The cell phone on the coffee table rang. The ringtone was an episode from Inuyasha called Dead Souls.

The melodious and graceful flute played a somewhat lingering and eerie song. This song was the music when Kikyo appeared. After Kikyo was resurrected, there was no one around her, only dead soul insects floating around her like balls of light, surrounding her.

Every time she appears in this posture, this is the background music.

Yuan Yuanyuan went into the restroom to wash her face, took her cell phone in with her, and pressed the hands-free button.

"Yuanyuan, what are you doing?" A girl's lively voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Woo woo..." Yuan Yuanyuan's face was buried in the water, making two vague sounds.

"Oh, I'm washing my face." A voice came from the other end. "Yuanyuan, have you read the comic that Mengman has been recommending recently?"

"...Which one? The one called 'Magical Grade 3 Class 8'?" Yuan Yuanyuan wiped her face and looked towards the phone.

"No, it's the "Demon Records"." The girl said again.

Yuan Yuanyuan hung the towel back, raised her head and looked at the ceiling of the bathroom.

"I saw it. What's wrong?" She picked up the comb and combed her hair into a small bun, asking as she combed her hair.

"It's nothing. I just want to ask if you can make clothes for Ranniang?" the girl asked on the phone.

“…Yes.” Yuan Yuanyuan finished combing her hair and put the wooden comb back.

Speaking of which, when the girl called and mentioned "Monster Records", Yuan Yuanyuan appeared calm on the surface, but she was actually very panicked inside.

What if a girl asks something she shouldn't ask?

——Did you see the man in black?

…I see it. I see it.

——What do you think of this brother?

...It's okay.

Mengman is the platform that publishes the comic book "Yoki". It has both an online platform and a physical platform. The physical platform will publish some popular comics, and at the end will put some interviews with cartoonists or private manuscripts as little easter eggs to attract readers.

Today is the day when the physical version of Mengman is published. Yuanyuan usually only reads it on her mobile phone, but today she got up early and bought a copy of Mengman at the newsstand downstairs.

She opened the plastic packaging of the comic and found the author interview section at the back. She read through them one by one. Viduka, Appetizer, Li Xiaoli... familiar names of artists flew before her eyes, but she couldn't find "Ji Qiu" no matter how hard she looked.

She let out a click of her tongue and threw the comic book back on the table, thirty dollars wasted.

Yuan Yuanyuan wanted to find out who this "Ji Qiu" was, but she was surprised to find that there was no information about this cartoonist even in the physical comic books.

You know, there are many cartoonists who even reveal photos during physical interviews.

In the past few days, Yuan Yuanyuan has searched almost all the information about this cartoonist, but she only found the name "Ji Qiu" and a big cat photo.

The avatar of this guy is a big hand-painted cat with lifeless eyes and a beastly face. He has no Weibo or QQ, so it can be said that there is no way to contact him at all.

Yuan Yuanyuan has been tangled up in the past few days. She has come up with various ways, but none of them seem reliable. She once thought about going to that magazine to be an editor...

She even thought about changing her image from head to toe again, like dyeing her hair pink or something...

These were things she did out of desperation, as the saying goes, a cornered dog will jump over the wall. Who knew that after she waited fearfully for a week, no one came to see her, and her life remained the same, without any difference.

Yuan Yuanyuan finally calmed down a little in the past two days. She thought, since the ending of the comic book is that the demon hunter failed to catch up with the black-clothed monster, does that mean... the painter didn't find her at all?

Apart from anything else, Yuan Yuanyuan was quite confident in her ability to escape and transform. She had never failed in pretending to be someone else.

Yuan Yuanyuan threw the comic book onto the small bookshelf, returned to her bedroom, and thought about what had just happened on the phone.

The person on the phone was her college classmate. They were both in the cosplay club. At the time, Yuan Yuanyuan had just become a half-demon and was in the second spring of her middle school years...

She and that girl have been in contact over the years, and she is one of the few people who still keeps in touch after so many years.

That girl was their club beauty at the time, proficient in makeup and cosplay, and Yuan Yuanyuan had always been a minor player in the group. After so many years, that girl has a family and children, but Yuan Yuanyuan is still a single loser.

Yuan Yuanyuan fell on the bed and fumbled to turn on the small bedside lamp. The "Ran Niang" that girl mentioned was a character in "Yao Ji", who was dressed in red and had black hair.

Uh... to put it more clearly, it was the monster girl who had died in the comic that was published a week ago. She was a monster who infiltrated the demon exorcists to extract information.

Of course, according to the cartoonist's character, there might really be a girl named "Ran Niang" who died some time ago.

Yuan Yuanyuan touched his chin. Well, now that you mention it, this painter is really amazing. He can even clearly see such a hidden matter. How did he know that?

She didn't think much about it, but just opened Taobao and searched for the cosplay costume of "Ran Niang", and found that there were quite a lot of clothes for this character.

The relatively good quality of "Yoki" has also attracted a large number of fans. The love of the two-dimensional fans for the characters is often reflected in some peripherals, such as cosplay clothes, or T-shirts printed with the character's lines...

Looking at the number of cosplay costumes, it shows that the character is quite popular.

Yuan Yuanyuan put down her phone, picked up a pack of red cloth, touched the material with her hand, and thought it was suitable, so she put it aside and prepared to cut it and make a cosplay costume of Ran Niang to send to the girl.

At night, Yuan Yuanyuan lay on the bed, locked the door and turned off the lights.

Perhaps she had thought about too many things during the day, and her mind was in a mess. She had many dreams in a daze.

"Don't forget..."

"Even if I die, I will never forget..."

…

A low cry suddenly came from the dark room.

Yuan Yuanyuan suddenly sat up from the bed, her brow covered with sweat. She raised her head and looked outside; it was still dark.

It’s this dream again.

Yuan Yuanyuan reached out and picked up the alarm clock on the bedside table. She checked the time. It was three o'clock in the morning.

I can still get some more sleep.

Yuan Yuanyuan got up, went to the toilet, came back and got a glass of water, drank half of it and then lay back down on the bed.

...After lying down for ten minutes, she suddenly opened her eyes and reached out to turn on the small yellow light on the bedside.

I can't sleep.

She rubbed her head, climbed out of bed, walked to the living room and turned on the light.

She had had this dream countless times, and had it almost every day during the time when she became a half-demon. However, she had no idea what was in the dream. It was just a person who kept repeating himself in her dreams.

The person's voice was a woman's voice, a little hoarse, but still sounded very nice.

Yuan Yuanyuan thought that this girl's voice must be very nice, but she really couldn't remember who she was.

She didn't even know how she turned into a monster. She became like this in a daze a few years ago.

...Then it's endless, endless running.

Yuan Yuanyuan sat on the bed in a daze for a long time, and suddenly she smelled something strange. She raised her head and stared at the window outside. The curtains there were drawn tightly, and she couldn't see what was inside.

But there was a strange smell coming from there, continuously, as if endless.

Yuan Yuanyuan stood up, walked over carefully, opened the curtain a little, and looked outside. A thick layer of dark clouds appeared in the sky, covering the moon.

There were no pedestrians on the street, only the street lights were flickering. After the dark clouds covered the moon, the street lights suddenly went out as if there was a power outage. In an instant, the street was plunged into darkness.

Except for Yuan Yuanyuan, no one stuck their heads out to look at this strange scene. All the residents nearby seemed to be collectively under a soul-snatching curse and did not react at all.

Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the dark clouds in the sky. The air temperature nearby suddenly dropped several degrees. She almost couldn't suppress her demonic aura, and the red branches almost stretched out.

One hundred demons parade at night.

Yuan Yuanyuan never participated in such activities, but she could see a steady stream of bright spots rising from all around, floating into the air, and disappearing into the layers of dark clouds.

Some bright spots flew out from residential buildings, while others came from dark alleys. As the dark clouds moved, the density of these light spots became larger and larger, until they filled the entire sky, like a starry sky.

Only at this time could Yuan Yuanyuan see how large the number of monsters in this city was.

She looked at the scene in front of her, silently drew the curtains, and then took out another quilt from the cupboard.

The dark clouds grew larger and larger, and the temperature around them dropped lower and lower.

The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons is an activity that has been going on since ancient times, and even today, it is still a very spectacular sight.

Yuan Yuanyuan lay back on the bed, closed her eyes, and within half an hour, she fell into a deep sleep again.

This time she didn't have any strange dreams, but she didn't sleep well.

...because there were things disturbing her from time to time.

…

The next day, Yuan Yuanyuan opened the curtains that had been closed all night. The people coming and going outside were just like usual, with no difference.

The curtains were drawn, and the warm sunlight shone in. She stood in front of the window, her hands on her hips, her face full of sunshine.

Seeing the sunshine makes me feel really relaxed. I feel like I have become brighter all of a sudden.

She stretched lazily, washed her face and brushed her teeth, then turned on her cell phone.

After checking various messages, she opened the Mengman app again, scrolled down, and looked at the various contents inside.

Unexpectedly, she saw quite a few messages about the men in black at the bottom of the book "Demon Records".

"Who is that guy in black? He looks very handsome."

"Oh, this Fengyan really wins my heart. I feel like he is a very cool person. Will he be an important supporting role?"

"Of course, Ji Qiu's paintings are so beautiful... This guy will never paint a country or a city for Long Sui, don't worry."

"Is it a monster that is against humans... Well, after reading this manga for a month, I feel that this manga is very realistic. I always feel that this little brother will die tragically."

"Hey, can you please stop talking nonsense upstairs... I finally met someone I like, how can I just die like that?"

Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the words "died in a very tragic way" and was silent for a while.

Then she went back to bed, drew the curtains, silently hugged her quilt, and fell asleep again.