Chi Yan took the initiative to take the porcelain bottle from Ye Yingzhi's hand, unscrewed the black cork, and drank the light silver liquid inside.
The liquid is not cold, but has a faint temperature like human body temperature. Chi Yan only felt that her limbs and limbs had regained their strength, as if the branches of a tree that had been frozen by the wind and snow for a whole winter and were unable to meet the The warm sun of spring is full of life again. Correspondingly, the feeling of always being tired and sleepy before has disappeared, and he seems to be back to being healthy and full of energy before his illness.
In Ye Yingzhi's eyes, the change in his lover was equally obvious. Chi Yan's pale face regained a little blood color, and the originally thin face was also plump because of this blood color. His hands were dry and warm, Ye Yingzhi clasped them tightly, looked at his lover's face, closed his eyes, was speechless for a while, and finally reached out and took Chi Yan into his arms.
"You are new, right? We still have luck potions and strength potions in our store... Buy some that are good for you..." The clerk was trying to continue to sell goods, when she saw that the two were already hugging each other, she had to shrug and shut up. on.
Ye Yingzhi's body temperature has always been cold, and her hands are also cool. In the past, when Chi Yan was in good health, she always held his hand and covered it in her own. He reached into his clothes and put his hands on his stomach to cover him. But later, Chi Yan fell ill, and her constitution became worse and worse, and she became more and more afraid of the cold. Her hands were cold all the year round. Sometimes Ye Yingzhi held his hand in distress and found that her lover's hand was colder than her own. - At that time, his heart was indeed full of fear. He couldn't imagine what he would do if Ah Yan left him, if there was no such person in this world anymore; and if Ah Yan lost himself, what would he do? How sad to be alone. As time goes by, Chi Yan's hope of healing is getting slimmer and weaker, and his physical condition is getting worse. Before they go to sea, the only way out he can think of is to leave with his lover.
You live and I live, you die and I die.
But now, another door suddenly opened in front of him, and light poured in, giving him an instant hope—there are real demons who can sell lives in this world, and as long as he earns enough points, he can save his life Ah Yan's life.
The two hugged unconditionally for a long time in the Devil's Store, and then they separated slightly. They looked at each other and smiled. Just as they were about to open the store door and leave, they heard the clerk raise her voice, "Remind me, once the goods in our store are sold out. No refunds or exchanges. And the life we sell only includes the natural lifespan of human beings, and our store is not responsible for the death of the user due to homicide or accident.”
Chi Yan turned around and nodded to the clerk with a smile, indicating she understood, and then followed Ye Yingzhi away.
As Hu Tu said, nine out of ten buildings in Devil Town are entertainment venues for carnivals and games. There is no such thing as a residence. There is only one hotel with a green sign in the town center that is open for normal operation because of the price of the room. Too high and business is deserted.
But Ye Yingzhi never wanted Chi Yan to sleep on the street with him. Even in this situation, he wants to provide his partner with the best quality of life possible.
So after coming out of the Devil's Store, he took Chi Yan to the Devil's Hotel and went in, and registered the room with the front desk.
The Demon Hotel has three floors. From the outside, the entire building is dilapidated, with mottled green paint on the outside of the first floor. The environment of the interior rooms is also unflattering. The beds, desks and wardrobes all give people the feeling of being abandoned for a long time. The whole looks like the set of the horror movie of the last century. But this hotel is also the only place in the whole town where you can close the door and rest in peace.
A room requires 100 points a day, but for most of the humans on the island, their initial points are only two or three thousand, and the points they can earn every day are not many. They also need to buy all kinds of things that can help them survive. Potions such as strength, luck, invisibility, etc., the potions sold in these stores are not cheap, but without these potions, they may have difficulty even surviving. In addition, they also have to beware of scammers and robbers, and they also need to save points for the opportunity to leave the island, so not many people are willing to spend 100 points every day to live in a hotel.
Ye Yingzhi booked a room for ten days at a time. When he returned to the room, he didn't know what to think. He suddenly looked at Chi Yan, rolled his eyes and smiled: "...A Yan would think that her husband is too prodigal?"
Chi Yan blushed because of his self-proclaimed self-proclaimed, lowered his head and whispered, "No, how could I be willing to let you sleep outside..." In his eyes, Ye Yingzhi was as good as an angel who fell from the sky. He is perfect in all aspects, he will only regret that he is unable to provide the best for his lover, so he can only love each other wholeheartedly and satisfy each other's wishes as much as possible.
"Little idiot." Ye Yingzhi laughed softly, holding his lower jaw slightly to force Chi Yan to look up at himself, and then lowered his head to kiss the other's eyes.
*****
In Devil's Town, risk and reward are relative.
The old devil with a broken horn at the hotel reception told his generous guests that the Devil's Theater not far from here was a good place to earn points, where there were two ways to play, one as a spectator and the other Kind of is being an actor. When the audience needs to spend a point to buy a performance ticket, if they can watch the show alive, they can get double the points; when the actor is performing on the same stage with the demons, if the demon does not find out which actor on the stage is human after the show is over , then the human can get the points to fulfill the promise and leave safely; if the demons on the stage recognize the human being mixed in with the actors, then they can pull this human out and share it.
The old devil hoped that the guest could live a few more days, so that he could take care of his business for a few more days.
Ye Yingzhi and Chi Yan returned to the square with the Angel Fountain under the guidance of the old devil. Sure enough, there was a cream-white fan-shaped building directly opposite the Devil's Store. On the left wall of the building was a golden "" "Devil's Theater" - According to the old demon, everything in the town is in demonic language, but in the eyes of humans it automatically becomes their native language.
The two came to the ticket booth of the theater, where there were already a lot of people queuing up to buy tickets-compared to being an audience in the theater is an activity that is less risky and does not require too much mental and physical effort. Few come to try their luck.
Today's performer is the "Voice of Hell" Acapella Vocal Club, and they will recruit a co-performer for 5,000 points. Tickets for today's performance are divided into four categories: 25:00, 50:00, 100:00 and 200:00.
During the intermission of each performance, the number and number of the "lucky audience" will be randomly selected for the show. For each performance, 0~3 "audiences" may be drawn. The selected audience must stay and become the main audience Show Devil's Food. The higher the ticket price, the higher the probability of being drawn, and accordingly, the more reward points you will get if you survive and leave.
Of course, there were also demons who came to town for leisure, but they were all sitting on the third floor of the theater and did not participate in the "lucky audience" draw.
When Ye Yingzhi and Chi Yan arrived in line, there was a sign "Fully recruited" hanging under the actor column. However, they didn't intend to apply for actors today without knowing the situation, just to get acquainted with the environment. Ye Yingzhi discreetly bought a performance ticket worth twenty-five points for himself and Chi Yan each—he did the math, and at most three spectators would be sacrificed for each performance, he and Chi Yan would be drawn at the same time. The probability is not high. If one of them is unfortunately drawn, then he will stay with the ticket that was drawn and let Chi Yan go back to the hotel first. He believed that he would be able to find a way to escape by then, after all, Ah Yan was still waiting for him at the hotel.
One thing about the Demon Theater is the same as other theaters. The higher the ticket price, the better the viewing angle. Chi Yan and Ye Yingzhi bought the cheapest tickets and could only sit at the back of the second floor. Sitting next to them were human beings of different shapes, but all of them seemed to be trembling and uneasy, and they had no interest in watching the performance at all.
The lights on the stage changed, and the performance soon began. Five men uniformly dressed in black slacks, white shirts and plaid vests appeared on the stage. From the outside, they are no different from ordinary human beings, with deep facial features and a Western appearance, but they do not have the obvious inhuman features like a store clerk or an old hotel demon, but it can be clearly deduced from the actor recruitment information that only One is a real human.
A cappella is a form of vocal performance that does not use any accompaniment or instruments, and fully utilizes the vocalization of the human body to achieve rich singing effects. The five of them looked like good partners who had been working together for many years. They pushed and laughed at each other for a while, and then they started the first song - one person and two hands circled in front of him, making the appearance of playing a trumpet, and at the same time simulating the corresponding sound ; the other person makes the appearance of playing drums; the actor on the far left begins to "pull" ecstatically, and the two actors in the middle look at each other and sing.
To be honest, their tacit understanding and expressiveness are no less than the top team Chi Yan has seen in real human society. It is simply unimaginable that these five actors have never met before. That's right, the "Voice of Hell" a cappella vocal community doesn't exist at all, or it will only exist for the time of this show. In order to ensure the effect of the game, the actors who performed on stage were also temporarily recruited demons who came to Devil Town for vacation, and did not know each other. So before the show started, only humans knew that they were humans, so they inferred that the other four were demons; the demons only knew that they were demons, but they didn’t know which of the other people on the stage was human and which was demon. be screened in.
And this kind of game is what the devils like most.
Chi Yan began to admire the human being who was among the four demons. The other party's psychological quality and adaptability should be very good, so that he could stay calm in the face of danger and always keep pace with the four demons. The relaxed cannibal demon. At least so far, Chi Yan didn't see any flaws, and couldn't tell which of the five people on stage was a human.
Soon, after a few songs were sung, it entered the halftime session.
There was a tense and solemn atmosphere in the audience.
"Ladies and gentlemen, relax, it's time for the most anticipated part of drawing lucky audiences soon." The host laughed and took the stage, "Come on, what should come will still come, system, backstage, music, turn Get up and ring! See who's lucky today!"
The familiar voice, the host was the clown in the tuxedo who received them into the town last night. However, he changed into a dark yellow plaid tuxedo, and the clown makeup on his face was exactly the same as yesterday.
After about half a minute, the lottery music gradually disappeared, and a white card appeared out of thin air in the clown's hand. He glanced at the card, pursed his mouth, threw the card away, spread his hands and made a frustrated and helpless expression: "Sad, unlucky day, there is no lucky audience today."
There was a sigh of relief from the crowd.
The Joker turned and left the stage, still with a frustrated expression on his face, but with a slightly mocking smile in his eyes.
In the second half, the audience was obviously more relaxed, but the performance on stage was still wonderful, and more and more audiences were really attracted by the performance. The last song was a rock and roll, and many audience members even hummed along with it. Just when everyone was immersed in the music, the sound on the stage stopped abruptly, and the five actors each put on a comical and exaggerated pose and stopped, as if they were five statues.
However, after half a minute, the five actors started to sing the melody one after another. The song gradually slipped to the end, the humming became weaker and weaker, and the five actors stopped speaking one after another, posing exaggeratedly on the stage and standing still like statues. After the last experience, it feels strange that there is no audience this time, and it is assumed that this is still part of the performance.
Until everyone gradually began to realize that something was wrong—the four actors on the right all laughed, stretched out their arms exaggeratedly, and pointed at the actor on the far left.
The actor on the far left was also standing there smiling, but he soon realized that something was wrong, and before the smile disappeared, his face suddenly turned white.