Training the Heavens

Chapter 98 is finished (thanks to Luoyeqingsi89 for the reward of )
This time, Gao Jialin still chose his own villa as the place to write. It is much quieter here than No. 675 Julu Road. The huge yard is all his own, so he doesn’t have to worry about being disturbed by outsiders and can write with peace of mind.

In the study room dedicated to writing, there is a large pile of materials collected by Tokuma Shoten, most of which are Chinese versions. In addition to physical books, there are also various videotapes. Most of them are Japanese film, television and animation purchased in Taiwan or Hong Kong, and then dubbed and subtitled with Chinese subtitles. You can watch them directly.

The essence of "Showa American Story" lies in the various memes in the game. This advantage must be maintained, but many of the memes in it have not yet been created, so Gao Jialin must re-screen them.

"Arale" has already been broadcast, so Arale's running can be used; the "Dragon Ball" animation has just started broadcasting, and the comics started serialization two years ago. If you can find it, you can also use Son Goku raising his fist to hit Piccolo.

"Gurren Lagann" is an original animation work in 2007, so the drill in the game can only be abandoned.

Gao Jialin spent half a day reading various materials and selecting suitable materials, and the remaining half a day was used to conceive the outline.

Two short game trailers only revealed that this is a road adventure game, in which the protagonist Chigusa Chouko needs to go through an adventure across the United States to uncover the secret of her resurrection.

This amount of content alone is not enough, so Gao Jialin must add more content. Fortunately, although the game is not finished, there are many works on the themes of zombies and apocalypse in later generations. It is completely possible to integrate the content of some classic works like writing "Young Friends Come to Meet".

First of all, the reason for the emergence of zombies and the resurrection of Chigusa Chouko is easy to solve. We can directly borrow the setting of "Resident Evil". There is a company called Umbrella in the United States that conducts secret biological experiments in secret.

Chigusa Chouko's parents worked in this company. They used their own genes to conduct some experiments and made unexpected breakthroughs. At the same time, they noticed the danger of the experiment, so they destroyed the experimental records and tried to escape from Umbrella's control. Unfortunately, they died in an accident on the way.

Umbrella Corporation found clues from some data that had not yet been destroyed, and began experiments based on the records of the fragments. Unfortunately, these experiments all ended in failure. Finally, a researcher discovered that the genes of the Chigusa family must be present to succeed.

So the Umbrella Corporation took advantage of Hollywood's invitation to trick the Chigusa sisters into coming to the United States and taking them under control for human experiments. In their opinion, the experiment failed, but in fact it was a success. This is why Chigusa Chouko came back to life.

This is how Spider-Man in some universes was born. Why did Peter Parker become Spider-Man? It was because his parents tampered with the spider. This plot is just right for Gao Jialin to borrow.

When Chigusa Chouko woke up, she found that she had lost her memory for a period of time, leaving only some fragmentary images. In order to track down these images, she embarked on a long journey across the United States, and the plot entered the routine of a post-apocalyptic road movie.

You can refer to the settings of classic works such as "Fist of the North Star", "Mad Max", "World War Z", "Train to Busan" and "Fallout".

In short, as Chigusa Chouko journeys, this apocalypse infected by creatures gradually reveals its true face to readers. Chigusa Chouko not only has to face the pursuit of zombies, but also has to fight wits and courage with the survivors, who are even more terrifying than zombies.

On her journey, she encounters a variety of survivor colonies, each choosing a different path forward. Some are left with only one person, searching for companions in the city – a scene Gao Jialin is about to copy from "I Am Legend." Others, like the villains in "Fist of the North Star" and "Mad Max," use violence to control the survivors in the colony and serve them.

For the remaining gathering places for survivors, I'll choose a few shelters from "Fallout". This game has conducted multi-directional explorations of the social models that humans may choose in the end times. The systems of several shelters are very interesting, and writing about them will definitely attract readers.

Of course, these gathering places for survivors must be designed in a Japanese style so that Japanese readers can feel involved when reading them.

During her continuous adventures, Chigusa Chouko gradually discovered the truth about the catastrophe. It turned out that it was the Umbrella Corporation that created the catastrophe that destroyed human civilization, and her sister has now become a senior executive and the strongest fighter of the Umbrella Corporation.

In the end, like Alice in "Resident Evil", Chigusa Chouko destroyed the Umbrella Corporation's conspiracy and died together with her sister in the final battle, leaving the hope of rebuilding civilization to the partners she met during her adventure.

After sorting out the main plot, I wrote an outline and submitted it to Tokuma Shoten. After reading it, Heita Mibu and the editors of Tokuma Shoten were very satisfied, and the conference room was filled with constant cries of praise.

With the outline, the next work was simple. He just had to fill in the routines and elements of various classic works according to the progress of the outline. Gao Jialin only took one month to complete the writing of the first draft.

Senior translators from Shanghai Translation Publishing House translated their works into Japanese, and editors from Tokuma Shoten read them and gave suggestions for revisions. Gao Jialin spent more than a week revising them, and the "Showa American Story" was finally completed.

The editors of Tokuma Shoten began to celebrate as soon as they received the finished manuscript. They knew very well that such a work would become a bestseller once it was published, and they would also receive a considerable bonus.

They immediately made final revisions to the manuscript. It was not because Gao Jialin's novel was poorly written, but there was definitely a difference between Chinese translators translating Chinese works into Japanese and Japanese translators translating Chinese into Japanese. They were revising the book now to make it more in line with the reading preferences of Japanese readers.

At the same time, they began to advertise in major media outlets, announcing in advance the news that "Showa America Story" would be on sale soon.

After Gao Jialin told this idea to Teruyuki Kagawa and others on the campus of the University of Tokyo, the Japanese media publicized it extensively. Many Japanese readers were full of expectations for this story at first sight. Now that they saw the news of the upcoming sale in the newspaper, they immediately went to the nearest bookstore to inquire about the news.

The bookstore sent the information to the publishing house, and Renbu Heita then compiled and analyzed the information. After taking a quick look at the final results, he rushed into his boss's office and said, "Boss, the first print run must be revised!"

(End of this chapter)