First, the release time: It will be released at midnight, 0:00 AM on September 1st, and the VIP chapters will likely start uploading after 00:01, which I will manually upload at that time.
However, the first upload of VIP chapters might be slightly delayed due to the system on Qidian, so it might not be exactly released at 01.
Thus, I estimate that all updates will be uploaded by 00:10; thereafter, the update time every day will remain at 00:01 every morning.
Next is the word count.
On the first day, there will be a burst of 50,000 words, to thank everyone for their support of this book.
To be honest, for such a niche type of book to reach this achievement without any recommendation, I really don't know what else to say besides thank you.
So only by bursting more updates can I repay everyone's support.
I also ask everyone to subscribe and give a monthly ticket, although I haven't written for a while, making me a bit rusty, and the pacing and plot might not be very tight. But please believe me, I will quickly adjust and get into the flow, formally unraveling the plot.
Because the timeline for the online plot isn't particularly good, the next small portion of the plot is still in the recruiting phase for team building. But I will speed it up, even if it means adding tens of thousands of words, to settle the construction of the initial team within three days of updates after going online.
Then the legendary journey of Mercer and his team will officially begin in Night City.
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Alright, let's talk about what everyone's concerned about — updates after going online.
First, I can guarantee to everyone that I will not take a single day off in the first month, and later I will take no more than 1-2 days off per month, ensuring an average of at least 10,000 words per day.
This account, CunCun, has written several books, and as long as they went online, even the last one that flopped the most, was written to a million-word completion, even without making money, seeing hopeful results, or getting recommendations from editors.
So, this book is the same. Unless something unexpected happens to me, like being hospitalized, losing the ability to write physically, otherwise, as long as I can move, I will definitely complete it.
You can trust my integrity in this regard. This confidence comes from writing so many books.
Aside from the basic updates and burst of updates on the first day, I also want to ask for support on the monthly ticket ranking.
In the first month after going online, the new book has a separate new book monthly ticket ranking. This ranking is key for whether a new book has a future after going online. If it can enter the top ten, it's like getting a 24-hour mini recommendation.
To be honest, although this book ranks well on the new book list, everyone can see that the collection number for CunCun is genuinely low, and the ranking is purely thanks to everyone's follow-up and votes.
The root cause for all this is a lack of exposure.
I was really unlucky, just as my book entered the flow packet recommendation PK, the flow packet lasted four days at the lowest level.
This resulted in even though I got on the new book chart later, the increment wasn't enough. In the PK against fan fiction and original books for strong recommendation, I already have to convert 50% of the follow-up reading against them.
And no matter how high my reading ratio is, in this situation of insufficient collection, it's obviously not enough to support me to break into the recommendations.
So it was another bare run online, this book now has only pitifully just over ten thousand collections, take a look at other charted new books, most start with two to three thousand collections...
The new book monthly ticket list has become my only lifeline.
I originally wanted to use first subscriptions as a standard for additional updates, but considering my collection number, I don't dare to have too many expectations for first subscriptions.
So let's use the monthly tickets as a criterion for extra updates.
Firstly, within the first week of going online, disregarding the 50,000-word burst on the first day to thank everyone, I guarantee at least 120,000 words of updates in the remaining six days, which averages at least 20,000 words per day.
Then after the first week, if the monthly ticket ranking can get into the top 10 of the new book monthly ticket list, I guarantee that from September onwards, the daily average update will not be less than 15,000 words.
In addition, for every accumulated 1,000 monthly tickets, I will regard it as an additional 10,000 words, and these monthly tickets will be settled on the last night of the month, to be repaid next month.
This additional update will surely be on top of the daily average of 10,000 words, so don't worry.
If there are readers who followed from the last book, they should know that in the past two years, CunCun has really been out of luck. When writing the last book, the newly bought little shabby apartment had someone do some weighing work, causing a property scuffle for a long time, followed by a lot of unlucky things, continuously.
This book is written honestly as a fan fiction that I am interested in, and it is rare to see an improvement in grades, but a recommendation bug happened, making it another bare-bones online debut. Not a single front page recommendation was obtained, with only ten thousand collections. Even if the brothers are willing to support subscriptions, I don't even know if there can be two thousand first-time subscriptions.
This is also why I suddenly got choked up at the chapter reviews the other day—no recommendations for poor performance, no recommendations for good performance either, I still write every day until late at night, listening to NetEase Cloud, feeling so unlucky.
My heart was both agitated and depressed; at one moment, I felt confident I could succeed, and at another, I worried about another flop when going online, making my thoughts a bit messy.
But don't worry, I'll quickly adjust; a night's sleep helps to move on from yesterday, as life must forge ahead.
In any case, the online release is just around the corner.
There's little CunCun can do, apart from racking my brains to research information and writing this fan fiction well, but to try hard with updates.
The rest is left to the readers who watch and like this book.
I ask everyone, aside from subscribing, give a monthly ticket, and then it's a long road ahead, and let's see if we can reach the end together.
Hopefully, there will be light at the end of the tunnel.
September 1, new book launch, in this cyber world formed by the internet, let's not miss each other.