Chapter 91

Players could team up or go solo to participate in the 【Battle of Kiev (Limited Time)】 story mode.

This story mode followed the timeline.

Participating players would be randomly assigned to their respective faction's army to fight against the enemy. Since this mode would not affect the immersive plot,

many life-style players also participated and experienced a battle.

However, there were also those who didn't go.

For example, in the 【Challenge Kiev Survival 100 Days, Day 17!】 live stream room.

Duan Yu, who was live streaming in Kiev, had already persisted to the 17th day, but his condition at this time was not very good.

When the Imperial army hadn't arrived, he could still earn some money by shining shoes.

Now that the Empire had arrived, who would care if their shoes were shiny? There had been no business for several days, and the little money he had on him had long been spent.

At this moment, Duan Yu was squatting in a corner, sitting on his shoe-shining toolbox, looking at the shop in the distance.

Crack!

A crisp sound of glass rang out; the shop's doors and windows were smashed, and several burly men with large bags were frantically stuffing things into them.

This kind of thing had become commonplace, and there were no more argumentative comments in the live stream room.

Scenes like this were happening everywhere.

Duan Yu shook his head, feeling the hunger coming on, and adjusted the settings to alleviate it significantly:

"The Empire hasn't broken into the city yet."

"I don't know what it will be like when they do."

"Human nature, huh~"

At this moment, Duan Yu, as if having become a great philosopher after watching so many days of the sinister nature of humanity, looked at his own pretentious posture, and the friends in the live stream room mocked him one after another.

Duan Yu, however, ignored them.

The roar of bombers in the sky rang out; formations of bombers swept over Kiev, and explosions sounded from all directions.

Boom—!!!

The roof of the shop diagonally across was hit by a series of falling bombs; the massive explosion directly destroyed the house, and rubble buried the shopkeeper and those looting men.

Duan Yu hurriedly found a corner to curl up and hide.

Until the roar in the sky faded, Duan Yu returned to the corner and sat down. The city that came into view was already smoking everywhere.

For Duan Yu, it was a novel experience.

However, many friends also remembered the miserable state of being bombed during the 【Battle of Britain】, which was exactly the same.

This place might just be the next London.

Duan Yu adjusted the live stream's perspective to the shop ruins just now, refreshing the worldview of Blue Star players once again.

They saw some adults and children on the ruins starting to tentatively walk toward them.

Just now, Duan Yu thought they were going to save the people underneath, until he saw a child pull out a seriously injured robber and, seeing that the robber seemed to still be breathing,

lift a stone and smash it onto the robber's head, killing him directly... then skillfully looting the things on the robber's body.

If children are like this, others go without saying, and thus the scene before them unfolded.

Blue Star friends watched, dumbfounded, as these NPCs in the game pried apart the ruined houses and pulled various things off dead bodies.

【No way? Instead of saving people, they smash them to death?】

【Human nature is sinister...:】

【Actually, you can't blame the streamer for acting like a philosopher; anyone who stays in this place for a long time would...】

【Maybe it's a matter of education? Blue Star's compulsory education is widespread, so it should be a bit better, right?】

【You're overthinking it. This is entirely about whether you can withstand temptation. If you don't believe me, look at the streamer. If he goes hungry for another three days, see if he goes to loot things.】

Looking at the comments in the live stream room, Duan Yu's mouth twitched, but he still agreed, "Don't talk about three days; even now, I want to go and loot."

"It's just that I really don't have the strength."

"Although there's nothing wrong with my body in reality, the feeling simulated by this virtual pod really triggers these thoughts when you're hungry to the limit."

"Fortunately, this is just a game; once you log out, the feeling is gone."

"That's why the streamer can maintain his kindness..."

Before he could finish speaking, Duan Yu's neck was suddenly pressed by a cold iron skewer, and a trembling man's voice came from his ear:

"Don't move! Stand up!"

"Hand over the box under your butt!"

Duan Yu was forced to stand up and turn his head to look.

It was a homeless man, his expression excited, seemingly afraid and seemingly expectant, his eyes fixed on the box under Duan Yu's butt.

This scene.

Made the friends in the live stream room go crazy with amusement.

But there were also those who were comforted, as being robbed by NPCs was nothing new.

Duan Yu looked helpless and explained:

"This is just a shoe-shining box."

As soon as he spoke.

The homeless man's expression became excited, and the iron skewer in his hand moved closer to Duan Yu's neck.

Seeing this, Duan Yu hurriedly agreed:

"Okay, okay, okay."

"You take it, I won't move."

Then he slowly backed away.

A gleam of light erupted in the homeless man's eyes, his expression extremely excited. He picked up Duan Yu's shoe-shining toolbox and started running, looking back every step of the way, an excited expression appearing on his face.

Seeing this, Duan Yu couldn't help but say:

"Brothers, I think I did something wrong..."

If he had scared this homeless man or resisted just now, the homeless man might have just run away.

But now, looking at his expression, he clearly became excited after successfully robbing him.

Sure enough.

The homeless man had just run to a corner when he found a new target.

He waved the iron skewer in his hand with an excited expression...

Scenes of chaos brought by war were being staged in many live stream rooms. The situation on the European battlefield entered a tense stage, and the heavy consequences of war made it difficult for many people to continue watching the live stream.

However, there were also some lucky life-style streamers who were expanding the worldview and background of 'Earth' from other angles.

The live stream room for the 【North African Battlefield】 had fewer people.

There were only two or three hundred live stream rooms scattered about.

There were many Allied streamers who were live streaming from 'Tobruk'.

Compared to Europe, which had a better environment, Tobruk, located on the African continent, naturally had the same biggest problem as other African cities.

Lack of water.

And it wasn't just a lack of water; what was even more deadly was that the Imperial general 'Rommel' had blocked all exits of the city with armored troops.

The siege had been going on for more than two months.

An Allied streamer was gnawing on a hard biscuit; in a situation where water was already scarce, he could only eat this kind of food that required water to swallow.

On the other side, an Imperial streamer was acting under Rommel's orders.

In a cool room, he was operating a machine to print leaflets prepared to be dropped into the city, printed with Rommel's words:

"Your graves have already been dug in Egypt."

Two months of continuous dropping was a severe blow to the Allies. Many players also realized that this was the so-called psychological warfare in the 【Tactical Library】.

But there was no good way to deal with it.

They really couldn't break out, and the reinforcements for the Allies were nowhere in sight, so they could only hold on in this place filled with yellow sand.

The Empire was not only sweeping through the 【European Battlefield】 but also running rampant on the 【North African Battlefield】. And just at this moment... 'Earth' Atlantic.

Night.

On the Atlantic.

A fleet consisting of more than twenty cargo ships was sailing slowly under the escort of the Allies.

On the largest cargo ship, the streamer Song Yang, who had restarted as a merchant, was learning the posture of other British Federation merchants holding high-stem glasses, huddling in a crowd, watching everyone discuss around a map.

The friends in the live stream room were also holding their breath, listening to their analysis.

The leading British captain raised his hand and drew an arc on an island on the map:

"Last week, a fleet encountered the Empire's wolf pack south of Iceland."

"Three oil tankers were torn in half by torpedoes. The Empire doesn't even recognize the flags of neutral countries anymore; as long as it's not an Imperial merchant ship, they destroy it all."

"Business is getting harder and harder to do. I plan to quit after this trip."

The yellow-haired captain next to him said with a smile:

"Don't worry, old brother, look at this."

Saying that, he waved the newspaper in his hand:

"Washington has already loosened up; the American Freedom Federation is preparing to expand the scope of the 'Lend-Lease Act'."

"Starting next month, more warships and oil tankers will join the escort fleet."

A bearded captain sneered:

"Then you have to pray that within this month, the Empire's iron whales don't run into us."

"Otherwise, we will definitely be torn to shreds by Dönitz's wolf pack."

Everyone fell silent upon hearing this. The first British captain took two puffs of his cigar, his tone somewhat heavy:

"These Imperial guys are really too good at fighting."

"In the Soviet Federation, I heard that Kiev has been surrounded. That is the third-largest city of the Soviet,"

"and after that, it's Moscow."

Song Yang held his high-stem glass, swirling the red wine inside, listening to these captains chatter about the world situation, and remained silent.

But the friends in the live stream room were energized.

【These NPCs are good; they can be commentators.】

【They are merchants after all, unlike the NPCs on land who know nothing.】

【Laughing to death, is it because you haven't been to a big city? The NPCs in big cities still know a little bit.】

【They are also very well-informed; they even know that Kiev is about to fall.】

【But what are that 'Lend-Lease Act' and 'Dönitz's Wolf Pack'?】

【'Wolf Pack Tactics'??? I remember when Mo Xiaomo was live streaming, she seemed to have clicked on that card.】

【Tearing apart oil tankers? This is a bit terrifying.】

Song Yang ignored the comments and silently started recording, watching these guys chatter, preparing to make it into a clip video to correspond with the 'real-time map' and upload it later.

This kind of plot that supplements the world background will definitely go viral.

Suddenly.

A shrill alarm sound spread over the entire fleet, and a hurried voice came from the loudspeaker:

"Torpedo trajectory detected! All hands to battle stations!!!"

Boom—!

A loud noise came from outside, and the firelight illuminated the night sky, penetrating the glass and reflecting into everyone's eyes.

Large characters gradually lit up in Song Yang's field of vision.

【Battle of the Atlantic】

The real-time map on the Polar Star official website quietly lit up another area.

(Today's 3.8k extra update + 8.5k normal update completed~ The extra update for monthly tickets is tomorrow!)