Yuan Yuanyuan had nightmares for two days, and the contents of the dreams were all shockingly similar.
She dreamed of a lot of messy things, and the scenes in her dreams seemed to be happening in a painting. She felt vaguely that she was in a painting, with comic book frames and various shot sizes everywhere.
When she woke up, she lay on the bed, looking at the pitch-black ceiling, and thought...this nightmare wasn't really that scary, but she just felt tired. She felt more tired after sleeping than without sleeping.
The waiting time is always very long. Especially when the result is unpredictable, such as when waiting for the college entrance examination results or waiting for the interview notice. It is very difficult to endure.
She felt that there were many things that were difficult to explain, such as the neighbor's child, who had been hiding from her for two days, and she had to carry the garbage out in the middle of the night.
The faces in that magazine were so confusing. Although there is a certain gap between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional worlds, people who are familiar with the characters can still recognize them at a glance. So Yuan Yuanyuan recognized the man in black in the comics at a glance... He captured the general features of the face very accurately. Ji Qiu is really good at it.
She hasn't figured out what to say if she runs into those two kids... These two kids are different from others. They actually know how the characters in the comics correspond to the three-dimensional world. After all, they have seen the "Men in Black" with their own eyes.
Ah... the person in black is actually her... isn't this the sin she has brought upon herself?
After thinking about it for two days, Yuan Yuanyuan came to the conclusion that she would never tell anyone, no matter how hard she tried. She insisted that she did not know the man.
She has been very listless these past two days, and when she goes to work every day, she doesn't feel as energetic as before. Fortunately, Sister Li Zi told her that she doesn't need to continue pouring wine in the front. So she stayed in the kitchen these two days and slacked off when she had nothing to do.
On Saturday night, she was packing up her things and suddenly found a small thing in the cupboard. She brought it from home, squatted in front of the cupboard, gestured for a long time, and then pasted it on.
It was a small sticky hook left over from hanging calendars. There were three in a box, and there was one left at home.
She looked at the stain in the cupboard, tore off the paper on the back of the sticky hook, and pressed it onto the stain. The sticky hook was a Japanese cat face with long whiskers, which looked cute. But it was a little small. The stain was not completely stuck, and a small piece was left. It looked like the cat had an extra tail.
"Do you know what era this cabinet is from?" Sister Li asked her when she returned to the kitchen when she had nothing to do.
"What era is it from..." Yuan Yuanyuan said in a low voice.
"Anyway... forget it." Sister Li Zi waved her hand, "These are our personal belongings in the back kitchen. Just don't let others see them, or they will scold you for squandering money."
"...Hey, I'm doing this for your brother, okay?" Yuan Yuanyuan actually wanted to say this, but then she thought that this was her superior, and there was no point in making things difficult for his brother, so she held the words back.
She looked at Siqun who was scrubbing the cups. He kept his head down. He hadn't raised his head when Yuan Yuanyuan was talking to his sister just now. He was scrubbing the cups carefully with both hands in the water.
They don't allow the cups here to be scrubbed with detergent. Yuan Yuanyuan brought one here once, but Sister Li Zi disliked it, saying that the cups had a strange smell after being scrubbed, so now they use loofah pulp.
Yuan Yuanyuan looked at him. He was quite skilled at washing the cups and was generally efficient at his job, but it was his personality... It was quite tiring. It was not easy for his sister to raise him to this age.
As if sensing Yuan Yuanyuan's gaze, the movement of brushing the cup suddenly stopped, and then became smaller and smaller, until it stopped again.
Yuan Yuanyuan wanted to go over and give his hair a cut, otherwise she would feel uncomfortable. That hair was really... too unscrupulous, it was like a dog chewing it.
Siqun didn't move, letting Yuan Yuanyuan lift up his fringe, then glanced in her direction...his face suddenly turned red, even his ears turned red.
Yuan Yuanyuan silently put Liu Hai back to him.
After half a minute, Siqun found that Yuanyuan had no other moves, so he started to brush the plate again.
Everything was fine between the two of them, and Yuan Yuanyuan was wondering whether she should suggest his sister to buy some black hairpins.
Anyway, Yuan Yuanyuan endured the two days in fear. On Sunday night, she sat in the kitchen helping to count the number of cups and wine jugs while checking the app, waiting for the update of the new issue.
The effect of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons took a full day to disappear. The whole Saturday was foggy and no signals could be received in the tavern.
Siqun was still standing there washing dishes, while Yuanyuan sat on a small stool and browsed her phone. Sister Lizi glanced at her from behind and asked, "What are you looking at?"
"It's the picture book you told me about before." Yuan Yuanyuan said.
She looked at the latest comments, and saw people constantly refreshing the screen. Some wrote, "So excited! More to come, more to come!", and some left comments, "How come I've never been this excited before? I feel like something's going to go wrong in the next chapter."
Yuan Yuanyuan thought... your premonition is so accurate, the next chapter is not just going to be a big event, it's almost like a nuclear bomb.
She took a sip of the hot tea on the side, then saw that the time was up, so she clicked in. After waiting for a long time for the little chrysanthemum to spin, she finally went in.
"What picture book? I want to see how it's drawn." While Yuan Yuanyuan was waiting for the refresh, Sister Li Zi suddenly brought a small stool over and squeezed next to Yuan Yuanyuan.
"Uh... there's nothing good to see. It's just the kind for kids..." Yuan Yuanyuan put the phone away feeling a little guilty.
When did Sister Li come... We can't show this to her. Yuan Yuanyuan estimated that there would be a lot of shots about her in today's issue - shots of how the men in black smashed the tavern.
Also, the story of how she set up a trap with the protagonist that day was probably also drawn here. If Sister Li saw this, she would probably be furious. Because now everyone in the tavern still thinks that the situation that day was that the man in black kidnapped a girl and ran away...
"Can you show it to me? Why are you so stingy?" Sister Lizi rushed over with a smile. Yuan Yuanyuan didn't stop her at all. She just heard her swiping on the phone with her hands and saying, "Is this how you look at it? I see you always do this..."
Her voice became quieter and quieter, until it could no longer be heard.
Yuan Yuanyuan, who was standing nearby, immediately hugged the bench under her butt, jumped two or three meters to the side, and then hugged her head.
She witnessed with her own eyes what it means to "smile slowly disappears". Sister Li is now as if she is shrouded in a dark cloud, and Yuan Yuanyuan is terrified, fearing that she might crush her phone in excitement.
If she crushes it, she probably won't have the money to buy a second one.
Fortunately, Sister Li Zi showed mercy and returned the phone to Yuan Yuanyuan after about twenty minutes. Yuan Yuanyuan saw her looking at it for such a long time and had no idea what she saw. After taking the phone, she also looked at it with fear and trepidation.
【“What’s that sound?” Fanning covered his chest and looked outside, but suddenly found that the light from the door crack was blocked. 】
[At that moment, he reacted immediately and grabbed the cabinet door tightly from the inside. There was a pulling force from the outside, but it did not open.]
[For a second, he smelled a very familiar scent of powder.]
[When the footsteps outside gradually faded away, Fanning gritted his teeth and rushed out of the closet, wanting the girl outside to take her out. Unexpectedly, a sharp sound of wind suddenly rang in his ears, and then he felt his eyes go black...]
...Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the guy on the screen with a grim expression and eyes covered by bangs. The expression in his eyes hidden under the bangs could not be seen, the corners of his mouth were as straight as a sharp line, and the whole person was like a sword drawn from its sheath.
The entire screen is pure black and white. Black and white are actually the most common colors, and also the most difficult colors to control. However, there are only these two colors on the screen, black hair and background, and white clothes and face.
There aren’t many people who use black and white in comics, but the few that exist are all quite classic, and Yuan Yuanyuan could only come up with a few of them on the spur of the moment.
She looked up at the dishwasher again.
...Oh my god, this contrast is so damn intuitive.
The dishwasher opposite was holding a loofah ladle in his hand, his hands were full of water, and now he had finished washing the cups and was counting the number of cups. His head moved along with his hands, just like the kid who sang the counting ducks downstairs in Yuan Yuanyuan's house...
Oh my god!!!
No wonder Sister Li has that expression, anyone would be anxious about this thing, it’s good enough that she doesn’t beat anyone up.
Yuan Yuanyuan made a judgment within three seconds, picked up her small stool and rushed out of the kitchen, then sat at the door with her knees together, listening to the sounds in the house.
She thought Sister Li would be too embarrassed to get angry, so she would take her along later.
Three seconds later, a chaotic sound came from the kitchen. Some people bumped into chairs, some cried out in pain, and there was a "pa pa" sound... Ah, don't get me wrong, this is the sound of Sister Li Zi spanking her brother with her shoe sole. Yuan Yuanyuan saw it once with her own eyes... When she was hiding in the cupboard...
Yuan Yuanyuan covered her face and decided to pretend that she didn't hear the sound in the room and continued to flip through the pages.
She flipped through a few pages and her expression suddenly became serious because she saw herself appear on the screen.
【Fanning sensed the intention of the person behind him, he relaxed, followed the man quietly, and thought... why did he come here?】
[He glanced at the man's face from the side. He was prettier than all the female monsters he had just seen in this tavern. Even the female monster in red couldn't compare to him.]
[What is this person's name? He thought vaguely.]