Endless Debt

Hello everyone, this is Andlao, your loyal friend who updates twice a day and occasionally once.

As I write this, the first volume of this book has officially come to an end. The second volume is in progress. The new version will have new major events online, character abilities will be revised, new equipment will be online, and new operable characters will be available. , bala bala.

In fact, I wanted to write this paragraph as a mobile game update announcement.

Then as usual, I wrote the end of the volume as I thought. First, I talked about the origins of some characters in the book, such as the famous radio host Dudel. Some readers with high hips should have realized that Dudel is actually The famous Du Ting Cup.

When I first started chatting with Du Gong about playing a supporting role, I was writing a science fiction short story and planned to add Du Gong into the story. Unfortunately, my energy could not support my double-writing, so I put the short story on hold after writing a few chapters. When I was writing this book, I thought a lot and added Du Gong as a supporting role.

Then let us take Du Gong down first, after all, we have tasted enough.

In terms of the atmosphere and style of the whole story, I expected a dark and serious frame, but the characters are a group of optimistic middle school students. They hold a tape recorder in their left hand to turn up the volume, and a hammer in their right hand to smash the door to bring warmth. A somewhat joyful, dark and violent aesthetic style.

Regarding the protagonist's ability to recruit hands, this setting actually incorporates a lot of things. It originated from a superpower comic I read when I was a child. There was a supporting character in it who had the ability to turn anything he touched into something. For the weapon in your hand, the classic operation is to touch the shadow and use it as a weapon.

But this book has an upgrade system. In order to avoid having too many supermodels at the beginning, I made many restrictions on the protagonist. At first, I was worried about how to limit it, and then I introduced another character who inspired me.

Northern Extension Fu!

Yes, I don't know if you can understand it, but to a large extent, I came up with the protagonist's abilities based on this character. If you are interested, you can also watch the animation "The Avatar". I personally like it very much. of.

However, this is only the ability setting at this stage. When designing the entire power system, I designed these schools first, but these single schools were a bit too fixed, and then derived sub-schools to make it easier for me to talk nonsense. Add some fancy designs.

Some readers who often play games should be able to vaguely guess the tendency of my ideas, which are based on eight fixed schools of thought, arranged and combined with each other. Yes, when I designed these, I was thinking about Roguelike, one plus one is greater than two, different With the cooperation, different effects appear.

Then I write whatever comes to my mind.

I am quite happy writing this book so far. Based on the experience of the previous book, I feel that I have written the first volume quite well. When I first designed this plot, I had a chat with the operations officer and I A strange theory.

Probably, I tried my best to turn the prologue into a separate story with a beginning and an end, but without explaining the whole story, just like the trailer of the movie. That is, what you have seen so far is the relationship between the prologue and the first volume, but On a book-wide scale, I'm prepared to view the first volume as a movie trailer for the entire book.

Therefore, the plot of the first volume is not complicated. It is more about introducing the world view, setting, and ambush. Some important forces appear. I also set it after the boss battle is over and the story enters a gentle period. It feels like a story. Here, the characters take a vacation and rest. As a result, a bigger and stronger enemy emerges, and a storm is coming.

When I first started writing this volume, I had a vague idea that the story would have a supporting character throughout the whole text, but this supporting character would leave the scene at the beginning.

The driving force of the entire story was caused by her, but she had already exited before the story began. This is also the origin of Adele's design.

My writing style is to think of a vague outline, and then fill it in as I write. If I'm lucky, I may fill it in well, but if I'm unlucky, the story may go crazy.

So far, the control of the first volume is pretty good, everything is under control. The idea of ​​the character Adele is something I slowly imagined while writing updates bit by bit.

During some update time, I briefly read "Confessions". After reading it, I felt that this person is really powerful. The things he wrote are, by analogy, almost equivalent to all our web browsing records and favorites. Set it to public status and write your thoughts like this.

I feel that this kind of behavior requires a person to be quite honest and brave, so this is also the source of the design of Adele's diary, showing everything in her life.

Then there are some Easter egg-like designs in the article. You can also see that I like music very much. After learning the kazoo recently, I am trying the harmonica. Unfortunately, my mouth is stupid. I can only play "Ode to Joy" now. ", which is also the source of David's bank password before his death.

The setting of Jeffrey's Eye of the Tiger comes from the song "Eye of the Tiger". "Rule 1: Stay True" in the Bologo Manual comes from Nirvana's "Come As You Are". I like it very much. This song. For the songs that appear in this article, I made a NetEase Cloud playlist called Endless Debt.

When I first designed the protagonist, I was thinking of a character with a somewhat over-acting personality, or a chuunibyou. After all, this book has been classified as a light novel, and I finally came to the second dimension that I like.

I don’t think the problem is big, he is an extrajudicial sanctioner, but unlike some of the repressed and gloomy characters that everyone is familiar with, this expert is quite optimistic and can tell cold jokes.

Various ideas led to the birth of this character. Then, when I write, I prefer to design a character plot unique to each character, and then intersperse the character plot into the main plot. This sounds a bit like a character level in a mobile game.

Of course, writing this way is not enough for the Internet, and it brings tears to my eyes.

Before writing this book, I repeatedly told myself, "Stop writing this! Write more online articles! It will feel better!".

I kowtowed to myself like pounding garlic, and said, "It's totally OK. I will definitely be able to write a good article this time."

Lorenzo, the protagonist of the previous book, was beaten from the beginning to the end. In this book, the protagonist of the previous book was beaten, and the protagonist of this book must be beaten back exactly. The setting of the protagonist of this book, the violent maniac, comes from this to a certain extent.

Therefore, when writing the article, I tried my best to avoid the failure of the protagonist. He is like an expert, efficient and deadly. However, after the whole story actually unfolded, I found that what I wrote was still not satisfying enough. This may be due to the limitation of my own writing style.

I personally am extremely tolerant of other works. Basically, I read whatever I write. Whether it is the ultimate cool article or a classic reading from some forums, I personally can accept it. But when it comes to my own works, I Can't do it.

I am a reasonable person. No matter what, he must first be able to justify himself. For example, the settings I have listed now will basically be used and form a system of their own. Even if the protagonist travels through this setting, he will also use it.

So I’m a person who is not good at thinking, so sometimes when I write a book, it’s... pretty tortured.

What to do in this situation? It’s time to quote what I said in the last book.

"That's it, let's go all the way to the dark side."

Therefore, I was quite happy to write this book.

I had nothing to do before, so I read the book "Mountain and Moon", and there was a passage in it that made me lose my guard. It was probably because I was afraid that I was not a pearl, so I didn't dare to think hard about it, and because I somewhat believed that I was a pearl, Unable to live among the gravel, he gradually moved away from the world and avoided crowds. As a result, he continued to feed his weak self-esteem with anger and shame in his heart.

The whole person was directly filled with debuffs, but... it's not a big problem. The first order for this book was more than 2,000. I am personally very satisfied with this result.

I have some age anxiety, and I want to do a lot, but I can't take care of everything. In fact, I still have a lot of time to finish coding every day, but I just can't take any time off. It's a waste of life. If you don't engage in production for a day, you will feel like you have become the dregs of society.

I like the words in "Orion's Line" very much. Depending on the translation, the sentences are different, but the idea expressed is the same, that is, life is short and infinite burning.

I still have quite a lot of personal ultimate aspirations, including drawing, making comics, and even playing games. Some of them are still being worked on, and some of them are about saving the country. I will announce them to everyone when I get the chance.

I recently picked up my paintbrush again and have been painting all the time. I thought that since I am so free, why not make it more challenging? However, I haven’t painted for a long time, and my basic skills are very poor, so I am very autistic when it comes to painting.

In fact, many things I have experienced are like this. For this reason, it is always easy to fall into a strange chain of comparison, so I have been trying not to let myself fall into such a chain of comparison. This kind of comparison always makes people feel tired and confused. I feel tired. When necessary, the only thing I need to compare is myself in the last book.

According to the records in the previous book, it took me ten months to climb to 2,000 average subscriptions. It currently takes me one month to average 2,500 subscriptions. For me, this is already a big improvement.

I am also quite satisfied with the first volume of this book. Compared with the previous book where I was writing nonsense at the same time, the structure and foreshadowing of this first volume of this book are undoubtedly much better than before, and there is no digging holes for unknown reasons. , and then cause trouble to myself in the future... So it's not a big problem, everything is as planned!

Sometimes I think that maybe I am a bit old-school when it comes to writing. Looking at the songs that appear in this article, they are basically several times older than me. But fortunately, I have a certain audience now. Thank you for your help. Xia, I am not hungry for the time being, and I am still relatively young, so I still have plenty of time to write.

Speaking of this, sometimes I feel the difference in life. My friends around me are still studying for postgraduate studies, and some are even preparing to get married. However, I don’t seem to have changed much since I first started writing the book... Actually, this feels pretty good. , what does it mean to not forget your original intention, right?

This is about not forgetting your original intention, everyone.

And when I write a book, I don’t like the kind of reversal that is too sudden and without warning. In fact, it can’t be said that there is no warning, but the warning signs are too few, so few that readers need a microscope to see them.

I prefer foreshadowing, step-by-step, and even foreshadowing to some extent from the reader's perspective, just waiting for the characters in the play to realize all this.

For example, the story about the age of the protagonist. At the beginning, the protagonist is released from prison. He is very young and it seems that he has not been imprisoned for a long time. Then he explains the past little by little until the end of the game.

I really like the design of narration, identity conflict, and werewolf killing. In fact, in this book, I did not name the identities of many characters. I mostly used masks and some honorifics to refer to them, which was a lot more convenient. The design of the conspiracy plot and the mutual suspicion between identities.

This goes back to my elementary school days. At that time, I was still a real elementary school student. I watched the 19th episode of "Rabbit Gang". In my memory, I really liked the plot of Qixingjun. Everyone was wearing a mask. No one knew who the person under the mask was, so they were guessing each other's identities.

I can’t remember the specific plot, but my idea of ​​liking masks to guess identities is probably left over from that time.

At that time, I was still determined to draw comics in the future, but after hearing this, my elementary school classmates told me that drawing comics would starve to death. I thought that you, a primary school student, knew nothing. Who would have thought that times have changed... Right, right, right? Bar.

Life is wonderful.

Then there are the settings of souls, demons, and debtors. Those who have a complete soul are humans, those who have lost part of their souls and received gifts are debtors, and those who have lost all their souls are demons.

Regarding the setting of this part, I was originally thinking that there should be some kind of wild monsters in the story for people to chop down. The setting of the protagonist tends to be between humans and monsters. How to deal with it gave me a little headache.

Then I remembered a comic I read in junior high school, called "Soul Eater". At that time, I didn't have a mobile phone, and I didn't unlock the sacred place of Internet cafe, so I could only read it at home during my weekly break. There were many classics in it. This sentence triggered me.

“A sound soul resides in a sound mind and a sound body.”

This sentence prompted me to set the soul as a threshold to separate humans, demons, and debtors, and extended this setting.

Then let me think about what else to say.

In fact, as an online article author, I often hear other people say that I need to scan the charts to see what is popular recently and what everyone is watching. But personally, I am actually the ultimate lazy dog ​​in this regard. I hardly I don’t even read many novels. Instead, I read movies and comics more often.

In the first volume, I often mentioned movies. I personally like watching movies very much. The character of the protagonist, who is paranoid, neurotic, sociopathic, etc., was largely inspired by "Taxi Driver" for me. The protagonist is numb but unwilling to fall. The meaning of his existence is very thin, so he needs to do something to prove the meaning of his existence.

As for comics, I recently read "Blue Sea" again. It was so funny and so fun.

I can't help but write stories that are depressing and dark. For this reason, I hope to make the protagonists more optimistic, just... we are all good brothers, so good that if one day I am pulled into a pyramid scheme , I was the first to pull you in.

Then another important meaning of the character is the undead people who appear in the article.

In fact, I often see such issues as whether eternal life is a curse for human beings.

Some people are pessimistic and some are optimistic. When I first wrote this book, I was also pessimistic and wanted to explore the psychological struggle of the protagonist from this aspect. But during the process of writing the book, I looked at Camus's books had a huge impact.

In the article, as long as people learn to remember, they can endure loneliness, and, in the middle of winter, I finally know that there is an invincible summer in me, all of which are written by Camus.

If you are interested, you can take a look at his works. I won’t go into any more interpretations here.

After reading some works, I thought that instead of the protagonist passively bearing such pressure, it is better to face it calmly, so the protagonist changed from an uneasy undead to an optimistic undead. Life is terrible, but he still wants to be happy. Live on! For love and peace! Everyone!

Although what I write may be a bit depressing, I personally still yearn for light! Everyone talks about making knives or something, but I can’t do that. I just love the God of War, and I kill indiscriminately. I entered Thunder Bluff at level 1 and came out at level 80.

These are also some of my thoughts when writing a book. I think that I can’t write as profoundly as a famous book, but more importantly, while serving readers to watch the story, I want to express my emotional attitude. Put it in, split it up into different characters, and let the people in the story express it for me.

I don’t like to reason with readers, nor do I like to criticize politics. When I write a book, I try my best to avoid these things. Even if I want to express something, I just want to express my mood and attitude. Storytelling is pure storytelling. Right.

I used to talk to people that the work is the projection of the author to a certain extent. I didn’t feel much about it until one time in Brother Yintian’s author group, when I was chatting with Renshui, I always felt sleepy when writing. , you need to turn up the volume and turn the whole room into a nightclub. The more earthy and high-energy the better.

Friends in the group said they felt it in my book, but I was stunned for a long time and didn't react.

The protagonist likes to use a claw hammer to fight. When I was watching "The Raid 2", there was a character who was playing with a claw hammer. He did it so smoothly that I was dumbfounded. I didn't expect that a claw hammer could be used in this way. For interested readers You can go and watch it, but the movie is very satisfying, so you have to be mentally prepared.

I read a quote a long time ago that I totally agree with.

The invention of movies has extended human lifespan at least three times.

However, in my opinion, the "movie" in it can actually be replaced by any carrier that contains "story". Whether it is books, music, games, or anything based on reality, they all extend human beings to a certain extent. Life, or in other words, in the limited life of human beings, make life more meaningful.

Well... I personally think that writing is a fantasy work based on the author's own ideas. However, the author himself has also been affected by different influences from the outside world in the process of writing and growing up. As a result, this influence will also be reflected in the works based on the author's own ideas. On extended works.

Rather than writing my reflections, I am explaining to everyone what kind of influence I received to write this book and these stories.

Just like the messy things mentioned above, I like to share my thoughts with others. It feels like a documentary, except that this documentary appears in the form of text.

For example, the works mentioned above were influenced by these things and I was able to become what I am today and write these things.

For me, it is indeed a kind of luck and happiness to be able to engage in such work, touching the world that does not exist and creating people who cannot be.

Speaking of which, I have mentioned to my friends before that when I write my final remarks, it is like writing a self-examination.

Hmm...a review...how should I put it?

First of all, I confess...

Then everyone complained about the title of the book before, but I actually thought it was okay until one day a friend said to me, have you ever searched for your novel?

I thought for a moment and then hit search.

"Being trapped in endless debt", "How to deal with millions of debts", "How to survive with debt" and so on.

I realized the problem, but it was too late, so I'm really sorry.

By the way, old readers should have discovered the update problem. The update efficiency of my new book has simply increased. The last book updated an average of 4,000 times a day, and I had to take 3 days off a month. Now it starts with 6,000 updates a day, and I haven’t stopped updating it yet.

Wow, I feel like I'm going to die... But it's not a big problem. I was chatting with group friends before, and I have turned into a coding machine.

Habit is such a terrible force, right? It’s hard to imagine what it would be like if I were used to writing tens of thousands of words every day.

But how can I put it, because I have done quite a lot of setting in the current book, so it will take a certain amount of time to unfold many settings little by little. I try to slow down the pace as much as possible to let everyone take a breath, rather than forcefully push the main plot. .

During the update, I also roughly wrote a plot first, and then revised it repeatedly after writing. For example, in my memory, I revised the boss battle at least three or four times.

Then the next volume already has a basic framework, but I am thinking about how to intersperse the branch plots of various characters into the main plot, which gives me a little headache.

In order to organize these, I also made a mind map. To be honest, I feel that mind maps are much more intuitive than writing an outline directly.

So I plan to take three to four days off to relax my tense nerves and sort out the outline. Although I don’t think I have such a thing as an outline, at least I have to understand the main events of the next volume.

It can take three days as quickly as possible, or four days as slowly as possible, and then the plot of the next volume will begin.

Finally, I would like to thank all readers again for their support and for taking the trouble to correct me for typos in this chapter. Thank you very much.

See you all in 3~4 days.

Andlao, on April 5, 2022, in the sewer of King Rodel City.

ps, one thing to say, I will never come to this map of the underworld a second time.

pps, recently everyone said in this chapter that the text sometimes becomes traditional Chinese, I don’t know this? It must be the beginning of convulsions. When I coded, I always typed in simplified Chinese.