Anti-War Game: Starting from Normandy Campaign
Chapter 42: One Plot, Two Scenes

Chapter 42: Chapter 42: One Plot, Two Scenes

The sound of explosions rose and fell across the beach.

Sand and bits of flesh blasted into the air by the explosions flew in all directions.

For a long time, it seemed.

The sound of the bombers completely faded away.

Bai Xiang, hiding under a wall, shook off the sand on his body, stood up, and looked at the beach not far away.

On the beach.

The black smoke from the explosion had not yet cleared.

The soldiers of the Anglo-French Federation, just starting to get back on their feet.

But the Imperial bombing was too intense.

Many soldiers, caught in the explosions, had limbs torn away without dying, struggling painfully.

Under the dim sky, on the beach pitted with craters.

The soldiers densely packed together.

Smoke, bodies, blood, burning oil spills, and countless wounded moaning....

Limbs strewn across the beach.

Together they formed a picture of sheer despair.

Seeing this scene, both Bai Xiang and the viewers in the live stream were silent.

It’s hard to imagine this is just a game plot.

The impact of this image is stronger than any anti-war propaganda.

Because this is war from a first-person perspective.

Watching the host’s perspective, the viewers couldn’t help but feel drawn into it.

Bai Xiang quickly snapped back, muttering:

"Damn, I wonder if this game lets you fly planes."

"If it did."

"I’d steal one and drop a couple bombs on the Imperial Capital."

"Let them taste what it’s like to be bombed."

As Bai Xiang said this, he looked to the sky, ensuring no Imperial bombers were there.

Only then did he climb over the wall.

Running towards the beach’s only port.

Because more ships had arrived there.

No time to look at the NPCs, the soldiers at the port jostled tightly, some actually pushed into the sea, while others scrambled desperately onto the ships, some even climbing ropes onboard.

Bai Xiang, controlling his character, fought desperately to squeeze onto the ship docked at the port.

The viewers in the live stream were puzzled by Bai Xiang’s actions.

[Why squeeze? So many people, wait for the next ship.]

[Host, you can resurrect, Zhao Ming said NPCs can’t.]

[Host dying also means the NPC he’s controlling dies, just die already.]

[Host, hurry up, or the ship will leave.]

But the ship here wasn’t a large warship.

The deck visibly crammed full of people.

Seeing he couldn’t squeeze in, Bai Xiang withdrew, walked to the edge of the port:

"No choice."

"The British Commonwealth probably can’t save so many of us."

"This withdrawal, only a few small ships, but there are forty thousand here."

"Will the Empire allow the Anglo-French Federation time to retreat?"

"These NPCs are desperately trying to get onboard."

"I don’t really care."

"Just means a restart from elsewhere, this game setting is so cruel."

The viewers in the live stream agreed with this statement.

[True, this really matches Mo Xiaomo’s perspective.]

[Host, edit and share the video, it might go viral.]

[Already viral, haven’t you noticed over sixty thousand viewers?]

[Wait for the heat to rise, more will come, host better not die, maybe just stay here.]

[Stay here?]

[You want the host out of the game fast? The port’s the primary bombing target, that’s why he ran far to play dead....]

In moments, the ship filled with people slowly started moving away.

The chaos at the port barely calmed down.

But Bai Xiang didn’t leave the port, instead sitting down:

"This damn plot is just too despairing."

Bai Xiang looked at the sea and beyond, where the setting sun slowly dipped, turning the distant sea red.

Everything seemed peaceful.

If you ignored the smoke, blood, and scattered corpses on the beach....

As the warship full of soldiers gradually disappeared from view.

On the beach.

A few scattered soldiers headed towards the departing ship at sea.

Ignoring the freezing sea, they walked straight into the water.

Viewers in the live stream saw this and reacted with question marks.

[What? What’s happening?]

[Are these soldiers planning to swim after the ship?]

[Where could you chase it to? That’s a warship, you’d never catch it even if you lost both arms.]

[Fishing in the sea?]

[I see there’s no supplies either.]

[Even if the Empire doesn’t strike again, they’d starve in a few days.]

Bai Xiang took a glance, silent for a moment:

"No, that’s suicide from despair."

His words fell.

The live stream went silent.

For many, "despair" wasn’t quite a concept.

But.... the NPCs were driven to suicide by despair.

Watching those soldiers disappear into the water, a suffocating visual assault hit.

This plot design.... is Zhao Ming trying to crush someone?

Here, the plot video was quickly edited and uploaded by netizens.

And it shot to the top of hot searches.

The plot scenes in Bai Xiang’s live stream contrasted vividly with Mo Xiaomo’s.

Though it’s the same plot, the perspectives of different factions are starkly divided.

In Mo Xiaomo’s stream, following the Empire’s famous generals, easily cutting through the French Federation, surrounding the Anglo-French troops at Dunkirk, viewers chatted joyfully about Guderian’s Blitzkrieg.

While Bai Xiang’s stream, from the perspective of the defeated, was only incessantly oppressive, constant air raids, bodies everywhere, blood-soaked, chaotic beach, despairing soldiers walking into the sea to commit suicide, leaving viewers speechless.

Is this really the same game, the same event occurring?

Many wanted to say something, yet didn’t know what.

One following the plot, awaiting attack.

One following the plot, despairingly retreating.

With neither plot reaching its conclusion, still streaming.

The outcome remains a topic of ongoing speculation, guessing whether the Empire would slaughter Anglo-French prisoners, or the soldiers would escape.

Discussion of these plotlines kept rising in popularity.

Polestar Game Company.

Zhao Ming was in the office, browsing the Federation Headline hot search.

[Emotion Value +3574]

[Emotion Value +4823]

[Emotion Value +2721]

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...

Debate sparked by two opposing, divided plots, continually adding to the system’s emotion values.

[Current Emotion Value: 12725187]

Accumulated to over twelve million.

These emotion values were enough to redeem the detailed material for the Battle of Kyiv and Battle of Moscow.

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