Is this cartoonist mentally ill?!

Chapter 2 Kitten

In a narrow room.

In a bungalow with an area of less than 20 square meters, an impressive amount of items are piled up and stacked.

It's very sad that so many things are piled up in a room of less than 20 square meters. It's a shame that this room shouldn't be used as a warehouse.

Among them, the most piled up things in the room were sheets of drawing paper, covered with vivid cartoons.

In the innermost part of the room, far from the door, on an equally narrow bed, a delicate, thin man lay with his eyes closed.

The man's facial features looked very good, but his pale, motionless face always made people feel as if he were dead.

Just then, there was a sudden, rapid knock on the door of the room.

Before the man could answer, an impatient voice came from directly outside the door: "Lin Qingshan! I have a call for you!"

The pale man stood up instantly, but the next moment he turned to the floor, coughed hard and spat out dozens of white pills.

Lin Qingshan sighed: "What the hell, what kind of sleeping pill is that? Why is it so hard to swallow?

He wiped the saliva from his mouth, stood up slowly and left the room barefoot.

After he got up, he realized that the bed he was lying on wasn't a bed at all, but a rusty iron frame with a single mattress on top.

Next to this "bed" was a bottle of medicine and a half-drunk glass of water. The label on the medicine bottle had the words "Clonazepam Tablets" printed on it.

...

Lin Qingshan left his rented house and walked slowly and barefoot to a convenience store outside.

"Lin Qingshan, there's a phone number for you here." The owner pointed casually and put the convenience store's landline receiver to one side, obviously waiting for the person to answer the phone.

Lin Qingshan's lips curved into a grateful smile, "Thank you very much, Uncle Dong!"

Then he stepped forward, picked up the receiver of the landline, put it to his ear and said, "Hello, I'm Lin Qingshan!"

The owner opened his mouth and said with a certain anger and helplessness: "There's no Dong in my name... What did this guy mean by calling me Uncle Dong all the time?"

But this boy had always been abnormal, so he shouldn't have cared.

Lin Qingshan's voice was heard on the other side of the microphone, and a clear, lively voice suddenly came through: "Yes! Hello! Mr. Qingshan, this is the comic book publishing department of the Manjie Culture Company!"

Lin Qingshan suddenly realized: "Ah, very lucky it's the place where I've sent comics before."

"Very lucky?" Ayumi Ito was stunned for a moment, "Professor, what do you mean?"

"It's like this. If you call me later, I can go back to my hometown." Lin Qingshan said seriously: "You definitely won't be able to find me until then."

Ayumi Ito suddenly realized: "So that's it. Professor, do you have time to visit our Manjie Culture Company? We have high expectations for your work 'Edgerunners' and hope to reach a cooperation with you and explore it in depth. The commercial value of this work!"

"Wait, something seems wrong..." Just then, however, Ayumi Ito heard a confused voice on the other end of the line.

"What's wrong? Professor Qingshan?" Ayumi Ito's heart squeezed.

"I remember my assignment was 'Cyberpunk 2077: Edgerunners', not 'Edgerunners'." A confused voice came from the microphone and said.

Ayumi Ito couldn't laugh or cry immediately, but she didn't feel awkward and said, "Yes, teacher, your assignment is 'Cyberpunk 2077: Edgerunners', so when can you come to us to discuss cooperation?"

Lin Qingshan thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll go now. Where is your company?"

"Oh? Now?" Ayumi Ito was stunned for a moment, a little unexpectedly, "Is it too hasty to come now? I haven't prepared the contract or anything..."

Lin Qingshan blinked and said, "How about tomorrow?"

Ayumi Ito seemed to notice the anxiety in Lin Qingshan's words and asked cautiously, "Professor, do you have something important to do there?"

"Yes." A serious voice came from the other end of the line, "It's an important matter related to my life... By the way, does your company have a cafeteria?"

Ayumi Ito suddenly felt that the man on the other end of the line... sounded a little different from ordinary people?

Ayumi Ito opened her mouth and whispered: "Our company doesn't have a canteen... but! I can offer you a meal, professor! Please bring the original manga and your ID card with you!"

"Then I'll be at your house tomorrow morning." Lin Qingshan's eyes sparkled and he said.

Ayumi Ito showed a forced smile and replied, "Okay..."

"Beep beep--" The person on the phone hung up.

Ayumi Ito hung up the phone and heard that some teachers in the sector had very strange personalities. Wouldn't she know a teacher like that?

...

After hanging up the phone, Lin Qingshan hummed again and walked slowly back to the rented house behind the convenience store.

Soon he will be able to eat delicious rice and earn an income from work.

With the income from the job he will have financial support for his next attempt to travel back to his hometown!

That way, he'll soon be able to travel back in time!

That's right, Lin Qingshan's soul is a time traveler.

What he just told Ayumi Ito about returning to his hometown was traveling back to his previous life.

But for Lin Qingshan, time travel is an unfortunate thing, not something he likes to see.

He doesn't like this world, after all he is alone in this world and doesn't care.  

Although the country in this world is powerful, unknown changes occur almost suddenly at a given moment.

However, Lin Qingshan was sure that it wasn't some senior time traveler who caused the world to undergo terrible changes.

Because there is no great explosion in the development of science and technology in this world, and even American technology continues to dominate the Republic.

The period he's traveled through now is the same as his previous life, but the development of technology is still a bit slow and smartphones haven't appeared yet!

This is a parallel world.

At the same time, everything in his previous life has changed beyond recognition. There is no Apple, no Huawei and, of course, no "Shounen Jump" or "Dragon Ball".

But instead, there are other equally powerful companies and equally wonderful comic books.

This is precisely why Lin Qingshan decided to use his cartooning skills from his previous life and become a professional cartoonist.

So earn money and go back to your hometown!

However, there's another stroke of luck about him...

"The system is old!" Lin Qingshan shouted directly as he lay in bed.

Suddenly, a high-tech virtual interface that only he could see appeared in front of him.

[Presenter: Lin Qingshan]

[Skills: Hard Disk Memory (Diamond), Cinematic Quality Storyboard (Platinum), Painting Kaleidoscope (Master)]

[Points: 250]

At the same time, there are three options on the page: shopping, lottery and fusion enhancement.

Precisely because of the system, the system also gave 10,000 points and the master-level ability to draw kaleidoscope in the gift package for beginners.

He is able to adapt the anime "Edgerunners" in his memory to comics almost effortlessly.

Kaleidoscope Painting (Master), as the name suggests, gives him the master-level ability to master various painting styles and techniques.

He can use abstraction, realism, impressionism, etc., even ink painting and Chinese-style splatter painting with ease.

Together with the memory capacity of the hard disk, he could recall the memories of past lives quite clearly in his mind.

Even after the memory was completely on the hard disk, he could still vividly recall memories from his childhood.

It shouldn't be too easy to reproduce the world-famous paintings "Starry Night", "Mona Lisa" and "The Scream" that he saw in his previous life.

But unfortunately, it takes a long time to make money through traditional art.

Lin Qingshan didn't want to die. Only the works he plagiarized could be sold for a good price.

And the task requirements for earning system points are...

He looked at the tasks page of the system page--

[Current task -

Nobody: Create a piece of work of any kind, and the work will be praised by three people. Current progress is 2/3 (100 points)

Freshman: Let ten people know your name and make a deep impression on you. Current progress is 3/10 (100 points)

Born to be talented: Show off your talents and change the world! Depending on the degree of change, rewards are given at different stages! (Reward unknown)]

Although the task is not limited in time, Lin Qingshan cannot wait long. He's always been impatient and action-oriented!

So he might as well draw comics. Drawing comics would make money faster, so he swapped them for movie-level storyboards.

As for choosing the anime "Cyberpunk 2077: Edgerunners", it was purely out of interest.

Cyberpunk, that kind of work doesn't seem to have appeared in this world yet. The founder of the cult always has a better chance of success.

There are already plenty of hot-blooded boy comics like Bleach in this world, and drawing those comics might not necessarily appeal to many comic fans.

So he simply took a gamble, betting that "Cyberpunk 2077: Edgerunners", a cyberpunk work that had never appeared in this parallel world, would be the first to win, at least to attract the attention of comic book publishers!

Now it seems his choice was the right one, after all, he might even be able to have a meal soon!

"Chief system, this sleeping pill is very difficult to swallow. It's so dry that I can't even swallow it after drinking half a glass of water." Lin Qingshan tapped the table and said.

"If the host takes sleeping pills just to sleep well, the difficulty in swallowing could be due to the host's nervousness, inflammation of the throat, etc. It is recommended that the host relax or treat the inflammation and swelling of the throat." The cold voice was the only voice in the system. Only Lin Qingshan could hear it, and the words seemed completely devoid of emotion.

Although this system can have conversations, it's actually more like the GPT artificial intelligence of the previous life, with the beauty of artificial retardation.

"If the host takes sleeping pills to end its own life, it needs to take a lot of sleeping pills. More than 5 pills will make swallowing difficult and more than 10 pills will block the esophagus with a diameter of only 2 -3 cm. At the same time, there are some parts in sleeping pills. The ingredients prevent the host from swallowing large amounts of pills, which can be quite painful for the host."

"Therefore, the system advises the host not to take sleeping pills to end their life."

Lin Qingshan scratched his head: "I don't want to commit suicide, I just want to go back."

"I've been here a long time, my kitten will miss me ~" He yawned and after a while snored weakly but rhythmically.

In the dream, he seemed to have returned to his hometown, and his little tabby cat called Lv Shui turned into a cat and said to him: "Welcome home, master ~"

(End of chapter)