Chapter 46: Aiwei's Comic Manuscript

The Fog City incident.

Her predecessor had also heard people speak of it.

It is said that in the Royal Capital of the Frost Kingdom—Winter City—a thick fog once rose and enveloped the entire city.

People walking on the streets could not even see the environment three meters around them.

That fog lasted for a full five days, causing the deaths of tens of thousands in Winter City.

This event not only caused major media outlets to scramble to report on it, but also forced the Frost Kingdom to begin taking the environmental damage caused by factories seriously.

After issuing a series of laws and regulations regarding factory smoke emissions, they spent a massive amount of money to plant greenery on a large scale within the city, in hopes of further reducing the pollution factories caused to the city's air.

Unfortunately.

Neisen's wife had already contracted tuberculosis due to the terrible air in the Royal Capital long before that fog.

And in the Frost Kingdom, where penicillin had not yet been discovered and effective treatments for tuberculosis were lacking, contracting this disease was almost equivalent to a death sentence.

As for Yun Mu.

Although she could not be called a poor student before she transmigrated, she was also far from the top students in anime and novels.

Regarding penicillin, she only knew that such a thing existed.

How to discover it, and what to do after discovering it, she was completely clueless.

Even if she knew, what could she do? After all, Neisen's wife had already passed away before she transmigrated.

Therefore, regarding Neisen's plight, Yun Mu could only remain silent for the time being, until he finished venting the emotions in his heart.

"Sorry."

After a long while, Neisen's mood finally calmed down; he first apologized, then walked to the corner of the room.

There sat a square, iron safe.

The lock on this safe looked much simpler than the one on the top floor of the Painter Association, but Yun Mu, who only possessed Lv2 Lockpicking, could still only understand a little bit.

As for how to unlock it, she had absolutely no clue.

She watched as Neisen fiddled with the safe for a while, soon opening the safe door and taking out a square wooden box.

After taking out the wooden box, Neisen's expression suddenly became very serious.

"I won't open this box," he said.

"Why?"

Yun Mu looked curiously at Neisen, who had retreated several steps back.

"Once you open the box, you will understand everything."

The other party had no intention of explaining, only saying a very strange sentence.

"Alright."

Yun Mu was left somewhat confused by Neisen, but since he asked her to open the box and look, she would just open it and see.

Thinking this, Yun Mu opened the lid of the wooden box.

However, the moment she opened the lid, she keenly noticed the Spirituality in the air suddenly beginning to boil.

Hm?

This is a Supernatural Item!?

Before she could react, a strange stream of information surged into her mind.

My name is Jenny, I am nineteen years old this year, my father is the Baron of Rolling Stone Town... No, what kind of nonsense is this!

Yun Mu shuddered all over, the Spirituality in her mind surging, instantly correcting her disordered cognition.

"What is your name now?"

On the other side, Neisen looked at Yun Mu with a nervous expression.

"Don't be nervous, Mr. Neisen, I am Yun Mu."

She roughly guessed the reason for his nervousness, so she immediately stated her identity.

"Phew."

Hearing Yun Mu's words, Neisen first let out a sigh of relief, then looked at her with some surprise, saying: "How did you do that? You were actually not affected!"

Yun Mu did not answer Neisen, but instead looked at the papers stacked together in the box and casually cast an inspection on them.

【Aiwei's Comic Manuscript (Blue)】

【Spell Strength +8 / Precision Correction +5】

【Comic / Romance / Detective / Romantic】

【Skill · Accusation】

【Ranged / Single-target Damage / Spell Strength】

【Range 8】

【Base Precision 210 / Damage Correction -100% / Impose Identity 210%】

【Impose Identity: Manipulate the target into joining your team for a short period.】

【Passive Skill · Taboo】

【How could the truth be cracked at the very beginning? Those manipulated by the manuscript will be unable to directly reveal any information related to the manuscript or the manuscript's owner.】

【A comic manuscript co-created by Aiwei and her daughter Tina during the final year of her life. The comic is adapted from the first detective novel written by Nathan Avar, Night of Rolling Stone Town, telling the romantic story of Jenny, daughter of the Rolling Stone Town lord, Baron Hast, and Tris, a detective from the Royal Capital, solving a case together and falling in love.】

This was actually a Supernatural Painting that had already stimulated its Spirituality!

It was only because the Ether inside the painting was currently unstable.

Everyone who came into contact with it would be passively affected by the painting's skill.

If Yun Mu were not a Transcendental, she would have already been hit just now.

"You can tell me the information about the manuscript now."

Yun Mu waved her hand, manipulating her Spirituality to clear away the abnormalities on Neisen's Ether Body.

It was merely an ownerless Supernatural Item; such influence was not profound, and she could disperse it with a casual wave.

"I can speak about the information in the manuscript now?"

Neisen felt extremely surprised after hearing Yun Mu's words.

He first said a few random words to test it, and after confirming that he could truly speak freely, he told everything he knew.

As it turned out, Neisen had found these manuscripts while cleaning the room after his wife, Aiwei, passed away.

At the time, these manuscripts were kept in a wooden box; when Neisen checked the wooden box and opened it, he was influenced by the manuscripts inside on the spot.

He had mistaken himself for Baron Hast, the lord of Rolling Stone Town in the Comic world, and perceived Tina as his daughter, Jenny.

He could no longer remember what exactly happened during that period.

It was only afterward that Tina told him they had made an agreement: to publish Aiwei's manuscripts in the Frostfall City Weekly newspaper.

The price was to keep Tina away from a detective named Tris.

This left Neisen feeling both terrified and unable to laugh or cry.

Although he did not understand why his wife's manuscripts had become like this, Neisen thought about it and decided to fulfill his agreement with Tina.

After all, he had promised it while under the control of the manuscripts, and not knowing what would happen if he failed to fulfill the agreement, he could only bite the bullet and do it.

But let alone publishing the content of the manuscripts, even opening the wooden box carried the risk of being controlled.

He could not even see the content on the manuscripts at all.

If he were to go to the newspaper office to print the Painting Paper, wouldn't all the employees responsible for printing go mad?

With no other choice, Neisen could only think of a compromise.

Although he could not see how the Comic on the manuscripts was specifically drawn, he was very clear about the plot of the manuscripts!

After all, that was the first detective novel he had written before he became an editor-in-chief.

It was also because of this novel that he met Aiwei.

This book had a very important meaning to him.

So, the problem of the plot was solved, but who would do the Painting?

In any case, Neisen himself could not paint.

And as it happened, Tina was an Apprentice at the Painter Association.

Thus, when he took Tina to the Painter Association, he took the opportunity to register a Painting commission at the association.

However, due to the influence of the manuscript's passive skill 【Taboo】, he could not reveal any information related to the manuscripts.

He could only leave the commission first and wait for the people from the Painter Association to come to his house, then find a way to hint to them what he wanted them to paint.

As a result, several painters all thought he was deliberately making things difficult for them, and in the end, they all left.

And this time, the reason he chose to show the wooden box directly to Yun Mu—

First, it was because he had been influenced by Tina previously, and second, the several painters who came before could not guess his meaning.

So this time, he chose to stake everything on one throw.

PS: The Spirituality of all things in the world will attract each other.

Special people will always encounter special things.

The Believers of the Church call this 【Mission】, while the prophets who possess the ability of prophecy call it 【Fate】.

And you all can call it the mysterious power of the author. (Dog head)

——

The first draft of this plot was actually a dream I had; I wrote the parts I could remember after waking up into the book, and then filled in some details myself.

If only this kind of thing where inspiration comes from sleeping could happen a few more times.

(End of this chapter)