Chapter 323: The Hardworking

Before Akiwara Yuto started writing, he specifically checked if there were any similar works in this world.

But after checking, he found a sci-fi story about Tokyo being flooded by a great flood.

But this story had a plot that was a bit like "Weathering with You," a love story wrapped in a sci-fi skin.

However, it seemed that because it was too sentimental, the market reaction was not great, and sales were mediocre.

Having confirmed there were no concerns, Akiwara Yuto started "moving" it.

The story of "Japan Sinks" began with an island 70 meters high in the northern part of the Ogasawara Islands sinking into the seabed overnight.

To investigate the truth, geophysicist Dr. Tadokoro and deep-sea submarine pilot Onodera Toshio dived into the seabed and discovered large-scale abnormal phenomena in the Japan Trench 7,000 meters deep.

At the same time, accidents such as the forced suspension of the Shinkansen project and the collapse of highway bridges occurred on the Nihon archipelago, and volcanic activity was frequent and earthquakes were constant everywhere.

For this reason, the Nihon government secretly held an expert hearing.

At the hearing, Dr. Tadokoro issued a warning that Nihon was about to sink.

The skeptical government departments immediately formulated the "D-1" plan to deal with the emergency and launched a top-secret investigation.

With the deepening of the investigation and the occurrence of the "Kyoto Great Earthquake" and "Tokyo Great Earthquake," the fact that Nihon was facing sinking became clearer and clearer.

The Nihon government had to formulate the "D-2" plan aimed at saving the Nihon nation on the basis of the "D-1" plan.

When the news of Nihon sinking was made public, the international community immediately launched rescue activities.

Finally, the Nihon archipelago began to sink.

In the final ending, the Nihon people were settled in different countries around the world.

China accepted a portion of the refugees to be settled in Jiangsu and arranged for another portion to go to Chongming Island.

Russia accepted a batch and settled them in Siberia.

Australia initially only wanted high-tech industrial workers, but later agreed to increase the number of ordinary people, although they could only arrange them in the inland desert areas.

Thus, the Nihon people perished.

And regarding this book, it could generally be divided into 3 parts.

The first part was almost dry theory without any literary quality—that is, knowledge of geophysics, meteorology, and the like.

The second part mainly talked about the various miserable states of the Nihon archipelago, such as volcanoes, tsunamis, and earthquakes.

The third part was used to describe the reactions of various people after knowing that Nihon was about to sink, from government officials to experts, from the Prime Minister to ordinary people, and then from the military to various foreigners.

It sounded simple, but it was very difficult to adapt.

In order to do the preparatory knowledge work well, he had to find two bookstore employees to specifically purchase a large amount of literature and geography materials.

Besides that, he also specifically used connections to meet with a university professor in the geography department to discuss the possibility of this situation happening.

After spending about 2 weeks of effort, Akiwara Yuto barely managed to solve the first and second parts.

And when it came to the third part, he also started a large-scale adaptation.

In the original work, the Nihon local citizens were overly beautified.

After the Prime Minister gave a speech that "Nihon is about to sink," there was no state of disorderly mobs in Nihon.

Even the only incident of attacking a Self-Defense Force base was a mistake caused by the Self-Defense Force itself.

In his past life, many book critics thought this was very unreasonable.

So Akiwara Yuto not only added some content from the 2006 movie version but also added some personal touches:

After learning that Nihon was about to sink, riots broke out in Nihon, but they were suppressed by the Self-Defense Force.

At the same time, the Prime Minister, the Cabinet, and all other large financial groups began to flee first, while ordinary people could only wait bitterly at the back of the line for the arrival of rescue ships from various countries.

Because they couldn't wait for the rescue ships for a long time, in despair, many people even bought inflatable boats.

They decided to cross the Sea of Japan on their own to go to Taiwan, Jiangsu, Southeast Asia, and other regions to survive. But of those who could succeed, less than 1 in 10.

It could be said that the level of despair in Akiwara Yuto's version was even better than the work from his past life.

But the most essential part of the original work, which was the exploration of whether a nation that had lost its national territory could still maintain its own culture and customs while wandering around the world, was retained by Akiwara Yuto.

By the time he completely finished this long-form novel, it was already the middle of March.

However, for this work that he spent so much effort to "restore," Akiwara Yuto had new plans.

"After the work first wins the Nihon Sci-Fi Club's literary award, I will start arranging for publication, and at the same time, look for a suitable director to see if I can invest in making a movie."

"However, it is estimated that it will cost a lot of money; perhaps I should find some movie companies to cooperate with."

Referring to the experience of this book selling well in his past life, Akiwara Yuto made this decision.

Immediately after, he sent a copy of his "Japan Sinks" to the Nihon Sci-Fi Club.

March 17th, which was the day after Akiwara Yuto sent out his work, Tatsuzawa Yuriko looked at the pile of manuscripts on the table and sighed heavily.

As the Director of the Nihon Sci-Fi Club, she believed that she had the responsibility to be responsible for the future of Nihon sci-fi.

But what made her uncomfortable was that, except for her, other writer members were mostly not concerned about hard sci-fi and soft sci-fi, and many even liked robots and space battleship series.

She pushed up her glasses, feeling a sense of discomfort in her heart.

In fact, she also knew that with the changes of the times, more and more readers were not interested in hard sci-fi that emphasized rigorous settings, thus turning to soft sci-fi that leaned toward love, war, etc.

And the changes in the market also made many sci-fi writers start to change their mindset and create soft sci-fi works.

After all, compared to hard sci-fi, the importance of scientific technology and physical laws in soft sci-fi works was reduced; one only needed to describe a good story about society and human nature.

And these large numbers of soft sci-fi works would further squeeze the living space of hard sci-fi works.

Just like detective fiction, after the rise of the social school, social school works were constantly occupying the detective market that originally belonged to the honkaku school.

After all, readers preferred to find a book that made them feel "relaxed" and not so "brain-burning."

Whenever she thought of these situations, Tatsuzawa Yuriko doubted whether her persistence in hard sci-fi was right.

Could it be that she had already been retired by this era or this market?

She thought for a long time, finally lowered her head helplessly, and continued to look at the manuscripts until 2 hours later, when she stopped her movements.

She was very disappointed; most of the manuscripts sent in had no scientific logic and were purely romance novels wrapped in a "sci-fi" skin.

What was even more annoying was that many manuscripts couldn't even tell a story well.

Just when she was disappointed, she subconsciously glanced at the new pile of manuscripts on the right, but the name of one of the manuscripts made her eyes widen.

On it, the four characters "Japan Sinks" were written... ===== CHAPTER 324 =====