Chapter 408 312 No Casualties

At this moment, the shock is far greater than the pain in my heart.

In fact, there is nothing to be sad about, because this is only the content of the first level. For several friendly forces, Yamada Masaharu has just met and known each other, and the relationship is not deep.

It can only be said that this time the old thief Furuhara's knife-throwing level has declined.

Don't you understand? The most important point that can make players heartbroken is to let these characters build feelings with the players.

It is impossible to arouse great resonance by using knives in such a short time.

However, it is definitely impossible to say that there is no ripple in the heart.

Pokeni's visual expression is there.

However, the reason why Yamada Masaharu feels shaken in his heart is largely because of the expression method of Paradox, which is very emotionally infectious.

So sometimes the expression method is also very important.

But it is definitely not enough to have expression alone, there must be time, and time is the most terrible force in the world.

It can make your emotions settle down, and then through subtle influence, these characters will be rooted in your heart. Once they are pulled out, there will be a huge void when the roots are pulled out from your heart after being fermented by time.

That kind of heart-piercing pain is not comparable to the performance at the end of the first level now.

This is also why sometimes words can make people feel more touched than pictures. It is not necessarily because the words give you more imagination, nor because the pictures are not good enough, but it may be that the words accompany you for a longer time and last longer.

This is the power of time.

…

Shoji Yamada was stunned for a long time.

I thought, could pokeni be a tradition learned from Fire Emblem?

As long as the friendly unit is killed, it is really killed in the entire game, and there is no way to use it in the future?

Is it the wrong way to operate?

In fact, the previous 4 friendly aircraft can be saved?

Fortunately, the game can load the archive.

Keeping his curiosity, Shoji Yamada tried it again.

It was still the same ending, and all 4 friendly aircraft were destroyed.

This is too fragile. It feels like one of them will be blown up soon if the enemy approaches.

The only difference is that the order of their last words is different according to the order of death of different friendly aircraft.

Yamada Masaharu tried several times, but found that he could not arrive before they died to help them clear the nearby enemies.

In other words, this was deliberately designed by Paradox, but it was expressed in a normalized way of playing.

Damn it!

…

There is no way, Yamada Masaharu's efforts are ineffective, and he can only continue to the next level.

In the game, enter the cutscene.

The setting sun is like blood.

The whole sky is dyed with a layer of beautiful red, and the sunset is particularly beautiful, just like a girl's gauze skirt, swaying in the sky.

On the battlefield, there is a creaking mechanical sound. It is the scavenger mecha [Fido] that is cleaning the battlefield and clearing the wreckage of the mecha.

This guy jumped up and down, picking and choosing, and selected some useful parts to put in his reserve box.

Fedor

"Crack, crack, crack..."

The voice of the superior officer mixed with noise came out intermittently from the earphone thrown aside, which was a great spoiler in the cool breeze of the setting sun.

"Caller Controller No. 1 calling all members of the team. Do you hear me?

First Team, please answer if you hear me."

The male protagonist Xin Yenozan leaned against the body of the chrysalis-like organism and reached into the cockpit with the hatch open, pressing the radio call button.

"The Undertaker calls Controller No. 1. The enemy's attacking force has been annihilated and it has been confirmed that the enemy force has retreated.

The operation is over, prepare to return to the team."

"The Undertaker.

Well, there are several people besides the noble officer."

"The call is over."

Before he finished asking the question that he shouldn't have asked and didn't need to ask, he cut off the radio and turned his eyes back to the outside of the cockpit.

In the setting sun, in the endless sea of ​​red poppies, scattered with smoke, the remains of steel beasts and four-legged spiders with exposed mechanical organs, cast long and thin shadows.

This is the tragic end of the enemy and the friendly forces.

There are no living creatures on the battlefield.

Looking around, apart from the corpses, there are only the dead souls who are dead but still alive in the world.

It is so quiet that it makes people feel cold.

The sun slowly sinks into the other side of the grassland, and a horizontal line of red light shines through the mountain range that is like a black shadow.

In the dead world that is reflected in red, or should it be said that it is stained with black shadows, he and his plane are the only objects that can move.

The slender legs that imitate the structure of arthropods, the yellowed white armor with countless scars, are equipped with a high-frequency knife that looks like scissors, and the main gun on the back.

The overall outline resembles a wandering spider, and the four-legged trunk with a long gun barrel on its back looks like a scorpion.

Some people think that its shape is like a human body without a head, like a skeletal corpse crawling back and forth on the battlefield, looking for its missing head.

He exhaled deeply, leaned his body against the armor that began to cool down due to the cold wind at dusk, and huddled up to look up at the blazing sky.

In a distant eastern country, a flower was born from the blood shed by the Overlord's concubine when she committed suicide.

There is also a saying that it was born from the blood river of the knights who were slaughtered in the past because they could not resist the invasion of barbarians.

Looking around, the battlefield was full of blooming poppies. The bright red color was so beautiful under the setting sun that burned the sky.

…

Xin Yenozan looked for a while, and then inspected the mechas of the friendly forces one by one.

One of them had been bombarded to pieces by artillery fire, and it could almost be described as a puddle of mud.

Xin shook his head and continued to walk to the next one with a calm face.

The main body of this mecha had been smashed to pieces, but it could be judged that part of the main body of the cockpit was still intact.

He opened the hatch from the outside.

So the team members inside immediately fell down.

It was the red-haired girl.

Xin took a look, then took out the pistol expressionlessly and shot her in the forehead.

Bang!

The sound in the game rang out, and directly frightened Yamada Masaharu.

His controller was almost blown off.

What was he doing?

Yamada Masaharu could not understand, and was only a little shocked.

It was obvious that the red-haired girl was dead, so why did Xin shoot her in the head?

Next, Xin continued to find the next one, opened the hatch, and continued to shoot.

Finally, he walked to the mecha with the blue short-haired girl.

He sighed and opened the hatch.

The short-haired girl inside, with a round and cute face, was illuminated by the setting sun, and half of her face was covered with blood stains, but the corners of her mouth were still slightly raised.

It seemed that she was waiting for something.

Seeing this, Yamada Masaharu could not help but feel moved.

Bang! ! !

The gunshot rang out, Xin finished the last thing, and then returned to his mecha.

On the side of the mecha of [Destroyer], there is a special mark, which is carved out bit by bit with a knife or something, and looks like a headless knight carrying a shovel.

[Undertaker]

At this moment, Yamada Masaharu suddenly understood the origin of the protagonist's nickname.

I originally thought it was too fierce, burying the enemy, but I didn't expect that he would bury his own people after they died.

It's really ironic...

...

How should I put it?

Although it is the end of the first level, and there is only the prologue, but here.

Yamada Masaharu can feel the cruelty of the bloody battlefield.

...

So far, the controllers who have been in contact with Xin have basically either suffered mental breakdown, gone crazy, or completely fled because they could not bear the emotional and mental impact brought by the front line.

This time it is the same situation. Since all members of the first team except Xin were killed in the front line, Xin will be incorporated into other troops.

And the previous controllers were relieved because they no longer had to continue to contact Xin.

It was almost like a runaway posture to resign.

But Xin didn't seem to care too much, because these controllers were all cowards anyway.

It didn't make any difference whether they were there or not, because he would still be entrusted with the command in the end.

I wonder what the next controller would look like?

Xin thought.

But he quickly smiled.

Those white races, it would be the same no matter who replaced them. There was no difference at all.

...

The screen went black, and the perspective changed.

In the picture, there stood a girl with long white hair, wearing a neat uniform, looking up at the sky, listening to the battle report from the big screen in the square.

Wow, so beautiful.

Reina:

Although he had seen Reina's appearance in the start menu, when he saw her image again, Yamada Masaharu couldn't help but sigh.

The original artist of pokeni is really amazing.

Who was the original artist this time?

Is it Makoto Niitsu?

Reina's appearance was exactly what he imagined a beautiful girl to look like in the second dimension.

With delicate features and a heroic temperament, he exudes an indescribable powerful charm.

…

There were no casualties on that battlefield.

“Next, I will report today’s battle situation to you.”

“The Imperial UAV “Legion” mecha unit that invaded the 17th War Zone suffered a devastating blow and retreated under the attack of the autonomous unmanned combat machine “Destroyer” that my Santa Magnolia Santa Mar is proud of.

Our damage was minimal, and there were no casualties today."

At the same time, the heroine's inner monologue also sounded:

[The peaceful and beautiful street scene of Belte Ade Ecalite, the capital of San Magnolia, in the first district of San Magnolia, does not show that this is a country that has experienced nine years of war.]

The majestic stone high-rise buildings have exquisite carvings on the chalk exterior walls.

The green street trees and the antique black cast iron street lights, coupled with the spring sunshine and the blue sky, form a beautiful and picturesque contrast.

The coffee shop on the corner is full of students and couples with naturally shining silver hair chatting and laughing.

Flying in the wind on the blue roof of the town hall is the portrait flag of the revolutionary saint Magnolia and the five-color flag of San Magnolia, the national flag, which symbolizes freedom and equality, fraternity, justice and nobility.

In front of them was the main avenue, which was built under the guidance of a meticulous urban plan. It was wide and straight, and every inch was paved with exquisite stone bricks.

The little boy with bright moon-silver eyes walked past the girl, holding his parents' hands and laughing.

Judging from their elaborate attire, they must be going out to play.

After watching the happy family go away, Reina's smile faded from her silver eyes, and she turned her gaze back to the holographic street screen.

She was wearing a dark blue San Magnolia female officer's standing collar uniform.

The sixteen-year-old girl had a beautiful face like white snow, as slender and exquisite as a glass sculpture, and her elegant manners also showed good family education.

Her slightly wavy, silky, shining silver hair, and a pair of big eyes of the same color under her long eyelashes, were inherited from one of the white species that settled here long before the birth of San Magnolia, and were also ironclad evidence of the silver bloodline that was once regarded as a noble species.

"Under the control of wise commanders, high-performance drones are used to conduct combat, making it possible to eliminate the need for manpower in the most dangerous front lines.

It also proves that the humane and advanced combat system of San Magnolia is indeed effective.

I believe that before the deadline of the "Legion" being completely stopped in two years, the justice organization of San Magnolia will have defeated the evil legacy of the country's destruction. Long live San Magnolia.

May glory be to the five-color flag. "

The snowflake-type female anchor with snow-white hair and eyes smiled proudly, casting a shadow on Reina's expression.

Since the war began, this unrealistic rather than optimistic war situation report has been staged every day.

Although they were forced to give up more than half of their territory just half a month after the war began, and now, nine years later, San Magnolia has not pushed the front line back a bit, such reports still make most people believe it.

That's right.

Now on the battlefield, there are no soldiers who are officially recognized as human beings, and no martyrs who are listed as dead.

However.

"It's not true that no one sacrificed."

Reina gritted her teeth and growled softly.

You know, those guys are living people with flesh and blood, just like us!

...

Those pilots have never been reported as soldiers. Each of them has their own code name or nickname, and no one wants to know their names.

No one will ask them what their names are to prevent unnecessary emotional breakdowns.

There are 86 areas in San Magnolia, 85 of which are protected by the Iron Curtain, which is a thick wall fortification, and the area outside is Area 86.

Area 86 is the front line of San Magnolia and also a buffer zone, which is used to resist the attack of the Empire's legions.

And the humans fighting in Area 86 are all called 86.

In the remaining 85 areas, all are white humans, they have white hair, silver eyes, and look beautiful and noble.

In San Magnolia, they believe in white supremacy, so people of other races are driven outside the Iron Curtain.

Of course, those 86s have never been regarded as humans by them.

Seeing this, hearing the conversation between Reina and others.

Shoji Yamada couldn't help but frowned.

He was angry in his heart.

These guys...

They do look pretty good, but they are just a bunch of idiots to do such things, okay? !

…

The interpretation of this part is more like a galgame.

Throughout the game, snow-white streets appeared. In this quiet city, there are cafes, parks, squares, city halls, headquarters, etc.

Yamada Masaharu is now controlling a white-haired girl named [Reina], who is also the heroine in the game.

He took a look at the map and chose to walk towards the headquarters.

This palace, as well as the large fortress group "Iron Curtain" that surrounds all administrative districts, is where all the San Magnolia soldiers are stationed.

The white-skinned personnel are either responsible for logistics transportation or clerical work such as analysis and planning of operations. Therefore, among the current San Magnolia soldiers, no one actually engages in real combat duties.

On the way, they met a short-haired girl named Anetta. She chatted with Reina for a while and told her, "You'd better not get too close to those 86s. It's better to pour more feelings on them."

Reina was indignant and was about to refute something, but she held back in the end.

She walked in with a step.

…

And in the headquarters of San Magnolia.

Reina was called to the office by her uncle, a senior officer of the Republic, and was assigned a task -

to serve as the control commander of the first squadron of the first war zone of the Eastern Front, collectively known as the Vanguard Squadron.

Tsk tsk.

Yamada Masaharu thought, isn't this the unit where the male protagonist is?

In other words, from now on, will the hero and heroine meet?

Yamada Masaharu couldn't help but look forward to it.

However…

When he thought that the heroine was a white race, he always felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

…

Choose to accept the task.

The white-haired girl walked towards the control room assigned to her.

The control room was a small room half buried in the cold computer console. The light was a little dim and the room temperature was a little chilly.

The holographic screen in standby mode emitted a faint light, making the silver floor and walls look a little hazy.

She sat on the computer chair with her feet together, lifted her long silver hair, and inserted the slender collar-shaped silver ring synchronization device into her neck. Reina raised her head with a heroic look.

"Authentication begins. Major Fradi Reina Millige.

Command and control officer."

After voiceprint and iris authentication, the control system started.

Holographic screens appeared one after another, showing the huge amount of data sent back by the observation machine set up on the distant front line. The main screen showed a digital map and light spots representing the enemy and us.

There were seventy blue light spots representing the friendly aircraft [Destroyer].

The first team under Reina's command had twenty-four machines, and the second and fourth teams had twenty-three machines each.

The number of light spots representing the enemy [Legion] has long been innumerable.

"Perception synchronization, start.

The synchronization target is the central processing device [processing terminal] "Destroyer"."

The blue crystal embedded in the back of the synchronization device began to heat up slightly.

Through the array device, all perceptions can be shared with the synchronized 86, including hearing, feeling, smell, vision, pain, etc.

This is why many commanders collapsed before.

It is difficult not to have a mental breakdown when the perceptions from the front battlefield come.

The "channel" passed through the sea of ​​collective unconsciousness and connected to the consciousness of the processing terminal of the captain of the first squadron, code-named "Destroyer".

From then on, the perception of "Destroyer" was shared with Reina.

"Synchronization completed, Control No. 1 calling Destroyer.

Please give me more advice today."

She called the other party in a gentle tone, and after a while, a "young voice" who sounded one or two years older than her responded:

"Destroyer calling Control No. 1.

Synchronization is good."

It was a "human voice" with a hint of sarcasm. Reina was the only one in the control room, so there was no possibility of a second person's voice.

This was a shared hearing through perception synchronization, making the voice from the processing terminal "Destroyer" sound like it was ringing in the ear.

…

The second level, the mission begins.

The game switched to the battle map.

At this point, Reina, played by Shoji Yamada, began to become [Control No. 1], that is, the commander.

Started her new mission.

…

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There is one more chapter in the afternoon (end of this chapter)