Why is my anime art style so weird?

Two heavy punches landed squarely on the heads of the two little ones.

Two big bumps immediately appeared on the heads of the two little ones.

Xu Ming crossed his arms, his face cold.

"Tell me, what happened this time?"

Bai Zhentan pointed at Hei Zhentan with a look of embarrassment and anger.

"That nasty thing threw charred bug corpses in my face!"

"I was just joking, why did you take it so seriously?"

Black Jeanne looked completely indifferent, which made White Jeanne want to rush up again.

Xu Ming's face immediately turned cold.

Xu Ming glared at her fiercely, and Hei Zhentan subconsciously shrank back, turning her head away somewhat awkwardly.

"I'm sorry~ I went a little too far with my joke..."

Hearing Hei Zhentan's insincere apology, Xu Ming rubbed his temples.

This doesn't look like taking care of a child.

He's starting to understand the struggles of being a stay-at-home dad.

Hmm, my head feels a bit sore. I'll take a smoke to calm down.

Xu Ming took out the Holmes pipe, put it to his lips, and took a deep drag.

After a faint spiciness, came an incredibly rich and refreshing fragrance, which immediately invigorated Xu Ming.

My headache suddenly stopped.

However, he did manage to figure it out.

These two little guys can indeed save energy by shrinking their size, but at the cost of their intelligence.

Seeing that the two little ones were eager to try again, Xu Ming quickly grabbed them, one in each hand, and put them on his shoulders.

Before they could object, Xu Ming said directly:

"Alright, stop fooling around, we should head to the next location."

Soon, Xu Ming left the stinking basement with the two 'shoulder pendants'.

Arriving at the first floor of the mansion, Xu Ming pushed open the door and walked out.

He did not see the white shadowy figure standing at the end of the corridor.

The shadowy figure was very blurry, and could only be vaguely discerned from its physical features as a woman with purple hair.

She bowed deeply to Xu Ming's retreating figure, then transformed into white specks of light and slowly dissipated into the air.

What's the nearest location next?

After leaving the Matou residence, Xu Ming gently patted Bai Zhentan's head.

Bai Zhentan pointed directly to the southwest direction.

"Over there, about 800 meters away."

Xu Ming nodded, casually flicked Kuroe Jeanne's forehead, and then, amidst Kuroe Jeanne's shouts of "Ah! I'm going to burn you to death!", headed southwest of the Matou residence.

A light red German-style building came into view.

A playful smile immediately appeared on Xu Ming's face.

This mansion also looked very familiar to him.

This is another important location in Fuyuki City—the Tohsaka residence.

The Tohsaka residence also has a prototype in Xu Ming's original world, called the 'Kazemidori House'.

Cough!

Although the name is easy to misunderstand, this chicken is not that chicken.

This mansion is named after the iron rooster on its roof.

The wind-watching chicken is a very common sight in Japanese anime; it's a large sign erected on the top of a Western-style building, usually made of iron.

Because of its large size, it rotates with the wind direction, making it one of the simplest wind vanes.

Xu Ming couldn't help but look up at the top of the Tohsaka Mansion. The spire of the mansion had collapsed by more than half, as if it had been smashed by something. The wind-watching pheasant that had stood on the top was naturally gone.

The red exterior of the mansion was covered with a thick layer of dust, giving it a decadent and desolate gray-red appearance.

The iron gate outside the courtyard was lying on the ground, its hinges covered in rust. It seemed that no external force had destroyed it; time alone had destroyed it.

Stepping inside the mansion, the courtyard was neglected year-round, overgrown with weeds that were almost thigh-high.

From time to time, a rustling sound came from the weeds, as if a large number of insects and snakes were crawling around inside.

Xu Ming carefully trod the path, which was almost submerged in the grass, to the main entrance of the mansion, and pushed the door open to enter.

With a screeching sound as the hinges creaked open, the mansion's doors swung open.

A lingering, decaying odor wafted over.

Xu Ming carefully stepped onto the wooden floor and entered the mansion.

His figure quickly disappeared into the shadows...

Chapter 592 Kowloon Walled City

Hong Kong, 1983.

Ah Lian hurried through the dimly lit alleyways.

The ground was covered with foul-smelling black puddles, and the narrow alleyway, barely wide enough for three or four people to walk side by side, was lined with various odds and ends and wooden crates.

Looking up, you can barely see a narrow gap, which shows how tightly the buildings on both sides are packed together.

Numerous illegally connected electrical wires crisscrossed haphazardly through the gaps in the building, forming black spiderwebs.

Suddenly, a huge, piercing shriek came from overhead, and the windows of all the houses in the alley shook.

But no one opened their window to look out, because this was just a routine part of daily life for the residents here.

Nearby is Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport, where a large number of Boeing passenger planes from all over the world fly overhead every day.

Due to terrain and route limitations, these Boeing passenger planes practically flew close to the rooftops.

This is the infamous Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong.

A-Lian passed by a roadside food stall where several shirtless thugs in slippers were sitting at a small square table, drinking beer from bottles and shouting, making a ruckus.

The table and floor were littered with food scraps and empty wine bottles.

Just then, a young thug with dyed yellow hair saw the pretty Ah Lian, his eyes lit up, and he raised the beer bottle in his hand.

"Hey! Hey beautiful! Come have a drink with us before you leave!"

The other thugs nearby also joined in the commotion.

Ah Lian pretended not to hear them and quickly walked past them.

"Damn it! You shameless bitch! You won't listen to reason, so you'll have to suffer the consequences!"

The thug suddenly felt he was losing face and was about to get up to grab her.

Unexpectedly, Ah Lian was as agile as an eel, skillfully dodging the attacks of the two thugs and walking quickly forward.

The group of thugs, completely drunk, couldn't keep up with her pace at all.

He could only stand there, hurling curses to vent his powerless rage.

As you venture deeper into the fortified village, the surroundings become increasingly desolate and dilapidated, hardly resembling a place fit for human habitation.

Ah Lian walked past quickly with her head down.

Aunt Mei had warned her that the Ghost Festival was in four days and that she might encounter some "dirty things" when walking at night. She should not pay any attention to them, or she would be entangled by them.

Aunt Mei and her husband are very kind people. When they have free time, they will help others buy groceries, take care of children, and mend clothes for free.

Ah Lian believed the old man's words.

If you walk on dark roads too often, you'll encounter 'dirty things'—this is a truth everyone understands.

But Ah Lian had no choice, or rather, no one in the entire Kowloon Walled City had a choice.

If they had a choice, they would have moved away from this awful place long ago.

For A-Lian, the pay was higher at night, it was that simple.

Fortunately, nothing strange happened along the way.

She'll be at her building after just one more turn.

Just then, a dark figure suddenly jumped out of the darkness.

A-Lian was startled and almost fell into the stinking puddles.

A pair of dark green eyes stared intently at her, as if scrutinizing a delicious prey.

Ah Lian patted her chest, looking relieved.

It turned out to be a black cat that jumped out.

The black cat was very strange; it didn't meow, but just stared straight at A-Lian.

Ah Lian felt a little creeped out and quickly moved away from the black cat.

After walking a couple more steps, a stall selling fried noodles appeared in the alley.

Ah Lian breathed a sigh of relief.

She finally arrived at her building.

Just as she was about to enter the apartment building, an old woman sitting next to a stall called out to her.

The old woman was wearing a simple, old-fashioned outfit. Some parts of the clothes showed signs of mending, but the clothes were very clean.

The old woman was wearing reading glasses and looked very energetic. She smiled and waved when she saw Ah Lian.

"Xiao Lian".