Chapter 160

Looking at the text emerging in the screen, the Blue Star players reacted.

This was one of the most tragic battles during Earth's "WWI," the "Battle of Verdun."

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But the Blue Star players had information about this "Battle of Verdun" in the WWI intelligence collected within the WWII plot.

It was said that the "meat grinder" in this battle killed one-third of Falanxi's men.

When they first learned this information, the Blue Star players were still in disbelief.

One-third of the men killed in battle?

Is Falanxi that hard?

They hadn't not played the 【Blitz Falanxi】 plot; Falanxi, known as the strongest army in Europe, surrendered after resisting the Empire for only 39 days.

It made many Blue Star players drop their jaws at the time.

The strongest army in Europe is just this?

As a result, later, as they collected news, they learned that Falanxi killed one-third of its men during "WWI."

The Blue Star players who heard this news felt that this should be the same as that "strongest army in Europe,"

all blown out by Falanxi itself.

But at this time...

Looking at the battlefield scene in the CG, the Blue Star players couldn't help but believe it.

Just because in the battlefield below.

Pale yellow poison gas clouds steamed and spread, following the densely packed, winding, and twisted trenches, spreading like blood vessels throughout the entire battlefield.

And in those trenches, soldiers on both sides constantly stuck their heads out to shoot.

Although it was somewhat different from WWII, through the flags and characteristics, the Blue Star players could still distinguish that these were French and Imperial soldiers fighting.

Artillery shells fell from time to time in the battlefield, and the small people below were torn into pieces by the shells.

Mud mixed with bright red blood collapsed to the surroundings.

Following the perspective gradually rising, the Blue Star players' breathing couldn't help but stagnate.

This was simply not a scene that should appear in reality.

At this time, the height rose, and one could see the surrounding situation and the full picture even more.

Pale yellow poison mist permeated the entire battlefield, artillery fire burned the battlefield below black, and thick black smoke was rising in some corners.

Unburied bodies piled up in a huge crater somewhere, and the stagnant water in the crater had turned dark purple, and such craters were everywhere in the entire battlefield.

Even because of the weather, the bodies in some craters had already revealed white bones.

Everything, everything, was like hell.

But at this time, on this "hell," human soldiers on both sides were fighting.

Such an environment made even the Blue Star players who had experienced WWII change color; after all, the battles in Stalingrad and Moscow were tragic, they were tragic.

But the environment wasn't harsh to this extent.

During the Moscow and Stalingrad battles, it was winter, and the bodies wouldn't be like Verdun below.

No one collected the bodies at all, soaking casually in the stagnant water of the craters.

Soaking until the color turned dark green, and the entire battlefield was permeated with pale yellow poison mist, this damn...,

it seems Falanxi wasn't bragging; they were really that hard during "WWI."

If a French soldier popped out now and asked who was a coward, the Blue Star players would definitely say they were without hesitation; this environment was too harsh.

The CG screen shifted.

It appeared above a plain.

Gunpowder smoke and lead-gray haze permeated the battlefield; looking down from high altitude, this huge plain was like the surface of the moon, with craters everywhere.

And the stagnant water in the craters seemed to come alive under the sunlight as the CG perspective moved.

Several large characters slowly emerged in the screen 【Somme Plain】

In the battlefield below, there were scorched colors everywhere; because there was no cover, sandbags and bodies were piled together to serve as defensive works.

Soldiers on both sides lay directly on those sandbags and bodies that didn't know how long they had been dead, shooting at the enemy.

And these craters were distributed every two or three meters on average.

Even in various parts of the battlefield, strange green firelight was burning; the Blue Star players knew this was phosphorus fire, hydrogen released by corpses self-igniting.

The Blue Star players gasped.

Hiss, this damn isn't much better than "Verdun."

Following the CG perspective sliding across the Somme Plain.

The screen shifted again.

Perhaps related to the climate, what came into view was a battlefield that was also full of mud everywhere.

Gray-green mud, pale bodies, tanks stuck in mud unable to move, composed a desperate picture, and the most terrifying thing on the picture was.

Those bottomless mud pits, swallowing everything.

Charging soldiers accidentally stepped in, struggling crazily, but the speed of sinking became faster and faster, until finally, the raised arms also sank into the mud.

Completely disappeared from the battlefield.

And the surrounding soldiers didn't notice, or rather, even if they noticed, they wouldn't care.

Because many people might not live past the next second, where would they have time to save people?

And following the falling of densely packed artillery shells from both sides, the spread of colorful poison mist made the Blue Star players watching the CG change their faces even more.

Don't know what kind of highly toxic poison gas it was.

Suddenly.

Viewers began to flood into the stream crazily.

100,000... 300,000... 800,000... 2,300,000...

In just ten minutes, the number of friends in the stream went from twenty or thirty thousand to nearly three million.

It left Mao Xu dazed.

And what Mao Xu didn't know was that because of Japan's style and madness, the players who chose the Japanese faction on the Blue Star were the fewest, even fewer than Italy.

With the start of the 【Experience Nuclear Explosion】 plot, after observing the famous buildings in the plot, they found this city in Japan after being "nuked."

Blue Star players curiously searched.

And found that Mao Xu was actually the only stream in this city.

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

And here in Japan, there was only this one.

Many people flooded in.

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

And the time in Mao Xu's stream was also August 9.

It's just that it looked like it hadn't started yet.

So the danmu in the stream floated by densely.

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

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

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

【Hurry up and use the telescope to look for planes!】

【Streamer, run quickly! You're going to be gone!!!】

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

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

Mao Xu couldn't even look in time.

Seeing so many friends asking 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 getting a coupon?"

Looking at the danmu, Mao Xu was a bit confused.

The friends in the stream saw this and their eyes lit up even more; good fellow, this is a real daily-life player, he hasn't even played the latest one.

Mao Xu looked at the surging danmu 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 with dark clouds, and it might rain at any moment; Mao Xu was a bit baffled, and looking at the danmu, he finally found a bit of useful information:

"Find a hole in the clouds?"

"Above your head?"

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

"There isn't one?"

However, because of the strong wind, the clouds in the sky changed very quickly, so after a while, Mao Xu, whose neck was sore, finally found a hole:

"Got it."

"Is it there?"

Mao Xu looked through the telescope.

The hole in the sky was blown open and cut by the strong wind; although it wasn't directly above his head.

But it wasn't far from the 【Mitsubishi Heavy Industries ** Shipyard】 where Mao Xu was, almost at the outer edge of the factory area.

The danmu in the stream surged.

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

【That's it!】

【Streamer is done for!!】

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

Mao Xu looked at the danmu floating by with a face full of confusion, but his gaze still looked at 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 corner of Mao Xu's mouth twitched.

He finally understood what this bunch of people flooded in for.

So this city was going to be subjected to an air raid.

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

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

"Don't worry, the streamer is not an unlucky guy."

"It's so far away."

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

Mao Xu said, shook his head, put down the telescope in his hand, and turned to walk slowly toward the factory shelter.

It was so far away.

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

However.

The danmu 【That's a nuclear bomb】 scrolling across the stream made Mao Xu's footsteps pause, and his pupils shrank 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.

Blinding white light instantly filled Mao Xu's entire world, then turned into blood red, and a heat wave of extreme temperature swept over, along with a powerful shockwave.

Mao Xu only felt his body fly up.

Swish!

The screen went dark and returned to the main interface.

The stream was silent...

Mao Xu was dazed on the main interface, still not having recovered:

"Holy crap?"

"What happened?"

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

And the netizens in the stream.

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

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 stream, there were no more streams for reference.

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

In fact.

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

As the city in Mao Xu's stream was hit by the "second one."

In the latest plot of other players, Allied players and Japanese faction players 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 stream.

He had just followed the friends to take a look at Mao Xu's stream, so after the explosion there was over, he returned directly to the room here.

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

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

Yu Feng walked into the conference room.

Although it was morning.

But since 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 the place 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 in the American Federation, so 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 Japanese guys surrender?"

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

"Surrender?"

"How could those guys surrender?"

Saying that, he pointed to the newspaper on the table.

Yu Feng looked over:

"Hiss—"

Nothing else.

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

The public need not panic.

Once this "new weapon" is finished, the country will be able to end the war.

This self-deceiving news was also invincible; Yu Feng and the Blue Star friends in the stream were dumbfounded:

"This is also okay?"

"Then we have to keep throwing?"

Unaccountably, Yu Feng and the Blue Star netizens in the stream had to admire them.

Although this Japanese behavior was vile and crazy, this bone was really hard; they still wanted to keep fighting hard.

However... that American Federation officer laughed:

"Of course not."

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

"Yesterday, the Federation high command issued a notice to Japan."

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

"Guess what?"

Yu Feng had a strange expression, and understood a little:

"So... Japan surrendered?"

That American Federation officer smiled and nodded, and said:

"That's right."

"They decided to surrender, and it was 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; Japan and the White House were more than 10 hours apart. When my father finished the meeting and called, it was still the middle 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 middle of the night here. Hearing such news, although he wanted to sleep physiologically, how could he sleep mentally?

That 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 fellow.

Just now he thought Japan's bones were so hard.

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

Once they heard it would be thrown on Tokyo.

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

This...

They didn't dare to delay at all, for fear of it being thrown on their own heads, right?

Yu Feng shook his head.

Then he listened to everyone's chat for a while, then withdrew and hung up, switching to the outside to flip through the player forum.

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

It's just that the plot of Japan, which was originally thought to be very hard, surrendering directly under the threat of the American Federation, was truly eye-opening.

They were too cowardly.

One day they were talking about one hundred million jade shards shattering, and once they heard they were going to bomb Tokyo, they surrendered overnight. There were also those who 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 sequel 【Cold War Clouds】 DLC will be updated, and the new game "World War I: Twilight of the Empire" will be released.

Once the announcement was out.

Players discussed it; this time it was really confirmed to be over.

Half a day later.

After a few days of skipping, the latest game timeline of each streamer had reached August 15.

At this time.

In Yu Feng's stream.

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

Yu Feng and the Blue Star netizens in the stream couldn't help but brighten their eyes; after all, Polar Star's games were well-made, and the CG was even more unique!

At this time.

The perspective gradually stretched, wandering around Yu Feng's warship.

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 shifted to several high-level American Federation officers.

As high-level officers, they could still speak some Japanese.

It's just that they were also dazed; what was this saying?

They hurriedly called for a translator.

However...: The surrender edict written in the form of Huaxia's classical Chinese was read out; let alone these high-level American Federation officers and translators not understanding.

The screen suddenly switched to Japan's territory.

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

Until the announcer said:

"This is surrender."

All the Japanese 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.

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

As the screen flowed.

You 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 stretched to the high altitude of "Earth," and you could see the colors representing the Axis powers on the sky over Southeast Asia and parts of Asia fading away rapidly.

The screen flowed through one country after another.

The entire "Earth" was plunged into an ocean of celebration.

The screen switched.

August 19.

Japan's representative bowed respectfully to the Soviet Federation's representative to surrender and handed over the surrender document.

September 2.

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

September 9.

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

September 12.

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

September 13.

Australia, Japan to...:

September 16.

Japan to the British Federation...

A series of surrender screen CGs.

The Blue Star players were all open-mouthed; good fellow, how many countries are they surrendering to, and towards the end, they were surrendering to a country almost every few days.

And as the screen flowed.

Until December 13, Japan surrendered to Indonesia.

Thus.

The screen ended completely.

Then came the slowly emerging subtitles.

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

【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, involving 61 countries and over 2 billion people.】

【The global military and civilian death toll reached as high as 70 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 Poland, Yugoslavia, and other countries disappeared.】

【70% of whom were innocent civilians.】

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

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

【In addition, the war accelerated the collapse 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 netizens in the stream couldn't help but hold their breath, their brains blank; 70 million people died, how tragic this was....

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 this data.

A prompt suddenly popped up on the main interface.

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

【Download 【Cold War Clouds】?】

Looking at the two prompts, the first one was constantly running data, and 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】 was loaded successfully.

The entire interface in the game changed.

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

At this time.

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

In the CG.

The lake surface slowly slid across the sky of the Earth, then arrived over the American Federation, and words slowly emerged on the screen.

【White House】

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

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

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

With just one sentence, Yu Feng and the Blue Star friends in the stream reacted instantly.

This was a nuclear threat to the 【Republic】?!

Isn't this walking the old path?

Looking down at the gun in his hand, and the dead Archduke Ferdinand in front of him.

Kong Yang suddenly reacted; could it be that he was being played by Old Thief Zhao?!

Hiss, damn?!

Old Thief Zhao is definitely doing this on purpose, right?!

Kill him, start WWI.

Don't kill him, let you waste time in the interrogation room.

Damn!!!

Kong Yang was about to accuse Old Thief Zhao of his "conspiracy" in the livestream room, but the pursuers on the street rushed over; Kong Yang didn't have time to accuse and ran away!

The viewers in the livestream room watched this scene and cheered him on one after another.

Only the running Kong Yang knew how aggrieved he was.

On the other side.

Tian Sha platform, other streamers in the "World War I: Twilight of the Empire" section.

Had already started one after another.

At this time, in Wu Jie's livestream room.

Having just settled WWII, he was a step slow to enter the WWI game, but fortunately, the livestream room had fixed viewers, so it didn't matter much.

Following the end of the CG playback.

Looking at the two modes 【Immersive Plot】 【Custom Plot】.

Wu Jie asked for the livestream room's opinion, and the viewers in the livestream room chose to let him select 【Custom Mode】; seeing this, Wu Jie didn't refuse:

"Okay, then we'll choose 【Custom Mode】."

"Let me see..."

"Identity? Choose businessman."

"Location... Vienna?"

"Go find the young Führer? That's also okay."

"The location will be Vienna."

"Time?"

"Other livestream rooms chose between 1890 and 1903, haven't encountered it yet?"

"I see the data says WWI started in 1914."

"Then choose 1913 to start."

Following the selection of one item after another, Wu Jie finally determined his identity in the 【Custom Mode】 plot:

"This mode is really good."

"Look at this identity starting point, businessman, assets of 10 million, location is Vienna, time is 1913; even if I don't go find the young Führer, these 10 million assets are enough to squander until WWII."

"Alright, ready to start."

"Eh, there's also a nationality option?"

(PS: Seeking monthly tickets~)