Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei returns from Sekiro

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I have been a hedonist since I was a child. I would play whenever I could and never spend any extra time. When I was in elementary school, I would finish my homework in school and then go back to watch TV and DVDs. When I was in junior high school, I would only go back to school on weekends for self-study at night. I basically copied my classmates' homework in high school. Fortunately, I woke up in my second year of high school and worked hard to study on my own. I struggled from 400 points to 570 points, and barely managed to pass a book.

The hardest time in my life was from my second year to my third year in high school. My high school was very poor. I only got one or two 985s every year, and about 50 or 60 per book. I studied really hard. However, even at that time, I was studying abroad. Living in a shared house, I would go to the Internet cafe with my roommates at least once a week to surf the Internet until 2 o'clock in the morning. On the way back, I would buy a fried chicken worth more than ten yuan, half for each person, and then eat it separately the next day. I slept on my stomach during morning reading Chinese class.

During this period, I feel that I have worked harder than before the college entrance examination. I am actually coding every day. This is really the first time in my life.

I was born in a rural area, and I was even the first child among my parents’ relatives to be admitted to a bachelor’s degree.

My family didn't care about me much since I was a child, so I had a lot of time to play.

I started reading online novels in the third grade of elementary school. The first one was a female channel’s fairy tale version of The Domineering President. There was a power outage that day, and my mother went out to play mahjong, so she gave me her mobile phone to read the novel. She found it for me, and the one I read was the original version. , I remember spending more than ten yuan on phone bills.

After that, the orange Nokia came into my hands. I had 30M of traffic per month for 5 yuan, which I used entirely for reading novels, and I often had to buy data refueling packages.

I also like animation. There are CDs at the market for 5 yuan each and three for 10 yuan. After watching, you can go to the boss to exchange them for a new one for 2 yuan.

Every Saturday and Sunday, I would ride a bicycle to the market, spend a week reading the new dishes I had exchanged, and then change them again the next weekend, and eat a bowl of crispy meat and bean noodles by the way.

I have watched basically all the unpopular and popular anime of that era, even the female-oriented "Sweetheart".

I have also appreciated the complete works of Hayao Miyazaki and Doraemon the Movie, as well as the complete works of Stephen Chow movies and Disney movies.

There were two large boxes of CDs, but unfortunately my mother threw them away when I moved.

In order to reward me for passing the county junior high school, my junior high school family bought me a Lenovo laptop, and I started surfing the Internet, and gradually got into games.

I have been exposed to many entertainment works such as games, animations and novels.

For a period of time, I liked to search for keywords like "alien" and "rebirth". I loved watching pretending to be slapped in the face. The protagonist was reborn with memories back to his youth, making up for all the unwillingness he had when he was young, and collecting young men and beauties everywhere. , if you see anyone who is unhappy, just one word is "kill". Anyone who dares to glare or snort is "kill".

I have read many novels of this kind for a long time, but suddenly one day I couldn’t stand it anymore, and I couldn’t stand other pretentious novels of this type either.

I had no desire to click on the Meat Harem anime, and instead started to re-watch old classics.

So far, the anime that have impressed me the most are "Lelouch of the Rebellion", "Tutor", "EVA", "Tengen Breakthrough", "CL", "Puella Magi Madoka Magica", "Death Note", the old version of " "Things of Praise"

My favorite stand-alone games include "Xenoblade Chronicles 2", "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", and "Legend of Sword and Fairy 4"

As for novels, I have read so many that I almost forget every one I read. The only ones that come to mind are "Robinson Crusoe" and "The Adventures of Riding the Goose".

The above works all have one characteristic, they are not bad endings, the endings may be regrettable, but at least I am satisfied with the ending.

When I watched "Dragon" before, I didn't think that I would think about a lot of issues when I actually wrote it.

For example, how long have dragons existed? Where did it come from?

When Jiang Nan was conceiving "Dragon", he must have had a lot of inspiration from "EVA", such as the Black King splitting to produce four dragon kings, the dragon kings turning into eggs, the Greenland Sea Incident, Norma, etc.

"Dragon" and "EVA" must be two completely different works, but many shadows of "EVA" can be seen in "Dragon".

Norton's resurrection takes 2,000 years, and even ancient China only has a history of about 5,000 years.

When I realized this, the subsequent story of this book began to go in a strange direction.

In "EVA", humans are the eighteenth apostles, so are the humans in the world of "Dragon" the ones evolved from the theory of evolution?

Did the Dragon Clan only exist when humans began to record history in writing? Before humans were born, were there no dragons? What were they doing before humans were born?

Is the devouring between twins simply to gain power and strength and then conquer the world? If it was split by the Black King a long time ago, why wasn't it devoured earlier?

Each of the Dragon Kings currently appearing is a very emotional being. Will they kill their relatives who share life and death with them for the sake of power?

What are the reasons for the death of the Black King and the death of the White King?

Once you stand from the perspective of a creator, there are many issues to think about.

I think that the twins devouring each other must have a more important purpose. For this purpose, they are willing to dedicate themselves to their relatives and sacrifice their lives to enable the other to gain stronger power. Maybe They themselves do not know this purpose, but their instincts and premonitions guide them.

Around the time I was writing Chapter 78, I finally made up my mind and decided on the ending for the story. Chapters 47 and 48 have many metaphors about the ending of the first volume and the direction of the entire story.

All that's left is the process of getting to the end.

I like the work "EVA" very much. When I was young, I couldn't understand it. I even felt inexplicable and a little scared. However, during this period of time, I watched the old version of "EVA" and even "EVA New" again, and also watched Lots of parsing.

The most unique thing about "EVA" is that you can have different feelings every time you watch it. This is one of the few animes where I can't press the fast forward button. I even pause the next scene and watch it over and over again, and watch it together with the analysis.

When I first watched the end of "EVA", I overlooked a lot of things.

The entire process of "EVA" took 25 years, and the final chapter took 8 years to polish. After watching the final creation documentary of "EVA", even if I am not satisfied with just one frame, I have to overthrow and redo it all. .

So when I was writing, I also adopted some narrative techniques from "EVA".

The rhythm of online articles is that they need to be updated every day. For a work, there is no time for editing, and it is all controlled by one person, so there are bound to be flaws.

Classic works have been revised countless times, but I still want to do my best to perfectly express the story I want to express, and turn the fantasies in my mind into words to share with more people.

For me personally, working on 4,000 a day is very tiring. When I go home, I just want to lie in bed and browse Bilibili, watch anime, read novels and play games. But every time a new chapter is released, I see someone commenting or Once you get a certain clue, you will be very happy.

In the past, when writing short stories, I would jump into the trap as soon as I started writing, or finish it hastily because I had new ideas after watching a new anime. This is the first time that I have persisted for so long and made complete plans. It is really not easy.

In fact, I suddenly had a strong desire to write an "EVA" fanfic a few days ago. I even got up in the middle of the night and typed out 2,000 words. It has been published on this account. If you are an "EVA" fan, you can check it out. It's purely Love the work, update from time to time.

Each main character in "EVA" has its own key props, including Shinji Ikari's Walkman, Asuka's rag doll, and Rei Ayanami's book.

I also arranged props for the characters in the book, so far:

What Lu Mingfei had was wedge pills and a pistol.

Zero is Zorro the Bear.

The props for Lao Tang and Eri Yi are cherry blossom cakes.

What is special about Fingel is his tango and drag racing skills.

Nono is her four-leaf clover earrings.

Lu Mingze can only call him brother all day long, so brother is his prop.

The little chubby brother actually has one, his treasure "Sunset", his QQ account.

In "EVA", props are a form of expressing the characters' emotions, such as the Walkman, which Shinji Ikari inherited from his father, which represents the connection between him and his father.

The props in the book also have their own meanings and emotions.

The core character of the first volume is undoubtedly Old Tang.

Old Tang's illusory life had ended, that night, under that street lamp.

He and Fingel were both moths and could not hit the glowing wick. Lu Mingfei followed Angers away, and the two of them could only stand under the light and look at the yellowing bulb.

This day was the happiest day in his life. Lu Mingfei and Fingel drove a sports car to pick him up and took him to a high-end buffet. Although he was Fingel's embarrassing dance partner, in fact, in his heart Also happy.

In the evening, I played cards with two good brothers, stuck an IOU on Fingel's face, slept in the same room, and turned off the lights to chat together.

And that promise that would never come, a treat for dinner on Friday.

He is just a personality of Norton. When Norton wakes up, for Norton, who has existed for countless years, it is just like watching another person's movie.

But these are, after all, evidence that Old Tang lived, and they are also things that Norton has experienced personally.

As I said, Old Tang is the main character in this book, but it will be very, very difficult for him to exist. He can't do it alone.

Some people say those chapters are dull, but without these chapters, there would be no vivid character. It would be too sad to describe him with a simple summary. Looking back, these daily life are the things that should be cherished the most.

As I have said repeatedly.

Those who are chasing you, do you see the road ahead clearly?

The roles of chasing and being chased are interchanged.

He envied the lives of Lu Mingfei and Fingel, and what would happen in the future?

Let me express the rest of the story slowly in poor words.

It will be on the shelves at 12 noon on Friday. At present, I can publish a manuscript of about 6,000 words. I will try my best to hold it back during the day and try to make up to 10,000 words.

This story was just a dream of mine at first.

Last month I received a royalties of 300 yuan, and I ate takeaways worth more than 40 yuan several times in the evening, and suddenly I felt so luxurious.

I have never been out of the province since I was so old. I hope that one day I can go to the north to see the snow and eat roasted whole lamb on the grassland.

It is a lie to say that I don’t want to make money. This is also one of the main motivations that support me writing until now.

Thanks to every book friend who supports the genuine version, and to my editor, who fished me out of the vast sea of ​​books on the 4th day. Maybe if it was one day later, I would have put this matter aside.

I wrote so much without realizing it, and I would like to thank everyone who read my complaints.

Written at 1:14 in the morning on October 21, it is cleverly the same number as Ye Shengjiu Deyaji’s last essay about reserving oxygen bottles.

Maybe, after so many years, I still haven't been able to leave the station. I'm still a child who longs not to grow up.