What do you mean the games you make are all real?!

"War? Are there still wars going on? Aren't there peace propaganda online every day?" Zhou Luo muttered to himself, a look of confusion on his face. After all, war was something that was far too distant for him.

"You just don't understand."

Shu Yiheng put down his chopsticks, leaned forward slightly, and lowered his voice, as if he were sharing some unspeakable secret.

"Online propaganda is propaganda, but localized small-scale conflicts have been ongoing for the past few years. Haven't you noticed that oil prices dropped a bit last year and this year?"

"It seems so. The price of oil skyrocketed the year before last. Back then, I only rode a bicycle when I went out. I just left the bike at home as a decoration. I couldn't afford to fill up the gas tank. I would rather ride my bicycle for two kilometers than step on the gas pedal. But I heard that the price of oil in the neighboring country has taken off in the last two years," Zhou Luo replied.

"This is because the production of the oil field jointly developed by our country and the neighboring country along the border has been declining in recent years, making it impossible to supply both countries at the same time. Then, the neighboring country took advantage of our inattention and directly seized that oil field and stationed troops there, which led to the surge in our oil prices in the past few years."

"But the year before last, we sent special forces to reclaim that oil field, which is why oil prices dropped," Shu Yiheng said mysteriously.

"Really?" Zhou Luo's eyes widened instantly.

"If you don't believe me, ask Brother Kai. He's a special forces soldier, so he definitely knows more."

After he finished speaking, everyone's eyes turned to Liao Yunkai. Zhou Luo asked softly, "Brother Kai, is this true?"

Liao Yunkai fell silent. He touched his broken leg and after a long while, he finally spoke, "It's true."

Because the world has been at peace for so long, each country doesn't have many soldiers, but the vast majority of their troops are special forces, and Liao Yunkai used to be one of them.

He also participated in the oil field battle back then, and it was in that battle that he lost both legs forever. After retiring from the military, the country provided him with extremely generous treatment, and he had no worries about food and clothing.

However, he didn't want to be a cripple confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, so he started playing virtual games, where he could still walk briskly and act like a normal person.

Battlefield is the game he is most familiar with and plays the most. In fact, a map in the game called Blackwell Oilfield was built based on his battle in the oilfield.

He kept revising the image, imagining how much better he could have done back then.

Later, relying on his experience as a former special forces soldier and his understanding of the map, he gradually became a top streamer for "Battlefield Vanguard".

"Is Battlefield Vanguard really a training ground? Will we be dragged into wars with people from other countries in the future?!" Zhou Luo asked anxiously, a question that was currently generating a lot of discussion online.

Some say that Battlefield Vanguard is a training software secretly developed by the military to train all players into reserve soldiers without their knowledge.

The real weapon data in the game is provided by the military, with the aim of allowing civilians to familiarize themselves with weapon operation in advance.

Some people say that once war breaks out, all high-ranking players of Battlefield Vanguard will receive a conscription notice.

"I don't know..." Liao Yunkai shook his head.

He genuinely didn't know whether "Battlefield Vanguard" was a training ground. He had been out of the military for many years and had lost contact with his former comrades. Such highly confidential information could not possibly have reached his ears.

However, he still had some doubts. The oil field battle of that year was not an isolated case; similar conflicts had broken out in many countries.

He had even heard that two small countries had not seen rain for a month, their rivers had dried up, their reservoirs had run dry, and their crops had begun to wither and die on a large scale.

Finally, in the struggle for a single cross-border water source, the two armies faced off on the border for three days and three nights, almost coming to blows.

The contradictions between countries have been accumulating for a long time, but they have been forcibly suppressed and are unknown to the general public.

But he knew that this pent-up resentment, suppressed to the extreme, would eventually explode.

"I hope Battlefield Vanguard is just a game, and I hope you will never have to go to the battlefield," Liao Yunkai said.

He fought in wars and still plays Battlefield Vanguard for 12 hours every day, charging into battle with a gun in the game. He has used all kinds of weapons, including grenades, rocket launchers, tanks, and airplanes, and has seen all kinds of scenes.

To many, he seemed extremely belligerent, as if he were born for the battlefield.

But he knew he was simply trapped on that day.

Every time he played the oil field map, it felt like he was back in that smoke-filled afternoon, as if just one more game, one more win, could change something.

But at the end of each round, when the words "Victory" popped up on the screen, he looked down and saw only those two empty trouser legs.

A game is just a game.

It's completely different from a real war.

In a game, if you die, you can press the revive button to get back up. But on a real battlefield, a bullet to the chest will knock you down. There's no countdown for you, and no revive button.

In Liao Yunkai's view, sending people who have only played video games to fight is tantamount to sending them to their deaths.

Liao Yunkai's words silenced everyone around him.

"Alright, let's stop talking about this and eat. The food's getting cold," Shu Yiheng said, then served food to the people around him.

The people around stopped thinking about the previous question and started discussing new topics.

"Battlefield 2 is coming out soon, and I heard that all the weapons and rifles in it are automatic, so you don't have to pull the bolt anymore."

"Really? An automatic rifle? That's awesome! My hand is about to get tendonitis from pulling the bolt."

"I'm looking forward to the new vehicles. I heard that tanks will be equipped with fire control aiming and automatic loaders, so we won't have to suffer the pain of carrying ammunition anymore. Last time I did a live stream, it took me a full five minutes to carry ammunition, and the chat was full of comments like, 'Are you here to carry bricks or to fight a war?'"

"I'm looking forward to the submachine gun; although its range is short, it's absolutely unbeatable for flanking and ambushing enemies!"

The new topic has once again drawn everyone's attention, as it concerns everyone's future live streaming career.

Just as they were having a heated discussion, the door was pushed open and a middle-aged man in a suit walked in.

"Boss, what brings you here?" Everyone was a little surprised to see the middle-aged man who came in, because it was Tan Qianfan, the boss of their live streaming company. Usually, he would be outside discussing business cooperation and recruiting male friends for them, the streamers.

"Since everyone's here, I have an announcement to make. For the next two days, you'll no longer be streaming Battlefield Vanguard. Starting tonight, you'll be streaming Miteng's Resident Evil: Raccoon City."