Chapter 245: The Art of Painting
Yuka clicked on the horror movie fan group and typed:
"How do you feel?".
Quick-acting heart-saving pills: "What do you mean? Who are you asking?".
This group member did not participate in the morning's discussion, so he raised such doubts.
Sadako, my wife: "Sister Jie... Don't tell me, this manga you recommended... is quite strange."
Sadako, my wife: "[Image] [Image]".
The two images she sent were the two strangest from the first episode of Vortex: Shuichi's father spinning his eyeballs strangely, and Shuichi's father twisted like a snail.
If it's pretty, ghosts are also fine: "Huh? What is this? Were the characters in this manga created like this by ghosts?"
Ghost massage 300: "No... This guy became like this, and then his bones broke and he died... It's scary."
The ghost-trapped master: "My God, I was scared to death! This manga is so evil. After reading it, I felt like the guy in the manga ran out...".
So handsome as to be chased by ghosts: "Sister Jie, you didn't tell me that the author of this manga is the old rogue Silverhand. My God, the manga drawn by the old rogue Silverhand have a special strangeness!".
Ghost massage 300: "My God! I was scared! It seems I saw the people in the manga moved! I was scared!".
Yuka observed the group's words and her eyes suddenly lit up.
It seems... It's not just me who ran into something evil, but the manga Vortex is so terrifying that it causes hallucinations in those who read it.
Or rather, it's not that Vortex is too scary.
It's that it draws the common vortex patterns of daily life in a terrifying and evil way.
Once the manga fans finish reading it, it's natural for them to feel fear in the face of such common things that are seen everywhere.
That's what Yuka thought, but she was completely wrong.
The reason they had hallucinations after reading the first episode of Vortex was solely due to Ren's master ability, [Living in a Painting (Master)], exchanged from the system.
After obtaining the [Living in a Painting (Master)] ability, Ren understood the principle of this ability.
It is not a supernatural ability. After all, the system cannot produce supernatural abilities.
It is simply a powerful and special pictorial technique, in addition to some psychological suggestion tricks.
Like Leonardo da Vinci's most famous painting, the world-famous "Mona Lisa Smile."
Looking at this painting from any angle, you will feel that the Mona Lisa is looking at you and smiling.
This is the technique and art of painting.
The [Living in a Painting (Master)] ability can give people a great sense of reality, as if the things in the painting are watching them at all times, or even sticking out, thanks to its technique and psychological suggestion.
If the psychological suggestion is deepened, it can cause hallucinations and auditory hallucinations.
Although it sounds fantastic, it is a very scientific method.
In fact, it could be considered something like hypnosis.
Yuka and others experienced that feeling after reading the manga.
They just didn't know it and simply thought they were too scared.
...
Soon, the manga Vortex, written by Ren himself, not only scared Yuka and her friends in the group.
Other manga fans who saw it were also scared.
Mainly, some fans of the manga Chainsaw Man, Edgerunners, and Fire Punch, simply because they saw a new work by Ren.
So they went to see the manga Vortex for its reputation.
Some of these manga fans do not like thrillers or horror.
Therefore, they were scared.
Especially due to Ren's ability [Like Staying in the Painting (Master)], they felt that the strange father of Shuichi in the manga would run out or speak in the coming days.
That kind of psychological suggestion prevented them from sleeping or eating.
The lasting effect of the [Living in a Painting (Master)] ability varies from person to person.
For these manga fans, who do not usually watch horror works, their psychological defenses against the effects of psychological suggestion are very weak.
Therefore, they remained wary for three whole days.
Even those manga fans who usually watch horror works and have extremely strong psychological defenses are not completely immune to the [Living in a Painting (Master)] ability.
They just can only hold out for half a day at most, and then the psychological suggestion disappears.
Curiosity kills the cat.
However, manga fans have started a heated discussion on the internet about the peculiar manga Uzumaki.
"I declare that, from now on, in addition to Fire Punch, the works that the old rogue Silverhand must recommend to others will also include Vortex!"
"The guy above, please behave. Aren't you afraid of being used with the Fire Fist?"
"No, after all, the old rogue Silverhand already stole my heart, and there may be no more joy or sadness in this life."
"Awesome!"
"Forbidden!"
"Scary... The manga Vortex is very scary. I used to dare to watch Hong Kong ghost movies alone in the middle of the night, but I was also scared after watching Vortex."
"Don't say any more. I get goosebumps every time I see a vortex. How did Ren come up with this setting to draw a horror manga?"
"I can only say that we can't understand the thoughts of a person with mental problems. My God, Ren is completely crazy!"
"That image is very scary. The whole person is put in a wooden barrel and turned into a vortex... It's really strange."
"The key is that I feel traumatic stress. The night before I finished reading the manga, I don't know why I always felt that something impure was following me."
"Wow, me too. It's really strange. I thought it was scary when I read it, but after finishing it, the more I thought about it, the more scared I got. I always felt like I had come out of a manga."
"But this manga is scary and strange, but it's very good to read."
"Yes, I love these kinds of horror manga. It turns out that Ren, the old rogue, should contribute his talent to the genre."
"Yes, after all, he is a cyberpsycho, and it's impossible to imagine what settings he would have... It's completely unimaginable that he could draw Vortex, but he actually was able to draw it like that."
"By the way, is this a new serialized short story manga by Ren? He's still serializing Chainsaw Man, right? Is he so amazing that he can open two manga at once?"
"It's because Ren has hired assistants. On the last page of the manga, it mentions that Ren has hired three assistants, so he shouldn't be so busy now."
"Ren has become a great mangaka. He directly hired three assistants... Wow."
"Do you think... just the work Edgerunners, the game copyrights, the film and television copyrights, and the single volume share are enough for Ren to be financially free?"
"Fire Punch and Chainsaw Man are also very popular. The volume of Fire Punch has exceeded one million copies, and that of Chainsaw Man is also a big hit."
"Ren is undoubtedly a genius in the manga industry. He's only been on the market for over two years..."
"Genius? Psychopath! It's impossible to imagine what the plot of his manga will be like!"
"I was shocked by the plot of Chainsaw Man a while ago. They distributed knives left and right, and even directly stabbed Beam and the Violence Fiend."
"Stop talking, wuwuwuwu, my Beam, my violent man."
...
The first episode of Vortex attracted visitors to the first issue of the new manga magazine Manga Horror Night, which generated huge sales.
Ren is now very famous.
Some manga fans, who don't read horror manga, went to buy a copy of Manga Horror Night with the intention of seeing what his new work was like.
Therefore, the first issue of Manga Horror Night had very good sales.
This relieved Takashi, as it was not in vain that he finished reading Vortex that night and spent the whole night scared.
At the same time, he paid more attention to Ren in his heart.
After all, the strength and appeal that Ren demonstrated already slightly resembled the style of those great mangakas.
Over time, his appeal will only grow, and he could become a renowned mangaka like Mr. Fenghuangyuan, creator of the immensely popular manga Purple Air Coming from the East.
Such a promising film, which has already reached its maximum potential, seems to have great untapped potential.
Takashi had a feeling that, whether it was Edgerunners or the current Chainsaw Man, these works, already super popular in their own right, were not Ren's best.
His best works are still on the way!
...
On the other hand, Yusuke Sato watched Vortex again with fear. Since he finished watching it yesterday, he practically didn't sleep well last night.
This is also due to his great curiosity to know if Ren had really released a new work.
And he was also very curious to know what his new work would be.
As the saying goes, curiosity kills the cat.
[Like Staying in the Painting (Master)] With powerful abilities, even the boldest players, accustomed to watching horror movies, will be scared and unable to sleep all night.
Not to mention people like Yusuke Sato, who don't like to watch horror movies.
But...
"As terrible as this kind of horror manga is, it can't escape those routines."
Yusuke Sato shook his head and said, "As terrible as it is, if you can't avoid these routines, you'll just fall into mediocrity."
"Sensei, but I think this Vortex is quite good..." Tang Wei said from the side.
"Yes, it's not bad."
Yusuke Sato smiled, "But as I said, it's inevitable to fall into those vulgar routines of ghosts and gods. In this case, as terrible as it is, that's how it is."
"I see," said Tang Wei suddenly.
And Yusuke Sato was still laughing happily.
He didn't care much about the manga Vortex, and at the same time, he was a little happy.
Ren really started a new work. Does that mean he can no longer compete with him?
It means he admits that Chainsaw Man has lost in the competition with his The Gods.
To be honest, the plot of the previous chapter of Chainsaw Man is quite good. It's unexpected, but at the same time very concise and exciting.
Above all, the investment of Santa Claus's true identity, from which he said he had learned a lot.
But his The Gods did not lose. The popularity of the character Chu Zihan had already skyrocketed, and so had that of The Gods.
Especially the next plot...
The identity of the newly created female protagonist, Xia Mi, is about to be inverted, but she still dies at the hands of Chu Zihan.
The lovers face each other, both sides fight, and the popular protagonist dies violently...
How beautiful that sounds! And then came the climax of the loser!
Yusuke Sato was extremely excited, and the next scene he had been preparing for so long was approaching.
In the end, Chu Zihan took the key that Xia Mi gave him and went to look for traces of Xia Mi's real life.
And at that moment, it would be the last and most perfect representation of Xia Mi.
By then, I think his manga fans will be deeply moved! Yusuke Sato immediately continued working on the draft of the manga The Gods with Tang Wei.
...
And then, for Ren, work and life continued.
It's just that this time there was another serialization of the manga Vortex.
In this sense, the biggest victim was not him, but his assistants, Yuka, Hiroki, and Akutami Yuta, who were the first to see the manga Uzumaki. Even Takashi saw it after he drew it.
They saw it while it was still being drawn.
They even helped complete a series of tasks such as coloring and pasting speech bubbles.
But after returning, Yuka, Hiroki, and Akutami Yuta couldn't sleep for several days.
It wasn't until Ren's [Like Staying in the Painting (Master)] ability faded that they recovered a little.
But it was time to get back to assistant work, with the basic sketches of the second episode of Uzumaki, drawn by Ren.
Yuka, Hiroki, and Akutami Yuta turned pale.
"Huh? What's wrong?" Ren asked with curiosity, looking at the three with pale faces.
Since Chainsaw Man, serialized in Manga World Gogo, premiered on Friday, and Manga Horror Night on Sunday, both were staggered.
Therefore, the delivery dates of both manga do not coincide.
It turns out that Ren can first finish painting Chainsaw Man and then move on to the current painting, Vortex.
"No... nothing."
Akutami Yuta gritted his teeth, stepped forward, and took the draft. "Sensei, I'm going to work!".
Seeing this, Yuka and Hiroki had no choice but to bite the bullet and finish the job.
After all, Ren pays them a salary and treats them so well.
Of course, they have to work hard! So... even if they are scared, they have to finish the work for the sensei! With desperate thoughts, the three went back to work on the draft of Vortex.
Then they saw the cartoon with psychological suggestion in Ren's hand, and then... they were afraid of spending another sleepless night...
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