Chapter 32 "Huh?"

Mandison looked completely lost. He glanced at the delicate and pretty girl in front of him, holding a fancy lunchbox, then at the bandage on her forehead and the hospital gown she was wearing.

For a moment, Mandison didn't know what to say.

Was it okay to directly ask her for a lunchbox?

It would make him seem like he was bullying the weak.

"Sir, would you like a lunchbox? The cafeteria has new dishes. Would you like to try some?"

Seeing his hesitation, Mingmei continued Wang Wenfei's efforts, pushing the lunchbox right up to his face, afraid he would refuse. "I'm a patient who walked so far to bring these lunchboxes here. If I can't sell them, I have to take them back... Ah, why am I so miserable?"

"Huh? You're not eating this yourself?" Mandison was taken aback, realizing he seemed to have misunderstood.

"That's right! Our cafeteria recently launched a lunchbox delivery service. They know I'm in the hospital, so they specifically asked me to promote it here."

Mingmei lied without batting an eye. She didn't care if the player suspected her. Anyway, would her lies affect the player's decision to buy a lunchbox?

Like Lu Xiaoyao, no matter what Mingmei did, she wouldn't buy it if she didn't want to.

Like Mu Chen, Mingmei didn't even have to open her mouth; he would take the initiative to buy.

"I..."

Mandison looked at Mingmei's small figure. The loose hospital gown made her look thin, small, and pitiful. She had to run errands for work even when she was sick. Sigh.

He turned to look at Wang Wenfei and saw her nodding.

Mandison thought, "Sure enough, she also feels sympathy. That's why she asked me to help and agree."

So he nodded and said, "Okay, sure. Just put the lunchbox..."

Before he could finish speaking, Mandison's game system issued a prompt: [Ding! Congratulations to the player for discovering a mysterious merchant. Please purchase your desired items within the time limit!]

Mandison: ?????

"You... Oh my god?" Mandison, who had been wearing a cool expression, suddenly had a face that seemed ready to compete with comedians. The person he had felt sympathy for was actually a mysterious merchant!

In that instant, Mingmei saw his face change in a way that almost rivaled a comedian.

"Your god is still there..."

Amused by Mandison's change of expression, Mingmei couldn't help but say that.

"Pfft~"

Wang Wenfei, who had reminded Mandison, didn't expect it to be so funny either.

"Are you buying or not?"

Seeing Mandison's various expressions, Mingmei had to remind him to hurry up.

"Oh, okay! I, I, I want them all!"

Gritting his teeth, Mandison bought them all. Three academic points!

If he didn't perform well in the game, he would end up losing academic points, but that wasn't a problem for Mandison!

"I hope the mysterious merchant will always be this nice in the future games, and my teammates will be helpful too."

After speaking, Mandison looked at Wang Wenfei with gratitude, making Wang Wenfei feel a little embarrassed. She said, "It's nothing. Haven't you encountered a mysterious merchant in your previous games?"

Wang Wenfei said casually, but Mandison actually nodded seriously. "I guess not."

Mingmei and Wang Wenfei were both silent.

No way?

There were people who hadn't encountered a mysterious merchant in this level of the game?

Even if there wasn't Mingmei, wouldn't there be other NPCs?

Mingmei couldn't help but start to doubt her life. Was she the most proactive and enthusiastic merchant among all the mysterious merchants?

"Have you ever cleared a game?"

Mingmei couldn't help but ask him faintly. The answer was obvious; he hadn't.

The audience in the live broadcast: [...]

Was this guy that unlucky?

"Could it be that your memory was suppressed when you entered the game, so you don't remember?" Wang Wenfei thought of the game mechanics.

"Although many of my previous memories are suppressed in the game, I can be sure that I have never met a mysterious merchant."

Mandison sighed and said, "If I had, even if my memory was suppressed when I entered the game, when I met one again and the mysterious shop opened, I would feel somewhat familiar, right?"

As he spoke, Mandison glanced at Mingmei faintly. "But you really look unfamiliar, and the electronic prompt that alerted me to your presence also sounded unfamiliar. I guess I really have never met one before."

[I can vouch for him, hahaha. The person streaming is my deskmate. Every time he comes out of a game and hears others say there's a mysterious merchant, he always doubts his life hahaha!]

[And, and, I remember one game where he temporarily cooperated with a senior, but the other person found a mysterious merchant and didn't tell him, hahaha. He only found out after leaving the game. That was the closest he ever got to a mysterious merchant~]

[Hahahaha, so sad to watch.]

[23333, too tragic, too tragic!]

Wasn't that right?

Mingmei, seeing the barrage in his live broadcast, also deeply sympathized with him and felt afraid of players who concealed the existence of mysterious merchants.

Regarding this, Mingmei only felt that she was quite lucky. Apart from meeting Lu Xiaoyao, the big sucker, in every game, there weren't any particularly outrageous things.

Hearing this, Lu Xiaoyao, who was working overtime to repair a mecha, felt a chill run down her spine.

"Achoo!" Lu Xiaoyao rubbed her nose, staring at the mecha in front of her with resentment. "How can a critical part be missing?"

The more she thought about it, the angrier she got. Lu Xiaoyao finally resentfully dialed the visual communication channel for logistics parts configuration.

"Hello."

"Why is there no stock of energy crystals for the Azure Wolf mecha?!"

Lu Xiaoyao didn't care that Charlie on the other end was also a player. Anyway, because of the overtime, she urgently needed an outlet to vent her inner dissatisfaction.

"As an A++ level mecha, the Azure Wolf mecha has a 1:3 ratio of parts and energy crystal storage to prevent shortages during repairs! Moreover, the parts configuration of this mecha is checked every month, and there's never a shortage! How can your logistics department have such a flaw as material shortages?"

Lu Xiaoyao's rapid-fire words left Charlie speechless for a long time.

"During the last battle, Xia He, the pilot of the Azure Wolf mecha, privately took all the remaining energy crystals to the battlefield and consumed them all. Your mecha repair is also at the end of the month, and the transport starship to Changping Starport hasn't departed yet, so the inventory naturally hasn't kept up."

"Moreover, the warehouse transfer at Changping Port has also encountered some problems recently. They also don't have fully suitable energy crystals for the Azure Wolf mecha. If you want to wait for the fully compatible energy crystals, you'll have to wait half a month for the warehouse at Changping Port to restock."

"Or you can personally go to Changping Port to select suitable energy crystals and cut and polish them yourself..."

After the other party finished speaking, Lu Xiaoyao was dumbfounded.

The Sigma Military Fortress would have problems in three days. A combat mecha of the Azure Wolf level could directly face a high-level insect.

Insects were divided into five levels: low-level, mid-level, high-level, insect generals, and insect queens. The latter two levels were very rare, but the first three levels were frequently encountered in battles.

Especially high-level insects, the top combat power of a single high-level insect was enough to destroy a planet.

If the Azure Wolf mecha was absent from the battle...

Lu Xiaoyao couldn't help but nervously nibble on her small hand, wondering if the absence of the Azure Wolf mecha, a vital combat force, would lead to the destruction of Sigma Fortress and its planet!

Lu Xiaoyao was frightened by her own terrible thought!

Could it be that the role she was playing was the culprit who caused the Sigma Fortress incident?!

World-famous painting, "Lu Xiaoyao's Scream".jpg

"No, no, no..." Lu Xiaoyao immediately muttered to herself, "I didn't come here to be a sinner... No, no. This is a game, everything can be changed..."

Lu Xiaoyao was really anxious now. She hurriedly stared at the data of the fully armed Azure Wolf mecha for a long time. Except for a slight deficiency in defense, its attack power, burst power, and speed were all ridiculously strong. If this mecha couldn't make it to the battle, something big would definitely happen!

The barrage fell silent when they heard Lu Xiaoyao's muttering, until—

[That's right, this is just a game. Who says the ending has to be a bad end?]

[That's right, what if? The players noticed the insects through the lunchboxes, maybe... maybe we really won't lose?]

[Ahhhh! Why did Lu Xiaoyao come up with this idea? Replace her with someone else!]

[Replace her with someone else, maybe we can change "history"!"]

[!!!]