Chapter 166

It is almost the end of February, and there is still no update for Tianyan. The forum of "Shanhaizhiyu" is full of comments like "Is Tianyan a scam?", "What about the updates? Why will I update once I'm so old?", "You old thief Tianyan, did you go downstairs to buy something and travel through time?"

X is the largest comic website in the country, with countless comic kings and countless pigeons. Poor grades do not necessarily mean you will be a pigeon, and good grades do not necessarily mean you will not be a pigeon.

Some readers tried to contact Tianyan's editor-in-chief to urge for updates, only to find that the work of storyboarding and coloring of "The Language of Mountains and Seas" was all done by Tianyan alone, and the column for editor-in-chief was blank.

A comic that was highly recommended on the comic website and ranked No. 1 on the new comic list had no editor, which was simply an outrageous event at the beginning of the year. What was even more outrageous was that if Tian Yan had not suddenly stopped updating, no one would have noticed this matter from beginning to end.

This doesn't make sense!

More than half a year of diligent updates with guaranteed quality and quantity have made "Shan Hai Zhi Yu" somewhat famous in the comics world. Now, it has suddenly stopped updating without a word. Many readers contacted customer service, but the answer they got was "Your feedback has been processed, thank you for your support."

Manga readers: “…”

Damn! Find the person and update it for me!

The comic readers are dissatisfied with the website's perfunctory attitude, and the person in charge behind the website is also confused.

"This comic has such good data, but no one wanted to sign it during the serialization period?" The person in charge was puzzled, and his head was full of question marks. "No. 1 on the newcomer list, the most popular on the screen, and the top three in the annual inventory! It's obviously a comic with potential, but no one of you signed it?"

When MangaX was first established, its slogan was "A hundred flowers bloom in spring". Regardless of whether the comic authors have signed a contract with the website or not, all comics enjoy the same level of competitiveness in various charts. It’s just that after signing the contract, traffic support will be provided, and after popularity, the website will also try to contact the copyright holder. The vast majority of authors contacted will choose to sign the contract.

If it was that the attempt to sign a contract was rejected, it would be understandable, but the problem is that no one, no one sent Tianyan a contract invitation!

Moreover, when Tianyan initially registered the author number of the website, both the optional and required fields of the information were blank. How did it get through?

The person in charge can’t figure it out, the person in charge doesn’t understand. If one person is blind, it doesn’t mean that everyone is blind, right?

He held a small meeting and made emergency remedial measures: "Send Tianyan a contract invitation, using an S-level contract..."

But unfortunately, the person in charge had just taken the initiative, and the director of external publicity of Manga X interrupted the impromptu meeting.

"Boss." The head of the publicity department said in a strange tone, "The Ministry of National Security wants to interview you."

Person in charge: “…”

Person in charge: “???”

He wanted to find a quick-acting heart-saving pill: "Our website strictly requires itself to put an end to all cross-border behaviors, pay taxes on time every year, and never evade taxes..."

How can I deserve to work for the Ministry of National Security?

"X" stands for the unknown, which means "the future development of comics is an unknown challenge."

The person in charge was vaguely thinking that it was a good idea and in line with the core idea of ​​the website, but now it was really unknown.

*

On the February holiday, Yu Tu received a reply from [Jing], in which [Jing] said that he wanted to meet him at the headquarters of the Beijing Municipal Foreign Affairs Bureau.

The reply letter was sent by Song Tu. Yu Tu had dealt with him several times when he was the Marquis of Buye, but this was the first time for Yu Tu.

The Chongming City Special Investigation Bureau branch seemed to be in unrest. Song Tu, who had always taken care of his appearance every time he came, started to have an untidy beard again. Yu Tu got into the car he drove, and there was a faint smell of blood in the car.

There was a strangely shaped gun on the co-pilot's seat, with some dark blood stains visible on the joints of the gun. There were also many strange scratches inside and outside the armored vehicle.

He met Song Tu's eyes in the rearview mirror, and Song Tu smiled at him apologetically: "Sorry, I just came back from a mission, and I didn't pack it very carefully."

In front of Marquis Buye, Song Tu is cautious and polite, a perfect younger generation, but in front of Yu Tu, he looks steady and reliable, with some demeanor of a senior.

Yu Tu asked: "Senior Song, has there been a lot of things happening in the outer world recently?"

Most of the students who graduated from Miller Kerr entered the Special Office. In other words, almost all the students at Miller Kerr University are reservists for special groups or special offices. It is said that some courses in the second or third year will invite seniors who have already started working to come back and exchange experiences.

Facing Yu Tu, who is likely to be his colleague in the future, Song Tu said frankly, except for matters involving confidential information: "Busy, very busy, often busy all night. If it weren't for my spiritual power, I would have suspected that I would have died suddenly."

"This year, there was a strange surge in overtime after the Chinese New Year. I started working overtime on the third day of the Chinese New Year and have not had a day off until today." Song Tu's dark circles were so dark that they were swollen. "The overtime pay is almost the same as my salary."

The wages have been high in recent months, but it's a bit exhausting.

The two things of Ma Jia being dormant and Tian Yan not updating were enough to make Yu Tu worried. He could hardly spare the energy to pay attention to other news. He did not expect the situation to be so bad.

If the branches stationed in various cities are already so busy, then the top ten special teams and the headquarters must be even busier.

Song Tu drove him to the Chongming City Special Investigation Bureau branch. The last time Buyehou came here, he used the teleportation array. The branch was deserted and everyone was out on missions.

This time, there was still no one in the police station, but in the corner of the yard there were many damaged weapons covered with blood scabs, and the smoke was mixed with blood; a circle of sealing talismans was pasted on the specially made box, as if there was some living creature that was tirelessly scratching the box wall, and there was a faint creepy sound of sharp nails rubbing against a blackboard...

"It's a D-class man-eating monster that was just captured two days ago. It has four lives on its hands." Seeing Yu Tu's eyes fixed on the box, Song Tu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Let's go. After I send you off, I have to continue my mission."

Yu Tu lowered his eyes to hide the complicated look in his eyes. He followed Song Tu and walked into the teleportation array again. When the dim colors in front of his eyes became visible, Yu Tu appeared in the room he was in last time.

The piercing alarm sound occupied my entire brain before my vision became fully clear. A slightly blurry map was projected on the transparent wall on the side of the door. The map was a mixture of red, yellow and orange, with a faint hint of purple in the yellow and orange.

Pushing open the door and going out, you can see from the corridor that there are teleportation arrays in the lobby on the first floor. Some of the arrays have dim light and cracked patterns, and some of the arrays have strange sounds coming from the other end. At this moment, in the teleportation array in the southeast direction, a man in combat uniform is carrying a comrade who is injured like a blood gourd, and is casting talismans to stabilize his injuries one after another.

The most difficult to deal with purple anomaly corresponding to the teleportation array, Yu Tu saw a group of people in combat uniforms entering and waiting for the teleportation, with a startled glance, he saw the face of the leader clearly——

Gu Hongying's mother, Gu Xingzhu.

…

Everything was more urgent and worse than the last time he came as the Lord of Nevernight.

The doors on this floor kept opening and closing. Some people came in and some went out. Everyone had a task at hand and didn't even have time to wonder why Yu Tu was standing here alone.

The reply from [Mirror] was glowing in his pocket. Yu Tu took the letter out and it flew out of his hand and transformed into a butterfly with a light trailing its tail in the air.

Yu Tu followed the butterfly and walked the same path he had walked more than a month ago. Finally, he stood in front of the Qilin.

The butterfly landed on the unusually large door, and the quaint brown pattern moved and changed on its own, forming an ancient alien beast.

The alien beast was majestic without even getting angry, and it stared at Yu Tu.

It is not Di Ting, it is Qilin.

Yu Tu placed his hand on the Qilin's only protruding left claw. Starting from the Qilin's claw, a faint green light followed the pattern to fill every corner of the door. After all the lines were connected together, the door did not open to the sides, but rippled like water. Yu Tu's palm was empty, and his palm sank into it - the last time he came, this door was clearly just an ordinary-looking door.

Yu Tu felt his heart pounding in his chest, one beat faster than the other. The passively triggered [Insight into Everything] could only sense a vastness at this moment.

The butterfly that was perched on the tip of Qilin's nose flew down, as if to lead the way or to urge him. It flew around Yu Tu and then disappeared into the gate.

Yu Tu hesitated at the door for a while, but finally walked in. His figure disappeared, the ripples stopped, the beast's shape dissipated, and the patterns returned to their original positions, as if nothing had happened.

…

Yu Tu walked into a gloomy world.

If the place he entered before when testing his celestial talent was a boundless, empty and extremely pure white, the place he entered now gave people a feeling of gray oppression.

There is no black or white in this world, only gray, pure and depressing gray. When you look far away, there is only a line of black in the very far distance.

The butterfly disappeared, and Yu Tu could only move forward.

The world was so quiet that the only sounds were his footsteps and breathing. After walking for a long time, he felt a sense of loneliness that was abandoned by time.

In the extreme silence and loneliness, Yu Tu suddenly recalled some memories uncontrollably—

I woke up in the middle of the night with pain for no apparent reason, and other children in the orphanage called me a liar because no problem was found. Because of my eccentric personality, I received many veiled looks of disdain when I stood in a row waiting to be selected by my "parents." My school clothes turned pale after being washed, and my sleeves were accidentally torn off while I was playing games, and everyone burst into laughter...

Many of these insignificant little things that he thought he had forgotten came flooding back at this moment, washing away the expression on his face.

When the inheritance fell from the sky, when the mission to save the world fell from the sky, he complained about the trouble and social death, and was timid and afraid in his heart, but in fact... he was a little happy.

Look, there are so many people in the world, why did you choose me?

I'm actually pretty good and can handle this responsibility, right?

No one responded to his despicable, little secret joy, so he responded to himself, so he tried to understand everything he had never been exposed to, so he tried hard to play the role of the big boss, learn to be sunny and cheerful, and learn to treat people with sincerity as much as possible.

But in fact, if anyone else had so many golden fingers, they could do as well as him, no, do better than him.

He was just an ordinary guy who happened to be chosen.

Just like now, suddenly losing the identity of Buyehou, he can no longer continue with many things, and the feeling of uneasiness is like a bottomless whirlpool, getting stronger day by day.

Yu Tu kept walking forward, feeling the pain that was like a thorn in his flesh, lingering around him like a shadow. He finally approached the black line on the horizon.

It was a bottomless abyss, one could not see where it came from or where it was going.

On the other side of the abyss, there squatted a strange creature with a tiger's head, a horn, dog's ears, a dragon's body, a lion's tail, and unicorn's feet.

It is listening carefully.

It squatted in front of the abyss, like an illusory transparent glass statue, covered with cracks, and tiny fragments scattered from it, like extinguished stars, sinking into the bottomless abyss.

"Tu Tu." Its voice was very gentle, and its attitude was like that of a friendly younger generation, even though they had never met before the astronomy test. "Don't think about those bad memories."

This is a place without light, a prison of the will of heaven and earth.