This Game Is Too Realistic

The raging flames climbed up to the wooden eaves, illuminating the 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 river 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 those who can survive in settlements or on the edges of 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 profit, and the empire usually doesn't bother to pay attention to them. Apart from collecting taxes, they usually just let them destroy 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. 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 of more than half a hundred people sat slumped on the ground, looking up at the tall centurion, crying with snot and tears.

"Sir, we are living better here. You set this place on fire. Where shall we live..."

The centurion looked at him expressionlessly and said coldly.

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

The old man begged and said.

"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, "Why don't you just find a manor and sell yourself... don't cry so much, you old man It’s time for things to be buried.”

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

"Okay, it's for your own good that there is a banditry here and I 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 and kept talking. However, he forgot about the identity of the military master in front of him, and even more about what the Yue people meant to the empire. .

Hearing this, the centurion 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 him to 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 green boy in the village wanted to go up and stop him, but he was so stared at by the murderous gaze that he did not dare to move forward. He could only watch the village elder 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 movement of the resistance forces, he steadily opened up the front 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 wasn't 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 livestock sheds 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 current situation in Borneo Province, 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 Yongliu River when they were outside Jinqilun Port City, it was not a problem for them to deal with a group of poorly 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 much better half a year ago. Just go.

After venting their fury on the weaklings 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 then led the camp to claim credit as the heads of the rebels. went.

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 wild beast-like path is just like the wolves crying and ghosts howling on the Shifeng Mountain.

Not even more generous...

"...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 following him. Everyone was holding on to the rifles in their hands, eager to rush forward and devour the centurion alive.

Especially the young man named Udi, if his companions hadn't pulled him, he might have already rushed forward.

"There are too many of them... We only have ten people and 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 young man with freckles looked at him and asked in a low voice.

"What should we do?"

"You take Udi with you, 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, "You go north and tell the villagers what is going on here. Tell the people from the empire to come." If you see someone, kill them. 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 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 ravines 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... Remember, you have to All villages within half a day’s journey have been notified!”

The six young men nodded solemnly, got into the bushes nearby and carefully touched 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're lucky, you might be able to find a chance to fuck them a few 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 in the early days, he was still the God of War revered by thousands of people.

In just half a day, 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 at Jinlun Port. Those poor people who lived in and out of the country killed his scouts, sold his information, and deliberately destroyed the trenches for a few silver coins. When the grave was being dug, his soldiers were unable to reach out of the trench with their hands above their heads.

There are also reed marshes by 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 this bunch of 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 in charge of strengthening the wall and clearing the country walked into the tent, looked at General Alaya standing in front of the map, bowed 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 Jinlun Port with him were also trained by the Alliance. What this group of people are best at is intersecting, infiltrating, breaking them into parts, and using less to defeat more... In Luoxia When we were in Ting Province and River Valley Ting Province, those people used 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 up the corner of his mouth and continued, "Don't expect a quick victory. It will take at least three or four months to completely wipe out them. 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 at Fang Yan from whom the voice came.

The officer followed him out of the camp, and then heard the second explosion from afar.

His face changed slightly, and the officer said tremblingly.

"155mm!"

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 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 under shelling to report the impact points!

The truth is exactly what Alaya thought.

The boiling sound of the cannon 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.

Due to insufficient anti-artillery digging, 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 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 men were only in their early 20,000s, and more than half of them were new soldiers.

Although the residents of Jinqilun Port and even Friesport 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...

…

In the waiting hall of the passenger terminal at Jinlun Port, Qian Duo from Shuguang City was looking through the "Survivor Daily" in his hand with great interest.

The survivor daily here is completely different from the version in Auroville City. If it reports some news that is of interest to the locals, it only mentions a few things about the war situation in the Haiyia Province and the Valley Province.

As for the day.

Almost all newspapers in Port Campbell focused on the front line in Mammoth State.

【...The witnesses and evidence are all there! Shameless executioner Alaya! 】

[Roger, Secretary-General of the Jinqilun Port Association, strongly condemned the barbaric behavior 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 Secretary-General of the Governor-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 so many places that we can’t see!”]

[An anonymous language teacher from the Southern Sea expressed shock in an interview: "Shame! I will write to my relatives and friends on the roundabout, and I will go to the representative meeting to petition! Survivors from the Southern Sea Never 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 clicked his tongue, but he just clicked his tongue and turned to a new page.

Mammoth State is where he wants to go soon, and he is waiting for a flight to go 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 Shuguang City?

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 is not ruthless, or the mutants from Jinchuan Province are not ruthless... It's rare to see more strange things."

"Haha, that's true... But having said that, if the Alliance doesn't plan to take action between 50,000 regular troops and 20,000 stragglers, I think this city will probably be doomed." Looking at the comparison of the strength of the two armies on the next page, In contrast, Qian Duo said this casually with a smile.

"If the alliance takes action, the legion will probably have to 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 handsome, elegant and easy-going man.

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 somewhere far away.

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 smiled faintly and said in a soft voice.

"It depends on how you define winning or losing. If the goal is to defeat Alaya, it will be fine 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.

"Our views do not actually conflict, but 'collapse of the empire' and 'realization of the Federation's program' are two different things."

Qian Duo became more and more interested in this guy and said with a smile.

"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 much clearer than the current look of people drinking blood... Sorry What I said is a bit direct, but it seems true to me as an outsider.”

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 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, it’s just that the final result allowed them to get His Majesty... Of course, what they need is not a waiter, but someone who can do it 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 over and over again.

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 Yu again.

"Then why?"

Zaid looked at the Tianyun board and thought for a while.

"Because... he wants to 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. People who want to be good generals will not be able to become good generals." A person who is a good emperor will never be a good emperor, even if he just wants to be a good person, he will definitely not be able to be a good emperor. Whether it is Lashi or Wu Tuo, whether it is the young man from the Federation or the old nobleman of Wu Tuo, the harder they work, the more they struggle. , the more they will run counter to their own 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."

"Isn't it?"

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 they are the rat tribe or the moon tribe. Some people realize that the source of the curse is the red earth and the city of thousands of pillars, but more people just think that they are I realized that I actually didn’t understand anything, so I set my sights on the red soil, and on the thousand pillars. It’s like picking a rhinoceros in the mirror, fishing for the moon in the water, or looking for a horse in the cowshed.”

"The only person who can do anything 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 what they wished for. Rowell... You may say that Rowell died a long time ago, but isn't that Wu Tuo another Rowell? "

"In fact, he never left. The red earth has always cursed the people who buried him. If his children find a new answer, and it is something they have never thought of before, that is, you will give them 'Etc.'

He lowered his eyebrows and sighed quietly.

"Everything seems wonderful, but unfortunately the curse has struck, or the 'Rat Man Theorem' has taken effect - a mouse who longs to be a good person can't even be a good mouse. When all the survivors of Borneo Province are interested, When they unintentionally long for 'wait', they will eventually get the exact opposite."

Qian Duo was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said teasingly.

"If there were such a perfect saint, let alone you, we would need one too... 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 the Borneo Province, a group of people may not look serious, but in general they are People who do good things are not liked by anyone and will go to hell.”

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

Zaid said softly.

"That's because they haven't left yet... Moreover, you see that Jinlun Port seems to have been renovated well, and it seems that they finally got what they dreamed of, but in fact they didn't realize that they just finally found a way to The people who do it for them, or the group of people who can support their exhausted souls.”

This sounds like saying that the survivors of Borneo Province are all idealists, but the "Survivor Daily" in Jinlian 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 without any basis... In fact, you might as well follow Ms. Han Mingyue's example and write your inference into a more organized argument 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 the newspaper? And don't forget the Rat Man Theorem I mentioned. 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 tell my judgment... My flight is coming, 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 it...this guy has something. He actually sees that we are 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... Having said that, doesn't this person seem to like Lacy? Do we still need to go?"

Qian Duo laughed and said.

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

If Lister Group wants to keep up with the trend of the times, it must expand its overseas business like Baiyue Company and enter 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 community.

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

And this is why Liszt asked him to go to Mammoth City, but he put the first stop at Jinqilun Port.

Only the nouveau riche only focus on the rate of return.

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