Chapter 137

The single book "The Legend of the Desert Heroes - Devil City" was published overseas.

Probably because the Hong Kong flavor is a little stronger, not as good as the "Royal Spirit Girl" sold. There are some strange voices in the market, saying that 'Yinong' is not as good as 'Gu Pan'.

But neither 'Yinong' nor 'Gu Pan' came out to respond.

Later, some people said, "painting friends" to 'Gu Pan' look more important, "painting friends" are willing to spend a lot of money on the "Royal Spirit Girl" publicity, "desert" out of the country but quiet.

Poor 'to Yinong' brings fire magazine merit but meets the cold wind. Really 'something Zhong Wu Yan, nothing Xia Ying Chun' ah.

This look will know is nonsense, throwing away the facts to make up stories. Naive also someone believes, the more dogma is convinced.

Boring Hong Kong media also prepared a dogged and vulgar 'novel' for the two.

These newspapers and magazines say they are good brothers while coming to "Painting Friends" to submit articles, and what happened, 'Yinong' on. Later, he became famous and recommended 'Gu Pan' to the editor-in-chief, so Gu Pan's comics on women had a chance to be in the magazine.

The result is that this 'Gu Pan' is an act of revenge, he and the president of the relationship, leaving behind a good friend, are selfish and self-serving.

An Yinong: ......

This time some readers were incited to send letters over to scold the president and scold the author, 'Yinong' had to come out to dispel the rumors.

"There is no such thing as differential treatment. The local characteristics of martial arts comics are much stronger, so it is difficult to adapt to foreign soil. I was already trying a new kind of modern urban theme when I finished creating 'The Desert'. I'll see you all soon."

The new subject matter attracted their attention and squashed this talk of infighting.

The president of 'Painters' complained to him, "It must be a peer screwing us, maybe it's 'International Painters'. I hope 'Yinong' and 'Gu Pan' don't have emotions. Hey, I heard that many people want to poach them, boss, should we sign a longer contract with them?"

An Yinong: "...... no need, they want to go, long gone, the usual treatment. I have a new idea."

"You say." The president now does not dare to underestimate his sixteen-year-old boss.

"Since they think that the two manga artists in our family will infight, why not take this as a point to promote healthy competition and attract readers to see? One person alone is not as exciting as two people fighting on equal footing, don't you think?"

An Yinong intended to distinguish 'Yinong' and 'Gu Pan', Yinong will focus on male themes in the future, while Gu Pan will focus on female themes.

Now he has a head start on 'Yinong's' new manga, while 'Gu Pan's' "The Girl with the Spirit" will be finished in two more words.

Who is the dark horse this year between 'Yinong' and 'Gu Pan' has not yet been discussed, and the new issue of 'Paint Friends' has already reached its last serialization.

The female lead stood in the final scene.

She is the only one on her side, while three intact enemies are standing on the opposite side.

Suetsu, who had walked through four or five killing bouts, looked back at the way she had come, and one by one the people who were side by side with her stayed behind or lost their fighting power and were eliminated from the competition, or were threatened by the opposite guy with important people who could not go on.

And she had a horrible enemy in front of her.

The enemy was a team of extreme geniuses who were amazed that Su Xue, an unplanned person, walked into the final and became their only obstacle to occupying first and second place this time, but that didn't stop these people from surrounding Su Xue with their greatest strength.

Someone in this team did the most careful study of Su Xue itself and made the most elaborate plan according to her characteristics so that no matter what choice Su Xue made, this side had a countermeasure.

And the result was really as they planned, Su Xue fought extremely hard in this battle.

They were like insurmountable mountains in front of her, and the group even took into account Su Xue's own potential and growth rate.

But these calm almost ruthless geniuses still underestimated human determination and human emotions.

Just when they thought Su Xue's path had come to an end and were ready to reap the life of this young genius, Su Xue awakened a new demon spirit - the poem soul and music spirit.

A little friend with a proud body and a poem for a soul could no longer accompany her, and a little friend who dreamed of becoming the first musician fell not far away, but their faith was always there.

She is surrounded by countless colorful chapters in the form of a scholar with a long shirt and a square scarf, a hand stroking the zither, a word, and a tone, and a song is a killer poem.

The Seven Absolutes - Winged Frogs 'Spring comes I do not speak first, which insects dare to make a sound' silence all the opponent's compulsion, followed by a chivalrous line, 'ten steps to kill a person, a thousand miles do not leave a line' directly send away the opposite a head.

Three enemies were directly nullified two, and Su Xue's spiritual power was exhausted, the scholarly imagery dispersed from her, and she stood there with her family heirloom sword, her long ponytail curling out in the wind with killing intent.

It was now a battle that belonged to her alone.

The ordinary little girl of that day had been honed from a piece of black iron to a hundred refined steels in the grind, and she took up her stance as all the memories from her childhood came flooding back to her, about martial arts, about her family, about growing up, and ultimately everything condensed into the indelible light in her eyes.

"Come on." Tiny lights burned in her body, and the watchers' eyes widened as they saw the 'sharp light of a weapon' in a flesh-and-blood human.

An Yinong's strokes were simple and powerful, and Su Xue's firm, conviction-filled swordplay transformed into seven stigmata on the paper.

A knife was killed, without any accident, not to mention the need to look back, the knife was already part of her body, and wielding each knife under her control to achieve the most perfect effect.

The deceased did not understand how such a halfway decent spiritist, whom they hadn't put in their sights before, could come this far and cut off the plan they had been planning for years.

Su Xue ignored the dead man as she picked up her badly injured teammate across her back and walked off the platform. Onlookers have retreated to the sides, until the start of the next season, she is deservedly the number one teenager.

Only this first person has no intention to enjoy the glory, she left the island of the sky in silence.

As for the end, of course, the dream realized to open a martial arts school.

Su Xue became a seemingly ordinary martial arts director, she daily stared at those children practicing martial arts, as if to see their childhood, knowing nothing, but holding the knife and refusing to let go.

In her spare time, she also has many friends to play with.

The last page of "The Girl with the Royal Spirit" is Suetsu sitting in her own home, cup of tea in her hand, watching her friends who have healed chase and play around the room. The nine-tailed fox and other demon spirits either sitting or standing, in a room of earthly fireworks, a room of warmth and affection.

The ending of "The Girl with the Spirit" exploded the comic book world in the golden autumn, and the mailman came to the publisher with a cartload of letters, both domestic and overseas, and the wailing readers were pushing for more than just the single line: don't pity my wallet! Please make sure to publish a full-color hardcover!

In addition to dealing with these letters, the publisher of the magazine "Painters" was frantically urging 'Yinong', who was late in sending out a new manuscript:

"Mr. Yinong, Mr. Gu Pan has finished painting one book, when will you send your new work?

"Is it because of the "desert" of a single book to earn money no worries about life and let go of the self? If so, we would love to introduce you to a new form of entertainment, stock speculation (the stock market is not good these days).

"We sincerely hope to see your new manga soon. -- From the editorial board of "Drawing Friends."

An Yinong, who is more diligent than the donkey in the production team: ......

The system laughed out loud: "You just deserve it, host."

In fact, 'Yinong's' new comic has already been thought of, designed the main character's shape, and rationalize the plot. Even designed a whole interstellar citadel three-dimensional background.

To better show their fantasy of that world, An Yinong specifically found two days to go to the fortress.

The inhabitants there who saw him with a camera are very resistant, but in his face young, student-like, smiling at anyone, so not too much hostility, at most is defensive.

An Yinong took a lot of pictures of unlicensed workshops, factories, pharmacies, processing plants, kiosks crowded under the stairs, rooftops where children play, and antennas like hedgehogs ......

This is in the western part of the city fortress, the eastern part is different, the eastern part gathers a lot of black forces, who want to go in and take pictures, but you have to get their consent first. An Yinong then entrusted relations to find a 'guide', and those bosses to say hello.

"Just a rich kid who thought it would be fun to come here to find inspiration for some artistic creation."

After saying hello, he was able to enter the eastern district of the fortress that everyone feared. It was more than the west district where the residents lived, and it was more in line with everyone's impression of the Citadel.

An Yinong hadn't even finished walking down a street and already saw white powder boys who were selling powder openly and honestly, as well as prostitutes soliciting customers, and gang members everywhere.

It didn't take long for 'Gu Pan''s "The Girl of the Royal Spirit" one-shot to sell well when 'Yinong's' new manga "Monster City" entered serialization.

This manga sparked a lot of discussions as soon as it hit the magazines.

In the mechanical age of the future world, people don't need to work very hard to be clothed and fed, yet the classes in that age are almost immobile, and the people at the bottom are addicted to virtual worlds and fleeting pleasures.

They joke: justice, tardiness, and disobedience to rules are the greatest evils of mankind.

Those who did not follow the rules of 'crime' were banished to a corner of the world, where those on the fringe took root, lived, and slowly built this piece of land, plowed over by artillery fire and devoid of life, into a home of its own.

Here is the "Monster City", the world spiteful, disgusting, forgotten place, people and all kinds of garbage coexist, ugly and beautiful coexistence.

The rough and huge mechanical beings, the humans who swarm like an army of ants and bees, and the fantasy world of the future, and the dense, dirty, chaotic monster city.

The images are so good that the reader's eyes can't blink.

They don't know how to describe what they see, it's just too interesting and magical.

The first issue of the new manga won the hearts of countless readers, and many of those who had been hooked by 'Onmyoung Girl' popped back into the 'Yinong' fanbase once again, wailing and waving flags for 'Monster City'.

Other peers once again came out to analyze what the appeal of this new Yinong manga was and whether there was anything they could learn from it.

But as the discussion went on, their conversation skewed to the 'top ten best-selling manga artists of the year'.

"I always felt that this was his response to those comments that questioned his ability when 'Gu Pan' exploded a while ago. It's like saying, "You think I can only draw martial arts? No, I can also draw other things."

Now there are still a few months before the final annual selection, I thought 'Gu Pan' was already the nail in the coffin of this year's first, but I did not expect to see a sensation as soon as Yinong released a new comic, in this case, it is hard to say who can rank first.

"On the drawing work, on the plot, on the heat, these two are on par, who can sit at the top of the list this year, it is not easy to say."

"Other magazines out of one can celebrate hard, "drawing friends" magazine is simply lucky, it is undisputedly the number one selling comic magazine this year." Who would have thought that a year ago it was on the verge of closing down and shutting down?

But things don't end here, 'Gu Pan' who has already finished the book 'The Girl with the Royal Spirit' has also started to seamlessly update the latest manga 'Mister'.

People followed the plot through the present and the past, and once again marveled at 'Gu Pan's' ghost-like imagination.

The warm and sweet relationship line between the main characters, together with the gorgeous and detailed, stunningly beautiful images, "Mr." came to pull away the hearts of most female viewers directly.

They were so enthralled that they were dreaming of the male and female protagonists.

There is no doubt that another book is phenomenal.

A small copy of "Drawing Friends", two phenomenal comics, two highly popular comics classes.

Other magazines are biting their handkerchiefs: it's like a drought, a flood, a magazine with only a few pages, to be so high quality? Can't you give one out to others?

The magazine "Drawing Friends": No, come and beat me if you can!

The jealous peers changed their vests and once again sent out articles to various newspapers and magazines, saying that the "Painting Friends" magazine was a mountain that could not accommodate two tigers, and these two would fight sooner or later.

The split party, which had been suppressed some time ago, resurfaced and wrote small essays to smear the relationship between 'Yinong' and 'Gu Pan'.

Afterward, the practice of the magazine "Picture Friends" seemed to verify their suspicions: the large pictures of "Monster City" and "Mr." appeared on the cover in rotation. It was as if the two new manga artists, who had overwhelmed their seniors since their debut, were playing against each other across the magazine to decide a winner.

"It's a bit subtle." Even the readers felt the smell of smoke.

Chapter 138

An Yinong does not even know what love-hate relationship his peers and readers are making up, he and Xie Jiu recently accompanied the 'thank you' who has grown up to lay eggs to go on a blind date.

The two searched all the pet stores in Hong Kong City and never expected that 'thank you' would fall in love with the flower-headed parrot that happened to come to An Yinong.

"They should have reproductive isolation, right?" An Yinong asked Xie Jiu.

"Even if there is no reproductive isolation, the gender is not quite right." They are both male and can't lay eggs.

An Yinong: ...... Are all birds so fashionable these days?

However, the two birds finally overcame many obstacles to announce the success of hand-holding.

Xie Jiu specially asked someone to build a larger birdcage.

Just flower-headed parrots have 'wild horse' attributes, bird friends are numerous, and from time to time go out to wave, Xie Jiu with a face of frustration winging 'thank you' to find An Yinong.

"You chose it yourself, what's the use of crying?" An Yinong poked 'thank you' in the head with a paintbrush.

"Chirp." As soon as the other bird came it followed the wing.

"You can follow along oh." An Yinong held his face and carefully analyzed it, "Common interests help maintain a healthy development of feelings."

"Jojo?" Really?

"Really. And, when the flower head comes back you can ask where it went, and next time you can follow along."

Xie Jiu was watching the teenager with a serious face to enlighten the parrot, thoughtful: common interests?

An Yinong here also mulled over what nuts to buy to comfort 'thank you', the results did not ten minutes, the flower-headed parrot returned with a bunch of sweet-smelling berries.

It turns out that it asked its good friend to keep an eye on this kind of berries, flower-headed parrots like it very much, and want to taste it with 'thank you'.

This time it followed its buddy to pick the berries and brought them back to 'thank you'.

The 'thank you' directly resurrected in situ full-blooded, once again the gods live. The two two-legged beasts were left behind touching their stomachs feeling choked: never thought that they would one day have to be parrots to show a face of love.

"Emotional things is to say clearly to ask clearly to do, guess to guess, put yourself whole autistic." Things are settled, An Yinong sip tea, head down and continue to draw the manuscript.

He drew "Monster City".

Inspired by the city fortress and the night of the kidnapping, so more or less dabble in cyberpunk.

Xie Jiu is looking at the sketches, he sighed at An Yinong's imagination, the kind of watch style, projected in the air light and shadow touch screen control, can communicate, can also watch videos and listen to music, or telecommuting 'computer' is very interesting.

Even people meeting do not care about the distance, their images are projected directly in the virtual space, in addition to the top shuttle vertical network of 'hackers', the meeting has absolute confidentiality.

The virtual world is too convenient, and everything is available, without spending much money to get the ancient emperor's level of enjoyment.

And the reality of ordinary-looking people can become the virtual world of handsome men and women, the ability of ordinary people can be in the virtual world to command a party. The virtual world gives people another possibility.

No wonder people in the comic are addicted to the virtual world.

However, in contrast to the freedom of the Internet is the reality of the corner of the abandoned dense human community, layers and layers of pigeonholes, except for the central activity area, the lower levels of other places do not see the sun all year round.

Xie Jiu, who walked out from the Citadel, seemed to see the shadow of the Citadel.

However, the rapid progress of technology brings not only good things.

The gap between rich and poor in the future world is bigger, the more obscure and difficult to cross the class, human desire breeds 'monsters'. Monsters do not have a specific image, specifically the oddly shaped humans who have been tainted by monsters inside.

This is the origin of the name "Monster City".

Xie Jiu lost track of time, the future of human beings seem to be much more sober and cold than the present, but also much more decadent and demoralized, they work and study like a robot during the day, and indulge in all kinds of magical entertainment at night.

Their body can not see much passion, only numbness after being beaten by reality.

Although they seem to be human, they occasionally feel like a group of tools kidnapped by machinery, high technology, and short-lived excitement.

Of course, some of them do not want to be kidnapped by people with various rules, living freely and occasionally too freely.

These people crossed the line of certain rules and became a crime. In order not to be in prison, they went to the forgotten corner of the world - Monster City.

Monster City is a strange place. Every day, many young people walk out of Monster City, and many young people walk in from outside.

This small place spreads its arms and welcomes all, it seems to have no absolute good and bad, only a balance.

Can balance human nature and beastly, is ordinary people, the balance is not good, it is easy to become a 'monster'.

Xie Jiu thinks more interesting is the main character of the comic, a fallen, and not completely fallen human, because of addiction to machinery, violating the law to conduct human experiments, transformed himself into a half-mechanical life.

He lives in a small corner of the steel jungle, seemingly just an ordinary bookstore owner, guarding the physical books that were eliminated eight hundred years ago.

The protagonist befriends the various 'monsters' in this small corner, such as the owner of the house of grievances who walks the world of the yin and the yang, the wanderer from the land of dragons, the doctor who is haunted by a curse, and so on.

He also befriends ordinary people in the outside world, and their tacit agreement is not to disturb each other, let alone disrupt his peaceful bookstore owner's life.

Unfortunately, this city recently had a dark tide, it seems that there is an unknown force that wants to push this corner of self-destruction, so the protagonist who is bent on retirement can not sit still.

He wants to find out who is destroying the relative calm of the monster city.

"It's the first time I've seen this kind of character who is very powerful but is bent on living an ordinary life." Xie Jiu found that he could understand 'him'.

"Is this the style that you said before that you want to change?"

"Hm?" An Yinong just remembered that Xie Jiu shouldn't know that 'Gu Pan' was also his vest, so he didn't answer positively, but just asked, "What do you think of this style?"

"I think it's good, but you know, I don't read comics." To be precise, Xie Jiu had only read 'Yinong's' comics. He wasn't interested in the comics, he was interested in the person who drew them.

An Yinong lowered his head and continued to trace the manuscript with a sketch pen: "I know you are very busy, Mr. Xie, the chairman of the board, who has a lot of time on his hands, don't you have work today?"

"If you have to do everything yourself, how can you be the boss?"

Hands-on cartoonist An Yinong: ......

"It's different from your situation, you, well, are more of a 'big cartoonist' than a 'magazine owner'." Xie Jiu looked down at his watch, "The 'thank you' thing is solved, I should also go."

"I won't see you off, take care." An Yinong did not get up to send him, live next door, send to send is not tired of panic?

The company's main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers.

"At least we don't have reproductive isolation, although it's not much use." Xie Jiu squinted at the bird cage in his hand.

"Jojo?" The company's main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers.

"Monster City" has been in serialization for many days, and readers have found the source of inspiration through the traces on the screen - the city fortress.

"For the first time, I think that our citadel is such a cool place." The people in the Citadel were so curious that even the punks in the eastern part of the Citadel came out to buy the magazine, saying their boss wanted to read it.

An Yinong received a letter from the eastern part of the Citadel, containing a photo of a man posing with his muscles oiled and glowing, with tattoos, scars, and bullet holes on his skin.

This person briefly described his jungle career on three sheets of paper, hoping to get a role in "Monster City", and it doesn't matter if he is a villain.

An Yinong, who always feels threatened: ......

This bizarrely styled comic has surpassed the previous serialization record of "The Desert" to become this year's dark horse male-themed comic.

The reason why we have to add a qualification of 'male subject matter' is because 'Mr.' by 'Gu Pan' is an untouchable mountain of 'female subject matter' manga.

The story of "Mister" is not complicated, it is the love story of a young human girl living in modern times, 'Yi Nuo', and the ghost of an ancient nobleman, 'Feast Xi', who appeared by breaking an antique hair comb.

In the identity setting, one of them is a fish in the water and the other is a bird in the air. But because Yi Nuo broke the hair comb, their fates are linked together from then on.

Yi Nuo is sincere, and Yanxi is considerate and introverted, they will think about each other, but will not take the initiative, this mode of living together is different from the previous 'human-ghost love', it seems easy, and there is a kind of indescribable touch.

Between teachers and students, between humans and ghosts, between modern and ancient concepts collide, the subtle and hidden love makes a crowd of readers who like emotions fascinated to death.

Moreover, this also breaks the rumor that 'Gu Pan' only draws adventure comics in the shell of female subjects, 'Gu Pan' draws emotional comics, which is also first-class.

At the same time, some readers who love history came out to fight, they argued about the specific corresponding era and corresponding background of the male protagonist.

An Yinong set the male lead with specific reference to his own previous life, the details are spot on.

At the same time, there are poems written by An Yinong in the past, the male lead poetry and fugue can be described as handy and will be a gentleman six arts have a variety of elegant hobbies, look at the time feel an ancient family son appeared in front of the eyes.

It is this sense of authenticity so that this comic book in the ancient and modern concepts of conflict and integration more interesting.

But then, a new question arises: who is the bearer of the magazine "Drawing Friends", 'Yinong' or 'Gu Pan'? Who is more capable of holding up the sales of "Paint Friends", "Monster City" or "Mr."? Are 'Yinong' and 'Gu Pan' friends or rivals?

A bunch of tabloids was speculating and betting, hoping that these two rumored friends would implode and go their separate ways. It would be better for them to go out of the picture and fall into the bowl of others. --from other magazines that are eyeing it.

Infighting is impossible to infight. The title of Yinong's next story is 'A rival, more than a friend', and the title of Gu Pan's next story is 'This love remains the same, this heart does not change '.

It's almost as if people are drinking a mouthful of sweet maple syrup through the paper.

But the current situation of the two stars competing for glory needs to be solved, as their comics take up more than half of the space in the magazine, leaving too little room for others, which is not conducive to the long-term healthy development of the magazine.

Therefore, Drawing Friends magazine decided to split Drawing Friends in two.

The original "Drawing Friends" will be renamed "Manga Linge", and the other will be divided into a comic magazine for women - "Rosebud Hall". In the future, the comics of 'Gu Pan' will be relocated to "Rosebud Hall", and all comic artists are welcome to submit their articles, and only comics with female protagonists are currently accepted.

In addition, the first issue of "Rosarium" magazine will randomly issue a 'Gu Pan' hand-drawn character bookmark, which interested readers can reserve in advance.

As a result, the 10,000 copies of the first edition of "Rosarium" magazine were booked out by readers before they even made it to the market. The "Rosarium" magazine that appeared in the market later was already the second batch of additional printings.

This shows how large the consumer base of women-themed manga is and how high the spending power is.

In addition, Manga Linge and Rosarium, which were able to issue overseas editions, also attracted a new generation of manga artists and gained a middle force, and their magazines had the potential to become the dark horse of the industry.

Other comic magazines were already greedy enough to drool.

The two most capable new generation cartoonists, why couldn't they get any of them? What benefits were promised by "Drawing Friends"?

The president of "Drawing Friends" also wanted to know this question, and he thought about it: "Probably because of sentiment, right?"

"Maybe they stay here because of sentiment, but we can't just talk with sentiment." An Yinong and the president said that he expressed his intention to find an animation production company to produce anime.

Only, at the moment, he has enough resources in hand to make one anime, tentatively, it is "The Girl of the Royal Spirit". Because it is drawn in a relaxed style and tells the story of growing up, it is suitable for animation for both men and women.

"Then Yinong's side, what do I say?" The president was a bit apprehensive, 'Yinong' came earlier than 'Gu Pan', and it was his comic that made a name for itself first, but now it was 'Gu Pan' that stole the show, so even if you have a good relationship, you should be emotional now. The first thing you need to do is to get a little bit of a head start.

An Yinong: "Push "Monster City" abroad with all your might."

The style of "Monster City" is very suitable for internationalization, and its imagination about the future is also very attractive.

An Yinong thought he had handled the matter properly, but to his surprise, after this matter was known to the outside world, there were reports in the newspapers like this:

"Capital interference, Gu Pan cartoon animation, sitting on the throne of the best-selling cartoon, Yinong drink hate.

The director is in love with 'Gu Pan', former friends are now enemies. Where does 'Yinong' go from here?

Next door, Xie Jiu came to him with two parrots: "Do you and Gu Pan have very good feelings?"