Anti-War Game: Starting from Normandy Campaign-Chapter 680 - 328: [Despair of Blue Star Film Company: Polestar, You Son of a ***] (4k)
As Fang Ming clicked it open.
The trailer CG titled [Hongwu Emperor] began to play.
The screen slowly lit up.
What appeared was a cracked yellow earth plain, with withered seedlings lying on the ground, and heat waves distorting the surface.
At just a glance, one could feel how severe the drought was.
As the scene moved.
It entered a dilapidated small village.
Within the village, it was eerily quiet, almost devoid of life.
Inside a shabby thatched hut.
A boy who looked only seven or eight years old lay curled up on the ground due to hunger, while a couple sat weakly beside the door, leaning against each other, with other people of various ages inside.
Counting them, there were a total of eight people.
In just a few weeks.
Plague and famine, like an invisible sickle, took away the lives of those inside the house, one by one they slowly vanished.
The scene switched again.
The boy, only seven or eight years old, was kneeling painfully in front of a seemingly wealthy household, repeatedly banging his head on the ground, but got only a cold reception.
Beside him lay the bodies of his closest kin.
Until someone couldn’t bear it any longer and led the boy to wrap his kin in a simple grass mat and bury them in a plot of land.
And this piece of land couldn’t even raise a burial mound.
In the end, only a shabby wooden board was left.
After kneeling and bowing before the wooden board at the grave, the boy looked back at the scorched earth behind him.
Then the scene slowly dimmed.
When it lit up again.
What appeared was a young beggar monk, holding a wooden board and a chipped bowl, knocking on doors for alms in passing villages.
It was evidently the boy who survived and grew to youth.
But seeing this scene.
Still left the Blue Star netizens in the live stream a bit stunned.
They knew it was tragic.
But this was too tragic, wasn’t it?
Though they had previously played the [Huaxia] history series, where many NPCs said, and knew that this Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang was from a beggar’s background, but Blue Star netizens hadn’t really delved deep before.
Primarily because those storylines weren’t open.
But with the premiere version trailer playing.
They realized.
How Zhu Yuanzhang’s childhood was more than just that of a beggar, it was beyond tragic.
If he were the slightest bit fragile, he would have starved to death.
As a child, most of his family starved to death, and even now, into his youth, he’s still begging... Although they know about the ancient [Huaxia] environment, they really can’t fathom how he survived.
And even now, there’s no sign of this Hongwu Emperor’s rise.
Scene fragments flashed by, showing the young itinerant beggar monk living in an abandoned cave and witnessing the horrible scenes of people eating their own young, also enduring the numerous rejections from villagers.
But under such circumstances.
He still lived tenaciously.
Until he unexpectedly met a childhood playmate, and while laughing during their reunion, his tattered monk robe caught fire, and the next time the man appeared his head was wrapped in a red scarf, fighting bravely on the battlefield.
The scene kept switching.
His identity continued to evolve.
Soldier.
General.
King of Wu.
The smoke-filled Poyang Lake, massive warships burning and sinking in the flames, followed by the horn of the Northern Expedition resonating across the Central Plains.
A bold and majestic voice suddenly arose in the background:
"The mountains and rivers encompass the lands of China, the sun and the moon reopen the grand unity!"
A fictitious map appeared, continuously expanding, and where the military might extended, everything turned to crimson, until the color block labeled [Yuan] disappeared completely.
A large [Ming] character appeared at the center of the trailer.
And behind that [Ming] character, there was a grand territorial map.
In the live stream.
Fang Ming widened his eyes:
"What the...?"
"Nothing much at the start."
"But that last sudden voiceover got me all excited."
"The mountains and rivers encompass the lands of China, the sun and the moon reopen the grand unity!"
"This deep voice, plus the army’s unstoppable advance, it’s just incredible."
"Truly a novel’s protagonist."
The Blue Star netizens who were initially just feeling shocked in the live stream couldn’t help but send a series of question marks after hearing Fang Ming’s words:
[????]
[Novel’s protagonist? Do you even know what you’re saying?]
[So funny, almost the whole family starved to death, and he’s been begging for food into adulthood, this protagonist is too tragic.]
[But truth be told, Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to have a god mode afterwards.]
[Indeed, from soldier to general to King of Wu, and then when that voiceover sounded, whew—]
[No problem, I got goosebumps listening to it]
[By the way, Zhu Yuanzhang’s background should be the lowest right?]
[Not necessarily, maybe there’s even lower]
The live stream suddenly sparked a debate over whether Zhu Yuanzhang’s background was the lowest.
Fang Ming, watching the chat, thought about Zhu Yuanzhang’s early life, and it seemed almost undoubtedly the lowest, after all, Liu Bang at least was a pavilion chief, while Chen Sheng and Wu Guang had people under their command.
At this moment.
A remark floated by.
[Zhu Yuanzhang must be the lowest, no doubt, if you have no concept... let me put it this way, except for dying, there’s no further to fall in Zhu Yuanzhang’s early life]
Fang Ming widened his eyes:
"Oh my."
"Guys, this brother’s right."
"Think about it carefully."
"This Hongwu Emperor, in his early life, had nowhere else to fall but death."
"He didn’t even have a piece of land to his name, when his kin died, it was the villagers who helped wrap them in straw and bury them."
"Truly had nothing at all."
Upon hearing this.
The people who were still discussing in the live stream suddenly fell silent.
Indeed.
