Chapter 441: When foes meet on a narrow path, the brave shall prevail! March forward! |
Desolate! Grim!
At this moment, Shanghai Avenue was completely empty!
A bleak wind swept up a newspaper, which drifted unintentionally into Big Bro A+'s hands. The paper contained somewhat obscure content, very briefly introducing the game.
The newspaper was already somewhat old and wrinkled, clearly not from the current day.
The level of detail was incredible.
Big Bro marveled inwardly.
He never would have imagined that even a seemingly insignificant corner of newspaper in the environment settings would have such detailed content created by Golden Wind.
Rip—
As another whirlwind blew through, the newspaper was swept away.
The cold light rays reflected off the glass curtain walls of the towering buildings, emanating an icy blue glow.
Although, like reality, the current season in the game was late spring and early summer.
But the grim chill of this cold light still pierced like a steel blade, making one shiver involuntarily.
This was the first time he had felt the temperature of light.
And this was precisely one of the major features of the Golden Engine—environmental lighting rendering.
Gu Sheng understood clearly that in terms of visual quality, given their current capabilities, they simply couldn't reach the level of the Illusion Engine.
So, the team shifted their optimization goals instead, focusing their development efforts on environmental lighting effects rendering.
And this bleak, grim lighting was precisely the Golden Engine's specialty.
On the empty avenue, the dark clouds of war rolled heavily, the bone-chilling cold light intertwined with the concrete and steel forest, creating an overwhelming sense of impending battle crisis.
Besides lighting, the powerful distant rendering capability was also one of the engine's characteristics.
Through the gaps between buildings, players could see the surging rolling river, the Pearl Tower standing tall in the distant mist, and even more, the Central Tower standing on the artificial island in the Bund at the center of the combat zone.
Majestic and grand!
And just at this moment!
In the team voice chat, someone from an unknown squad suddenly began humming a song softly:
"If the motherland is invaded, men of passion must strengthen themselves..."
Perhaps it was just fooling around, or perhaps they felt the atmosphere was appropriate and were just singing casually for fun.
But unexpectedly!
The next moment!
From several squads, numerous people actually joined in the singing!
"Drink this bowl of hometown wine..."
"Brave men go forth never to return..."
Immediately after!
As if with natural chemistry!
The singing grew increasingly resolute, more and more squads joining this chorus!
["...Let blood dye the most beautiful flower, spill it upon my chest..."]
Suddenly the wind rose!
Rumble rumble—!
At this moment, tank tracks began roaring into motion, carrying the surging torrent of war, rolling forward!
Armored vehicles roared, load-bearing wheels turned, advancing toward the combat zone!
Armed Helicopters took off, sweeping through the sky like eagles!
Above in the sky, roaring sounds were heard as the Z20 pierced through the heavens like an unsheathed sharp sword!
Between city streets, the sounds of infantry advancing played out, the forward footsteps like heavy hammers beating war drums!
Stomp—stomp—stomp—stomp—!
Though the singing wasn't professional, the chorus of dozens of people was enough to be called earth-shaking!
["Flags flutter! Bugles sound!"]
["Swords drawn, thunder and lightning flash!"]
["It has always been that when narrow paths meet, the brave prevail!"]
["Forward march! Forward march! Forward march—!!!"]
"Brothers—!"
In the all-team voice chat, from the foremost infantry fighting vehicle, a fierce battle cry erupted:
"Recapture the riverbank! Protect our home and defend our country!"
Whoosh—!
As these words were spoken, the entire red team's voice channel instantly exploded!
"Protect our home and defend our country! Kill—!!!"
"Draw swords when meeting enemies—fuck them up—!!!"
"Charge charge charge—!!!"
Rumble—!
The battle group advanced, the great battle began!
Boom—!!!
At this moment, the game was filled with excitement, and the exhibition venue was even more sensational!!!
"Holy—shit—!!!"
"This is way too fucking hype damn!"
'The lead singer is the absolute best hahahahaha...'
'No way this is way too satisfying!'
'The war atmosphere is so strong, really awesome, and the visuals don't seem much worse than games made with the Illusion Engine either...'
'Even better than Illusion Engine in lighting and distant rendering?'
'I can see it, Little Yellow Engine's overall atmosphere creation is stronger'
'So fierce!'
'Far ahead!'
'Gaia—I'm so pissed—I was just one position away from joining the battle!'
"Hahahaha regret to death..."
......
Utterly explosive!
And now!
In the game, both sides had occupied points closer to their respective positions.
The red team's main base was stationed on the south side of the map, closer to Residential Area Point A and Subway Station Point B.
The blue team's main base was stationed on the north side of the map, closer to Multi-level Mall Point D and Cafe Point E.
Thus, the Central Tower at Point C standing on the artificial island at the very center of the map became particularly important.
After all, with five point design, it was absolutely impossible for both sides to have balanced confrontation.
The central Point C would either be mine or yours.
Whoever occupied it could, to a greater extent, wear down the enemy's forces and drive them off the riverbank.
This was a strategically vital location that military commanders must contest.
So, after both sides left small forces to occupy their own points, the first shot of the war was fired on the main road outside the Central Tower!
—Boom!!!
The red team's main battle tank fired a shell!
The shell accurately hit the blue team tank's frontal armor!
Instantly, flames shot into the sky, the entire ground shaking from the impact!
And inside the tank, Ma Teacher and Tuanzi cheered together:
"Awesome shot, master!"
"Yixixi—little boss, let Lippi—"
However!
Before their cheers even finished!
—!
They heard the roar of cannon fire!
Boom—!!!
Ma Teacher and his apprentice felt the entire tank body shake violently. With haptic technology enhancement, the intense explosion even caused temporary ringing in their ears!
Looking through the monitor, they saw the enemy tank was actually largely unharmed—that previous shot was their counterattack!
But that wasn't all!
The next second!
Beep beep beep—!!!
Suddenly, Ma Teacher and the other heard the vehicle's alarm sound blare abruptly. Two lock-on indicators from different directions were actually targeting them simultaneously!
Ma Teacher didn't even see where the weapons locking onto them were!
Whoosh—boom boom—!!!
Two infantry anti-tank missiles trailing plumes slammed into their vehicle body, flames instantly shooting skyward!
"Retreat! Retreat! Master, fall back!"
—
With a loud blast, under Tuanzi's control, smoke screens shot out, spreading a smoke curtain in front of their tank, instantly blocking the enemy main battle tank's vision and avoiding the anti-tank rocket launchers' lock.
Rumble rumble—
As the tracks rolled, the now smoking tank retreated in disarray, and Tuanzi at the machine gun position trembled all over!
So terrifying.
Actually, as the assistant gunner, she should have launched smoke screens to interfere with the lock when enemy anti-tank weapons targeted them.
But.
That enemy tank shell had truly stunned her.
Even though she was inside the tank, that violent explosion and impact was absolutely not something ordinary shooting games could deliver.
The performance of modern war machines far exceeded the power she had only seen in videos and pictures before.
Facing the main battle tank's terrifying 120mm smoothbore cannon, the immense psychological pressure was no less than standing on railway tracks watching a roaring train charge toward you.
"Sorry sorry..."
Panting heavily, Tuanzi also repeatedly apologized in the squad voice chat:
"That was my fault just now, didn't react in time."
But before her words even finished, XTT's voice came through the voice chat:
"No problem no problem! Great smoke, Tuanzi! Brother Qiezi and I are already in the point!"
Huh???
Hearing this, Tuanzi was stunned and pulled up the map interface.
Sure enough, she saw that on the previously gray Point C, the red representing Huaguo had actually started the capture progress bar!
By sheer accident!
It turned out that Tuanzi's smoke screen not only covered their vehicle team's retreat but also directly blocked the blue team machine gunner's line of sight.
So, seizing the opportunity, XTT and Qiezi along with another pure infantry squad quickly dashed into the building and began capturing the point.
"Stealing the chicken, eh XTT!"
Instantly, the chat barrage filled with laughter:
'So sneaky'
'Smoke screen transition—the self-cultivation of an old PUBG player'
'Conditioned reflex, is it?'
'Chicken-stealing squad'
'What kind of talk is that! Tactics, understand! Modern warfare is all about tactics!'
'Tactical penetration, bloodline awakening it is'
"Hahahahaha..."
......
However!
Before the livestream viewers finished laughing!
Rat-a-tat—!!!
Suddenly!
Thunderous gunfire erupted abruptly around the Central Tower's periphery!
Although the brief chaos had given the red team the initiative, the quickly recovering blue team immediately assembled a full four squads and launched a fire assault surrounding the building!
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat—
Tut-tut—
! Bam! Bam!
Instantly, gunfire exploded through the Central Tower's first-floor lobby!
Watching a comrade hiding behind a square table to his left front get covered by enemy fire and instantly fall, Qiezi couldn't help but roar:
"DNM return fire! Return fire! XTT cover me! I'm gonna fucking open up with sweeping fire!!!"
Saying this!
With a clang sound!
As the combat engineer, Qiezi deployed the tripod of his Type 88 heavy machine gun, set it up on the marble counter, and fiercely pulled the trigger!
"WDNMD! Let me set this up, damn blue team couldn't bring a whole division up here!!!"
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat—!!!