Cyberpunk: Starting in 2071

Chapter 50 Author's Note (Publication Date: Tomorrow Night at 00:00)
首先是上架时间：9月1号凌晨0点上架，大概是00:01分之后才会开始传VIP章节，我会到时候手动上传。

However, the first upload of VIP chapters may be delayed due to system delays on Qidian, so it may not be released on time at 01:00.

Therefore, it is estimated that all updates will be uploaded before 00:10, and the daily update time will still be 00:01 every day.

Secondly, there's the word count.

First of all, I'm releasing 50,000 words on the first day as a way of thanking everyone for their support of this book.

To be honest, for such a niche genre of book to achieve this level of success without any recommendations, I really don't know what to say except to express my gratitude.

Therefore, the only way to repay everyone's support is to update more frequently.

I would also appreciate it if you could all give me a subscription and a monthly pass. Although I've been away from writing for a while and my writing skills are a bit rusty, and the pacing and plot don't feel particularly tight, please believe me. I'll be able to adjust and get back into the swing of things soon and start unfolding the story properly.

Because the timing of the story's release wasn't ideal, a small portion of the story still revolves around recruiting and building the team. However, I will try to speed things up as quickly as possible, even if it means adding tens of thousands more words, and I will complete the initial team building within the first three days of the story's release.

Then Mercer and his team officially began their legendary journey in Night City.

Okay, now let's talk about the updates after the game is released, which is something everyone is very concerned about.

First of all, I can guarantee that I will not take a single day off during the first month, and I will take a maximum of 1-2 days off each month thereafter. I will update daily on average, guaranteeing at least 10,000 words per day per month.

I've written several books under the account "Cuncun". Even the worst book I've ever written, I persevered and wrote a million words to finish it, even though I had no money, no hope of improving the results, and no editors recommending it to me.

Therefore, the same applies to this book. Unless I encounter some accident, such as being hospitalized and losing my ability to write on a physiological level, I will definitely finish writing it as long as I can still move.

You can trust my character on this point; it's all backed by the books I've written.

Besides the basic updates and the first day's surge, CunCun would also like to ask everyone to support the monthly ticket rankings.

In the first month after its release, a new book has its own independent monthly ticket ranking. This ranking is crucial to whether a new book will have a future. If it can enter the top ten of the ranking, it is equivalent to having a 24-hour mini-recommendation.

To be honest, although this book performed very well and ranked high on the new book list, it's clear that the number of collections for this book is not very high. Its ranking on the list is purely due to everyone's reading and voting.

The root cause of all this is a lack of exposure.

I was really unlucky; just when my book was entering the data package recommendation competition, the data package remained at the lowest tier for four consecutive days.

This resulted in me appearing on the new book charts later, but the increase in sales was not enough. When fanfiction and original books were competing for strong promotion on the Sanjiang platform, I had to reduce my follow-up reading by 50% to compete with them.

Even with a high percentage of readers following the book, the lack of sufficient favorites clearly isn't enough to propel it into the recommendation list. So, it's another unlisted release. This book currently only has a paltry ten thousand favorites; you can see from other new books on the charts that they generally start at twenty to thirty thousand.
The monthly ticket ranking for new books became my only lifeline.

I originally wanted to use the first subscription as a standard to give everyone extra chapters, but considering my number of favorites, I don't dare to have too many expectations for the first subscription.

Therefore, let's use monthly passes as the standard for extra chapters.

First of all, during the first week after the book is released, aside from the 50,000-word update on the first day to thank everyone, I guarantee that I will update at least 120,000 words in the remaining six days, which means an average of at least 20,000 words per day.

Then, after the first week, if I can get into the top 10 of the monthly ticket rankings for new books, I guarantee that the average daily update from September onwards will not be less than 15,000 words.

At the same time, for every thousand monthly votes accumulated, I will count it as ten thousand words of bonus chapters. These monthly votes will be settled on the last night of the month and will be repaid next month.

This extra chapter will definitely be added to the daily update of 10,000 words, so please rest assured.

If you've been following this book since the last one, you should know that Cun Cun has had a really bad run of luck these past two years. When the last book was being written, someone dug up his newly bought, run-down apartment to weigh it, which caused a long dispute with the property management. After that, a whole host of other unfortunate things happened one after another.

I honestly wrote a fanfiction that I was interested in, and it finally started to do well. But then a bug in the recommendation system caused me to be released without any support. I didn't even get a single homepage recommendation. I only got 10,000 subscriptions. Even if you guys are willing to support me by subscribing, I don't know if I can get 2,000 initial subscriptions.

That's why I suddenly got a red-hot status in the comments section a couple of days ago—no recommendations for bad grades, no recommendations for good grades, and I'm still writing until the early hours every day, listening to EMO on NetEase Cloud Music and feeling like such an unlucky guy.

I felt frustrated and depressed. One moment I thought I could definitely do it, and the next I was worried that it would flop again after it was released. My thoughts became a bit chaotic as a result.

But don't worry, my friend quickly recovered. After a good night's sleep, yesterday was gone, and life had to move on.

In any case, it's about to be released.

There's not much that Cun Cun can do. Besides racking his brains to find information and write this fanfiction, all he can do is try his best to update it.

The rest is up to the readers who enjoy this book.

Please, everyone, in addition to subscribing, cast a monthly vote. After that, the road ahead is long and arduous, let's see if we can reach the end together.

Hopefully, things will take a turn for the better.

The new book will be available on September 1st. See you in this cyber world made up of networks.

(End of this chapter)