novelraw Chapter 5 : Don't Come Any Closer!
Chapter 5 : Don't Come Any Closer!
"......!"
Has my identity been exposed!?
This was Xifeng's first thought, but she quickly denied it in her mind. She was certain that Bei Yaoyue had definitely been unconscious at the time, and she had also very carefully disposed of all possible traces afterward. Bei Yaoyue shouldn't have any way of knowing what she had done!
As for whether someone passing by might have seen it, that was even more impossible. If she had really been seen by someone else while sucking blood, it wouldn't be her turn to leisurely run home—she would have been dragged to the police station by some righteous netizen long ago.
So Bei Yaoyue must be talking nonsense... definitely! She just hit the nail on the head by pure luck!
Firmly holding onto this self-deceptive thought, Xifeng put on an innocent and naive silly smile, trying to get by with cuteness: "What are you talking about? What do you mean by vampire?"
I heard that if you're cute enough, you just need to play dumb at times like this.
"Leniency for confession, severity for resistance." Bei Yaoyue slowly paced to Xifeng's side, looking down at her sitting on the ground. "If you honestly confess, I might consider giving you lenient treatment."
"What are you talking about? Confess what?" Xifeng tilted her head looking at Bei Yaoyue, her small eyes full of big confusion.
Then she put on an expression of sudden realization: "It's about me accidentally knocking you down earlier, right?"
After speaking, she lowered her head with an extremely sincere tone, saying earnestly: "I'm sorry! Regarding this matter, I hereby express my sincere apologies to you. If you were injured because of this, I will cover all medical expenses and give you satisfactory compensation..."
But as she spoke, Xifeng herself felt she couldn't continue, because her behavior itself was somewhat unreasonable—running away after knocking someone down and making them unconscious. Any normal person with a clear conscience wouldn't do such a thing, right?
"Won't shed tears until you see the coffin?" Bei Yaoyue's expression was quite relaxed and leisurely, as if she wasn't afraid at all of Xifeng's stubborn denial. "Then I don't mind playing with you a bit."
Suppressing the sudden unease in her heart, Xifeng put on a confused expression and chose to continue playing dumb.
As long as she could keep pretending, she'd pretend to the death. Anyway, she wouldn't admit it no matter what—without evidence, what could anyone do to her?
As if seeing through Xifeng's thoughts, Bei Yaoyue took out a USB drive from her pocket and waved it in front of her: "Do you know what's on this?"
"?"
"About last year, to prevent break-ins, I installed a surveillance camera outside my door."
Hearing this news, Xifeng's face instantly changed dramatically. Her hands clenched together due to intense nervousness and fear, and her lips pursed tightly.
These small movements completely exposed her panicked inner state.
In this smokeless war, before it even began, she had already fallen into a disadvantage.
Quietly taking in Xifeng's reaction, Bei Yaoyue continued nonchalantly: "After waking up, I was afraid someone might have done something strange to me while I was unconscious, so I went to check the surveillance footage."
After speaking, she crouched down, looking at the white-haired loli whose face had turned completely pale, and asked with a mocking expression: "Would you like to guess what I saw in the surveillance?"
Understanding that this matter had been completely exposed, and that continuing to play dumb would be an insult to both their intelligence, Xifeng deflated like a punctured balloon. She dejectedly lowered her head and said with slight despair: "...Since you saw it all in the surveillance, I have nothing left to argue..."
She hadn't expected to be caught by surveillance. The intense unease and fear made her pursed lips turn somewhat pale.
For her now, the most important information that absolutely couldn't be exposed was the fact that she was a vampire.
But this was only her first day as a vampire, and she had already been caught red-handed. This development was absolutely terrible.
Currently, the only turning point she could see was that Bei Yaoyue chose to come confront her face-to-face rather than calling 110 to have the police uncle arrest her directly, which meant there was still room for negotiation between her and Bei Yaoyue.
But she could also foresee that with Bei Yaoyue having caught such a fatal weakness, she would undoubtedly be subject to various threats from Bei Yaoyue without any room for refusal, making Xifeng immediately feel the future was bleak.
"Honestly speaking, if it hadn't been captured clearly in the surveillance, I wouldn't have believed that fantasy creatures like vampires actually exist in the world." Bei Yaoyue looked at the USB drive in her hand with a thoughtful expression. "Vampire..."
Chance!
Now's the time!
Seeing Bei Yaoyue seemingly lost in thought, with the USB drive lying defenseless in her hand, Xifeng didn't hesitate for a moment. At her fastest speed, she quickly got up and reached for the USB drive.
As long as she could snatch the evidence and destroy it, she would have a chance to resolve this crisis!
"Uwah!!!!"
The next instant, Xifeng, who was about to grab the USB drive, changed color dramatically. As if she had seen a ghost, she let out a sharp scream, scared enough to bounce up from the ground and frantically retreat, desperately trying to distance herself from Bei Yaoyue.
Not having observed carefully before, Xifeng had just discovered that Bei Yaoyue had a silver-gleaming cross on her chest, with a silver necklace threaded through the cross hanging around her neck.
The moment her claws approached the cross, a strong sense of fear and discomfort welled up in her heart. Her body's instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm drove her to quickly flee from that silver cross.
Bei Yaoyue, who came back to her senses because of this scream, was slightly stunned. After spending several seconds understanding the situation before her, she looked at Xifeng trembling not far away and murmured to herself: "Didn't expect this thing actually works."
She wouldn't be foolish enough to face an unknown creature alone without any preparation. Considering that she might be attacked by this little vampire, she had deliberately gone to an accessory shop before coming to buy a silver cross that was legendary for having strong suppressive power against vampires.
Now it seemed her foresight had indeed played its due role, and the few hundred yuan she spent wasn't wasted.
However, while her preventive thinking wasn't wrong, this time she was really overthinking it.
Not every vampire has the strength to lift steamrollers, and not every vampire has the ability to stop time. With Xifeng's physical strength and her characteristic of being deathly afraid of pain, even ten of her—or even twenty—together couldn't possibly gain any advantage against Bei Yaoyue, who was also an underage girl.
This wasn't an exaggeration at all. With Xifeng's pain tolerance level, Bei Yaoyue only needed to punch her nose bridge once to make her hurt so much she couldn't get up from the ground for a long time.
Glancing at Xifeng cowering like a frightened little rabbit, Bei Yaoyue casually put the USB drive back in her pocket, then took the cross necklace off her neck, held it in her hand, and walked toward Xifeng with leisurely steps.
As Bei Yaoyue pressed closer step by step, Xifeng broke out in cold sweat, constantly retreating, trying to maintain some distance from Bei Yaoyue, until her back was against the wall with nowhere to retreat.
"Don't come any closer!!!!" Xifeng shouted with a bitter face and tingling scalp. The discomfort that small cross brought her made her almost want to commit suicide on the spot.
It was a very hard-to-describe feeling. Although she knew it was just an ordinary silver cross accessory, she couldn't suppress the fear and terror that spontaneously arose in her heart no matter what.
Perhaps this was like a person with acrophobia walking on a glass path at high altitude—even knowing they wouldn't fall, they would still feel weak in the legs.
"Can you put the cross away... let's talk this out..." Forcibly enduring the discomfort, Xifeng managed a strained smile, trying to gain a little of Bei Yaoyue's sympathy.
Her touching expression, pitiful eyes combined with her voice that was weak and powerless to the extreme—it was completely against the rules.
Such pitifulness was enough to make anyone's protective instincts instantly surge, but Bei Yaoyue just didn't fall for this act.
"Still resisting?" Ignoring Xifeng's pleading, Bei Yaoyue still held the cross in front of Xifeng's eyes. Obviously, Xifeng's earlier attempt to snatch the USB drive had caused her displeasure.
"I... I don't dare anymore..." With a sheepish laugh, Xifeng very spinelessly chose to admit defeat directly.
When under someone's roof, one must bow one's head, especially now that it was a matter of life and death. If her being a vampire was exposed, she would basically have to say goodbye to a peaceful life.