The book officially ends here. I wonder if you are satisfied with the ending?

Regarding the ending, when I first considered it, I did have several choices, and finally I chose the current happy ending among many endings.

Why not an ordinary success plus a leaving ending?

Although the beginning of this book starts directly from being selected by the movie world, it is undoubtedly a process of falling. If you struggle till now, you will just return to the original starting point. Although you have a new understanding of life experience, compared with

Compared with the hardships experienced along the way, these rewards are insignificant. For Soichi, they can't even be regarded as a "good" ending, but more like a "bad" ending, that is, a tragedy.

Among the novels I have read, the books whose tragedies can bring shock and impact have one thing in common. Most of their backgrounds are closely related to the realistic background of the times. The tragedy of the protagonist is the inevitable of the times. If the protagonist ends up

The result is not tragic, but it will make the content of the novel itself lose its meaning.

Obviously, this book is not related to the historical background. There may be some correlations in a certain volume, but they are not related to the whole. Then, if it is finally written as a tragedy, it will actually make the "fantasy" collapse.

Before talking about why, I want to talk about the essence of this book first, that is: what kind of novel is this?

Unlimited streaming? Horror novels? Suspense novels? Science fiction novels?

A little bit different.

Strictly speaking, this book is an...adventure novel, an adventure novel with a survival theme and elements such as suspense, thriller, and science fiction.

This is also the reason why I said above that tragedy will cause "fantasy" to collapse. If it is a tragedy in the end, we will extract the irrelevant elements and the main thing we will see is: a man went out on an adventure and died.

To give a simple example, if in the end the story was written until it was unfinished, Soichi succeeded and he won the opportunity, but what did he get for himself? A colorful life?

See, that's it.

This is a very contradictory point. What appears in books is that it is often more difficult to do good things than to do bad things. The same is basically true in reality. However, reality is reality after all, so we can only accept it. Novels are not. If novels are the same as reality,

The rewards of doing good deeds are far less than those of doing bad things or not doing things, and the entire "pay-return" system will collapse.

I believe you have all played role-playing games (RPG). In this type of game, several options are often given for players to choose. From top to bottom, there are options with decreasing kindness. For example, there is a commission.

, the first item is to accept and ask about the specific situation; the second item is to accept, but intends to cheat to get the reward; the third item is to directly steal the money, and then escape; the fourth item is to kill the client first, and then steal the money.

For the sake of freedom, the game allows players to make arbitrary choices. However, in most cases, the returns from these four options usually decrease in order.

Is this a guide from the game makers to persuade people to do good?

Yes and no.

The reason for this setting is actually a very important reason, that is, the vast majority of players perceive themselves as harmonious and friendly people. Therefore, under this value, the rewards for doing good deeds must be greater than

The reward for doing bad things.

Some people may say that reality is not like this. As mentioned above, reality is reality, and reality may not have rules, but games and novels must have them, and if they are to be accepted by players and readers, they must also conform to the values ​​of the vast majority of players and readers.

Back to the topic, if the evil Wu Wu wins everything, then after Soichi wins, it just disappears, leaving only an opportunity?

No matter how you look at it, the difference between the two returns is quite far.

With a mortal body, he is as good as the gods. Obviously, he should get more, at least more than "everything". Therefore, what you see in your eyes is the ending today, a true ending - stepping on the empty corpse and looking at more

Wonderful distance.

Before writing this ending, I had already left many hints in the book, including the development of the main world, Xiaotai's gamble and reminders, the struggle between high-ranking beings, the movie hell is not an individual, Xiao Zuanfeng signed a contract in exchange for power,

There are also the punishments after the Zodiac's death, etc., all of which pave the way for this good ending.

Some readers may ask, why doesn’t Hell Movie directly increase the rewards?

In fact, by the end, everyone must have understood that only part of these rewards were given by Hell Movie, while the other part were obtained with the help of Xiaotai, who is also a high-ranking being. The reason why Xiaotai helped this

The situation is also because of Cang Yi's insistence on the future.

Why do you say that? It can be seen from the difference between Mirror Ghost's treatment of Xiao Zuanfeng and Xiao Tai's treatment of Cang Yi. The former only provides survival, while the latter provides life. Xiao Zuanfeng wants to escape all the time, but Cang Yi's choice

They stay and build together. As an agent, Kotai obviously understands actors better than the fanatical fan Kageuki, and he also knows how to truly retain actors instead of letting them stage a great escape again.

It can be said that Xiao Tai made Cang Yi's deep dream become a reality. On the other hand, if Cang Yi didn't really believe in all this and fight for it, then Xiao Tai would not choose to create such a living environment.

They are all connected to each other. As for whether you can return to your own real world?

World, when the contract was signed at the end, it was actually clearly stated that no matter where Soichi wanted to go, Kota would not interfere. This is the real world, and the same is true for other actors. Moreover, because it is the relationship between Time Tombs

, the flow rate of the real world is different from that of the city in the cloud.

In terms of scoring this ending, on a 10-point scale, I would give it a 7.8. I couldn’t get it higher than 8, mainly because of two points. The first is that the update is too slow, and the second is that there is no sense of suspense and thriller. In fact, it leads to the first point.

The reason is precisely because of the second point. Although I have been trying to add more elements, the result of each attempt will only make the scene more chaotic and the rhythm worse. After all, the sudden turn of the plot is also due to some uncontrollable factors. All

Everything is mixed together and I don't know how to deal with it.

Many times I have wondered whether I should settle the account halfway.

After careful consideration, I insisted on writing because I thought that I might encounter a similar situation in the future. No matter what, suffering will come to you sooner or later. This time I was a eunuch, but what about next time? Is it still a eunuch? A serialized novel

It is extremely easy to encounter this kind of situation, and timely adjustment should be considered a required course for every author.

So, I just persisted.

But at the end of writing, I really felt exhausted. It was as if the idea of ​​​​continuing writing was thrown into a frying pan and kept stir-fried. It was torture. And I can feel that most readers who have been following along also feel the same way.

To be honest, there are very few novels that can torture both the author and the reader at the same time. Most of them are the author torturing the reader - the author enjoys himself, and some are the reader torturing the author - the author's thinking is affected.

Some people may say something like, "Actually, this is a character in the novel coming to life, acting according to his own will, and trying his best to get a good ending for himself."

If someone really thinks this way, I'm happy, but it would be better if these characters could code themselves.

Back to the topic, since the charm has been lost, why does it still have a score of 7.8?

After all, this is a novel for practicing writing, and I still have a long way to go in this regard. If it is just to experience the excitement and horror in the copy, this book will indeed be sometimes magical and sometimes poisonous. However, if

Looking at the entire book in stages, everything makes sense.

In the first three volumes, I did not let Soichi get too involved in the core plot. To put it simply, he was a sidekick or a companion. This was a process of adapting to the new environment. Strictly speaking, when I was writing the first three volumes, the core of the story was

In fact, it is not the characters, but the story itself. Just like many modules and scripts, the core is not the participating characters, but the storyline, or the "author's trick".

Obviously, due to the lack of narrative fluency and writing experience, the feedback was very poor and readers were completely unable to take the role.

After comprehensive consideration, changes were made in the fourth volume.

Although according to the original arrangement, the fourth volume is indeed the protagonist's process from the edge to the center, the growth of this process is indeed a leap, and it has also obtained the core golden finger, which runs through the whole text.

Before the team is established, the protagonist in this stage grows rapidly. Naturally, this is also the moment when many readers feel most comfortable. Obviously, it turns out that everyone likes to read cool articles.

This is the second stage. Cang Yi's strength has grown explosively. The strength here refers not only to combat power, but also combat experience, or what some readers call intelligence. In fact, for me, it didn't do much, it just divided the original distribution.

The ideas and roles given to the supporting characters have been reduced and moved to the protagonist, and that's it.

The story is still the same story, and the plot is still the same, but a small change can give readers a completely different feedback. If we want to talk about the difference, this is the charm of the hero/protagonist.

Who doesn't like to be a hero?

Let’s talk about the next book here. The next book will probably be at this stage. I prefer personal adventure stories, so that the focus will be on the story rather than team disputes. After all, in many games I have played

, I don’t even want to take mercenaries with me who can help. I prefer to let the protagonist enter the cave alone.

I'm going too far. As I mentioned before, Cang Yi's strength grew very quickly and quickly reached a bottleneck. If he improves again at this time, he will become beyond ordinary people. Therefore, the entire book progresses to the third stage - establishment.

team.

I don’t know if you have played the adventure puzzle game Trinity. You can complete the levels through cooperation between different characters. Similarly, the team between actors is established to deal with this, because it is not convenient for a single person to grow in strength, but a team can grow.

Go to a higher position, and you will definitely build a team according to the main line of the story.

I have already talked about this aspect before, so I won’t repeat it again.

It is worth mentioning the backgrounds of Hawkeye and Qian Jiangyue. In fact, there are reasons for the arrangement of the two people in the ending, such as the place where Hawkeye died - deep space, and the title of the chapter - sleeping in the sky.

, is the best destination for a warrior, he

After chasing the truth all his life, he finally fell on the road of resistance. All his motivation came from the past. He was a person who gained strength from the past. From the moment the past was annihilated by the red light, the aura of invincibility shrouded him.

, is also gradually fading.

His death in the deep space also announced that the journey back to hell had lost the most solid backing and the sharpest spear. From then on, death followed him like a shadow, as unstoppable as the collapse of a building.

I wonder if you still remember "As long as Hawkeye doesn't die, nothing will happen to us."

As for Qian Jiangyue, the place of death is the bottom of the abyss, and the title of the chapter is - The Good and Gentle Night. Qian Jiangyue is different from Hawkeye. What he pursues is not the past, but the present. He has many identities, and they can all be connected with each other.

up, it is not an isolated identity, he needs to choose

Which one is himself, which one is the real him, or neither of them? These questions bother him, which also means that when he knows who he is, the arc in him has already

After completing the shining, what awaits him will be "death at night".

Therefore, after learning about Hawkeye's experience in a deep dream, he gradually became aware of Hell Movie's plan. Therefore, before heading to the bottom of the abyss, he should have stayed in the escape capsule, but he still made an irrational decision.

He chose to go back to save Fable and Wutong. His approach was actually resisting the script arrangement of the hell movie. As long as I died, the line of shaping would be broken directly. For this reason, he was even willing to give up.

As a result, as you have seen, the hell movie did not let him die, but followed Wu You to the bottom of the abyss.

Whether it was the selfless dedication of the alienated humans at the bottom of the abyss or the deaths of his teammates, he could no longer maintain his previous ruthlessness. In the end, in order to attract Wu You, he turned to the opposite direction of escape, that is, to the bottom of the abyss, even in the dark

The bottom of the abyss is the dark and closed cave he hates most.

Qian Jiangyue has always been a duplicitous person who always accepts soft words rather than hard words.

If you have an impression, you can find that in the movie "Computer", which is the movie where Soichi first met Qianjiang Yue and Wutong, the first thing he did after he was attacked by ghosts and fell from the stairs
To be continued...