[Sorry, the author is busy with real-life matters and updates are on hold. I expect to return early next year.]
In 1940, waves rolled across the Atlantic.
The deep sea swallowed the remains of the fallen.
Bloodthirsty wolf packs roamed,
though their golden age was yet to come.
That night, aboard a submarine at sea,
an old, salty, pot-sticking layabout opened his eyes in the body of a young captain.
And so the story began.
1. Yes, the author is digging another hole. This one's to motivate me to gather information about ships and the sea, in preparation for the neighboring story, Captain.
2. A short-to-medium-length story, with a first-person narrator who loves to complain. It's silly in tone (I've read a lot of war novels lately and got depressed, so this is to lighten the mood). There are dark jokes and weird memes.
3. I chose the Germans because the author and protagonist are both anti-fascist. If he were in the Allies, he wouldn't be able to keep slacking off the whole time.
4. This story is 99% lighthearted, uneventful daily life and 1% main plot (naval battles). The protagonist is determined to switch sides and won't grow into a marshal or anything like that, much less turn the tide of the war for the Third Reich.
5. The cover is a photograph from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, titled "German submarine U-148 making headway through the Atlantic."
6. Content warning: The first protagonist is a woman who transmigrates into a man's body (the second protagonist is a man who transmigrates into a woman's body). Neither has a romantic pairing.
7. The original title was "How Many Steps Does It Take for a U-Boat Captain to Surrender?" But the author kept wanting to add a question mark at the end, and the original title sounded a little odd no matter how you read it, so I finally changed it.
8. To make the modern-day storyline more substantial, I added some fantastical elements for the protagonists, but they have little effect on the World War II storyline.
9. I'll add more if I think of anything!
The author will do their best to follow the historical record, but due to gaps in my knowledge, there may well be errors regarding history or ships. I hope all you lovely readers will point them out if you spot any. I'll definitely fix them!
Theme: Just managing to stay alive is already an act of courage
Coming from the land next door, I hope my wife will give this work an ending when she has free time in the next three dimensions. [Hold the thigh][Hold the thigh]
It's such a rare subject. It's almost impossible to find anything related to World War II in Jinjiang, let alone the naval perspective. Good luck, author. The writing is very good.
Zuo Hua was repeatedly locked four times and became paralyzed. Readers who are interested in related information can read my author column QAQ (I can't reveal more, the U-boat is submersing, keep silent to keep safe [shut up])