Chapter 516

It's over! It's over! It's over!!!

The fifth volume, which took nearly half a year, is finally over.

Okay, let me first say what I have to say at the end of each volume.

This chapter is a summary chapter and does not contain the main text. If you don't want to read the author's nonsense, you can skip it directly.

In any case, our fifth volume is finally over.

This is because the middle of the book has passed and the overall pace has slowed down slightly.

Of course, more importantly, I didn't update well in three months in order to prepare for the exam.

This also led to a slow pace during the period of the [Toy War] copy. The writing method of one thousand words in three days also affected my own state.

Although I accelerated the progress as soon as I resumed updating, and did my best to recover the foreshadowing.

But I must admit that it must have had a certain impact on the quality of the copy.

Thank you very much for persisting in that difficult period and giving me great encouragement.

I am grateful beyond words.

Of course, the good news is that the entire [Toy War] copy is not so important from the perspective of the main line.

Its main function is to connect the previous and the next, and to link the next big plot.

Having said that, let's review the plot first - in fact, I have forgotten a little.

The good news is that before the dungeon started, I made a mid-term summary and roughly mentioned the real plot.

This also allows me to not recall it here.

Influenced by it, we will start directly from the fifth dungeon [Toy War].

There is actually no special reason to choose this dungeon to describe.

Since Chapter 18, when Gao Yi completed [Heart Strange Mist] and obtained the [Toy War], readers have been saying that they want to see the story of [Toy War].

To be honest, I really wrote a few tickets casually at that time.

At that time, I didn't even think carefully about which horror movie to correspond to.

After all, in my mind at that time, this level 8 ticket should be traded or thrown away in a while.

Considering that the first dungeon I entered was a level 5 one, and our protagonist had to move up more and more.

Then came the [Mechanical God] of "Star Coin 4" and [Seven Days of Resurrection] of "Holy Grail 3".

Although I also wrote [West Side Story] of "Sword 7" in the second copy, it was just a stepping stone to get through the novice period.

Who would have thought that in the middle and late part of this book, when the protagonist became stronger and stronger, he entered the "Sword 8" copy with little strength.

At this point, we have to analyze the copy in our hands.

The source of the entire [Toy War] is naturally the classic "Five Nights at Freddy's" series.

But I must admit that I am not a loyal fan of this series. Although I have played two of its works (I remember that I haven't finished them yet), I have never studied its world view and plot in depth.

For me, who was still a primary school student at the time, it was just a strange horror game that could be played on a tablet.

At that time, I would never have thought that in the not too distant future, I would have such a fate with these strange dolls...

Anyway, in order to write it into a copy, and design some plots and puzzles for Gao Yi to solve.

It is inevitable to understand and learn the entire "Five Nights at Freddy's" series.

Of course, it must be emphasized that even now, I can only be regarded as a layman and a cloud player of the entire series, and I can only say that I have a general concept.

But compared with real enthusiasts and researchers, it is still far away.

After stacking armor, let's officially enter the copy.

When designing the copy, considering the settings of the original game, the mechanism of "five nights" naturally appeared.

But I thought about it for a while and felt that it would be too long and boring to spend five consecutive days in the copy.

Just those mechanical dolls, I guess they are not enough for Gao Yi to fight alone.

Those spiritual things are even more at the level of sprinkling water.

In order to retain some sense of urgency, I designed a one-hour mechanism every night - I also wanted to make the dungeon as short as possible.

Next, I added various elements to the dungeon.

The mechanical dolls and pizza restaurants are of course not to be mentioned, and the story of the "spring doll" that I like very much cannot be absent.

The monitoring room that likes power outages and the mechanism of attracting dolls with broadcasts are also left.

At this point, the general framework of [Toy War] has been built.

Next, it is to fill it with stories.

Which characters should participate, I actually thought about it for a long time.

The first is naturally the time of the pass, and the agent of this [Commander] will naturally enter the scene with Gao Yi.

Next is the "Investigation Bureau" people, who will be the objects of expression of shock and threat.

These "miners" were not originally intended to be described in detail, but in the end three more representative objects were selected.

"Director Zhang" from the Armed Forces Department and "Dr. Wu" from the Experimental Department.

One of them is a secretary-like character who is good at office politics, and the other is a scientific research talent who is not good at getting along with others.

Although there is not much portrayal, there will be plots in the future.

As for the "redemption player" who looks like a bad girl, I haven't even come up with a name yet...

I wonder if you have any opinions, let me take a look.

The remaining two people were indeed inspired slowly.

One, Lu Jinxi, was indeed laid out for a long time. The "know-it-all" has always appeared as a "jianghu know-it-all" on the Nankang player forum.

The other, Tan Xunwei, filled the previous pit.

These people have their own roles and will be connected to the subsequent plot.

The last one I want to mention is the [Safety Officer]. I can only say that I thought it would be a different head from the beginning, but I really thought about what kind of head it would be for a long time.

I said that I had seen a certain big OC before, whose image was a maid with a sweeping robot floating on her head. It was really interesting and gave me some inspiration.

Finally, there was the [Safety Officer] who belongs to the [Doctor] in this book.

As for the image of the [Doctor], it should be revealed in the future, and it should be very interesting...

Let's go back to the [Toy War] copy.

In this copy, some goals that should be achieved were also completed.

First of all, the [Legendary Investigator] label, the ability of that string of question marks, was finally revealed.

The connection with "Color of Stars" was indeed thought of long ago, and there will be many opportunities to use it later if nothing unexpected happens.

Then we will further understand the current situation of the "Investigation Bureau" in Nankang City and find out the information of the [Dealer].

I won't talk much about this, it will involve spoilers.

But what can be said is that the specific identity of the Outer God and the larger world view will be revealed in the next volume.

In summary, although the entire [Toy War] was delayed for about three months due to the author's personal reasons, the rhythm during that period was a bit poor.

But overall, it still completed the established tasks and allowed the development line to continue.

From this aspect, I can still give myself a score of seven.

Of course, after the self-praise stage, it is time to self-examine.

A very interesting point is that today, when I wrote the end-of-volume summary, the ending remarks of Squid's "Fate Ring" happened to come out.

Although I still have half of the book to read, I still read the ending remarks as soon as possible - I should have mentioned that I like to read other people's summaries and remarks.

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I can't really say what I want to sublimate.

But if you ask me what I feel, it should be "learning never ends".

In the field of online literature, no matter how brilliant the achievements and past are, readers may abandon it at any time.

After writing [Seven Days Back to the Soul], I didn't even summarize the areas and problems that need to be improved.

On the one hand, the word count was indeed exceeded at the time, and on the other hand, I really felt that there was nothing to summarize at the time.

But now looking back, [Seven Days Back to the Soul] has a lot of problems.

For example, some foreshadowings are not well recovered, and the rhythm is also a bit lacking.

When returning to [Toy Wars], I feel that the biggest problem is that I subconsciously returned to my "comfort zone".

Although I haven't been writing online articles for a long time, I have gradually developed a certain "paradigm" of my own.

The protagonist enters a new world, accepts a mission, gradually discovers mysteries during the exploration, gradually encounters more people and things along the way, and continues to leave hooks and foreshadowing in the meantime.

Until the end of the plot, the truth is revealed and the foreshadowing is recovered.

I dare not say how good I am, but this is indeed the mode I write the most.

If you think about it carefully, the copies of the entire book can be summarized in this way.

And this has become my "comfort zone".

No matter what I want to write, I will gradually lean towards it.

Similar to this, there is also the setting of "climbing stairs", such as going upstairs in [Mechanical God] and going downstairs in the other world in [Seven Days Back to the Soul].

Before writing, I didn't think I should design it this way.

But as I was writing, I suddenly found that Gao Yi was climbing stairs again.

After noticing this tendency to move closer to what I am good at, I decided to break through myself slightly in this transitional [Toy War].

Abandoning the past state of being threatened, let Gao Yi show his prowess in front of people more easily and shock everyone.

But you all know the ending. As I was writing, I started to let Gao Yi study the dungeon again.

And under the premise that Gao Yi entered the dungeon as a "strong man", this also made the whole plot less urgent.

I have to say that learning never stops.

Before I wrote the book, I always looked down on those "novice cool articles" with strong emotions, but after I really started writing, I realized that the difficulty of such books is not low at all.

How to mobilize readers' emotions, how to make the villains hate enough, and how to hook readers with expectations...

In any case, [Toy Wars] ended successfully with some regrets.

Next, let's look forward to the sixth volume.

The name of the sixth volume has not been decided yet. According to previous experience, it is named after the corresponding dungeon.

I have indeed roughly thought about which movie the next dungeon corresponds to, and I have some general ideas about the plot.

But what kind of dungeon it is and who will be involved are still unknown.

At this stage, should new characters that have not appeared in the dungeon be added?

By the way, speaking of this, it’s time to start the second popularity voting contest.

It is still divided into copies and characters as before, but this time it has to be slightly improved.

Maybe we will establish a nomination mechanism first, mainly because there are a lot of characters now.

Please let me know which characters you think should be included in the popularity poll - just in these few comments.

Let's see, except for Gao Yi, who is the most popular, I will try my best to let him join the next dungeon. If it is not convenient to enter the dungeon, I will ensure that the plot is sufficient in the next volume.

Wouldn't it be more fun?

Let’s go a little further and return to the outlook for Volume 6.

The "Hongshan Temple Incident" that has been planned for a long time is finally about to begin!

In my expectation, this will be a time when all the major forces will appear together and the plot will reach a climax.

Of course, it goes without saying that you can guess that this paragraph will be very, very difficult to write.

But people always have to challenge themselves in order to make progress.

Just like what I said before, if I find that I can't understand what I'm writing, I just speed up and end it and move on to the next step.

If the whole book is not clear, I will finish it quickly...

Of course, probably not.

Thank you for your love for January, the data is quite good.

If I can continue to make money like this, maybe I won’t be able to bear the end...

Just kidding, there is no such thing as a banquet in the world that lasts forever.

After all, I have never completed such a million-word work, so it can only be said that it is a challenge.

My personal expectation is that the book will be completed within this year, and the total word count of two million words should be enough.

To be honest, when I first wrote it, I planned to finish it at 600,000-700,000 words...

All I can say is that I am really bad at long-term planning.

In the past few days, I wanted to watch more movies and try to see if I could record game live broadcasts. I can only say that I was put off in the end...

Lightning, lightning, how could you be so corrupted.

After a day of rest, I started preparing the story for Volume 6 again.

Before and after the Spring Festival, we strive to provide you with wonderful stories!

As for the update challenge, five chapters have been added this month, and one chapter is still missing.

Regular gift addition challenge [163/100] - This is not counting the gifts on the 13th. I saw a lot more coming, and there is a high probability that I will have to add more...

Of course, I'm not complaining about receiving more gifts, I can only say it's a worry about happiness...

Anyway, at the end we recall our previous goals.

Ten thousand reviews! 【3472/10000】

One hundred thousand comments! 【32883/100000】

Read by a million people! 【836254/1000000】

Now it seems that the most promising thing is to reach one million readers.

Finally, I would like to ask for a five-star review, this is really important to me! !

In any case, thank you very much for your support and I will continue to work hard in the new year!

See you at the conclusion of Volume 6.

2025.1.14

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Thank you also to all readers who are not on the list.

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Special thanks to [Poison Master], [Drinking Osmanthus Wine Alone under the Moon], [It’s Fish Balls]. 】, "Master Certification" sent by [Yihuyi].

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Your support is my motivation for updating, thank you again.

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