Because of My Stupidity, I Became a Timid Vampire

Chapter 74 : Three Minutes, Guaranteed to Teach and Learn

After browsing Zhihu for almost an hour, Xifeng had also finished cooking. Limited by her weak strength, she made four trips back and forth before bringing all the dishes to the bedroom.

"This much?" Bei Yaoyue looked in surprise at the dishes covering the nightstand. Counting them—three dishes and one soup. How could she possibly eat so much by herself?

Was Xifeng raising her like a pig?!

She carefully identified them: one plate seemed to be scrambled eggs with spinach, another might be stir-fried pork liver with chives? What was that last pitch-black plate? Wood ear mushrooms with meat?

"You've lost too much blood now, so naturally you need to replenish it. These are all ingredients that can promote blood recovery." Xifeng picked up the bowl of red date and goji berry rice porridge, scooped up a spoonful, and gently blew on it. "Eat as much as you can."

As she spoke, she brought the spoon to Bei Yaoyue's lips and said: "Come on, ahh—"

Bei Yaoyue showed a rare embarrassed expression and said: "I can still move. I'll feed myself?"

Being fed was a bit too embarrassing, wasn't it? She was fifteen years old after all, not a little child.

"No." Xifeng frowned. "You need to lie down and rest properly now. Come on, open your mouth."

Seeing Xifeng so insistent, Bei Yaoyue smiled helplessly and could only open her mouth, accepting Xifeng's careful and attentive feeding, just like an old mother patiently feeding a child who was too absorbed in watching TV to eat.

Although it was somewhat embarrassing, it actually felt pretty good?

After about half an hour, Bei Yaoyue had eaten most of the three plates and one bowl.

"I'm full, I'm full." Bei Yaoyue leaned against the pillow, her stomach so full she didn't want to move.

To not disappoint Xifeng's good intentions, she had tried to eat as much as possible, but no matter how much she ate, she couldn't possibly finish three large plates by herself.

"Then I'll go wash the dishes."

Taking advantage of the time while Xifeng was washing dishes, Bei Yaoyue quietly climbed down from the bed, stretched her body, and comfortably stretched her arms.

Recalling the experiences of this half day, Bei Yaoyue felt as if it were a lifetime ago, her heart filled with sighs.

Fortunately, she had noticed something was wrong in time and rushed over, and fortunately she had made the right choice. She had almost lost Xifeng forever. Looking back now, the fear surged into her heart like crashing waves. She felt like she had been racing against death—one careless moment and it would have been irreversible.

Pushing the past events out of her mind, Bei Yaoyue curiously examined Xifeng's bedroom. It was truly as simple as could be—a large double bed, a wardrobe, a wall-mounted air conditioner, an office desk with one large and one small monitor, obviously expensive peripherals on top, and a gaming chair beside it. Nothing else—not even a TV, though Bei Yaoyue's bedroom didn't have one either.

Looking at that huge gaming chair, Bei Yaoyue felt puzzled. This chair seemed far too big. With Xifeng's petite figure, if she sat in it, her whole person would probably sink into it.

"How did you get out of bed?" Just as Bei Yaoyue was still pondering, Xifeng's slightly reproachful voice reached her ears. "Go back quickly and lie down properly."

"I'm really fine, there's no need for this." Bei Yaoyue immediately felt overwhelmed. She wasn't missing hands or feet—was this really necessary?

"You were unconscious for so long and you call that fine?" Xifeng pushed and pulled Bei Yaoyue back onto the bed.

When force didn't work, Bei Yaoyue decided to try gentleness. She put on a pitiful expression and said aggrievedly: "I haven't finished my illustrations yet. I need to go back and rush them. If I don't finish before the deadline, I'll have to pay penalty fees."

"I'll pay for you." Xifeng said decisively. It was just a few hundred yuan, right? She could still afford that small amount.

Seeing this path was blocked, Bei Yaoyue tried a different approach: "But lying here is so boring, there's nothing to do."

"That's true." Xifeng nodded thoughtfully. This was indeed accurate. She would also feel very bored lying in bed all the time if she couldn't sleep. Putting herself in Bei Yaoyue's shoes, it did seem somewhat inappropriate to make her lie there like this.

Seeing that Xifeng seemed to waver, Bei Yaoyue struck while the iron was hot: "You surely can't bear to see me lying in bed bored with nothing to do, right?"

"Mm..."

"So..."

"I've got it." Clenching her right fist and hitting her left palm, Xifeng had a flash of inspiration. "I'll play games with you."

"..."

Bei Yaoyue watched Xifeng turn to rummage through drawers, wanting to speak but hesitating. Actually, she didn't really like playing games much. She only played FF14 now, and that was to accompany Xifeng.

"Let me tell you, this is really fun."

Xifeng came back carrying a device with a black screen in the middle and blue and red controllers attached to the left and right sides.

"This is that thing called..." Feeling somewhat familiar, Bei Yaoyue tried hard to search her memory, but couldn't remember the name no matter what. She really knew very little about gaming-related things.

"Nintendo Switch." Xifeng reminded her. With two "click, click" sounds, she detached the controllers from both sides and handed the red controller to Bei Yaoyue.

Taking the controller, Bei Yaoyue looked at the strangely shaped, chaotic buttons on top: "I don't know how to play."

"It's okay, I'll teach you. It's very simple." Xifeng opened the support stand on the back of the console and placed it on Bei Yaoyue's lap. "Three minutes, guaranteed to teach and learn."

Xifeng's enthusiastic appearance made Bei Yaoyue reluctant to spoil her interest. She shook her head helplessly—she was free anyway, so she might as well play with her for a while.

"Super Mario Maker, Tsu!"

When the game switched to the title screen, the console made an extremely magical sound effect.

"What game is this?" Bei Yaoyue looked at the mustachioed man wearing a red hat, feeling somewhat familiar, as if she'd seen him somewhere long ago.

She thought for a moment and asked: "Is this character called Mario or something?"

"...It's Mario." Xifeng was exasperated. "This game is called Super Mario Maker 2."

"I feel like I played this many years ago."

"What you played before was probably the FC version. The Mario Maker series integrates the original FC, FC 3, GBA World version, Wii U version, and 3D version together, and adds the function of creating custom maps. This is the second generation of the Mario Maker series."

Those version names she'd never heard of left Bei Yaoyue completely confused. This had completely entered her knowledge blind spot, so she simply stopped caring and asked directly: "How do you play this?"

"Different versions have different controls. Let me find a level first."

Xifeng opened the global courses and randomly picked a simple difficulty creative-type 3D version map to challenge in multiplayer mode.

"Come, I'll teach you." Xifeng moved close to Bei Yaoyue's side and began introducing the buttons on the controller one by one. "This is the joystick, used to control left and right. This is Y—hold it down to accelerate, you generally need to keep it pressed. This is B, which is jump—the longer you press, the higher you jump. This is L, this is R. On the ground, up+L or R lets you prepare for a spin jump, then pressing B lets you do a high spin jump. On the ground, down+L or R makes you roll forward. In the air, L or R can..."

After Xifeng spent a full three minutes explaining all the controls, Bei Yaoyue's brain had entered a crashed state. Wasn't this just a jumping game? Why were there so many controls?