Su Mei

The beginning of the fourth episode of "The Incomplete Man" continues from the previous episode. After solving the "ghost" incident in the town, Xiaoman went to the Foundry City with a letter from the tavern owner to her daughter.

The City of Foundry, also known as the Bronze City or the City of Jino, is one of the seven cities standing on this continent and is also the largest mining area and smelting base in the world.

On the way to the Cast City, the shapes of the mountains showed more and more signs of artificial carving, and the vegetation became a little sparse, but the environmental pollution was not as serious as readers imagined.

After all, this is a magical world, and the beastmen still worship the elemental spirits of nature.

A girl dressed as a traveler was walking silently on the road, and a boy with a flat nose, Fanke, was chasing after her relentlessly.

Vanke, from the town she had just left, was the usual youngster with unrealistic dreams of adventure.

In the previous comic, he initially looked down on Xiaoman because she was a girl and belonged to the "abandoned people" rejected by the natural elemental elves, but after she left there, he ran out of the house on his own and caught up with her, wanting to join her journey.

Readers certainly don't like this annoying little boy with an ordinary face and bad words. They don't want him to get into trouble, but they don't like to see him complaining here. They just want him to leave the screen as soon as possible.

"Hey!" Fanke panted and begged, shouting relentlessly, "Why don't you agree to me? Isn't it good to have someone to protect you?"

"Go home quickly." After listening to him chattering for a whole morning, Xiaoman finally stopped and looked at him, "Your parents are still waiting for you."

...Unlike her, who is already alone and can go anywhere she wants without anyone worrying about her.

"What do they know? They only know about farming, saving money, and whose cheese is cheaper... They don't understand my ideals at all! I must stand out and become a hero! You know nothing either, just an outcast--" Vanke cynically spouted out the angry words that he had repeated countless times in his heart.

At this moment, a stone hit his cheek with a "bang" and with great force, leaving a line on the screen that seemed to be whistling in the wind.

One or two broken teeth flew out with blood, and Fanke fell to the ground with his face covered with a scream.

"——In your eyes, the term 'abandoned', which clearly has never harmed you, can be used to insult others. And since she has never harmed you, you treat her as someone you can insult. I don't think a hero would treat others like this, what do you think?"

A piece of flawless snow piled on the dark green treetops.

This was Xiaoman’s first impression of Sumei.

It is also the readers' first impression of this character.

A young man in white clothes, white hair and a long snow-white tail sat on a branch near the road, as light as if he was nothing.

After being taught a lesson, Vank stood up with great pain, opened his mouth, and was about to utter a curse word from the townspeople, but he was glanced at by those golden eyes lightly, and in an instant he was unable to say anything.

That is the fundamental suppression of blood.

The Golden Blood is so absolutely suppressive against any beast that cannot be transformed, just like an eagle in a pen.

Seeing the cloth-clothed boy stumbling and desperately running away, heading back to the town, the unknown fox lowered his eyes, raised the corners of his mouth to reveal a helpless smile, and called for help to the girl not far away:

"Excuse me, can you help me down?"

"Can't you come down?" Xiaoman walked up to the tree and asked, looking up.

"Yeah." The young fox sighed and put his palms together against his cheeks to explain why he was trapped on the tree. This slightly childish action looked natural and cute when done by him.

“I was worried about wild animals, so I climbed up a tree to rest, and then I couldn’t get down,” he said.

In fact, the branch he was on was not too far from the ground, at most the height of two and a half adults. Considering the physical fitness of the beastmen, even a child could jump down easily and roll on the grass without getting hurt.

But he is so handsome that readers will certainly not think he is timid, but will only feel soft-hearted.

Soon, the page was filled with comments from weird brothers and sisters, such as "I can climb trees, I'll come and pick up the pretty little fox right away" and "The little fox is on the treetop, sleeping and can't get down, meow meow meow, I'm coming to steal the cub and bring it home!"

Xiaoman had lived with her mother, who was in poor health, since she was young, and was not close to other villagers, so she was used to taking care of others. She did not think that it was strange that someone could not get down from this height, and that it should be laughed at.

The girl who had been running and jumping in the forest calmly opened her arms and said, "Then jump down and I will catch you."

The young fox looked down at her from the treetop, and seemed to hesitate for a moment as to whether the skinny-looking Xiaoman would be implicated by him. The wind blew his waist-length white hair just right, as if raising wisps of clouds.

"Then I'll come down," he said.

"Um."

He loosened his grip on the branch and threw himself down without looking back, like a leaf blown off by the wind.

Xiaoman caught him steadily, of course, her arms just wrapping around the boy's waist. She felt that the person who fell into her arms was really light. The furry white fox tail brushed across her rough fingers exposed outside her gloves, feeling surprisingly soft.

…It’s so itchy. She thought, and subconsciously twitched her fingers, trying to get rid of this magical tactile residue.

The boy still had his eyes tightly closed. He was taller than Xiaoman and was actually standing firmly on the ground at this time.

Xiaoman loosened his arm and took a step back, looking up and down to make sure that he had not soiled the other person's clothes and would not provoke a backlash, then he prepared to leave.

"Thank you. You really caught me!" The young man opened his unforgettable golden eyes, and the first words he said were thank you.

The girl with short gray-black hair paused for a moment. She had already turned around, and faced with an unprecedented sincere thanks, all she could do was nod to indicate that she heard it.

"My name is Su Mei, what's your name?" The young man in white did not feel like he was left behind. He followed her with brisk steps and asked.

"Xiaoman." She replied.

"I want to go to Bronze City too. Let's go together. With you here, we can take turns to keep watch at night, and we don't have to worry about wild beasts." Su Mei walked beside Xiaoman and suggested.

"You're alone?"

Maybe it’s because her mother is always smiling, and she thinks her mother’s smile is the most beautiful and unattainable thing. In short, Xiaoman is not good at smiling.

As a disabled person who has always been kept at a distance, she is not good at responding to other people's kindness.

So at this moment, she just asked her temporary travel companion who had nothing in his hands a little stiffly.

"Yes. I am the only one left." There was a hint of sadness in Su Mei's smiling expression, but it was still a gentle one without any gloom.

This was an expression Xiaoman was familiar with, the expression her mother had before she passed away, like a dying flower worrying about the butterfly that had accompanied it through the summer.

"Then we can go together." Xiaoman thought about the food she brought with her and felt that it was not difficult to get fresh supplies in this season, so she could share some food with him. He probably didn't have a knife or flint to get supplies in his light clothes, but it didn't matter, as long as he was willing to do his best.

"That's great." Su Mei said happily when she saw that she agreed to the invitation to go together.

They walked together towards the Forged City.

[I knew this guy would be my new companion! Yay!]

[From the debut short film, I know that Fanxing’s skill in painting beauties will not let me down! I immediately became a fan of Sumei! 】

[Meimei, go forward bravely! Wow! Go forward——]

[Why is Cao (Cao) singing! Text and audio are prohibited! Isn’t it good to just quietly appreciate the beauty of the little fox! 】

The barrage on this page is also dancing in joy for the appearance of the new character.

And now in the world of "The Incomplete", the fox boy Su Mei, who has not yet seen an update - or Yuan Qian, who plays the role and tries hard to memorize the character's resume and self-cultivation, and desperately hypnotizes himself that he is a young fox boy with a story - finally breathed a sigh of relief, determining that he had probably passed the most difficult first hurdle.

Although it was embarrassing to act for the first time, he really hoped that the emotional value gained through this comic would allow him to pay for his living expenses and quickly repay part of D-009's loan.

After all, a 10% monthly interest rate would really terrify any adult, but he had no choice but to borrow it now, so he could only use all his acting skills to repay the debt as soon as possible.

Of course, leaving aside the pressure of the loan, the girl Xiaoman has now broken away from the composition of comic lines and appears vividly in front of him, which also touched him.

The descriptions of her life on paper had never been played out in front of him for a single moment, but instead became real with Xiaoman's existence.

Her hands were rough and covered with scars, totally unlike those of a teenage child; her fingertips and knuckles were hard and bruised; her hair was casually cut short with a knife; and her cheeks were tender but without any soft flesh. These were all evidence of her life experience.

The lingering calmness and instinctive toughness are the protective colors she developed growing up as a "disabled person" who was guarded and kept away from. This girl really looks like a wolf cub living in the wilderness, having long since abandoned the instincts of a weak and whimpering young beast, and can only lick her wounds and coldly confront the world full of dangers to the end.

...Yuan Qian, of course, remembers that she is the protagonist of the comic, and the protagonist will not leave the reader's sight before the end.

But gems will shatter, fires will go out, and ruins are still the continuation of the glorious temple.

Although the instinct for survival and a certain potential cognition made Yuan Qian want to live at all costs, but looking at the little "protagonist" next to him who was not too soft but willing to help others, looking at this child who was only a middle school student but had experienced far more hardships and repression than many of his peers, he could not help but think sincerely with the mentality of an elder who had just been helped by her:

【I don't want to see her extinguished.】

Thinking about the fact that dark-themed shonen comics are not uncommon nowadays, if Yuan Qian had not been trapped in the comic world of "The Incomplete", he would have used hackers to find the address of the author's Fanxing Studio. Then all he had to do was drive there in person and use money and a trip to the presidential suite to severely erode the hearts of these authors in order to protect the physical and mental health of the protagonist of this comic and the readers.