General Lanlin of One Piece

Chapter 846 Belated Closing Remarks
I originally planned to write some extra chapters before writing this closing remarks, but because of the content of the latest chapter of the comics, I have some things that I want to talk about with you all.

The content of this closing remarks roughly includes the content of the book, a summary of various aspects of the achievements, answers to some readers' questions, plans for sequels, possible new books, and most importantly, thanks.

The fact that this book can be written with more than three million words is inseparable from the support of all the book friends, whether it is subscriptions, rewards, recommendation votes, monthly tickets, or comments, brothers who catch bugs, Rong Daoren would like to express his sincere gratitude to you all here, thank you all.

Especially to the brothers who have subscribed to the full book and many chapters, even though the book has many flaws in the plot, fighting, character creation and other aspects, there are still many brothers who subscribe and follow up. I am very moved and grateful. Without your subscription, I might have given up halfway. Although these subscriptions may not be worth mentioning compared with other books of the same type, they are really important for me, a newcomer who has written the second signed book on Qidian, but which can only be regarded as the first book in a true sense.

This book started to be uploaded on June 2023, 6, and ended on July 10, 24. It was serialized for a total of 7 days, with a total updated word count of 31 million. During this period, I never took a day off or stopped updating. Even if the free updates before being put on the shelves are included, the average daily updated word count exceeds 410 words. This amount of updates is incredible for me, a poor student who couldn't even write an 309-word essay in high school.

At the same time, this is also the book with the most words, the longest serialization time, the best performance, and the most readers that I have ever written.

Although the result is really average, to be honest, I am still very happy. Thank you brothers again for your support.

【score】

Speaking of performance, at the beginning of this book, I even gave up because I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to sign a contract.

As we all know, when writing a book on Qidian, the signing method is divided into two ways: direct submission for review and internal submission. There is no superiority or inferiority between the two methods, but the time cost of the latter is relatively low, because you only need to write three chapters of 6,000 words and submit them through the editor's email. The editor will tell you whether your work is qualified and whether it has commercial value on the Qidian website.

If it fails, the price you pay is just the beginning of 6,000 words, and you have plenty of time to continue writing after it is rejected.

Direct upload takes some time and is cross-examined by editors. If it passes, there will be a short message from the station to sign the contract. But during this process, you still need to update at least 4,000 words every day.

When I updated to 50,000 words, there was no sign of signing the contract. I was very nervous and wanted to give up. But some readers encouraged me and I persisted. That's why I was later rescued by Bacon and this One Piece fan fiction was created.

I still remember clearly my last book on Qidian.com, which was also a One Piece fanfiction, One Piece: King of Kings. When I signed the contract for the first time, I was so excited. I had great ambitions and wanted to write millions of words for it. However, I had to give up because of the dismal result of only 300 collections for a total of words.

At that time, a reader gave me 1000 points and asked me to keep writing, but I gave up. I have always felt very guilty towards that brother.

Let’s get back to the topic of this book.

Although the performance of this book has greatly improved compared to the previous one, it is still not good.

I recommend a one-round tour. It just reached 382 collections before it was put on the shelves, and the first order was 31. Until it ended on the st, the average order did not even break . If it weren't for enough updates, I might have to get the minimum order every month, which is extremely bleak.

But the Taoist is a newcomer who is easily satisfied. He said at the very beginning that as long as there are still one hundred readers subscribing to the book, the book will not be abandoned and will not be discontinued. He will insist on writing it until it is completed.

[PS: In fact, halfway through, the number of daily subscribers had dropped to only about 80...]

Because as an avid novel fan who has been reading novels for more than ten years, I would not want the novel I am following to be discontinued suddenly for various reasons. I know the unpleasant feeling of spending money to read a novel only to find that the novel is suddenly discontinued in the middle of writing.

At the same time, if an author frequently stops writing or stops writing, it is easy to lose his reputation, which will cause a serious loss of readers who may stay in the future. This is especially true for me, a rookie in the industry. This is also the reason why many authors change their accounts after stopping writing. So I have always been trembling with fear for this. Even when I was sick and hospitalized for half a month, I wrote on my phone in the hospital. Even though the things I wrote at that time were not very good, I still did not dare to stop writing.

Sorry, this is a bit long-winded, let’s move on to the next part.

[Contents]

I divided this book into seven volumes, but there are actually only six volumes. The second and third volumes were staggered due to shelving reasons.

Volume 1, North Sea Qilin
Volume 2: God's Natural Enemy
Volume 3: The Fall of a Legend
Volume 4, General Candidate
Volume 5, The Battle of Marineford
Volume 6, General Lan Lin
You can roughly know what the content of the volume is by looking at the title. Originally, I wanted to review each volume with my brothers and talk about the creative ideas at the time and the parts that were not written well, but considering that there will be new readers in the future, I will not give too much spoilers here.

However, there are still some things that can be said about the content and creative ideas, and it will not affect the spoilers.

First of all, the name of this book, Blue Kirin General, is a bit difficult to pronounce, but it is not complicated to understand. It simply means blue Kirin. Because I wanted to fit the color + animal code of the general, and the protagonist's Kirin fruit ability, so I chose such a name that many people say is poisonous, but actually, I think it's okay...

Then there’s the protagonist’s name, Rorschach.

Some people also say that this name is weird and unpleasant.

Its inspiration comes from the superhero Rorschach in the movie Watchmen. In the movie Watchmen, Rorschach is my favorite character. He had a miserable childhood comparable to Gus's, grew up in a world full of dirt and filth, and developed a violent but not evil soul.

When facing criminals, he is not as self-controlled as the master. He believes that bad people who do evil things must accept the corresponding punishment. He fights violence with violence and uses cruel means. He treats criminals without mercy and is too lazy to even do superficial work. This makes him unpopular with both sides and rejected by both justice and evil. His actions seem alternative and cruel in the eyes of others, but he adheres to the belief of never compromising for justice until his death. He would rather be killed by Dr. Manhattan than accept the false lie of Pharaoh sacrificing part of his life in exchange for world peace.

He is like V in V for Vendetta and Guts in Berserk, who never compromises in the face of darkness and evil.

At the same time, the name Rorschach is applicable to both Chinese and English, which saves the need to use two names for the past and present life like the Lord of Best Friend, or like Ron, who is widely used in One Piece fan fiction, but fewer people use him.

The story I wanted to write by using the name Rorschach is a story about going through all kinds of hardships, fighting, exterminating pirates, ending the great pirate era, destroying the World Government, and finally sacrificing even one's own life for justice.

This should also be the outline that applies to most naval novels.

Justice in the pirate world is very heavy, especially in the later part of the comics, as more and more dark sides of the World Government are revealed, the Navy's position becomes more and more embarrassing. The World Government massacres a non-member country every three years, making the justice upheld by the older generation of navy such as Sengoku and Garp seem like a joke.

Zephyr dedicated his entire life to the navy and worked diligently, but ended up with the tragic deaths of his wife and children, and his students. The instigator of all this was invited by the World Government to become one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and he himself eventually died at the hands of his own students.

T. Peng, a tough guy who cherished his subordinates, was killed by the bounty offered by the Cross Guild. The Navy did not make any comment, which completely tarnished the powerful image that the Navy Headquarters had created in the early stage.

Smoker was well-shaped in the early stage, but was marginalized by Coby in the later stage, which made the navy less and less bright. With Garp's retirement, Aokiji's defection, Akainu's becoming the admiral and being sealed in Marijoa, there is no navy in the New World that can stand alone and face the Four Emperors.

The creation of Coby is hard to describe in a few words.

Our protagonist, Rorschach, appeared in this dilemma. He carried the dreams of many generals of the headquarters, to change the navy, make up for the shortcomings, end the era of pirates, break the shackles, and overthrow the rule of the world government.

He was rescued from the North Sea by Akainu, and was finally killed by Akainu. This is a cycle, an end, and a new beginning.

Speaking of comics, the recent plot of Egg Island has completely lowered the status of the Five Elders and Im.

I originally thought that the mysterious Im, after all, had killed Joy Boy, destroyed a huge kingdom, commanded the 19 kings, sat high on the void throne, and was worshipped by the Five Elders as the King of the World and the God of Celestial Dragons. How could his status be lower than Shanks? At least he had to be equal to Joy Boy, otherwise how could he be a rival to Luffy, the God of the Sun?
But when the latest episode came out, the domineering power that Joy Boy sealed in the ancient robot eight hundred years ago frightened Im so much that he trembled all over and knelt down screaming. This...

With Im's performance, I don't know how Joey Boy lost back then.

I didn’t believe it before when someone said Blackbeard was the final boss, but now I believe it a little bit.

【Q&A】

Why is my pen name Shuigong Daoren?

Because my name contains the word "Jiang" (Jiang), when I first registered my account, I really wanted to write fantasy fairy tales, so I chose this simple and clear name. But I didn't expect that now that I'm writing One Piece fan fiction, it would seem a bit out of place. Fortunately, I'm a rookie newcomer, so it doesn't matter what my pen name is.

Did Rorschach really die in the end?

He is indeed dead, but this is the world of pirates, a world full of fantasy, so anything is possible and it cannot be considered completely dead.

For example, there is rainbow fog in this world that can go back to the past. Although this plot is original to the animation, in this book, whether it is the movie version or the game character [Red Earl], as long as it is related to One Piece, even if it is an official novel, they can be connected together and counted as something in one world.

There is also the concept of inheritance of will.

As the quack doctor Shilluluk said, when is a person truly dead? When he is completely forgotten.

A person like Rorschach, who had a wonderful past, countless relatives, friends, enemies, admirers, resenters, and someone who eventually ended everything, is destined to be remembered for a long time in this book.

Speaking of which, I originally wanted to write an ending similar to ascension, where Rorschach becomes a god and becomes the mythical beast Qilin who protects the world, but when I think about it carefully, doesn’t this contradict what he has been doing all along?
The pirate world does not need gods, whether they are evil gods or good gods.

At this point, I have to mention the manga that says D is the natural enemy of God. Now that Luffy himself has become the Sun God, this seems a bit weird...

It is better to say that D is the natural enemy of the Celestial Dragons.

【Extras】

I will write some extra stories recently, but not many, because the main storyline has been completed. Although it was a bit hasty, Rorschach has indeed implemented his beliefs.

But it’s not like there’s nothing to write about.

For example, after the world government is destroyed, the sea level rises, and the world sinks, and after the sinking, the direction of the world will be determined.

For example, Zoro's journey to becoming the world's greatest swordsman, the development of the G5 Navy, the NEO Navy, the Marine Headquarters, the Revolutionary Army, and so on.

I will write the first chapter tomorrow night and post it that night. Since the book is already finished, there is no need to schedule it at 7 a.m. I will post it when I finish writing it.

【new book】

As I said in the remarks in the previous chapter, after finishing this book, I did feel the serious insufficiency of my own cultural background and saw the huge gap between me and other authors. However, this lack of knowledge accumulation cannot be made up in a short period of time. And I really like to write something, even if it is not well written. But if I don’t write anything for a long time, I always feel that I am even more useless and a waste, and fall into a negative state of self-pity.

In order to eliminate these negative emotions that have no positive effect, I will definitely continue to create, read more books, learn from others, and strive to write better things.

The new book is still a Pirates fanfiction, and the faction will change from the navy to pirates or bounty hunters. I already have some ideas about this, but I'm still considering where to set the entry point, as well as some details such as the plot, outline, protagonist, and forces. If the book is published, I will definitely notify you in advance. Book friends and brothers who like my style can follow me and wait a little while. The book will be published at the end of the month at the latest. It depends on whether the editor has approved the manuscript. After all, although I am an old rookie who has written millions of words, I still have no idea whether I can sign a contract...

(End of this chapter)