“Did you understand? ‘Adapted from real events,’ ‘adapted,’ I didn’t say to make the game exactly as it was originally. That wouldn’t be called a game. That would be called cheating.”

Yan Hui’s detestable voice still echoed in his office.

“I can’t just block everyone’s memories and have them enter the game. The Empire trusts me, but would you aliens dare to trust my methods and let me suppress your memories to enter the game? Even if you agreed, I wouldn’t do it!”

Yan Hui looked with a smile at Feng Li, who was on the other end of the video call and had come to question him immediately after coming out of the game.

Feng Li looked at the guy’s face and felt that Yan Hui was even more annoying than Heck!

“Believe it or not, a lot of people will be cursing you later.”

Although Feng Li felt relieved that Heck had truly died at her hands, the fact that the Third Corps still achieved a pyrrhic victory in her game made many players red-eyed.

She wasn’t sure about the version of the game others played, but she felt that the players who came out of her game would definitely "greet" Yan Hui.

“Oh, after all, only a personal, painful experience can make people remember forever~”

Yan Hui picked up his water glass and saw that someone else seemed to be calling in the lower-left corner of the video. He looked at Feng Li again. Feng Li seemed to see what was going on, and the corners of her mouth drooped as she sighed, “Okay, I won’t disturb you. I have other guests here.”

As soon as she finished speaking and hung up the video call, Mu Chen, covered in black qi, appeared on the screen.

“The way you look, it’s like your whole family died.”

Seeing Mu Chen like this, Yan Hui’s immediate remark made the veins on Mu Chen’s forehead throb.

Even if he married Mingmei in the future, he thought he probably wouldn’t call him uncle.

Too cunning! Too cunning!

“Ah… could it be that Meimei died in the game?”

It was rare for Mu Chen to show such an expression. When Yan Hui finished speaking and saw the other party’s face darken, he knew he was right again.

“Hey, tell me, how did she die?” As if he really thought Mu Chen was here to complain, Yan Hui turned around and brought back a plate of fruit from where Mu Chen couldn’t see.

“She was killed.”

“Oh! Didn’t you go to save her?”

“Didn’t I go to deliver the message? Things happened too fast to react more.”

“Oh, how stupid. I remember there’s a quantum computer in the game, right? What’s wrong with sending a message?”

“I didn’t bring the quantum computer at the time.”

“That’s your own stupidity.”

Yan Hui killed the conversation with every sentence. Mu Chen, rarely showing a dark face, stared at Yan Hui in silence for a long time before saying, “It’s clearly your…”

“My game has always been this difficult. You didn’t really think this game was for you to do whatever you want, did you?”

Mu Chen, who had always done whatever he wanted in Yan Hui’s game, was silent.

“Okay, okay, you’re really something. If you’re just complaining to me, you might as well bring Meimei along. I don’t want to listen to you nagging alone.”

As soon as Yan Hui mentioned Mingmei, an invitation for Mingmei to request a video call appeared below the video screen.

“Hey~ Meimei also opened it. Do you want to join?”

“No.” As soon as Mu Chen heard that Mingmei was also looking for Yan Hui, he decisively hung up the video call to let Mingmei talk first. As a result, Yan Hui saw a face in the camera that was even more depressed than Mu Chen’s.

“Whoa~ What’s wrong? Did you realize you died too miserably and came to find me?”

“How did you know I died so miserably?” Mingmei immediately gritted her teeth and glared at her uncle. Sure enough, her uncle was too nasty!

He knew she had died miserably and didn’t even comfort her!

“Isn’t it obvious?” Yan Hui pointed to the camera, “Look at the expression on your face~ It means ‘I died so miserably.’”

Mingmei: !!

It was really amazing that her uncle hadn’t been beaten to death after so many years!

“Why, why is the time in the game ahead of schedule?”

In the end, Mingmei didn’t want to dwell on the fact that she had carried Lu Gui to reunite with Lu Xiaoyao and the others before being besieged and exhausted to death.

The sudden advance of the Zerg in the game was a little unacceptable to her.

“I said it’s an adaptation, so naturally some places will be different.” Yan Hui’s reason was worse than nothing. The more Mingmei listened, the more she felt stifled.

“Then change something else.” Mingmei already had a vague intention of acting shamelessly. Although she was gone first, she still knew the final outcome of the game.

Although Haiyuan Star was saved, the number of casualties was higher than in reality.

In reality, although the Zerg obtained the defense line information, many people on Haiyuan Star were transferred due to the delay in the outer battle. However, in the game, the Zerg suddenly launched an attack on Haiyuan Star silently, causing many people to die directly in the surprise attack without time to transfer.

“The Zerg’s silent sneak attack didn’t happen in reality either.”

“Yes, it did, but it wasn’t aimed at the Guangyu Star Region.” Yan Hui spoke a cruel reality. “It’s just that the Guangyu Star Region can be considered lucky. Although the Third Corps didn’t do enough to protect their information, the people inside their corps are known for their rigor. They discovered the moment the outer defense line was invaded by the Zerg.

“But since the game is an adaptation, I think it’s also necessary for everyone to experience being rigorous and serious.

“Even if I preset everything, when the game starts, the things each of you does actually affect the direction of the game’s ending. Everything is caused by all of you players together.”

…

“They really sacrificed…”

After leaving the game, Tianma looked at the external news he had obtained using the dark web, which was a list of soldiers who had sacrificed during the last Zerg invasion of the Guangyu Star Region.

When Feng Shu’s familiar photo and name appeared on it, Tianma’s tears instantly fell uncontrollably.

“Senior…”

Tianma looked at the photo with a bright smile, and below it was a record of the other party’s life, which stated that he happened to be on vacation in Guangyu Star and unfortunately sacrificed while helping to evacuate ordinary people when he encountered this incident.

[Tianma, do you like chocolate? I brought back a lot of wedding candy. Don’t let any of these people eat it. I’ll give it all to you to share the good luck.]

The other party’s voice seemed to still linger in his ears. They were clearly strangers, but Tianma didn’t know that he actually had so many rich emotions after such a short time together in the game.

“It’s all my fault…”

Tianma raised his hand and slapped himself. The person who evacuated the crowd in reality and unfortunately sacrificed himself died in the game due to his wrong report of the time, caught off guard by the starship explosion.

“It’s all my fault…”

Tianma’s eyes were red as he looked at the list of tens of thousands of sacrificed soldiers from beginning to end again. It seemed that only Senior Feng Shu, who he knew in the game, had really sacrificed himself.

Was this a blessing in disguise?

“So, this is Senior’s fiancée?”

Tianma looked at the girl named Jian Xinyue, who was mentioned by other seniors, and also died in that war. It was also written very clearly that she died in an ambush while patrolling the border.

Tianma seemed to have seen the girl in the photo with a radiant face in the game. In the end, she seemed to have sacrificed herself to escort a group of people away…

The ending of this couple was the opposite in the game and in reality. Feng Shu was killed in a surprise attack, while his fiancée sacrificed herself while escorting evacuees.

However, in the end, neither of them escaped death.

“What kind of game is this?!”

Tianma wailed in disbelief. Why did the people who sacrificed themselves in reality have to die again in the game?!

If it weren’t for him, wouldn’t it really be possible for them to wait for the ending, buy a house, and get married?

Even though he knew this was an ending he couldn’t see, Tianma couldn’t help but imagine it.

Maybe he could really eat the wedding candy that Senior gave him…

He clenched his fists and hammered the table, recalling the differences between the game and reality, the changes in time and attack methods. He grabbed those suspicious Zerg and didn’t pry any clues from their mouths before arbitrarily applying the real information he knew to them.

“How could this happen?!”

“Yes, how could this happen…”

Tianma suddenly turned around and saw Chiyu, who was almost as haggard as him, standing in his room. Subconsciously, Tianma wanted to get up and escape, but he was pressed down by Chiyu.

“I want to know the specific details of the last war…”

Chiyu’s voice was hoarse, and his red eyes looked like he had just cried.

Tianma opened his mouth, remembering Chiyu’s parents in the game, who seemed to have died in the same attack as Senior Feng Shu. It wasn’t just him who was crying in regret in this game…