Found The Wrong Host

"Host located," a cold mechanical voice echoed in the void of her consciousness as she felt a sharp electric current pierce through her brain. "Binding process initiated..."

Li Hani felt her mind was clouded with pain and she felt despair like never before. When she felt something wet dripping down the side of her forehead, she felt strange. The cold, detached voice that seemed like a dream was heard again.

[Host: Ni Ni

Compatibility: 98%

Tying the system to host...]

A sudden surge of energy jolted through her body like lightning coursing through her veins. Her eyes snapped open but the world remained dark in front of her eyes. But it wasn't the darkness of the night, it was more like something was covering her eyes. She seemed to have been blindfolded.

Did Ji Yuanyuan or her cronies blindfold her to hide their tracks from her?

Strange. 

Why would someone blindfold a dead body? Wasn't she dead? She clearly remembered the feeling of her life slipping through her fingers. Her injury was so severe, how was it possible for her to be alive? 

She clearly had hit the back of her head so why was the pain she felt on her forehead right now? What was going on here? Where was she exactly? And what was that voice she just heard when she was floating in the void?

Her last memory wasn't of dying on that cold hard ground in the pool of her own blood, but of floating in the sea of stars. In that floating space, she felt light as a feather but there was yet the weight of resentment that gnawed her heart. She didn't know how long she spent in that space but she knew one thing for sure, that every single minute she wanted to tear apart Ji Yuanyuan with her own hands.

Since the situation at hand was unknown, Li Hani didn't make any drastic move for now. She was someone who knew how to play it by the ear just for the sake of survival. How could this situation faze her? She had to stay calm and rational to analyze her situation clearly.

She tried to move her hands but realized that her hands were tied on both sides. Suddenly, a rough hand touched her soft calf making her pull back but that hand held her calf tightly and a rough voice rang out, "Why are you being shy, little beauty? Serve brother well tonight and brother will give you delicious food."

Li Hani's brows furrowed up in a knot as the situation seemed even more bizarre than she originally thought it was.

'Little Beauty?' Was he talking about her? Was he blind or did the aesthetics of people change in the apocalypse? If it was before, she could not only be considered a little beauty but also a big beauty but now? 

As that hand moved up her leg toward an unknown place, Li Hani couldn't hold back and kicked the person.

"Ah!" A scream rang out in the room as the greasy-looking man fell on his buttocks. His obscene eyes were filled with anger now. He got up holding his chest in pain and moved back to the side of the bed. He pulled off the blindfold from Li Hani's face.

She couldn't get used to the sudden attack of the light and closed her eyes. She had to squint her eyes a little to concentrate on her surroundings. Everything was unfamiliar in front of her. But the look of greed, obscenity, and rage on that man's face was all too familiar. Here was another man who coveted her body.

"Have I been too nice to you?" questioned the man in rage. "Do you think you can treat me like this? You are at my mercy now. Don't think anyone would come to save you from me." He pinched her delicate face with force making Li Hani feel a little painful. "You should be glad that I am quite fond of this face of yours or I wouldn't have been so patient with you until now."

[Binding process completed.]

That cold mechanical voice that Li Hani thought was an illusion came back again. And this time, she was able to hear it clearly.

[Welcome, Host Ni Ni. You have been selected by the Interstellar Cannon Fodder Counterattack Live Broadcasting System. Congratulations.]

With a lot on her mind, Li Hani finally made sense of one thing that the man in front of seemed to not be able to hear that voice. Only she could do.

[Correct! Only Host is allowed to see the system interface and hear the system's voice. Host Ni Ni can rest assured that system takes privacy seriously. If the system doesn't want to, no other entity on earth can detect it's existence.]

Li Hani was still trying to struggle out of the grasp of those grubby paws but she even had to divide her concentration to listen to system's chatter too. She really couldn't make sense of this situation right now. What exactly was happening? As a person of the 21st century, she wasn't unfamiliar with the term system but it was too fantastical, no? Was her desire to live was so strong that she was having such a dream?

But the pain she felt was real. 

Also, why was this system calling her Host Ni Ni? Her name was Li Hani.

[What? I found the wrong host?]

It seemed that the system was capable of listening to her thoughts. But it also seemed that it was hit hard when the system realized that the host he found was not Ni Ni but Li Hani instead. Li Hani would have felt a little pity for it if she wasn't in a difficult situation herself right now.

No matter how she tried to move her hands or feet, she could not escape from that man's grasp but her struggle only made him more and more intoxicated and excited. He seemed to be high on something as he was eager to pounce on her. Li Hani felt queazy just looking at that ugly and big face. 

She felt powerless. For three years, she managed to protect her body but was she finally gonna be humiliated by a man like this? How could she be willing? She was very unwilling!

 Just when Li Hani thought there was no hope left, the door of the room was slammed open and a figure ran in screaming at the top of her lungs. Before Li Hani could figure out what was happening, that figure lifted something high up and slammed it straight at that ugly man's head.