"A few days ago, someone from the Hao family actually went to look for Yuan." In a warm room, two people, a man and a woman, sat on either side of a small table, each holding a cup of tea, drinking and talking.
In the room where they were sitting, there was a huge stove next to them, with a pale blue flame burning inside. This color looked cold, but when you sat next to it, you realized that the temperature was not that cold.
It's snowing outside. Sitting in the dark blue house and watching the falling snow outside has a unique feeling.
The man held the water in his hands and gently blew away the foam on the surface. Then he said softly, "You really don't know how to live or die."
"If I had the power, I would probably have the same attitude as those new aristocratic families." There was a sense of purity between the woman's eyebrows and eyes. She was wearing a pear-yellow dress with tender white pear flowers embroidered on it stitch by stitch.
"Why do you say that?" the man asked.
"Because even if it's Yuan, his loyalty can be guaranteed, but accidents will always happen in this world. Using friendship to bind a person is always the stupidest behavior." said the woman.
The man looked up at the woman and shook his head slowly, "You are still too young. Do you know...what is the relationship between Yiqi and this city?"
The woman was stunned.
"Back then, City C was a very large refuge." The man put down his teacup. "The monsters on the front line were defeated one after another during that period of time, and the little monsters were evacuated here. Many of the little monsters here have survived to this day and have become those old-fashioned families."
The woman guessed something and waited quietly for the man to continue.
"Yiqi was a little monster who was evacuated from the front line. He had just joined the army as a boy scout." The man said, "The war situation was not that serious at the time, and some boy scouts did not have any need to go to the battlefield. Of course, the war became more and more intense in the later stages, and the little monsters began to be used as cannon fodder."
"Later, the war front continued to move closer to City C, and City C began to recruit scouts to resist foreign enemies. Although the outside world believed that Yiqi joined the army very early, the time he officially joined the army was actually relatively late. Before that, he had lived in City C for nearly ten years." The man seemed to be recalling something.
"Yiqi has lived in this city for ten years. Back then, City C was not so prosperous, and there were wandering monsters everywhere." The man concluded, "City C was very kind to him. He joined the army with many monsters, and some of them later became famous generals. However, many people outside the city don't know that those generals came from our City C."
"...That doesn't mean he's loyal to City C now." The woman hesitated for a moment, but still said, "One day without seeing each other is like three years. Even if they are close friends, they may become completely different after not seeing each other for more than ten years."
"Do you think the higher-ups really care about Fang Yuan?" the man asked.
The woman was stunned. She didn't quite understand.
"We are just using friendship to bind Yuan. We are not stupid at heart." The man said as he looked at the snow outside.
There was an inexplicable melancholy in his tone.
"But now, City C is no longer the City C of the past. Even though it seems to be thriving, the scene of the past can never be reproduced."
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In a very warm room, two people sat on either side of the table, one on the left and one on the right.
The person on the left was wearing a black robe, like a Dementor... The person on the right was wearing a black sports suit and a pair of bunny cotton slippers. In front of both of them were a bunch of snacks, such as potato chips and Coke.
The cell phone next to them was buzzing… It was playing a very popular variety show recently. The two of them were eating snacks and drinking iced Coke, as if they didn't care about the stove next to them at all…
"Now, among the monsters in City C, the most powerful ones are the bosses of the East District and the West District, an old gangster, and a little girl in white clothes. The Li and Tie families may have a few old monsters hiding, and their heads are also very powerful... You don't have to remember this, even if your strength has declined now, they can't beat you."
The man in black robe looked at Yuan Yuanyuan helplessly. In front of her was a notebook with a pen in her hand, which was already filled with dense notes. He said, "You are not on the battlefield. Why are you writing down these things? Sometimes when I see you, I feel that you are living a very tiring life."
Yuan Yuanyuan said, "No, please continue. Is my brain not working well? What if I forget..."
"Don't worry, the previous senior leaders are mostly dead, and the ones who have replaced them now are basically new senior leaders or their descendants. As long as you want, you can walk around here freely." The man in black robe said, and suddenly his tone gradually became heavy, "We have lived too long... My father is also dead, and now I am the only one in my family."
Yuan Yuanyuan put down her pen, feeling that the atmosphere was getting heavy. However, she could not offer any comfort to the black-robed man in front of her. After all, she did not even know his name. She could only express her regret with silence.
"Okay, there's nothing much to say about this city, so I'll tell you about other cities." The man in black robe changed the subject, "Nowadays, the power of big monsters has decreased. Any kind of monster can be called a big monster. Some big monsters would look ridiculous in our time."
"There are only a few big monsters left from the radical faction in the south. Only the old snake is still alive. Alas, the southern faction that was so arrogant back then... You are still somewhat related to the old snake, so don't go to his place recently. After you disappeared, a few powerful newcomers appeared. There was a ghost who turned into a ghost demon named Yan Yi. He was really a genius... It's a pity that he died early, and even his demon soul was not left behind. So this is the bad thing about ghost demons..."
"The monsters in the Central Plains are quite mixed. The last leader of all monsters died less than fifty years after you disappeared. The current leader is a jade monster. He is the leader of all monsters in name, but I don't think he is very strong. He is just very weird. You said that a piece of jade can be transformed into a monster. This is also because of good feng shui..."
"And the recent Yu Wu... I know he had some connection with you in the past, but you know what happened? He went to find Old Snake some time ago, but was beaten back by him. Haha... He reaps what he sows. He has been sealed for so long, and he still wants to compete with others..."
Yuan Yuanyuan wrote down every word he said. There were many things she didn't understand, but she could still remember a little bit.
In her notebook, a few words appeared most frequently, such as "old snake", "South", and "Central Plains". Yuan Yuanyuan planned to slowly figure out what these messy words meant in the coming days.
"Hey? You still haven't told me the North." Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the things written on the notebook and asked the man in black robe.
The man in black robe paused while drinking tea, put down the cup and said, "Aren't we in the north?"
"Yes, I know." Yuan Yuanyuan asked foolishly.
"The most famous monster in the north..." The man in black robe was obviously choked. He said, "Isn't it you?"
Yuan Yuanyuan put the notebook down, and the expression on her face instantly turned into a confused one.
"...Oh, yes, I almost forgot." The man in black robe suddenly realized it. He said: "Now City C is not as powerful as before. It could be mentioned separately before, but now it is different from our time. The monsters outside basically regard City C as their northern faction... You can basically defeat all the monsters in the north, and those that you can't defeat can be defeated by trickery. I'm too lazy to tell you anymore..."
Yuan Yuanyuan's eyes slanted silently, she thought, City C...isn't it a northern city?
Obviously... City C is located in the northern part of the Tianchao map.
She silently wrote down the words "City C - North?" in the notebook and then put down her pen.
"I don't know what you're thinking. It's the same old saying. Now that all the damned old monsters are dead, you don't have to worry about it as much as before." The man in black robe said. He looked at the snow falling outside and suddenly said hesitantly, "You... don't want to clarify what happened back then? I've read the latest picture book. You..."
"No need, it's meaningless, let's not mention it." Yuan Yuanyuan immediately interrupted the man in black robe.
The man in black robe seemed to be choked again, as if he had already guessed the result. He drank the tea in the cup, turned around, walked out on the snow, and never looked back.
The black night sky outside looked vast and boundless, and his figure slowly disappeared on the snow-white street without leaving a single footprint.
Yuan Yuanyuan watched the man in black robe leave and opened another bag of potato chips.
Clarification or something... If clarification can make her absorb less hatred, then of course she is happy to do it, but the problem is that she herself knows nothing, which is a bit of a trap.
Ever since the last issue was published, readers have been talking about it.
Ji Qiu mentioned the word "spy camp" many times in the comics... The spy camp, as the name suggests, is a place full of spies.
There is probably a fixed image of spies in everyone's mind. Whether it is the more tragic Snape, a double-faced spy like Itachi, or a traditional spy like Kabuto Yakushi, they all have several common characteristics.
Cunning, smart, scheming, careful, in short, sinister, cruel, and damaging...
It was no surprise that Yuan was a spy. Readers could vaguely guess a few things about Yuan after reading a few lines in the previous issue.
The first thing is - Yuan was indeed the most sinister, cruel, and harmful one back then...
A spy managed to survive when everyone thought he was dead and the spy camp was said to have been wiped out.
What kind of ability is this?
And based on what the little monsters said, some readers vaguely speculated that Yuan might have survived by some improper means... Although this method is not honorable, it is cunning enough, and this cunning is a compliment.
The image of a very cunning spy appeared in front of everyone... This Yuan is said to be very cold-hearted. He seems to be affectionate, but he is actually ruthless, so he is very likely to ignore the life and death of other monsters and successfully escape from death.
As soon as this image came out... it immediately received recognition from many readers. Many readers even said that they liked this character and thought that Yuan was very powerful.
Although what he did might be a little unkind, many readers said that this was the most exciting boss character they had ever seen.
[Only a monster like this can survive! This is a real big monster. 】
However, there are still many readers who say they cannot accept it... No matter what, they just cannot accept it. They cannot psychologically accept a traitor.
However, when Yuan sat in the corridor and closed his eyes indifferently, all readers could not forget that scene.
He didn't care what the monsters outside said. He had obviously done something very horrible and excessive, but he acted as if it had nothing to do with him.
It’s like... I don’t care about anything in this world, no matter how hard it rains, how wind blows, or how the earth shakes, I have my own ideas.
Even if he is heartless...but the fact that this heartlessness can be expressed in this way in the work and such a character is presented makes all readers have to admire it.
So Yuan's votes have started to surge again recently...
"Sister Yuanyuan!" Xiaoying came over and knocked on the door. "We are going to make a film tomorrow. Do you want to come with us? Lunch is included."
"What kind of movie is it?" Yuan Yuanyuan asked.
"It's the scene in the last issue where Yuan is basking in the winter sun." Xiaoying said, "It's so beautiful... I really want to make a set based on it."
Yuan Yuanyuan thought to herself, why the hell are you doing this? I can take ten photos for you in a minute. You don't have to go anywhere else. Her balcony with green onions and spider plants will be fine. But after thinking about it, she didn't dare to say more and held back her words.
She came to the tavern and looked at the clothes hanging in the cabinet, wondering if she could lend out a set, because no matter how bad the ancient costumes here were, they were still better than the ones Xiaoying bought, and she couldn't take out the ones hanging in the store for fear of something happening... Just as she was thinking about it, she suddenly heard a loud noise at the door, and Sister Li rushed back, wearing a pear yellow dress.
"Where is Siqun?" She glanced at the back kitchen and turned to ask Yuan Yuanyuan.
"Ah? He's hiding from the guests again. He's in the empty wine jar in the room." Yuan Yuanyuan said, "Sister Li Zi, where have you been? You're out of breath."
"Don't worry about me. I'm going to infiltrate the enemy to collect intelligence." Sister Li Zi waved her hand and shouted towards the house, "Siqun! Come out quickly. Sister has brought you some delicious food."