Chapter 216 Something Happened

After lying in bed for three days, Mingmei woke up and, after a check-up, confirmed that there were no major problems. She returned to school, turned on her optical brain again, and spent most of the day just replying to messages.

Although the whole story of this incident was not made public, the students of this school basically knew about it.

Even Leng Youyou, who had already joined the army, sent a message to express her concern for Mingmei.

"Huh? Where are my godfathers' messages?"

After replying to a round of messages, including messages from her old father and mother who continued traveling after the New Year, Mingmei found it strange that Godfather Liu Liu, who had always cared about Mingmei and couldn't wait to become her biggest fan, suddenly didn't show any concern.

Mingmei asked Gui Gui about this, but she didn't know either.

However, because of this abnormality, Gui Gui went to inquire about information without Mingmei even asking, but in the end, she didn't get any useful information.

The main brain's affairs seemed to be handled by the secretary system recently.

The main brain and Liu Liu were nowhere to be found.

Mingmei frowned, thinking about it, and contacted Lu Xiaoyao again.

"Huh? My boss?"

Lu Xiaoyao was an artist and streamer that Liu Liu had signed. Although Lu Xiaoyao didn't often contact Liu Liu, Mingmei knew that Lu Xiaoyao could contact Liu Liu.

After all, to be able to lure a marshal's granddaughter into becoming a streamer, how could Liu Liu not show off some of the power behind him? Would Old Marshal Lu have agreed back then?

"I don't know, our boss usually doesn't look for us. He doesn't even personally pay our wages. Who would care about what the boss is doing?"

Lu Xiaoyao's words as a carefree "working person" suddenly choked Mingmei.

She suddenly remembered some jokes from the internet—the boss has been in jail for more than a year, and the workers are still working normally _(：3」∠)_

So, no one noticed that her godfather's short-term disappearance was wrong?

After contacting Lu Xiaoyao, Mingmei naturally found Mei Qiu again and raised her doubts.

"Godfathers..." Mei Qiu was reminded by Mingmei, and he seemed to react as well, which made Mingmei understand her second brother's meaning.

Oh, he didn't know either.

"Ask Big Brother, maybe Big Brother knows about this."

Mei Qiu suggested someone Mingmei had never thought of.

Her eldest brother, Ming Qi, the seemingly normal home-loving man who stayed with his wife every day, would know about this?

So, did her eldest brother actually have an unknown identity?

"Godfather… it seems that something is indeed wrong with the main brain, but I think you can ask Uncle Ruan Ruan about this."

To Mingmei's surprise, her eldest brother actually knew about this and directly pointed out that Ruan Xun knew about it.

"Uncle Ruan Ruan seemed to have received some news half a month ago and left the research institute. There is no information about his whereabouts online. It seems that the main brain godfather has done something. Presumably, Uncle Ruan Ruan should know."

Looking at Ming Qi's quick movements while answering her questions and cooking, Mingmei knew the news and didn't bother her eldest brother. Then, she contacted Ruan Xun again.

However, when she couldn't get through the video call and couldn't contact anyone, Mingmei drew inferences and found Yan Hui again.

However, to her surprise, the moment the video opened, Yan Hui on the other side of the video did look haggard, with gloomy and fierce eyes, which was frightening.

Even when he noticed that the person on the other side was Mingmei, Yan Hui's expression didn't have time to retract for a while.

"Uncle, what's wrong?"

Mingmei rarely saw Yan Hui like this, and didn't mention Ruan Xun's matter, but first cared about Yan Hui.

"Nothing..." Just as he was about to subconsciously deny that nothing was wrong, Yan Hui changed the subject and asked, "Did you encounter Zerg when you entered the game earlier?"

"Didn't we encounter them?"

Mingmei was confused by Yan Hui's question.

Didn't you invent this game yourself?

How many games have Zerg in them? Don't you know that yourself?

"Are there any Zerg that are abnormal?"

"Which aspect of abnormality are you referring to, Uncle?" Mingmei was asked in confusion, and finally couldn't help but ask, "Is there anything normal about your Zerg design?"

Yan Hui: "..."

"However, if Uncle wants to say there is something abnormal… don't you think it's abnormal to throw some Zerg's spiritual bodies into the game as NPCs? Like in that game about Zerg cooking..."

Mingmei and the others still remembered the time when they were besieged by a group of Zerg for some ingredients.

Among those Zerg NPCs, there was also a real Zerg, and they almost directly died in the middle because of that.

"Uncle, are there problems with the Zerg NPCs in your game?"

Seeing that Yan Hui's face rarely lacked humor and he was directly silent, Mingmei gasped.

"Uncle, you're not kidding, are you? The Zerg NPCs are out of control? What exactly is going on?"

After Mingmei finished speaking, she saw Yan Hui's expression become even more ugly, and her brain couldn't turn around for a while.

"What will happen if they are out of control? Uncle, you are the designer of the game, can't you deal with it? This is your game, you… you this…"

Mingmei was talking for a long time, and she almost didn't know what she was saying. However, in the blink of an eye, she suddenly realized a problem—

"Do godfathers know about this?"

"They know."

After speaking, Yan Hui sighed at this.

Yan Hui rarely smoked, or it could be said that Mingmei had never seen him smoke. As a result, now she saw Yan Hui suddenly take out a cigarette, light it, and put it in his mouth.

The posture of exhaling smoke was very much like an old smoker, which made Mingmei smack her tongue.

"Ruan Ruan suddenly received a message from the main brain half a month ago and left the research institute. It was also at that time that I noticed that there was something wrong with the data in my game. I may have been too busy recently, and I really didn't notice this."

Yan Hui looked at the void, and the flickering light of the fireworks reflected in his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.

However, Mingmei was skeptical about what he said.

"Uncle, the freedom you gave to the NPCs in the first place, was it really… to make it easier for me to create things inside?"

Mingmei thought of some NPCs she had seen in the game before. Some of them, like her, had bodies in reality, and some might just live in the game.

As the designer and creator of the game, Mingmei felt that it was a bit unreasonable that Yan Hui had only now discovered that the NPCs were out of control.

This situation didn't make sense.

Was it that Yan Hui was too confident and neglected to check, or did he have other plans, and let things go, which led to some accident in the middle?

Mingmei couldn't help but doubt what Yan Hui said about the NPCs being out of control this time.

She vaguely remembered the NPC who looked similar to her father—the God of Cookery.

That NPC's personality was not similar to her father's, and he seemed to be a very well-developed NPC with self-awareness.

Although it was said that the Zerg NPCs had gone out of control, what about the NPCs in the other games?

Would they also undergo some changes in the future?

…

"The game company is being inhumane again. Why is it suddenly doing data maintenance?"

The incident of the Zerg trying to plot against the students from their school participating in the barren star activity had just passed, and everyone had returned to their daily studies and work.

They should study and earn credits by playing games…

Then they got the news that the game was undergoing maintenance recently, and the game company didn't even post an announcement about when the game would be repaired.

A bad feeling also spread in Mingmei's heart…