The movie had just started when Shia put down her chopsticks.
"This is..."
She looked at Qin Tiantian.
"This is a Lu Ban film, haven't you seen it? I feel like it's about magic, monsters, and the like. You should really like it?"
Qin Tiantian slurped a mouthful of instant noodles and replied casually.
On the tablet played a story about the Black Forest, Forest Rangers, Mages, and the Demonic Tide.
Shia ate as she watched, engrossed in the film.
As a Proxy who had lived through a Demonic Tide, although not on the frontlines, she knew the monstrous creatures that stirred under the Blood Moon could obliterate an entire village. Sometimes Proxies had to clean up the aftermath. She had seen every person in a village torn apart, their viscera and flesh dangling from the ceiling and wafting in the wind, and had witnessed a child no taller than her waist being controlled by a demonic beast, having killed and then cannibalized its own family.
