Chapter 3379: Demon Record (2)

The meagre royalties that Yuan Liang earned from making webcomics barely covered rent, let alone kept Ning Shu fed, especially if she wanted to eat meat. It was a bit of a stretch.

It was a bitter, hand-to-mouth existence.

With their living space squeezed and no hunting grounds left, demons had no choice but to live like a human.

They were once wild and untameable demons, but now had to abide by laws and regulations. Otherwise, the Special Investigation Bureau would come knocking.

And once the Special Investigation Bureau took you away… well, no one knew what happened next.

Would you be experimented on? Or butchered for meat? Nobody could say.

After all, humans were terrifying gluttons.

No demon that had been taken in by the Special Investigation Bureau had ever come back.

In the minds of demons, the Special Investigation Bureau was a fearsome place.

It was rumored that the Special Investigation Bureau kept detailed files on every demon.

Ning Shu ate her steaming hot dumplings and, after finishing, turned on her laptop.

She had to earn money. Otherwise, she’d be sleeping on the street, without even shelter from the rain.

She browsed through the webcomic her entrustor was currently working on. It was about an eagle clumsily growing up and arriving in a big city, where it behaved like a total country bumpkin.

Just a silly slice-of-life comedy.

Its popularity was nothing to write home about.

Ning Shu rested her fingers on the keyboard, and a powerful fujoshi urge surged in her heart. She felt like drawing a BL story.

Let’s see… maybe base the characters on the school doctor uncle… the school doctor uncle and… who? The silver-haired guy? Or 2333? Or maybe she should go full-on harem?

Ning Shu cleared her throat. She was a proper, decent girl.

Yuan Liang’s webcomic was still updating. She finished drawing a few pages and uploaded them.

Looking at the meagre payout in the dashboard, Ning Shu really wanted to castrate him out of frustration.

She might as well draw a harem story.

She grabbed her stylus and scribbled a stick figure on her screen.

She had never drawn a comic before and didn’t even know the basics.

So, she looked up some tutorials online and pulled out a guidebook from the bookshelf behind her desk.

Ning Shu decided to continue Yuan Liang’s webcomic as practice.

For the next story… maybe a horror story? After all, she’d experienced one herself. Even if it didn’t succeed, it might earn her enough to eat.

Ning Shu began drawing the characters from Yuan Liang’s story. The result was a bit stiff, since she was copying them.

But she could only take it one step at a time.

She had no idea how long she’d been drawing before she rubbed her sore eyes and put in eye drops.

As she blinked her eyes, she decided to make some meat.

For some reason, she felt ravenously hungry. Her body craved energy.

She had taken a fasting pill before, but it hadn’t helped much.

For an ordinary person, one fasting pill would have been enough to last ten days at least.

Ning Shu tossed a pork knuckle into the pressure cooker, then added a handful of soybeans.

Soy-braised pork knuckle—for bust enhancement!!

She cupped her chest with a sigh.

The pressure cooker began hissing. When she opened it, the rich aroma of meat filled the air.

Damn, it smelled so good. Ning Shu was practically drooling.

She devoured the entire pot of pork knuckle and soup.

Seeing the pile of bones on the table, Ning Shu felt mentally defeated.

As night fell, she climbed up to the rooftop terrace to try and absorb some starlight energy.

While sitting cross-legged, she looked up at the dark, murky sky.

Not a single star was visible.

Even if they were up there, the pollution made them invisible.

That other world had so many moons. Maybe that was why celestial star energy could be used there.

She touched her chin in a pensive gesture. What now?

With no strength to speak of, she would end up with the same fate as her entrustor.

That so-called snake king could supposedly obliterate the heavens and earth in seconds.

Ning Shu still wanted to meet him, knock him flat, and pull down his trousers to check whether he really had two dicks.

There was a long-standing rumor that snakes had two penises, but she wasn’t sure if it was true.

She simply wanted to verify it from a scientific standpoint.

Besides, wasn’t there supposed to be reproductive isolation between humans and animals? How could he and the female lead have offspring?

Her thoughts drifted further and further.

She felt a bit mentally drained.

How exactly was she supposed to draw in celestial star energy?

The pollution was so severe that even the atmosphere couldn’t heal itself anymore.

With the environment in such a state, the only way for this world to avoid complete destruction would be to reset everything and start again.

That would truly be apocalyptic.

There would be flash floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions. Everything would be wiped out.

Then the world would wait quietly for the cycle of life to begin anew.

That was how planes healed themselves.

Humans really were just asking for their own doom.

Ning Shu scratched her scalp. Her hair felt greasy. Her entrustor probably hadn’t washed it in days.

Ah, so this was what being a shut-in was like.

She mulled over how to attract celestial star energy.

She bit her finger until she drew blood, then drew a formation in the air.

This formation acted like a magnifying glass, focusing sunlight—or in this case, hopefully light from the stars in the night sky.

A faint beam of starlight filtered down and landed on the formation in front of her.

Ning Shu quickly scooted forward to bathe in the beam.

She began cultivating Unsurpassable Martial Arts by absorbing the celestial star enegy.

Tiny specks of starlight flowed into her meridians, and eventually gathered in her dantian.

It was pitifully weak—barely anything.

And the starlight that had pierced the clouds was growing fainter and fainter.

Eventually, it vanished entirely.

Ning Shu had to stop cultivating. She looked inward at the few feeble points of starlight in her dantian.

It just wasn’t enough.

And without the moon in the sky, the starlight energy was even weaker.

As the dew settled, Ning Shu headed back down.

Standing by the window, she squeezed more blood from her finger and drew another energy-gathering formation.

A faint beam of starlight streamed through the window, and Ning Shu eagerly absorbed it.

Life as a demon in the modern world was tough.

They used to swallow sun and moon essence and absorb the spiritual energy of the heavens and the earth.

Now? There was nothing.

Ning Shu cultivated through the night, but made no real progress—just lost a lot of blood.

She mopped up the blood on the floor.

Then, she took some noodles from the fridge. She planned to cook them in last night’s pork knuckle broth.

She devoured nearly an entire basin of noodles. The taste was absolutely banging.

After eating, Ning Shu opened her laptop and went back to drawing her webcomic.

Her drawing wasn’t great, but it was practice.

She started brainstorming ideas for a new webcomic.

Even while yawning, her hands kept moving, and she felt like she was floating in a trance-like state.

After uploading the webcomic update, Ning Shu idly sketched attractive characters in her notebook. Visually pleasing characters made people happy just by looking at them.

Whether a webcomic succeeded or not depended on the character designs and personalities.

She had to put some real thought into it.

By noon, she was hungry again. She grabbed some snacks and nibbled while drawing.

Fortunately, she had some embroidery skills, which helped with illustration.

It would have to be slow, steady progress.

Making a living was already hard enough.

Making a living as a demon among humans? It was even harder.

Ning Shu had to admit, she admired Yuan Liang for being able to make a living this way. It was no easy feat.

Most demons had to do back-breaking labour.

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