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Chapter 396 Prologue
[Produced and produced by: Linmu Studio]
After a brief black screen, a line of words appeared on the screen.
The melodious saxophone accompanied by the chirping of insects and birds was directed to a windowsill.
The morning light shone into the house through the windowsill, and the years were quiet.
This doesn't look like a shooting game at all.
Kevin was stunned, then complained.
And on the screen.
The camera slowly moved away from the windowsill and turned to the bed.
A black man lay quietly on the bed, looking confused, as if dreaming.
Suddenly.
A hand was placed on the black man's shoulder.
The black man trembled violently, and then the picture suddenly changed.
Screaming, fighting, gunpowder smoke, and artillery fire.
The black man stood up in the middle of the chaotic battlefield, looking at the soldiers fighting each other, with a confused face, but facing the attack, he subconsciously fought back.
A chaotic battlefield.
The black man was still a little confused holding the gun he had snatched.
The camera slowly zoomed in.
Gave a close-up of the black man.
Then.
The screen went black again.
[Adapted from an event that happened 100 years ago. 】
【More than 60 million soldiers participated in this "war to end all wars". 】
【In the end, this war ended nothing. 】
【But it changed the world forever. 】
【You will arrive at the front battlefield, where the chances of survival are very slim. 】
Lines of words.
Accompanied by a slight drumbeat, slowly appeared.
Kevin smiled and felt that the atmosphere was well created.
But it was not enough...
Boom.
The sound suddenly became louder.
The game screen appeared again.
"We are surrounded!"
A soldier pulled up the character controlled by Kevin and shouted.
Behind the soldier, there was smoke and scorched earth. As the tanks roared past, the soldier left a last sentence: "We must hold this line!"
Then.
The game began.
The soldier raised his gun.
The control was given to Kevin.
Kevin subconsciously controlled the soldier to walk forward, and then slightly widened his eyes.
This scene is really the same as the promotional video...
Fire and gunpowder filled the land that seemed to have been washed by artillery fire, fierce gunshots and screams lingered, and the end of the sight was all charred land and trees, as well as destroyed houses and ruins...
There was no general mobilization.
No deployment.
Nothing was said.
Nothing was taught.
The battlefield came right up.
Kevin didn't even react, and he confusedly controlled the character forward.
As he moved forward.
The sound of artillery fire, screams, and gunfire became louder.
And accompanied by someone shouting "Hold your position",
the enemy infantry rushed up.
Kevin immediately raised his gun and tried to aim.
Bang-
suddenly, a cannon exploded not far from him, accompanied by the splashing of soil, and the picture shook.
Kevin was also shaken, and his right hand slightly squeezed the handle, calmed down, and continued to aim at the enemy.
In front of him, there was black smoke and fire everywhere.
All kinds of bullets, artillery fire, mortars, and projectiles flew around.
Enemies rushed in endlessly...
It was as if he was on the battlefield in person.
The atmosphere was directly full.
"Hold your position!"
Someone's roar told Kevin what to do again and again.
He aimed his gun and shot the enemy again and again.
But there were really... too many enemies.
Soon,
he was overwhelmed.
And his teammates even started bayoneting in front of him.
The two charged at each other, and in an instant, blood splattered.
So chaotic.
So many people.
So desperate...
Kevin gripped the handle tightly, and this was the only feeling he had.
He tried hard to survive, but there were enemies on all sides.
The automatic rifle ran out of ammunition, so he switched to a pistol.
But he really couldn't stand it anymore. In the game, the character was shot and began to groan and wail, his vision turned red, the world seemed to have turned blood red, and everything slowed down...
Then.
As more enemies rushed over.
Bang.
An unknown soldier shot him.
The screen went black.
He died.
Kevin saw the black screen and was briefly relieved from his tension. Just when he was about to complain about this sure-kill...
in the game.
The screen lit up again.
The camera angle pulled up from the corpse.
[Forrest Washington]
[1899-1918]
The birth and death dates of the dead soldier appeared.
Then the camera began to pull up and rotate, and finally came to another position some distance away from the previous position.
And the next character Kevin was going to control appeared.
He stood in front of a machine gun, and in front of him were also enemies rushing like a tide, and the hellish battlefield scenery...
Kevin opened his mouth slightly, quickly grasped the handle again, and began to shoot at the enemies like a tide.
But in the end.
This machine gunner also failed to hold his position. He was knocked to the ground by a grenade.
The position was lost and he was surrounded.
The machine gunner who was knocked to the ground picked up the shotgun beside him and began to break through with his teammates.
The two sides fought hand-to-hand in the church.
Gunshots, screams, and roars.
Mixed together.
Finally, the second character controlled by Kevin was surrounded and killed by the enemy in the church.
[Ben Newberry]
[1897-1918]
The next second.
The camera pulled up and rotated again, showing a new character, who opened the tank door and walked in.
The tank moved forward, unstoppable.
It seemed almost invincible.
But on the battlefield, there was no invincibility.
Finally.
The tank was hit by a shell, and this time the character was buried in the sea of fire again.
[Andrew Preston]
[1894-1918]
Kevin: "..."
Next.
Kevin played an ordinary soldier
along the front line, switching one by one.
Then, he watched them die one by one.
Basically, they survived no more than ten minutes.
There was no protagonist halo, no one against a hundred. When
this controlled character died, the camera angle pulled up from the corpse, showing the dead soldier's date of birth and death, and then put the camera on another soldier's head and continued the attack.
Human life is worthless.
Kevin opened his mouth and was stunned throughout the whole process.
Without guided weapons, a large number of semi-automatic and bolt-action weapons, combined with excellent graphics, special effects and scene destruction, created an unprecedented battlefield atmosphere.
Then,
let the character controlled by the player die.
This was really... completely beyond Kevin's expectations.
Obviously,
this was a teaching.
Kevin saw it.
In the prologue, the characters played each time were different, probably different arms in the game.
Linmu Studio let players feel the rain of bullets in a ruin, and let players familiarize themselves with the characteristics and operation methods of the arms, and the switching method was simple and crude, and intriguing-die in battle.
[Every once in a while, we will push forward desperately until a ray of dawn appears in the clouds]
[Illuminating the world outside the war,]
[The world we can't touch.]
At the end of the prologue.
Two soldiers confronted each other with guns on a battlefield like purgatory.
When they put down their guns, the dawn broke through the clouds and shone into the battlefield.
When the narration sounded,
Kevin slowly breathed a sigh of relief, and felt like watching a movie...
a movie he personally participated in.
"This is really the closest game to battlefield experience I have ever played, and this is just the prologue, it's really... awesome."
Kevin murmured in admiration.
But soon,
he found something wrong...
Wait,
I should find the shortcomings.
What's the point of admiration!
(End of this chapter)