Chapter 16 Game Score

Right as everyone was discussing, a broadcast suddenly sounded on the starship: 【Game scores and rankings have been fully calculated. Thank you to all students for your participation. Please check your scores and rankings.】

Mingmei's heart skipped a beat upon hearing the broadcast!

There was something more to this.

The phrases "Thank you to all students for your participation" and "Please check your scores and rankings" used very different terms, making it clear what was about to happen.

Rankings, with new and old recruits together, so whoever had the lowest score would lose face!

Especially when the old recruits couldn't beat the new ones...

Before Mingmei could even look at her own ranking, she saw Valdo, whose face had already turned the color of a pot bottom.

"Holy crap..."

Before Mingmei could react, players around her had already looked down to check their scores and rankings on their optical computers.

"1928?"

Sure enough, upon hearing this, it was clear that this was more than just a student ranking.

"Oh my god! Meimei!"

Lu Xiaoyao's shout made Mingmei feel like her soul had left her body. She subconsciously looked down and saw her name at the top of the rankings, along with a near-godly score of 1187!

There was no hiding it at all!

The gazes around Mingmei were filled with "Oh my god! How did you do that?"

While others questioned with their eyes, Lu Xiaoyao actually voiced the question.

She even looked at Mu Chen, who was ranked second with 1078 points, and shouted, "Why are couples in games so cruel to others these days?"

After saying that, she turned to look at another couple in the room—Hu Yue and Li Yuan.

The two, who were neither very good nor very bad, just somewhere in the middle, were speechless.

Hu Yue: "..." Not necessarily.

Li Yuan: "..." Actually, no.

As they thought this, they saw everyone around them follow Lu Xiaoyao's gaze and look at them, so they quietly shifted their gaze back to Mingmei and Mu Chen.

At this moment, the pressure was once again on Mingmei and Mu Chen.

Mingmei, with an ostrich mentality, looked at Mu Chen as if to say, "You talk, you explain."

Compared to Mingmei, Mu Chen was much calmer. He didn't care what people thought, relying on his strength to speak, so what he said only made people want to get some Sa Beining for oxygen.

"Damn, Meimei, did you take out that many in the last round?"

Hearing that Mingmei had gotten more than 300 points in the first half, a slight calculation showed that she was even more fierce than those in the second half who were just farming kills!

"I thought you were playing the black beetle?"

Lu Xiaoyao felt that even if she was a bad student, she wasn't completely ignorant, right?

Was the black beetle really that strong?

Too bad she died early and didn't see it ＿(：3」∠)_

"Mingmei was playing a black beetle at the insect general level in the first half." Hu Yue, thinking about the black beetles they met in the second half, said, "Maybe black beetles at the insect general level are very good fighters?" She didn’t think the level of the insects she met was as high as what Mingmei had.

"Is that so?" Lu Xiaoyao looked at Hu Yue doubtfully. She remembered that Hu Yue's grades were better than hers, so what she said should be more reliable, right?

But as Lu Xiaoyao looked at her, Hu Yue subconsciously felt guilty. It wasn't that she hadn't seen black beetle insect generals, but she had never seen one as fierce as Mingmei.

In the first half, she single-handedly led the three of them to escape, and her combat power was amazing along the way.

Not to mention that Mingmei even remembered to use the crystal nucleus to self-destruct in the end.

"I can only say that the zerg's insect core is indeed very powerful. It's lucky that they usually don't want to self-destruct, otherwise how many people would have to die on the battlefield?"

Valdo couldn't help but click his tongue when he heard that Mingmei had used the zerg crystal nucleus to take everyone away in the end.

On the battlefield, the zerg rarely chose to self-destruct their crystal cores to die together.

Because of the energy contained in the zerg crystal core, when the zerg died on the battlefield, they would mostly choose to take away their companions' bodies, eat their flesh and blood, and absorb the crystal core. These were all their routine operations.

They often encountered the scene on the battlefield where the corpses of the zerg they had killed were carried away by other zerg.

However, because of the value of this insect core, not to mention the zerg themselves, even in their Sixth Army, when fighting the zerg, they often had to fight over the zerg corpses!

"If I had known, I would have self-destructed too. Maybe my score wouldn't be so bad."

Mingmei's behavior simply provided a new idea for those players who had just entered the game and hadn't gotten into the state yet, and were being chased and beaten by the old recruits.

Next time, if you keep staring at me, be careful I self-destruct!

After that, Mu Chen talked about Mingmei's "spiritual attack weapon" in the second half, and because she solved the Xingyan Worm along the way, the other party couldn't help but explode and kill her teammates, contributing a huge score to Mingmei.

Fortunately, Ruan, who played the Xingyan Worm, didn't hear Mu Chen's explanation, otherwise she would have been pissed to death.

So, the points for the wave of insects taken away by the death of the Xingyan Worm all went to Mingmei.

"That luck~" Li Yuan gasped as he listened. The first half was strength, and in the second half, in addition to strength, Mingmei's luck was also off the charts!

"Then... Mr. Top Scorer, your score...?"

Lu Xiaoyao understood where Mingmei's score came from, and was also curious about Mu Chen's score. "Could it be that the Thousand-Eyed Worm is also very good at fighting?"

"Not really, I only got about seventy or eighty in the first half."

"O-Only?"

The players who scored a total of seventy or eighty points in both halves, and those who didn't even have that many, had very strange expressions when they looked at Mu Chen's face.

Your Versailles is too much!

"So, Mr. Top Scorer, how many insects did you kill after you left with Meimei in the second half?"

"More than a hundred."

Everyone: "...!!"

Suddenly, they didn't want to talk anymore.

It felt like everyone wasn't from the same world.

How could someone pilot a mech and single-handedly kill more than a hundred zerg?

What kind of zerg?

Zerg eggs?

Even Valdo, as an old recruit, couldn't listen anymore.

Help!

There are two freaks in this year's rookie recruits!

They could still listen to Mingmei's wave for some reference and learning, but Mu Chen's was like a rookie asking a professional gamer how to play the game so well, and the person answering that they just played with their hands.

Mingmei watched as everyone's attention was basically drawn to Mu Chen, and while she breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, she also glanced at the long list of rankings.

She and Mu Chen were the top two, and the third and fourth seemed to be the dragon and phoenix twin siblings Ruan and Duolun that Hu Yue had mentioned. Although their scores were cut in half compared to Mingmei's, they were still very eye-catching.

And Mingmei was also surprised by the fifth place.

"Is this the Jian family member you mentioned?"

Hearing Mingmei call her, Lu Xiaoyao followed Mingmei's gaze and saw that the fifth place was indeed Jian Yunhe, the one Lu Xiaoyao had mentioned!

"She's that powerful?!"

...

"What did you think? That she was just like you, only knowing how to eat and drink?"

Lu Xiaoyao lay in the game pod, looking at the crowds coming and going outside the starship. At this moment, their starship was parked at a transfer starport about to enter the Canglan Starfield.

Lu Xiaoyao remembered the previous game and couldn't help but dial Lu Gui, who was still at home and had just finished his afternoon nap.

Hearing that Lu Xiaoyao was playing games on the way to the Sixth Corps, met Jian Yunhe in the game, and the final game results, Lu Gui was not surprised at all.

"That girl from the Jian family has grown up with elite education since she was a child. Although she is arrogant, she has the strength."

"Are you saying that I grew up rough and casually?" Lu Xiaoyao asked quietly. Hearing her unforgiving tone, Lu Gui said, "I don't mean that, I'm just saying she's really powerful."

"Oh~ So I'm still a菜~" (cài: slang for "noob" or "bad at something")

"Yes."

Lu Xiaoyao: ??？

Shouldn't you be coaxing your cute younger sister at this time?

Lu Xiaoyao's eyes widened. What was wrong with her brother?!

Hearing Lu Xiaoyao seeming to be arguing with Lu Gui next to her, Mingmei lifted her eyelids and glanced at Lu Xiaoyao, but the next second Mingmei silently turned her back.

Based on her experience, Lu Xiaoyao would definitely not win against Lu Gui. Usually, if she looked at her more, she would—*

"Huh, is Meimei asleep?" A suddenly smaller voice came from her ear. Mingmei decided to pretend to be asleep.

It was just that this operation of pretending to be asleep easily led to actually falling asleep.

One blink of an eye, and it was dark.

"Huh?"

Mingmei opened her eyes, closed them again, and opened them again, really confirming one thing—

"The starship's power is out?"

"Ah! What's going on?"

Someone seemed to have discovered this terrible fact like Mingmei and couldn't help but shout.

Seeing this, Mingmei quickly turned on her optical computer to illuminate the area around her. Then she saw everyone in the surrounding game pods sitting up from the game pods one after another and turning on their optical computers. Everyone had a dazed expression.

"What happened? Why is it so dark?"

"Hey!"

Someone shouted, but the surroundings were still terribly dark. The entire starship seemed to have no power.

"We've been dropped off."

Just as Mingmei was about to ask Gui Gui what was going on, Mu Chen's voice came from the starship hatch. Everyone turned their heads and looked at Mu Chen, who was holding a piece of paper that looked like a draft in his hand.

Mu Chen raised the paper in his hand and said, "It says here that it's 3.6 light-years from Qi Lan Star. All the energy on the starship has been taken away. The rest is up to us to go to Qi Lan Star ourselves."

"What?!" Everyone was stunned and looked around again as if they had seen a ghost, and found that Valdo's game pod was also empty. They had really left them students here and run away?

"Rely on ourselves? How?"

"How many people here have mechs? See if we can get enough to take people away?" Some players suggested. Mingmei, Mu Chen, and Lu Xiaoyao were the first to attract attention, but the three of them had only five seats in total for their three mechs.

In the remaining players, a dozen or so mechs were gathered one after another, but it was still far from enough to take everyone away.

"They left us all here just to test us to leave here together, right?" Some players said, and then said, "Is there really no energy left on this starship at all?"

"There really isn't any at all, otherwise the lights here wouldn't even turn on."

Although Hu Yue knew that this would happen, she was also uneasy when she really faced it.

Everyone was dumbfounded at this moment, and walked to the starship window blankly, looking at the pitch-black night outside. Several planets with halos, not knowing how close they were, emitted a faint glow in the night sky, slightly illuminating the scenery outside for them.

This was completely different from the busy starport they had seen before.

There were no buildings, no huge warehouses, nothing, except for the deep blue land that was slightly reflective in the dim light.

It was desolate and eerie, just like a horror movie scene.

How did they manage to make everything empty outside after waking up from a nap?

With a "slap" sound, Mingmei turned her head and saw a classmate covering her face incredulously, muttering, "I'm really not dreaming..."

"Nonsense!"

Seeing the other party trying to escape reality, other students had already begun to think about what to do next.

"Since the mechs can't fit everyone, is there a possibility that we can transport them back and forth?"

Although it was a cumbersome method, it sounded like it could be put into practice, and everyone couldn't help but nod. But when Qi Haikui heard them making this suggestion, a bad feeling instinctively surged into his heart.

This method won't work!

He thought, but he didn't know where this method wouldn't work.

The optical computer lighting up in Mingmei's hand happened to make her notice Qi Haikui's expression. In that instant, Mingmei understood that Qi Haikui's expression must mean that something was wrong with this method.

"Is it... um, if we pilot the mechs and take people to Qi Lan Star, is there a possibility that they won't let us come back?"

Qi Haikui said his guess after thinking about it.

"No way?"

Lu Xiaoyao was stunned and subconsciously retorted. Then she looked at Hu Yue, who was also dumbfounded by Lu Xiaoyao's gaze. She shook her head to indicate that she didn't know either.

"I, my brother's things are not the same every year, I don't know either."

Hu Yue quickly waved her hand to indicate that she really didn't know. As a result, Mingmei also followed up and said, "Then what have you done before? Let's refer to it."

"Just the last session, the time when Leng Youyou and the others came." Hu Yue said the most recent time she knew, "The starship took them to Qi Lan Star, and then my brother found someone to pretend to be a space pirate and robbed them all, and all the equipment on their bodies was taken away."

"Huh? Then what?!"

Everyone looked shocked and had two words written on their faces, "Outrageous!"

"Isn't there Star Citizens on Qi Lan Star? Your brother robbed them in public, and no one cared?" The people next to her felt that this operation was very strange after hearing Hu Yue's statement.

"Qi Lan Star is so big, there are many uninhabited areas. It's fine to throw people over there and rob them." Hu Yue said it as a matter of course. Mingmei said after hearing this, "The Sixth Army has been in charge of Canglan Starfield for so many years, I'm afraid there are too many dirty tricks. Even if they do these things in front of the Star Citizens, they won't protect us outsiders."

"Uh..." Hu Yue smiled awkwardly after Mingmei revealed the truth, "It's okay, it's not a dirty trick."

"So, it's really possible that we can't come back after piloting the mechs and taking a part of the people to Qi Lan Star." Another player with a mech thought about the situation on Qi Lan Star and said silently, "Let's act together, after all, the 'enemy' on the other side is still very strong."