The monster had only been at the Nanchun Restaurant for two days, but it had already left a deep impression on the humans.
A few days ago, before the monster came, the temperature on the mountain had begun to gradually warm up. However, only two days after the monster came, the whole mountain suddenly became icy and snowy again.
Liu An sat on the sofa, looking at the people around him taking pictures, while silently breaking off the small icicles he had just picked from the window. The reporter next to him asked, "Hey, have any pretty girls approached you these days?"
"Can you put your mind on the right thing?" Liu An turned around and asked, "You're a reporter, you finally got in, and you don't even think about doing a good interview, you just keep talking about beauties, beauties."
"That's because you can't keep up with the trend." The eldest brother said. "Do you know why the house next to you closes so early every day?"
"Why?" Liu An looked at his elder brother sideways.
"That's because..." The elder brother slowly came over, "Every night the casual cultivator in the room next to you brings several girls home..."
"Ah?" Liu An's eyes widened instantly. He turned around and looked at the reporter for a long time before saying, "No, I didn't find anything."
"That's because you're too stupid." The eldest brother said, "Besides, who said I didn't look carefully? I've learned a lot of useful things in the past two days."
"Hey, the meeting over there has already started, why don't you go take a look?" a Taoist priest passing by them suddenly said.
"That kind of meeting is not something that casual cultivators like us can sneak into." Liu An said honestly while sitting on the sofa without moving.
"Hey, do you want to go in and take a look?" The reporter next to him suddenly nudged Liu An's arm.
"How do I get in?" Liu An asked.
"Just tell me whether you want to come in or not. Just give me the answer." However, the eldest brother acted mysterious and did not tell Liu An what was going on.
Liu An looked at his brother's expression and felt that he deserved a beating. But he had to admit that since he could go in, he naturally wanted to go in and take a look.
He followed his big brother mysteriously to the front, while Yuan Yuanyuan was... sitting in her seat drinking tea.
You should always wear formal clothes in formal occasions and you shouldn't wear a hat.
Yuan Yuanyuan, who had never attended such an occasion before, wore the most "formal" clothes she brought with her, in the format of the class meeting that year. She also took off the hood she usually wore and listened to the words of the middle-aged balding man in front of her.
"We... should develop harmonious relations between humans and monsters... promote the common progress of humans and monsters, ensure mutual benefit and win-win results for both sides, and both sides should get along in a friendly manner and stick to the development path they have always taken..."
The middle-aged balding man in front was speaking at the conference in Mandarin with a strong northwestern dialect accent. There was a piece of paper on the table in front of him.
Yuan Yuanyuan sat in her seat and thought, oh shit.
There were three humans in front of her, and there was a huge crowd of people in the audience. There was even someone nearby who was responsible for recording the video and taking notes.
Yuan Yuanyuan thought this scene was so grand at first, but once it was talked about, it must be a scene of darkness, wind and blood.
As a result, Yuan Yuanyuan knelt down at the beginning...
Yuan Yuanyuan studied science back then. If she had studied liberal arts, she might have been able to understand some things and grasp the spirit of the meeting. But now she just wanted to sleep. The huge chandelier above her head was so dazzling that it couldn't even keep her from sleeping.
In front of her was a bowl of tea, a stack of white paper, a brush and ink.
In front of the humans opposite them were Nongfu Spring, notebooks and carbon pens.
Yuan Yuanyuan supported her chin with one hand and looked at the chattering middle-aged balding man next to her. He had been talking for ten minutes and had not finished his opening speech yet.
With her well-developed hearing ears, she could hear the whispers of many humans below.
"Hey, look at Baldy Tang, his face is so rosy."
"Of course he is beaming. He was promoted before this incident, and he will probably be promoted again after this incident."
"When will this be over? When can I finish it? I want to go down the mountain to the city. I finally came to the northwest."
"I don't know, but if you go to the foot of the mountain, you have to go early. The buses have stopped and it's still quite dangerous in the mountains after dark."
"It's okay. I secretly brought a few Escape Talismans with me."
… This is fucking bullshit.
Yuan Yuanyuan's mouth silently showed a hint of sarcasm... ah, no, a polite smile. She switched her arm to the other side, which was a little numb, so it was better to switch sides.
“… Once again, I wish this meeting a successful conclusion. Thank you all.” After an unknown amount of time, Baldy Tang finally finished his speech, and Yuan Yuanyuan followed the crowd and clapped a few times.
She pinched the thing tied to her leg... Suddenly she felt a little bored, at least given the current situation, it was true.
When I first came in and saw the structure of the scene, I thought it was going to be a gladiator-like fight between the monster and the Taoist priest... But from the beginning, it really followed the human routine.
There are many things in humans that Yuan Yuanyuan doesn't like, such as this... She lowered her head and took a sip of water.
The entire venue is like the ancient Roman Colosseum, expanding outward from the center point to form concentric circles.
At the center is a platform where the speaker stands, and in concentric circles are rows of seats.
Yuan Yuanyuan sat on the concentric circle in the first row. There were eight people in the first row, half human and half monster.
This place is so big that no one would be able to hear anything else if someone said something else. At least in Yuan Yuanyuan's ears, this place was very quiet. If Yuan Yuanyuan hadn't been so bored that she used her magic power to listen to the sounds around her, she wouldn't have heard the trivial conversations around her.
Yuan Yuanyuan looked up at the chandelier above her head, which illuminated the surroundings brightly. She then looked down at the person standing on the stage in front of her. From her perspective, this person was very eye-catching. Standing under the spotlight, even his bald head... looked so bright.
Behind her, there should be at least a few hundred people who can see her back.
I wonder if those people find her as eye-catching as she does the bald man on the stand.
Yuan Yuanyuan smiled inexplicably. In fact, she should have sat still. After all, even if it was a class meeting, Yuan Yuanyuan would try her best to maintain a good attitude.
No matter whether you can listen or not, at least have a correct attitude, so that others will not cause trouble for you.
If the Yuan Yuanyuan before yesterday had attended this meeting, she would definitely have done so, but now... it seemed a bit inappropriate to do so, and more importantly, she was not in the mood for it.
But not doing so would be a bit of a shame.
So Yuan Yuanyuan now rested her chin on her hand and looked up at the sky, but didn't do anything else, nor did she take notes like the people around her, she just listened quietly.
"Thank you." After the baldy Tang from the human side went down, the white-bearded old man from the monster side went up. Yuan Yuanyuan had met him last night. He seemed to be a water monster because Yuan Yuanyuan smelled the fishy smell on him.
The old man with white beard said very little, just a few sentences, one of which was "I hope that this time, we can get a result that we are all satisfied with." When Yuan Yuanyuan heard this, she raised her eyes and looked at the four people in front of her. They didn't react at all.
"Okay, let's talk about the agenda for this meeting now." One of the humans picked up the materials on the table. "First, we will discuss the treatment of the seven monsters, and then we will discuss the three post-war regulations and the division of the northwest line of residence."
"Okay." The white-bearded old man who had returned to his seat nodded, and then watched a man from the human side stand up.
"Regarding the disposal of those seven monsters, they violated Article 11 of the post-war supplementary agreement signed between humans and monsters..." As Yuan Yuanyuan was listening to the words of the monster in front of her, the white-bearded man next to her suddenly pinched her lightly.
Yuan Yuanyuan turned her head and looked over gently, and the old man with white beard blinked at her slowly.
He gestured with his eyes to the pen and paper on the table. Yuan Yuanyuan took the pen but didn't write a word.
"Hey, look at that Yuan in front." The reporter behind him said to Liu An.
Liu An looked at Yuan in front of him, feeling a little dazed. He lowered his head and smiled. Things in this world are unpredictable. He had been looking for him for a long time before, but couldn't even touch him. Now he was sitting there openly, letting hundreds of people watch.
The big brother next to him patted him on the shoulder and said, "Look, is our press card useful?"
"It works. It works really well." Liu An nodded and looked down at the paper in his hand with the theme of the meeting written on it.
"The disposal of the seven monsters, the three post-war regulations, and the division of the Northwest Line..." Liu An was shocked, "The Northwest Line is going to be redrawn?"
"Then we must redivide it. It was fine before this area was developed. Now that the northwest is slowly developing, there are more people, and there are more monster attacks on people. The higher-ups have long wanted to redivide it." The eldest brother said, "At least we should relocate the monsters to places with fewer people."
"Oh." Liu An nodded. "Three post-war regulations... There are about a hundred post-war regulations if you count them carefully. Which three regulations are they referring to?"
"Three post-war regulations? The first one is that humans cannot invade monster territories, and monsters cannot hurt humans at will. The second one is that monsters cede territory and pay compensation." The eldest brother said, "The last one is about the treatment of monster generals."
"Uh... why are these three items grouped together?" Liu An looked extremely confused.
"Yes, you are a student, so you don't understand this kind of statement." The elder brother smiled and patted Liu An, "You will understand it after working for a few years. You often hear this kind of statement during interviews in the northwest. You may not hear it in other places."
"Why?" Liu An asked.
"I don't know. I never heard of these three regulations when I worked in the Northeast, but I hear them often after I came here to work." The eldest brother said, "I think it may be because the northwest line has always been considered the front line, so we have more contact with this aspect, and later we came up with a lot of abbreviations for convenience."
Liu An nodded, but suddenly remembered something and raised his head sharply to look above his head.
The light above my head was very dazzling, just like a spotlight.
Yuan Yuanyuan looked up at the crystal chandelier above her head. It was very beautiful and luxurious. It must be an old thing.
This restaurant has a very long history... These original features can be seen from the paintings on the wall and the lamp above.
Yuan Yuanyuan looked at it and suddenly wanted to laugh. What's the point of taking pictures outside? It would be better to stand inside and take pictures. The scenery inside is much more iconic than outside.
—Northwest Tribunal, referred to as the Tribunal.
The Hidden Court, which was built in the late 19th century, was used during wartime, and later after the war, it began to be used as a place for banquets between humans and monsters.
The light above my head is very dazzling, and it hurts my eyes. When Yuan Yuanyuan was reading the comics at that time, she didn't understand why the light during the 17th trial was drawn so strong in the comics. Only today did she understand... If it is this kind of lamp, then light of this intensity is indeed normal.
Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the newly built platform in the middle. There was no such platform back then... so there would be a chair there.
The chair was made of wood and had armrests with leather belts that could be used to tie people up.
A hundred years later... She sat in the first row, where the judges sat back then.
Yuan Yuanyuan felt that the light above her head was a little dazzling, so she blocked it with her hand and cursed softly.
"Do you feel uncomfortable? If you feel uncomfortable, go back and stay for a while." A voice suddenly came from the side.
Yuan Yuanyuan turned around and saw that it was the old man with white beard. She shook her head. Although she felt a little sad, she still didn't dare to leave. She didn't forget why she came here this time... There were a lot of great gods on the human side, but she was the only one who could fight against the monsters.
She's here to support the party.
Support the monster's place.
Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the person on the opposite side who had finished speaking, and he signaled to the monster side to speak. Logically, it should have been Yuan Yuanyuan's turn, but Yuan Yuanyuan did not go out, and the white-bearded old man next to him went out instead.
Seeing this, the audience couldn't help but talk about it.
"Hey, did you see that Yuan didn't speak?" The big brother behind him said to Liu An, "Everyone is waiting for him to speak. I dare say that more than half of the people came because of him."
Liu An frowned.
Yeah... Why didn't he say a word