Although back in Shanghai, the New Year's festivities still linger on the streets of this bustling city. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the one hand, the local residents of Shanghai are still enjoying the last days of spring break, the children are smiling and accepting the red envelopes handed by the adults, and when they turn around, they are deceived by their parents in the name of "I will keep it for you", and occasionally some smart children will secretly leave some for themselves to contribute to the booming e-sports industry in the nearby black Internet café.

On the other hand, most of the wanderers who came to Shanghai to work at this time were gone away with the Spring Festival train a year ago, so the usually slightly crowded downtown area is not as crowded as imagined, and it seems a little bleak compared to usual, just like the wind-swept newspapers on the dilapidated Wall Street after the economic crisis float into the sky - you don't even have to worry about being stolen by pickpockets in crowded places, after all, pickpockets have to go back to their hometowns for the New Year, and there are very few dedicated pickpockets who are willing to be loyal to their duties.

For Hiro, this afterglow is expressed in the people around him.

For example, Li Lan, the owner who has a little time to rest before the end of the winter vacation and is idle at home, indulges in the spiritual opium of video games every day, slaughtering the enemies in the game on XBOX, PS4, or computer, and standing firm despite the rain of bullets.

For example, Bai Yue, who temporarily left Shanghai because of her return to Fox Village for the New Year, should now be under the mental bombardment of her seven aunts and eight aunts, "Have you found a boyfriend?", "How is your life?", "Have you bought a house in Shanghai?", "When will you get married".

For example, Fan Dehua, who made up all the Spring Festival Gala in previous years on the computer, is contrary to the vast majority of young people who refuse to watch the Spring Festival Gala now, he thinks that missing a grand program like the Spring Festival Gala is a huge loss, so when Hiro came to his house in the morning, he just entered the door and heard the laughter of Xiao Shenyang crying ghosts and gods from his computer, which scared Hiro for a while, and he found that this Mr. Evil Spirit during the Republic of China likes those nostalgic golden songs more than popular pop songs on the Internet. For example, good luck comes, the earth flies, Katyusha, Dongfang Hong...... So much so that when Hiro heard the melodious melody, he suddenly felt that he had traveled to the eighties and nineties of the last century, and he should wear the bell bottoms and bat shirts that were popular in the eighties, and dedicate himself to the great decision of reform and opening up with others.

When Hiro walked all the way from Lane 839 of Nenjiang Road to the Forest Park in a trance under the bombardment of the tactful and high-pitched nostalgic golden songs of Van der Waal's house, he saw the hooligan three-cat group that was being chased - Da Mao Ermao Sanmao was running with a small fish in his mouth as always, but the chef who was still alive and vigorous some time ago with a kitchen knife did not chase after him, he just shook his head helplessly at the door, and then turned around and walked into the restaurant, it seems that the chef has given up, or is used to it.

This scene is very intimate, and Hiro used to see it once a day when he went out for a walk in the morning, and this scene was like a kind of habitual rhythm of life, integrated into all the relevant memories of the streets of Shanghai's outer ring road.

Dozens of kilometers away, on a bench in the People's Park in the center of Shanghai, Ye Xiaomeng sat here silently, she was wearing ordinary civilian clothes, and her face was rarely without makeup, she looked like a high school student who had just begun to prepare for the college entrance examination, and her indifference with a trance look, looked like those depressed girls who fell out of love.

There are not many people around, occasionally there are some muscular and handsome young boys jogging in the morning, and when they pass by Ye Xiaomeng's side, they can't help but take a second look, like iron attracted by a magnet.

If you look closely, you will find that Ye Xiaomeng is covered with a faint layer of golden pupils under the morning sun, with a faint red color, and as time passes, the scarlet in the depths of her eyes becomes more and more intense, like a cloud of black and red pus blood that is about to explode.

The restless red was a sign of the bloodthirsty desires that were simmering within her, and she tried not to make eye contact with anyone because she was afraid that others would notice her eyes—the kind of gaze that treated humans as chickens, ducks, and fish.

The bright sunlight made her look a little drowsy, or sickly, and she hesitated for a moment, got up and changed to a bench, avoiding the area exposed to direct sunlight.

"Sorry, I'm late. Dracula appeared behind her at some point.

Ye Xiaomeng didn't care about the elusiveness of this Grand Duke of the Blood Clan, she just said coldly: "I also made an appointment, and in my experience, he will definitely come over in advance, if you don't show up again, I'd better you don't come today." ”

Duke Dracula hurriedly handed her a bag of liquid that he brought over, the liquid wrapped in this pure white plastic bag was a bag of blood, and it was also the blood bag he prepared for his family as rations, if Ye Xiaomeng did not suck blood for a long time, then she would become a bloodthirsty madman and die, and she herself was not willing to do anything to others, so the ashamed Grand Duke of the Blood Clan had to prepare a blood bag for her every day to maintain her life.

Taking advantage of the fact that there was no one around, Ye Xiaomeng quickly bit through the plastic bag, and drank a bag of blood like a strong wine in a few seconds, like a heroic woman who did not let her eyebrows go, she threw the plastic bag into the trash can after drinking, and then sat back on the bench under the shade of the tree.

And in the process, Dracula stands on the edge of the bench like a bodyguard.

"You still need to suck human blood yourself, otherwise, you will never be able to evolve from a clan to a pure-blood clan, and that means you need a supply of blood every day, or you will die. Dracula's expression was serious.

Ye Xiaomeng glanced at him indifferently and did not speak.

"At least, you are my family, I hope you can recognize this fact, if I don't provide you with blood bags, you will also be forced to hunt humans by yourself, I will only do so much for you because of guilt, strictly speaking, the family is a slave of the higher blood clan, do you understand?" Dracula's expression gradually became indifferent, like a sharp dagger, "It's just that I don't have the habit of calling slaves, if I want to kill you, you will die immediately." ”

Ye Xiaomeng was silent.

Dracula stopped talking nonsense, turned away, and disappeared at the end of the path in People's Park.

Five minutes later, Qian Duoduo, dressed in a white cardigan and a beige coat, walked up to her, the coming spring made the sun look golden and warm, and the soft beam of light fell on Qian Duoduo's handsome face, which was very different from his name, making the fluff on his face clear.

"Anxious to ask me out...... Be...... What's the matter......" He spoke as jerky as ever, but it was much more comfortable than it had been at the beginning.

Ye Xiaomeng looked at the young boy in front of her, lowered her eyes, and couldn't see the look in her eyes clearly, and could only hear that suppressed, low voice: "We...... Let's break up. ”

"That's right. The boy's expression was not surprised, looking a little sad and lonely, like snowflakes that kept falling from the sky a few days ago, "You never regarded me as your boyfriend, so why break up?"

"I ......" Ye Xiaomeng wanted to speak and stopped.

The air fell silent.

No one spoke, as if they could remain silent until the end of the world.

"Is it because of that man just now? that handsome, rich-looking foreigner in a black dress?" Qian Duoduo said suddenly.

"Did you see that?" Ye Xiaomeng raised her head in surprise, she didn't expect Qian Duoduo to actually bump into Dracula, so to speak...... Actually, he had already arrived? yes, he wanted to have the habit of going to appointments in advance, what did he see?

"Haha......" Qian Duoduo's delicate and green face was full of the color that was pitiful like a lonely little beast, like a black thundercloud on a rainy day, "Is that really the case? Because of him? Do you like him?"

Ye Xiaomeng didn't give any explanation for Qian Duoduo's misunderstanding, she was silent and didn't speak, because there was actually nothing wrong - it was precisely because of the identity of the blood clan that made her make this decision, and the culprit of all this was indeed Dracula, but all this, who would believe it?

"That time, it was raining heavily, you were in the school building, and you said on the phone that you were very envious of your friend for drinking hot milk tea, but the milk tea shop did not deliver it. So I hung up the phone and went to the outside of the school with an umbrella to help you buy it, I didn't think too much about it at the time, I just thought that if you can be happy because of this, I will feel very happy, but on the way back I was splashed by a car and soaked, like a soup chicken, but when I handed you the milk tea, I still told myself, I don't regret it, because I saw your smiling face. ”

Qian Duoduo's eyes were red, "That time you said you were dizzy, I rushed to your teacher without saying a word, I still remember that your class looked at my expression at that time, as if looking at a madman, and that day, you said that you like cats very much, so I bought a Ragdoll cat when I passed by the pet store on the way home, and I was going to raise it for a period of time to give it to you, and there are many, a lot, you know, I really like you." ”

Ye Xiaomeng listened to his words, as if something had shattered in her heart, like a shattered glass that had fallen from the table.

"Li Lan has also done that kind of thing for me. This is a sentence that rises in her heart for no reason.

Her silence seemed to arouse anger and sadness in Qian Duoduo's heart, and he suddenly grabbed the girl's wrist like a beast that had lost his mind.

The strength like a vice made Ye Xiaomeng feel pain, "What are you doing!"

"I just think I can't accept this result. Qian Duoduo's expression was a little more hideous, this was the first time he had shown such a gaffe expression in front of Ye Xiaomeng, like a crazy estrus bull who had lost his mind.

"You let me go!" Ye Xiaomeng shook her arm hard, but she couldn't shake off his hand, she looked at the bloodshot eyes of the boy in front of her, familiar and unfamiliar, handsome but scary, she had a faint bad premonition in her heart.

What was tumbling in his eyes was hot red magma that could scorch everything.

"Bitch......" Qian Duoduo's angry tone gradually sharpened, and his other hand grabbed Ye Xiaomeng's short burgundy hair, pulling hard, "I'm going to ...... today"

Before he finished speaking, he stopped abruptly, and a huge force separated him from Ye Xiaomeng, like a sudden hurricane, Qian Duoduo staggered back a few steps, and let go of the hand that was holding Ye Xiaomeng's wrist and hair.

A tall figure blocked the girl's eyes, like a black wall, and the thousands of winds and snows in the cold winter could not take a step forward. This wide back exudes a reassuring smell.

"Li Lan?" Ye Xiaomeng subconsciously shouted out the name.

The Grand Duke of the Blood Clan turned around and said to her expressionlessly, "I'm sorry to disappoint you, it's me." ”

Ye Xiaomeng was stunned, and then she laughed to herself again, too, how could that kind of fairy-tale dramatization happen in her own life? Riding a white horse down from the five-colored auspicious clouds to save her was not necessarily a handsome prince, but also a vampire Grand Duke who worked at KFC McDonald's.

"It's you. Qian Duoduo stared at Duke Dracula in front of him like a lost mind, if his gaze could kill, Dracula should have been broken into thousands of pieces by now, and his bones would be scattered.

"Why, young man, do you want to duel me?" Dracula grinned, looking at the harmlessness of humans and animals - if the other party dared to make a move, as the Grand Duke of the Blood Clan, he wouldn't mind letting go of every drop of blood in Qian Duoduo's body.

Qian Duoduo's face was flushed with anger.

"I curse you. After he finished speaking, he took a deep breath and turned his head to look at Ye Xiaomeng, "And you, I curse you." ”

His voice was full of resentment, and it fell from the air like those corrosive, poisonous bubbles.

After Qian Duoduo left, Ye Xiaomeng sat on the bench in a daze, her eyes were empty, as if she had lost her soul.

A touch of verdant green appeared on the branches of the already trees in People's Park, like the end of a cycle announcing some new beginning.

......

On the third day of returning to Shanghai, Sao, who had been missing for the winter, returned, and according to a sentence he had given to Gul'dan before leaving, Hiro believed that the lowly civet cat should have started the retreat with the purpose of transforming into a human, so what he has become after the retreat will naturally be what Hero and Gul'dan are particularly curious about.

"Is your face copied from Stephen Chow's face?" Hiro looked at the immature young man in front of him, and was surprised and relieved - he thought that this tanuki would become the second Guo Degang in the world, but fortunately, the truth was not so terrifying.

"No, this is Jay Chou when he was young. "Sassy said the same as it really was.

Now he is a human teenager of about fourteen or fifteen years old, wearing a white cotton coat and black trousers, with a delicate face, but soon he will change back to the prototype of the tanuki, although he cultivates the basic quality of a human body as a big demon, but in comparison, he still prefers his own body.

"Do you know what I've been through?" said Sao's expression as if he had just returned from the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea.

"Don't want to know. Hiro and Gul'dan shook their heads at the same time, tacitly, as they had rehearsed beforehand.

After cultivating the human form, the excited tanuki wandered around the streets and alleys of Shanghai with great arrogance, and ended up encountering a demon hunter who was indiscriminately chasing him, according to Sao's description, Hero believed that the witcher must be William, because his black skin inherited from African blood and a dozen bright kitchen knives hidden in his clothes were too recognizable, just like Satania's iconic "hahahahaha" As long as you see or hear these iconic things, you can know who the other party is with your eyes closed, and among the witchers in Shanghai, there is no other branch in the world that uses kitchen knives to cross the rivers and lakes.

"Why did that guy chase me for ten streets like a monster like you, so scared that I thought this was going to make me a raccoon meat hot pot!" "The more Sao said, the more excited he became, "And after he caught me, after sweeping it with his instrument, he actually mocked, 'I thought it was a monster, and it was an oriental monster for a long time, well, why is the demon qi so weak, could I be mistaken?' and let me go! He is an ordinary person, his induction is as dull as Alzheimer's, and he relies on instruments to distinguish between monsters and demons, so why do you think that my demon qi is too weak?"

"What do you mean by 'monsters like you'!, why do I think you're mocking me?" Hiro looked at him.

"Honey, you're so careful, I promise you don't have that thought. Sao Sao said to Hiro, "If you don't see each other for a day, we haven't seen each other for a winter, and I miss you to death." ”

As he spoke, he opened his arms, and the little short legs of the tanuki's body trembled and trembled, and he kept standing on two legs like a human, and he looked like he was shaking.

"But I don't want you. Hiro stretched out his paw and held his warm embrace ten centimeters away.

"Guldan......" Sao turned around and opened his arms to the big yellow dog.

"Do you remember what I said to you last time?" said Guldan, who had not forgotten to bite the dead tanuki's throat, "and it's time to keep its promise." ”

"I miss you so much, you disappoint me so much. Sao's face was distressed, and Hiro's expression was almost vomiting.

"I'll tell you one more thing, that is, this winter, I also participated in a demon clan conference on the edge of Shanghai. The smug expression looked like he had just had lunch with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"Demon Clan Conference? What is that for?" Hiro was a little curious, although after going to Sky City, he was already a black cat who had seen strong winds and waves, and could face the end of the world without changing his face, but for the Demon Clan Conference composed purely of Eastern monsters, it was indeed fresh, a group of demons and monsters like the Bull Demon King Sun Wukong gathered together, and at the same time, he had to be careful not to alarm the human world, and even monsters like Sao Sao could participate-how difficult it was for the organizers.

"In fact, it is a place where a group of demon clans are forced to chat with each other, and there are also blind date activities or help introduce jobs, which are basically to provide some help to the demon clans who work or live near Shanghai. "I also met a girl from Japan there, her name is Kaguyahime, who owns a hot spring inn in Hokkaido, Japan. ”

"Is it the girl born out of bamboo in Japanese legends?" Hiro was a little surprised.

The legendary Princess Bamboo is also called Princess Taketori, whose real name is Kaguyahime, according to legend, was found and raised from the hollow bamboo, and is the best in the world, just because she would rather die than obey, even the emperor could not get her hands, and at the end of the legend, she was picked up by the celestial people on a full moon night.

"That's right. Kaguya wants me to go to her house to soak in the hot springs, will you go?" Sao warmly invited, it seems that he is still a little uneasy about crossing the ocean alone, if there is a monster like Hiro, and the big yellow dog Guldan is with him, let alone a trip to Japan, even if it is to the eighteenth layer of hell, he can come back safe and sound. Of course, he, like Hiro, is good at borrowing the majesty of the big yellow dog Guldan, pretending to be a fox, pretending, and complacent, if something dangerous really happens, such as a large number of evil spirits that appeared during the expedition to Yongan Cemetery, then the charge must still be the undefeated god of war Guldan, as for the black cat and the tanuki, the two small animals, at most they are waving their flags and shouting in the back, when two salted fish can only shout 666.

"Of course you can. The black cat nodded happily, there is naturally nothing to refuse to be able to soak in the hot springs, and ask Jialan for a favor, they even saved the air ticket money.

Back home, as soon as Hiro got into the house, he heard Li Lan explaining something anxiously on the phone, of course, the tone was more like coaxing, and it should be confirmed that it was Alyssa on the other end of the phone.

The black cat watched his master pacing back and forth anxiously while talking on the phone, and he jumped to the table rather gloatingly, and poured himself a cup of boiled water with a teapot - there were teapots, teacups, and tea leaves, but most of the time the tea leaves were just put there for posses, and the teapots were usually filled with cold boiled water.

Jialan was munching on cake when she saw Hiro jump on the table, and she scooped a small piece with a spoon to feed the cat.

After about half an hour, Li Lan finally breathed a sigh of relief, he hung up the phone and collapsed on the sofa, looking like he was about to die.

"I think you should have a will ready in advance. Hero said to him, "Just in case." ”

"I'm in good health, and I'm not going to die. Li Lan rolled her eyes, and took it upon herself to associate the black cat's words in the direction of the downstream.

The black cat has nothing to say.

"Now Alyssa has lost her breath, but I have to say that women are really annoying...... "Li Lan sighed.

Jialan glanced at her cousin, and at this point she couldn't stay indifferent any longer, unless she didn't even mind her gender.

"Not counting my dear cousin. Li Lan saw the wind and made a reply.

"So, the situation is back to the marathon of your love?" said Hiro, amazed.

Li Lan shrugged and did not speak. His romance with Alyssa has broken the record of the longest running in his history, and it is still refreshing, and it seems that the ending should be worth looking forward to.

Hiro mentioned to Li Lan and Jialan about going to Hokkaido, Japan to take a hot spring, Li Lan couldn't get away because the school was about to start, so she didn't go, and Jialan didn't have anything important, so she naturally agreed, with her, it only takes a few minutes to cross the ocean, and there is no need to pay for ferry tickets, and even passports are saved.

This trip to the hot springs in Hokkaido, Japan is Jialan, black cat, raccoon cat, big yellow dog and wolf dog Xiaoer, when going to Sky Castle, because the number of places is limited, let the wolf dog Xiaoji in the forest park to take care of the home, this time you can take it with you.

......

Spring comes earlier in Hokkaido, Japan than in Shanghai, and the innkeeper Kaguya is a stunning beauty. Just like the legend of the bamboo princess, she is indeed young and beautiful, such a girl walking on the street will definitely set a breathtaking 100% return rate, her seductive long black hair, and her fair and delicate face that does not require makeup, is a stunning beauty that can kill any magazine model in seconds, and can make those Japanese teenagers with pimples on their faces maintain a thick gasp from beginning to end after seeing her, and unfold countless lewd conjectures," It's a shame that such a beautiful girl doesn't go to AV!"

At the entrance of the hot spring inn, Princess Takeko, dressed in a Japanese kimono, greeted the group in fluent animal language and Chinese, and then she smiled and bowed to Jialan like the quaint etiquette common in Japanese TV dramas.

There is not much difference between Hiro's expectations, Kaguyahime's hot spring inn is in a deep mountain and old forest in Hokkaido, there is no village in front of the village, there is no store behind the hotel, the hotel is surrounded by unfathomable, as if hiding thousands of mountain ghosts and monsters in the dark mountain forest, the ground leading to the hot spring inn is covered with a thick layer of corrupt leaves, I don't know if it has not been swept for hundreds of thousands of years, and there are no footprints of guests recently, I want to come to the night when I can't see my fingers, the environment here should be very suitable for playing the courage test, even if there is a bull head and a horse face or a fierce ghost from the woods next to it, Hiro will not be surprised at all。

The spring breeze blows, and a few dead leaves fall, but there are more new green greens in the forest, which are the new green shoots in the spring.

"I'm the owner of the shop, Kaguyahime, and no one has been here for a long time, so I hope you can soak in the hot springs here to your satisfaction. Kaguya-hime's soft smile made Hiro can't help but think of the Sudaji predecessor in Kashiwatsuki's bracelet, the same seduction, but compared to the enchanting temptation, Kaguya-hime is far behind.

"Hello, I'm Jialan. Jialan said softly.

"Hey, Kaguya-hime!" Sao Sao turned into a handsome black-clothed boy, "It's me, Tongxi." ”

The name of Tongxi's elegant bag is given to himself by Sau, you must know that a good name is a person's signboard, like Qian Duoduo, which is a typical negative teaching material, although Sao's cheap bones make him and the word elegant gradually drift away, but this does not prevent him from giving himself a Sven name, which is the same as the sanctimonious well-dressed beast.

"So you brought your friends here. Kaguyahime's smile was as soft as the ripples in a waterhole, "Then I must entertain you well." ”

"Trouble. Sao Sao had a serious expression on his face.

Hypocrisy. Hiro and Gul'dan had these two words in their hearts very tacitly.