Chapter 2 (1/2)
THE DISOBEDIENT TOY
Night time in the mountain was extremely quiet, the moon was as round as a plate, radiating a silver light over the terrain. The stream continued to trickle, now and then there were sounds of bird calls echoing across the mountain forest.
After Qiao Er exercised a little in the cave, she ate two steamed buns, drank some water, and eventually grew bored. She glanced several times towards the mouth of the cave, but the vampire never reacted.
Gathering her courage, she dashed outside. She used her fastest speed, but she was pulled back by the collar of her robe before even half of her body made its way out of the cave.. She was held back by something.
Under the moonlight, the vampire’s fangs grew long and terrifying. She looked at them for awhile as fear began to build up. But before she could act on her fear she was no longer able to speak.
The vampire was constantly snarling at her, it seemed to be furious.
Qiao-Er looked at his snarling face, and for some reason, all she could think of were the rhubarbs at the gate of her village. Before biting them, her face was like that too…
The vampire roared loudly, it lifted her up, carried her to a coffin and threw her inside. The moment he turned around, Qiao-er slowly crawled back up and tried to get out, but the vampire was wise and shut the lid of the coffin tightly with a “clack”.
The air inside the coffin was limited, after Qiao-Er stopped crying for awhile she started to grow uncomfortable, but she eventually settled down. By the time the vampire opened the coffin, it was already morning. Looks like it had left the cave at some point, as there were some mud at the sole of his feet.
Inside the hot coffin, it once again laid on top of her. Luckily, this time the coffin lid was not closed completely, allowing some air to flow inside. Qiao-er started to feel relieved, but the vampire was very heavy, making her almost unable to breathe.
After a long time without any sleep, Qiao-er slowly tried to drift to the dreamland, but the uncomfortable weight on her chest felt like a rock.
By the time she woke up, her food and water had been replaced. Chong Ling Priest was dancing happily “Last night East River village was disturbed by strange events. This means this vampire understands written words, we really did pick up a treasure this time!!!”
The Little Fourth apprentice was still puzzled “I have never heard of a zombie who can read.”
The Chong Ling Priest was in an extremely jubilant mood. He did not even scold his idiotic disciple and explained “The higher their cultivation, the easier it is to communicate with them. Look at those white corpses at the back, they are truly dead puppets. This one actually has a consciousness, so it must have some cultivation.” His hand stroke the body of the vampire inside the coffin while admiring in ways words cannot describe “Treasure, a rare treasure!”
Little Fourth was suspicious like always. He looked inside the coffin at the vampire who was currently stiffly weighing down on Qiao-er without a single movement. He touched the very same cold and tough skin. It really didn’t seem all that different from a normal vampire “I don’t know if that’s true or not…”
Because of his current great mood, next to Qiao-er’s food and water was a set of female clothing.
It had been days since her own clothes were washed, so she quickly grabbed them and headed deeper inside the cave. While changing, she discovered a difficult situation – Where was the underwear? Don’t tell me it’s not there.
The vampire was still standing in the same old spot. Qiao-er hugged her old clothes and tried to talk to it. “Hey…” She pulled on its hand. After a while, the vampire turned around and looked at her. She lift up the dirty clothes in her hands while trying to motion her intentions “I need to find a place to wash these. Wash – do you understand?”
The vampire turned around and continued to absorb the moonlight, it obviously did not understand at all.
Qiao-er hugged her clothes and tried to head out, but was immediately thrown back into the coffin again. The vampire leaned on the coffin while screaming loudly, its demeanor full of rage. The angier it became, the longer its nails grew. The nails had a dark black colour, they looked extremely terrifying.
Qiao-er was panicking while feeling scared, she could only retreat to a corner. The vampire screeched and attempted to slam the coffin shut. Qiao-er could smell the stench on her own body as she hugged her dirty clothes. It was summer, and it was easy to sweat. Thinking about the number of days she has gone through like this, her nose became slightly sour as tears fell down her face.
After crying another round, she discovered that the vampire became curious. It lifted its arm to wipe off the tears underneath her eyelid to observe it closely.
Qiao-er crawled up to it and pulled on its hand once more. She softly spoke “I won’t run, I only want to wash my clothes, I want to bath, I stink…”
The vampire looked at her for a long time, its eyes glowing an intimidating blue light. Qiao-er thought for awhile, and then pulled its hand and lead it outside. The vampire followed her to a nearby mountain stream after they looked around. At this time, Qiao-er let go of its hand , sat down, dipped her clothes into the water and began to scrub them.