Chapter 299: 【Autumn Harvest Uprising】 The Republic

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

two tour boats brushed past each other.

And Ding Ming, who was looking down at the newspaper, did not notice the tour boat turning around not far away, and still did not know what he had missed.

Looking at the news 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 livestream:

"The '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 livestream looked at the map Ding Ming had marked himself.

"This is the map of the Republic in 1921 when I started; look at these forces."

"Then look at this...:"

Saying this, Ding Ming hung a screenshot of the map from the start to 1930 in the livestream.

"This is the map of 1930."

"This is the force distribution map that my friends and I drew based on the news collected in our respective plots."

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

"The internal chaos in the Republic hasn't ended yet."

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

After all, according to the previous CG and the 【Republic】 timeline, they knew that the later 【Republic】 would break through in 1950 and go head-to-head with two superpowers.

Yet by 1930, the Huaxia land was still this chaotic,

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 could be called outrageous.

Saying this.

Ding Ming remembered something and switched to the 【Awakening Era】 section of the Tiansha live streaming platform, then selected the 1931 timeline category.

Because the time limit for free selection in the 【Awakening Era】 DLC was 1931.

So besides players and streamers who were experiencing the plot of the earlier timeline, most streamers who chose the 1931 timeline were constantly skipping plots, attempting to trigger later major events like 【Four Crossings of the Chishui River】, etc.

Ding Ming flipped through a few livestreams at random and soon found one, clicking into it:

"Look, everyone."

"The 'Republic' is not just in internal chaos now; starting from the Japanese invasion in 1931, the Huaxia land also has to face the threat of external enemies."

"It took 14 years to drive away Japan until 1945; it can be said that there was no stable development period at all."

"Just like this... hmm?"

"That's not right."

"According to this, the 【Republic】 only had a development period after the national liberation in 1949."

"It's equivalent to building a nuclear bomb in just over 10 years from the 50s to the 60s."

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

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

Before, they felt that the 【Republic】 began to rise gradually from the beginning of the "Republic" in 1912, but now looking at the map, they could see.

Where was there any time for a rise?

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

It turned out that it only started to stabilize a bit in 1949.

But 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 forces on the map; none of them were the red force from the third level of the Federation military exercise.

Had that red force not appeared yet?

He was completely unaware.

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

On the other side.

Jixing Company, President's Office.

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

"They increased the agency fee by 10 times and asked if we could open up more slots; what do you think?"

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

"Rich spenders?"

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

A 10-fold agency fee, that would be 5 billion Federation coins.

It was enough to throw at a general 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 Qinghan pulled out a chair and sat down:

"Normal."

"If you don't earn, and I don't earn, how can the Federation 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 can you find such a good thing?"

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

Zhao Ming had a strange expression hearing this; sure enough, it was the same everywhere.

He glanced at the contract, and there were no problems, so Zhao Ming signed it directly.

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

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

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

"By the way."

"I see that not many people are playing 'World War I: Twilight of the Empire' right now; basically, they have all gone to play the 【Awakening Era】 DLC."

"Do we need to adjust it, 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; isn't it a bit putting the cart before the horse?"

"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 was indifferent, leaning back in his boss chair and waving his hand:

"No need."

"From the popularity of 【Awakening Era】, we know that compared to anti-war, what players are more curious about right now is the rise process of the 【Republic】."

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

"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, this was indeed the case.

After all, from the Second World War to the First World War, they had been promoting it for more than half a year.

According to the survey data, the games and movies selected every year usually only have popularity for one or two months.

And Jixing Company's games were released one after another.

They had firmly held 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, and those who hadn't... after half a year of not understanding, they probably wouldn't want to understand either.

So, with most of them being old players, deliberately promoting it would instead 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; the fact that more people play it only means 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 Qinghan could only nod upon seeing this, then asked curiously:

"By the way... when does the 【Republic】 actually completely rise?"

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

Shen Qinghan would also play it in her spare time and browse player forums; what Shen Qinghan was asking now was what players on the forum were most curious about.

And it was also Shen Qinghan's own curiosity.

Some players had skipped the plot of the latest timeline from 1931 all the way to 1933.

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

It was impossible to imagine how the 【Republic】 rose step by step under such circumstances.

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

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

"Because I'm not sure when it counts as a rise either."

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

Zhao Ming thought for a moment and said:

"Wait a moment."

Saying this, he began to operate on the equipment.

The data in the database was retrieved, called up, and 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 Qinghan looked up and saw the screen slowly appear in the projected CG.

On screen.

What appeared was the smoke-filled Forbidden City, and the Zhengyang Gate was burning in the flames.

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

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

As the perspective lowered.

Some of the 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 city wall to the ground; a white-haired Qing official struggled to get up and shouted loudly:

"Quick! Bomb these foreign devils to death!"

"Quick, fire the cannons!!!"

The personal guards beside him, seeing that they could no longer defend, immediately grabbed the Qing official, knelt before him, and said with tears in their eyes:

"My lord! Run!"

"Our cannons... 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 above the Northeast land.

Subtitles slowly emerged.

【September 18, 1931】

The perspective looked down.

It appeared at the station of a Japanese unit.

Inside the command post.

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

*Boom—! *

The railway was suddenly blown up; the long-planned 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, with the seasons changing.

When the perspective lowered again.

The screen only had a high-altitude view, and below was a city turned into ruins.

Subtitles slowly emerged 【2022】.

Shen Qinghan's face was somewhat surprised; 2022?

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

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

Zhao Ming opened his mouth and said with a smile:

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

Shen Qinghan had a question mark on her face and looked at the projection; when does the attack come?

Just as she was thinking.

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

Before Shen Qinghan could react.

*Boom!!! *

The city below in the projection suddenly exploded; only then did Shen Qinghan notice the disguised soldiers, who were currently running in panic.

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

"Missiles?"

However, the perspective suddenly lowered.

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

They were rushing toward the scattered soldiers at an extremely fast speed.

*Boom boom boom boom! *

As the scenes switched, Shen Qinghan discovered that the Earth in 2022 was also full of wars, and some of the tragic levels were no less than the Second World War 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 high seas; one was flying the flag of the 【Republic】, and the other side was a flag Shen Qinghan had never seen before.

It's just that what was strange was... on such a modern warship.

On that ship with the flag Shen Qinghan didn't recognize, soldiers who looked like a group of thin black 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】

On the snowy mountains of the plateau, soldiers from both sides were still confronting each other.

Only this time Shen Qinghan could recognize them; one side was still the 【Republic】, and the other was 【India】, but just like before.

The soldiers of the two countries at this time 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 boost their own morale, the 【India】

soldiers were densely packed with dozens of people.

And facing the 【Republic】's soldiers, who were only the size of a class, 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 Qinghan's mouth twitch; this was also possible?

But this was so discordant.

High-tech wars were being fought all over the world, but the 【Republic】's neighbors were quite friendly, only daring to wave sticks,

A bit strange, right?

This thought flashed through Shen Qinghan's mind.

The scene shifted.

It appeared above the Ryukyu Islands.

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

*Boom—! *

Explosive flames rose.

Soon.

News livestreams from various countries began to broadcast:

【Japanese 'Navy Vice Admiral' accidentally died, suspected to be 【Republic】 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 Navy Vice Admiral has nothing to do with the 【Republic】."

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

Seeing this, Shen Qinghan also widened her eyes.

Ah, this...

The contrast with the previous invasion of the Northeast after losing one soldier was a bit big; now that a Vice Admiral had died, they urgently issued a statement saying it had 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 Qinghan sighed:

"Is this the 【Republic】 after its rise?"

"So those surrounding countries, waving sticks, is it because they dare not use thermal weapons?"

After seeing Japan's performance, Shen Qinghan also thought of the previous discordance.

Why were thermal weapon wars being fought all over the world, but when it came to the 【Republic】, it actually devolved 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 2022 【Republic】 is still just a developing country."

Shen Qinghan had a strange expression:

"Developing country?"

"Just?"

"Are you sure?"

Zhao Ming smiled:

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

"No matter what."

"It's still a developing country."

Shen Qinghan rolled her eyes.

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

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

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

Zhao Ming looked at the 【Republic】 timeline and the backend data of the 【Awakening Era】 DLC, thought for a while, and felt that there were too few major events.

Thinking about it.

Zhao Ming began to copy a 【Republic】 timeline.

He began to fill it in according to the years and which small events players had triggered in the backend data.

He prepared to update it when he had time.

He was going to produce a detailed update of the 【Republic】 timeline.

A few days later.

The game forum on the official Jixing website was detonated.

Players in the game in 1927 triggered the 【Nanchang Uprising】 plot.

As for how they discovered it...

Because the 【Republic】 timeline on the official Jixing website would unlock event CGs on the timeline in real-time based on the plots triggered by players.

Players looked at the unlocked 【Nanchang Uprising】 CG video.

From the perspective.

The player who triggered the plot should have been a peripheral soldier, only listening to orders and following the troops to charge, but was killed not long after.

The subsequent plot came to an abrupt end.

Obviously, they just played a start, which made the Blue Star players itch with curiosity.

Who exactly is it?!

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

At least finish it before dying?!

They only saw the beginning of the CG, and nothing else afterward; they didn't see any of the main characters!

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 was possible to do this.

If someone triggers it, it will be on CG.

Then this one only triggered a beginning, and if others trigger the complete experience of the 【Nanchang Uprising】 later, wouldn't they be able to complete the CG?!

And the official Jixing 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 known in the introduction and CG, so a group of Blue Star players chose to start the 1927 timeline.

They wanted to complete the 【Nanchang Uprising】 event.

By the way, they wanted to see if they could meet the big shots of the red force and trigger some powerful 【Plot Cards】.

On the other side.

In the livestream of a streamer who also chose the 1927 timeline.

At this time, streamer Yang Lang was sitting on a donkey cart, rushing from the Hunan-Jiangxi 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 mix his way there by taking a fellow villager's donkey cart all the way.

Yang Lang followed the fellow villager's donkey cart until he 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 water friends in the livestream:

"Brothers, I'm only in April, 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 in 1927 definitely won't be able to beat me."

"So just stay in my livestream and watch."

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

Just as he was speaking, a water friend in the livestream reminded him that there seemed to be a special 【Plot Card】 prompt in the upper right corner.

Only then did Yang Lang notice a gold-colored exclamation mark flowing in the upper right corner of his vision:

"Special 【Plot Card】 prompt?"

"Is there such a thing?"

The Blue Star netizens in the livestream said that the streamer who triggered the 【Nanchang Uprising】 before just clicked on a gold exclamation mark and the card popped out.

Only then did Yang Lang know that there were such things that didn't trigger actively; he looked at the gold-colored exclamation mark, and his face showed joy:

"Then mine is gold-colored, what could it be?"

Saying this, he clicked on the gold-colored exclamation mark, and the screen in front of him suddenly went black.

Yang Lang couldn't move and could only watch.

And the Blue Star water friends in the livestream also widened their eyes and understood; it was a triggered CG?!

Can it be like this too?!

The screen slowly lit up.

The twilight was like iron, and the sky hung low.

The sickle and axe split the clouds, and the perspective swept across the suffering masses of the Hunan-Jiangxi border.

Suddenly.

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

They were dressed in rags, their rough hands gripped sickles and axes, and they rushed toward the troops that were levying heavy taxes.

Bullets whistled past.

People kept falling, but more people stood up; in the near-silent CG, they shouted a sound that shook the heavens and earth:

"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 ranks were farmers and workers holding sickles and axes.

A tall back stood at the front of the ranks.

Everyone was looking at him.

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

That 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 Jinggang... that's where we can take root."

The screen darkened.

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

Subtitles slowly emerged on the screen.

【That year... his turn gave the spark a direction.】

The subtitles slowly disappeared.

What appeared in the livestream afterward was a 【Plot Card】, slightly pale gray, obviously not yet triggered.

The card showed the figure of a man in a gray long-sleeved Zhongshan suit, while 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】 ===== CHAPTER 300 =====