Chapter 1 The Beginning

Mingmei smoothly piloted her mecha towards the designated area. During the automatic navigation, she suddenly noticed a stack of lunch boxes beside her hand.

"Is this even allowed?!"

Even if she became a player in this round, the lunch boxes that should be in the game were still there.

It was the first time Mingmei looked at the lunch boxes she usually sold from a player's perspective. It felt quite strange.

Mingmei curiously brought a lunch box to her eyes. Immediately, a light screen popped up above the lunch box—[Do you want to spend the points earned in this round to open the lunch box? ps: 2 points/box]

[1. Stir-fried large intestine wrapped in small intestine lunch box. After consumption, both the person and the machine will immediately return to their optimal state.]

[2. Beer duck lunch box. After consumption, the mecha will maintain invincibility for one minute, and all attacks will be nullified. This one minute can be controlled by the player and cannot be interrupted once activated.]

"Wow, good stuff~"

Mingmei's eyes lit up when she saw the introduction of these two lunch boxes!

She wanted both of them!

But before Mingmei could speak, she saw the words on the light screen change—[Detected that the player currently has 0 points. Please open the transaction again after obtaining points~]

Mingmei: "..."

"Two different lunch boxes, do I have to kill at least four bugs or shoot down four mechas?"

Mingmei didn't know until she calculated it. Only then did she realize what players often said—lunch boxes are really expensive!

Not only Mingmei, but almost all players who boarded the mechas discovered the existence of these lunch boxes.

However, different people had different attitudes towards the lunch boxes.

For example, players who wanted to have a hearty and fierce battle would definitely want these two lunch boxes.

But there were also some players who had no interest in lunch boxes at all.

They originally planned to avoid the battle first, find a remote place to hide, preserve their combat power, and then sneak attack the remaining players at the last moment to end the battle directly.

These were the legendary sly old dog players.

However, it seemed that Yan Hui had already anticipated this kind of thinking. The location of their mecha chase this time was an asteroid belt.

Everywhere were fast-flying meteorites, large and small. If they were not careful, they would hit the players' mechas.

It was impossible to find a stable place to hide.

After Mingmei entered the asteroid belt, the mecha's autopilot automatically switched to manual control.

At the same time, the electronic map also popped up automatically. Mingmei discovered that a red line appeared on the outermost boundary of the map, encircling a piece of the asteroid belt, including her.

This seemed to be the boundary line marker.

Mingmei raised her eyebrows. She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she always felt that this boundary line seemed to be changing?

While paying attention to the changes in the boundary line, Mingmei also had to focus on controlling the mecha's flight.

Being able to fly smoothly in the asteroid belt without being hit by these fast-flying meteorites was already very difficult, plus there might be bugs and player mechas here.

She was currently piloting the mecha alone and could only be as careful as possible.

She was probably among the first batch to fly the mecha in. Mingmei hadn't encountered other mechas from just now until now. Taking advantage of this opportunity, she could practice maneuvering in the asteroid belt.

Thinking so, Mingmei piloted the mecha towards the more densely packed meteorites in the center of the asteroid belt. Suddenly, the metal on Mingmei's mecha seemed to hit something, and she immediately dodged!

As she flew away from the spot, Mingmei saw that the meteorite that had just passed by her suddenly moved. The entire meteorite instantly "stretched its arms," "stretched its legs," and "opened its eyes," turning into a bug!

Mingmei: "What the heck!?"

Mingmei was startled by the scene in front of her. She looked around in horror, surrounded by meteorites, and couldn't help swallowing, muttering to herself, "This surrounding asteroid belt isn't all bugs, is it?"

...

"You buy the lunch boxes after we get points."

"Why?!"

Lu Xiaoyao stared wide-eyed at Julian, who was piloting the mecha, in disbelief.

"Aren't you going to buy them?"

"If you buy them, I don't need to buy them."

"Hey? No, why should I buy them? It's just wasting my points!" Lu Xiaoyao said with puffed-up cheeks, "Don't think you can order me around just because you took me in at the end."

"Didn't you say that as long as I took you to fly together, you would agree to anything I said?" Julian glanced at Lu Xiaoyao out of the corner of his eye and replied, "I asked you to buy lunch boxes and you're already going back on your word? A famous streamer like you, are you cheating even when playing games in private..."

"I'm not!" Lu Xiaoyao immediately became anxious, "Do you think agreeing is that simple?"

"Hmm? Simple? I didn't see you agree immediately. Besides, if not this, what else? I'm taking you to fly, are you going to give yourself to me?"

"You wish!" Lu Xiaoyao glared at Julian and said, "I'll buy them, but we agreed that you'd take me to fly. If you don't get enough points, you just wait!"

As she spoke, Lu Xiaoyao waved her fist as a threat.

"Naturally~"

The corners of Julian's mouth curled up slightly, and he was in a good mood.

Thinking back to just now, when he was competing with someone for a single-person mecha, he was one step behind and let that person enter the mecha first, so he had no choice but to choose a two-person mecha.

As a result, as soon as he went in, there was already someone inside who wanted to stop him and mentioned the matter of lunch boxes.

The other party's request was that if he came in, he would have to pay for two lunch boxes.

Hmm, not a bad idea~

So, Julian took advantage of the fact that the other party hadn't completely locked the mecha seat and simply threw the other party out. Then he sat inside waiting for someone willing to pay for his lunch boxes.

And he really waited for one~

...

"Go to hell!"

After Mingmei solved the bug that initially pretended to be a meteorite to sneak attack her, she happened to meet other players who flew in.

The other party saw that Mingmei was dealing with the bug and didn't make a move until Mingmei had just finished dealing with the bug and didn't have time to recover. Then, the other party flew directly towards Mingmei.

Mingmei couldn't dodge in time, and the mecha's 100% health bar instantly dropped to 70%, which directly infuriated Mingmei.

The battle between the two mechas broke out instantly, but during the battle, Mingmei unexpectedly discovered that the boundary line of the arena began to change significantly!

Wow~

Seeing this, Mingmei immediately had a plan in mind and turned around to fly away. When the other party's mecha saw Mingmei flying away, they followed to try to stop her.

As she flew, Mingmei seemed to be really caught up by the other party. The two had another brief and intense battle, but at the last moment, the mecha controlled by Mingmei didn't use any weapons to attack. Instead, she simply used her own speed and strength to knock the other party's mecha away.

Immediately, the other player only received a message—[You are out of the game, game over~]

Player: ???

Seeing that the other party's mecha flew directly out of the red line displayed on the electronic map, and she gained one point, Mingmei instantly smiled.

She originally wanted to try whether flying out of the boundary line would result in instant elimination or whether returning within a certain period of time was also possible. Now that someone had offered to test it for her, she would be foolish not to try!

While happy, Mingmei glanced at the electronic map again. At this time, the shape of their activity area had changed from the initial circle to a heart shape.

A heart-shaped battle arena + bugs posing as meteorites.

She didn't know what weird combination there would be next. Mingmei couldn't help but twitch the corner of her mouth as she thought, "The old geezer's quirky tastes~ tsk!"