In fact, there are usually only a few fixed "programs" at comic conventions. You can visit the stalls, take photos, watch the programs, and if there are guests, they will invite a few guests to visit... basically, there is nothing else.
Oh, yeah...or maybe pick up some chicks.
If the comic exhibition is larger in scale, then the visit will naturally take longer, but if the comic exhibition is not large in scale, then you can just walk around for an hour or two.
This comic convention is considered to be one of the better ones. It's a big place with a lot of cosplayers and stalls. I heard that a few internet celebrities will be invited here soon. There are huge posters outside.
Just because of these internet celebrities... many people did not leave and were all waiting. It was said that the internet celebrity arrived around five in the evening. Yuan Yuanyuan looked up at the sky.
Five o'clock...it's dark already, right?
Yuan Yuanyuan held food in her hands and sat on a covered seat with Liu An to rest their feet.
There were a lot of people under the shed, and some were smoking. Yuan Yuanyuan waved her hand to disperse the smell a little.
"Oh my god, smoking in public...is there any basic etiquette?" Yuan Yuanyuan asked while fanning herself.
"...I remember that you, boss, are also a smoker. Why do you react so strongly?" Liu An asked.
"We are both smoking the same thing, okay?" Yuan Yuanyuan said.
She stood up and wanted to see who was smoking, and found a man cosplaying as Bug Master. The man was posing for photos with a cigarette in his mouth, and his friend who came with him was fanning him with a fan, trying to create a feeling of smoke.
It just so happened that the smoke was blowing towards Yuan Yuanyuan's direction.
"What he did was very unscientific... The smoke in the comics condenses and does not dissipate, but he made it look like a fire." Liu An said.
"You are a monster, why are you talking nonsense about science? If you keep talking about science, I will tie you up and dissect you one day." Yuan Yuanyuan said, "Let's sit somewhere else... No wonder no one is sitting here."
They both stood up. Yuan Yuanyuan looked around boredly. She came out in a hurry and didn't bring her cell phone. Otherwise, she could have asked a few cosplayers to take pictures with her. Now that she didn't have her cell phone, she could only watch.
Suddenly, there was a light over there. Yuan Yuanyuan looked in that direction. She didn't know when, but they started pulling up ropes one after another. On the ropes, they hung small round lanterns made of paper. On the lanterns were painted monster heads of all sizes, just like in Ukiyo-e.
One lantern was hung up, then two lanterns were hung up...slowly, the whole place was filled with lanterns.
Cosplayers in all kinds of clothes walked under the lanterns, laughing and joking. Lanterns were also lit on various stalls, and the whole place was suddenly immersed in the yellow color of candlelight.
Yuan Yuanyuan looked up and saw a lantern with a picture of a ghost just above her head.
She said, "Oh my god... is this so formal? Lighting so many lanterns... won't there be a fire by accident?"
Yuan Yuanyuan touched one with her hand and suddenly felt something was wrong. Liu An beside her smiled and said, "This kind of small lantern doesn't have a candle inside. It's an electronic light that imitates a candle... I've seen it often before. It's quite convenient."
After he said this, Yuan Yuanyuan could vaguely see the structure inside through the gap in the lantern.
"Oh, that's really the case. It's really interesting." Yuan Yuanyuan put down the lantern. "From the outside, you can't tell it's an electric light... Why do you see this thing so often?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Yuan Yuanyuan heard a commotion coming from the other side. She turned around and found that the internet celebrity had arrived.
"Do you want to go and see?" Liu An asked.
"Why would I go and see them..." Yuan Yuanyuan said, "I don't know them, and they have to buy posters and spend money."
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"Shall we go over and take a look, boss?" a girl shouted, "We'll be back in a bit, wait for us."
"Ah? Oh..." Gao Ling watched those people rush into the crowd. The internet celebrity seemed to be quite popular, so these people wanted to join in the fun. Gao Ling was too lazy to squeeze in, so he just stayed outside.
She sighed. Originally, she saw the boss here and wanted to come over for a walk...but when those people started walking around, they were even more excited than she was, and they walked around from day till dark.
The five people lived close to each other and had similar interests, so they came together. They were also the first group of people to come to City C. Although Gao Ling was a local boss, he felt a little restrained among them and was too embarrassed to speak.
Oh... I am still timid. I need to cheer up, cheer up, cheer up. Gao Ling encouraged himself silently.
She glanced around the field and suddenly saw a man standing there, standing out from the crowd, looking up at the lantern.
He still didn't fit the painting style when he stood there... Hmm, Gao Ling didn't know how to put it. She thought with dead eyes, what word should she use to describe it... The moon is so shy that the flowers are ashamed? It doesn't seem quite right...
Ah...why didn't the boss leave? Gao Ling complained silently.
In fact, usually there are only a few people at the comic exhibition at this stage... Especially after the internet celebrities left, the place was even more deserted.
And today there were surprisingly many people in the place. Gao Ling could say that the boss played at least 80% of the role here... Many girls were standing outside in the cold wind just to get a glimpse of the boss.
Although the number of girls in the whole place seems to be unchanged, they have actually been moving without a trace following the boss's whereabouts... Just now there were the most girls on the west side, but now after the boss came over, there are most girls on the east side again.
Gao Ling complained in her heart and wondered whether she should go up and say hello.
...It's better not to do it, so as not to cause any trouble.
In fact, some of the people who were traveling with me just now also secretly took a lot of photos, and they all said that this was the most like real Yuan COS they had seen so far.
Someone joked that it couldn't be Big Boss Yuan himself coming here to hang out, which caused people around to burst into laughter... Gao Ling broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this.
She was always afraid that someone among these people would figure out that the boss was actually a monster.
Although everyone in the group knows that monsters exist, and some have even seen them with their own eyes, Gao Ling still thinks it would be best if fewer people knew that the boss was a monster. After all, the boss likes human things so much, and he probably doesn't like people calling him a monster all the time.
When Gao Ling was thinking this, he suddenly felt dizzy.
She was stunned for a moment, and then her eyes blurred again.
At that moment, it seemed as if the laughter in the field stopped for a second.
Gao Ling still hadn't quite figured out what was going on. She thought she was hallucinating, or that she was seeing bad things again, just like when she had the Yin-Yang Eyes. But when she looked around, everyone was looking at each other, and some were even looking up.
She also looked up and happened to see a small strange ghost face.
The ghost face was on a small lantern, a small lantern with a black background and white flowers, smiling at her.
At that moment, Gao Ling didn't know what was going on, but she felt extremely uncomfortable in her heart, a feeling that even made her shiver.
The next second, the field suddenly became pitch black, and instantly a burst of shrill screams came from the most crowded area in the east of the field.
...Gao Ling suddenly understood what the flower in front of him was just about.
Oh, there was a power outage.
The girl who was frying noodles next to her stopped frying and looked around. Gao Ling thought that since there was a power outage, there would probably be a commotion, so she thought about finding a quiet place to hide to avoid being stepped on. People nearby took out their cell phones to illuminate the area, and Gao Ling also took out her own cell phone to illuminate the area. She scanned it and suddenly realized that her cell phone had been turned off automatically without her knowing when.
What happened... Did it run out of battery? Gao Ling pressed the power button to restart the phone, but for some reason, the phone wouldn't turn on.
"What's going on? My phone won't turn on. I can't turn it on."
"Mine too."
Gao Ling heard what the two girls next to her said, and an idea suddenly flashed through her mind.
No, that's not right...
This situation is...very wrong.
She turned her head sharply and looked in the direction of the people who had just come with her. The screams from that side were still coming. Normally, even if there was a power outage, everyone would only scream at the beginning and it wouldn't last so long. And now it has been a full minute...
No, that's not right.
Gao Ling felt like her brain was exploding at that moment. She was torn between whether to go over and take a look or stay here. Then she thought about the talisman on her body, gritted her teeth, squeezed through the crowd, and shouted over there, "Excuse me! Excuse me!"
"Don't crowd... why are you crowding? You can't even see anything."
"You're the only one who wants to go, but no one else wants to go. Just walk slowly, why are you squeezing?"
Gao Ling pushed the crowd aside and walked towards that direction stubbornly. Before she had taken a few steps, her eyes lit up and she finally saw something.
But what she saw was... invisible to most people.
She saw a layer of green light on the horizon. The color of the light was indescribably penetrating, just like the lighting of the underworld in movies and TV dramas.
With the help of this light, she turned her head and looked around. Everyone whose face was illuminated by the light had a layer of bluish-gray color, and even their expressions seemed to be frozen.
Gao Ling felt as if he was suffocating.
Small, indistinguishable shadows flew in all directions, holding balls of fire in their hands, which they then put into lanterns. Gradually, the entire place was lit up with green lights.
"Why haven't you called yet? Where are the organizers?"
"Damn, it's so dark... I can't see anything for such a long time, there's not even a moon."
Gao Ling slowly exhaled again, her voice much quieter this time, and she said to the people around her, "Excuse me."
The people in front heard the low sound behind them, some of them moved aside, some did not, and Gao Ling did not linger on. She walked about five or six steps like this, and suddenly saw a figure standing out from the crowd.
A height of 1.8 meters is still very conspicuous in the crowd...especially when surrounded by girls.
The man was looking in a certain direction, his eyebrows wrinkled, and holding a long cigarette in his hand.
The cigarette stem was completely black, with only the mouthpiece being red.
He took a puff and then exhaled slowly, smoke puffing out from his lips.
The smoke slowly floated into the air, but strangely it did not dissipate, but remained condensed, just like the ink that had just been dropped into the water, half dispersing.
Gradually, the smoke condensed in the air, forming a very strange scene.
From a high-level spiritual perspective, this is actually a very anti-Newton situation... because smoke is smoke, and it is absolutely impossible for it to be like this. If Newton saw this, he would not only have to crawl out of the coffin, but also run naked for a few laps.
However, this scene actually happened. Not only that, the smoke was like a ribbon, entangled in the air...
It's just like the thick lines in a painting...
Gao Ling saw the smoke that looked like a ribbon gradually begin to spread out in all directions, gradually passing through the crowd and arriving in front of her. She couldn't help but stretched out her hand and poked a piece of "ribbon" in front of her.
To her surprise, the "ribbon" broke as soon as it was pulled and began to gradually spread out.
Gao Ling was startled, she smelled an indescribable fragrance. Just when she was worried whether she had done something bad, she suddenly saw the smoker over there turned his head and looked at her as if he had noticed something.
In the green light, the man's eyes suddenly glowed blood red.