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Three years!
Over six million characters!
Who still dared say I was short?
Hmm?!
Anyway, before you start throwing bricks at me, let me put my hands on my hips for a moment.
It hadn't been easy.
It really hadn't been easy!
To be honest, writing a long novel tested not only your brainpower, but also the limits of your physical stamina. Sometimes, you even had to battle your own blood sugar and blood pressure.
If the whole process were compared to squeezing sugarcane juice, then the heap in front of the juicer best described my current state.
Anyway, there really wasn't a single drop left.
By the time we reached the "Behind-the-Scenes Extras" chapter, the main story had basically come to an end.
Aside from things that had been deliberately left blank from the beginning, such as the rise and fall of the Human Alliance, most of the holes in the main plot had been filled, and all the foreshadowing that needed to be paid off had been paid off.
Including Alpha Centauri.
Including the origins of the players and Wasteland OL.
And Chu Guang's identity, among other things.
Even the future tens of thousands of years from now, as well as the what-if timeline beyond the main timeline, had been explained through the Observer's perspective.
Actually, while the rise and fall of humanity had been left blank, it had in fact already been told over the course of the story.
The various survivor settlements were, in truth, fragments of the Human Alliance. That new beginning at Alpha Centauri had also hinted at the final ending—
The survivors of the wasteland would embrace a new beginning. They would not become history, but a continuation of what came before.
What came next was just trimming the branches and leaves.