As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 510 How to Keep Readers from Losing Their Support and Making Them Difficult
When Maljie's black hearse travels through the city, he always encounters invasions of strange creatures. These things are all built into the ecosystem of the Infinite City.

The core ability of the Queen Ant [Charmer] is to spread viruses.

The name of that kind of bug is [Essence Happy Bug], and they are almost impossible to detect.

Li Nuo's insight could not detect it, but Nanami's [Realm of Reason] could see the outline. In the final analysis, these insects were not "malicious monsters" but a kind of energy incarnation.

The function of the bugs is to attach themselves to all "creatures" in a large environment. At the critical moment, the [Charmer] will detonate the bugs to achieve a large-scale "charm" effect, which is particularly effective against creatures with low magic resistance.

This is why the Cairo world is under large-scale control by the Queen Ant.

In fact, the development of things should have gone according to the path set by the queen ant. The ant king used the control of part of the power of [Charmer] to control the bugs to continue infecting the city and keep the actions of all creatures in his hands. Since the big hand of fate was holding a pen, the chimera ant would grab the pen.

But the battle against the succubus was an accident, and Malger destroyed the Charmer casually out of his unfounded kindness as a doctor.

At this moment, the gorilla driver is driving the hearse to avoid all kinds of strange creatures. Don't underestimate the driving skills of a truck driver. They have developed unique driving skills in order to avoid traffic fines.

The hearse drifted around the bend, and a giant ant chasing behind it dived into a building in the center of the road.

Maljie stuck his head out of the passenger seat and shouted with a loud speaker: "Ahahaha, you mortals still want to catch up with me? I carry the fate of the entire world on my shoulders and move forward alone, Ashiba Kumi Masai!"

The gorilla driver held up a sign: "I don't understand."

Marger explained, "Do you know why they chased me?"

The gorilla driver held up a sign: "Please enlighten me."

Maljie said: "Because longing is the farthest distance."

Zhi——!
The gorilla driver suddenly slammed on the brakes.

Ma Ge was stunned: "Don't be shocked... I can speak human language."

The gorilla driver shook his head and pointed to a red light ahead on the road, which meant: stop at red light.

Marger: "Huh?"

At this moment, a giant worm rushed out from the roadside and knocked them down along with the nearby steel buildings!
Maljie climbed out of the collapsed steel plate in a panic.

On the contrary, the hearse lying on the ground was leaking oil and the car was broken down.

He pulled the gorilla driver out of the steel plate.

Maljie touched his pocket and found that his cigarette had fallen somewhere in the collision. So he dragged the dead Chimera Ant out from the ruins not far away and took out a pack of blood-stained cigarettes from the corpse.

After lighting it, take a deep breath and exhale the smoke.

Walk back and put the cigarette into the ape driver's mouth.

As a Cairo doctor, he is well aware that the Cairo people have a very different way of healing. They use "acting method". For example, at present, truck drivers cannot do without cigarettes and alcohol, so the gorilla driver can recover blood by smoking.

It's very abstract, but this absurdity is the world of Cairo.

The gorilla driver struggled to get a piece of wood out of his butt: "Give me more money when we get back."

"Hmph..." Malger stood there with his hands in his pockets, looking at the strange colors around him: "I want to live in an ideal world where people never talk about money."

The gorilla driver squinted his eyes and took out the wooden sign: "You are so shameless."

At this moment, Malger's mobile phone vibrated, and the screen broadcast a special magic screen projection of the "NieR" world, which was a mechanical life form.

"Master...we have found the remaining citizens and are protecting them..."

“Well, you will be missionaries when you go back.”

"Thank you, Master!" The mechanical life form asked again: "Master, what is a missionary?"

Malger: "It is to spread the position of offspring at will."

The mechanical life forms over there shouted “Ouch!” together.

More than 80% of this group of mechanical life forms are "female", and this "missionary" later became the largest "flower industry" in the world of "NieR".

The screen shut off and Marjer took the cigarette from the gorilla's mouth and took a deep drag.

"Damn, I'm a little nervous..."

"Dude." The gorilla held up a wooden sign. "What are you nervous about?"

Maljie's brows trembled slightly: "I am responsible for the lives of a whole city. It's hard not to be nervous."

The gorilla sneered and picked up another wooden sign: "I don't think highly of you."

Marger: "Huh?"

Gorilla: "Well, you are so stupid."

Malger threw a [piece of shit] at its face.

While the gorilla driver was beating up Maljie, a sales truck came into view and stopped on the side of the road.

Victor calmly got out of the car and pulled away the gorilla driver who was beating Marco.

"Brother Ma, Brother Li and his gang are going to help Sister Cha launch a general attack on Wang. Luo Lei and I will engage the remaining Chimera Ants."

Luo Lei watched from a distance.

Maljie greeted the tough guy with an afro who was less than 1.6 meters tall and said, "How pitiful."

Luo Lei thought he was saying: All your team members are dead, my condolences.

In fact, Maljie was saying: You are going to be sold to Sauron as a commodity by Li Nuo, how miserable.

This idiot Luo Lei didn't understand the deeper meaning and actually developed a little affection for Maljie (the normal affection between men).

at this time,

Every player heard the system update:
[Somewhere, the brushstrokes of fate are competing with the protagonist...]

The reason for the update is that the popularity of the comics drawn by Li Nuo has exceeded 4%.

If the popularity exceeds 8%, you can win the "partial naming rights".

4% can be reported to players in real time by the system in the form of narration.

[Our protagonist Nanami is currently driving to the fortune teller’s cabin]

Nanami's voice came from the headset shared by the players:
"Everyone...what's going on?"

"What is Li Nuo doing over there?" Cha Bai felt guilty. As Li Nuo's guardian, she knew very well that this guy would make trouble if he was not beaten.

[And in that fortune teller's hut, there is something that the heroine Nanami cares about very much]

Nanami: "I see. Li Nuo is replaying what happened before."

She is a rare person with small breasts and big brains.

As she expected, there was a delay in the story reaching here.

[The car stopped on the side of the road. Nanami quickly jumped out of the car. After opening the door, she saw a familiar yet unfamiliar figure...]

[The male protagonist, Malger, appears! ]

Nanami: “?”

Cha Bai: "Ah..."

Luo Lei: “What?”

Malger: "Hmm... Huh——?"

Ma Ge was panicked. Nanami was the protagonist and he was the male protagonist. Their relationship was very delicate and Nanami would hit people.

"plum……"

Just as Ma Ge was about to curse Li Nuo, he suddenly realized something special.

Male lead.

"Old Wei, I need the car."

Maljie suddenly became serious, and the hero couldn't stand still.

Victor realized he was going insane.

"Brother Ma, you'd better get some sleep."

"Old Wei, can I leave my back to you?"

Victor's eyes went dark: "It's over... Brother Ma is having a seizure."

"Hmph." Maljie smiled evilly, took over the driving of [Emile's truck], and jumped into the car in a cool manner.

This time the doctor is going to do something big, just like the big thing the priest did back then.

The voice-transmitting elf suddenly appeared in the car. Maljie had to drive with both hands and had to hold the elf in his mouth.

“Don’t, don’t rush over! Ah…Ah…Ah! Li Nuo once played with me using the ‘Magical Girl’! Ah, it hurts! At the critical moment, I will let you take the stage! Ah!”

Maljie spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Ms. Cha Bai, that's a good idea... How many ways do you think he has to force me to come over?"

He stepped on the pedals and the car ran over the two bodies, leaving two bloodstains extending to the outside of Infinite City. Maljie created the character of a "male protagonist with a poor sense of direction" for himself.

This scene appeared in the comic book with "Ant King" as the protagonist.

Li Nuo's pupils swept over there.

The staff also saw it and said, "The male protagonist you banned ran away."

The leader said in an unfathomable way: "Fool, he is just helping the author create dramatic conflict."

Everyone understood immediately that the male protagonist was a person with poor sense of direction, but he suddenly arrived at the most critical moment.

“What a cliché plot.”

“But it works.”

"This male lead is amazing."

Li Nuo pretended not to hear. The most important thing now was to keep the heat above 8% before the progress caught up.

As a creator, his biggest advantage is that he knows all the information, but his disadvantage is that he cannot communicate with anyone in the story.

On the big screen at the intersection and on the viewers' mobile phones, the story of the comic proceeds steadily.

[When Nanami saw this man, her memory went back to the past]

It’s a story tied to the past

When Wen Ke saw this, he immediately contacted the advertising company and played Nanami’s first “dimple” advertisement again on the big screen.

The audience couldn't imagine that this was actually a TV series.

The man who exists in Nanami's story only appears in the story with his back to the audience.

Li Nuo did not intend to draw Maljie's face.

【Current popularity 5.3%】

Li Nuo did not continue serializing the next story. He went back to the more distant past to lay the groundwork.

The appearance of this protagonist must overshadow everyone else, and the most important thing is the foreshadowing, foreshadowing, and more foreshadowing.

He gave up the fast pace of comic serialization that he used to do for fear of losing readers.

Instead, it connects the past and the present in the most clumsy way.

[It all started with the Eternal Life Train]

[It was actually Nanami herself who saved her, but it was a doctor who brought her a future]

Players in Infinite City can also hear the narration.

[The girl from Eastern Europe, the girl who licked blood on the edge of a knife, the bug in the artillery fire, never thought that one day she would fall in love with a chuunibyou]

Nanami remained silent.

Behind her, the gorilla princess was fighting with the monsters from the Infinite City, but they couldn't bother her at all.

Nanami suddenly smiled with dimples.

She feels if the protagonist of the story is Malj, then there will be no problem.

[She found the trace of this man in Minas City, and the shadow in her dream was imprinted in the corner of her eyes again]

Nanami: “?”

But if Li Nuo was the one who wrote the story, then there would be a big problem.

[I've been looking for you for so long, why are you hiding from me! ]

[When Nanami asked, the man just snorted coldly and turned away]

Li Nuo makes full use of the journalism technique of quoting things out of context.

To put it simply, it is just piecing together the stories that happened and making it look weird. Anyway, most people who read the story now want to kill Maljie.

Nanami's fans gathered on the big screen in the neighborhood were going crazy.

"What the hell is this!"

"Players, huh? Don't think we natives can't deal with players!"

"Wait… this is really happening?"

"Don't care if it's true or not. Even if it's an idol drama, I'm asking for a fight!"

【Current popularity 5%】

"Fewer people are reading comics!" The staff shouted, "Hey, hey, hey! Author, what are you doing!"

Another staff member hung up the phone: "Player 5762 (Nanami)'s company wants to file a complaint against you!"

Li Nuo was focused: "Shut up and don't bother me."

The dip pen swiped out the ink and the G pen tip slid across the paper.

Outline and shade, all in one go.

The fountain pen I was holding in my mouth fell into my left hand, and the soft brushstrokes quickly painted black. Page after page of stories continued to form in my hand and in my mind.

Maljie's inexplicable appearance and sudden placement of the male protagonist's hat, coupled with his disgusting personality, are enough to cause public outrage.

Therefore, Li Nuo did not describe Maljie's personality in too much detail, and almost never had him appear in any dialogues. He used a character without much "personality" to enhance the viewer's sense of involvement.

Everyone is the male protagonist.

Everyone wants to save Nanami.

The more frustrated you are, the more you want to keep watching.

One staff member asked, “Why don’t you try to redirect some of the stories from the past?”

Li Nuo also wanted to, but he had no way to change the past trajectory.

At this moment, he turned his gaze to the cartoon of "The King". Suddenly, something strange happened, and the king in a simple style raised his hand towards the sky.

Snapped--!
The shield protecting Infinite City is broken!

Jellal and Xiao Wu stared at it.

The two of them were panting heavily and fighting for a long time, but they could hardly hurt the Ant King at all.

Even if the king does not have the [Charmer], the protagonist's halo is still unable to cause serious damage to it.

"What are you doing?" Jellal said, "You should know that it is with this shield that you are safe."

Cha Bai stared from a distance: "The bird in the cage broke out of the cage, it's unknown..."

The sky shattered.

The fragments of Infinite City's shield fell like snow, and light and shadow flickered in this messed-up city.

But the light and dark of the comics have made the world less colorful. Along with the collapse of the shield.

The colors in the Infinite City extend outward, and the entire City of Milotic has entered the realm of comics.

The king raised his eyes and saw farther than anyone else.

Above the starry sky warehouse was desolate and gloomy. Beyond the impenetrable black clouds and unbreakable silence, a spaceship was hiding in the distance, watching closely.

The rescue team from Gorilla Enterprises has arrived, and these guys are ready to reap victory.

In the cockpit of the spacecraft, the observer shouted into the microphone: "Boss, the color is wrong."

The three bosses of the Orangutan Enterprise sitting in the private room shook the wine in their glasses, not taking it seriously.

"Then wait a while before landing. Wait here."

Their goal is to capture the mature ant king and pin the blame on their competitor, the "Cairo Ramen Shop", so that big companies and wealthy people will withdraw from this trade transit city. Once the competition has left, they will dig up the legendary "energy gem".

I wonder what expressions the gorillas would have if they knew that the "energy gem" they had been looking for was actually a child's marble.

But that day will never come again.

The source of their misfortune is actually the hunter disguised as prey.

"Noisy guys."

Wang whispered softly.

It began to recycle the bugs that the queen ant had planted on the apes.

Inside the spacecraft, a large number of pilots suddenly fainted.

The apes adopted a backup plan and immediately left the planet.

But at this moment, the king had taken back all his strength, and a sapling appeared behind him that only he could see. In just one or two seconds, it turned into a towering tree.

Cha Bai saw the tree through his tactical goggles.

It was a large magnolia tree that bloomed in summer, with dense branches and leaves like a pagoda, dotted with creamy white flowers everywhere.

A woman crawled out of the tree trunk, and the shadow of Meng Zang Jiannan hugged the ant king. The mother gave her child the final assist.

The leaves scattered, wrapping the mother and child.

The king raised his head and looked up at the quiet sky through the leaves. He saw the newly appeared stars shining faintly, and the power absorbed by the queen ant gathered on it.

Cha Bai immediately opened the [Portal] and pulled Xiao Wu and Jellal away.

"Big sister! What are you doing?" Jellal yelled in dissatisfaction: "I still have my ultimate move that I haven't used yet!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a fierce beam of light burst out from the king, centered on himself, and the white light pierced the sky like a sharp sword.

"Hey..." Jellal: "Sister Cha, I'm sorry for what happened just now..."

Cha Bai ignored it and said based on what he saw through the [Tactical Goggles]: "The King's health is 12000, and the weak spot is in the middle of its body, but..."

But this guy evolved.

The four eyes merged together and became two normal eyes.

Its shell cracked, and its entire body turned pure white, looking more and more like a human.

Now, its body hardness has decreased and its attack power has greatly increased.

Wang obtained the power of his mother and gained the growth potential of the protagonist.

The sky turned blood red.

The disaster still did not stop.

Xiao Wu and Zeref were about to fight, but Cha Bai scolded them: "Do you still want to assist the 'protagonist'?"

Xiao Wu woke up from her dream: "Oh right... why do I want to hit it..."

Cha Bai: "【Focuser】! The ability to attract elite enemies!"

Jellal: "... Damn... You [Identity Holders] are such a nuisance..."

Wang's pupils turned and looked at Cha Bai. He knew that this woman was extraordinary, but he did not take any action because he had a feeling... He could not take any action against Cha Bai.

"The one favored by fate..."

The king murmured.

Where no one is paying attention.

The souls of the three guards, Ryan, Dujiu, and Dujuan, entered the earth veins and swam towards the king.

The protagonist will gain the power of his "companions" at the last moment.

The king's final step in defying fate is right before his eyes.

The sky was filled with flickering fire, and several howitzer shells flew in arcs and bombarded Wang.

The fire ignited all around.

Cha Bai hurriedly stood up. She saw the interstellar hunters who had not fainted and the Chimera Ants who acted as traitors in the city of Minas. They were using thermal weapons to kill the king who controlled the "hearts of the people".

The king raised his arm and swept it across to extinguish the flames burning on his body.

It flexed its knuckles and walked towards the idiots who had attacked it.

Li Nuo saw Wang's final resistance from the real-time comics.

Ryan and the other four guards as well as all the players are pawns even after death. The queen ant puts "labels" on them when she grants them rebirth. After they die, the power returns to the king.

Ryan noticed this, so he hesitated about "loyalty".

In the comic that was automatically updating, Wang attacked the enemy, and the rough brushstrokes depicted the blood and flesh flying everywhere.

The girl with short white hair stood on the roof. She had never thought of joining the battle.

As the protagonist, Cha Bai understands the horror of [Focus] better than anyone else. The more you want to attack the protagonist, the more serious the problem will be.

She is waiting.

Waiting for Li Nuo.

Waiting for the person she trusts the most, she outlines the climax of the story with a dip pen.

Every player listened attentively to the system's instructions and the story that Li Nuo had rewritten.

[Nanami, who has arrived at the Infinite Castle, blocks the army for this man]

[Nanami doesn't know why, the girl might just want to say goodbye to the past. If she can't be a lover, she will continue as a comrade.]

[This is the support of a girl who has walked out of the war. She is compromising with herself.]

Li Nuo was already sweating profusely as he got closer to the end, the pressure grew greater.

【Current popularity 4.5%】

The heat continues to drop.

The protagonist Nanami made unacceptable concessions for the male protagonist.

Audiences didn’t like the story.

What they want to see is the scene where Nanami is redeemed.

The scene changes.

[Maljie came to the factory. He looked at the citizens who were harmed by the evil god and stood there like a nail.]

[As a doctor, he couldn't stand this]

[Maerjie lowered his head and slowly lit a cigarette]

The fountain brush twisted out cigarette smoke on the white paper.

[Nanami was attacked by Ryan at this moment. She was seriously injured and even vomited blood.]

【Current popularity 4.8%】

[When the girl opened her almond-shaped eyes, she saw Malger]

【Current popularity 4.5%】

Li Nuo skipped the chapter directly, leaving only the shadow of Ryan's death on the next page.

Standing next to Ryan was Malger.

Journalism is once again steering the needle, misleading people when stories skip over key content and only give results.

[When their eyes meet, Nanami feels relieved]

Basel, the audience watching the comic live broadcast at the crossroads, most of them were misled to think that it was Malger who killed Ryan.

The comics are only one page apart, making people mistakenly believe that Malger defeated Ryan with just one move.

[The evil god's scourge on the city]

【Death of Johannesson and Shao Hong】

[Shadow of a girl who was severely injured]

[All of this is reflected in Maljie's eyes. He has found all the information and can set off now.]

[Nanami watched him leave, and felt as if she were at the bottom of a cool lake. She took a deep breath of air like drinking soda, and the stone that was suppressed in her heart cracked at this moment.]

……

【Current popularity 6%】

……

At this moment, Wang was holding the person he had beaten down in his hand, and the color in his eyes changed again.

Color grayscale rises.

The caricatures are getting more and more outrageous.

……

[On the other side of the battlefield, the power of the evil god seems unstoppable]

The comic has reached the seventh act.

Nearly ten minutes have passed since the serialization.

The previous fight between Jellal and Xiao Wu and the king was drawn into the story.

Li Nuo spent a lot of space to describe the story of these two people's previous fights with the guards, and he was just waiting for now.

[The two of them still can't shake the evil god]

[The strongest warrior can only stare blankly at the evil god's near-perfect evolution]

[Nanami is also watching this battle, but she is injured and cannot join the battle]

Li Nuo's brushstrokes stopped here.

Those viewers who wanted to see him continue the story felt like there was a piece of phlegm stuck in their throats.

"Draw it!"

"Someone go save Nanami!"

【Current popularity 6.2%】

Li Nuo still didn't paint.

He is waiting.

【Current popularity 6.5%】

He quickly changed the tip of the G pen, dipped it in ink and continued drawing.

[But Maljie is a person with poor sense of direction, and he got lost]

This group of readers are already cursing.

On a certain website, there were so many abusive posts that they could not be deleted, and the company that signed Nanami was under great pressure.

The same thing happened to Wen Ke. He blocked all communications and unconditionally believed in Li Nuo's judgment.

For the audience or readers, they hate such shameless authors.

Very annoying!

【Current popularity 6.8%】

Li Nuo was feeling extremely happy at this moment, as he had fulfilled one of his dreams, making his readers unhappy without losing them.

The popularity continues to rise.

When Li Nuo's re-written story was about to catch up with reality, players also judged from the system's narration that the time was up.

Cha Bai took out the [Encyclopedia of Dark Magic].

She took out the voice-transmitting elf that had delivered a message to Maljie not long ago, released the elf, and it flapped its wings in the drizzle and finally landed in front of the king.

The elf opens the portal.

In the comics, the white coat is lifted like a hero's cape.

The king stopped his brutality.

It looked at Malge who appeared like a "mechanical god", and their eyes met, as if there was a deep chasm between them.

They both uttered at the same time: "Humph."

Li Nuo quickly outlined Maljie's face with the tip of his pen.

The audience then saw that the picture frame on the screen seemed to come alive and it flipped itself from the back to the front.

There are shadows in the sky.

The moonlight tears through the darkness.

Maljie's face, which looked like it came out of a girls' comic, filled the entire frame.

This scene made almost everyone watching in Basel feel silent and scalp tingling.

As Cha Bai said about Maljie, as long as he doesn't open his mouth, his visual impact is extremely strong.

With the help of Li Nuo's painting skills, the mute male protagonist showed his face for the first time. His handsome appearance and heroic appearance made the audience feel completely involved.

【Current popularity 8.5%】

At this moment, Infinite City and Minas City have completely turned into a black and white comic world.

【The popularity has exceeded 8%】

[Conditions met]

[Popularity exceeds 8%, progress catches up with the real speed, player 5900, your brushstrokes can already change some of the protagonist's characteristics]

[Hint: The protagonist halo of "King" has disappeared in front of your protagonist Maljie]

Li Nuo put the dip pen on the table.

"Why don't you paint anymore?" the staff asked.

Li Nuo stared at Malger in the comics.

"That's not necessary."

He picked up the thermos, unscrewed the cap, sat down, took a sip, and said:

"I have chosen for you a tough and indestructible protagonist who does not need fate to interfere with anything."

(End of this chapter)