"If I had known there was clean water on the starship, I wouldn't have bought these boxed lunches."

"Yeah, not only clean water but also nutrient solution… So, is this game deliberately trying to screw us over, making players sell boxed lunches? Is this supposed to stir up conflict among us classmates?"

"I think so. Although I was mentally prepared, having heard our teacher say that the Sixth Legion is quite… unique, I didn't expect it to be like this."

"Exactly! Making players play the role of mysterious merchants, are they making us, our own people, endure this kind of abuse?"

…

This was what Mingmei overheard today outside the starship's dining hall, a conversation between two players who had bought her boxed lunches.

Originally, she thought she would hear people saying bad things about her, but it didn't seem to be entirely like that.

It was just that Mingmei felt that they weren't saying bad things about her, but about the mysterious merchant!

She would rather hear them talking about her!

【Is my reputation really that bad?】

Mingmei decided to ask Guigui.

【No, Host, it's not your reputation that's bad, it's the mysterious merchant NPC.】

【But what's the difference? I'm the one playing the mysterious merchant!】

【But not all the game merchants in every game are played by you, Host.】 Guigui said, observing the changes in its host's expression, speaking very frankly, but simply not mentioning some of the remaining content.

Those mysterious merchant NPCs in the games were all based on Mingmei's original personality.

Its host's past lazy + socially awkward attributes doomed this mysterious merchant NPC to not score very high in the minds of many players.

They often couldn't find her when they needed her, and when they did find her, some of the mysterious merchant NPCs in the game evolved and developed other expressions based on Mingmei's personality due to some players' overly excited reactions. m..oΓg

For example, some mysterious merchant NPCs would turn around and run when dealing with overly obsequious players, and even directly refuse to sell or be approached;

If a player wanted to target the above situation and become a cold player playing hard to get, the mysterious merchant NPC would think: Awesome! Another day to be a lazy bum!

Thus, the views on some mysterious merchant NPCs became somewhat extreme—mysterious NPCs, not even dogs would chase after!

Concealing the fact that the mysterious merchant NPCs were an extension of Mingmei's personality, Guigui told Mingmei the famous saying that even dogs wouldn't chase after them. Mingmei's mouth twitched slightly, expressing surprise.

This was really messed up!

What kind of comment was that?

"So, this round, I'm selling boxed lunches…"

Mingmei silently retracted her gaze, and as she turned around, she ran into Mu Chen. Mu Chen was very straightforward when he saw Mingmei, directly saying, "I want to buy another boxed lunch."

"Huh?"

Mingmei was a little surprised by Mu Chen's support. She even glanced out of the corner of her eye at the starship restaurant behind her.

The meaning was self-evident.

"The food on the starship is not sufficient, and—for us, it's not filling."

Mu Chen gave his explanation.

"How could that be? Is the nutrient solution not working either?"

Seeing Mu Chen nod, a glimmer of understanding flashed in Mingmei's eyes. She thought that her boxed lunches shouldn't be so useless, even reduced to being a mere accompaniment to clean water.

So that was it?

"It's not that it's useless, it's just that, compared to others, it has very little effect on us, and the amount of nutrient solution is not enough. Although we replenished a lot of food on Planet Gu Lan before, the nutrient solution was useless, let alone the food from Planet Gu Lan before.

Those NPCs may not feel this way, but we players feel very different." If Mingmei hadn't heard the conversation between those two people earlier, she might have believed it.

While the two were talking, Mingmei had already taken his hand and went to her room to get the boxed lunch. Along the way, she also heard that they still needed some time to be able to contact the Empire.

"The starship's communication system has obviously been tampered with to prevent signals from being tracked. There is also a specific setting for the signals sent out, which Guderian will break a little later."

"Then that will indeed take some time." Mingmei slowly nodded, and then suddenly remembered something and said, "In the past two days, I've noticed that everyone's mood isn't high, especially when we left Planet Gu Lan yesterday."

Mingmei had wandered around the slave quarters and other parts of the starship a lot in the past two days, and saw many people with sad or melancholy expressions.

Some were staring blankly out the window, some were silently shedding tears, and some were crying loudly;

The atmosphere in most places was very depressing.

"Yes, I've already discussed this with the others. Lù Xiǎoyáo will be leading everyone in activities later."

"Activities?"

Mingmei knew that Lù Xiǎoyáo, as a "comedic" livestreamer, had the ability to make everyone laugh, but she was very surprised that he would give Lù Xiǎoyáo full command of things.

"I'm not some tyrannical despot." Mu Chen shook his head helplessly. "Of course, these things should be handled by professionals."

Just as Mu Chen said, the effect of a professional like Lù Xiǎoyáo coming forward was indeed maximized, and the atmosphere in the entire starship improved a lot a few hours later.

To this end, she directly bought two rou jia mos from Mingmei to praise herself.

"Eat slower, no one is snatching them from you."

Mingmei saw that Lù Xiǎoyáo had finished half a rou jia mo in one bite. She originally wanted to advise Lù Xiǎoyáo to take smaller bites, but then she saw her eyes roll back as she swallowed, which almost scared Mingmei.

As a result, Lù Xiǎoyáo took several gulps of the water that Mingmei handed over before she could catch her breath.

After catching her breath, she immediately explained, "I'm really starving to death, you don't know, when I was leading everyone to sing and dance, my stomach…

Really, those nutrient solutions are like drinking water.

No, drinking water is useless, I'm really both hungry and thirsty, I suspect I'd starve to death without your boxed lunches!"

Lù Xiǎoyáo said sincerely, and then took another sip of water, glancing around while drinking, and soon saw several more players walking towards them.

They looked fierce, but if they hadn't opened their mouths and said "I'm starving to death, hurry up and give me a boxed lunch," Lù Xiǎoyáo would have planned to pull Mingmei behind her and protect her, and directly fight these people!

Since boarding the starship, some players were learning for the first time that Mingmei was the "bug" of this round.

Because they had never eaten Mingmei's boxed lunches below, and after they came up, they felt that it was even less necessary.

But soon they found that they were very easy to get hungry after the genetic modification.

Especially after strenuous exercise, several players had participated in this activity with Lù Xiǎoyáo in the past few days. Lù Xiǎoyáo was hungry, and they were even hungrier. It was someone among them who had bought Mingmei's boxed lunches who mentioned the effect of Mingmei's boxed lunches.

At the beginning, some of them had brought Mingmei's boxed lunches up with them, and two boxes lasted for nearly a week. Originally, they just thought that these people who ate nutrient solutions every day were reluctant to spend points, so they didn't mean to persuade them at first.

After all, the points to buy boxed lunches weren't something that could be easily obtained.

It was just that Lù Xiǎoyáo's speed of consumption with everyone was too fast this time.

The speed made them instantly understand the advantage of Mingmei's boxed lunches, and they couldn't help but persuade them, which attracted so many people to rush over.

At this time, on the points panel that was invisible to everyone, Mingmei's points, which were already far ahead, were rising madly all the way.

…

At this time, in the main control room, Mu Chen and Guderian were silently looking at each other. A signal suddenly appeared near the starship, a signal from the Federation that they didn't want to answer at the moment.