Ever since Liu An arrived at the clothing store, Yuan Yuanyuan's life has instantly upgraded from being a poor person to a wealthy one.
For some reason, she had the illusion that she had gotten a great bargain recently... or maybe it wasn't an illusion.
When Yuan Yuanyuan came home last night, she found a killed chicken in her room...
She looked at the chicken and pondered for a long time. The last time she went out for a meal was probably last Wednesday. A big guy came to the bar and asked a bunch of girls to accompany him for drinks. She saw that the food was good, so she secretly followed him...
And now there was a chicken here, Yuan Yuanyuan was a little confused. She went over to ask, and it turned out that Liu An had been helping the chicken-selling lady move things every morning before dawn, and the lady gave him the gift because she saw that he was honest.
It's amazing for my An.
Although Yuan Yuanyuan's company actually consists of a very poor boss and an even poorer employee, when the two of them get along with each other, it actually seems like a proper store.
So... I should find a partner sooner rather than later, Yuan Yuanyuan said with inexplicable emotion.
In fact, Yuan Yuanyuan has never been able to say one thing... When they first met Liu An and saw him walking down the street in a hospital gown, Yuan Yuanyuan and Tang Shi both thought he was a psychopath...
When the 15th issue of the second volume of "Yao Ji" was updated on Saturday, Liu An had already been here for ten days. During these ten days, Yuan Yuanyuan felt that this man really lived up to her impression of him as the most powerful partner.
On the tenth day, she thought about holding a welcome party for Liu An. After all, when he came on the first day, Yuan Yuanyuan ignored him because he made a very bad first impression.
So today, Yuan Yuanyuan specially bought a small cake from the discount cake shop downstairs... and then sat in the house, reading comics while waiting for Liu An to come back.
According to the general time period, Liu An would leave at around seven in the evening and come back at three or four in the morning, bringing the purchased food. After cooking, he would take a nap and get up at noon to continue working.
Yuan Yuanyuan was looking at the comic with a cup of tea in her hand. She drank tea while looking at the little chrysanthemums in the comic and guessed what today's content was about.
When the comic was refreshed, Yuan Yuanyuan suddenly raised her eyebrows.
Damn, it’s been a long time since we last saw each other, and today’s update is about her again.
The cover of today's comic is a large picture of Yuan. Generally speaking, whoever's portrait is on the cover, most of the content of the issue will be related to him.
So far, Yuan has been featured on the cover three times. Those two times were in the first volume, and this is the first time Yuan is featured as the cover character in the second volume.
Because this was related to Yuan Yuanyuan, she sat up straight in an instant and looked at what was updated in the comics.
At this moment, countless readers also opened this magazine and looked at the contents inside.
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[The sky was red, and the ground was full of corpses. Corpses piled up on the ground, completely covering the exposed ground.]
The color at the beginning made Yuan Yuanyuan feel like she was blind for a moment. This color combination was really too blinding and it looked bloody. Every time she saw Ji Qiu painting the battle scenes, Yuan Yuanyuan felt her heart pounding.
When she read comics before and knew nothing about it, Yuan Yuanyuan could only sigh, "Awesome, well drawn, so realistic." But now, when Yuan Yuanyuan sees the red color, she is really surprised. In fact, if this comic was not related to her, she thinks she would not read this kind of comic that makes her nervous all the time.
The first few pictures were all fairly large descriptions of war scenes. Yuan Yuanyuan was watching them with a frown on her face. She couldn't tell where it was just from the screen, but she had already vaguely sensed that something was wrong.
A thought popped into her mind - is it finally here?
...In fact, a long time ago, when Yuan Yuanyuan first learned about the incident about Yiqi, she vaguely realized that future comics would definitely depict plots related to the war of that year.
Especially after the second volume came out, her premonition became even stronger. The tone of the second volume was so dark that it was very likely to describe something that could be considered the dark side of the demon world.
These premises, coupled with the cover of today's comics... For a moment, Yuan Yuanyuan had a feeling of the "end of destiny" mentioned in the comics.
...Okay, it's actually quite childish to say this.
Yuan Yuanyuan touched her forehead and realized that she was sweating all over.
Even though she knew that cartoonists basically all used this routine, and that even those adapted from real three-dimensional events were probably no exception... Yuan Yuanyuan still felt confused at this moment.
In fact, Yuan Yuanyuan has always had a bit of an ostrich mentality, always thinking...ah, it wasn't mentioned this time, which was really great, and it was really great that it wasn't mentioned next time. But when the real thing came, she felt that her mentality was a bit exploded.
She went outside, brought in some snacks, and prepared to eat while watching.
While Yuan Yuanyuan was eating, other readers were far less sensitive than her. They opened the comic and continued reading from the part where Yuan Yuanyuan had just read.
[In the bloody sky, a lingering earthy yellow color emerged, which was a color inherent in the sky here.]
[People who live here don’t know why the sky is always yellow, as if it’s not very clean. It doesn’t rain very often here, but even after a torrential rain, the sky never clears up.]
[However, today, a bloody color has emerged from the usual earthy yellow color... This inexplicable bloody color makes people cautious. Looking at the indescribable bloodiness, a crow occasionally flies across the sky, revealing its red eyes.]
"Fuck... this color is so unpleasant." Gao Ling looked at the comic and said the same thing as Yuan Yuanyuan. In fact, she was also thinking about how bloody it would be if it were put in the three-dimensional world.
She thought about the Yuan on the cover again, and somehow felt that this place might be related to Yuan. But such a large area of blood red...what does it have to do with Yuan? Why would such a bloody picture be related to that thing?
Gao Ling continued to read with an inexplicable curiosity. To be honest, she was quite interested in this Yuan, but some specific things were never mentioned by Ji Qiu. So far, everyone only knew that this Yuan was called a traitor by the demon world and had been a spy in disguise, but nothing else was known.
The next scene suddenly made Gao Ling, who was totally unprepared, yell, "F*ck!"
"Fuck!"
In another small alley, a man in a military coat also shouted.
After he finished shouting, he suddenly covered his mouth, looked around, and was relieved when he saw that no one was around. He should have hurried back to hand over his shift, but at this moment, he really wanted to finish watching it.
The phone in his hand was filled with a picture of a person covered in blood, half lying quietly on the ground.
The blood-soaked man was wearing a red robe, with long bangs hanging down, covering half of his face.
[A faceless man dragged him, and the man on the ground stumbled and was bleeding. The blood was mixed with the corpses and the color of his clothes.]
Damn, this is going to be a big deal. Liu An looked at this scene and felt his scalp tingling.
He didn't know how to describe this feeling. He didn't expect Ji Qiu to really draw it... Before this, he always thought that things related to the war that year might not appear in the comics, and he always read it with this mentality.
Because after meeting Yuan, Liu An tried every possible way to find out about the war...but what he found was not very good.
He had always thought that Ji Qiu would not paint this, because painting this would be like detonating a time bomb.
But now, he actually painted.
I really drew it...
Liu An looked at the sky in the distance. The sky was as dark and gloomy as a piece of ink that could not be dispersed.
The face of the person being dragged in the picture is the face of "Ran Niang" that appeared earlier.
However, at this time, Ran Niang's makeup should have faded a little, and her hair was loose, so some of her features gradually appeared.
Liu An didn't know where such a tiny change happened that made two people who originally looked completely unrelated become so similar in an instant.
No... maybe that's not the right way to say it, because this is actually a person.
[The man who was being dragged obviously didn't have the strength to get up. He was being dragged forward by his hands, and his hands were covered in blood.]
【"What's wrong? Where are you taking me?" He asked in a very unclear tone. 】
[“Trial Court.” The man who was pulling him could not see his face, but only the words he said.]
[“The courtroom?” The man being dragged whispered back what the previous person had said. He asked, “Why… do we have to go there?”]
[“Violation of military orders.”]
[“I didn’t disobey military orders…” The man on the ground seemed to be unable to make a sound. He only said one sentence at the end, “All the monsters here died in the battle. I am the only one left here.”]
[The man who was dragging him stopped talking, and the man being dragged also stopped talking. The two of them walked through the sea of corpses and headed off into the distance.]
[Each of the corpses on the ground had a hole in their chest or head. Each of the blows was fatal and looked like they were done by one person.]
The scene changed, and in a solemn and cold hall, countless people with unclear faces were sitting in the judge's seats, looking at the person tied to the chair in front of them.
[The light above is extremely dazzling, so white that it seems to be able to blind people’s eyes. ]
[The man sitting on the chair bowed his head quietly. The makeup on his face had been washed off and he was wearing pure white clothes. He looked like a patient restrained in a mental hospital.]
[“He violated the order to retreat and stayed in the Qining battle zone as a lieutenant general, which led to the death of all the demon soldiers in the team.”]
[A solemn and dignified voice echoes in the room.]
[“Have you ever done this?”]
【“…Yes.” A faint voice suddenly came from below. 】
【There was a slight commotion from the audience all of a sudden.】
[“You violated Article 18 of the 30 laws agreed upon between humans and monsters, which prohibits wanton killing. Did you violate that?”]
【"……yes."】
[The white light above my head was so dazzling that it looked like a shadowless light.]
[The charges were listed one by one... The voices in the courtroom became louder and louder, but the voice of the man below became quieter and quieter. He lowered his head deeply, and it sounded like he was asleep.]
[After the person in the court said "the trial is over", the screen suddenly changed from a dazzling white to a deep black...]
【……】
[A man suddenly sat up from the bed. He looked at the dark night outside and was silent for a long time. The dim light outside shone on his profile, making his expressionless face look like a statue.]
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"Hey, don't add to the plot later. My sleep quality has been great recently. I'm as tired as my grandson every day because of the magic. When did I get up in the middle of the night to pretend to meditate?" Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the comics in silence for a long time, and suddenly said something that ruined the atmosphere.
She was reading a comic book with a bunch of messy bags scattered around. Before she knew it, she had already eaten up all the little stock in the store. Only now did she calm down and read the comic book.
After watching the first part... her mind was already a mess, but the last plot was still full of flaws, which made her complain subconsciously.
While watching, someone suddenly knocked on the door. Yuan Yuanyuan shouted, "Come in!" and the man walked in.
As soon as he pushed the door open, he found it was stuck. When he turned around, he saw that it was stuck with an empty plastic bottle.
As he walked towards the house, he found chicken bones, potato chip bags, dry crisps and frozen pear cores...
He walked all the way to the middle of the room, looked at the man sitting in the middle, and said, "Boss, why are you still awake... Who is this person who has been partying here all night?"
"No... I really can't walk anymore, so I decided to sleep here. Can you help me get a blanket from upstairs... Oh, by the way, there's a cake for you, but I think I've only eaten half of it... Sorry... I'll see if there's any for sale tomorrow..."
After the boss said this, he quickly hooked another chair over with his foot, put the two chairs together, leaned on them, and was about to fall asleep in a crooked position...
When Liu An walked over and took a look, he smelled a strong odor. He lowered his head and saw several bottles.
As he went upstairs to get the quilt, he asked without turning his head, "Boss, have you been drinking?"