4. Chapter 4

The 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 a piece of music when Kikyo appeared. After Kikyo was resurrected, there was no one around her. There were only dead soul bugs floating around her like balls of light, surrounding her.

Every time she appeared in this posture, the background music was this.

Yuan Yuanyuan went into the bathroom to wash her face, took her phone in, and pressed the hands-free button.

"Yuanyuan, what are you doing?" A girl's lively voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Woo woo..." Yuan Yuanyuan's face was buried in the water, and two vague sounds came out.

"Oh, I'm washing my face." A clear voice came from the other end. "Yuanyuan, have you read the comic that Mengman strongly recommended recently?"

"... Which one? The one called "Magical Grade 3 Class 8"? " Yuan Yuanyuan wiped her face and looked at the phone.

"No, it's that "Yao Ji"." The girl said again.

Yuan Yuanyuan hung up the towel, raised her head, and looked at the ceiling of the bathroom.

"I saw it, what's wrong." She picked up the comb and combed a small bun for herself, asking while combing.

"Nothing, I just want to ask, can you make clothes for that Ran Niang?" The girl asked on the phone.

"...Yes." Yuan Yuanyuan finished combing her hair and put the wooden comb back.

Speaking of which, when the girl called and mentioned "Yao Ji", Yuan Yuanyuan seemed calm on the surface, but in fact she was panicking.

What if the girl asked something she shouldn't ask?

- Did you see the man in black?

...I saw it.

- What do you think of this brother?

...It's okay.

Mengman is the platform that publishes the comic book "Yaoji". It has both an online platform and a physical platform. The physical comic book will publish some popular comics, and put some interviews with cartoonists or private manuscripts at the end as a small easter egg to attract readers.

Today is the day when Mengman's physical comic book 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 book and found the author interview section at the back. She read them one by one, Viduka, Appetizer, Li Xiaoli... Familiar names of painters flew in front of her, but she couldn't find the "Ji Qiu" no matter how hard she looked.

She sighed and threw the comic book back on the table. Thirty yuan was wasted.

Yuan Yuanyuan wanted to see what this "Ji Qiu" was, but who would have thought that there was no information about this cartoonist even in the physical comic book.

You know, many cartoonists will even expose photos in physical interviews.

In the past few days, Yuan Yuanyuan has searched almost all the information about this cartoonist, but she only found the name "Ji Qiu" and a big cat photo.

The avatar of this guy's painter is a big hand-painted cat with dull eyes and a beastly face. There is no Weibo, no QQ, and it can be said that there is no contact information left.

Yuan Yuanyuan has been entangled in this matter 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, such as dyeing her hair pink...

These are things that are done in a hurry, commonly known as a desperate dog jumping over the wall. Who knew that she waited for a week in fear, but no one came to find her, and her life was still the same, without any difference.

It was not until these two days that Yuan Yuanyuan calmed down a little. She thought, since the ending of the comic was that the demon hunter did not catch up with the black-clothed monster, does it mean... that 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 wanted to pretend to be someone, and she had never failed.

Yuan Yuanyuan threw the comic book on the small bookshelf, returned to the bedroom, and thought about the content of the phone call just now.

The person on the phone was her college classmate. They were both in the cosplay club. At that time, Yuan Yuanyuan had just become a half-demon and was in the second spring of her second year of middle school...

She and that girl have been in contact for the past few years, and she is also one of the few people who still keep in touch after so many years.

That girl was their club flower at that time. She was proficient in everything from makeup girl to cosplayer, and Yuan Yuanyuan had always been mixed in. After so many years, that girl already has a family and a child, but Yuan Yuanyuan is still alone.

Yuan Yuanyuan fell on the bed and fumbled to turn on the small lamp at the head of the bed. The "Ran Niang" that the girl mentioned is a character in "Yao Ji", dressed in red and with black hair.

Uh… to be more specific, it was the girl monster who died in the comic book published a week ago. She was set as a monster who infiltrated the demon hunter to extract information.

Of course, according to the cartoonist’s nature, there might really be a girl named “Ran Niang” who died a few days ago.

Yuan Yuanyuan touched her chin. Hey, now that you mention it, this artist is quite amazing. How did he know such a hidden thing?

She didn’t think much about it. She 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 "Yao Ji" 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...

Looking at the number of cosplay clothes, it shows that the character is quite popular.

Yuan Yuanyuan put down her mobile phone, picked up a pack of red cloth, touched the material with her hand, and felt that it was quite suitable, so she put it aside and prepared to cut it and make a cosplay clothes of Ran Niang to send 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 messy, and she had a lot of dreams in a daze.

"Don't forget..."

"Don't forget even if you die..."

...

In the dark room, a low cry came out of nowhere.

Yuan Yuanyuan sat up from the bed all of a sudden, sweat all over her head. She raised her head and looked outside. It was still dark.

This dream again.

Yuan Yuanyuan reached out and picked up the alarm clock on the bedside table. She looked at the time. It was three o'clock in the middle of the night.

She could still sleep for a while.

Yuan Yuanyuan got up and went to the bathroom. After returning, she got a glass of water, drank half a glass, and then lay back on the bed.

... After lying for ten minutes, she suddenly opened her eyes and reached out to turn on the small yellow light on the bedside table.

She couldn't sleep.

She rubbed her head, got up from the bed, got up and walked to the living room and turned on the light.

She had had this dream countless times, and she had it almost every day during the time when she became a half-demon. However, she didn't know what was in this dream. It was just a person who kept repeating it back and forth in her dream.

The person's voice was a woman's voice. The voice was a little hoarse, but it still sounded very nice.

Yuan Yuanyuan thought that the girl's voice should be very nice, but she really couldn't remember who she was.

She didn't even know how she became a monster. A few years ago, she became like this in a daze.

...Then it was endless, endless running.

Yuan Yuanyuan sat on the bed in a daze for a long time, and suddenly 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 got up, carefully leaned over, opened the curtains a little, and looked outside. A thick layer of dark clouds appeared in the sky, covering the moon.

There were no pedestrians on the street, only the street lights were flashing. After the dark clouds covered the moon, the street lights suddenly seemed to be out of power and went out all of a sudden. In an instant, the street fell into darkness.

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

Except for Yuan Yuanyuan, no one stuck their heads out to see this strange scene. All the residents nearby seemed to be collectively under the Soul Taking Curse, and there was no reaction.

Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the dark clouds in the sky. The air around her suddenly dropped several degrees. She almost couldn't suppress her demonic aura, and the red branches almost stretched out.

One Hundred Demons Night Parade.

Yuan Yuanyuan never participated in such activities, but she could see that there were a constant stream of bright spots rising from all around, floating into the air, and drilling into the layers of dark clouds.

Some bright spots flew out from residential buildings, and some came from those dark alleys. As the dark clouds moved, the density of these light spots became larger and larger, and finally covered a full area, 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 cabinet.

The dark clouds grew bigger and bigger, and the temperature around them became lower and lower.

One Hundred Demons Night Parade is also an activity from ancient times to the present. Even today, it is still a very spectacular sight.

Yuan Yuanyuan lay back on the bed and closed her eyes. Less than half an hour later, she fell into a deep sleep again.

This time she didn't have any weird dreams, but she slept unsteadily.

...Because there were things around her disturbing her from time to time.

...

The next day, Yuan Yuanyuan opened the curtains that had been closed all night. People outside were coming and going, just like usual, without any difference.

The curtains were opened, and the warm sunlight shone in. She stood in front of the window, with her hands on her hips and a sunny face.

Seeing the sunlight, I felt really comfortable. I always felt that my whole person became sunny all of a sudden.

She stretched lazily, washed her face and brushed her teeth, and then turned on her phone.

After checking various messages, she opened the Mengman app again, scrolled down, and looked at the various contents inside.

Unexpectedly, she actually saw a lot of messages about the man in black under the book "Yao Ji".

"Who is that little brother in black? He looks very handsome."

"Oh, this phoenix eye is very popular with me. He seems to be a very cool person. Will he be an important supporting role?"

"Of course, Ji Qiu draws it so beautifully... He never draws the supporting roles to be stunningly beautiful, don't worry."

"Is it a monster that is against humans... Well, after reading it for a month, I feel that this comic is realistic. I always feel that this little brother will die very tragically."

"Hey, stop talking nonsense upstairs, okay... I finally met someone I like, how can I just die like that?"

Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the words "died tragically" and was silent for a while.

Then she returned to bed, pulled the curtains, silently hugged her quilt, and fell asleep again.