What It’s Like Being a Vampire

A kindergarten in Star City.

After the children finished eating at noon, a young female teacher made sure that the children had gone to bed for a nap, then sat at the door, put on headphones, picked up her phone and started watching videos.

After a while, a small hand gently patted the female teacher's arm. She looked up and found that it was Liu Shiling, the "most popular kid" in the class.

The female teacher took off her headphones, subconsciously held Liu Shiling's chubby hand, and asked in a low voice and concern: "What's wrong, Shiling?"

Liu Shiling also whispered: "Teacher, I'm thirsty and want to drink some water."

So the female teacher got up and walked to the wall. Among the rows of stainless steel water cups, she found the one with Liu Shiling's name written on it. She poured a small and half cup of boiling water for her, blew it for a while, and then handed it to her: "Sip, be careful." hot."

"Thank you, teacher." Liu Shiling took the water glass, blew on the hot air, and drank sips of water.

The female teacher sat next to the door again, but instead of continuing to watch the video, she picked up her phone and read some text messages.

Liu Shiling moved a small bench and placed it next to the female teacher. Then she sat down with a water glass and asked in a low voice: "Teacher, what video were you watching just now?"

"I'm watching the news." The female teacher whispered back.

"Can I watch it with you?" Liu Shiling asked softly, "I can't sleep."

The female teacher was stunned for a moment, there are actually children interested in news videos?

She thought about it and nodded in agreement, so she took out the earphones again, briefly cleaned the earbuds, gave one to Liu Shiling, then plugged in her phone and continued watching the video she had just watched.

What she was watching was a video introducing what happened to Monta Mira last night. The UP host edited together various domestic and foreign news and videos made by netizens, and then used his own language and subtitles to explain it.

What is being played in the video is a shot of a smashed shop and a street with sporadic blood stains. Then the camera flips and a Chinese boss is standing in front of his smashed shop. While filming, he introduces himself in Chinese yesterday. Late experience, apparently this was originally a video posted to his own social media.

The female teacher couldn't help but hesitate. Isn't it inappropriate to show this kind of video to kindergarten children? Although there are no direct images of violence, these images are the result of riots.

Liu Shiling actually heard several teachers discussing related news in the corridor in the morning.

She was not interested in current affairs or news. Even Burma and Montamira couldn't tell what it was, where it was, or how far it was from Star City.

But she heard two words that came up during the discussion by the teachers: "eight arms" and "eight eyes".

Liu Shiling immediately thought of her bald uncle's "pet", which she named "Barbie Warrior".

So I was very curious and wanted to know what news the teachers were discussing, and whether the one they described with "eight arms and eight eyes" was a "Barbie warrior".

It's a pity that now she can't access QQ to confirm with her bald uncle, and the teachers stopped talking after a few brief discussions.

Just before she was about to take a nap, she happened to see what her teacher was reading on her mobile phone. It seemed to be related news. There was a flashing picture of a giant with eight arms, so she came over and shamelessly asked to watch it together.

"Teacher, can you start reading from the beginning?" After watching for a while, Liu Shiling suddenly asked cautiously.

The female teacher was even more surprised. Liu Shiling was actually interested in this news?

She had only watched it for 6 or 7 minutes, so pulling it back and watching it again would not have much impact, and now she is more interested in why Liu Shiling likes to watch this kind of news clips.

The video started playing again. In front of it was a girl who had experienced the riots in Montamira last night and had seen the vision of an eight-armed and eight-eyed monster. She took a selfie with her mobile phone to describe her experience last night.

The girl happens to be working in graphic design and has also learned to draw. When she returned to the hotel last night, she drew the vision of the eight-armed and eight-eyed monster she saw.

When Liu Shiling glanced at the screen just now, she saw the picture being displayed.

After the video started playing again, the female teacher's attention was no longer on her phone. She kept observing Liu Shiling from the corner of her eye. Then she was surprised to find that the child actually opened his eyes wide and stared at the screen, looking very seriously. Watch this news clip and explainer video.

"Teacher, can we pause here?" Liu Shiling suddenly raised her face and said to the teacher.

"Ah? Oh, here?" The female teacher subconsciously clicked on the screen, paused the video, and then discovered a sketch of the phantom monster with eight arms and eight eyes.

Liu Shiling said: "Teacher, can you take a screenshot of this painting and send it to me on QQ? I want to learn to draw this."

The female teacher looked at the painting again and said in surprise: "Why do you want to draw this? Don't you... find it scary?"

Liu Shiling was also surprised: "Why is it scary? It didn't do anything bad... Teacher, did it do something bad?"

The female teacher was stunned for a moment. She had actually seen some news about Monta Mira in the morning, especially the description of the "eight-armed and eight-eyed monster vision". After work, she had some discussions with other teachers about that " There are different speculations about the reasons for the appearance of the "eight-armed and eight-eyed monster", but there is one thing that most of the media, people who have experienced it, and netizens who participated in the discussion have reached a consensus - the "eight-armed and eight-eyed monster" appeared in Meng Tamira's appearance objectively stopped a large-scale riot and saved countless people who might have died in the riot.

Seeing that Liu Shiling was still waiting for her answer with her big black eyes open, the female teacher had no choice but to tell the truth: "It didn't do bad things, but... it also did good things and saved many people."

Liu Shiling smiled happily: "So it is a very powerful and well-loved monster! I want to draw it!"

The female teacher immediately remembered the animals with many wings and eyes that Liu Shiling often drew before, and she felt relieved, understanding that this little girl liked this kind of picture because it just suited her aesthetic taste.

"Okay, I'll take a screenshot and send it to you." The female teacher took a screenshot of the video and sent it to Liu Shiling's QQ - this QQ friend was added by Liu Shiling at her request two days ago.

However, what made the female teacher still a little confused was that after Liu Shiling happily said "Thank you, teacher!", she continued to watch the news video about Montamila with her, even though the "eight" drawn by the girl did not appear again. The "Monster with Arms and Eight Eyes" picture is just a collection of relevant selfies and interview videos of some people who have experienced it, and Liu Shiling still watched it with gusto.

Naturally, the female teacher didn't know. After watching it for a short while, Liu Shiling had basically determined that the people in the video described her as the "Barbie Warrior" of the bald uncle. She had no evidence or basis for judgment, it was just intuition.

"Barbie Warrior" did something good again, and she felt honored.

In the afternoon, Liu Shiling's class happened to be taking a painting class, so after drawing what the teacher told her to draw, she started to click on the "eight-armed eight-eyed monster" drawn by the girl that she saw on the teacher's phone at noon. ” sketch to redesign her own version of the Barbie warrior.

Because the tablet computer is not around, QQ cannot be accessed, and it is difficult to ask the teacher to borrow a mobile phone to read it, so I cannot compare it with the picture drawn by the young lady. Liu Shiling can only try to imitate it based on memory.

It's a pity that although the little fat girl's painting skills have improved a lot under the guidance of Tang Baona during this period, she is still far behind the young lady in the video. It is beyond her ability to insist on painting such complex and realistic pictures. Moreover, her memory of that picture was somewhat deviated from reality, incorporating her own impression of the real "Barbie Warrior" in her dream.

So when I painted it, not only was it not as majestic as the little sister's painting, but it was even worse than the "Barbie Warrior" she had painted before.

Looking at the uglier "Barbie Warrior" on the drawing paper, Liu Shiling sighed helplessly and knitted her little eyebrows together.

"Ha, is this the painting in the video at noon? Shiling's painting is good, very cute." The female teacher who came to Liu Shiling looked at the painting she had drawn, looking at the eight round arms. , the chubby "Barbie Warrior" praised with a smile.

Liu Shiling's expression became even more bitter. "Barbie Warrior" should be majestic, not cute!

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After returning home with her mother in the afternoon, Liu Shiling immediately asked her mother for a PAD, then returned to her room, logged into QQ, and saved the screenshot of the video sent by the teacher.

She took out her drawing book and frowned at the picture drawn by the young lady on the PAD for a long time, but still did not write.

She thought for a while, opened QQ again, found Tang Baona's avatar, clicked on it, and was about to press the voice button when she remembered that Sister Laoxian had said that she and her beautiful sister were going to another place during this period and had something to do. So I can’t teach her to draw or sing for the time being.

She scratched her head, flicked through her QQ friend list of less than ten, and clicked on the avatar of a cartoon deer wearing a helmet—this was the QQ of "Big Deer" Zhou Lutong.

She and "Dalu" exchanged letters through Xiaomei several times before. "Dalu" gave her several paintings, and she gave "Dalu" several origami papers. The last time they both added QQ, but after adding it, they only typed After saying hello, no words were spoken after that.

Liu Shiling sent the screenshot of the saved video, and then sent a voice message asking for help: "Dalu Dalu, I want to learn this painting, how should I learn it?"

Liu Shiling did not wait for a reply, but continued to try to draw "Barbie Warrior" in her own way, because she knew that "Big Deer" was a primary school student and had to finish school later than their kindergarten.

After dinner in the evening, Liu Shiling finally received a reply from "Big Deer", but her reply was neither text nor voice, but a painting.

That painting was the "eight-armed, eight-eyed monster" drawn by the young lady in the screenshot of the video she sent before, but "Big Deer" accurately extracted some of the characteristics of the painting, slightly exaggerated those characteristics, and then simplified other details. , add thicker lines to make the painting style cartoonish.

Liu Shiling's eyes lit up as soon as she saw the picture sent by "Big Deer". She didn't need to say anything else. This picture alone had solved the previous problem.

The pictures the young lady drew were sketches, which Liu Shiling had never learned before. What she drew were simple colored pen drawings, so it was difficult to imitate this kind of detailed and realistic style of painting.

But "Big Deer" helped her deconstruct and reorganize it, and she immediately found the feeling. So according to "Big Deer"'s new style, she added some "Barbie Warrior" features she had seen in her dreams, and she quickly drew it. I got a relatively satisfactory picture of "Barbie Warrior".

After finishing the painting, Liu Shiling picked up her painting and looked at it carefully. She tilted her head left and right, narrowed her eyes, and smiled with pride.

Then she began to tear up small scraps of paper. After tearing up a lot of small scraps of paper, she controlled the two coins "chocolate" and "ice cream" to jump into the scraps of paper. After a while, it seemed as if there was a super small hurricane wrapping the paper. Debris jumped up, and then one hurricane turned into two, and the upper ends of the two hurricanes were connected together again, swaying, converging, condensing, and extending.

Soon, under the influence of two coins, the scraps of paper constructed an image of an eight-armed villain more than thirty centimeters tall.

Moreover, she also deliberately blackened some of the scraps of paper, preparing to control those scraps of paper to the head of the villain to form eight eyes.

But unfortunately, her control accuracy is still a bit poor. Among the piles of paper scraps, she can't accurately locate the black scraps of paper. Therefore, the eyes of the eight-armed villain are basically on the stomach, which is the same as being stabbed eight times. Like holes.

Although it is not perfect yet, Liu Shiling is already very happy when looking at the image of this eight-armed villain - at least no one will think of it as an upright crab or a big tree with its leaves blown away by the wind. !

She worked hard to draw "Barbie Warrior" well, not just because she likes to draw, but to establish and construct a more specific and complete image of "Barbie Warrior" in her mind!

In this way, she can be even more majestic when using "magic" to build her "Barbie warrior" image!

Although the bald uncle has explained before that you cannot use "magic" outdoors or in front of people to create the image of "Barbie Warrior" for the time being, but if you don't make preparations and practice first, when you need to use it, you will end up with a "Standing crab", that's too embarrassing, and it's not worthy of the majesty of "Barbie Warrior".

"Barbie Warrior" was her name!

In the future, maybe "Barbie Warrior" can use her magic to have a real body to exist in this world and have an entity to fight against the bad guys, instead of being regarded as a non-existent hallucination or illusion!

Liu Shiling was very happy after successfully constructing an eight-armed confetti figure out of confetti. She controlled the eight-armed confetti figure to float into the air, waving its eight arms as if swimming in the air.

"Hulla, hula, Barbie is flying~, hula, hula, Barbie is super fighting, hula..."

While Liu Shiling controlled the eight-armed confetti villain to fly around the room, she happily hummed a song that she improvised based on an unknown melody.

Shiling's mother, who was watching TV in the living room and combing "Egg Yolk Pie", vaguely seemed to hear her daughter humming in the room. She couldn't help but frown. She hugged the egg yolk pie and walked to the door of the room with her ear against the door. listen.

After listening for a while, Shiling's mother felt that Liu Shiling seemed to be crying in the room. She was shocked and quickly opened the door and went in: "Shiling, what's wrong with you?"

"Yeah!" She was startled by her mother who suddenly pushed the door open. Liu Shiling, who was humming randomly just now, jumped subconsciously and almost bit her tongue.

The eight-armed confetti man controlled by her to fly diagonally above her head also collapsed. First, two coins fell to the ground, and then confetti flew all over the sky, fluttering like snowflakes and falling from around the little fat girl.

Seeing the scene in front of her, Shiling's mother was also dumbfounded. Then she immediately realized that her daughter was probably playing house alone again, making paper scraps as snowflakes, and then imagined herself as a white-haired girl who was lonely and helpless in winter. .

"Liu Shiling! How many times have I told you not to tear up scraps of paper and play with them! You know, it's very difficult to clean up! Those scraps of paper are flying everywhere, on the table and in the corners. You can't even sweep them away, you know? !”

So under the gaze of her furious mother, the little fat girl quickly hunched her neck to get a broom to sweep the floor - although it would be much more efficient if she controlled "chocolate" and "ice cream" to "collect".

"Egg Yolk Pie" also ran over and followed Liu Shiling very obediently, sweeping the floor with her, and from time to time he could find scraps of paper floating under the bed or in the corner.

But no matter how Liu Shiling looked at that chubby cat face, she felt like it was gloating about its misfortune.

As for Shiling's mother, who was watching her daughter sweep the floor with her arms folded, the expression on her face was not severe or angry. Instead, the corners of her mouth could not help but turn upward.

I don’t know why, but now that she sees her daughter being stupid and making mistakes, she feels happy and relaxed.

In the past period, my daughter's behavior has always been more and more sensible and mature. She no longer watches cartoons every day, no longer clamors for delicious food every day, no longer naughty and gets into trouble, but loves to learn and is not noisy. , being well-behaved and quiet makes her feel uncomfortable, but she doesn’t know what to do. She can’t just tell her daughter, “Don’t be so good.”

Shiling's mother suddenly caught a glimpse of several paintings on the desk in the room. The top one was of a man with eight arms and eight eyes. It looked very good in terms of the overall shape, the proportions of each part, and the coloring. , my daughter seems to have made progress in painting again?

This image of eight arms and eight eyes is not the first time that my daughter has drawn it. She has drawn it several times before. It is Liu Shiling's favorite image together with the orange cat with several pairs of wings and eyes.

When she saw it before, she didn't think too much, thinking that her daughter had imagination, but now she suddenly thought of some news she saw today. The Myanmar tourist in the news described the monster hallucination, which seemed to be eight. Eight eyes on the arm?

Shiling's mother frowned slightly, but she soon felt relieved. This image with many hands and eyes does not belong to anyone. The world is so big, there should be many. I guess her daughter got the idea from some cartoon image she saw. .

But looking at the picture on the table, Shiling's mother still felt a little strange. She seemed to have forgotten something?

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