Chapter 297

In the hazy mist and rain, separated by a distance of a hundred meters,

Two cruise ships brushed past each other.

And Ding Ming, who was looking down at the newspaper, did not notice the cruise ship turning around not far away, unaware of what he had missed.

Looking at the news items in the newspaper, Ding Ming was still thinking about where to trigger the [Plot Card].

But there was no useful information in the newspaper, so he could only shake his head.

Putting down the newspaper, Ding Ming took out a map and displayed it in the stream room:

"'Republic' is still a mess even now."

Saying this, he zoomed in on the map in his hand, and the Blue Star netizens in the stream room looked at the map Ding Ming had marked himself.

"This is the 1921 Republic map where I started; look at these factions." This book is first published. For reading, look for Tian Tian Kan Xiao Shuo, 𝔱𝔱𝔨𝔰.𝔱𝔴, super powerful, providing you with an error-free chapter and non-disordered chapter reading experience.

"Then look at this...:"

Saying this, Ding Ming hung the map screenshot from the start to 1930 on the stream room.

"This is the 1930 map."

"The sphere of influence map drawn by me and my friends according to the news collected in our respective storylines."

"You can see that from 1921 to 1930, they have been fighting for almost 10 years."

"The civil strife in the Republic has not ended yet."

"When will this end? With this kind of fighting, wouldn't the time left for development be even shorter?"

After all, according to the previous CG and the [Republic] timeline, it was known that the later [Republic] would break through in 1950 and go head-to-head with two superpowers.

As a result, by 1930, the land of Huaxia was still in such chaos,

And this chaos didn't look like it would end anytime soon.

Which meant that the rise of the [Republic] didn't even have 20 years; it might be just over 10 years or even shorter, but thinking about it this way.

It made people feel even more that the [Republic] was like it had opened a cheat; this speed of rise was simply absurd.

Saying this.

Ding Ming remembered something and switched to the [Awakening Era] section of the Tian Sha live streaming platform, then selected the 1931 timeline category.

Because for the [Awakening Era] DLC, the upper limit for free selection of time was 1931.

So apart from players and streamers experiencing the previous timeline storylines, most streamers who chose the 1931 timeline were constantly skipping the plot, attempting to trigger later major events such as [Four Crossings of the Chishui River], etc.

Ding Ming flipped through a few stream rooms at random and soon found one, clicking in:

"Look."

"'Republic' is not just in civil strife now; starting from the Japanese invasion in 1931, the land of Huaxia also has to face the threat of foreign enemies."

"Until driving away the Japanese in 1945, that's a full 14 years; it can be said that there was basically no stable development period."

"Just like this... hmm?"

"That's not right."

"According to this, it was at least after the national liberation in 1949 that the [Republic] had a development period."

"Equivalent to from the 50s to the 60s, it only took 10-plus years to build a nuclear bomb."

"Holy crap, isn't this even more absurd than before?!!!"

Ding Ming felt something was wrong as he spoke, and the Blue Star netizens in the stream room felt the same.

Previously, they felt that the [Republic] began to rise gradually starting from the 1912 "Republic", but now looking at the map, they could see.

Where was the time for rising?

Warlord infighting had been going on for so many years; warlords had just ended, and then there was foreign invasion, all the way until national liberation.

It turned out that it only started to be stable in 1949.

But just under the repeated threats of two superpowers, in just over 10 years, by the 60s, they had already built a nuclear bomb.

No, there must be something wrong somewhere!

Ding Ming looked at the colors of the various factions on the map; none of them were the red faction from the third level of the federal military exercise.

Had that red faction not appeared yet?

Completely unaware.

What kind of changes the cruise ship that had just brushed past would bring to the future land of Huaxia.

On the other side.

Polar Star Company, President's Office.

The new contract brought by Shen Shen Qinghan was a cooperation intention from the Free Star Cluster Federation:

"They have increased the agency fee by 10 times and are asking if we can open up more quotas; what do you think?"

Zhao Ming took the document handed over by Shen Shen Qinghan, somewhat surprised:

"A rich dog?"

"Even more extravagant than the eldest prince of the Golden Moon Federation?"

A 10-fold agency fee, that was 5 billion federal coins.

It was enough to throw at an ordinary game company to prevent dozens of them, and it wasn't like the Free Star Cluster military didn't have technical personnel.

They could completely copy and imitate it themselves.

Perhaps guessing Zhao Ming's thoughts, Shen Shen Qinghan pulled out a chair and sat down, saying:

"Normal."

"If you don't earn, and I don't earn, how can the federal officials of the Free Star Cluster earn?"

"The military expenditure of the Free Star Cluster alone is more than four or five times that of the Daxia Federation every year; 5 billion dollars might not even be enough for the food expenses of the Free Star Cluster."

"But it can improve the combat effectiveness of the troops; where else can you find such a good thing?"

"If they really went to make replicas, what would they gain?"

Zhao Ming listened with a strange expression; sure enough, it was the same everywhere.

Glancing at the contract, there were no problems, so Zhao Ming signed it directly.

Anyway, it was just a matter of opening up a few more single-player storyline modes.

After signing the contract, Zhao Ming handed it to Shen Shen Qinghan.

Shen Shen Qinghan took a look, nodded, then put away the contract, looked at Zhao Ming, and asked:

"By the way."

"I see that not too many people are playing 'World War I: Twilight of the Empire' at the moment; basically, everyone has run off to play the [Awakening Era] DLC."

"Do we need to make some adjustments, or open some activities or something?"

"After all, the main body is 'World War I: Twilight of the Empire', and [Awakening Era] is its expansion DLC; it's a bit putting the cart before the horse, isn't it?"

"After all, the main body of the game is anti-war."

"But if there is no fighting in the Republic, the [Republic] will not rise."

Zhao Ming didn't care, leaning back in his boss chair and waving his hand:

"No need."

"Looking at the popularity of [Awakening Era], one knows that compared to anti-war, what players are currently more curious about is the rise process of the [Republic]."

"And although it's said to be an anti-war game, we still have to develop some new gameplay."

"Currently, after more than half a year of promotion, many players already know the pain of war; promoting it now won't have much effect."

"It's better to let them play the [Awakening Era] DLC and see how the [Republic] gradually rose from suffering."

"Learning this kind of persistent spirit is also good."

In fact, it was indeed the case.

After all, from WWII to WWI, it had been continuously promoted for more than half a year.

According to the surveyed data, the popularity of games, movies, etc., pushed out every year usually only lasted for a month or two.

And the games from Polar Star Company were released one after another.

Firmly holding onto Blue Star players for more than half a year.

At this time, those who had played it basically understood the game content and core; those who hadn't... if they hadn't understood it after half a year, they probably wouldn't want to understand it either.

So, with most of them being old players, deliberately promoting it again would actually have the opposite effect.

It's better to let nature take its course.

Let players choose for themselves; anyway, the main body of the game is 'World War I: Twilight of the Empire', and the core is still to make players anti-war through various tragic wars.

And [Awakening Era] is a DLC; that more people are playing it only shows that the DLC is well-made.

Anyway, the main body of the game is there and won't change; even if others want to find trouble, they can't say anything.

Shen Shen Qinghan saw this and could only nod, then asked curiously:

"By the way... when exactly is the [Republic] considered to have completely risen?"

"The latest timeline in the game is still a mess."

Shen Shen Qinghan would also play it in her spare time and browse the player forums; what Shen Shen Qinghan was asking now was the biggest curiosity of the players in the forum.

At the same time, it was also Shen Shen Qinghan's curiosity.

The latest timeline had been skipped by some players from 1931 all the way to 1933.

But the disputes between various factions on the land of Huaxia had not ended.

It was impossible to imagine how the [Republic] rose step by step under such circumstances.

Hearing Shen Shen Qinghan's question, Zhao Ming pondered for a moment:

"Hmm... how should I put it?"

"Because I'm also not quite sure when it counts as rising."

This wasn't Zhao Ming talking nonsense, because until he transmigrated, the [Republic] was still a developing country...

Zhao Ming thought for a while and said:

"Wait a moment."

Saying this, he began to operate on the equipment.

The data in the database was retrieved, called up, and then thrown into the photon supercomputing software for rapid rendering; in just three minutes, a short CG was finished.

Zhao Ming projected this short CG into the void in front of him:

"You'll understand if you look at this CG."

Shen Shen Qinghan looked up and saw the scene slowly appearing in the projected CG.

In the scene.

What appeared was the smoke-filled Forbidden City, with the Zhengyang Gate burning in the raging fire.

Soldiers of the Eight-Nation Alliance held their respective national flags and rushed through the gates of the Forbidden City; the perspective suddenly rose, and one could clearly see the artillery fire everywhere in the Forbidden City below.

Fleeing Qing soldiers, scattered Yellow Dragon flags, and streets full of Eight-Nation Alliance soldiers looting property.

As the perspective lowered.

Some Qing soldiers on the city wall were still resisting, and the artillery fire from both sides was shooting at each other.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A part of the city wall collapsed, shaking the Qing soldiers on the wall to the ground; a white-haired Qing official struggled to get up, shouting loudly:

"Quick! Blast these foreign devils to death!"

"Open fire quickly!!!"

The personal guards nearby saw that they couldn't defend anymore, immediately grabbed the Qing official, knelt down to him, and said with tears in their eyes:

"My lord! Run quickly!"

"Our artillery... can't reach them!!!"

The furious Qing official grabbed the guard's collar and roared something.

The perspective suddenly rose.

Then it switched to the sky over the Northeast land.

Subtitles slowly emerged.

[September 18, 1931]

The perspective looked down.

Appearing at the station of a Japanese troop.

Inside the command post.

A Japanese officer held the pocket watch in his hand tightly; as the hand pointed to a certain spot.

Boom—!

The railway was suddenly blown up; the long-premeditated Japanese, using the excuse of searching for missing soldiers, launched an attack on the troops in the Northeast region.

The final scene was the sinister smile on the Japanese officer's face.

Then the perspective rose.

The Earth below began to rotate rapidly, and the seasons changed.

When the perspective lowered again.

In the scene, there was only a high-altitude view, and below was a city turned into ruins.

Subtitles slowly emerged [2022].

There was some surprise on Shen Shen Qinghan's face; 2022?

Although she knew there was a modern warfare plot version later, she really didn't know much about the timeline of 2022.

After all, she had only briefly watched the modern warfare CG before.

Zhao Ming spoke, smiling and saying:

"Keep an eye on it and see if you can discover when the attack comes."

Shen Shen Qinghan had a face full of question marks and looked at the projection; when would the attack come?

Just as she was thinking.

Suddenly, a "hum—" sound similar to a "death scream" came from the projection.

Before Shen Shen Qinghan could react.

Boom!!!

The city below in the projection suddenly exploded; only then did Shen Shen Qinghan notice the camouflaged soldiers, who were running in panic at this time.

Looking at the power of the explosion, Shen Shen Qinghan was somewhat surprised:

"Missiles?"

However, the perspective suddenly lowered.

The "hum—" sound of the "death scream" came densely; as the perspective followed, Shen Shen Qinghan noticed that it was a group of drones.

They were rushing towards the soldiers fleeing in all directions at an extremely fast speed.

Boom boom boom boom!

As the scenes switched, Shen Shen Qinghan discovered that the Earth in 2022 was also full of wars, and some of the tragic levels were no less than the WWII period.

At this time.

The scene time suddenly switched to the [Republic].

[South China Sea]

Two extremely modern warships were confronting each other on the sea; one of them was flying the flag of the [Republic], and on the other side was a flag Shen Shen Qinghan had never seen before.

It was just strange that... on such a modern warship.

On that ship with the flag Shen Shen Qinghan didn't recognize, soldiers who looked dark and like a group of skinny people were waving sticks at the [Republic]'s warship.

And the soldiers on the [Republic]'s warship just looked at them coldly, slowly driving the warship over, scaring the other side into turning around.

The scene switched.

[Plateau]

Above the plateau snow mountains, soldiers on both sides were still confronting each other.

It was just that this time Shen Shen Qinghan could recognize them; one side was still the [Republic], and the other side was [India], but just like before.

At this time, the soldiers of the two countries were still confronting each other with sticks.

The [India] soldiers were frantically clamoring at the edge of the border line; not knowing if it was to bolster their own courage, the [India]

soldiers were densely packed with dozens of people.

And facing the [Republic] side, which had only a class-sized number of soldiers, they didn't dare to cross the border line.

They only dared to wave sticks.

A group of [India] soldiers were shouting gibberish, but they never dared to take a step forward.

The perspective switched to various borders, all of which were similar scenes.

This scene.

Made Shen Shen Qinghan's mouth twitch; this was also possible?

But this was so incongruous.

High-tech wars were being fought fiercely all over the world, but the neighbors around the [Republic] were quite friendly, only daring to wave sticks,

A bit strange, right?

This thought flashed through Shen Shen Qinghan's mind.

The scene changed.

Appearing above the Ryukyu Islands.

As the perspective swept past, a helicopter rushed towards the sea below, emitting thick smoke.

Boom—!

The flames of the explosion rose.

Soon.

News stream rooms of various countries began to broadcast:

[Japanese 'Vice Admiral' died accidentally, suspected to be the [Republic]'s Little Shandong ship...]

The eyes of the whole world were gathered here.

Facing such a situation.

The Japanese government urgently issued a statement saying "the accidental death of the Vice Admiral has nothing to do with the [Republic]".

This made many countries in the world waiting to watch the fun drop their jaws.

Shen Shen Qinghan also widened her eyes.

Ah this...

The contrast with the previous invasion of the Northeast just because a soldier was lost is a bit big; now that a Vice Admiral has died, they are urgently issuing a statement saying it has nothing to do with the [Republic]?

The change in national strength was fully displayed at this moment.

This short CG scene slowly finished playing.

Shen Shen Qinghan sighed:

"Is this the [Republic] after its rise?"

"So those surrounding countries waving sticks, is it because they don't dare to use thermal weapons?"

After Shen Shen Qinghan saw Japan's performance, she also thought of the previous incongruous place.

Why were thermal weapon wars being fought all over the world, but when it came to the [Republic], it degenerated into sticks, not even knives...

Zhao Ming leaned back in his boss chair and stretched:

"It can't be counted as a rise."

"Because according to the plot, even the [Republic] in 2022 is still just a developing country."

Shen Shen Qinghan's expression was strange:

"Developing country?"

"Just?"

"Are you sure?"

Zhao Ming smiled:

"That's how it is in the plot."

"No matter what."

"It's also a developing country."

Shen Shen Qinghan rolled her eyes in annoyance.

If this is a developing country, how are other countries in "Earth 1" supposed to play? This dungeon difficulty is a bit high, right?

But anyway, it's just game background, set it however you want.

After Shen Shen Qinghan finished taking the contract, she prepared to leave to handle business.

Zhao Ming, on the other hand, looked at the [Republic] timeline and the background data of the [Awakening Era] DLC, pondered for a while, and felt that just major events were a bit few.

Thinking about it.

Zhao Ming began to copy a [Republic] timeline.

He began to fill it in according to the year and which minor events players had triggered in the background data.

Preparing to find time to update it.

To produce a detailed version of the [Republic] timeline update.

A few days later.

The game forum on Polar Star's official website was detonated.

A player in the game in 1927 triggered the [Nanchang Uprising] plot.

As for how it was discovered...

Because the [Republic] timeline on Polar Star's official website would unlock event CGs on the timeline in real-time according to the plot triggered by players.

Players looked at the unlocked [Nanchang Uprising] CG video.

From the perspective.

The one who triggered the plot should be a player who was a peripheral soldier, only listening to orders to follow the troops in a charge, but was killed not long after.

The subsequent plot came to an abrupt end.

Obviously, they just played a start, making the Blue Star players scratch their heads.

Who exactly is it?!

Triggering this kind of plot, and dying so quickly?!

At least finish it before dying?!

This is just watching the beginning of a CG, and then it's gone; not a single main character was seen!

Many players cursed and wanted to find out which newbie it was.

But this was obviously not a streamer, but an ordinary player; it was like looking for a needle in a haystack, and there was no way to find them.

But it also let the Blue Star players know that it could be done like this.

If someone triggers it, a CG will be uploaded.

Then this one only triggered a beginning; after others trigger the complete [Nanchang Uprising] and experience it, wouldn't they be able to complete the CG?!

And Polar Star's official website's reply of "Yes" also made the Blue Star players excited; then what are they waiting for?

Because it had already been triggered and unlocked, the time and location of the [Nanchang Uprising] were already known in the introduction and CG, so a group of Blue Star players chose to start the 1927 timeline.

Wanting to complete the [Nanchang Uprising] event.

By the way, seeing if they could see the big shots of the red faction and trigger some powerful [Plot Cards].

On the other side.

Also in the stream room of a streamer on the 1927 timeline.

At this time, streamer Yang Lang was sitting in a donkey cart, rushing from the Xiang-Gan border to the city where the [Nanchang Uprising] was located; the straight-line distance from Xiushui County to Nanchang was about two or three hundred kilometers.

So Yang Lang planned to hitch a ride on a fellow villager's donkey cart all the way there.

Yang Lang followed the fellow villager's donkey cart until they reached the market in Xiushui County before getting off; after thanking the fellow villager, Yang Lang looked for a donkey cart heading to the neighboring county.

While chatting with the friends in the stream room:

"Brothers, it's only April here, and the [Nanchang Uprising] is on August 1st."

"By the time I get to Nanchang, there will be at least three months of preparation time, and I can trigger the plot."

"Those who just started the 1927 timeline definitely can't compare to me."

"So just stay in my stream room and watch."

"After all, watching anyone is watching, right!!"

Just as he was speaking, a friend in the stream room reminded him that there seemed to be a special [Plot Card] prompt in the upper right corner.

Only then did Yang Lang notice an exclamation mark with golden-colored flow in the upper right corner of his vision:

"Special [Plot Card] prompt?"

"Is there such a thing?"

The Blue Star netizens in the stream room said that the streamer who triggered the [Nanchang Uprising] before only popped out the card after clicking on a golden exclamation mark.

Only then did Yang Lang know that there was this kind of thing that didn't need to be actively triggered; he randomly looked at the golden-colored exclamation mark, and a joyful expression appeared on his face:

"Then mine is golden-colored, what will it be?"

Saying this, he clicked on the golden-colored exclamation mark, and the scene before his eyes suddenly went black.

Yang Lang couldn't move and could only watch.

And the Blue Star friends in the stream room also widened their eyes and realized it was a triggered CG?!

Can it be done like this?!

The scene slowly brightened.

Twilight was like iron, and the sky hung low.

The sickle and hammer split the clouds, and the perspective swept across the suffering masses of the people on the Xiang-Gan border.

Suddenly.

The suffering masses struggling in the mud raised a red flag.

They were dressed in rags, their rough hands gripping sickles and hammers, rushing towards the troops that were extorting taxes.

Bullets whistled past.

People kept falling, but more people stood up; in the near-silent CG, they shouted a earth-shattering voice:

"Fight for the workers and peasants!!!"

But how could farmers holding sickles defeat soldiers holding rifles?

The uprising in the scene began to be suppressed.

The perspective suddenly rose.

In the team, there were farmers and workers holding sickles and hammers.

A tall figure stood in front of the team.

Everyone was looking at him.

The military flag fluttered behind him, the red military flag like an inextinguishable flame.

The tall figure suddenly turned around and looked at the outline of the mountains in the distance.

In an instant.

The world seemed to fall silent.

A low and firm voice with a Hunan accent sounded in the CG:

"Go to Mount Mount Jinggang... that's where we can take root."

The scene gradually darkened.

Only a single spark remained, flickering between the folds of the mountains.

Subtitles slowly emerged in the scene.

[That year... his turn, gave the spark a direction.]

The subtitles slowly disappeared.

Subsequently, what appeared in the stream room was a [Plot Card], slightly light gray, obviously not yet triggered.

In the card was the figure of a man in a gray long-sleeved Zhongshan suit, and around him were workers and peasants holding red flags, looking into the distance,

And on the side of the card were written a few large characters.

[Autumn Harvest Uprising]