Deep in the Living

Chapter 450 Comics
To Rody, the entire sale was like a street market.

A group of customers and shop owners who did not sleep in the middle of the night all gathered on the first floor and traded freely.

There are indeed interesting things, but the so-called special commodities are mostly curious things, and they are mainly slave trades, which Rody is not very interested in.

As for the weapons Hua Yuan wanted, there was not even a speck of them in a place like this. No one would come here in the middle of the night to buy terrifying weapons.

Due to the special nature of the sale, supermarket employees will not provide any shopping guides, and what you can buy and what buyers and sellers you can meet all depends on luck.

The candle in my hand has burned halfway.
The only thing they gained was that they ate a lot of delicious food for free and held two glasses of sweet and delicious sparkling wine in their hands.

Roddy is currently only interested in Jason suits, or other similar "corner peripherals".

Hua Yuan was completely obsessed with finding weapons, and basically asked every seller she met, which made her more and more annoyed and impatient.

Or,

It seemed that her impatience had existed for a long time, but it was gradually magnified because she couldn't buy anything in the supermarket.

This impatience and restlessness even gradually led Hua Yuan to express his masculine characteristics.

It was not Wu Wen's arrival,

Nor was it the ambiguous behavior of other sisterhood members towards Roddy.

It’s not that she hasn’t found any weapons yet, Hua Yuan herself doesn’t like using weapons.

But... watching Rody advance in the real death game and feeling the changes in him.

Whether it was the pituitary space with a lunar structure or the special black tree bud, Hua Yuan felt "threatened".

Since becoming a fake human, Hua Yuan has been most proud of his talent and strength.

However, the talent of the man in front of her was superior to hers, and he still maintained his [human form] and did not take the initiative to retreat into a corner and become a monster.

If this continues, she will be left far behind until she disappears.

This is the real cause of the irritation.

She just couldn't express it.

As the two of them walked together, Luo Di could clearly feel that Hua Yuan's breathing had become unstable. He did not look like a mature plant at all, a powerful monster favored by his grandmother.

"Hana... I feel like you've been very impatient lately? You were fine when we first met before, so I guess I'm not wrong?"

"I wasted a whole day without buying anything good, and I have so much money on me that I can't spend. How can I not be impatient?
Unlike you, you can pick out your favorite things as soon as you come in. I should have stayed in the sisterhood to rest. Forget it, I won’t go shopping anymore! I’ll go back to sleep and buy a plant pot tomorrow.”

“Go shopping again, maybe you can find something good.

Since the supermarket employee said that the sale is a special event, it must have its unique features, which we may not have encountered yet.

Actually, I personally feel that Hua Yuan, you don't need to use weapons.
Your abilities are inherently aggressive, so it would be good to focus more on your own development.

See if there is any special jewelry or clothing that can enhance your abilities."

"Don't talk nonsense, go shopping if you want."

Hua Yuan drank the wine in the glass in one gulp. The alcohol could numb his irritable mood a little.

She asked a passing employee for another cup, and then drank the second cup...

When this glass of pure white sparkling wine was placed in front of Hua Yuan, her eyes looked through the wine and after some strange refraction, she suddenly caught a glimpse of something.

Put down the glass and look:
"what is that?"

Following Hua Yuan's questions,
Luo Di, who was being recommended various performance-enhancing pills, also looked over there.

The entire sale was mainly in the form of sales by individuals and various small stalls, and shops were rare.

The place you are looking at now is an inconspicuous old shop tucked into a corner.

On the blue glass door, the word "Comics" was taped with red tape.

“Are there any comics for sale?”

Luo Di thought that the books that Libet often read might be bought in the supermarket. And there were many people selling CDs here, so it was normal for a comic book store to appear.

He had no intention of going over.
But his hand was held by Hua Yuan.

"Let's go over and take a look."

"Hua Yuan, do you feel anything?"

"Hmm... It's a strange feeling. The stamens in my body are reacting and are all gathering towards the comic book store. Maybe there is something I want in there."

"It's really strange. The profit from selling literary products should be very low. There's no need to open a store. A street stall will do. Let's go and take a look."

Luo Di looked around and saw that the night customers were just passing by the comic book store. No one wanted to go in, not even a glance.
They seemed to be the only two who noticed the comic book shop and approached it.

The blue glass was wrapped in an old stainless steel frame, and the pulley rollers were a bit stuck and required a little force to push open.

Several old tungsten filament lamps in the store were still working hard, even though they could only emit a very faint light, not even as bright as the candlelight in the two people's hands.

The bookshelves on both sides are filled with comic books of various forms and strange styles.

Just looking at the cover gives me an indescribable sense of weirdness.
Rody's casual gaze fell on a comic book titled "Fish". For a moment, he actually smelled the fishy smell, the stench, and even felt that the air he exhaled had a strange smell.

The old spine drove the pituitary gland, and various tentacles moved inside Roddy's body, expelling the abnormal feeling, and his vision quickly shifted away from the comic book.

Roddy also noticed that the concentration of fear entities in this store was extremely high, but they did not invade the two people, but lingered in the comic books.

Hua Yuan's gaze was always looking straight ahead, towards the depths of the comic book store, towards the owner at the innermost part.

A middle-aged man in his fifties,
Yellow skin and black hair,

Wearing very simple frameless glasses, holding a black dip pen that looks like it is wrapped in hair,

It looks like a comic strip is being drawn.

When Rody looked at this person, he felt a sharp pain in his brain, and even his sealed tongue was twitching slightly.

He originally wanted to pull Hua Yuan to remind him, but Xi Nao quickly analyzed the current situation and came to certain inferences. He did not stop him and followed Hua Yuan forward.

The two men walked all the way to the counter, but the boss still didn't look up and was still busy drawing his comics.

There aren't a lot of tools on the desktop.

Ink, white paper, and the weird black dip pen in the boss's hand, with hair actually tangled in the pen body.

He seemed to be drawing the cover of a comic book, which depicted a graceful woman, but the woman's face was always blank.

After all the lines were drawn, the boss slowly raised his head.

"Would you two like to buy some comics? Are there any you like?"

Luo Di was not interested in comics and shook his head.

Hua Yuan asked directly:

“Are there any comics for me?”

"Oh..." The middle-aged boss nodded, as if he understood Hua Yuan's deeper needs, "Yes, but it will be very expensive."

"how much is it?"

"You need to give me all the dimes you have, no matter how much."

Normally, upon hearing this, the two would turn around and leave, but the situation now is a little different.

Since Luo Di could see the abnormality of this comic book store and the hidden danger of the owner, Hua Yuan naturally noticed it early on.

Hua Yuan took out all the money from her purse, but did not give it away directly.

"What kind of comics can you give me?"

"The comic with you as the protagonist... You are very confused now, but you don't seem to understand this confusion. The adults in your family didn't teach you how to use it, but advocated that you develop freely.

This mess is perfect for my comics, so pay me if you can.

Although this money is far from enough to cover the cost of the painting, your face inspired me, so you have this opportunity.

And the fact that comic books aren’t necessarily entirely beneficial, and that they could kill you, also indirectly lowered the price, allowing us to strike a reasonable deal.”

Luo Di originally wanted to remind Hua Yuan that the main purpose of this shopping trip was to buy plant pots. Once they were all spent, he would not be able to buy anything tomorrow.

Hua Yuan was very decisive and handed over the entire purse.

The boss poured all the quarters into one of the drawers and looked up at Hua Yuan again.

“Keep smiling and look at me… Don’t move. It’s best to imagine me as the person you want to kill the most, but you won’t kill me right away.

Yes, yes! That’s the expression, very good.”

The boss's dip pen fell again, landing on the blank face on the paper that had not yet been drawn, and directly reproduced Hua Yuan's appearance perfectly.

That smile,
that look,
Lifelike,

Even Rody, a bystander, was terrified.

Finally, the teardrop mole at the corner of the eye makes Luo Di even more infatuated.

He knew that Hua Yuan was very beautiful.

But at this moment, the woman drawn on the paper was so terrifyingly beautiful that even Rody's body had a strong reaction.

Cover painting completed.

The boss took out the comic book content that had already been drawn, bound it into a book, and gave the comic book a name.

"deep"

When Rody looked at this word, he seemed to really feel like he was falling into an abyss, but the abyss was not pitch black, but filled with the corpses of countless people.

The comic book was handed to Hua Yuan.

Her previous impatience seemed to have disappeared as she maintained a long model smile. She became a good girl and even her body size shrank a lot.

"thank you boss."

She thanked the boss like a girl, then took Rody's hand and prepared to leave, walking faster than before.

He seemed eager to find a quiet place to read comic books, or perhaps Hua Yuan sensed the danger in the store and wanted to take Luo Di away quickly.

Just as the two were about to walk out of the store, the boss's voice came from behind:

"Young man, how is Mr. Kraft doing lately?"

"I don't know. I haven't met him yet."

"That's it, it's a pity."

The boss said nothing more and continued to immerse himself in his creation. In the ink bottle on the upper right corner of his desk, he could reflect the customers in the supermarket who were suitable for comic creation.

Perhaps any selected customer might get a chance to be “weird” once.

(End of this chapter)