Dancing Night

night, 21:00

In the central hall of the Grand Theater in S City, a grand folk dance performance is being staged.The dance with a strong style of Wu Nuo in western Hunan, combined with weird music and lights, leads the audience into a magical and illusory state.

Especially the performance of the male dancer who led the dance. His exceptional physical condition made every movement of him extremely beautiful. His slender limbs and figure stretched out, wrapped in a black dress, looked flexible and full of vitality. strength.Just like the most powerful wizard in the history of the witch clan he played, he possessed some kind of magic power to confuse people.

In the VIP box on the second floor of the hall, a man in his thirties was holding a glass of red wine, sipping it, and staring at the civet-like dancers on the stage, making a soft purring sound from his throat, similar to some kind of animal... …

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and Lao Yang, the person in charge of the dance troupe, walked in, "Boss Wei, what do you need from me?"

The man raised his head and smiled at Lao Yang. He was well-dressed and handsome, except that his face was slightly green... probably because of the light from the stage outside.

This man is Wei Mingya, the owner of a well-known film and television company. He has discovered many newcomers and made many celebrities popular. But recently, several artists under his banner have died inexplicably, so he needs to find some talented people. Potential rookie.

Lao Yang is someone who has been here, and when he heard that Wei Mingya was looking for him, he knew that he was definitely looking for Miao Xiaobei...

"Hello." Wei Mingya stood up and shook hands with Lao Yang, "Sit down."

"Okay." After Lao Yang sat down, he looked up at Wei Mingya, and saw him taking another sip from his wine glass, pointing to the male dancer who was leading the dance on the stage, and asked, "What's the young man's name?"

Lao Yang sighed in his heart—sure enough!He smiled and said, "Oh, his name is Miao Xiaobei."

"Miao Xiaobei?" Wei Mingya thought for a while, and said, "Hmm... I've heard of this name, has he won many world-class dance awards?"

"That's right." Lao Yang nodded, "Xiaobei is very famous in the dance world."

Wei Mingya asked curiously, "I speak straight, do you mind if I ask directly?"

"Oh, please." Old Yang said politely.

"Why does such an outstanding person stay in your small dance troupe?" Wei Mingya asked, "Of course, I have no other intentions."

"Understood!" Lao Yang laughed, "Many people ask this question, but it's actually because Xiaobei is obsessed with folk dances and not interested in commercial activities, so he chose our small troupe."

"Oh." Wei Mingya nodded and said with a smile, "He has a really good figure."

Lao Yang smiled and said, "Yes, his physical condition and understanding are unique. I have taught dance for so many years, and I have never seen anyone who is better than him. It can be said that he is a natural dancer."

"Can I see him?" Wei Mingya asked.

"Uh..." Lao Yang seemed a little embarrassed.

In fact, Wei Mingya has already moved his mind to sign Miao Xiaobei, but he still needs to confirm what the dancer's face looks like. He has been wearing a Nuo mask on the stage, so he can't tell his face.Although the figure is very good, after all, the film and television company still pays more attention to the appearance... I hope it is not ugly.

Lao Yang's hesitation made Wei Mingya a little happy. Lao Yang obviously didn't want Miao Xiaobei to leave, that is to say, Miao Xiaobei should have the capital to be favored by him.

Lao Yang is also worried, there are too many people who want to poach Miao Xiaobei's corner, and he has to dismiss several calls every day, especially from this kind of performing arts company.

"Old Yang, I just like his dance, can I recommend it?" Wei Mingya said with a pleasant smile.

Lao Yang naturally knew that Wei Mingya was a well-known smiling tiger, but he had no choice but to offend this big Buddha because of his small troupe, so he nodded, "Okay, the performance will end in a while, let's meet in the backstage." , Lao Yang did not forget to add, "However, Boss Wei, Xiaobei's temper is not very good. If there is any impoliteness in a while, don't mind."

"Of course!" Wei Mingya agreed with a smile.

……

22:30 The show ends.

Miao Xiaobei took off his shoes and went to the dressing room to change in soft slippers. A group of young actors dispersed like birds and beasts. Miao Xiaobei was the last one to enter the dressing room. As soon as he walked in, he heard a horrible sound coming from inside. Call.

Sighing helplessly, Miao Xiaobei walked in and took a look. Sure enough, he saw Feng Xiaoyu running out nervously. When he saw him, he quickly stopped him, "Xiaobei! There are dirty things in the locker room."

Miao Xiaobei went in to change clothes, and said, "What did you see again?"

"I didn't see it, but I heard it!" Feng Xiaoyu grabbed his arm nervously, and said, "The sound of gurgling sounds like the throat of a lion or tiger."

Miao Xiaobei looked at the sky weakly, and continued to change clothes, while Feng Xiaoyu said to him, "Xiaobei, you have to be careful, there will always be such things around you!"

"Yeah, got it." Miao Xiaobei still perfunctory him.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door of the locker room, and Lao Yang poked his head in and asked, "Xiaobei?"

"Here." Miao Xiaobei leaned out to look, and saw a man in a suit and leather shoes coming in behind Lao Yang.

Lao Yang winked at him quietly, and Xiaobei immediately understood that it must be from some kind of performing arts company again, and he was quite prestigious and could not be offended.

"Xiaobei, this is Wei Mingya, Boss Wei." Lao Yang introduced Miao Xiaobei.

Wei Mingya had seen Miao Xiaobei a long time ago, and he was stunned at that time... He said in his heart that he had found a treasure, this Miao Xiaobei's face is not inferior to his figure at all, if he can be dug over, there is no need How long it will definitely become popular.

Miao Xiaobei walked to the stool in the middle of the locker room and sat down. While putting on his shoes, he said casually, "Hello."

Wei Mingya smiled and asked, "Mr. Miao, are you interested..."

"No." Before Wei Mingya finished speaking, Miao Xiaobei stood up, put on his coat, and said to Lao Yang, "See you tomorrow." After speaking, he bypassed Wei Mingya and ran away.

Feng Xiaoyu looked at the embarrassed Wei Mingya, stuck out his tongue and chased after him.

Wei Mingya stood where he was, and Lao Yang looked at him apologetically, and said, "Hehe...he has such a temper."

"En." Wei Mingya just smiled, and didn't say anything else.

Miao Xiaobei ran out of the theater and wanted to hail a taxi to go to the library. Feng Xiaoyu rushed over and hugged his thigh, "Brother Bei, I want to eat, eat, car, and sofa!"

Miao Xiaobei looked at him helplessly, "Are you out of money again?"

"Yeah." Feng Xiaoyu nodded pitifully, "I was kicked out by the landlord!"

"Isn't your landlord your mother?" Miao Xiaobei patted his head sympathetically.

"She kicked me out and made me self-reliant. Brother Bei, take me in!"

Miao Xiaobei sighed, reached out to take the key to him, gave him a few dozen dollars, and said, "Take a taxi and go back to my place, there is food in the refrigerator, I have to go to the library, and I won't be back until very late. "

"Brother Bei, good man!" Feng Xiaoyu rubbed his arms around Miao Xiaobei, and was pushed away by Miao Xiaobei. After a while, both of them got into the car and left.

The taxi drove away, but Miao Xiaobei didn't notice it. A black car followed behind his taxi, one after the other, and came to the remote city library.

The library in S City is very large, with four floors in total. The first floor is the student area, which is usually open to students and is very lively.The second and third floors are the public lending area, and the fourth floor is the ancient books reading room, which can only be read inside, and the books cannot be taken away. The books there are very precious, and many of them are still out of print.

Miao Xiaobei is very familiar with Aunt Luo, the administrator on the fourth floor. It is difficult for ordinary women to resist Miao Xiaobei's request. All the aunts in the library are conquered after seeing him at first glance, and help him to pay attention to all the folk customs Dance books.

The book Xiaobei wants to read this time is an out-of-print book called "Dancing Night Collection". It is a very old book, and I don't know if it was a manuscript made at that time.In short, there are a lot of incomprehensible words recorded on it, as well as some weird dance moves.This book has caused a lot of controversy. Many people said that it is basically impossible to realize the dance moves in this book, because it requires too much physical condition of the dancers... But Miao Xiaobei once I saw a few pictures published in magazines and was immediately attracted.He had wanted to read this book for a long time, but this time he finally got it, so he rushed over overnight, planning to copy the entire book down in one night!

On the fourth floor, Xiaobei saw the door was open, and walked in... The window of the administrator's room was also open, but there was no one inside. There was a book on the table. Xiaobei went over to look, and saw The cover was "Dancing Night Collection", he quickly sat down at the table, took out a pen and paper, and started to record while flipping through it.

As soon as he opened the book, Miao Xiaobei became a little fascinated. He gradually discovered that there were basically no words in this book, and it was all dance movements. Every character was a meaning conveyed by body language. A sentence is a symbolic dance, which is very interesting.

Just looking at it, I saw an extra cup of hot coffee in hand.

Miao Xiaobei looked up, and Aunt Luo was already standing beside him with a smile, "Are you going to stay overnight tonight?"

"Yes." Miao Xiaobei nodded.

Aunt Luo gave him a key and said, "I'm going back. Come early tomorrow morning. If you go back early, lock the door for me and put the key under the carpet. If you don't leave until dawn, then I will Bring you some snacks."

"Thank you, Auntie." Miao Xiaobei smiled at Auntie Luo, who was so dizzy from the smile that she said goodbye to him, closed the door for him, and left.

……

Afterwards, Miao Xiaobei sat there quietly, reading a book and taking notes while drinking coffee, deeply attracted by the contents of the book.

Just when he was fascinated by it, suddenly...he heard the voice of "hu~hu~" coming from the window or outside the door.

Miao Xiaobei was taken aback, looked up and looked around... didn't find anything unusual, shook his head, and wondered if he was too familiar with Feng Xiaoyu, so he became suspicious.

Bowing his head and continuing to read the book, Miao Xiaobei found a horizontal middle insert in the book, which has seven sets of actions, which is the source of the book's name.The name of this set of dances is "Dancing Night". Miao Xiaobei half guessed and half guessed based on the meaning conveyed by the strange characters next to it, it should be a warning word such as a forbidden dance.

These seven movements are quite difficult. Miao Xiaobei studied them and felt that he could still do them.Thinking of this, he took off his shoes, put on the dancing shoes he always carried with him, turned over elegantly, and got on the table.

The table in the library is very large and flat, which just meets the requirements in the book. This dance needs to be performed on an overhead platform.

Miao Xiaobei watched the series of movements again, there were only seven in total...

After writing down the movements, he went to the middle of the table and performed those movements lightly.

When the last action was over, Miao Xiaobei was so tired that she sat on the table panting, picked up the book and flipped through it, and saw a line of small characters underneath.Miao Xiaobei tilted his head to look at it, and then guessed again, it should mean...you can't dance at the dance night, and it will bring disaster after you dance.

Miao Xiaobei couldn't help but smiled, and said in his heart that it didn't cause any catastrophe... Just as he was thinking, suddenly, he heard a "bang".

The two doors that Aunt Luo had just closed were rushed open with a loud bang.

Miao Xiaobei was startled by the sound, looked up and saw the dark door was wide open, and then, with a "click" sound... all the lights flickered and went out.

Miao Xiaobei couldn't react. At the same time, he heard a certain heavy breathing sound, similar to the low growl of a beast. The sound was approaching a little bit, as if it was about to come in from outside the door, a premonition of imminent danger.

Miao Xiaobei also felt creepy at this time, holding the book in his hand, he quickly got off the table and hid behind the table, looking at the gate through the moonlight coming in from the window.

Not long after, two red spots of light appeared at the gate of the black hole...

Miao Xiaobei frowned, and opened his eyes little by little...and saw a person walking in slowly...or to be more precise, some kind of humanoid creature.

This thing is about two meters high. Its hands are over its knees, its legs are bent, and it slowly walks in. The red light spots are exactly his two eyeballs...

Miao Xiaobei took a deep breath, and had only one thought at the time, it's over!The forbidden dance he just danced summoned the monster!

After the thing came in, it searched left and right, and spewed out bursts of light-colored white mist from its mouth. As he got closer, Miao Xiaobei saw its ferocious face, and subconsciously took a step back. ...

With a sound of "creak", he accidentally bumped into an iron chair behind him. He felt bad, and when he looked up, he saw that the thing had turned its face in an instant, and a pair of small blood-red eyes were staring at him maliciously.

Afterwards, Miao Xiaobei heard the sound of "Gulu Gulu", just like what Feng Xiaoyu described just now, like the sound coming from the throat of a lion or tiger...

Miao Xiaobei's head was buzzing. On the one hand, he was flustered and frightened, on the other hand, he felt incredible, and on the other hand, he was thinking about how to escape!The door is behind that monster, is the window... This is the fourth floor!Just when he was distraught and seriously doubted whether he had fallen asleep, had a nightmare or had a nervous breakdown, the weird thing had slowly walked towards him.

In the end, he chose to run from the gate. Miao Xiaobei stood up, picked up a chair and threw it at the monster... As soon as the monster avoided it, Miao Xiaobei took the opportunity to run towards the gate, but the monster moved quickly. Surprised, he rushed towards him in a flash.

Miao Xiaobei had no other choice, and fortunately he was more agile, so he rolled back to the window on the spot. At this time...he had no way out, even if he wanted to jump out of the window. The windows of the library were all sealed, only the upper just one or two transoms.

Miao Xiaobei watched the outline of the disgusting thing become more and more clear, and the sense of fear gradually spread. He leaned against the window, thinking that this time he was finished, and what was more serious was that he had released such a monster. Knowing how many people will be killed, don't become like an alien and destroy the earth...

While he was thinking wildly in despair, suddenly, the moonlight outside dimmed.

Miao Xiaobei was taken aback for a moment, feeling as if something had risen outside the window, blocking the moonlight.As soon as he lowered his head, he saw a shadow in the moonlight shining on the ground in front of him, a clear, gray human figure... a slender man with long hair and a slender figure.

"Roar~~" The monster that was planning to attack Miao Xiaobei suddenly raised its head to the sky and roared, turned around and ran away as if it had been frightened by some kind.

At the same time, Miao Xiaobei heard a sharp cry, which pierced his bones with pain, as if it was the harsh sound of a metal cutting machine.Amidst that sound, Miao Xiaobei also heard another voice, "crackling"...

He turned his head slowly, and saw that the toughened glass on the glass window behind him had dense cracks at some point, and it was still vibrating.

Miao Xiaobei squatted down with her head in her arms in shock, and then heard a loud "boom", and the glass on the entire wall behind her exploded like an explosion, and transparent toughened glass particles flew out reflecting the pure white moonlight. Scattered all over the place like rain.

The monster that was about to escape just now also made a cry similar to despair.

Miao Xiaobei hadn't figured out what was going on, when he felt the wind flashing in his ears...something rushed in with a "whoosh", bringing in a gust of wind.

Miao Xiaobei instinctively closed her eyes when she heard a roar!Like it came from that monster.

He opened his eyes, only to see a black shadow rushing towards the monster. The monster tried to escape, but was caught. The two sides fought and knocked over all the bookshelves in the library.The loud noise of the falling bookshelves was mixed with the sound of books being torn and broken, as well as the screams of monsters, and a weird, sinister laugh.

Suddenly, a strange cracking sound of "stabbing" was heard.

When Miao Xiaobei raised his eyes, he saw a tall and thin man appearing among the messy pile of books, tearing the monster to pieces.The monster's originally pitch-black body suddenly turned bright red as if on fire, and then quickly turned back to black... The body also withered quickly, dissipating away like a ball of ashes.

Miao Xiaobei froze in place, unable to move at all, but at this moment, the man looked up to the sky and let out a long breath, and then burst out laughing.

His laughter is indeed human, but under the moonlight, the shadow on the ground is extremely gloomy.He seemed very excited, receiving the baptism of the cold moonlight.

Finally, he put away that somewhat violent smile, turned his face, slowly opened a pair of strange eyes, and stared at Miao Xiaobei.After watching for a long time, the corners of his bloody mouth slowly turned up, and a strange smile appeared on his face.Miao Xiaobei clearly watched the snake pattern on half of his face slowly fade away, turning into normal skin, with long golden hair, which was indescribably dazzling under the moonlight.

The man slowly opened his mouth, sharp teeth were faintly visible, and asked, "You let me out?"

Miao Xiaobei sat on the ground, and after a long while, a thought flashed through his blank head - this... doesn't seem to be human either.