CHAPTER 141: CHAPTER 122: PEARL HARBOR SURPRISE ATTACK, BIPOLAR CLARITY (3K)

Seeing this, Xu Jie immediately clicked in.

He began to view the livestream content marked with the name [Pearl Harbor], from different perspectives.

He quickly found a viewpoint streaming from the shore, where he could clearly see many warships at the port. This must be Japan’s key target for attack.

At this moment.

[Live from Pearl Harbor, making ice cream~] The livestream’s comment section was constantly flowing.

[Host, run quickly. Japanese planes are attacking.]

[Quick, quick, quick, find cover, you’re about to be bombed.]

[Why isn’t the host smiling? Is the ice cream not tasty?]

[Ice cream? It’ll turn into grilled meat soon.]

In the livestream, the smile on Xia Ran’s face had frozen, watching the barrage of comments flow by, he quickly pulled up the Polestar Official Website map:

"Don’t scare me."

"Let me check the map first, holy crap...."

"Are they really coming?!"

Xia Ran shot up from the lounge chair on the beach.

What the heck?!

Looking at the real-time map, it’s not just coming.

It’s pretty much here!!

Due to the game’s popularity, the Japanese surprise attack on the United States of America in-game immediately surged to the Federation Headline on Blue Star.

Many military experts were tagged by numerous netizens, entering the Polestar Official Website or various livestreams to watch the situation.

As they watched the Japanese squadron heading straight towards Pearl Harbor.

At this moment, not only Xia Ran was stunned, but also the Blue Star viewers and military experts watching the livestream.

Waging war unannounced was somewhat expected.

After all, Japan secretly gathered forces, visible clearly to Blue Star netizens due to the real-time map.

But directly attacking Pearl Harbor, the command center of the United States of America in the Pacific Ocean, the headquarters for all fleets, this is quite like the Imperial’s raid on ’London’.

Striking the vital spot, direct confrontation?!

Players on Blue Star felt strangely familiar.

The situation during the [Battle of Britain] was still fresh in memory, where the Imperial and British Commonwealth crazily attacked each other’s Capital.

That’s because the Imperial dropped bombs on London.

The enraged British Commonwealth organized flight squadrons to attack the Imperial Capital, Berlin.

Both sides went full steam ahead.

Hence, it gave birth to that rather ridiculous period of mutual targeting capital bombing.

But back then, when the conflict just started, neither side struck the vital spots immediately, they were probing each other until the Imperial’s aircraft went off course and bombed London.

And now....

Japan directly attacked the United States of America in the Pacific command center.

The United States of America must be in an uproar.

Many military experts on Blue Star, observing the in-game situation, pulled out notebooks to start taking notes and attempting analysis.

Such tactics were unimaginable to them.

What are these NPCs in ’Earth’ thinking?

Meanwhile in Xia Ran’s livestream.

Xia Ran ran towards the rear of the beach, shouting in the meantime:

"Enemy attack!"

"Quick, get cover and hide!!!"

However.

The surrounding civilians and soldiers all had a look of disbelief.

"Where’s the enemy attack coming from?"

"This little guy must be dreaming in confusion?"

"A bit of ice cream will be fine."

"Today’s ice cream making is kinda slow, when will the planes fly back?"

There wasn’t the slightest sense of urgency among the people on the beach and the soldiers.

They were even teasing the frantic Xia Ran.

Xia Ran felt dozens of people on the beach staring at him like he was crazy, cursed under his breath, and was about to shout again.

In the sky.

The roar of planes suddenly resounded, Xia Ran’s expression drastically changed.

"Darn it!!!"

Watching the trajectory on the real-time map, the deep red Japanese aircraft squadron had reached Pearl Harbor.

And surrounding citizens and soldier NPCs displayed joyous expressions:

"Is the ice cream ready?"

But soon those citizens and soldier NPCs noticed something amiss, the planes seemed to be quite numerous....

In the distant sky.

A dense array of black spots appeared, resembling a flock of birds coming at them.

As those black spots grew larger.

The civilians on the beach and soldiers on the ships saw clearly that they were planes, a soldier on a warship looked up at the sky, shook his head, and continued reading the newspaper in his hand:

"Another exercise....."

Boom——!!!

A torpedo suddenly exploded at the bottom of a warship, a giant fireball shot up to the sky.

The fluttering newspaper burned to ashes in the flames.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The unexpected scene left all the people of the United States of America stunned, including those soldiers.

Years of complacency led them to think this cluster of planes was merely an exercise, but now they were truly bombed, leaving them frozen and unable to move.

Alongside the port.

USS Arizona battleship.

The soldiers on the ship were still asleep, completely unaware of what was happening outside. They only felt the explosion disturbing them, turned over, and continued to sleep.

At this moment.

Panicked shouts suddenly erupted on the ship:

"We’ve been bombed! We’ve been bombed!"

"Run! Run!!!"

The soldiers who were trying to sleep in the dormitory were jolted awake, and without time to dress, they all rushed towards the dormitory door.

However....

It was already too late.

An aerial bomb fell freely from high altitude and struck the deck of the Arizona battleship, then penetrated one layer, two layers.... until it reached the ammunition depot at the very bottom of the battleship.

Boom——!!!!

The ammunition depot of the Arizona battleship was directly detonated, as seen from Xia Ran’s live streaming perspective.

The Arizona battleship, moored on the sea, was enveloped in flames, then visibly twisted and bent under the pressure, emitting a shrill tearing sound, the massive steel warship being forcefully twisted by the explosion.

The entire Arizona battleship then slowly sank into the sea amid the flames.

The soldiers on the deck screamed in terror, blasted several meters high by the shockwave, with no certainty of survival upon landing.

Screams filled the beach.

Xia Ran’s mind went blank, hiding in a corner of the beach, witnessing this hell on earth.

It was different from the [Battle of Britain].

At this moment, Xia Ran could clearly feel the Japanese warplanes flying over his head, almost skimming his scalp, weren’t they afraid of crashing?

This thought inexplicably flashed through Xia Ran’s mind.

Then....

Boom——!!!

It really crashed.

A Japanese warplane, hit on one wing by an anti-aircraft gun from the island, then turned and dove toward the warship docked by the shore.

Watching this scene, Xia Ran gulped:

"Does Japan have some deep hatred with the United States of America?"

"I saw that when the Empire bombed London, the Battle of Britain got that intense only at its peak?"

"Is it this ruthless right from the start?"

Xia Ran’s questions naturally received no response.

Because the viewers in Xia Ran’s live stream from Blue Star were also stunned, a scenic island one moment had turned into a hellscape the next, especially the harbor and beach filled with warships.

Under the bombing by the Japanese aircraft fleet.

One by one, the warships became engulfed in flames, spewing thick black smoke, and the beach was littered with bodies torn apart by aircraft machine guns.

Xia Ran dared not linger.

He rushed towards the airport within the island; he was a pilot, though during the live stream, he’d had almost no combat missions and nearly forgot about it.

At this moment, within the airport.

Chaos ensued, as it was the primary target of the Japanese aircraft fleet.

Many United States of America pilots rushed to the airport without even being fully dressed, ready to board their planes and begin the fight.

But with rounds of machine-gun fire and bombing.

The entire airport was rendered immediately paralyzed, to say the least, and turned into a sea of flames.

When Xia Ran reached the airport.

What met his eyes were United States of America soldiers set ablaze by the exploding plane fuel, and Xia Ran gasped, feeling overwhelmingly tragic.

Tat-tat-tat——!

Suddenly, a burst of gunfire swept from the sky, a plane swooping overhead.

Xia Ran’s body was pierced by machine-gun bullets, half his body fell to the ground, emitting a raspy sound, and his vision plunged into darkness.

In the final vision, soldiers set aflame ran wildly, accompanied by cries of despair.

Main interface.

Xia Ran still wore a dazed expression:

"Is it over just like that?"

Clearly still not snapping back to reality, the live stream viewers were equally unresponsive.

Xia Ran took a deep breath and hurriedly searched ’Pearl Harbor,’ instantly pulling up over thirty live streams.

However, without exception, these live streams.

Were all undergoing this massive bombing, and many streams’ perspectives were rapidly darkening.

Regardless of which corner of the island you were in.

Japan’s bombing was virtually indiscriminate, bombing wherever people were.

Watching as one stream after another went dark within just ten minutes, only three remained.

And these three streams only lasted a little over 20 minutes.

The images finally plunged into complete darkness.

The players from Blue Star lost all perspectives, but the final live stream roughly captured the situation at Pearl Harbor.

Everywhere was thick black smoke, the sea was covered with fuel, the ocean thus ignited, and even underwater was filled with bodies crowded together.

Players from Blue Star attempted to reopen after death, wanting to randomly spawn at Pearl Harbor.

Though a few players did spawn, they too were quickly killed.

Seeing no way to view the situation through the streams, players from Blue Star flocked to the Polestar official website to check the live map’s overhead view.

Most players still in the game weren’t aware of the events unfolding in the Pacific Ocean.

But those streaming into the Polestar official website from Blue Star witnessed an unforgettable scene, with the deep red aircraft fleet on the map retreating after bombing Pearl Harbor.

Instantly!

The pale blue neutrality of the United States of America on the map turned deep blue for the allied forces.

For a moment.

The live map showed a stark polarization.

The entire ’Earth’ became an interwoven tapestry of deep red and deep blue.

No other colors remained.

The scene left players from Blue Star breathless, feeling, though not knowing why, that this change would greatly alter the course of the war.