The cell phone on the coffee table rang. The ringtone was an episode from Inuyasha called Dead Souls.
The melodious and graceful flute played a somewhat lingering and strange song. This song was the music when Kikyo appeared. After Kikyo was resurrected, there was no one around her. There were only dead soul insects floating around her like balls of light, surrounding her.
Every time she appears in this posture, this is the BGM.
Yuan Yuanyuan went into the bathroom to wash her face, brought her cell phone in, and pressed the hands-free button.
"Yuanyuan, what are you doing?" A lively voice of a girl came from the other end of the phone.
"Woo woo..." Yuan Yuanyuan's face was buried in the water, making two vague sounds.
"Oh, I'm washing my face." A clear voice came from the other end. "Yuanyuan, have you read the comic that Mengman has been recommending recently?"
“…Which one? The one called ‘Magical Grade 3 Class 8’?” Yuan Yuanyuan wiped her face and looked towards the phone.
"No, it's the "Demon Records"." The girl said again.
Yuan Yuanyuan hung the towel back, raised her head and looked at the ceiling of the bathroom.
"I saw it. What's wrong?" She picked up the comb and combed her hair into a small bun, asking while combing her hair.
"It's nothing. I just want to ask if you can make clothes for Ran Niang?" the girl asked on the phone.
“…Yes.” Yuan Yuanyuan finished combing her hair and put the comb back.
Speaking of which, when the girl called and mentioned "Monster Records", Yuan Yuanyuan appeared calm on the surface, but she was actually very panicked inside.
What if a girl asks something she shouldn't
- Did you see the man in black
… I see. I see.
- What do you think of this guy
…It’s okay.
Mengman is the platform that publishes the comic book "Yao Ji". It has both an online platform and a physical platform. The physical platform will publish some popular comics, and by the way, put some interviews with cartoonists or private manuscripts at the end as little easter eggs to attract readers.
Today is the day when the physical version of Mengman is published. Yuan Yuanyuan usually only reads it on her mobile phone, but today she got up early and bought a copy of Mengman at the newsstand downstairs.
She opened the plastic packaging of the comic and found the author interview section at the back. She read through them one by one: Viduka, Appetizer, Li Xiaoli... Familiar names of artists passed by her eyes, but she couldn't find "Ji Qiu" no matter how hard she looked.
She sighed and threw the comic back on the table, thinking that thirty dollars was wasted.
Yuan Yuanyuan wanted to see who this "Ji Qiu" was, but she would have thought that there was no information about this cartoonist even in the physical comic books.
You know, there are many cartoonists who even reveal photos during physical interviews.
In the past few days, Yuan Yuanyuan has searched almost all the information about this cartoonist, but only found the name "Ji Qiu" and a big photo of a cat.
The artist's avatar is a large hand-painted cat with lifeless eyes and a beastly face. There is no Weibo or QQ account, and it can be said that there is no contact information left.
Yuan Yuanyuan has been struggling for the past few days. She has come up with various methods, but none of them seem to be reliable. She once thought about going to that magazine to be an editor...
She even thought about changing her image from head to toe again, like dyeing her hair pink or something…
These are things that people do in a desperate situation. But she waited for a week in fear, but no one came to see her. Her life remained the same, without any difference.
Yuan Yuanyuan finally calmed down a little in the past two days. She thought, since the ending of the comic book was that the demon hunter did not catch up with the black-clothed monster, did that mean... the painter did not find her at all
Apart from anything else, Yuan Yuanyuan was quite confident in her ability to escape and transform. She had never failed in pretending to be someone else.
Yuan Yuanyuan threw the comic book onto the small bookshelf, went back to the bedroom, and thought about what had just happened on the phone.
The person on the phone was her college classmate. They were both in the cosplay department. At that time, Yuan Yuanyuan had just become a half-demon and was in the second spring of her second year of high school...
She has been in contact with that girl over the past few years, and she is one of the few people who still keeps in touch after so many years.
That girl was their department's most beautiful girl at the time, and she was proficient in everything from makeup artist to cosplayer. Yuan Yuanyuan had always been a bystander. After so many years, that girl already has a family and a child, but Yuan Yuanyuan is still single.
Yuan Yuanyuan fell on the bed and fumbled to turn on the small lamp beside the bed. The "Ran Niang" that girl mentioned was a character in "Yao Ji", who was dressed in red and had black hair.
Uh... to put it more clearly, it's the monster girl who died in the comic published a week ago. She was set as a monster who infiltrated the demon hunters to extract information.
Of course, according to the cartoonist's character, there might really be a girl named "Ran Niang" who died some time ago.
Yuan Yuanyuan touched his chin. Well, now that you think about it, this painter is quite amazing. He can even clearly see such a hidden thing. How did he know that
She didn't think much about it, but just opened Taobao and searched for the cosplay costume of "Ran Niang", and found that there were quite a lot of clothes for this character.
The relatively good quality of "Yoki" has also attracted a large number of fans. The love of the two-dimensional fans for the characters is often reflected in some peripherals, such as cosplay clothes, or T-shirts printed with the character's lines...
Judging from the number of cosplay costumes, this character is quite popular.
Yuan Yuanyuan put down her phone, picked up a pack of red cloth, touched the material with her hand, and thought it was quite suitable, so she put it aside and prepared to cut it and make a cosplay costume of Ran Niang to give to the girl.
At night, Yuan Yuanyuan lay on the bed, locked the door and turned off the lights.
Maybe she thought too much during the day, her mind was in a mess, and she had many dreams in a daze.
"Don't forget..."
"Even if I die, I will never forget..."
…
A low cry suddenly came from the dark room.
Yuan Yuanyuan suddenly sat up from the bed, her head covered with sweat. She raised her head and looked outside; it was still dark.
It's this dream again.
Yuan Yuanyuan reached out and picked up the alarm clock on the bedside table. She checked the time. It was three o'clock in the morning.
I can still get some more sleep.
Yuan Yuanyuan got up, went to the bathroom, came back and got a glass of water, drank half of it, and then lay back down on the bed.
… After lying there for ten minutes, she suddenly opened her eyes and reached out to turn on the small yellow light at the head of the bed.
I can't sleep.
She rubbed her head, got up from the bed, walked to the living room and turned on the light.
She had this dream countless times, and had it almost every day during the time when she became a half-demon. However, she had no idea what was in the dream. It was just a person who kept repeating himself over and over in her dreams.
The person's voice was a woman's voice, a little hoarse, but still sounded very nice.
Yuan Yuanyuan thought that this girl’s voice must be very nice, but she really couldn’t remember who she was.
She didn't even know how she turned into a monster. She became like this a few years ago without knowing it.
…and then it’s endless, endless running.
Yuan Yuanyuan sat on the bed in a daze for a long time, and suddenly she smelled a strange smell. She raised her head and stared at the window outside. The curtains there were tightly drawn, and she couldn't see anything there.
But there was a strange smell coming from there, continuously, as if endless.
Yuan Yuanyuan stood up, walked over carefully, opened the curtains a little, and looked outside. There was a thick layer of dark clouds in the sky, covering the moon.
There were no pedestrians on the street, only the street lights were flickering. After the dark clouds covered the moon, the street lights suddenly went out as if there was a power outage. In an instant, the street fell into darkness.
Except for Yuan Yuanyuan, no one else stuck their heads out to look at this strange scene. All the residents nearby seemed to be collectively under the Imperius Curse and did not react at all.
Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the dark clouds in the sky. The air nearby suddenly dropped several degrees. She almost couldn't suppress her demonic aura, and the red branches almost stretched out.
One hundred demons parade at night.
Yuan Yuanyuan never participated in such activities, but she could see a steady stream of bright spots rising from all around, floating into the air, and disappearing into the layers of dark clouds.
Some bright spots flew out from residential buildings, while others came from dark alleys. As the dark clouds moved, the density of these light spots became larger and larger, until they filled the entire sky, like a starry sky.
Only at this time could Yuan Yuanyuan see how many monsters there were in this city.
She looked at the scene in front of her, silently closed the curtains, and then took out another quilt from the closet.
The dark clouds grew bigger and bigger, and the temperature around was getting lower and lower.
The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons is an activity that has been going on since ancient times, and even today, it is still a very spectacular sight.
Yuan Yuanyuan lay back on the bed, closed her eyes, and within half an hour, she fell into a deep sleep again.
This time she didn't have any weird dreams, but she still slept unsteadily.
…because there were things around her that were disturbing her from time to time.
…
The next day, Yuan Yuanyuan opened the curtains that had been closed all night. People were coming and going outside, just like usual, with no difference at all.
The curtains were drawn, and the warm sunlight shone in. She stood in front of the window, her hands on her hips, with a sunny face.
Seeing the sunshine makes me feel really comfortable, and I feel like my whole body becomes sunny all of a sudden.
She stretched lazily, washed her face and brushed her teeth, then turned on her cell phone.
After checking various messages, she opened the Mengman app again, scrolled down, and looked at the various contents inside.
Unexpectedly, she saw quite a few messages about the men in black at the bottom of the book "Demon Records".
"Who is that little brother in black? He looks very handsome."
"Oh, this Fengyan really wins my heart. He seems to be a very cool person. Will he be an important supporting role?"
"Of course, Ji Qiu's paintings are so beautiful... This guy never paints extras to be stunningly beautiful, don't worry."
"Is it a monster that is against humans... Well, after reading this comic for a month, I feel that this comic is more realistic. I always feel that this little brother will die a very tragic death."
"Hey, can you please stop talking nonsense upstairs... I finally met someone I like, how can I just let him die like that?"
Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the words "died very tragically" and was silent for a while.
Then she went back to bed, pulled the curtains, silently hugged her quilt, and fell asleep again.