"Can this thing really turn someone into a vampire?"
Li Xiaosheng gazed at the shriveled heart before him, his eyes burning with desire.
"Ye Qiyan, I'll make you regret selling this to me!"
He tipped his head back and tossed it into his mouth. A nauseating stench of blood and rot exploded across his tongue.
Li Xiaosheng fought the urge to vomit and swallowed it.
Then the agonizing pain struck.
"Aah!"
His skin began to fester, and two fangs pierced through his mouth.
In just a few seconds, his once passable face transformed into that of an utterly hideous monster.
Trembling, Li Xiaosheng climbed to his feet and recoiled at his ugly reflection in the mirror.
"That's me?!"
He threw a punch, shattering the mirror.
"I'm stronger? A vampire-I did it!"
From that moment on, Li Xiaosheng was no longer human.
The next day.
[6:30:00]
The broadcast sounded just then.
Ye Qiyan, who had been awake for a while, was cooking.
He cracked two eggs into a frying pan, set a few thin slices of beast meat beside them, and paired them with a fresh tomato and a Whiteforest Fruit.
The meat sizzled in the pan. A little salt made it a lavish breakfast.
[Congratulations to the 8,679 train conductors remaining after the zone merger. You have successfully reached the tenth station of the novice survival period.] [The tenth station will be the final stop for novice train conductors.] [Good luck.]
"The final stop, huh..."
Munching on his Whiteforest Fruit, Ye Qiyan sat beside the window and looked outside.
Yesterday's blanket of snow had vanished in a single night.
The ocher wasteland stretched endlessly into the distance, just as it always had.
"Getting my train to level 5 before the tenth station... I guess I've