Chapter 60 – Evaluation and New Book
Of course, where there are fans, there are haters. in addition to true fans who expected much more, there were some haters that were swearing at Yang Yi.
“The shortest webnovel in history!”
“You don’t have to read it. It was finished after only more than 400,000 words, it’s definitely a eunuch!” (TN: He’s saying the novel was abandoned or “cut off”)
“What the heck was that? Did anyone understand the ending?”
“The author is short and fast. Useless!”
“Everyone can wash up and go to sleep. Why the heck does the website go all out to promote this book?”
No one knew where these haters came from. Maybe there were people who really don’t like this type of books, maybe there were cynical people who are maliciously causing trouble, or maybe some author who thought that Yang Yi has touched their interests has bought a water army? (TN: Water army: Internet term that means paid online users to do promotion or smear others’ name.)
None of this was clear. However, it was a big mistake for them to appear at this time!
The news that Yang Yi was about to finish his book has long been circulating in various major forums. A lot of book fans just happened to gather here, not to mention that a considerable number of them were hot-blooded veterans who are loyal fans of Yang Yi. How could they bear to see these despising comments.
All of a sudden, the haters were scolded so badly that except for some strong water army, other individual users all shrank and shivered, and dared not touch this bad luck again.
The heat dissipated a little. After an hour, two hours, or a day or two, the real evaluation came.
First, let’s take a look at the evaluation from Mu Yucheng. This guy, using the small keyboard of his cellphone, pressed it word by word, and it took him more than an hour to finish.
“Great Yang’s novel is the best one I have read in recent years! Let’s not talk about his depiction of military life, and his description of the spirit of special forces or soldiers who don’t abandon or give up. I will not talk about these. Here, I just want to sigh with emotion about Great Yang’s portrayal of each character. It was really godly!
There is no doubt that Xu Sanduo is the protagonist, and his character is very special, and his performance all the way makes people want to laugh and cry, but in fact, this novel is not only won by Xu Sanduo, but also by Gao Cheng, Shi Jin, Cheng Cai, Wu Liuyi, Yuan Lang and so on!
My personal favorite character is Squad Leader Shi Jin! Because he attached great importance to affection and righteousness. Because of a promise to Xu Sanduo, he exhausted his mind! Because he will exhaust all his efforts for his soldiers. Like a sentimental woman, he led by example and diligently gave advice!
One of the most memorable events is when Shi Jin retired from the army. He had guarded the capital for ten years, but he had never been to the capital once. But when he and Gao Cheng were walking on the streets of the capital, he cried. That helpless and lost tears were heartbreaking.
Besides Shi Jin, there are other outstanding characters…”
From his post, it can see that Mu Yucheng really read the novel very carefully, and the disposition of each supporting character seemed to be imprinted on his mind, and every small deed was readily available to him. (TN: He knows every small detail of the novel.)
After reading the book, it always makes people choke up with emotions and spit everything out. in addition to the long post sent by Mu Yucheng, there are many insightful posts in the book review area, such as the following comment from a veteran of a special operations unit. (TN: spit everything out – letting out one’s pent up emotions.)
“The most realistic military novel. The author is definitely from a special forces background, and there are many details of special operation in it that most people really don’t know!
The confidentiality regulation prevents me from making small talk with the author, but I have been a soldier for 12 years, including five years in special forces. I can see that many details in this novel are consistent with the actual situation. There is no sense of absurdity that other novels gave me!
For example, the plot where Unit A was besieged by the dealers, everyone can go back and look at it. It was described very long, but the war period wasn’t dragged on for a long time. Condensed into a few words, first is the sneak attack and the bomb was used to get rid of other party, and then the cover fire. The sniper long-range observation makes up for any leak!
Resolve the battle in half an hour, then quickly clean the battlefield, and evacuate in 15 minutes!
The author’s description fully conforms to the requirements of special operations, which is to fight when you come, to behead when you fight, and to leave immediately after the fight, never delay doing things!
I once read a novel in which a team of special forces went on a mission. After achieving their goal, they were still there talking, smoking, and taking a break for two hours. It really triggered me. Come on, they were in enemy’s territory. Why didn’t they leave after they were done? Were they waiting for someone else to encircle and suppress them?
Fortunately, “Soldier Assault” didn’t have such a stupid plot. I give the author a full score.”
The person who posted this post didn’t know that there were many unreasonable things in the original “Soldier Assault”. For example, in this plot, the original author wrote that the battle had been fought all night, but there were still living people in the village!
Not only that, but in the later stages of the search, the TV also showed a whole bunch of people searching, making the people who is familiar with this kind of work complain about it.1 (TN: I’m not really sure if I got this right.)
Yang Yi hesitated for a long time in the process of transporting this, but decided to modify these unreasonable places according to some memories of the previous Yang Yi.
Of course, Yang Yi will not likely see this post, but there were a lot of professional comments and discussion in the book review area, which help those who are eager to find someone to share after reading the novel find a place, and some even jokingly said: “The book review is better than the original series…”
Taking advantage of the large number of fans that have gathered, Qiyue also took the opportunity to put up an advertisement for Yang Yi’s new book on various pages: Notice: Seven days later, Yang Yi, the author of “Soldier Assault”, will return with a new book about the god of war during the War of Resistance against Japan “Drawing Sword”, eulogizing an immortal monument!
All of a sudden, the book review area became lively again.
“A new book will be released in seven days? I’m looking forward to Great Yang’s book!”
“Is the name of the new book “Drawing Sword “? It sounds hot-blooded, but is this a war with cold weapons?”
“Didn’t it say it was about the god of war during the War of Resistance against Japan? This should be a story of fighting back the invasion of Japan in the last century! It’s definitely not a war with cold weapon, but I don’t know what the word “Drawing Sword” means.”
“No matter what, my alarm is set. It’s coming out next week. I’m so excited! I want to read it sooner!”
“I thought that after reading “Soldier Assault, I would fall into a book shortage for a long time. Haha, I didn’t expect the author to be so awesome!”
“Why not release it today? I can’t wait!”
“I hope the great Yang didn’t learn from the other cheap stuff in Qiuye and maintain his own style. As long as it is written at the same standard of ‘Soldier Assault’, I will fully support it!” This is obviously a book fan from Iron Blood Network.
Mu Yucheng only saw the news when he went to work the next day. He almost threw his mobile phone into the subway track due to his excitement.
“The Great Yang Yi’s character is guaranteed, his update speed is fast, and the quality of his novel is high. I believe that ‘Drawing Sword’ will also be a good novel! First of all, I’d like to offer a piece of red! Looking forward to it… ” (TN: A piece of red – red envelope.)
After Mu Yucheng finished giving out his reward, his excitement still hasn’t subsided. He has made up his mind that when the author’s new book comes out, he would not only give a bigger red envelope, but he will also invite his friends to read it!
Although not the most local tyrant fans, but this number one hardcore fan, “Mu Yuchen” is set! (TN: This “Mu Yuchen” (沐雨辰) is different from Mu Yucheng (穆钰诚). It should have a different meaning but I just couldn’t find out what it means. The only thing that I found is it means “bathe in the rain”.
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TN: I got stuck with this paragraph. I really don’t get it. Here’s the raw: 不仅如此,后面的搜捕环节,电视里还出现了全部人挤成一团去搜索的队形,让许多真正懂行的人吐槽不已。What I got from this was that he was talking about the TV version of this novel. Remember that what Yang Yi wrote was the TV version of this and not the actual novel, since the author think the TV version was better than the novel one. It was pointing out that the TV version have this flaw.
TN: Just some translator rant: The author tends to talk about or trying to promote other works in his novel and I kinda don’t mind it but to dedicate one or more chapters about it is irritating to me. The author didn’t even talk about the main story for the last 2 chapters. This is like a novel within a novel.
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