Chapter 1 Outside the Game, the Unscrupulous Planner's Office

"We agreed not to let acquaintances team up, but you opened the public channel. Aren't you deliberately leaving loopholes for them to exploit?"

"Exploit? That's exactly what I want them to do. If they don't, how will they know it's a trap?"

Yan Hui smiled and lay on the sofa with a pot of hot tea, watching the projected live broadcast in front of him. It was the God's-eye view of the entire competition. If he wanted, he could freely adjust the screen to see the most exciting parts.

However, he had a guest at the moment, so he couldn't focus too much on the game screen.

Regretfully thinking, Yan Hui glanced at Ruan Xun, who was skipping work, and said, "You left the research institute without a word. What are you doing here?"

"I came back to rest for a couple of days. You know my office was tampered with, and the key is that the defense system my brother made for me didn't even notice."

Ruan Xun's brother naturally referred to the main AI created by his father.

As Ruan Xun spoke, he crossed his hands, sat up straight, and looked at Yan Hui, who was clearly intrigued by his words. He said, "What kind of strength do you think someone would need to bypass my brother's defense system and sneak into my office?"

"Bypassing the main AI's surveillance in this era..." Yan Hui frowned, seemingly realizing that this was a big problem. "By the way, do you know what of yours was touched?"

"Ah, probably afraid that I would know, they touched everything once."

Ruan Xun's face darkened, but a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth...

Inside the game.

"Are you okay?"

"Okay (Who are you asking?)"

Hearing the two voices, one male and one female, Hu Yue's expression immediately changed. She was a little confused looking at the dozen or so mecha in front of her!

"I'm behind you."

"There's no mecha behind me!"

"Then I..."

Before Li Yuan could finish speaking, his hands reacted faster than his brain, and he immediately raised his hand to block an attack from a mecha almost identical to Hu Yue's!

With a "boom," Li Yuan's entire mecha control room shook, and the instant loss of 50% of the mecha's integrity made him feel that everything in front of him was too unbelievable!

His mecha was focused on defense!

He was in a defensive stance just now, yet he was hit so hard by the opponent that it was damaged like this?!

"Li Yuan, were you attacked?"

Hu Yue's voice could still be heard in the communication channel. Within Li Yuan's field of vision, there were eight mecha exactly the same as his, all focused on attack, and one of them had just hit him!

"Yes! I was just attacked!"

Just as he was speaking, a loud bang suddenly sounded beside him, and two mecha that were also focused on defense were knocked away.

"I see it, I'm coming over!"

"Don't come over!"

Li Yuan immediately dragged his battered mecha out of the chaotic battlefield, retreating while shouting, "I'm retreating, you retreat as well!"

"Okay!" Suddenly, a rough male voice echoed Li Yuan in the communication channel.

"Who are you?!"

Li Yuan was dumbfounded!

He was talking to Hu Yue, so who the hell was interrupting?

If he had another chance, he would definitely not have brought Hu Yue down this road!

He didn't expect that while leading Hu Yue to avoid the deformed, shrinking, and moving boundary lines, they would run into a group of mecha.

Because they needed to communicate when teaming up with strangers, they had turned on the nearby communication channel, which meant they could pick up any voices nearby.

As a result, his communication channel "exploded."

"Brothers! Retreat!"

The other party shouted twice, as if enjoying the chaos, and the dozen or so mecha that had just collided and become entangled suddenly scattered.

Li Yuan wanted to find Hu Yue among the seven or eight high-attack mecha that were flying away, but now he was dumbfounded.

Hu Yue was equally dumbfounded. She could see six mecha focused on defense retreating, and three of them that had just been attacked were retreating in different directions!

Who should she choose?!

"Which direction are you flying in?"

"I'm flying towards (I'm flying towards your heart, baby~)"

Li Yuan's not-so-loud voice was immediately drowned out by other voices in the public channel.

"Yi! Gold, wood, water, fire, you, firewood, rice, you, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, tea!"

"Come on~ baby, let me become infatuated with you! Don't be stingy, I'm a delicate flower, make your move!"

At this moment, the public channel, with only a dozen or so mecha gathered together, had already exploded. Li Yuan looked in horror at the two attack-type mecha quietly approaching him. His intuition told him that neither of them was Hu Yue.

"I'm leaving first! We'll team up again if we have the chance!"

Li Yuan gritted his teeth, shouted, and immediately accelerated to escape, while using the two credits he had managed to earn to exchange for a box lunch of mixed offal.

Unfortunately, he didn't have time to eat it!

And when Hu Yue realized that the escaping mecha was Li Yuan, her mecha was once again attacked by a mecha approaching her, interrupting her pursuit. This time, Hu Yue was completely "dumped" by Li Yuan.

Filled with anger, Hu Yue directly started fighting with the five mecha that looked exactly like hers!

While fighting, Hu Yue didn't hold back at all and cursed, "Are you sick?! You're doing this on purpose!"

"Yeah, we're doing it on purpose. Hit me!"

"Oops, sorry. You probably can't guess which of these mecha is me~ Hahaha!"

"Get lost! Who the hell is attacking me from behind?!"

"Damn it, I was just watching the fun, and you guys are hitting me?!"

Because the mecha were identical, the six mecha didn't know whether someone had intentionally or unintentionally attacked from behind during the melee, indiscriminately attacking several mecha, including Hu Yue.

In the end, the mecha that had temporarily agreed to gang up on Hu Yue ended up fighting each other!

And Ming Mei and Mu Chen, who had just flown their mecha nearby, hadn't even seen any mecha yet, but their public channel had already exploded because they had reached a certain range.

"You dare to attack me from behind! I'll show you the Ti崩 Xing Wrestling Technique!"

"Holy crap! Who's sitting in that mecha, so perverted?! They're not even letting my mecha's chrysanthemum go?!"

"Ahhhhh! I'm going to fight you today, you guys are not worthy of my well-behaved and cute future mecha designer!"

Ming Mei: ??

Mu Chen: ???

Before seeing the mecha, they heard the voices first. Ming Mei felt that something was happening not far ahead that made people not want to peek at all. They even wanted to leave.

"Should we go?"

Mu Chen felt that if they didn't leave, they might get caught up in some big trouble.

However, the moment Mu Chen opened his mouth, everything was already destined!

"Holy crap! Someone's attacking! There's more people?!"

"Don't even think about leaving!"

Ming Mei: !!

Mu Chen: !!

"Achen!"

Ming Mei quickly raised her mecha's defense shield and stood in front of Mu Chen.

In an instant, the meteorite to Mu Chen's right shattered, and several attack-type mecha like Mu Chen charged out from inside!

"Oh, another team of randoms!"

"Brothers, attack! We can lose the game, but random teams must be broken up!"

After the slogan was shouted, attacks came one after another. Ming Mei and Mu Chen were forced to separate. Ming Mei wanted to tell Mu Chen to take care of three each, but then she heard another unfamiliar male voice in the public channel: "Brothers! Let's destroy the defense mecha first!"

"Okay!" x5!

In the blink of an eye, a group of attack-type mecha all flew towards Ming Mei!

Ming Mei: Damn it!