Overturned Tower

——June 26th cannot be considered the middle of the year in any case (sad).

The obsessive-compulsive disorder of wanting to finish each volume in the middle was finally relieved because I couldn't finish it... I'll just make the next volume longer. If the end of the exam is at the end of the month, you can take a vacation until the beginning of the next month. Of course, this can also be said to be the formation of another kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder...

After this volume ends, the plot will gradually become more intense - in every sense of the word.

"Ultraline" got in touch with the company's top management, "Godfather" got help from Silence, and "Detective" also made his first appearance. The first round of strengthening of the three identities has been completed, and the bad ones have officially joined the Tower of Babel. As the "Hero Club" is about to collapse due to interference, the "Family" plan to recruit new members will also officially begin.

On the other hand, the suicide note that resulted in Russell's death because he forgot to cancel the scheduled delivery will also force the two young people who have made up their minds to drag each other to face the relationship. Otherwise, they would probably be stuck there motionless for several years.

As for the final broken chapter or volume, this is not entirely because the cat is bad... but because going on, it is actually not as interesting as stopping here.

Delphinium is a very smart girl. With her wisdom, she was able to realize immediately that Russell forgot to cancel sending the letter, so she would not rush over and ask what happened, at least not at home. Because this is tantamount to admitting to his parents that he and Russell are doing something dangerous, which will only make their parents worried.

But in any case, the stalemate relationship between the two parties will definitely change after this letter is sent.

So if I write it further, I will lose some of the fun.

But if you stop here, there will be some bad taste.

This is the plot that Cat has laid out from the very beginning of this volume, and it happens to be a before-and-after comparison.

It is precisely to highlight the fun of this part, so the timeline of the next volume will not jump too much, it will still be in summer. It takes about half a month.

Then the next volume will jump to winter.

Ending the chatter, let’s talk about the inspiration for this volume.

As the title of the epilogue at the end of the volume says, one of the inspirations for this volume is the film "Rashomon" directed by Akira Kurosawa, or the novel "In the Bamboo Grove" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. There is also "The Kidnapping of Y", the last piece in the short story collection "The Alphabet Mystery" by Oyama Seiichiro.

In Y's Kidnapping, it is also such a strange kidnapping case as the beginning. Everyone here proposed a possibility, each possibility could be established independently, but someone else immediately proposed a more likely conjecture to override the previous inference-until finally, in Two wonderful twists in just twenty pages bring the finishing touch to the entire story.

And after I sighed, "Only the last twenty pages of the last chapter of this book are so exciting, Seiichiro, you are so awesome," I suddenly thought of the movie Rashomon, and then I thought of Bamboo Forest. middle.

The books I often read when I was in high school were short story collections by Akutagawa Ryunosuke and Hitchcock. Those who have read Players should still remember the nightmare of spider silk... In addition, short stories such as Kappa, Nose, Playing Samadhi, The Life of Saint-Christophe, and Bamboo Forest are still impressive to me. Of course, there are also My favorite story is "Hell Map". I still remember how I felt chills running down my spine when I read this story intently during evening self-study. It was as if I could see a picture of hell through the words.

This volume does not end with a physical "enemy" as its goal. This is also my purpose to disrupt this kind of directional thinking... Although strictly speaking, the only boss battle is the purple ink volume - the ending of Caged Bird is not a BOSS battle, and a Kamalse in seconds may not be called a BOSS battle. , but since many readers think that this "boss battle is not well written", it means that the story of Purple Ink still forms a directional thinking.

One of the purposes of this volume is to break this thinking. Otherwise, if the reader's gaze is always "looking forward to the appearance of the final boss", they will ignore the previous content and reduce the story to "who is the boss of this volume", and regard other parts as "water". But actually the story in this entire volume combined is the story I want to tell.

In the story of "Silence", what I want to tell is that everyone makes some kind of inference about one thing based on their own position and what they see and know - in everyone's opinion, they are correct and everyone else is wrong.

They firmly believe in what they know and believe to be the truth. But in fact, in the eyes of people who have more intelligence and mastered more secrets, the facts they firmly believe are full of flaws, and the remarks they promote are even more ridiculous...

It wasn't until he got more information that he realized his own inferiority and chose to remain silent.

Whether it's Russell being beaten by Zhong Xiang, finding the name of his psychic power, or having a conversation with the container... this is a story about growth.

Russell is also growing, and so are the inferior ones... In the end, Delphinium finally realized something. Russell's letter undoubtedly contains the secrets about the Tower of Babel and the elves. This is so that she can have a chance to find the Tower of Babel after her death and escape from the manipulation of the board of directors.

This is a story about "growth" and "change".

And because such a big topic has been raised, although the number of words in this volume has been expanded from sixty to eighty chapters, there are still many things that have not been explained clearly.

This is also the shortcoming of this volume.

I think there are three biggest shortcomings. One is that the plot of the emperor is not clearly explained. Maybe I should arrange an independent plot for him; the other is that the transformation of the inferior lacks a process. After Dr. Paradise, there should be an additional story in the lower city. And the ending is "not exciting enough" - although the argument with the emperor is the ending plot that existed in the outline from the beginning, symbolizing the confrontation between the new heroes and the old heroes, it still lacks some "movie feel".

I think the design of the lines is pretty good, but the details could probably be filled in more and create stronger emotions. Either make more foreshadowing, or directly introduce it from the "seeing through the truth" part to this part, and put Tokifat's part in front - but in that case, Russell may not be able to achieve much in Tokifat. good result. As for the later part, it is emotionally and logically coherent, but the ending is also "not exciting enough".

So after thinking about it, I still chose the indirect narrative mode. Although there are still some problems, it can at least provide 50% of the reading experience without blocking the subsequent plot, which is considered a moderate method.

After all, "I didn't expect so much before I came into contact with it."

There is a very strange coincidence here, that is, just like the previous volume, what I want to express is also reflected back to myself, making myself an example and having troubles that I cannot express... This has to be said. A very cool coincidence.

This volume of meow words ends here. Later, Mao will also share with you my sources of inspiration, creative ideas, and lessons learned at the end of each volume.

I hope it will be useful to everyone...both authors and readers.

Have a day off tomorrow and start the next volume the day after tomorrow.

"Flower Touch"

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