146: Chapter 146 One world war not enough, how many more?

At this moment, inside the livestream room for the awards ceremony.

"Holy crap, it's happening, it's finally happening. We'll finally get to know who the creator of wwii: eastern meat grinder is."

"Do you have any idea how long I've been waiting? Okay, not that long, but I'm still really looking forward to it."

"I wonder what the creator who made this game looks like. They're so talented. It would be even better if they could just give me their address."

"Yeah, yeah, I definitely won't send them anything... oh wait, I definitely won't go offline... that's not it either..."

"That game is only suitable for watching, not for playing."

Inside the livestream room, the chat was flying by, and the popularity was skyrocketing.

Clearly, everyone was looking forward to the awards for the game rankings.

Or rather, they wanted to see who won first place at this awards ceremony.

The planners of this awards ceremony were also very clever, putting the game ranking award ceremony at the very end.

Although the audience wasn't satisfied, they endured it just to see Zhou Yang.

At this moment, Zhou Yang had arrived backstage.

There were several people in front of him; these were all the creators of the top ten ranked game works.

When they saw Zhou Yang, they all greeted him one after another.

Especially after learning that Zhou Yang was the creator of eastern meat grinder, they became even more enthusiastic.

After all, being able to defeat Yiteng Group and take first place.

Zhou Yang's ability was undoubtedly beyond question.

He was the biggest dark horse of this competition.

Although many of them were from Yiteng Group, they still had great respect for those with genuine talent.

After all, a company is a company, and an individual is an individual.

They didn't own shares in Yiteng Group anyway; they were just employees, so there was no need to take Yiteng Group too seriously.

Soon, all the people in front of Zhou Yang went up to receive their awards.

In the end, only Zhou Yang was left standing near the stage.

As the host called out his name, he walked from backstage to the front of the stage.

At this moment, the audience at the venue and the audience in the livestream room were all staring intently at the stage.

As Zhou Yang's figure appeared, the audience in the livestream room all erupted.

"Holy moly, this is the creator of wwii: eastern meat grinder? Why is he not what I imagined?"

"I thought the creator would have a thick beard and look fierce and menacing; how come he looks so harmless?"

"I think he's quite handsome, though not as handsome as everyone here."

"Does anyone know where that old thief Zhou Yang lives? I want to send him some local specialties."

"666, I know exactly what you're thinking, upstairs."

"These are well-intentioned local specialties I'm talking about; you guys are just questioning my sincerity."

At this moment, Zhou Yang stood on the awards stage.

Looking at the numerous audience members below, while feeling a bit nervous, a different kind of feeling also welled up within him.

This feeling was constantly easing the tension in his heart.

"Hello, Mr. Zhou Yang. Congratulations on winning first place in the game work rankings of our first-ever Huaxia Anti-War Competition. Here is your trophy."

After the host finished speaking, several young girls dressed in traditional clothing walked over carrying the trophy.

Zhou Yang took the trophy, and as soon as it was in his hands, he felt it was quite heavy, at least seven or eight jin.

Looking at the golden appearance of the trophy, Zhou Yang couldn't help but guess in his heart, could this be made of pure gold?

If this were pure gold, how much would it be worth?

However, this thought only flashed through his mind for a moment before disappearing.

Compared to this trophy, the prize money was much more.

Besides, this trophy had greater commemorative value; how could he be so money-grubbing?

"Mr. Zhou Yang, standing here on the stage now, do you have any thoughts?" The female host looked at Zhou Yang with a faint smile and asked.

Hearing this, Zhou Yang took a deep breath and said with a smile: "To tell you the truth, I never expected to be able to stand on this stage at the beginning."

"My initial entry wasn't actually this one, but I took too big a step at the start. I had no choice but to change it."

"Here, I need to thank my investor, Ms. Yang Ruoxue. If it weren't for her persistence, perhaps we wouldn't be seeing this work."

Zhou Yang spoke incessantly on the stage.

Anyway, he thanked who he needed to thank and bullshitted what he needed to bullshit.

Below the stage, Yang Ruoxue heard Zhou Yang's thanks.

A smile appeared on her face as well.

She didn't expect Zhou Yang to be so enlightened.

This speech was truly watertight.

Zhou Yang thanked her for her investment, and likewise, she also thanked Zhou Yang.

If not for Zhou Yang, she might really have had to go back and inherit the family estate.

Once she went back to inherit the estate, her life would no longer be hers to choose.

While inheriting the wealth, she would also need to inherit the duty of maintaining the family's prosperity.

There were so many others in the family of her generation, and quite a few who were better than her.

She didn't want to go back.

Every time her grandfather used the excuse of her fooling around outside to call her back.

Now she had also achieved a career of her own.

Now that old man had no reason to call her back.

Zhou Yang spoke incessantly for over ten minutes.

He reeled off one set of polite platitudes after another, and the host was about to lose it.

Because after Zhou Yang said so much, it was as if he had said nothing at all.

She simply hadn't heard what she wanted to hear.

"Mr. Zhou Yang, your work won first place in the game work rankings, and the response online is also very hot. Many Netizens are very curious, where did your inspiration come from when you created this work?" The female host asked again.

Hearing the host's words, Zhou Yang was stunned for a moment.

After organizing his thoughts, he spoke slowly.

"This?"

"Back when I decided to change direction, combined with the anti-war theme of the Anti-War Competition, and after looking at the works of other peers, I suddenly realized that no one was making content based on modern history."

"Our peace has lasted for three or four hundred years, but in the history of three or four hundred years ago, the wars in our Huaxia never stopped, with only a few years or a decade of peace every century. Dynasties changed, and there were countless wars."

"We have been at peace for too long and have forgotten the cruelty of war. Since ancient times, war has only brought disaster to ordinary people. As the saying goes: when it rises, the people suffer; when it falls, the people suffer."

"For these three or four hundred years, we have been too peaceful, so I had a sudden thought: what if there were a few world wars in modern times, what would the world be like?"

Zhou Yang was spouting nonsense with a straight face.

But his nonsense brought great shock to the host, the audience at the venue, and the audience in the livestream room.

At this moment, in the livestream room, the Netizens were in an uproar.

"Listen to that, is that human talk? One world war isn't enough, he wants a few more."

"No, one world war is already extremely exaggerated, okay."

"A world war? Is that even possible? That's way too sudden a thought, right?"

"To be honest, it's actually really possible. These last few hundred years have been too peaceful. This completely goes against the laws of historical development!"

"Upstairs, where did you get these laws of historical development? Isn't peace good? Why does it have to be fighting?"

"I didn't mean that, I just feel like our peace is too precious."