Ji Qiu is a man of his words. In the comic updated today, he gave out three bento boxes.

These three bento boxes were distributed one at the beginning, one in the middle, and one at the end, in a very regular pattern. Although none of the three characters are famous two-dimensional characters, they are all well-known people who participated in the Dream Man auditions.

The common feature of these three characters is that they were all eliminated in the auditions, with not a single one left. And according to Yuan Yuanyuan's observation, the order in which these three were given their lunch boxes was the same as the order in which they were eliminated.

After Yuan Yuanyuan discovered this pattern, she turned around and looked at the comments below. Although only half an hour had passed between the publication of the comic and the time Yuan Yuanyuan finished reading it, any discerning person could see that the reviews in "Yao Ji" had exploded, and the number of reviews was far more than that of the previous issues.

Moreover, as time went by, the number of comments continued to grow. Yuan Yuanyuan checked the forum and found that the forum was in an uproar.

Although those eliminated characters are not that famous, they still have fans. The fans are furious and there are many heated comments in the comments. Yuan Yuanyuan carefully looked up the promotion list from the audition and found that Ji Qiu did not give lunch boxes to all the characters. To be honest, there should be five people eliminated in the audition, but Ji Qiu only gave lunch boxes to three people.

Yuan Yuanyuan glanced at the two people who survived. Both of them appeared in the last two issues. Their appearances were not many, far less than the three extras before. In fact, according to Yuan Yuanyuan's own perspective, these two people still have great potential. If they have more time, they may become popular figures. What they lack is just the screen time.

Yuan Yuanyuan herself had no idea how the characters in the dream comics participated in this audition, but she remembered hearing someone say that it seemed to be the result of discussions between the author and the editor. In other words, the two-dimensional characters participating in the dream comics competition were all picked out by Ji Qiu himself.

...Did he fail to meet expectations and was executed on the spot?

Yuan Yuanyuan found it extremely frightening to think about it, but there was one thing she was sure of, that was, this matter could not have been unrelated to Ji Qiu.

She thought for a moment and understood what Ji Qiu meant. He had played such a big game this time, publishing three named characters in just one issue. He was simply reminding those who were already in the dream to be careful, because he was going to be serious this time.

As for what exactly this truth is... just look at these four monsters who died in such a horrible way, and you'll see it clearly.

From the current perspective, Ji Qiu’s distribution of lunch boxes was not random and aimless. If there were two people left among the five people, and if the lunch boxes were really distributed according to the results, then these five people might all die.

The death of the three extras is just a small episode in this comic. The real content of this issue is that the protagonist continues to investigate the smuggling of human beings. He finds that smuggling has actually become a huge network and there is no way to completely eliminate it. So he has been frantically collecting evidence and improving his own strength.

Yuan Yuanyuan thought that their tavern had not dared to do such a thing in the past few days...after all, it was in the spotlight. However, if they dared to do it again, she would smash it again.

According to the protagonist's enthusiasm, maybe if he stays in the store for the next two days, he will see a cross-dressing man come to justice...

She sat on the bed, looked at the turned-off street lights outside, and thought, "Shit, I can't sleep again tonight."

...I finally had a day off at the pub, but I was still so worried that I couldn't sleep.

Yuan Yuanyuan was not as nervous as she thought. She even walked steadily to the kitchen to get another piece of bread. While stuffing it into her mouth, she flipped through the dreamy auditions.

The auditions were over, and the next step was the elimination round. Yuan Yuanyuan flipped over her next opponent. She had seen this opponent before, but had never paid much attention to him because he was the male protagonist of a girls' comic, and she had never read that comic.

Now it seems that the comic has to be supplemented... Actually, it doesn't matter if she doesn't supplement it, after all, whether she supplements it or not, it's not her vote.

Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the rest of the comments. Many people said, "Are you kidding me?" The fans of the three characters were even more puzzled. They said in the comments, "What's going on? If I had known, I would have bought a few more magazines to increase the vote count."

"Ji Qiu, you old thief, what the hell are you doing? How can you play like this? Are you going to kill everyone who doesn't get first place?"

Yuan Yuanyuan thought that it was not that serious. Ji Qiu was probably not that crazy. What was the point of being the only one left in the end? Of course, that didn’t mean he wasn’t crazy now…

She looked at the sky outside, closed her phone, and lay on the bed with her eyes closed to rest. However, this did not mean that she was at peace. In fact, she felt that she might have a nightmare tonight.

Who cares... if there are too many lice, there won't be any problem of them biting you.

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There are still five days until the next comic update.

Yuan Yuanyuan was sitting in the tavern. Sister Li Zi looked at her movements and said with disdain, "You can't do this either. Lower it a little more."

"Why is it so low? Is it low enough?" Yuan Yuanyuan changed her posture. "This dress is too heavy. It presses my hand."

"You'd better starve to death if you keep on like this." Sister Li Zi shook her head. Suddenly someone called her from outside. She hurried out the door, then turned around and told Yuan Yuanyuan not to move and to continue practicing.

Yuan Yuanyuan sighed, turned around and continued pouring the wine, wanting to see how to pour it in a way that would look good without spilling the wine.

There were too many things to do these days and her mind was in a mess. At this moment, Sister Li Zi suddenly asked her to practice pouring wine, saying that no girls dared to help here now, and she was the only one who looked capable. If she took over the shift, she could get more wages.

Yuan Yuanyuan didn't want more salary, she was just afraid that if she said "no", the boss would fire her directly. After all, as a half-demon, she had neither demon rights nor human rights.

She could only continue pouring the wine and slowly soothe her numb hands.

Hey... let me go back to the kitchen quickly. It's much more comfortable for me to just browse my phone when I have nothing to do. I get paid a thousand dollars a day but do the work of two thousand dollars. Isn't this a rip-off?

While pouring the wine, she kept looking towards the door. There were several little heads there, which were lined up in a row and secretly looking towards her.

Yuan Yuanyuan glanced over and just saw those little kids with their big round eyes staring at them. Their heads were stacked together, the older one on top and the younger one on top. They were all little girls who looked very young.

Of course, this is just appearance, Yuan Yuanyuan thinks that the girl's real age might be her grandmother. When Yuan Yuanyuan was taught how to pour wine, there were always a group of little girls outside peeking, even though it felt a bit strange to be watched, but Yuan Yuanyuan did not chase them away.

The girls hid behind a folding screen embroidered with the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons. They were very quiet and did not make any sound.

She sat in the room, wearing a thick and loose red dress, holding one hand flat, trying hard to recall the posture that someone had just demonstrated to her.

There were several strange paintings hanging in the room, which seemed to be paintings depicting some monsters. These paintings looked like illustrations from some monster stories.

There was a very faint scent burning in the incense burner next to it, which smelled very cool and refreshing.

Yuan Yuanyuan returned home in the early morning, when the sky was already slightly bright. She felt her head was buzzing. She had hardly slept the whole night. She finally fell asleep for a while, but her dream was full of scenes of being clicked. She felt that if this continued, she would go crazy.

At this time, a person will be divided into a rational personality and an irrational personality. The rational personality will constantly advise her to calm down, while the irrational personality will advise her to ignore everything and just have some fun.

Her daily life is a constant struggle between these two personalities.

No one dared to say it, no one could say it, and she had no one to talk to.

Such a lonely life made her inexplicably think of finding a boyfriend...

She took the key to open the door, and just in time she saw Xiaoying pushing the door open, carrying a huge backpack behind her, and preparing to go out.

"Wait a minute, where are you going?" Yuan Yuanyuan called her. Xiaoying turned around and said, "I'm going to the comic convention."

"Comic convention?" Yuan Yuanyuan asked, "Are you planning to go on a cosplay tour, or are you just here for a stroll?"

"I won't cosplay, Li Xin will do the cosplay. Don't worry about us, my mom and her mom know about it." Xiaoying waved her hand, turned around and was about to leave.

"Come back early." Yuan Yuanyuan instructed, and just as she was about to turn around and go in, she suddenly caught a glimpse of something strange out of the corner of her eye.

She leaned halfway out of the room she had just entered and looked at the girl who followed her out.

The girl was wearing a black windbreaker, a short wig, simple makeup, and a big bag on her back.

"...Whose cosplay are you planning to portray?" Yuan Yuanyuan asked.

"It's the voting role you helped me fill in last time." Xiaoying waved her hand and shouted to Yuan Yuanyuan, "We're leaving. Goodbye, Sister Yuanyuan!"

"……goodbye."

Yuan Yuanyuan leaned against the door and watched the two girls happily run downstairs. After a while, they disappeared...