Anti-War Game: Starting from Normandy Campaign
Chapter 35: Where is the headquarters of Polestar Game Company?

Chapter 35: Chapter 35: Where is the headquarters of Polestar Game Company?

Hearing this.

Lu Ran only felt his scalp tingling, forcing himself to calm down:

"Their... father?"

The tavern owner seemed a bit surprised:

"Hmm?"

"You don’t know?"

"Oh, that’s right, you’re from out of town."

"Not knowing is normal."

"Those two troublesome boys’ father was a veteran of World War I."

"But shortly after returning home when the war ended, Ivanov went to the border to defend the motherland, and soon the news of his death in battle came."

"At that time, Alexander was just conceived by Mrs. Ivanova."

"It was really not easy."

"Managing Dimitry, who was three years old, while being pregnant with Alexander, and running Ivanov’s leftover grocery store."

"Barely making ends meet."

"She worked hard to raise those two little guys."

"At the beginning of the year, Mrs. Ivanova even wanted to use her savings to find wives for the two rascals, but who would have thought that they enlisted in the military without a word."

"In the blink of an eye, it’s been over three months already."

"Time really flies."

Lu Ran was already numb.

A father dying in defense of the motherland.

Twenty years.

A single mother raising two children to adulthood.

Enlisted for three months.

Yet under his control, they all died in less than two hours.

Lu Ran realized.

He didn’t know how to face an npc.

Excusing himself from the tavern owner.

Lu Ran hurriedly ran out, past the town.

He stopped in an uninhabited corner, took out the two death notices.

"Brothers, what should I do?"

This complete experience felt as if the NPCs he played had truly existed.

Now he had to personally deliver the death notices to their mother...

But it’s just a game.

Earth is fictional, not real at all.

The concept of World War II is fictional, merely part of Polestar Game Company’s storyline.

What is he afraid of?

Lu Ran gathered his courage, intending to walk into town and hand the letters to Mrs. Ivanova.

But although he stood, he couldn’t move his feet.

The livestream audience was also silent.

[Ah, this... maybe log out, honestly, it’s too heartbreaking.]

[I don’t dare imagine how a mother would collapse upon receiving such a letter.]

[No wonder this game participates in the "Anti-War Competition," this storyline...]

[Anyone who looks forward to war is an idiot, war only makes mothers lose their children.]

[A mother’s twenty-year effort, and these kids lived just half an hour in the streamer’s hands, you’re really something else, streamer.]

[Not delivering? Not advancing the plot?]

[Maybe the streamer should commit suicide, start a new game.]

[Could it be that this NPC also has parents, or even the new game’s NPCs have parents?]

[Didn’t the Polestar Game Company boss say each NPC is independent, possibly having a story, if the streamer commits suicide now, how sad would this NPC’s parents be.]

[So there’s no solution???]

As Lu Ran looked at the comments, his heart was conflicted, finally gritting his teeth:

"It’s just a storyline, just a storyline."

"I’ll deliver it!"

[66666, well done, streamer, you’re indeed something else.]

[Stop with the sarcasm, what can one do with such a storyline?]

[I’m logging off first, I really don’t want to see a mother cry.]

[Streamer, if I were you, I wouldn’t be able to sleep.]

[Who the hell could sleep?!]

Lu Ran took a deep breath and headed toward the town.

It’s just a plot!

A moment later, in the post office.

Lu Ran still hadn’t mustered the courage to deliver them.

He eventually returned to the post office and handed the letters back to Director Ogle.

Director Ogle didn’t say anything, just took the letters and walked out....

Lu Ran stood dazed inside the post office, clueless.

Clang!

A sound of something dropping came from outside, not loud, but it startled Lu Ran out of his daze.

Lu Ran snapped back to consciousness, biting his teeth, walked to the door to look out.

In the distance.

Director Ogle had already reached the grocery store and was saying something to Mrs. Ivanova, handing over the two death notices.

The basin in Ivanova’s hands had already fallen to the ground, and she shakily reached out to take the death notices.

Upon seeing this scene.

Lu Ran closed his eyes, refusing to watch further.

Turning, he went back inside and sat down on a chair, dreading the next part of the plot.

A moment later.

Creak—

The post office door opened, and in walked the heavy-hearted bushy-bearded uncle, Director Ogle.

Lu Ran quickly stood up, unsure of what to say:

"Director, Mrs. Ivanova...."

Noticing Lu Ran’s distressed face, Ogle said nothing:

"Don’t worry."

"Mrs. Ivanova is strong; her sons died for the motherland."

"She is very proud."

"She even asked if the letters mentioned her sons’ heroic deeds."

These calm words only further confused Lu Ran, especially Ogle’s last comment about Ivanova asking if her sons were mentioned as heroes.

Leaving Lu Ran and the stream chat in a silent daze.

Then Ogle comforted Lu Ran:

"Keep your spirits up, Andrei."

"This kind of thing...."

"You get used to it."

"When I was young, I faced far worse than this."

Lu Ran didn’t know what to say, managing to speak dryly:

"It happened before too?"

Ogle fell silent for a moment, then spoke:

"That was over twenty years ago, during the world war."

"Back then, I had just joined the post office, becoming a mailman."

"But.... that time."

"I delivered 217 death notices."

"...."

The empty space fell a bit quieter, sinking into a long silence.

Ogle cursed:

"Damn this war."

Then he patted Lu Ran’s shoulder and turned to enter the director’s office.

Leaving Lu Ran sitting there for a long time, only then coming back to his senses:

"Damn it! This damn war!!!"

Lu Ran sat dejectedly in the chair.

The livestream audience was silent too.

This was clearly just a game’s storyline, but why was it so painful?

Damn war....

——

Night had already fallen over the Federation.

But the story in Lu Ran’s livestream had been edited and posted online by viewers.

The video showed Lu Ran, carelessly controlling an npc to charge.

Dying once and restarting the game, dying again and restarting, with no pressure.

Until the role changed to that of a mailman.

He had to deliver death notices for a mother’s two sons, while the deaths he didn’t care about were the entire lives of NPCs.

A father fallen in war, a single mother.

Harshly pulling her children to adulthood over twenty years, and they lived only three months on the battlefield, ending their lives in half an hour by the streamer, leaving the mother silently asking about heroism, shocking the viewers who watched the video.

Because there hadn’t been a war in recent centuries.

Understanding of war could only come through films, novels, games, but these works were often glamorized, not comparable to the impact of "World War II."

No one realized why the impact was so strong.

It was because this was a real war that happened in another world.... one of the cruelest.

And now, facing directly, a mother who lost her children in war.

It had already drawn many into silence.

Though it was already past midnight.

The trending topics kept changing.

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#Your thoughtlessness is an NPC’s entire life.#

#Where is the Polestar Game Company headquarters?#

#What does Polestar Game boss Zhao Ming look like?#

#Zhao Ming, are you asleep?#

#Zhao Ming, how can you sleep?#

#Zhao Ming has no heart!#

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