Is this cartoonist mentally ill?.

Chapter 15 Initial onset of illness
Because "Edge Walker" is serialized in a semi-monthly format, only two episodes are serialized in a month, so the plot progresses very slowly.

In addition, the previous plot of "Edge Walker" is indeed very slow.

Therefore, for the first month, it has been unknown in readers' popularity surveys.

By the third episode, "Edgewalker" directly showed the most cruel side of Night City.

As a poor man, David was unable to pay the cost of upgrading the system needed to attend school, which subsequently led to him and his mother Gloria getting involved in a gang fight in Night City on their way home.

After the car accident, Night City's trauma team directly chose to die without rescuing him under David's shocked gaze.

In the end, David had no choice but to send his mother to the Scavenger Clinic in Night City. He thought his mother's life had been saved, but in the end, he received the news that his mother's condition had worsened and she had passed away.

He didn't even see his mother for the last time.

Fan Siwei immediately got the comic magazine and felt bad when he saw the plot of the third episode.

"David's mother just... died like that?"

He couldn't accept it.

Mainly, this is the protagonist’s mother.

It’s not that the protagonist’s mother cannot die. On the contrary, in many comic plots, the protagonist’s parents are in high-risk positions.

Rather than being harmed by his enemies, the protagonist bears a blood feud and strives to become stronger to avenge his parents.

He died to protect the protagonist, at least in an important plot.

And David's mother Gloria died like this, which is not the same as any of the above situations.

He was involved in a gang fight on the road, and the trauma team refused to save him. When he entered the scavenger clinic, he was pronounced dead a few days later.

It didn't even give the protagonist a chance to meet his mother for the last time and create a sensational plot.

It’s just...

It stands out in a way that catches people off guard and is unexpected.

Fan Siwei didn't notice anything strange at this time, but in the future, this kind of plot will become Lin Qingshan's trademark.

The main character is suddenly given a lunch box. The plot arrangement is logical, but there is no warning at all, which makes the readers extremely uncomfortable.

Many years later, Fan Siwei will suddenly realize when he recalls the plot of Lin Qingshan's debut film about the sudden delivery of lunch boxes.

"It turns out that this guy started getting sick back then! This is when he first got sick!"

But Fan Siwei still felt a little uncomfortable.

The death of mother Gloria was too ordinary. An ordinary person lived an ordinary life, and then one day he was involved in an accident and died ordinary.

This seems to be a daily portrayal of ordinary people in Night City.

I don't know when, he died like an ant.

And if the ants die, it means nothing in the City of Night.

The trauma team would say to David, "We're targeting the clients, leave them 'these people to the municipal morgues.'"

The scavenger would say to David, "She was stable this morning, but her vital signs suddenly plummeted and she is now dead...Would you be happy to hear about our payment plan?"

The rich second generation who bullied David said to David: "I heard that your mother passed away. I know I should express my condolences to you, but I really can't sympathize..."

money! Damn Night City, it’s all about money!

Watching David being bullied by the rich second generation using an advanced prosthetic body, he was beaten up and verbally insulted. In the end, he walked with his mother's ashes on the bustling streets of Night City, looking lonely.

Fan Siwei felt extremely uncomfortable. Finally, he saw that David was stimulated by the phone call from the rich second generation, recalling the plot of killing and unable to control his legs. He suddenly felt extremely uncomfortable.

And he looked at the last scene of the plot, where David found the black market doctor with the military prosthetic body "Sianwistan".

David glared at the doctor, "I'm not here to sell it, I want to... put... it... into my body!"

In the end, David's determined and fierce eyes made Fan Siwei feel a refreshing feeling pass through the back of his head.

"This is the end of this story."

"Ahhhhhhh why is it over here??"

Fan Siwei said with some discomfort.

Unknowingly, he had entered David's perspective. After feeling David's frustration, he especially wanted to watch David start to counterattack and grow up after installing "Sianwistan".

This is the effect of the plot arrangement of first suppressing and then strengthening. After the protagonist is extremely frustrated, a plug-in ability is then arranged to allow the protagonist to counterattack.

This will make readers feel very happy!

Fan Siwei naturally didn't know the secret behind this. He just thought that the new serialized comic "Edge Walker" was pretty good.

Although it was still not as good as the two comics he was following, he had now begun to quietly pay attention to this newcomer's work.

……

And the other side.

After watching the latest plot of "Edge Walker", Gu Qianli felt a little stuck in his heart.

Unlike high school students like Fan Siwei, she also felt that David's experience was tragic and that the death of his mother Gloria was sudden and bizarre.

But she felt that the tragedy of David and his mother Gloria was doomed in Night City.

A single-parent family, supported only by the mother's meager income, is simply difficult to survive in a place like Night City.

Just a daily gang fight in Night City sent David and Gloria into the abyss. Even if Gloria did not die, the mother and son would end up living on the streets.

Gu Qianli felt more and more that Lin Qingshan's idea was not simple. "Cyberpunk 2077: Edgewalker" was completely different from previous science fiction works.

Previous science fiction works only exaggerated the power of human technology in the future, and did not pay attention to what will happen to human beings in this science fiction background?
As technology becomes more powerful in the future, will the lives of ordinary people become better?

The answer given by previous science fiction works is yes.

Lin Qingshan's "Cyberpunk 2077: Edgewalker" gives another answer - not necessarily.

If it is a situation like Night City, capital controls the city and even the country, and everything is based on interests and money.

When robots and artificial intelligence begin to proliferate, and the lives of ordinary people become insignificant, a world like cyberpunk will be born.

The level of science and technology has improved significantly, but the quality of life has actually become lower.

Gu Qianli always felt as if he was not watching an entertainment work, but a masterpiece with deep thoughts and connotations.

"Although Qingshan doesn't look serious, he is indeed a genius."

She couldn't even help but marvel.

But when she thought of what she had just felt, she felt vaguely bad in her heart, "But if it is really shaped according to the logic of this worldview, David won't die in the end, right?!"

(End of this chapter)