I'm drawing an action-packed anime within a depressing one!

[Upgrade Requirements: Character status must be at the "Passerby" level, and 10 popularity points are required]

"!"

Amazing skill revealed in the background!

I grass!

Upon seeing this ability, He Zhou sat up straight, his eyes lighting up.

A life-saving skill!

If this were in a game, it would definitely be considered ignoring the rules and interrupting!

Even though it's only a fraction of a second, imagine how powerful it would be if it were upgraded!

If I could exchange for this skill and pair it with Alert Ears, wouldn't my sense of security be doubled?

Replace it! It absolutely must be replaced!

...

in the afternoon.

As soon as Chinese class ended, He Zhou was about to go to the cafeteria for lunch when his homeroom teacher suddenly walked in, looking very serious.

"Please wait a moment, everyone."

"I have something to announce to everyone."

matter?

These days, He Zhou gets a little nervous whenever he hears an announcement.

It feels like this lousy comic has a new storyline.

He Zhou, who was originally excited about being able to exchange for new skills upon upgrading to the next identity, became a little nervous again.

"Even though you're in a regular class, you still have a chance to get into an experimental class."

"Everyone will have one test opportunity during the final exams this semester."

"As long as the load-bearing capacity is measured to be higher than level five, you can enter the experimental class."

These are things that everyone knows.

He Zhou was also aware of this.

He understood even better than others that the so-called carrying capacity was actually the role level.

The higher the character's level, the stronger their future abilities will be. Cultivation is all automatic, and most people who are stuck at a certain level are stuck because they are stuck with a certain character.

Characters with higher levels will have more powerful awakened spells and moves.

You will absorb more spiritual energy when you breathe.

The lamp pool... means that cultivation levels advance faster.

As for his current energy, he hasn't even awakened the first lamp pool. In other words, he hasn't even reached the Qi Refining stage!

...

He Zhou slumped back onto the table.

Then we heard the homeroom teacher suddenly utter a name.

"So, the weekend after next, Lin Fan, a senior from the second year, will explain to you the precautions for the role-bearing capacity test at the end of this semester."

"Everyone, remember to attend on Sunday."

He Zhou became very sensitive to any name containing the character "Fan".

Names like Chen Fan and Pingfan, whenever they appear in novels or comics, they are either cannon fodder in the plot or protagonists or members of the main characters in a comeback story!

Is there going to be a major plot development next weekend?

He Zhou's sense of crisis returned.

liver!

I need to finish the remaining episodes of Calabash Brothers first!

As long as there are people who love Calabash Brothers, more people will come to read the comics, and the popularity will increase even more!

Chapter 15 You Calabash Brothers, Save Grandpa! (Please continue reading)

He Zhou does nothing but draw comics every day, and occasionally strokes Jiang Dai's head.

When she was fast asleep, she would wake up whenever He Zhou's hand came near. When she groggily opened her eyes and saw that it was He Zhou, she would just yawn, tilt her head to the side, and continue sleeping.

"Keep working hard!"

After He Zhou finished painting and was exhausted, he ate, drank, rested for a while, and then continued painting.

Currently, I'm just an NPC, and my energy is limited. Even if I max out my energy every day, I'll only be about 10% faster than before.

It took a whole week to finish drawing just three very short episodes.

Popularity increases as you play the game.

Most of them were provided by long-time readers.

There aren't many new readers yet.

...

Each episode is quite simple.

In the third episode, the eldest child, who possesses immense strength, is tricked by a monster and falls into a quagmire.

In the fourth episode, Erwa, who has the ability to see a thousand miles, falls into the Labyrinth Palace and has his eyes gouged out.

In the fifth episode, Grandpa tries to run back with the blind second child on his back, but they are chased by a monster. At the critical moment, the third child, who is as strong as steel, comes to the rescue.

The third brother went to fight the monster alone, but he was hit by a soft knife and tied up.

Nowadays.

When I was drawing the sixth episode, I was so eager to finish it that I worked on it despite having a headache, and I ended up having a nosebleed from exhaustion.

"Depend on!"

"You really can't force it."

But there's a high probability of a major plot development next weekend, and He Zhou is getting anxious.

The protagonist can survive danger! He gets rescued from the heavens! He's protected by luck! I don't have any of that!

Just as I was about to continue working on it, I suddenly felt a movement next to me and someone handed me something.

...

He Zhou thought it was a tissue and was about to take it, but when he looked down...

It turned out to be a bag full of dried meat.

"?"

Why are you giving me jerky when I have a nosebleed?

"I'm not eating it, you can keep it."

"energy!"

That's you.

"..."

Jiang Dai thought it wasn't enough, so she rummaged through her pockets and took out all the dried meat, even reluctantly handing over the last piece of venison she had treasured.

Seeing Jiang Dai's blank yet earnest gaze, He Zhou helplessly put the small piece of jerky back into her pocket.

"It's all put away. I have my own."

After he finished speaking, he reached out to take a piece of paper that someone had left on the table. As he reached towards Jiang Dai, he found her deep in thought.

Then, seeing her hand approaching, she gripped the edge of the table, hesitated, and gently touched it with her head.

"Here, you can play with it."

...

The soft touch of that hair made He Zhou pause for a moment.

Upon hearing the words "I'll let you play with me," He Zhou couldn't hold back any longer.

Who taught you that?

"I learned it myself."

Where did you learn that?

"?"

Jiang Dai looked at He Zhou with a puzzled expression; her clear eyes made He Zhou feel a little guilty.

That look...

Could it be that you taught him yourself?

It seems that's true.

The kitten next to him saw that his nosebleed seemed to have stopped, so it pulled its head back in, looked around, and finding no danger, lay down to continue sleeping.

...

The two lived in peace.

Just as He Zhou was about to continue drawing the Calabash Brothers, another batch of popularity points suddenly appeared.

[Popularity increased by 0.003]

[Popularity increased by 0.003]

There are a few more comments below.

[Oh no, even though I love watching action anime, I have to say, the interaction is pretty good.]

[Don't delete this interaction. In such a grotesque place, he and the kitten seem like normal people.]

[Tian Xiaoxi herself said that the difficulty increases exponentially in a step-by-step manner. She admitted that the difficulty of the demons is too unbalanced. Everyone should laugh more for now, just in case they can't laugh anymore someday.]

"Depend on!"

"How did it get stuck at the crucial point?"

After finishing watching the latest episode today, Xiao Liu felt a pang of anxiety as he watched the Calabash Brothers rescue their grandfather one by one.

I don't know why, but the more I look at those Calabash Brothers, the more pleasing they seem to me.

It even made me feel like crayon drawings had become art!

Art is abstract!

Otherwise, take a look at the heavily edited version that Tian Xiaoxi posted in the comments section; it exudes a refined ugliness.

...

Xiao Liu posted a comic strip in the group chat as usual, urging for updates. He glanced at the group, which still had only about twenty people, and couldn't help but sigh.

Tian Xiaoxi's comic has a full sixteen chapters explaining the setting, followed by six chapters of background story and the male protagonist's story.

With such a long backstory, and given that it's in the action anime category and has a title like "Yokai City" that sounds like something a newbie would come up with, it's quite a lot of material.

The comments section is also full of: 【The author is an old eunuch reincarnated, run!】

[You old eunuch, do you think we won't recognize you just because you changed your name? I've already memorized your opening style!]

"With so many buffs, it seems unlikely that this comic will ever become popular."

"That long opening already takes up 80% of the site, and the comments section takes up another 30%. Her reputation is so bad that it's worth 10% of the website's revenue..."

Even though Xiao Liu was a fellow struggling cartoonist like Tian Xiaoxi, he couldn't help but worry that she might revert to her old ways...

"never mind."

"Since the next chapter hasn't been released yet, I'll play a game first."