If "Caged Bird" is the prologue to the birth of "Ultramarine", it is better to say that "Purple Ink" is the "first volume" at the beginning of the plot...... But let's make it a second volume.

Specifically, this is a story about "purple ink".

A story about people who know each other with "identity labels". That's kind of the story I want to write.

Just as Russell first saw the bird of paradise and thought of her as an angel; It's also like when Quanshu saw the barber in the dream world, he immediately regarded him as a born uncensored. Even Tovatus' elven ears are themselves a kind of "purple ink".

As I said in my testimonial, the concept of "purple ink" from Purple and Black has nothing to do with the story of the second volume, but it runs through the whole volume.

So the story of "Purple Ink" that I previewed when I put it on the shelves became "Purple Ink" itself. So much so that everyone will speculate that the story of this volume is related to "what is purple ink...... Actually, it has nothing to do with the word at all, but it is related from beginning to end in another way.

I still like this meta element.

Another inspiration I would like to share is about the Paradise Bird.

The role of "Paradise Bird" was originally a trick given to me by Tian Zelu. But when I saw this codename, I had a new inspiration and thought of a real name suitable for Paradise Bird, which led to the story of the second volume.

What inspired you?

That's the real name of the Paradise Bird.

I saw a friend say, "The name Hua Yu is very Chinese." In fact, it is...... Because this real name comes from "Hua Yu's Paradise Bird".

This is a poem by Mr. Dai Wangshu called "Birds of Paradise".

The whole poem is not long, I put it directly here:

"Flying, flying, spring, summer, autumn, winter,

Day and night, without end,

Hua Yu's Paradise Bird,

Is this a happy wandering, or is it eternal hard labor?

When he is thirsty, he drinks dew,

When he is hungry, he drinks dew,

Hua Yu's Paradise Bird,

This is the delicacy of the gods,

Or is it for the homesickness of the sky?

From Paradise,

Or did you go to Paradise?

Hua Yu's Paradise Bird,

In the vast blue sky,

Do you feel lonely on your way?

If you had come from Paradise,

Can you tell us,

Hua Yu's Paradise Bird,

Since the expulsion of Adam and Eve,

How barren has the heavenly garden become? ”

This is a symbolist poem written by Mr. Dai Wangshu. Compared with the extremely harmonious rhythmic beauty of "Rain Alley", it is hazy and clear enough with symbolism, intentional and easy to understand at the same time, and it is also a masterpiece.

It is different from the intention expressed in the original poem. The main thing that struck me here was the phrase "did you come from Paradise or did you go to Paradise?"

The father of the Paradise Bird, as a mechanical angel of the Cyber Church, himself came from "Paradise" and went to the earth. As the "bird of paradise" itself, she is traveling from the world to paradise.

This is a wonderful coincidence.

Therefore, when the Heavenly Law as the provider of the dragon set was not known, I had already decided to write the real name of the paradise bird as "Hua Yu". As a tribute to this source of inspiration.

So looking back, the vast blue sky seems to be Russell as a "ultramarine...... The lonely journey, the "happy wandering, or the eternal hard labor" are also the portrayals of the life of the Paradise Bird that has acted to save the lives of others since the beginning of its birth. The dew she drank when she was hungry and thirsty was indeed a "delicacy of the gods" and a "homesickness for the heavens".

Because that's where the power of the Holy Order comes from. It is a sacrifice to God, and it is also what the mechanical angels do and do.

This volume is inspired by these two masterpieces.

Thank you for your support of the Overturned Tower.

After that, the cat also shared my inspiration and creative ideas for this volume at the end of each volume.

Tomorrow is a day off as a fixed holiday at the end of the month.

The day after tomorrow at noon normal update, fattening can be killed.

Brother Meng remembers to read a lot, fattening is possible to raise a cat to death......

I'm going to practice a lot with this book, so the caged bird is a very different structure from Purple Ink, and the structure of the next volume is still different from these two volumes.

But in the next volume, the cat is going to participate in the training of the Lu Academy...... Although the timetable has not yet been delivered, I predict that I may take some time off when the third volume comes. But in the end, it should be a story of less than 200,000 words and about a month.

Finally, there is a preview of the title of the third volume:

【One-Day Remains】