The world is restarting

Assistant Matsuo on the opposite side was discussing what to order with Maba.After going through a mental journey like landslides and ground cracks, Assistant Jun struggled to hold back his crumbling rationality, tidied up his collapsed worldview and barely built a hut to support it, and professionally presented it A series of processes were compressed in the short distance from entering the door to sitting down—and by the way, I also figured out why Ren Zu Er Shao had to give them a small psychological endurance test when they were selected from the assistants.

Ryuichi Ninzu is really far-sighted, at least now the assistant he has carefully selected with the strongest psychological endurance can pretend to be sitting in the same room after forcing himself to ignore the strangely shaped guests who are sitting in the same room with them. Ordered a normal order at a normal udon noodle shop.

As long as the self-hypnosis ability is strong enough, the civet cat eagerly looking at them in front of them can be an enthusiastic shop assistant in a puppet costume.

The assistant who had prepared himself psychologically had a discussion with Takashi Ninzu in a low voice, and felt that although they came to inquire about news, it would be more polite to order something.So when Sawada Ya was still staring at the "snapdragon" on the menu in a daze, the assistant opposite her had already ordered a table of their flagship goldfish set meal under the warm recommendation of Tanuki.

The main material is all this mentally polluted goldfish growing on straw.

If the snapdragons had resentment, the dish they ordered would probably fill the whole room with resentment from the useless snapdragons that were used as ingredients.

However, after the assistant finished ordering, he even politely asked Ms. Mi if she wanted to order something else?

Miss Mi let go of the goldfish and silently flipped through the menu.Except for the goldfish set menu, the rest of the food on the menu is quite normal, basically no different from the food on ordinary human stalls.

Times have changed.

Little Lolita sighed silently, the monsters she saw at the banquet of the Lord of Arakawa and the ghost banquet attended by Dajiangshan in the past still ate "charcoal grilled wild boar demon", "boiled carp essence", "raw clam essence meat "It's something that people want to reject when they hear the name.

It was very common for monsters in that era to cannibalize each other. When the Lord of Arakawa entertained her and Seimei, all the food prepared for them was captured by a human cook.In comparison, these modern monsters who eat the same food as humans are really civilized and polite vegetarians.

Although the looks of these vegetarians are a little less civilized and polite, when I was in Heianjing, almost all the monsters who popped up had similar appearances to humans, and each one was better than the other, children with half-demon blood The endless streams caused the yin and yang circles at that time to have a headache for this situation.In this day and age, there is no need to have similar worries at all. The differences in the appearance of humans and monsters are so great that people doubt whether there will be species isolation between the two... Maybe this can be regarded as "lost in the east, harvested in mulberry" "?

With a delicate mood, Sawada Ya finally ordered a pudding that looked delicious - I don't know why the shop that sells udon noodles as promised has everything, then turned to look at the chair next to her big black cat.

"What do you want to eat?"

The big cat glanced at the menu, and suddenly stopped moving when it passed the huge snapdragon on the title page. The paws on the chair moved subconsciously, as if there was an urge to pounce up.

Sawada Ya: "...Okay, I understand."

"Nah, Mi-chan." Xiang Riyue came over.The child seemed to have regained his vitality after sitting on the spot for a while. At this moment, after observing the audience with what he thought was a hidden look, he suddenly made a new discovery.

"Those three people sitting in the corner seem to be human too. It turns out that there are still normal people here to eat. How brave they are."

Hearing this, Ze Tianya put down the menu and looked in the direction he was poking secretly, only to see that there were indeed three normal-looking people sitting on the table in the northeast corner.

The man sitting in the back seat was sinking his head and brushing his face, his greasy half-length hair on his forehead almost fell into the bowl.He was wearing a wrinkled suit, and he looked like an office worker who had just come out of the office building. Judging from the sallowness of his face, he looked like the kind who was on the verge of sudden death after working overtime for a week.

No, he died suddenly.

Sawada Ya, who saw at a glance that it was a human ghost, was silent for some reason, but for some reason, she could see a sense of realism from his sad figure buried in noodles.

It was so painful, there were two ghost messengers sitting next to this man, and it was obvious that this ghost had already been valued by this admirable overtime spirit before he even got to hell, and was directly hired by the underworld in advance.

The good news is that you don’t have to worry about not having a job after you die. The bad news is that even if you go to hell, you can’t escape the nightmare of working overtime.When being a human being, he can still escape when he is oppressed, but when he becomes a ghost, he can't even die.It's no wonder that this unlucky social animal ate a bowl of noodles and ate the sadness of the last supper, because to him, it was indeed no different from the last supper.

The two ghosts who nodded slightly at her after noticing their eyes almost nodded, and Sawada Ya looked back at Xiang Hiyake.At this moment, the red-haired young girl still had a pure expression of not knowing how dangerous the world would be from now on, looking back with her round eyes, Loli Sawada, who had realized the reality of the world too early, suddenly felt emotional. Patted his head.

"Live well, Yue Ren."

Xiang Riyue: "???"

What's wrong with this?

Ninzuzu, who was sitting next to her, gave her a puzzled look helplessly.

"It's nothing, I just suddenly discovered that there is a very reliable person in charge of the underworld that I met this time."

Just this morning, the channel was stabilized with this side, and it has already entered the working state in the evening, and it has already been prepared to start searching for special talents to fill the large number of personnel gaps that will soon arise.That Mr. Ghost Lantern is really a reliable and efficient person!

It's just that this kind of efficiency is quite unfriendly to the human beings who will die in this world from now on. After death, they can't escape the overtime hell.

I always feel that after knowing such a future, even a well-known suicide enthusiast's obsessive hobby can be cured without medicine.

Just as Sawada's little Lolita was distracted, she suddenly heard Baba Zenji call her name.

"Miss Mi, if the monsters move, will they move with the house?"

"Ok?"

She raised her head in a little confusion, and saw the young man looking around calmly, and said in a low voice, "The tables, chairs, floors and roofs here seem to have been used for a long time. This store has been around for a long time, but before It is said that it has just moved to Hakata not long ago, so it moved together with the house? Also, is this store famous? The customers who enter the door seem to be very familiar with those civet cats?"

"Well...it hasn't moved anywhere."

"?"

"The location of the store has not changed, but the exit has changed." Sawada Ya thought for a while, and sorted out the language without knowing how to explain, "Its previous exit was opened in Tokyo, and it is indeed very famous. You should all have heard of it."

"...ever heard of it?"

"Well," Little Lolita nodded very cutely, "Just turn off the lights and turn on the lights."

"!!!"

Turning off the flames and running the lights - one of the seven mysteries of the Dongjing Institute.The earliest legend originated in the Edo period. It is said that in the cold winter night, if someone goes out at that time, by chance, they will encounter a red lantern hanging with the words "Two Eight, Hand-cut Noodles, Udon Noodles" soba shop.Although I could see the lanterns, I couldn't walk to the door of the store until the lights went out automatically.

It is said that if you meet a person who turns off the lights, something bad will happen in a short time. Therefore, some people think that seeing the lights is actually a curse of monsters.

Except for Zenji Baba, everyone here is from Tokyo, so they are naturally very familiar with this strange story that has been circulating in Tokyo for a long time.Assistant Matsuo's body froze immediately, and a gap appeared in the newly rebuilt world view, "...but it's summer right now?"

"It has nothing to do with that. The ghost story says it's late at night in winter, but it's just because the people in the story passed down met in winter."

"..." The assistant finally felt a little uncomfortable. After all, knowing that there are monsters in this world and knowing that all the supernatural stories around him that grew up with him are true are two completely different things, okay?

The seven inconceivable deterrent powers of the Dongjing Institute shrouded the audience, not only Xiang Riyue who had returned to a sluggish state, but even Renzu's expression changed slightly, and he couldn't help asking, "So, the rumors about the monster's curse are also true?" Is it?"

"Ah, there is no such thing at all. When the lights are turned off and the lights are turned off, something terrible will happen. It's all made up by you human beings with too rich imagination."

A deep and magnetic voice suddenly joined their conversation, and the big furry fox behind the counter walked over at some point.Everyone turned their heads when they heard the sound, and watched him walk halfway and suddenly transformed into a handsome young man in a bathrobe with a long and thin cigarette stick in his mouth. cigarette.The smoke rose slowly, turning into a lantern shape in midair.

Everyone: "!!!"

Sawada Ya: "Ah."

Little Lolita suddenly developed an inexplicable affection for this big fox that can only transform, it feels like a monster in the Heian-kyo era!

"Turning out the lights was originally a shop run by civet cats. Since it is a business shop, of course it has to be friendly and make money, so as not to be idle and have nothing to do to curse the passing customers."

Turning a blind eye to the complicated sights cast on him, the young man who was actually a fox pulled up a chair and sat down at the table, lazily exhaled another puff of smoke, and turned into the shape of a gold coin in midair.

The assistant looked at the monster who suddenly sat over, and asked cautiously, "Since it has nothing to do with the curse, then, may I ask, is the legend that people who turn off the lights and turn off the lights eventually die in accidents? Is the legend also exaggerated by later generations?" Is it a fancy way of saying?"

"Well, this is true."

"??"

"But that's all their fault."

"???"

For a moment, the assistant didn't know whether the answer was arguing or the big fox was just teasing him.

"I'm not lying," the young man said. "Ordinary humans shouldn't be able to see the shops opened by monsters. So those who can meet people with lights out at night are very strange, right?"

Xiang Riyue couldn't help asking, "But didn't we come here now?"

"That's because you have this Highness and the upcoming ghost messenger leading the way." The tobacco rod in the big fox's hand flicked in the direction of Sawada Ya and the big black cat, "People with spiritual power can indeed find the shop opened by the monster , but most of those are onmyojis, who originally walked between the gap between yin and yang. Except for these special guys, human beings live in the yang world, and monsters live in the shady side, so they should not interfere with each other. wrong?"

The young man who turned into a fox spoke lazily, but somehow gave people a strange sense of trust.Sawada Ya looked at the boy Xiangri who asked the question and was unknowingly entangled in his logic, nodded in agreement, and continued, "So why does the person in the strange talk encounter the lights out? Could it be that he also has Spiritual?"

"Of course not. People in the ghost story can see the monster's shop, of course it's because he is dying."