Chapter 1 "Here's a Little Small, But Fortunately Concealed."

"It's a little small here, but fortunately, it's concealed."

As Mingmei and Mu Chen walked deeper into the underground city's residential area, Mingmei felt that the environment here was much better than the black market she saw yesterday.

If her first impression last night was dim, chaotic, and noisy, then the environment in this residential area could be considered serene.

Mingmei looked up at the top of her head, where countless fragments of energy crystals were embedded, like a galaxy of stars within reach in the dark night.

Although the overall environment wasn't bright, it was like walking under a full moon, and everything around could be seen clearly.

Along the not-so-wide street, houses of varying sizes and shapes had somewhat different styles. After taking a few glances, Mingmei knew that more than just humans probably lived in these houses.

However, it was unusually quiet here, like a ghost town. Mingmei and Mu Chen had been walking for so long, but they hadn't seen a single person. The houses on both sides were dark, without a single light, making it hard to believe anyone lived here.

Mu Chen's house was actually a treehouse, seemingly built on a tree trunk. But Mingmei stood below and took a closer look, and then she was sure that it wasn't a tree trunk, but tree roots.

Mingmei was pulled into the treehouse by Mu Chen, which originally only had a single bed.

Mu Chen reached out and touched a switch on the wall. Mingmei only heard a click, and the whole house instantly lit up. Mingmei looked up and realized that the house had electricity.

She looked at the single bed on the left side of the entrance, next to which was a single desk. On the desk was actually a light brain used for work.

"There's electricity here, and a light brain?"

Now it was Mingmei's turn to be surprised. Wasn't this too different from the world above ground?

"I didn't see anyone selling these at the night market yesterday."

Mingmei recalled the situation yesterday and looked at Mu Chen in disbelief. "Is this only for you, or does everyone have it?"

"Not everyone. My role is to make a living from this, so naturally I have it."

At this moment, Mu Chen was already consciously tidying up the area on the other side where some sundries were piled up. While tidying up, he said, "There are also brain bars where people whose identities have been blacklisted and can't access the Star Network can go online regularly."

"Can people living above ground also come?"

"Of course. If you're free tonight, I can take you to see it."

As he spoke, Mu Chen cleared out the corner that wasn't too messy, then squatted down. After prying open the wooden floorboards at his feet, there was actually a space below. Mu Chen took out two sets of clean and tidy bedding from inside.

"I'll buy you a bed at the night market later. If there are no beds, I'll buy materials or, like me, make a simple mattress..."

Everything Mu Chen had planned seemed incredible to Mingmei.

How long had they been in the game? Why did it seem like Mu Chen had been here for a long time and had everything prepared?

"If you weren't here, I don't know what would have happened to me when I came in..."

Seeing him doing these things in an orderly manner, Mingmei lowered her eyelashes and whispered softly. Her murmur didn't escape Mu Chen's ears.

"Then you shouldn't be here."

"Huh?"

"If you give all your assets to the underground city, the first thing you should do when you come in is to receive a mission, complete the mission, and exchange it for a temporary place to live. The difficulty of the mission you choose will determine your initial living environment here."

When Mu Chen transmigrated here, his identity and role already had everything they should have. However, the clean bedding was bought by him at the night market last night. He always believed that he would reunite with Mingmei in the game. He only needed to prepare everything and wait for his little princess to arrive, so she wouldn't suffer.

"Is that so?" Not seeing the gentle expression on Mu Chen's face, Mingmei walked to the window of the treehouse and looked down at the buildings below. Because of the height, Mingmei could clearly see even the backyards of some houses at a glance. She saw that the backyard of one house was actually a pool.

Mingmei curiously took another look at the house with the pool in the backyard, and then she remembered that this was a place where various races lived together, not just humans.

"What are you looking at?"

"I was wondering if there are Zerg here in the Extraterrestrial Sea."

"Yes, but very, very few. I haven't seen them, but I've heard of them."

"Really?"

Mingmei turned to look at Mu Chen, very surprised.

"When I watched an underground black boxing match last night, I heard people next to me discussing it. If they hadn't said there were Zerg, I wouldn't have believed it."

"Why?" Mingmei was puzzled. After all, some people in the Extraterrestrial Sea dared to sell information to the Zerg, so it wasn't impossible for Zerg people to live here.

"The Zerg have a very high degree of loyalty to their own race. Except for a few huge ones, they basically live in groups. But solitary Zerg don't necessarily mean they're willing to live with other races."

"Forget it, what about those spies from the Empire and the Federation?" Mingmei curled her lips when she heard this, and said, "The knowledge in books isn't immutable."

"The hidden Zerg you mentioned are indeed exceptions, but those hidden Zerg have never revealed their identities from beginning to end. They cautiously play the role of humans lurking among them. A guy like this, who everyone knows is a Zerg, doesn't seem normal, right?"

Hearing this, Mingmei was stunned, and looked up at Mu Chen in silence, asking with some uncertainty: "Are you saying that this Zerg is likely to be maverick, betraying the Zerg and living here?"

"Whether he betrayed the Zerg or not, I don't know, but the other party is indeed very special, otherwise Mr. Yan Hui would not have designed him in the game."

Mingmei agreed with this and nodded: "It seems that we can also inquire about this later."

……

With Mu Chen around, Mingmei's investigation could be considered to have started on the right track, while others seemed to still be working hard on how to survive in the game.

"Damn it! The three of us worked our asses off sweeping a large area of the black market and only got this palm-sized house?"

Lu Xiaoyao and the other three stood in a small house of less than ten square meters, carrying their baggage and covered in sweat. The three of them standing there seemed a little cramped, let alone that this was the house assigned to them.

When they entered the underground city just now, they realized that they seemed to have no place to live. After inquiring, they learned that newcomers like them who had no place to live had to first receive a mission to obtain the right to live there.

Because they were newcomers, they chose the least dangerous and most tiring mission—cleaning part of the black market street.

"There isn't even a bed?"

Dong Lei swallowed a mouthful of saliva. She had been working hard for a long time, and her throat was smoking. She just wanted to drink some water and lie on the bed.

But this tiny room could be seen at a glance.

Just a small pool, a fireplace, a small square wooden table and a few stools, and a rough cabinet against the wall.

There was no bed!

"It should be up there."

Sun Yunzhong pointed to the rope ladder on the wall, and then pointed to the roof, which was small in area but high in height. Looking at the ceiling that looked like it was surrounded by a circle of wooden planks, and then looking at the rope ladder on the wall, Sun Yunzhong immediately realized that there should be another floor in this house.

"What kind of game is this? Every day, we're either fighting off robbers or sweeping garbage... It's killing me~"

Lu Xiaoyao sat directly on the stool with a bitter face, her whole body like a salted fish that had been drained of energy,趴趴趴趴 on the table in a state of despair: "I'm so tired, I might as well die!"