Chapter 178

Mingmei was practically squirming in her seat watching Charlie's livestream. She didn't care about the players' internal conflicts; what mattered was that if things went south on the starship, she was an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire!

Thinking this, Mingmei turned her head, a troubled look on her face, to see Lu Xiaoyao chatting animatedly with Mandison, neither of them aware of the impending danger.

Mingmei glanced at Mandison, her brow furrowing slightly. *This guy is way too friendly.*

He could chat so naturally with both Wang Wenfei and Lu Xiaoyao. Mingmei remembered that Wang Wenfei seemed a little socially awkward, but she was sure that Wang Wenfei didn't seem to mind Mandison during their conversations yesterday.

But whether he was friendly or not didn't matter right now!

"Huh?"

Mandison was the first to notice Mingmei's resentful gaze. He looked at her curiously, using his eyes to ask if something was wrong.

"I… I'm going to the restroom," Mingmei said, then looked at Lu Xiaoyao and asked, "Want to come with me?"

"No, thanks." Lu Xiaoyao noticed there was half an hour left on her transaction panel's countdown and said to Mingmei, "Hurry back, I'll buy lunch boxes when you get back!"

Mingmei: "…"

She regretted her excuse. She should have known Lu Xiaoyao wouldn't take the hint. She should have just told her directly that there were suspicious people outside!

"Is something wrong?"

Seeing Mingmei sitting motionless with a blank face, Mandison thought she had something more to say.

"Emmm, don't you guys think it's a little strange that there are only three of us in the passenger cabin? There were quite a few people when we boarded the starship."

"It's not strange, the other staff have their own places to be," Lu Xiaoyao's explanation left Mingmei at a loss for words. She gave Lu Xiaoyao a deep look, then finally sighed and said, "I'm going to the restroom first."

As soon as she left the passenger cabin, Mingmei put on a miserable face and said, "I'm just a salted fish, I can't carry the plot. Is the plot here just to blow up the starship? Then why would I wait here to be blown up when I could have been blown up with the planet on Sigma?!"

[Ghost, can you check if this starship was in the Changping Starport's inbound/outbound records on the day of the Sigma incident?] After complaining, Mingmei composed herself and headed towards the restroom, confirming with Ghost whether this starship existed in history.

[Host, no. There are no records of any related starships entering or leaving Changping Starport those days.]

[Then… is this transport starship still in service with the military?]

[Host, do you think I can find that out?]

Mingmei: "…"

[You already checked the Changping Starport's starship records, what's one more? We can go in together later, if need be~]

Mingmei comforted Ghost, but Ghost was clearly not comforted.

[Forget it.]

Seeing Ghost's troubled expression, Mingmei changed her request and said, [Then help me find Charlie's whereabouts, really…]

[Host.]

[Hmm?]

[He's right behind you.]

Mingmei: ???

…

"How… how can this be so absurd?" Lou Jia looked at the personnel records in his hand with trembling hands. From colonels to ordinary guards, they had all been identified as hidden Zerg.

"Yeah, it's a bit tricky." Mu Chen frowned, and he and Lou Jia were sorting through the hidden Zerg information they had found in the special room provided by Mei Qiu.

"Should we send this information directly to the Deputy Commander?"

Lou Jia couldn't help but gasp. Almost a third of them were hidden Zerg. Lou Jia was starting to question the true function of the crayfish lunch boxes.

"Can it really be this absurd?!"

Lou Jia's eyes were about to roll out of their sockets as he muttered, "Is this madness?"

"If it's true, you should think about how this fact was exposed, since there are no crayfish lunch boxes in reality."

Mu Chen looked at the information and thought further than Lou Jia. "Some of the people in this information have backgrounds as descendants of powerful families. Do you know what that means?"

As a commoner student, Lou Jia had no contact with the imperial elite, but Mu Chen's question still made him gasp.

[Holy crap! Does this mean that some imperial families have already been infiltrated by the Zerg?!]

[Woah, woah, woah! Don't scare me, please?]

[Their optical brain information isn't blurred! I really saw a few familiar families.]

[??? What??? Your eyesight is that good?]

[Heh, I took a screenshot. If these families are clean, the game planners can go to jail, right?]

[Not just that, the game company might also face huge compensation, defamation, etc.~]

[Laughing to death, a group of people earning 4,000 star coins a month are worrying about the reputation and prestige of a group of powerful families whose assets are several star systems, tsk, tsk, tsk!]

[No, don't you guys find it strange? The game company is being so blatant, but so far, not a single lawyer's letter has been issued.]

[That's right, neither the military nor those old families have made a sound on StarNet since this game started. I've been constantly watching StarBlog, but there's really nothing! Am I, a melon-eater, outdated?]

[I don't think you're outdated. They're probably brewing something big, maybe there will be a huge surprise on StarBlog when the game ends!]

[Ewmmmm, no, I think it will be a huge shock.]

"You, you, you, this is a livestream, you can't say things randomly!"

Lou Jia was so frightened by Mu Chen's bold "outspokenness" that his face turned pale. As a temporary partner, he felt he had to remind him.

Mu Chen just gave a handsome smile, almost captivating the viewers in the livestream, showing no fear at all.

Then he looked at Lou Jia and said, "What do you think the purpose of creating this game, with each player having their own livestream, is?"

"I…" Lou Jia wasn't stupid. After being asked by Mu Chen, he realized that they were being used by the game company.

Players played the roles of historical figures and followed the plot, revealing some things that were not known before, attracting countless eyes.

"While sending this information to the Deputy Commander, we should look for evidence." Turning off his optical brain, Mu Chen walked to the door of the room, his eyes flashing with strange emotions, and said in a deep voice, "They were able to discover it because there were no lunch boxes in reality, so we can find evidence too."

Lou Jia was silent, watching Mu Chen's back. When he was about to push the door open, he suddenly asked, "Who is the character you are playing? Do you know?"

Mu Chen chuckled and said, "Just a small imperial soldier guarding the border. Does one need to have a certain identity to do something great?"

"No, I didn't mean that." Lou Jia also stood up immediately, walked to Mu Chen's side, cracked a smile, and said, "That's right, as imperial soldiers, we should stand up when the Empire needs us.

Our existence is to restore the truth that our predecessors have not yet spoken!"