153: Chapter 153 Players Change the World
"Let me see." Zhou Yang could no longer stay calm and sat down on the sofa next to Yang Ruoxue.
Then, he stared at the virtual projection without blinking.
In the current live stream footage.
A young man was showing off his achievements to his companions beside him.
He was holding a tin can in his hand, which looked just like a spray can.
"Brother Zhao, did you really manage to make it?"
A burly man next to the youth looked at the can in his hand, his face full of surprise.
"Nonsense. Actually, this wasn't that difficult. Mass production might be hard, but this poison gas bomb doesn't require much, so making a few dozen is doable." The young man, referred to as Brother Zhao, waved his hand.
His name was Zhao Jin, and he was a doctoral student specializing in chemistry.
After seeing the Little Devils use poison gas bombs, he immediately identified the composition of the poison gas they were using.
After dozens or hundreds of experiments, he verified the composition of the poison gas bomb, and he also mastered the method of how to manufacture it.
If it weren't for the tight schedule, he could have produced even more poison gas bombs.
"Brother Zhao, how powerful is this thing?" the burly man asked again.
"Power? I haven't tested it yet, but it's definitely not small."
"Uh, speaking of which, Brother Zhao, how are we supposed to test this thing?" the burly man asked, looking at the poison gas bomb in Zhao Jin's hand with some hesitation.
If you want to test a poison gas bomb, you have to use people for the test.
Zhao Jin looked at him immediately upon hearing the burly man's words.
Seeing this, the burly man's sturdy body shivered, and he quickly waved his hands: "Brother Zhao, don't look at me, I'm not testing it."
Zhao Jin laughed upon hearing this.
"Li Lei, what are you talking about? How could I possibly use you for testing?"
"If we're going to test it, we should test it on the Little Devils."
"Little Devils? Where are we going to get Little Devils to test it on?" Li Lei asked, puzzled.
"Aren't they fighting at the front right now? Don't we have companions who are serving as soldiers? We can just hand these things over to them to use."
"I happened to make quite a few this time, about twenty or so. However, the current drawback of the poison gas bomb is that it can't be fired from artillery yet; it has to be thrown by hand."
Zhao Jin explained.
He only understood chemistry; the task of turning it into a poison gas bomb was someone else's responsibility.
However, it was clear that while he had successfully produced the poison gas, the others hadn't finished the poison gas bombs yet.
They could only store it in tin cans.
"It's fine, at worst, we can just take this thing and perish together with those Little Devils!" Li Lei waved his hand.
If these poison gas cans leaked, the power would be much greater than a hand grenade.
Of course, the disadvantage was also very obvious: it didn't distinguish between friend and foe.
Unless it was the last resort, it was best not to use it.
"That's true." Zhao Jin nodded.
"Li Lei, then you should take these things and bring them to them."
"Alright." Li Lei nodded.
Immediately after, this batch of poison gas cans was taken away by Li Lei.
Then, in the evening, they were handed over to the player soldiers located in the city.
There were at least 200,000 players on their server.
Although not all players would cooperate with Zhao Jin and his team to produce poison gas bombs.
However, if Zhao Jin really succeeded in producing them and asked for their cooperation, they would be very willing.
Because every player wanted to use their own way to change this ending.
If there was a path that had made significant progress and offered hope, they would naturally go to help.
Most of the people currently remaining in Jinling City were players.
There were also a small number of NPCs who could not evacuate.
None of the players currently in the game were afraid of death, after all, it wasn't real death.
If they just fled along with everyone else, there would be no point in playing this game.
"Is this all the poison gas cans there are?" The player soldier asked with slight disappointment upon seeing only about twenty cans of poison gas.
"That's all there is for now; we just successfully made them today." Li Lei nodded.
Upon hearing this, the player soldier put away his slight disappointment.
"That's true, being able to make them at all is progress. We don't know how to make poison gas bombs. However, we can certainly test how powerful this thing is."
"Haha, go ahead and throw these poison gas cans out. Oh, right, remember to record the data on this poison gas; that is very important." Li Lei laughed and then reminded him.
"No problem, we won't drag you down."
After the two finished talking, Li Lei returned to the poison gas preparation laboratory.
Though it was called a laboratory, the facilities were actually very crude.
However, even if the facilities were crude, as long as they worked, that was fine.
...
On the other side, after watching the live stream for a while, Zhou Yang stopped watching.
After knowing what these players were up to, Zhou Yang couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
Sure enough, as long as you have this kind of massive multiplayer online world, the players really know how to pull off some stunts.
It's just that there's a time limit.
Otherwise, if these players were allowed to develop, they could probably directly counterattack Japan.
After all, with modern knowledge and technology, crushing Japan would be easy.
It might even go beyond crushing Japan; they might even unify the whole world.
Thinking of this, Zhou Yang suddenly remembered a game from his past life.
Hearts of Iron.
You know, starting as some small nation and embarking on a path of counterattack or whatever.
The players in this world were much freer than the players in his past life.
China had billions of people, and after the advent of virtual pods, productivity had developed to a high degree.
Every ordinary person didn't have to worry about food or clothing.
They didn't even have to worry about housing.
The result of this was that many people had too much free time, and it just so happened that virtual pods were great for gaming.
Things that couldn't be done in reality could be done in the game, making it a great place to vent stress and pass the time.
The state's attitude toward games was also supportive, as it could absorb so many people who seemed to have nothing to do.
It kept them from doing things where several people gather together and come up with bad ideas.
This was a great thing.
A powerful country is not afraid of foreign enemies; it only fears internal chaos.
Most of the time, foreign enemies can stir up internal unity.
Even if things were chaotic internally, once there was a foreign enemy, everyone would ultimately unite against them.
...
After watching the live stream for a while, Yang Ruoxue saw that Zhou Yang wasn't watching anymore, so she also turned off the live stream.
She switched to the next live stream.
It turned out to be another game live stream.
The live streams she had been watching recently were all about the large-scale battle mode.
Either making poison gas bombs or building firearms production lines.
There were also attempts to convey the news that the Little Devils would carry out a massacre to the Jinling officials in the game.
However, without evidence, basically no one would believe it, and they would only think they were talking nonsense.
By the time the Little Devils actually started the massacre, it was already too late.
Those officials had already run away long ago.
After all, they had far more ways to escape than ordinary people.
As long as they didn't die themselves, other people had nothing to do with them.
The players quickly saw the true face of the Jinling officials.
Of course, there were also players who entered the game and became Jinling officials, and they arranged for the Jinling commoners to evacuate.
Many people were evacuated, but in the end, the massacre could not be avoided.
Because not everyone was willing to evacuate, especially the elderly.