Chapter 1 A Sudden Outbreak

A sudden chaotic battle erupted, and the outcome was something no one expected: victory for the seemingly powerless people of the ancient Blue Star.

The remaining space pirates gradually sensed that something was off.

In fact, they had some premonitions, and not good ones.

Especially since they couldn't receive any messages from the group that had gone out.

"All signals from their side have been cut off…"

The expression on the face of the space pirate left in the central control room was even more unsightly. Signal interruption was putting it mildly.

One person's signal being cut off was one thing, but when a whole group's signals were interrupted, it generally meant bad news.

But, are you kidding me?

To die here?

To die at the hands of these still "uncivilized" people?

No way!

"We—we've really been played?"

As signal after signal from their good brothers was lost, some of the space pirates finally had to admit that they'd fallen into a trap.

Some space pirates even glared with undisguised rage at the planet below the starship, wishing they could destroy the entire thing immediately!

"These damned savages!"

In the central control room, the space pirates vented their anger, some even suggesting that they shouldn't bother capturing any slaves. They should just start a massacre, whether inside or outside the starship.

All of this was overheard by Gu Derian, who had tampered with the microphone in the central control room. He was shocked.

"Damn it! Sore losers!"

Gu Derian cursed the space pirate who had suggested a massacre on ancient Blue Star. Then he heard someone else say, "Most of them in there are from country H. They must be the ones causing trouble. Even if it's not the right time to attack the whole Blue Star, we can still kill the chicken to scare the monkey, right? Wipe out everyone on that land."

Gu Derian was even more furious at this suggestion!

"Trash! What chicken! You bastards, you're breaking into people's homes and then complaining when the owners fight back! You're all insane!"

While cursing the space pirates, he sped up his sabotage deep within the starship.

Even at the risk of being exposed, he couldn't let the people of ancient Blue Star be destroyed by the space pirates before they even saw the Zerg, could he?

"So many attack weapons, but not enough ammunition and energy. And they were planning to use this against Blue Star? Seriously… what will they do when the Zerg come?"

After checking the starship's weapons again, Gu Derian could only say that there were too many empty shells and not enough bullets, was the plan really just to expand the space as much as possible so they could haul away more slaves?

"But… even if they filled all these weapons, these space pirates probably couldn't afford it anyway. This is a military starship, after all…"

The more Gu Derian examined the equipment, the more shocked he became.

This model was exactly like the textbook prototype, down to the smallest detail!

This wasn't just some random model!

"Did the game really glitch? Even if the space pirates' starship is large, they shouldn't have access to military data without authorization, right?"

Gu Derian tried to convince himself it was a bug. This was too much to think about. After all…

"That's right, hasn't the Empire always been successful in suppressing space pirates in the last few hundred years?"

Gu Derian stroked his chin and thought uncertainly that he didn't seem to recall the Empire ever suffering a major defeat at the hands of space pirates in recent history.

After confirming that this starship probably wasn't lost by the Empire, Gu Derian instinctively thought of the Federation.

"No way? Is the Federation really that pathetic…?"

Because he thought his guess was too ridiculous, Gu Derian laughed before he could even finish his thought, then shook his head and decided to chalk the starship up to a game bug.

"Hey, is the history of this Hua Blue Star reliable? Thirty thousand people… one starship…"

Everything he had personally denied was being contradicted by other clues, and Gu Derian felt suffocated.

"Alright, alright! Stop thinking about it! Focus on the game! Can't let them do anything!"

Gu Derian slapped his cheeks and started a new round of struggle…

At the same time, the pitch-black corridor where the chaotic battle had taken place was lit up again.

Lu Xiaoyao and her group had suffered quite a few injuries, and some had even died alongside the robots. On the other hand, Ming Mei and Mu Chen had eliminated all the space pirates, and the blood on their bodies didn't seem to be their own.

In other words, the two of them had achieved the combat effectiveness of Lu Xiaoyao's entire group.

"How did you do it?"

Lu Xiaoyao covered her bleeding arm and almost tripped over a broken robot lying on the ground.

She looked at Ming Mei and the others with a mixture of surprise and envy.

They were all playing the same game, so how could there be such a big difference?

Lu Xiaoyao glanced at Hu Yue, who was also slightly injured. Hu Yue was skilled and physically fit, yet she had still been injured.

"Game bug. My physical stats seem to be different from ordinary people."

Ming Mei immediately saw Lu Xiaoyao's confusion. Her character's stats in the game were indeed different from other players.

After all, she was an NPC.

So, Ming Mei thought for a moment and decided to blame everything on game bugs.

It was a good thing Yan Hui wasn't paying attention to the game outside, otherwise he would have been so "touched" that he would have cried, and then promised that he would never "make a mistake" again.

"So where do we go now? Straight to the central control room?" Hu Yue checked the remaining combat power, worried that they wouldn't have enough manpower.

"Yeah, there should be less than twenty space pirates left." Ming Mei, who had been running around, knew exactly how many space pirates there were. "They just have a lot of robots, but many of them will probably become useless later."

As Ming Mei spoke, she turned to look at Mu Chen. She had heard Mu Chen ask Gu Derian to modify the robots' energy and instructions.

Although he didn't have more advanced tools, Gu Derian could still manage to "paralyze" the robots.

And so, the risky plan to board the starship and eliminate all the space pirates was ultimately successful!

Although their success stemmed from the fact that they were players, they weren't native to ancient Blue Star.

The whole plan relied on their knowledge of the starship's internal structure, how to deal with combat robots, and their use of the "advanced" weapons they had snatched in close combat with the space pirates.

The moment all the space pirates were eliminated, the surge of emotions in everyone's hearts couldn't be described simply as excitement.

Ming Mei watched the injured and disheveled crowd hugging each other happily. There were NPCs and players, and everyone had contributed so much to this risky plan, but…

"What do we do next?"

Just as everyone was in high spirits, one of the players suddenly asked a very practical question.

"What do we do after we take the starship?"

Ming Mei: "…"

Great, she and Mu Chen hadn't been able to come to a conclusion about that earlier, and now she had even less of an idea.

Her gaze fell on the others. Only Lu Xiaoyao was still smiling happily, saying that they should try to save everyone. Then she heard Mu Chen say, "Gene modification potions are risky and not unlimited."

"Huh?"

Lu Xiaoyao was reminded by Mu Chen, and her expression practically screamed, "I didn't know that!"

"What do we do?"

Lu Xiaoyao couldn't help but look at Hu Yue, who was also taken aback by this revelation.

That's right, their original plan was to seize the starship and take more people away, but that was on the premise that these people could leave alive, wasn't it?

The players had thought that dealing with the space pirates would be a huge obstacle, and then the Zerg would be another, but who would have thought that there would be such an unsolvable problem in between!

"Could it be… is thirty thousand really the fixed number?"