Armored train in the apocalypse

Chapter 84 Remarks on the launch
Finally, it's on the shelves. This book has been revised many times.

As a veteran author, in my experience, books usually get more criticism before publication, but it gets better after publication. However, I feel this book is in doubt and may have to endure criticism from beginning to end.

Every time I check the backend, I get a headache, so I go check the comments section of Mugen Train.

My mindset is much better now.

Train Wen Bu Er Cola is the leader, and he has to feel his way across the river.

As a loser like me, I can only try to cross the river by touching a can of Coke.

See where he got scolded and try to avoid it.

It does have an effect.

However, I still got a beating a couple of days ago because of Yu Yue's storyline.

That part wasn't really just about being erotic; the main purpose was to establish the female character's persona before the game was released.

However, since it involves two people, there is quite a lot of content. If I really wanted to write it all, it would take at least five thousand words.

The first three thousand words were actually just setup... The purpose was to push Yu Yue a bit. She usually likes to sing and is rather shy, so the plan was to make her do what she likes most when she's at her most shy. The goal was to tug at her emotions, causing her to break down and change her attitude towards the protagonist, thus creating a new space for conflict.

People are different in their normal state and in their extreme state, which can reveal some of their personality traits and, in turn, reinforce the protagonist's bad character.

However, this writing style requires more emphasis on emotions, which clashes somewhat with the previous writing style.

This led many people to find the plot uninteresting. When I finish writing at night, my brain is usually a bit blank, and when I see someone complaining about the lack of substance, I get confused and skip over the important plot points later on.

This part of the plot became even more inexplicable, as if it was forcibly inserted for the sake of eroticism.

No new space for conflict has been created, the relationships between the characters have not changed, and the protagonist's position in the eyes of the supporting characters has not changed.

Just thinking about all this gives me a headache. If you start from the beginning, you can clearly see that it's broken here.

I wanted to slap myself. I had already thought of everything, so why did I have to change anything?

If I don't change, I'll get scolded; if I do change, I'll still get scolded. Now, I've been scolded by both sides.

They've learned their lesson after suffering losses multiple times.

After thinking about it for a day, I think this part of the story still needs to be added.

Chapter 79 was originally 2100 words, but I plan to increase it to 4000 words. It will still be free; those interested can go back and take a look.

I finished it before it went on sale, consider it a treat for my brothers.

Seriously, I kept adding chapters before the book was released, I feel like such an idiot, hahaha...

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Now let's talk about something interesting.

Because doomsday vehicles are classified into three levels: science fiction - apocalypse - doomsday vehicles.

The earliest work of this genre is Bai Yuhan's "Heavy Truck War Chariot in the Apocalypse," which is the source of my book title.

But what's more similar to me are two other train-themed novels on the list, which you can see as soon as you open the science fiction list.

but--

Interestingly, there's absolutely no way to learn from it.

Not a single drop!

The three people wrote from completely different directions.

Including the old book "Heavy Truck" and the two books "Train", they are all non-rebirth novels, which makes them feel particularly strong about any crisis they encounter!

A major environmental crisis forced them to move forward.

But mine is a rebirth, which essentially eliminated many crises, so the path is different, and it has become a completely "pretentious" story.

To make the book longer, I set the timeline at the awkward point of four years after the apocalypse.

You could say the protagonist knows a little, and he does, but he doesn't really know that much.

There have been some crises, but the sense of pretentiousness has diminished...

At first, I thought train stories were like Mad Max-style road trip stories, mobile shelters, where you just fight monsters and collect resources along the way.

Then my old habits returned, and I wrote an old-fashioned post-apocalyptic story instead of a proper post-apocalyptic one. Later, Lao Jiang pointed it out to me (who stole my brain, author). He said, "The protagonist of your story is a train. Why don't I see you upgrading the train?"
I suddenly realized that before it was recommended, I wrote more than 20,000 words in three days and replaced the original content.

I started writing about trains and shelters.

But it never feels quite right; just leveling up doesn't bring any real satisfaction.

When I was reading the sideways story, I consulted Ye Liangju (I am not the author of "The Great Writer"). He pointed out the problem to me from the root. Rebirth is the path to invincibility. I only reborn, without showing off, so the readers were not satisfied. The protagonist did not have a phased improvement in the minds of the supporting characters, such as the gradient change from contempt to fear to worship.

It doesn't please either side.

So I went on a crazy spree to increase the passengers' screen time. Of course, the focus wasn't on writing about the passengers, but on using them to develop the main characters.

Then I started researching how to show off and sorting out the main quest.

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Many readers ask, why not take a plane? Why not take a boat? Why not drive?
What should be done if a train encounters a derailment or a landslide?

Let me answer this from a writing perspective.

In fact, authors have tried writing about all these subjects, but so far only the train theme has survived. In other words, most readers only mention it briefly; they don't read about aircraft, ships, or other vehicles. One reason is that they are not common and lack a sense of immersion, and another is that "it's not a problem."

The biggest problem is that there are no problems when writing.

Whenever there's a story about trains, a lot of readers will question one thing.

Why don't these authors use their brains?
Who will repair the tracks after the apocalypse?
What if there's a track break?
This problem is unavoidable, just like a child who will inevitably face the issue of falling down as he grows up. But I have never heard anyone ask a parent, "What should I do if my child falls down in the future?"
So every time I see readers questioning this issue in Mugen Train, I laugh for a while.

Then I thought, when I write this, I must first list the solutions to this problem to avoid being scolded.

After writing it, I couldn't laugh anymore.

Because there are still a number of people asking this question.

What numbs me even more is that there are still some people who say, "Do you think you can solve it just because you say so?" or "I don't think you can solve it." Falls and derailments are inevitable, but what matters is how the author solves the problem.

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Now that I've answered, I'll address all the questions that have arisen.

The main character has a somewhat wicked personality and is not likable.

The first person to bring it up was Goose (the author who went from live-streaming money printing to becoming an art master, and is currently writing about Middle Eastern tyrants), who said that your protagonist's personality is likely to be criticized.

At the time, I thought, "So what if I get criticized? It's better to be controversial than to fail miserably."

The traffic generated was indeed very good, but it also drew a lot of criticism.

So some people criticize me, asking why the protagonist is so bad and why I can't write a good person.
I often look at questions and don't know how to answer them. Can I write about a good person?

can.

Why is the protagonist so evil?

Because I'm writing about a bad guy... it's more fun and exciting to write, without any moral constraints.

Why was the protagonist able to intimidate a thousand people all by himself at the beginning?

For an interesting example, when I was reading Tales of the Northern Qi Dynasty, I was very curious about the motivations behind the protagonist's actions because there was no psychological description of the main character.

Once, Wolf God popped up in the group chat, and I asked him out of curiosity.

His answer also had a very author-like style.

"I didn't mean to."

I pondered this question for a long time and finally figured it out.

Writing is not a flat, linear narrative, but rather about selecting key, appealing elements to showcase. These appealing elements must at least be ones that the author finds appealing.

Similarly, the way the protagonist intimidates a thousand people is definitely by using violence to suppress violence.

...I reserved a week. During this week before the story begins, the protagonist uses his ability to "kill whoever he points at" and engages in a lot of psychological warfare to finally subdue most of the passengers. Some passengers who disagree with him either get off the bus or get into conflicts with the protagonist and are killed.

But I don't need to go into the details of how tortuous and difficult the process was.

Although he is a crucial link in the logic.

But writing this down didn't help my grades, and nobody wanted to read this "natural" rambling account.

People came to see how the train would fare in the apocalypse.

It's not about how the protagonist goes to great lengths to prepare and seize the train.

The reason why the protagonist teases the girl at the beginning is partly because of his wicked sense of humor, and partly because he is observing the girl's personality. From my description, it is not hard to see that the protagonist is quite fond of Gao Zhe.

Because Gao Zhe is ruthless enough, which aligns with his understanding of the four years since the apocalypse.

The characters Gao Zhe and Lu Xiao are based on my roommate, a retired Marine who is also from Northeast China. He washes his hair with cold water in winter, has a fever of 40 degrees Celsius, holds whiskey in his left hand and a cigarette in his right, has bleeding hemorrhoids on his buttocks, and coughs violently while making animations by watching English tutorials. He sits in front of the computer for fourteen or fifteen hours a day, or even more.

Why is Gao Zhe not dead after he died?

Am I just feeling sorry for him?

I was demonstrating the setting... If severely injured and lacking sufficient resources, forced evolution would lead to genetic collapse.

This isn't a supernatural story, so there's no possibility of it being unkillable.

This leads to another question: some people say that Lu Xiao getting involved with that woman is a bit toxic.

That's perfectly normal. I've come into contact with a lot of people like that by chance, at different levels, and I know their nature all too well.

But their identities are special, so I can't say too much. Don't let your identity cloud your judgment; their upper and lower limits are much wider than those of ordinary people.

Then where did the "justice" forces in the book go? It's part of the setting, and I'll tell you gradually. After all, you can't just ask a girl what color her underwear is right off the bat on a date, can you?
But you can ask me, it's because I spoil my fans so much.

I won't wear it.

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One last question: the Silver Alliance was given to me by my partner, and she also did the voice-over for several of Yu Yue's songs.

The "Ordinary Alliance Leader" was a donation from my reader and fellow author, Ms. Nan, who is also starting a new book soon (Is something wrong with this dungeon game?).

Then, I want to thank all the brothers for following along and for the donations. I'll be more familiar with the brothers who frequently comment, but I won't list them all here. I'll remember all the more than a thousand comments, more than five hundred donations and votes.

Don't worry about whether the author is as petty as the protagonist.

The author is.

By the way, I'd like to respond on behalf of my partner to those guys who said "I like you," thanks!

There will be more dubbed content like this in the future, which I find quite interesting.

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Old Jiang said my book will only get a maximum of 800 first subscriptions, so my goal isn't high. If it gets over 1,000 subscriptions, I'll add an extra chapter. Normally, it's 10,000 chapters a day, 5 chapters, and I'll add 6 chapters. As for higher subscriptions, I won't talk about that, it's unrealistic. I'll prepare for tomorrow's update after I get off work.

As usual, I'll release it as a sacrifice.

Something's not right with this dungeon, is it?

Becoming a God Begins with Devouring

Mysterious Revival: Starting by Controlling the Trading Ghost

Who said this top star is washed up? This top star is absolutely explosive!

Mech Era: Fist Blasts the Stars

Fairy, don't use me as a simulator!

Reborn in the Millennium: Starting with Fishing to Get Rich

Reborn in 2006: I Picked Up Attributes on Film Set

(End of this chapter)