Chapter 158: [Nuclear Bomb

Hearing this news suddenly, Yu Feng and the Blue Star netizens in the stream were still a bit dazed.

Beyond Japan's stubbornness, there was also the recklessness of the American Federation.

This was a "nuclear weapon," after all.

Beyond its immense power, the intense radiation could also kill people.

Were they really using this thing as a conventional weapon?

But thinking back to the 【CG】 from the Cold War era.

In the CG, the American Federation and the Soviet Federation were both clamoring to destroy the world, with their nuclear stockpiles reaching over 70,000 at their peak; it seemed quite reasonable.

When it comes to madness, it really has to be "Earthlings."

At this moment.

Other streamers and players had also reached this point in the plot, and the internet was filled with discussions about how many "atomic bombs" Japan would ultimately have to endure.

After all, they had already witnessed Japan's stubbornness.

They had actually managed to spin the dropped atomic bomb as a meteorite impact.

The American Federation was naturally displeased.

They had already prepared a second one, and it was unclear how Japan would cover this one up.

At the same time, they gained a deeper understanding of the madness of the Axis powers.

They truly didn't treat human life as life.

One hundred million jade shards shattered?

It was debatable whether Japan even had one hundred million people, yet they dared to shout such a tough slogan.

However, this determination.

Also piqued the curiosity of the Blue Star players.

They also wanted to see.

How long Japan could hold out; it was just a game, not real people dying anyway.

Therefore, when faced with the plot of using such weapons of mass destruction.

Most Blue Star players were still holding expectations to see the ending of this "game plot."

One day later.

The Blue Star players had thought it would take some time before the second one was dropped.

Unexpectedly, after skipping the plot in the game, only three days had passed, and the American Federation's second one was already prepared.

And the map on the 【Experience Nuclear Explosion】 plot mode on the main interface also changed accordingly.

Along with the change came the introduction.

【Earth time, August 9, 1945 AD, the American Federation, due to Japan's resistant attitude, dropped a second atomic bomb on its territory.】

【This operation also stemmed from Japan's refusal to accept unconditional surrender and its firm resistance.】

【The nuclear weapon (atomic bomb) codenamed "Fat Man," weighing about 4.7 tons, had even greater power than "Little Boy."】

【But due to the mountainous terrain of the drop site and environmental limitations, the resulting effect was slightly smaller than "Little Boy."】

【The high temperature generated during the explosion (reaching 3000–4000°C at the center) destroyed buildings within a radius of about 3 kilometers, with about 40,000 people dying instantly.】

【And the acute radiation syndrome following the nuclear explosion caused the death toll to climb over several weeks, with a cumulative post-war death toll of about 70,000.】

(PS: Polar Star Company reminds you: Cherish life, refuse war.)

Looking at the introduction.

Many players chose to go in and experience it, to see what the "nuclear explosion" effect was like here.

And at this time on the Sky Shark platform.

A streamer in the Japanese faction, Mao Xu, was livestreaming his daily routine of directing shipbuilding.

Although it was a single-player 【Immersive Plot】 mode that wouldn't affect the entire game progress, the streamer, having obtained the status of Chief Engineer in his own plot.

Had actually created quite a few era-transcending things by modifying conditions based on various technologies from the Blue Star.

As long as it didn't involve the life and death of high-level officials of various countries on "Earth," the game wouldn't reset.

That was why this Japanese faction streamer player could rely on various era-transcending technologies to become the Chief Engineer.

At this moment.

Mao Xu was still standing on the ship under construction, using the photonic supercomputer mounted in the stream to analyze where there were problems with the ship in sight.

As the photonic supercomputer provided the data, he then pointed it out to the NPCs in the game.

Don't say it.

This kind of niche stream had two or three thousand viewers.

It was also true that the Blue Star population base was just too large.

Although not as many viewers as those fishing streamers, having these tens of thousands of viewers was enough to support his streaming.

As Mao Xu's gaze scanned various places.

In the distance.

【Mitsubishi Heavy Industries ** Shipyard】

The words Mitsubishi Heavy Industries floated across the stream's perspective.

This was a well-known Japanese enterprise, and the shipyard under its umbrella in this city was also very famous, being an important military industrial manufacturer in Japan.

At this moment.

Mao Xu wasn't too clear about the situation of the war.

Mao Xu was walking on the ship.

Suddenly.

The livestream room began to be flooded with viewers.

100,000... 300,000... 800,000... 2.3 million...

In just ten short minutes, the number of viewers in the livestream room went from twenty or thirty thousand to nearly three million.

Mao Xu was completely stunned.

What Mao Xu didn't know was that because of Japan's style and madness, the number of players choosing the Japanese faction on Blue Star was the lowest, even fewer than Italy.

Following the start of the 【Experience Nuclear Explosion】 plot, after observing the famous buildings within the plot, they found this Japanese city after it was "nuked."

Blue Star players searched out of curiosity.

They discovered that Mao Xu's was actually the only livestream room in this city.

You have to know that during the European battlefield, even the dilapidated fortresses of the Soviet Union might have four or five livestream rooms.

Yet here in Japan, there was only this one.

Many people flooded in.

Thanks to the massive number of concurrent players in "World War II: Rise of the Empire," even if a small fraction came in, nearly 3 million people flooded the livestream room.

And the time in Mao Xu's livestream room was also August 9th.

It just looked like it hadn't started yet.

Consequently, the barrage in the livestream room floated by densely.

【Look at the sky! Look at the sky quickly!】

【Streamer, look at the sky! Find a telescope!】

【See if there are any planes in the sky!】

【Hurry up and get a telescope to look for planes!】

【Streamer, run! You're done for!!!】

【Look, this streamer is a daily-life player; didn't you play the latest 【Experience Nuclear Explosion】?】

Although there were a few kind-hearted viewers, they would be drowned in the barrage in the blink of an eye.

Mao Xu couldn't even manage to read them at all.

Seeing so many viewers telling him to look at the sky, Mao Xu instructed a Japanese person to bring a telescope, then found an open space and looked up at the sky with the telescope:

"【Experience Nuclear Explosion】? I played it, isn't that just a matter of claiming a coupon?"

Looking at the barrage, Mao Xu was somewhat confused.

The viewers in the livestream room saw this and their eyes lit up even more; good heavens, this is a true daily-life player, he hasn't even played the latest one.

Mao Xu looked at the surging barrage and couldn't help but have a strange expression: "Look? Look at what?"

"It's cloudy today, you can't see anything, right?"

Mao Xu held the telescope and looked up.

The sky was covered in dark clouds, and it might rain at any moment. Mao Xu was somewhat baffled, but looking at the barrage, he finally found a bit of useful information:

"Find a hole in the clouds?"

"Directly overhead?"

Mao Xu held the telescope and looked up at the sky above his head, watching for a while:

"There's nothing?"

However, because of the strong wind, the clouds in the sky changed rapidly, so after a moment, Mao Xu, whose neck was sore, finally discovered a hole:

"Got it."

"Is it there?"

Mao Xu looked through the telescope.

The hole in the sky had been blown open and cut out by the strong wind, although it wasn't directly overhead.

But it wasn't far from the 【Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Shipyard】 where Mao Xu was located; it was almost on the outskirts of the factory area.

The barrage in the livestream room surged.

【Look quickly! Don't move the perspective!】

【That's it!】

【The streamer is finished!!】

【Streamer, jump into the sea quickly!!!】

Mao Xu looked at the barrage floating before his eyes with a face full of confusion, but his gaze still looked toward the hole.

Just as the hole in the clouds in the sky was about to close, a small black dot fell from the center of the hole.

Seeing this scene, the corners of Mao Xu's mouth twitched slightly.

He finally understood what this group of people were flooding in for.

So it turns out this city was going to suffer an air raid.

What was worth so many people watching? Did they think I would be bombed to death?

"Sigh, it's just an air raid."

"Don't worry, the streamer isn't that unlucky."

"It's so far away."

"I won't be hit, but... I really do need to go to the shelter and stay for a while."

Mao Xu said this, shook his head, put down the telescope in his hand, and turned to walk toward the factory shelter at a leisurely pace.

It was so far away.

Even if that bomb were ten times more powerful, not a single fragment would reach him.

However.

The barrage 【That's a nuclear bomb】 scrolling across the livestream room made Mao Xu's footsteps pause, his pupils shrinking violently.

Damn?!

No way?!

Mao Xu widened his eyes and turned to look; that "bomb" had already fallen to mid-air.

When it was still a few hundred meters from the ground.

A blinding white light instantly filled Mao Xu's entire world, then turned blood-red, and a heatwave of extreme temperature swept over, along with a powerful shockwave.

Mao Xu only felt his body fly up.

Whoosh!

The screen plunged into darkness and returned to the main interface.

The livestream room was silent...

Mao Xu was dazed in the main interface, not yet having recovered:

"What the hell?"

"What happened?"

"My status as Chief Engineer, I just died like that?!"

And the netizens in the livestream room.

They felt something was a bit off; although they couldn't put their finger on it, they just felt something was wrong.

This guy... how did he die so quickly?!

Didn't it take more than 10 seconds to die?

Or was it because this guy didn't know, so he didn't have an adrenaline rush?

Because there was only this one livestream room, there were no more livestream rooms to reference.

So the millions of Blue Star netizens in the livestream room didn't suspect that some old thief had adjusted the feeling time within 【Experience Nuclear Explosion】...

In reality.

At such a distance, this kind of instantaneous death was normal.

Following the city in Mao Xu's livestream room being hit by the "second one."

In the latest plots of other players, Allied players and Japanese faction players located in Japan could also feel the aftermath brought by this explosion.

Soon, players popped up the button to skip the plot one after another.

In Yu Feng's livestream room.

He had just followed the viewers to check out Mao Xu's livestream room, so after the explosion over there was finished, he returned directly to the room here.

Sure enough, after a while, the skip button popped up.

After clicking skip, the screen shifted, and when it lit up again, it was already the morning of August 10th.

Yu Feng walked into the conference room.

Although it was morning.

But because another one was dropped yesterday, everyone was discussing this matter, and the officers on the warship were almost all gathered here.

Yu Feng came to where he had inquired about news before.

He had also inquired about the officer who told him the news later; it was said that his family was high-level military command of the American Federation, which was why he knew so much of the latest news.

Looking at the smiles and relaxed joy on everyone's faces, Yu Feng asked curiously:

"How is it?"

"Did those guys in Japan surrender?"

That officer whose family was high-level command smiled and said:

"Surrender?"

"How could those guys surrender?"

As he spoke, he pointed to the newspaper on the table.

Yu Feng looked over:

"Hiss—"

Nothing else.

It was just that the newspaper claimed it was Japan's own experiment with a "new weapon" that failed, causing the huge losses.

The public need not panic.

Once this "new weapon" was finished, the country could end the war.

This news of deceiving oneself was also invincible; Yu Feng and the Blue Star viewers in the livestream room were dumbfounded:

"This is also okay?"

"Then it has to be dropped again?"

Inexplicably, Yu Feng and the Blue Star netizens in the livestream room couldn't help but admire them.

Although this Japanese behavior was vicious and crazy, this backbone was truly hard; they still wanted to continue to resist hard.

However... that American Federation officer laughed:

"Of course not."

"The reason those guys didn't surrender is because it wasn't dropped on their heads."

"Yesterday, the Federation High Command issued a notice to Japan."

"If they don't surrender again, the next atomic bomb will be dropped on Tokyo."

"Guess what happened?"

Yu Feng had a strange expression, somewhat understanding:

"So... Japan surrendered?"

That American Federation officer nodded with a smile and said:

"That's right."

"They decided to surrender, and they decided overnight."

"Japan asked Switzerland to contact the White House in the early morning to decide to surrender."

"Damn it."

"They didn't even care about the time difference; there's a 10-hour difference between Japan and the White House. When my father finished the meeting and called, it was still the second half of the night here."

"As a result, I haven't been able to sleep until now."

Japan surrendered in the early morning, and it was still noon in the American Federation.

By the time the meeting was over, it was just the second half of the night here. Hearing such news, although he wanted to sleep physiologically, how could he sleep mentally?

This American Federation officer said, yawning.

But the joy on his face couldn't be stopped.

The war was over, the gilding was over, and he could finally return home to enjoy himself.

And Yu Feng and the Blue Star netizens had their mouths twitching.

Good heavens.

Just a moment ago, he thought Japan's backbone was so hard.

So that "one hundred million jade shattered" was because it was the country's lowly people who died, not the Emperor?

Once they heard it would be dropped on Tokyo.

They held a meeting overnight and contacted the White House in the early morning.

This damn...

They didn't dare to delay at all, afraid it would be dropped on their own heads, right?

Yu Feng shook his head.

Then he listened to everyone's chat for a while, then logged out to idle, and switched to the outside to browse the player forums.

At this time, with the confirmation of the news, the players also knew that Japan was preparing to surrender.

It was just that the plot where Japan, which was thought to have a very hard backbone, surrendered directly under the threat of the American Federation, was truly shocking.

They were too cowardly.

The day before, it was still one hundred million jade shattered, but once they heard they were going to bomb Tokyo, they surrendered overnight. Some also said it had to do with the Soviet Union, because the Soviet Union also declared war that day.

At this time, on the "Real-time Map" of the Polar Star official website.

The color of Japan was still the color of the Axis powers; it looked like no official announcement had been issued yet.

But soon.

The Polar Star official website also issued an announcement.

Tomorrow, the DLC for the sequel 【Cold War Clouds】 will be updated, and the new game "World War I: Twilight of the Empire" will be released.

Once the announcement was out.

The players discussed it; it was truly confirmed that it was over.

Half a day later.

After several days of skipping, the latest game timeline for each streamer had reached August 15th.

At this time.

In Yu Feng's livestream.

Just entering August 15th, the game screen suddenly turned into CG.

Yu Feng and the Blue Star netizens in the livestream room couldn't help but have their eyes light up; after all, Polar Star's games were well-made, and the CG was even more superb!

At this time.

The perspective gradually stretched, wandering through every part of the warship where Yu Feng was located.

The soldiers on the warship were cleaning, some were exercising on the deck, and some were walking into the restaurant.

Suddenly.

A voice came from the broadcast.

It was a Japanese broadcast that the American Federation soldiers on the warship couldn't understand at all; not only could the soldiers not understand, the CG

perspective flowed to several high-ranking American Federation officers.

As high-ranking officers, they still knew some Japanese.

It was just that they were also confused; what kind of nonsense was this?

They hurriedly called for a translator.

However... the surrender edict written in the form of Chinese classical prose was read out; let alone these high-ranking American Federation officers and translators, they couldn't understand it.

The screen suddenly switched to Japan's mainland.

The Japanese people listening to the broadcast were also confused, not knowing what their Emperor was saying.

Until the announcer said:

"This is surrender."

All the Japanese people in the screen reacted; this was the surrender edict.

Some Japanese people on the street cried bitterly, roaring in disbelief, and some even committed seppuku in grief and indignation, not believing that Japan had been defeated.

The screen switched to a high-altitude perspective.

Japan was falling into huge panic everywhere, and countless people were crying bitterly.

And in contrast to this.

Were the American Federation soldiers not far from Japan's mainland in the screen.

Following the flow of the screen.

One could see the cheers of the soldiers on the warships, waving their clothes; the American Federation soldiers on the warships ran to tell each other, and some laughed wildly and jumped into the sea.

The excitement was beyond words.

The perspective rose to the high altitude of "Earth," and one could see the colors representing the Axis powers covering Southeast Asia and parts of Asia quickly fading away.

The screen flowed through one country after another.

The entire "Earth" had fallen into an ocean of celebration.

The screen switched.

August 19th.

Japan's representative respectfully bowed and surrendered to the representative of the Soviet Union, handing over the surrender document.

September 2nd.

On the American Federation's "USS Missouri" battleship, the Japanese Foreign Minister bowed under the witness of nine countries and handed over the surrender document.

September 9th.

【Republic】 Nanjing, Central Military Academy auditorium, Japan's Commander-in-Chief in Asia, Okamura Yasuji, bowed and handed over the surrender document.

September 12th.

Southeast Asia Allied Forces, Japan's Southern Commander Itagaki Seishiro to American Federation Commander Mountbatten...:

September 13th.

Australia, Japan to...:

September 16th.

Japan to the British Federation...

A series of surrender screen CGs.

The Blue Star players all had their mouths wide open; good heavens, how many countries are they surrendering to? By the end, they were surrendering to a country almost every few days.

And following the flow of the screen.

Until December 13th, Japan surrendered to Indonesia.

At this point.

The screen ended completely.

Then came the slowly emerging subtitles.

【World War II was the most tragic global conflict in the history of human "Earth."】

【The catastrophic consequences it caused brought indelible pain and trauma to the people of the world.】

【Between 1939 and 1945, the flames of war swept across the three continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa, with 61 countries and over 2 billion people involved in the war.】

【The global military and civilian death toll reached as high as 70 million to 85 million.】

【Among them, the Soviet Union lost about 27 million people, the Republic suffered over 35 million casualties, and nearly 20% of the populations of countries like Poland and Yugoslavia disappeared.】

【70% of them were innocent civilians.】

【The post-war economic collapse led to a global GDP decline of about 30%, the Eurasian continent was devastated, hunger and plague spread, producing 60 million refugees, orphans, disabled people, and countless broken families.】

【The war gave birth to genocide, forced labor, and the first use of nuclear weapons, profoundly changing human perception of war.】

【In addition, the war accelerated the disintegration of the colonial system, but also planted the seeds of the Cold War, the shadow of which has not yet dissipated.】

【Behind these cold data are the suffering of countless individuals and the regression of civilization, warning future generations to cherish peace and reflect on the price of violence.】

The subtitles flowed slowly, looking at the cold data one by one in the subtitles.

Yu Feng and the Blue Star players in the livestream room couldn't help but have their breathing stagnate, their brains blank; 70 million people dead, how tragic was this...

They hadn't paid attention before.

But until Polar Star Company released the data at this moment, the Blue Star players realized how serious the consequences brought by the war were.

Over 70 million deaths.

Over 60 million war refugees, orphans, disabled people...:

Yu Feng was still dazed by these data.

A prompt suddenly popped up in the main interface.

【Settling player "WWII" performance...:】

【Whether to download 【Cold War Clouds】】

Looking at the two prompts, the first one was constantly running data; Yu Feng didn't know what was being settled, so he put it aside, while the second one was the download prompt for the sequel.

Without hesitation.

Yu Feng clicked download directly.

A few seconds.

The update DLC for the sequel 【Cold War Clouds】 loaded successfully.

The entire interface in the game changed.

It turned into a somewhat cold ice blue; Yu Feng looked at it and nodded, which indeed fit the theme of "Cold War."

At this time.

The opening CG for the sequel 【Cold War Clouds】 popped up.

In the CG.

The lake surface slowly slid across from the high altitude of Earth, then arrived at the high altitude of the American Federation, and words slowly emerged on the screen.

【White House】

The perspective dropped rapidly; at this time, at the White House press conference,

The President of the American Federation had a gloomy face, and facing reporters' questions about whether to use atomic bombs, he responded coldly:

"Everything, including atomic bombs, is under consideration to deal with the 【Republic】."

Just one sentence, Yu Feng and the Blue Star viewers in the livestream room reacted instantly.

This is nuclear threatening the 【Republic】?!