NonLaResurrezionedeimorti (The dead do not come back to life)

- Aeschylus (one of the three great tragedies of ancient Greece)

On January 22, 2016, Bai Feng, a senior who was about to graduate, was about to face a big wave of nagging again. The first semester of my senior year has ended, and I am only half a year away from graduation, but I have achieved nothing. Watching others fall in love vigorously in college, taking various documents seriously, while I am addicted to my own game world all day long.

Of course, there are many, many people in college who are so addicted to games; However, there are probably not many people who don't like online games at all and are addicted to one single-player game after another. Even his roommates will sarcastically ask themselves when they will unify the world every time they see themselves playing these single-player games.

However, his dream since childhood was to be a general who dominates the battlefield, commanding thousands of troops and horses, and conquering cities for the empire. Helplessly, the current world is no longer the era of cold weapons; Therefore, Bai Feng can only experience his imperial dream and general dream in these so-called simulation games.

However, reality is reality after all, and ideals are only ideals after all; The tragic Bai Feng can only continue his single-camera career. However, playing such unscrupulous games every holiday has turned parents from the initial persuasion to the current chatter. Now, every time Bai Feng goes home to play games, he will be nagged by his parents; Therefore, for Bai Feng, whether it is a holiday or a game, he is really tired when he is at home.

The arrival of the last winter vacation of college made Bai Feng not only need to think about the graduation and work problems that he had been avoiding before, but also need to say his final goodbye to his stand-alone "good friends". Because, at this time, it has reached the point where there is no way to avoid it, and there is no way to escape; As a man, Bai Feng must find a job when he is about to graduate from college, he must support himself, and he can't gnaw at old age like this anymore.

And to do that, you have to make a clean break from the single-player games that once made you addicted. Thinking of this, Bai Feng couldn't help but click on the "Tianxia" folder on the computer again; Look inside one after another of the names that were once particularly familiar (Total War of Rome, Total War of the Three Kingdoms, Age of Empires 1, 2, 3, Iron Ambition, Victorian Revolution, Red Alert, Shogun, Fortress...... There is really a bit of a feeling that the sea is difficult to water, except that Wushan is not a cloud.

In the end, Bai Feng dragged these icons into the recycle bin one by one and uninstalled and deleted the original files; When the mouse clicked on the last icon, Bai Feng's heart was really full of sweet and sour.

This all-out Roman war accompanied him for four years, and every faction and every branch of the army in it was so familiar to him. From the families of Julius, Scipio, and Brutus in Rome to the Germans of the northern barbarians, to Carthage in North Africa, Egypt and Seleucidus in the Middle East, Parthia and Armenia in the East, and finally to Greece and Macedonia, which were economically developed; Each of these factions had its own characteristics, and all of them had unified the entire Roman Total War in the hands of White Peak.

Even, what types of troops each faction has, and what combat methods they are especially good at, these are all things that Bai Feng was most familiar with.

Even so, now he has to send this "old partner" who has been with him for four years to the recycling bin in person; Every time Bai Feng thought that he had racked his brains for the victory of one faction after another, and forgot to sleep and eat, he really couldn't let go of the feelings in his heart for this "old partner".

Suddenly, Bai Feng stood up from his desk and said loudly to himself: "Let me be impulsive one last time, I will use the Senate that has never been used to unify my Roman Empire one last time!" After this time, I will definitely never play games again in the future and not indulge in other things; Work hard, earn money, and fight for your life. ”

After that, it once again clicked on the all-out war of Rome, which had been lost for a long time because of the final exam. Familiar music, familiar scenes, except for their own mentality, everything is so familiar, all so familiar. Click into the stand-alone game, choose the Imperial Conquest, Double Extreme Difficulty, Senior Advisor, Senate, start the conquest, everything is so smooth.

The Senate's never-betrayal is the most speechless bug in this all-out war, even if there is no army, the city will still not mutiny, which can save troops and stabilize the ruling situation to the greatest extent. However, the ** problem of the Senate is also the most serious of all the factions; There is no cure at all, the more money there is, the larger the ruling area, the more serious the problem.

Even so, the Senate had an advantage unmatched by any other faction; That's where never betrayal comes in. A huge advantage that allows you to never have worries and always concentrate on external expansion without considering internal contradictions.

Then it's time for a real journey into the Roman Empire. Entering the game, what catches your eye is the confrontation between Rome and Greece; One by one, Roman legionnaires slashed each other with Greek and Spartan hoplites. After the initial screen, it's time to enter the game, and the Senate forces only have one city, which is the city of Rome. As the unique main city of Rome in the world, the Roman City has three elite infantry, three heavy infantry, four youth troops, four light infantry, and three family members.

Although, the Senate has the least number of cities and the number of armies among all the factions. However, its army is the most elite of all factions. And the advantage of this elite army is also the only support for the Senate forces to turn the tables and achieve victory in battle.

As a long-time Roman fan, the army is not just all there is to the total war of Rome, and one of the biggest features of this game is the variety of buildings and cities with different styles full of legends and epics. Therefore, every time Bai Feng enters the game, he will choose the viewing mode of the city after the army is organized, and carefully appreciate every building that belongs to the city.

Different cultures, different factions have different architectural styles, and these different styles of cities, combined with various armies with different clothing, weapons, and appearances, are the real all-out war of Rome. Because the Roman Empire was not just the conquest of one people against other nations and peoples; It is also the fusion of various ethnic groups to build a small republic into a huge empire that dominates Europe, Asia and Africa.

After the game officially begins, first of all, the Roman Civil War, the unification of the Italian peninsula; Then attack Sicily, Gaul and the Greek peninsula at the same time, and quickly occupy the developed Sicily and the Greek peninsula on three fronts.

Next, he began to attack the six barbarian factions of Gaul, Germania, Scythia, Spain, Britain, and Dacia, suppressing the six barbarian tribes with the economic advantages of the Greek Peninsula, and besieging Germania and Britain on the northern line, Gallic and Spain on the southern line, and finally besieging Germania and Britain on the last two lines, completely unifying the whole of Europe.

Then, from the southern tip of Spain and Sicily, they attacked Numidia and Carthage in North Africa, respectively; At the same time, troops were sent from the Greek peninsula to attack the remnants of Greece and Pontus in the East, and from the former Scythia to attack Armenia and Parthia. By this time, Seleucus had been wiped out by the Eastern factions and Egypt.

After thirty rounds of fighting (mainly in the desert areas of North Africa, where the offensive was too slow, and time was spent on army movements), all the armies of North Africa were assembled in the cities of Alexandria, Memphis, and Thebes, and the armies of the East were assembled on the Antioch line. At this time, the only factional forces left were the Senate and Egyptian forces; All armies launched a final assault on Egypt, and after ten rounds almost all of Egypt's main armies and major cities were wiped out, leaving only one province. An army of pure generals attacked the last place and captured the Egyptian region; Unify the Roman world and the empire is established.

The moment the empire was established, Bai Feng sighed deeply, and thought in his heart: "This time, we finally have to see you again." Ever again, my old friend. “

Thinking of this, Bai Feng disbanded all the armies on the spot, all the fleets, and everything was over; In addition to the cities on the vast map of the Roman Empire, there were only lonely family members. Ninety-eight family members and these cities formed the most beautiful and bleak map of the Roman Empire.

Finally, Bai Feng dragged the icon of the Roman Total War into the recycle bin, and after determining the unloading, Bai Feng silently left his desk and walked to the window, looking at the lights outside the window, thinking about the general's imperial dream since childhood, thinking about the time and energy he has spent in these stand-alone games, especially the Roman Total War, over the years; Perhaps, this is the best ending.

Thinking about it, Bai Feng's hand had an extra cigarette that he had never touched. The smoke that rose after the first cigarette burned out had not yet dissipated, and it was another burning cigarette, one after another, as if it was going to burn all the Jin Ge Iron Horses that belonged to Bai Feng, and let everything go with the smoke.

No one noticed that when Bai Feng was using the smoke to dispel his sorrows, the Roman all-out war on the computer screen was not successfully unloaded, but a strange light appeared.