In fact, there are usually only a few fixed "programs" at comic conventions, such as visiting stalls, taking photos, watching shows, and if there are guests, they will invite a few guests to come and look around... that's basically it.
Oh, yeah... or maybe pick up some guys and gals.
If the comic exhibition is larger, then the time spent visiting will naturally be longer, but if the exhibition is not large, then you can just walk around for an hour or two.
This comic exhibition is considered to be a relatively good exhibition. The place is very large, there are many cosplayers and stalls. I heard that some internet celebrities will be invited here soon. There are huge posters outside.
Just because of these internet celebrities... many people did not leave and were all waiting. It was said that the internet celebrity arrived around 5 o'clock in the evening. Yuan Yuanyuan looked up at the sky.
Five o'clock... It's dark already, right
Yuan Yuanyuan held food in her hand and sat on a covered seat with Liu An to rest their feet.
There were a lot of people under the shed, and some were smoking. Yuan Yuanyuan waved her hand to dissipate the smell a little.
"Oh my god, smoking in public... do you have any basic manners?" Yuan Yuanyuan asked while fanning herself.
“… I remember that you, boss, are also a smoker, why do you react so strongly?” Liu An asked.
"We are not smoking the same thing, okay?" Yuan Yuanyuan said.
She stood up to see who was smoking, and found a man cosplaying as Mushishi. The man was posing for photos with a cigarette in his mouth, and his friend who came with him was fanning him with a fan, trying to make it look like there was smoke everywhere.
It just so happened that the smoke was blowing towards Yuan Yuanyuan's direction.
"That's not scientific... The smoke in the cartoons is condensed and doesn't disperse, but he made it look like a fire." Liu An said.
"You are a monster, why are you talking nonsense about science? If you keep talking about science, I will tie you up and dissect you one day." Yuan Yuanyuan said, "Let's sit somewhere else... No wonder no one is sitting here."
The two of them stood up. Yuan Yuanyuan looked around boredly. She came out in a hurry and didn't bring her phone with her, otherwise she could have asked some cosplayers to take pictures. Now that she didn't have her phone, she could only watch.
Suddenly, there was a light over there. Yuan Yuanyuan looked in that direction and saw that at some point, they started pulling up ropes one after another and hung small paper round lanterns on the ropes. The lanterns were painted with monster heads of different sizes, just like Ukiyo-e.
One lantern was hung up, then two lanterns were hung up... Slowly, the whole place was filled with lit lanterns.
Cosplayers dressed in all kinds of clothes walked under the lanterns, laughing and joking. Lanterns were also lit on the stalls, and the whole place was suddenly immersed in the yellow of candlelight.
Yuan Yuanyuan looked up and saw a lantern with a ghost painted on it just above her head.
She said, "Oh my god... is it so formal? Lighting so many lanterns... won't it cause a fire by accident?"
Yuan Yuanyuan touched one with her hand, and suddenly felt something was wrong. Liu An beside her smiled and said, "This kind of small lantern doesn't have a candle in it, but an electronic light that imitates a candle... I used to see it often, it's quite convenient."
After he said this, Yuan Yuanyuan could vaguely see the structure inside through the gap in the lantern.
"Oh, that's what it looks like. It's really interesting." Yuan Yuanyuan put down the lantern. "You can't tell it's an electronic light from the outside... Why do you see this thing so often?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Yuan Yuanyuan heard a commotion coming from the other side. She turned around and found that the internet celebrity had arrived.
"Do you want to go and see?" Liu An asked.
"Why should I go and see..." Yuan Yuanyuan said, "I don't know them, and I have to buy posters to see them, which costs money."
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"Can we go over and take a look, boss?" a girl shouted, "We'll be back in a bit, wait for us."
“Ah? Oh…” Gao Ling watched those people rush into the crowd. The internet celebrity seemed to be quite popular, so these people wanted to join in the fun. Gao Ling was too lazy to squeeze in, so he just stayed outside.
She sighed. She had originally thought of coming over to take a look when she saw the boss here...but when those people started shopping, they were even more excited than she was, and they shopped from day till dark.
The five people lived very close to each other and had similar interests, so they came together. They were also the first group of people to come to City C. Although Gao Ling was a local boss, he felt a little restrained among them and was too embarrassed to speak.
Alas... I am still timid. I need to cheer up, cheer up, cheer up. Gao Ling encouraged himself silently.
She glanced at the field and suddenly saw a person standing there, standing out from the crowd, looking up at the lantern.
He was standing there, and the style was still very inconsistent... Well, Gao Ling didn't know how to say it. She thought with dead eyes, what word should she use to describe it... "Beauty that shames the moon and the flowers?" It doesn't seem quite right...
Ah... Why didn't the boss leave? Gao Ling complained silently.
In fact, usually there are only a few people at the comic exhibition at this stage... Especially after the internet celebrities left, the place was even more desolate.
Today, there were surprisingly many people in the venue. Gao Ling could say that the boss played at least 80% of the role here... Many girls stood outside in the cold wind just to get a glimpse of the boss.
Although the girls in the whole field don't seem to have changed, they have actually been moving imperceptibly following the boss's trail... Just now there were most girls on the west side, but now that the boss has come over, most girls are on the east side again.
Gao Ling complained in her heart. She wondered whether she should go up and say hello.
… Let’s not do it, so as not to cause any trouble.
In fact, the few people who were traveling with me just now also secretly took a lot of photos, and they all said that this was the most similar cosplay of Yuan Zhenren they had seen so far.
Someone joked that this couldn't be Master Yuan himself coming over to hang out, causing people nearby to burst into laughter... Gao Ling broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this.
She was always afraid that someone among these people would realize that the boss was actually a monster.
Although everyone in the group knows that monsters exist, and some have even seen them with their own eyes, Gao Ling still feels that it would be best if fewer people knew that the boss was a monster. After all, the boss likes human things so much, and he probably doesn't like others calling him a monster all the time.
When Gao Ling was thinking about this, he suddenly felt blurred.
She was stunned for a moment, and then her eyes blurred again.
At that moment, it seemed as if the laughter in the field stopped for a second.
Gao Ling hadn't quite figured out what was going on. She thought she was hallucinating, or that she was seeing some bad things like she had during the time when she had the ability to see ghosts and spirits. But when she looked around, she saw everyone looking at each other in bewilderment, and some were even looking upwards.
She also looked up and happened to see a small, strange ghost face.
The ghost face was on a small lantern, a small lantern with a black background and white flowers, smiling at her.
At that moment, Gao Ling didn't know what was going on, but she felt extremely uncomfortable in her heart, a feeling that even made her shiver.
The next second, the field suddenly became pitch black, and a burst of shrill screams instantly came from the most crowded area in the eastern part of the field.
… Gao Ling suddenly understood what the flower in front of him was.
Oh, it turns out there was a power outage.
The girl who was frying noodles next to her stopped frying noodles and looked around. Gao Ling thought that since there was a power outage, there would probably be a commotion, so she thought about finding a quiet place to hide to avoid being stepped on. People nearby took out their phones to illuminate the area, and Gao Ling also took out her own phone to illuminate the area. She swiped it, but suddenly found that her phone had automatically turned off without her knowing when.
What happened… Did it run out of battery? Gao Ling pressed the power button to restart the phone, but for some reason, the phone wouldn't start.
"What's going on? My phone won't turn on. It won't turn on."
"Mine too."
Gao Ling heard what the two girls next to her said, and an idea suddenly flashed through her mind.
No, that's not right...
This situation is... very wrong.
She turned her head sharply and looked in the direction of the people she had just walked with. The screams from over there continued to come. Normally, even if there was a power outage, everyone would only scream at the beginning and it wouldn't last so long. But now it has lasted for a full minute...
No, something's wrong.
Gao Ling felt like her brain was exploding at that moment. She was torn about whether to go over and take a look or stay here. Then she thought about the talisman on her body, gritted her teeth and squeezed through the crowd, shouting over there, "Excuse me! Excuse me!"
"Don't push... why are you pushing? You can't see anything."
"You are the only one who wants to go, but others don't. Just walk slowly, why are you squeezing?"
Gao Ling pushed the crowd aside and insisted on walking in that direction. Just before she took a few steps, her eyes lit up and she finally saw something.
But what she saw before her eyes... most people couldn't see it.
She saw a layer of green light rising from the horizon. The color of the light was indescribably creepy, just like the lighting of the underworld in movies and TV dramas.
With the help of the light, she turned her head and looked around. Everyone illuminated by the light had a layer of bluish-gray color on their face, as if even their expressions were frozen.
Gao Ling felt as if he was suffocating.
Small shadows whose shapes could not be seen clearly flew in all directions, holding balls of fire in their hands, and then putting them into lanterns. Gradually, the whole place was filled with green lights.
"Why hasn't the call come yet? Where is the organizer?"
"Damn, why is it so dark... I can't see anything for such a long time, there's not even a moon."
Gao Ling slowly exhaled again, her voice much softer this time, and she said to the people around her, "Excuse me."
The people in front heard the low voice behind them, some of them gave way, some did not, and Gao Ling did not continue to pester them. She walked about five or six steps, and suddenly saw a figure that stood out from the crowd.
A height of 1.80 meters is still very conspicuous in the crowd... Especially when there are girls around.
The man was looking in a certain direction with his brows furrowed and a long cigarette in his hand.
The pipe was completely black, with only the mouthpiece being red.
He took a quick puff and then let out a slow breath, smoke drifting out from his lips.
The smoke slowly floated into the air, but strangely it did not dissipate, but remained condensed, just like ink that had just been dropped into water, half dispersing.
Gradually, the smoke condensed in the air, forming a very strange scene.
In Gao Ling's opinion, this is actually a very anti-Newtonian situation... because smoke is just smoke, it is absolutely impossible for it to be like this. If Newton saw it, he would not only crawl out of the coffin, but also run around naked for a few laps.
However, this scene actually happened. Not only that, the smoke was like ribbons, tangled in the air...
Just like the thick lines on a painting...
Gao Ling saw the smoke that looked like a ribbon gradually begin to spread out in all directions, gradually passing through the crowd and arriving in front of her. She couldn't help but stretched out her hand and poked a piece of "ribbon" in front of her.
To her surprise, the "ribbon" broke as soon as it was pulled and began to gradually unravel.
Gao Ling was startled, she smelled an indescribable fragrance. Just when she was worried that she had done something bad, she suddenly saw the man smoking over there turned his head and looked at her as if he had noticed something.
In the green light, the man's eyes suddenly turned blood red.