Pet boy under the snow

"This is too slow," Baizhi shook his head, "I'll draw a sketch for you to use as a reference."

"Talking to you is really exciting!"

Ying Lili heard the inexplicable anger in her heart, took a sip of the water on the table, then put down the water glass heavily, and stared at Shirachi with fierce eyes, "This kind of understatement, really Really, super irritating!"

Ying Riri was invited by Kagurazaka to work as an illustrator. Because she liked Shirachi’s work, she offered to work as an illustrator for Shirachi's novels. It was a very happy thing at first, and she even looked forward to it. Meet Shirachi.

As a result, when she met Bai Zhi, she deeply realized the gap between reality and fantasy.

She didn't expect that this light novelist... can paint by herself.

"But I don't know how to paint with that kind of machine, so I need paper and pen." Bai Zhi said.

"Are you talking about a digital tablet? What kind of old man are you? Now there are digital tablets that draw on paper and then synchronize on the screen. You should almost adapt to the times." Ying Lili said disgustingly, but still went I took paper and pen in the room.

Baizhi closed his eyes and recalled it, and soon opened it again, took a pen and typed a draft on the table.

Ying Lili curiously stood behind Bai Zhi and glanced at his paintings, and had to admit that Bai Zhi did have the ability to dictate.

"Please refer to this picture. Everything is still based on your own paintings. This is just for you to hope that you don't draw the wrong way. Otherwise, the consequences may be a bit serious..."

After a while, Shiraito put the painted illustration in front of Ying Lili, picked up a senbei on the table and bit down, stood up, "I have to go to the editorial department first, if there is any problem, um... I can’t get in touch for the time being. I’m going to buy a cell phone tomorrow, so just watch the painting.”

"Don't speak in such a perfunctory tone, you fool!"

Baizhi gave Ying Lili a thumbs up, to the effect of encouragement such as "You can work hard if you do it."

"Hey, when will my manga be returned to me?!" When Shirachi left the mansion, the girl behind him shouted at him.

"I'll give it back to you when I come here next time." Shirachi knocked on his head, Ying Lili would have forgotten about this if he didn't tell me, I have to say that the strategy tutorial is still quite useful. Let me borrow another set of books by the way.

After leaving the house of Eriri, according to the old method, Shirachi found a relatively hidden place and used the space transmission to the editorial department. He planned to discuss with Kagurazaka about the publication interval of the third volume, and also painted Eriri by the way. The second volume illustration of the book is given to Kagurazaka.

According to Kagurazaka, if a work is popular, the subsequent publication time interval should not be too long to keep the popularity, but this "not too long" is a very vague concept. How long is the appropriate interval? What?

This is something that requires careful thinking and repeated discussion.

Bai Zhi knocked on the door of the office and was about to open the door. He put his hand on the doorknob and hesitated again.

What is this feeling...?

An uncomfortable breath overflowed from the door, and Shirachi waved his hand, as if to drive the breath away.

He opened the door, and the black-haired girl wearing a white headband came into view. Xia Zhiqiu was lying at the table, as if sleeping soundly.

But the girl's slightly frowned brow told Bai Zhi that the other party was not sleeping well.

There is no doubt that the uncomfortable feeling just now emanated from the senior Kasugaokaoka.

At this time, Shirachi was patted on the shoulder. He turned around and saw Kagurazaka beckoning to him, and whispered: "Let Xiaoshi sleep first. I guess I haven't slept well these days. , Let's change office."

Didn't sleep well?

Shirachi looked back at Kasumigaoka and followed Kagurazaka to the next office.

"What's wrong with Kasugaoka-senpai?" Shirachi took the paper cup handed over by Kagurazaka and placed it on the table, and then asked his doubts first.

Obviously he was still chatting with Xia Zhiqiu on the line two days ago. At that time, he didn't feel anything wrong with her. Could it be the trouble that only happened in the past two days?

In other words, she already had some troubles at that time, but she couldn't see any problems from the text chat.

But even so... the negative emotions that just hit the face were too exaggerated.

Chapter 196

"Is it just because of the sudden death of volume 6 sales?"

After roughly listening to Kagurazaka's explanation, Shirachi showed a puzzled expression, "And when I was chatting with her two nights ago, I felt she was fine."

"Chat? Do you mean chatting on the line? Just judging a person's mood from words is inherently unreasonable." Kagurazaka shook his head, "I called Xiao Shi yesterday. But she didn't answer. At first I thought it was too busy, but after making three or four intermittent calls, I realized that something might have happened to her."

"Then I went to her house this morning... I saw her look a little bit decadent, so I took her over by the way. It might be better to walk outside more." Kagurazaka said with a wry smile again. "But it seems that she hasn't slept for the past two days. She went to sleep on her stomach when she got to the office, and she didn't mean to chat with me."

Bai Zhi tilted his head, and pondered for a while, and said in a bit puzzled manner: "It's just the sales volume that shouldn't let Senior Sister Xiazhiqiu suffer such a blow, right?"

"Maybe it's not just the sales." Kagurazaka sighed. "In fact, I felt that Xiao Shi's mentality was a bit problematic a long time ago. I didn't have confidence in myself, and it was easy to get lost. If there is no one to guide me, She can easily walk into a dead end."

"Well, anyway, Xiao Shi is also from my side, and I will take care of her affairs. Bai Zhijun, let's solve your current novel problems first, so I can deal with Xiao Shi's problems."

"It might not be enough if you just enlighten... Nor, if the enlightenment is good, then there should be no problem." Bai Zhi remembered the extremely uncomfortable breath that he had just felt before opening the door.

Unlike the "Shen Yin" in Liumei before, the monsters in Xia Zhiqiu are much stronger than before... or in other words, the temper is worse.

Although she can use her spiritual power to carefully expel the "dirty things" in her body, it requires precise spiritual power control, and it will take a lot of time and energy during this period. If it is Yukino, he does not need to hesitate these things, but he and Senior sister Xiazhiqiu's relationship is not good enough to make him pay so much.

But at any rate, she was also a senior at her job, and she accepted her invitation two days ago. Even if she doesn't use that simple and violent means, she can consider other ways to help.

"Maybe it would be better to enlighten it slowly and let the monsters come out by themselves." Bai Zhi muttered to himself after a while in thought.

"Youkai?" Kagurazaka looked at Shirachi with a puzzled look.

"It's okay," Shirachi came back to his senses, and shook his head, "By the way, this is the illustration of the second volume. Ying Lili asked me to give it to you, and this..."

"What is this?" Kagurazaka took the pile of manuscript paper and asked casually.

"The manuscript of the third volume."

The hand holding the manuscript trembled slightly, and Kagurazaka looked at Shirachi with a strange look.

"Obviously the second volume hasn't been published yet, you even finished the third volume...?"

Seeing Shirachi nodding confidently, Kagurazaka suddenly sighed, "If every writer could do this, how much trouble could I save!"

"Do you have any thoughts about the publication date?" After a sigh, Kagurazaka's eyes turned to Shirachi again.

"I don't quite understand the issue of publishing, so I leave it to you to deal with it. I'm just responsible for writing the work." Bai Zhi replied.

"Hello, at any rate, the cost of the first volume is so much, and you want better results in the follow-up? Is it really okay to throw these questions to me without even thinking about it?" Kagurazaka murmured.

Bai Zhi was startled, "How much is the cost of the manuscript?"

"Don't you know how much the manuscript fee is?" Kagurazaka turned on the computer that was just turned on and clicked on a data map.

The above is a line chart, the first few dots have very small fluctuations, and there is even a downward trend, but from a certain point, this line began to grow wildly, and then it has not fallen again.

Kagurazaka pointed to the place where the data increased wildly, "This is the second day after you performed the stage play. The data of the novel began to grow rapidly. That afternoon I contacted various departments to put a lot of advertising resources into your work. So the data has been growing up since then."

Bai Zhi nodded, without any fluctuations on his face.