Chapter 22

After several improvements, the potion was named "Strong Corrosion Potion", and its effect has been optimized from corroding cyanite in half a minute to corroding it in five seconds.

The only difference is the quantity and maturity of the red cardamom berries.

——Add 120g of fully ripe red cardamom.

After sending a message to Andre asking for reimbursement of materials and expenses, Jiang Zhulang entrusted a courier to deliver the medicine.

Next, just wait for the invitation letter from the Holy Spirit Medicine Society.

After finishing his task, Jiang Zhulang sank into the soft quilt and opened the forum.

Let him see what readers are saying.

Title: [Li Tao, does Lan Nuo know too much? It feels unreasonable]

[Olan village was massacred, and everyone said it was done by bandits. Roshia also believed it was done by bandits, but he said there was someone else behind it. How did he know? ]

[In order to avenge the villagers, he said he had to become a potion apprentice first. He seemed to be familiar with the villain organization behind the scenes? But this was not reflected at all in the comics.]

[I have reason to suspect that Ranma-kun would not just post the plot based on the outline, right? ]

[That's true. I have the same thought. It feels weird. Is there a foreshadowing?]

[Haha, what a bullshit foreshadowing! This author is beeping—beeping beeping***]

[The person above has a really bad mouth, can he be a little more polite? ]

【Hehe, I have a *** you**】

[It turns out that the foul-mouthed guy is a fan of Lotus Essence, no wonder he is barking like a dog here, I have reported it]

[The foul-mouthed guy is really disgusting. Also, the OP is overthinking it. There are only a few updates so far. The author must have some foreshadowing. Just read on.]

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Hiss, in a sense, "Lannuo" does have a plot based on the outline...

In fact, he has seen similar comments more than once, but now a special discussion forum has been set up, so he must take it seriously.

Jiang Zhulang thought: It turns out that readers like "foreshadowing" with clues.

In the past, he always worried that a large amount of clues and reasoning would make the plot bloated and complicated, but now it seems that it is necessary to give appropriate clues for readers to guess.

In that case...

Recalling the arrangement of the outline, there happened to be a plot point that would appear in the town where he was now, Jiang Zhulang decided to go for the plot.

"Lan Nuo, why are they looking at me strangely...?" Luo Xia followed him closely, half a step behind, feeling uncomfortable all over. From time to time, he rubbed his sleeves, causing wrinkles on them.

The fiery looks and whispers of passers-by always made him wonder if there was something dirty on his face.

Jiang Zhulang stopped, turned around, looked from top to bottom, and then from bottom to top, smiling meaningfully.

Ever since Roshia regained her beauty, he urged her to take care of her hair every day, even when she was brewing experimental potions.

Today, Roshia was wearing a straight and fitting dark brown coat, with a camel vest and a white shirt underneath, which perfectly outlined his mature masculine charm.

His back, which had been hunched for a long time because of his appearance, was forced to straighten under the constraints of the three-piece suit, which further highlighted his superior height. With broad shoulders, narrow waist and long legs, people with superior appearance will attract attention wherever they go.

Jiang Zhulang comforted her: "Don't worry, they just think you are beautiful."

Luo Xiya replied sullenly: "You are much better looking than me, Lannuo, but you are wearing a hood today."

After a while, he whispered, "Lano, um... I'm not used to it. Can I wear a hood too?"

"Of course," Jiang Zhulang was a little surprised, "If you feel uncomfortable, just change it. You don't need to ask for my opinion."

Luo Xiya lowered her head and spoke in a lower voice: "But... I was afraid that you would be unhappy. Obviously, obviously you dressed me up so carefully, but I..."

"How could that be?" Jiang Zhulang pulled him to the corner between the two houses, held Luo Xia's face, and his expression was extremely gentle.

"I will always put your feelings first and never force you to do anything."

Because you are my guilty and pitiful second male lead...

Besides, how could he resist Roshia's wet puppy-eye attack?

Luo Xia trembled with her lips, wanting to say something but stopping herself, and finally, she hugged Jiang Zhulang.

"Lan Nuo, thank you, really... you are so nice to me..."

Feeling the wetness on his shoulder, Jiang Zhulang patted his back gently.

Not long after, Luo Xia stopped crying, and with red eyes she took the robe handed to her by Jiang Zhulang, wrapped herself up, and let out a satisfied sigh.

"Sorry, Lan Nuo, your clothes..." He pointed at Jiang Zhulang's wet shoulders embarrassedly.

Jiang Zhulang shrugged his shoulders, not minding. He took off his clothes halfway when he heard voices coming from the wall in front of him.

"Is there no one here?" a slightly sharp male voice asked.

Another voice was even slower. "Don't worry, we've checked everything. At this time, these poor people are still living in a dirty place and won't come here."

Jiang Zhulang: ...

Roshia: ...

The two looked at each other and quietly moved closer to the source of the sound.

While the mysterious people were talking nonsense, Jiang Zhulang poked at the crumbling wall and quickly found the loose part. He quietly pulled out the stone, just in time to observe the people behind him.

To be honest, he didn't expect that he could actually find a hole in the wall. He just looked at the shoddy-looking wall and an idea struck him.

"What do you think from the academy?"

"No problem, everything has been taken care of."

Jiang Zhulang went over and was not surprised to see two heavily-wrapped men in black who looked like thieves.

Man in Black 1 handed Man in Black 2 a small black box, and after nagging a few words about its importance, he clenched his fist, put it to his forehead, and said in a very childish way: "For the great cause of light!"

Men in Black 2: "For the bright cause!"

Afterwards, the two men separated, one on the left and one on the right. One of the men in black turned around and inadvertently revealed the delicate tattoo on his ring finger.

We have a clue!

Jiang Zhulang signaled to Luo Xia with his eyes, and the two of them stood up and hid behind the half-person-high oak barrel with a missing top for a while, until they could no longer hear any movement, and then they walked out from behind it.

"It seems that we have accidentally uncovered a conspiracy." Jiang Zhulang raised his eyebrows and said.

"Let's go and have dinner."

*

Breaking away from the comics, Jiang Zhulang is still immersed in the aftertaste of the food.

It wasn't until he smelled the pervasive smell of alcohol that he stood up.

—It’s over, his wooden floor!

He quickly straightened the bottle and took the mop to sweep the floor.

After completely absorbing the wine, he knelt on the ground, looked carefully, and after confirming that the floor was not peeling, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Covering his aching forehead, Jiang Zhulang decided that next time he entered the comic world, he would study the method of painless reversal.

After making a cup of honey water to sober up, he started painting with the thermos in hand.

A pen, a glass of water, and a storyboard that took half a day to draw.

When the men in black besieged the inn, Jiang Zhulang originally planned to follow the plot line where Roshia survived safely without any twists and turns. But halfway through, he changed his mind.

"Readers know that Lanno can go back to the past, so why not draw a plot where he commits suicide and then goes back to save others?"

"But would readers be willing to see such a plot? Both the images and the plot are repetitive..."

Two completely different ideas were fighting in my mind. In the end, I decided to try drawing it.

Jiang Zhulang created a new canvas and tentatively sketched out a rough draft of Roshia's death line on the screen.

He wasn't sure if the mysterious force would stop him.

After finishing the draft, Jiang Zhulang waited for a while and found that the pain in his right hand was gone. So he saved the file, turned off the computer, and started it up ten minutes later.

The file is still there, it has not disappeared.

It seems that the mysterious force has no objection to him drawing the timeline before and after the replay.

Jiang Zhulang then boldly began to detail his plan.

The time spent on manuscripts is always boring and monotonous. Apart from eating, sleeping and taking walks, Jiang Zhulang devotes all his spare time to the digital tablet.

Before signing with MangaCat, he was misled by the Internet and television, thinking that the life of a cartoonist was exciting and rich, and that besides painting, he could also have a fulfilling real life:

Running, hiking, shopping, drinking coffee and eating delicious meals, and even more time to develop one or more relationships.

It was only after I actually started drawing comics that I realized that everything on the Internet was fake.

——Who has time to do so many things if they are serious painters?

Plot, storyboard, draft, details...

He insists on cooking his own meals every day and taking a walk for half an hour to an hour after meals, which has already defeated 99.99% of cartoonists in the country.

After all, the life of most cartoonists is really the stereotypical otaku life.