Chapter 44
Chapter 44 - Valued By The Editor-In-Chief
In fact, themost famous military literature website in China belongs to Iron Blood Website!This is a military forum founded by a magazine with a special background, amilitary magazine. It has gathered a large number of veterans and militaryenthusiasts since its inception ten years ago!
Today,however, the fans of Iron Blood were a little stirred up by a novel publishedby their friend Amway who published a novel under the military section of the QiyueLiterature Website, which they disdain reading at. (TN: The fans are disdain toread the novels under the military section because of the reasons below, andnot the novel that was published.) (TN: No idea who is Amway)
The novelsin the military section of Qiyue Literature Website are more on fictional, and arenot realistic anymore. Those best-selling novels are often mixed with variousloopholes, and all kinds of wrong logic.
This makes themilitary fans who like to study the real data of military and weapons feeldisdainful. It is as absurd as a specialized professor of history, who hasstudied the history of the Spring and Autumn Warring States period for decades,seeing a novel that wrote papermaking was invented by Confucius.
But thisbook "Soldier Assault" was different. They were so fascinated by it,and many weapons and data were accurately described. Yang Yi has revised thenames of some weapons and tanks that appeared in the past, base the memory of theprevious Yang Yi.
"Theauthor must have been a soldier and had a similar experience!" Manyveterans from rural areas burst into tears when they read the first fewchapters and turned to Amway for more.
However, thecomments below the novel are not so friendly!
After all,the audience of online novels was too wide. From the "old boys" intheir 30s and 40s to the primary school students who have just started readingnovels, the successful people in the business world and the rich secondgeneration. There are also migrant workers who earn hard-earned money and readnovels just to get rid of loneliness.
The slowrhythm and deep storyline of "Soldier Assault" made some readers who wereaccustomed to fast paced literature unable to adapt!
What sticksin the minds of some pleasure-seeking readers is the protagonist's "cowardice"!
"Howcan there be such a cowardly protagonist? I really can't stand it!"
"I haveread a lot of thing in my life, but this is the first time I saw that one hadto be pitied before becoming the protagonist in the army! I dropped it afterreading two chapters."
"Surrenderingat the sight of a tank's barrel? Is Xu Sanduo still going to stay in the militarycamp? How can the author write such a rubbish protagonist?"
Yes,everyone is used to the online novel protagonist that has an air of arroganceand is crazy good. Now, seeing a worthless protagonist, they really feel thattheir three views have been washed away. (TN: Air of arrogance - view oneselfas better than everyone else. Three views: world outlook, values and outlook onlife.)
Of course,it is not that there are no readers who like this novel. The readers who arepatient and like this style of writing like Mu Yucheng are not in the minority.They are also arguing according to reason. What's unexpected is that those whodon't give much reward at ordinary times are now willing to pay the author and encouragethe author to write well.
But under thefeedback of many disgusted readers, the reader rating of "Soldier Assault"have been consistently low, and there was no way to pass the middle mark!
Seeing suchan evaluation, seeing such a score, netizens from Iron Blood Website wereangry.
How can theyslander a good work like this?
"Thisis the most realistic military work I have ever seen! I am also a soldier ofrural origin, and I can responsibly tell you that the author has written verytruthfully. Many rural soldiers are forced to join the army by their parentsbecause their families are poor, and they all start from the very grass-roots units!Different from the children in a city, where their family conditions are good,no one is willing to be a soldier at all. Even if they have signed up, they aretrying to use the military as a springboard to seek qualification!"
Manyveterans showed up and preached: "Enlistment is not as simple as militarytraining. You think that the protagonist is a coward, because you have not experiencedthe situation where you have to suddenly leave your hometown and follow themilitary, leaving your parents, and going to a completely strange place. Theauthor describes this process very well, yes, even if they are all men, whodoes not shed tears when bleeding, but in that atmosphere, as long as acompanion cries, the whole carriage will cry as one! I think naive people shouldstop, they're just recruits, they haven't honed a strong will yet!"
"Themost emotional thing is when Xu Sanduo just entered the military camp, thoselittle episodes that made a fool of himself during training were full ofmemories! Like in those days, I was also scolded by the platoon leader, kickedby him, and knock over by teammates in the drill ground… your grandmother, I wantto cry when I read this book. I, Zhao Tiezhu, miss the army!" (TN: It wasNND in the raw which is an abbr. for "grandmother", which is a swear word)
After anemotional one, the following group of fellow soldiers cried bitterly.
Theappearance of the netizen of Iron Blood Website has changed the confrontationin the book review area. The new force is very large, and coupled with thenetizens who originally supported Yang Yi, they have unexpectedly had a certaindegree of victory!
But they arenot satisfied, they still feel that Yang Yi was aggrieved on this website!
As a result,someone began to promote having Yang Yi's next book be published on the IronBlood Website.
"Thereaders of Qiyue Website look down on you, but it doesn't matter. The author shouldjust go to Iron Blood Website! We will favor you to heaven! There are a lot offans who like your work!"
"Willthe author still be writing about military literature in his next book? Come toIron Blood, this is where you belong."
Promotingother competitors' websites in other people's websites, although Yang Yi, themoderator, did not take care of them, the Qiyue Literature Website staff soonnoticed this and they began to delete comments and banned some readers who repeatedlypromote!
However, IronBlooded netizens are hot temper - otherwise they will not advocate militarynovels. The more they are suppressed, the angrier they are, and the harder theypromote!
So, thatafternoon, Qiang Zi was called to the office by the Chief Editor. (TN: OrEditor-in-Chief)
"Hu Da,are you looking for me?" Qiang Zi is a little nervous.
Chief EditorHu nodded, and the light of the computer somewhat obscured his expression:"Soldier assault", is this the book you dug up?"
"Mm-hmm."Qiang Zi nodded uneasily.
"Thisbook has caused a lot of controversy lately…" The tone of Chief Editor Huis still relatively calm.
But Qiang Ziis a little frightened, he hurriedly explained: "I know that this hasbrought bad influence to the website, but Hu Da, this book is reallygood."
However, ChiefEditor Hu laughed and said, "Qiang Zi, you misunderstood, I'm not blaming you.On the contrary, I'd like to praise you for digging out such an excellent workfor the website."
"Ah?"Qiang Zi is a little dumbfounded.
"Lookat this data!" Chief Editor Hu handed out a printed sheet of paper toQiang Zi and said, "In recent days, the number of new users to our websitehas suddenly increased significantly. Our technicians have studied it, and mostof this growth of readers have come for "Soldier Assault"!"
Qiang Zi hasbeen concerned about the book review area. He asked somewhat puzzled: "Butwon't their comments affect our website? And this part of the readers are notloyal users. After reading the book, they will return to Iron Blood Website…"
"They spent,so they are our users. What matter is not where they came from but whether wecan keep their hearts!" Chief Editor Hu said categorically, "To keep theirhearts, we have to make sure that the author of "Soldier Assault" will not bepoached by Iron Blood's people and that his next book will still be published onour website!"
To make his competitorsunhappy and attract their readers, Chief Editor Hu was keenly aware that this wasa very good opportunity!
"QiangZi, did you get in touch with the author? Please ask him to talk to ourcompany!" Chief Editor Hu looked eagerly at Qiang Zi.
Qiang Zi wantedto cry: Brother, I also want to get in touch with him too!
"Notyet… I've been waiting for him for days, and he hasn't been online." QiangZi smiled bitterly.
Of course,as subordinates, he can't push the problem to the leaders. Qiangzi hurriedlyadded: "But I think he should be online today, because his stock isrunning out!"
"Good! Keepan eye on this matter today. You have to get in touch with the author." ChiefEditor Hu clenched his fist and encouraged Qiang Zi. "This is important,Qiangzi. You're shouldering our hope!"
However,while Qiang Zi was eagerly looking forward to Yang Yi, what was Yang Yi doing?
He was chatting with a beautiful single mother!