Anti-War Game: Starting from Normandy Campaign
Chapter 100 - 95: [Battle of the Atlantic] Begins (3k)

Chapter 100: Chapter 95: [Battle of the Atlantic] Begins (3k)

Players can team up or go solo to participate in the [Battle of Kiev (Limited Time)] story mode.

This story mode follows the timeline.

Participating players will be randomly assigned to armies from their respective camps to battle opposing enemy forces, as this mode will not affect the immersive narrative.

This has encouraged many lifestyle-oriented players to join in and experience the combat.

However, there are also those who did not participate.

For instance, in the [Challenge to Survive 100 Days in Kiev, Day 17!] live streaming room.

Duan Yu, who’s currently live streaming in Kiev, has persisted for 17 days, but his condition is not very good at the moment.

When the Imperial Army hadn’t arrived yet, he could still earn some money by shining shoes.

Now that the Imperial Army has arrived, who cares whether their leather shoes are shiny or not? It’s been several days without business, and the little money on him has long been spent.

At this moment, Duan Yu squats in the corner of the wall, sitting on his shoeshine toolbox, staring at the shop in the distance.

Snap!

The crisp sound of shattered glass resounds, the shop’s doors and windows are smashed, and several burly men, carrying large bags, crazily stuff things into the bags.

Such events have become commonplace, and there are no longer any debates in the chat room.

Scenes like this are happening everywhere.

Duan Yu shakes his head, feeling the hunger gnawing him, adjusts the settings, alleviating it considerably:

"The Imperial hasn’t breached the city yet."

"Wonder what it would be like once they do."

"Human nature, huh~"

At this moment, Duan Yu, seemingly having witnessed the evil of humanity over these days, has transformed into a grand philosopher, his pretentious attitude drawing mockery from viewers in the chat room.

Duan Yu, however, pays no mind.

The roar of bombers echoes in the sky, a formation of bombers sweeps across Kyiv’s skies, explosions erupt from all directions.

Boom——!!!

The shop roof on the diagonal corner is hit by a string of bombs, the massive explosion demolishes the building, burying the shop owner and those robbers in debris.

Duan Yu quickly finds a corner to hide and curl up.

When the roar in the sky dissipates, Duan Yu returns to his previous corner to sit, and the city before his eyes begins to spew smoke in various places.

For Duan Yu, it’s a novel experience.

Yet many viewers began recalling the [Battle of Britain] and the tragic bombings, eerily similar.

This place might become the next London.

Duan Yu adjusts the camera in the live stream room to the store ruins, once again refreshing the worldview of Blue Star players.

On the ruins, some adults and kids start cautiously approaching.

Duan Yu initially thought they were there to rescue those below until he saw a child drag out a heavily injured robber, noticing the robber seemed to be slightly breathing.

Lifting a stone, the child smashes it onto the robber’s head, killing them directly.... then adeptly plundering the items off the robber.

If even children behave like this, it’s needless to say for the others, hence the current scene.

The Blue Star viewers, stunned, watch as these NPCs in the game rummage through ruins, pulling various things off corpses.

[Are you kidding? Instead of saving, they killed them?]

[The evil of human nature....]

[Actually, can’t blame the streamer for acting like a philosopher, anyone staying here long enough would....]

[Probably an issue of education level? Mandatory education on Blue Star is widespread, it should be much better.]

[You’re overthinking, it purely depends on whether you can resist temptation, see the streamer, starve him for another three days, let’s see if he goes robbing.]

Watching the comments in the chat room, Duan Yu’s mouth twitches, but he agrees:

"Don’t talk about three days, even now I’m tempted to rob."

"Just lacking the strength."

"Although my physical body is fine in reality, the sensation simulated by this virtual cabin, when hungry to the limit truly incites such thoughts."

"Thankfully, it’s just a game, exit, and there’s no sensation."

"That’s why the streamer can guard his moral slot...."

Before finishing, Duan Yu’s neck is suddenly pressed against by a cold iron pin, a trembling male voice resonates by his ear:

"Don’t move! Stand up!"

"Hand over the box beneath your butt!"

Duan Yu is forced to stand up and turn his head.

It’s a homeless man, currently appearing excited, seemingly fearful yet expectant, eyes fixed on the box beneath Duan Yu’s butt.

This scene.

Amuses the viewers in the chat room to no end.

Though some offer comfort, as being robbed by NPCs isn’t anything new.

Duan Yu, with a helpless expression, explains:

"This is just a shoeshine box."

As soon as he speaks.

The homeless man grows agitated, the iron pin in his hand pushes closer to Duan Yu’s neck.

Duan Yu hurriedly complies:

"Alright, alright, alright."

"Take it, I won’t move."

He then slowly retreats.

The homeless man’s eyes gleam, exceedingly excited, taking Duan Yu’s shoeshine toolbox and starts running, turning back every few steps, his face beaming with exhilaration.

Seeing this, Duan Yu can’t help but say:

"Brothers, I seem to have made a mistake...."

If I had just scared this vagrant a little or resisted, he might have simply run away.

But now, looking at his expression, it’s clear that he has become excited after successfully committing the robbery.

Indeed.

The vagrant had just reached a corner when he spotted a new target.

He excitedly waved the iron rod in his hand....

The chaos brought on by war was playing out in many livestreams, as the European Battlefield entered a tense phase. The heavy consequences of the war made it difficult for many to continue watching the stream.

However, some lifestyle streamers were fortunate enough to explore the world and backdrop of ’Earth’ from different angles.

The livestream viewership for the [North African Battlefield] was quite low.

Scattered amongst only two or three hundred streams.

Several Allies’ streamers were live streaming from ’Tobruk’.

Compared to the relatively better environment in Europe, Tobruk, located on the African continent, naturally faced the biggest problem like other African cities.

Water scarcity.

And not just a lack of water, more deadly was the ’Rommel’ of the Imperial Army, whose armored forces blocked all exits of the city.

The siege had already lasted for over two months.

An Allied streamer from this camp was gnawing on a hard biscuit, only able to eat such food that requires water to swallow in an already water-scarce situation.

On the other side, a streamer from the Imperial Camp, under Rommel’s order,

was in a cool room, operating machines to print flyers that were going to be airdropped into the city, with Rommel’s words printed on them:

"Your graves have been dug in Egypt."

The continuous two-month-long dropping of these flyers was a serious blow to the Allies, and many players realized that this was the so-called psychological warfare from the [Tactical Library].

Yet, there was no good solution.

It was impossible to break through, and the Allied reinforcements seemed far off in the distance; they could only hold out and be besieged in this sandstorm-swept land.

The Imperial Army was not only rampaging through the [European Battlefield] but also dominating the [North African Battlefield], and just at this moment... The ’Earth’s’ Atlantic Ocean.

Night.

On the Atlantic Ocean.

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

On the largest cargo ship, the streamer-turned-merchant Song Yang was imitating other British Commonwealth merchants, holding a high-footed glass as he stood among the crowd, watching them gather around a map to discuss.

The viewers in the live stream also held their breath, listening to their analysis.

The lead British captain pointed at an island on the map, drawing an arc:

"Last week a convoy encountered the Imperial ’wolf pack’ south of Iceland."

"Three tankers were torn in half by torpedoes, the Empire now doesn’t recognize even the flags of neutral countries and destroys all non-Imperial merchant ships."

"It’s becoming harder and harder to do business; I’m planning to retire after this trip."

The blond captain next to him laughed and said:

"Don’t worry, brother, take a look at this."

He raised the newspaper in his hand:

"Washington has already loosened up, the United States of America is preparing to expand the scope of the ’Lend-Lease Act’."

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

A bearded captain sneered:

"Then you’d better pray that in this month, those steel whales of the Empire won’t run into us."

"Otherwise, they’ll surely be torn to shreds by Dönitz’s wolf pack."

Upon hearing this, everyone fell silent for a moment, the first British captain smoked his cigar twice, his tone somewhat heavy:

"These Imperial guys are really something to contend with."

"On the Soviet side, I hear Kyiv has already been encircled; that’s the third-largest city of the Soviet Union, next up is Moscow."

Song Yang held his high-footed glass, swirling the red wine inside, listening to these captains talk about this and that, discussing world affairs in silence.

But the viewers in the stream, on the other hand, perked up.

[These NPCs are good, they could be commentators.]

[They’re still merchants after all, not like the NPCs on land, who know nothing when you ask them.]

[Haha, is it because you haven’t been to a big city? The NPCs in big cities do know a thing or two.]

[They have quite the sources, even knowing that Kyiv is about to fall.]

[But what are the ’Lend-Lease Act’ and ’Dönitz’s wolf pack’?]

[’Wolf Pack Tactics’??? I remember Mo Xiaomo seemed to have brought up that card during a live broadcast.]

[Ripping apart tankers? That’s a bit terrifying.]

Song Yang didn’t pay attention to the chat, just silently started recording, watching these guys discussing left and right, preparing to edit it into a video corresponding to the ’real-time map’ and upload it later.

This kind of supplemental storyline to world background would surely become a hit.

Suddenly.

A piercing alarm spread across the entire convoy, a hurried voice came through the speakers:

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

Boom——!

A huge explosion came from outside, fire illuminated the night sky, penetrating through the glass and into everyone’s eyes.

The scene before Song Yang gradually brightened with big letters.

[Battle of the Atlantic]

The Polestar Official Website’s real-time map quietly lit up a new area.

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