Chapter 1 "Are the Central Military Academy people all young masters and misses?"

Julian's team from the Federation's First Military Academy was not far from Mingmei's. Julian had been paying close attention to their movements.

However, he didn't speak. Instead, a blonde girl standing next to him said with a hint of disdain, "Are they all young masters and misses from the Empire?"

Having been caught talking behind people's backs once, Julian was much more mature than before. Therefore, he didn't echo the girl's words.

Young masters and misses from the Empire?

Julian might have thought so before, but after getting to know those people, he realized that wasn't the case.

Even though the Federation seceded from the Empire, and they had a habit of badmouthing each other due to differing ideologies, it would be foolish to believe those badmouthing claims, right?

Charlie and Julian had been having a great time lately. Seeing Julian's suddenly indifferent expression, he chimed in cluelessly, "That's Grandmaster Li's younger brother. If I were you, I'd want to get to know him too. It'd be awesome to buy a mech after earning some military merits!"

"Well, I also want to meet Minister Mei's younger sister. Minister Mei was so amazing back then. I'm sure her sister is strong too!"

Julian continued Charlie's words, clearly indicating that he didn't want to pay attention to the girl next to him.

Seeing Julian's attitude, Merida glared resentfully at Charlie, who had just interrupted, leaving Charlie bewildered. m..oΓg

What was that about?

As soon as she left, Charlie put his arm around Julian's shoulder and said slyly, "Aren't you interested in that young lady? You two would be a perfect match!"

"No."

Julian lowered his eyelids, thinking that he wouldn't develop any feelings for her simply because her grandfather and his father disagreed politically.

Moreover, he had heard a little about Merida's character and didn't want to get involved at all.

"I'm going over there to see an acquaintance. Want to come with me?"

Julian's gaze fell on Lou Jia, who was surrounded by a group of younger students. He hadn't expected Lou Jia to be the leader of the Empire's Second Military Academy this time.

Seeing how popular he was, he could make friends and connections.

"Sure."

Charlie was also happy to walk around and meet people, so they quickly greeted Lou Jia and chatted for a while.

"If you have time while you're here on Central Star, want to hang out privately?"

"Sure, I was too rushed last time I came. I didn't have time to look around."

There were quite a few people like them who had met in the game and happened to meet again during the Eight Schools Exchange.

However, some people became friends through the game, while others became enemies.

For example, Wang Wenfei, who had just been chatting with Mandison who had taken the initiative to find her, had her good mood ruined the next second by Merida, who came to provoke her.

They had entered the same game several times before. The key was that Merida never remembered the lessons from the previous time. Relying on her dislike for Wang Wenfei, she always wanted to plot against her.

But every time, Wang Wenfei would turn the tables at the last moment. Merida couldn't remember the process of becoming enemies, but she always remembered that Wang Wenfei had offended her.

This game was exclusively for the Eight Schools Exchange, and the game memories weren't suppressed. The moment she saw Wang Wenfei, Merida's new and old grudges piled up together, and she rushed forward to threaten her without regard for anything.

"I'm going to make you look good this time!"

"Oh."

Wang Wenfei naturally remembered her when she saw her. She was disgusted.

Before Merida could say anything more because of Wang Wenfei's cold expression, the game finally announced the qualification round.

[Game Rules: Players have half an hour to choose their favorite mechs from the military fortress and fly away from the planet. Players still on the planet after half an hour will be eliminated. Players who fly off the planet, please pilot your mechs within the game's limited range and begin the hunting chase. Destroying one mech or eliminating a Zerg ambush counts as 1 point. Mech points for duo teams will be split evenly. Game Countdown: 00:01:00]

"Meimei, hold my hand tight later. We'll ride in a duo mech."

As soon as the game rules were announced, Mu Chen immediately realized that there were duo mechs here.

"Okay."

Mingmei didn't object. When the one-minute countdown ended, the light罩 above everyone's heads instantly disappeared, and more than a hundred players rushed towards the military fortress not far away. No one wanted to be last at this time!

"Ah? We can't ride in the same duo mech with someone from the same school?!"

The first to shout was the Zhen family brothers, who were running the fastest. As twins, of course, they wanted to cooperate together. Their tacit understanding was definitely invincible, but... the duo mechs here couldn't be ridden with someone from the same school.

Hearing this, Mu Chen immediately pulled Mingmei and changed direction, rushing straight to the nearest single mech with outstanding defense and directly sending her inside.

"Aren't you going to pick one out?"

Before entering, Mingmei grabbed the hatch and looked back at Mu Chen. In fact, she preferred mechs with strong attack power.

"There's no time. I just took a rough look. The number of mechs here is obviously not equal to the number of players. You go first, and I'll follow later."

After saying that, Mu Chen immediately turned around to find the mech he wanted after sending Mingmei in.

Along the way, he had already calculated that there were a total of 100 A-grade mechs, 20 of which were duo mechs. At most, only 120 players could leave the planet!

And now, not only Mu Chen had realized this, but many players in the field had also discovered it. Some were already fighting under a certain mech to compete for it.

Regarding this, Mu Chen directly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he reacted quickly enough to send Mingmei away first.

Now, he could also let go and choose his favorite model, and then defeat those people...

Compared to the intense fighting under the single mechs, the duo mech side was equally lively.

Because they couldn't pilot a mech with someone from the same school, the process of forming teams here was also very bizarre.

Some people were passive, they directly sat in and waited, and whoever came to sit in first would team up with them.

And some people who sat in duo mechs also wanted to pick a temporary teammate who caught their eye, so...

"Get out!"

"I won't, you're the one who should get out!"

"Ah! You dare to kick me?! You're dead!"

"You're the one who's dead! Who's afraid of who?!"

Merida dared to say that from this moment on, the person she hated the most besides Wang Wenfei was Lu Xiaoyao!

At this moment, the two were stuck at the hatch of the duo mech, fighting as a group, neither would give way.

"You annoying pampered young miss from the Empire!"

"I should be the one saying that! Federation drama queen!"

Because of the narrow hatch and fighting area, the two initially used martial arts with a kick and a punch, but for a long time afterward, it was basically a suffocating scene of little girls pulling each other's hair.

If their martial arts teachers saw them like this at this time, their noses would probably be crooked with anger!

On the other hand, Wang Wenfei, who didn't excel at martial arts, had also set her sights on the duo mech early on, and on the way, she brought back Mandison, who had been defeated by Mu Chen and forced to withdraw from the mech competition, as her partner.

However, when the two of them arrived at the duo mech side, they found that it was either full and about to leave, or there was one person sitting and waiting for another player to come in.

"Why don't you find one and go in? I'll go ahead and try to snatch one from someone else."

Mandison had just opened her mouth when she saw Wang Wenfei's gaze had already turned to the other side—Lu Xiaoyao, who was fighting with Merida.

"Snatching a single mech is also snatching, might as well snatch a duo~"