It turned out that Yuanyuan was counting accounts in the house that day.

This year is the easiest year for her in recent times, because this year she has money, a house, and... heating.

Since she had to travel back and forth between the two places, Yuan Yuanyuan simply told the bar that she would not come often on Saturdays and Sundays in the future. Although she made less money, the benefits of the bar were not bad, and Yuan Yuanyuan was used to the poor life, so she could survive anyway.

Recently, pedestrians on the streets have been wearing thicker and thicker clothes. There has been very little snow this winter. Yuanyuan originally thought that this would be a warmer year, but who knew that there would be several heavy snowfalls in the last few days toward the end of the year.

Sitting in the house, Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the snowflakes outside the window and was inexplicably dazed for a while.

She recalled the time when she had no money a few years ago... Now she knows what it means to keep warm with love.

When Yuan Yuanyuan was distracted, Tang Shi, who was sitting opposite her, stretched out her hand and waved it in front of her face, saying, "Shopkeeper, you are distracted again."

"Don't interrupt me, my life as the shop owner is very hard, okay?" Yuan Yuanyuan put down the account book in her hand.

"Didn't my dad buy you a bag of stuff some time ago? It was so heavy that my shoulders were sore from carrying it. And you still say you have no money?" Tang Shi said.

Yuan Yuanyuan remembered what was in the package... She went home and secretly opened the package with a look of excitement, just like unpacking a box, but what she took out was a pile of stones...

A pile of dark brown translucent stones.

Yuan Yuanyuan looked at these broken stones in silence for a long time. Finally, she picked up one with trembling hands and shook it silently in her hand...

This thing looked particularly familiar, because she had a bunch of them. Traditionally, this thing was called a demon bead, which was what Yuan Yuanyuan had to hand over to the regional boss every quarter. However, Yuan Yuanyuan's was red, and each one was n times smaller than this one...

To be frank, Yuan Yuanyuan has enough of this thing to use for more than ten years. The demon bead is a byproduct of practicing the Blood Jade Demon Art.

Because Yuan Yuanyuan wanted human blood, not demonic energy, she would first condense her own blood into a demon bead, and then use the remaining blood to refine it. The blood processed in this way would be more like human blood.

As a result, who knew she would receive such a package...

Damn, Yuan Yuanyuan doesn't know how to use this thing at all! Even if you go to the hospital and buy a few packets of plasma, it will be more reliable for Yuan Yuanyuan than this!

Yuan Yuanyuan felt as if she was eating coptis when she thought about this incident. She looked at Tang Shi and didn't plan to tell her what her father had brought. After all, her father seemed to be hiding it from her.

She looked at Tang Shi's notebook, which had a few lines of notes about his experience in those magic tricks. Yuan Yuanyuan looked at it for a few seconds and felt a headache for some reason. She had really realized in the past few days that Tang Shi really didn't like learning this stuff.

Thinking back then, her favorite part in the book of Blood Jade Demon Arts was Tian Gang Di Sha. Although learning it was more difficult than death, she still found it quite interesting. She often felt excited while learning it.

Although Yuan Yuanyuan had read those novels and comics in the past, and the scenes of those seas of fire and water dragons created by waving their hands were still very exciting, but when it came time to really learn them, she still had to memorize those messy magic spells by herself.

How should I put it... It feels just like memorizing those ancient poems back then, and even if you memorize them, you may not necessarily learn them.

Yuan Yuanyuan stood up, waved her hand, and said to Tang Shi, "Come out to the yard, I'll teach you."

Tang Shi threw away her notebook and excitedly went to the yard with Yuan Yuanyuan. She was already tired of memorizing those things. Ever since she knew that the shop owner was a big monster, she had always wanted to see him show off his skills.

Yuan Yuanyuan walked into the yard, looked at the bare tree in the yard, and breathed a sigh of relief silently in her heart.

She slowly recited the first of the Twelve Little Demon Spells in her mind, and her figure gradually began to become illusory.

Tang Shi sat on the small corridor in front of the door, watching the boss' figure under the tree slowly disappear. She was still a little crooked at first, but gradually sat up straight, staring straight ahead.

The shop owner is usually nonchalant, but every time he uses magic, he looks inexplicably handsome.

At this time, the shop owner standing under the tree had his eyes closed, and his mouth opened and closed gently a few times.

Those two thin lips were lightly blood-red, and when they whispered the little magic trick, one could not help but move closer to listen.

Tang Shi vaguely recognized that it was probably the first one of Xiao Yao Jue.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew in the yard, blowing the snowflakes outside in the same direction.

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【Guess what will be drawn in the next issue. Where is Fanning going? 】

[He is currently visiting small, low-level commission offices... He cannot enter higher-level commission offices.]

[Of course, but I feel a little suffocated when I see this Fanning. Why can't he draw a picture with us monsters as the protagonists?]

In the school forum, this time is the time when students go home from school, and everyone is chatting online. After all, the latest issue of "Monster Records" will be updated in the evening. For these monster readers, the update of "Monster Records" is far more important than studying. After all, most of them monsters don't even care about studying.

For the readers of the website, waiting for the update of "Yao Ji" while chatting idly has actually become something like a ritual.

[That little brother in white clothes, I heard recently that he is actually quite close to my home. ]

Where is it? Where is it?

[In the autumn cherry blossoms, I heard that someone saw him there... He has always been there, but no one knows what he really looks like. ]

[Autumn cherry blossoms? Holy shit, they're actually in there? I remember my mom said there's a lot of cum in there.]

[It is indeed deep... but I have never known why I say deep, but I think that the water in such places of wine and sex is deep. I heard that some scenes in the comics were selected from the autumn cherry blossoms, the scene where Yuan appeared. ]

[Hey, speaking of this Yuan, I heard some time ago that he was on the bounty list of the agency. ]

[Really? Take a look at the picture! ]

A blurry photo appeared on the website. A blurry picture could be vaguely seen there, but the words written on it were very conspicuous: [Monster, Yuan - Reward 3 million]

The students on the website were silent for a while, and suddenly became excited.

[Wait! This name...isn't it what we said? When did it get to the Taoist priest?]

[That photo seems to have been taken from that video! ]

[My God...what happened? How did it get out?]

[By the way, has anyone found out where this abyss came from? I have been looking for it for a long time but I can’t find it. I asked my mom but she didn’t know either.]

[I haven't found out... But I find this very confusing. Wasn't it clearly stated that he was a traitor? Why is the Taoist priest still holding him on a leash? This doesn't make sense.]

[Maybe... this Yuan betrayed the youkai before, but now he won't stand on our side again, right? ]

[Don't be ridiculous. Look at the attitude in the previous issues. How can you say that they are on our side?]

[That means... he doesn't stand on either side? Isn't he afraid that both sides will attack him together? ]

[Oh my god, this weird monster is going to heaven. ]

[Actually, when I think about the fact that there is such a monster around me, my scalp tingles. The spies of that era... let alone their strength, even their previous experiences may not be what we can imagine. They may be even more exciting than novels. So sometimes when I think about the fact that such a monster actually exists... I feel uneasy. ]

[I don't know... maybe you can consider the daily life of the Zaubi Ha family. Although they are not spies, I think their degree of perversion should be similar. Otherwise, you can consider looking up what human spies in that era were like.]

For a while, there were many different opinions on the forum, and everyone was spreading the news, with all kinds of explanations.

In a small courtyard, a person stood quietly in the middle of the courtyard. The sky gradually darkened and the stars came out.

"Look, this is the twelfth one."

The man in black in the yard spoke in a low voice.

He suddenly moved, his figure as fast as a shadow. Tang Shi, who was sitting next to him, felt her eyes sore from staring. She stared straight ahead, not daring to blink at all.

Because she knew that if she blinked even a little, the scene in front of her would probably be over.

Not a single snowflake in the yard was blown up. Just like the previous times, Tang Shi kept staring, trying to find where the person in the yard would appear next.

Is it under that tree?

Or standing in the middle of the yard like last time?

She had been staring until her eyes were sore, but she still couldn't find it. At this moment, she suddenly felt a slight chill on her neck.

She lowered her head. A small knife with a silver sheen was placed at her neck. The back of the knife was facing her. As she leaned forward, it grazed her skin. Under the dark night sky outside, the blade was still cold and creepy.

Only then did Tang Shi realize that there should be someone standing behind her, because the candlelight in the room just now illuminated her entire back, but now, part of it has been blocked by a shadow.

When did you come?

Tang Shi turned her head and heard the shop owner's voice from behind her suddenly change from the low voice just now to the salty fish flavor, "Mom, mom, you have to be careful, you dare to turn your head when the knife is on your neck, I almost cut you, the back of the knife is quite sharp."

Yuan Yuanyuan looked at Tang Shi who turned her head and thought that this was really the most naive and innocent child she had ever seen. Of course, to some extent, this could not be said to be wrong. When her father came that day, Yuan Yuanyuan took a look and found that he looked very similar to Tang Shi.

This is probably a racial issue... Some monsters are just naive and innocent.

Yuan Yuanyuan looked at Tang Shi and once again wondered what kind of monster she was.

She felt even dumber than the hamster her former college roommate had that always choked on its food.

"Amazing!" Tang Shi ran over, her eyes full of little stars...

She looked around at the knife in Yuan Yuanyuan's hand, "Is this your weapon, shopkeeper? How did you appear behind me just now? Is the Little Demon Technique really that powerful? When I practiced it, I couldn't even walk ten meters, and I stumbled a lot. The way you use it is just like in the comics..."

Yuan Yuanyuan watched Tang Shi happily jumping around her. Is this what kids are basically like? Sometimes they don’t like learning something because they think it’s not cool enough. But when they think it’s cool enough, they will naturally move on to it.

Tang Shi looked at the shop owner standing in the night. His black clothes seemed to blend perfectly into the night. If it weren't for his glowing white face, she would have had a hard time finding him.

Yuan Yuanyuan glanced at the time and saw that it was almost twelve o'clock, so she called Tang Shi to come in, "Don't stay outside, it's too cold, come in."

"Shopkeeper, shopkeeper, how can I be like you?"

"Study hard and memorize the twelve little magic tricks first."

"Shopkeeper, how long did it take you to learn this? It seems like you can do it easily."

"I need to learn this?" Yuan Yuanyuan calculated the time. "A month...right?"

Tang Shi kept pestering Yuan Yuanyuan for a long time, and finally stopped when she was tired. She sat on the table and brushed her phone to keep warm. Yuan Yuanyuan was also waiting for time, preparing to finish reading comics and go upstairs to sleep.

The two of them sat quietly for a while, and Tang Shi suddenly reached out and pulled Yuan Yuanyuan's sleeve, "Shopkeeper, look at these people, their imaginations have gone through the sky."

Yuan Yuanyuan went over to take a look. It was a student forum with a post titled [Predict tonight's "Monster Records"!], but it got more and more off topic later on.

[So the spies back then definitely participated in very cruel training... Isn't that what the comics and novels all say? The spy camp in the Blood Jade Demon Army, I don't believe it's a good place.]

[Actually, spies should be considered consumables. Wars back then were basically meat grinders. The Blood Jade Demon Army was nothing more than a consumable with a fancy name. Nowadays, there are no demons that have undergone the kind of pressure-based training that was done back then.]

[Have you seen his weird dance moves? I think they are more accurate than the video I am learning now. If you couldn’t learn it back then, you would have died. They must have tried their best to learn it.]

[It's possible that he's starving and cold. A spy like him can't be open with others... It's easy to become a psychopath.]

"No way." Tang Shi said, "I think you, the owner, have it easy. Although you are not as good as Yuan, you are pretty good at it. It's not as scary as they say. You only studied for a month and you learned it. Right, owner?"

After she finished speaking, she wanted to wait for the owner's response, but she found that the owner, who had always been very heartless, remained silent and just sat quietly opposite her.

His profile looked glowing white in the candlelight, and his high nose bridge and small jaw were visible, but the upper half of his face was blocked by bangs, which cast a thick shadow under his forehead and blocked his eyes.

Tang Shi was sitting opposite him, but suddenly she didn't dare to say anything to disturb him. The candle was burning slowly between the two of them, and a drop of candle tears suddenly flowed down the candle.

"Ah? It's almost twelve o'clock, let's wait for "Monster Records."" After a while, the owner suddenly came to his senses, he raised his head and spoke as if he had just woken up from a dream.