A Few Explanations and Complaints

I won't make a separate announcement volume; I'll just post this at the end of the book. I honestly didn't want to put out a standalone chapter, because whenever the author steps in, all sorts of things tend to happen. But after thinking it over, there's been quite a bit of debate, so I decided to post it anyway.

First of all, thank you all so much for your support. This book is currently ranked eleventh on the new releases chart for its category. Getting results like this on my first time at Qidian really does show how much you all like it. I've read every comment and replied to some of them, but there are still many things people have been discussing, so I'll explain them all together here.

First is the protagonist's personality. I actually don't think the protagonist is truly the same as Peter Parker from the comics—he's more of a bleeding heart, or rather, more of a saint. I was even considering naming this chapter "The Day the Saint Descended." The only reason I wrote him this way is because... uh, I like this kind of savior-type protagonist. He's just a protagonist who fucking saves, saves, saves. There's no helping that; I decided on it from the very beginning. Comic-book Peter Parker became a hero out of guilt over Uncle Ben's death. Sometimes he gives up, sometimes he hates himself, but the one I wrote is, well, a saint—or a bleeding heart. He completely traps himself in moral self-sacrifice and needs others to talk him through it.

Then there's the issue of him being a transmigrator. How should I put it? I didn't expect the controversy to be this big at first. In my original conception, the main universe was one I created myself, completely independent of every known Marvel Universe. Because of that, even as a transmigrator, all the information he had could only serve as reference; none of it could be treated as absolute fact. He might even make the wrong judgment based on what he thought he knew, leading to serious consequences. (I originally planned to write something like that to show that transmigration knowledge wasn't omnipotent, but then I thought it would be too much of a setback, so I dropped it.)

So in the main universe, Peter's identity as a transmigrator was never destined to help him all that much. He knew the true faces of quite a few villains and heroes, and he knew the general impact of certain major events, but none of these things were any known story. Facing the unknown in the main universe was the direction I set for it.

Correspondingly, the parallel-universe section that has already been mentioned but hasn't yet been written—the Spider-Verse—will be where his transmigrator identity really shines. The protagonist will travel to parallel universes from all sorts of known stories, such as the universe from the "Spider-Verse" movies and the Zombie Universe that every Marvel fanfic has to write about—everything began with a bolt of lightning amid rolling dark clouds. Under those circumstances, Spider-Man, with his omniscient cheat activated, will get to display the abilities of a transmigrator, while also picking up some equipment and powers from across the multiverse.

One reason for writing it this way is that the protagonist himself needs to be responsible for his own universe. Only when you don't know what consequences your actions will bring do your battles and choices carry greater meaning.

As for why I wrote it this way... because I think it's interesting. Just like why I wrote the protagonist to resemble the real Peter Parker so much—it isn't because I think Spider-Man being a chatterbox is fun, but because of another setting that few people mention: Spider-Man talks nonstop in battle because he's afraid of dying or being seriously injured in a fight, so he regulates his emotions that way, allowing himself to fight and save people with less pressure. I think that setting also fits the protagonist's mentality, which is why he became a chatterbox too. If people don't like it and feel that he seems like a native, then there's nothing I can do about that. It's already been established this way; I can't change it now. I can only keep going down this road.

Then there's why I chose to write Spider-Man. One reason is that I couldn't find the kind of Spider-Man fanfic I wanted to read. Another is that Spider-Man has an excellent range: at the high end, he can fight in Infinity War or across the multiverse; at the low end, he can team up with Daredevil and The Punisher to beat up thugs in alleyways. That lets me write whatever kind of story I want. Unlike many American-comic fanfics, where they start off with Sentry, Superman, or Homelander—if I then went on to write major events like Daredevil's Shadow Realm, either the protagonist would seem fucking stupid, or everyone else would.

The same applies to the story itself. Take Secret Wars, for example. Am I supposed to bring out the MCU's Secret Wars, then have the protagonist tell Fury, "Actually, your S.H.I.E.L.D. is both Hydra and Skrulls, and you didn't notice a thing"? I mean, Secret Wars is already a pile of crap. There's no need to use that pile of crap's setting to make the protagonist look good, so it's better to cut it and rewrite it. Then everyone can guess: in a brand-new Secret Wars unrelated to the comics, animation, or MCU, who's the mole, and who's one of the good guys? That's much more interesting.

Lastly, there's one more thing. A lot of people have asked why I wrote things this way. The answer is simple: I didn't think of it, okay? For example, it wasn't really logical for Herman to pick a lock with a strand of hair, but I didn't think about it, so I wrote it that way. Readers said it wasn't logical, so I changed it to a hairpin. Others asked why, after being saved by the Avengers, he didn't even ask for contact information. Well, I didn't think of that either... After all, I'm only human. It's really hard to avoid all kinds of bugs in plotting. These little bugs can only be revised or ignored...

Oh, and typos. I check it once with Writer Assistant, find typos, and fix them. Then I run it through DeepSeek, revise it again, and there are still typos. In the end, I still have to rely on you readers. If there's anything else you want to ask, you can ask it in this chapter, and I'll do my best to reply.