37: Chapter 37, Number One on the Ranking List
After reading the introduction to these plotlines, Zhou Xiaoyi and the audience in the livestream room had gained a lot of understanding about this period of history.
"I didn't expect this to actually be an invasion."
"Does being weak mean you'll get beaten up?"
"It's a good thing our Huaxia has grown strong."
"I knew it. The wolfish ambition of Japan has never changed from ancient times to the present. We must remain vigilant now; if they harbor any ulterior motives, we must crush them immediately."
The Netizens were filled with righteous indignation.
Although their history didn't contain this specific period, Japan had always harbored wolfish ambitions since ancient times.
Constantly harassing the coast of Huaxia.
They believed that if Huaxia were to decline one day, Japan would definitely come up to take a bite.
"Although I don't want to go to war, if it's against Japan, I will definitely step up."
"That's right, if a war really breaks out, we must beat Japan to death."
"I've long found them unsightly. I'm going into the game to kill the devils."
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Zhou Yang woke up early and opened the backend of the Anti-War Competition.
Today was the day the Anti-War Rate would be released.
The evaluation for the Anti-War Competition would last for ten days in total.
The comprehensive Anti-War Rate over these ten days would determine the final ranking of the games.
Zhou Yang couldn't wait to click on his game's backend data.
He looked at the Anti-War Rate column: 177,000 reviews with a 95% Anti-War Rate.
Seeing this data, a bright smile immediately appeared on Zhou Yang's face.
As expected, it was just as he had predicted.
This data was not bad; after all, with over a hundred thousand people reviewing, it was impossible for everyone to be anti-war.
There would always be those war fanatics.
But he didn't need these war fanatics to support the anti-war sentiment; he only needed those ordinary, normal people to support it, and that would be enough.
Zhou Yang took another look at the game download count; the number had already exceeded 30 million.
In just one day, the download count had broken through 30 million.
Such an achievement was already among the best in the crowd of anti-war games.
Yesterday, millions of games were released for the Anti-War Competition; players couldn't play them all, they simply couldn't play them all.
Subsequently, Zhou Yang clicked on the first-day Anti-War Rate leaderboard.
Zhou Yang didn't start looking from the bottom; instead, he scrolled directly to the top.
At first glance, he saw the name of his game.
It was impressively ranked in first place.
The second place only had an 83% Anti-War Rate; the gap was truly too large.
And the third place dropped even further to 71%.
It wasn't until tenth place that the Anti-War Rate was exactly 60%.
The leaderboard rankings were all determined based on the number of ratings and the ratings themselves.
It wouldn't happen that a game with a 100% Anti-War Rate would rank first.
Instead, the requirement for the number of ratings was higher.
Having a large number of ratings while maintaining a high Anti-War Rate was what proved that the game was truly anti-war.
Seeing this leaderboard, Zhou Yang immediately set his mind at ease.
Not a single one could compete.
At this moment, Yang Ruoxue's call came in.
"Zhou Yang, how was the data from yesterday? I saw that the game you made is first on the Anti-War leaderboard." Yang Ruoxue's voice sounded somewhat excited.
This was number one!
It was the number one in the whole country.
"Yesterday's data was very good. We are guaranteed to reach the top three in this competition," Zhou Yang said with a smile.
"Okay, I'm fine then. I see the game has updated again, I'm going to go experience the content you just updated today," Yang Ruoxue said before hanging up the phone.
Seeing this, Zhou Yang felt somewhat helpless.
The campaign updated today was the meat grinder, and after experiencing one plotline last time, she was terrified; wasn't this just asking for trouble?
On the other side, Zhou Xiaoyi arrived at Wang Ye's livestream room.
Just as she entered the livestream room, she discovered that Wang Ye had only just opened the game.
He was in the middle of matchmaking.
"Brothers, I've just started the stream, just started. My internet at home isn't very good, the game update was slow," Wang Ye explained the reason for his late start.
In reality, it was because he fell asleep very late last night.
After finishing a round of the game yesterday, it put him in a bad mood.
Fortunately, after waking up from a sleep, all the troubles disappeared.
It was another energetic day.
"The new campaign wouldn't still be a large-scale battlefield, right? The one where we players have to change the ending?" Wang Ye asked with some worry after reading the campaign introduction.
He had already witnessed the firepower configuration of the devils, and the gap in weapon levels between the two sides was too large.
Even if they were players, if their equipment was still that lousy, it wouldn't make any difference no matter how many came.
Most importantly, the players didn't understand anything.
After all, they weren't real soldiers.
With thousands of players gathered together, they would just be completely clueless.
They wouldn't know what to do.
That kind of mode with thousands of people was not something that ordinary players like them could play.
There was absolutely no coordination, and some even didn't listen to orders.
This mode should be left to the military.
Soldiers in the military had coordination and tactics.
And they had actually studied combat medical techniques.
"That large-scale battlefield mode from yesterday isn't something we ordinary players can play; we should let the military try it," Wang Ye complained.
"That's right, there's no coordination among players."
"I've watched quite a few streamers broadcast, and I've found that most players don't understand anything. If they really went to the battlefield, they'd just be waiting to die."
"Correct, so I have self-awareness; I firmly oppose war."
"Let our Huaxia military come; they might not necessarily be able to win either, right? I saw that the NPC army didn't win, the equipment gap is so big, they can only trade lives."
"Maybe, what if they can win? Why don't we go and call for it, let our Huaxia military try."
"I'm in too..."
Subsequently, these Netizens did what they said.
They flocked to the official websites of various Huaxia military regions and tagged them.
Requesting them to clear the Battle of Hongkou in [wwii: eastern meat grinder].
For a time, every military region in Huaxia was confused.
What is this?
Why are so many people tagging them?
And what the hell is this game?
There were also quite a few Netizens who sent private messages containing videos of various streamers playing the game to the accounts of each military region.
Eastern Military Region General Base.
A group of high-ranking military officials were watching the video in the conference room.
After watching the video, the leading Supreme Commander of the military region looked at the various generals below.
"Tell me, after watching this video, what are your thoughts?"
At this time, a middle-aged general wearing a military green uniform stood up.
"The battle in this video is a mess; it's all relying on human wave charges, with no tactics at all."
"Then what if it were you guys?" The Supreme Commander spoke indifferently.
"If we came, we would definitely fight better than the army in the video," this middle-aged general said with certainty.
"Now Netizens across the country want to see the performance of our Huaxia military; we naturally cannot ignore their requests. Since you are so confident, then let you handle this performance. I hope you can prepare well and not lose face for our Huaxia soldiers."
"I guarantee we won't." The middle-aged general's eyes were firm, and his heart was full of confidence.
"Good, I will have someone contact this game company; you prepare well over the next two days."
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On the other side, Wang Ye spent several minutes matchmaking before entering the game.
When he saw the scene in front of him clearly, he discovered that he was currently in a trench.
"Wang Yuan, what are you staring at? Hurry up and come over, the devils' planes are coming again."
Suddenly, an urgent voice entered his ears. He didn't react in time, and then he was pulled by the arm and hidden into an earthen hole dug into the side of the trench.
Before he could react, the sound of planes whistling came from the sky.
Immediately following, the rumbling sound of explosions rang out.
Wang Ye came back to his senses and was completely stunned.
He was bombed by planes right at the start.
[Mission: Contend for Luodian, mission fails if death count exceeds five times.]
[Each time you die, you will be deployed randomly.]
Seeing this mission introduction, Wang Ye was dumbfounded.
He had a bad premonition.