A thought flashed through my mind.
Shen Qinghan stared at the black screen.
The silence was prolonged.
Even though Shen Qinghan knew this was a game CG.
Even though Shen Qinghan thought this was just game narration.
But the Soviet soldiers, even with their bodies ablaze, continued to charge forward, bringing incredible shock to Shen Qinghan.
How could anyone achieve this?
Continuing to charge with their body set aflame?
And after the charge?
Such extreme flames, even when stopping to extinguish, would leave little chance of survival.
Yet in these circumstances.
These Soviet soldiers chose to advance.
Charging towards the Imperial army.
What drove them to have such determination, to overcome the fear of death and choose to perish with the enemy?
At this moment.
Shen Qinghan desperately wanted to understand this game, its background, everything about it.
Blue Star had never experienced a world war.
There were only local, small-scale conflicts, all kept within controlled range.
Such tragic narration.
Had never happened on Blue Star.
Or rather.
People couldn't imagine things that never happened.
Games set in a post-war world are numerous, including Zhao Ming's "Cyber Blue Star: 2077", and Emperor Penguin's copied "Ruins of the Future: 2100".
Such games might become popular due to innovation or gameplay.
Though they can become popular.
The shock they bring is nothing compared to what this game CG brought to Shen Qinghan.
Shen Qinghan took a deep breath, looked up at Zhao Ming:
"I'll give you another 30 million."
"To what extent can this game be perfected?"
"The Third Empire, Anglo-French Federation, and Soviet Union, and all other background stories need to be perfected."
At this moment, Shen Qinghan.
Desperately wanted to understand what happened in that world.
Even though it was a virtual world created by Zhao Ming, fundamentally nonexistent.
But just by this one game CG, Shen Qinghan realized.
This game will definitely shock the world.
Therefore, he was eager to have Zhao Ming delve deeper into his mind.
Zhao Ming was a bit surprised, how could a game CG be viewed like this?
Actually.
Zhao Ming didn't know that.... the tragic narrative and the will and determination of Soviet soldiers brought far more impact than Zhao Ming could imagine.
Because this would be the first time Blue Star faced the cruel reality of war, it was a shock to the soul.
Zhao Ming looked at the serious Shen Qinghan, the system panel appeared in front of him.
Looking at [Current Emotion Value: 145772].
Adding on the previous Normandy landing data exchange, these 140,000 points could indeed exchange for the complete Normandy landing data.
But looking at Shen Qinghan, it seems he's drawn by the Earth's World War II history.
Zhao Ming thought for a moment, then spoke:
"The first game instance 'Normandy Landing' is mostly completed."
"Originally, I was planning to perfect the Imperial background story next."
"But if other countries and Federation background stories need to be perfected, there's not much difference, just need multiple immersive narrative lines."
"Takes some time."
"Money isn't much needed; one million in Federation Coins into the company account will do."
"The remaining 20 million should be used for promotions, keeping the heat on the game and the company."
"Until the 'Anti-War Competition' begins."
Actually, just the computational power of the hundred million Federation Coins left in the account is enough for Zhao Ming to render the entire set of World War II history.
But rendering is one thing, while the data must still be extracted from the system.
System data exchange requires Emotion Value, without maintaining the heat, with no data exchange, the game cannot continue.
Thus, the effort must be put into promotions.
Seeing this, Shen Qinghan nodded:
"Alright."
After speaking, he picked up his phone and started to operate it.
Half a minute later.
"Done."
"I'll arrange the promotions, you don't need to worry."
"Here's 30 million Federation Coins, make the game well for me."
Ding!
Zhao Ming's phone rang with a notification sound, a message box revealed that 30 million Federation Coins were credited to the account.
Truly capable.
Zhao Ming clicked his tongue, looked at Shen Qinghan and assuredly said:
"No problem."
"I'll continue right away."
In this moment.
Zhao Ming also realized.
Shen Qinghan seemed to be shocked by the game CG.
Because when he recalled.
Such soul-stirring scenes seemed rare on Blue Star, mostly because such things never happened, and most films or games were merely imagined by Blue Star players.
Perhaps they couldn't comprehend what kind of will could drive someone to charge towards enemy troops while ablaze.
Recalling many films or games seen by the original self, in such cases where Federations or nations were conquered.
The protagonist would be forced to retreat in such circumstances.
Secretly vowing revenge, years later returning to fulfill vengeance.
Lacking any sense of national sentiment.
Given this situation.....
Zhao Ming believed he had found his direction.
If such national sentiment was not comprehensible, then he should bring this sentiment's shock to Blue Star.
Once the game's background is fully laid out.
It will surely bring countless questions to many Blue Star People.
According to Blue Star People's thinking, when a city is destroyed, you relocate the base.
Wait until development, then strike back.
Why protect it at all costs?
Moscow.
A city.
For what reason could millions of Soviet soldiers and civilians rush there, what's there anyway?
Even if their parents were there, it counts as one reason.
But not all their millions of parents could be there, right?
Perhaps Blue Star People could not understand.
What is Comrade (Davarich)?
Why, when a Soviet Union officer shouts "Comrade," everyone would prepare to face death?
The answer to all these questions.
Zhao Ming intended to incorporate them into the game narrative.
Let Blue Star players search for them themselves.
The system's database is not only amassing movie and game data.
It can also exchange for personal life data for everyone, as long as time is sufficient, the emotion value is adequate, along with the computational power of the photon supercomputer cluster.
Zhao Ming can complete and reproduce World War II entirely on Blue Star.
Ensuring every person is vivid.
This capability is unattainable for others or other games, after all, no matter how imaginative they might be, they couldn't possibly create personal life narratives for every game NPC, then have the photon supercomputer cluster compute through their life stories to manipulate the NPC's next behaviors.
But Zhao Ming can achieve this.
After sending off Shen Qinghan, Zhao Ming immediately entered a seclusion state.
While Shen Qinghan utilized all his resources.
Commenced promotion focused on Polestar Games.
Eight days till the start.... seven days.... five days.... three days....
Emperor Penguin Company.
Game Department.
Bam!
The sound of Xu Huan furiously slamming the table echoed:
"It's been trending for a week, incessantly swapping trending keywords!"
"Damn it, is it ever going to end?!"
"Just leeching, huh?!"
"Polestar Games are like damn dog skin patches!"
"F***!!!"