Chapter 882 - 881: Vampire Matters

Chapter 882: Chapter 881: Vampire Matters

The Queen brought good news—the strange and terrifying apocalypse has receded, and the Sanctuary has been transferred to a fertile land. Warm winds now blow under clear skies, life flourishes on the earth, and those dark and cold days have finally ended. The long watch has finally reached hope.

Red carefully helped the black-haired woman clean her body and then changed her clothes—the clothes were taken from Hu Li’s tail, and the size was just right.

The black-haired woman seemed at a loss, and was even somewhat flattered with the Queen’s personal care: "Your, Your Majesty... how can you personally do such things... I..."

She intended to say she could do it herself but her weak arm was pressed down by one of Red’s fingers.

"You are too weak, Sela," Red looked into her eyes, "This newborn body needs some time to fully ’Awaken,’ don’t move, let me do it."

The black-haired woman known as Sela quieted down, still a bit unclear about the current situation, and unsure of what to do at the moment. She just blankly stared at the Queen before her.

The Queen from her memory was strong and proud, standing above the entire clan, the mightiest of the Dark Moon Clan, the only demigod in the world, nearly perfect being—the Queen led and protected the entire clan, loved everyone, but she definitely wouldn’t do such... "condescending" things.

Things weren’t like this in her memory.

The proud figure in her mind didn’t overlap with the Queen before her, and Sela, supported by Red, stood up, somewhat bewildered as she looked around.

Under the clear sky, towering trees, a lake clear as a mirror encircling the giant trees, a vast and flourishing plain stretching endlessly into the distance, rolling hills, and...

Floating islands within the clouds, rivers and light arcs stretched across the sky.

This was not the scenery of her homeland, nor the future predicted by any scholars in any simulation.

"Your Majesty, what has happened exactly?" she hesitantly asked, "Where is this place? Where are the others... where are the others?"

"Many things happened, beyond all plans, we... we are no longer on the Mother Star," Red hesitated, softly explaining, "You’re the first to awaken, others might need a bit more time."

At this time, Yu Sheng, who just walked aside to avoid things, returned to the lakeside.

"The old tree is adjusting the structure of the ’bio-pod,’" he said to Red, "The first fruit’s gestation went smoothly, but it says the consumption was a bit high, subsequent ones need to be optimized, don’t rush."

Sela’s gaze immediately fell on the unfamiliar man in front of her, still vaguely remembering seeing this figure when she awoke with blurred vision. Seeing him converse so naturally with the Queen, she couldn’t hold back asking: "Your Majesty, who is he?"

Yu Sheng quickly smiled and greeted her: "Oh, hello, I’m Yu Sheng."

But the black-haired woman was evidently waiting for Red’s answer.

"He..." Red hesitated when she started, seemingly considering how to introduce Yu Sheng, but she soon had an answer, speaking calmly and seriously, "He is the Savior of all Dark Moon People."

Sela clearly didn’t react immediately: "...Ah?"

Red seemed not surprised by this, pondered briefly before adding: "Meeting him is like meeting me."

The black-haired woman was evidently more bewildered, her brain working hard after just being activated moments ago, only then seemingly understanding the Queen’s meaning (roughly), then she directly knelt on one knee before Yu Sheng: "Your Highness."

Yu Sheng saw this scene and jumped sideways right away: "Ah, what?!"

Then he heard Hu Li behind him applauding with admiration: "Savior can jump so far sideways!"

Followed by Erin’s voice: "Silly fox, not to mention, Yu Sheng even when smacked by luck you still praise him for jumping high?"

Sela looked at this scene somewhat bewilderedly, feeling these people before her were very strange, Red hurriedly pulled her up, then seriously began introducing Yu Sheng and the group’s situation.

Erin, meanwhile, pattered over to Red, looking up: "The first to resurrect is someone you know?"

Red nodded: "Her name is Sela, my personal maid, we... indeed have a very close relationship."

Erin opened her eyes wide in wonder: "Such coincidence?"

"It’s not a coincidence. During separation and extraction of information, it was based on Mind response intensity," Yu Sheng explained, "This Mind reacted most fiercely when sensing Red’s aura, so extracted her first—this increases the success rate."

"Oh, oh..."

At this time, Sela couldn’t help but notice the Little Puppet running to her, she opened her eyes wide looking at this little figure barely reaching her lower thigh on the ground, her eyes visibly lit up, and couldn’t help bending down: "So cute, this little... Ah! Your Majesty, this little one bites!"

Then there was a scene of chaos, Yu Sheng hurriedly took Hu Li over to drag the Little Puppet down, Red started explaining things to Sela again, after much fuss, it finally calmed down.

After being dragged down, Erin was still mad, sitting on a big rock by the lakeside arms crossed, with a puffed-up expression.

Time passed minute by minute, by the third minute she forgot about it, happily climbed onto Yu Sheng’s shoulder.

"The old tree’s adjustment is almost done," Yu Sheng said to Red, "I just sent Baili Qing a message, asking her to prepare a batch of reception supplies to be sent over, then we’ll formally start large-scale ’Resurrection,’ after all we can’t let a big group of people come down from the tree only to survival directly in this wilderness..."

"We need a lot of tents, food, clothes, and water purification equipment here," Lucrecia said from the side, "There’s a shortage of everything here, and such a large scale of supplies can’t be brought through just one rotating gate."

"I’m planning to set up a large gate right by this lake," Yu Sheng raised his hand, gesturing not far away, "The gate will lead directly to the valley, so not only items from the Boundary Land can be brought in, but also supplies from Feiyu Star Domain or Dark Meteor Domain can be transferred here through the Teleportation Hub."

Saying this, he paused and confirmed with Lucrecia: "Speaking of which, is it okay to do this? Building such a large passage between the New World and the Old World."

"There won’t be any problems," Lucrecia shook her head, "This space-time has stabilized and has become a self-sustaining ’sub-universe,’ this level of information and material flow won’t affect its operation."

Erin sat on Yu Sheng’s shoulder, glanced at Yu Sheng then at Red, suddenly asked: "Speaking of which, how do we prepare food? Should we have Ironclad Expression transfer the city’s hospital blood bank over? Is that enough to drink?"

As soon as the Little Puppet said this, Yu Sheng immediately reacted, remembering Red’s role as the "Vampire Queen"—it’s not that he was forgetful, it’s just that Red had been so clumsy in front of him these days that she almost became a comedic character, the moment he stuffed this "Her Majesty" into a burlap sack, he forgot her vampire identity.

"Oh right, you guys need blood," Yu Sheng looked at the "Queen of Dark Moon" in front of him, "... What’s your typical meal consumption like? How many meals a day? If necessary, I can rally with Shuji over there to get everyone to donate blood..."

Before he could finish, Red shook her head, her expression became somewhat subtle as she explained: "Most of the Dark Moon People actually... don’t need blood to eat. They can live like ordinary people, only when the bloodline awakens and purifies to a certain extent will they gain the ability to draw power from blood, then they will need to consume blood."

She paused and continued to add: "And even the awakened ’Bloodlines’ don’t have to rely on blood to survive, we can still eat ordinary food, we’ll just weaken because of it—and a large amount of magic power consumption must be replenished with fresh blood."

Yu Sheng and Erin listened curiously to this new information, while Hu Li seemed to have a moment of realization, "Oh! No wonder, I was wondering what you all eat if your entire clan are vampires, you can’t eat each other, right..."

Red’s expression became even more nuanced upon hearing this: "... We have animal husbandry, the blood of livestock is drinkable too."

Yu Sheng & Hu Li & Erin: "..."

"And we even had a synthetic blood factory back in the day," Red continued to explain, "The composition of blood isn’t complicated, just add a few effective components, some fragrance and coloring agents, emulsifiers and thickeners, the main ingredients are even extracted from plants..."

"...This sounds like you’re pulling a fast one on us," the Little Puppet was dumbfounded but then realized halfway, "Oh, right, it really does sound like you’re pulling a fast one on us... wait! Can you guys even drink this stuff?!"

Yu Sheng couldn’t help but be curious: "Is this kind of like an emergency meal for you guys during famine..."

Red shook her head immediately: "No, it’s actually quite popular."

Yu Sheng: "...huh?"

Red, with a serene face: "Mainly sold to the vegetarian and weight-loss crowd because it claims to be purely plant-based, sometimes, it even sells at a higher price."

Yu Sheng continued: "...huh?"

Red didn’t seem to notice the strange expressions on Yu Sheng and Hu Li’s faces, instead showing a nostalgic expression, muttering to herself: "These are things from a long time ago, originally I had forgotten them...

"I remember they used to blend synthetic plasma into various colors and flavors. The most unbelievable one was the glowing cream mushroom flavor at night...

"Though these products were popular outside the Royal City, my nutritionist was always strict, they would never allow synthetic blood to appear on my dining table, but I would secretly drink the ones Sela brought in—she never found out."

Red exhaled lightly, chuckling happily: "After all, who would suspect the almighty and semidivine Queen of Dark Moon of sneaking a servant’s meal?"

Yu Sheng was now too tired to express surprise, his face wooden like Baili Qing’s: "..."

On the empty lakeside clearing not far away, Sela hadn’t heard those little "secrets" revealed by the Queen.

This incredible "New World" felt novel to her everywhere.

Like the oddly shaped branches and leaves in front of her.

Sela crouched beside a pile of "shrubs" by the shore, curiously asking: "What are you doing?"

"Can’t you tell? Photosynthesis," a young man lazily looked at the black-haired woman in front of him, "Want some sunbathing? I can scoot over, you can take this spot."

"... Thank you, but I’m not used to sunlight."

"Hey, this world doesn’t have a sun, does that thing up there look like a sun to you?"

"Oh... well, thank you."

Sela politely thanked him, then lay down in the grass next to Zheng Zhi.

Perhaps because her newly awakened mind hadn’t fully activated, Sela, though vaguely feeling this action was strange, didn’t think much of it.

The breeze felt comfortable, the "sunlight" felt pleasant on the skin, and lying in the grass pit felt cozy.

That long darkness and cold, loneliness and despair, gradually faded away.