Chapter 69 - Manga Artist (2/2)

After the task was triggered, Meng Fan’s heart was prancing with joy, but he couldn’t say so. He pretended to dissolve his grief and anger into an appetite, making Qin Jiao speechless.

Qin Jiao was powerless as well. “If you eat like this, nevermind ten kilometers, you won’t lose any weight even if you run twenty kilometers a day!”

“I do run twenty kilometers a day, but it’s the first time you’re actually paying for a meal you invited me to!” Meng Fan continued to scarf down the food on the table.

“You’re hopeless! Fine, eat as much as you can!”

“Where are you going?”

“The bathroom. What, are you scared I’m going to run?”

“Yes!”

“Then why don’t you come along?”

…

It was 9 in the evening, and Ah Feng and Cai had just left the dormitory building to pull an all-nighter at the internet cafe. They hadn’t walked far when they were stopped by someone.

“Young master Hu!”

The two shouted out a name that disgusted them but had sounded sweet to Hu Ting Song. They smiled and approached him, asking, “Do you need something from us?”

Hu Ting Song had a solemn expression as he pulled out a handful of cash. “Help me teach someone a lesson. Here’s two thousand HXB for you guys to buy a smoke, as long as you don’t use a knife I can help you cover it up.”

The two smiled, insulting him in their minds.

‘If you want us to teach someone a lesson, then we’ll teach someone a lesson. Who uses a knife for that? We’re not dumbasses.’

They took the money. “Who did our big brother dirty? One word from you is enough!”

Hu Ting Song bit his teeth and forced out two words. “Meng Fan.”

“Who? That fat ass from the animation department?”

Ah Feng stuffed the money he had just received back into the hands of Hu Ting Song. His face turned bitter. “Young master Hu, anyone else would be fine, but him, we really can’t!”

They both remembered the night they had run into Meng Fan when they were ‘helping’ Zhao Chang Gui straighten out Chen Da Qiang. The two wanted to cry at the thought. That feeling of being suppressed by one hand and the pain that followed at any point could not be understood by most people!

They thought about it again and understood why Hu Ting Song was so desperately looking for trouble. It seemed that the victim from the story of “Three thousand is more badass than ten thousand” on campus had been the guy standing in front of them!

Yes, this iron hero could f*cking run ten kilometers. Was that not terrifying!?

Hu Ting Song creased his brows. “You guys are still afraid of him?”

The two nodded in admittance. Cai thought for a moment. “How about, you think about some other ways to deal with him?”

…

Meng Fan still followed his original plan for the evening stream. There were no more novel illustrations, so he decided to draw some mecha. It was just that he had interacted only with Hua Xia’s historical culture growing up. Since he also enjoyed it too, the ‘mecha’ gear had been heavily influenced by ancient Hua Xia history toward the direction of armor.

It was cool to engrave a Gundam with inscriptions of traditional thunderclouds and weavings. It was also convenient to add a yin yang based formation on a transformer!

Meng Fan ended the stream at nine o’clock sharp and continued to ponder his manga job in the studio.

As he thought about it, he took out his phone once again and began to sort through the ideas and inspirations he had collected over the years.

As he sorted through them, Meng Fan discovered he had actually made quite a lot of preparations to create his own manga.

If anything, just the research alone was enough to support a historical type manga’s character, style, and environment design.

And Meng Fan believed it was possible to begin from this aspect.

Although the achievement task of [Manga Artist] made Meng Fan ecstatic to complete it and gain its attributes, it could also be attained quickly. Meng Fan thought it through; he thought that the final product had to have a certain level of quality.

They weren’t strict requirements, but he should at least be able to show it off. No matter what, it had to be worthy of his own drawing skills!