In a narrow room.
In a bungalow with an area of less than 20 square meters, there are a lot of things piled up, just like squeezing toothpaste.
So many things piled up in a room of less than 20 square meters, it really makes people sigh that it is a pity that this room is not used as a warehouse.
Among them, the most piled things in the room are sheets of drawing paper, which are full of vivid cartoons.
And on the innermost side of the room far away from the door, on an equally narrow bed, a handsome and thin man is lying there with his eyes closed.
The man's facial features look pretty good, but his pale and motionless face always makes people feel that he is dead.
At this moment, there were bursts of rapid knocks on the door of the room.
Before the man could respond, an impatient voice came directly from outside the door, "Lin Qingshan! There is a phone call for you!"
The pale man stood up instantly, but the next moment, he turned his head to face the ground, coughed hard, and spit out dozens of white pills.
Lin Qingshan sighed, "Damn it, what kind of sleeping pills are these? Why are they so hard to swallow?"
He wiped the saliva from his mouth, slowly stood up, and walked out of the room barefoot.
After he stood up, he realized that what he was lying on was not a bed, but a rusty fitness iron frame with a washed and bleached single mattress.
Next to this "bed" was a medicine bottle and a half-drunk glass of water. The label on the medicine bottle was printed with the five big characters "Clonazepam Tablets".
...
Lin Qingshan walked out of his rental house and walked barefoot slowly to a convenience store outside.
"Lin Qingshan, there's a phone call for you." The landlord pointed casually, and the convenience store's landline phone was placed aside, obviously waiting for someone to answer the phone.
Lin Qingshan's lips curled up into a grateful smile, "Thank you, Uncle Dong!"
Then he stepped forward, picked up the landline phone receiver, put it to his ear, and said, "Hello, I'm Lin Qingshan!"
The landlord opened his mouth, said angrily and helplessly, "There's no Dong in my name... What's the meaning of this kid calling me Uncle Dong all the time?"
But this kid has always been a little abnormal, so he won't care about it.
Lin Qingshan's voice was heard from the other end of the phone, and a clear and somewhat excited voice came out immediately, "Yes! Hello! Teacher Qingshan, this is the comics editorial department of Manjie Culture Company!"
Lin Qingshan suddenly realized, "Oh, so this is the place where I submitted my comics before, that's great, to be honest, you are very lucky."
"Very lucky?" Ito Ayumi was stunned for a moment, "Teacher, what do you mean by this?"
"It's like this, if you call later, I might have returned to my hometown." Lin Qingshan said seriously, "You will definitely not be able to find me by then."
Ito Ayumi suddenly realized, "So that's the case, then teacher, do you have time to come to our Manjie Culture Company? We have high expectations for your work "Edge Walker" and hope to reach a cooperation with you to deeply explore the commercial value of this work!"
"Wait, something seems wrong..." However, at this moment, Ito Ayumi heard a puzzled voice from the other end of the phone.
"What's wrong? Teacher Aoyama?" Ito Ayumi's heart tightened.
"I remember my work is "Cyberpunk 2077: Edgewalker", not "Edgewalker." A puzzled voice came from the other end of the microphone.
Ayumi Ito was immediately at a loss for words, but she didn't think it was strange, and said, "Yes, teacher, your work is "Cyberpunk 2077: Edgewalker". So when can you come to our side to discuss cooperation matters?"
Lin Qingshan thought for a while and said, "Then wait a minute, where is your company?"
"Ah? Wait a minute?" Ayumi Ito was stunned for a moment, a little unexpected, "Will it be too hasty to wait? I haven't prepared the contract yet..."
Lin Qingshan blinked and said, "How about tomorrow?"
Ayumi Ito seemed to notice the anxiety in Lin Qingshan's words, and asked carefully, "Teacher, do you have any important matters?"
"Yes." A serious voice came from the other end of the microphone, "It's a matter of my life... Because I haven't eaten for a long time, I want to have a meal with you... By the way, does your company have a cafeteria?"
Ayumi Ito immediately felt that the man on the other end of the microphone... seemed a little different from ordinary people?
Ayumi Ito opened her mouth and whispered, "There is no cafeteria in our company... But! I can treat you to a meal! Please bring the original comic and ID card when you go!"
"Then I'll go to your place tomorrow morning." Lin Qingshan's eyes lit up and said.
Ayumi Ito showed a forced smile and responded, "Okay..."
"Beep beep beep--" The phone was hung up on the other end of the phone.
Ayumi Ito put down the phone. I heard that some teachers in the industry have strange personalities. Would she meet such a teacher?
...
After hanging up the phone, Lin Qingshan hummed a song again and slowly returned to the rental house behind the convenience store.
Soon, he will be able to eat delicious rice and have a job income.
With the job income, his next attempt to travel back to his hometown will have financial support!
In this way, he may be able to travel back soon!
That's right, Lin Qingshan's soul is a traveler.
What he just said to Ayumi Ito about going back to his hometown is to travel back to the world of his previous life.
But for Lin Qingshan, traveling is a bad luck, not something to be happy about.
He doesn't like this world. Yes, after all, he is alone in this world and has no worries. Although the country in this world is powerful, there are almost unknown changes at a certain time point.
However, Lin Qingshan is very sure that it is not some senior time travelers who caused the earth-shaking changes in this world.
Because the technological development in this world has not exploded at all, and even American technology continues to suppress the Republic.
Now the time point he traveled through is the same as in his previous life, but the technological development is still a little slower, and smartphones have not appeared yet!
This is a parallel world.
At the same time, everything in the previous life has been changed beyond recognition. There is no Apple, no Huawei, and naturally no "Weekly Jump", no "Dragon Ball" and no Dead Fire Sea.
But instead, there are other equally powerful companies and equally wonderful comics.
It is for this reason that Lin Qingshan decided to use his three-legged cat comic skills of the previous generation to become a professional cartoonist.
Then make money and go back to his hometown!
However, he is also lucky in one place...
"System Lao Deng!" Lin Qingshan shouted directly while lying on the bed.
Suddenly, a high-tech virtual interface that only he can see suddenly appeared in front of him.
[Host: Lin Qingshan]
[Abilities: Hard disk memory (diamond), movie-level storyboard (platinum), painting kaleidoscope (master)]
[Points: 250]
At the same time, there are three options on the page: mall, lottery, and fusion enhancement.
It is precisely because of the system that the system also gave 10,000 points and the master-level ability of painting kaleidoscope in the novice gift package.
He was able to adapt the "Edgewalker" anime in his memory into a comic almost effortlessly.
The master-level painting kaleidoscope, as the name suggests, is to give him the master-level ability to master various painting styles and various painting techniques.
Abstract, realism, impressionism... and so on, even ink painting and Chinese style ink painting can be used freely.
With the ability of hard disk memory, he can remember the memory of his previous life in his mind quite clearly.
Even after the memory was completely hard disked, he could still remember the memory of his infancy.
It would be too easy to reproduce the world-famous paintings he had seen in his previous life, such as "Starry Night", "Mona Lisa", and "The Scream".
But unfortunately, it takes too much time to make money through traditional art.
Lin Qingshan doesn't want to die, and only his plagiarized works can be sold at a good price.
And the task requirements for earning system points are...
He looked at the task page on the system page——
[Current task-
Nobody: Create a work of any type, and the work is praised by three people. The current progress is 2/3 (100 points)
Newcomer: Let ten people know your name and have a deep impression of you. The current progress is 3/10 (100 points)
Born with talent: Show your talent and change the world! According to the different degrees of change, rewards at different stages will be given! (Unknown reward)]
Although the task is not time-limited, Lin Qingshan can't wait for long. He has always been an impatient and action-oriented person!
Then just draw comics, drawing comics makes money faster, so he exchanged for movie-level storyboards.
As for choosing the anime "Cyberpunk 2077: Edgewalker", it was just because of interest.
Cyberpunk, this type of work seems to have not appeared in this world yet, and the founder of a school always has more chances of success. There are
already many hot-blooded youth comics like Dead Fire Sea in this world, and drawing this kind of comics may not attract many comic fans.
So he simply took a gamble, betting that "Cyberpunk 2077: Edgewalker", a cyberpunk work that has not appeared in this parallel world, can take the lead, at least it can be noticed by comic editors!
Now it seems that his choice is really right, after all, he can even get a meal soon!
"System Lao Deng, this sleeping pill is too hard to swallow, it's so dry, I can't swallow it even after drinking half a glass of water." Lin Qingshan smacked his lips and said.
"If the host takes sleeping pills just to have a good sleep, the reason for the difficulty in swallowing may be because the host is nervous, has a sore throat, etc. It is recommended that the host relax or treat the problem of sore throat." The cold voice of the system can only be heard by Lin Qingshan, and there seems to be no emotion in the words.
Although this system can communicate, it is actually more like the artificial intelligence GPT in the previous life, with a kind of artificial mental retardation beauty.
"If the host takes sleeping pills to end his own life, he needs to take a large amount of sleeping pills, and 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, some ingredients in sleeping pills will prevent the host from swallowing a large number of pills, and the host will be very painful in this process."
"So the system recommends the host not to take sleeping pills to end his life."
Lin Qingshan scratched his head, "I'm not going to commit suicide, I just want to go back."
"I've been here too long, my cat will miss me~" He yawned, and after a while he made a weak but rhythmic snoring sound.
In the dream, he seemed to have returned to his hometown, and the little three-flowered cat he raised named Lu Shui turned into a cat girl, and said to him "Welcome home, master~"