Chapter 197: 【Great Power Game】 Eve of Outbreak (4.3k)

A few days later.

Tian Sha livestream platform, 【Awakening Era】 DLC partition.

The plot in Fang Ming's game had already reached the end of 1939.

This time the identity was a soldier of the Anti-Japanese United Army.

As a streamer who had once challenged the 【Stalingrad Medal】 and succeeded, having faced the search and arrest of the Empire's soldiers and military dogs in the ice and snow, and finally persisted for 15 days to survive.

Fang Ming initially thought this was not a difficult plot.

As long as the feeling was turned down a bit, the rest would be about the same as the challenge situation during the previous Battle of Stalingrad.

Both were ice and snow, both were being searched and arrested, it's just that during 【WWII】 it was facing the Empire's soldiers, now it was facing Japanese soldiers, and both were Axis powers.

Then he was too familiar with it.

It's just that with the start of the Anti-Japanese United Army, the temperature between the white mountains and black waters gave Fang Ming a head-on blow.

It happened to be December at the end of the year.

Minus 40 degrees at night was already the norm, and if one wasn't careful, one might freeze to death.

And it was different from the Empire's search and arrest.

The Japanese army here was mopping up, chasing you while mopping up the villages encountered on the way.

Forcing Fang Ming not to go to places with villages.

Because once tracked by the devils to the village, what awaited the villagers was a looting and slaughter.

And the white snow and mountains in winter basically couldn't find any food.

Fang Ming was so hungry that he ate snow in large mouthfuls, and the strength in his body was getting weaker and weaker.

At this time, Fang Ming was walking in the ice and snow with one person and one gun, his footsteps deep and shallow, looking at the mountains, Fang Ming was in despair, and said to the Blue Star friends in the livestream:

"It's killing me."

"There's no game here, and it's minus 20 or 30 degrees during the day; I'm afraid those game animals have also frozen to death."

"My time point is 1939; counting from 1931, it's already 8 years."

"I dare not think how the Anti-Japanese United Army soldiers persisted for 8 years."

"I estimate that the situation here is that even if the guy who lived to the end in Leningrad was thrown here, it would be tough to survive."

"Leningrad still had supplies, still had bread, and could even eat..."

"But look at this, besides snow, it's damn snow; even gnawing on tree bark is impossible, it's frozen hard."

"I've been separated from the team for three days."

"If this continues, I'm afraid I'll starve to death."

The chat in the livestream scrolled by:

【Streamer, restart; there's no way in this situation.】

【If it really doesn't work, boil some tree bark with snow water? It should be edible, right?】

【Beware of snow blindness; don't look at the snow for a long time.】

【There's snow everywhere; is it possible not to look?】

【Outrageous, I feel like I'm going to die at minus 15 degrees on Blue Star; I dare not think about the situation at minus 40 degrees.】

Fang Ming was panting heavily while pulling his feet out of the snow and walking forward:

"Snow blindness?"

"I estimate that before I get snow blindness, I will be starved to death first."

Facing the devils' mopping up, the homemade guns and cannons in the hands of the Anti-Japanese United Army soldiers were naturally no match, and the Japanese army mopped up every year, and every winter was a difficult hurdle.

Walking hard in the snow for a long time, Fang Ming gradually became unable to keep up.

With a thud.

Paralyzed in the snow, his whole body half-sunk into the snow:

"Damn it."

"Polar Star wouldn't let me starve to death just like this, right?"

"Really not giving any hints at all?"

The chat in the livestream surged:

【Laughing to death, is this your first day playing Polar Star's game? Do you know what complete realistic simulation is?】

【Don't panic, according to your terrain, although Polar Star didn't give you a hint, I used the photon supercomputer to find the location; walk 23 kilometers to the west, there is a village there.】

【23 kilometers? Look at him, can he walk 23 meters?】

【At least there's hope, streamer, hold on.】

Fang Ming was paralyzed in the snow and gave a bitter smile:

"23 kilometers?"

"Hold on?"

"I want to!"

Leaning in the snow, the sun directly overhead, Fang Ming inexplicably felt a bit comfortable, closing his eyes to enjoy the short rest:

"Brothers, I'll squint for a while..."

"Remember to call me in two minutes."

A group of question marks scrolled by in the livestream, and Fang Ming, whose physical fatigue had been simulated to the limit, fell asleep in seconds.

As he slept, the screen in the livestream went black.

Swish!

The game returned to the main interface.

Exited the game plot, lost the complete simulation, Fang Ming's spirit recovered instantly:

"What's the situation?"

"Why did I exit the plot?"

"Did I freeze to death?"

The friends in the livestream were speechless; what did you think?

Minus 20 or 30 degrees, sleeping in the snow,

But it couldn't be blamed on Fang Ming; after all, he had been chased by the Japanese army for several days, exhausted of ammunition and food, hungry and only able to eat snow; in this situation, once he fell down, it was difficult to climb up again.

Fang Ming moved his body, looking at the custom plot button, but didn't click to start again.

Because he had already experienced the plot of 1939.

Even if he didn't freeze to death at the beginning of 1939, he estimated he couldn't play much of the plot, because later WWII broke out, and the plot had to switch to 【WWII】 to continue.

Fang Ming opened the 【WWI】 partition and took a look.

The popularity of 【WWI】 had been attracted by the 【Awakening Era】 DLC, with most players going to the Republic of China.

However, because the population base of Blue Star was too huge.

Even if 80% of 【WWI】 players were in the 【Awakening Era】 DLC, 【WWI】 still had millions of players.

There were also many interesting plot videos on the daily updated headlines.

Some streamers triggered the Empire's 【Beer Hall】 speech plot, livestreaming the situation in the beer hall at that time, and joking that they wouldn't be bewitched.

And the Blue Star players were also watching the excitement, watching the young leader waving his arms and speaking excitedly,

This was also the first time Blue Star players had finished watching the young leader's speech, instead of the half-finished speech often seen in CG, just when the speech ended.

Although many NPCs in the game looked excited, the streamers and Blue Star netizens who participated didn't have too strong emotional fluctuations.

Many people suspected that it might be the leader in his youth, and the speech wasn't that bewitching?

Even that streamer thought so.

And just as he was chatting with the Blue Star friends in the livestream while turning to order a drink, all his thoughts changed; 500,000 marks for bread was just an appetizer.

A drink ordered by that streamer cost 160 billion marks.

And the exchange rate between the US dollar and the mark that day was 1 US dollar: 50 billion marks.

Money was already cheaper than waste paper.

But little did he know, this was just the beginning.

Just 7 days later.

This exchange rate had become exaggerated to 1 US dollar: 4.2 trillion marks.

That's right.

In seven days, the value of the mark plummeted 84 times.

The printing speed of the printing press was not as fast as the depreciation of the mark until this moment.

That streamer and the Blue Star netizens in the livestream, looking at the parading team on the streets of the Empire, knew why the young leader received so much support.

Everyone's success is not accidental.

Even the streamer who said the young leader's speech was nothing special fell silent in the face of the speed of the mark's depreciation.

This damn thing couldn't be refuted at all; it was simply too outrageous.

It wasn't just the plot of the Empire; many 【WWII】 players, because they knew part of the plot, chose to contact celebrities in their youth.

It's just that some celebrities were not good people from their youth.

A streamer who was a Russian Empire noble, sharing intelligence on his phone happily every day, ended up with the Russian Empire being overthrown in WWI, and even the Russian Empire was gone.

And as a noble streamer, he was also the one who personally sentenced "Kind Father" to exile, so he naturally couldn't be spared.

It is said that he died miserably...

Fang Ming browsed the posts on the 【WWI】 forum for a while and saw many interesting plots.

Then switched to 【WWII】.

Pinned on the forum was an announcement released by Polar Star Company, about the plot of 【WWII】 continuing from 1939, which was still in production and would be opened soon.

It was clearly opened for players who had already experienced the 1939 plot.

However, the number of players who had experienced the 1939 plot was still a minority, and it was estimated that it would be open for a while.

Fang Ming watched for a while, then switched back to the livestream,

Clicked on the friend list and started contacting Yu Feng directly.

A few seconds later.

Yu Feng's voice came from Fang Ming's livestream:

"What's the situation?"

Fang Ming spoke up:

"My 【WWI】 plot is almost finished; I have to wait for Polar Star's plot to connect in 【WWII】 before I can continue to experience it in the Republic of China."

"How is your situation?"

"Are there any interesting plots? I'll go over and play."

Yu Feng laughed and said:

"That's perfect."

"Come over, let's team up."

"The 【Cold War Clouds】 DLC is about to open the battlefield against the US Federation."

Fang Ming was a bit dumbfounded:

"The 1v17 one?"

Hiss—"Wait, I'll update the 【Cold War Clouds】 DLC right now."

Fang Ming directly entered the Polar Star platform to update the game, while flipping through the announcement.

He really didn't pay attention to this news when he went to the 【WWII】 partition just now.

At this time, clicking into the official website page of 【Cold War Clouds】, he really saw the countdown to the opening of the 1v17 battlefield against the US Federation: "1" day.

Just as Fang Ming was looking at the introduction of the announcement, the 【Cold War Clouds】 DLC had been updated.

Soon.

Fang Ming entered the game and took a look at the game's main interface.

It was still Polar Star's consistent style, just turned into a cold tone, and generally still had 【Immersive Plot Mode】 and 【Custom Plot】 mode.

It's just that there was an extra gray button next to it, which looked inactive, with the word 【Peninsula】 written on it.

A countdown of "1" day appeared below, clearly it would be opened in 1 day.

Fang Ming asked Yu Feng:

"What's your timeline now? Where is it better for me to start custom?"

Yu Feng replied:

"The timeline is actually about the same; 【Cold War Clouds】 is slower than 【Awakening Era】; you guys have experienced from 1931 to 1939."

"Most players here have only experienced from 1945 to 1950."

"According to the personal plots of some players, the coalition forces organized by the US Federation will land in Incheon tomorrow."

"Polar Star will also open this plot tomorrow."

"By then, all players will be able to experience it, and it won't conflict with their own immersive plot or custom mode plot."

"It's said that it can be multiplayer, but those who like single-player usually plan to play in their own plots."

"Because the latest timeline is unified, it's just the difference between single-player and multiplayer."

Fang Ming understood.

Polar Star was still opening according to the player's latest timeline.

Those who were fast didn't need to play, while those who hadn't reached that time point could participate directly in this plot.

To experience the latest war in the timeline.

Fang Ming clicked on the custom mode, intending to play first, and also chose a reporter, then asked:

"You've been playing for so long, what intelligence have you collected?"

Yu Feng said:

"It's all on my homepage; go take a look."

Fang Ming said:

"That's too much trouble."

Yu Feng laughed and said:

"Fine."

"Actually, the current 'Earth' world situation is mainly various mines buried by WWII."

"For example, the war about to break out in the 【Republic】's neighbor."

"The main reason is that on the eve of Japan's surrender in 1945, the Soviet Federation and the US Freedom Federation divided the neighbor's territory into two."

"This situation is actually very common in Europe; both sides support a force, directly making that country fall into war."

"Whichever side's supported force wins, that side will have secret control over that country."

"But Europe is the Soviet Federation's home turf after all."

"After WWII ended, the Soviet Union collected a group of satellite states that obeyed the suzerain state."

"Only some countries near the French Federation and the British Commonwealth were able to contend with the Soviet Union with the support of the US Federation."

"And the neighbor here is also the same; it was just a line drawn by the US Federation at the time."

"As a result, the Soviet Federation actually agreed, and after that, the two superpowers didn't have much to do around this line, but the local forces always wanted to unify."

"Friction between the two sides was also constant."

"Originally, neither side cared about this place, but the 【Republic】 suddenly broke out in 1949, breaking the balance between the two superpowers."

"The 【Republic】 is close to the Soviet Federation, and the US Federation doesn't want the 【Republic】 to lean toward the Soviet Union."

"The Soviet Union itself has a huge volume, and the neighbor suddenly popped up with a volume that, although not as big as theirs, was enough to be called a threat, so how could the Soviet Union be at ease."

"So since the end of WWII, in the 5 years, the neighbor, which didn't have large-scale conflicts, suddenly launched a fierce offensive with the support of the big brother behind the scenes."

"And the US Federation, seeing this, also organized coalition forces to go there to support the forces they supported."

"Now both sides are fighting at the 【Republic】's pillow, but the big brother behind the scenes stepped back at this time, so the neighbor naturally couldn't beat the US coalition forces."

"What should the 【Republic】 do at this time?"

"In June 1950, the 【Republic】's neighbor broke out in a full-scale war with the support of the big brother behind the scenes, and at this time, the 【Republic】 had just broken out, and had only been founded for more than half a year."

"It belongs to giving the 【Republic】 a fatal blow."

"One can imagine the pressure the 【Republic】 is facing."

"The US Federation's troops are about to land in Incheon, and the neighbor definitely can't beat them, so it should be the opening of the 【Republic】 camp participation."

Fang Ming looked at the countdown on the page:

"It's fast."

"Anyway, it starts tomorrow."

"The US Federation's troops... nothing else, the firepower is really sufficient."

"These are not things that ordinary countries can contend with."

"Don't know how the 【Republic】 will fight?"

With the materials and weapons of the US Federation at the end of 【WWII】, just bombing alone could destroy 90% of the countries on 'Earth' after WWII,

Once the coalition forces land, where can the neighbor fight?

The next day.

With the update, Fang Ming and Yu Feng teamed up to enter the plot for the first time.

It's just that the full-momentum shout at the beginning stunned everyone, including those in the livestream.

What... bowl broken?

Not right, this accent doesn't sound like the 【Republic】's?!

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