Their commission was suspicious.

I dare not copy the bad news either.

Thinking about it carefully, could it be that my fans who urge me to write, such as Yokai Idler and Magical Girl Merry, are actually people from the bar?

However, there is another piece of good news: since arriving at the bar, the helmet in front of him seems to have lost its connection to what Chen Luo calls the future network.

However, Gretchen was relieved that the images she created were still available for download.

This can be considered a double celebration in a sense.

"Breakfast should be ready by now. You probably used up a lot of energy last night, so you have some dark circles under your eyes. I'll sprinkle some pearl jam on them to help them go away." Chen Luo said as he led Gretchen down to the first floor and retrieved the lovingly prepared breakfast from the bar's automated kitchen.

"Thank you, Brother Chen Luo."

After hearing it so many times, Chen Luo had gotten used to Gretchen's way of addressing her.

"Mmm, it tastes great." Gretchen praised the breakfast after taking a bite.

"By the way, Chen Luo, are you free this morning? I'd like to draw a picture for you. I may not be able to finish it, but it might give me some inspiration," Greta said, her voice slightly muffled as she spoke with a spoon in her mouth.

“No problem. Mornings are usually the most free time for me.” Chen Luo nodded.

Because I'm incredibly busy all the time except for the mornings.

"Oh, right, because Gretchen, your helmet is connected to a future network, it might not be able to connect to that future network after you come to the bar and get it updated," Chen Luo suddenly reminded her.

"Mmm, it's okay." Gretchen didn't care about it, or rather, she was more than happy to accept it.

"However, you don't need to worry about losing your pictures, because from the perspective of 5 years ago, the future you will upload those works one by one to the current group network. Moreover, because your helmet is a gift from me, your account privileges are extremely high. Apart from some things that cannot be viewed in underage mode, the things you post cannot be deleted by anyone other than you. Therefore, your paintings and works will be well preserved."

"If nothing unexpected happens, in a while you'll see your first artwork posted on the group network, created out of boredom while embarking on your interstellar exploration aboard the ark." Chen Luo's expression remained completely unchanged as he recounted these events.

but……

"Cough cough cough!" Gretchen covered her mouth with her hand.

Greta seemed to have heard something very ominous.

In other words... in the near future, I will witness firsthand the entire creative process I have been working on from the past to the present?

And it can't be stopped?

Most importantly, it will be seen by everyone?

Gretchen suddenly had an urge to climb back into the life support pod and sleep for a while longer.

If this is a dream, then it must be a beautiful, yet cruel one.

It's fortunate, but also regrettable, that this is true.

……

"Can I move?" Chen Luo, the model, asked after the bar's first floor had cleared some tables and chairs to make room for the great painter Gretchen's creation and easel.

“No problem, but please don’t move around too much.” Gretchen nodded.

With Gretchen's drawing skills, she could still create a perfect sketch even without looking at Chen Luo, but Gretchen would still add inspiration and Chen Luo's colors to the drawing.

Greta can easily remember other people's colors, but she has a hard time remembering Chen Luo's colors, always forgetting them as soon as she tries to remember them.

Just like the colorful black (white) and the shimmering white (black), it is difficult to remember their specific form.

So this time, Greta rarely needed Chen Luo, the model, to sit in front of her for the whole time, but without a fixed pose.

As a child, Gretchen would pick up the colors of others after spending a lot of time with them, and she would need to express these colors through painting. But she didn't need to do that when she met Chen Luo.

Because Chen Luo's color was like a bubble, Greta couldn't hold onto it at all.

Although spending a lot of time with Chen Luo does make Gretchen more inclined to ask him if he has any wishes, she automatically returns to normal after being separated from Chen Luo for a while.

"By the way, Chen Luo, is it alright to take off my shoes here?"

“Sure. Because some people don’t even wear shoes.” Chen Luo nodded.

After doing so, Gretchen began to space out.

Gretchen's creative process required inspiration, so she would only accept commissions once every 10 days to create a painting for someone else.

After obtaining Gretchen's consent, Chen Luo took out the materials for making the doll and began to make it.

To create a more robust doll for the snowsuit.

In Gretchen's eyes, as Chen Luo picked up a branch of the World Tree and began to carve, a color suddenly flashed across his body. Gretchen seemed to have grasped an inspiration, but the red that represented her love plunged headfirst into the colorful, transparent, crystal-like "color" like a mischievous fish.

Greta has lost her inspiration again.

Drawing is so hard...

So Gretchen began to focus on Chen Luo's movements themselves.

That is, the process of making dolls.

Chen Luo's process of making puppets is pleasing to the eye, because when one's proficiency in a certain skill reaches a level of perfection, one enters a realm where skill is close to the Tao.

Since it is the Dao, it will not make people feel repulsed, unless the attributes are mutually exclusive.

However, the production process for this type of professional crafts rarely encounters any elemental conflicts, so they often appear quite elegant.

For example, alchemists, painters, puppeteers, and so on.

The reason why Gretchen is so captivating when she is painting is because her painting skills are so exceptional.

Gretchen has both talent and the time to practice, so it's no surprise that she became such a strong person.

"Speaking of which, Brother Chen Luo... Marvin said that both the artificial elf itself and the Thorn Crown are doll sets, right?" Gretsch couldn't help but ask as she saw Chen Luo making the dolls.

“That’s right. Both are among the best ways to protect and preserve dolls. Artificial spirits are for protection (because dolls get bored, so mental protection is also a form of protection), while the Thorn Crown is for preservation.” Chen Luo nodded.

Chen Luo didn't mind Gretsch's disturbance, because he had just said that Gretsch could bother him as much as she wanted.

However, while the artificial spirit is Chen Luo's creation, Marvin is Gretchen's creation. Marvin is the embodiment of Gretchen's inner loneliness, and coincidentally, the artificial spirit can be defined, and can be defined arbitrarily, so Marvin became the artificial spirit.

Yesterday, the humanized plugin commented that Chen Luo was raising Gretchen as a doll, and Chen Luo did not refute it.

After all, little Greta is really cute.

Unfortunately, he was corrupted by Alicia in a second when he grew up, and he no longer calls her "brother" but "little brother".

Although I didn't call him "brother" many times when I was younger... I guess it was all Alicia's fault.

"No, I still have no inspiration." After staring at Chen Luo for a full 15 minutes, Gretchen said dejectedly.

But 15 minutes was enough time for Chen Luo to sculpt the puppet in his hands.

The puppetry techniques Chen Luo learned differed from the mainstream puppetry techniques of the Dimensional Sea. If the mainstream puppetry techniques were realistic, then Chen Luo's puppetry techniques were stream-of-consciousness.

Like the Puppeteer, Chen Luo only carves a prototype of a puppet, which is about 90% complete.

Although it may look like an unfinished product, once the other person's soul is transferred into the doll, the doll will merge with the soul and be shaped into the form that the soul should have.

The remaining 10% of the completion is left blank.

The more blank space a doll has, the higher its grade.

Because the more room for maneuver the puppeteer has, the greater the scope for creative expression.

It's like choosing clothes for someone. A 100% perfect doll is the standard size, while leaving blank spaces is like subtracting or adding to the standard size.

The more white space there is, the wider the range of people it can be used for.

However, this does not mean that Chen Luo's basic skills in accurately sculpting puppets are not good enough. In fact, the puppeteer's puppetry skills have extremely high requirements in this regard, even higher than those of mainstream puppeteers.

In the words of a puppeteer, you may not need to use this kind of precise carving, but you cannot be incapable of it.

Moreover, the blank spaces on these dolls are not actually uncarved; rather, all the models that the doll maker can carve are carved into them, but they are not visible. Then, the doll user can choose the appropriate model, which is similar to the character creation system in a game.

Chen Luo can achieve a maximum of 50% blank space, while the World Tree Doll requires 30% blank space... The latter's blank space is roughly equivalent to being unrestricted by race or gender, and can be transformed into any flower, grass, insect, fish, bird, or beast in the world.

After all, who says that world consciousness has to be human?

As Chen Luo's understanding of countless races deepens and his skills improve, the amount of blank space he can leave becomes even greater. The puppeteer's blank space is 100%, and the wood processed by the puppeteer can even be transformed into an ancient giant whale.

As for Chen Luo's pale witch senior sister... she can't yet reach the point where she can leave things unsaid.

However, leaving more than 5% blank space for the Xueyi doll would be a waste, since Xueyi shouldn't be interested in changing her body shape.

"It seems we need to find other methods." After a brief moment of despondency due to a lack of inspiration, Gretsch rallied again.

"Oh, is there anything I can help with or assist with?" Chen Luo asked.

Meanwhile, Chen Luo had already begun using his abilities to extract threads from the leaves of the World Tree, entering the stage of sewing clothes.

“Then, Brother Chen Luo, why don’t you show me what a day in your life is like?” Gretchen said, holding her paintbrush.

"So you're saying you'll be following me around all day?"

“Yes, it’s for research.” Gretchen nodded.

It is said that writers and painters, no matter what they do, can claim they are gathering material.

Traveling is about gathering inspiration, playing games is about gathering inspiration...

"No problem, but remember to remind me if you get tired," Chen Luo said.

“How could that be, Brother Chen Luo? I’ve grown up well over these thousands of years. I’ve even saved the world, you know. How could I possibly be tired?” Gretchen shook her head confidently.

"I meant mentally exhausted... but never mind, it's not a big deal."

Chen Luo thought about it and realized that Gretchen was indeed a minor savior. Even if she felt tired, she shouldn't be too exhausted.

Gretchen is, after all, a fusion warrior.

Moreover, seeing more of other people's colors would be a good thing for Gretsch. After all, Gretsch's abilities have now been enhanced.

“There aren’t many bars where the two of us get up this early, so the first thing we need to do is wake everyone up.” Chen Luo put away the puppet he had finished making and the clothes he had half-knitted.

"Going to the Valkyrie's dormitory? Brother Chen Luo, aren't you not allowed to go into the Valkyrie's dormitory?"

Chen Luo shook his head and said, "No, we're going to the World Tree. We'll go get two more leaves; we don't have enough leaves to weave clothes. Xueyi's clothes are still missing a spare set of white silk... Speaking of which, should I weave you a set of clothes? No, wait, the one you're wearing seems to be something I wove."

“Ah, that’s right. This outfit was indeed given to me by you, Brother Chen Luo. The size and style can be adjusted according to your body condition.” Gretchen nodded.

"Oh no... I might have to take on another job from now on. I hope we have enough leaves from the World Tree." Chen Luo frowned.

Chen Luo seemed to have already anticipated that someone would buy the clothes he had sewn by hand.

But isn't it a bit improper for a bar to sell clothes?

Then Chen Luo led Gretchen, who had put on her shoes, through the bar to the World Tree.

Many familiar faces lay beneath the World Tree until Chen Luo stepped onto the ground.

Like an earth dragon turning over, the people who were sleeping in the Breath of Earth were thrown out of the soil by the Breath of Earth that rose up like ocean waves.

"Get up! I'm awake, and you're not going to be asleep either!"

"..."

Chen Luo's method of waking her up was too rough, leaving Gretchen speechless.

After seeing that everyone had been woken up and offered their warm greetings, Chen Luo walked to the World Tree and took a few leaves from the golden tree to continue making clothes.

After finishing his own business, ignoring the complaints of those who had been woken up, Chen Luo walked to Gretchen's side and fought alongside her.

"How is it? Is it pretty?" Chen Luo asked.

"So beautiful, such pure and flawless colors." Gretchen's eyes were sparkling, and what she saw reflected in them was the World Tree.

After being enhanced by the River God's power, she possessed the Golden Gresh ability. The Great Gresh can now even see the colors of the World Tree. It is because of this that Gresh finds it difficult to paint Chen Luo's colors.

Ignorance is bliss.

A person's knowledge is represented by a circle; the larger the circle, the greater the area of ​​contact with the world, and the clearer one's awareness of one's own ignorance becomes.

The World Tree is indeed precious, but it is not unique. Gretchen dared to look at Chen Luo's color, let alone the World Tree's.

"Here, take this leaf as a souvenir. That way, you can freely enter and leave the park without being disturbed." Chen Luo gave Gretchen a leaf from the World Tree.

"Thank you, Brother Chen Luo."

"Sigh." Chen Luo raised his hand and ruffled Greta's hair.

"On another note, I did see a hint of Paradise in the people I commissioned articles from before. Everyone had it, but they didn't resent having other people's colors attached to them; in fact, they were quite happy about it. I didn't quite understand it at first, but if that color originated from Chen Luo's younger brother, then it makes perfect sense."

Gretchen said, fiddling with a leaf from the World Tree.

Greta's method for accepting commissions is to commission them online, observe them for a period of time, then draw the artwork offline, and finally upload the artwork via her headset.

In that game world, Gretchen can also see the colors of others.