Is this cartoonist mentally ill?!

Chapter 3 Only after eating a full meal can you find a way home

"Gulu ~~"

Lin Qingshan opened her eyes and stroked her belly: "It seems that starving to death isn't really a good way to get home. I'm so hungry... Looks like I have to eat enough before I find a way to travel back in time!"

He looked out of the window. It was already early morning when the sky was darkening. He hadn't overslept, but he'd woken up early...

I woke up hungry.

"So... I'm logged in. Is there any food available in the mall?" he shouted carelessly.

The system panel opened before his eyes again and helped him open the mall very cleverly.

The things in the system mall are mainly divided into two categories: skills and physical items. However, the things in the mall are not all available, nor are they available, but they may or may not be available.

How to tell?

The system will automatically update the system mall once a month, and Lin Qingshan can actively choose to update it once for free. Twenty types of "products" will be updated each time. What he can produce depends purely on his appearance, but for the most part, his skills tend to be creative and learning.

For example, if you exchange the master-level math skill, you can turn directly into a contemporary Henri Poincaré.

Lin Qingshan has found this skill before, but it takes 990,000 points to redeem it, which is really disappointing.

He also roughly understood that master-level skills are basically above 100,000 points and, depending on the value of the different emphasis, the corresponding points required are also different.

Mathematics, the most dazzling jewel in the crown of human wisdom, is naturally of great value.

Even the painting kaleidoscope is a powerful skill with a minimum original price of 100,000 points, but the system's newbie gift pack was given to him for free.

What's more, these physical items have been almost completely updated.

For example, the "Clonazepam tablets" that Lin Qingshan redeemed earlier were redeemed at the system mall, otherwise how could he easily obtain these prescription drugs?

In terms of physical items, there are almost all kinds of systems. He can have everything in the real world.

Controlled drugs, graphics cards, food, cell phones, luxury cars... Lin Qingshan saw them all last month, he even found Longjiang's rice with poco meat, which is not expensive at 1 point. The 10,000 points given by the gift pack can probably buy 10,000 copies.

But it's a shame that the automatic update ran out this month.

He didn't mind at the time, after all, he was trying to see if he could starve to death.

But that would be a disaster, especially as there is no food in the newly launched products.

Lin Qingshan simply used the mall's update function and twenty new products entered the mall.

He immediately examined the mall carefully, ignoring these abilities, and looked directly at the only eight real items that appeared this time.

These items are "Controlled drug - Prochlorperazine tablets", "Artistic ornamental knife - Apricot knife", "Longtu Pocket X60 foldable mobile phone 8G version", "NVIDIA RTX 690i graphics card", "Anxin brand fragrance", "Shampoo and shower gel set", "Ordinary glass", "Hongxing brand 1302D iridium gold fountain pen", "Shenli classic men's canvas shoes".

"Holy shit! There's no food!" Lin Qingshan pursed his lips and said, "This is of no use to me, but..."

He lowered his head and looked at his bare feet: "I'm meeting the editor today. I can change these shoes for you..."

Actually, it wasn't that he didn't have shoes. When he traveled to this body, the original owner wore a pair of shoes, but then he wore them out.

However, Lin Qingshan later bought a pair of cartoon slippers, but he didn't like wearing them and his range of activities was extremely limited.

You could even say that if Ayumi Ito had called him yesterday, he wouldn't have left this rented house, but continued to draw manuscripts in the living room.

"Then change into canvas shoes." Lin Qingshan spent 10 points directly.  

[Points: 250→240]

A pair of canvas shoes that fit his feet exactly appeared in front of him out of nowhere.

"By the way, let's go to the public restroom and take a shower before we go." Lin Qingshan hummed and then changed into the mall's shampoo and shower gel.

[Points: 240→236]

Shampoo and liquid soap also appeared in front of him out of nowhere.

...

Editorial Department of Manjie Culture Company.

Early in the morning, one after the other, Manjie Culture's comic book editors clocked in and went to their workstations to start today's work.

Yang Dahai was startled to see Ayumi Ito looking a little depressed: "Ayumi, did you work overtime at the company last night?"

Ayumi Ito shook her head and said, "I worked overtime at the company for a while and left the company at 10 o'clock."

Yang Dahai opened his mouth and worked overtime until 10 o'clock for a while. That was simply working overtime at the risk of your life.

However, Japan is said to be like that, with a unique overtime culture. They say it respects regional characteristics, but Yang Dahai feels that this regional characteristic is unnecessary.

But he still said, "Ayumi ... you've just arrived at the company, you can relax a bit."

"The main reason is that I have to sign a contract with Professor Qingshan at noon, so I put in a few extra hours last night."

"Professor Qingshan?" Yang Dahai was stunned for a moment.

"Is the professor the original author of Edgerunners?"

"It turns out he's the author..." Yang Dahai suddenly realized.

To be honest, although "Edgerunners" overall isn't bad, you can see that the author's painting skills are quite strong and the painting style is very mature. There are so many details in a comic book that it could be turned into an animation.

But Yang Dahai hasn't paid much attention to that yet. After all, the setting of "Edgerunners" was a bit eccentric. Although it was very good and new, he subconsciously didn't like it.

More importantly, this is a beginner's work.

A newcomer's first game will usually have a lot of problems, making it difficult to become an instant success.

However, "Edgerunners" still has a certain potential. At least Yang Dahai's assessment is that this "Edgerunners" can definitely compete for this year's Republic Comics Best Newcomer award.

And Ayumi Ito is also a newcomer, so let her lead this newcomer with a mature painting style.

Manjie Culture Company is already the leading company at Republic Comics. It no longer requires the editor-in-chief to sign a contract with a new author. The company has a reasonable process.

"So Ayumi Ito will be busy first with the matter of the contract with this new teacher. Remember to bring back your original manuscript for backup to avoid possible plagiarism in the future." Yang Dahai gave the last instruction.

"Okay, senior." Ayumi Ito replied energetically.

She then took the contract document and went straight downstairs to make an appointment at the restaurant.

(End of chapter)