On the nights when Monster Chronicles was updated, Yuan Yuanyuan would always prepare something for herself. In the past, when she had no money, she would just make a cup of tea.
Now that she had a little more money, she bought four bags of potato chips of different flavors and a bottle of milk from the store downstairs and went upstairs.
Yuan Yuanyuan has restricted the consumption of cola these days. Since I have already done sit-ups, it is okay to drink less cola. I sit on my small bed, draw the curtains, turn on a small orange light, sit on the bed, eat potato chips and watch TV alone.
She was watching an American TV series to kill time. When her favorite supporting character died, she cursed "fxxk" in her heart and turned off the TV. She turned around and saw that it was already half past twelve, so she turned up the lights and turned on the update of Monster Record.
Many people have already finished reading Demon Chronicles. Yuan Yuanyuan casually glanced at the comments below, not paying much attention to them. She then looked at the refreshed Demon Chronicles, which showed that Fanning was struggling with the strange Taoist magic and the impact it was having on him.
In fact, there are many negative effects after practicing the Taoism. One of them is that your personality will become inexplicably cruel. As a young man who still had a certain degree of persistence even when his sect was destroyed, Fanning recently found that he easily gets angry, and his anger comes for no reason.
Yuan Yuanyuan initially thought that this comic book would finally go for a dark and bizarre style, but she realized she was overthinking it. Fanning was even more timid than she was, so he monitored every little thing about himself more strictly than Yuan Yuanyuan herself, and could detect anything that was slightly wrong.
The most outrageous thing for Fanning was that he was eating beef noodles that day. After the noodles were placed on the table, he picked up the vinegar bottle next to the chopsticks and found that the bottle was empty...then he exploded.
...The way he fried it was also very strange. Suddenly, everything on the table seemed to come alive.
Then the box of chopsticks in front of me grew little arms and legs, and all of them had a (._.) expression on their faces and slowly started to crawl out of the box. It felt like the chopsticks were zombies...
Fortunately, there were not many people in the store. Fanning, sweating profusely, knocked the chopsticks one by one back into the box.
[Generally, Taoist priests would let ghosts possess them, or gather souls. Fanning didn't know what he had attracted from the surroundings. Fanning, who had never been a thief in his life, had to steal something from someone's store for the first time in his life and take it back... It was a box of chopsticks.]
This chopstick spirit with skinny arms and legs... I want it so much. Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the "Chopstick Zombie" in the comics and suddenly wanted to try using her own chopsticks. However, the demonic energy was probably not as interesting as the spiritual energy. Maybe it would summon a bunch of cute chopsticks...
Yuan Yuanyuan ate another potato chip and continued reading. She wanted to see if Ji Qiu could come up with a solution in the next few years. If there was no solution, she would most likely burn some paper for Fanning and herself, because if Fanning really turned cruel and evil, she would probably have to face a violent mental patient in the future.
Then she found out that she was wrong. She was not facing a patient with violent disorder, but a patient with masochism.
【Faning thought that he, who could go crazy over something as simple as whether there was vinegar in a bowl of beef noodles, must be really sick, so he spent the past few days going to various hospitals to see if he could find out what was wrong with him. He first went to a regular hospital, and then went to see a few doctors he knew before, but they couldn't help him either.】
【Fanning was a little annoyed after his fruitless search, but he had no choice. He still had to "go to work" during the day because he had spent too much money on medical treatment in the past few days. If he didn't work properly, he might not have money to pay for the medical expenses. So Fanning took a random ghost catching job nearby, and then went to work while seeing doctors.】
[However, the turning point of the story happened at this time - one day Fanning was accidentally seriously injured by a fierce ghost on his way to work. His blood was scattered all over the floor, scaring the owner of the house nearby. They thought that the master they had hired with great difficulty was going to die in their home.]
【However, Fanning, who was covered in blood, was suddenly stunned.】
[The irritable feeling that had been bothering him for so many days suddenly disappeared... He was suddenly stunned and felt as if he had opened the door to a new world.]
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The door to a new world was also opened to Yuan Yuanyuan in front of the mobile phone.
...This is forced masochism! This is employee abuse, bro!
What should the comics begin to express at this stage?
Yuan Yuanyuan was furious when she read the comics for the first time. "Brother, what new world have you opened? Close it for me now! Don't give up on treatment!"
Fanning did not go to treatment, he gave up, and began to gradually experiment with what was suppressing his inner mania, and even conducted various comparative experiments.
[He first began to wonder if the reason he calmed down was because he was injured more severely, but after trying a few times, he found that this statement was somewhat inaccurate. A more accurate statement was that he calmed down so quickly because he bled more when he was injured.]
[He tried many times again... Suddenly he felt that this technique was indescribable. The essence of this technique was to make you constantly manic and hysterical, wanting to kill people, and then slowly lose blood due to injuries during the fight. After losing enough blood, you would suddenly calm down...]
[So what is the purpose of this sutra? Fanning was puzzled. He vaguely thought of the beastmen. After being controlled, their personalities became violent and they turned from gentle beastmen close to nature into killing machines. When the sword hit them, they would not feel pain, but would become more and more excited.]
【So Fanning had a nightmare that night... He dreamed that he turned into a machine that only knew how to kill, with two eyes glowing red.
【Then he was startled awake.】
[Fanning woke up in shock and got up in the middle of the night. He sat on the bed and was dazed for a while. He struggled for a long time before falling asleep.]
Yuan Yuanyuan didn't know what to say when she saw Fanning in the comic... She didn't look too miserable, right? There was someone to cushion her.
She shook her head, but this evil secret should be very powerful. Maybe it was written by some great god, so Fanning can grow step by step.
With a trace of inexplicable expectation and sympathy for the protagonist, as well as a desire to kill him so that he would never come looking for her again, Yuan Yuanyuan continued to watch. Then she saw that after Fanning discovered the solution to the Taoist secret, he calmed down and began to learn the Taoist secret wholeheartedly. Yuan Yuanyuan felt ashamed of herself for his calmness.
So other people's cultivation is to soak in ice springs and enter forbidden areas, but the weird protagonist of the comic book "Yoki" is sitting on the bed reciting a book, and while reciting it, he stabs himself...
Yuan Yuanyuan was grinning the entire time. She could imagine what other readers were feeling when reading this part. No wonder she just glanced at the comments and saw several comments like [miserable], [too miserable], [I really like this kind of protagonist], […? ]
I only read it through once before, so there are many things Fanning has not seen. Now is a good time to read it again.
[Due to time constraints, Fanning has only read the first few pages. However, he flipped through the back part and found that it was getting harder and harder. He flipped to the end and suddenly saw a tiny signature on the last page of the book. It was in the seam of the book and was nailed up. If you didn't look carefully, you couldn't see it.]
[The color of the signature had faded and turned into a light pink, but Fanning's curiosity was aroused. He untied the thread that fastened the book, and then saw the full picture of the seal behind it.]
【Editor X7……】
[Editor... probably refers to the person who edits the book, but who is this person? ]
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...Yuan Yuanyuan, who was sitting in front of the screen, suddenly cried out.
She vaguely felt the blood rising, slowly flowing to her cheeks, making her face hot in an instant.
She remembered that a third-rate health program said that this was bad for the skin on her face, so she went to the refrigerator, picked up an unopened can of Coke, poured the ice on her face, and then came back to continue reading. At this time, Fanning in the comic was still exploring.
[There is a big hole at the X. This kind of ancient book is usually pierced with a spike and then strung together with a rope. Originally, the signature should have been clearly visible, but because the person who nailed the book was not careful, it ended up like this.]
[Faning felt it was a pity that the editor of this book was no longer visible, so he wanted to know who wrote it, but finding the editor was like looking for a needle in a haystack.]
【Especially many years ago, several major Taoist sects summarized all the Taoist secrets to date and used them as textbooks. At that time, some anonymous editors wrote their life's work into them. At that time, they used "Editor XX" to replace them. Many people didn't even have their names. The word "seven" was revealed, so it is very likely just a code name... Fanning thought about it and decided to forget it and just treat them as anonymous predecessors.】
[This mentality continued until he saw another book...]
[And by coincidence, the author of that book is not a human, but a monster. ]
...Yuan Yuanyuan sniffed.
[One day, Fanning accidentally got a book of monsters' magic. The book was very old, so old that the stone was full of cracks. He accidentally turned to the back and suddenly froze when he saw the last page.]
[Behind it, there is a small handwritten word - one seven.]
【“Hey, where did you get this?” Fanning asked the Taoist priest who sold him the stone.】
[“From an old monster.” The Taoist said, “When he was young, the old monster was a famous sorcerer. Even when we tried to catch him, it took a lot of effort and more than ten people died.”]
[Fanning looked at the stone in his hand. He bought it because he felt the writing on it was somehow familiar... He took the stone back and prepared to compare it carefully.]
【At this moment, the authors of these two books have completely aroused his curiosity, because these two books are very strange, one is a Taoist secret, and the other is a demon secret... What's going on? Fanning couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he thought.】
Yuan Yuanyuan stared at her phone with her eyes wide open and she stopped eating her potato chips.
She never dreamed that the first time she saw Yiqi's name appear in a comic, it was suddenly in this way, appearing in a Taoist book read by Taoists.
The two words were quietly placed there, as if revealing a heavy past. Yuan Yuanyuan, who knew this name, felt that the two words were as heavy as a thousand pounds. However, on second thought, perhaps for most monsters who didn't know Yiqi in the first place... they might not have any fluctuations in their hearts.
Yuan Yuanyuan suddenly resumed eating potato chips and her face became calm, as if nothing had happened.