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Chapter 169 [The Nuclear Bomb 'Fat Man'] The Death Toll Shocks the Blue Star (5.8k)

Upon hearing this news, Yu Feng and the viewers in the live stream were still somewhat stunned.

In addition to Japan's stubbornness, there is also the United States' unbridled behavior.

This is a 'nuclear weapon'!

Besides its immense power, the intense radiation it emits can also be fatal.

Are they really using this thing as a conventional weapon?
But think back to the [CG] from the Cold War era.

In the CG, the United States and the Soviet Union are clamoring with each other to destroy the world, and their nuclear arsenal at its peak reached more than 7, which seems quite reasonable.

When it comes to madness, it has to be 'Earthlings'.

at this time.

Other streamers and players have also reached this point in the storyline, and the internet is full of discussions about how many 'atomic bombs' Japan will eventually suffer.

After all, they had witnessed Japan's stubbornness firsthand.

The atomic bomb that was dropped was actually torn apart into a meteorite impact.

The US federal government was naturally unhappy.

They've already prepared a second one; I wonder how Japan will manage to cover it up this time.

At the same time, I gained a deeper understanding of the Axis powers' madness.

They really don't value human life.

One hundred million jade fragments?
Whether Japan even has 100 million people is debatable, yet they dare to shout such a strong slogan.

However, this determination...

This also aroused the curiosity of Blue Star players.

They want to see it too.

How long Japan can hold out is just a game, not real deaths.

Therefore, the plot involves the use of such weapons of mass destruction.

On Earth, most players are still hoping to see the ending of this 'game story'.

after one day.

The players on Earth thought it would be a while before the second satellite was launched.

Unexpectedly, only three days had passed since the game's storyline was skipped, and the United States' second missile was already ready.

The map for the "Experience Nuclear Explosion" story mode on the main interface also changes accordingly.

The description also changed.

[On August 9, 1945, Earth time, the United States dropped its second atomic bomb on Japan due to Japan's resistance.]

This action also stemmed from Japan's refusal to accept unconditional surrender and its resolute resistance.

The nuclear weapon (atomic bomb) codenamed "Fat Man" weighed approximately 4.7 tons and was more powerful than "Little Boy."

[However, due to the mountainous terrain of the deployment location and environmental limitations, the effect was slightly smaller than that of 'Little Boy'.]

The explosion generated extremely high temperatures (reaching 3000–4000°C at its center), and the shockwave destroyed buildings within a radius of approximately 3 kilometers, killing about 4 people instantly.

The acute radiation syndrome following the nuclear explosion caused the death toll to rise rapidly within weeks, bringing the total number of deaths since the war to approximately 17.

(P.S.: Polaris reminds you: Cherish life, reject war.)
Look at the introduction.

Many players chose to go in and experience it, to see what the 'nuclear explosion' effect was like here.

Meanwhile, on the Tiansha platform...

Mao Xu, a streamer from the Japanese camp, is livestreaming his daily work directing shipbuilding.

Although it is a single-player "immersive story" mode and does not affect the overall game progress, the streamer obtains the identity of chief engineer in his own story.

By modifying the various technologies on Earth with reduced conditions, they actually created quite a few groundbreaking things.

The game will not be reset unless it involves the life or death of high-ranking officials from various countries on Earth.

That's why this Japanese streamer was able to become the chief engineer by relying on various groundbreaking technologies.

at this time.

Mao Xu was also standing on the ship under construction, using the photonic supercomputer mounted in the live broadcast room to analyze where there were problems with the ship.

The photon supercomputer then provided the information, which was then communicated to the NPCs within the game.

Don't say it.

Even these niche live streams have 20,000 to 30,000 viewers.

It's true that Earth's population is just too large.

Although he doesn't have as many viewers as those fishing enthusiasts' live streams, these tens of thousands of viewers are enough to support him to continue streaming.

Mao Xu's gaze swept across the area.

far away.

[Mitsubishi Heavy Industries** Shipbuilding]

The words "Mitsubishi Heavy Industries" floated across the viewpoint of the live stream.

This is a well-known Japanese company, and its shipyard is also very famous in this city, serving as an important military manufacturing enterprise in Japan.

at this time.

Mao Xu wasn't too clear about the situation of the war.

Mao Xu was walking on the boat.

Sudden.

Viewers began flooding into the live stream room.

10. 30. 80. 230.
In just ten minutes, the number of viewers in the live stream increased from 20,000 to 30,000 to nearly 3 million.

Mao Xu was completely dumbfounded.

What Mao Xu didn't know was that, due to Japan's style and madness, the number of players who chose the Japanese faction on Earth was the smallest, even fewer than those who chose Italy.

As the storyline of "Experiencing a Nuclear Explosion" begins, the author observes famous buildings within the story and eventually finds this city in Japan after the 'nuclear explosion'.

Blue Star players were curious and did a search.

It turns out that Mao Xu is the only live streamer in this city.

It's worth noting that even in the dilapidated Soviet fortresses during the European theater of war, there might have been four or five live broadcast rooms, but Japan only has this one.

Many people rushed in.

Thanks to the massive online player base of "World War II: Rise of Empires," even a small fraction of those viewers resulted in nearly 300 million people flooding into the live stream.

Moreover, Mao Xu's live stream was also on August 9th.

However, it seems that it hasn't even started yet.

As a result, a dense barrage of comments flooded the live stream.

Look up at the sky! Look up at the sky!

[Hey anchor, look up at the sky! Find a telescope!]

Check the sky for any airplanes!

Quick, grab your binoculars and look at the plane!

[Run, streamer! You're going to die!!!]

[This streamer seems to be a casual gamer; hasn't he tried the latest "Experience the Nuclear Bomb" mode?]

Although there are a few well-meaning viewers, they are quickly drowned out by the barrage of comments.

Mao Xu didn't even have time to look at it.

Seeing so many viewers urging him to look at the sky, Mao Xu instructed a Japanese man to fetch a telescope. He then found an open space and looked up at the sky through the telescope.

"Experience a nuclear explosion? You've got to play that? All you need to do is get a coupon, right?"

Looking at the comments, Mao Xu was somewhat confused.

The viewers in the live stream were even more excited. Wow, this is a real slice-of-life game! They haven't even played the latest version yet.

Mao Xu looked at the surging barrage of comments and couldn't help but have a strange expression:
"Look? Look at what?"

"It's cloudy today, so we probably won't be able to see anything."

Mao Xu looked up with his binoculars.

The sky was overcast with dark clouds, and it might rain at any moment. Mao Xu was a little confused, but after looking at the comments, he finally found some useful information:

"Find a hole in the cloud?"

"Above the head?"

Mao Xu looked up through his binoculars at the sky above for a while:
"No?"

However, the clouds in the sky were changing rapidly due to the strong wind, so after a while, Mao Xu, whose neck was aching, finally discovered a hole:
"There is."

Is it there?

Mao Xu looked through his binoculars.

The hole in the sky was created by the strong winds, although it wasn't directly overhead.

However, it is not far from the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Shipbuilding Plant where Mao Xu works; it is almost on the outskirts of the factory area.

The live stream chat was flooded with comments.

Look! Don't move the camera!

That's it!

[The streamer is done!!]

[Streamer, jump into the sea!!!]

Mao Xu looked at the barrage of comments floating by, puzzled, but his gaze remained fixed on the empty space.

Just as the hole in the clouds was about to close, a small black dot fell from the center of the hole. Seeing this, Mao Xu's lips twitched slightly.

So what are these people doing here?

So this city is going to be attacked by air.

What's so great about this that so many people are watching it? Did they think I'd be bombed to death?

"Ugh, it's just an air raid."

"Don't worry, the streamer isn't unlucky."

"It's so far away."

"You won't get hit, but you'll definitely need to stay in the shelter for a while."

As Mao Xu spoke, he shook his head, put down the binoculars in his hand, and turned to walk slowly toward the factory's shelter.

It's so far away.

Even if that bomb were ten times more powerful, it wouldn't be able to shatter a single fragment.

however.

The barrage of comments in the live stream saying "That's a nuclear bomb" made Mao Xu pause, his pupils shrinking sharply.

rough?!

isn't it? !

Mao Xu turned around with wide eyes and saw that the 'bomb' had already fallen into the air.

When it was still several hundred meters above the ground.

A blinding white light instantly filled Mao Xu's entire world, then turned blood red, followed by an extremely hot heat wave and a powerful shockwave.

Mao Xu felt as if his body was flying.

Swish!
The screen went dark, and I returned to the main menu.

The live stream room was completely silent.
Mao Xu was stunned on the main interface, still not having recovered:

"What the hell?"

"what happened?"

"My identity as chief engineer is dead just like that?!"

And the viewers in the live stream.

Something just doesn't feel right. I can't quite put my finger on it, but something just feels off.

How could this guy die so quickly?!

Didn't it take more than 10 seconds for him to die?
Or is it that this guy didn't know, so his adrenaline didn't surge?

Since there is only this one live stream, there are no other live streams to refer to.

Therefore, none of the millions of netizens in the live stream suspected that some sly old fox had manipulated the experience time within the "Experience Nuclear Explosion" mode.
Actually.

At such a distance, instantaneous death is the norm.

As the city in Mao Xu's live broadcast room was hit by the 'second' bomb.

In the latest storylines for other players, both Allied players and Japanese players in Japan can also feel the aftershocks of the explosion.

Soon, players started clicking the skip story button one after another.

In Yu Feng’s live broadcast room.

I just checked out Mao Xu's live stream with the other viewers, so after the explosion over there, I went straight back inside.

Sure enough, a skip button popped up shortly afterward.

After clicking skip, the screen changed, and when it lit up again, it was already the morning of August 10th.

Yu Feng walked into the conference room.

Although it was morning, another one had been lost yesterday, so everyone was discussing it, and almost all the officers on the warship had gathered here.

Yu Feng returned to the place where he had previously inquired about the information.

He later inquired about the officer who had given him the information, and it turned out that his family members were high-ranking officers in the U.S. federal military, which was why they knew so much about the latest news.

Seeing the smiles and relaxed joy on everyone's faces, Yu Feng asked curiously:
"How about it?"

"Did those Japanese guys vote?"

The military officer, whose family held high-ranking positions, said with a smile:

"cast?"

"Why would those guys vote?"

He pointed to the newspaper on the table as he spoke.

Yu Feng looked over:

"hiss--"

Without him.

Instead, the newspapers claimed that the huge losses were caused by the failure of a Japanese-made "new weapon" test, and that the public should not panic.

Once this 'new weapon' is completed, the country will be able to end the war.

This news of someone deceiving themselves is truly unbelievable; Yu Feng and the viewers in the live stream were completely dumbfounded.

"Is this okay?"

"Then we have to keep throwing them?"

For some reason, Yu Feng and the netizens in the live broadcast room couldn't help but admire him.

Although Japan's behavior is despicable and outrageous, they are truly tough, and we must continue to stand firm against them.

However, the U.S. federal officer scoffed:
"Of course not."

"Those guys didn't throw because the ball didn't hit them."

"The federal government sent a notification to Japan yesterday."

"If we don't surrender, the next atomic bomb will be dropped on Tokyo."

Guess what?

Yu Feng's expression was strange; he seemed to understand something:

"So... Japan surrendered?"

The U.S. federal officer smiled and nodded, then said:
"Yes."

"The decision to surrender was made overnight."

"In the early hours of the morning, Japan asked Switzerland to contact the White House to decide to surrender."

"damn it."

“They didn’t even consider the time difference. There’s a difference of more than 10 hours between Japan and the White House. When my father called after his meeting, it was still the middle of the night here.”

"As a result, I haven't been able to sleep since then."

Japan surrendered in the early hours of the morning, while it was still noon in the United States.

It was only late at night when the meeting ended. Hearing this news, I felt sleepy, but how could I sleep at all?

The U.S. federal officer yawned as he spoke.

But he couldn't hide the joy on his face.

The war is over, the gilding is over, and I can finally go home and enjoy myself.

Meanwhile, Yu Feng and the netizens on Blue Star were twitching at the corners of their mouths.

Good guy.

I thought the Japanese were tough.

So, the reason those 100 million died was because the victims were lowly citizens of our own country, not the Emperor himself?
Upon hearing that it had been dumped in Tokyo.

They held a meeting overnight and contacted the White House in the early hours of the morning.

Damn it.
You dare not delay even for a moment, for fear of getting it all thrown at you, right?

Yu Feng shook his head.

After listening to everyone's conversation for a while, he logged out and went offline to browse the player forums.

Now that the news was confirmed, players knew that Japan was preparing to vote.

However, the fact that Japan, which was initially thought to be a tough country, surrendered directly after being threatened by the US federal government was truly surprising.

They backed down too quickly.

The day before, they had declared 100 million rife with violence, but upon hearing that Tokyo was to be bombed, they surrendered overnight. Some say it was related to the Soviet Union, since the Soviet Union also declared war that day.

At this moment, on the Polestar website's 'real-time map'...

The colors on the Japanese side are still those of the Axis powers, indicating that no official announcement has been made yet.

But soon.

Polestar's official website also issued an announcement.

Tomorrow, the DLC for the sequel "Cold War Clouds" will be updated, and the new game "World War I: Twilight of the Empire" will be released.

As soon as the announcement came out.

Players started discussing it, concluding that it was definitely over now.

Half a day later.

After skipping a few days, the latest game timeline for each streamer has reached August 15th.

at this time.

During Yu Feng's live stream.

Just as August 15th began, the game screen suddenly switched to CG.

Yu Feng and the Blue Star netizens in the live broadcast room couldn't help but light up, after all, Polaris's games were really good, and the CG was even more amazing!

at this time.

The camera gradually zooms out, moving around the various parts of the warship where Yu Feng is located.

Some of the soldiers on the warship were cleaning, some were stretching on the deck, and some were heading into the mess hall.

Sudden.

A voice came over the loudspeaker.

It was a broadcast in Japanese that the US soldiers on the warship couldn't understand at all. Not only could the soldiers not understand it, but the CG perspective shifted to several high-ranking US officers.

As high-ranking military officers, they knew some Japanese.

I was completely bewildered. What on earth was this all about?
They quickly called for a translator.

However, when the surrender document was read aloud in classical Chinese, it was impossible for these high-ranking U.S. federal officers and translators to understand it.

The scene abruptly shifts to mainland Japan.

The Japanese people listening to the broadcast were also completely bewildered, having no idea what their emperor was talking about.

Until the announcer said:

"This is surrender."

Only then did all the Japanese in the video realize that it was a surrender proclamation.

Some Japanese people on the street wept bitterly, shouted in disbelief, and some even committed seppuku in grief and indignation, unable to believe that Japan had been defeated.

The scene switches to an aerial perspective.

Panic is gripping Japan, and countless people are weeping.

And the opposite of that.

These are U.S. federal soldiers not far from the Japanese mainland in the picture.

As the images shift...

You can see soldiers cheering and waving their clothes on the warships. The U.S. soldiers on the warships are spreading the news, and some are laughing wildly as they jump into the sea.

The excitement was indescribable.

As the viewpoint rises to the heights of 'Earth', the colors representing the Axis powers, which had been obscured over Southeast Asia and parts of Asia, can be seen rapidly fading.

The images travel from country to country.

The entire 'Earth' was engulfed in a sea of ​​celebration.

Screen switching.

8 month 19 day.

The Japanese representative bowed respectfully to the representative of the Soviet Federation and surrendered, handing over the instrument of surrender.

9 month 2 day.

On the USS Missouri, a U.S. battleship, the Japanese Foreign Minister bowed and handed over the instrument of surrender in the presence of nine nations.

9 month 9 day.

[Republic] Nanjing, Central Military Academy Auditorium, Okamura Yasuji, Commander-in-Chief of Japan in Asia, bows and hands over the instrument of surrender.

9 month 12 day.

Allied forces in Southeast Asia, General Seishiro Itagaki, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Southern Command, faced General Mountbatten, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Union Army.
9 month 13 day.

Australia, Japan
9 month 16 day.

Japan to the British Commonwealth.
A series of CG scenes depicting surrender.

The Blue Star players were all speechless. Good heavens, how many countries had they surrendered to? Towards the end, they were surrendering to a different country almost every few days.

As the images flow...

Japan surrendered to Indonesia on December 13.

This is the end.

The scene ended completely.

Then the subtitles slowly appeared.

World War II was the most devastating global conflict in human history.

Its catastrophic consequences have brought indelible pain and trauma to people around the world.

Between 1939 and 1945, war swept across three continents—Europe, Asia, and Africa—drawing 61 countries and more than 20 billion people into the conflict.

The global death toll, both military and civilian, is estimated at 7000 to 8500 million.

[Among them, the Soviet Union lost approximately 2700 million people, the republics suffered over 3500 million casualties, and nearly 20% of the population disappeared in Poland, Yugoslavia, and other countries.]

[70% of them are innocent civilians.]

The post-war economic collapse led to a global GDP decline of approximately 30%, leaving Eurasia devastated, plagued by hunger and disease, creating 6000 million refugees, orphans, the disabled, and countless broken families.

War gave rise to genocide, forced labor, and the first use of nuclear weapons, profoundly changing humanity's understanding of war.

Furthermore, the war accelerated the collapse of the colonial system, but also sowed the seeds of the Cold War, the shadow of which still lingers today.

Behind these cold statistics lie countless individual sufferings and the regression of civilization, serving as a warning to future generations to cherish peace and reflect on the cost of violence.

The subtitles flowed slowly, showing one cold, hard number after another.

Yu Feng and the Blue Star players in the live stream couldn't help but gasp, their minds going blank. More than 7000 million people had died—how tragic!
I hadn't paid attention to it before.

However, it wasn't until Polaris released the data that Blue Star players realized just how severe the consequences of the war were.

More than 7000 million people have died.

More than 6000 million war refugees, orphans, and disabled
Yu Feng was still bewildered by these data.

A notification suddenly popped up on the main interface.

[Settling player performance in 'World War II'...]

Download "Cold War Shadows"?

Looking at the two notifications, the first one was constantly processing data, and Yu Feng didn't know what the settlement was, so he put it aside. The second one was a download notification for the sequel.

No hesitation.

Yu Feng clicked the download button directly.

a few seconds.

The sequel DLC, "Cold War Shadows," has been successfully loaded.

The entire game interface changed.

It turned into a somewhat cold, icy blue. Yu Feng nodded in agreement, noting that it did indeed fit the theme of the 'Cold War'.

At this time.

The opening cinematic for the sequel, "Cold War Shadows," popped up.

In CG.

The lake slowly glides across the sky above the Earth, then reaches the skies above the United States, where words slowly appear on the screen.

【White House】

The camera quickly pans down to the White House press conference.

The US president, his face grim, responded coldly to reporters' persistent questions about whether the atomic bomb would be used:
"Countering the Republic with all weapons, including atomic bombs, is under consideration."

With just one sentence, Yu Feng and the viewers in the live stream instantly understood.

Is this a nuclear threat against the Republic?!

(End of this chapter)