Chapter 109 Truth

"My heavens, what's going on? That starship seems to be forbidden from entering!"

Even though they were frostbitten, even though they were all waiting to die, the players who remained on Gu Lan Star were still constantly browsing information online with their phones, still so concerned about the starship.

Ye Qing watched coldly, wondering if these people would maintain this posture even before they died, watching the live broadcast of the insectoid invasion on their phones.

However, Ye Qing, who was giving them medicine, was also curious about this.

"What's going on?"

Player A: "Well, it seems like the team hasn't been able to move forward since last night, and we still don't know what's going on."

Player B: "I don't know if it's just my imagination, but I feel like the atmosphere on the streets is a bit off today. There are more patrols on the streets today, as if everyone has been told not to move around casually. Is something happening?"

Player C: "Could it be that the insectoids are really coming?"

"What are you talking about?" Ye Qing listened to this and became heavier with her movements, applying the medicine to Player B so painfully that he howled.

"The insectoid timeline isn't something we can influence and advance at will." Ye Qing felt that these three were just worrying unnecessarily. "It's possible for us to cause the pirate timeline or change their behavior, but cause the insectoids? How is that done?"

"How would I know?"

The players, speechless after being rebuffed by Ye Qing, touched their noses a little embarrassedly, said nothing more, but turned to look at Ye Qing, who was calm, and asked in a low voice, "The insectoids are coming in about ten days. Aren't you afraid?"

Ye Qing remained calm, raised her eyes to look at them, and asked coldly, "Do you need me to prescribe some sleeping pills in advance? The kind that lets you sleep through it."

Everyone: "..."

That won't be necessary.

"Change your mindset. It's a rare opportunity to witness the death of a planet with your own eyes, and even rarer to see it while still alive."

The players' mentality exploded even more when they heard this comfort from Ye Qing.

They didn't want to.

"You..." A player seemed to have realized something. He looked at Ye Qing's indifferent face without any emotion and asked, "Were you also rejected during the last registration?"

"I didn't register."

Ye Qing answered them very calmly. Seeing the stunned expressions of the three, Ye Qing felt that she didn't have much in common with them.

"Why do you have such a dangerous idea?"

A player couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.

"Dangerous?" Ye Qing didn't think so. "You will only feel cherished when you truly realize the loss of something. Whether you are left on that dying planet or hear rumors that somewhere has been destroyed, perhaps you will never be able to empathize without seeing it with your own eyes.

Empathy between the involved and the onlookers is still rare. Maybe after this experience, you will work harder on the battlefield in the future?"

Ye Qing said, looking at the thoughtful expressions of the three. She thought of their usual joking and the idiotic behavior of getting frostbite from watching the excitement a few days ago. She felt that these people had probably never suffered much since they were young.

Or, they had never witnessed real suffering.

Just like she used to be.

Whether she was missing her deceased grandmother or using this method to experience everything her grandmother had always longed for, she really wanted to wait for the final moment of destruction this time.

"Um... although what you said makes sense." Player C scratched his head, glanced at the two beside him, and saw them frantically winking at him, as if they didn't want to say more. But he still said, "But everyone plays games because they want to win and clear the level. If everyone calmly accepts death and waits for its arrival, that's not the original intention of the school and the legions in designing this game, right?"

"So?" Ye Qing looked at the three of them and asked, "What do you want to do now? Can you still charge forward head-on?"

"What do you say, how about we steal a fighter jet and blow open the emergency escape pod at the bottom of the starship and rush in?"

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Completely unaware of the "snake spirit" ideas of some players below, the people who occupied the starship began to feel emo.

It seemed like they were stuck in a dead end.

"Why don't we give the decision-making power to those below?"

None of the people present felt that they had much of a big picture view, and they didn't know if they could open up the situation.

Lu Xiaoyao, who always liked to be lazy, thought it was best to let others worry about this.

"The current channel has been closed. Those who came in have also undergone genetic modification under the leadership of the robots. Afterwards, everyone's mentality is not good, and now they are all resting in the slave quarters."

Just as Lu Xiaoyao gave her suggestion, Hu Yue and several other NPCs who fought side by side returned from outside the main control room.

Just now, they went down to appease the surviving ordinary people. When they heard that all the aliens were gone, they were happy to say that they could go home. Then, they were startled by the state of the new batch of players who were sent in later.

In a daze, they realized that they themselves had been like those people before.

Suddenly facing death and the fear of the unknown fate.

These bad emotions were easy to arouse but difficult to appease. Hu Yue finally watched those people stabilize their emotions before returning.

She heard them talking about this as soon as she came back.

"No." Therefore, Hu Yue directly denied Lu Xiaoyao's suggestion after hearing it.

"First of all, the pirates have been eliminated. Not to mention those below, even these survivors are all thinking about going back. How can we persuade them to choose people to come up?"

"Then, then let's say that we accidentally learned about the insectoid from the pirates, and that the pirates can't beat them either, so they wanted to make a fortune and run away. We now want to take away some people who can preserve the bloodline of Gu Lan Star?"

"Is this true? Insectoids, what are they?"

Suddenly, this doubtful voice entered everyone's ears. Only then did everyone realize that there was actually a group of NPCs in their team.

Those military and police NPCs who risked their lives to protect ordinary people and fought to the death with the pirates.

If they only heard Lu Xiaoyao and the others talking about insectoids and more people receiving genetic modification once, they might not have felt anything. But after hearing it too many times, they felt that something was wrong.

"Has everyone's crisis not been resolved yet?"

When asked by the NPC, they actually felt a little guilty, including Hu Yue.

They had never mentioned that the insectoids would completely destroy Gu Lan Star. Everyone, all the NPCs who fought with them and gave their lives for it, didn't they all feel that as long as they defeated these aliens and defeated the pirates, Gu Lan Star would have a new and beautiful future?

The technology obtained from the starship could also develop Gu Lan Star. Some NPCs in the slave quarters even noticed that the water inside was pure, and they even wondered if this technology could be brought down.

As a result, the information they heard about the insectoids at this time seemed to be the beginning of a nightmare.

It seemed that they couldn't go back.

Not only could they not go back, but listening to their discussion just now, they seemed to have to try to select those who could withstand genetic modification and try to get more people through genetic modification with limited medicine.

"So, abandon the majority and select a small number of 'elites'. You don't want to do this kind of thing yourself, so you want to transfer it to the leaders below and let them make the decision?"

Faced with the NPC's question, the players turned their heads in guilt, and no one wanted to answer them.

"When did you find out? From the beginning, or what..."

"We knew from the beginning."

Before the NPC could finish asking, Mu Chen suddenly said such a sentence. Everyone, including Mingmei, looked at Mu Chen in astonishment.

Why was this person like this?

How are you going to explain it if you say it like that?

Mingmei couldn't imagine how Mu Chen would explain it.

"We are from the future."

Mu Chen's next sentence blew up everyone, including the players.

"Holy crap!"

Zhen Po's mouth was so surprised that she couldn't close it.

Ah, can this be said?

What kind of story development is this?

"What are you joking about?"

Faced with the other party's disbelief, Mu Chen just raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and the attractive light in his eyes made Mingmei feel confused.

She only heard Mu Chen say, "Otherwise, why do you think I can participate in your plan as an ordinary technician, and most of the people on the starship are also selected by me?"

"Why is it that I, an ordinary technician, have better skills than you?"

"Why can he know the location and function of the parts of the entire starship, and even invade the pirate's control system for robots? He can even operate and drive this starship after all the pirates are dead?"

Mu Chen pointed his finger at the people around him as he spoke. Regardless of the dodging eyes of the others, he continued:

"Don't you think that many of your companions are familiar with the lines in this starship? They can tell the weaknesses of the robots in one bite when fighting the robots. Can you do this?"

Even if Mu Chen didn't say it, these NPCs could ignore it like a bug, but now they couldn't ignore it anymore.

"So? So you said you are from the future, the future... Blue Star will..."

"At that time, we called this place 'Gu Lan Star'." Mu Chen gave the NPCs a critical blow without caring, "Gu Lan Star has long become history, and it will always stay in history. The insectoids invaded, and Gu Lan Star was destroyed. Only a group of Gu Lan Star people who were captured by the pirates survived."

"How could it be?"

As if they believed what Mu Chen said, the NPCs were completely devastated. The NPC who had just questioned them opened his mouth again with difficulty and said, "So, you are back to save Blue Star? Since you are from the future, you must have a way to prevent this disaster!"

"No, we can't. History will not be completely changed because we come back. We can only change the fate of some people and make the refugees of Gu Lan Star live better in the end."

The word "refugee" made the NPCs' faces even paler. Of course, they understood what refugees were.

People who are homeless and penniless.

In the future, even if the survivors live, will their lives be bad?

"In the beginning, everyone's life was really bad. They lacked everything: knowledge, talents, and all the skills to start from scratch..."

Mu Chen's tone was desolate, and even the expressions of some players dimmed after listening.

So, was Hua Lan Star so difficult at the beginning?

"The pirates at that time were unable to resist the insectoids, and so are we. Therefore, all we can do when we come back is to save and take away more people before the insectoids arrive."