Manual of the Monster in City

56 Dreamland

"Qingming...Qingming..."

    Qingming felt that she was running hurriedly in the endless darkness, as if something was squirming in the darkness, making a low voice, and extending pale claws to it from the tossing black mist.

    "Help us, help us, Qingming..."

    Something terrible is calling from a low level. They are very close as if tightly stuck to the corners of his clothes. Their weird limbs are like the darkness of thick mist, spreading in this small space, stretching towards him. Come with dry claws.

    These pale limbs exuded bursts of cold and icy aura, Qingming saw the outlines of their strange pale faces, faintly contoured in the darkness.

    "Can't it? The manager...you...can't do it?"

    "If you can't... just... feel... our pain... the pain..."

    ——It’s fine if you can’t see it...

    --Right?

    ——Disgusting things... as long as you can't see them... they won't exist.

    Qingming shrank her body in her dream, burying her head low between her arms, like a child who was at a loss for what to do.

    But those things didn't disappear because of his futile evasion. They surrounded him, and their cold spiritual body passed through his skin, and the chill caused the pores to shrink.

    ——Want to never see that kind of thing again? I heard your wish.

    ——It's just that this is a store that realizes your wishes. You must exchange your most precious possessions for your deepest desires. To realize your wish, you must pay for the equivalent.

    He heard a woman's voice, but the voice was intermittent and vague. It originated from a very distant memory. It has now become fragmented and unclear, but Jia Qingming can clearly hear the content of this passage.

    This memory began to become more and more clear, as if in the form of a dream, desperately looking back to the past. Since he stepped into this shop where his wishes came true again.

    The voice said:

    "Mr. Qingming, are you sure you want to...exchange?"

    ————

    "Mr. Qingming."

    Jia Qingming woke up. He felt that his neck was a little stiff because of the single posture during sleep. He rubbed his eyes and saw Bai Ling standing in front of him. She was wearing a Hanfu simple dress with a plum blossom pattern on her body. The extravagant decorations such as wide sleeves give the whole person a sense of lightness.

    The first time I saw Bai Ling when I got up in the morning...It really felt a little strange.

    However, this feeling is not good at all. It feels like sleeping halfway through sleep. When I wake up, I suddenly find that the headteacher who has already arrived in front of me wakes me up. It's like a beeping dog.

    After all, although Bai Ling said that she is his friend of Jia Qingming, if this legendary foodie who has eaten Baize meat forever does not care about this exaggerated year-end friendship; but more often, her identity is this. The owner of Thiotian Pavilion is the owner of his part-time job...

    Jia Qingming let out a muffled snort before waking up and then sat up from the sofa. This room is the entertainment room of the stolen pavilion. It is equipped with a wide-screen LCD TV, PSP, and the WIFI source in the stolen pavilion. He thinks this is the most modern room in the pavilion.

    Naturally, the style of painting is the least suitable for this quaint and strange pavilion.

    "Okay." He stretched, "I'm going to prepare breakfast."

    "Did Mr. Seimei slept well last night? There is no extra bedroom in the pavilion, but I don't want Mr. Seimei to think that I didn't entertain him well."

    "Not bad." Jia Qingming rubbed her sore neck.

    "Have you had a nightmare?" Bai Ling asked.

    "Ah? Did I talk in sleep?" Jia Qingming asked subconsciously.

    This is not the first time such a nightmare. He vaguely remembered that it was when he was a child. He only remembered, no, it was the memory that others told him. He only said that an expert helped him seal the eye of the sky and keep it. A jade bracelet was placed as the core of the seal.

    It's a pity that the jade bracelet has been broken now, and it has long been unable to maintain the seal, and it has been handed over to Bai Ling as a price to pay.

    So Jia Qingming hell again, and finally, after nine years, had to take on the responsibility of the administrator with Tianyan again.

    The above is a short review.

    "That's not true." Bai Ling said slowly, "It's just that Mr. Qingming's state makes me feel bad."

    "It's nothing, it's not a nightmare, it's just some things from the past that I can't remember, and occasionally dream about it." Jia Qingming said. "correct--"

    Jia Qingming suddenly planned to ask a question, but his question was blocked by Bai Ling's next words.

    "Dreamland is a vain content." Bai Ling said, "Day thinking is a dream. It is not necessarily the memory that Mr. Qingming lost. There are some memories that cannot be retrieved. What did Mr. Qingming just want to ask?"

    "No, nothing." Jia Qingming said, "I'm going to prepare breakfast."

    He made an excuse and went to the kitchen, but he always felt that Bai Ling's gaze was behind him, always following his back until he got out of the room, that gaze was blocked by the wall.

    Even so, he can still feel the feeling of being stared at from behind...

    Very uncomfortable, as if being watched.

    The question he wanted to ask just now was--

    "Miss Bai Ling, have we met before in places outside Shenting County...?"

    ————

    Jia Qingming couldn't help yawning greatly when he listened to the reports of others in the student union.

    Sure enough, I didn't sleep well again.

    Thinking about it this way, in fact, even if he sleeps well, he still looks like this lack of energy, right? However, always find some reasons to make laziness more comfortable.

    His landlord, Uncle Jia Shansheng, is still working on the plan for the "big hotel", and now the renovation project has come to an end. It turned out that the abandoned temple was littered with rubbish and broken bricks, and the courtyard was full of weeds. Now it has become a hotel that has begun to take shape, and the ancient and modern are just right in the newly renovated decoration.

    However, the uncle suddenly told him and Yuan Baiyang, who was also staying there temporarily, to renovate the two of them together, so he asked them to stay for a few days.

    Of course the guy Yuan Mu-mutu is nothing. He usually works with Master Lin, a forest ranger in the forests of the west of Shenting County. Master Lin has a small wooden house on the mountain. The sparrow is small and has all five internal organs. It should be more convenient for Yuan Mu-mutou to live there. It is more troublesome for Jia Qingming. Of course, he has no spare money to live in a hotel, otherwise, he would not work part-time on weekdays, but would enjoy his spare time with classmates and new friends.

    However, after Miss Bai Ling heard that he was "swept out", she allowed him to stay overnight in the Stealing Pavilion.

    And he didn't mention the "cost" kindly.

    He just told him to get up in the morning and make three breakfasts for them. Jia Qingming thinks this is probably the price. After all, Miss Bai Ling said that the meals made by herself can be paid as a price because of the intention of the producer.

    In terms of breakfast, Miss Bai Ling is very casual, just eat some white porridge with vegetables cooked in salt. The pickiest ones are the cute pets of the two town shops, who can transform into two little black cats and big white dogs with different personalities.

    Xiao Hei must eat milk and oatmeal for breakfast, and the milk must be heated well. However, she doesn't like eating hot food, so she must make it in advance and let it sit until it is warm and delicious.

    What is this strange request? In the case of cats, there is no gastrointestinal discomfort even if you drink raw milk?

    And Xiao Bai...

    Even for breakfast, she must eat meat. Bai Ling bought some imported beef for her to eat, and she was too spoiled. The beef has beautiful lines. Bai Ling said that it can be matched with the frosting solar terms. It is best to eat frosting beef.

    So I cooked the steak for Xiao Bai a bit jerky, and then I finished the breakfast. To do so many things, naturally, I got up an hour earlier than usual to prepare.

    In the afternoon, I wanted to make up for a good night's sleep on the desk, but I didn't expect that Xiao Shanshan, the president of the student council, would come to the meeting again.

    "The most important content of this meeting is the school magazine that our student union is responsible for." After listening to the various redundant reports that were of little use before, Xiao Shanshan began to talk about her business.

    After spending more than a month in the student union, Jia Qingming has quickly learned about the "routine" of this unreliable student president.

    In short, the content reported by other people is only Xiaoyu Xiaoxi. The really important thing, the next thing the students will do, must be the content from her mouth.

    Thinking about her unrelentingly inflated personality that day, it really fits her own style.

    "Last time our school magazine was touching, and we selected real news about current events in Shenting County, but the pictures still made many people complain..."

    Xiao Shanshan was talking about the previous incident involving tigers in the mountains and forests of Shenting County. In the mountains and forests under the setting sun, the picture of man and nature coexisting in harmony. The tiger bowed gracefully to the people who had destroyed the environment in which it lived. The sacrifices and apologies that people presented with their own hands...

    However, although it was a very good composition, when the finalization was finalized, a serious problem was suddenly discovered...The tiger in the photo disappeared.

    Xiao Shanshan thought she was dazzled, she blinked vigorously, but what she saw was still the scene, and there was no tiger in the photo. Surprised and puzzled, she had to temporarily call the classmate in charge of the art to add the image of the tiger in the picture with PS software.

    As a result, the final effect was made, just like the "five-mao special effect" of the meat bun floating in the palm of some TV series. It instantly became the content of the school forum and was taken down by someone to take a screenshot. The emoji package.

    "It's a shame for our school magazine!"

    "But the sales of our school magazine last time..." Edogawa pushed black-framed glasses. Except for the unreliable monster incident investigation agency, he often played the mainstay role. This Jiang classmate was in the student union. , Can be regarded as Chairman Xiao Shanshan's right arm.

    "But they bought them all to make complaints!" Xiao Shanshan said desperately. It seemed that the Yintang was blackened, and a pair of blackened eyes shining with crimson light might appear at any time.

    "This time!" Her white hands were clenched into fists, and almost red anger appeared on her body, burning with crackles, "This time we must succeed! And restore the image we lost last time. You guys. Is there any big news?" She looked around the audience. "The school, our Shenting County, can be, we must pay enough attention."

    There is no serious place, right? The student in charge of the school magazine looks unlovable. Basically, since Xiao Shanshan started to manage it, the school magazine has long been not that serious image. The school lace news and ghost story pages are getting bigger and bigger. Activities, except for things like sports games, have been squeezed into the advertising space on the back of the back cover of ordinary magazines.

    After listening to a lot of unreliable news, such as who’s cats and dogs are missing, some small snacks that deceive consumers... and so on, Edogawa finally slowly said:

    "There is one thing. It just ended. The senior high school sister just took the unified grade exam. You must know it, right?"