23. Chapter 23

Ji Qiu is a man who keeps his word. In the comics updated today, he gave out three bentos.

These three bentos were given out at the beginning, one in the middle, and one at the end. They were given out in a very regular pattern. Although the three characters are not famous two-dimensional characters, they are all well-known characters who participated in the Mengman audition.

The common feature of these three characters is that they were all eliminated in the audition, and there was no one left. According to Yuan Yuanyuan's observation, the order in which these three people were given bentos was the same as the order in which they were eliminated.

After Yuan Yuanyuan discovered this pattern, he turned around and looked at the comments below. Although it was only half an hour from the time the comics were published to the time Yuan Yuanyuan finished reading them, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the comments on "Yao Ji" were directly blown up, and the number of comments was far more than several times that of the previous issues.

Moreover, as time went on, the number of comments continued to grow. Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the forum and found that even the forum was in an uproar.

Although the eliminated characters were not very famous, they still had fans. The fans were all furious, leaving many heated comments. Yuan Yuanyuan carefully looked up the promotion table from the audition and found that Ji Qiu did not give all the characters lunch boxes. Seriously speaking, there should be five people eliminated in the audition, but Ji Qiu only gave lunch boxes to three people.

Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the two people who survived. These two people appeared in the last two issues. They did not appear many times, far less than the three extras before. In fact, according to Yuan Yuanyuan's own perspective, these two people still have potential. If they have more time, they may become popular characters. What they lack is just the appearance time.

[To be honest, I have been using it recently, both Android and Apple are available. ]

Yuan Yuanyuan herself did not know how the characters in Mengman participated in this audition, but she remembered that she heard someone say that it seemed to be the result of a discussion between the author and the editor. In other words, these two-dimensional characters participating in the Mengman competition were all selected by Ji Qiu himself.

...Did they fail to meet expectations and were executed on the spot?

Yuan Yuanyuan felt terrified when she thought about it, but there was one thing she was sure of, that was that this matter could not be unrelated to Ji Qiu.

She thought about it and understood what Ji Qiu meant. He played such a big game this time. In just one issue, he sent out three named lunch boxes, which was nothing more than reminding people who were already in the dream comic to be careful, because he was going to do it for real this time.

As for what this real truth was... Just look at the four monsters who died horribly, and you will know clearly.

At present, Ji Qiu's lunch boxes were not sent out randomly without purpose. If two of the five people were left, if he really sent them out according to the results, then these five people might all die.

The three dead extras were just a small episode in this comic. The real content of this issue was that the protagonist continued to investigate the smuggling of humans. He found that smuggling had actually become a huge network and there was no way to completely eliminate it. So he was frantically collecting evidence and improving his 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 if she stayed in the store for two days, she would see a cross-dressing man coming to justice...

She sat on the bed, looked at the extinguished street lights outside, and thought, damn, I can't sleep again tonight.

... The tavern finally had a day off, but I couldn't sleep because of my worries.

Yuan Yuanyuan was not as nervous as she thought. She even went to the kitchen with steady steps to get another bread back. While stuffing it into her mouth, she flipped through the selection of Mengman.

The audition was over, and the next one was the elimination round. Yuan Yuanyuan flipped through her next opponent. She had seen this opponent before, but she had never paid much attention to it before, because this opponent was the male protagonist of a girl's 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 who voted.

Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the remaining comments again. 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 increase the votes."

"Ji Qiu, you old thief, what are you doing? How can you play like this? Are you going to kill everyone who didn't get the first place?"

Yuan Yuanyuan felt that it was not necessary. Ji Qiu was probably not that crazy. What's the point of only one person left in the end? Of course, this doesn't mean that he is not crazy now...

She looked at the sky outside, closed her phone, closed her eyes and rested on the bed, but this did not mean that she was very calm. In fact, she felt that she might have a nightmare tonight.

Who cares... Too many lice will bite.

...

There are still five days before the next comic update.

Yuan Yuanyuan sat in the tavern. Sister Li Zi looked at her movements and said with disdain, "You can't do this. Lower it a little bit."

"How low? Is this low enough?" Yuan Yuanyuan changed her posture. "This dress is too heavy. It weighs on my hands."

"You will starve to death sooner or later." Sister Li Zi shook her head. Suddenly someone called her outside. She hurried out the door and turned to tell Yuan Yuanyuan not to move and to continue practicing.

Yuan Yuanyuan sighed, turned around and continued to practice pouring wine, wanting to see how to pour it beautifully without spilling the wine.

There were too many things to do these days, and her mind was very confused. Sister Li Zi suddenly asked her to practice pouring wine, saying that no girl dared to help here now, and she was the only one left who looked decent. She could take charge of the class and get more salary.

Yuan Yuanyuan didn't want more salary, she was just afraid that if she said "no", the boss would fire her directly, after all, she was a half-demon with neither demon power nor human rights.

She could only continue to pour wine and slowly relieve her numb hands.

Hey... let me go back to the kitchen quickly. It's much more comfortable to browse my phone when I have nothing to do. I get paid 1,000 yuan a day, but I do 2,000 yuan a day. Isn't this a pit?

As she poured the wine, she kept looking at the door. There were several little heads hiding there. They were lined up and secretly looking at her.

Yuan Yuanyuan glanced over and saw the little kids staring with their big round eyes. Their heads were stacked one on top of the other. They were all little girls who looked very young.

Of course, this was just the appearance. Yuan Yuanyuan thought that their real age might be enough to be her grandmother. When Yuan Yuanyuan was taught how to pour wine, there was always a group of little girls outside peeking. Even though it felt strange to be watched, Yuan Yuanyuan didn't chase them away.

These girls hid behind the screen embroidered with a hundred ghosts at night. They were very quiet and silent.

She sat in the room, wearing a heavy and loose red dress, holding one hand flat, trying to recall the posture that someone had just demonstrated to her.

There were a few strange paintings hanging in the room, which seemed to be paintings of some monsters. These paintings looked like illustrations in some monster stories.

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, and the sky was already slightly bright. She felt that her head was buzzing. She almost didn't sleep last night. She finally fell asleep for a while, and her dreams were full of scenes of being clicked. She felt that if she continued like this, she would go crazy.

At this time, people have to be divided into a rational personality and an irrational personality. The rational personality kept persuading her to calm down, while the irrational personality advised her not to care about anything and just have fun.

Her daily life was a life of constant struggle between these two personalities.

No one dared to say it, no one could say it, and she had no one to say it to.

Such a lonely day made her inexplicably think of finding a boyfriend...

She took the key to open the door, and just saw Xiaoying pushing the door out, carrying a huge backpack behind her, and was about to go out.

"Wait, where are you going?" Yuan Yuanyuan called her, Xiaoying turned around and said, "I'm going to the comic exhibition."

"Comic exhibition?" Yuan Yuanyuan asked, "Are you going to the cosplay venue, or are you just going to stroll around?"

"I'm not going to cosplay, Li Xin is going to cosplay, don't worry about us, my mother and her mother know." Xiaoying waved her hand and turned to leave.

"Come back early." Yuan Yuanyuan said, just as she was about to turn around and go in, she suddenly caught a glimpse of something strange.

She half-leaned out of the room 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 a big bag behind her.

"...Who are you going to cosplay?" 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're 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...