ordering his disciple: “Bring some drinking water and rations and leave it here for her.”

The disciple named Little Fourth left to prepare the items, and the elder Taoist coldly looked at Qiao Er: “If you dare to leave the coffin, I will feed him your blood.”

Qiao Er curled up defensively, only now realising that she was in a cave. On the outside sunlight was still s.h.i.+ning, the sunset cast a shadow at the mouth of the entrance, now and then there was sound of water steam flowing inside the mountain.