Chapter 216

It must be said, after experiencing the [World War II] series, the Blue Star players.

Can more or less analyze a thing or two.

At the very least, the analysis of Afghanistan here is correct; it is all mountainous terrain. If Mobile Corps Commander warfare were used to deal with the American Federation, the American Federation would truly find it difficult to fight.

Coupled with the fact that the area here is also large, unlike the Kuwait and Iraq Federations which can be seen at a glance.

Even if the American Federation's firepower is powerful, it cannot bomb everywhere in the Afghanistan Federation, because it is not just a problem of mountains everywhere.

The key is that they cannot find the people.

Looking at it, it is all mountains, but looking at the announcements and introductions.

Inside these mountains and under the ground, there are pits and caves everywhere.

It has completely constructed an underground world.

This is something many Blue Star players did not expect.

If there are such underground worlds everywhere, then the American Federation's counter-terrorism operations will likely not proceed so smoothly.

Next.

The second part of the announcement posted the challenge mode.

Players can embody famous special operations teams like [Green Berets], [Alpha Squad], and so on to carry out challenge missions, or they can embody [Al-Qaeda] to fight against them.

There is a single-player challenge mode and an online confrontation mode.

Looking at its introduction.

It says that the multiplayer online confrontation mode will only be opened after completing the single-player version of the [Green Berets] and [Alpha Squad] challenge mode missions.

Shi Yong looked at the introduction and said:

"This setting is quite good."

"Only after passing the single-player version will the multiplayer online confrontation mode be opened."

"Since it is a special operations team, carrying out missions will certainly not be easy."

"Only experts can complete it, right?"

"This way, when matching for multiplayer mode, the teammates will also be corresponding experts, rather than a team mixed with novices and veterans."

"The challenge is certainly sufficient."

The end of the introduction on the announcement states that the [Global Counter-Terrorism] DLC version will be updated in 3 days.

Following that, there are many version names and pictures below, but upon clicking, a "Please look forward to it" message pops up.

Shi Yong looked from top to bottom.

The picture below the words [Arab Spring] shows a city skyline at dawn, with one half illuminated by the rising sun on mosque minarets, and the other half shrouded in smoke and the shadows of fighter jets.

The picture below the words [Proxy War] is a battlefield map from a satellite perspective, with territory divided by red and blue dashed lines, and missile trajectories covering the entire Middle East like a chessboard grid.

Looking at the time shown on the picture, it is 2010.

The picture below the words [Great Power Expansion] shows the Moscow Red Square and the Brussels EU headquarters building shrouded by the same dark cloud, with the outlines of nuclear missiles and symbols of wealth vaguely appearing in the clouds.

A column of Russian tanks like an iron torrent drives from the ice sheet toward the silhouettes of European cities, with tank barrels twisted into the pattern of natural gas pipelines.

In the scene, a drone formation is diving toward several building templates.

And the time shown on the picture is 2022.

Seeing this.

The Blue Star players were also a bit surprised.

Good heavens.

Is it evolving this fast?

The Blue Star players finally discovered something was wrong.

Russia?

What about the Soviet Federation?

The Blue Star players who discovered something was wrong hurriedly went to check the situation in "Modern Warfare: World Hegemon" and confirmed that the Soviet Federation was still there at this time.

The timeline in the game is early 1991, just after the Gulf War ended.

But the Soviet Federation is still firmly entrenched in the north.

Then where did this Russia pop out from?

What happened in these 30-odd years?

At this moment.

The Blue Star players were still completely confused.

Although the timeline span is a bit large, with the size of the Soviet Federation, it shouldn't have disappeared, not to mention the Republic is still there. What exactly happened?

The Blue Star netizens in the live broadcast room were just thinking.

Shi Yong in the live broadcast room suddenly widened his eyes:

"What the?"

"What is this???"

The Blue Star netizens in the live broadcast room hadn't recovered from the Soviet Federation before their attention was drawn by Shi Yong, and they all looked toward Shi Yong in the live broadcast room.

They saw Shi Yong looking at the background and text of the three pictures at the very bottom.

The first one is marked as the 1996 [Taiwan Strait Crisis].

And the scene in the picture is on the deck of a modified landing ship, with several army howitzers deployed in a combat posture, their barrels pointing obliquely at the sky.

The background is the deep blue sea and the orange-red sunset, with the muzzle brakes of the guns gleaming coldly in the sunset.

From the flag in the picture, it can be seen that this is the Republic during the 1996 period.

The impact of this scene is not ordinary.

You must know that in the Gulf War plot that just ended, the American Federation's technology swept through the Middle East, and the Blue Star players subconsciously raised the technology of other countries and the Federation.

But seeing this 1996 picture at this moment, they realized that it didn't seem to be the case.

This is the Republic...

Immediately following is the picture marked with the 2016 [Lone Ship Deep Blue] title.

This picture made the Blue Star players feel it was about right.

It's just that the strength comparison is still stark.

On one side is an aircraft carrier and escort formation of the Republic, and on the opposite side are two aircraft carrier formations led by the American Federation approaching here, looking at the picture.

It unexpectedly gives a feeling of the Republic going it alone.

Seeing this.

Shi Yong recovered a bit and said:

"This is more reasonable."

"The first picture feels like the gap is a bit large; the 1991 American Federation was already using modern warfare to strike the Iraq Federation."

"The 1996 Republic putting land artillery on ships, the military technology gap here is several levels."

"Fortunately, in this 2016 picture, although there is still a gap compared to the American Federation in terms of equipment and quantity, one can already see that the technology of both sides is almost the same."

"This is what fits the Republic's setting."

"However, from 1996 to 2016, in just 20 years, going from land artillery on ships to aircraft carriers."

"The Republic's development in these 20 years is really not ordinary."

Shi Yong's tone was filled with emotion.

The Blue Star netizens in the live broadcast room were the same.

To be honest.

That picture of land artillery on ships truly stunned them as well.

But fortunately, the background picture marked 2016 pulled back the technology gap, and the Blue Star players also breathed a sigh of relief.

And Shi Yong also looked at the third picture.

The marking on it is 2025, the background is a picture of a huge missile body with DF written on it, and the number is 5C. After clicking, this time what popped up was not "Please look forward to it."

But a short eight-character introduction.

[Dongfeng 5C, Global Strike]

Looking at this introduction, including Shi Yong, the Blue Star netizens in the live broadcast room were also full of question marks.

[????]

[What is this written?]

[Oh my? Global strike? Did the Republic use cheats?]

[Holy crap! This isn't right?!]

[More than just not right, it's simply absurd. 2016 was still aircraft carriers, how is it global strike in 2025? Is the Earth also having a meteor shower?]

[Did technology explode?]

[Is the technology update in the Earth so fast?]

[2016 to 2025 is only 9 years, right? Did they turn on the acceleration cheat?]

The Blue Star netizens in the live broadcast room were confused, because according to the 2016 Republic and 2022 Russian Federation above, the Earth's technology shouldn't be like this.

Global strike?

Isn't this a space weapon?

Orbital annihilation cannon?!

Isn't it?

Is this reasonable?

Shi Yong was also confused, rubbing his eyes and looking several times:

"Holy crap?"

"I didn't read it wrong, right?"

"This thing?"

"Global strike?"

"The Republic's technology explosion is too absurd, right?"

The Blue Star netizens in the live broadcast room had the same feeling.

Hell.

Give me back the emotion I just had?!

Just now, looking at the land artillery on ships and the aircraft carrier going it alone, the Blue Star players were quite moved and felt a bit touched.

But the next second, a global strike nuclear warhead comes?

Isn't this cheating?!

If the Republic is like this, what level are the other Federations at?

Are there weapons of the same level?

For some reason.

This question flashed through the minds of the Blue Star netizens, and for a moment they didn't dare to be sure what the other countries and Federations in the Earth were like in the 2025 period.

After all, their worldview had just been refreshed.

They had just experienced the 1991 Gulf War and thought that other top countries and Federations were similar to the American Federation, but the Republic had land artillery on ships.

Looking at the drone on the 2022 background picture, they thought modern warfare was popularized, but in the blink of an eye, the Republic came up with a [Global Strike]

Dongfeng.

They started playing with space weapons directly.

Is Earth's technology so confusing?

Is the generation gap so large?

If the Republic is like this, what about the American Federation? What about the other five permanent members?

Could it be that they are also this tough?

Hiss——

Thinking this way, the Blue Star players suddenly discovered that this seemed to be heading toward the Blue Star's script.

Because the Republic's weapons could already strike globally.

Then if the other five permanent members also possessed the same equipment, it would be mutual checks and balances, just like the current Blue Star, where the six major Federations can only have small-scale friction.

If there were true large-scale friction, the world would be finished.

Now they just don't know what the other five permanent members are like.

This sudden Dongfeng missile immediately piqued the curiosity of the Blue Star players.

Very quickly.

Blue Star players found plans regarding "space weapons" for the American Federation and the Soviet Federation in their personal plots.

It's just that they don't know the specific situation, but it should have been initiated.

It started during the Cold War.

Seeing this.

The Blue Star players were a bit enlightened; this kind of arms race had existed for a long time, they just didn't know the progress of each country.

Anyway, looking at the pictures.

Currently, the Republic has researched it, and they don't know the situation on the American Federation's side.

Blue Star players were discussing and guessing on the forum.

At the same time, the discussion about the Republic became even more heated; it wasn't anything else, but that in the short 80 years from 1945 to 2025, the Republic had actually built global strike space weapons.

Many Blue Star players had experienced the 1939 plot in the [World War I] DLC, as well as the Peninsula War plot in the later [World War II].

Given the situation of the Republic at that time, who could have imagined that decades later, space weapons would be built.

However, discussing and discussing, the Blue Star netizens also felt it was absurd.

The gap between 1996 and 2025 is too large.

In less than 30 years, how could it evolve to this level?

You must know that technological updates are all-around improvements.

It is impossible for the Air Force to build a 6th-generation stealth fighter while the Navy is still modifying ships to pull howitzers onto them.

From the 1996 land artillery on ships, one can see the Republic's military industry level at that time.

Although it is impossible to infer accurately, using a photonic supercomputer to deduce the general situation should be close enough.

But this is the absurd part.

With a strong industrial foundation, it could certainly be piled up.

But 2016 to 2025, isn't this pure cheating?!

This speed of technological update is even more exaggerated than on the Blue Star side.

From the beginning of their technological explosion to researching space weapons, it also took them forty or fifty years, not counting the increasingly exaggerated weapons later.

But the foundation of the Republic within the plot is clear.

In just 9 years, from an aircraft carrier going it alone to a nuclear warhead global strike, is this reasonable?

They know the Republic likes to hide because this is [Huaxia]'s habit since ancient times; Blue Star players who have played the [Huaxia] series of games can understand, but this is hiding too much.

Wait?!

Since it has been revealed, according to Huaxia's habit... I'm afraid they still have a few models hidden, right?!

Hiss, it's not impossible, right?!

Thinking of this.

Many Blue Star players were scratching their heads.

They went to the Federation headline account on the Polar Star official website to ask when the [Republic] DLC for Modern Warfare would be opened.

The six major Federations on the Blue Star are restrained and cannot fight.

But it's different in the "Earth"; it's just a "game," and having a world war in the game is definitely fine.

We can't experience a world war on the Blue Star, can't we just have fun in the "game"?

After all, the Republic already has space weapons, so other countries can't be weak, right?

Anyway, the [Single-player Plot] is also single-player, so you can fight as you please inside, and it won't affect the main plot development of the "Earth."

Many Blue Star players were asking about the subsequent DLC versions of [Modern Warfare] from Polar Star.

Zhao Ming also didn't expect that just by revealing a Dongfeng, the reaction of the Blue Star players would be so intense; if subsequent weapons and equipment were updated.

I'm afraid these guys would really start a world war.

Facing the inquiry from the public relations department, Zhao Ming just told them to reply with "Please look forward to it" and that was it.

After all, it is not yet time to open it.

However, with this wave of popularity, the popularity of "Modern Warfare: World Hegemon," which had shown a slight decline, rose again, and many Blue Star players expressed that Polar Star's games are impeccable, just play it.

On the other side.

In the [World War II] series of games.

With the end of the Peninsula War, many players also chose to restart and experience it again, but this time they experienced it from the Republic's side.

In the [Awakening Era] DLC plot of the [World War I] series, it ended at 1939.

Blue Star players who originally planned to continue in [World War II] to experience from 1939, because of the Peninsula War, most of them ran to experience the Peninsula War.

Now that the Peninsula War has ended, they have returned to the 1939 [World War II] to continue the Republic's plot.

At this time.

In Fang Ming's live broadcast room.

The Republic.

Early 1940, Northeast.