Chapter 238: Futures Market
"Wow! He really looks like Ren, but Ren looks like a madman now, not like in this picture."
"Why do I feel like this is Ren, but Ren isn't really crazy later on, so he dropped out of his studies and became a mangaka?"
Seeing the serious and meticulous "Ren Amamiya" in the photo, and then the strange and abnormal expressions and movements in various videos of Ren, the manga fans began to believe that Ren was stimulated by something and went crazy, as he is now.
"My God, it's the same person. I can only say... Amamiya-sensei seems to have mental problems..."
"What do you think? Amamiya-sensei doesn't seem normal, he seems like a mental patient."
"Huh? I thought everyone was joking, but it's true..."
"Before, Amamiya-sensei was exposed for saying he could fly, and he even had a small Twitter account where he claimed to be a puppy..."
"Didn't Amamiya-sensei say he was hospitalized for gastroenteritis a while ago? Later, his editor said it turned out that Amamiya-sensei ate a bird that a cat had bitten to death, which caused him to be hospitalized for gastroenteritis and food poisoning."
"So outrageous? My God!"
"I heard that Amamiya-sensei rescued and healed the bird, but after releasing it that day, a cat bit it to death. Amamiya-sensei saw the bird when he came back from buying food, and then he took it and ate it."
"Huh? What's the idea?"
"Maybe he just likes it or something. I don't understand how a mental patient thinks."
"Amamiya-sensei seems to have a mental illness... I just don't know what happened."
...
It can only be said that, after all, Ren did not come to this world in the flesh.
Therefore, the original body he occupies still retains many traces in this world.
This naturally includes former friends, classmates, neighbors, and the like.
But, fortunately, the internet in this era has not yet developed enough for everyone to have a smartphone.
Smartphones have only been on the market for two years, and most people still use flip phones, so it has not yet reached the point where Ren's identity is exposed on the internet.
Basically, all former classmates and neighbors will come out to reveal his past completely.
And this post is still circulating on the forum, and Sakura and Ren still don't know about it.
After reading the latest volume of Chainsaw Man, Sakura picked up her things and got up to look for Ren.
...
And at that moment, Ren... was sitting on the sofa in the apartment. Today there was no one else but him.
After all, Yuka and the other two were on vacation.
"System!" shouted Ren.
In an instant, a virtual page that only he could see appeared before him.
[Host: Ren Amamiya]
[Skills: Hard Drive Memory (Diamond)... Kaleidoscope Painting (Master), Game Creator (Master), I Look Ordinary (Platinum), Legendary Musician (Diamond), Finishing Touch (Master), Futures Market (Master)...]
[Points: 2,279,000]
[Current Task: Paper is in high demand in Luoyang: Create a work of any type and receive praise from five million people. Current progress is 4,389,651/5,000,000 (two million points).
Popular ③: Create a work related to existentialism and receive praise from five hundred thousand people. Current progress is 500,000/500,000 (completed)
Popular ③: Create a work related to existentialism, and the work is praised by one million people. Current progress is 598,891/1,000,000 (one million points)
Nobody ④: Create a work about environmental protection, and the work is praised by three people. Current progress 0/3 (100 points)
Voice of a Thousand Miles: Let one million people know your name and have a deep impression of you. Current progress 1,000,000/1,000,000 (completed)
Known by all: Let five million people know your name and have a deep impression of you. Current progress 3,232,901/5,000,000 (100,000 points)
Born with talent: Show your talent and change the world!
According to the different degrees of change, different stages of rewards will be awarded! (Phase 1: Additional skill 100% Luck has been issued... Phase 5: Sacred Sword of Physics has been issued, Phase 6: Finishing Touch (Master), Phase 7: Futures Market (Master), Phase 8 in progress)]
First of all, he was very curious about what the new master-level skill would be after completing the task in Phase 7.
Futures Market...
Why does it seem so powerful and have the word "future" in it?
Previously, Ren had accidentally searched for future and precognition system skills for the system master, wow.
[Prophet's Dream (Master)] [Eighth Sense·Alaya Consciousness (Secret)] [World Electronic Library (Secret)] [Parallel Projection (Secret)] [Laplace's Demon (Secret)] [Omniscient God (Secret)] These skills have a minimum of 3 million points and a maximum of 99.9 billion points! Even at his current level, he still hadn't gotten the necessary points to reach the minimum score of [Prophet's Dream (Master)].
Now there is a master-level skill with terms related to the future.
He is also very curious about its function.
Ren focused his attention on [Futures Market (Master)].
Then... "Wow! The system's mall can produce items that are more than fifty years ahead of the present?" exclaimed Ren, unable to help himself.
You must know that, in addition to skills, the system master's mall also offers various items, such as food, graphics cards, cars, computers, etc.
But these items are limited to the current technological level of this world.
In other words, if Ren had wanted to exchange them for a smartphone before, if this world had not yet invented it, the system's mall would not have renewed it.
But now it's different. Items that are more than fifty years ahead of the present... that is, high-tech items like graphics cards, computers, and cars in the future could appear in the system's mall.
If it's outrageous, humanity will invent drugs that can cure cancer in the next fifty years...
Ren will use them directly to research and develop their ingredients and found a pharmaceutical company...
This can generate more income than drawing manga.
Of course... the system's points still depend on entertainment to earn more.
At the same time, Ren also saw the return of the [Nobody] task, but this is the fourth time it has appeared.
After being the system's host for so long, he knows perfectly well that this means the system wants him to open a new manga.
In fact, he knew that once the previous work was completed to a certain extent, the system would update the requirements of the new task.
However, the system's tasks had no time limit, so he could postpone this one temporarily.
But this time, the task's requirements aroused his curiosity.
"Is it related to the environment?" asked Ren. "This... In my previous life, there was a very famous manga about the environment. It's not entirely related, but in the end, it reminded us all that we must protect it. Forget it!"
Seeing the increase in points in the system, Ren didn't worry about the new tasks for the time being and couldn't wait to say, "System master, I need two new skills!"
The system, which hadn't appeared for a long time, suddenly said in a cold and relentless voice, "Host, please tell me the requirements directly."
"I need a skill that can significantly improve my painting speed, at least double."
"The other is... the ability to deepen my fear and inject it into the painting."
Ren said expectantly, "The system should have those skills, right?".
And this time he was looking forward to these two skills, precisely because... last Saturday, the manga culture editorial department...
"Amamiya-sensei, long time no see," said Takashi to Ren, who was in front of him, with a smile.
"Long time no see."
Ren replied directly, "Chief Editor Takashi, what's wrong?".
"It's like this...".
Takashi didn't waste time. After pouring tea for Ren, he said directly, "The company is planning to launch a new weekly magazine recently...".
"It's called 'Manga Horror Night' and it focuses on the horror manga that have been popular lately."
"So why did you ask me to come?" asked Ren, very confused. It seemed to have nothing to do with him.
"It's mainly for this new magazine. The company asked us to invite some famous mangakas to publish one or two short manga to increase its popularity."
Takashi looked at Ren and said, "So I thought of Amamiya-sensei. It's mainly because his plot and ideas are quite unexpected, which is very suitable for horror manga."
"Here we will offer you a high price of up to one million per short story to buy your work, and we can allow you to temporarily suspend the serialization of Chainsaw Man for a month. Sensei, you can...".
In Takashi's opinion, Ren's unique imagination and his often unexpected ideas are really suitable for the theme of horror manga.
And, in fact, it doesn't have to be scary, it just has to seem scarier; these manga are enough.
Speaking of horror manga, Ren suddenly remembered a famous mangaka from his previous life, famous for his evil, strange, and terrifying manga...
His eyes suddenly lit up, so... It's not impossible...
After all, this can also increase his popularity, right? Right?
However...
"There's no need to stop serializing Chainsaw Man. I have three assistants, so there's no pressure to serialize it."
Ren gave a thumbs up and said confidently, "When the magazine is published, I'll give you this story."
Thus, Ren agreed to Takashi's request and decided to draw a short horror manga.
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