18: Chapter 018 A Letter Home
After reading this farewell letter, Zhou Xiaoyi immediately fell silent.
Likewise, the audience in the livestream room also quieted down at the same time.
Just then, a scene appeared before Zhou Xiaoyi.
In Hongdu City, a letter home was delivered to Li Dongyang's house.
When Li Dongyang's parents received the letter, their faces were filled with sorrow.
His wife and younger sister were the same.
The messenger kept his head down, his expression heavy, "Please accept my condolences. Li Dongyang sacrificed himself for the country; the country and its descendants will not forget them."
After the messenger left, Li Dongyang's parents, wife, and sister returned home.
They embraced each other and wept bitterly.
"Only with a country can there be a home. The country is in trouble, and my son sacrificed himself for it. He died for a worthy cause."
The father's eyes were red, and his sorrow was evident.
The scene ended, and Zhou Xiaoyi finally saw the option to rejoin the battle.
However, at this moment, she had no desire to continue fighting.
This scene made her feel incredibly heartbroken.
Even the audience in the livestream room felt a sense of inexplicable sadness.
In Huaxia, they didn't have many wars.
Things like sending a son to the battlefield and receiving news of his death or a farewell letter were things they had almost never heard of.
If they hadn't felt much when Li Dongyang was introduced earlier, the subsequent farewell letter and death notification made them feel very uncomfortable.
"'Only with a country can there be a home'—that is so well said!"
"Wuwu, I'm tearing up. This is the first time I've seen such a meaningful game."
"Can this be made into a movie? I want to watch a movie, I don't want to play a game."
"If there were no war, wouldn't Li Dongyang still be alive? He could have had a happy family."
Just then, a viewer suddenly speculated, "Do you guys think this happens every time you die?"
Zhou Xiaoyi was feeling sad, and seeing this comment, she immediately felt it was very likely.
If that were really the case, it would be too torturous.
"It's possible. Why is the game developer so evil?"
"No, I'm just a noob. I can't beat it with one life, and I want more lives to clear it. Is this how it's going to be?"
"Wuwu, do we have to get stabbed even when we respawn? The developer isn't human..."
At this moment, the audience was somewhat broken.
They were cursing the game developer in the livestream room.
Coincidentally, Zhou Yang was also in the livestream room.
He saw these comments, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.
Being broken is good. The more broken they are, the more emotional value he earns.
He had accumulated quite a lot of emotional value now.
He could afford things in the shop, but Zhou Yang didn't plan to buy them; he planned to save them to create new games.
In the livestream room, Zhou Xiaoyi suddenly saw this comment:
"Sister Yi, do you think Li Yan left a farewell letter before he died? After he died, would his parents and loved ones be this sad too?"
After reading this comment, Zhou Xiaoyi was stunned.
But a moment later, her eyes turned red.
"No, you guys..."
The other viewers in the livestream room were also confused.
Good grief, why did this guy have to bring that up?
This was just chasing after Sister Yi to twist the knife.
"Buddy, don't make Sister Yi end the stream again."
"If Sister Yi ends the stream, I'm coming for you."
"Amazing, you're really hunting the streamer. The streamer probably dreamt about Li Yan yesterday."
The audience in the livestream room was suddenly amused.
Meanwhile, in other streamers' livestream rooms, they had all experienced the dungeon mode for the first time.
Then, after they died and saw that farewell letter and death notification, they all fell silent.
They had been physically stabbed in the game earlier, and now they were being emotionally stabbed again.
"The developer is really a dog. Should we call him an old dog?"
"Calling him an old dog is letting him off easy. We should drag him out and whip his corpse every day."
These streamers were more resentful than the last.
Yiteng Group.
After a few days of rushed production, their masterpiece, [ming dynasty meat grinder], which was benchmarked against [wwii: eastern meat grinder], was born.
Their game content told the story of an alternate Ming Dynasty where a great war occurred, and many people died.
And the game content was naturally about players participating in the great war.
Using the Ming Dynasty equipment in their hands to duel.
However, because time was tight and the task was heavy, the things they brought out for this internal test were all rushed.
But even so, the game they made was better than most of the anti-war games in the competition.
After all, Yiteng Group was a large company with deep pockets; its resources and manpower were not something individuals or small studios could compare to.
At this moment, Zhang Yida was staring at his phone.
He was watching the internal test livestream of [ming dynasty meat grinder].
This time, their Yiteng Group had spent quite a bit of money on promotion.
They threw heavy money at it and successfully raised the game's popularity.
However, the ranking on the trending list did not satisfy him.
Zhang Yida found the person in charge of the game, and the person in charge, Huang Jin, immediately walked over.
"Your game production progress is still too slow. Look at the quality of this internal test."
"With this quality, the competition starts in a few days. Are you going to use this to compete with others? The resources were all given to you; don't let the company down."
Zhang Yida looked at the livestream room that was broadcasting their company's game; the one with the most people only had thirty or forty thousand viewers.
The rest mostly had one or two thousand people.
Compared to the number of people in the livestream room for [eastern meat grinder], it was like heaven and earth.
Even so, he still saw viewers in the livestream room saying that their game was boring.
Entering the game meant just kill, kill, kill, and dying too quickly.
It was made very bloody and realistic, but they didn't enjoy playing it.
Zhang Yida only had to look at the livestream footage to understand.
So he had an expression of deep disappointment.
After all, he wasn't blind; he could naturally see the difference between the two games.
Pure, realistic gore alone cannot attract players.
After all, not everyone is a perverted violent maniac who gets excited when they see realistic gore.
When Huang Jin heard Zhang Yida's words, he immediately lowered his head and promised.
"We will definitely speed up improvements before the competition..."
Time passed slowly.
Wang Ye's livestream room.
After the update, he had experienced the dungeon mode and then decisively went back to challenge the Story Mode.
He wanted to be the second internal test player to clear Bazi Bridge.
So, he spent the whole day grinding Bazi Bridge and was already familiar with the terrain of Bazi Bridge.
His survival time was also getting longer and longer.
During this time, he also learned about the background story of this story battle.
He knew that this was just a small-scale battle.
However, he didn't know the subsequent plot, which made him curious and increasingly looking forward to the official launch of this game.
"Brothers, one more challenge, and I'm ending the stream today."
After Wang Ye finished speaking, he entered the game again.
Entering the game, he started as a small soldier again.
But this time he knew what he had to do, so he actively followed the Squad Leader.
Then, under the command of the Platoon Leader, he began to advance toward Bazi Bridge.
After playing so many rounds, he had figured out the method to clear the level.
The most important thing was not to be afraid, and at the same time, not to run around randomly.
You must follow the instructions of the NPCs inside to attack, because personal ability cannot be displayed much in such a battle.
He couldn't possibly single-handedly take on hundreds or thousands of people, especially when his equipment and firepower were inferior.