"The moon is dark and the wind is high, and the surrounding area is as quiet as death, and the mage sees that the spells he casts and the black dog blood he splashes have no effect on this monster. He was so anxious that he jumped to his feet, and immediately burned more than a dozen spells in one go, and there were words in his mouth, and he soon summoned the fierce thunder. The scene at that time can be said to be the sky and the earth changing color, the sun and the moon are not bright. Ji Ao was foaming at the mouth and talking.

Lightning snapped one after another, slashing at the monster's side like a spear, but the monster was not afraid at all. I saw him roar, jumped up, and began to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the mage with the peachwood sword in his hand. You punched me and I fought for hundreds of rounds, and it was hard to tell the winner, and finally the monster finally bit the mage's neck with one bite......" The story was finally over, and Ji Ao gasped.

"What happened later, what happened later!" Yan'er's paws grabbed the back of the sofa, spread her wings, leaned forward, stretched her neck, her eyes widened, and she asked eagerly.

On the sofa opposite Yan'er, Ji Ao shrank in the corner of the three-seater sofa, squeezed his body into the corner as much as possible, and said impatiently: "Later, no, I ate that mage for dinner, and I ate it all in my stomach, and the story is over." Hey, don't get so close, keep your distance, I don't want to sit with you at all. ”

"Well, every time you tell a story, it ends with 'I ate that you're going to eat that monster in the end', and you know you're bragging!" Flame flapped her wings in disappointment.

"What does a bird that has lived for only three hundred years know? How many monsters have you seen?

"I've seen a lot of yokai! At that time, we lived in the deep mountains and old forests, and there were many youkai around. I know a lot, and a stinky guy like you who lives in the city hasn't seen the world!

Hotaru was lying under a row of floor-to-ceiling windows on the other side of the living room. The summer afternoon sun shone directly on him. After a few days of continuous rain, he squinted his eyes, enjoying the rare sunshine, and was listening to Ji Ao and Yan'er bickering.

None of the three "creatures" in the room are human.

Yan'er has been following Jin Yang for hundreds of years, and Jin Yang raised Yan Er when she was a young bird, so she has always treated Jin Jin Moss as a father and brother.

Hanqi has lived in this city for more than 900 years and is fully adapted to human life. It didn't cultivate as hard as the golden firefly, nor did it mess around as unscrupulously as the kiln. The purpose of his survival is to enjoy the entertainment of human civilization, eat and drink all day long, socialize with human "females", and occasionally eat a tooth sacrifice to beat people, is the opposite of a serious and persistent golden firefly, and is a cynical monster who doesn't care about everything.

Since he got to know Jin Hotaru, his happy life has also added to this trouble, that is, this bird called "Yan'er", it was originally a spirit beast that could subdue demons and drive away monsters, even if it is still a small bird, Han Qi has to be afraid of it.

For example, today, Ji Ao was entangled by this little bird all day, forcing him to tell one story after another. Ji Ao was already speaking with a dry mouth and smoke in his throat. But he still had to rack his brains and tell the story, not daring to disobey the bird's order.

"One more, one more interesting. Suzaku doubted Hanji's storytelling skills and urged Hanqi to continue telling stories to him.

"You don't believe it anyway. ”

"Tell me one more thing that will make me believe. ”

“…… Jin Firefly, take care of your bird!"

Jin Hotaru didn't even open her eyes, there was light and shadow. The brighter the light, the thicker the shadows. Sunlight is an important source of strength and vitality for the moss. He didn't bother to take the time to care about the dispute between Ji Ao and Yan'er.

"One more talk, hurry up!"

Ji Ao glanced at Jin Ying, who seemed to have nothing to do with it, and then looked at the Suzaku who liked to listen to stories the most, it seemed to pounce on him immediately, and couldn't help but sigh and said, "Why don't you go to Jin Ying and tell you? That's his responsibility!"

"I know everything about him, I want to hear what I haven't heard!" Yan'er was confident about it.

"It's not so absolute, is it? For example, some time ago, didn't you go on a trip organized by their school with the little nine-tailed fox? ”

"Ji Ao, if that's the case, don't say any more!" Jin Hotatsu, who had not spoken, suddenly shouted to stop him from speaking.

"What......? It's not your fault that you're still haunted by it! ”

"It's not about right or wrong, it's about ...... At that time, I was only one step away from death. Actually, I ...... Anyway, I don't want to talk about it anymore. ”

"One step away, one thought, the difference between cloud and mud, and because of this, it is he who dies instead of you!"

“…… Anyway, don't talk about it again......"

"What, what?" Flame flapped its wings and flew around the room, it flew above Ji Ao's head and threatened, "What the hell are you talking about? Why didn't I understand? Tell me! Tell me quickly, tell me quickly, or I'll fall on your head!"

Ji Ao covered his face with his hand, covering the dazzling light emitted by Suzaku's body because of his anxious anger: "Hey, it's Jin Ying who won't let me say it, how can you blame me!

"Hotaru ......" Suzaku immediately flew up to Jin Hotaru and pecked at his hand in a hurry.

"No, let him tell you another story!"

"No! I have to listen to this!" Flame frantically jumped on Jin Hotaru's body.

"I don't want to talk about it anymore!"

"So, Ji Ao......"

Seeing that Yan'er's attention returned to him, Ji Ao hurriedly said, "This is what Jin Ying won't let me say, I won't betray my friends." ”

"Hmph, you guys are bullying me......" Yan'er began to get angry, and the feathers on her body suddenly turned from bright red to golden yellow, "Hmph! Anyway, I have to listen!"

It suddenly flew onto the head of the golden firefly, spread its wings and slapped it at him, and the unsuspecting golden firefly immediately fell asleep.

"Okay, Hotaru is asleep, and he won't hear it if you tell it now!"

"Ah......h......h

When Ji Ao came out of the house of the woman she had just met last night, it was already dawn. He lit a cigarette, beckoned a taxi, and suddenly remembered that he hadn't gone to look for Jin Ying for half a month. Recently, he has been enjoying the fun of "love" with human women in the social circle, and it is inevitable that he will snub this buddy.

"Let's go talk to him now. Ji Ao thought to himself.

He said to the driver: "Go to Taoyuan Community." ”

The place where Hotaru Jin lives is an old residential area. It's all six-story residential buildings, a rarity in the city, where the buildings are crowded together and there is a feeling of difficulty breathing.

Most of the people who live here are migrant workers from elsewhere. They come from all over the country, and the characters are all shapes*, even youkai like Jin Hotaru are not conspicuous.

In fact, Ji Ao knew that there were definitely more than two monsters in the Taoyuan community, Jin Hotaru and Yan'er, and behind these pigeon cage-like windows, there would always be some monsters they knew and didn't know, because they wanted to blend in with the crowd, and this place was really an ideal place to live.

Ji Ao put his hands in his pockets, hummed a tune that couldn't be said, and swaggered upstairs: "It's really a big city, there will be anything." ”