This Game Is Too Realistic

., this game is too real!

The raging flames climbed up to the wooden eaves, illuminating the dazed and stunned faces.

The rising black smoke was like a homeless ghost, and the crackling cry was particularly conspicuous in the silence of the crowd. This is the southwest corner of Mammoth State, a small village called "Stone Village"...or it used to be called that.

Most of the people who live here are free citizens of the empire.

However, the empire is the opposite of other areas in the wasteland. The free people here are not something to be proud of.

Since most of the fertile land along the rivers was in the hands of the nobles, most free people lived in poverty even if they had land to farm.

If the average serf had to eat red soil six times a week, then the freedmen might have to eat seven or eight times, basically maintaining a state of half-death.

Of course, except for those who can survive in or near settlements.

The same goes for Stone Village. Since it is far away from the Tasang River and there are no small rivers or lakes nearby, the land is not easy to cultivate, so most of the villagers just make ends meet.

These guys who live like weeds really can't squeeze out much money, and the empire usually doesn't bother to pay attention to them. Apart from collecting taxes, they usually just let them fend for themselves.

Of course, the tolerance of this gift is limited to ordinary times.

Walking five or six miles south from Shitou Village, you can see the boundary monument of Mazhou. However, it was only these five or six miles that the fire of "Strong Walls and Clear Fields" burned here...

At the entrance of Stone Village, an old man over fifty sat slumped on the ground, looking up at the tall centurion, crying with snot and tears.

"Sir, we have been living here for many years. You set this place on fire. Where do we live?" The centurion looked at him expressionlessly and said coldly.

"Next door is Mazhou, and further south is Huzhou. The legs are long for you. As long as you don't go north, you can go wherever you like."

The old man begged and said.

"Yes, but... how can we live without land?"

"How to live?" The centurion sneered, looking down at the old man lying on the ground, and said in a sarcastic tone, "Just find a manor and sell yourself... Don't cry so much. You old thing is getting old now, it’s time for you to be buried.”

Seeing the old man looking at him blankly, the centurion thought that he was indeed not very particular about what he said, so he softened his tone slightly and said.

"Okay, there are bandits here. It's for your own good to let you go. Don't be so ungrateful. I'll give you time to pack your things. If nothing happens, get out of here."

"Bandit trouble?! But, but, those Yue tribe people didn't care about us..."

Seeing the centurion taking steps to leave, the stunned old man suddenly became anxious. For a moment, he kept talking, but he forgot the identity of the military master in front of him, and what the Yue people meant to the empire. What.

When the centurion heard this, he stopped and looked at the old man up and down with squinted eyes, his eyes slightly unkind.

"Have they been here?"

Not only was the centurion squinting at the old man, but the soldiers on the side also put their hands on the Ripper rifle. Sensing something was wrong in the atmosphere, the old man was frightened and stammered for a moment.

"I..." The centurion stared at him.

"Why not send word to a nearby outpost?"

"Wha, what outpost?"

Big beads of sweat oozed from the old man's forehead. Before he could explain, the centurion waved his hand to the soldier next to him.

"Take it back for trial."

The two soldiers strode forward, each grabbed the old man by one shoulder, and regardless of the latter's screams like a slaughtered pig, they carried him onto the cart like an animal.

The young men in the village wanted to stop him, but were stared at by the murderous gaze and did not dare to move forward. They could only watch the village elders being taken away...

Similar scenes not only happened in Stone Village, but also happened in other places. Even worse.

More than 50,000 gray wolf troops marched into the Mammoth State occupied by the rebels with great momentum, and they made plans from top to bottom to avenge their past humiliation.

While Alaiyan sent out scouts to detect the movements of the resistance forces, he steadily opened up the battle line. At the same time, he sent small groups of troops along the border to advance his strategy of fortifying the wall and clearing the country.

It was not just the old man who was taken away who was suspected of having contact with the Resistance Army.

There were also men, women, children, and animals kept in stables who had no idea what was going on. These imperial soldiers did not even let go of the eggs laid by the hens.

Of course, not all villages are so docile and obedient. After all, given the ecological conditions of Borneo, it will take some skills to withstand the land annexation by the nobles.

Some indignant young men brought out dung forks, bows and arrows, blunderbuss and even cannons, trying to fight against the empire's gray wolf army.

However, their righteous indignation not only failed to scare away the gray wolves of the empire, but instead brought death to themselves and their families.

Although the Gray Wolf Army was almost drowned by the Alliance into the Eternal River when they were outside the city of Golden Gallen Port, it was not a problem for them to deal with a group of half-clothed poor people. With just one charge, the soldiers killed this group of weeds that didn't know the heights of the sky, and the blood flowed into rivers.

And once the bayonet sees red, things will not end so easily.

What's more, today's Gray Wolf Army has been riddled with holes by the Tiger Army and Black Panther Army. Both their fighting will and discipline are far inferior to half a year ago... Although they were not as good as half a year ago. Just go wherever you want.

After venting their fury on the weak ones who survived, a group of gray wolves who had had enough fun lifted up their pants, rewarded the "captives", threw their heads on the cart, and took them back to the camp as the heads of rebels. Take the credit.

On the hundreds of kilometers of state border between Mammoth State and Maryland, the burning flames were like a long snake, devouring one village after another.

The beast-like behavior was just like the wolves crying and ghosts howling on the Shifeng Mountain. Not even more concessions...

"...These beasts!"

At the edge of the dark forest, Ackerman stared at the soldiers leaving the ruins, with blazing anger in his eyes.

When the long-haired woman was dragged into the cowshed, he thought of his mother...

The same goes for the soldiers who followed him. Everyone was clutching the rifles in their hands, eager to rush forward and eat the centurion alive.

Especially the young man named Udi, if his companions hadn't pulled him, he might have rushed forward. "There are too many of them..." We only have ten people, so we are no match for them. "

After taking a deep breath to calm down, Ackerman said in a deep voice.

"Lasi told us that if we want to defeat opponents who are much stronger than us, we must not only have the courage to fight without fear of death, but also learn to use our brains."

A tall boy with freckles looked at him and asked in a low voice.

"what should we do?"

"You take Udi, and you, you..."

Ackerman counted out five local recruits and handed them to the veteran who had fought all the way from Huzhou. He lowered his voice and continued to instruct, "Go north and tell the villagers what is going on here, and tell the people from the empire to come." If you don't want to die, kill anyone you see. If you don't want to die, run north."

"It's no use even if they go there," Udi interjected and whispered, "It's all flooded there..."

"It's only temporarily flooded. The flood season has passed and winter will soon come... When spring comes, the flooded land will be the most fertile. Lord Lacy will allocate the nobles' land to them for planting." Ackerman said without hesitation.

The land along the Tasang River that originally belonged to the nobles has been annexed and can be used to resettle these displaced villagers once the flood season is over.

Those lands were far more fertile than here, and Lacy said he would distribute some to the locals. Now Mammoth State is the territory of the Resistance Army, and they have to manage this land well.

When they heard about the land division, the eyes of the two young men lit up, including Udi.

His village is outside Mammoth City, which is the territory of the nobles. His parents had farmed the land for the nobles all their lives and did not have any land of their own. Now someone was willing to give them the nobles' manors and plantations. They were so excited that they wanted to cheer.

Only a few veterans from Huzhou looked at their innocent appearance and smiled. Farming?

There's no way out of that thing.

They have suffered enough from the hardships of farming in the mountains and valleys of Huzhou. They can only live a good life while carrying guns.

The freckled face frowned slightly and looked at Ackerman and asked. "Why do those villagers believe us?"

"Go there and pick up some things to take to them. Believe it or not, it's up to them. We only save what we can."

Ackerman pointed to the ruins of the village not far away, motioning for him to go there to pick up some physical evidence, and then continued in a lowered voice.

"It should be these villages today. The gray wolves don't dare to walk at night, but it's hard to say after dawn. You'd better move faster and finish everything before dawn... Notes Stay here and notify all the villages within half a day’s walk!”

The six young men nodded solemnly, got into the bushes on the side and carefully moved towards the village, and disappeared in a flash.

As for Ackerman, he took the remaining three people and followed the retreating Hundreds of Gray Wolf Army, trying to find their "regiment headquarters."

If you are lucky, you might find an opportunity

Fuck them several times!

At the same time, on the other side, at the headquarters of the Gray Wolf Army, General Alaya looked at the sand table expressionlessly, his thoughts drifting away unconsciously along with the chess pieces on the sand table.

I still remember that at the beginning of the year, he was still the God of War revered by thousands of people.

In just half a year, those who admired him regarded him as a disgrace to the empire and stepped hard into the sewer.

As high as those people held him up at the time, they threw him down as hard as they could later. But it was precisely because of that incident that he completely woke up——

These thugs don't deserve his sympathy.

He shouldn't treat them as humans, even though he didn't care about them much before.

To this day, he still will not forget the injustice he suffered in the Port of Golden Gallen. Those poor people who lived inside and outside killed his scouts for a few silver coins, sold his information, and deliberately used the trench as a tomb. Digging so hard that his soldiers couldn't even reach out of the trench with their hands above their heads.

There are also reeds along the Everflow River.

Those guys would rather be shot and drowned than be dogs of the Alliance, but they refuse to stay in the empire and be good people.

He knows better than anyone else that if he gives an order to someone like him, the people below him will definitely use "their own methods" to do whatever they want.

But so what?

Rather than leaving these pigs to hold back on the front lines and intentionally causing harm and not helping, it would be better to use their blood to scare those who dare to go against the empire.

At this time, the officer responsible for the task of strengthening the wall and clearing the country walked into the tent, looked at General Alaiyan standing in front of the map, saluted respectfully, and reported.

"Sir, the Moon Clan Resistance Army has probably been here."

"They will definitely come, there's nothing surprising about it. Check out who has relatives in the Resistance Army, whether they are distant relatives or close relatives, and form a separate team. I'll keep them for use."

Staring at Mammoth City on the map, Alaya continued expressionlessly.

"That Lacy is an officer trained by the Alliance, and the people who left Golden Gallen Port with him were also trained by the Alliance. What these people are best at is intersecting, infiltrating, breaking them into parts, and using less to attack more... In the Sunset Province and the River Valley Province, those people relied on these tricks to make the Weiland people suffer a lot."

The officer's expression condensed and he whispered.

"If that's the case, I'm afraid this battle won't be easy."

"I'm afraid?" Alai laughed cheerfully, curled his lips and continued, "Don't expect a quick victory. It will take at least three or four months to completely wipe them out. If they want to fight guerrillas, let them fight. , let’s set up our formation—”

Before he could finish his words, there was an explosion in the distance.

The two people in the tent were stunned. Alaya's expression changed first, and he hurried out of the tent and looked in the direction from which the sound came.

The officer followed him out of the camp, and then heard the second explosion from afar. The officer's face changed slightly and he said tremblingly.

"155!"

Alliance's 155!

The impression left by that thing on him was so unforgettable that he would never forget the buzzing feeling in his head.

"You don't need to talk nonsense..." Alaya cursed, took off the walkie-talkie hanging on his shoulder and roared.

The first few rounds of artillery shells were just "school firing"!

There must be guerrilla scouts and communication radio stations near the troops being shelled, reporting the impact points of the bombs! The truth is exactly what Alaya thought.

Soon the boiling sound of artillery exploded on the position of the 7000th Regiment of the 10000th Regiment, giving the Gray Wolf Army a blow to the head that had originally had high morale.

Because the anti-artillery fortifications were not dug in place, the entire thousand-man team suffered heavy casualties. Only 60% of them escaped from the position and were rescued by the 6,000-man team who came for reinforcements.

The first confrontation between the Gray Wolf Army and the Moon Clan Resistance Army ended with the latter's small victory, but the victory or defeat of just one battle was not enough to reverse the latter's disadvantage.

The military strength gap between the two sides is still huge.

Alaya has fifty thousand troops at his disposal, and they are also an elite division equipped with Valantian equipment. Their chief instructor is McClun, the famous general of the Eastern Legion.

As for Lacy, although he relied on a trick of "flooding the army" to destroy the Mammoth State local army, allowing the resistance army to face the Gray Wolf Army's attack intact, but even so, his available troops The total number is just over 20,000, and more than half of them are new recruits.

Although the residents of Golden Gallon Port and even Fries Port have donated tens of millions of silver coins to the Yue Clan Resistance Army, if the latter cannot win on the battlefield, all ideals will ultimately be empty talk...

Golden Gallen Port, the waiting hall of the passenger terminal. Qian Duo from Shuguang City was flipping through the "Survivor Daily" in his hand with great interest.

The Survivor Daily here is completely different from the one in Auroville City. It mainly reports on news that is of interest to the locals. As for the war situation in the Haiyia Province and the matters in the River Valley Province, it only mentions a few things.

As for today.

Nearly every newspaper in King's Harbor focused on the Mammoth State's front. 【...···There are all human and material evidences! Shameless executioner Alaya! 】

[Roger, Secretary-General of the Golden Gallen Port Federation, strongly condemned the barbaric acts of the Imperial Gray Wolf Army. One hundred thousand survivors held up placards to protest against the authorities’ deportation of prisoners of war! 】

[Yodu, the governor-general’s secretary-general who has always refused to express opinions on empire-related affairs, made a rare speech and denounced the empire’s crimes. “It’s not just Stone Village where tragedies occurred. There are countless more places where we can’t see them!”]

[A Chinese teacher from the Southern Sea who did not want to be named expressed shock in an interview: "Shame! I will write to my relatives and friends on the round island, and I will go to the representative meeting to petition! The survivors of the Southern Sea are absolutely Don’t cooperate with cannibals!”]

"More than a hundred villages were burned down, hundreds of thousands of survivors were expelled, and countless people died during the migration...Tsk, tsk, these Xilan people are quite cruel to their own people."

Looking at the shocking photo, Qian Duo couldn't help but click his tongue, but he just clicked his tongue and turned to a new page.

The Mammoth State was where he was going to be soon, and he was waiting for a flight there in an hour. But to be honest, seeing how tragic the fighting situation here was, he felt a little nervous.

One hundred thousand people······

How many thousands are there in Dawn City now? Three hundred thousand?

Or half a million?

If we include the floating population, it would be a bit difficult to calculate.

Han Long, who was sitting next to him, raised his eyelids and said casually.

"Is it the bone-chewing tribe that isn't ruthless, or the mutants from Jinchuan Province who aren't ruthless... It's rare but weird."

"Haha, that's true... But having said that, if the alliance doesn't plan to take action with 50,000 regular troops against 20,000 stragglers, I think this Lacy will probably be doomed." Looking at the next page, he said: Qian Duo smiled and said this casually about the comparison of the strength of the two armies.

"If the alliance takes action, the Legion will probably have to come to an end. Well... it's really not easy to handle." Han Long added thoughtfully.

At this moment, a strange voice suddenly came from beside him. "He can't be finished."

Han Long ignored him, while Qian Duo looked at the person who interrupted the conversation with interest. He saw a man who looked gentle, elegant and easy-going.

He looked like a man of high status, but his attire was not very valuable. There was a suitcase at his feet, and it looked quite big. It was probably going to go a long way.

Curious about what the locals thought, Qian Duo asked curiously. "Oh? Do you think he can win even if the alliance doesn't take action?" Zaid said with a faint smile.

"It depends on how you define winning or losing. If the goal is to defeat Alaya, it won't be a problem for him. But if the goal is to defeat the program proposed by the federation, he has no chance of winning.

Qian Duo laughed.

"What you said is very interesting. My opinion is the opposite of yours. If the Gray Wolf Army loses again, the empire will never be able to turn the tables again, and collapse will only be a matter of time."

Zaid shook his head and spoke clearly.

"You mean Lacy wants to be the emperor? But I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. Even if it's a little feudal here? At least it's more civilized than the current situation where people drink hair and blood... I'm sorry. It’s a bit direct, but to me, an outsider, it’s true.”

After all, they are immortals who can compete with things like the Bone Chewing Tribe that have been buried in the soil. The barren place in Red River Town may be much more advanced than them.

Zaid was not angry, he just smiled lightly and said.

"Everyone can see that Lashi wants to be the emperor, and you are not the only one who can see that. But it is a pity that he does not have this opportunity. The survivors of Borneo Province do not need an emperor, or what the people here have never needed is Emperor, but the final result allowed them to get His Majesty...Of course, what they need is not equality, but someone who can "make decisions for me."

Qian Duo raised his eyebrows with interest.

He had done sufficient market research before coming here, especially after reading Ms. Han Mingyue's survey report repeatedly. What this guy said is completely different from the research results of the alliance scientific expedition team, although it is not completely opposite. "Don't you think Lacy is the one?"

Zaid shook his head. "Obviously not." Qian Duo curiously asked.

"Because he was born a slave?" Zaid shook his head again. "Of course not." Qian Duo asked again. "Then why?"

Zaid looked at the ceiling and thought for a moment. "Because...he wanted to

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Be a good emperor. "

Qian Duo couldn't help laughing.

"What's wrong with that?"

Zaid smiled faintly and did not answer the question directly.

"There is a logical paradox in this land. Let me call it..."The Rat-Man Theorem", or "The Rat-Man Theorem" for short. People who want to be good generals will definitely not be good generals. , Those who want to be a good emperor will definitely not be a good emperor, even if they just want to be a good person, they will definitely not be able to do so. Whether it is Lashi or Wu Tuo, whether it is a young man from the Federation or Wu Tuo's old nobleman, the harder they work, The more you struggle, the more you run counter to your ideals.”

This seemed like a theory he had made up. After all, he had been thinking about the name of this theory for a while.

But in order to better understand the market at his feet, Qian Duo continued to listen with interest. "Sounds like a really hopeless fate."

"is not that right?"

Zaid glanced at the clock on the wall in the waiting room. It seemed that there was still some time, so he continued talking eloquently.

"...The invisible curse entangles everyone on this land, whether it is the rat tribe or the moon tribe. Some people realize the source of the curse, which is the red soil and the city of thousands of pillars, but more importantly Many people just think they realize it, but in fact they don’t understand anything, so they set their eyes on the red soil and the thousand pillars. It’s like picking flowers in the mirror, fishing for the moon in the water, or looking for the moon in the cowshed. Horse."

"The only person who can make decisions for the survivors of Borneo Province is a perfect "saint". They strive for excellence at this point and are even more pious than the believers in Silver Moon Bay, so they finally got their wish." Will... You may say that Lowell died a long time ago, but isn’t that witch Tuo another Lowell?”

"In fact, he never left. He has been cursing the people who buried him in the red soil. Now his children have found a new answer, and it is something they have never thought of before, which is what you gave them "equality'. "

He lowered his eyebrows and sighed quietly.

"Everything seemed beautiful, but unfortunately the curse broke out, or the "Rat Man Theorem" came into effect - a mouse who longed to be a good person couldn't even be a good mouse. When all the survivors of Borneo Province deliberately When they unintentionally long for "equality," they will eventually get something completely opposite."

Qian Duo was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile and a joke.

"If there were such a perfect saint, let alone you, we would also need... You don't have to say laziness is something unique to you.

Zaid smiled and shook his head.

"You don't actually need it, you are just talking. You are completely different from us. Let me give you the simplest example. If it is in Borneo Province, a group of people may not look serious, but in general they are doing People who do bad things are not liked by anyone and will go to hell."

"Are you talking about the residents of the shelter?" Qian Duo took a look around, and there happened to be a few blue jackets nearby, and then said with a smile, "I think the people in Golden Gallon Port also like them quite a lot."

Zaid said softly.

"That's because they haven't left yet... Moreover, you see that Golden Gallon Port seems to have been transformed well, and it seems that they have finally got the equality they dreamed of, but in fact they don't realize that they just finally found it." Someone who can make the decision for them, or a group of people who can rest their exhausted souls.”

This sounds like saying that the survivors in Borneo are all spiritualists, but the "Survivor Daily" in Golden Gallen Port advocates materialism, just like the Alliance.

Qian Duo raised his eyebrows with interest, although he didn't agree with his point of view at all.

"Your inference is interesting, but it has no basis... In fact, you might as well follow Ms. Han Mingyue's example and write your inference into a more organized paper and publish it. We look forward to the debate between you."

Zaid suddenly laughed.

"That kind of thing doesn't make any sense. Will you write the specific steps to make money in a newspaper? And don't forget the Rat Man Theorem I said. I don't want to be the first victim of this paradox. I will pay for it." And too many people have died. Time will prove my judgment... My flight is about to arrive, I wish you a pleasant journey."

As he spoke, he picked up his suitcase and stood up from his seat. Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he looked at Qian Duo with a smile and took off his hat.

"In addition, the Mammoth State is indeed a great place, and I am also optimistic about the future there."

Leaving the surprised alliance businessman behind, Zaid walked to the security checkpoint. There seemed to be some argument between him and the people there, but he finally went up.

Qian Duo looked at Han Long beside him and said excitedly.

"Damn...this guy has something. He actually saw that we were going to Mammoth State for inspection?" Interesting guy.

He should have asked for his name.

Han Long stared at the man's back for a while, and his electronic eyes swayed left and right.

"I only care about the boss's business... Speaking of which, this person doesn't seem to be very optimistic about Lacy? Do we still need to go?"

Qian Duo laughed and said.

"It's his opinion that he is not optimistic about it. There are many people in this world who have different opinions from us. Don't let a passerby's bullshit affect your judgment. What's more, our opinions are not all opposite. At least he is optimistic about Mammoth. State, this is the same as mine.”

If Lister Group wants to keep up with the trend of the times, it must expand its overseas business like Baiyue Company and join the new supply chain that is taking shape.

In the future, the products of the Alliance will no longer be produced only in the two industrial zones of Dawn City and Boulder City. The invisible logistics network will connect all the backward and advanced productivity in the Sticky Community.

However, although business expansion is critical, risk control is even more critical.

And this was exactly why Liszt asked him to go to Mammoth City, but he put his first stop at Golden Gallon Harbor. Only the nouveau riche only focus on the rate of return.

Before considering the benefits, he must first find a way out.

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