What It's Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 648: Chapter 648: The Worries of an Elementary School Student (Part 1)

The ageing process in humans can ultimately be attributed to the characteristics of genes.

In the continuous cloning process of cell genes, information loss is inevitable. Over time, as more and more information is lost, the cloned cells and protein molecules will begin to function incorrectly. When these mistakes surpass the capacity for repair, the functions of tissues and organs will naturally be affected, resulting in signs of aging.

Many malign diseases also arise when errors accumulate in this replication process, resulting in significant changes.

After Alice gained the ability to perceive and, to a certain extent, influence and modify various super sensory information through the Super Sensory Item System, she carried out a multitude of observations, summations, and even small experiments to establish cognitive models of the super sensory information layers of various objects.

This cognitive model not only aids Alice and other members of the Super Sensory Item System in acquiring information for the general object recognition and judgements, but also allows her to manipulate and influence at least cells, molecules, and even atoms to a certain degree at the microscopic level.

Especially after witnessing Xiang Kun help Mr. Liang to reconstruct his body using Xiao Luobo’s Platform, following a failed attempt to devour the Ultimate Predator three years ago, Alice gained a deeper understanding of the conglomeration methods of microstructures in organisms.

When Xiang Kun fused with the high-dimensional factors of the Ultimate Predator, gaining more abilities, that’s when Alice was able to successfully construct her own physical body.

With this experience, Alice has a solution for various problems that arise within organisms, whether it’s a disease or pain.

The situation is like a person who makes their own cement, steel, bricks, paint, tiles, and other construction materials to build a house. When it comes to repairing a house or determining where the problem lies, that would be very simple for them.

Not only human beings, but all kinds of organisms, from bacteria, viruses, parasites, insects, reptiles, mammals, and even plants, as long as they exist on Earth, are in her database, and are all potential targets of her influence.

Just like a house made of reinforced concrete, whether it’s a large house, small house, round house, or square house, Alice, as a super craftsman, can fix, transform, and understand how it was built, the purpose of each function, and how to modify without damaging load-bearing structures and optimise the space to the greatest extent possible.

In fact, now Alice can influence and modify not only organisms, but also objects like stones, steel, plastic etc, whether manufactured or natural. Super sensory information is like the code of everything, exposing all secrets to her. As long as she can format the corresponding codes into her own system, she can make precise modifications and influences.

As such, it will not be difficult for Alice to prepare to control the metabolic condition inside a person or some people’s bodies and control the details of gene replication at the microscopic level.

It’s like thousands of workers constructing an incredibly complex building. It’s inevitable that some will not work strictly according to the blueprints and standards. These individual shortcomings may not have a big overall impact, but it may accumulate into irrevocable problems that eventually cause the building to collapse.

Now, Super Supervisor Alice has arrived! She is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent. She can whip the lazy workers into shape, ensure all processes are conducted strictly according to standards, create new workers, and carry out precise extensions according to the requirements of the building owner!

However, at present, her influence can only guarantee the physical conditions of a few people who have established connections in the Super Sensory Item System, such as Xia Libing, Tang Baona, Yang Lao San, Xiao Pingguo, Little Fatty Girl, and Custard Pie and Gold Glitter.

Because she can only assure “full-time surveillance” at the super sensory information level within the system’s members. Without this “full-time surveillance”, she can’t guarantee 100% that there won’t be issues in the future from attempting to “modify” issues that have already occurred. Although it’s possible to “modify” issues as and when they arise, it’s not reliable enough—she must ensure 100% reliability for Xia, Nana and Little Fatty Girl.

So now Alice could guarantee the absolute health of Xia, Nana, Guo, Niu, and San. She could keep Old Xia from getting dark circles and prevent him from feeling tired due to all-nighters, ensure that Nana has a smooth digestion and stable sleep, and even cure her short-sightedness and restore her vision. She could assist Little Fatty Girl in growing healthily and ensure she won’t get cavities even if she consumes sweets, protect Yang Lao San from getting acne even if he binge-watches rubbish videos, rebuild Xiao Pingguo’s vision and even develop a stronger visual system, help the Golden Dazzler and Custard Pie to break their own lifespans boundaries, maintain their health and ensure that their minor changes under the influence of the “Super sensory Item System” never stray off course.

As for the people around them, like Xiang Kun, Old Xia, Nana, parents and family of these people, and friends like Chang Bin, Zi Cheng, You Meng, and Liu Caifu, Alice could only provide overall protective monitoring to their bodies, meaning she would only try to intervene and influence through super-connected objects when they show explicit health problems or specific symptoms.

Alice is waiting, waiting for Xiang Kun to “wake up”, and then validate her abilities and authorise her to carry out physical transformation on Old Xia, Nana, Xiao Pingguo, Little Fatty Girl, and Yang Lao San!

By then, just like her, they would all become immortal and undying!

As long as their boss exists, as long as the “Super sensory Item System” remains in place, they would also exist, forever and ever.

Alice couldn’t stop showing off her skills in front of Tang Baona despite not having accomplished this yet. She made every kind of assurance: “Sister Nana, rest assured! You will never die! You will never age!”

Hearing these words so often, coupled with the changes she actually felt in her body, Tang Baona gradually accepted this notion of “I will never age or die”.

When a person realizes they could live forever, that they have the strongest person in the world backing them up, that they have the ability to perceive the rhythm of everything and influence everything with this rhythm, and are continually coming across all sorts of extraordinary information and “mutants”; their way of thinking can’t help but change.

For instance, if Tang Baona was still an ordinary urban white-collar worker, as time passes and she grows older, even if her parents wouldn’t push her, she herself would definitely begin to feel anxious, wanting to clarify what is in her heart, and wanting to know what others, for example, Xiang Kun, truly think.

But now, she has realized that she has risen above ordinary humans and is already part of the extraordinary realm. These issues no longer feel pressing or important.

She has all the time in the world to slowly figure these things out. Moreover, Xiang Kun isn’t around at the moment.

At this critical juncture concerning the future of all humanity, while she happens to be in this unique position, equipped with her unique abilities and partners, it’s better to focus on the more “important” and “interesting” things!

She is absolutely not running away. No, definitely not!

…

The pencil glides smoothly over the examination paper, and beautiful regular script jump to life.

As the answers get written down, the ponytail at the back of the little girl’s head bobs up and down. The cat ornament on her hairband holding the ponytail sways along.

Quickly, having finished filling out the entire examination paper, the little girl puts her pencil and eraser in a pencil case adorned with a golden eagle pattern, closes it gently, aligns the case to the edge of the table, aligns the top of her examination paper to the bottom of the pencil case, and then nods in satisfaction. With a flip of her right hand, a one-yuan coin magically appears on the back of her hand, which she proficiently flips around.

The little girl with the high ponytail has no intention of checking her examination paper again. This is the final examination for fifth grade at elementary school, but to her, it poses no challenge. She is already capable of tackling high school examination papers, answering high school questions. If she were to take the high school entrance examination now, she would be sure of getting into the best high school in the city.

Unfortunately, their parents wouldn’t allow it.

If not for that, she could have already been a middle school student.

Sigh~.

“Uh… uh… uh…”

Someone behind the girl was poking her back with the eraser end of the pencil and making odd noises.

The girl with ponytail suppressed the urge to roll her eyes. Zhang Xiaoyan, the girl behind her, is her best friend in this class. When they met in third grade, she used to call her, “Sister Shilin, Sister Shilin” with great care. After becoming close, she started calling her “Xiao Lingdang”. Then it became “Lingdang”,”Lingduang”, “Ah Dang”, “Dang’er”. And recently, it was simply shortened to “Uh~”, complete with nasal and tonal inflections!

Hearing Zhang Xiaoyan’s continuous donkey-like calls, she knew Zhang was stuck on a question and begging for a “peek”.

Liu Shiling sighed, stopped flipping her coin, adopted a pose of supporting her chin and looking down at her test paper, and shrugged her shoulders inward to reduce her body mass. Then, she shifted her test paper to one side and slightly tilted her body the other way to let Xiaoyan see.

Two seconds later, a low voice came from Xiaoyan, “Uh~ the other side… the other side…”

Liu Shiling had no other choice but to discreetly flip the paper to the other side.

However, before Zhang Xiaoyan could copy for half a minute, the teacher’s voice echoed, “Zhang Xiaoyan! Have you twisted your neck?”

Zhang Xiaoyan, who was stretching her neck to copy, was taken aback and immediately withdrew her outstretched neck. Then she exclaimed in pain, rubbing her neck, “I twisted it now.”

The classroom burst into laughter. The teacher, a little annoyed, slapped the desk calming everyone down to continue with the exam. Then she walked down from the podium, stopped in front of Liu Shiling, glared at her, but said nothing. She walked one step further to Zhang Xiaoyan, stared at her exam paper, and frowned, “Such a simple question, you can’t answer? Have you been listening to my lectures?”

“I’ve been listening attentively, teacher…” Zhang Xiaoyan murmured.

“If you’ve been listening attentively, why can’t you answer? Is my teaching too difficult?”

“Your teaching is excellent, teacher. It’s just that I’m too dull. But don’t worry, teacher. My mother has enrolled me in a summer remedial class. I will certainly have good results next semester!” Zhang Xiaoyan said with an air of confidence.

The teacher laughed and wiped away her tears, “Which year did you not attend remedial classes during the holidays? No matter what class you take, it’s only useful if you apply yourself. Otherwise, it’s just a waste of your family’s money. You hang out with Shiling all the time, why don’t you learn from her study methods and attitude?”

“Uh~… Uh, Shiling is too smart! I can’t learn that! But I’ll try my best, teacher!”

Faced with Xiaoyan’s eel-like behavior, the teacher didn’t know what else to say. After all, they were in the middle of the exam, so she just shook her head and walked away.

As the teacher passed by Liu Shiling’s desk again, she saw the neat answers on her exam paper. She couldn’t help but admire, this handwriting is just too good to be true for a primary school student. And it’s not like Shiling started writing like this only in the fifth grade she’s in; by the time she took over this class in third grade, Shiling’s handwriting had been beautifully neat.

Not only was her handwriting beautiful, but her results in all subjects were also consistently first. She was good at drawing, singing, dancing, and even sports. She was genuinely talented in morality, intelligence, physical education, and aesthetics — a full-fledged dominator.

As a mother herself, she truly envied Shiling’s mother. How did she raise such a smart, cute, studious, and patient daughter?

After the exam ended and the teacher collected the test papers and left the classroom, Liu Shiling finally turned her head helplessly and rummaged through Zhang Xiaoyan’s desk, “Donkey~, if you’re going to peek, be more discreet. You stretch your neck so long, as if you’re afraid that others won’t notice?”

Back when Zhang Xiaoyan called her “Xiao Lingdang”, she used to call Zhang Xiaoyan “Little Eel”. But then, Zhang Xiaoyan wanted the nickname “Little Mantou” which she refused — they already had one “Little Mantou” at home.

Lately as Zhang Xiaoyan’s nicknames for her got more absurd, from “Lingduang” to “Ah Dang” to “Uh~”, Liu Shiling counterattacked in kind, evolving the name from “Little Eel” to “Slow Donkey” then to “Donkey~”. Anyway, her “Uh~ Uh~ Uh~” sounded just like a donkey.

“I can’t see clearly! I think I’m nearsighted. I wonder if it’s because of playing games under the covers.” Zhang Xiaoyan said, rubbing her eyes.

Liu Shiling shook her head helplessly, “You need to start studying properly. You can’t always depend on peeking. These are all very simple topics.”

“No problem, we don’t have to test for middle school. I’m sure I’ll be in the same school as you. Hehe.” Zhang Xiaoyan said proudly.

Liu Shiling knew she couldn’t persuade her friend and shook her head, “Can you come out to play tomorrow after school? Xiao Mei and Da Lu are coming.”

“Xiao Mei and Da Lu are coming?” Zhang Xiaoyan was thrilled, but immediately she remembered something and made a bitter face, “I probably can’t make it tomorrow. My dad is coming to pick me up. He can only see me once a month.”

“That’s okay, you spend time with your dad first. Anyway, during the summer vacation, Da Lu and Xiao Mei will often come to play. Then we can go to Chongyun Village together.” Liu Shiling said.

“Sure.” Zhang Xiaoyan agreed, nodding heavily.

The two girls packed up their backpacks and left the classroom. Many people greeted them. A girl from another class invited Liu Shiling to her birthday party, which she politely declined. A little boy from the sixth grade challenged her to a duel in an online game tomorrow, which she also declined.

Compared to the silly and cute little darling persona that she had in the eyes of Old Xia, Tang Baona, Yang Zhen Er, and Xiao Pingguo at home, Liu Shiling had always maintained a cool demeanor since the first grade at school – only showing her silly side when she was annoyed by Zhang Xiaoyan.