“Please come with us!”
“Eh?!”
Before she could protest, two insectoids grabbed Su Xinran by the arms and started marching her outside.
“Wait, hey! At least let me put on some shoes!”
“And your antennae are so gross—ugh! Don’t touch me… aaahhh!”
Su Xinran’s desperate screams echoed through the stairwell.
Downstairs, a hover police car was parked.
“Get in!”
The two insectoids barked harshly.
“Ummm…”
Su Xinran glanced down at her bare, white-stockinged feet and the dusty, dirty ground.
After hesitating for a moment, she bashfully looked at Officer Wang Ya and said:
“Um, Officer… could you carry me into the car?”
“Sure!”
One of the insectoids immediately stepped forward to lift her, but Su Xinran jumped up and kicked him in the face.
Turning to Officer Wang Ya, whose brown eyes hesitated for a moment, she neither agreed nor refused.
Instead, she walked behind Su Xinran, placed one hand on her shoulder and the other under her stocking-covered legs, and effortlessly lifted her in a princess carry, walking her to the car.
So light…
Wang Ya was quietly marveling at this, when she noticed her two subordinates staring dumbfounded.
“Ahem! What are you two gawking at? Open the damn door already!”
Snapping out of their daze, the two insectoids rushed to open the back door.
When they saw Officer Wang Ya gently place Su Xinran into the car, they were shocked.
“Since when was the boss this gentle…”
“I dunno. Maybe that little brat is just her type… I mean, they’re both zombies, so maybe the boss is thinki—ACK!”
Before he could finish, Wang Ya’s police baton came crashing down!
“Why are you two standing around chatting?! Get your asses up front and drive!”
“We’re sorry! Please don’t kill us!”
…..
With his head swollen from the beating, Awei started up the police car.
Afu took the front passenger seat.
Click!
Wang Ya snapped a silver bracelet onto Su Xinran’s wrist.
For someone who had always followed the rules, Su Xinran never imagined that her first time being handcuffed would happen in a post-apocalyptic world.
She didn’t even know whether to feel sad or amused.
Apparently, the police car wasn’t fuel-powered—it accelerated smoothly and silently.
As the unfamiliar-yet-familiar scenery passed by, Su Xinran leaned against the window, curiously watching the outside world.
This was her first time leaving her apartment in four years.
The streets were desolate, yet strangely full of life.
Though no living creatures were in sight, green plants grew stubbornly between the cracks of the ruins, creating an oddly poetic scene.
Suddenly, a robotic female voice rang in Su Xinran’s mind—the kind every transmigrator dreams of:
[Ding-dong! Host has left the beginner safe zone. Activating the
“Post-Apocalyptic Valkyrie Savior System.” I am your AI assistant, Raphael.]
A floating mechanical sphere appeared mid-air.
With a flash of blue light, metallic wings extended from its sides.
Two glowing eye-like lights lit up on its black screen.
Clack!
Su Xinran never expected that the first thing the mechanical orb would do after waking up was to smack her on the head with one of its metal wings!
“You lazy bum!!!”
The orb roared in fury.
“Do you know how long I’ve been waiting for you to leave the safehouse? Four years! Four whole years! Do you know what I’ve been through during those four years?!”
“How could you be such a slacker?! How could you be so useless?!”
“You young people these days just want to lie around in your comfort zones—you have none of the wolf-like tenacity our generation had! Times were too good for you! If the whole world were full of people like you…”
The mechanical orb chirped and screeched like a furious sparrow, scolding Su Xinran non-stop.
“Oww ow ow… who the hell are you?!”
Su Xinran groaned, rubbing her sore head.
Meanwhile, Wang Ya and the two insectoids didn’t even turn around—as if they couldn’t hear the argument going on between Su Xinran and the floating AI ball.
“Do you know what happened outside during your four years of lying around?!”
The orb said with bitter resentment.
“Humanity was destroyed— because you didn’t save them!”
“Destroyed?!”
Su Xinran stared in shock.
Back in the safehouse, she had tried to use a radio to scan for signals from the outside world, but found nothing.
Even so, she had never really believed the human world had completely perished.
“That’s right! Because you didn’t step up to save them, humanity was utterly wiped out. You… are now the last human being in this world.”
“It’s all your fault!”
The orb pointed a wing at her accusingly.
“Huh?”
Su Xinran frowned.
She wasn’t even from this world to begin with.
Now it turns out the humans here all died because she didn’t bother to save them?
What does that have to do with her?
The moral blackmail coming from this floating orb was seriously rubbing her the wrong way.
“Why… should I save humanity?”
Su Xinran asked, throwing out a soul-piercing question.
“Wha—”
“You really are a demon…”
The mechanical orb was momentarily stunned by her existential retort.
“I don’t understand why the Doctor chose you… Dammit…”
Su Xinran was just about to continue arguing with the AI in her head when a cold touch on her thigh snapped her back to reality.
“You… what’s your name…”
The icy touch turned out to be Wang Ya’s hand.
At some point, the insectoid officer’s face had flushed with a strangely sickly red.
“Su… Su Xinran…”
Su Xinran stammered, unnerved—because Wang Ya’s hand was slowly stroking her thigh.
“That’s such a beautiful name… Xinran… Like the sun rising… willow branches swaying…”
Wang Ya tugged at her necktie, her breathing growing heavier.
“Honestly, Xinran… there’s something about your scent that makes me feel… incredibly comfortable…”
Huh??
What kind of plot development was this…?
Su Xinran froze, too scared to move.
“This is the first time since humanity’s extinction that I’ve smelled something so… intoxicating. Maybe the scent of a pure human girl could compare… no— maybe even they couldn’t match you…”
“I… I really can’t hold back anymore…”
“Officer Wang Ya… that hurts…”
Wang Ya’s nails dug fiercely into Su Xinran’s soft, pale thigh—so hard it was almost bleeding.
No, this can’t happen.
I can barely keep up the disguise now—if I bleed, the zombies will immediately realize I’m human!
Su Xinran tried to pry Wang Ya’s hand off, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t break free.
“I… I…”
Wang Ya’s fangs began to extend, and the rational light in her eyes faded, replaced by a dark, primal hunger.
The corpse tribe’s natural instinct to devour flesh was awakening.
“I’m sorry… just one bite!”
Wang Ya could no longer restrain herself.
Her bloody maw opened wide and lunged straight at Su Xinran.
To bite!