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Chapter 147 [The Annals of China] Full CG (6.5k words, two files combined, please vote with monthly tickets!)

For the Chinese history series, Zhao Ming plans to start with the history that Earth also lacks.

Because after that meteor shower, most of the classic landmarks and buildings were destroyed. Like war, Earth also lacks history.

To this end, Zhao Ming searched online for the few remaining historical artifacts on Earth.

Although some are exquisitely beautiful, when you examine their history and the reasons behind them, you know nothing.

All I know is when it was discovered and where it was found by chance.

Without historical anecdotes, few people would bother to pursue history; after all, there needs to be a reason to delve into it.

Zhao Ming also discovered this during this period.

The reason why Earth is so obsessed with entertainment is because it lacks a solid foundation.

Because of the lack of war, many people are inciting war fever.

If they lack history, they need to be guided to delve into it.

Although Earth's history is inaccessible to humankind, the various figures and stories within Earth's history can certainly have a unique and impactful effect on them.

This is also the main reason why Zhao Ming is preparing to release the "Chinese History Series".

The secondary reason is that the Battle of Kharkov was a fleeting victory for the Empire on the Eastern Front, and the tide of battle would gradually turn in the Battle of Kursk a few months later.

By then, everyone knew the empire would fall.

Launching the "Chinese History Series" at this time is a good way to attract new players.

After finishing his conversation with Shen Qinghan, Zhao Ming returned to the company.

Regarding the "Chinese History Series," Zhao Ming selected some top streamers in the gaming section of the Tiansha live streaming platform and sent them early access invitations.

Depending on their chosen identity, they will be randomly transported to any point in the storyline, from the ancient era in the CG to the modern era, where the war will begin.

This is also a privilege exclusively for these early adopters of the test.

When the game is finally released, it will still have to be released little by little in historical order.

soon.

The streamers who received invitations to experience the Polaris "Chinese History Series" game early started showing off their skills.

These streamers posted photos of their invitations on their accounts, indicating that they would definitely be live on time.

The online discussion remains heated.

Because the Polaris official website's "Chinese History Series" database has been updated recently, the introductions of many famous people and generals, just like the World War II "Hall of Fame," have attracted players to want to learn about their stories.

Furthermore, the number of figures in the "Chinese History Series" far exceeds that in the "Hall of Fame".

Even if you treat it as a novel, you'll have to read it for a while.

Therefore, many players on Earth are looking forward to the upcoming "Chinese History Series" game.

Five days later.

The day of the early access to the 【Chinese History Series】game.

TianSha Live Streaming Platform, Gaming Section.

Duan Yu's live stream room.

As a streamer who has become popular because of the game 'PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds', Duan Yu has also opened up a new track, regardless of what battlefields are available in 'World War II: Rise of Empires'.

Netizens on Blue Star often take a break to watch Duan Yu's live stream, which keeps his live stream very popular.

As for why.
Of course, we need to see if he's dead or not.

This time, Duan Yu also received an invitation from Polaris Company. At this time, the game screen was turned off, and the game icon with the words "China" on it appeared on the screen of the live broadcast room.

I'm just waiting for the game to launch so I can jump in and experience it immersively.

Seeing the questions from some viewers in the live stream, Duan Yu explained:
"Polarstar has paused the storyline for 'World War II: Rise of Empires' for me."

"Otherwise, I wouldn't have come out to experience it."

"After all, Leningrad can't do without people."

"It's just that I can finally relax a bit."

"I heard this game has thousands of identities, which one do you all think I should choose?"

This question should have been avoided, because once it was asked, the live stream chat instantly went wild:
[A beggar! A beggar! He must be a beggar!!!]

That's right! Begging in Chinese history—it's fascinating just to think about!

[Hahaha, let's see if we can survive in ancient China!]

There's no room for negotiation with beggars! We mustn't forget our roots!

[Beggar! Beggar! Hahahaha!]

Seeing the barrage of comments in the live stream, the word "beggar" flooded the screen, and Duan Yu almost couldn't catch his breath, unable to help but grimace.
"no?"

"What do you mean by 'never forget your roots'?!"

"How did I become a professional beggar?!"

"Besides, I wasn't a beggar in Leningrad! I survived entirely on my own merits, so how could I be considered a beggar?!"

"Isn't it great to finally have this opportunity to experience life as a king or general?!"

however.

Regardless of what Duan Yu said, the number of netizens in the live stream who started to jeer only increased.

Seeing that he had shot himself in the foot, Duan Yu was helpless. He shouldn't have asked that question!

"Alright, alright, beggar, beggar, okay?"

"I don't believe I honed my wilderness survival skills in Leningrad."

"How could someone not survive in ancient China?!"

After making a complaint, Duan Yu checked the time.

With a few minutes left before the game opens, returning to Tiansha's game section, the top twenty or thirty popular streamers all had their live streams filled with expressions of waiting, clearly anticipating the game's start.

Duan Yu suddenly remembered something and returned to his own live stream:

"correct."

"I haven't seen the second half of the CG from the previous press conference's 'Chinese History Series' yet."

When the press conference started, Duan Yu encountered the carpenter's son in the game and chose to rescue him. After the rescue, he looked at the scene again.

The press conference has now reached the point where the CG trailer for "Chernobyl" is playing.

The press conference ended there. Duan Yu hadn't had time to watch it because the game required him to be present, but now he finally got to watch the CG.

Duan Yu entered the official website of Polaris and clicked on the [Chinese History Series].

Looking at the CG video frame.

Duan Yu clicked on it.

The video slowly lights up, revealing a cave.

At the base of the drooping stalagmite tip, water droplets are slowly forming.

Tick!
Water droplets fell onto the water's surface, and the sound echoed through the cave.

The devastating floods swept across the entire world.

woo-

The sound of horns rang out, and the scene appeared on a high platform.

The back view of a man in a black and gold dragon robe appears in the picture. He is on a high platform, with countless soldiers in full armor below him.

Then we went up to the high platform of Julu.

The Taoist-robed man raised his nine-section staff high, pointing it towards the gray sky, and looked down at the hundreds of thousands of believers wearing yellow turbans below the stage. His voice boomed like thunder:
"The blue sky is dead, the yellow sky shall rise! In the year of Jiazi, the world will be blessed with good fortune!"

These were all things Duan Yu was familiar with before, and watching them again now was still captivating. There were also many new viewers in the live stream who became engrossed in the show on their first viewing.

soon.

The dynasty in the picture was affected by the shout of the Taoist man.

It has become a broken jigsaw puzzle.

The year 184 AD appears at this time.

Subsequently, colored blocks representing various forces were densely distributed throughout the former complete territory of this dynasty.

Screen switching.

Under the cover of night, countless elite soldiers, dressed in black and bound with straw, gags in their mouths and cloth wrapped around their hooves, launched a night raid on a certain location. Until the leader gave the order, hundreds of rockets were launched simultaneously, flying towards the distant granary like falling meteors.

The fire in the granary spread rapidly, turning half the night sky red.

The flames surged, and countless soldiers who tried to save the granary were engulfed by the fire.

On a distant mountain peak, a man seven feet tall, with narrow eyes and a long beard, wearing black armor, wore a cold smile with a hint of mockery.

The screen switches to the map.

The chaotic north was quickly unified under the gradual encroachment of the black forces.

The viewpoint flies downwards.

They landed somewhere in the southeast, where naval warships were constantly being built. A figure slowly walked up to a high platform, but the figure kept changing, from middle-aged to young, until a teenager stepped onto the platform and turned around.

The phantom images of a middle-aged man and a young man stood behind the boy, gazing together at the warships on the Yangtze River.

Three generations of management have brought them dominance in the southeast.

The bottom right corner of the map has been integrated into a separate faction color block.

The camera then quickly pans to the left.

A red force is rising in the southwest. Figures flash by: some with red faces and long beards, some with swallow-like jaws and tiger-like beards, some in white robes and silver armor, some with white hair and beards, and some with faces as white as jade.

till the end.

A man with arms that reached past his knees stood on a high platform, holding a long sword.

Looking down at the countless soldiers below, he raised his sword and swung it northward.

The camera zooms out, showing the army rushing into the distance like a torrent.

After chaos comes unity.

The ranges of the three different colored power blocks wax and wane over time.

The image slowly appeared
228 AD

With the banner of "recovering the Central Plains" raised high, an army of 30,000 marched out of Hanzhong.

Winter of 228 AD

Heavy snow blocked the mountain passes, and the siege ladders and battering rams were trapped in the fortified city.

229 AD

They launched a surprise attack with a detachment, capturing two counties before returning.

231 AD

The Shu army moved swiftly like the wind, but the enemy army remained entrenched and refused to fight.

234 AD

On the south bank of the Wei River, they stood in a stalemate for a hundred days.

night.

Outside the military tent, the autumn wind swept through the camp, carrying withered leaves.

Inside the military tent, the lamplight was dim, and an elderly man with graying temples and high cheekbones, wearing a crane cloak, was writing furiously at his desk.

Sudden.

A shooting star streaked across the sky outside the tent.

The old man, who was writing furiously at his desk, suddenly looked up at the shooting star streaking across the window. His whole body trembled, as if he had a premonition of something.

The image flows within the frame.

Under the setting sun, the old man, draped in a crane-feather cloak, had exhausted his lamp oil and was gazing northward.

Behind him, the banner proclaiming "Reclaim the Central Plains" fluttered in the wind, but the feather fan in the old man's crane cloak slowly stopped and fell to the ground.

Oh, vast heavens, how cruelly have you treated me?

The wind stopped.

The banners that had been waving behind him proclaiming "Reclaim the Central Plains" stopped, seemingly mourning the passing of the old man.

Looking at the banner that had stopped in the wind, with the four large characters "Recover the Central Plains" on it.

Duan Yu and the Blue Star viewers in the live stream who had only recently started playing Polaris Games were inexplicably shocked. From the chaos of 184 AD to the present year 234, a full fifty years had passed.

This nation, for the sake of unity.

They fought for a full fifty years.

Are they really a nation that thrives on war?

however.

The scene continues.

As time passed [in 263 AD], the red territory in the southwest was swallowed up by the black territory in the north, and then [in 266 AD], the color of the northern territory on the map suddenly changed.

It was as if the world had changed overnight.

What followed was a series of wars, until around 280 AD when the forces in the southeast were nearly wiped out.

Thus, the world was unified.

Ninety-six years had passed since that cry of "Heaven is dead."

They fought for a full 96 years.

The Central Plains were finally unified.

Duan Yu and some other novice Blue Star netizens finally felt a little relieved.

However, before they could even catch their breath...

New enemies emerged. Various northern nomadic forces and barbarians began to appear in the north of this unified dynasty, and the entire Central Plains was rapidly divided up. The dynasty collapsed in the blink of an eye.

It felt like we had returned to that chaotic era, only this time the enemy was the barbarians.

on the screen.

The barbarian warriors on horseback, whipping and driving away countless civilians, and the fire under the large pot in the distance, along with not only branches and clothes, but also corpses. The barbaric scene shocked the hearts of netizens on Earth.

Especially Duan Yu.

Having survived in Leningrad for over three hundred days, Duan Yu thought he had seen all the dangers in the world.

However, this is a barbaric scene.

It had an even greater impact on him than Leningrad.

The people of Leningrad acted that way only after they had gone mad, while these Hu people in the video started laughing and were fully conscious; did they know what they were doing?!

Looking at the ferocious smiles of those Hu people in the video, a chill ran down Duan Yu's spine.

It seems that ancient times weren't all idyllic.
Massacres raged across this land, exposing the vulnerability of this weakened people. If they did not rise up this time, this nation, which has existed since the time of the Great Flood, might be completely wiped out.

The picture flows.

A notice in the city was not held firmly by a soldier and flew into the sky. The words "Kill the Hu" could be vaguely seen. Then, beacon fires and smoke rose everywhere.

The nation's counterattack has begun.

The dark black, dark purple, and dark blue Hu people, representing their power, began to be driven out of the Central Plains, while the red and yellow Hu people, representing the orthodox Central Plains, became independent.

Then they started fighting again.

This scene left Duan Yu dumbfounded:

"What the hell?!"

"Isn't it???"

They had just driven out the outsiders when internal strife broke out again.

The novice Blue Star players in the live stream were also dumbfounded, never expecting that this nation would be so awesome!

Unification seems to be an obsession.

They fought all the way to the Central Plains, until only one color of faction remained.

The massive project began.

The virtual map appeared, showing excavated canals, constructed palaces, repaired roads, the Great Wall, granaries, and dragon boats. These massive projects made netizens on Earth feel as if they had seen this scene somewhere before.
It seems to be the imperial dynasty of that black and gold dragon robe?

Then next
Netizens on Blue Star have vaguely guessed it.

really.

As these massive projects unfolded, rebellions broke out across the land, and this once unified empire quickly disintegrated into various factions.

This made netizens on Earth's scalp tingle.

However, some netizens have calculated it using photon supercomputing based on the map and markings.

These ancient people were far too imaginative.

The Grand Canal is approximately 2700 kilometers long, the Luoyang Palace renovation area is about 58 square kilometers, and the Great Wall renovation, based on its length and progress, involved the mobilization of no less than a million people and the deployment of tens of thousands of dragon boats.

[This amount of work would take many years even on Earth with all-mechanical equipment.]

In ancient times, if these projects were undertaken by people alone, the number of people who would die from exhaustion would likely be in the millions.

Looking at this netizen's comment.

Many people in the live stream nodded in agreement; indeed, this was no longer just a few hundred meters or a few thousand meters.

This was excavated over thousands of kilometers using only human labor.

The 58 square kilometers of Luoyang Palace may not seem like much, but the only remaining ruins of the Summer Palace (Forbidden City) on Earth are only 0.72 square kilometers.

in other words.

The area of ​​the palace that was repaired is equivalent to the size of 78 Summer Palaces (Forbidden City) ruins.

In ancient times, there were no machines; everything was done by human labor.
hiss--

With the collapse of this dynasty, the chaotic forces of the world rapidly devoured each other until they were completely occupied by the golden forces, which continued to expand outwards.

Screen switching.

Several large characters slowly appeared.

Taiji Hall

A majestic man, dressed in a bright yellow and gilded dragon robe, with a nine-ringed jade belt and dragon-patterned pendant, wearing an imperial crown and a twelve-tasseled white jade beaded curtain that half-conceals his face, sat on the dragon throne, with his ministers standing below him.

Various people dressed in different styles of clothing appeared in the center of the main hall, and the leader stepped forward:
"The might of the Tang Dynasty extends to all corners of the world, its glory shining throughout history."

"We, the twenty-nine kingdoms including Gaochang, Shule, and Kangguo, have agreed to bestow upon His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Tang a title, which shall be [title missing]."

Leading envoys from other countries, they sincerely bowed to the man in the dragon robe above, kowtowing deeply:

"Heavenly Khan!!!"

The sound echoed in the hall, and the netizens on Earth who were watching this scene couldn't help but hold their breath. This was the scene of their dreams. Although the man in the scene was not themselves, it did not stop them from fantasizing.

I felt a surge of excitement.

The scene then shifts, showing how this powerful, golden dynasty expands outwards while also being eroded by its influence.

However, it has always maintained an overbearing stance.

However, it seems that a comparison can be found for the end of this dynasty: a severe drought in Guandong, rampant taxation, widespread poverty and rebellion, just like the end of the Han Dynasty.

This time, however, the people no longer cried out that the heavens were dead and that a new heaven should rise.

Instead, it is about "heaven making up for the deficiencies and equalizing wealth."

This was no longer a rebellion against the sanctity of the dynasty, but a rebellion against the class system of the entire ancient society.

875 AD

Wang Xianzhi took the lead in the uprising with the slogan of "Heaven will make amends for equality".

Even if it were as easily extinguished as the Han Dynasty, the resulting chaos would continue, with various factions entangled and fighting across the Central Plains.

10 years. 20 years. 30 years.
By the year 960 AD, only one color of territory remained on this Central Plains land.

It's just much smaller than previous dynasties.

But in the end, they were unified, and this time it didn't take as long as 96 years. From the uprising to the chaos, and then to the unification, it took 85 years this time.

It seems like this land is forever in a cycle.

Unity, division, external enemies.

Now, after 85 years of division, and finally unified, foreign enemies have emerged during the duration of this dynasty.

There are constant invasions from other places.

Inside the live stream, Duan Yu and some newbie netizens were completely engrossed in watching the game's cutscenes.

Watching the unified dynasty in the CG being destroyed by a foreign race once again.

Then came the same period of widespread suffering. This time, the Han people were relegated to the status of inferiors, while the nomadic barbarians, riding horses, held the power of life and death. Could they survive this time?
The idea popped into Duan Yu's mind.

The scene suddenly switched.

As before, the people of this nation once again rose to their feet, accompanied by a triumphant shout:
"Expel the barbarians and restore China!"

The once mighty dynasty crumbled, with various factions vying for power and different colored blocs rapidly swallowing each other up.

Until the image showed "1368 AD".

On Purple Mountain, banners obscured the sun.

A figure dressed in a bright yellow dragon robe, wearing red shoes with cloud patterns and a winged crown, slowly ascended to the mountain peak.

The soldiers below, clad in iron armor and wielding spears, stood silently, their 100,000 troops, each a fierce and powerful general, gazing at the man in the dragon robe above.

Accompanied by the sacrificial prayers atop the mountain, the voice of the man in the dragon robe thundered, resounding in all directions:

"."

"."

“A sacrifice was held on the summit of Zijin Mountain.”

"Proclaim this to Heaven and Earth, and to the Emperor."

"Establish the Great Ming Dynasty, and establish the reign title Hongwu!"

As soon as the words were spoken, the 100,000-strong army below shouted in unison:
"Long live! Long live! Long live!!!"

The cold light was chilling, as if it would split the morning glow into countless fragments.

Another powerful dynasty was born.

However, the end of this dynasty seems predictable.

Not surprisingly
Just as Duan Yu was thinking this, the scene changed a few seconds later.

Snow fell in June, the south was flooded, the north suffered a severe drought, locust plagues broke out everywhere, and famine was widespread.

The mountain village in the scene had about a hundred households and newborns just a year ago. The next second, only a year later, the entire village is covered in yellow dust, and there is no one left.

The perspective shifts upwards to the sky.

The red land is thousands of miles away and is devastated.

There were hardly any people in sight.

History has once again entered a cycle, followed by the emergence of virtual maps and uprisings across this ancient land. However, this time, before the Central Plains could be unified, troops from beyond the Great Wall had already arrived.

The Central Plains were occupied again.

How many times has this happened?

Duan Yu and the newbie Blue Star players in the live stream watched, but things will change soon, right?

really.

This dynasty, which conquered the Central Plains from beyond the Great Wall, also reached its end in the changing scenes.

Uprisings broke out in various places.

It seems to be telling the world who truly owns this land.

Thousands of years.

The people who have stood here since the time of the great flood have once again reclaimed their land.

Time destroys many dynasties.

But the owner of this land seems to have never changed.

The screen continues to play.

The Eight-Nation Alliance and the Battle of Shanghai—these were things Shen Yan and his companions had seen before, but now they were all open to the public.

Duan Yu and his fellow viewers in the live stream watched the modern history of the People's Republic of China.

Because this was during World War II.

In other words.

This is what is happening in the Asian theater of World War II: Rise of Empires.

A brutal battle scene.

The brutal battles, even more intense than those in Stalingrad, shocked Duan Yu and the new players who hadn't seen the cutscenes.

At the same time, I realized it.

Why was Japan, one of the Axis powers, so eager to plunder the support of its subordinate powers such as the American Commonwealth and the British Commonwealth?

Just like the battle between the Empire and the Soviet Union, the Empire couldn't afford to lose, and neither could Japan.

The newspaper "On Protracted War" glides across the screen, and the Japanese man holding the newspaper is shocked, angry, and incredulous. He smashes things like a madman, constantly growling and denying the newspaper in his hands.

Battles changed one after another.

Like the enemies this nation has faced throughout its millennia-long history, the once arrogant Japan was driven out of this land. Virtual maps have emerged, showing that the land once occupied by Japan is now entirely covered in red.

The screen slowly went black.

At this point, the CG also came to an end, and it seemed that a new threat had arrived, only to be accompanied by a sentence.

The Chinese nation fears no threat. It has existed in this world for thousands of years, and for most of that time, you did not even exist.

The CG sequence slowly came to a close.

Then the words "[Chinese History Series] Stay tuned" appeared.

After reading this.

Duan Yu felt as if he had been through a lifetime, and let out a long sigh of relief:

"If this game covers a history spanning thousands of years, it would be incredibly fun."

The viewers in the live stream only then came to their senses.

However, some viewers from Blue Star have already come back to point out:

Stop dawdling, the other live streams have already started.

[That's right, and it seems like you can play in teams; Fang Ming and Yu Feng played as a team.]

[Hilarious! One chose the groom, the other the guard, and they actually ended up in the same game.]

Let me go check again.

Duan Yu's eyes widened, and he quickly switched back to the game.

really.

The game is now open, and Duan Yu immediately enters the game:
"This is coming."

"Let me check your beggar status, okay?"

"Let me look for it."

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