Chapter 52

[Updated.]

Yuan Qian was hiding in the crowd with the character of the Dragon King, waiting for the award ceremony to end, when he heard these words.

"Why now?" He felt very strange.

[The website there crashed last night. It seems a popular author passed away.]

"…This industry is indeed very risky." Yuan Qian has been exposed to comics as a medium for almost 80% of his life, so he has naturally heard about the injury rate of cartoonists.

Then he thought about the fact that the author of this comic was also a tough guy who updated the comic weekly in full color and high-precision at 80P. Even with the assistance of modern technology and countless assistants in the studio, he couldn't help but feel a little worried.

[I hope he can enjoy his second life in the world he created.] The adjutant said this as he pushed the update purchase button in front of Yuan Qian, showing both humaneness and competence.

"That's not possible. What if it's a horror comic?" Yuan Qian said as he clicked the purchase button.

——The cover page of Chapter 16 actually pays tribute to the large group portrait based on the composition of "Salome".

In the palace made of deep indigo, vermilion, milky white and bronze, the smoke from the burning incense burners cast white gauze curtains in every corner, and the golden-haired king was drinking wine with great concentration.

The priest's dark red hair was tied into a bun and hung on his shoulders with a translucent scarf. He lowered his head as if thinking. The giant lion, which was perhaps as tall as two men, was wearing many exquisite gold ornaments on its head. It was lying under the throne with its eyes closed and taking a nap. Its posture was very lively, and it completely ignored this noisy scene.

The princess was dancing, but the white-haired musician with his face covered had put away his harp and was picking up the colorful flowers and plants scattered around his knees.

The surrounding area was packed with guests.

The robed wise man had yellow and blue eyes, the thinly dressed female fairy only wore lilies from the clear waterside as jewelry, and many characters who occasionally appeared in the main story or never appeared filled the seats quietly. The person whose figure was completely covered by the embroidered awning became the one who blended into the scene the most. He sat alone in a corner, his silver mask illuminated by the dim light, and a faint purple color was faintly visible under the dark eye sockets.

Yuan Qian even found a middle-aged woman with a stern face among the guests. She had a familiar wheat complexion and graying brown curly hair, a scar at the corner of her mouth, and a black tattoo on her neck that looked like unknown words. Her sleeveless green robe was covered with a few strokes of the pen, revealing her strong arms honed by years of fighting and labor. This woman should be the "mother-in-law" in the tribe that Lielie often mentioned.

The "princess" is on the left side of the center of the picture. Her hair and eyes are still like delicate flowers, but the complicated and gorgeous skirt is piled up, and the visual effect only reminds people of a snake or a butterfly wing with eye patterns.

She danced gracefully in her long skirt, a streak of blood quietly flowing down her neck, she gently raised a blue ivy tail and stretched out her hand to the other side.

At the end of the line of motion driven by her gaze and posture, there was no one.

Standing on the right side is a war gun whose weight can be estimated by looking at it. The gray-black background is interspersed with bright blue lines that appear and disappear from time to time, and it is surrounded by huge shadows. The transparent darkness floats to an open window of the palace on the right side, and outside the window is a piece of night sky as small as the nail of a little finger.

The pattern of the carpet subtly formed some patterns under the gunshot - like a long-dead, fallen horse in the wilderness. After people discovered it, the more they looked at it, the more clearly they could see the exposed ribs.

The whole banquet was eerie, strange and gorgeous.

Yuan Qian kept calling him a good guy. He had just finished worrying about the author's liver when the other party, as if in tacit agreement, proved with strength that he was not strong enough most of the time.

This precision, this complexity, this huge amount of time required for conception and character arrangement, made a strange picture gradually appear in front of his eyes: the bulging Q-version pink five-pointed star on the author's account avatar, with a sturdy and strong body with 18 abdominal muscles, stood up and shouted, "I still have some courage to show for it!"

He shook his head to get rid of the image.

The creator's hard work brings readers a happy experience. With the flick of a switch, the page is filled with a barrage of various thoughts and feelings.

[What a cool gun!!! The wolf cub’s weapon sculpture!]

[Oh my god, my weird CP is really a bit like a stamp, if you don’t like it, it’s okay, I’ll send it off after this episode! ]

[I think the stamp is fake, but the fact that the fans used the relationship between the characters to create a saintly Xiaoman is real, so embarrassing]

[The priest's silk was so fragrant that I immediately converted! 】

[The old Persian cat turned out to be a wise man]

[I found the highlight. The seats of the spellcasters are mainly disintegrated. I am dying of laughter.]

[Teacher, everyone has a new hairstyle, why don’t we in Beirut have one?]

[Teacher, we are all human beings, why is our Lielie a cat?]

[Teacher, we are all vertebrates, why is Xiaoman an inorganic being?]

Playing with memes may only be late but never absent...I thought.

Because the update was delayed, he wanted to be sure where the episode ended, so he flipped through it a little faster than usual.

The confrontation between Xiaoman and Elliott was well-drawn, but he had watched the special show, where their dialogue from different standpoints attracted a considerable amount of real-time discussion, and the barrage was noticeably sparse when the original video was flipped back.

What he cares about is which side of the story will be taken over after the female city lord's death.

The comic's depiction of the scene where Manny kills Elly Ratna is very restrained, and the rhythm of the storyboards is just like the protagonist's low-key personality.

The area was controlled by magic and fell into darkness that was invisible to others. The dark blue hem of the clothes fluttered backwards, and the owner of the hem moved forward.

In the middle of the story, there is a brief discussion between Xiaoman and Bernaludos about whether to use this spell. The bustling street background gives the assassination plot a strange sense of daytime fireworks.

When she was killed, the expression on Eleritna's face was still frozen in puzzled surprise, and a thin black line separated her face and body like a grid.

Then the pearly white skirt fluttered, and everything ended when the body fell to the ground. The blood pooled in the corners of the lattice and soaked into the gravel garden floor. The color was not dazzling, but was as obscure as wet marks left by rain in the night.

The comic shows Xiaoman quickly collecting the severed head and turning away, followed by a distant glance from "someone".

The dragon's pupils appear so sharp and fiery when there is plenty of light, but they always have a calm and cool feeling in the dark, like the red copper in a sword furnace suddenly turning into fertile soil thousands of miles away.

The readers saw Bernaludos, who was secretly watching over Xiaoman, turn around and leave.

[My friend always speaks in a hostile manner but acts honestly! ]

[No, I didn't blame him this time. He said, "You won't die if I'm here." The end of chapter 14 of Zhilu. ]

[He is really handsome, and he is also very reliable at critical moments. It is hard not to love him.]

Yuan Qianxin said, in fact, when I was acting, I didn't know that I could look so handsome when drawn... No matter who it is, as long as they can grow up to look like the Dragon King, it is really hard not to be confident in life. This is really a very convincing face.

In fact, every time Yuan Qian feels that he is being a bit too confident, he often finds afterward that he has only used less than half of his No. 3 personality when he watches the updates, so this kind of role that does not require him to show his bold side is relatively within his comfort zone.

After he and Xiaoman left, the headless corpse that was left there disappeared quietly, just as the adjutant had done at the time.

[Huh? What's going on?]

[Is there a fourth person present, and one that even Belu can't detect? Don't scare me.]

While I was wondering, the next page continued to show Xiaoman returning home.

"I did it... I left the driver behind and many people lost their lives."

Xiaoman seemed to be talking to Bernardus, but her expression showed that the burden in her heart was so heavy that she could no longer keep silent.

[I was just about to say that the kid has returned on his own, what about the other people in the City Lord’s Mansion…]

[It turns out that Xiaoman also thought about these things, but she still did it. It’s great to have a protagonist who doesn’t drag his feet.]

[Belu is right. Unrest is always caused by the presence of any individual.]

[Every wrong has its perpetrator and every debt has its creditor. When the bad woman and her brother were engaged in the human trafficking industry, they never thought about how those people lived.]

[Woo woo woo, I just don’t want mom to feel strange about me, she’s still a kid]

[The little wolf has changed a lot along the way, but I still like him! 】

"But isn't she right here?" Bernardus said, poking her forehead. This had an immediate effect, and Xiaoman's expression immediately became noticeably more flexible.

[Friend brother——]

【You! Are! My! God!】

[Seeing through and speaking directly, one sentence helps the protagonist get out of the tangle, so powerful 666]

[(Whispering) I think if I use a brush or a little fox here, it might not work so quickly.]

[Indeed, Belu has his specialties]

——"It's about time I go back."

After Xiaoman said he would leave tomorrow and fell into bed, the Dragon King casually said this.

Unlike Xiaoman who had a relatively calm reaction, the barrage of comments immediately burst into mourning upon hearing this.

[Huh? Don't walk so fast! ]

[Wuwu, my handsome brother, I want to read a hundred more chapters of yours. No, even five chapters will do! (Humble)

[Don't leave. We will never use our friends to stab you again——]

After his eyes met Xiao Man's, he raised his eyebrows and said, "What do you think? I will hold your hand and walk with you till the end, and guarantee that I will return you to that guy in one piece?"

This expression seemed a bit too rebellious. Did I look so stubborn at that time? Yuan Qian reflected.

The Dragon King in the picture quickly softened his tone to comfort Xiaoman, which made the sensitive readers who had already received information through the God's perspective realize that something ominous was happening.

[What do you mean…the old guys and young guys in the tribe…are urging you to go back? ]

[Huh? You dragged out a simple sentence and it looks weird after you repeated it again.]

[Look at the bright side. What if Belu was just wandering around because he really didn’t want to go back to work? Haha]

[Wuwuwu, my cabinet is moving. I don’t want to play anymore! (Standing back)

[Since he wants me to, I will do it. Thank you. I am full! ]

[Isn't it a bit bad for them to lie to Xiaoman like this?]

[From the perspective of loving her, is it good for a teenager to lose important people again and again? She will probably be overwhelmed.]

[So let the kid think that Lasi is fine, like she is no longer a child left alone]

[Oooooh… (Dead)]

Yuan Qian did think so. He first turned to the end of this chapter and found that the plot stopped at the dragon blood baptism ceremony.

It seems that the incident caused by the adjutant and the handling of that incident will be left for the next chapter. Yuan Qian thought.

Then he turned back and read this paragraph.

The dragon blood baptism was something that Yuan Qian noticed long before the formation of the character of No. 3, while searching for information. It was also a foreshadowing that was put on the stage in the conversation between the lich and the dragon king.

Therefore, Yuan Qian had already planned to make arrangements for Xiaoman. After all, if she was not to be recovered by the Star God, she would have to complete the task of sending the Star God to his death first. With such a difficult goal ahead, any good things that might be useful must be given to the child.

He took it out now because he considered that getting it too quickly would go against the rules of shonen comics, and it would be too overwhelming and boring to fight the Flora City dungeon with the power amplified by the baptism of dragon blood. It would result in Xiaoman's own level not being able to get the necessary basic construction process, and it would also easily change people's mentality, so he arranged it as the last round of rewards.

At the end of the update, it was revealed where Lielie was going tonight. First, in the background when it was not completely dark yet, the Q version of Xiaoman standing in front of the carriage asked Lielie what she was going to do. The Dragon King replied with a relaxed look that she was going to buy gifts for her tribesmen.

Then, when the moon was at its zenith, the cute version of Lielie was still checking the shelves with packages of various sizes on his back. He turned around to count the gold and silver coins in his palm, and then slapped them on the table generously: "I want these!"

[The hair-pulling scene is so adorable, the big evil dragon carefully retracts its claws and puffs]

[As expected, Belu voluntarily gave the dragon blood.]

[He volunteered and gave away the cheats quietly, which made him look very arrogant]

[Friend, you are secretly cueing that friend who doesn’t like to eat meat and doesn’t sleep well again. Take a break.]

[Dissent! Lielie was picked up by Xiaoman but he doesn’t look like Xiaoman]

[But Lielie is not a pick-up, it is a kidnapping that was delivered to your door instead of a purchase (tea)]

[Laughing... Lions are also kittens, right?]

[Big kids are cute, small big kids are cute, and small kids are cute too!!! So don’t take these three apart, woooooo]

[Too far-fetched, this isn't the main character team, this is a classic temporary group that met by chance...]

[Ahhh, that's right, my friend is a big kid! He's not as cute as his peers, but he's super cute! ]

[The world needs more friends who can take care of children! (Loud) (Running around to appeal)]

Oh, isn't it time for you to say that No. 3 just needs to be alive to take care of the baby? Too late! Seeing that the award ceremony was finally coming to an end, Yuan Qian grimly decided to continue with the original plan.