Roster of Demons

"My left eye is 5.1 and my right eye is 5.2. Is it strange to see?" Gu Zhen didn't take the little crow's fuss seriously.

"It has nothing to do with eyesight." The little crow closed the pages of the book, and slowly put the things spread on the ground into the small satchel one by one.

"Could it be that these dense dots have any special significance?" Gu Zhen asked.

"Of course there are." The little crow tidied up his things, hesitated for a while when he was about to put the books, and said to Gu Zhen, "Come here."

"Don't you need me to block the camera?" Gu Zhen asked.

"The stalls are all closed, so I'm not afraid of people looking at them." The little crow handed the book to Gu Zhen, "Take the book, and open it to have a look."

Gu Zhen didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in the gourd, so he took a step closer carefully and took the booklet.

Strange to say, when the "Roster of Ten Thousand Monsters" was in the hands of the little crow, what Gu Zhen saw was a hardcover hardcover with a golden cover, but in his hands, it shrank a whole round and turned into a book with a blue cover. thread-bound ancient books.

"The book has changed?" Gu Zhen couldn't believe it, and hurriedly opened it and flipped through it. There was no writing on the cover of the book, and the inside was also blank, and the demon star Luo picture that was originally on the title page was gone.

"Can you see the picture now?" asked the little crow.

"It's gone." Gu Zhen shook the book, "It's completely blank, not a single word."

"Give me another try." The little crow said.

Gu Zhen handed the book to Little Crow, and the holder handed it over, and the Ten Thousand Monsters Roster became a large golden book again.

The little crow opened the title page: "What about now? What does it look like?"

"Now it's golden again." Gu Zhen said.

"Fortunately, it can only be viewed but not used." The little crow muttered softly, obviously relieved.He put the Ten Thousand Monster Register back into his small satchel, stood up, and glanced back at Gu Zhen, "Don't tell anyone that you have seen the Ten Thousand Monster Register, let alone let people know that you can see the demon star Luo Tu, these two words You haven't heard of it, are you clear?"

"Not very clear." Gu Zhen was completely out of the situation.

"If you reveal anything, I will kill you." The little crow said.

The little crow looked at Gu Zhen, not bluffing as usual, nor jumping up and down to get angry.His tone was flat, but Gu Zhen knew that this time he was serious.

Naturally, Gu Zhen wouldn't make things difficult for herself, and nodded hurriedly: "It's clear this time. I swear, I won't say a word. Today we just came to see the city view, and nothing else happened."

"You're smart." The little crow pressed the brim of his hat, "It's settled here, let's go."

"Aren't you going to tell me? What does Yao Xing Luo Tu mean?" Although Gu Zhen vowed not to tell anyone, he was curious inside, as if a dozen cats were scratching it, and it was terribly itchy.

"I don't want to say." The little crow lowered his head, pretending not to hear.

"Tell me, don't you want someone to share your secrets with you? How uncomfortable it is to hold back." Gu Zhen persevered, followed in the footsteps of the little crow, and turned sideways to show him the tattoo on the back of his neck while walking.

"Who are we with whom? We are in the same group. Have you forgotten? I am your man, and you have to be responsible to me. You clearly agreed to take care of each other, but you just eat what I have and use mine, and you never take care of me." Over me, always directing me to do this and that, and suppressing me by force at every turn, have you considered my feelings? You have to comfort me often to keep a pet, let alone a human. Don't you consider comforting me?"

Little Crow: "..." Gu Zhen is rightly his fault, but when these words come out of Gu Zhen's mouth, I always feel that something is wrong.

The little crow never thought that Gu Zhen would be so obsessive. After pondering for a moment, he finally explained: "The book is called the Roster of Ten Thousand Monsters. On the title page is the map of demon stars, which correspond to the distribution of monsters in each city. A dot on it It represents a monster, and the position of the dot reflects the general orientation of the monster. To activate the monster star Luotu, you must set up a formation in the center of the city, and it usually takes two to three book managers to cooperate to complete."

As a human being, it is normal for Gu Zhen not to have heard of the Ten Thousand Monster Roster, but among the monsters, the Ten Thousand Monster Roster is an existence that no monster knows and no monster knows.This roster has always been seen only by monsters, but Gu Zhen was able to see the monster star Luo Tu to surprise the little crow.

The little crow put his hands back on the guardrail of the sightseeing elevator: "But I am the only one in charge of this city, so I can only use the stupid method of hanging from the top of the sky. This is why I must go to the top of Yunchuan. Now Understood?"

"Understand a little bit?" Gu Zhen also leaned on the guardrail next to him, and made a small opening with his index finger and thumb, "What's the use of the Ten Thousand Monster Register? What's the purpose of the register?"

"Stupid or not?" Little Crow reached out and tapped his head, "Registration Manager is the administrator of the Register of Ten Thousand Monsters. It is formally compiled and gets subsidies every month."

"How much is the subsidy?" Gu Zhen asked.

"Anyway, there is it." The little crow blushed, but he was wearing a mask, so he was not worried about being seen. "As for the register of ten thousand monsters, it is a bit complicated to explain. To put it simply, it is similar to the census survey of your people. The watch is similar, recording the personal information of the monsters in the city. This book in my hand is brand new, and the inside is still blank, so if you want to complete it, you have to find the monsters to fill in one by one."

"Fill in one by one?" Gu Zhen was taken aback, "I just glanced at it, there must be at least tens of thousands of them, there are so many monsters in our city? Do you have to find them one by one? Have you established a contact group? Or a forum, will there be weekly news or something?"

"This city has a population of nearly ten million. What's so strange about the tens of thousands of monsters? It's only one in a thousand." The little crow said, "There are more than a dozen pigeon monsters in my house alone, and they are distributed to various places. In fact, there are no monsters. How many."

"... That's my house." Gu Zhen said.

"It's my house, mine." The little crow emphasized again, "Monsters are also divided into races. Some races have a harmonious relationship and close contacts; there are also many races that have conflicts of interest and rarely communicate. Therefore, the official unified There are no groups or forums. As for the private ones, I can’t control them. To register, I have to find them one by one, which is quite troublesome. But now that the demon star Luotu is activated, it is much more convenient. With a general direction, I no longer have to If you run around, you will be able to get off work on time in the future, and you will be able to catch up with the live broadcast of the series at night!"

"...You are very ambitious." Gu Zhen said.

"What do you know? I call it a combination of work and rest." The little crow said, "The purpose is to adjust to a good working state and work hard to achieve the goal as soon as possible."

"What is your goal?" Gu Zhen asked, "World peace?"

"No comment." The little crow turned his face away, too lazy to talk to him.

After a long descent, the sightseeing elevator finally stopped on the first floor. The little crow quickly walked out of the gate of the Bright Star, pulled the edge of the mask, and took a few breaths: "I'm about to suffocate to death."

"Who told you to arm yourself like a spy." Gu Zhen followed behind him, with one hand in his pocket and the other hand turning the car key, "Do you want to take a car when you go back?"

Little Crow shook his head: "You take Big Hui back, I'm not off work yet."

"I take back the previous sentence." Gu Zhen said, "You are quite dedicated."

"I made an appointment yesterday, so I can't go if I don't go." The little crow pouted, and he glanced in the direction of Big Hui, "Remember, don't tell people that you can see the demon star Luotu, including monsters. Get into big/trouble."

"Understood, don't worry about my work." Gu Zhen assured her.

The two parted ways at the gate of Bright Star, the little crow lowered the brim of his hat, walked straight along the boulevard, finally turned into an alley, and disappeared out of Gu Zhen's sight.

The monster that the little crow met was a Jingwei.

Jingwei, a monster belonging to Shan Hai Jing, is one level higher than the usual animal spirits, can maintain a human form for a long time, and lives mostly as a human in the city.

According to legend, Jingwei is a bird transformed from Yandi's youngest daughter who was buried in the East China Sea. Its shape is very similar to a crow, with a patterned head, white beak, and red claws. It can cry "Jingwei, Jingwei".

The Jingwei family is playful and afraid of water, so they rarely appear on the edge of rivers, lakes and seas.The one that the little crow met was a bit different, and it was purely accidental that the little Jingwei was in the form of a girl in her early twenties. On the way home, the little crow accidentally saw a group of people gathered around the shore of a distant mountain and lake. While watching the excitement, the one in the middle was her, with short hair and wearing a tracksuit, flying a waterfowl kite on the Acacia Bridge.

The water bird kite she flies is a kind of stunt kite, simulating the posture of an osprey entering the water to catch fish, soaring and churning, lifelike.

The little crow waited for a while on the big tree beside the road, and only quietly followed her when she put away the kite and was about to leave.The little girl has a cheerful personality and is very talkative.After the little crow expressed her intention to register the monster information, she readily agreed.

But it was a bit late at that time, Jingwei's night vision was very poor, and it was not safe to go home too late, so the two made an appointment to meet at the coffee shop in the university town where Xiao Jingwei was studying at [-] pm the next day.

The little crow arrived half an hour earlier than the appointed time, and he sat down in the corner of the coffee shop by the window from 04:30 to 06:30.Little Jingwei didn't show up until the phone's battery ran out.He turned off the "gameover" platinum version of Bubble Bobble, and looked out the window at the slowly falling night.

It didn't come during the day, and it was even less likely to come at night.

There was one thing Little Crow didn't tell Gu Zhen about the list of ten thousand monsters.The demon star Luo map has no directionality. A dot on the map represents a monster, but it is impossible to determine which dot corresponds to which one.Only after obtaining the monster information, the demon star Luotu can gain part of the ability to perceive danger.If there is a recorded monster encountering a life-threatening event, an early warning instruction will be issued on the monster star map.

But now it is impossible to rely on the Roster of Ten Thousand Monsters to perceive the situation of Xiao Jingwei.

I should have left a number early on.The little crow opened the small satchel, fumbled in it for a long time, finally found a crumpled ten yuan bill and a few coins, paid for the drink, and walked out of the coffee shop.