“Actually, the girl with the braids and that young man are a couple. They're a team! That's why they could secretly team up in the end…”

“Oh, so that other girl is also their classmate, and they all get along well, so she joined their team too…”

“Hey! What do you guys mean? What do you mean I was abandoned? Darn it! I cleared the level! And you're still talking about me!”

Coming out of the game, Mingmei lay in the virtual reality pod, continuing to watch Lu Xiaoyao's livestream, which hadn't been turned off. She saw Lu Xiaoyao standing proudly with her hands on her hips, looking like "I'm the best" and "I'm so awesome," arguing with the comments.

The comments were mercilessly scrolling across the screen: 【Winning by being carried doesn't count~】

The viewers who had been touched by Lu Xiaoyao's decision to forgo a smooth victory to show them the rest of the story had completely forgotten their earlier emotions after witnessing Lu Xiaoyao's cowardly and incompetent performance, coupled with her teammates' brilliant reversals and highlights.

Lu Xiaoyao: Humph! Viewers!

So, now that she was out of the game, everyone was teasing her for being a freeloader.

Of course, Lu Xiaoyao absolutely refused to admit it!

However, from Lu Xiaoyao's interaction with the comments, Mingmei roughly understood what had happened.

Lu Xiaoyao was really lucky this time. The other three teammates were all students from the Imperial Central Military Academy, and they were playing as a team. However, they were tight-lipped and kept it a secret.

With Lu Xiaoyao's intelligence and observation skills, she couldn't see anything wrong with them at all, so their reversals in the later stages made Lu Xiaoyao's scalp tingle.

It wasn't until after exiting the game and adding them as friends that Lu Xiaoyao understood everything.

“Um, that bento box is really delicious! I never lie!”

Someone in the comments had already asked how the bento box was, and Lu Xiaoyao honestly replied, "And it really works, blocking pain is awesome! Otherwise, I would have been in so much pain from falling off the wall and being dragged along the ground later on!”

【But I remember you were still screaming!】

【True, it was super tragic.】

Many people in the comments remembered the scene of Lu Xiaoyao screaming all the way in the later stages. It didn't seem like the bento box had any effect at all.

She still screamed non-stop after falling, bumping, and hitting?

Even Mingmei couldn't help but wonder if there was really something wrong with the bento boxes she was selling.

"Cough! That was an involuntary reaction, an instinctive response to danger. Pain or no pain, 'a scream a day keeps the doctor away!' Understand?"

"What are you even talking about?"

Mingmei watched her livestream and couldn't help but chuckle. She couldn't help but marvel at the amazing thought process of the new star that her godfather's company was promoting.

She was very popular with the audience.

After watching the livestream, Mingmei leisurely opened the game's official website. As Gui Gui had said, the game had been shut down again for updates.

The StarNet was once again arguing endlessly about the difficulty and changes after this game update.

Mingmei watched the comments on the StarNet with great interest. Then, a message popped up on her optical computer: 【The game will be updated for two days. Take a good rest. Also, I'm off these two days. Remember to come back for dinner and hang out at home for a couple of days. —Uncle Ruan Xun】

Looking at the message, Mingmei sighed softly and shook her head helplessly. Ever since she woke up and confirmed that she had no post-transmigration sequelae, her parents had started their "honeymoon" trip again.

Mingmei came to the interstellar world from the cultivation world with her parents, who had ascended to immortality and torn through the space barrier.

Don't ask why her whole family transmigrated. Just know that her family had "connections." They had relatives in the interstellar world.

However, even so, they still had a little accident during the transmigration process, which caused her to become an interstellar vegetable for decades. She was carefully cared for in a rehabilitation pod and only woke up this year.

Mingmei also had two biological older brothers. However, her eldest brother and sister-in-law were still as clingy as her parents, and she didn't want to be a third wheel.

Her second brother, according to her father, was a human-shaped troublemaker who caused trouble wherever he went. He lived a very "exciting" life every day.

Mingmei felt that her laid-back personality couldn't keep up with her second brother's antics.

So, Mingmei's parents thought of who else among their elders could take care of her. There were also two godfathers, an uncle, and an uncle.

Although the relatives of the older generation were not connected by blood, their relationship was better than blood relatives.

Therefore, her parents were not worried at all about entrusting Mingmei to the care of her elders.

However, her uncle was taking care of her younger sister in the original world; and the other two godfathers were in their own little world all year round. They could visit her often but couldn't see her every day.

Thus, the responsibility of taking care of Mingmei naturally fell on her two bachelor uncles. According to her mother's idea, letting two older young men take care of a "cub" would help stimulate their fatherly love, which might help them resolve their life events sooner.

To this, Ming · Cub · Mei had no right to object _(¦3」∠)_ Her two uncles also had no right to refuse.

It was hilarious. She heard that her uncles and older brothers were beaten by her mother since they were young. Her mother always had a good grasp of the strength of her beatings.

Until death, Mingmei couldn't help but sigh and lie back in the lazy pod, feeling tired.

Her two uncles… stimulate fatherly love?

Forget it, she already had a premonition that her two uncles were going to stir up trouble again this time!

…

"I just looked at the game's test data and some livestreams after the game was updated, and the results look pretty good."

Mingmei, who came home on time in the evening, looked at her two uncles sitting across from her. They had different appearances but similar temperaments and were both squinty-eyed, and she felt a lot of pressure.

One of them, Uncle Yan Hui, who had a more delicate appearance and a slightly more mature temperament, was one of the designers of this *Ancient Blue Star Survival Guide* series of escape games.

Hearing what he said, Mingmei knew that he must know what happened in the game during the day.

"Uncle Yan Hui, are you saying that the players died well?"

Mingmei naturally browsed the StarNet during the day before coming back for dinner. The most popular topic on the StarNet was #Did you learn from today's *Ancient Blue Star Survival Guide*?#

Among them, Lu Xiaoyao's video, which could almost be called the only successful playthrough, was extremely popular.

Lu Xiaoyao's experience of clearing the game—she cleared it, but it felt like she didn't, and she had no experience at all!

Netizens summarized the secrets to clearing the game—

First, you must have three very reliable teammates!

Second, you must have a merchant who sells bento boxes tirelessly.

Finally, your name must be "Lu Xiaoyao."

Yan Hui listened to Mingmei's words with a smile, not feeling that there was anything wrong with her question. Instead, he nodded, agreeing very much with Mingmei's statement—yes, everyone died well.

Mingmei: …

Seeing him like this, Mingmei could only look at the other Uncle Ruan Xun, who looked younger and had a more friendly and gentle smile.

"Uncle Ruan Ruan, this game hasn't been touched for decades, and now it's being greatly changed. It can't just be to create employment opportunities for me, right?"

You know, real person NPCs were only secretly implemented after this game update.

"No, the Federal and Imperial Military Academies plan to cooperate with Hua Lan Star and cooperate through this game."

Ruan Xun, who was a staff member of the Central Research Institute, a neutral force in the interstellar world, glanced at Yan Hui, who was eating normally beside him, and then looked at Mingmei and said in a low voice, "This escape game has been found to significantly exercise and even improve human mental strength with appropriate modifications to increase the difficulty. This is very beneficial for those military academy students who control mechs."

The stronger the mental strength, the higher the level of mechs they can control, and the more precise the actions and movements of controlling the mechs, and the greater the lethality.

"In recent years, the Zerg have also been secretly evolving and becoming more and more rampant." Speaking of this, Yan Hui also sighed, "Hua Lan Star and its affiliated star regions are not far from the Zerg's territory."

Therefore, Hua Lan Star, which has never participated in the Federal and Imperial disputes and is similar to the Research Institute as a middle-of-the-road party, has also chosen to cooperate with them this time.

The interstellar world has not had a large-scale war with the Zerg for a hundred years, so the news of the Zerg's restlessness should not be directly announced to the public to prevent unnecessary panic.

Therefore, they decided to transform this game into a place suitable for military academy students and soldiers in the army who control mechs to exercise and improve their mental strength.

"But isn't this game still open to ordinary people? Won't the game be too difficult if this is the case? Like today…"

"So, the game will be updated again and reset. There will be different difficulties and different stories for different groups of people and different levels of mental strength. I was also very eye-opening to see so many people going in to die and play today after the update..."

"Indeed, the strange ways of dying and playing... It's thanks to you for temporarily closing the channel." Ruan Xun had been staring at the data of a group of military academy students entering the Research Institute early this morning, and naturally noticed some interesting things.

Listening to the conversation between these two uncles, the way they were almost about to blurt out their true thoughts made Mingmei couldn't help but light a candle in advance for the players who would come later.

Mingmei silently buried her head in her bowl. Her mother said that these two uncles were not good people when they were young.

Accurately speaking, the current state of her two uncles should be the type who have "washed their hands of crime."

"Well, in addition to that, there is also the problem of walkthroughs. I saw that many players are relying on walkthroughs."

Mingmei nodded repeatedly at the point Yan Hui mentioned. When she was in the game before, those players had more or less said that they were prepared.

"How can a game with walkthroughs stimulate people's greatest survival potential? How can you stimulate your potential if you don't use your brain when doing tasks?"

"Yes, but we can't make the game story different for everyone. Even if the characters are different, the story line is there. It's really not good to know it in advance."

"Isn't it? I can't design a bunch of endless new games, it's too tiring~"

Yan Hui and Ruan Xun sang in harmony, Mingmei listened and looked at her two uncles again. Seeing the bright smiles on their faces made Mingmei feel bad from the bottom of her heart.

Help! These two are going to unleash a big move again!