There is still one month left before the bloody hunting competition begins.
Recently, apartment residents are required to travel together in groups and regularly patrol the area around the apartment to prevent residents of apartments in other worlds from spying on information.
Dai Xiyan looked out the window at the residents who were always going out in groups, holding her chin in deep thought.
She must perfectly disguise her identity as Zhu Yuyan and never let anyone doubt her.
At this time, the doorbell rang.
She quickly walked up and opened the door.
The visitor is a female resident named Li Yihe, who is a student at an art academy in City K.
"I'm sorry to ask you to make a trip." Dai Xiyan looked at Li Yihe who had brought all the painting tools and said, "Sorry to trouble you."
"It doesn't matter, it's just a matter of hands."
Li Yihe then set up the easel, put the sketch paper and charcoal pencils away, and said to Dai Xiyan: "Well, then, Miss Zhu, just sit here and don't move."
Dai Xiyan asked Li Yihe to draw a sketch for her and promised to help her introduce Xia Li to the new Big Three.
She needs to confirm whether her appearance is Zhu Yuyan or Dai Xiyan in the eyes of the residents.
"Well, is this position okay?" Dai Xiyan asked after sitting down.
"Okay...you don't need to be too stiff."
Li Yihe picked up the pen and began to outline the characters.
She is still a student at the Academy of Fine Arts and is now the youngest resident in the apartment.
Looking at her reminded Dai Xiyan of Ruian. She and Ruian were about the same age.
At that time, whether it was her, Ziyi, Han Lei, or Ye Chu... they all liked Ruian. Although the child had depression inherited from his family, he was surprisingly kind. They all wanted Ruian to live, as long as he
If she can climb to the top, she can make a wish to cure her depression.
Xiyan's original idea was that Ruian could at least live beyond his eighteenth birthday. But in the end, this was just a wishful thinking, and Ruian's life stayed at the age of seventeen forever.
"Why do you want to study art?" Dai Xiyan suddenly asked.
"I want to be a cartoonist."
Li Yihe's answer surprised her a little. Could it be that the Chinese comic market is huge in this world?
"But my parents were actually very opposed to it." Li Yihe continued: "After all, China's comics market is not as big as Japan's, and even in Japan there are very few successful female cartoonists. But I still applied for the Academy of Fine Arts, regardless of whether I
No matter how much my parents scold me, I still want to be a cartoonist."
"Dream..." Dai Xiyan suddenly felt very nostalgic. When she was Li Yihe's age, she practiced archery for seven or eight hours every day. Even if her hands were scarred from practicing and she couldn't even lift them, she still had no complaints.
regret.
"Do you have a favorite cartoonist?" she asked.
"Yes, Hiro Arakawa, and Haru Gotoge. They are all well-known female mangakas in Japan. Especially the latter, she is my biggest idol. Her "Demon Slayer" has become the best-selling manga in Japan.
comics."
Dai Xiyan was a little surprised. After entering such a cruel hell apartment, did he still have dreams?
"Painting is my second life." Li Yihe raised his head and said firmly: "Even if I don't have long to live, I will keep painting."
Dai Xiyan really wanted to say at this time: For her, archery is also her second life.
"Actually," Li Yihe's brush paused slightly, "Our family has a genetic history of Alzheimer's disease. I may develop the disease at a very young age, and then I won't be able to paint even if I want to. But if
If I complete the blood word ten times, I can make a wish to cure the disease-causing gene in my body."
"Alzheimer?" Dai Xiyan was startled and stood up, "Then you..."
Li Yihe immediately said: "Please sit still and don't move, Miss Zhu."
"Um……"
Dai Xiyan slowly sat down.
"You don't have to sympathize with me." Li Yihe continued to sketch selflessly, "Even after entering the apartment, I have hope, right? I have now started drawing comic storyboards and plan to submit them to "Shenman" magazine.
It's the comic magazine that serializes "The Kingdom of Evil"."
Naturally, Dai Xiyan would not ask what "The Kingdom of Evil" was, but said, "Then you must work hard."
"Speaking of which, it seems that the author of "The Kingdom of Evil", Qiao Chuyi, is also a female cartoonist. This comic is now known as the number one IP in the country. The drawing skills are really strong, enough to compete with top Japanese comics such as Obata Takeru and Murata Yusuke.
Compared to home."
"Then you also admire this cartoonist?"
"Hmm... But I don't like "Kingdom of Evil" very much. The plot is too distorted, and this comic is too fandom-friendly, and the fans are too fanatical. For example, an ordinary female student once commented on "Kingdom of Evil"
"She had a wrong outlook, and as a result, fans were doxxed her, and her mobile phone number, school and home address were published online, which caused the female student to suffer from depression."
Because of Ruian, Dai Xiyan knew depression very well, and when she heard this, she felt quite disgusted.
…
"The painting is finished."
Dai Xiyan took Li Yihe's painting, and it was really lifelike. There was no doubt that this painting was her face.
Sure enough, the memory of the resident had been tampered with. Li Yihe must have met the real Zhu Yuyan.
"Thank you, Li Yihe."
"It doesn't matter, as long as you like my paintings."
"I want to ask you a question. What do you think of Mu Ziyi?"
"Well... I don't get along with her much, but the residents are all afraid of her."
"Are you afraid of her?" Dai Xiyan was stunned.
"Yes... I also heard what others said about the specific situation."
Dai Xiyan vaguely felt something was wrong.
A few hours later.
There was a piece of paper placed in front of Dai Xiyan. The paper contained information about Ziyi in this world that he had learned from different residents and searched on the Internet.
"No matter how you look at it, they are completely two people..."
Dai Xiyan couldn't believe it.
The purple clothes in this world have no change in IQ, but there are huge differences in other places.
She is a well-known actress (on the contrary, Yan Mei and Fan Shuangshuang seem to be ordinary people in this world), and she used to use terror to dominate the apartment.
"This doesn't sound like Ziyi at all, but it sounds like Yan Mei..."
Dai Xiyan grabbed the white paper tightly, tore it in half and threw it into the trash can.
"Dong Xie in this world is also very different. He actually has a sister, but she died in the blood letter. He and Zi Yi are now living together..."
Could it be that two different people in parallel worlds are so different?
But Dai Xiyan did not dwell on this issue for too long.
"However, even if Zi Yi in this world kills many people in order to survive, it doesn't matter as long as she is still alive. On the contrary, Dong Xie in this world must be highly vigilant."
Suddenly, a new WeChat message came to her mobile phone...or Zhu Yuyan's mobile phone.
She clicked it and saw that it was from Xia Li.
"The latest episode of "The Kingdom of Evil Spirits" has been released. In this episode, my family turned into evil spirits and appeared in the Walled City of Bator!"
Dai Xiyan was startled.
"Kingdom of Evil"? That comic that Li Yihe was talking about just now?
After all, she didn't have Zhu Yuyan's memory, so she didn't dare to answer randomly.
"My family... turned into evil spirits? In the comics?"
Xia Li's family was drawn in the comics?
Dai Xiyan quickly searched for the latest episode of Kingdom of Evil on her computer, then clicked in and took a quick look.
"The painting is really exquisite," Dai Xiyan had to admire the cartoonist's painting skills, "the picture is just like a photo."
Then when I turned to the next page, a black shadow floating in the distance appeared on the screen.
The storyboard below shows a female character with a beautiful face.
There was a line of words written in the dialog box above her head.
"Uncle Xia, Xia Li, are not here."
Dai Xiyan immediately clicked the mouse to turn the page.
On the next page, the woman continued: "He did come to Bato Walled City that day. I didn't expect that he would really come."
On the screen, the black shadow continues to approach the woman.
The woman began to back away and continued: "I, I really didn't expect it to turn out like this. Back then, I campaigned for the abolition of the death penalty and interviewed Xiao Tianyi, who was detained at the time and had been sentenced to death."
Dai Xiyan didn't know the previous plot, so she didn't understand what it meant.
The woman continued: "Even now, I believe that the abolition of the death penalty is the spirit of the rule of law in a democratic country. The government has no right to use violence to take away the lives of citizens! This is not the rule of law, but barbaric revenge!"
When Dai Xiyan saw this, he sneered at this point of view. It is only natural to kill people to pay for their lives, but has the death penalty turned into a barbaric act?
"Even Xia Li agrees with your idea, which makes me very disappointed in him. The final bill is equivalent to promoting the death penalty in disguise! I don't want to marry into the Xia family again. I believe Xiao Tianyi is an unjust victim, and there are many and
People like him have been completely deprived of their right to life and exiled into society!"
The woman became more and more excited as she spoke, and even began to wave her arms: "I interviewed Xiao Tianyi for three years when I was organizing and participating in the abolition of the death penalty movement. He was framed because he offended the powerful. If it weren't for the fact that the country had not implemented it for many years,
He died unjustly a long time ago due to the death penalty. But you and Xia Li both intend to promote the country's comprehensive and substantial restoration of the death penalty system!"
Dai Xiyan began to be attracted by the plot and continued to click the mouse to turn to the next page.
The black shadow is getting closer and closer to the woman.
"But my parents would not agree to terminate the engagement with the Xia family. Therefore, Tianyi, who was released after the signing of the new criminal law, agreed to let him bring someone to take me away at the wedding! However, I did not think of coming with him
I really didn’t expect that people would kill you at the wedding! But at that time, those death row prisoners hated you for trying to promote the death penalty bill, so they went on a killing spree at the wedding. I really didn’t expect that things would turn out like this...
…”
At this time, Zhu Yuyan's cell phone rang.
Dai Xiyan answered the phone.
"Hello……"
"Have you...finished...the latest episode?"
The caller was Xia Li.
However, his voice was extremely difficult.
"This is the truth about the Red Wedding."
Dai Xiyan didn't know how to answer for a while.
"After that, she underwent plastic surgery and became Gu Wenyan, leaving behind a corpse that had been put into a wedding dress and Li Daitao was stiff. The most ridiculous thing is that I have been suffering from her death all these years. Just because she believed that Xiao Tianyi was unjust
, she told a group of death row prisoners the time and place of the wedding! Then, she and the man..."
Dai Xiyan was completely unable to digest such a huge amount of information.
"The most ironic thing is that to you, we are just fictional characters in comics, and all our tragedies are just stories for entertainment to you..."