In just a few seconds, the field returned to calm.
And everyone present acted as if nothing had happened.
The place was full of noise and cheers. Everyone was having a great time. It was as if the whole place had suddenly returned from hell to the human world.
Gao Ling stood there, stunned by this operation.
She got up in a daze and looked at the laughing people around her. For a moment she felt that she was not from the same world as them.
They are all human beings.
And she is just a dead person.
That feeling only lasted for a moment...soon, Gao Ling's brain began to work.
She quickly wiped the tears from her face and turned around, she saw the boy helping the boss stand up, trying hard to make the boss stand straight so that others would not notice that the boss had fainted.
"How is the boss?" Gao Ling asked.
"Boss..." Liu An turned around and looked at him, his tone a little embarrassed, "Let me take him to the side to rest for a while before we talk."
"Okay..." Gao Ling said. She watched Liu An supporting the boss and walking step by step towards a quieter place in the venue. The two of them disappeared in the crowd.
"The boss should be fine." Gao Ling thought.
She didn't have much time to care about what happened between Liu An and her boss. She ran to the pillar in a hurry. Fortunately, there was no show on the stage and no one was around.
When Gao Ling ran over, he saw that those people had all stood up. On the surface, they looked exactly the same as before, just like the other people in the field.
But Gao Ling noticed with his sharp eyes that there were very deep red marks on their wrists, which were caused by the ropes.
"Boss..." The little girl who had been crying on the stage just now, saw Gao Ling running over, and instantly her tears couldn't be stopped and flowed down.
Gao Ling hugged her, covered her mouth, and told her to keep her voice down. Someone nearby turned around and looked at her in surprise. Perhaps he hadn't seen her cry so badly at the comic convention, so his expression was very strange.
"Sorry, sorry..." Gao Ling whispered to the people around him, "The power outage just now scared her. Sorry, sorry..."
They walked out from behind the pillars, and almost everyone's legs were swinging. After the lights in the venue came on, some people didn't want to stay any longer, fearing that the power would go out again. So they all left.
Gao Lingyixin walked through the crowd, and each of them had a look of fear on their face. Compared with the smiling faces of the people around them, it was obvious at a glance that something was wrong.
Adults can actually control their facial expressions, but Gao Ling now feels that he can't control it, and the same goes for the people traveling with him.
For the first time, she experienced the feeling of being frightened as described in the books. They were the frightened people, looking panicked and cautious.
The gate of the venue was opened, and people were slowly passing through the narrow passage. Lights were bright everywhere. People in the passage were holding mobile phones in their hands, and the screens reflected bright light on their faces.
"It is only now that I realize that mobile phones can really bring people a sense of security in the information age." Gao Ling said as he thought about the scene where the phone could not be turned on just now.
Wow...I feel like the world is going to collapse every minute.
"Then shall we go out now?" the girl asked while crying. She could no longer control her tears.
"Go out... wait a moment." Gao Ling looked at the door a few times in panic, but after hesitating for a few times, he still said, "Let's go wash our faces first."
The girl was stunned, then she sniffed embarrassedly. Her eyes were red from crying and full of bloodshot, and the makeup she brought with her when she went out fell off.
The people behind him didn't say anything against it, so Gao Ling led them towards the bathroom.
In fact, everyone present knew why Gao Ling said this first.
Gao Ling smelled a hint of unpleasant fishy odor and complained silently in his heart.
Ah…it turns out that the boy who was walking with the boss just now said “scared to death”…is not an adjective…
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There was a light on at the door of the toilet. There was no toilet inside the venue, so everyone used the toilet in a hotel next door.
The hotel's restroom was well decorated and large, but the lighting was a little dim. This was probably because there were few guests on the first floor, so only one light was on and the other two were off.
Gao Ling stood at the door. She didn't know why, but suddenly for a moment she didn't want to go in. When she turned around... everyone was hesitating at the door.
This was definitely the most unprecedented scene Gao Ling had ever seen... A group of adults stood in front of the toilet, each one looked more timid than the other, and everyone hesitated and dared not go in.
It's like a black comedy.
What should we do then... A living person cannot be suffocated to death by urine. Gao Ling thought with a headache, and she slapped her head and said, "Let's go in together."
"Yes, let's go in together." The people behind him agreed.
"If this happens again... ahem, well, we can take care of each other." Someone wanted to say something, but suddenly stopped halfway through.
The people next to them walked straight into the restroom as if they didn't hear what was said. Two girls even went in holding hands.
The restroom is a mixed-use restroom with a marble counter that is large and spacious. In front of the counter hangs a huge mirror with a gold frame that is tacky but very suitable for the hotel. Under the dim light, it actually looks a bit luxurious.
There are all kinds of plastic bags scattered on the ground, all filled with clothes. They might have been left here by some cosplayers when they changed clothes. I guess they will come back to get them later.
Gao Ling walked past the various props, clothes and wigs scattered on the ground and came to the stage where there was a box of hotel toilet paper. She took it and threw it to a boy behind her.
The boy's face suddenly turned red, and he ran towards the toilet without saying a word the whole time, just with his face flushed.
Gao Ling looked at his figure running in hurriedly, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, but he couldn't smile for a long time.
She thought...it must be this boy who forgot to bring the talisman.
Gao Ling rubbed her face and went to the sink to wash. She was the only one left outside, and everyone else went into the toilet. The other two girls went in hand in hand, and the three boys each took care of their pants. The other two were probably scared to pee, so they also went to pee.
The girl over there was still crying. Gao Ling felt upset when she heard her crying, but she couldn't scold her. The boys over there probably felt the same way. Gao Ling heard one of them sighed heavily.
"Stop crying." A voice suddenly came from the boys' restroom over there. "Aren't you safe now? There's an old saying that goes, 'Those who survive a disaster will have good fortune in the future.'"
"Yeah." Another cheerful boy next to him also started to ease the atmosphere, "Before you came here, were you always envious of the big guys? Now you are a big guy too, and when you go out you can brag to others that you are also a person with a story."
Gao Ling turned on the tap and washed her face vigorously. She heard the sound of flushing and a person came to the table next to her and turned on the tap.
She didn't care who came out, and she was too lazy to even care. No matter who came out, it had nothing to do with her. She just rubbed her face frantically.
Gao Ling's eye sockets were rubbed red and her nose was broken, but she kept rubbing, and no one knew what she was trying to wash away.
The person next to him seemed to pause for a moment, and then he turned on the faucet. The sound of water flowing out was gurgling, echoing with the sound of water on Gao Ling's side.
The conversation inside was still going on. When talking about this topic, everyone finally became a little interested. No one was in the mood to talk about anything else. On the contrary, even the girl who had been sobbing tried to listen a little.
"When the knife flew over, did you notice where it came from?" another braver girl said quickly.
“No…” said a boy who was closest to the knife. “It just flew over here out of nowhere and scared me.”
"I didn't see the man clearly either." The voice of the boy who had just gone in to change his pants suddenly rang out. His voice sounded strangely excited. "But I saw the dagger clearly... I don't know what material it was made of, but it looked so good, every part of it... I don't know how to put it, it really is the knife used by Yuan in the comics."
Gao Ling wiped his face, held onto the pool and looked at himself in the mirror.
Her eyes and nose in the mirror were red, and there were bloodshot in her eyes, but her expression was inexplicably serious, even gloomy.
"Oh my god... When I thought that Yuan might be near me, I almost couldn't breathe and almost wanted to scream."
"You can still shout? I can't even shout." The outgoing boy said with a smile, "But before you came here, didn't you say you would read porn in front of him? You... don't keep your word."
"Fuck you." As soon as the boy said that, everyone in the restroom started laughing, and even a little laughter could be heard from the women's restroom over there.
The atmosphere suddenly relaxed a little.
...At least it's not as bad as before, right?
Gao Ling stared at herself in the mirror, not knowing how long she had been looking at herself.
She looked at herself in the mirror...and felt strange.
Normally, she should have a smile on her face, but at this moment, she couldn't even muster a smile.
She tried to force herself to smile, but the person in the mirror gave a slightly weird smile, as if the corners of his mouth were being forced upwards.
"I... I've never felt this way before." The brave girl said, "Today I really thought I wouldn't make it out alive... I used to think that if I met a handsome monster, I might even have a relationship with him... Oh, seriously, don't laugh."
The laughter of the boys came from the men's restroom. The girl said something a little embarrassed and continued, "But today... I suddenly felt that monsters were too scary... I really didn't know when I would die. It was too scary."
She kept saying "this is horrible" several times. A boy said, "Now you feel horrible, right? Just like terrorists, they kill a few people for fun, or they kill each other... My god, who in their right mind can stand this?"
"Now that I think about it, the guy who saved us today might be the leader of the terrorists." said the boy next to him.
"Pfft...why do you think so?"
"Yuan, isn't he the terrorist leader..." someone said, "The leader of the spy camp... Emma now thinks that Yuan is really a very powerful figure... That monster is so scary, then how much scarier the real Yuan must be."
"Of course..." said the brave girl, "Returning girlfriends, they are so happy to return girlfriends one by one... You will be scared to death if you see the real person. Even though he looks gentle in the comics, you may not know what he is like in real life. You may not dare to talk to him when you meet him, let alone return his girlfriend..."
"Hahahahahahahahaha..." Everyone in the two toilets was laughing. Topics like this always arouse everyone's fun.
One boy said while everyone was laughing: "Yeah, and look at what happened to the powerful Yuan... It's really not easy to get along with monsters. They're so complicated, and with all the interpersonal relationships involved, it's even scarier."
"Yeah, if someone as powerful as Yuan was treated like that, what kind of chaos must be going on in the demon world...A fight between gods?"
"I don't dare to think about it... Let's just be good people. I'll ask my mother to get me a talisman when I get back."
"If you ask me, Yuanxin is still too soft." A boy said loudly, "Why didn't he say all those things? Why didn't he kill those people? Now look at how he is drawn in the comics. There will definitely be people scolding him as soon as the comics are updated."
"People like him seem to be like that... He worries too much and becomes accustomed to being a spy?" someone else said.
"Being nice to humans will definitely lead to being ostracized and abandoned by the monster society. Look at how chaotic they are among the monsters, and they even dare to challenge the unspoken rules of the monsters and become friends with the little monsters." Everyone joined in on this topic now, and they were all very excited.
"So, monsters...are not a good group." The braver girl said as she walked out, her tone sounding very calm. "Yuan is indeed a good person. Just for saving us today, I can brag about him for the rest of my life...but I have to say that the good people are the ones who die first these days."
Gao Ling pulled out a piece of paper from the box, thanked the person next to him, and then turned around to wake up his nose.
The person next to him didn't say anything, but also took out a piece of paper and wiped something with it.
"It's hard for good people to survive... Don't be so pessimistic. After all, this is a comic... Can't we think about it in a more fairy-tale way?" said a boy.
"It's a bit difficult." The girl said, "Didn't you notice that even Ji Qiuhua looked like he was ready to die? He set up the plot, laid the groundwork, first suppressed and then praised... Who can survive this kind of painting these days?"
"The softer he is, the more he will drag himself to death." The girl said, "This is now obvious to everyone. I think he knows it himself, but I think he will still drag himself to death...it's just that his death will be tragic."
"You mean... the softer one is, the more miserable one's death will be?"
"Yeah." The girl said, "If it were me... I would definitely be smarter. To be honest, I'm a bit stupid... But if he wasn't stupid, we wouldn't be alive today, right?... Oh... What kind of world is this?"
The girl opened the curtain as she spoke, and Gao Ling heard the rustling sound of the curtain.
Gao Ling stared at the mirror for a long time, and heard the sound of flushing inside. She thought they should be coming out. She shook her head quickly to make her expression a little more normal, then stood up and took the toilet paper next to her.
A box next to it was pushed over, and the plastic box made a faint sound as it scraped against the marble countertop.
"Thank you." Gao Ling said in a low voice.
"So..." the two girls said as they walked out, "As a person, don't do what Yuan did... Although I admire him very much, but when it comes to me and my friends, I will never let them be so stupid..."
When Gao Ling was about to draw the second piece of paper, he suddenly felt something strange.
She felt that the person next to her seemed a little tall.
This person just stood next to her for such a long time, but she didn't react at all. She was immersed in an inexplicable depression. She just happened to glance at him and was a little surprised by the height of the person next to her.
Gao Ling turned to look at the man next to him. He was wearing pure black clothes, tall and thin, with his head lowered and his hair hanging down.
He washed his hands in silence, with a table full of toilet paper scattered beside him.
"Boss?" Gao Ling looked at him seriously for a few seconds and was suddenly startled. "When did you get better?"
At first glance, this man's figure and hair looked a bit like the boss without a down jacket, but it was a little blurry under the dim light.
But Gao Ling was still shocked. She didn't expect that the person next to her was the boss.
The light was too dim, and the man was standing in the dark without making any sound, so Gao Ling didn't notice him at first.
It's over... I guess everything they said about monsters was heard.
"Boss, Boss, we were just talking nonsense just now... Don't take it to heart..." Gao Ling waved his hand and said, "We are just talking nonsense because we have nothing to do... Just treat it as a joke..."
The man over there was still washing his hands, not saying a word.
Gao Ling looked at his exposed chin, patted his chest and thought, this is terrible, I have to persuade the boss not to tell anyone this time.
"Boss... we were wrong..." She said in a low voice with her head down, not daring to let the people in the toilet hear her, for fear that they would be frightened again, "Please forgive us this time..."
She was about to continue speaking when she suddenly saw a figure in the mirror.
The man who had been washing his hands quietly had a strange figure reflected in his mirror.
The clothes are still the same clothes, and the person is still the same person.
It's just a little weird in some places.
In the mirror, the only part of the clean chin that was exposed was stained with blood for some reason.
The pair of clean white hands in the mirror also had bruises of varying sizes, which were completely different from the hands Gao Ling actually saw, as if they had been severely pinched.
Two completely different people are reflected in the mirror and outside the mirror.
The mirror is like a partition that separates yin and yang. The person in the mirror seems to be in hell, while the person outside the mirror is in the human world.
Gao Ling suddenly remembered that the person next to him had just been washing his hands and was still pulling out paper.
Papers of all sizes were scattered on the table, each piece of paper was dyed red. These papers were clumped together, but they still dyed the table red.
This person...
Gao Ling took a step back.
This person...
Not the boss at all!
…
It’s definitely not the boss. This person is 90% similar to the boss, but he’s not the boss!
The person who had been wiping his face with paper next to him suddenly coughed, and a streak of bright red color overflowed from his mouth. He took the paper to wipe it again.
"Gao Ling, you've been waiting for us outside. You didn't say anything, so I thought..." The girl opened the curtain and walked out. She was halfway through her words when she suddenly got stuck, like a chicken with its neck strangled.
She and Gao Ling stood outside as if frozen. No one said anything, they just stood there.
The man was still washing his hands. The pool gradually began to turn red, and the red was gradually washed away.
"Hey, let's go now that we're done." The voices of the boys also came out, and it seemed that they also wanted to come out. Gao Ling had never had such a moment before, and he hoped that they would have a terrible diarrhea, or even die in the toilet instead of coming out.
At this moment, the man suddenly picked up the papers on the table one by one, threw them into the trash can next to him, and then walked out with his hands in his pockets.
"What's wrong? Why are you standing here...as punishment?" the boy came out and said while looking at them in surprise.
The two girls still stood on the ground, looking at each other in silence, and both felt that their clothes were soaked with cold sweat.