Chapter 36 Chapter 36
The demon king of the Xiliang Demon Kingdom celebrates his thousandth birthday, which is undoubtedly a big event in the hearts of the little demons in this area.
As a little demon whose ancestors have lived in the jurisdiction of the Xiliang Demon Kingdom for generations, Xiao Luo took a special leave from school this week.
"The high school entrance exam is coming soon. Are you sure you have to ask for leave?" asked the head teacher of a junior high school in X City doubtfully.
"I have to." Xiao Luo is a poplar tree demon who has been in human society for many years and has already gone to junior high school.
Now that it’s the ancestor’s birthday, even if it doesn’t want to take a leave, the monsters in the tribe will order it to miss classes.
"Okay." The head teacher looked at her student wearing glasses and felt a little headache. "Then you have to do your homework. Ask your parents to call me to confirm."
"Got it." Xiao Luo completely ignored the first sentence and remembered the second one.
After a while, the tree demon in the tribe who played the role of its parent called the class teacher and arranged for the leave.
"Xiao Luo, come back early, otherwise the old trees in the tribe will scold you." After giving this instruction, the tree demon who played the role of Xiao Luo's parent said on the phone.
In recent years, Xiao Luo has been studying abroad and has not spent much time with the monsters in the tribe. As time goes by, their relationship inevitably becomes unfamiliar. In addition, Xiao Luo has been in human society for a long time, so it is inevitable that he has some ideas that are different from those of the tribe.
Taking advantage of the Demon King's birthday, the old tree demons also wanted to spend more time with it and improve their relationship.
"I know." Xiao Luo said lacking interest.
After perfunctorily dealing with the trees in the tribe, Xiao Luo sat down again and played with his mobile phone - he had to ask for leave tomorrow and was too lazy to attend the class today. The whole monster looked lazy.
"Are you really not going to class tomorrow?" The classmate at the same table had already learned that something had happened at Xiao Luo's family and was very envious.
"The high school entrance exam is coming up soon, and you don't have to go to class yet. Your family is really amazing!"
Xiao Luo curled his lips.
"What's the use of the high school entrance examination?" Unlike human kids, Xiao Luo is a demon sent to study in human society. It has been many years since he first enrolled in school.
If it was so excited that it couldn't sleep when it first went to junior high school, after going through junior high school several times, this joy was long gone.
Now, whenever it thinks of going to class, it feels lazy.
"Don't be like that. Studying is still quite interesting." The human academic master who sat at the same table with him patiently advised him, "Just wait until you get to college."
"Then you can play around as you like."
Xiao Luo snorted again.
What about going to college? As a little demon, it was already very difficult for their tribe to send it to junior high school, as for the college entrance examination?
As a monster, it doesn't have a human ID card, so it's hard to say whether it can register.
The top student at the table patted it on the shoulder without saying much, and immersed himself in doing exercises again. Xiao Luo was bored, so he had to lower his head to play with his phone.
In the class group, the students secretly blocked the head teacher and were arguing fiercely at this time.
Xiao Luo took a look and found that they were arguing about a variety show called "Impossible Journey" and there was a male guest whose name he didn't know.
Both sides debated whether this guest was worthy of being on the variety show "The Impossible Journey", and some people even posted ghost pictures in the group.
Xiao Luo: “…”
You human cubs are really idle.
Xiao Luo had asked for leave from school and skipped classes that afternoon. He returned to his residence, put his schoolbag away, took out his bicycle and started riding towards the edge of the city.
When they passed the area where the monsters of City X often appeared, Xiao Luo turned into a tree, put the bicycle on his head, and moved quickly in the sand.
When passing by the hotel built by humans, Xiao Luo frowned a little. He seemed to faintly smell the scent of a demon that did not belong to this desert.
Where did this monster come from and what is he doing here?
Fortunately, it was just a little demon passing by. Xiao Luo didn't think much about it and quickly left the area. An hour later, he finally returned to the tribe's land.
"Luo is back." The clan tree saw it and greeted it.
Seemingly quite satisfied with its speed of return, the clan tree took the initiative to ask it: "We need to send gifts for the king's birthday this time. Do you have any rules?"
Xiao Luo took out a box of snacks from another bag.
"What's this?"
“Human food.”
The clan tree sniffed the smell and nodded: "Yes, the king likes human things very much."
Xiao Luo easily passed the clan tree and breathed a sigh of relief. After handing in the gift, he found a place to squat.
But after a while, the tribe seemed to become lively again. The clan tree looked a little anxious, and its roots were tangled in the ground.
"What's going on?"
A slightly more familiar tree demon in the tribe said, "It's all the fault of those damn tumbleweed demons. They actually prepared a great gift for the king!"
The tumbleweed monsters obviously didn't attach much importance to the confidentiality of the gifts. At first, one of the little monsters just wanted to show off to his friends, but it didn't take long before all the monsters in the entire ancient Xiliang Monster Kingdom knew about it.
"Compared to that, our gifts are too little." The clan tree said worriedly.
If one monster rolls, all other monsters will definitely roll as well.
If there had been no tumbleweed monster, the king would have had a good temper and everyone would have just dealt with it perfunctorily.
But now that the tumbleweed monsters are trying to please the king, they have to prepare a new expensive gift, otherwise it will be embarrassing and they will be labeled as disrespecting the old king.
"What a sin." If possible, the poplar tree demon would like to pull out all these fence-sitting demons and throw them to the Demon Bureau to let them be tortured by the official demons in the Demon Bureau.
The Demon King’s birthday is about to begin, and the gifts have to be prepared again, and the entire tribe is in chaos.
Xiao Luo couldn't say anything, and couldn't interrupt, so he had to stay bored. Watching the busyness of the tribe, Xiao Luo felt a little suspicious, but he didn't know who to talk to.
Monsters like Tumbleweed don’t have any great abilities and can only obtain limited things. So what exactly is the so-called “valuable gift”?
Thinking of this, Xiao Luo felt a little worried.
These tumbleweed monsters should not be confused and get things that they shouldn’t get. If they get into big trouble, they will all suffer.
As for Xiao Luo's worries, other young demons in the tribe were dismissive: "What? We are all subjects of the king. Even if something really happens, the king will take action."
"You little demon, you've been in human society for so long, how come you've become as timid and cowardly as humans?"
Xiao Luo shut up: fine, you are right.
This is why it didn't want to come back all these years - this group of monsters, although their bodies live in modern times, their thoughts are still thousands of years ago.
The demon kingdom of Xiliang has long been destroyed!
Otherwise, as a great demon, why does the king have to stay in this corner and kill time by relying on entertainment products produced by humans?
Doesn't it want to run around the world freely?
Xiao Luo's thoughts obviously did not bring any substantial results, but instead the news of the big-mouthed monster in the tribe spread out.
On the way to the birthday party, there were always monsters in the tribe whispering and pointing at it.
Xiao Luo had a cold face and pretended not to hear.
Since this year was the 100th birthday of the demon king, the banquet started much earlier than before. Ten days before the birthday, the demons had already arrived at the king's residence.
From a human perspective, this is a mausoleum.
Especially the Royal Mausoleum, which is the main tomb, is usually a well-known tourist attraction - but due to its remote location and the recent planning of new tourist routes in City X, the Royal Mausoleum has attracted very few visitors.
Although it is not conducive to economic development if humans do not come, it is a completely good thing for the monsters.
This time, on the occasion of the demon king's birthday, the little demon boldly installed a lot of human lights, lighting up the entire royal tomb.
"You are worthy of being the king. You deserve the best." The young tree demon in the tribe who laughed at Xiao Luo was a fanatical fan of the demon king. He started bragging before entering the royal mausoleum.
Xiao Luo looked up at the junks hanging outside the royal mausoleum that he had picked up from some lighting city, and couldn't help but twitch his lips.
Good soil.
Is this something that can be said?
After secretly complaining about the aesthetic tastes of the little monsters, Xiao Luo followed the other monsters in the tribe into the royal mausoleum. The style of painting that came into his sight once again hurt his eyes.
It was as if it had come to an idol drama from decades ago, and saw the "rich style" that only existed in idol dramas.
The entire royal mausoleum was originally gray, but the little demons who were trying to please the king insisted on decorating the interior with gold and splendor.
Since these little monsters in the ancient Xiliang Monster Kingdom rarely interact with humans on a daily basis, they obviously do not have the ability or channels to purchase these decorations.
The only possibility is to find a way to pick up junk in the lighting city.
When Xiao Luo thought about the little demons treating these unwanted garbage from humans as treasures as tribute, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.
"The banquet is about to begin. You stay here and don't go too far." Just when Xiao Luo's mind was full of barrages, the clan tree ordered.
"Especially you, Luo." Unable to find a better gift for the time being, the clan had no choice but to clean the bicycle that Xiao Luo rode back and give it as a gift.
For this reason, the clan tree decided to assign the precious opportunity of an audience to Xiao Luo.
"Yes." Xiao Luo sighed.
Not surprisingly, when he said this, the other young tree spirits looked over with jealousy in their eyes.
Xiao Luo wanted to sigh even more - so what if he met the Demon King? In human terms, the Demon King has been in a bad state for hundreds of years.
The waiting time for the audience was always very long, and the young tree demons in the tribe completely ignored Xiao Luo. Xiao Luo was unwilling to use his hot branches to touch other people's cold tree trunks, so he had to wait and see.
This one glance made it see the difference.
Compared to the Demon King’s birthday celebration more than ten years ago, many more demons came to congratulate him this time - many demons who had a say in the demon tribe also came.
The scene seemed particularly lively.
Thanks to his experience of interacting with humans for so many years, Xiao Luo ignored the strange phenomenon and instead began to analyze the reasons in his mind at the first moment.
Sure enough, a thought popped into Ronaldinho's mind.
If we have to talk about the changes in recent years, the biggest movement in the demon world recently is that the Demon Bureau Headquarters far away in Beijing issued a notice and officially started recruiting.
The monster bureau has become normal again, and it is time to recruit monsters.
The monsters from the Xiliang Monster Kingdom were not well-informed and only a few participated, but it was clear that the trend had spread.
In addition, the human government of City X seems to be preparing to create landscapes in the desert, which will undoubtedly affect the living environment of many monster tribes.
Taking this opportunity, these monsters probably want to gather together and discuss how to deal with the situation.
To some extent, these monsters are protected by the Monster King, but they also have to accept the consequences of being outside the human society and the monster system.
Xiao Luo was lost in thought, trying to figure out the origins of these monsters.
When its eyes swept across the group of monsters, its gaze paused for a moment——
If I remember correctly, these monsters don't seem to be monsters in the desert.
Not only the appearance but also the smell feels a little strange.
Just when Xiao Luo was feeling doubtful and undecided, he suddenly saw a camel-tribe demon walking towards them and talking to them.
Perhaps he was a guest from a certain ethnic group, Xiao Luo withdrew his gaze.
Not far from where Xiao Luo was, several monsters that he had just noticed something was wrong breathed a sigh of relief.
"This little demon is quite perceptive." Xiang Yu and Ning Su, who had sneaked into the birthday banquet of the Xiliang Demon King, were talking to them. Together with them was Director Lin from the X City Demon Bureau.
A few hours ago, they found out the whereabouts of the two missing guests and managed to get tickets for the Demon King's birthday banquet.
"Your brother is also very perceptive." Ning Su praised.
The so-called "you" is none other than Xiangyu - after being a supporting role all the way, Xiangyu finally made a difference. In the process of sneaking into the Demon King's birthday banquet, it contributed its precious demon vein in the desert.
When it was learning martial arts at Shaolin Temple, it met a senior brother who happened to be a camel monster under the command of a monster king. Over the years, with his qualifications, he has already risen to a position beside the monster king.
"Ancestor, please stop talking." The camel demon called himself Kai. He almost sweated when he heard Ning Su's praise.
"Can you please keep a low profile?"
It took a big risk to sneak these monsters from the Monster Bureau in. Although the other party kept emphasizing that it was just out of curiosity and had no ill intentions, it was still worried.
You know, in recent years, the Demon Bureau and the demons from the Xiliang Demon Kingdom have been keeping to themselves.
If it brings in its old enemy, the king may not be angry, but if it is discovered, it will inevitably be despised by other little demons.
"What are you afraid of? At worst, just come with me."
Xiang Yu was somewhat unhappy with his senior brother. In order to get him to do this favor, he not only owed him a favor, but he also asked for a lot of good things.
How can there be such a good thing in the world to only receive benefits without taking risks? Therefore, its tone is also a bit aggressive.
Seeing that they were about to quarrel again, Director Lin immediately stopped them: "Both of you, please say less and don't forget where we are now."
Although the camel demon was timid, what he said was not completely unreasonable.
Normally, the X City Monster Bureau and the Monster King had always tried to keep their distance. If they offended the Monster King because of this incident and were detained, they would have no place to complain.
If it weren't for the colleagues from the A City Monster Bureau who were determined to come in and rescue people, it would not dare to come to the monster den of the Xiliang Monster Kingdom so blatantly.
This time, it also paid the price with its own life.
"Just say less." Ning Su said.
Xiang Yu snorted coldly, although he was reluctant, he didn't say anything. Kai, who knew Xiang Yu's previous personality, couldn't help but feel a little puzzled, and looked at Ning Su curiously.
In order to prepare for his team's subsequent rescue operation, Ning Su sent Kai away with just a few words. After a while, Yuxi came over quietly.
Yes, although everyone acted together, the most important task was given to Yuxi, the most inconspicuous monster.
"I found them." Yuxi brought good news as soon as he arrived.
Since his innate skills were hiding and mind control, after entering the banquet hall, Yuxi quickly found a way to reduce his presence and then searched for the location of the tumbleweed monsters.
Fortunately, it's not hard to find.
The tumbleweed monsters were so eager to be the center of attention at the banquet that they did not conceal their whereabouts, and the two actresses they brought with them were also discovered.
"Are they okay?" Director Lin asked with some concern.
Compared to the monster bureau, the place where they are at this time can indeed be called a monster nest. The two guests are both human beings. It is afraid that these two people will not be able to withstand the stimulation and will collapse mentally first.
"She looks okay." When saying this, Yuxi felt that Director Lin looked down on human women, especially those career women who had worked in the entertainment industry for many years and had achieved some success.
In fact, when Yuxi went over, although the two guests looked a little pale, they were in good spirits and it could be seen that they were calmly observing the situation around them.
Even without any help, they still want to escape by their own strength.
"What should we do next?" Director Lin, Ning Su and other monsters all felt relieved that they could find the target person so quickly.
Then the task became how to take the person away inconspicuously.
"I think we need to wait until after the birthday party." Director Lin's advice is always mature and prudent.
"If we take action now, the tumbleweed monsters will not give up easily. If they make a fuss and attract the attention of other monsters, today may not end so easily."
Saving lives is important, but the stability and harmony of City X and the desert are also important.
"Director Lin makes sense." On this issue, Ning Su is definitely a supporter of Director Lin.
The more he got to know these little demons of the ancient Xiliang Demon Country, the more he felt that these groups were conservative. And the more conservative they were, the easier it was for them to be provoked.
If they resort to violence, it is likely to intensify the conflict and turn the situation against their will.
"But I think I still need to tell them." Yuxi accepted Director Lin's suggestion, but still added.
In such an environment, the two female guests were obviously still nervous. If they were not told the situation, they would probably continue to be worried.
This made Yuxi feel a little uncomfortable.
"You go contact them, and I'll find a way to create conditions for you." Ning Su supported Yuxi's idea without any reason.
"OK."
"...What method should we use?" Xiang Yu glanced at Ning Su, feeling a little worried.
At this moment, there are already enough monsters at the banquet. It is obviously not an easy task to divert the attention of the tumbleweed monsters without attracting other attention.
"Don't worry, I have a solution."
Ning Su was confident.
Soon, a quarrel broke out among the tumbleweed monsters. A little monster named Ruo started crying and making noises, looking as aggrieved as a 200-pound child.
"What happened?" Ning Su left and came back, his movements like a ghost, but obviously, he accomplished the task of creating conditions for Yuxi with ease.
"A small punishment for the thief." Ning Su spread out his hands, and the others found a mobile phone that had run out of battery and turned off automatically.
"What is this?" The other monsters still didn't understand.
"Another male guest's cell phone was stolen by this little demon. He probably intended it as a gift to the demon king."
Now, he took it away quietly, without caring that the other person was crying so aggrievedly.
"...You can also discover this?" Xiang Yu was really impressed after hearing this.
Ning Su shrugged: "Who told it to be so carefully protecting some treasure from beginning to end?"
Knowing that there were two actresses nearby, there was no need for it to protect them like this, so there must be something else - combined with the information we had previously gathered, the answer was very simple and clear.
"This should be the phone that played "Sea Soul" at that time." The other monsters were all amazed.
With Ning Su's mysterious appearance, the tumbleweed monsters started an internal conflict. Yuxi quickly completed the task and slipped back.
"nailed it."
“They said they would cooperate with us.”
In fact, the two actresses were quite smart. When Yuxi approached them quietly, they discovered his intention.
While listening to Yuxi's introduction of the case, they seemed calm enough, and after they figured out the situation, they even went on to comfort Yuxi.
"Isn't it just a performance for the Demon King? It's a piece of cake."
Acting itself is their job.
Another woman smiled and said, "Celebrating the birthday of the demon king is a unique experience in the circle."
"Only two." The former corrected calmly.
Having said that, after realizing that they were not alone, the tense shoulders of both men relaxed.
"That's good." Director Lin coughed and had to admit that he seemed to have underestimated humans.
After informing the two guests, this was absolutely the right thing to do - after a while, the tumbleweed monsters finished arguing, and the two guests took the opportunity to propose conditions to the little monsters.
Makeup, costumes and ranking.
"No, how could they start quarreling at this time?" From a distance, two actors were arguing about whose name should be ranked first, while the tumbleweed monsters who were watching had dazed looks on their faces.
"Maybe it's to confuse the little demon and make him relax his vigilance." Xiang Yu said.
"No, have you forgotten that they are mortal enemies?" Yu Xi said faintly.
Ning Su: “…”
How is it that quarrelling in a den of monsters is not a kind of "Impossible Journey"?
The tumbleweed monsters were annoyed by the two actors' quarrels, but they also met many of their requests. At the same time, the birthday of the monster king finally officially began.
The demon king hasn't arrived yet, but the little demons have already started presenting gifts.
"...Could these really have been picked up from the garbage dump?" At certain times, Ning Su discovered that complaining is indeed an attitude.
Ning Su's attitude reached its peak especially when he saw the gifts presented to him.
“That should be it…right?”
In any case, the presentation of gifts by the little demons was a long process, and the demon king only showed up when it was almost halfway through.
As shown in the information, the opponent's prototype is a turtle.
"Very strong." Xiang Yu took a look at the other party's tortoise shell, which was ancient and simple but emitted a faint fluorescent light, and commented.
When it was evaluating, it looked at Ning Su and the demon king at the same time. Obviously, it hoped that the two demons would fight to see who would win.
Ning Su laughed and didn't respond.
The gift-giving process lasted for an hour, and finally, it was the turn of the two human guests to perform on stage.
However, at this moment, something strange happened.
The wolf demon located diagonally behind the tumbleweed demon suddenly attacked, and its bloody tongue scraped towards the two actresses.
Although they were far apart, Ning Su seemed to still be able to smell the fishy smell in the other person's mouth.
"Humans, hehehe, fresh and tender meat..." The wolf demon seemed to have completely lost his mind.
"It's a monster that has eaten humans!" Director Lin's expression changed as soon as the wolf monster appeared.
Whether a monster has ever eaten humans is very important to the Monster Bureau - if a monster has eaten humans, it will be different from other monsters.
Human flesh and blood will have a fatal attraction to them.
Obviously, this fallen wolf demon must have noticed the two humans from the beginning. It had been enduring it before, but now it finally couldn't bear it anymore.
We must take action!
The distance between the wolf demon and the human guests was much closer than they were. If they hesitated for even a second longer, the two humans would have their necks cut by its sharp teeth.
Fortunately, Ning Su didn't hesitate for even a second.
The moment the wolf demon appeared, he mobilized all his strength and punched towards the wolf demon.
As time was urgent, he even used his innate abilities unconsciously to set up the barrier.
A distant yet familiar force came over him, and the demon king, who had been paralyzed on the throne, suddenly woke up and rolled over on the throne in fear.
At this moment, many not-so-pleasant memories came to mind.
Once, when it was young, a dragon had grabbed it with its claws, curiously asking what it was, and even dropped it from the sky to test the hardness of its shell.
Later, I heard that turtle soup was very nutritious, so I even planned to cook it into turtle soup.
God have mercy on it, it is a black turtle!
All the memories are nightmares.
Even now, thousands of years later, these nightmares are still fresh in his memory and heartbreaking.
Damn dragon beast!
The demon king gnashed his teeth.
However, after seeing Ning Su smash the wolf demon's head with one fist, the demon king changed his expression and attitude, and said respectfully yet affectionately:
"I didn't know that the Dragon King was coming. I am sorry that I failed to welcome you."
——It would have been better if the last few words had not been said with gritted teeth.
Lord Dragon?
Before Ning Su could react to the name, he saw the demon king suddenly turned into a human as if he was frightened when he glanced at the side.
"Um... may I ask you two, are you Zhao Liang and Ling Minmin?"
These two names are exactly the names of the characters played by two actors in "Ancient Xiliang Chronicles".
"I'm your fan!" At this moment, all the little demons could feel the awkwardness and happiness in the demon king's words.
The life-and-death crisis had just been resolved, and the adrenaline that had reached its peak had not yet subsided. When the two actors heard someone confess their love, they blurted out without even having time to be surprised:
"So do you like Zhao Liang or Ling Minmin more?"
Do you like me more or her more?
"???"
The demon king never thought that he would be asked such a life-threatening question. His brain became dull and his eyes stopped moving.
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