The sky outside the window was still dark, and it looked as if the commotion just now had never happened.

"Why did you move just now?" Lin Gutou stood high up, gritting his teeth and looking down, "If I don't tell you not to move, then why don't you move?"

Okay... I explained everything well before they came, but as soon as they came out and pushed the window, everyone in front of me took a step back, looking as frightened as a grandson.

"Didn't I tell you before that it's best to bring the newcomers here? You're only bringing the veterans here. Although the newcomers may be unreliable, at least they know less." said the woman in white next to him.

"What should we do? You have a good relationship with him, why don't you go in and talk to him?" asked Lin Gutou.

"Why?" the woman said, "We came here to appease people. If others knew that I went to see him secretly, what would be the point of us coming here today?"

As they were talking, the crowd in front of them started to commotion again. Lin Gutou shouted to the front, "What are you doing? Can you be more capable? What happened this time?"

He pushed aside the person in front of him and looked towards the lighted house.

There were several broken windows in the house, and the broken parts were covered with newspapers. Lin Gutou knew that the windows were broken when the Hundred Demons Army sneaked into City C that day.

This method of using shredded newspaper to paste windows is quite old-fashioned. He remembered that when he first saw this house as a child, its windows were covered with a layer of window paper, and the glass and other things were only installed ten years ago.

Now that newspapers were pasted on the windows again, there was something a bit like the feeling he remembered.

A human figure vaguely appeared on the newspaper.

A man's silhouette.

He sat behind the newspaper, one hand gently placed on his hair, and was twisting a strand of hair that had accidentally slipped out.

He gathered the strand of hair into his palm, and then he carefully combed the hair on the other side.

"..." Lin Gutou and the woman in white looked at each other, and neither of them said a word.

…

At this time, Yuan Yuanyuan was unaware of the commotion outside. She sat in the house with the ring on her head, but when she felt it did not look good, she took it off and prepared to untie it and tie it again.

Her father taught her how to tie this tree wreath... When Yuan Yuanyuan was a child, her father took her out to play all day long. Her father was very skillful, the most skillful person Yuan Yuanyuan had ever met, and could weave all kinds of things, but Yuan Yuanyuan could only weave such an ugly tree wreath.

She was making wreaths at random and complaining about herself at the same time, and she seemed to have some masochistic symptoms... She had been looking forward to someone coming for such a long time, and now that someone really came, she was frightened.

Should I run or not? Yuan Yuanyuan thought in confusion. Actually, if she wanted to run, she could run at any time... She was just afraid that if she ran, she would miss something important.

...Let's take a look again.

Yuan Yuanyuan finally made this decision. With the Tian Gang Di Sha Jue as a backup, if she ran away, she could still fight back. If she slipped away now, she might not know anything. Although staying here had certain risks, she was really itching to do so.

She was still making wreaths with her hands, not because she was careless and knew nothing about the outside world, but simply because she wanted to cover up her feeling of having nothing to do, just like a few strangers in an elevator, they would probably take out their phones to look at useless things to cover up the embarrassment of not knowing each other.

Will they come in soon? Yuan Yuanyuan wondered. Why don't they come in? What are they doing outside?

…

"What is he...doing?" The woman in white outside the window swallowed.

"She's just fiddling with her hair," Lin Gutou said. "I think she might even pull out rouge, powder, lipstick, or something like that... Tsk tsk, the old monster is really fucking particular."

"You're still laughing! Something big is going to happen, and all you can do is laugh!" said the woman in white next to her.

"Why can't I laugh?" Lin Gutou said, "I will laugh even harder later. The head of the Li family will be here soon. It will be exciting then."

"Li Wangzhu? Why is that old man coming here to cause trouble at this time?" The woman in white froze when she heard this.

Her expression at this moment was particularly interesting, as if she had eaten a dead child.

"How would I know? Before I came here, I saw the Patriarch of the Li family pestering the city lord, saying that he wanted to come over and take a look." Lin Gutou yawned, "The city lord disagreed at first, but the Patriarch of the Li family was very tough and seemed to have said something. In the end, the city lord couldn't persuade him anymore, so he agreed."

"What did he say?" The woman in white frowned.

"Well... I didn't hear much, just one or two things." Lin Gutou said, "But from what I heard, they said... that the eldest daughter of the Li family fell in love with that Yuan?"

"The eldest lady of the Li family... has taken a fancy to Yuan?" the woman in white repeated with difficulty.

...As soon as she said this, she saw that Lin Gutou's expression in front of her became even weirder, as if he was trying to hold back his laughter.

"...Which eldest daughter of the Li family? Li Yumei?" the woman in white said, "I heard that her personality has always been a bit strange, but...this time she really went too far."

"What's the point of passing it? I think the girl is quite brave. I'm optimistic about her success this time. Maybe she can really bring back an old monster." Lin Gutou said with a stern look on his face: "Do you think if they really succeed... can it be considered a good story?"

While he was speaking, there was a sudden commotion among the crowd behind him. He and the woman in white turned their heads at the same time and saw an old man with gray hair, accompanied by other people, walking towards them quietly.

"The city lord promised to let me come here." The old man showed Lin Gutou a jade round plate in his hand.

The head of the Lin Gutou and the woman in white has been lowered since they saw the old man. Lin Gutou, who was in the front, heard the old man's words without raising his eyes to look, "Go in, sir."

He and the woman in white kept their heads down until the white-haired old man walked through the crowd, entered the small two-story wooden building, and closed the door.

…

Yuan Yuanyuan took out the cigarette stick and added some magic pearl powder into it.

She had never known how to light this thing before, but after observing it for a long time in the tavern, she finally figured out how to light it. In fact, this thing cannot be lit with ordinary fire, not even ordinary magic fire, it must be lit with corrosive magic.

In other words, even though this thing appears to be burning, it is actually corroding in nature... After all, this thing is a collection of demonic power, and is considered to be a very hard thing. Basically, any magic that can corrode demon beads will have the same effect if thrown at a monster.

Yuan Yuanyuan took a long time to light this thing. She carefully protected the flame, then gently put it aside and let it burn on its own.

It was very difficult to turn this thing into powder, so this was the first time she had lit it on fire in a long time.

The demon bead powder burned very slowly, and just when a wisp of white smoke came out of the smokestack, Yuan Yuanyuan suddenly felt that she "saw" a lot of things.

The feeling changed drastically in an instant. Yuan Yuanyuan was almost shocked by the feeling, and her mind went blank. For a moment, she felt like she was on drugs.

Damn... this feeling...

Everything in the world seemed to be divided into a chessboard, and Yuan Yuanyuan seemed to hear clearly the sound of every chess piece falling.

Yuan Yuanyuan felt it for a while, and suddenly covered her face silently. If she had known this, why would she have gone to such great lengths to learn the art of chess? She almost went crazy studying that thing, but in the end, it was not as useful as a handful of demon bead powder.

She didn't know if this magic pearl powder had any other effects, but she felt that it was more than one level better than the kerosene lamp... In fact, it was also more than one level better than the one in the tavern. Maybe it was because she used more magic pearl powder?

Things that she hadn’t “seen” before were now all “seen”. Yuan Yuanyuan saw the monsters hidden under the “dark sky”. She had just guessed that there were a hundred or so monsters, but now she saw that there were only a few dozen.

It was okay...not as scary as she thought.

The heartbeats were clearly mixed together, but Yuan Yuanyuan didn't know why she could distinguish them. Even she found this feeling incredible.

Just when Yuan Yuanyuan was trying this feeling for the first time, she suddenly noticed someone walking towards her.

Yuan Yuanyuan sat up straight in an instant, threw the broken tree ring beside her aside, and then looked at the door with extreme nervousness.

After waiting all night...it was already this late, someone finally came.

Who could this person who came over be?

The moment the door was pushed open, many scenes flashed through Yuan Yuanyuan's mind. She thought that the person coming might be the one who delivered the message to her that day, or it might be an acquaintance she had met before, so when she saw the old man pushing the door open, she tensed up all of a sudden.

"You look... the same as before." The old man who pushed the door open looked at Yuan Yuanyuan who was sitting there, "but I am already old."

…

Who the hell is this person?

This was the first sentence that flashed through Yuan Yuanyuan's mind.

The second thing that flashed through her mind was, "Holy crap! I caught a big fish!"

This... well, hard work pays off. It was not in vain that she had been squatting here for so long without sleep.

Firstly, this man must be powerful and influential, so he could bring so many people to block her. He guessed that she just stuck her head out and was exposed. There was no point in hiding, so the old man decided to come out.

It seems like she did a good thing unintentionally.

Yuan Yuanyuan thought about it for a while and came up with a guess that she thought was very reliable. Although it was a little different from the facts, these things were actually not that important at the moment.

She had prepared a bunch of messy tricks to ask questions and was waiting for the first person to come in. They finally came in handy at this moment, so she kept looking at the old woman opposite her, preparing to decide what to say next based on her reaction.

The old man did not get to the point as Yuan Yuanyuan expected. Instead, he started his speech in a way that old friends reminisced about the past. "Yuan, your personality has changed a lot over the years."

——Old friend, or...old acquaintance?

It has to be said that his opening remarks were enough to make the fake Yuan Yuanyuan's heart skip a beat. However, she knew in her heart that this did not mean that she was exposed. It should be just a reminiscing between old friends. In fact, if she was exposed, the other party would not say such words.

She sat still in the chair for three seconds before saying, "People always change. Aren't you the same now?"

The old man opposite smiled. He pulled out a chair and sat down. Then he looked at Yuan Yuanyuan and said, "It seems that I have changed more. At least I thought you would jump up from your chair when you saw me."

During this time, Yuan Yuanyuan frantically searched for traces of the person in front of her in her mind, but no matter what she tried, she found nothing.

The old man in front of me gives people a very comfortable feeling, and he has a kind of immortal-like feeling.

In short, the first impression Yuan Yuanyuan had of him was that he was kind.

A bit too kind.

Yuan Yuanyuan pondered for a while, this old man... why is he so kind but so scary?

"I think you'll hate me," the old man said. "I'm sorry about what happened to Akizaka that year. I wasn't fully prepared."

"But there is one thing." The old man suddenly came over, "Why did you come back again?"

At that moment, a gust of wind suddenly blew in the room.

The old man in front of him disappeared, and a man wearing the same clothes as the old man stood in the middle of the room.

His face looked very white and his lips looked very red.

His hair was held up high by a crown, and his black hair flowed down like the finest tassels.

This scene has a sense of absurdity... like one of those time-lapse clips in a TV series, similar facial features, similar clothes... similar people.

It was as if at this moment, time had gone back a hundred years.

Yuan Yuanyuan's hands on the chair clenched suddenly.

She looked at the person opposite her, and suddenly felt a surge of anger in her heart.

That kind of anger... is uncontrollable and is something that most people cannot understand. The reason why Yuan Yuanyuan was so angry was because she finally recognized the person in front of her.

It's him!

It’s actually him!

…

With a layer of paper between them, the feeling naturally didn't seem that deep. However, when the person in the paper came in front of me, the emotions were like an erupting volcano, totally out of control.

For a moment, Yuan Yuanyuan's throat seemed to taste of blood.

It’s actually... him.

It turned out to be this person.

Now, he is here.

Why are you so angry?

This was the first time she had gotten so angry since she grew up... and it was because of a "stranger" she had never met before.

...are they considered strangers?

Forget it.

The man pulled over a bench nearby and sat there very casually. His posture was particularly good-looking. I can only say that time is really a magical thing. That old man was such a person back then.

"You were smart to keep quiet since you came back," the man said, "but the smartest thing you could have done was not to come back at all."

Yuan Yuanyuan felt her mind went blank. If she didn't say anything, no one else would be able to tell. At this moment, even her ears were ringing.

There was a buzzing sound that lingered but wouldn't go away.

However...for some reason, her whole body suddenly relaxed.

It was as if all the strength in the body was suddenly drained away, and it was as if I was walking on the clouds.

…

Yuan Yuanyuan picked up the cigarette placed aside, and like the man in front of her, she suddenly sat down lazily on the chair and took a light puff.

The smoke lingered along the center of the room and rose into the sky.

Looking from the outside... the room seemed to be covered with a layer of fog, blurry and blurry, like a mirror image or a reflection in the water.