Chapter 1 As an Imperial Soldier, Dying on the Front Lines is an Honor and a Resolve!

Lou Jia sat in the damaged Canglang (Azure Wolf) mech, the broken cockpit already split with a crack the size of a head. His face covered in blood, he listened to the countdown in his headset. His eyes shifted, watching the grotesque insect head outside the mech as Mu Chen's voice echoed in his ears, "Congratulations, cut!"

"Same to you..." Lou Jia grinned, flashing a smile at the insectoid creature trying to see if he was dead. Then came a blinding flash of white light...

When Lou Jia regained consciousness, he was back at the game interface. He stared at the greyed-out "Prelude to Bloody Battle" on the game panel and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This game felt like a trip to the battlefield. Every moment in the game was deeply etched in his mind.

Lou Jia didn't even have the desire to look at the score calculation. Completing the game like this was enough for him.

He logged out directly, climbed out of the game pod, and picked up his optical brain. He knew too much from the game. For a moment, Lou Jia didn't know what to do.

Should he surf Xingbo (Star Blog)?

Or should he search for information about the Sigma Military Fortress incident again?

Lost in thought, he looked down and saw 99+ unread messages and countless missed video calls on his optical brain's communication panel.

Lou Jia: ???

He opened the most recent one, a voice message from his good friend: "Lou Jia! Your performance in this game was amazing!! I heard from the academy teachers that they're planning to use you for this year's recruitment promotional video!"

Lou Jia: !!!

He suddenly remembered that this game was live-streamed the entire time. Lou Jia hadn't known the plot initially and hadn't expected many people to watch his stream. But the more he played, the more he realized that the game's story was off. He had just come out of the game and had forgotten about the live stream!

Seemed like the effect was pretty good?

Lou Jia dialed his friend's video call. As soon as it connected, several faces suddenly appeared on his friend's side, startling him.

"Senior! You were so handsome in the game! Senior, are you single? Can I pursue you?!"

Apparently, there were several people on his friend's side. This unfamiliar girl confessed to him right away, making Lou Jia, who had been focused on his studies and remained a lone wolf, blush for the first time in a while.

...

The same popularity also appeared among several other players. Even Mandison, who died relatively early, gained a wave of popularity due to the character filter, which inexplicably improved his public image.

Of course, this popularity did not include Julian and Charlie.

The two players who played the hidden insectoids could be considered brothers in misfortune.

As soon as Charlie logged off, he received an invitation from the academy's mental health center.

Psychological counseling after the game was standard procedure, so he didn't care.

But! Why was this psychological assessment a questionnaire about antisocial personality disorder?

Don't think that just because the title says "Stress Self-Test" that it's a stress self-test! He really thought it was just a stress self-assessment!

He even minored in criminal psychology last semester!

He's seen psychological scales for evaluating crime!

Did they think he played the insectoid too vividly and thought he was a pervert?!

The key is that the insectoid character he played had a lot of information and a lot of tasks. He really just wanted to complete those character tasks for the sake of credits!

This wasn't him "exposing his true nature"!

He's a pure human future military officer with good roots!

Everything was for the sake of credits QvQ!

You have to believe me!

Instead of checking if he has an antisocial personality, check his bloodline!

Why was he so unlucky, drawing such a hated character like the insectoid?

Compared to Charlie, Julian's situation was even more deadly, because of the two players playing the insectoid roles, Julian was even more hated.

Poisoning players, giving ideas to another insectoid player, and taking one with him before he died, this was even more hated than Charlie.

Therefore, after coming out of the game, he was directly taken back to his home—the Federal Presidential Palace.

For the first time, Julian stood in front of his father, the president, who looked six-tenths like him. His heart was pounding like dozens of rabbits running around.

It wasn't that his father was imposing, but that there were other people in the room.

He saw a dozen of his father's aides sitting in the room, forming a circle around him. When a dozen pairs of eyes fell on Julian, he knew he was in big trouble.

"Regarding the hidden insectoids, I knew about it a long, long time ago."

Julian's father, the president of the Federation, Louis Malvez Gutaiev, said directly to his son.

"Father?"

Julian looked at him in disbelief, his eyes wide. Then he heard Louis say, "Thanks to this, the Federation has also discovered many hidden insectoids over the years, and this time, we wiped out the insectoids that had been hidden in the Federation for many years."

Julian: !!!

"Because of this, our Federation owes the Empire a favor. The Empire's hidden insectoid forces are more complex than ours, so we have been cooperating with the Empire and haven't announced the news to the public. Even all the elimination operations were completely completed in the last two days."

"Then...then I..." Julian suddenly felt that his brain was not working properly.

"Well, next we will talk about your problem."

Louis looked at his tender son, adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses, glanced at an aide, and signaled him to speak.

"Since Young Master Julian entered the game, after revealing his identity as a hidden insectoid from your perspective, because of your superb acting skills in the game, showing the cruelty and cunning of the insectoids, it has attracted a lot of netizens' scolding and accusations against you, even rising to the real person. Therefore, your personal reputation has also dropped a lot."

Hearing this, Julian's face changed.

Although he was mentally prepared, the other party put emphasis on the word "dropped," so this reputation drop was definitely not just a little bit.

"The key is that some of the President's political enemies have sent people to fish in troubled waters, mentioning your relationship with the President, thereby questioning your upbringing, and thus guiding the uninformed to question the President's character and reputation."

"Nonsense! These people are simply..."

Julian never expected that his matter would involve his father. He was so angry that his face turned red and he shouted out of character. But unexpectedly, he once again met his father, who was sitting there calmly looking at him.

Louis's eyes were full of calmness and peace. Julian seemed to have been poured a basin of cold water on his head and was silenced.

Although it was about the other party's reputation, his father had always maintained his due demeanor and calmness, as if all the disturbances were not worth mentioning to him.

However, if it was really not worth mentioning, he wouldn't have been brought directly here to be in a room with his father and these dozen aides.

Julian glanced at the aides with serious faces around him and wailed in his heart: Oh my god _(：3」∠)_!!