Fox in the Penalty Area ~

I finally finished writing this volume, and it was really full of ups and downs.

As usual, first use WORD to count the number of words and see how many words are written.

1,041,924 words.

This volume was serialized on July 10 last year, and it has been almost half a year since it was written.

This half-year is also the half-year that I have asked for the most leave, and there is even a complete cut-off that has never happened before.

The conflicts of reality and creation are intertwined, and they work together to produce such a result.

I have been used to keeping manuscripts for a long time, how many years have I not interrupted during serialization?

I have to say that people have to obey the old.

real.

I wrote 1.04 million for six months, with an average of 170,000 words per month, and an average of 6,000 words per day.

The speed is really slow.

So I rarely asked everyone for a monthly pass last year.

no shame...

The speed is already impossible to bring up, the only thing I can do is to maintain the quality.

There is also a reason for this slow writing.

I still try my best to maintain the quality and look and feel. I said that I want to give this book a happy ending, so I must do it.

This book is now about 7 million words, and I still have many pictures of that world in my mind.

When I write myself, I will still be moved by the words and characters in my pen.

This is the same idea I had when I started writing this book—I don't know if it will be popular with you, so let's write about myself first.

From this point of view, I can be regarded as "not forgetting the original intention"...

In some parts of this volume, I have gradually reduced the description of the protagonist Hu Lai, and added many other characters, and there were even several chapters in which Hu Lai did not appear in the scene.

Some people criticized me for writing worse and worse, and I lost all the protagonists.

Let me justify a little bit here, this is my intention, and I don't think this is a performance that gets worse as I write.

After all, what I want to create is a convincing Chinese team, so how can it be possible to only focus on Hu Lai?

As a "pie front", don't his teammates need to be shaped to pass the ball for him and help him in the back?

In my previous six volumes, most of the time, the perspective was on Hu Lai, and even the appearance of other important characters had to be "in the light of Hu Lai", and they could only appear if they interacted with Hu Lai.

I think I have almost shaped Hu Lai through the previous six million words, and I need to focus on other important characters for the time being.

In this way, when I write about the Chinese team defeating a world-class team in the World Cup, people will not feel false.

After all, I have spent so much pen and ink and painstaking efforts, just to leave vivid and believable characters in everyone's minds, and then these images will automatically form a credible and powerful Chinese team.

Judging from everyone's feedback during the World Cup plot, I believe that I have basically done it myself.

Why is it basically done?

Due to limited space and serial characteristics, I still can't focus on portraying every main character and provide them with enough roles for them to play.

For example, I originally wanted to spend some space during the World Cup to describe the relationship between Qin Qi and Qin Lin's father and son - the relationship between the two of them in the national team should be quite interesting, Qin Qi held back his energy and wanted to prove that he could get rid of his father However, due to the sensitivity of his status, Qin Lin could not express his concern for his son...

But when I think about it later, it will slow down the pace—I wrote it slowly enough, and if I add drama, I am afraid that even the most tolerant readers will not be able to bear it.

Similarly, in the competition, I reduced the description of the audience's perspective a lot, and did not frequently mention Hu Lai's parents, Li Qingqing and other pure audience characters. During the World Cup, they really can only provide the viewer's perspective. If they write too much, it is easy to repeat with other viewers' perspectives. It is meaningless except for the number of words.

This is like making a movie. During the shooting process, a lot of shots and content must be taken, but after editing into a film, a lot of shots and content will definitely be deleted. In the end, after making various choices, everyone will be in the movie theater. See the finished product.

After all, I still can't write a book as a group portrait without a protagonist at all, completely blurring the focus.

Conversely, Hu Lai is the protagonist of this book and the focus of everyone's emotions and vision.

But it does not mean that he is the special existence of "I am the only one" in this book. All the scenes that want to be in the limelight, to be cool, and to shine can only be performed by him, and everyone else has become a tool to set off his pretense and handsomeness.

After all, he is not that dish of vinegar.

Besides, I already have a preference for Hu Lai, think about Luo Kai...

It also depends on my tireless shaping of other characters except Hu Lai before, so I dare to write the next last volume.

Otherwise, I don't know how many people will scold me.

In short, under the general trend of the end of this book, there must be more and more descriptions of other characters, and there will be many. In the last volume, I will strive to write a real group portrait.

The protagonist must still be Hu Lai.

But Hu Lai is not the only protagonist.

I hope to be able to write a World Cup that everyone seems to see for real.

Just like the description of the World Cup game, I use words to describe the image for everyone.

For example, for the game against England, I wrote 22 chapters, which is very scary.

I didn't just write about the seven goals, I wrote about every aspect of the game, like some attacks that didn't result in goals.

In club competitions, I would be more restrained in using this kind of detailed writing.

But the World Cup is different.

So starting from the story of the first World Cup of the Chinese team in the fourth volume, I used this writing method to restore the game video with text.

Some people call me "grind".

In fact, seeing now, everyone should be able to see it.

Delicacy is the style of my book.

This is what I did on purpose.

The book is almost finished, but until now there is no news or possibility of any adaptation.

It is foreseeable that until the end of this book, there will be no possibility of being adapted into an image video.

What should I do then?

I can only try my best to use my words to describe pictures one by one for everyone.

I can't control the matter of adapting, the only thing I can do is this matter.

That's why I write in such detail, and strive to enable every reader who reads my book to construct images in their minds through my words.

It can be regarded as a "video adaptation" made by myself, and it is absolutely in line with the original work.

Let's talk about this World Cup again, why did you choose this way of handling.

After playing against the Dutch team, I was eliminated from the competition. I thought about it a long time ago—I thought about it as early as the outline of the plan. I will definitely not let the Chinese team win this World Cup.

Of course, I didn't think about who was eliminated at the time.

Choosing the Netherlands is also considering that they may be the most acceptable opponent.

After all, it would be even more uncomfortable for Hu Lai to lose to Melly...

Because I didn't intend to take a failure lightly.

The reason is actually the same as the first World Cup.

Because failure is a very important experience for the protagonists, so important that in the atmosphere of this book, I don't want to use any tricks to make readers ignore it.

Of course I could have written that the main characters ended up beating Holland so badly that they ran out of ammunition and made it to the semi-finals, and then were eliminated—a defeat I wrote down at the end of the book.

But this is not what I want.

After equalizing the score, I continued to attack until I was killed by my opponent. This is what I thought about after I finished writing the plot of the last world.

At that time, I even thought about the name of that chapter, and wrote it down in the memo in advance:

"Death to... Bravery"

It is not only a description and summary of the players of this Chinese team, but also the emotion and sigh of the bystanders towards them.

Four years ago, they died of being rich and safe, and four years later, they died of their own ambition and courage.

It all sounds like losing, as if it doesn't make any sense.

But I think as long as you feel the different performances of these two World Cups with your heart, you should be able to know that the same failure has very different meanings.

Die in Xiaofu, content to play three group games and go home.

Died due to ambition and courage, although he still returned home, it made people see further hope and possibility.

As long as they still have ambition and courage, the future will definitely become better and stronger. But if it is always a small fortune, then maybe you may not even be able to get the right to qualify for the World Cup in the future.

This plot also echoes the plot of the World Cup four years ago.

It is still the consistent theme of "growth" in this book.

Growth never stops, at least not until the end of this book.

Compared with four years ago, they have grown up.

But growth is not enough, they need to continue to grow.

In addition, this is also some kind of "cleanliness" of my own - if I grow up once and win the championship or something, it would be too perfunctory, right?

What is the difference between this and the director saying "to reverse" and forcing a reversal?

During the plot of the World Cup, I saw that many readers left messages optimistic about the Chinese team winning this year.

The mood is understandable, but judging from the plot and description settings in the book, the Chinese team has not yet reached the level of four years from a team that could not get out of the group to become a championship team...

Not to mention winning the championship, it is impossible for the favorite to win the championship.

No matter how strong Hu Lai is, he can't carry the whole audience alone.

His characteristics are destined to require the cooperation and help of his teammates. If his teammates are not strong, then he will not be able to fully perform. So there are two performances in the national team and in the club team, which is also normal.

In the next four years, it is not that Hu Lai will become stronger, but his teammates in the national team will become stronger.

All aspects have become stronger, from mentality to strength.

Some readers said that seeing the loss to the Dutch team in the end and being eliminated from the competition, it was difficult to calm down.

Difficulty is right.

It shows that my Chinese team has been quite successful.

After all, if you really like a team, then when your favorite team loses, you will definitely not be able to smile.

If it was possible to win, but lost in the end, then it should be difficult.

Therefore, the growth of the characters in the book can be made more powerful, and the final success is more credible.

It's difficult to calm down, and if you don't admit defeat, you will want to become stronger.

For me, the past year is generally no different from the past two years. I was writing "Fox of the Forbidden Area" in code words, and my life remained the same. It has been three years in a flash.

My children have all changed from the first grade of primary school to the fourth grade.

Sometimes when I look back on myself, I feel that the past three years have passed really fast.

Time for a book... so much going on in the world.

A lot has changed in my life too.

However, these changes are compared with those of three years ago. If we only look at last year, it can be said that there is no disturbance.

Except for the last month.

Because in the last month I got sun, and my whole family got sun.

In the pain of illness, I did a lot of thinking about the world, and I also made some thinking and planning about my own life.

Let me tell you about this when I finish this testimonial.

In short, thanks to everyone's perseverance, even though the external environment has been turbulent and turbulent in the past three years.

I can also stay in my own little world, make up stories for everyone, and use this to support myself and my whole family.

I belong to the part of the "vested interests" who are least affected by the epidemic.

But it's hard to say what the future holds.

After all, I am a fat man with underlying diseases. After losing protection, my own health, the health of my family, and the ability to create will be more or less affected.

Don't think about the future, and there is no way to think about it.

Let me finish writing this book first.

There is still the last volume of this book, and the number of words will not be too many. It will certainly not reach one million words like this volume. I roughly estimated it myself, which is about three to four hundred thousand words. According to my speed, I finished writing in more than two months.

So probably in April of this year, I will say goodbye to everyone completely.

However, considering my physical and mental conditions, it may be delayed until May.

After all... what if it's sunny again?

It happens to be difficult to finish this book in March, the 20th anniversary of my entry into the industry.

But this is still the best gift I gave myself for the 20th anniversary of entering the industry, and it is also for you.

The average subscription of this book so far is close to 9600, and I hope to reach 10,000 average subscriptions before the book is finished.

For me, that's a great gift too.

But I don't know if it can be done. After all, in reality, after the end of the World Cup, the average subscription growth has been very slow.

For a novel with nearly 7 million words and more than 2,000 chapters, it is very difficult to increase the average subscription every time.

If I can combine the content of the two updates every day into one chapter, it may be easier...

It's not that I haven't thought about it.

However, it is also a bit difficult for me to adjust the update rhythm when the book is almost finished~www.mtlnovel.com~.

So although I really hope that everyone can help me, I don't expect too much.

Anyway, let it be.

From the average order of 1,200 when it was first launched to the current average order of more than 9,000, it has been much better.

After all, at the beginning, I just hoped that this book could pass the premium line of 3,000 average subscriptions...

I am very proud that so many people like a fictional story without familiar teams and stars.

In the end, since every word in the new volume is still written, and there will be a lot of competitions, it will definitely be three times.

So take a few days off and let me save the manuscript first.

I can't promise how many days to wait for the update to resume. Anyway, I will issue a chapter one day in advance to tell everyone.

Thank you for your understanding and tolerance, let us take the last part of the journey well.

appendix:

2029-2030 La Liga Hu Lai's personal results:

Played 38 games in the league, scoring 62 goals and assisting 3 times;

3 appearances in Copa del Rey, scoring 1 goal;

Played 1 game in the Spanish Super Cup and scored 1 goal;

Played 13 games in the Champions League, scoring 24 goals and assisting 2 times;

UEFA Super Cup played 1 game and scored 1 goal;

Played 2 games in the Club World Cup and scored 5 goals;

International Champions Cup played 3 games and scored 2 goals;

Played 1 friendly match;

The national team played 13 games, scored 14 goals and 3 assists;

So far, Hu Lai has played 63 games for the national team, scoring 69 goals and assisting 4 times.

In his career, he has played a total of 437 games in various competitions, scoring 518 goals and assisting 35 times.

Chapter end