Chapter 364: Chapter 364
Not only were the representatives of the countries on ’Earth’ shocked.
The Blue Star netizens watching the CG were also shocked by the oppression of power.
China did not bow its head.
The screen from Chang Jie’s perspective gradually darkened, then a few big words appeared.
[Paris Peace Conference]
With this, the entire event came to an end.
And on the [Republic] timeline on the Polestar Official Website, the event about the [Paris Peace Conference] also lit up with the introduction and CG after players triggered and completed the plot.
[Paris Peace Conference]
[The Paris Peace Conference was a major setback in the modern diplomatic history of the [Republic].]
[As a victorious country of World War I, China made rightful demands such as reclaiming Shandong’s sovereignty and abolishing unequal treaties, but these were ignored by the great powers like Britain, France, and the United States, ultimately transferring Germany’s rights in Shandong to Japan.]
[This result thoroughly exposed the reality of "no diplomacy for weak countries," sparking the May Fourth Movement and promoting the comprehensive awakening of Chinese society.]
[The delegation’s refusal to sign the Versailles Treaty marked the first time in modern China that they said "no" to the great powers.]
[CG unlocked: Click to watch.]
[Note: We refuse to sign — Gu Weijun]
No one knows what kind of change this Paris Peace Conference can bring to the [Republic].
Not only did the people of the ’Republic’ not expect it.
The Blue Star netizens watching from an observer’s perspective also did not expect it.
At this moment on the Celestial Shark Live Platform.
Many netizens were looking for streamers who would start the timeline in the Capital City in 1919.
Because with the trigger and progression of the Paris Peace Conference plot.
Blue Star players also learned about the trigger of the [May Fourth Movement] event, although Chang Jie’s timeline was already in July 1919.
But there were still quite a number of players whose timelines were ahead of Chang Jie’s.
On the Celestial Shark Live Platform.
Feng Lei, who also wanted to participate in the plot, chose the timeline of 1919, and as the plot continuously skipped, finally obtained a [plot card] after the timeline entered May.
The [plot card] he obtained was acquired from a student.
Feng Lei, with a smile on his face, displayed the dark grey, untriggered [plot card] in the live room:
"Brothers, look, what is this?!"
"The May Fourth Movement plot!"
"As long as I stay here in the Capital City, I can trigger it."
The Blue Star viewers in the live room were flooding the screen with 6666.
Before Feng Lei could enjoy his happiness, the waiter serving the dishes also suddenly produced a [May Fourth Movement] plot card, confusing both Feng Lei and the Blue Star netizens in the live room.
But that was not all.
As Feng Lei finished eating and walked onto the street.
People passing by or coming into contact with him, one after another, popped out [May Fourth Movement] plot cards.
Some were from merchants, some from workers, some from students, and they were increasingly numerous.
Feng Lei stood on the street, watching the endless stream of [May Fourth Movement] plot cards flying over from people around him, shaking with disbelief:
"What exactly is going on?"
"Are all these people participating in this movement?"
Feng Lei didn’t know what to do, so he could only wait.
Meanwhile, in other live rooms, as the timeline reached May, the situation gradually became .
The player forums of Polestar were filled with discussions on this matter.
As time slowly passed by.
Two days later on Blue Star, the plot the various streamers were part of in the game reached May 4th.
Because they didn’t know where the event would be triggered.
So Blue Star’s streamers were stationed at various locations in the Capital City, all choosing densely populated areas, while Feng Lei chose to be near the university.
Yet despite waiting all morning, nothing happened.
Feng Lei thought perhaps the location was wrong, looked at other live rooms, and found they also hadn’t triggered the plot.
The rapid ringing of the bell from the university could be heard in the distance.
Everyone on the street forgot to move in that direction.
The university held a sacred place in the hearts of the people, and at this moment, with such an urgent bell ringing, people on the street were discussing what had happened.
A group of students rushed out of the school gate, tying white cloth strips to bamboo poles, the words ’Return my Qingdao’ and ’Return my sovereignty’ written in black ink as they charged out.
Like a breach in a dam, they surged towards the distant area, and Feng Lei quickly followed along.
And not only in Feng Lei’s live room, student demonstrations began to break out in other live rooms in different places as well.
The top live rooms on the Celestial Shark Live Platform were filled with real-time images of student demonstrations, with some distributing flyers and others standing on high platforms condemning angrily.
Most were students united as one, storming the ’traitors’ residences.’
The Blue Star live rooms broadcasted the [May Fourth Movement] from every angle and direction, with some streamers participating and feeling the overwhelming sense of unity.
Even walking with the crowd led to stirring emotions and joining in the angry chants.
These student demonstrations were quickly blocked by military police dressed in black leather.
Feng Lei, mixed in with the student crowd, was shouting when suddenly he felt the group stop, seemingly blocked by something ahead.
Feng Lei tried to squeeze forward to see what was happening.
Then came a faint but powerful voice from the front:
".... Say... reform today, bloodshed.... starts with us!!!"
"Fellow students! Charge forward!!!"
With that powerful shout, the demonstrators began moving again, breaking through to charge the ’traitors’ residences.’
Feng Lei was among them.
After all, they were students, unarmed.
As the demonstrations spread, the dignitaries reacted, dispatching large numbers of police in black uniforms to arrest the students everywhere.
Feng Lei, not being a student but mingling among them, was caught as a conspirator.
The prison was filled with students.
They even resorted to locking students outside of the prison due to the inability to arrest them all, with designated personnel intimidating them.
Feng Lei inexplicably felt a sense of sadness; had things really rotted to this extent?
Blue Star netizens in the live room also sighed, already able to foresee the ensuing situation.
Nothing more than detaining the voices of resistance until they disappeared, while the warlords maintained a superficial peace and the students sacrificed for the country.
Various charges would be imposed, and over time, even truths might turn to falsehoods.
At this moment, the [Republic] was like an endless abyss, swallowing everything.
These students tried to be the sparks illuminating the abyss, hoping to bring light to the [Republic] and emerge from the abyss.
Countless black hands stretched out from the abyss, grasping at the feeble flames, attempting to extinguish them and plunge the [Republic] into eternal darkness.
As more and more students were arrested, Blue Star netizens watching the plot also felt despair.
Because in the live rooms of the survivors yet to be captured, the street protests had significantly diminished, or would soon be quelled.
The faint spark newly blooming from the endless abyss seemed about to be snuffed out.
No one anticipated that.
What should have been extinguished instead began to widen through the strikes of the workers, until the entire dark abyss was illuminated by the flames.
Those black hands dared not approach due to the raging fire.
This fire, sparked by the students, ultimately turned into a wildfire ripping through with the support of the workers, illuminating the [Huaxia Land] submerged in the abyss for hundreds of years.
And the students in the prison gradually heard the sounds from outside.
The prison wardens, in silence, took out keys to release the students and onseeing their puzzled faces, the young warden suddenly laughed:
"The workers outside are on strike, and the authorities above cannot withstand the pressure anymore."