Anti-War Game: Starting from Normandy Campaign

Chapter 206: The Crisis of the Newborn Republic—Crossing the Grasslands... The Red Army Has Arrived!



Watching the scenes in the video, many Blue Star players couldn't help but gasp.

The environment on this grassland was far more treacherous than imagined.

Wherever the camera panned, the marshes on that grassland shimmered with an eerie dark green, and a film of bubbles, like oil, floated on the surface.

Occasionally, a few bubbles rose from the sludge, and just seeing this scene, one could imagine certain smells.

Not to mention, the eerie dark green was obviously toxic.

The player in the video introduced the aspects one needs to be cautious about when crossing the grassland, as learned from local herdsmen:

"These mudflats are just one part of the issue."

"Local herdsmen say these layers of sludge, settled for years, are full of deadly bacteria."

As the player spoke, he squatted down, and the camera's perspective zoomed in on the mud pond.

Only then did Blue Star players see clearly—it wasn't just the mud bubbling, but some wriggling worms rolling in the sludge, making the raised mud appear like bubbles.

"If a wounded person's injury touches this sludge, you can imagine the outcome."

"And also, look."

As the camera swept over the rampant grassland, many bugs were flying amidst the grass:

"It's daytime now, and there are bugs flying all over; imagine at night, even more."

"The poisonous bugs, bred in such an environment, with a single bite..."

"Local herdsmen say, at best, it becomes red and ulcerated, at worst, it's life-threatening."

"Even the local herdsmen dare not venture deep into this place."

"And there's no drinking water...."

The player introduced in the video with a tone that couldn't help but feel despair.

Not to mention the Blue Star players who by now had a clear concept of the grassland.

This environment.

Isn't much better than the snowy mountains.

The bullet comments on the video frantically scrolled by:

[Damn! Is this really a place humans can tread?!]

[I thought climbing snowy mountains was already extreme, and now there's crossing grasslands... I'm done.]

[At least snowy mountains are clean, this place is full of poison.]

[Can't imagine being surrounded by poisonous bugs... it's too hopeless.]

[Hard to imagine what kind of willpower the Red Army used to come through.]

[Casually mentioning 'climb snowy mountains' 'cross grasslands', turns out to be this tough behind the scenes.]

[In the Republic's timeline, the fewer words there are, the bigger the story, like.... the two words representing 'climb mountains cross grasslands'[Long March].]

As the video's popularity soared, Blue Star players and streamers all started preparing.

All wanted to see how the Red Army conquered the grassland.

Fully prepared, they waited on the Red Army's path, ready to join the ranks.

Given some streamers missed joining at the foothills of Jiajin Mountain last time.

This time, the streamers and players mostly chose local identities strategically, so identity wasn't an issue at all.

Just one thing....

Starting impoverished, they couldn't avoid being oppressed by landlords.

Some Blue Star players naturally resisted.

But the result was being beaten to death by the landlord's men, starting over again.

At this time.

Inside Fang Ming's stream on Celestial Shark Live Platform.

Since the last time being blown up, it also attracted some viewership, though mostly for the spectacle.

And with restarting, observing the Red Army's Long March route, Fang Ming chose to start as a local near the grassland to facilitate joining later.

Then continued to navigate along.

Though he took quite a few hits in between, fortunately, success was near.

This was the time after the Red Army had crossed the snowy mountains, now just waiting for the Red Army to come by.

Fang Ming was waiting in his stream for the Red Army, while also watching other streams and game forums simultaneously.

Fang Ming was watching a stream of an archives manager from the Blue side.

At this moment, the manager was revealing various secret archives from the Blue side to the Blue Star viewers in the stream.

Blue Star viewers watched excitedly, but the streamers watched enviously as this guy had gotten such a great identity—the archive manager.

Revealing things like this, there was absolutely no worry about attracting viewers.

This stream had been firmly in the top ten for almost a month, solely by revealing some information every day.

In the stream.

The streamer carefully opened a newly delivered document, ensuring the seal wasn't broken, before taking out the file.

As long as the seal is intact, with the various technologies provided by the photonic supercomputer, it can be perfectly restored, and ordinary people wouldn't be able to tell.

In the stream, the streamer Gao Bo opened the file, looked at the title and content, and told the Blue Star friends in the stream:

"This is an air force archive."

"Let's see what's written."

Saying this, Gao Bo looked at the file.

And through Gao Bo's perspective, the players in the stream saw the contents of the file, and the bullet comments surged:

[Damn! The budget approval on the Blue side is absolutely absurd!]

[Wow, it took nearly 100,000 silver dollars to drop surrender leaflets on the grassland? And it was actually approved?]

[The Red Army over there crossing the grassland, in total only bought 50,000 pounds of barley flour, allocated to each person just 5 pounds, while the Blue side's budget was 100,000 silver dollars, how many tens of thousands of pounds of barley flour could that buy.]

[No wonder they couldn't win, all the budget went on things like this.]

[Indeed, the Red Army's entire wealth only bought 50,000 pounds of barley flour to cross the grassland, while the Blue side spent 100,000 silver dollars printing surrender leaflets....]

[Suggest checking who approved this, there's definitely something shady!]

Looking at the document, Blue Star viewers directly called it absurd.

But streamer Gao Bo seemed to take it in stride, saying with a smile:

"It's normal."

"The purchasing department's archives.... simply unreadable."


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