Is this cartoonist mentally ill?.

Chapter 18 Initial popularity
Time passes gradually.

For Lin Qingshan, life passed as usual.

It's neither too lively nor too ordinary.

In addition to having Pochita as a partner in his life, he also has two regular guests, Gu Qianli and Ito Ayumi.

Because of Pochita, Gu Qianli and Lin Qingshan always find a day to come over to see Pochita during weekends.

As for Ayumi Ito, this girl from Japan probably got acquainted with Lin Qingshan, a foreigner who was a little familiar with the Japanese area, probably because she didn’t have many friends in the city.

As the winter vacation came, Gu Qianli, a college student, went home directly for the vacation.

Lin Qingshan didn't know where Gu Qianli was from. Anyway, this rich lady was not a native of Shanghai.

But that has nothing to do with him.

And Ayumi Ito also went home during the Chinese New Year.

For Lin Qingshan, there is nothing worth celebrating during the New Year in this world.

Because he was alone, but still with Pochita, he specially opened several cans for Pochita on New Year's Day.

Make Pochita spin with joy.

After the New Year, Gu Qianli and Ayumi Ito returned to the Magic City one after another.

In addition, Lin Qingshan's "Edge Walker" is still serialized normally, and its popularity fluctuates, but it is still within the normal range.

The lowest popularity was at the sixteenth place, and the highest was the episode just serialized - episode seven.

……

Gu Qianli took the lead in opening the latest issue of "Comic World Gogo". She directly found the page number of the latest serialization of "Edge Walker" based on the catalog.

The plot of the sixth episode of the previous series was arranged by Lin Qingshan to stay at David's residence when he was invited by Lucy.

Lucy obviously appears as a heroine. Her elegant hair color and unique short hair break the long-haired style of common comic heroines, and at the same time, she also gives people an eye-catching look.

When Gu Qianli saw this person grabbing the ponytail from his back, he couldn't help but wonder, does Lin Qingshan prefer short hair?
She didn't think any more and continued to read the latest comic series.

The title of this episode is, "Moon".

Gu Qianli didn't think much and just read on.

Lucy took David into her drab but cyberpunk-like residence and took out two bottles of beer.

"You don't mind if I only have beer here, do you?"

Lucy said with a chuckle.

David was obviously embarrassed and uncomfortable and said, "I don't mind."

Then he clinked glasses of beer with Lucy, "Cheers... cheers."

At this time, Lucy lit up a cigarette first, and the picture of her was full of a sense of story.

However, the next moment, David took a sip of beer, choked on it, and coughed violently.

Seeing this, Lucy said funnyly, "Really? Is this your first time drinking?"

"I'm fine with alcohol, I just don't like the smell of carbonated drinks and cigarettes."

David said helplessly.

"There are still people like this now..."

Lucy said with a smile.

"I did not lie to you!"

David quickly explained.

"It's so bad...your clothes are also bad, take them off!"

Lucy pointed at his yellow coat and said teasingly.

David was stunned, but after Lucy's repeated requests, he took it off.

However, Lucy put it on herself directly, then turned her back to David and modified the pattern on the back directly in front of David.

"Don't write randomly."

David was a little nervous, but the next moment, two cursive English words appeared on the back of his yellow coat.

"Edge...Runners"

Edgewalker, this is a direct question, but what does this mean specifically?
Gu Qianli continued to read curiously.

"Another name for cyberpunk."

Lucy said, "You want to be like that, don't you?"

David smiled and said, "Actually, I am a big fan of Jihei's "Edge Walker" series. "

"is it?"

"So what, and what's with that corny poster of yours?"

David looked at a poster on the wall of Lucy's room.

The poster is a bit old. It shows an astronaut pointing at the moon, and there are large English characters on it: "YOUR NEW LIFE AWAITS! (Your new life is waiting for you!)"

However, Lucy's face turned cold instantly, "Do you have any objections?"

"No objection." David explained hurriedly, "Advertisements always promote glamorous paradises that disgust me. I mean, how many people have sacrificed to develop the moon."

"Compared to paradise, it's more like a dark hell."

"You seem to know a lot..." Lucy's expression suddenly softened and she teased.

"Arasaka Academy taught me lessons that would never be reflected in advertising."

"As expected of a playboy who can afford to go to the academy."

"certainly not!"

……

Facing Lucy's teasing, David gradually became serious. He took a sip of beer and said, "...I shouldn't have gone to Arasaka Academy, but my mother worked hard to let me go to that school. But I would have known better." I will never be one of them."

"Then why do you still want to go to Arasaka Academy?"

"There's no way... I have to go to college to work at Arasaka Company and climb up the corporate pyramid."

David's eyes were a little confused and lost, "At least that was my mother's wish or dream..." "That's the reason."

That was not his dream, but it was his mother's dream, so he tried so hard to study at Arasaka Academy.

When Gu Qianli saw this, he seemed to feel even heavier when he looked at David.

David has no dreams of his own and has always lived with his mother's dreams on his back. However, his mother died not long ago.

"But that's someone else's dream."

Lucy stood up, looked at each other with David and said.

"other people?"

"You and your mother are two different people. Why do you want to live to fulfill her wish?"

Lucy said confused.

"Is this...wrong?" David said in confusion.

"Your own dreams should not belong to anyone else."

"Speak as if you have already found it."

David said with a smile.

Then the screen turned to the old poster of going to the moon, and David said in disbelief, "Isn't it?"

Lucy looked out the window at the neon night scene of Night City and her eyes reflected on the glass.

"You think it's hell... but to me, this is hell."

Outside the window, the bustling night view of Night City is brightly lit and constructed with special colors, as if this is what Night City really looks like at night.

In contrast, Lucy's sad eyes were obvious.

Even looking at her eyes, Gu Qianli felt surging sadness.

The heroine Lucy...does she have her own story?

"Here?"

David asked.

"I just want to fly away." Lucy said, answering the question.

The scene cuts to a composition of Lucy and David sitting together, and Lucy says, "Let me show you something."

Then the next storyboard scene showed the two of them tearing open the package that seemed to be the Mewtwo chip, and then lying on the bed, their eyes lit up with pink light.

The next scene shows David and Lucy appearing on the desolate moon surface.

"What an amazing resolution! The sun is so hot!"

David said in amazement.

"This is to let you feel the heat of the sun through your personal link, but if it were the real sun temperature, you would be scorched directly. I have adjusted it to a level that ordinary people can adapt to."

Lucy said with a smile.

David levitated directly in the virtual Mewtwo at this time. Watching David start playing directly, Lucy smiled happily when she saw this.

"its not bad, right."

"so amazing."

"right."

"follow me."

……

The two began to play around on the virtual moon surface, and David followed Lucy. Suddenly, Lucy's hand behind her back made a waving motion to David.

Looking at Lucy's slender back, let alone David in the comics, even Gu Qianli thought this scene was too sweet.

She didn't know that in "Edgewalker", any sweetness would eventually turn into a fatal knife.

Just when David was hesitant to step forward and shake hands, Lucy directly grabbed his arm.

The two were having fun on the moon, and the scene where Lucy and David jumped up and seemed to be crossing the lunar base was even more exquisite.

It can only be said that the ability to draw a kaleidoscope is so strong that Lin Qingshan can directly reproduce the exquisite scenes in the anime almost with his own body.

While this sweet plot is still going on, the next moment...

"You're done! You idiot!"

In the real world, David suddenly woke up while lying on the big bed.

Lucy next to her was smoking a cigarette with a nonchalant expression.

A group of reformers who didn't look like good people all looked at him, and then the big man at the head looked at him and showed a malicious smile.

"Boy! Sorry to disturb your pleasure, but the implant on your body is mine!"

"Now it's time to return the property to its original owner!"

David was directly beaten away by the leading big man!
The final scene was of the rocket taking off over Night City, as if it were heading towards the moon.

"This is over."

……

After watching this plot, Gu Qianli was stunned for a moment.

David was... deceived by the heroine?

Were those sweet plots just now a lie?
It's really unexpected... Gu Qianli was a little helpless.

How could ordinary people arrange the plot like this? Lin Qingshan’s arrangement is truly unique.

Or is Lucy not the heroine? Is there someone else?

It can only be said that even Gu Qianli, as a senior ACG enthusiast who has read so many comics and animations, has never seen such a plot arrangement.

Highlight an unexpected one...

However, she did recognize the big man who beat David away. He was the "Mann" who asked David to run in Lin Qingshan's drawing she had seen before.

In this case, David should be fine, and it seems that the follow-up is for David to join the team?
(End of this chapter)