Chapter 37: Explain the update and other things

Explain the update and other things

The previous single chapter, some classmates may not have clicked in; here I explain: because I need to be hospitalized, I originally planned to stop updates for two weeks, but after discussing with the editor, I still decided to do my best to keep a daily update, and will resume after discharge; I'm really sorry.

As for this book, veteran readers who have gotten this far probably already roughly understand what I want to write; I have to admit, this is probably the most thankless and labor-intensive type in web fiction; honestly, when I reached 40,000 words, I myself regretted it and really wanted to delete the book and start over.

But it seems there is still a small number of people reading it, so regardless of whether it's good or bad, let's first finish writing it and then talk.

One can imagine, this subject matter is practically a born target, just waiting for all kinds of amateur science keyboard warriors to spray; I myself think, even feel happy for those sprayers.

Take the simplest example: the title itself is a good point of criticism, because grammatically 'shrink' cannot be used with 'multiple'; it should be written as 'humans shrink to one percent of their original size', and the concept of '100 times' is also vague—whether it refers to mass, volume, height, or waist circumference, it's clearly not precise enough.

But please believe me, this title is the result of my careful consideration; I once thought of similar names like 'Micro-Age' or 'Apocalypse: Human Shrinking' that could avoid ambiguity, but from the perspective of a web novel, their effect is not as good as this one.

Even if someone insists on nitpicking, I can forcefully explain that this title is fine—whether from a grammatical or mathematical standpoint.

Please believe me, the author is a veteran nitpicker, the kind who has rarely met an opponent in a career spanning over thirty years, extremely skilled at overturning black and white with sound reasoning and evidence.

But in the end, I still added a sentence of explanation in the introduction; this is the decline of a nitpicker, but at the same time it is also a compromise as an author.

However, in fact, up to now I haven't seen people who spray just for the sake of spraying; everyone is discussing various issues rationally, putting forward different opinions.

This is really rare.

I have to say, the reader base of Qidian is truly damn high.

As for the tone of this book, it should be a somewhat realistic post-apocalyptic farming (minor hegemony) story; there will be no cultivation leveling like in xianxia; Special Ability is merely a tool, and we will set boundaries and maintain internal logic; of course, given the author's limited ability, it's hard to say what it will ultimately become.

The author graduated in engineering, has worked in construction, and spent a few years at a design institute, but that doesn't mean I can fully understand science and engineering topics; many things I can only imagine based on my scarce knowledge—I will try to look up references, but physics and chemistry are not like history and literature; often there's nowhere to start looking, and even if I find something I might not understand it.

Therefore, the book will inevitably have omissions, bugs, things the author didn't think of, things the author thought of but deliberately ignored due to laziness or plot needs, and sometimes I drill into one direction to the point of missing the most obvious problems in another aspect.

So if you insist on saying 'the author is an elementary school student, can't even think of this,' I can only spread my hands and express that I'm relieved you praise me for being young.

Finally, it's about extra updates.

Some classmates asked on QQ Reading about rewarding extra updates; I'll answer directly here: the big shots say it requires payment.

Well, the answer is you don't need to reward to get extra updates; I will definitely do my best to provide extra updates. If you think this guy writes well, give a dollar or two, the author will be happy, but I truly don't advocate large rewards; the alliance lord extra update from my previous book still hasn't been fulfilled.

Here I sincerely apologize.