Chapter 108
Yu Tu: “…”
Very good. Let's not talk about the title first. Just look at the cover and you will know that there will be a lot of shots of Buyehou in this episode.
Yu Tu thought that "Between Time" would start from when he met Wei Ziming, but he didn't expect it to start with the chaos in Chongming City.
The comics started with a few large storyboards from a bird's-eye view.
The formation that covers the entire Chongming City; the barrier that was born with the formation; the ugly and disgusting toad corpse that appeared in the strange vortex in the center of the lake; the colorful mushrooms that emit black spores hidden in the bushes...
There are nine branches in Chongming City, and there are eight such monsters. The only exception is Huailin Town.
[Aaaaaah, please don't draw weird things so clearly! I have no objection to you marking every town, but you really don't have to draw the monsters in every town as well.]
[yue——yue——Why are some things so eye-catching! My sanity is dropping like crazy!!!]
[I want to scream for help! How can there be a zombie made of pieces of corpses?]
[Old thief Tian Yan, why don't you pursue realism at this time?!]
The comic readers reacted strongly, but Yu Tu was not so bad. He had seen these monsters before when consciousness spread infinitely, and they were much more terrifying than those in the comics. To be more precise, Tian Yan even beautified these monsters manually.
If the real-life monsters were posted exactly as they were... Yu Tu was really curious whether the comic would be 404-ed.
After the readers' sanity values dropped collectively, someone finally noticed something different about these monsters.
[There are no monsters in Huailin Town!]
[Indeed! But if you look back, you will find that the monsters in Huailin Town are most likely the ghosts of infants in the old buildings. Not to mention that the old buildings have been demolished, the ghosts of infants have all been liberated! [狗头.JPG]]
[I miss Heituan Tuan a little bit. I wonder if they are doing well in their reincarnation?]
[The old building must have been built hundreds of years ago, right? My god, the incubation period of this formation is really long...]
[So Yingying was exposed to the shocking conspiracy from the beginning, and even destroyed a part of the conspiracy?!]
[Yingying first wants to thank Tutu for his incredible luck!]
[Tutu: Who cued me? Are you polite?]
[Hahahahaha how presumptuous!]
After the monsters appeared one by one, the team fighting against the monsters soon appeared in the comics.
For example, after the armored vehicle drove to the lake, the Special Team 2 immediately activated the formation and drove the crowd to a safe location. They stepped on mechanical flying beasts made of various materials and rushed to the sparkling lake in a chic manner. Then colorful props flew around and the battle was in full swing.
For example, when the Special Five waved their hands, the people infected by the spores fell down in large numbers, just like harvesting wheat. They skillfully used spells to drive away the spores, and the aura seemed to surround them as if it were a physical object, and they could control them at will.
For example, Special Teams 11 and 26 staged a fast and furious battle in the desolate and abandoned cemetery in Qiuxu Town, with piles of bones, black combat uniforms, murderous excitement, danger and terror...
[Aaaaah, it starts with such a blockbuster movie! I am feasting my eyes!]
[So cool and exciting! It makes my blood boil!]
[The old thief Tian Yan is really brave! Chongming City just had an incident, and he immediately used it as material. How cruel!]
[Tian Yan's unethical and fun-loving behavior of chasing hot topics at the cost of his life makes me feel that these things seem to happen in our daily lives!
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[Don't tell me, really don't tell me, my hometown is in Qiuxu Town, and even I didn't know there was such a desolate abandoned cemetery in our area! This shows that Tianyan really worked hard to make trouble! ]
These humorous comments accounted for the majority, but Yu Tu noticed some other comments mixed in with these teasing comments.
[My uncle's family settled in Cangxi City. When they video chatted with us two days ago, they were all lying in the hospital. Their eyes were red like rabbits, just like the symptoms of spore infection in comics!]
[I was at the lake in Luping City that day... I can only say that the special group really exists, and I can't say more.]
[Chongming City really encountered something as bizarre as in the comics, don't disbelieve it!]
Underneath these comments that swear that the comics are real, there are all other readers making fun of them—
[Hiss… It seems that the evil old thief Tian Yan has indeed achieved his goal. You two are acting so convincingly, and even made full use of the IP address.]
[Yeah, yeah, the comic is real! It's really real! I'm so scared!]
[What! Really! Wuhu! Does that mean my wife also exists?]
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[What your wife? That's my wife!]
Almost all comments that affirm that the comic is real will be drowned out by the flood of ridicule and jokes. Although Chongming City has a population of several million, only a very small part of it likes comics, and only a small part of that small part follows this comic.
Such a small number of people hardly accounted for a large proportion of the normal readership, so they were quickly drowned out, weak and helpless.
Yu Tu stared at the page for a long time.
When will we be able to see Tian Yan's comics officially?
Yu Tu was staring at the comics here and feeling worried. The network department of the Yigui Department was so busy that they were almost going to heaven on the spot, but they discovered an anomaly a few days ago—
There are people on the Internet who keep talking about a comic, saying that the things in the comic really exist in reality, but when they search based on the netizens' assurances, they only get a blank. After finally finding the website where the comic is located, they discover that the screen is completely white. The location that should belong to the comic is also an abrupt blank. They can see other people's discussions, but they cannot see the key words in between.
The people in the network department didn't take it seriously at first, but as they casually tested it, they found that all the people in the inner world could only see a blank space.
Everyone immediately became alert—could this be a new strange incident?
The strange events spread through the Internet have always been the ones with the greatest impact and the most troublesome consequences.
After the issue attracted great attention, the network department found someone to conduct a test - people in the outer world could see the comic, but when they talked about it, people in the inner world forgot it immediately after listening. After telling the people in the outer world about the content related to the inner world, they would also forget the content of the comic they had read.
It seems that anyone who knows about the existence of the inner world cannot access this comic. Even if they find some way to read it, a layer of fog will immediately cover their consciousness, regardless of their ability.
The samples tested were relatively small, and after reporting to the quarantine department, everyone was still continuing the testing, and the news was kept strictly confidential.
Yu Tu didn't know that the comic had already attracted a small amount of attention. After worrying for a while, he continued reading.
After these grand battle scenes scattered across various towns, the comics shift to Gu Hongying's perspective.
Gu Hongying had just finished a tailor-made training and was leaning against the ice, his breath coming out in clouds of white mist. His right palm was facing up, with irregular small metal fragments hanging from his five fingers.
"Finally I sensed the metallic aura..."
Gu Hongying's eyes were filled with tiredness. He moved his fingers slightly, and small metal fragments the size of soybeans flew straight towards the ice chains in the sky. The small metal fragments hit the chains, but the chain patterns did not move at all, and the ice skin was not even broken at all.
The only benefit of being able to sense spiritual energy is that he can finally get rid of the miserable life of having to be covered with warm babies when he is not training.
Those irregular small metal fragments consumed all of Gu Hongying's spiritual energy stored for the day. He was now dizzy and his legs were weak. He didn't even have the strength to crawl into his sleeping bag.
He looked up at the sky full of ice chains, and felt sad: "How long will it take me to finish chopping these?"
The boy who was fixed by the chains on the platform closed his eyes, as if he had fallen into a deep sleep. After Gu Hongying finished wailing and was about to grit his teeth and continue working hard, the bracelet on his wrist began to vibrate wildly, and the freshman group, which had only received sporadic messages, suddenly became extremely lively.
Gu Hongying, who was dizzy from the training, clicked on it with a confused look on his face. People in the group were talking about "Chongming City", "formation", "barrier", "tea trees blocking out the sun", and someone asked them to walk out of the house and look at the sky, saying that it could not be taken in a photo and could only be seen with the naked eye.
Gu Hongying: “……?”
What?
As an 18-year-old college student with a strong curiosity, Gu Hongying, who had originally exhausted all his strength, climbed up. After sensing the spiritual energy of the same attribute as himself, the spell taught by the principal came in handy. He finally no longer had to cross the beautiful and dangerous ice path by himself, but could instead dodge in and out by chanting spells and making gestures.
Gu Hongying worked hard to collect some metal-attributed spiritual energy and tried to teleport in the ice cave for the first time... to an ice platform more than five meters high.
Gu Hongying: “???”
It was true that he was reciting the spell to get out.
"Oh..."
Because of this mistake, Gu Hongying came into close contact with the locked-up boy for the first time after more than ten days of training. He felt as if he was standing next to an ice sculpture that was madly emitting cold air.
The boy didn't move, but Gu Hongying could feel his eyes on him, and then... he was laughed at.
Gu Hongying: TAT
"Cooperate with the gesture... the middle finger of your left hand... press on your index finger..." the boy who had smiled at him spoke in a staccato, light and weak voice, "... raise your arms a little higher... keep your back straight... don't be shy..."
His chest rose and fell slightly as he spoke, and the red tasseled silk thread by his ear started to dig into his back again, and the boy's expression instantly became listless.
Faced with such cruelty, Gu Hongying couldn't help but take a step forward, but was fixed in place by his gaze.
"Don't come near me..." he said, "until the chain is broken."
After saying this, he closed his eyes and ignored Gu Hongying.
After Gu Hongying mastered the correct casting posture, he finally succeeded in teleporting outside the mountain wall for the second time. He wiped the sweat from his head and looked up at the sky—
In his eyes, the shadows of tea trees blocking out the sun and sky were reflected.
The light green branches stretched out in all directions, and every leaf on the tree looked like translucent jade, as if... it was a living tree.
The comments that have been silent until now are starting to bubble up at this time———
[Oh my god! So spectacular!]
[It looks like a tea tree, but why does it feel more elegant than a sacred tree?]
[Bet a bag of spicy noodles, it’s my wife’s big move! ]
The perspective of the comic rises higher and higher, gradually colliding with the phantom of the tea tree in the sky, and then the perspective suddenly drops, and the figure of Buyehou appears in the comic.
The picture that occupies an entire page is beautiful and shocking———
The "fountain" made of glowing white filaments in the sky densely covered most of the background, revealing only a little bit of broken sky. In the center of the filaments was a terrifying eyeball with a long, snake-like scarlet pupil. In front of the pupil was the back of Lord Bu Ye. On his side, huge branches stretched out wantonly, with surging, substantial aura entwined between the branches and leaves. The five-colored aura was like a light band, passing through the branches and leaves, around the trunk, and connecting to the complex and dizzying array on the ground.
The white is dazzling, the blue is clear, the red is fierce, the gold is sacred, and the green is full of vitality. The five colors of white, blue, red, gold, and green are heavily used, wantonly rendered, harmonious and yet fragmented, with a kind of magic that makes people unable to take their eyes away.
[Knock! I got goosebumps...]
[This texture, this composition, this color scheme! It can even be used as a movie poster promotion!]
[I know it’s a big scene, but this is even bigger than I imagined…]
After this scene, the pale green shadow of the tea tree suddenly expanded, with leaves falling from the tree. The camera followed one of the leaves, and the background became blurred lines due to the excessive speed.
The leaf turned into a green crane, flapped its wings and flew into the woods of the park. It only pecked lightly at the well-hidden mushroom that released spores wantonly, and the mushroom quickly withered and decayed, like a relic that had been dried in the sun for years and weathered by time.
The dilemma that left people helpless was solved so easily - but this was not the end.
Under the shadow of the huge tea tree, the person standing opened his eyes, the branches stretched out, and spiritual power surged. The besieged weird corpses and the eyes in the "fountain" all fell to the ground silently, and the latter bled profusely in an instant.
He took a step forward.
The "fountain" in the sky stagnated, the formation on the ground cracked, and the filaments of light in the sky became thin. At this time, the comic finally moved the camera to the face of the man who had the power to overturn mountains and seas with just one move—
A tired and pale profile belonging to the Marquis of Nevernight.
The comments reached their peak at this point, with screams and cheers as if they had lost their language system.
[Ahhhhhh I can't think of any other word besides handsome!]
[I know my wife is strong, but this really seems a bit...
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[I have never had a very intuitive feeling about my wife's fighting ability, I just looked at her face... Holy shit! She is really strong!!]
In the readers' chaotic language system, someone arrived at this shocking place. At the same time, the narrator explained the beginning and end of the disaster in simple words.
Yu Tu was so sleepy at the time that he didn't even see whether the person was a man or a woman. Only then, from the perspective of a comic, did he realize that the person talking to him was Jiang Jiang, the director of the Abnormal Department.
The comics do not depict her features in detail, but only focus on her eyes, which are firm, sincere, and fearless, and can make people feel at ease just by looking at them.
She said, "Thank you for your help, Mr. Buyehou."
In the comic, Buyehouzhuan seemed not to hear it until she said—
"The ancient sealing formation similar to Mount Tai was created by the Phoenix, but after that person's death, no one has been able to repair this formation."
After this sentence, the overall tone of the comic changed drastically. Tian Yan perfectly demonstrated how to change the style of painting in an instant. The background of the comic seemed to be covered with a layer of indescribable dark color.
There was a kind of misty gray in Buyehou's eyes. He seemed to be looking at Jiang Jiang, but also seemed to be just staring into the void in a daze:
"...Phoenix?"
His face was pale without a trace of blood, and the majestic shadow of the tea tree in the sky seemed to fade in an instant because of his wavering mind, and then turned into scattered streams of light.
The bloody and terrifying eyeballs seemed to tremble slightly because of his loss of concentration, and a strong evil intent emanated from it, but was burned by the phoenix-shaped flames that came from behind him.
In the comic, Jiang Jiang's expression is sad: "The Phoenix predecessor was going through the calamity of Nirvana on Chaoshan Mountain, but it's a pity that the predecessor...has not yet passed this calamity."
As she spoke, the comic inserted several flashbacks—
The sycamore forest, covered with red leaves, suddenly turned into a blazing sea of fire. The phoenix sang a sad song, which ended in its final act.
Yu Tu suddenly sat up straight.
In one of these memory shots, there is a scene where the human form of Phoenix is exactly the same as the young man who handed him the inheritance documents in the car that day.
That mysterious young man is the fallen phoenix!
One mystery was solved, but more mysteries followed, the bronze phoenix lantern that suddenly went out, those "treasures" that disappeared in his childhood...
Who is behind all this? !
Yu Tu suddenly felt lost. He seemed to be standing in a wilderness, surrounded by fog. He could not see the way forward or where to go.
The comic readers did not understand the meaning behind this, but they had already keenly sensed that something was wrong.
[Knock! I feel like a knife is about to hit me!]
[What is the relationship between Phoenix and my wife? Urgent! Urgent! Stop being a riddle teller!]
[The background color has changed! Don’t be scared!]
[My wife’s background is mysterious, could she be an old friend of his?! The kind that he didn’t have time to say goodbye to!]
[Stop talking! I have already come up with thousands of knife techniques in my mind! I am a human being, not a knife stand!]
The readers who were afraid of being stabbed wailed, but still chose to continue reading.
But Tianyan did not draw their entire conversation. He only used dark tones to draw a somewhat blurry storyboard. It was difficult to see the expressions of everyone in the picture. There was only a few words that were unclear whether they were a conversation or a voice from the heart.
【Where is Chaoshan? 】
【Northwest direction, Danggui Town. 】
[Tian Yan, have you seen the thirty-meter-long sword in my hand? I advise you to be kind!!!]
[Chaoshan? The weary bird returns to its nest? Angelica? The buffs are maxed out, okay?]
[Tian Yan, I hope you remember that I am here to read a passionate youth comic, not to eat a knife!]
[Tell me what happened to my wife right now, and I'll leave you with an intact body!]
Everyone thought that the comic would directly explain the origins of Buyehou and Phoenix, but unexpectedly, the comic scene changed and explained the scene of the Different Bureau dealing with the chaos in Chongming City.
[? ? ? ]
[I admit that your painting is very passionate now, and the warmth between people helping each other is very touching, and the magic is also very cool. I like it very much, but can you first explain the follow-up of my wife? ]
[Where is my wife? Where is my wife who is so big!]
Amid the public outrage, the comics are still progressing in an orderly manner—
Gather the victims in each place to a fixed place, open the shelter formation, and temporarily resist the damage of the resurgence formation; destroy all the "materials" to prevent the formation from being upgraded in the later stage; gather people who are good at formation to the top of Mount Tai to dismantle the formation face to face...
In the face of the sudden disaster, they responded appropriately and minimized the losses. They were not the big guys whose moves would make the world tremble in fear, and they did not have any moves so cool that they would take up an entire page, but they were extremely reassuring.
[Post-disaster reconstruction seems to be quite interesting, but it’s still a bit regrettable…]
[Fortunately, such disasters only happen in comics. If they happened in real life, it would be really scary!]
[It feels very reliable and reassuring to have such an official feeling.]
Just when everyone has gradually accepted that this episode will end with post-disaster reconstruction as the second highlight, the comic suddenly changes the scene when the search and rescue personnel arrive at the mountain—
The red sycamore leaves cover the sky and the ground.
Amidst the red leaves, the person they knew was climbing up the mountain step by step. He could have used a move that could have destroyed the heavens and the earth, but at this moment, he was just like an ordinary person, walking towards the top of the mountain step by step.
His face was pale and he walked very slowly, with a look of dazed fatigue. He kept walking until he reached the empty mountain top.
The parasol trees blocking out the sun, the fallen leaves covering the ground, and the endless red as far as the eye can see.
In the comic, Buyehou said nothing and the comic did not even describe any of his mental activities, but such extreme "silence" only makes people more distressed.
He seemed to be tired, so he randomly found a tree, sat down against the trunk, and slightly closed his eyes. The tree behind him gradually overlapped with a somewhat illusory picture—
The phoenix that failed to achieve nirvana fell on the mountaintop with its flaming feathers and blood, giving birth to an endless stream of blood-red phoenix trees.
The comic gradually returned to darkness as the Marquis of Buye closed his eyes. In the darkness, a deep cave suddenly appeared, and it seemed that someone was talking in the cave.
"You old man, you've been planning for two hundred years... How does it feel to end up with nothing?"
"Failure at the last moment?"
After a long silence, there seemed to be some kind of scaly glow on the stone wall, accompanied by a faint rustling sound.
"Oh... that may not be the case."
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