Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the picture that was suddenly inserted into the comic for a long time, then picked up the tea beside her and took a sip to calm herself down.
She now began to recall everything that had happened since she met the city lord.
From the initial invitation to the city lord's attitude when they met later.
Also, when the two met, the city lord did not mention why he called her there, but simply told her some trivial matters.
"Thank you very much for agreeing to come here today."
Oh... So that's how it is... So that's how it is...
"Boss, would you like something to eat?" Liu An asked.
"I'm not eating anymore." Yuan Yuanyuan turned over a page of the comic and continued to think about what was inside.
"Then I'll go cook some instant noodles." Liu An said and went into the kitchen, leaving Yuan Yuanyuan alone in the hall.
Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the picture above. This was the scene where the old man lifted the curtain and asked the people outside where they were now.
She remembered that she had complained at that time, why did they say they had just returned to the city? Did they go for a walk outside the city? But now it seems... they might have really gone around the city and come back.
Because it was clearly written in black and white in the comic that Shironaka planned to take a walk outside and then come back, which would have a deterrent effect.
Yuan Yuanyuan didn’t know whether this deterrent effect was achieved... Anyway, she broke out in a cold sweat after seeing it.
It’s a good thing no one came. If someone had come, she felt that she might not have come back alive yesterday.
"But... Didn't Faning come out to watch the Hundred Demons Festival last night?" Yuan Yuanyuan suddenly realized this problem.
She quite likes Faning. He is not like some Taoist priests who disgust her. Although he has turned a little dark now, he is still a very pleasant boy overall. And the most important thing is that he has a good-looking face.
Yuan Yuanyuan thought that yesterday was probably the first time that Fanning saw the Hundred Demons Festival with his own eyes... No matter how you think about it, the Taoist settlement will not allow the monsters to have a party, especially when the monsters are now in a defeated situation.
Fanning walked around the street when he suddenly heard a very excited voice.
"Look! It's the city lord! The city lord has come out!"
Fanning suddenly looked back and heard a faint singing voice coming to his ears. He saw a long team suddenly appeared on the horizon.
The demon army seemed endless, with no end in sight. It came from a distant place and arrived before his eyes. The sky was filled with light as if the sun was about to rise.
Suddenly, there was a rumbling sound in my ears, as if thousands of drums appeared and beat, there were big drums and small drums. Every beat of this distant and ancient rhythm seemed to hit my heart.
Countless black clouds suddenly rose from the horizon, like an inescapable sandstorm.
At that moment, Fanning felt goosebumps all over his body.
Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the scene in the painting and suddenly couldn't help saying "Fuck!". She was afraid that Liu An in the kitchen would hear it, so she quickly suppressed her voice.
She looked at the demon team on the screen.
If the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons can be used as a deterrent, then it can definitely give people a strong sensory stimulation.
Yuan Yuanyuan didn't feel any of this sensory stimulation that day, but today she actually saw it in the comics.
She didn't expect the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons to be like this... It seems that what she saw that day was not the real Night Parade of One Hundred Demons. She saw less than Faning on the ground.
The little monsters all around were pushing forward like crazy, and Fanning was squeezed so hard that he could hardly stand. The street suddenly lost its leisurely and comfortable feeling, and became fanatical and crazy.
"Hurry up! Come here quickly!" Fanning heard someone shouting this faintly. He grabbed a nearby electric pole and thus avoided being rushed to the ground.
"Monsters...are all monsters so crazy!" Fanning shouted frantically in his heart, "I always feel like, I always feel like a fanatical fan of a star..."
When the convoy passed right above the street, Fanning felt an indescribable pressure above his head. It felt like a helicopter was rising above his head. The wind kept blowing upwards, and Fanning's hair was blown into a tornado in that instant.
The monsters nearby were just like wheat in a wheat field, blown down by the wind. Fanning held the electric pole tighter, looking up at the convoy above him that was as tall as a skyscraper, thinking, Oh my god!
The time that the convoy stayed above their heads was actually very short, but to the monsters below, it was like a typhoon.
When the "typhoon" was over, Fanning got up and felt like his brain was blown away.
… He felt that from today on, he finally understood why the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons could be used as a deterrent.
The monsters around them shouted frantically and chased after the convoy that had already left. Fanning looked at them and touched his arm. For some reason, he felt that the monsters were overreacting.
But judging from their feelings, they seem to be used to it.
Folklore issues - Fanning summarized it this way. He felt that because of his physical condition, he might become the only Taoist priest in history who could experience the life of monsters. He could go back and publish a book to popularize science to Taoist priests, if there are any Taoist priests willing to accept him.
Yuan Yuanyuan put down her phone and looked at Liu An, who had brought the noodles to her without her noticing. Liu An looked at her while slurping them. Liu An asked, "Boss, do they look good?"
"It looks good." Yuan Yuanyuan said.
“Oh…” Liu An stopped talking and lowered his head to slurp the instant noodles.
Yuan Yuanyuan thought Fanning was just overthinking... Who could be more qualified than her to write a book about the differences between the lives of monsters and humans? But now she was still working for Ji Qiu, maybe... one day when Ji Qiu let her go, she could really write a memoir.
"Ahem." Liu An was eating and suddenly wanted to speak, but he choked himself. He coughed twice and said, "Boss... One Hundred Demons Night Parade... is really amazing."
"Didn't you go to see it?" Yuan Yuanyuan asked, and suddenly she remembered, "Oh, by the way, you were in the house the whole day..."
Liu An remained silent and sipped his soup. Yuan Yuanyuan looked at her phone again and suddenly said from the bottom of her heart, "Yes... It's really amazing."
"It must be even more spectacular if we sit in that car and watch it." Liu An suddenly said. Yuan Yuanyuan turned her head and there was a hint of envy on Liu An's face.
Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the envious look on his face and was suddenly stunned.
She thought of some things that happened a long, long time ago, so long ago that they were almost thrown into the trash. It seemed that a long time ago, she also thought from the bottom of her heart, "It would be great if it could be like that."
On the street outside, someone triggered the car alarm, and the "wow wow wow" sound was very long.
In the dim room, Yuan Yuanyuan looked at Liu An for a long time, and for some reason suddenly said, "No, sitting up there... It's actually not as fun as sitting down there."
"Huh? Why?" Liu An raised his head, still slurping instant noodles, and spoke vaguely.
"Because..." Yuan Yuanyuan frowned and said, "It looks fun to sit down there, right? But when you sit up there, you can't see anything. There's only a small curtain, and you have to lie down next to that small window and watch... It's more boring than attending a meeting."
"Besides," Yuan Yuanyuan became inexplicably excited, as if she had finally found someone to complain to, "I can't feel anything up there... The sound is also very quiet, I can listen to it as a lullaby in the car."
Liu An had a look of shattered dreams on his face. Yuan Yuanyuan couldn't help but burst out laughing when she saw his expression. She waved her hand in front of Liu An and asked, "Hey, come back to your senses. Don't look so disillusioned with the world."
"… That's definitely because your demon team is not up to par." After Liu An came to his senses, he began to refute Yuan Yuanyuan's words frantically, "Of course your team heard a small sound. The demon team in the comics is definitely much more spectacular."
Yuan Yuanyuan rolled her eyes and said sarcastically, "All the monster teams, big or small, behave like this. I don't believe there are any exceptions."
While the two of them were bickering, the car alarms outside disappeared and the streets returned to peace. The number of monsters on the streets had suddenly decreased since the Hundred Monsters Festival, but the number of humans had gradually increased.
Yuan Yuanyuan looked at how Liu An had been beaten to such an extent that he didn't even eat the instant noodles, and a kind of metaphysical smile appeared on her face.
She flipped through the last few pages of the comic, which contained Fanning's own inner monologue.
He looked up at the demon team that had disappeared in the sky, and suddenly wanted to go up with it to take a look.
But it’s not possible... He can’t fly, so if he wants to fly, he has to rely on some Taoist methods.
"In that car, the city lord and the man who came to help calm the situation today are sitting there." A man next to him said, "They just came back from the edge of the city... They are really majestic."
The city lord and that big shot were both sitting there? Fanning looked up at the horizon.
Did they just come back from the city? They must have gone to scare away the monsters around them...
Fanning looked at the convoy disappearing into the horizon, and suddenly an idea popped into his mind.
I am a monster who can sit in such a convoy and have a night parade of one hundred demons, making the little demons below look up and make the demons around me afraid...
Really, they are all very amazing.