Chapter 31 One hundred and first night queen bee

Every girl aspires to be a princess, but not every father is a king.Most people grow up with this longing buried deep in their hearts.However, there are also a few people who will always move towards this goal. They believe that even if they are a Cinderella, they will be able to meet the prince in the crystal slipper one day. I certainly believe in fairy tales, but among the rumors circulating among more and more young women in this city, it seems that there is indeed a strange story of being able to become a princess overnight. "You know, as long as you follow that man's words, you can become as beautiful and elegant as your idol!"

"Really? It can't be a lie, maybe it's to tear down the White Party." "Hee hee, I didn't believe it at first, but I tried it out of curiosity, and it really, really changed. Didn't you notice? Mr. A did it too, and she became a great beauty." "Yes, I heard that as long as you are not satisfied with any part of yourself, you can change it." "Then I'm going to try it too." I can hear a few conversations like the above almost every day. At first I thought it was just an ordinary advertisement, but gradually I found something strange.Due to the needs of work, I often have to walk through the largest pedestrian street in the city, which is also a gathering place for young people, but the young girls I see have begun to change.

How to describe it?They look more and more alike. I told this to the man who was resting, in fact he had noticed it a long time ago, and even Li Duo had received similar rumors. "It is said that as long as I step into that small shop every day at the time of my birth, buy the ring sold in the shop and put it on the little finger of my right hand, I can realize my wish of becoming a princess." Li Duo replied with a smile. "Then why don't you go? Are you a girl too?" I raised my head and asked. "This girl is already perfect." She smiled and brushed her hair back with her hands, and I noticed that she was wearing something on her right pinky finger.

"What's that?" I said, pointing to it. Li Duo looked embarrassed: "Damn it, I forgot to take it off. I just wore it for fun. My friends are all gone, so I'm too embarrassed not to. Besides, the boss gave it to me." She held out her hand triumphantly. I saw Ji Yan staring at the ring intently.Indeed, it is very strange, it seems that the material is very special, it is not made of metal at all.The skin was dull and dull, like rusted iron, but it was cold and smooth to the touch, and also slightly soft. "Take it down." Ji Yan advised.Li Duo nodded, but no matter how hard she tried, the ring could not be removed.

"Damn it, it hurts so much, it's as if it's already attached to the flesh, and I can't take it off at all." Li Duo frowned and complained. Ji Yan didn't say anything else, she just asked for the address of the small shop, and decided to check it out now, and of course, I went too. It is almost in a secluded corner of the city that will be forgotten. The store door is about two meters wide, and the front hall is very old and almost dilapidated. The sunlight from the outside can hardly be projected in. Electric lights, but the light is too bright, it looks a little strange.

There seemed to be some trinkets for sale here, but no one was there, we shouted a few words, and a middle-aged man came out. He is about forty years old, with a medium build and slightly fat. The white short-sleeved cotton shirt is slightly yellow. The slightly sagging abdomen and thick chin make this man look kind and kind. He also has a pair of eyes that are almost always squinted eyes and a cute big nose. "Do you two need anything?" He made a gesture of invitation, and stood about half a meter beside us with a smile. Ji Yan talked about the weird ring, but the boss shook his hand.

"Sorry, we don't sell them to men." "Oh, excuse me." Ji Yan turned and left the shop.When I stepped out of the store, I looked back, and under the illumination of the colorful lights, the smile on the man's face suddenly disappeared, replaced by a strange and sharp look. This matter seemed to be put aside for a while, and we started the days of telling stories and drinking as before, but this day did not last for too long. Soon, the girls with the rings started acting strangely. Li Duo's temperament began to change, and she was no longer as lively as before.She often arranges her hair in front of the mirror, braids it, takes it apart, and continues to braid it. No matter how Ji Yan and I talk to her, it's as if I didn't hear her at all. Words that you don't understand, like "I've become you, and you'll never leave me" or something like that.But her classmates looked even weirder, most of them kept their mirrors on all day long, even when they were eating and sleeping, they would not let go, and then they laughed wildly and sometimes talked alone in the room.Their relatives were very anxious, but there was nothing they could do.

What's even more weird is that all the girls wearing the rings began to look like the same woman, whether it was skin or facial features, they were getting closer and closer.Li Duo's appearance also began to change, but not much, or the girls wearing rings became a bit like her instead. "That's not an ordinary ring. The reason why it is worn on the little finger of the right hand is because it is the place in charge of the eyes among the six organs except the mind. The eyes of those girls can no longer see the real world." Ji Yan was somewhat said worriedly. We went back to that small shop, but it was closed. We asked people nearby, but they didn't know the whereabouts of the small shop. They all said that it opened suddenly, as if they had left suddenly, and it seemed that they had never been here.

Ji Yan couldn't control her condition, so she could only use acupuncture and medicine to temporarily calm down those almost crazy girls. The ring on the finger is already connected to the flesh, unless the whole finger is cut off, but Ji Yan said that even if the finger is cut off, it may not be cured. "Unless you find the person who made the ring." Ji Yan muttered to herself while flipping through the documents. However, what he didn't expect was that the man appeared by himself, and after that, there was actually Li Zheng, whom he hadn't planned for a long time. "Hey, I planned to hide and wait for the Cinderellas to become princesses, but unfortunately, this kid found me." The shop owner still narrowed his eyes, spread his hands in a helpless gesture, and then looked at Li Zheng again.

"I never went far. When Li Duo put on the ring, I didn't have time to stop it, so I just kept staring at this guy. Sure enough, he wanted to run away." Li Zheng kept his hand on the man's shoulder, as if stuck. "No, no, how can you use the word escape? Didn't I say that when the time is right, I will appear in front of the descendants of the Ji Li family." After the shop owner finished speaking, the skin on his face suddenly began to tighten. Get up, like a deflated balloon, and like shrunken cloth. The faces of Ji Yan and Li Zheng changed, especially Li Zheng, his hand subconsciously moved away from the man's shoulder.

The shopkeeper's skin continued to tighten, and finally cracked. I seemed to see a butterfly emerging from a cocoon, and another head emerged from the shopkeeper's almost lifeless skin. The head was tightly wrapped with a bandage, and only a pair of eyes and mouth could be seen. The pupils of those eyes were definitely not human, but revealed the unique greed of a predator. Then, he took off the outer skin of the fat middle-aged man as if he was taking off his clothes. His real appearance turned out to be very thin, wearing a black tights, and his hands were slender. "Actually, I have met each of you before this. Of course, please allow me to introduce myself." He bowed gracefully to us, and then sat down on the sofa carelessly. "My name is Bai Yang." He smiled, his cracked mouth was like a broken pomegranate, revealing a row of fine and crumb-like teeth. Ji Yan looked at him in surprise. "Worker bee, nightmare technique..." Then he took a step back, "You should be dead." Li Zheng looked at these two people with some puzzlement.Of course, I know the story of Bai Yang. "Indeed, I also feel that I shouldn't live in this world. It's a pity that your father was too young at that time and didn't take a good look at my body. If you look at it with ordinary people's thinking, a person whose whole body was scorched and breathless It is true that people who live in this world should surely die. But if it is not a person, naturally this theory will not hold.” Bai Yang picked up the water glass on the table, poured himself a glass of water and drank it. "Are you here for revenge? Unfortunately, my father passed away long ago." Ji Yan looked at Bai Yang vigilantly. "No, I definitely have no intention of seeking revenge on you, and I even want to thank your father, otherwise I will spend my whole life as an accountant in that rural village, and I will not discover the secret of my body, and this secret is Your father has been looking for the reason all his life, and in the end he took his life. Of course, it also includes your parents, Li Zheng." Bai Yang looked at Li Zheng who was standing aside and squinting at him. "Go on, about my parents." Li Zheng asked in a low voice.I've never seen him in such a state. "Hey, I knew you would be interested. Twenty years ago, your parents were actually looking for a tribe that could use nightmare techniques. Ji Yan's father knew the horror of nightmare techniques after meeting me, so he gave up looking for it. Necessary, but unfortunately your father was too persistent, and even fell in love with one of the girls in the tribe, and took her away from that place. For this tribe, this is an unforgivable behavior. In their view, Men are nothing more than tools to spread life and weapons to protect the tribe from being harassed by the outside world. They are humble worker bees. So they cast a nightmare on the girl who escaped, and cursed her tragic fate. As a result, you know, she died on her own. In the hands of the person you love the most, that is, in the hands of your father, nailing is actually one of the penal laws used by the tribe to punish defectors and disloyalty. "Before your father went mad, he left a will and entrusted his children to the care of the two most trusted people, because he knew that the children born should never grow up together, and the tribe would not let them go, so it is safe to separate them. You are more sexual, so you were handed over to your father's friend, Captain Li, who was still a criminal police officer at the time, and your sister was handed over to Ji Yan's father." Bai Yang finished speaking slowly, but Li Zheng still looked at him coldly. he. "How do you know so much?" "That's because I have already been to that tribe, and we have reached a deal. As long as I meet their requirements, I can remove the nightmare on me and become a human again." After finishing speaking, he looked at Ji Yan . "Deal?" I asked. "Yes, you also know that that tribe is almost forgotten by this world. They want to revive their previous glory, but their obstacle is men. This world cannot be ruled by men. If you want to go back to that era, They must be turned into worker bees again." Bai Yang smiled.But his words gave me chills. "Look, you will soon know what the ring is for." After speaking, he stood up and planned to leave. "Can you leave easily when you're here?" Li Zheng stretched out his hand again. "It's useless to beat me down, the ring won't come off automatically. In fact, I don't know how to get the ring off. What's more, I don't think you two have the ability." Bai Yang smiled again, full of disdain and contempt . "When all the girls become princesses, I will tell you what is going on in space. If you want to blame, blame your father and provoke those tribes that shouldn't be provoked." Bai Yang didn't seem to be lying, he left Ji Yan's residence. Ji Yan has been observing the changes in Li Duo, including the other girl, and sure enough, Bai Yang was right, all the girls wearing rings started to become the same person.Back at the newspaper office, even Luo Lei, including other girls, also wore rings, but the strange thing was that the ones who changed after wearing the rings were all women who had not given birth. In this way, all the young girls in this city look the same, some of them resemble Li Duo, but not all of them. Li Zheng looked at Li Duo's face, a little frightened and surprised, I had never seen that expression before. "She and those girls are more and more like my dead mother." Li Zheng told us.Ji Yan was also surprised, but he quickly lowered his head and thought deeply. "Worker bees? I understand!" Ji Yan suddenly jumped up from her seat. "All fertile female bees can only have one, the only queen bee." Ji Yan said in a word. "You mean that Bai Yang makes all the barren girls into the same person, that is, the so-called princess?" I asked in surprise. "Indeed, if all women become the same person, it means that there is only one queen bee in society, and naturally all men become worker bees." Li Zheng said. "But why did you become like my mother?" Li Zheng looked anxiously at Li Duo who was still looking in the mirror and ignoring us. "Go find Bai Yang, he probably still has something to tell us." Ji Yan suggested. Soon, we found the guy.In fact, he didn't go far at all, the four of us went to a secluded leisure place and sat down. "It seems that you know my Cinderella plan. At twelve o'clock tonight, the girls who wear the rings will become princesses for real, and will never change back. At that time, the Nightmare Tribe will also return. " Bai Yang said. "What good will you do then? It's just a worker bee." I laughed at him.Bai Yang shook his head noncommittally. Then he took off his bandages, and I almost closed my eyes, his body was covered in burns and layers of tiny shiny scales, his head was badly burned, his nose was gone, his upper lip Also burned, no wonder his mouth looks weird. "Do you know why I want to collect and make human skin? For so many years, I have been longing to be like a normal person without bandages, but I found that no matter how I make human skin masks and skins, those dead skins have no soul. , I can turn into anyone, but it will rot and stink after a few days. So I know that only people who use nightmare can make dead things have souls, so that the human skin I made can truly become Become my own skin." His tone was a little sad.Ji Yan and Li Zhengze remained silent. "Making dead things have souls?" Ji Yan suddenly repeated.Bai Yang was talking excitedly, he didn't pay attention, and asked back, "What did you say?" "You said twelve o'clock, right? That proves that we still have a chance." Ji Yan suddenly smiled confidently. Bai Yang suddenly became angry. "I hate your disgusting smile. Just like your father, you seem to know everything and don't pay attention to others at all! You can't save those girls! It's absolutely impossible!" Bai Yang roared angrily. Ji Yan ignored him, turned around and left with us, leaving Bai Yang standing there alone. Looking back, I saw his ugly appearance becoming more and more blurred in the sunlight. "Have you already thought of how to deal with it?" Li Zheng asked. "Not sure, but it should be possible." After nightfall, the city began to become a little quieter, perhaps losing the opposite sex, most of the boys were a bit bored, and the usually lively streets became deserted.There are only a few hours away from the time Bai Yang said. And we have been sitting next to Li Duo and observing her. Bai Yang was also outside the door. He said that he would wait until people from the Nightmare Tribe showed up to complete his mission and get rewards.He also told us that Li Zheng's mother was originally the candidate for the queen bee, even if she died, a new queen bee would be reborn according to her appearance.Time passed by, but Ji Yan didn't seem to be worried at all, just drinking tea and reading a book, I wanted to ask Li Zheng, but he told me that since Ji Yan is so natural, I can only trust him. "It's less than an hour until twelve o'clock, I'd like to see what you can do." Bai Yang looked at the three of us who were sitting blankly, and sneered. Ji Yan looked at the time, stood up, and then took out several silver needles from the confession, we all looked at him puzzled. He pierced the five key fingers of Li Duo's right hand with needles, and also pierced one at the back of his neck, very quickly.Li Duo fell into a coma. "Is she okay?" Li Zheng helped Li Duo to lie down and asked. "You and your master will use rings to perform nightmares on the eyes of the six senses. Naturally, I can seal all their six senses. The so-called six senses are eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind. Losing the six senses, The dead are no different, how will the queen bee break out of the cocoon of these hosts?" Ji Yan looked at Li Duo who had fallen asleep, and then at Bai Yang. The latter was a little panicked, but quickly calmed down. "You just let her miss it, so what about the rest of the girls? One hour is not enough time for you to seal the six organs of the rest." "No, it only takes half an hour to temporarily suspend Li Duo's death. After a while, her body will completely enter the suspended animation like a hibernating animal, but the duration is not long. I can only inject the needle at this time. " Ji Yan patted my shoulder. "Originally no one else was needed. The so-called queen bee only targeted Li Duo, and the rest of the girls would return to their original appearance at 12 o'clock. At the beginning, I was also a little puzzled why the nightmare technique had been inherited for thousands of years. The people of the tribe have to wait until now to counterattack. In fact, the task you got was to let Li Duo, the daughter of the queen bee, be taken away by them. You did so many things just to confuse me and Li Zheng. People never thought of returning to this world at all, you just plan to use the power they give you to take Li Duo away!" Ji Yan's words surprised us all. Bai Yang staggered suddenly, barely standing still. He lowered his head, his whole body trembling. "To be precise, I intend to take away the queen bee. All those who are eligible to become a queen bee will wake up at twelve o'clock. Only one of these people will become a queen bee, and the rest will die. Originally, this ceremony was in It was carried out within the tribe. Since one of the successors left the tribe, they asked me to take this ring and give it to Li Duo to complete the ceremony. The rest of the rings are just our imitations. Forget it, it seems that I want to Take her away by force." Bai Yang walked towards us with open arms. Li Zheng quickly shot the nails towards him, but none of the nails could go through. The scales on his whole body seemed invulnerable. "It's useless, even the blood sword made of that girl's blood can't penetrate my body, I must take her away and go back to the tribe, I don't want to wear this snake skin anymore! "Bai Yang said while running towards Li Duo. "It's useless. In fact, I should have told you earlier that you died twenty years ago. Now you are just a corpse infused with a soul. When you complete your mission, you will turn into a pile of carrion. "Ji Yan said. Bai Yang looked at Ji Yan in disbelief, stopped his movements, shook his head, and shouted that it was impossible. "Unfortunately, you can only stay in this world until twelve o'clock. They originally planned that once the queen bee is born, you will be useless. For twenty years, you have been nothing more than a tool to track down the whereabouts of Li Zheng's family." .” Ji Yan looked at her watch. It's twelve o'clock. Li Duo was still lying on the bed, and her appearance began to slowly return to its previous appearance, but she seemed a little tired. On the little finger of her right hand, that nasty ring appeared. As soon as I reached out to touch it, the ring immediately shattered and disappeared. gone. Bai Yang stared blankly at the scene in front of him, and then slowly collapsed on the ground.What Ji Yan said was right, his body, like the ring, turned into powder in an instant, and a gust of wind blew by, as if he had never been in this world. "Is it all over? Maybe by escaping the hatching of the queen bee this time, that tribe will never trouble us again." Li Zheng sat on the bed and looked at Li Duo. "Well. Since they already have a queen bee, they won't come again." Ji Yan seemed to be very tired. He walked up to Li Duo and took off all the silver needles. "She will forget everything when she wakes up tomorrow morning, and so will the other girls. They won't remember anything, just treat it as a dream." Ji Yan told us that his father did not actually run away, but had been studying the mysteries of the tribe that used the nightmare technique. Ji Yan learned all this from the manuscript he left behind.Moreover, Ji Yan's father has always blamed himself deeply for not being able to prevent the tragedy of Li Zheng's parents, so that he finally died in depression. When he was dying, he told Ji Yan that he must unravel Li Duo's ominous life experience and make her a normal girl. I was suddenly filled with admiration for this elder I had never met before, maybe like a father like a son, Ji Yan will be like his father.