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What's the hardest thing you've ever done in a game?
The answer may be to take out the momentum of the college entrance examination to engage in strategy, or it may be to fight with a task and an opponent to the end.
But for Xu, who is in his thirties, these answers are not so attractive.
One of his most desperate attempts was to return home from work and stay up all night in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms Strategy Edition, rescuing hundreds of captured comrades alone.
In fact, it can not be saved. Captured players will simply lose their resource bonuses to their original faction, and will be able to regain their freedom if they surrender a large ransom.
To rescue them is really a big project, it needs to pave the way a little bit, in order to cross the map to the captured comrades, and the two sides have to agree on the time of action.
When the time and effort were spent paving, there would be another battle with the enemy defenders.
Hundreds of comrades-in-arms are scattered in different places, one by one to save, constantly repeating the process of paving, siege, and saving people, such a game is not cost-effective.
But for Lao Xu, for the player who feels real in this game, "captivity" is a great humiliation.
An ally of his comrades in arms had fought together for so long that Lao Xu could not let their efforts be wasted, either hollowed out by the ransom or bid farewell to the season as a prisoner.
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Although it is not as good as Zhao Zilong's flat boat flying Han Shui, the horse xiangdangyang, but the old Xu who single-handedly saved people all night, consciously worthy of the word love and righteousness.
"They are all brothers, and none of them can be less."
In Lao Xu's heart, those IDs are not invisible and untouchable virtual accounts, but his brothers with flesh and blood.
It was the kind of brother he hadn't found in reality since he was 18 years old.
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No "brothers" after the age of 18
Old Xu didn't believe in such words as "no friends after the age of 18" before.
Men, more people go to the court to hook shoulders, push cups on the dinner table to change cups; fewer people fish and raise flowers and play table tennis, always enjoy themselves.
It seems that he was born with the string of sad spring and sad autumn.
Before the age of 18, I believed that all brothers in the world, confidants all over the world, always felt that even if the sun began to revolve around the moon, my brothers and I would never change.
This is probably the greatest arrogance of the world that is unique to young people.
Old Xu was also so young and arrogant.
It wasn't until graduation, work, and step by step that he grew into a decent and thoughtful man that he realized that the sentence was true.
Brothers who grew up wearing a pair of pants, married and started a family, far away, a phone call can no longer be complete.
The neighbors in the community chatted for a day, the words inside and outside are all comparisons, competition, who has just changed what model of new car, whose children have recently won awards in the city.
You are already the head of the household on the certificate, no longer the young man who is playing with his bare arms downstairs, and what others talk to you about is naturally the matter that the head of the household should care about.
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Not to mention in the workplace, colleagues grit their teeth to compete for the number of bonuses, compete for promotions, have me you, you don't have me.
The most tiring thing is the company dinner, a group of competitors with different plans, playing a love scene under the shouting of the boss.
Lao Xu's own business cannot avoid this situation. In front of the staff, be carried, carried; in front of the business partners, be careful, be cautious.
"Always think about it, think about your livelihood and think about your interests."
In the end, the only place that allows him to put aside left and right considerations, fight openly and secretly, and say something boldly with confidence, but only on the Internet and in the game.
The hundreds of comrades he had stayed up late to save were masked, and some had already gathered several times.
The time of acquaintance cannot be said to be long, but when I was with them, it was a rare and youthful time after Old Xu became an adult.
Horizontal seven vertical eight bragging nonsense, talk about which person in the Three Kingdoms is the most powerful, which battle in the game is really beautiful.
Also talk about real life, but not more than who makes more money, more ugly than who comes out; not more cattle than the big guys who know, more annoying than who meets the king of the bastard.
Old Xu described the state of being with them as if he had returned to the bunk dormitory.
No one thinks about getting something from you, fighting for something, and being sincere and open to each other.
Perhaps the more you understand the laws of the real world, only "shrewd and self-interested", the more you will pay your heart and lungs out to these comrades-in-arms who do not care about your identity and status at all, but only accompany you to play games and chat.
This taoyuan was created by the game and has been maintained through the game.
His decision to go all night to save people that day was as natural as playing ball to the buddies in the next class.
Later, a buddy who was rescued by him said to him: "In the S1 season, you were the first to beat me, but unexpectedly, when it came to S3, the only person who stayed up all night to save me was also you." ”
If such a thing is in reality, Lao Xu may not have the courage to do it.
Only in the game can he —not only because he can do it, but also because he knows that everyone else here is willing to do the same to him.
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No matter what age,
Always need "love"
Many people have the biggest impression of the sandbox game is to use their brains to understand strategy and command thousands of troops and horses.
But for those who are really in it, its greatest charm lies in the "alliance".
There is no way for one person to reach the top of the mountain in Romance of the Three Kingdoms Strategy Edition, where there are allies large and small, and each alliance is home to a group of like-minded players.
Only when hundreds of people and thousands of people are screwed together, and there are battles to fight together, and rewards to be divided together, it is possible to achieve hegemony.
Station B up the main axe Chen spent two months tracking a battle in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms • Strategy Edition" (hereinafter referred to as the Three Wars).
It was a war between ants and elephants, formed on one side by three small alliances of a hundred men, and on the other side was a large army of thousands of people.
The first meeting between the two sides was in Shangluo, and at 12:00 noon on October 30, the elephant legion was crushed by a black cloud, and the ants had little ability to fight back, exhausting their resources to build a fortress defense line, but there was not even a general who was defending the position.
The battle ended quickly, and half of the Ant Legion was captured.
But on November 22, more than half a month after the last war, the Army of Ants, which had been defeated all the way, was still planning a backwater battle.
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They did not have a vast army of soup and soup, inexhaustible resources, and fought all the way to Tongguan by cooperating with exquisite guerrilla tactics.
Of course, the elephant in this important town did not let go, sent out elite troops, and half of it was shot in 20 minutes.
What no one expected was that when the elephant pressed all its forces at Tongguan, the soldiers who had been captured by the ant before suddenly counterattacked on Shangluo en masse.
Seeing that taking Tongguan was no longer a big problem, the Elephant Legion quickly made a decision, leaving some people to continue to attack the city and transfer the main force back to defend Shangluo.
At this time, the wind and clouds suddenly changed, and the ants actually ambushed several teams of elite soldiers in the valley, taking advantage of the time when the main force of the elephants withdrew, and the divine soldiers descended from the sky and snatched the Tong pass from this alliance of thousands of people.
Shangluo fraudulently surrendered, pretended to attack Tongguan, and attacked the west and the east all the way, and the soldiers did not tire of deception, which took more than a month, and this ant army finally succeeded in taking food.
Of course, it depends on strategy, but more importantly, cooperation and trust between the alliances.
In the past two months, who is responsible for building bridges and paving infrastructure projects, who will command the overall operation, who is the pioneer, who is the spy, every step needs to cooperate.
If they do not recognize the strategy of the alliance and do not trust their comrades-in-arms, no one will be willing to take advantage of the enemy's sleep time to get up and arrange the night raid plan overnight;
No one would even make an enemy of this elephant.
The up master who tracked the battle sighed: "There are people in this game who do some incredible things every day. ”
Lao Xu's alliance was called "No Clothes", and he knew that he had no clothes and was clothed with his son.
There are many people who are about the same age as Lao Xu in the clothesless, there are old and young, livelihood and family are pressed on the shoulders, and there are few moments in life when they purely trust others.
Only in the three wars did they have another way of living.
Lao Xu has played for 8 seasons, witnessed that in order to save a single brother rushed to the rescue of thousands of miles, the No. 600 people were willing to collectively fight back to the state of birth, and everything started from the beginning;
He also faced the headwind battle in which the legion was surrounded and suppressed by the whole region, and every comrade-in-arms tried their best to breathe.
In the end, they still lost, but these teammates who did not give up, and even the opponents they had exchanged hands, later became part of the shirtless because of the same belief.
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Qi Sanjia, who was in his early twenties, began to play three battles while studying in Italy.
At that time, because of the epidemic, I was closed at home, far away from my relatives, and I couldn't see my classmates and teachers.
In the midst of dazed loneliness, the appearance of allies in the three wars was like a bridge for him at that time.
Let him reconnect with people, with the collective.
When you first came, you didn't know anything, but the seniors in the alliance would take the initiative to help you match your skills, teach you how to fight, how to cooperate.
A stranger who has never known you and is likely not to meet in the future will also be willing to take you by the hand, protect you, and even give you the back.
That feeling of being helped and trusted is precious to Qi Sanjia, who is alone in his hometown.
He also repaid his allies with the same enthusiasm, taking advantage of his time difference abroad and taking the initiative to take the task of paving the way and launching a night war.
The cooperation of mutual trust and division of labor allowed them to play a beautiful Battle of Yiling in the S4 season, taking advantage of the night battle of foreign comrades to capture the opposite three rows of 98 cities overnight, and blocked the enemy's entire alliance army with one regiment.
His alliance is called "Shoulder to Shoulder", and after returning to work, the emotional connection between the side and the other continues.
The allies in the game are scattered in the north and south of the river, but whoever goes to the city where the ally is located will always have someone to take time out to entertain you and get together.
There were many alliances, large and small, each with its own style.
But the importance of righteousness and solidarity is the norm that almost all all leagues pursue.
A player named Titan Thorn described that you can feel your comrades and enemies, all of whom are real people.
The enemy will target your intelligence and even the weaknesses of human nature, there will be sneak attacks, spies, and your comrades-in-arms, even if they are not alive, can call him out of the bed at two o'clock in the middle of the night in order to take a city, and go on a difficult, but bloody mission together.
The road ahead is uncertain, and success or failure is difficult to know, but no one will look ahead and calculate the gains and losses.
It is to fight for the love of allies.
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With affection, gather heroes
The Three Battles player is probably the best person I've ever met who can write a small essay.
From time to time, in their player base or tie-bar, you can see words full of sincerity.
Even solemn to the point where outsiders seem a little silly.
When newcomers join the group, they will write a long letter of "seeing words like meetings", and can't wait to reveal their expectations for "like-mindedness and brotherhood".
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After fighting a big war with excitement, it will be difficult to hide the excitement of writing: "One day on earth, one year of play." ...... Eighteen years of vicissitudes, eighteen years of thorns and thorns. ”
Many of these players are men, and in the past, the impression was always inseparable from the three words of thick lines.
But whether it is the sophisticated wisdom and tactics in the game, or these emotional words, it is a rare delicacy.
As if they had placed the warmest part of their hearts on the world of the Three Kingdoms, the lovers, brothers, and teachers and friends of the predecessors in this world had gradually had a more wonderful chemical reaction with real life.
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Each of them has their own identity.
Some are businessmen, some open cafes in their hometowns, some are executive chefs in five-star hotels, some are illustrators, or office workers who work in a step-by-step manner.
But in the three wars, everyone has only one identity: comrade-in-arms.
This is probably the most blood-hot and pure of all human relationships, without the need for seventeen or eight blades hidden in the words, and there is no need to fight for personal honor and disgrace.
The four words of "allied comrades-in-arms" are enough for them to trust each other and entrust each other.
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Rather than saying that these "old boys" are fulfilling a dream of three kingdoms in the three wars, it is better to say that this game is actually the last corner in this reinforced concrete jungle that can find comrades-in-arms and can pin pure love and righteousness on them.
"The game cannot be played for a lifetime, but these comrades-in-arms can be brothers for a lifetime."
Different from the "still friends", "next time must be" and "who are we with whom" that are often hung on the lips in reality, it is the tacit politeness and decency between adults.
When a player in three battles says the phrase "be a brother", it must not be pretending to be fake.
In June, Lao Xu's allies were going to have a party in order to make an appointment, but one of the allies suddenly had something delayed.
In order to go to the brothers' appointment, the fifties-year-old drove from Zhengzhou to Zhenjiang, met for a cup of tea and a meal, and drove back again.
Lao Xu said that this is a bunch of "old boys". No matter how many troubles and disguises there are elsewhere, when everyone gathers together from the north of the south and the sea as comrades-in-arms, only the horizontal poems and the sea and the sky are left.
Just like the song sings, the meaning of the name "old boy" may be that no matter how twisted and indifferent the reality is, there will always be a hot love in the depths of the chest.
It has nothing to do with success or failure, it has nothing to do with interests, only about the blood in the depths of the heart.
For them, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms Strategy Edition is the carrier of this love and righteousness.
It stretches all the way from the virtual online world and finally becomes a closer connection in reality.
On the last day of each season, the World Channel is full of news of goodbye and goodbye, friend or foe;
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Some people insist on meeting with their brothers before the start of each season, and the busiest one flies to four cities in 3 days;
Some alliances, at the end of each conquest, there will be a party, winning is a celebration feast, losing is recuperation, and fighting again next season;
There were also people who met and fell in love in the three wars, and invited the comrades of the entire alliance to the wedding.
A few days ago, Lao Xu also put aside the work of being busy at the end of the year to fly, and rushed to Xiangyang specifically to participate in the alliance summit organized by the three wars.
"No way, just want to go, see these brothers."
The theme of this summit is also like a confession to players: "Gather heroes with love." ”
Seriousness is the most dazzling trait in them.
Just like the era of "Three Kingdoms", those heroes always have a special feeling for Chinese.
But what really appeals to it is not how many wonderful battles there are, how many heroes have achieved.
The story of Zhuge Liang, which we have heard well since childhood, for thousands of years, his most tearful thing is not his incomparable wisdom, but his bowing and living up to the world.
The same is true of people who play "Romance of the Three Kingdoms Strategy Edition", and in the end, the real obstacles to people are not looking at success or failure, looking at the country.
It is the love and righteousness of trusting each other, sacrificing and accomplishing each other in this hot land.