Chapter 1 I’m So Miserable!

“Wuwuwuwu, why am I so miserable!”

“Tell me! Why am I so miserable and useless!”

“Wuwuwuwuwu~”

Ming Mei sat on the small sofa by her bed, completely devoid of the will to live, watching Lu Xiaoyao, who had rushed into her dorm room clutching a pack of tissues, crying incessantly.

Lu Xiaoyao’s wails were like demonic sounds drilling into her ears!

Ming Mei had barely stepped out of the virtual reality pod and hadn't even had time to check out the subsequent plot developments on the StarNet when Lu Xiaoyao herself had stormed over from the next dorm room and started crying in her room.

Finally, Ming Mei couldn’t help but use drinking tea as an excuse to hide her eye-rolling expression and said, "Who told you not to buy a boxed meal?"

Lu Xiaoyao: “……?”

The crying stopped for five seconds, followed by another earth-shattering, tearful outburst.

"I wanted to buy one! But they wouldn't sell it to me!"

"Isn't that because you refused them first?"

"But those crayfish were too ugly!"

"You didn't buy other pretty boxed meals before, either →_→"

“Wuwu, eh?” Lu Xiaoyao, who was crying, suddenly became intelligent, “How did you know?”

The hand holding the teacup paused slightly, and Ming Mei lowered her eyes and quickly found a reason: "You can just search #Compilation of Game Streamer Fails# on the StarNet, and there's your mortifying scene of stylishly rejecting boxed meals."

It was truly suffocating for the fans, joyful for the passersby, and caused the blood pressure of her, the person selling the boxed meals, to skyrocket.

Now it was Lu Xiaoyao's turn to be dumbfounded.

She looked at Ming Mei in disbelief, asking Ming Mei and herself with empty eyes, "Are my fans this cruel?"

"Uh..." Ming Mei didn't know how to answer. She couldn't say, "That's right, your fans are more demonic than you think!"

After all, there are true fans, haters, and some weird, silly fans.

She had even seen someone make a ghost畜 (guichu, remix video) of Lu Xiaoyao rejecting her boxed meal.

Timed perfectly, every time Lu Xiaoyao was about to say something to refuse, an electronic voice, she didn’t know where it had been taken from, would endlessly repeat the sentence: "I want it! I want it! I want it all!"

Then, after repeating this sentence countless times, her face would suddenly become a ghastly, meme-like expression, and she would say with a wicked smile, "Sorry, sold out~~~"

Not to mention, Ming Mei found that guichu video quite de-stressing!

"Wipe your tears. At least you still have two academic credit points, it's not that bad. Want to go out for dinner later?"

"Eat!"

Lu Xiaoyao wiped her eyes, which were swollen like walnuts, sniffed, and said, "Wuwu, this game is too scary. My performance was an extraordinary display of my usual self."

"You... do you remember what happened to you later?" Now it was Ming Mei's turn to be stunned. She always thought Lu Xiaoyao didn't know about Da Yao's existence.

"Hmm... it's a bit blurry, but I remember that Zerg, yuck! How disgusting! Can't think about it too much!"

Lu Xiaoyao shuddered all over, which made Ming Mei even more confused about what was going on between her and Da Yao.

Seeing that Lu Xiaoyao's emotions were gradually stabilizing, Ming Mei relaxed and went out with Lu Xiaoyao. Of course, the two of them attracted a high rate of stares when they went out.

However, because it was already evening when they left the game, and Lu Xiaoyao had cried in Ming Mei's room for a while, many people had already returned to their dormitories to passionately gossip.

After all, today's news was too shocking. The game's trajectory eventually led to the same self-destruction as in history. Even though Wang Wenfei's character had left the game early, the last two surviving players still chose the same ending as in history.

After the game ended, countless people on the StarNet demanded a response to whether the facts of the past were the same as those revealed in the game. However, at least for now, Ming Mei had Ghost Ghost monitoring the official movements on the StarNet, but there was no news yet.

Ming Mei and Lu Xiaoyao arrived at the cafeteria smoothly, ordered their meals, and then found a seat to eat quietly.

"Whoa!"

Ming Mei and Lu Xiaoyao were sitting in the cafeteria when the central projection in the cafeteria suddenly popped up with a live news conference.

"Are my eyes deceiving me..."

Lu Xiaoyao was so frightened by the person who appeared on the live broadcast that she almost shoved the meat she was supposed to put in her mouth into her nostril with a fork.

Ming Mei wasn't much better. She grabbed a tissue and wiped away the fruit and vegetable juice she had sprayed out, staring at the person in the camera without blinking.

"General Mei Qiu!!! I'm blown away! Mei Qiu!"

Compared to Ming Mei and Lu Xiaoyao, who were directly frightened silly, the boys and girls at the next table were obviously more excited than the two of them!

"And old Principal, Marshal Wang!"

"Ahhhhh! Live broadcast across the entire network! Including the Empire and the Federation!"

"I knew it. Today's game was definitely a prelude. There's a big scandal coming up! Oh my god!"

Ming Mei's ears were filled with exclamations from those watching the live broadcast. Tonight was destined to be a sleepless night.

The nearly five-hour live broadcast thoroughly revealed the events of the Sigma military fortress that year. Just like Wang Wenying's voice recording before her death, the destruction of the Sigma military fortress was because the self-destruct program was activated.

And all of this was done to find the hidden Zerg lurking in the Empire and the Federation.

Thirty years of investigation and research, the screening methods for hidden Zerg and the list of hidden Zerg lurking in the Empire were also announced at this press conference.

Ming Mei didn't know how she and Lu Xiaoyao got back to the dormitory after listening to the press conference. It wasn't until she was lying in bed that Ming Mei tossed and turned, scrolling through the news on the StarNet.

Although it was early in the morning, tonight was a sleepless night for everyone.

[Holy crap! I can't handle this big scandal! Retired General Wang of the Fifth Army has spoken! Holy crap! I'm numb!]

[So that secretary was Marshal Wang's granddaughter! Oh my god, so many years of silence must have been so hard.]

[Serves them right! Several major families have already been taken down by the Empire's army, and it's been fully announced! They really are hidden Zerg, and there's a live broadcast! I'm so mad, if I wasn't here, I would smash the gugu bird's egg on those hidden Zerg!]

[??? Where, where? Give me a live broadcast link. I just fell asleep, and there's another live broadcast? Wait! I'm going!]

[Oh my god! It's killing me! They've shown their true forms! Confirmed!]

Ming Mei saw the discussions online and followed suit to watch the live broadcast. She hadn't felt anything when she heard her brother's long list of names that he had investigated for so many years.

But when she saw the number of Zerg being captured, Ming Mei felt a chill down her spine.

From some of the comments, it could be seen that there were also some deeply rooted old imperial nobles among them, who had all been replaced with Zerg without anyone noticing.

[Although hidden Zerg cannot be detected by Zerg cores, after many years of research and observation by Colonel Savile, the spiritual power fluctuations of hidden Zerg will show Zerg-specific spiritual wave changes when they receive spiritual attacks higher than their own.]

[Furthermore, hidden Zerg need to re-gather their spiritual power in their human form every two years to condense it into a Zerg core, and then disperse it again throughout their bodies, completing the promotion of their spiritual level or physical level in the process.]

[In other words, some human genetic agents and methods for exercising physical and spiritual power cannot improve the hidden Zerg in human form.]

[Thank you to Hualan Star Silicon-Based Technology Game Company for its many years of game monitoring, which has made a huge contribution to monitoring potential hidden Zerg in the military and military academies...]

Ming Mei clearly remembered what her brother said in the live broadcast today. Ming Mei couldn't help but click her tongue, this was really a big game!

After the Sigma Fortress incident, the famous director Durant helped her brother make a movie about his personal battle against the Zerg to attract "firepower";

After that, her uncle helped her brother use games to detect whether there were hidden Zerg among some special groups of people;

There were also people who were forced to "disappear" for various reasons, as well as those soldiers and officers who sacrificed themselves at the Sigma military fortress...

Seeing that some big shots on the StarNet had already begun to sort out the timeline of the incident, analyzing the events and pointing out the interconnected processes of those involved, Ming, a salted fish, Mei trembled after watching it for a long time!

It seems that my salted fish self is completely out of sync with my family~