Ch. 12 - Giving the People of Blue Star a Little Earth Shock
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This thought flashed through her mind. Shen Qinghan stared at the black screen in long silence.
Even though Shen Qinghan knew this was a game CG, even though she considered that this was just a game storyline, those Soviet soldiers who didn't stop charging even when their entire bodies were set ablaze with gasoline still brought Shen Qinghan tremendous shock.
How could anyone possibly reach such extremes? Continuing to charge while their whole body was ignited with gasoline? And what happened after the charge? With flames of that intensity, even if they stopped to put out the fire, there wouldn't be much chance of survival.
But in such circumstances, these Soviet soldiers actually chose to charge, rushing toward the Empire's army. What gave them such determination? What allowed them to overcome their fear of death and choose mutual destruction with the enemy?
At this moment, Shen Qinghan desperately wanted to understand this game, its background, and everything else about this game. Blue Star had never experienced world wars—only localized small-scale conflicts, which were also kept within control.
Such tragic and heroic storylines had never appeared in Blue Star. Or rather, people couldn't imagine that such things could happen. There were quite a few post-war world games similar to this, including Zhao Ming's “Cyber Blue Star: 2077” and Emperor Penguin's plagiarized “Wasteland Future: 2100”—these were all games of the post-war world type.
Such games might become popular due to innovation or gameplay, but the shock they brought was nowhere near as deep as the shock this single game CG brought to Shen Qinghan.
Shen Qinghan took a deep breath and looked up at Zhao Ming. "I'll give you another thirty million. To what extent can this game be perfected? The Third Reich, Anglo-French Federation, Soviet Federation, and all the other background stories must be perfected."
At this moment, Shen Qinghan desperately wanted to understand what had happened in that world. Even though it was a virtual world created by Zhao Ming that didn't actually exist, just from this one game CG, Shen Qinghan knew this game would absolutely shock the world. That's why she was so eager for Zhao Ming to bring out more of what was in his mind.
Zhao Ming was somewhat surprised. How could one game CG have such an effect? Actually, what Zhao Ming didn't know was that the impact of such tragic and heroic storylines and the Soviet soldiers' will and determination would be far greater than Zhao Ming imagined.That was because this would be Blue Star's first direct confrontation with the brutality of war, a shock to the soul.
Zhao Ming looked at Shen Qinghan's serious expression, and the system panel appeared before his eyes.
[Current Emotion Points: 145,772]
Looking at his current Emotion Points, adding the previously exchanged Normandy Landing data, these 140,000 points could indeed exchange the complete material of the “Normandy Landing.”
However, looking at Shen Qinghan's reaction, she seemed to be attracted by Earth's World War II history. Zhao Ming thought for a moment and said, "The first game instance ‘Normandy Landing’ is basically complete. Originally, I was planning to perfect the Empire's background story next. But if we're perfecting the background stories of other countries and federations, it's not much different—I just need to create several more immersive storyline paths. It's a bit time-consuming.
The money won't need that much though. Transfer ten million Federation coins to the company account. Use the remaining twenty million for promotion and marketing to maintain the game and company's buzz. Keep it up until the [Anti-War Competition] begins."
Actually, just the remaining million-plus Federation coins of computing power in the account would be enough for Zhao Ming to render the entire World War II history. However, rendering was one thing—the data still had to come from the system. The system required Emotion Points to exchange data. Without maintaining buzz, there would be no data to exchange, and the game couldn't continue development. So he could only work hard on promotion and marketing.
Shen Qinghan nodded. "Alright." After speaking, she picked up her phone and began operating it.
Half a minute later, she said, "Done. I'll arrange for the promotion and marketing. You don't need to worry about that. Use these thirty million Federation coins to make a good game."
Ding! Zhao Ming's phone chimed with a notification indicating that about thirty million Federation coins were deposited into his account. She really had the resources. Zhao Ming was amazed, looking at Shen Qinghan and guaranteed to her, "No problem. I'll continue working on it right away."
By now, Zhao Ming had figured it out. Shen Qinghan must have been shocked by the game CG. Because when he thought about it, there weren't many scenes on Blue Star that struck the soul so directly—mainly because such things had never happened, and most movies or games were only imagined by Blue Star players.
The people here perhaps couldn't imagine what kind of will would make someone charge toward enemy forces while burning with flames. According to Zhao Ming's memories, in many movies or games the original had seen, when federations or countries were overrun, the protagonists were forced to evacuate in such situations. They would secretly swear revenge and return years later for vengeance—typical revenge power fantasy stories. There was no such patriotic sentiment at all.
If that was the case, Zhao Ming thought he had found his direction. If they couldn't understand such patriotic sentiment, then he would bring Blue Star the shock of such patriotic sentiment.
Once the game background was fully expanded, it would definitely bring countless questions to many Blue Star people. According to Blue Star thinking, if a city was destroyed, you'd just relocate your position. Wait until you develop enough strength, then fight your way back. Why sacrifice everything to defend that place?
Moscow. One city. What made it worth the lives of millions of Soviet soldiers and civilians charging toward it in successive waves? What was there? Even if their parents were there, that would be one reason. But surely not all those millions of people had their parents there?
Perhaps Blue Star people couldn't understand—what was Tovarisch (Comrade)? Why, when Soviet Federation officers shouted "Tovarisch (Comrade)," would everyone prepare to go towards their death?
The answers to all this, Zhao Ming planned to put in the game storyline. Let Blue Star players search for them themselves. The system's database didn't just have movie and game data—it could also exchange biographical data for every person. As long as there was enough time and enough Emotion Points, combined with the photon supercomputing cluster's computing power, Zhao Ming could completely recreate World War II on Blue Star.
He could guarantee that every person would be vivid and lifelike. This was something other people and other games couldn't achieve. After all, no matter how creative their imagination, they couldn't possibly create biographical data for every game NPC, then have the photon supercomputing cluster calculate and control NPC behavior based on their life histories. But Zhao Ming could do it.
After seeing Shen Qinghan off, who began to mobilize all her resources to promote Polar Star Games Company, Zhao Ming directly entered seclusion mode.
Eight days before the start of the competition... seven days... five days... three days...
Emperor Penguin Company, Games Department.
Bang!
Xu Huan's furious desk-pounding sound rang out.
"They've been dominating trending topics for a whole damn week, changing trending keywords every day! Damn it, is there no end to this?! Just leeching off publicity?! This Polar Star Games is like a damn stubborn pest! Crap!!!"