Safiya did not become a vampire.
The First Embrace of the Sarn Planet's vampires is not the "ritual of turning a human into a vampire" as in the Earth vampire legends. To be more precise, the First Embrace here is more like a marking. It leaves the bite marks of the bloodteeth and the scent of the vampire's hormones on the chosen one, to declare the ownership. Just like in kindergarten when everyone scrambles for an apple, the one who gets it first takes a bite, leaving a teeth mark and some saliva, to indicate that this apple already has an owner. Safiya is now that bitten apple.
The apple pie woke up and felt much warmer, but the sensation beneath was very hard, unlike being on a bed. Moreover, it was pitch black all around, with the hand unable to see five fingers. Safiya groped for a long time before realizing that she seemed to be locked in a box-like object. Connecting to the living habits of vampires, she guessed that she was now probably lying in a coffin.
The faint sound of knocking coming from the Titan wood coffin at the center of the room interrupted the academic dialogue between the other two people in the room.
"Oh, has our delicious little bird awakened?" Lanka, dressed in a pure white robe on the high chair yet exuding the aura of a seductive queen, elegantly set down her legs clad in alluring black stockings, swept back her captivating dark hair, and then, with a sinister smile, approached the coffin. Her slender fingers easily lifted the heavy lid, which Safiya had struggled mightily to push open
"Good night, dear delicious little girl." Lanka, the beautiful woman, smiled gracefully, revealing two shiny, sharp fangs.
Safiya, who had suddenly emerged into the outside world's radiance, still maintaining the posture of pushing a coffin lid, paused for a moment, her pupils gradually coming into focus, and it took her a good while before she finally managed to clearly see the woman in front of her
Humans and their teeth.
Ah, beautiful lady, oh, it's a vampire.
My name is Lanka. From now on, I'll be your personal doctor and language teacher. I hope we can have a good time together... I know you are wondering why I can speak the language of your planet. To be honest, it's also a surprise to me that your language has so many similarities with ours...
The beautiful vampire lady's red lips opened and closed, uttering a long, fluent stream of English with a classical pronunciation and beautiful enunciation.
And Safiya, she didn't understand a word.
To be precise, she only half-understood what was said. First, there were many unfamiliar words in the other party's speech. Secondly, she only realized they were speaking English after hearing a couple of sentences, and by the time she mustered the focus she usually reserves for English tests to listen carefully, the other party had already finished speaking.
They stared at each other in silence.
"What's going on?" Seeing no response from Safiya, Lanka puzzledly pulled out the Universal Language document she had compiled after an all-nighter, her slender fingers tapping rapidly on the blue-glowing touchscreen. "Why isn't it working? According to the meager records of galactic history, the universal language of Earth is indeed English. Even though the records of the Archilleoi-G interstellar archeological expedition's landing on the Blue Planet were chaotic and idiotic. Tsk, with a level from over ten thousand years ago, we can't expect too much from them. But the language collection part of the records was still not bad. Could it be that because of the long passage of time, the Earth's language system has evolved into new usage?"
"Ahem, well. Is it possible that Lanka's pronunciation is the problem?" The silent butler, Uncle Ciri, who had been standing in the background, kindly suggested another possibility, "In any case, a language you've crammed for two or three days, there's no way you could be using it that correctly, is there?"
The delicate touch screen was burst open with a click of the slender fingers!
In the sizzling sound of the short circuit, the beautiful Lanka slowly turned around, and her eerie voice drifted towards the butler uncle, "Are you questioning my abilities and dignity as a linguist, Ciri Van Naples?"
No, I dare not.
The butler's figure quietly faded away under the fierce struggle of the intellectual.
"Hmm, yes. Not only is it a simple language system with so many similarities to my tribal language, but even LaDeco Star, which includes retroflex sounds and geminate consonants, I learned in three days and mastered within a week. There is no language system in this universe that can stump me!"
This language could not stump Lanka, who is a linguist, xenobiologist, folklorist, and archaeologist. However, there are many languages that could stump Safiya.
As an earthling, I still don't speak the language of aliens as fluently as you do. Dude, you are really short.
Fortunately, the talented linguist Lanka, a beautiful woman, quickly realized the difference between the universal language and the vernacular language. She then decisively abandoned the broken electronic language device and turned to retrieve several yellowed, tattered, large dictionary-like ancient books.
In the swift, rustling sound of rapid page-turning, Lanka was searching, reorganizing, and learning, muttering to herself, occasionally lifting up Safiya's face and carefully examining the structure of her mouth.
Safiya felt that at that pace of flipping through the books, if it were her, she probably wouldn't even be able to make out the words. How did this beautiful woman manage to do so many things at the same time?
"As it turns out, based on the historical records of a few landings, the Germanic language system becoming the universal language of the Earth seems to be a relatively recent development. Before that, several language systems, such as Latin, Hebrew, and Sinitic, were dominant in different regions. However, the records are quite scarce, and there are many gaps. From the physical description of the species, the one we have captured seems to be more closely related to the population using the Sinitic language system. Well, in any case, let's give it a try."
She slammed the book shut, and the beautiful Lankan woman looked up, staring directly at the bewildered Safiya. Then, she calmly uttered a sentence that would make Safiya drop dead in her coffin!
She said: "I am Lanka, who are you?"
Congratulations Safiya, from now on, she will begin a life filled with vampires, aliens, and classical Chinese literature in the universe.
