CHAPTER 87: CHAPTER 84 [OPERATION BARBAROSSA] UNLOCKED (3.6K)

At the time of the [Songgufeng Sniper Battle] main battlefield, it was the 112th Division, 335th Regiment, 1st Battalion, 3rd Company of the Republic Volunteer Army with over a hundred soldiers.

Therefore, when Zhao Ming created it, he only opened 150 positions, allowing 150 soldiers from the Great Xia Federation to experience the battle, just like the [Bloody Battle of Sanshuli], until they truly couldn’t continue fighting.

Then Zhao Ming would open up the Republic Volunteer Army data.

The Northern Army of the Great Xia Federation, although could unlock prerequisites by integrating elites.

But in the [Songgufeng Sniper Battle], due to the limitation on numbers, they could only go head-to-head.

When the soldiers of the Great Xia Federation enter the [Songgufeng Sniper Battle].

They will have to use a force of 150 soldiers to block over 2000 enemy troops, including the US 2nd Division and the Turkish Brigade, from escaping south down the main road at the foot of the hill towards Longyuan Village.

The [Songgufeng Sniper Battle] is a positional warfare.

Therefore, after unlocking, whether it’s elite or ordinary soldiers, all can participate following those who unlocked it, without the 14-hour forced march testing their will.

Only the 6-hour fierce battle testing combat power on the position.

Zhao Ming was curious about how long the Northern Army could hold out with similar numbers to the Republic Volunteer Army, and whether they could repel the US Army’s attack, as they are after all the special operation brigade of the Northern Army.

The [Bloody Battle of Sanshuli] is a test of ultimate will, whereas the [Songgufeng Sniper Battle] is about true combat power.

Just on this size of territory.

A 6-hour fierce battle, repelling the US Army’s massive assault five times, holding out until reinforcements arrive, the soldiers entering the [Songgufeng Sniper Battle] from the Great Xia Federation can complete the mission.

Zhao Ming glanced at the ongoing [Bloody Battle of Sanshuli] data.

The Northern Army there, holding out for another 21 hours, can complete unlocking the prerequisite of the [Songgufeng Sniper Battle].

Zhao Ming set a reminder in the database backend.

Once the Northern Army unlocks the condition and enters the [Songgufeng Sniper Battle], it sends him a notification, then he exits the game database.

Waiting for the result there, at least it will be tomorrow.

He checked the progress of all immersive story players, there are already players immersed in the story, where the Empire prepares to launch ’Operation Barbarossa’, attacking the Soviet Union in three directions.

But currently players do not know yet.

Zhao Ming pondered for a moment, then began operations in the database.

The shock of a few players activating the ’Eastern Front’ is far less than everyone experiencing the ’Eastern Front’, and this amazing blow by the Empire shouldn’t just surprise a few players who are fast in progress.

Zhao Ming added a judgment condition to the game database.

Let those fast-progressing players reduce the number of times they skip a story, and pass time a bit slower.

Let slower-progressing players skip more time when skipping a story.

In this way, after a period of time silently, all players in [immersive storyline] mode will synchronize to one point, and when most players are synchronized, the progress will be unlocked.

Allowing the immersive story of the Empire for the vast majority of players to simultaneously initiate ’Operation Barbarossa’, the emotion value then will surely be abundant.

But merely this is not enough.

Zhao Ming thought for a moment, his eyes suddenly lit up.

He then opened Federation Headline and logged into the headline account.

Soon.

A message was edited and sent:

[Polarstar Game Zhao Ming: To celebrate "World War II: Empire’s Rise" launching on other Federation platforms, the company has decided to open a celebration event.]

[Our Polestar Games official website main interface will host a story module.]

[Players just need to participate in triggering storyline within ’Earth’, or know something touching, shocking, sad, etc., after communicating with NPCs, they can upload it to the experiential storyline module on the official website, for other players to watch.]

[Every work will be voted by players, selecting the top 100 storyline videos with the most votes.]

[Once awarded, the uploading player will receive exquisite peripheral products from the ’Earth’ IP series customized by our company, even the key to hidden story~]

[ps: It’s said that many recipes from ’Earth’, dishes, can be reproduced in real life on Blue Star~]

Send!

Zhao Ming nodded with satisfaction, this will be enough.

First incentivize players with the event to communicate more with NPCs to learn and experience new gameplay, after the ’Eastern Front’ is activated....

Players from the Empire and Anglo-French Federation have nothing much to worry about.

It’s just that players currently in the Soviet Union might be in for a hard time, as familiar storylines, characters, buildings might be demolished by the Empire.

Tragic...quite tragic indeed.

Just treat it as a contribution to the subsequent storyline development to raise emotion value.

Also, the Polestar Official Website opened the [Experiential Storyline] module under Zhao Ming’s operation.

Inside, the modules are divided detailedly according to different storylines.

With [Battle], [Scenery], [Tear-jerkers], [Air combat], [Story] and more than thirty uneven-sized categories, where players can upload thrilling battle footage or odd stories heard from NPCs, or even the stunning in-game scenery.

Upload to this section after choosing a category, the uploading players of the top 100 voted works will receive customized peripherals of the ’Earth’ IP.

After Zhao Ming’s message went out.

It quickly sparked a new round of discussions, and the number of players in [immersive storyline] mode also showed a straight upward trend every day.

....

....

Ten days later.

Celestial Shark Live, game area.

A lifestyle player of "World War II: Empire’s Rise" was earnestly learning with the baker aunt in-game.

The broadcaster Xia Ling, dressed in apprentice attire, after just watching once.

In the shocked gaze of the bakery aunt.

Flawlessly completed the potato bread production process, and its shape seemed even better than hers, the bakery aunt praised in astonishment.

Meanwhile, Xia Ling just chuckled and then exited the game.

A small kitchen appeared in the live room, while Xia Ling appeared inside and began making potato bread according to the in-game steps, soon completed, sent into the oven.

The satisfied Xia Ling showed an expression of triumph, and during the gap, chatted with the water friends in the live room.

"The recipe in this game is quite absurd."

"Besides this potato bread, there’s black rye bread, carrot tea, all can reproduce the exact taste in the game."

"I also made some vodka, but it’s still brewing."

"Once it’s brewed, send it for testing, confirm there’s no problem, and then try it."

"After all, it’s the wine in the game; not sure if it’s reliable."

"But this bread is edible."

Seeing the question marks in the live stream chat, Xia Ling replied:

"Why say it’s outrageous?"

"Because many game foods directly use the flavor data from real-world foods, just with a different name."

"If you pursue the production process."

"The NPCs won’t know because they’re directly given data and flavors, without a production process."

"But this game actually has the production process for all foods."

"Though the taste is average...it’s quite novel."

"I’ll have to try the delicacies from other regions, make them all and see."

While responding to the chat, Xia Ling logged into the Polestar Official Website, logging into her account.

She uploaded the process of making potato bread in the game and in reality, and her account interface featured several other videos, although in the [Food] category, the votes weren’t high.

Currently, the foods with more votes are [Flavored Custard][French Foie Gras][Coconut Cookies] and such.

In comparison, the Soviet-style potato bread and black rye bread Xia Ling made here really don’t hold an advantage.

Meanwhile.

Also in the immersive narrative, is the Soviet side streamer Duan Yu.

He was outside a shabby wooden hut, with a fire burning, a deer leg sizzling with oil and emitting a meaty aroma over the fire.

Duan Yu was turning the deer leg roasting on the fire.

Across from the fire sat a red-faced, full-bearded old hunter, holding a knife, alternating bites of deer meat and sips of wine, already somewhat tipsy.

Duan Yu poked the fire.

He was randomly assigned the role of a village hunter, but the village had too few NPCs, and after playing several times without interest, he couldn’t aim while hunting, so he didn’t continue.

Until a few days ago, a friend pulled him in to play.

Saying there’s an event where you can upload story or narrative from the game, and the ones with high votes can receive custom rewards.

That’s when he got a bit interested, remembering the old hunter in the game village.

Previously, he heard the in-game NPCs saying that the old hunter used to be a soldier, participated in many major battles, and didn’t return until he injured his leg.

But he never talks about anything from the battlefield, and over time people began to doubt.

As someone who played the game for years, Duan Yu sensed there must be a hidden story, but wasn’t interested then, so didn’t explore it, but after returning this time, he started bringing wine to the old hunter every day.

The old hunter, when drunk, would indeed reveal some past war stories, directly attracting many viewers.

Within a few days.

The number of people in his live stream multiplied seven or eight times, all waiting to listen to the old hunter’s stories.

Now, the old hunter was already quite drunk, picked up the nearby hunting rifle, and gestured:

"Back when I was in the Battle of Tannenberg, dealing with those Imperial bastards, it was one shot, one kill...."

"Bang!"

"From over 200 meters, I just...."

Duan Yu’s mouth twitched, dodging slightly.

Almost swung the rifle muzzle onto his head, making Duan Yu quite headache-inducing; this old hunter loves to move his hands when drunk, yet the viewers want to hear the stories.

Bear with it....

The old hunter, seeing Duan Yu avoiding, couldn’t help but laugh:

"Little Olga, you lack courage!"

"Back then, I charged forward without blinking against the Imperial machine guns."

"Took out the machine gunner with one shot...."

The chat in the live stream scrolled.

[This old man seems to hate Imperial folks, maybe his leg was crippled by Imperials?]

[Definitely, according to the old hunter’s story, he probably fought in the background of World War I; otherwise, why keep calling them bastards?]

[The old hunter’s stories are quite many, but they’re scattered, with too little useful information.]

[Not too few; at least we know during World War I, the Empire and the Soviet Union clashed.]

[Charging ahead and taking out a machine gunner with one shot? He’s exaggerating, right?]

The live stream was discussing the old hunter’s story.

At this moment, a faint trembling came from the ground; the alcohol-numbed old hunter had no reaction, but Duan Yu sensed something amiss.

Earthquake?

Doesn’t seem like it.... Duan Yu got up from the fire, looked around.

Suddenly.

Duan Yu’s pupils constricted sharply.

At the end of his vision appeared one tank, two tanks, three tanks.... until countless densely packed Tank Clusters, visibly growing larger, rushing rapidly toward here.

What the hell is happening?!

Duan Yu immediately picked up the hunting rifle at his feet, looking at the drunken old hunter, urgently shouted:

"Run fast!"

This is the Soviet Union’s border area, going west further will be the Empire; these tanks are charging from the west, what else needs to be said?

The old hunter was still dazed, seeing Duan Yu’s actions, thought there was some fierce beast that scared him like this, picked up the hunting rifle and stood up laughing:

"Let me see what beast scared you like that, a tiger?"

Saying this, he turned around to look.

Only to see densely packed Tank Clusters charging toward here.

The old hunter awoke all at once, angrily exclaimed:

"Damn it?!"

"It’s those Imperial bastards! How did they get here?!"