Half an hour later.

"Master Gu, thank you very much for your help this time, here is the bonus."

As soon as Gu Yun entered Chen Jiang's office, the latter greeted him and spoke first, but compared to other companies, the foundation branch was much more lively.

As soon as you enter the door, you can see the banners of the Spring Festival couplets pulled up, as well as all kinds of overwhelming decorations, it seems that in order to celebrate the arrival of the New Year, the branch organized a dinner, and the whole corridor was filled with the fragrance of food.

In order to celebrate the arrival of the New Year, the branch of the X City Foundation solemnly decided......

He will work overtime for two or three days!

That's right, that's what Foundation employees do on a daily basis.

During the New Year's holidays, people are finally able to leave their heavy workloads and return home to reunite with their families and enjoy a rare vacation of the year.

However, humans have a holiday, but the monsters do not take a holiday, and even because every New Year's Day, people don't go home at night and fool around outside, so that the number of missing and wounded cases has increased during this time.

In fact, the Spring Festival is the busiest day for low-level employees every year, and the investigation cannot be stopped, and as the head of the branch, Chen Jiang can only find a way to compensate his employees materially.

"What's this?"

Gu Yun put the result card in his pocket, and he was going to go out to find an ATM machine to take the front used to wrap the red envelope, but he happened to see the strange portrait on Chen Jiang's desk.

The portrait depicts a monster with a ferocious face, a long head touching the rocks, sharp teeth, and a mouth that looks like both a unicorn and a lion when it opens.

"Oh, you say this, it's the Year Beast."

"Year Beast? A youkai that has been haunted lately? ”

Gu Yun immediately remembered the monster on the portrait in his heart, thinking that if he encountered it on the way back, he would easily get rid of this monster.

"Hey, Master Gu, haven't you heard of the legend of the Nian Beast?"

"Nope."

Gu Yun shook his head, he didn't know much about the New Year.

"Legend has it that in ancient times, every New Year's Beast would attack the village and eat the nocturnal villagers, and later in order to drive away the New Year Beast, people invented Spring Festival couplets and firecrackers, the fire and sound of firecrackers can scare away the Year Beast, as for the Spring Festival Couplets...... Come, Master Gu, look at this. ”

Saying that, Chen Jiang led Gu Yun to the door of the office, in order to celebrate the New Year, a pair of Spring Festival couplets were neatly pasted on the wall at the door of the office, with gold edges on a red background, looking joyful.

"This couplet actually feels like a charm, right? Legend has it that the earliest people put charms in front of their homes like this, preventing the beasts from touching their houses, and now the custom of setting off firecrackers and pasting Spring Festival couplets has also evolved in this way. ”

"In other words, the Year Beast is actually a big monster that existed in ancient times?"

Gu Yun fell into deep thought.

A big monster that has existed for thousands of years, the Tao should be very strong, right?

It seems that before facing the "disaster", there is still a chance to conduct some special training.

"Haha, that's what I'm saying, in fact, no one has ever seen the existence of the Year Beast with their own eyes."

Chen Jiang was amused by Gu Yun's impatient expression, this Master Gu is really a strange person, he didn't have any worries when he heard that there were monsters anywhere, he just rolled up his sleeves and did it.

It's no wonder that he can become as strong as he is now—with this character, the slightly weaker ones have long been swallowed by youkai.

Chen Jiang explained, "Not all folklore is true, at least we can be sure that the Foundation has never had a commission to hurt people for so many years, and the so-called Nian Beast is actually the same as the story of the 'big bad wolf outside the window', which is used to scare disobedient children." ”

Hearing this, Gu Yun was a little disappointed, "Then why did you print out the picture of the Year Beast?" ”

"Oh, this, it's an easter egg."

"Easter eggs?"

"Every New Year, the general staff have to stay in the branch to work overtime, and the most important part of the work is to monitor the situation of each street, so that there is an emergency to arrive as soon as possible, which is quite a boring and repetitive job, so every year the X city branch will set up easter eggs - if anyone monitors the existence of the year beast, they can get a large bonus."

"Monitor a monster that doesn't exist at all, won't this money never be sent?"

"Not necessarily."

Chen Jiang said, "Now it just proves that the Year Beast has never appeared in the past, and no one can guarantee that it will never appear in the future." ”

After all, there are more and more supernatural events these days, and God knows which folklore will actually appear before their eyes.

"That's it, Master Gu, you go back to celebrate the New Year with your family first, if you are interested in the New Year Beast, I will inform you as soon as there is any trouble."

"Okay, then I'll bother you."

……………………

At the same time, somewhere in the city of X.

Fennel held a cup of steaming milk tea in her hand, dangling her fluffy tail, and walked happily on the street, although she didn't know what the Spring Festival meant, but recently the humans here have always been smiling, just now the owner of the milk tea shop saw that she was cute, and upgraded her small cup of milk tea into a large cup for free.

Thinking of this, she glanced down at the memo on her phone again.

After coming to X City, she was not idle for a moment, after the Martial Arts Society was forced to terminate, she ......

Finally a compilation of all the city's top-rated fly restaurants!

It's a great discovery, and the food here is not only varied, but also more flavorful than W City's cookie-cutter bread steak sausages.

In order to investigate the "true face" of the city, she has just applied for an investigation fund from the Witch Society branch of City X.

"This is it."

Finnier stopped at the door of an alley, and before it was time to eat, the seats outside the food stalls were already full.

Let's get in line......

Finnir was about to cross the street when he saw the monster lying on the stone steps opposite the food stall, staring at the monster opposite him with a vicious and venignant look.

The monster was covered in hair, with horns on its head, sharp teeth, and a large mouth of blood with a steady stream of saliva.

“…… Revenge! ”

As he got closer, Fennir heard the monster's low, deep murmur, "Revenge, I'm going to eat you guys!" ”

"Hello!"

Fennir walked up to the monster in a friendly manner and offered to greet him.

This furry monster gave her an inexplicable sense of intimacy, as if she had seen her own kind.

"My name is Fennel, you must be the werewolf of the East!"

"Werewolves?"

The monster bared its teeth viciously, "What do you know about me?" Go away, or I'll eat with you!" ”

"I know, it must be like that."

Finnir said seriously, and looked at the youkai on the steps with sympathetic eyes, "You must have failed the transformation exam - cheer up, you can make up the exam next year!" ”