“What the heck?!”

Lu Xiaoyao was holding the repair materials she had applied for in the afternoon, repairing the mecha according to her character's memories, when she overheard her colleague, who was taking a break beside her, gossiping about the sudden battle that had erupted in outer space that evening.

"Are we going to have to work overtime to repair mechas again?"

When Lu Xiaoyao heard that there had been another battle and that all of the Zerg's scouting insects had been wiped out, her mind immediately filled with images of battered and broken mechas about to be dumped in front of her.

Lu Xiaoyao: This life is a bit difficult.

"No, no, this time a single battle starship took care of the whole thing. That starship is completely scrapped too, so there's nothing to repair."

The colleague who had gotten the news looked incredulous, and then, catching Lu Xiaoyao's expression, immediately smiled with relief.

Sure enough, even the captain was like that, so it was no wonder he had been so shocked his jaw dropped~

"How is that possible?"

"But that's the way it is, really. When the support team arrived, all that was left at the scene were pieces of insect wreckage and the remains of the starship, along with that escape pod."

As he spoke, he winked at Lu Xiaoyao and mysteriously lowered his voice, "Rumor has it that the two of them were secretly out on a date when they ran into the Zerg."

Lu Xiaoyao: Subway, old man, watching phone.jpg

"Don't spread rumors, okay? How can there be people who can have a great date and still kill Zerg?"

Lu Xiaoyao put on a serious expression of "don't believe rumors, don't spread rumors," which made the colleague, who had originally wanted to share some gossip, silently swallow what he wanted to say and shrug as he left.

[Heh~ I've discovered a problem.]

[I've discovered it too.]

[What are you guys talking about?]

[Our daughter always misses very important things because of her strange thought processes.]

[Watching it makes my blood pressure spike, but I also have a self-destructive desire to keep watching. That's me.]

[Speaking of which, what's the situation with Mu Chen? Any little darlings coming back to report?]

[Yes! The big boss is talking to General Mei.]

[?? What about the merchant lady?]

[She's selling boxed lunches in the hospital wearing a patient gown.]

[...?]

[Ah, I almost forgot, the merchant lady is an NPC _( : 3」∠)_]

Military base hospital.

"Boxed lunch?"

Julian looked at the familiar boxed lunch in front of him, then at the woman in the patient gown in front of him, and couldn't help but take a half-step back. He looked again at the boxed lunches she was holding and asked, "Where did you get those?"

"The base cafeteria? I heard that you medical staff are working hard, so our cafeteria has specially opened a specialist door-to-door service."

If Mingmei wasn't wearing a patient gown, and if the hospital didn't have its own cafeteria, Julian might have actually believed her.

"I..."

"Are you really, really sure you don't want to try the cafeteria's new dishes?"

Mingmei interrupted him just as he was about to refuse, and asked again.

At least, in Mingmei's eyes, Julian wasn't the kind of "stubborn" guy that Lu Xiaoyao was.

"Then... then I'll buy one."

Heaven knows why Julian agreed, and heaven forbid he should know how many people in his livestream were spamming the same sentence when he agreed—

[Watching the merchant lady feed the players again and again, I just feel like Lu Xiaoyao is really ungrateful!]

Just after Julian agreed to buy a boxed lunch, Julian was startled by the system notification sound, and then his mind went blank for a moment when he was scared by the crayfish boxed lunch Mingmei was selling.

"Excuse me, what kind of boxed lunch would you like to buy?"

But he was quickly brought back to his senses by Mingmei's voice.

"I... give me... one of each."

He knew that the crayfish boxed lunch was expensive and not very useful to him, but he had to buy it!

If he didn't buy it, wouldn't it be easy to arouse suspicion?

"Okay~"

Mingmei handed the boxed lunch to him. Julian opened the crayfish boxed lunch as if he were very hungry, but immediately closed it after just one glance, as if he had been greatly frightened, and said, "Heavens, this is crayfish? Do people really buy this?"

"Of course."

After Mingmei replied, she naturally noticed a strange glimmer in his eyes.

After these words, Julian finally realized what was going on with the player who had been next to Mei Qiu during the day.

That person must have eaten this.

Mingmei also remembered what the audience in Wang Wenfei's livestream had mentioned earlier. Seeing that the other party had already bought a boxed lunch, she didn't say anything more to him.

The boxed lunches are sold, no love for anyone ╭(╯^╰)╮

Mingmei turned and left, putting on a cold and aloof appearance, but in her heart, she had already asked Guigui to bring up Julian's livestream to observe his behavior after she left.

To Mingmei's surprise, unlike Charlie, who aroused Mingmei's suspicion, Julian, who bought the crayfish boxed lunch, ate it all without paying any attention to it.

If Wang Wenfei hadn't said in her livestream that Julian was a hidden Zerg, she would never have suspected him just by looking at him.

Julian's acting skills have improved a lot~

Even the viewers in Julian's livestream were exclaiming, "Good job!"

[I'm going! If I wasn't watching several livestreams at the same time, I wouldn't know if this guy is a human or a Zerg!]

[Actually, it's not certain. Although the secretary lady's livestream makes it feel like he's a Zerg, could it be a misjudgment?]

[How could it be a misjudgment? I think that's just how it is. This guy is an actor!]

[Well, that's not necessarily true. The player himself didn't say he was a Zerg. Maybe the player has other missions? Otherwise, didn't that lady also say that she needs more evidence?]

[That's right. If I were asked to play a Zerg, and it would lead to one of the real culprits behind the Sigma Fortress incident, I would just self-destruct, okay?]

[That's why you guys who don't take the game seriously don't have enough immersion!]

[Otherwise, what do you think the game company's NPC intelligence is for? Isn't it to prevent some players from being idiots and preventing other players from having a good experience?]

[Emmmm, everyone's topic seems to have gone far afield?]

[......]

After Mingmei finished selling her wares here, she prepared to continue selling boxed lunches with the player who was playing Xia He, that is, the player named Mandison. This time, Mu Chen was in the same ward as Mandison.

What a coincidence.

At this moment, Mei Qiu was still in that ward talking to Mu Chen. When Mingmei arrived at the door, it just so happened that Mandison and Wang Wenfei were standing outside.

When Wang Wenfei looked up, she saw Mingmei standing not far away with a lunchbox in her arms. Before Mingmei could speak, she said to Mandison, "You haven't eaten anything in a long time. Coincidentally, this young lady has just brought back food from the base cafeteria. Would you like to try it?"