Ji Qiu is a man of his words. In the comic updated today, he gave out three bento boxes.
These three bento boxes were given out one at the beginning, one in the middle, and one at the end, in a very regular pattern. Although none of the three characters are famous two-dimensional characters, they are all well-known characters who participated in the Mengman auditions.
The common feature of these three characters is that they were all eliminated in the auditions, leaving no one behind. And according to Yuan Yuanyuan's observation, the order in which these three people were given their lunch boxes was the same as the order in which they were eliminated.
After Yuan Yuanyuan discovered this pattern, she turned around and looked at the comments below. Although only half an hour had passed between the publication of the comic and the time Yuan Yuanyuan finished reading it, any discerning person could see that the comments on "Yao Ji" had exploded, and the number of comments was several times that of the previous issues.
Moreover, as time went by, the number of comments continued to grow. Yuan Yuanyuan checked the forum and found that the forum was in an uproar.
Although the eliminated characters are not very famous, they still have fans. The fans are furious and left many fierce comments. Yuan Yuanyuan carefully looked up the promotion list from the auditions and found that Ji Qiu did not give lunch boxes to all the characters. Seriously speaking, there should be five people eliminated in the auditions, but Ji Qiu only gave lunch boxes to three people.
Yuan Yuanyuan glanced at the two people who survived. Both of them appeared in the last two issues. Their appearances were not many, far less than the three extras before. In fact, according to Yuan Yuanyuan's own vision, these two people had great potential. If they had more time, they might become popular figures. What they lacked was just the screen time.
Yuan Yuanyuan herself had no idea how the characters from Mengman participated in this audition, but she remembered hearing from someone that it seemed to be the result of discussions between the author and the editor. In other words, the two-dimensional characters participating in the Mengman competition were all selected by Ji Qiu himself.
… Was this a case of execution on the spot as it failed to meet expectations
Yuan Yuanyuan found it horrifying to think about it, but there was one thing she was sure of, and that was that this matter could not but be related to Ji Qiu.
She thought for a moment and understood what Ji Qiu meant. He played such a big game this time, publishing three named characters in just one issue. He was simply reminding the people who were already in the dream to be careful, because he was going to be serious this time.
As for what this true law is... Just look at these four monsters who died horribly and you will see it clearly.
From the current perspective, Ji Qiu’s distribution of lunch boxes is not random and aimless. If there were two people left among the five people, and if he really distributed them according to the results, then these five people might all die.
The death of the three extras was just a small episode in this comic. The real content of this issue is that the protagonist continues to investigate the smuggling of human beings. He finds that smuggling has actually become a huge network, and there is no way to completely eliminate it. So he has been frantically collecting evidence and improving his own strength recently.
Yuan Yuanyuan thought that their tavern had not dared to do such things in the past few days... after all, it was in the limelight. However, if they dared to do it again, she would dare to smash it again.
According to the protagonist's enthusiasm, maybe in the next two days, he will see a cross-dressing man coming to justice...
She sat on the bed, looked at the turned-off street lights outside, and thought, damn, I can’t sleep again tonight.
… I finally had a day off at the pub, but I was so upset that I couldn’t sleep.
Yuan Yuanyuan was not as nervous as she thought. She even walked steadily to the kitchen and got another piece of bread. While stuffing it into her mouth, she flipped through the pages of Mengman's auditions.
The auditions were over, and the next step was the elimination round. Yuan Yuanyuan flipped over her next opponent. She had seen this opponent before, but had never paid much attention to him because this opponent was the male protagonist of a girls' comic, and she had never read that comic at all.
Now it seems that the comic has to be updated... Actually, it doesn't matter if she doesn't update it, after all, whether she updates it or not, it's not her vote.
Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the rest of the comments. Many people said, "Are you kidding me?" The fans of the three characters were even more incredulous, saying in the comments, "What's going on! If I had known, I would have bought a few more magazines to get more votes."
"Ji Qiu, you old thief, what the hell are you doing? How can you play like this? Are you going to kill everyone who doesn't get first place?"
Yuan Yuanyuan thought that was not the case. Ji Qiu was probably not that crazy. What was the point of being the only one left in the end? Of course, that didn’t mean he wasn’t crazy anymore…
She looked at the sky outside, closed her phone, closed her eyes and lay on the bed to rest. However, this did not mean that she was at peace. In fact, she felt that she might have a nightmare tonight.
Who cares... There won't be any bites if there are too many lice.
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There are still five days until the next comic update.
Yuan Yuanyuan was sitting in the tavern. Sister Li Zi looked at her movements and said with disdain, "You can't do this. Lower it a little more."
"How low? Is this low enough?" Yuan Yuanyuan changed her posture. "This dress is too heavy. It weighs on my hands."
"You'll starve to death sooner or later." Sister Li Zi shook her head. Suddenly someone called her from outside. She hurried out the door, then turned around and told Yuan Yuanyuan not to move and to continue practicing.
Yuan Yuanyuan sighed, turned around and continued to pour the wine, wanting to see how to pour it in a way that would look good without spilling the wine.
There were too many things going on these days and her mind was in a mess. At this moment, Sister Li Zi suddenly asked her to practice pouring wine, saying that no girls dared to help here now, and she was the only one left who looked passable. If she took charge of the shift, she could get more salary.
Yuan Yuanyuan didn't want more salary, she was just afraid that if she said "no", her boss would fire her directly. After all, as a half-demon, she had neither demon rights nor human rights.
She could only continue pouring the wine and slowly relieve her numb hands.
Hey... let me go back to the kitchen quickly. It's much more comfortable for me to browse my phone when I have nothing to do. I get paid a thousand dollars a day but do the work of two thousand dollars. Isn't this a scam
As she poured the wine, she kept looking towards the door. There were several little heads huddled there, and now they were lined up in a row, secretly looking at her.
Yuan Yuanyuan glanced over and just saw the children with their big round eyes staring at them. Their heads were stacked on top of each other, with the older child on top and the younger child on top. They were all little girls who looked very small.
Of course, this is just appearance, Yuan Yuanyuan thinks that the real age of the girl might be her grandmother. When Yuan Yuanyuan was taught how to pour wine, there were always a group of little girls outside peeking, even though it felt weird to be watched, but Yuan Yuanyuan did not chase them away.
The girls hid behind a screen embroidered with the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons. They were very quiet and did not make a sound.
She sat in the room, wearing a thick and loose red dress, holding one hand flat, trying hard to recall the posture that someone had just demonstrated to her.
There were several strange paintings hanging in the room, which seemed to be depictions of some monsters. These paintings looked like illustrations from some strange stories about monsters.
There was a very faint incense burning in the incense burner next to it, which smelled very cold and refreshing.
It was early morning when Yuan Yuanyuan returned home. It was already slightly light. She felt her head was buzzing. She had hardly slept the whole night. When she finally fell asleep, her dreams were filled with scenes of being clicked. She felt that if she continued like this, she would go crazy.
At this time, a person has to divide into a rational personality and an irrational personality. The rational personality keeps persuading her to calm down, while the irrational personality advises her to ignore everything and just have some fun.
Her daily life is a constant struggle between these two personalities.
No one dared to say it, no one could say it, and she had no one to talk to.
Such a lonely life made her inexplicably think of finding a boyfriend...
She took the key to open the door, and just in time saw Xiaoying pushing the door open, carrying a huge backpack behind her, and preparing to go out.
"Wait a minute, where are you going?" Yuan Yuanyuan called her. Xiaoying turned around and said, "I'm going to the comic convention."
"Comic convention?" Yuan Yuanyuan asked, "Are you planning to go on a cosplay tour, or are you just here to hang out?"
"I won't cosplay, Li Xin will do the cosplay. Don't worry about us. My mom and her mom know about it." Xiaoying waved her hand and turned to leave.
"Come back early." Yuan Yuanyuan urged. Just as she was about to turn around and go in, she suddenly caught a glimpse of something strange out of the corner of her eye.
She leaned half way out of the house she had just entered and looked at the girl who followed her out.
The girl was wearing a black windbreaker, a short wig on her head, simple makeup, and carrying a big bag on her back.
“…Whose cosplay are you planning to portray?” Yuan Yuanyuan asked.
"It's the voting role you helped me fill in last time." Xiaoying waved her hand and shouted to Yuan Yuanyuan, "We are going out. Goodbye, Sister Yuanyuan!"
"… goodbye."
Yuan Yuanyuan leaned against the door and watched the two girls happily run downstairs. After a while, they disappeared...