Chapter 312: Chapter 169: The Republic Will Never Compromise!
The people on the northwestern border remained ceaselessly vigilant, their horses always saddled, awaiting a command to charge north into the Soviet Union.
The people on the northeastern border were all armed and drilled, ready to invade the Soviet Union and establish a base behind enemy lines at a moment’s notice.
This resolute attitude of the masses sent chills down the spine.
Especially the final scene, where a plane carrying a massive ’warhead’ rushed towards Siberia, making Blue Star players suspect it might be the Republic’s nuclear bomb.
But considering the Republic’s technology, they likely didn’t possess the intercontinental missiles that the Soviet Union did.
So, they could only use planes to carry the nuclear bomb into the Soviet Union’s territory.
And what this implies is self-evident....
No return.
These simple four words represent a resolve that pierced through the CG and struck everyone’s hearts.
Has the fight begun?
What ultimately happened to the Republic?
This is what Blue Star players are currently most eager to know.
But knowing Zhao’s reputation for stretching plotlines, they estimate it might take another half a year to uncover the outcome.
After all, considering the Normandy Landing battlefield back then.
A battlefield that existed since the server opened, yet the storyline only emerged in 1944, leaving just one year before World War II ended.
The visual representation of the Republic endured several ’nuclear threats’ coupled with previous wars.
It’s clear the outcome won’t be known too soon.
This leaves Blue Star players restless, while Yu Feng, upon regaining composure, remarked in reflection:
"The slayer of dragons eventually becomes the dragon."
The United States and the Soviet Union portrayed in the visuals were the victor of World War II, standing for justice in the eyes of Blue Star players.
Yet the scenes and tactics involving ’nuclear threats’ in the CG had become reminiscent of the old Imperials.
However, previous CG footage also showed the greedy giant bear and the defiant bald eagle dividing the world, so it wasn’t completely unacceptable.
This CG segment also resolved some of the confusion following the red dragon’s illusory dismantling.
It seems that breaking through wasn’t so simple after all.
Just the myriad ’nuclear threat’ images in this CG alone depicted the pressure faced after the red dragon’s apparition was shattered.
At this moment, Yu Feng was filled with interest, commenting along with the live stream:
"Zhao talks about ’Cold War Clouds’, the first half being major power struggles, right?"
"Based on the CG images just now, it’s best to choose the U.S. or the Soviets."
"This early encounter with the Republic might trigger some storyline."
"And as long as there is no war, one shouldn’t die so easily. Brothers, vote, which side should I pick?"
Yu Feng initiated a poll in the live stream room.
And at that moment.
The settlement prompt appeared.
[Settlement Completed]
[Player Name: Yu Feng]
[Kill Count: 5748 people.]
[Death Count: 2472 times (including 1983 times on Normandy Landing Battlefield).]
[Participation in Key Battles: Battle of Britain/Battle of Moscow/Battle of Stalingrad]
[Key Battle Contribution: 0.017%/0.0036%/0.0015%]
[System Evaluation: You have advanced from a battlefield newbie to a veteran, but only just a veteran....]
[Identity Archive: 2472 files (choice to view the embodiment person, past life).]
[ps: In this simulated hell of war, you have weathered gunfire and bombs and witnessed countless people fall—they were once fathers, brothers, children, also the entire hope of a family awaiting their return.]
[ps: You may have been reborn many times in the game, but in reality, life happens only once; every cold death toll represents someone who could laugh and cry like you and me.]
[ps: May our world never need ’copies’ to remember suffering, peace is humanity’s greatest triumph.]
[Congratulations on receiving: ’World War II Veteran’s Medal’ ’Atomic Bomb Deliverer’s Title’]
Yellowed old photographs slowly emerged on the settlement panel, family portraits, many faces Yu Feng didn’t recognize on these photos.
However, recognizing some of them took his breath away.
The ones he recognized were NPCs he had once inhabited, lingering in his memory.
For example, the bearded middle-aged man holding a young girl in an old yellow photo. He was an Allied commander on the North African Battlefield.
The reason Yu Feng remembered him vividly is because he once embodied this commanding officer.
The fate was peculiar.
He was thrown dozens of meters by a cannon and smashed to death upon landing, which left an impression of that identity.
Yet after becoming accustomed, he hardly thought anything of it.
But now....
Looking at the smile of the girl holding the man’s hand in the old photograph, such a blissful father-daughter duo, Yu Feng dared not look any longer.
The more he looked, the more uncomfortable he felt.
Perhaps without his embodiment, that NPC might have survived till the end, who knows.
And this was only the ones he remembered.
Many of the photos depicted images Yu Feng, grown numb to death, didn’t remember, but undeniably, they were all whom he had embodied.
Looking at family portrait after family portrait, Yu Feng rubbed his face:
"Hiss——"
"What is Zhao trying to do to us."
Not only could Yu Feng see the settlement screen in the live stream, but so could Blue Star’s followers in the room, swarming in the comments.
[Zhao is ruthless, I don’t even dare to check my settlement results in the game.]
[My goodness, 2472 deaths, how many lives did the streamer ruin ~ !]
[Even excluding the 1983 times on the Normandy Battlefield, that means, from 1939 to 1945, a span of 6 years required 489 lives to finish ’World War II’....]