Chapter 134: One day in the life of a famous cartoonist
It’s 7 o’clock in the morning.
Li Nuo was woken up by the sound of clicking decoration upstairs.
Logically, you can't decorate at 7 o'clock, but some residents have a more bold temper, so they get some privileges for themselves.
He didn't have much energy to get out of bed.
Just frowning slightly.
He picked up his cell phone from under the pillow and sent an anonymous message to a certain police officer:
"There is a female body buried in the north wall of 401, No. 5, Yongning Street, District 3, Inner Ring Road, 13th Floor."
Then, about ten minutes later, , Li Nuo got up with sleepy eyes, picked up his phone, and saw the text message sent while unconscious, his heartbeat accelerated.
"Did I get angry again just now..."
"This problem needs to be changed..."
Li Nuo listened to the noisy decoration sound and took out a can of beer from the refrigerator.
Why does he have beer?
Good question.
The courier delivered the wrong item.
And the buyer doesn’t want it anymore.
In line with the principle of not wasting anything, he adopted these poor little guys.
I opened the beer and drank it in my mouth. I felt a tingling sensation on my tongue as the yellow liquid interacted intimately.
I casually wanted to flatten the beer can, but it took me a long time to think of it. I forgot... I am a waste now.
So Li Nuo put the beer can on the bedside.
He looked at the mouth of the jar, then suddenly ran to the bathroom and looked at the width of the sewer pipe.
"This width is more suitable for me..."
When this thought came to his mind, he slapped his face and buried the terrible thought deep in his memory.
I washed my face and went to the living room. On the way, I took an apple from the Lucky Cat's plate and sat down in front of the computer to chew on it without washing it.
He is going to take advantage of the sunshine to find inspiration for painting, and recently he wants to add a special character to his character.
This person is beautiful, generous, and wears very little.
The above is relatively normal. In today’s comics, if you want to wrap up the female characters tightly, you are considered a lackey of political correctness.
But the difficulty is to make readers fall in love with her and to make readers keep moving their hands up and down under the desk and quilt for her.
In this way, Li Nuo can show the most shocking side of the character in the future.
He/she/it is a futa.
Every time he thinks of the disgusting and enjoying expressions of readers, Li Nuo feels disgusted and enjoys it at the same time.
This problem of being beaten by a thousand cuts is due to the influence of a certain damn cartoonist.
Li Nuo's favorite work is called "Level'e".
He regarded the sentence there as the ultimate goal in life: how to keep people living in dire straits without losing their support.
A word of caution here.
I said before that Li Nuo's comics are the kind that no one cares about. Because they are updated slowly, their popularity is too low.
With more updates this month, its popularity has gradually increased.
However, the group with weak traffic is the type that is very sticky but attracts few viewers.
Many viewers often understand that this is fake, but with the mentality of having fun, most people will not mind such insignificant things. Cheating and listening to stories are essentially a way to relieve boredom.
Li Nuo doesn't object to the author's behavior such as selling out misery. It's not ugly to eat.
He even thinks that working hard is right. To make money and speak out is the same as asking for a raise in the workplace, and there is no problem.
But using made-up gimmicks to sell people off is considered cheating, and this kind of cheating allows you to earn income far beyond your own value without any effort at all.
Li Nuo was jealous of this.
Yes, jealous, because he couldn't do such a thing, so he wrote down the names of the authors and prepared to wait for the right day to show them the feeling of making lies come true.
At this time, the phone rang.
The voice of his editor, Brother Qing, came over the phone: "Come to the cafe in front of your house at 11 o'clock today." "Brother Qing..." "Don't say
anything
. We'll talk about it when you get here." Qing Brother's tone was like a robot, full of helplessness and suppressed anger.
Li Nuo: "It's not Brother Qing..."
Brother Qing: "Okay, that's it..."
Li Nuo: "Eleven o'clock belongs to the morning."
Brother Qing was silent for a few seconds and hung up the phone. Li Nuo always felt He hung up with great force.
At eleven o'clock, Li Nuo arrived at the cafe on time.
His editor, Brother Qing, whose real name is Wang Daqing, has a straight-cut haircut, black-rimmed glasses, and looks like a shrewd scumbag. The most distinctive feature is that he is very fat.
The kind of fat people who are often misunderstood for occupying seats when taking the subway.
Li Nuo put his cane next to the chair. He still had to pretend that he had trouble walking. He was a professional at this. After all, he had been lame for more than ten years.
After sitting down, looking at Brother Qing's dark face, Li Nuo smiled: "Long time no see."
Brother Qing raised his head and looked at Li Nuo with eyes full of the desire to tear him apart.
Brother Qing crossed the table with his fleshy hands, grabbed Li Nuo's collar, and said resentfully: "Li Nuo, you can't bully me just because you are sick." "No...you are a four-year-old.
" Don't say this to me, a ten-year-old brother." Li Nuo raised his hand and asked slightly embarrassed: "What did I do again?"
He used "again".
Brother Qing let go and took out a paper from the folder he brought and put it on the table: "I asked you to help write the short comic script outline last week. Do you want to read it yourself?" "This...
" Li Nuoxu stared.
The comic book club recently launched a suspense outline essay competition, which is a special support project that does not require setting up or drawing anything. As long as the story is finalized, you can obtain the qualification for serialization.
The person who is selected will receive a generous bonus. Seeing that Li Nuo has been doing well in the past year and has enough gimmicks, Brother Qing gave him a spot.
Li Nuo said: "I won't read it."
Brother Qing grabbed the document, took out one and read it: "In the evening, when Chrollo returned to the dormitory after work, he pressed the elevator on the first floor to go up to the eighth floor. Floor, the elevator opened... She walked in, and there was no one inside. As soon as he entered the elevator, he immediately closed it and it rose and it rose and it reached four." "What's next!" Brother Qing growled in a low voice: "You don't even have punctuation marks
. Leave one behind, right!"
"Isn't a story that doesn't even have a follow-up suspenseful?" Li Nuo asked back.
"Holy shit..." Brother Qing took out the second one, let out a long breath, and said while suppressing his anger: "There's something wrong with the dog I raised recently. It got very close to a female dog. However, it had already done this a few years ago. She has been neutered, so I put down the dog food. The dog and I looked at each other for a few seconds. From its eyes, I could see _______." "
You are compiling a textbook for me, right? There are also fill-in-the-blank questions. "?" Brother Qing's eyes almost popped out of his head.
"Don't be angry...then do you know the correct answer?" Li Nuo asked.
Brother Qing lowered his head. He really wanted to know, so he said, "From its eyes, I can see that its eyes are emitting a strange aura..." "It's so
boring." Li Nuo said.
"Then, what is that?" Brother Qing asked: "What can I see from its eyes?" "
It wants to ride you on the highway."
Brother Qing: "..."
Li Nuo: "What's wrong?"
Brother Qing: "If you weren't sick, you would have been beaten to death long ago."
But Brother Qing was also roaring to himself in his heart, I am sick too! Why ask for the answer!
"Did the suspense disappear immediately?" Li Nuo asked.
Brother Qing was stunned. Curiosity seemed to be a factor that contributed to the suspense, but this was too far-fetched!
At this time, Brother Qing was immersed in a feeling of being like this and burning with anger. This was completely in line with Li Nuo's motto, making him satisfied and in dire straits.
"So... you're looking for me because of this, right?" Li Nuo asked.
Brother Qing said a little decadently: "If you write well, you and I can get a bonus. If you write a mediocre script, the matter will be over. But you chose to write something that looks like a lunatic, resulting in Your script didn't pass the test, but the person did."
Li Nuo: "Huh...?"
Brother Qing said: "Anyway, our head office is interested in you and wants to meet you, so we asked you out."
Li Nuo asked He said: "Then why do you say I bullied you?"
"Ha..." Brother Qing snorted coldly: "The boss thinks that I didn't see your 'talent', which is why you have been hidden until now... What the hell... ..." His tone worsened, his hands clenched into fists, and he gritted his teeth: "My immediate boss doubted my professional ability!" "I'm
sorry, Brother Qing, I... really didn't mean it."
"Li Nuo... you said, your... The drawings in "Neuromany" are so normal... How come it's so abnormal to write a script..."
Li Nuo glared at me, something was wrong with me.
"Huh?" A girl's voice came from the seat behind Li Nuo: "Did you draw "Neuromany"?" Li Nuo turned around
, and a girl with long flowing hair stared at him with Kazilan-like eyes.
"Well, I did a good job." Li Nuo said.
"Then you are 'my uncle'!" The girl couldn't hide her excitement.
Li Nuo's pen name was "I-Uncle", which was not my uncle, but most people would omit the dash when pronouncing it, so he later didn't like this pen name very much, because if someone pronounced it out, it would inevitably feel like they were taking advantage of him.
The girl greeted her best friend sitting opposite and said excitedly: "This is the cartoonist, a little brother!" The
best friend picked up the back of the seat and exclaimed: "Here, it turns out that cartoonists are not all middle-aged people with big bellies. Ah."
"I really like your work."
Li Nuo: "..."
"When I saw your preview at the beginning of the month, you said you were going to add a special character. Can you spoil it?"
Li Nuo: "..."
" Ah, I'm sorry, I should keep some expectations for myself!"
Li Nuo kept a poker face.
He turned around and asked Brother Qing in a low voice: "How about I invite them to the hotel and give them to you as an apology gift."
Brother Qing's hand trembled: "I call you Brother Li... please spare me."
Li Nuo was bad. He smiled and said, "Isn't there a famous saying that flying together is every man's dream."
Brother Qing chose the most correct way to deal with it, remaining silent.
At this time, he glanced at his mobile phone and said hurriedly: "The person will be here soon. Remember, if you want to go to a big company to draw comics, you must answer the questions well."
Li Nuo asked: "Um...our president Is the company called..."
"Cairo Comics Club." Brother Qing said, "I think based on your physical condition, it's best not to work there." "How do you say?" "Three
updates
a week, and you have to take into account publicity and Concave the author's character."
"Forget it...the work intensity is too high." Li Nuo's real idea is not to contact the Cairo people in reality for the time being. Those guys who can make robots are too dangerous.
"But can't I just refuse?"
"The boss is very cautious. If he finds out that you won't give him face, he will definitely cut off your channels." After Brother Qing explained, he comforted: "Don't worry, you just need to answer your true thoughts truthfully. , I definitely don’t want you.”
“Why do I feel like you’re scolding me?” Li Nuo was complaining when he saw a beautiful lady coming in at the door.
This lady looks about thirty years old, has a delicate face, wears a white headband, her long hair is tied behind her head, a white shirt, and a knee-length skirt. Both the depth of the neckline and the length of the skirt look very decent.
Li Nuo immediately said to Brother Qing: "Here we come, give way."
Brother Qing gave way, subconsciously surprised that Li Nuo knew that this person was sent by the head office.
"Julie." The lady sat next to Brother Qing, facing Li Nuo, and said with a smile: "You are... me... right."
She really didn't want to pronounce Li Nuo's pen name.
But calling the author by his real name is very impolite, so I can only... hesitate to speak.
Li Nuo nodded and replied seriously: "Well, I am my uncle."
Zhu Li smiled and said: "I am the HR General Manager of the B City Operations Headquarters of Cairo Comics Society. This is our first meeting. I am representing the company today. I’m here to conduct an interview with you, which is not an interview.”
Li Nuo stared blankly: “Ah, it’s our first time meeting you. Would you like something to drink?”
Zhu Li smiled and said, “Coffee…”
“Brother Qing, I want a drink. Ice water." Li Nuo said quickly before her.
Brother Qing turned his head and looked out the window. It had nothing to do with me, nothing to do with me, and nothing to do with me.
Julie: "Forget it...ice water, ah...forget it ice water."
"Boiling water?" Li Nuo asked.
Zhu Li said: "No, I don't like to drink hot drinks."
Li Nuo nodded: "The ovulation period is at the beginning of each month."
It's better to have white tea, no aunt.
Brother Qing took out his mobile phone and typed on it to remind Li Nuo not to be too normal.
Li Nuo sneered. His so-called normality was to shamelessly understand all the truth about what he saw.
Julie was stunned.
The two female fans behind Li Nuo were also stunned.
At this time Li Nuo asked: "Then let the interview begin, Ms. Zhu Li, is there no problem in calling you this way?"
Zhu Li didn't feel puzzled yet, she just hummed.
Li Nuo asked: "If you change jobs, what's your expected monthly salary?"
Zhu Li thought for a moment: "I hope... around... um, wait... I'm the one asking you!"
Li Nuo frowned frowned.
"Yeah, that's okay."
"Whatever you call it is okay..." Julie gritted her teeth, let out a long breath, and adjusted her emotions before saying, "We hope to find a cartoonist with more divergent thinking ability. I've heard of yours. Story, you have been weak and sick since you were a child. This alone is enough for you to become a famous painter." "
I will not cut off ears."
"Are you comparing yourself to Van Gogh..." Julie Knowing that he had been led by the nose again unconsciously, he took a deep breath, adjusted his mentality, and said: "First thing, why do you want to become a cartoonist?" Li Nuo hissed
, He looked a little hesitant.
Brother Qing said, "Just tell the truth."
"Yeah, just tell the truth." Zhu Li said with a bit of gloating: "For example, if you fall in love with a certain Sailor Moon, or be influenced by some um... that kind of comics The influence, it's not indescribable..."
"Fuck fans." "Ah...you are a little too free." Julie's head felt a little hot.
Li Nuo shrugged his shoulders and said nonchalantly: "I have suffered from an incurable disease since I was a child, and I may go to heaven at any time."
Brother Qing, who knew him well, complained in his heart: Are you sure heaven will accept you?
Li Nuo was still talking: "Most species are born with only two things engraved in their genes, eating and reproducing offspring. Of course, I have never thought about such ridiculous things as reproducing offspring. After all, I can't even support myself." Right, but I also want to be like an ordinary person and do the things I should do with the opposite sex, but I can’t do it. My body is not strong enough to support me to do those things, and no opposite sex will like me for this disease. Yangzi, this resulted in me suppressing my species instinct in the process of growing up."
He took a deep breath and continued: "It wasn't until I saw the news that a 60-year-old internet celebrity slept with a 17-year-old female fan. , I just thought that they can even tolerate a sixty-year-old old man... they must be able to tolerate me! So I chose the latter among novelists and cartoonists. After all, I am better at painting." "Actually, they can tolerate me
. You can..." Brother Qing clicked until he understood everything.
Li Nuo said, "Do I have the money?"
Silence spread like poisonous gas.
The female fan sitting in the back looked at the photo of Li Nuo that she had just secretly taken, and asked herself with a blushing face: "Can I help him realize his dream?" At
this time, many people in the cafe were already looking at them.
Zhu Li covered half of her face and immediately changed the subject: "The company has basic salary benefits for authors. What is the basic salary you expect?"
Li Nuo said: "Twenty-six thousand."
"I'm afraid... it's a bit much."
"I can't help it. Ah... now it costs 26,000 to buy a fake certificate for being a cowherd."
Why did he come back again? Julie regrets why she took the job.
"Okay...last question."
"Only three?"
"For you, three is enough." Zhu Li said: "As a cartoonist, the depiction of women is closely related to the popularity of your personal works. You What kind of woman do you have a unique liking for? You can't say fans!"
Li Nuo curled his lips helplessly: "Help her."
"What..." Zhu Li doubted her ears.
Li Nuo explained: "When I want to be a man, she is a woman, when I want to be a woman, he is a man, when I want to be an animal..." "Ahem...!" Brother Qing coughed heavily
, He was afraid that if Li Nuo kept talking, he would not be able to keep his job.
Why should I suggest that Li Nuoquan tell the truth...
"Okay, you're qualified..." Zhu Li said reluctantly.
Li Nuo's face darkened.
Brother Qing stared.
"Of course, we will do another step of background check and interview plan, if you agree." Julie paused and asked: "To show our sincerity, we can help you complete a small Ideal, what do you want?"
Li Nuo said listlessly: "Please let a female body be buried in the north wall of No. 401, Yongning Street, Yongning Street, District 3, 13th Floor, Inner Ring Road." Zhu Li picked up the bag
. , walked out of the cafe like flying.
It was like seeing the god of plague.
"Brother Qing." Li Nuo grabbed Brother Qing's collar resentfully and said with a dark face, "Didn't you say she wouldn't have admitted me if I were normal?" "I didn't know that the head office is a place where
lunatics gather!"
"I don't care, you have to be responsible for this!"
"Why do you want me, a forty-year-old single man, to be responsible for this?"
A group of people were looking at the two of them...
A young man asked a middle-aged man to be responsible...
This kind of thing...
even the teller couldn't stand it anymore: "Two gentlemen."
The teller stood next to them and said quietly and seriously: "There is a suite upstairs. If
you are responsible..." "Shut up!" Brother Qing's eyes almost squeezed out of his sockets. He was extremely angry. After all, Li Nuo was also one of his future cash cows, the kind that had value both in life and in life. He could do nothing even if he saw him being poached.
At this time, the female fan jumped out and said firmly to Li Nuo: "I can!" Li Nuo
: "Huh?"
The female fan looked at her best friend, who was stunned for a moment and then said: "Well, um, this little brother ...It's not impossible, okay...add me."
Five minutes later.
The four of them came to the pink couple's room, but after entering the room, they found that Li Nuo was not there.
Brother Qing and the two girls looked at each other with big eyes. Finally, Brother Qing said: "Then, then, then, please, please enlighten me."
Sure enough, flying together is a man's dream.
The girl's hands are shaking, doubles are a woman's dream.
…
Julie walked out into the street.
pick up the phone.
"How's it going?"
"I'm still extracting his scent, but I'm sure that he did come into contact with Cairo-kun other than us, and it seems that... he also had related... contact with that Yurha, but we can't tell from the scent yet. To make a comprehensive judgment, it's best to do a complete examination."
"That's right...he's very useful for our study of aliens." Julie lit a lady's cigarette: "This guy is very interesting." "
How do you say?"
"It's unreasonable. Pretend to be stupid. Check his personal information. Be thorough."
"Okay."
Zhu Li instructed: "By the way... tell Cairo Ji to postpone the interview with him for the time being. This guy... I'm afraid he will lead the comic club astray." "Is it that exaggerated?
"
Julie nodded silently: "The character is extremely bad!"
At this moment, she suddenly turned around!
A pair of eyes seemed to be staring at him from the abyss, and the palpitations in his heart quickly disappeared.
"Then when will you come back?" asked the other end of the phone.
"I'm going back now..." Julie glanced around cautiously and hung up the phone.
...
Li Nuo stared at Julie from a distance.
Then he turned and walked into the dark alley.
"She hesitated when I asked her about her monthly salary. A full-time practitioner and a person who has done well in the industry will not be in this situation." "There are three
new cameras in different locations in the cafe."
"Pretending to be crazy and acting stupid The look should have deceived them."
"Are these guys Cairo people, or are they Cairo people from Earth?" "
It would be nice if there were bugs." "
Forget it...it's too dangerous, no need, let them If you think there's something wrong with me, just stay away from me."
Li Nuo walked into the alley. All the paths nearby were in his mind. He could draw every detail, every direction, and even the interior of each store. .
After confirming that no one was following him, he walked out of the alley.
In front of my eyes, everything seemed to have turned into a pixel art style.
A pixel bus crossed the road and crossed his line of sight, and everything around him became a normal scene again.
"It's... half past eleven."
Li Nuo thought for a while and went to the library.
...
three o'clock in the afternoon.
The demon hunter in 1850, the savior of Kevir, the guardian of the Shadow Elder, the man who sealed the mirror master, the brave man of another world, and the darkened final devil, was holding two cakes, gnawing one and the other. Return to your home.
Li Nuo raised his head and saw that the door of the building was cordoned off.
"Xiao Li?"
Li Nuo turned his head and saw a certain film policeman who had been staring at him.
"Oh, Brother Zhou."
"Do you know what happened?" Brother Zhou came up and asked.
Li Nuo said: "I didn't do it."
Brother Zhou: "...Room 401, a female body was dug up."
Li Nuo put the whole cake into his mouth with a dark face.
Holy shit...
are you serious?
Are Cairo people so serious?
"Eh? Li Nuo?" A man with short hair looked over not far away.
Li Nuo looked over and frowned while chewing the cake.
Then his eyes widened.
"You're Li Nuo from Class 3 of No. 6 Middle School, right? It's me, Chen Yuhang!" "
Ah...oh." Li Nuo swallowed and nodded.
"I haven't heard from you since you stopped going to school. They all said what you said, so why don't I just say..." "
Ah no, actually I'm dead a long time ago." Li Nuo said.
Silence spreads.
Chen Yuhang pursed his lips and said awkwardly: "You live here, right? Let's come together for the class reunion next month. Damn it, I didn't expect to meet here. I heard that someone died in the building where you live. You Do you know what?"
Li Nuo gritted his teeth.
At this time, Brother Zhou patted his shoulder and said with a cold face: "Xiao Li, come and make a note with me."
Chen Yuhang was stunned.
Li Nuo nodded honestly: "Okay."
Chen Yuhang watched Li Nuo being taken away blankly, and then said to himself: "Fuck, awesome..."
After walking far away, Li Nuo said: " Thank you, Brother Zhou." Brother Zhou
: "Seeing my old classmate acting so irritable, everyone can see what's going on. Have you ever been bullied?"
Li Nuo said, "That's not true, it's mainly because I'm not from the same group, and I'm too lazy to contact him. That's all."
Brother Zhou laughed and said seriously: "What I'm saying is, you bully them."
Li Nuo laughed, turned around and said, "Just come here, I'll wait for you to clean up the scene before going back. "
Ah?" Brother Zhou lit up a cigarette: "Didn't I tell you to come back with me to make notes?"
Li Nuo: "You have to think that this matter has something to do with me..." "
What if?" ." Brother Zhou exhaled smoke: "We have been squatting at your spot for a long time."
...
Nine o'clock in the evening.
Li Nuo returned home.
He was holding a box of leeks given to him by his police friends.
He returned to his seat and took out his notebook.
——Today
, cartoonist Li Nuo discovered the suspicion of a murder case this morning and anonymously informed the relevant personnel about it.
With this, the cartoonist's day begins.
At 11 o'clock at noon...
11 o'clock in the morning, I met the editor Qing Ge cordially and met a loyal fan friend.
I had a great time chatting with people from the head office.
However, the cartoonist still rejected the other party's invitation. Money corrodes human nature. The head office lady immediately bowed to the cartoonist's admiration and shamelessly disappeared into the vast crowd.
The cartoonist kindly introduced two girlfriends to his dear editor friend Brother Qing.
Introduced a boyfriend to two female fans.
Then he saw a truth hidden in the darkness in the alley.
In the afternoon, the cartoonist who worked hard in the library until he was exhausted returned home.
I met a male classmate who couldn't forget me.
By the way, he helped his police friends analyze a vicious corpse hiding case. As a reward, he received a bag of leeks.
This is an ordinary day for a famous cartoonist.
Just like every other day, it was a day spent slowly alone.
——Li
Nuo put down the so-called diary and threw the pen on the table.
Doing this is just to relieve boredom and add a little spice to your boring life.
But after thinking about it, I seem to have forgotten something.
Li Nuo glanced at the clock.
"Ah..."
"Cha Bai..."
"It's over, forget her."
He immediately picked up the leek box and stuffed it into his mouth, shouting in his heart that it's over, it's over!
After swallowing a box in ten seconds, and getting up to close his eyes and go to the "Endless Corridor", he was suddenly startled.
He turned around and picked up the pen.
I crossed out the last line in the diary.
(End of chapter)